Transfigurations: News and Views: October 25, 2024

Nearly 1 million migrants staying ‘indefinitely’ in US under Biden-Harris ‘quiet amnesty’: House panel “Through administrative maneuvering at both the Justice Department and DHS, the Biden-Harris Administration has already ensured that nearly 1 million illegal aliens can remain in the United States without the possibility of deportation — and that trend shows no sign of stopping,” the Republican-led committee said.

Tiny Ohio town sees population double with influx of 3,000 migrants from African nation as mayor blames ‘open border policy’

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The Remarkable Redneck Air Force of North Carolina The relief effort after Hurricane Helene is powered by private citizens, and volunteers have discovered that it's better to ask forgiveness than permission.

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No need to learn ‘dead white dudes’ names’: chemistry lecture at Kennesaw State University Krylov said via email that by removing the names associated with these laws, “she is robbing her students of the opportunity to learn about the history of science.”

“The history of scientific discovery helps students better understand the scientific method. Knowing the names of the giants on whose shoulders modern science stands provides inspiration for future generations of scientists,” she told The Fix.

Moveover, “the disparaging remark ‘dead white dudes’ is racist and sexist,” Krylov said, adding the chemistry lecturer inappropriately politicized the lesson by injecting personal ideology into the classroom.

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Cuba Enters the Dark Ages

After three days of calamity, power is now being restored to parts of Havana. It won’t last. Disaster by now is a progressive condition. The regime in Cuba is hardly a government: It’s a gang of incompetents who hold absolute power but have no idea what to do with it. Cuba itself is hardly a country; it’s a lifeless thing, a corpse bleeding out its best talent, inert and decaying amid the glorious beauty of the Caribbean. This situation has lasted for 65 years and shows no signs of change.

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Danish Dairy Farmers Forced to Pay World's First Carbon Tax on Livestock This is no small move by Denmark. The country is a significant exporter of dairy products, with a robust dairy industry contributing substantially to its economy. Denmark’s dairy product exports, including eggs and honey, were valued at about $3.9 billion in 2023.

Consequently, an array of unintended consequences are likely to occur that the Danish eco-bureaucrats have not considered.

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UN Report: Women Have Lost 900 Medals To 'Transgender' Athletes “The replacement of the female sports category with a mixed-sex category has resulted in an increasing number of female athletes losing opportunities, including medals, when competing against males,” his report states.

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The social psychosis of putting men in women’s jails...A society that puts rapists in enclosed spaces with vulnerable women is a sick society indeed There is no greater indictment of the ruling class than the fact that so few of them, if any, stopped to say: ‘Is it wise to house violent men with women?’ People talk about the ‘madness of crowds’ – I’m far more worried about the madness of the elites. For we now know these people are so drunk on the politics of identity, so high on the unhinged fallacies of transgenderism, that they’re content to endanger women so long as their own puffed-up political virtue remains intact. A society that packs off a man who murdered a woman with a hammer to live in close proximity with other women is a sick, lost society. Fixing this dire collapse in reason is going to be hard, and essential.

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Arizona Teen Plotted Massacre at Phoenix Pride Parade. Here’s Why You Haven’t Heard About It ...Marvin Aneer Jalo was an Islamic jihadist

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The terrible fire risks of battery storage – and how we helped expose them The top line is that the expansion of gridscale batteries represents a major threat to urban areas because of the fire risk. Lithium-ion batteries are prone to so-called ‘thermal runaway’; the resulting fires are highly toxic and hard to extinguish. The published paper also refers to recent major battery fires in the US and Australia and the implications of similar conflagrations for conurbations in the UK. One example, the fire at Elon Musk’s ‘Big Battery’ in Australia, led to homes up to six miles away being locked down to protect residents from the fumes.

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