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Libertarian: Big Tech Widens Censorship

Tech giants have started partnering with watchdog groups and law enforcement to share information about so-called extremists using their platforms, warns Reasons Robby Soave. PayPal will work with the left-wing Anti-Defamation League to identify and block extremists, while the likes of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube will be expanding their use of a centralized database that compiles extremist content for the purposes of coordinated de-platforming. Beware: With these new capacities, information may eventually be shared with law enforcement. Private corporations may not be bound to follow the Constitution, but its federal authorities that are encouraging these changes and we have the right to speak out against government encroachment.

West Coast watch: Calis Blue Staying Power

Based on the results of last Novembers ballot initiatives in California, you might think the Golden State is poised to make a turn to the right but not necessarily, Nick Burns points out at City Journal. Rather, the ballot initiative has actually become an advantage for Democrats there. Nor are recall efforts, such as the one seeking to oust Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), a surefire panacea for the right: Even if Newsom is replaced, for example, with only a year left until fresh elections in 2022, his successor would have little time to prove his competence and might be vulnerable to the Dems return. Like the ballot initiative, the recall process does not seem to be the shortcut to overcoming the structural dominance of California Democrats that it may at first seem.

Foreign desk: Dems Losing Bet on Cuba

There is no foreign-policy issue in the United States that is less foreign than the Cuba policy, argues Carlos Gustavo Poggio Teixeira at The Hill. The case of Cuba is unique, because its directly connected to the presidential elections. The reason: Floridas 29 electoral votes. More than two-thirds of the countrys 2.5 million Cuban Americans live in the swing state, making them a particularly prized electoral asset. Former President Barack Obama made a bet that history was going the Democrats way, with polling suggesting Republicans were losing ground with the group, but history has taken a turn: Cuban Americans have become more conservative since 2016. President Bidens response to protests roiling the island was mostly meaningless statements of solidarity and even more meaningless individual sanctions whose practical effects are exactly zero. Dems do not know how to respond to their lost bet.

Conservative: CRT Infiltrates DOE

Americans have a right to expect that the leader of public educations top civil-rights-enforcement body would unequivocally oppose racial discrimination, writes the American Enterprise Institutes Max Eden. Too bad Catherine Lhamon, President Bidens pick to head the Department of Educations Office for Civil Rights, doesnt share that expectation. Lhamon defined racism as the belief that race determines character traits, but then refused to definitively say whether it is racist for schools to grade differently, segregate students or shame them based on race. Lhamons refusal to admit that any of these obviously racist, illegal practices violates federal civil-rights law comes quite close to an admission that she will, at best, not enforce equal protection equally and, at worst, actively enforce critical race theory. But without any senators willing to question her in a public hearing, Lhamon seems poised to take office, with reason to think shell be subject to minimal oversight and, at most, muted criticism.

Liberal: Gender Insanity at Med School

At Bari Weiss Substack, Katie Herzog reports on an endocrinology professor in the University of California system begging his students to summon the generosity to forgive me. His crime? I said, When a woman is pregnant, which implies that only women can get pregnant. Welcome to gender ideologys bizarro world: Some of the countrys top medical students are being taught that humans are not, like other mammals, a species comprising two sexes. The notion of sex, they are learning, is just a man-made creation.

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