WhyteGuy

We are deeply disturbed by the racist and Islamophobic attack targeting hijabi Muslim women, as well as the physical assault and hateful slurs directed at a Muslim man at Halifax Costco this past weekend. We are in contact with those affected and with Halifax Regional Police. No one should face hate or fear while simply grocery shopping with their family. We call on all elected officials in Nova Scotia and Canada to publicly condemn this incident and to take concrete actions to formulate a national strategy against this massive rise in violent Islamophobia in recent months. We also thank the bystander who intervened against the man, and the Costco security staff who acted to remove the individual.

Graham Platner’s campaign was like a gameshow: How low will the Democrats go? They defended him from accusations of physical abuse. They defended him from mocking veterans. They defended him blaming women for their own sexual assaults. They defended his Nazi tattoo.

American college graduates are competing against Visa labor with fake degrees.

While Europe is responding to heat waves by buying more air conditioners, China is deploying infrastructure that cools public space at a fraction of the energy cost. Rooftops across Shanxi province are fitted with mist nozzles that spray droplets fine enough to evaporate before they hit the ground. They switch on automatically at 35°C and drop surrounding air temperature by 5 to 8°C within minutes. The same system now runs at bus stops in Chongqing, public squares in Beijing and Wuhan. The technology is not new. Evaporative cooling is textbook thermodynamics. What is new is that a government decided to fund the rollout at city scale before anyone wrote a policy paper about it.