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Fundraisers and donors told CNBC they are pausing and reevaluating their support of Cuomo, who has said he will be seeking a fourth term when he's up for reelection next year.
"No one is giving to him now. Everything is on hold," one finance executive told the outlet.
The powerful Democrat's campaign has raised more than $4 million since July, and started 2021 with a war chest of $16 million.
I barely eked out a C+ in high school calculus, while Sergiu is a professor of mathematics at Princeton who specializes in the mathematical theory of black holes. He's been a MacArthur fellow, a Guggenheim fellow and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences
Mathematics allowed a young Sergiu, who came of age in Ceausescu's Romania, to escape to a world where right and wrong couldn't be fudged, and, ultimately, to a life of freedom in the United States. Without math, his life quite literally would not have been possible.
In the piece below he explains how activists are destroying his discipline in the name of progress. Worse, they are robbing poor children of the opportunity to raise themselves up by mastering it — with untold effects on all of us.

Adam Skelly defied extreme lockdown measures in Etobicoke to open his restaurant for business
Comment: The government chose to lockdown, because there were other options that wouldn't result in the predictable destruction of the economy; Sweden is just one example.
Statistics Canada says real gross domestic product shrank 5.4 per cent in 2020, the steepest annual decline since comparable data was first recorded in 1961.
The drop for the year was due to the shutdown of large swaths of the economy in March and April during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic that crushed the economy.
Comment: It's the same story all over the Western world. And, whilst statistics provide some insight into what's going on in the economy, they don't reveal the true cost and the suffering caused by the lockdowns. Moreover, one could be forgiven for thinking that if this impact to the economy wasn't intentional then, at the very least, it appears that those in power don't care about what they are still doing to small and medium businesses:
- 'We are essential!' French workers protest lockdown in Toulouse as country's economy slides further into recession
- Lockdown wipes out US economy, contracts by worst-ever 32.9% in Q2
- Pandemic pushers, economy destroyers and sold out science: Imperial College are still open for business
- "Tip of the iceberg": UK's foodbank demand soars 47% during lockdown - world's 5th wealthiest economy

The owner of Pontins has entered into a legal agreement with the human rights watchdog.
The list of "undesirable guests" was sent to booking operators, who were told: "We do not want these guests on our parks." It said: "Please watch out for the following names for ANY future bookings."
The list, which included names such as Carney, Boylan, McGuinness and O'Mahoney, was an example of "anti-Traveller discrimination", a spokesperson for Boris Johnson said. The document had a picture of a wizard holding up a wand and staff declaring: "You shall not pass."

Trump speaks to the crowds on the last day of CPAC 2021
Far-left activists online claimed that the shape of the stage at CPAC resembled a Nazi symbol despite there being no evidence that the stage was designed to resemble anything related to Nazi imagery or that organizers were even remotely aware of the connection.
CPAC Chairman Matt Schlapp initially responded to the claims, which even left-wing journalists dismissed as conspiratorial nonsense, by calling the allegations "outrageous and slanderous."
Comment: Just . . . wow.
And now for a completely different reality filter:
Just when you thought Covid-authoritarianism (and authoritarianism is actually putting it mildly), couldn't get any worse, it just did.
This week we've seen a number of politicians and high-profile media figures promote the idea of mandatory vaccine passports. And not just for international travel. On Sunday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who, I kid yet not, once wrote a book entitled 'The Assault on Liberty', refused to rule out vaccine passports to allow entry to supermarkets and pubs. 'It is under consideration' he said.
Comment: The PTB are enjoying the fruits of their long-lasting work. Many people are successfully programmed. They exploited this Covid madness for all it's worth and now they can just enjoy the show that the authoritarian followers will run frantically for them. It is just amazing how many people can't see the real intentions of PTB. They act like machines programmed to do certain things despite the evidence in front of their eyes. History is repeating and it looks like the lesson was never learned by some people.
See also:
- 'It would be discriminatory': UK vaccine minister says government is NOT planning Covid vaccine passport
- Petition against Covid-19 'vaccine passports' hits 37,000 signatures amid reports UK govt hatching travel scheme
- Airline chief joins growing list of COVID vaccine passport pushers, claims it's 'essential for tourism'
- Apps now being developed for global vaccine passport help fulfill 'one world order' totalitarian agenda
- Coronavirus vaccine passport may be required for traveling in 2021
- 'Health dictatorship': French citizens who refuse Covid-19 jab may be BANNED from public transport under 'Green Passport' plan
Examples of this include the forced retirement of the best automotive refrigerant ever developed - Freon - which cools faster and deeper than the replacements that were forced onto the market by forcing Freon off the market - in the name of the "ozone hole" but in actuality because of expiring patents on Freon that meant it would be much cheaper to make it and so cheaper to buy it than the "ozone-friendly" replacements forced onto the market.
Another example is gasoline - which has been largely forced off the market in favor of adulterated gasoline. What most Americans are forced to pump into their tanks is actually 10 percent ethanol (ethyl alcohol) and only 90 percent gasoline.
Soon, there may be no gasoline at all.
Not because people don't want it but rather because they won't be able to buy it. Because of new laws proliferating forbidding the selling of it.
As in Petaluma, California - where the city council just voted to prohibit new gas stations from being built and also that existing gas stations may not install new pumps. "The goal here is to move away from fossil fuels and to make it as easy as possible to do that," says one of the legislation's main backers, D'Lynda Fischer.
She means her goal; the goal of those forcing their views upon the people of Petaluma. It will be made "easier" for them to not buy gas, in order to make it harder for them to not drive cars that burn gasoline.
See how that works?
It has to work that way, too - because the non-psychopathic way of free exchange determining what succeeds and fails makes it harder to get people to give up what works for them in favor of what "works" for the political psychopaths who regard their way as the only way and intend to make it "easier" for you to see it their way.
Comment: Note this man was homeless and police demanded his details when he was sitting on a city centre bench.
In an important judgment on the legal duties of citizens under the coronavirus regulations Mrs Justice Steyn and Lord Justice Dingemans ruled that Neale was under no common law obligation or statutory duty to give the police his name and address.
Almost a third of prosecutions made under the coronavirus regulations have been wrongly brought, leading to hundreds of cases being dropped. The latest figures from the Crown Prosecution Service showed that 359 of 1,252 charges last year were either withdrawn or quashed in court. All 232 prosecutions brought under the Coronavirus Act 2020 were flawed, and a further 127 wrongful charges were brought under the Health Protection Regulations.
Comment: Sadly law, order, and the rights of citizens as we've come to know them are becoming a distant memory these days: It is not the police's job to enforce the lockdown whims of UK ministers - former senior judge Lord Sumption
Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro has warned that young authors are self-censoring due to a 'climate of fear'.
Speaking to the BBC ahead of the release of his new book, Klara and the Sun, he said authors worry that an 'anonymous lynch mob will turn up online and make their lives a misery'. 'I very much fear for the younger generation of writers', he added.
Comment: See also:
- Harvard club cancels event set to feature expert ... on cancel culture
- 'Cancel culture' in 'dying' US, & opposition media bans in E. Europe makes Russia the world's 'last island of freedom'
- Guardian editor Nathan Robinson insists cancel culture doesn't exist: Gets whacked by the granddaddy of all special interests - Big Israel
- To prove cancel culture doesn't exist, Disney fires actress who condemned cancel culture
- 'Proving my point': Ben Shapiro argues against Dem cancel culture, liberals respond blasting Politico for giving him platform
- Comedian Rowan Atkinson: Cancel culture is 'like a medieval mob'
- Ignore the Leftist gaslighting - cancel culture is real
- Heroes of scholarship: Top 10 ACADEMIC targets of cancel culture in 2020
Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said the government has not received a response that Beijing would change the testing procedure, so Japan would continue to ask China to alter the way of testing.
"Some Japanese reported to our embassy in China that they received anal swab tests, which caused a great psychological pain," Kato told a news conference.
Comment: See also:
- US diplomats offered Covid-19 vaccines by 13 foreign government amid US supply issues, Wapo claims China also offered anal swab tests
- China develops new more protective anal mask
- Oh sh*t. 'Anal swabs for COVID more accurate,' sez Chinese expert
- Back to normal? More like new normal! Beijing tightens Covid restrictions before New Year, deploys ANAL swabs
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