DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

Gothamist.

The city is moving to uproot the organizers of a Queens community garden who required prospective members to sign a “statement of values” that included a commitment to opposing Zionism, homophobia and transphobic behavior.

Parks department officials wrote in an April 16 letter that the leaders of Sunset Community Garden in Ridgewood violated guidelines by imposing a “litmus test” and “improper requirement” on garden members.

“Our decision to terminate the garden group’s license agreement has nothing to do with anyone’s political beliefs or gender expression,” said Margaret Nelson, a deputy commissioner at the parks department.

“This is about ensuring that our community gardens are responsibly managed and accessible as public spaces. We never want a termination, but the group’s leadership has repeatedly refused to work with us on their outstanding issues.”

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Far-left activists in Brussels have continued their intimidation campaign against the conservative think tank MCC Brussels. The campaign aims to force conference venues around the European capital to close their doors to one of the very few right-wing organizations that speak out on behalf of the already limited freedom of speech and plurality in the EU.

This time, the Antifa activists targeted the Stanhope Hotel, the venue of MCC Brussels’ upcoming event about how President Trump has been reshaping the global order. The event is planned for Wednesday, May 14th, and includes as speakers an associate professor from Cambridge and the chair of the Edmund Burke foundation, as well as a former undersecretary in the Italian foreign ministry.

Typical Nazis, right? Well, the Antifa certainly thinks so, as the vandals covered the hotel’s entrance with eggs and graffiti on Tuesday morning, just one day before the event, in what they regard as protesting the ‘extreme right.’

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Donald Trump finally found the one group of foreign-born refugees that the American Left doesn’t like: white South Africans.

The president welcomed a few dozen Afrikaner farmers to Washington this week, offering them refuge from deadly persecution in their home country, South Africa. The media, naturally, went crazy, implying that Trump must be a racist for bringing in white people while clamping down on the influx of non-white asylum seekers.

The Episcopal Church, the national standard-bearer for woke Christianity, ended its decades-long contract with the U.S. government to help refugees settle in America over the arrival of the Afrikaners, citing “moral opposition” to helping them resettle. The Episcopalians—a wealthy but fast-shrinking denomination whose membership in the U.S. is 90% white—are thrilled to show mercy to foreigners fleeing persecution … but not white ones.

The Robb Report.

When you’re flying in a small plane, the possibility of the pilot becoming incapacitated is usually filed in the very-unlikely-to-happen category. But it happens, and with no other pilot on board, outcomes range from a Hollywood best case—the air-traffic-control tower talking you through a safe landing—to much more devastating scenarios.

On a recent flight aboard a Cirrus SR22 in California’s Bay Area, we did more than explore the possibility. We created a situation in which pilot Ivy McIver (also executive director of the SR Series Product line) gave up control of the joystick to demonstrate how well Cirrus’s new Safe Return automatic landing system performs. Cirrus recently announced this adaptation of Garmin’s Autoland technology as the standout feature of its new SR Series G7+, shorthand for the seventh-plus generation of its SR20, SR22, and SR22T. An SR22 like the one we tested, retailing for $1,236,500, is also the world’s first single-engine piston aircraft with the Autoland system.

When McIver let go of the joystick control, instead of heroically grabbing the stick (Hollywood-style) to attempt a landing myself, I reached overhead and pushed the red button labeled “Safe Return.” Within seconds, the button triggered a complex network of automated motors, servos, communications systems, and AI-fueled algorithms.

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The Trump administration is admitting as refugees white farmers from South Africa who are being dispossessed from their lands, and in some cases murdered, by the black majority. This, of course, will be one more blow to the feeble South African economy, but taking someone else’s property is always easier than earning your own.

Liberals don’t like this policy because, I suppose, white people are “privileged,” so how can they be refugees?

There have been refugees for thousands of years, and legitimate refugees generally consist of family units. When there is a column of people crossing your border, and they are overwhelmingly young men, you are seeing invaders, not refugees.

ZMan brings the heat.

American progressivism in its current form can be summarized as an ideology that claims, “we must do A or B will happen.” The A in this formula can be just about anything and often flips from positive to negative. There are times when doing A reverses and the warning is to stop doing it. On the other hand, the B factor is always a negative consequence of the first term. Usually, it is a vague suggestion that it is not just bad but the end of civilization as we know it.

The obvious example is the weather. On the grand scale, the first term will be something like driving cars or heating our homes, while the second term is climate change, which means climate disaster. If we keep driving cars the climate will change in such a way that earth dies. They never make that second term explicit, but the extinction stuff is assumed. After all, climate changes all the time and has often been to our benefit, but that just muddies the waters.

That gets to the other aspect of this formulation. The person or people involved assume that their normative evaluation of both terms is correct. They may be justifying their prejudice against A on the grounds that it leads to B, but they always assume that B is a bad thing that moral people should seek to avoid. You see this with climate change, which is recast as a moral condition, rather than an observation. It is a bad thing not a simple observation of earth’s behavior.

Judge Won’t Block IRS From Sharing Tax Data to Identify and Deport Illegals

Clergy Protest at ICE Site After Mayor’s Arrest

Clergy members descend on Newark ICE facility, say they won’t move until they are arrested (Fox News)

Trump administration tells court publicly releasing its mass layoff plans would hurt recruiting and retention (Eric Katz/GovExec.com)

A VIP Seat at Donald Trump’s Crypto Dinner Cost at Least $2 Million (Wired)  Think anybody would pay $2 million for dinner with Biden? The question answers itself.

Trump’s plan to accept free Air Force One replacement from Qatar raises ethical and security worries (Associated Press)  But Hunter’s laptop didn’t. I wonder why.

Why Trump Suddenly Declared Victory Over the Houthi Militia (New York Times)

Trump’s trillion-dollar trip (Axios)

Trump Seeking $1 Trillion In Saudi Investment, Air Force One En Route

Trump’s drug pricing move shows his second-term reluctance to try bipartisanship: From the Politics Desk (NBC News)  Because ‘bipartisanship’, as the Narrative Media define the term,  means ‘Republicans doing what Democrats want’.

Trump’s free plane is not so free (Politico)

Trump’s Plan to Accept Luxury Jet From Qatar Strains Bounds of Propriety (Charlie Savage/New York Times)

Qatar Bribes Trump With Bling Blimp (Liz Dye/Law and Chaos)

What Trump’s Corruption Will Cost Us (Paul Waldman/The Cross Section)

Trump’s gifted Qatari 747 would be a security problem, officials say (Washington Post)

Corruption in Plane Sight (Jay Kuo/The Status Kuo)

Schumer to Slow Trump Justice Dept. Nominees Over Qatari Jet (Carl Hulse/New York Times)

Guess Which Other World Leader Said ‘Yes’ to Free Qatari Jet? (Janna Brancolini/The Daily Beast)

Trump Melts Down Over Damning Report on Qatar Giving Him a Private Jet (Edith Olmsted/New Republic)  Actually, it’s the Narrative Media who are ‘melting down’.

RFK Jr. Took His Grandkids for a Dip in a Sewage-Contaminated Creek For Mother’s Day (Issie Lapowsky/Vanity Fair)  Showing them what happens when Democrats are in charge of a city.

Deputy attorney general who defended Trump in hush money trial is named acting librarian of Congress (Associated Press) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHHHH….

The President has named a new Acting Librarian of Congress. It’s his former defense lawyer. (Neda Ulaby/NPR)  OH NO! TRUMP COOTIES!

Trump Is Trying to Take Control of Congress Through Its Library (Rolling Stone)  I doubt that the Congressional Library controls Congress. These people are deranged.

Donald Trump’s Corruption Reaches New Heights (Slate)

Trump is the most corrupt President in U.S. history. Period. (Dean Obeidallah/The Dean’s Report)

RFK Jr. Swims in Washington Creek That Flows With Sewage and Bacteria (Chris Cameron/New York Times)

White House correspondents protest lack of wire reporters on Air Force One (Associated Press)  Wire reporters like … the Associated Press….

Avelo Airlines Faces Backlash for Aiding Trump’s Deportation Campaign (Niraj Chokshi/New York Times)

Trump’s Middle East trip marked by potential private business conflicts (Washington Post)

Despite Mainstream Panic, US Consumer Price Inflation Tumbles To Lowest In Over 4 Years

AP Desperately Tries to Shut Down Hype Over Good Inflation News for Trump

Defenders of Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order Offer an Implausible Take on a 127-Year-Old Precedent (Jacob Sullum/Reason)  It was wrong, just as Dred Scott was wrong.

Donald Trump leans left in bid to revive flagging poll numbers (James Politi/Financial Times)  And if you believe that one, he’ll tell you another one.

Donald Trump’s gargantuan self-dealing (Edward Luce/Financial Times)

Trump’s Unquenchable, Unconstitutional Greed Is Deforming America (Jill Lawrence/The Bulwark)

Democrats Attempt To Blockade ICE Detention Center In New Jersey

The Lawsuit Exposing MAGA’s Voter Suppression Machine (Max Flugrath/Democracy Docket)  By which they mean ensuring that the people who vote aren’t doing so illegally–a sore spot for Democrats.

MAGA Attacks Church Over Donald Trump Rebuke: ‘Funds MUST Be Pulled’ (Martha McHardy/Newsweek)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Shame on the White House (George Saunders/New York Times)  That wouldn’t work with the New York Times, who are shameless.

Trump’s Effort to become the Supreme Leader Has Roots in a Nazi Philosopher (Andy Craig/The UnPopulist)

Trump Has Already Ruined Christmas (Amanda Mull/Bloomberg)

Ice has become Trump’s private militia. It must be abolished (Mehdi Hasan/The Guardian)

Why Qatar is bribing Trump (Judd Legum/Popular Information)

Why are ICE agents such cowardly wusses? (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)  Will Bunch loses his shit.

‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ as Viewed From Abroad

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ABC News finally found a group of people they didn’t want to let into America: white farmers fleeing from South Africa. That much was clear during Tuesday’s Good morning America when they decried the Trump administration for allowing farmers allegedly being targeted by the South African government to be allowed into the U.S. with refugee status. Interestingly, it was the black journalists who were the most upset.

The media often conflated the crackdown on illegal border crossings and illegal immigration with an opposition to general immigration and legitimate asylum claims. That was the backdrop as senior political correspondent Rachel Scott huffed about the refugees:

Well, the Trump administration has made it virtually impossible for many refugees to come to the United States. But the President is making a special exception for a group of 59 white South Africans who have now been granted refugee status.

Scott whined about the refugees, most of which were families with kids, getting the process expedited and a chartered flight. Becoming a mouthpiece for the South African government, she also tried to downplay the alleged discrimination while admitting it was being done to counter “the legacy of apartheid”:

TIME.

Primarily because Alondra Nelson

is just another DEI hire who is getting out before she can be fired, and crying on the shoulders of the Narrative Media to make political points.

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In one of his first speeches since being nominated as President Donald Trump’s special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun outlined Monday a firm vision for holding promoters and silent facilitators of Jew-hatred accountable.

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Following his release, Edan Alexander, the Israeli-American soldier kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, shared details about the difficult treatment he suffered during his captivity in Gaza, Israeli media reported.

Imagine how peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.

UPDATE: IDF Strikes Hamas Command Center Inside Gaza Hospital  Hamas typically sets up posts in places like hospitals, clinics, mosques, and schools, where there are a lot of innocent (to the extent that any Gazan is innocent) civilians as human shields.

Gentrification, Deep State style.

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Having survived the October 7th Hamas pogrom at the Nova music festival, Yuval Raphael is now representing her country, Israel, at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest with the song “New Day Will Rise.” For many of those who lined the streets upon her arrival in Basel on Sunday, Raphael’s was not a story to be celebrated but one that inspired hatred.

One man among the noisy Palestinian flag-wavers made a throat-slitting gesture and is said also to have spat at members of Israel’s delegation. Israeli broadcaster Kan has filed a complaint to the Swiss police as well as to Eurovision’s organiser, the European Broadcasting Union, “requesting that action be taken to identify the individual.”

But at the opening ceremony itself, Raphael and her team responded to this hatred with grace, blowing kisses and brandishing big smiles.

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You know a political campaign is struggling to be heard when it resorts to shock tactics you wouldn’t want your kids to see in order to gain publicity. There’s a lot of such desperation going about, from the doom-mongering antics of Chris Packham covered in these pages here, to the promotion of transgender ideology using drag artists in primary schools, for the simple reason that campaigns generating outrage quickly polarise opinion and create a niche market of followers from which campaigners then build upon.

One of the most pernicious of such campaigns is militant veganism that masquerades as promoting animal welfare. Yet People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) – the epitome of this business model (for when you follow the money, that is what it is) – passes for a respectable organisation looking to save animals from human mistreatment, when it is anything but.

One only needs to look at the behaviour of its co-founder, Ingrid Newkirk (caged in main photo), to understand the real motives of PETA campaigns are regularly less about animal welfare and more about advancing a radical, anti-human ideology by espousing views that are not only controversial but, at times, dangerously extreme.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Democrats are desperate for a recession, to give them something to run on in 2026. Their hopes for a recession lie in the “trade war” that was declared by American newspapers within weeks of President Trump taking office. But so far, no trade war has materialized. And perhaps it won’t, as American and Chinese negotiators have quickly agreed on a framework for a trade agreement.

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We weren’t aware that the game of chess could lead to a raging gambling addiction, but apparently the Taliban thinks so…

“The Taliban government in Afghanistan has banned chess until further notice due to fears the game is a source of gambling,” BBC reports Monday. “Officials said the game has been prohibited indefinitely until its compatibility with Islamic law can be determined.”

“There are religious considerations regarding the sport of chess,” Atal Mashwani, the spokesman of the Taliban government’s sports directorate, told AFP news agency. “Until these considerations are addressed, the sport of chess is suspended in Afghanistan.”

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Using academic studies on social cohesion, civil war causation theory and social attitudes surveys, he argues that the following preconditions are in place: elite overreach, factional polarization, a collapse in trust, economic pressures, and the perceived downgrading of the majority population in a previously homogeneous society, are all present in contemporary Britain.

The New York Times, a Voice of the Crust.

A brief standoff unfolded on Capitol Hill after library workers turned away two top Justice Department officials installed by Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, who has been named acting librarian.

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The Department of Homeland Security has issued a subpoena to Los Angeles County for records tied to a state-run assistance program, which the department alleges might have been used to unlawfully provide federal benefits to illegal immigrants.

Homeland Security Investigations served a Title 8 subpoena to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services, which administers California’s Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants.

While the cash assistance program is a state-funded initiative, the federal subpoena seeks records from January 2021 to the present to determine whether any recipients received Supplemental Security Income benefits but who were ineligible, based on their immigration status.

Newsweek, a Voice of the Crust.

A Republican-led proposal to scale back Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies could result in millions of Americans losing their health insurance, according to new estimates from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

Because,  as we all know, health insurance is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government–and the Federal taxpayer.

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The credentials committee of the Democratic National Committee voted on Monday to void the results of the internal party vote that made David Hogg a party vice chair, ruling that the election had not followed proper parliamentary procedures.

The decision — which came after roughly three hours of internal debate and one tie vote — will put the issue before the full body of the Democratic National Committee. It must decide whether to force Mr. Hogg and a second vice chair, Malcolm Kenyatta, to run again in another election later this year.

Mr. Hogg, 25, an outspoken survivor of the 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Fla., has prompted a fierce backlash over his plans to spend up to $20 million through another organization he heads, Leaders We Deserve, on primary campaigns against incumbent Democrats. Ken Martin, the party chairman, has said it is inappropriate for Mr. Hogg to meddle in primaries while serving as a party official, and has recommended changing the party’s bylaws to force him to sign a neutrality pledge.

When the figurehead tries to steer the ship, you know you’ve made a mistake.

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott wrote on X that his team has halted construction of a planned mixed-use development connected with East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC), one of North Texas’ largest mosques.

The 402-acre site is being transformed into a community for Muslims that includes 1,000 homes, a K-12 faith-based school, a mega mosque, elderly and assisted living, apartments, clinics, retail shops, a community college, and sports fields. It is located just 30 miles northeast of downtown Dallas.

“We’re going to demonstrate to the world what it means to be a Muslim in the West,” one of the heads of EPIC City said in a promotional video.

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In a recent podcast, supporters of the proposed EPIC City development discussed plans to name streets after historic Islamic conquerors and revealed that 75% of homeowner association fees would be funneled into the mosque.

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The Department of Education under President Joe Biden loosened requirements for a student loan program specifically for public servants and nonprofit employees a few months after unions that stood to benefit from the change sent a letter to then-Education Secretary Miguel Cardona.

The watchdog Protect the Public’s Trust, which obtained the letter via a Freedom of Information Act request, faulted the unions for self-dealing when they demanded the Biden administration cancel the student loan debt of all public sector and nonprofit workers who completed 10 or more years of service, leaving taxpayers to pay off the balances. The revelation comes as the Department of Education under President Donald Trump is revising the program to root out alleged abuses.

The unions defended their move as keeping in line with the goal of the legislation that created the loan program. Either way, the letter arguably demonstrates unions’ large degree of influence in the Biden administration.

“These unions were lobbying for a direct financial benefit for their members at the expense of the American public,” Michael Chamberlain, director of Protect the Public’s Trust, told The Daily Signal in a statement Monday.

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Note: ‘Administrative law judges’ aren’t real judges (pursuant to Article III of the Constitution). They lobbied for, and were granted, the right to be called ‘judges’ to enhance their status.  They are Executive Branch employees, not Judicial Branch employees, as witness the fact that she’s part of a union.

The federal agency tasked with protecting workers’ civil rights has moved to terminate a New York administrative judge who has resisted compliance with directives from the White House, including President Donald Trump’s executive order decreeing male and female as two “immutable” sexes.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in response to Trump’s order has moved to drop at least seven of its own pending cases representing transgender workers alleging discrimination, and is classifying all new gender identity-related discrimination cases as its lowest priority, signaling a major departure from its prior interpretation of civil rights law.

EEOC Administrative Judge Karen Ortiz, who in February criticized the agency’s Trump-appointed head, Acting Chair Andrea Lucas, in an email copied to more than 1,000 colleagues, on Wednesday was placed on administrative leave. She also received notice that the EEOC leadership sought to fire her, accusing her of “profoundly unprofessional” conduct.

Which ought to come as no surprise to anyone.

MEET THE DEPRESSED: NBC Is Still Pushing Fake ‘Constitutional Crisis’

UVA Prof. Larry Sabato on Qatar “Gifting” Trump a Luxury Jet: “The Trump Administration is drowning in corruption-and few Americans seem to care. (Lowkell/Blue Virginia)

Dem Vows to Probe Qatar, Trump’s ‘Flying Grift’  Just because a Democrat says it doesn’t make it true; in fact, quite the opposite.

House Democrat calls for ‘immediate’ ethics probe of Qatari plane gift to Trump (Fox News)

Trump: Dems ‘World Class Losers’ for Fighting Free Air Force One

Qatari Royals Give Trump a Plane (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)

Trump scrambles to defend luxury jet from Qatar he’ll use as Air Force One (Steve Benen/MSNBC)

Trump: I’d be a ‘stupid person’ saying no to Qatari plane (Alex Gangitano/The Hill)

Trump, Pressed on Qatari Jet, Says Only ‘Stupid’ People Reject Gifts (Maggie Haberman/New York Times)

Qatar calls reports of pending jet gift to Trump ‘inaccurate’ (Politico)

Fake News Narrative Of “Empty Ports, Empty Shelves” Suffers Spectacular Implosion

US popularity collapses worldwide in wake of Trump’s return (Giovanna Coi/Politico)

Small businesses dread tariff fallout (Matthew Choi/Washington Post)

How Donald Trump Jr. is cashing in on his dad’s presidency (Bethany McLean/Business Insider)

The Federalist Society is surprisingly ambivalent about Trump (Ian Millhiser/Vox)

Trump is hoping to quietly gut the social safety net (Abdallah Fayyad/Vox)

Auction to Dine With Trump Creates Foreign Influence Opportunity (New York Times)

The Guardian view on Israel and Gaza: Trump can stop this horror. The alternative is unthinkable (The Guardian)

The new pope is latest sign that the world rejects Trumpism (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)

A Warning From Justice Souter: Democracy Is in Peril (Adam Liptak/New York Times)

Hamas to release Israeli-American hostage as gesture to Trump (Barak Ravid/Axios)

A Garish, Outlandish, Stunningly Corrupt Act (William Kristol/The Bulwark)

‘Dramatic Retreat’: ABC Spins Trump’s Trade Deal With China as Defeat

Trump might claim China tariff victory – but this is Capitulation Day (Heather Stewart/The Guardian)

Trump and his Henchmen lash out when they lose… (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

Inside Trump’s $1 trillion military bonanza (Stephen Semler/Popular Information)

Trump reportedly shrugs off intelligence briefings he needs, but doesn’t want (Steve Benen/MSNBC)

Israeli-American Captive Edan Alexander Freed By Hamas After Trump Diplomacy

60 Minutes Admits U.S. Gov. Loses Up to $750 Billion in Fraud Per Year, Knock DOGE Anyway

Mexico Sues Google Over ‘Gulf of America’ Label As Sheinbaum Pushes Back On Trump Renaming Order  I’d be curious as to what the grounds are for the suit.

Markets Celebrate Total Trump Surrender on Signature Policy (Janna Brancolini/The Daily Beast)

Stephen Miller came prepared for war — and he won’t back down (Heather Digby Parton/Salon)

Corruption and a Security Catastrophe in Plane Sight (Garrett M. Graff/Doomsday Scenario)

The Ultimate Bait and Switch of Trump’s Tariffs (David Frum/The Atlantic)

Senate Dems Demand Vote on Trump’s Jet From Qatar  On what authority?

Trump Defends Refugee Status for White South Africans

NewsBusters Podcast: Media Fume Over Trump Trade Wins & Covet ‘Black’ Pope Leo

Power Line.

Media are lying about a story involving a used 747, Qatar, and Pres. Trump. And they know they are lying. A couple of weeks ago, I read this story from CNBC. The headline,

L3 Harris tapped to modify Qatari jet as potential new Air Force One after years of Boeing delays.

I’m curious about the fate of the glorious old 747 and the replacement of the aging Air Force One. At one point, the new Air Force One was to use the last two 747 airframes ever to be built. With the project years behind, and way over budget, they are/were going to try a new approach. From CNBC,

The work comes after President Donald Trump earlier this year expressed frustration about delays in modification work from Boeing. Trump struck a deal with Boeing in his first term to retrofit two 747s to serve as the next Air Force One aircraft. But after delays, the planes might not be ready before the end of his term.

Adding,

Boeing’s CEO, Kelly Ortberg, said on an April 23 earnings call that “we continue to work with the customer to revise the program plan to allow for an earlier first delivery while maintaining our focus on safety and quality.”

It’s a used airplane. Two weeks ago, the transaction was reported by all the major media outlets and reported as completely benign. Nothing about the transaction has changed.

Two weeks later this is being spun as “out of the blue,” a “terrorist-supporting” Qatar is “bribing Trump” with a free “$400 million” 747 for his “personal” use.

Apparently, ABC News is the original source of this fake news. Their headline,

Trump administration poised to accept ‘palace in the sky’ as a gift for Trump from Qatar: Sources

“Sources.” You don’t hate the media enough.

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Bill Glahn has been chronicling the insurrection that took place in Newark on Friday. A similar, if smaller-scale, insurrection occurred in Worcester, Massachusetts on the same day.

In the Worcester rebellion, a mob of around 25 people tried to impede ICE and local authorities, who were arresting an illegal alien wanted for assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and assault and battery on a pregnant victim. The mob was incited by a Democratic Party officeholder, Etel Haxhiaj. Haxhiaj and other members of the mob assaulted police officers and ICE agents.

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A Federal facility breached, violence against Federal law enforcement, political motives. January 6 at the Capitol? Nope, May 9 in Newark, New Jersey.

Attention has now shifted to three members of Congress and their conduct Friday at a Federal immigration facility in Newark. On Friday, I focused on Ras Baraka, Newark Mayor, who was arrested at the scene for trespassing on Federal property.

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With the help of taxpayer subsidies keeping the lights on, Planned Parenthood achieved a record-breaking number of 402,000 pre-born babies murdered between 2023 and 2024. The group’s annual report, released on Monday, features one of their pierced-up goons smirking smugly beside a graphic that boasts their latest body count as a “healthcare service.” Planned Parenthood’s new report features one of their “healthcare workers” smirking smugly next to a graphic boasting 402,200 babies MURDERED last year ALONE.

Justine Brooke Murray (@Justine_Brooke) May 12, 2025 That number marks a disturbing 2.42% jump from 392,715 babies murdered by the abortion business last year. LifeNews calculated over 1,102 babies murdered in abortions every single day of the year, which adds up to 46 dead babies every single hour. With Planned Parenthood’s revenue of over $2 billion, it means every baby would cost nearly $5,000 to put down, if they didn’t receive a portion of their income elsewhere. While the Hyde Amendment blocks federal funding from being used to directly sponsor abortions, Planned Parenthood allocates roughly $500,000 in taxpayer dollars a year to unrelated procedures as a smokescreen so they can continue slaughtering children. That’s why House Republicans are considering a reconciliation bill that would strip Medicaid funding to both Planned Parenthood and other so-called “family planning” businesses that offer to murder their customers’ babies.

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Harvard University was likely in violation of civil rights law in the name of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and the school practically said so, proudly, on their public website. Now they are under federal investigation.

The Washington Free Beacon’s Aaron Sibarium reported Monday that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a federal agency created to enforce civil rights law, launched an investigation into Harvard in late April over whether the school was (or continues to be) unlawfully hiring based on race and sex.

They reportedly discovered this information based not on some deep investigation into the workings of the school, but from Harvard’s own public website.

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The Episcopal Church has refused a Trump administration request to help resettle white South Africans on their way to the U.S.

… love your neighbor like yourself–so long as that neighbor is not white.

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After days of missile strikes and drone assaults across the India-Pakistan border, India launched a powerful and unprecedented aerial retaliation—one that may have taken the escalating conflict to the doorstep of Pakistan’s nuclear command.

According to top Indian military officials, it was Pakistan’s sustained missile barrage and attempted drone strikes on Indian cities that triggered the Indian response. In a press briefing on 11 May 2025, Air Marshal AK Bharti revealed that India had conducted “precise, measured and calibrated” air strikes targeting key Pakistani military infrastructure, including air bases, command centers, and air defense systems across the western front.

Among the targets reportedly hit were 11 Pakistani military bases—Nur Khan, Rafiqui, Sargodha, Bholari, Murid, Chunian, Pasrur, Sukkur, Sialkot, Skardu, and Jacobabad—within a three-hour window on the night of May 9 and the morning of May 10. Notably, Chaklala Air Base, located within Islamabad and adjacent to the Nur Khan Airbase, was also struck—an operation Indian officials have described as the “turning point.”

Government sources called the strikes “hell fire,” citing significant damage to Pakistan’s air power. According to estimates shared by Air Marshal Bharti, nearly 20% of Pakistan’s Air Force infrastructure was degraded.

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The first of May for most people means flowers and springtime, but for Communists it’s May Day, a time to wear red, scrawl something on a poster and shout at people at a big rally.

And perhaps block traffic.

May Day 2025 is being billed as a major protest turnout event. In New York City, the Democratic Socialists of America, the Communist Party, a few useless unions, and Bend the Arc will be rallying in the streets to “stop the billionaire takeover”. Since Bend the Arc is run and funded by Alex Soros, a billionaire scion notorious for his Hampton parties, the takeover is already here.

George Soros, Alex’s dad, put his billions to work building up the American Left.

Victor Davis Hanson.

Secure borders and stationary populations were considered the mark of emerging civilization by classical historians. In contrast to nomadism and constant strife over disputed territory, peoples who had clearly defined and protected borders ascended to statehood, maintained a distinct culture, and achieved greater prosperity and security.

In contrast, what we suffered from 2021 to 2025 was unprecedented. It was an intentional administration effort to de-civilize the nation by destroying its borders—as if to return to the premodern era, when there were no clearly defined or secure borders, and nomadic peoples migrated as they pleased.

Stranger still, illegal aliens were at times given precedence over citizens—as immigration law was simply discarded.

Without IDs, illegal aliens boarded U.S. flights, while the government ordered citizens to obtain more secure “real” IDs.

Some 8,500 veteran soldiers were drummed out of the military for refusing the experimental mRNA vaccinations. Yet 10 million simply walked across the southern border into America, without a care from the Biden administration whether they were vaccinated, ill, or had criminal records.

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Researchers have used the protein-structure-prediction tool AlphaFold to identify1 hundreds of thousands of potential new psychedelic molecules — which could help to develop new kinds of antidepressant. The research shows, for the first time, that AlphaFold predictions — available at the touch of a button — can be just as useful for drug discovery as experimentally derived protein structures, which can take months, or even years, to determine.

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The military recruitment crisis that has crippled our defense capabilities has been talked to death by generals, politicians and pundits who have blamed everything from rising minimum wages to obesity to Gen Z culture for the problem. They have raised enlistment bonuses to unprecedented levels, spent fortunes on ad campaigns that feature lesbian weddings and doubled down on DEI as the answer to the crisis. And yet the crisis has grown worse.

That’s because recruitment was a self-inflicted problem caused by a woke racist military.

Quillette.

Sex differences in many aspects of behavior and cognition are now well-established. These include women’s more communal (formation of intimate relationships) and men’s more agentic (goal achievement) approach to life, as well as men’s advantage in spatial abilities and women’s advantage in memory for personal experiences (episodic memory). Current debates focus on their origin and range from evolved biases to adherence to socially imposed gender roles.

Sex differences in brain organization and functions are the last frontier in this line of research, and their study is shaping up to be a ruckus. The results will eventually resolve the issue of the relative contributions of biological and cultural influences on sex differences. The associated scientific and social policy stakes are high and far-reaching. Minimal sex differences in brain organization and functions would help to affirm the importance of socially imposed gender roles and support the use of policy interventions to reduce sex differences in important social outcomes. Substantive biological contributions, on the other hand, would raise consequential questions about the wisdom of such interventions.

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Hair follicles go through repeated cycles of growth, rest, and shedding. At the heart of these cycles are hair follicle stem cells (HFSCs), which are responsible for producing new hair after the old ones fall out. In the new study, scientists discovered that these stem cells require a protein known as MCL-1 to function properly. When MCL-1 was deleted in mice, HFSCs quickly underwent stress and died. Without the stem cells, the process of hair regrowth halted completely.

In experiments where MCL-1 was removed from adult mice, researchers also shaved small patches of fur to test recovery. They found that in the absence of MCL-1, the shaved patches did not regrow any hair. In contrast, mice with normal MCL-1 expression experienced routine regeneration. This points to the protein’s essential role in maintaining healthy HFSC populations in adults.

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Many people have made admirable efforts to characterize and understand the irrational, hysterical and bizarre behavior of people on the Left. Still, trying to understand the reasons they perceive life as they do is challenging. The other day, however, I had an insight that might, at least in part, explain how the Left sees the world, and why their view is so limited and selective. First, let’s look at typical descriptions of the Left by the Right. The Left is usually described as an elitist, utopian-thinking, Marxist group. All of those attributes, I believe, are true. Missing from the description are the reasons why these beliefs are so easy to maintain, in view of real-life events:

The Left views life through a peephole.

You know, the tiny hole that is built into hotel room doors. (Let’s ignore for the moment that some of those peepholes have been tampered with.)

What does it mean to see life through a peephole like the view of a visitor to a room?

First, the view is extremely limited and permanent; a person from the outside can’t make adjustments to get a more complete and undistorted view.

Second, the view through the peephole allows the viewer to assume that the story that the view presents is true and legitimate; after all, it’s the only view available in this setting.

Third, the peephole doesn’t allow for any adjustments, such as binoculars or a telescope provide; a person can only see what is right in front of him or her and the view may be distorted.

So, how would the “view through the peephole” create a reality for a person of the Left? We can take three current scenarios and overlay them on the criteria listed above.

WIRED, a Voice of the Crust.

Because, as we all know, studying health risks from chemicals is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government–and the Federal taxpayer.

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A federal judge has denied an emergency bid by Dr. Terry Adirim to halt her dismissal from the CIA, rejecting her claims that political activists orchestrated her firing in retaliation for her role in enforcing the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

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Democrat donors want the “safest white boy” as their presidential nominee in 2028, Texas Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett said on a radio show Thursday.

“It is this fear that the people within the party, within the primary system will have about voting for a woman, because every time we voted for a woman we’ve lost so far. And I think that that’s a natural fear, because we just want to win,” said Crockett on SiriusXM’s “Urban View.”

Apparently Democrats have learnd that crazy racist black women aren’t electable. Who knew?

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No racial discrimination means no racial discrimination.

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A Catholic priest in southern France was surrounded, insulted, and threatened by a mob of young men shouting “Allahu Akbar” after evening Mass on Saturday, in what he has condemned as a brazen act of anti-Christian intimidation.

The attack took place on the evening of Saturday, May 10th, in Montfavet, near Avignon in Provence. The priest was ambushed. Early in the evening, after celebrating Mass, he was approached by a young man who told him of his desire to convert to Christianity. Behind him stood around ten teenagers or young adults, asking if they could enter the church. “Some claimed to be Muslims and said they just wanted to visit,” said the victim, Father Laurent Milan.

Once inside the building, the young men, some of whom were likely minors, showered the priest with insults and shouted “Allah Akhbar,” before threatening to set fire to his church and then fleeing. The local press (La Provence) reported that there were around ten young men aged between 15 and 20. Valeurs actuelles noted that some of them were hooded.

The victim filed a complaint, and the next day, police were deployed to secure the Sunday Mass.

Imagine how peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.

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Remember just one month ago when the media was acting like tariffs were a guarantee of 100 years of famine, plague and pestilence? Well tomorrow the stock market is going to be well on its way toward all-time highs, again.

Tom Lee will look like a genius and bears will look like morons. You know the drill. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.

The Foundry.

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Thursday in a case that stems from President Donald Trump’s order on birthright citizenship. But the court won’t be ruling on the constitutionality of Trump’s executive order, but rather on the issue of nationwide injunctions.

“This case is not about the underlying merits,” GianCarlo Canaparo, a Heritage Foundation senior legal fellow, said on a call with reporters last week, adding that the acting U.S. solicitor general was very strategic in asking the Supreme Court to look at the nationwide injunctions issue, instead of the merits of the broader case.

On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order limiting the interpretation of birthright citizenship.

Historically, the 14th Amendment, which reads, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside,” has been interpreted to mean anyone born within the borders of the U.S. is a citizen. But Trump’s executive order focuses on the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” and holds that those born to parents who are not in the U.S. legally are not subject to U.S. jurisdiction and are therefore not legal citizens.

Almost immediately after Trump signed the order, lawsuits were filed to block it. Three courts have now issued nationwide injunctions on the order, meaning the courts ruled that not only can the order not be enforced against the parties who brought the lawsuit, nor against anyone else in the nation.

For years, there has been debate among legal experts as to whether nationwide injunctions are lawful or not, and now the Supreme Court has the opportunity to provide a definitive answer.

I wonder whether this would work in the U.K.? Probably have to wear a heffiyah to make us immune from the police….

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The Border Patrol posted footage of a massive processing facility on the southern border that has been dismantled, but just a few months ago was heaving with thousands of illegal aliens, proving conclusively that the flow could have been stopped at any time.

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Mark Halperin reports on what is likely the real reason behind Joe Biden’s return to the public spotlight in recent days, which some have suggested is an attempt to “fight back” against damning revelations about his cognitive decline. “Biden, Inc., needs a source of revenue,” he said, citing a source familiar with the Biden family. “The trough is empty, the spigot has shut down. They need a way to get back in the game to make big money to have the grandchildren fed and clothed and flown first class.” Joe and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, are both working on books that no one will want to read. (A Jill Biden biography released in 2022 sold just 250 copies in its first week.) Joe’s debut on the paid speaking circuit did not go well, and most Democrats want nothing to do with him, for obvious reasons. “The country would be better served if he rode off into the sunset,” one Democrat operative told Politico last month.

Most Americans would agree that what’s happening to the Bidens is painfully tragic and unfair. That explains why Jill Biden was so desperate to stay in the White House, her husband’s dementia be damned. The Biden family went from living large to begging for pardons to stay out of prison. Biden’s exit from the political arena means his son, Hunter, and brother, Jim, no longer have anything of value to offer the world. The prospects for maintaining the “lavish lifestyle” to which the Bidens have grown accustomed are not especially bright, Halperin said, noting that Hunter “does not have great earning capacity” these days. The degenerate crackhead admitted in court that he’s struggling with “significant” debts due the decline in “sales” of his “artwork,” which have failed to cover his hefty child support bill for the daughter he denied was his while (falsely) denouncing her mother as a common prostitute he didn’t remember sleeping with.