Via Legal Insurrection.

Students at 23 law schools across America are demanding their universities cut ties with two major legal databases because their parent companies share data with Immigration & Customs Enforcement.

The End the Contract Coalition is pushing law schools, including Georgetown Law, Duke Law, NYU Law, and others, to stop using the popular legal research tools LexisNexis and Westlaw.

Campus Reform | Law students unhappy they use same legal databases as ICE

This is too stupid to even comment on it. Free flow of Legal Information is bad? Making sure LEOs have the proper knowledge and possibly avoid bad arrests is bad?

So, what happens when they find out they share the same atmosphere with ICE agents? Demand pure, nevre used air made from organic, free-range sources?

Woke discrimination is still discrimination and this is one of the most insane things I’ve ever seen.

This is Daylight banking.

It’s a queer credit card.

This is from Daylight, explaining why you need queer banking.

We created Daylight to be the only bank account that rewards LGBTQ+ folks for spending in line with their values. We’re not only designed for LGBTQ+ folks but our chosen families and allies who want to put their money to work for themselves and for the LGBTQ+ community.

Our commitment is to not only provide you with great banking services, but to help you align your spending with your values. That means when you bank with Daylight, you don’t have to worry about accidentally supporting anti-LGBTQ+ or anti-trans initiatives. Chick Fil A anyone?

Doing the right thing is hard, and it’s hard to know who’s with us and who’s against us. Let us help. Here’s why Daylight is better for you, your community and your chosen family.

With Daylight you can stop worrying about whether you’re doing the right thing with your spending and with your money. Daylight takes the uncertainty out of queer banking so you can rest assured you’re doing the right thing, every day.

Each month we’ll send you a personalized spending report that shows you how queer friendly your shopping is and offers you better alternatives. The more queer friendly you are, the better rewards we’ll offer. Easy. Eat that chicken sandwich without leaving a bad taste in your mouth.

So the bank rates how queer friendly businesses are and gives you rewards points based on that.

So your rewards go up for spending money at queer owner businesses and less at non-queer owned ones.

If you buy too many Chick-fil-A sandwiches with it, do they cancel your card?

This is a bank that uses rewards to encourage the users to actively discriminate against non-queer businesses

This makes me wonder exactly how the cred card rates businesses.  Presumably, this would encourage discrimination against Christian owned business and any business owned by someone with Conservative values.

I did a quick search and found out that this is not the only identity politics card that does this.

ONE VIP bills itself as an “unapologetically black card.”

It also give rewards based on the identity of the business owners.

Use your ONE VIP Visa Debit card for all your qualified everyday purchases and earn extra points by spending with your favorite brands and select Black owned businesses.

Earn 1 point for every $2 spent on every day purchases. Earn 1.5 points for every $1 spent at your favorite brands like Netflix, Uber, Sephora and at select Black owned businesses. Your reward points never expire. Apply your cash back rewards to your ONE VIP account. Make a charitable donation to a worthy cause benefiting communities of color.

I am honestly shocked this is legal.

These are banks giving customers a financial incentive to deny patronage to business because the owners are of the wrong race or sexual/gender orientation.

How could this go wrong?

Just wait until everyone has their own identity credit card that discourages people from engaging in mutually beneficial trade that makes open and polite civil society great.

The Jewish card will suck.  Sure the rates will be fantastic but it will be accepted fewer places than Discover.

Maybe I can lie on the form and apply for one of those Master Race Cards so I can get 5% back at Aldi and Ikea (maybe Ford too, for service?).

On top of Bank of America and Wells Fargo engaging in anti-gun business policy, I absolutely believe banks should not discriminate or encourage discrimination.

Frederic Bastiat famously said: “if goods don’t cross borders, armies will.”

That point holds true in a country as well.  Groups that trade with each other peacefully become inclined to treat each other with respect.

Banks that encourage financial segregation only encourage the fracturing of society.

This bullshit needs to be halted now.

In case you have not noticed, we are in a state of legal warfare and possibly soon enough, a full-fledged one.

Stop giving aid and comfort to the Enemy. Stop giving them the benefit of the doubt, you all look like ass kissers.

When you saw what was done to Kyle Rittenhouse and then saw how the mass murder in Waukesha has been memory-holed into oblivion. but go all teary-eyed saying Alec Baldwin is innocent because he was following instructions, you are a colossal dumbass who swears we are living in Mayberry USA times.

Alec Baldwin was the producer of the movie. It was in his power to stop production and fire the armorer and anybody else after the first incident of weapons mishandling was reported. He chose to continue, and more cases happened to the point crews quit because of safety concerns. He probably could not find a cheaper armorer/prop master and kept the one he had putting profits over safety.

And at the end of the day, it was his hand operating the gun given by an unexperienced armorer he hired and kept regardless of previous security fuck-ups, that killed another human being. And even if he was not the producer, he is the star of the film and has the clout to stop the project till safety concerns were addressed, but again he chose not to do a thing about it.

Yes, I heard the excuse that the use of guns in Movie Business is different from how we use guns in real life or competitive game and that is true. In any of the action shooting sports, you have a dangerous negligent discharge, you get disqualified on the spot and invited to evacuate the premises. I guess in the movie business you don’t have to stop till you send somebody to the morgue.

Acceptable loses, Hollywood style.

But I am the unfair asshole because I want to see Alec Baldwin wearing orange and forced to suck male appendages to survive in prison for killing another human being.

One of my jobs is setting up the training environment for LE/Mil, and providing support and basic 1:1 coaching while the main instructors run the course. Most LE/Mil are always short of training funds, and training time, and are much less competent than you expect them to be.

— Drew (@AmmoMfg) December 7, 2021

They regularly show up to training with weapons that are so dirty they malfunction, the batteries in the optics are dead, they brought the wrong ammunition, etc. This isn’t to bash cops, but to point out, you are the number 1 first responder for yourself and your family.

— Drew (@AmmoMfg) December 7, 2021

The media conflates guys who carry guns with gun guys.

There are many, many police and military who are not gun guys.  They do not like guns, they do not train any more than absolutely mandatory with their guns, they don’t maintain their guns.

There is a good chance that the cop who replies to your 911 call hasn’t put more than 50 rounds through his service weapon in the last year (or more) and has no idea if his weapon is in serviceable condition.  He may have no ability to put lead on target under stressful conditions.

There may be a good chance that the cop who responds decides the best approach is to set up a perimeter and hide behind a tree.

This is why maintaining your awareness and preparedness is so important.  You are your own last line of defense.

I have nothing to say but prepare for what’s coming.

Americans used to trust the military more than the rest of the government, but now even that’s fading

Americans are quickly losing trust and confidence in the U.S. military, according to the staggering results of a recent survey conducted by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute.

The survey found that the number of Americans who said they have a lot of confidence and trust in the military has dropped from 70% to 45% in just the past three years, and that includes a steep 11 percentage point drop since February, a Reagan Institute news release says.

“The fact that ‘political leadership’ was the plurality response among those with low confidence (albeit only a 13% plurality) may be an indication of the corrosive effects of political polarization in the body politic generally bleeding over into attitudes towards the military,” Feaver said.

This last part is very true.

One of the things that burned working in the defense industry me was how the military has turned into a college campus.

There are fewer and fewer door kickers and more and more officers who got a commission to do administrative work as a resume booster and to gain access to the lucrative world of contracting.

This picture recently came across my radar:

Look at Secretary Mayor Pete, all armorered up like he’s about to kick Taliban ass, with no optic on his rifle, rifle mag pouches on his his rig, and his target range earplugs.

He got a direct commission to be an administrator for the navy to put on his resume for McKinsey.

This is why we lose wars, our military leadership sees military service as another credential to be collected as rungs on a ladder to success.