Liam Out Loud: When Institutions Stop Valuing Truth

Liam Out Loud posted a short essay-video on August 31 titled Why Feminized Institutions Stop Telling the Truth.

Watch it here: [VIDEO]

The claim is not that women cannot do science, law, or teaching. It is narrower. Those fields only work if they keep discriminating — science on truth, law on justice, education on intelligence. Once the culture inside them tips toward social equity and consensus, the original job recedes.

He never names Helen Andrews. He is in her argument anyway. I wrote about her Compact essay and the UnHerd interview in June. Her line was that wokeness is not a new ideology so much as feminine group patterns applied to institutions that used to run on different rules. Empathy over detached judgment. Safety over risk. Cohesion over open conflict. Ostracism instead of argument. Liam is asking what that flip does to shops whose job is to tell the truth.

h/t Newsalert

Glenn Beck: Why Lake America Broke the Room

 Glenn Beck’s clip is not about the depth of the lake. It is about who treated names as a moral project for fifteen years, and what happens when the other side picks up the same pen.

Watch it here: [VIDEO]

Thursday’s order is already on this blog. Federal maps are supposed to say Lake America. Canada does not have to. New York does not have to. Mark Carney said the name is four hundred years old. Doug Ford put up a sign: “Lake Ontario. Now and Always.” Kathy Hochul said New York will not be calling it that. Google followed the U.S. government for U.S. users.

Beck’s question is the one after the press release. If names were sacred last decade, why is this one a joke?

Truth Before Narrative

 We are a little more than two months from the midterms. When the policy argument is thin, some Democrats reach for the older one: America is still that country. The one that hangs people from trees.

Jon Ossoff talks as if the Klan is on the ballot in Georgia. Ayanna Pressley says the Confederacy is alive and well. Jasmine Crockett points to “mysterious deaths” in Mississippi — people “found, hung or otherwise” — and says we can no longer rely on the Justice Department to look. The implication is not subtle. Vote our way, or you are choosing the noose.

Watch it here: [VIDEO]

Ben Shapiro spent part of a recent show on the cases that keep getting cited as proof. His column on the same argument is here.

Ms. Rachel is Rachel Accurso, the toddler YouTube host behind Songs for Littles. About 20 million subscribers, a Netflix kids show, the pink headband and overalls. Parents of two-year-olds know her as the person who teaches Wheels on the Bus. She started the channel in 2019 after her own son had a speech delay. She has a master’s in music education from NYU. TikTok is one of her platforms. It is not the source of the following.

She has spent the last couple of years putting politics in the same feed as the nursery rhymes. Gaza. ICE detention. In March she told NBC News, “I am political.” This week she put the hanging claim in its cleanest form: please listen to the Black community. Black people don’t hang themselves from trees. There have been at least seven this year.

The history that sentence is pointing at is real. The medical examiner reports and the surveillance footage are also real. Those two things are not required to cancel each other. They just have to be looked at in the same paragraph.

If you or someone you know is in crisis, call or text 988, the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.

Here are the specific ones Shapiro named.

Enes Kanter: Where was the threat?

Chicago Sky owner Michael Alter banned Enes Kanter Freedom from Wintrust Arena after this past Sunday’s Fever game. The phrase he used was “a potential threat.”

The footage of the moment he is talking about is short.

Watch it here: [VIDEO]

Late third quarter. Natasha Cloud scores, celebrates, then walks toward the baseline. Freedom is sitting there in a shirt that reads “WOMAN noun. adult human female.” He stands. Arms out. One step toward the floor. Security fills the gap. He is walked out holding the shirt up for the building to read.

That is the act. This is how he framed it in a tweet:

“I just got kicked out of a @WNBA game for supporting WOMEN! Let that sink in, AMERICA! 🇺🇸”

Alter’s account is that Freedom had been chirping, that people in the seats said he started it, and that the night changed when he got up. “The security’s job isn’t to wait to see how far they get.” Fan code says you do not enter the court. On Wednesday he told OutKick that some threats do not get a warning, and he used shooting a gun as the extreme example.

Color-Blind Law, Later Rules: Matt Walsh’s Real History of the Civil Rights Movement

In May I posted the trailer and a brief note: as always, I would withhold judgment until I actually saw it. I later watched the episode on DailyWire.com. I’m glad the full thing is finally on YouTube.

Matt Walsh’s Real History episode is the kind of thing this blog has always been for: a video that refuses the schoolbook version of a sacred American story. The title is The Real History of the Civil Rights Movement, Part 1: “A New Constitution.” His pitch is straightforward. Since the 1990s, classrooms have turned Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks into saints. 

Almost everything in that telling, he says, is incomplete or wrong. Who funded the movement? How non-violent was it? How racist was 1950s America, really? Did the 1964 Civil Rights Act help Black Americans, or did it rewrite the Constitution in ways we still live with?

Those are fair questions. Some of the answers are fair. Others are stretched, selective, or wrong. History is not a morality play.

Watch it here: [VIDEO]

Since this is now on YouTube, I can feed it to my A.I. assistant, pull the main points, and note the holes in Walsh’s narrative.

The Default We’re Forgetting

 Jeremy Boreing’s latest monologue, Hasan Piker and Candace Owens Are Selling You Third-World Thinking, is one of the clearest things he’s done. He starts with two trials running at the same time in America and uses the distance between them to measure how far we’ve drifted from what made the West different in the first place.

One trial is in a courtroom in Provo, Utah. Prosecutors spent months building a case the hard way: eyewitnesses, security footage, forensics, DNA, handwriting, the actual rifle. Rules bind everyone. The accused is presumed innocent. Evidence has to survive cross-examination. It is slow, adversarial, and impersonal. That process is not natural. It is the product of centuries of deliberate cultural work.

The other “trial” happens behind a podcast mic. There is no judge, no burden of proof, no fixed standard of evidence. Verdicts arrive by likes and shares. Narratives shift week to week. Gossip and social proof do the work that evidence used to do. Boreing points at Candace Owens’ treatment of the Charlie Kirk case as the clearest current example on the right, and at Hasan Piker’s cheerful defense of theft as “collection on a debt” as the left’s version. Different aesthetics. Same underlying operating system.

You can watch Boreing's monologue here: [VIDEO]

WNBA Avoids Defining “Woman”

Credit: ESPN

A WNBA task force of team presidents and general managers met Wednesday and discussed transgender athlete participation. They produced no new eligibility policy.

The league’s statement afterward was careful and limited:

Today’s meeting covered a wide range of topics, including ongoing discussions on transgender athletes and the continued hate and vitriol directed at players online. We will continue to engage all league stakeholders in the coming weeks and months. We will approach these important conversations thoughtfully and in alignment with the values of our league. There are no immediate eligibility matters affecting the WNBA, and we strongly denounce the bad-faith efforts to use these topics to demean or marginalize others.

That is the full public position for now.

The current collective bargaining agreement says only that “only players who are women are eligible to play in the WNBA.” It supplies no further definition of “woman,” no reference to sex assigned at birth, no hormone thresholds, and no transition requirements. The league has never had a publicly detailed policy on transgender or intersex athletes. No transgender woman (someone male at birth who identifies as female) has ever played in the WNBA. Two nonbinary players who were female at birth have.

The immediate pressure came from two directions. Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham said in a July ESPN profile that she wants to “protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn’t have to go against biological men.” She later called the position “common sense.” Those comments produced small rallies and counter-rallies at Fever games.

Then two former NBA players, Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White, announced they identify as women and intend to declare for the 2027 WNBA draft. Their moves were widely understood as an attempt to force the league to clarify the vague language in its rules. The league’s statement appears to treat those declarations as the “bad-faith efforts” it denounces.

Commissioner Cathy Engelbert had already told teams the issue would be discussed and that eligibility rules are collectively bargained. Any real change would require negotiation with the players’ association. The task force is expected to keep talking with stakeholders in the coming weeks and months.

The practical situation remains what it was: the category “women” is left undefined in the governing document of a league built around sex-segregated competition. That gap is what the current controversy keeps exposing. Institutions that rely on sex-based categories while declining to define the category invite exactly this kind of pressure—political, legal, and rhetorical. Whether the WNBA eventually draws a clearer line, and what that line looks like, is still unresolved.

Relevant links

• WNBA task force stops short of new transgender athlete eligibility policy (Fox San Antonio / National News Desk)
• WNBA task force discusses transgender athletes amid furor (ESPN)
• WNBA denounces 'bad-faith' transgender debate and says league has no eligibility issues (Washington Post)
• WNBA’s Inclusion Policy Is Too Vague Amid Trans Athlete Debate (Bloomberg Opinion)
• Sophie Cunningham’s comments on transgender athletes (Sporting News)
• Enes Kanter Freedom formally declares for 2027 WNBA Draft (OutKick / Fox News)
• Royce White declares for 2027 WNBA Draft (OutKick / Fox News)

Ben Shapiro: Wokeness Evolved Into Something Worse

 Ben Shapiro’s latest segment cuts through the recent attempt to memory-hole the last decade. The title says it plainly: Wokeness Didn’t Die. It Evolved Into Something Worse.

The trigger is a clip of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on ABC’s This Week. Asked about a fellow DSA-aligned candidate’s old radical posts (defund/abolish the police, cancel Thanksgiving, etc.), AOC smiled and reached for a line floating around progressive circles: “Woke 1 was crazy.” She framed the excesses of 2020 as a COVID-era fever dream, insisted people have moved on, and suggested we should judge candidates by what they say now.

Shapiro is not buying the soft landing. He treats the remark as confirmation that the same ideological core is still operating—only the packaging has been upgraded.

Why Democrat Women Are Angry — Naomi Wolf on Pod Force One

Dr. Naomi Wolf rose in the early 1990s as a third-wave feminist voice with The Beauty Myth, the bestseller that argued commercial beauty standards worked as a quiet counterattack on women’s gains. Yale-educated, a Rhodes Scholar, and later an Oxford doctorate, she advised Bill Clinton’s re-election team and Al Gore’s campaign on how to reach female voters. For a time she was the progressive establishment’s preferred translator of women’s concerns.

That version of Wolf is largely gone. On Miranda Devine’s Pod Force One, the New York Post’s political interview podcast, she sat down for a long conversation under the blunt title “Why Democrat Women Are So Angry.”

Watch Naomi Wolf on Pod Force One here: [VIDEO]

Matt Walsh on Fading Regional Accents: Losing Our Voices

 If you've traveled across the U.S. lately, you've likely noticed people sounding more alike no matter where you go. A bus driver in Charlotte talks much like a guy in a Brooklyn beer hall, a Boston car salesman, or a Grand Rapids cashier. Regional flavor has faded into a homogenized American voice.

Matt Walsh's latest episode examines this shift. It wasn't always this way. Accents once marked both region and class. The old "Locust Valley Lockjaw"—that posh, clipped style from wealthy enclaves—defined mid-century intellectuals and TV personalities. Today, it's largely replaced by a generic newscaster tone few use in real conversation.

Watch Matt Walsh's podcast here: [VIDEO]

San Francisco’s Warning: Compassion Without Accountability

Bill O’Reilly’s NewsNation special, The Decline and Fall of San Francisco, doesn’t pull punches. It shows a city that once welcomed the world now struggling with open drug use, tent encampments, retail theft, and random violence. The root cause? Progressive policies that prioritized compassion without consequences.

The numbers tell part of the story. San Francisco spent roughly $106,000 per homeless person annually. It handed out cash assistance and harm-reduction supplies — needles, even pipes — while “Housing First” programs placed people in apartments with no requirement for sobriety or treatment. Prop 47 turned theft under $1,000 into a misdemeanor, fueling smash-and-grabs that drove stores to close. Overdoses climbed. Mental illness went largely untreated on the streets because involuntary commitment was politically toxic.

Former Mayor Willie Brown put it plainly: once public-safety laws stopped being enforced, the city spiraled into anarchy. Frustrated residents fought back by recalling District Attorney Chesa Boudin in 2022 and electing new leadership that is now rolling back some of the most extreme policies, including stepped-up cleanups and enforcement.

Watch O'Reilly's special here [VIDEO]

The Narrative with Will Sexton: A Fresh Voice Cutting Through the Noise

If you're tired of recycled punditry on cable news or endless hot takes on social media, channels like The Narrative with Will Sexton stand out. Will Sexton delivers structured, big-picture analysis on politics, culture, and power without sensationalism or partisan cheerleading. He zeros in on institutions, incentives, funding flows, and historical context—connecting dots that many overlook or avoid. His clear, sourced, and thoughtful style makes the channel worth following for anyone trying to make sense of why American politics feels like it's shifting under our feet.

In his recent video, "The Political Realignment Nobody Saw Coming | How Woke Failed," Sexton traces the arc of the last decade: the rapid rise of progressive cultural dominance after 2020, the money and machinery behind it, and why that era is visibly unraveling now.

Watch the full video here [VIDEO]

Chicago Sports Teams and Juneteenth: History or Corporate Messaging?

EDITED Jun. 20, 2026: My apologies I realized I double posted the Chicago Bears tweet about Juneteenth under the Chicago White Sox, so I just edited that accordingly.

Source: CNN

Chicago teams marked Juneteenth today with social media posts and events.

George Soros: The Man Behind the Curtain? A Former Mobster's Take

In 2021, on this blog I shared a video from the edu-tuber Mr. Beat. He breaks down historic figures in a straightforward way, and one of them was billionaire George Soros. Here's what I wrote back then:

As of late you hear a lot about how Soros uses his fortune to fund politicians favorable to his political ideology. He's also been accused of funding soft on crime prosecutors here in this nation from Los Angeles to San Francisco to Philadelphia. Even right here in Cook County/Chicago with our current State's Attorney.

That post stuck with the basics—his funding of progressive causes and DAs. It didn't dig into the "why" or the full picture of what Soros represents.

Recently, I came across a video from Michael Franzese, a former mobster who's shared a lot of raw stories about living that Mafia life. He often steps back to look at bigger issues in the world today. This time, he takes a hard look at Soros.

Helen Andrews on The Great Feminization

Helen Andrews is a freelance writer and author whose 2025 essay "The Great Feminization" (published in Compact Magazine) offers a provocative explanation for the rise of wokeness. In a roughly 35-minute UnHerd interview with Freddie Sayers, uploaded around the same time, Andrews lays out her case clearly and compellingly.

Andrews makes a direct connection with the unrest of summer 2020. When George Floyd’s death in May 2020 sparked a bystander video that went viral, those pre-existing dynamics met a national spark. The result was what Andrews calls “the eruption of insanity in 2020”: rapid nationwide protests (many peaceful but others turning into riots with widespread looting, arson, and roughly $1–2 billion in damage), corporate and institutional capitulations, accelerated DEI pledges, statue removals, speech codes, and a wave of cancellations. Institutions prioritized signaling care, avoiding internal conflict, and enforcing group cohesion—hallmarks of the feminized style—over rigorous debate about trade-offs, data on policing/crime, or long-term consequences.

In short, feminization didn’t cause Floyd’s death or the initial outrage, but it shaped the style and scale of the response: fast-moving empathy-driven solidarity, intolerance for dissent framed as harm, and symbolism over practical outcomes. Andrews sees 2020 not as the root but as a preview—“just a small taste”—of how these norms play out at scale once institutions are sufficiently feminized.

This framing helps explain why the unrest and institutional reactions felt so uniform and emotionally charged across elite sectors, even as core problems in places like Chicago’s South Side (crime, family breakdown, education) saw little real improvement from the performative wave. It’s a demographic and cultural lens rather than purely partisan or ideological.

Key Points from the Interview

Lions vs. Scavengers: Understanding Who Really Hates the West (A PragerU Take with Ben Shapiro)

The future of Western civilization feels like it's on the edge. Radical protests keep disrupting cities, vandalizing neighborhoods, and taking over college campuses. But it's not random chaos—it's the same groups switching causes like flags on a pole: radical Muslims, LGBTQ+ activists, communists, anarchists, and environmentalists.

These alliances often make no sense on the surface. "Queers for Palestine" exists, even though the realities in places like Palestine directly contradict the values they claim to support. So what holds this unlikely coalition together?

The Core Divide: Lions vs. Scavengers

Why Ben Shapiro Left L.A. – And Why the Rest of Us Should Pay Attention

Ben Shapiro just dropped a sharp, no-holds-barred video breaking down the mess that is modern Los Angeles. If you've ever wondered how one of America's most iconic cities turned into a cautionary tale, this clip nails it. 

The Core Problem: Leadership Failure on Homelessness

Shapiro doesn't pull punches. He slams current leaders like Karen Bass and Nithya Raman for their handling of LA's homelessness crisis. Decades of progressive policies, massive spending, and feel-good rhetoric haven't fixed the streets — they've made them worse. Tents, trash, and human suffering now define parts of what was once a world-class city.

The numbers are staggering, the results embarrassing. Billions poured in, yet visible decline continues. Shapiro highlights how this isn't just a policy failure — it's a leadership one.

Enter Spencer Pratt: Using AI to Expose Reality

One of the most interesting angles? Reality TV star Spencer Pratt jumping into the mayoral race with viral AI-generated campaign ads. These ads cut through the noise by starkly showing the city's decay. No sugarcoating. Just raw visuals that force viewers to confront what's happened to Los Angeles.

Pratt's approach is refreshing in its directness. In a city drowning in spin, using modern tools like AI to tell uncomfortable truths stands out.

Shapiro's Personal Take

Does "Suicidal Empathy" Explain Our Soft-on-Crime Policies?

 Empathy is a virtue — the ability to understand and share the feelings of others. But when it's misdirected, excessive, or untethered from reason and consequences, it can become suicidal empathy.

As evolutionary psychologist Gad Saad explains in his PragerU video (and upcoming book Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind), civilizations don't always die by murder. Per historian Arnold Toynbee, they often die by suicide — from within, through well-intentioned but self-destructive choices.

Watch Saad's full take here [VIDEO]

Matt Walsh takes on the real history of Civil Rights

 As always I will withhold judgement until seeing this. Matt Walsh is known for his rather sarcastic take on controversial issues such as trans-ideology, anti-racism, and of course often on the news of the day. I'm curious what direction he'll take on the Civil Rights movement.

Here's a trailer [VIDEO]

Michael Franzese interviews Tommy Robinson

 

[VIDEO] Tommy Robinson is an activist making his rounds in conservative (right-wing) circles that has a lot to say about immigration and his thoughts on Islamic immigration. What he says seems infuriating, however, when you consider the whole idea of illegal immigration or unlimited immigration you might want to rethink what that entails.

Why does it seem like they want to fill up western nations with people who have little in common with the society? Could it be an invasion?