The liberal establishment is getting desperate in its attempts to persuade us to surrender our right of self-defense. A recent peer-reviewed paper in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine links guns to tooth decay:

Increases in firearm violence were associated with lower dental care utilization and higher rates of edentulism. A 1-shooting increase corresponded to a 0.01% reduction in dental care utilization and a 0.06% increase in edentulism the following year.

“Edentulism” means your teeth rotted right out of your mouth from buying too much candy with your EBT card.

Neighborhoods experiencing higher levels of firearm violence face disparities in dental care and oral health, highlighting firearm violence as a social determinant of oral health.

As an interim solution, until guns can be banned,

Interventions such as mobile dental clinics and integrating dental care into violence intervention programs could mitigate disparities in dental care access and oral health in communities affected by firearm violence.

Mike McDaniel picks it up from there:

And of course, it will be law-abiding, non-violent taxpayers who will have to shoulder the financial burden of “interventions” that might slightly raise the overall level of dental health in really bad neighborhoods, but do nothing whatever to lower the level of violence not committed by guns, but by people wielding the guns they’ve stolen or bought on the black market. One wonders how many taxpayer dollars paid for this pre-ordained result from Rutgers “scientists?”

The study acknowledges funding from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, which is part of the voracious maw known as the National Institutes of Health.

On a tip from R F.

Snug on their ivory tower thrones, members of the liberal intelligentsia insist we take them seriously. Then they publish papers like this:

The abstract explains the scholarly term ecolesbianism:

Ecolesbianism is a concept we co-created, bringing together queer ecologies, political lesbianism, ecofeminism, transecology, ecosexuality, and our own experiences.

It was only a matter of time; bestiality appears to join academia’s parade of perversions:

Ecolesbianism explores our relationship with the Earth and asks: what if our interspecies relationships are lesbian too?

Anthropussy is a corruption of the term Anthropocene:

The Anthropussy is the erotic and utopian potential we carry within this era of unprecedented anthropogenic climate change. It combines an environmentalist recognition of the climate crisis with a feminist and queer theory analysis of the vulva as a symbol for vast potential, pleasure, intimacy, and expansiveness.

Again we see that moonbattery is fungible. The global warming hoax, feminism, politicized sexual perversion — it is all the same thing: moonbattery.

The authors of the article were excreted by Yale-NUS College, considered among the most selective institutions in the world.

On a tip from Steve T.

This is what passes for scholarly research in woke academia:

Abstract
Queer, trans, and Two Spirit Native youth are rarely represented in research, with extant evidence continuously pointing out health disparities and pathologizing individual characteristics rather than accounting for the structural aspects of colonial society. Global Indigenous scholars have put forth a holistic conception of social and emotional wellbeing that integrates Indigenous sovereignty, strengths, and cultures, positing that Indigenous health is a culturally bound phenomenon. To move beyond these deficit-based framings and collate available scholarship, the present work presents the results of a scoping review surrounding the social and emotional wellbeing of queer, trans, and Two Spirit Native youth. Informed by the Indigiqueer ecological medicine wheel, the present work includes a breadth of health and wellbeing concepts for QT2S Native youth across micro and macro domains.

Be sure to add “Indigiqueer” to your copy of the Newspeak Dictionary. Don’t forget that it needs to be capitalized to express the required reverence.

More info on author Autumn Asher BlackDeer:

Dr. Autumn Asher BlackDeer is a queer decolonial scholar from the Southern Cheyenne Nation and serves as an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver. Dr. BlackDeer centers Indigenous voices throughout her research by using quantitative approaches and big data as tools for responsible storytelling. Dr. BlackDeer is a racial equity scholar with an emphasis on Indigenous tribal sovereignty and is deeply committed to decolonizing the academy.

“Decolonizing” is a reference to the systematic eradication of Western Civilization in the name of cultural Marxism.

Costume aside, she doesn’t look much like an Indian, but that is not to say she belongs on the Racial Impostor List. She certainly looks more Indian than Elizabeth “Fauxcahontas” Warren.

Democrats think you should be forced to pay off the student loans of slackers who choose to spend years wallowing in indoctrination by pernicious grievancemongers like Autumn Asher BlackDeer rather than getting on with adulthood.

On a tip from Mike B.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Kent State University may be best known as the site of the National Guard killing four antiwar demonstrators in 1970. The tradition of violence continues, except that nowadays all politically tinged violence comes from tolerant liberals:

The huge rendering of Trump’s bloody head floating with a pike through the middle was featured on the public university campus alongside the shocking sentiment: ‘We only have to get lucky once.’

In the context of two recent assassination attempts and any number of assassination plots against Trump, this is a clear call to violence, amplified by a taxpayer-supported state school.

Kent State initially refused to remove the display but finally agreed to take it down.

Try to imagine a similar image displayed on campus featuring Barack Obama during his presidency. It could not be more obvious which side comprises the bad guys.

On tips from Ed McAninch and WDS 2.0.

As an Ivy League institution, Princeton’s most valuable asset is the reputation for excellence it developed over centuries. This is what allows it to charge $90,718 per year for undergraduates to attend. But now that reputation lies in ruin. DEI has inflicted such devastation that Eddie Glaude passes for a Princeton professor.

Bear in mind that this is not a cognitively impaired 13-year-old who just discovered wokeism but an Ivy League professor:

Trump is a “felon” because he was found guilty of 34 felony counts of nothing in particular by a hyperpolitical kangaroo court in New York. Quoth the nutty professor:

“We chose a felon because we didn’t want to elect a black woman.”

He says we would rather destroy our own country rather than let a black woman become president — presumably because Americans hate every single black woman out of sheer nastiness.

Kamala Harris must have some qualification to be president other than the Woman of Color status she exploited to climb as high as she did despite her conspicuous incompetence and intensely unappealing personality. Any day now, Professor Glaude’s research may uncover what that qualification might be.

It is unsurprising that Glaude would promote the preposterous lie that it is a disadvantage to be black in the Land of Affirmative Action. Admitting that no white guy of his intellectual caliber would be hired as a professor would damage his prodigious ego. But to truly believe the balderdash spewing out of his own mouth, he would have to be not merely mediocre but a moron.

Glaude’s erudition allows him to understand other people’s motivations, but it does not extend to knowing what the word “literally” means. Evidently because Trump has been deporting illegal alien gangbangers, he proclaims that Americans have chosen “to literally throw the republic into the trash bin.”

Credit where it’s due: the nerve of a Democrat accusing Trump of grift in the aftermath of the Biden Administration and the DOGE revelations is almost awe-inspiring.

Stick a fork in the Ivy League. Like the liberal media, it has chosen what Eddie Glaude personifies over any claim to our respect.

On a tip from Mr. Freemarket. Hat tip: Not the Bee.

No one speaks truth to moonbattery more eloquently than Pat Condell. Regrettably, he has been off the radar for a while. Wokesters are advised to find dark holes to cower in now that he is back.

Watch and admire as Condell accurately describes the ruin leftism is making of higher education:

On a tip from KirklesWorth.

Those without wealthy parents and who don’t want to sink themselves into decades of debt can get a taste of academia over the internet for free by reading abstracts from scholarly articles. The following is from a piece published in Journal of Lesbian Studies entitled “The Earth Is a Big Badass Butch Dyke in Menopause.”

Cross my heart, this not satire:

In this article, ecosexual artists and activists Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle re-envision our planet as a butch dyke in menopause. This displacement of the “mother” earth trope re-orients the urgent questions of climate change and consent. … To counter the dominionistic practice of extraction and exploitation, the artists propose an ethical practice of co-sense, rather than consent, in which humans attune themselves to the earth via the senses, a process enabled by repeated, communal, non-monogamous marriages to the planet.

Author Beth Stephens is a professor at UC Santa Cruz. She holds a PhD in “Performance Studies.” University of California is of course coercively funded by taxpayers.

On a tip from Dennis G. Hat tip: Steven F. Hayward.

The purpose of Newspeak Dictionary updates is to control how we think by controlling how we talk so as to advance the liberal agenda. Washington State University’s Inclusive Language Guide provides examples, as reveal by Campus Reform.

To obliterate the distinction between male and female:

Words like “moms and dads,” “he/she,” “mankind,” “freshman and freshmen” as well as “upperclassmen and upperclassman” are all discouraged.

To destigmatize criminality:

The guide warns against mentioning past or present incarceration status, as well as “language that defines people by their crimes and sentences,” such as “felon,” “inmate,” “offender,” “convict” and “ex-con/ex-convict.”

To desanctify marriage by blurring its meaning:

The list also extends to romantic relationships, where the terms “husband/wife” and boyfriend/girlfriend” are to be avoided in favor of “spouse” and “partner.”

To promote the displacement of the American population via unlawful mass migration:

Another identity listed is national origin, and the words “illegal immigrant,” “foreign,” “first-world country” and “third-world country” are also discouraged. The site tells readers to “[r]emember that actions, not people, are illegal.”

The stated purpose of the guide is to assure no one says anything that could “exclude people” based upon identity. It’s still okay to say “Christofascist” and “bitter clinger” though.

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.

To justify skyrocketing tuition, colleges now cover new subjects:

Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island recently hosted an “Oral Sex Masterclass.”

Attending Ivy League Brown as an undergrad will set you back $95,984 per year.

The event was hosted by the university’s Sexual Health Awareness Group (SHAG) on Thursday as part of “Sex Week.” The full title was “Sex Week Wish #15: Oral Sex Masterclass (Cunnilingus & Fellatio).”

The event was far from sui generis.

Besides the “Oral Sex Masterclass,” SHAG also hosted an event titled “Sex and Chocolate in the Dark” …

Other events included “Navigating Sex in Dorm Life” to “discuss the politics of sexiling,” a “P*$$y Fairy Dance Workshop” calling on readers to “activate your sexual chakra,” and a “rihanna ‘b-day cake’ pole dance routine.”

The main point of attending an Ivy League school is not to learn but to acquire accreditation as a member of the liberal elite. Moral degeneracy is a prerequisite.

On tips from ABC of the ANC and R F.

Everyone liberals don’t like is a Nazi. Because he has exposed Big Government’s counterproductive wastefulness through DOGE, they don’t like Elon Musk. Consequently, Musk is a Nazi. As evidence, Experts from Rice University proclaim that his Tesla Cybertruck reminds them of the Casspir vehicles formerly used to maintain public order in South Africa.

Squawk professors Vivian Chenxue Lu and Nana Osei-Opare:

“[T]he Cybertruck’s harsh, sharp edges remind us […] of something from the past: the larger armored personnel vehicles that patrolled streets throughout Musk’s youth in apartheid South Africa.”

Casspirs were allegedly “an iconic global symbol of apartheid oppression.” Now Cybertrucks symbolize global oppression, because Musk is a fascist for helping rein in government hypertrophy.

Compounding racist oppression, such vehicles have been used to quell race riots in the USA:

Lu and Osei-Opare note the Casspir was part of the “spectacular use of force” shown in Ferguson, Missouri during Black Lives Matter protests.

The nutty professors denounce Cybertrucks as “masculinist” and “individualist.” No wonder moonbats feel compelled to attack them.

Taxpayers are forced to subsidize corrosive brainwashing by kooks of this caliber. If only DOGE could be applied to academia.

On a tip from Steve T.

We are past the point where genuine liberalism can be distinguished from even the most outrageously over-the-top parody. Actual title of a peer-reviewed article published in a scholarly journal:

From the abstract:

This article offers a queer lesbian feminist analysis attuned to lesbian-queer-trans-canine relationalities … interconnected queer becomings of people, nature, animals, and machines amidst ecologies of love and violence … state instrumentalization of dogs and robot dogs for racialized and imperial violence … quotidian queer and lesbian-dog relationalities and becomings… queer lesbian feminist critique of white supremacy and militarization … lesbian, non-binary, and trans-dog intimacies … queer worlds for gender, sexual, and kin becomings … complexities of queer and lesbian feminist worldbuilding. Lesbian and queer feminist cyborg politics can help theorize the potentials and challenges of these interspecies entanglements.

Read the whole abstract here.

The author appears to be a real person:

Chloe Diamond-Lenow is an Assistant Professor in Women’s and Gender Studies at SUNY Oneonta. She uses the pronouns “she/they” and teaches courses informed by practices of queer care…

SUNY is a state university system, luxuriating in even more coerced support from taxpayers than private universities.

Her research interests include feminist and queer theory, race and empire, cultural studies, postcolonial animal studies, transnational sexuality studies, and LGBTQ studies.

Academia desperately needs its own DOGE.

On a tip from KirklesWorth.

The many advantages of racial privilege include exemption from vaccine mandates. From 2020:

“Students who identify as Black, Indigenous, or as a Person of Color (BIPOC) may have personal concerns about fulfilling the Compact requirements based on historical injustices and current events,” explains Cornell Health’s vaccine requirement FAQ.

So they could request a racial exemption.

As always where moonbattery prevails, favored groups get special treatment on the patently absurd grounds that they are oppressed. Drones Ivy League Cornell:

We recognize that, due to longstanding systemic racism and health inequities in this country, individuals from some marginalized communities may have concerns about needing to agree to [COVID-19 testing and flu vaccine] requirements.

Caucasians have had concerns too. But their concerns don’t matter, because they are “oppressors” according to woke dogma.

Considering the questions surrounding the Covid jab and the likelihood of another pandemic being in the works, a policy like Cornell’s — if rigorously implemented — might one day allow liberals to achieve their dream of a world without white people.

On a tip from R F.

Dismantling the pernicious Department of Education is only the beginning. Leftist domination of schools is also a problem at the local level:

Students at Fleetwood Elementary School in Mount Laurel, New Jersey are scheduled to attend a field trip to the Alice Paul Center for Gender Justice.

The center used to be about women’s suffrage. But the 19th Amendment isn’t exactly news these days, so the mission was expanded:

The center announced that they would advocate for “people of all oppressed gender identities.”

Proclaims its website:

“We acknowledge that trans, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming people have the right to self-identify their gender freely and without anxiety.”

Those who identify as sexually deranged have a right not to feel anxiety. It follows that the government should secure this right by suppressing anyone who makes these special people feel uncomfortable by failing to affirm their perverse delusions.

The field trip potentially submersing children in this ideology targets second graders, typically aged 7–8 years.

The notice that was sent home to moms and dads had very clear instructions: “There will be no parent chaperones for this trip.”

Mysteriously, children were also instructed to bring “cash only.”

As important as parent chaperones for excursions is the placement of cameras in all classrooms, so that parents can access online video at their discretion, until such time as education is pried completely loose from government and the free market is permitted to purge it of corruption.

On a tip from Wiggins.