This is the first installment of Battlegrounds Watch, a new column available on our Substack and at BreakingBattlegrounds.vote we hope will become a daily feature on weekdays. Simply put, Battlegrounds Watch is a collection of stories and topics in today’s news Chuck & Sam are tuning in to.
WSJ: Americans Pull Back From Values That Defined Us
Niall Ferguson’s “Great Degeneration” is upon us, and America’s ties that bind have started to unwind…
“The share of Americans who say that having children, involvement in their community and hard work are very important values has also fallen. Tolerance for others, deemed very important by 80% of Americans as recently as four years ago, has fallen to 58% since then.”
RELATED, TheFP: My Best Friend Died of Loneliness
Heartbreaking story of a lost friend who died an isolated death in an increasingly disconnected society…
“My best friend Mike died alone. That was how he lived, too. He ate alone. He slept alone. Aloneness was his natural state. At age 50, it was sepsis that officially did him in. But really, it was solitude”
Politico: Netanyahu Delays Judicial Overhaul After Protests
Politicized courts and activist judges aren’t limited to the U.S., Israeli left lighting fires in the streets (seem familiar?) to protest reforms that would reduce judicial power and give Israel’s elected leaders power to overturn judicial rules…
“The chaos shut down much of the country and threatened to paralyze the economy. Departing flights from the main international airport were grounded. Large mall chains and universities closed their doors, and Israel’s largest trade union called for its 800,000 members to stop work in health care, transit, banking and other fields.”
National Review: We have bigger problems than digital blackface
Cultural leftists ignore real news to create latest racial grievance.
“While a CNN contributor wants you to worry about the phenomenon of “digital blackface” — that is, white people sharing images or gifs of members of minority groups on social media — the world still has plenty of real worries, such as Russian dictator Vladimir Putin saying he intends to move some of Russia’s tactical nuclear weapons to neighboring Belarus”…
WSJ: First Citizens Acquires Much of Failed SVB
First Citizens Bank steps in to help avert a broader banking crisis, but taxpayers are on the hook for much of SVBs losses.
“The FDIC agreed to share any of First Citizens’ losses or potential gains on SVB’s commercial loans. Overall, the FDIC estimated the failure of SVB will cost a federal insurance fund it oversees about $20 billion, or roughly 10% of the bank’s assets before its failure.”
WaPo: Exiled Chinese Tycoon Controls GETTR
Think it’s just Tik Tok? Think again. Social media is the world’s most powerful espionage tool. Whose hands are we putting ourselves in?
Boston Globe: Veteran Editor Rises in Dissent of Biased Reporting
Yes, there are journalists who still want to be journalists, unfortunately most of them are at or nearing retirement. They’re being replaced by trained activists. Is there hope for honest journalism?
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