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I swear I’m not trying to make a thing of posting companion links but Moynihan’s round table with FIRE’s So to Speak podcast about the Muhammad drawing at Hamline posted last week. It was really good https://www.thefire.org/news/podcasts/so-speak-free-speech-podcast/costs-offending-religious-sensitivities

Just downloaded the Political Beats Smith’s episode 🙌🏼

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Thanks for posting that. I'm going to check it out. I was glad to hear the fired professor is suing and hopes she cleans them out.

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I would love for that to get to SCOTUS

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The way that student ignored all the advanced notice and alternate arrangements offered, so that she could claim to have been victimized by it seems pretty narcissistic and Machiavellian to me. But I think trying out those sorts of things to see what you can get away with is also a part of being a young person. I think one could make a case that the administrator who justified not renewing the teacher's contract, publicly calling her "Islamophobic" in the process, failed her duty to both student and teacher in doing so. I see some efforts by the school to walk it back but I hope the fired teacher cleans them out. I'd much rather see the school get all stick and no carrot here because intellectual cowardice poses a greater threat to progress than ignorance.

What are your thoughts on the it?

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Oh boy. Well, I’d love a Supreme Court ruling about this on the books. That would put the school in its place and put out a warning to others. Having to give a payout to the teacher would be satisfying and, if I’m being a little vengeful, I’d like it if that student had a very hard time finding employment in the future. I’d also like a few major donors to rethink their generosity and if that leads to the asshole President to lose her job, so be it. I’d also like people to remember where CAIR MN stood on this.

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I really hope the lawsuit at the very least advances to the student having to give a deposition where she has to describe the events that took place and not her emotional state and explicitly answer questions about what took place. I suspect hearing her describe logging in to her online class from home to view a pre-recorded lecture that she was pre-excused from having watch and happening upon a 700-year old painting probably doesn't meet most Americans' threshold for what's offensive. It's weird and almost a little grotesque from where I'm sitting to see the very conservative prescriptions of Islam being rationally advanced by people who've adopted the techniques and coded language of the American far left.

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January 18, 2023
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I appreciate the encouragement! I think I was so depressed in high school I didn’t realize most people thought The Smiths were sad music. Everyday Is Like Sunday. The best.

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Thank you for the shoutout Matt! Loved having the chance to share 'King Gilgamesh & the Man of the Wild.' with you. -Seth and team 'Gilgamesh'

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January 17, 2023
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There's some good backstory in this article/interview:

https://www.minnpost.com/artscape/2022/12/iraqi-actor-and-musician-ahmed-monekas-story-travels-from-toronto-to-the-jungle-theater/

Hope you can come out to the show if you're in NYC! There are actually a couple of tix still available for most shows this weekend (they found a way to add more seats):

https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/1142765

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Thank you for sharing the Political Beats tribute to The Smiths. That was pure joy!

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You guys should have Michael write these now that he has extra time on his hands. Also now that he has free time, any chance he's going to work on that book he talked about? I think it was called "Bad history" or something along those lines.

Great show with creepy uncle Douge

- Sebastiano

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I devoured Douglas Murray’s War on The West in about a week. Run don’t walk to read it!

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I have the audible, so he is reading it to me. It is fantastic!

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Ooh good idea!

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Bloody Sunday in the cart! I’ve read a ton on Northern Ireland but somehow never got around to this

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I'm a bit late to the party, but the Douglas Murray interview was top notch. Enjoyed every second of it!

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Just finished watching the Munk Debate you all linked to. First of all...there were no clear winners as you suggest. I witnessed a series of anecdotes tossed around with hardly a whiff of objectively verifiable conclusions. The most disappointing to me was Malcom. I expected much better from him. but at the same time, Murray was poor and glib for the most part until his final statement. Second...to all four on the panel: Do they believe all consumers of any media, mainstream or not, have any agency whatsoever? FFS.

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I love listening to Douglas Murray. His understanding of how things are is unparalleled, in my experience.

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January 18, 2023Edited
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I’m curious what the satire websites are writing about Santos. I could imagine an Onion/BB headline “‘descendant of Holocaust survivor’ steals $3k from dying dog, elected to Congress”.....but that’s be a real headline.

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What a POS. My husband, who deals with pretty intense PTSD had a cat (who was his pet psychologist) that was in need of surgery. His sister started a gofundme for Loki, which saved his life. I can imagine the anger, frustration and sadness this veteran deals with. Loki was what kept Brad living because he had to take care of something other than himself.

Again Santos or whatever he calls himself is a complete douche!

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