Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 3/05

[SVPete]

UN Enters the War Against US and Israel

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/03/05/un-backing-iranian-regime-n3812551

Were it not for the United States' seat on the UN Security Council and its relative dependence on the United States for funding, the organization would be explicitly anti-United States, and even with its dependence on our funding and approval for certain actions, it has adopted the idea that Israel makes a good proxy to attack.

Over the past 10 years, the UN has adopted almost 100 more resolutions condemning Israel than all the rest of the world combined, so it should come as no surprise that, to the extent it can, it has entered the propaganda war against the Iran war on the side of Iran.

The UN Human Rights Council is condemning the US-Israel attacks on Iran, because of course it is, despite the fact that it is "investigating" the Iranian murder of tens of thousands of its own citizens who were protesting against the regime. The "Special Rapporteur" on Palestinian issues, Francesca Albanese, has shared AI images to condemn Israel.

Reason number ... I lost track decades ago ... why I support UNExit - the US from the UN and the UN from the US.

[SVPete]

Video: UCSF staffer allegedly threatens to ‘hunt’ down and ‘kill’ conservative activist

https://www.thecollegefix.com/video-ucsf-staffer-allegedly-threatens-to-hunt-down-and-kill-conservative-activist/

A woman who appears to be a University of California at San Francisco employee was caught on video allegedly threatening to “hunt” down and “kill” a conservative activist who was protesting against cutting off the healthy body parts of gender-confused children.

Parents’ rights activist Beth Bourne told The College Fix she filed a police report after the Feb. 21 incident outside the California Democratic Party convention in San Francisco.

Bourne also posted a video of the confrontation Monday on X. Several commenters identified the woman as Madeline Mann, an associate director at the UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute.

The Post Millennial also identified the individual as Mann; it described her as a “transgender activist” who has a daughter who identifies as male.

Beth Bourne has been demonized as a hateful highly abrasive activist. She's probably "just" blunt and very vocal. I believe she lives in Davis, a couple hours from SF.

UCSF was founded to be California's main medical school. I am not exaggerating in saying that UCSF oncology staff, some 35 years ago, saved my daughter's life. That it has fallen to the point of supporting chemical emasculation and surgical mutilation is an outrage that saddens me.

Given how screwed up and violence-prone at least some trans are, this UCSF higher up threatening to kill a woman she disagrees with does not entirely surprise me.

[SVPete]

A SCOTUS Decision so Unanimous That Justice Jackson Wrote the Majority Opinion

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/03/05/a-scotus-decision-so-unanimous-that-justice-jackson-wrote-the-majority-opinion-n4950277

On Wednesday, the Court handed down its ruling in Urias-Orellana v. Bondi.  The ruling is a genuine win for the Trump administration and for anyone who believes that immigration law should mean something. And not only was Jackson, Joe Biden’s DEI hire for the Supreme Court, not the sole dissenter; she actually wrote the majority opinion. There aren’t even any concurring opinions.

Jackson held that federal appeals courts must apply a "substantial-evidence standard" when reviewing immigration judges' findings on whether an asylum seeker faces a credible risk of "persecution" if deported. In plain terms, that means a federal court can't simply override an immigration judge's decision because it sees things differently. The judge's finding stands unless the evidence is so overwhelming that no reasonable person could reach the opposite conclusion.

Jackson emphasized the high bar courts must meet before overturning an immigration judge’s findings, potentially making it more difficult for migrants to challenge their deportations as the Trump administration cracks down on illegal immigration.

"The agency’s determination… is generally ‘conclusive unless any reasonable adjudicator would be compelled to conclude to the contrary,’" Jackson wrote.

Confirmed porcine aviator sighting. This defines on what kind of basis a Federal court can overturn immigration law judges' decisions, and the bases are quite narrow. It may take a few Prog district judges getting smacked down before the ACLU and immigrant "rights" orgs give up on this tack.