Thursday, May 20, 2021

Thursday Links

On a warm sunny Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, why can't academia tolerate dissent about biological sex?

From FrontpageMag, all President Biden had to do was not mess with former President Trump's success.

From Townhall, people are getting tired of "wokeness".

From The Washington Free Beacon, Biden hollows out his predecessor's coronavirus protections at the border.

From the Washington Examiner, Keystone XL workers call out Biden's hypocrisy on pipelines.

From The Federalist, six reasons why college vaccine passports are absurd and legally problematic.

From American Thinker, why millions of Americans loved Trump.

From CNS News, according to Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), Biden's decision to waive sanctions on the Russia-Germany gas pipeline strengthens Russian President Putin's hand.

From LifeZette, according to a new book, former President Obama said some nasty things about Trump.

From NewsBusters, will the media cover the "Men's March for Life" planned for June?  (A preliminary event might be called "Men Not Holding Their Breath".)

From Canada Free Press, Disney backs down on critical race theory.

From CTV NewsOntario provincial Premier Doug Ford is expected to reveal a three-step coronavirus reopening plan.

From TeleSUR, former Brazilian President Lula da Silva announces his candidacy for his old office.

From The Conservative Woman, here, there be sea monsters.

From the (U.K.) Independent, what powers while the new Great British Railways have?

From ReMix, according to Education Minister Przemysław Czarnek, Polish history must be faithfully presented.  (If you read Polish better than I do, read the story at WNP.)

From About Hungary, according to Hungarian State Secretary Tamás Menczer, Israel has the right to defend itself.

From The Moscow Times, a businessman who protested in support of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny is sentenced to four years in prison for attacking a police officer.

From Radio Bulgaria, according to Bulgarian Ambassador to North Macedonia Angel Angelov, Bulgaria remains open to dialogue will North Macedonia.

From the Greek City Times, an electric power connection between the Greek island of Crete and the mainland area of Peloponnese is completed.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, according to North Macedonian Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani, his government is in communication with Bulgaria's caretaker government.

From Balkan Insight, Romanian authorities seize 1.4 tons of heroin headed from Iran to western Europe.

From Free West Media, the LICRA and the Great Mosque of Paris join to oppose "anti-Muslim hatred".

From EuroNews, a deal is reached to introduce an E.U.-wide coronavirus travel pass.

From Euractiv, to globally produce low-carbon hydrogen would require a lot of nuclear reactors producing electricity.

From The North Africa Post, the U.S. and France avoid taking sides in the dispute between Morocco and Spain over migrants entering the Spanish exclave of Ceuta.

From The Jerusalem Post, despite talks of a ceasefire, Hamas keeps launching rockets at Israel.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistan urges the U.N. Security Council to hold Israel accountable for war crimes.  (Holding Hamas accountable for the war crimes of launching rockets at civilians areas in Israel from civilian areas in Gaza, not so much.)

From Pajhwok Afghan News, no security issue is found for the second highway being constructed between the Afghan cities of Kabul and Jalalabad.

From India Today, Indian doctors answer questions about black fungus.

From Gatestone Institute, anti-Semites in Turkey celebrate rocket attacks by Hamas against Israel.

From The Stream, "free" money from the government isn't compassion, but its opposite.

From The Daily Signal, what we know about the power of the DarkSide.

From Space War, the U.S. and Russia seek to reduce tensions in their first meeting involving President Biden.

From The American Conservative, "against UFOs".

From The Daily Wire, the union that represents employees of The New Yorker uses a phrase that calls for the destruction of Israel.

From Fox News, NASA administrator Bill Nelson addresses concerns about China's space program, and asks for billions of dollars in funding.

From the New York Post, New York's Mr. Bill announces new coronavirus vaccination sites.

From the Daily Caller, a doctor who died from the coronavirus leaves behind a collection of baseball cards and memorabilia worth about $20 million.

From Newsmax, a group of conservative venture capitalists back the video platform Rumble.

From Breitbart, according to a poll, voters favor former President Trump over Vice President Harris if both run for president in 2024.

And from Pondering Pot, according to the organization Drug Free Australia, marijuana turns "violence and aggression into homicide".

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