DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

‘Dangerous power grab’: top Democrats decry USPS system that could thwart mail-in voting – live (Dani Anguiano/The Guardian)

White House prepares for Democratic investigations (Politico)

Bad Manner: CNN’s Cornish Stacks The Deck Against Hegseth

MAGA-Curious CBS Boss Hit With Furious Staff Backlash (Ewan Palmer/The Daily Beast) “MAGA-curious”? (You can’t make this shit up….)

Governor Hochul Calls on the Trump Administration to Stop Defunding the Police and Deliver the $87 Million in Federal Counterterrorism Funds Still Owed to New York (Governor Kathy Hochul)  Because, as we all know, funding local police is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal governmnt—and the Federal taxpayer.

Mamdani, Hochul accuse Trump of defunding the police (Joe Anuta/Politico)  And they say it with a straight face.

Nikki Haley demands Vance ‘choose a side’ between Israel and its critics (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico)  Binary thinking is the first refuge of the dimwit.

‘A Shit Show’: Postal Service Whistleblower Warns That New Project Will Sow Chaos in Election (John Light/Talking Points Memo)  Certainly among Democrats trying to steal elections.

New Emails Show Greg Bovino Was Under Investigation Prior to His Retirement (Angie Orellana Hernandez/NOTUS)  The harpies of the Left will pursue you even unto the grave.

Mainstream Media Runs Spin Campaign As Deportations To Haiti Increase

Republicans aren’t exactly flocking to Trump’s midterm convention (Politico)  Because, as we all know, unless Republicans ‘flock’ to something then it’s a total repudiation.

Trump begs SCOTUS to let him unleash midterm chaos (Liz Dye/Public Notice)  Bias? What bias?

Trump aides, fearing a midterm rout, push to keep Iran war ‘quiet’ for now (Reuters)  The mind-readers at Reuters are on the case!

Trump’s boat strikes are illegal. Does it matter? (Jeffrey Stein/The Hill)  Apparently not.

“Like pissing in the wind”: Local concerns bulldozed by Trump’s border wall plan (Brittany Gibson/Axios)  I give up—since when does Axios care about ‘local concerns’?

What JD Vance’s Eruption of Rage over Usha and El-Sayed Really Reveals (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit.

Mike Johnson, Wet Noodle (The Bulwark)

The U.S. Has Killed 227 Civilians in Boat Strikes During “A Year of Murders” (Nick Turse/The Intercept)

Trump approves disaster relief funds for 7 red states, after denying aid to blue states (Steve Benen/MS NOW)  Because they just steal it. Witness California diverting money intended for rebuilding fire-damaged homes to rent relieve for fashionable minorities. (Almost 90 percent of Americans say there is widespread corruption in government (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico))

How the Supreme Court Helps Trump Run Out the Clock (Madiba K. Dennie/Balls and Strikes)

Trump’s Speed on the White House Ballroom Threatens to Outpace the Courts (Adam Liptak/New York Times)  OH NOES!

Tur Whines About Vance Going After El-Sayed, Ignore His Attack on VP’s Wife

Trump floats renaming Strait of Hormuz the ‘Trump Strait’ (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)  Ah, ah, ah, ah, yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains….

‘Pitiful’: experts condemn initial US aid contribution for Nepal flood victims (Robert Tait/The Guardian)  Because, as we all know, relief for flood victims in Nepal is TOTALLY the responsibility of the U.S. government—and the U.S. taxpayer.

Elon Musk Unmasked in Alex Gibney Documentary: “Insane a Person This Chaotic Has So Much Power” (Steven Zeitchik/The Hollywood Reporter)

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A rather remarkable statement from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick puts the Canadian government on notice. If Lutnick is accurately outlining what took place, there’s no way Trump is going to give them a trade deal.

When he is questioned about the U.S-Canada trade agreement collapse, Secretary Lutnick quotes the Canadian govt officials. “I said to him, are you trying to blow this up? and he said, and I quote, “I’m not allowed to say that.“” Lutnick then encapsulates what that response meant.

“They decided for political reasons, domestically, domestic Canada, they’d rather fight with Donald Trump; even if it’s bad for the economy of Canada, for their political ambition to get a certain election,” Lutnick noted. He continued, “now remember, Quebec has the sovereign party was in the lead, so that’s why they came up with this French nonsense. You think the American side talked about how people speak in Quebec? We have a deal with France, we have a deal with Italy, we have a deal with Germany, we don’t care about their language; none of that was true.”

Perfidious Hoserland.

The New Neo.

One of the drawbacks of being a Boss Babe Just Like A Man is that it makes you a target for Leftists kooks. (Be careful what you wish for….)

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For the record, here is a partial list of the causes for the Iranian War.

November 1979: Iranian students, backed by the regime, seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran — taking 66 Americans hosta

We’ve been at war with Iran since 1979. The problem is that they have been the only ones fighting it—until now.

Power Line.

America’s leading practitioner of Democratic Socialism is the current mayor of New York City. He has a theory that little-used, second-homes in the City put an extra strain on municipal resources and must be taxed more to compensate.

Of course that’s nonsense, he just wants to punish “the rich” for the crime of being rich. But the reality of this new tax is not as advertised.

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So, around a million or so New Yorkers must prove in less than 30 days that they don’t fall under a tax meant to hit just 10,000 or so. The list of those hit with the new tax include long-time, current, full-year residents, commercial properties, homes worth only a few hundred thousand dollars, etc. Instead of using a rifle bullet, the city has used a nuclear bomb.

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So you go to the grocery store and you’ll see all these things on shelves. You’ll see meat, vegetables, chips, water, milk, soda. And they’ll all just be there. And you can read the back of the labels to see what’s in them. And you can eat pretty much any of it, and unless you’re allergic or something, you’ll definitely be safe in the short term.

But what you need to understand is that this food wasn’t put there for you. It’s put there to make money. There are some rules about what stores can sell, like alcohol, but for the most part what’s on the shelf isn’t determined by anything other than what companies can sell for the most. In fact some companies make rules that require the store to present their items on the shelf in a way they like.

So when you go to the store and see 50 types of soda, and maybe three types of juice there’s a reason for that. Everywhere sells soda only because it’s cheap to make, it’s just fizzy water with sugar and flavors added to it – no fiber, no fat, no protein, no vitamins. Because those ingredients is more expensive.

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On Tuesday, medical technology company Stryker announced that a hip arthroscopy had been performed at Duke Health using its SportSuite Vision app on Apple Vision Pro. SportSuite Vision allows surgeons to view the operating room while placing digital tools, including arthroscopic and CT imaging, within their field of view.

Typically, arthroscopic procedures require surgeons to reference multiple displays positioned around the operating room. SportSuite Vision displays that information through the Apple Vision Pro, reducing awkward bending and twisting and streamlining the surgical process.

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Marcus Coleman is the father of Dalilah, who was 5 years old in 2024 when a semi truck plowed into her stopped car at 60 miles per hour in the Mojave Desert.

She survived with a fractured skull, no thanks to the illegal alien behind the wheel of the truck.

Mr. Coleman was invited Tuesday to speak before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement regarding a hearing “Sanctuary Policies.”

How are you guys not fighting for [ending sanctuary policies]? I reject your guys’ sympathy, to be honest. There’s no way you guys are sorry.

Not one of you guys have ever called me. No one of you guys have ever reached out to me. Not one of you guys have ever seen me in the hallway and said, ‘Hey, sorry about your daughter.’

Babylon Bee.

Don’t hold your breath….

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News reports say the woman “was threatening people with two knives near West 42nd Street and Seventh Avenue” before stabbing two victims. Even when the knife maniac is an obese middle-aged woman, a knife that hits a major artery can kill quickly.

After being confronted by police, she “refused to drop the knives when officers approached,” after which she charged officers and was brought down. As the videos show, officers attempted to use Tasers to stop the perpetrator, but they didn’t work, because Tasers often fail to stop crazy people amped up on adrenaline/drugs, especially when they are Felons of a Particular Body Mass.

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A 27-year-old Moroccan construction worker in an irregular immigration situation in Spain was released from custody on Monday after being caught in the act of raping a 22-year-old woman on Valencia’s Malvarrosa beach. The duty judge cited the victim’s failure to appear in court to formalize a complaint as the reason for granting him provisional liberty – a Spanish procedural requirement that is relatively unusual compared with many other Western countries.

You can’t make this shit up.

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On Monday, the Trump administration’s top federal prosecutor in Los Angeles revealed that California’s voter ID rules are so lax that nobody was checking whether voters were American citizens, with what he says is at least half a million voters on the rolls who never provided documentary proof of identification.

The prosecutor, Bill Essayli, first assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, made the case in an interview with Bill Melugin on Fox News. He said the state runs voter registration on the honor system, with no one in government confirming citizenship and the state accepting an applicant’s word instead. Essayli’s interview came in the wake of the arrest of Darwin Rivera Flores, a Honduran national, on charges of illegally registering to vote in California.

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I guess they’d rather you just shoot people.

But the Department of Homeland Security said it would not comply with the legislation, calling it “unconstitutional.”

“Sanctuary politicians attempting to ban our federal law enforcement from any safety equipment is despicable and a deliberate attempt to undermine and endanger our officers,” DHS said in a statement.

“To be crystal clear: we will not abide by unconstitutional bans,” DHS added.

 

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In July, the Federal Communications Commission added foreign-produced “advanced robotic devices” to its Covered List, generally preventing new models from receiving the authorization needed to be imported, marketed, or sold in the United States. Although early headlines emphasized Chinese humanoid robots and mechanical dogs, Sean Hollister reported in The Verge that the rule also encompasses robotic vacuums, lawnmowers, delivery machines, and many warehouse robots. It potentially applies to almost any wireless, software-controlled ground robot weighing more than 4.4 pounds and capable of perceiving its surroundings.

As usual, the government is the reason we can’t have nice things.

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He wouldn’t do that, would he?

A Chinese national studying at a Canadian university has been charged with lying to American officials to conceal that he took photographs at a Chicago airport cargo facility at the direction of a suspected Chinese official, according to a federal complaint filed in Detroit on Aug. 26.

I’m sure there’s a perfectly innocent explanation….

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“The best estimate we have made at the Center for Immigration Studies of the possible number of births to tourists is 20,000 to 26,000 a year, though that estimate is based on data from 2016 and 2017,” Steven Camarota, the center’s research director, told a House Oversight Committee task force hearing led by Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas.

“Some might think the number is small relative to the overall number of births in the U.S. annually; however, the effect is cumulative. Assuming the numbers we estimated in the past continued, some 200,000 to 300,000 children were born to birth tourists over the last decade — hardly a trivial number.”

The testimony comes weeks after President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the State and Homeland Security departments to take further action against birth tourism, defined by the administration as foreign nationals entering the country on nonimmigrant visas to give birth on U.S. soil.

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The official account of what happened in Ceuta on July 30th has just suffered its most serious blow from within the Spanish state itself.

A confidential report prepared by the National Police’s Centre for Immigration and Borders (CENIF) maintains that the mass entry was not a spontaneous phenomenon caused simply by traffickers, social media, or a temporary failure of Morocco’s border-control apparatus, as the government and media outlets aligned with it have argued for the past month.

According to the document, uniformed officers and members of Morocco’s security forces operating in plain clothes actively participated in organising and directing the groups that advanced towards Spanish territory.

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Italy’s political row over judges’ lenient handling of migrant criminals has intensified after a 42-year-old Bangladeshi shop assistant accused of raping a 13-year-old girl in the outskirts of Turin was released from prison after just two nights.

The crime occurred on Saturday, August 29th in Madonna di Campagna, a multi-ethnic district in the northern Italian city.

According to the girl’s account, she entered a minimarket to buy three fruit drinks for her younger siblings. She said the shop assistant gave her a drink, asked whether she had a boyfriend and how old she was, before sexually assaulting her.

Police arrested the man shortly afterwards, with surveillance footage from the shop forming part of the evidence. Prosecutors requested that he remain in custody. However, a judge ordered his release, only requiring him to report to the police.

The judge cited the suspect’s lack of previous convictions, his co-operation with investigators, and his expression of remorse.

The decision has provoked heavy criticism, particularly because authorities allege that the same man had sexually assaulted another woman around 40 minutes before the incident involving the girl.

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Why are people still making accusations about Trump and Epstein even after Trump was cleared by the Epstein files that were released. Let’s see if people can still use their brains to follow the facts and come up with the logical conclusion.

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The Biden Administration enacted hundreds of punitive actions against the domestic oil and gas industry. The Trump Administration has worked to reverse this overreach. The latest reversal concerns a Bureau of Land Management’s proposal to lower statewide bonding on oil and gas leases from $500,000 to $25,000.

In protest, the Evangelical Environmental Network (EEN) and other left-of-center environmental organizations claim that companies will be incited to abandon wells and stick taxpayers with the cleanup bill. EEN misleadingly argues that “asking companies to cover their own cleanup costs is not a regulatory burden….”

To clarify, the BLM is proposing to shift the state bonding minimums back to what they were prior to 2024, consistent with the White House’s intent to reduce regulatory barriers to energy production. The higher minimums imposed in 2024 have not taken effect yet, as the BLM had extended the phase-in date to June of 2027.

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Representatives on the House Oversight Committee Task Force on Protecting Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses, held a hearing today on the subject of Birthright Citizenship and immigration fraud [hearing below].

The committee subpoenaed Dr. Wladimir Lorentz, the owner and founder of Miami Medical Concierge Services, following his refusal to testify. The committee intended to ask questions about the company’s role in arranging births for foreign nationals. Following the subpoena, Dr Lorentz invoked the Fifth Amendment to every question, citing a pending federal investigation into his business, also known as “Have My Baby in Miami.”

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One of my longstanding complaints about the Republican Party is that they are unenthusiastic and weak; they don’t try hard enough to win.

Case in point; in this November’s congressional elections, there 18 races where the Democrat is running unopposed, compared to 1 race where the Republican is running unopposed. Yoiks!

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A watchdog group is pressing New York to act against the lawyer for E. Jean Carroll for allegedly failing to disclose that Democrat donor Reid Hoffman bankrolled the defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump.

In July, the National Legal and Policy Center filed a bar complaint with the Attorney Grievance Committee against Roberta Kaplan, Carroll’s lawyer, alleging that she was not transparent about the role of Democrat megadonor Hoffman, a co-founder of LinkedIn, in bankrolling Carroll’s lawsuit.

By August, the committee dismissed the complaint without addressing the question directly.

“The dismissal was made without conducting any investigation, let alone a ‘thorough investigation’ that this committee promises to undertake for misconduct complaints,” the appeal filed by Paul Kamenar, chief counsel for the National Legal and Policy Center, says.

The appeal said the essence of the original complaint was that “Kaplan waited almost six months after the deposition of her client, E. Jean Carroll, until the eve of trial to correct Ms. Carroll’s false statement in an October 2022 deposition that she was not receiving any outside funding for her defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump.”

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The law firm America First Legal released a parental rights toolkit Tuesday, explaining how a law that protects the rights of disabled children also helps parents defend their rights when schools adopt policies hiding a child’s transgender identity from parents.

“Parents hold the fundamental and constitutionally-protected right to direct the upbringing of their children, and that includes authority over their children’s education,” Julie Alexa Strauss, general counsel at America First Legal, said in a statement on the new toolkit, exclusively provided first to the Daily Signal. “Yet today, radicalized school personnel are exploiting their access to children, particularly vulnerable children with disabilities—often behind closed doors—to push ideological agendas.”

“Congress gave parents of children with special needs powerful legal rights, but too many families are never made aware of just how extensive those protections are,” Strauss added. “AFL’s IDEA Toolkit helps parents understand those rights, empowers parents to assert their authority, and holds schools accountable when they overstep the law.”

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, first passed in 1975 but renamed in 1990, guarantees children with disabilities access to a free, appropriate public education.

America First Legal argues that the law “also gives parents extensive authority over evaluations, educational services, school records, and individualized education programs.”

The law firm states that its “IDEA toolkit arms parents with an arsenal of tools designed to ensure that they, not the government, remain in control of their children’s education.”

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The Justice Department’s new report on the Richmond Catholic memo reveals that the FBI had cited the Southern Poverty Law Center more than 22,000 times, at times without any caveats, even though FBI policies would require any SPLC citation to note potential bias and contested credibility.

The Richmond office of the FBI published the notorious memo on Jan. 23, 2023, claiming that “racially-motivated violent extremists” were seeking to recruit “radical traditional Catholics.” The memo didn’t just cite the SPLC, it did so without any caveats about the SPLC’s questionable credibility.

The SPLC has explicitly stated that it “did not provide any information or communicate with any FBI personnel involved in preparing this Richmond Field Office memo.” Yet newly released documents reveal the FBI citing the SPLC without caveats, at a time when the SPLC maintained close ties to the Biden Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.

The FBI publicly retracted the Richmond Catholic memo one day after it leaked, and a newly disclosed Feb. 21, 2023, Analytic Tradecraft Review explains why.

Among other things, the tradecraft review faults the memo for failing to “provide any details regarding any potential bias/credibility of the sources, including concerning SPLC.”

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Today’s federal government employs over 2 million people. It is composed of over 400 agencies that often combine legislative, executive, and judicial powers. These agencies regulate nearly all areas of life from cradle to grave. We may take this arrangement for granted, but it is far from what the Founders envisioned. For them, the federal government was meant to have a limited range of power. And these powers were to be assiduously separated, checked, and balanced by the constitutional system they crafted.

How did we go so far astray? The progressive era marks a key turning point. Woodrow Wilson, foremost among progressives, offered a candid vision of a new form of government in his 1912 presidential campaign speech.

Actually, the rot started with Theodore Roosevelt, who (be it remembered) also claimed to be a ‘progressive’. If I could strangle at birth only one American historical figure, I’d do TR before I’d do WW.

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It’s true. A spoonful of sugar does help the medicine go down. But it’s the medicine we need, not the sugar. With this understanding, one may happily recommend Georges Tamer’s recently translated book, Islamic Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity: Leo Strauss’s Relationship with al-Fârâbî, Avicenna, and Averroes. The author makes clear arguments, and his translator writes good English prose. But the book is not light reading. It is a prescription dose of deep research and astute scholarship. Following two hundred pages of densely argued text are 120 pages of appendix, endnotes, and bibliography. Tamer draws information from a multitude of authorities, both primary and secondary. He uses sources written in Arabic, Latin, English, German, and French. Whatever this approach sacrifices in readability, it makes up for in credibility. Tamer knows what he is talking about.

SciTechDaily.

Or maybe not.

One of the biggest puzzles in origin of life research comes before the first cells even existed: How could RNA molecules gather in one place, interact, and help produce early life without cellular compartments to hold them together?

Without those boundaries, fragile RNA molecules would have struggled to encounter one another often enough in the primordial soup, while also surviving the hot and acidic conditions thought to characterize early Earth.

One possible solution is RNA’s ability to collect into liquid-like droplets known as condensates. These structures have no membrane, but they could have concentrated RNA molecules in small spaces, giving them more opportunities to interact while potentially offering some protection from harsh surroundings.

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Explore the proud tradition of Senate challenge coins, symbols of service, commitment, and democratic values. Each coin honors the dedication and achievements of our nation’s legislators. Begin your collection or commemorate service with these distinguished tokens of governance and excellence.

If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

Personally, I don’t associate ‘governance’ with ‘excellence’, in which opinion I believe I have the support of all human history. But that’s just me.

The Hill, a Voice of the Crust.

Across the U.S., an increasing number of young adults are treating the traditional wedding altar like a hazardous waste site. Their mass refusal to pair up fuels a predictable spiral. Fewer marriages produce fewer babies, and a society without babies eventually ceases to exist.

Part of this transformation is being driven by a massive demographic shift in higher education. Women now earn roughly 60 percent of bachelor’s degrees. This educational imbalance directly feeds into the white-collar economy. A large cadre of corporate women now routinely out-earn their male romantic partners, creating a dynamic the old domestic playbooks never anticipated.

The problem is 150 years of feminism. Feminism attempts to turn women into fake men, men into fake women, and our culture into a biohazard site.

To be clear, nobody is asking Congress to subsidize bonnets or sourdough starter kits. But the harsh reality is that the legacy model of holy matrimony has run face-first into an economy that renders it functionally useless. The nuclear family structure was built for an agrarian or industrial landscape, leaving it ill-suited to a service economy driven by laptop-wielding professionals.

Proglodyte stupidity. The ‘nuclear family structure’ is based on impulses and preferences that evolved over hundreds of thousands of years, and the blank-slate crowd think that they can just restructure this according to their latest Woke fad—and they’re always SO SURPRISED that the evolved impulses and preferences keep breaking through there proglodyte fantasy worlds.

MIT News.

Molecules are among the smallest building blocks available for making next-generation devices. Their unique, customizable properties enable promising applications in emerging computing, sensing, optical, and quantum technologies.

But integrating molecules into functional devices at scale remains a challenge. Traditional semiconductor manufacturing processes can damage small and fragile molecular materials. Now, MIT researchers have developed a scalable fabrication technique that incorporates delicate molecular materials into electronic devices on a chip without causing damage.

Their method extends the capabilities of standard semiconductor manufacturing processes to accommodate molecules. The researchers first prefabricate the device components using traditional processes. Then, they introduce the molecules and harness nanoscale surface forces to mechanically transform the fabricated device, which self-assembles without damaging the molecules.

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A Dallas County commissioner candidate is sounding the alarm about the current commissioner for District 2 bragging about having mosques as polling locations to help elect Democrats.

My, what a surprise.

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Last week, speaking to French business leaders gathered by Medef (Mouvement des entreprises de France—France’s leading employers’ organisation) in Paris, the Commission president lamented that such a large share of European household savings remains in bank deposits. “Unfortunately, these savings are lazy,” she said, before arguing that Europe needs to put that money “at the service of its companies.”

For now, there is no plan to confiscate deposits or withdraw money from individual bank accounts. Brussels’ proposal is different and, precisely for that reason, more politically significant: to use tax incentives, new financial products, regulatory changes, and more integrated supervision to push a greater share of private savings towards European capital markets.

This is the so-called Savings and Investments Union, presented in March 2025. The Commission estimates that around 70% of EU household savings, roughly €10 trillion, remains in bank deposits. The measures under consideration include investment accounts with tax advantages, changes to securitisation rules and regulations intended to facilitate greater participation by banks, insurers and funds.

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A man in his 50s has died after being seriously assaulted outside a restaurant in Sweden after trying to defend his daughter from a group of young men who had been groping her.

Authorities have not yet released information about the suspects’ nationality, ethnicity, or background, raising the suspicion among social media users that the perpetrators may be migrants.

Police were called to the centre of the Swedish city of Karlstad at about 1.25 a.m. on Sunday, August 30th after a violent disturbance broke out outside a fast food restaurant.

Officers found a middle-aged man seriously injured at the scene. He was taken by ambulance to the hospital, but doctors were unable to save his life.

Two men in their 20s have been arrested and detained on suspicion of manslaughter, after the police initially treated the case as aggravated assault. Reports have also suggested that a third man may have been arrested, although authorities have not confirmed the exact number of suspects.

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The man in question is Amer G., a Syrian asylum seeker who reportedly arrived in Germany in 2015 and has become known in Witten for publicly reciting verses from the Quran using a loudspeaker.

For years, residents have complained about Amer’s loud recitations. According to reports, he walks through Witten’s city center on a daily basis, while reciting Quran verses, sometimes in the early morning hours. Police and the public order office have been dealing with the man for a long time.

According to the job center documents, Amer continues to receive €563 per month in citizen’s allowance as a single person. His current benefit approval period is scheduled to run until July 2027. He currently lives in a homeless shelter and therefore does not receive additional housing allowance. Yet despite receiving benefits, the man has reportedly not been invited to job search interviews for years. Support programs and concrete employment offers have also largely ceased.

Jonathan Turley.

This week, the Trump administration found itself in a familiar position: facing an injunction from Judge Indira Talwani of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Indeed, it had just secured an order from the Supreme Court on its emergency docket lifting her earlier injunction on the U.S. Postal Service requiring voting lists to confirm U.S. citizenship.

The case against the executive order on mail-in ballots has reasonable arguments on both sides, although (as I have said previously) the challengers are likely to prevail in defeating the rule or at least delaying the policy until after the midterm elections. The Constitution gives states the primary responsibility over “the times, places, and manner of holding elections.”

However, the U.S. Postal Service is a federal agency, and the federal government does have a role in the funding and regulation of federal elections. More importantly, the Trump administration is arguing that it is not barring mail-in voting but merely imposing “modest informational requirements.” Non-citizens cannot vote in federal elections, and the new rule “does not displace a single state election law. And it need not and should not prevent a single voter from voting by mail.”

The controversy over Talwani is not necessarily the merits of her decision that the rule convenes the constitutional framework. Indeed, the Supreme Court did not rule on the merits and could well rule in favor of her interpretation. The controversy is the pattern of sweeping injunctions by Talwani and a few other judges.

Litigants have been accused of forum-shopping by going to liberal, Democratically appointed judges to prevent Trump policies from being implemented in a wide array of areas, including immigration, elections, reduction in government bureaucracies, and foreign aid.

Like her colleague in Boston, U.S. District Court Judge Brian Murphy, Talwani is viewed by many as a one-stop-shop judge for forum-shopping. Both have issued hair-trigger injunctions, and both have been repeatedly reversed.

The Antiplanner.

Nearly five years ago, Congress passed the infrastructure bill, formally known as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). Supposedly it was needed to fix crumbling infrastructure, but the crumbling infrastructure that is most heavily used — city- and county-owned streets and bridges — received hardly any money from the law. Instead, most of the money went for new infrastructure that, if built, will probably soon be crumbling because politicians would rather support glitzy new projects than maintain old ones.

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As reported in last night’s news feed, a young convert to Islam got into an altercation and stabbed several people at the train station in Amsterdam. To be culturally accurate, I should say that he “reverted to Islam”, because according to Islamic doctrine, everyone is actually born Muslim, and the convert is simply returning to his native faith.

According to the following report, the young revert, enthusiastic about his rediscovered religious faith, was a prominent supporter of “Palestine” on social media.

Relevant information: De Ruijterkade is a quay behind the train station. Denk is a Turkish-oriented party, founded by Turks, with a focus on Muslim communities in the Netherlands.

The American Prospect, a Voice of the Crust.

At the end of the legislative session, the Democratic governor and presidential hopeful wants to cap liability for power companies that start deadly fires.

As corrupt Democrats love to do.

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New York Governor Kathy Hochul, a self described feminist and “social justice Catholic”, has raised eyebrows this week after appearing in a hijab at an Islamic Cultural School in the Bronx to make statements against “Islamophobia”. The visit is part of a greater Democrat Party effort to strengthen political alliances with world immigrants and Islamic immigrants in particular.

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In bombshell findings, Los Angeles County sliced a wildfire housing fund in half and steered the cash toward households claiming income loss from ICE raids, detentions, and deportations – without requiring anyone to disclose immigration status.

Taxpayers who watched entire neighborhoods burn in January 2025 now watch the same government treat federal immigration enforcement as another “emergency” worthy of six-figure rent wipeouts.

After the Eaton and Palisades fires, supervisors approved $10 million to help tenants and landlords dealing with fire-related rent losses. They then kept $5 million for fire claims and moved the other $5 million into a priority category covering “economic hardship because of federal actions targeting immigrant communities.” Another $9.788 million from the Affordable Housing Trust Fund was pointed at the same category unless fire victims still had unmet need.

The Other McCain.

It was past 11 p.m. on July 4, 2025, when police in Alvarado, Texas, stopped the red van that had been circling streets near the scene of a shooting. The first officer to look inside the van spotted a firearm on the front passenger side floorboard and immediately told the officer on the other side to detain the driver, who gave his name as “Meagan Morris.”

Morris had apparently driven comrades in an Antifa terrorist cell to the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Prairieland Detention Facility, where several of them began shooting fireworks toward the facility, while another terrorist, Benjamin Song, stood watch with an AR-15-style rifle. The plan for this “protest,” as the participants called it, had been hatched at a communal home in Dallas known as “The Big Gay House,” where 10 activists including Morris lived together.

After the fireworks and vandalism began, security officials inside the ICE facility called 911. The first law enforcement officer to arrive on the scene was Alvarado Police Lt. Thomas Gross. The Antifa terrorists began to flee. Gross shouted for them to stop and drew his pistol. Song nearby opened fire, hitting Gross in the shoulder, but the officer managed to stay in the fight. Gross fired three shots, one of which struck Song’s rifle, causing it to jam. Song took off running. He managed to remain at large for the next 11 days before finally being apprehended at a Dallas hideout.

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CTH continues to get considerable questioning about how the U.S-Canada fracture will take place, what it means for the Canadian dollar (CAD) and when the issues can be expected to apex. It appears that part of the reasoned disconnect people are struggling with is directly related to the messaging from the Canadian government in combination with the financial media.

In short, despite the increased trade friction, a decoupling of the U.S. economy from the Canadian economy just seems unfathomable to most observers. The main question we receive is ‘when will things happen‘? Meaning when will financial markets react? The most obvious answer to that question is, when the USA announces the termination of the USMCA (CUSMA) trilateral.

If you hold the opinion that all of these trade friction points will be resolved within the margins of the USMCA, then it is correct to predict that no significant material impact will be felt north of the border. If, however, you hold the opinion that the USMCA will be terminated because the core of the issues between the two countries are irreconcilable, then the material impact will come as soon as that announcement is made.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, the only Canadian government official to attend President Trump’s inauguration, appears on Fox Business. Like all other Canadian officials, she cannot contemplate the elimination of CUSMA/NAFTA. Such an outcome is simply beyond her comprehension.

Read it.

James Talarico, the Democrat candidate from Texas running for the U.S. Senate, recently weighed in on the conviction of Karmelo Anthony for the April 2025 murder of Austin Metcalf.

“Right now, we’ve got a system that doesn’t serve all Americans equally, and, and we know that black Texans have been, um, have not gotten the justice they deserve,” he said.

This is a perfect illustration of the Sixth Woke Commandment in my book “The Ten Woke Commandments (You Must Not Obey)”—“You Shall Be Woke to Imaginary Oppression.”

Anthony was convicted by a jury drawn from the area he lived in. He told police, “I was protecting myself,” but those jurors apparently did not believe he was reasonably in fear of his life so as to justify fatally plunging a knife into another boy’s heart.

Activists and race-hustlers in Texas and nationally claimed that Anthony was unfairly convicted, mostly because there were no African American jurors. The ugly implication is that black jurors would ignore the facts and decide guilt or innocence based on race alone. I hope not.

Of course they do. That’s what identity politics is all about.

Babylon Bee.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the installation of a Muslim foot-washing station at the base of the 9/11 Memorial in preparation for marking the 25th anniversary of the Islamic terrorist attacks.

Presumably this is a parody, although you never know. I wouldn’t be surprised were Mamdani actually to do it.

Read it.

My, what a surprise.

Not a peep from ‘environmentalists’, of course.

Watch it.

If, of course, that’s what you want to do.