{"id":42676,"date":"2020-06-12T09:54:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T16:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=42676"},"modified":"2020-06-12T10:39:07","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T17:39:07","slug":"friday-links-130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/12\/friday-links-130\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, after months of madness and rants, time for some (mostly) upbeat news. So here we have positive political developments, scathingly rational commentary, and even a couple of charming monkeywrenches. Enjoy.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/americanmind.org\/essays\/the-rebellion-of-americas-new-underclass\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Rebellion of America&#8217;s New Underclass&#8221;<\/a> by Joel Kotkin.\n<li>Sooooo very typically politically sneaky and snaky, if true: Money donated to Black Lives Matter, specifically earmarked to defund police, <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/politics\/biden-black-lives-matter-defund-the-police\/\" target=\"_blank\">is going straight to the Joe Biden campaign<\/a>. (I haven&#8217;t verified this.)\n<li>Glenn Greenwald (who, along with Matt Taibbi is one of the few rational, liberty-respecting voices remaining on the left) <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2020\/06\/11\/the-abrupt-radical-reversal-in-how-public-health-experts-now-speak-about-the-coronavirus-and-mass-gatherings\/\" target=\"_blank\">excoriates the politicians and so-called medical experts<\/a> who performed such a magical about-face on coronavirus rules when street protests began. (H\/T S)\n<li>And here&#8217;s another surprising view from the left. Whoppi Goldberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/whoopi-goldberg-gone-wind-cops\" target=\"_blank\">speaks out against censorship<\/a>.\n<li>The mob wants to cancel an Oregon mayor for being insufficiently woke. <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/news-and-politics\/victoria-taft\/2020\/06\/09\/mob-wants-oregon-mayor-canceled-for-insufficient-wokeness-now-hes-turning-the-tables-n507834\" target=\"_blank\">He turns the tables on them<\/a>.\n<li>Be courageous, stand firm, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/06\/08\/be-courageous-stand-firm-america-we-do-not-kneel\/\" target=\"_blank\">do not kneel to the mob<\/a>.\n<li>The first <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/06\/11\/qualified-immunity-wayne-jones-homeless-police-shot-22-times-fourth-circuit\/\" target=\"_blank\">big cracks have finally appeared<\/a> in the horrific, bizarre, cruel, and unjust doctrine of qualified immunity for murderous police officers.\n<li>And Rand Paul has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/06\/11\/politics\/rand-paul-bill-no-knock-warrants-breonna-taylor\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">introduced a bill<\/a> to end no-knock warrants.\n<li>When police in Minneapolis stepped back, a small business owner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/minneapolis-business-owner-armed-group-rioters-police\" target=\"_blank\">formed her own armed neighborhood defense force<\/a>.\n<li>John Wilder, in that truly unique style of his, <a href=\"https:\/\/wilderwealthywise.com\/deflation-inflation-collapse-now-with-muppet-jokes\/\" target=\"_blank\">explains recent changes in fractional reserve banking<\/a> with Muppet jokes, Lady Gaga, and Johnny Depp. (Did you know that, in March, the required reserve was reduced from 10% to 0%? I didn&#8217;t.)\n<li>So how long did it take for the new socialist paradise in Seattle &#8212; the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone or CHAZ &#8212; to require and acquire borders, ID checkpoints, armed guards, a police force upholding arbitrary laws, and an unelected dictator? You guessed it: <a href=\"https:\/\/victorygirlsblog.com\/chaz-inside-the-peoples-republic-of-seattle\/\" target=\"_blank\">no time at all<\/a>.\n<li>Oh, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/ScannerChattter\/status\/1270767181014331392\" target=\"_blank\">traditional Socialist paradise hunger<\/a> arrived in zippy time, too. Hilariously.\n<li>Eaton Rapids Joe has a solution to all that. It would be monumentally unfair to the innocents living and working in the CHAZ, but it&#8217;s funny as hell and <a href=\"http:\/\/eatonrapidsjoe.blogspot.com\/2020\/06\/seattle-autonomous-zones.html\" target=\"_blank\">gives the new nation exactly what it claims to want<\/a>.\n<li>Is anybody still thinking about the census and how best to non-comply? Turns out that Robert Heinlein and family <a href=\"http:\/\/file770.com\/what-the-heinleins-told-the-1940-census\/\" target=\"_blank\">pranked the census taker<\/a>, clear back in 1940. (H\/T C^2)\n<li>There are big ways to answer invasive government. And there are small, but enduring ways get your point across. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/getpocket.com\/explore\/item\/the-tiny-spite-triangle-that-marks-a-century-old-grudge-against-new-york-city\" target=\"_blank\">a tiny response<\/a> to a &#8220;taking&#8221; that&#8217;s lasted more than a century. (H\/T CZ)\n<li>Finally, if you want to do a good deed for a small business destroyed by the riots &#8212; and a very important business in this case to those who love science fiction &#8212; please consider donating to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/let-us-help-save-uncle-hugo039s\/donations\" target=\"_blank\">GoFundMe for Uncle Hugo&#8217;s<\/a> and its companion mystery store, Uncle Edgar&#8217;s. The fundraiser is sadly only about 1\/4 of the way to goal. Defend liberty, literacy, hope, and civilization. Help Uncle Hugo&#8217;s rise from the ashes.\n<\/ul>\n<p>A general H\/T to JW, source of several links and reliable discoverer of interesting news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, after months of madness and rants, time for some (mostly) upbeat news. So here we have positive political developments, scathingly rational commentary, and even a couple of charming monkeywrenches. Enjoy. &#8220;The Rebellion of America&#8217;s New Underclass&#8221; by Joel Kotkin. Sooooo very typically politically sneaky and snaky, if true: Money donated to Black Lives Matter, specifically earmarked to defund police, is going straight to the Joe Biden campaign. (I haven&#8217;t verified this.) Glenn Greenwald (who, along with Matt Taibbi is one of the few rational, liberty-respecting voices remaining on the left) excoriates the politicians and so-called medical experts who performed&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/12\/friday-links-130\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday links<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,9,12,13,18,20,21,23,25,30,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-cultural-insanity","category-free-speech","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-mind-and-spirit","category-money","category-monkeywrenching","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-poly-ticks","category-resistance","category-war","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42676"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42700,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42676\/revisions\/42700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}