Why did we start calling executive branch officers tasked with leading multi-agency responses to discrete problems “czars”?
It’s not intuitive that a drug czar, for instance, is committed to stopping rather than hastening the spread of drug use
It’s clearly meant to refer to unaccountable power — ironically but then not
Like how about a “governance czar”

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7 Jul
I really want to know what percentage of black people 1.) agree that they are "exhausted, mentally drained, frustrated, stressed, barely sleeping, scared and overwhelmed," and 2.) how those who are not feel about being categorically described as feeling this way by consultants
What happened to being cool?
There are highly-paid "anti-racism" experts telling corporates employees by the thousands that black people as a class are emotional basket cases
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2 Jul
"I believe the there is no possibility of using the university as the base from which to change society" -- Theodor Adorno
He underestimated the scope of what a university-based politics could achieve, but anticipated well both the repressive technocratic character of the politics it would generate and the reaction it would summon up in response to it
"The sworn enemies of the institutions particularly like to demand the institutionalization of one thing or another.”
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30 Jun
Air Force removing running test requirement from its fitness tests, allowing airmen to choose a walking test instead taskandpurpose.com/news/air-force…
Also replacing "traditional push-ups" with an exercise of "raising their hands up while in push-up ready position..."

"give airmen flexibility to do the test the way they want.."
So, they did away with weight and waist measurements last year, but are in the process of some still to be determined "required body composition measurement."
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29 Jun
Also bad: being afraid to speak out against debunked research because of prospective right wing threat.

Also bad: giving debunked research a total pass once right wing opposition to...debunked research...emerges and then going apeshit on evil right wing
This same pattern keeps repeating itself on everything
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29 Jun
Non-black, non-white Americans grow up toggling between the perspectives of black and white America that monopolize culture and politics while there own is largely underdeveloped and marginalized, making that very marginalization the actual substance of their own perspective
In the case of both Hispanics and Asian Americans, but especially the latter, there is an entirely astroturfed activist pseudo-discipline that purports to speak on their behalf while remaining encased in amber, still thinking in terms of Maoist third world liberation
The job of these folks is to support efforts to reduce Asians in admissions and support efforts to lie systematically about who is attacking Asians on the street and support efforts to continue "progressive" criminal justice policies that will deny them protection
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24 Jun
"Trigger Warning" is itself now "violent language" brandeis.edu/parc/accountab… Image
So, the inclusion of "picnic" on a list of "violent",
"oppressive" language is based on a falsehood reuters.com/article/uk-fac…
Rule of Thumb is another fake etymology.

Biden made a speech spreading this piece of odious misinformation as well
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_t…
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