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The Foundry.

The New York Post cover on Oct. 19 summed it up in two words: “FRANCE BURNS.” Over the weekend, there was massive unrest in France from leftist extremists. So there were several interesting journalism patterns.

Labeling. Typically, reporters didn’t want to label protesters as “far left,” let alone “left.” Note to reporters: When Greta Thunberg shows up in solidarity, it’s a leftist protest. But some reporters stayed vague, like ABC’s Marcus Moore: “A protest that started with high school students now spiraling to more general concerns about the cost of living, and France’s future.” Anyone with eyes could see it wasn’t just “students” in the streets, and that it’s not just about economics.

Funny Riots? During his one-day work week, Comedy Central star Jon Stewart unfurled the whole “hey, the French are natural rioters” comedy: “They stormed the Bastille! Other than adultery, it’s the most French thing you can do! It’s like blaming immigrants in America for remembering the Alamo. Riots are just a part of the general ambiance in France!” Would this be funny to people whose cars and businesses were looted or destroyed?

Political Exploitation. After a few days of violence and destruction, the political implications inevitably break out. The New York Times front page on Oct. 20 lamented: “French Right Has Opening In Upheaval: Riots Fit Rhetoric as Election Approaches.”

NBC’s Richard Engel hit that message repeatedly. “Although French authorities and police have not linked immigrants to the rioting, it’s the same argument France’s far-right parties are using, hoping to capitalize on the chaos to win key elections in the spring.”

But that’s not as odd as CNN saying riots are being used by Trump for “fearmongering,” like they didn’t spend about four years fearmongering for political gain after the Jan. 6 riot. CNN reporter Alayna Treene lamented Trump used “some of this darker rhetoric … using this kind of fear mongering to try and convince voters to turn out for his party.” Then host Sara Sidner added the Democrat Helper spin: “And to be fair, no Democrat who was running or otherwise has said they want to burn America to the ground.”

Well, they’re not going to SAY it … watch what they do, not what they say.

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We all like free….

I use LibreOffice and Inkscape frequently.

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Because we all want to do that, don’t we?

Not the Bee.

If you don’t know, Somalis living inside the United States like to fly the U.S. flag upside-down.

This keeps happening in the great state of Minnesota-stan.

On July 3 of this year, a Somali man named Omar Podi raised an American flag the wrong way for a Somali Independence Day celebration in St. Cloud, but claimed he simply didn’t know better.

This week, a Somali woman who is running for office in Oregon took a different tack and tried to pretend it never happened.

Nafisa Fai is running for chair of Washington County. Last week, she was in Minnesota for a political rally (because of course) and spoke Somali to the crowd (because of course).

Babylon Bee.

This will be satire for about 6 more days, then it will be reality. Laugh while you can, monkey boy.

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The Women’s National Basketball Association declared two former male professional basketball players ineligible to join the league because they aren’t women. However, the league did not provide a definition of “woman” in its announcement.

While responding to an inquiry from several members of Congress about player safety and the league’s definition of a woman, WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert stated in an Oct. 16 letter, “only women are eligible to play in the WNBA and the individuals you cite in your letter are both men.” The dispute stems from August, when former National Basketball Association players Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White said they identified as women and were thus eligible to enter the WNBA’s 2027 Draft.

Announcing Engelbert’s decision on X, Kanter Freedom said in a Tuesday post, “Apparently, the WNBA still can’t define what a WOMAN is, but they’re absolutely certain they know what a MAN is! How convenient!”

“WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert has declared that I am a man,” he added. “Who gave her the authority to decide who I am? Who gets to define my identity? And how can the WNBA determine who is a man without explaining what qualifies someone as a woman”

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I have blogged every previous Cyan Kickstarter, so the foolish hobgoblin demands this post. Cyan is now crowdfunding the Myst Trilogy “Guild of Writers” Deluxe Collection.

These are the three Myst novels originally published 1995-1997, “by Rand and Robyn Miller with David Wingrove”. (But, everybody understands, really written by David Wingrove — then a new and modestly successful SF writer — based on story ideas and concepts by the Millers.)

The paper editions have been out of print since the 90s, except for a short on-demand run of the Book of Atrus in 2023. Ebook versions have been in and out of availability.

This Kickstarter is for a new super-fancy edition. “Foil-stamped, faux-leather cover” with all the trimmings. Slipcovered if you back at a high enough level. “Contextual D’ni footnotes,” ooh, nice.

MYST was a thinly-disguised IQ test.

Not the Bee.

Not really news, but a useful reminder.

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Abdul El-Sayed’s Senate campaign is in full-blown panic mode after an undercover O’Keefe Media Group video caught one of its field organizers claiming the candidate takes overseas donations.

The video dropped on Monday. By the end of the day, the Michigan Democrat Party had confirmed that the organizer who spilled the beans about the campaign’s illegal donations, Abdoul Beckwith, has been fired. No investigation, no review, no waiting to see how the story played out. Party officials cut him loose almost immediately, and the El-Sayed campaign rushed out a statement calling his comments “untrue,” “wildly misinformed,” and “not reflective of the campaign” while insisting it fully complies with Federal Election Commission rules.

Right. Sure. They would say that, wouldn’t they?

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Told ya so.

Newsbusters.

The useful idiots over at The Washington Post just inadvertently revealed to the world who Iran is pulling for in the 2026 midterms, and how the regime is interfering to shuffle the political deck in their favor.

Post global affairs reporter Susannah George published an absurd piece of Tehran propaganda October 20, headlined, “Tehran seeks to punish Trump in midterms with oil price pain, Iranian officials say.”

Sounds like a press release for “Iranian officials,” that is, Islamist autocrats.

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Persian Gulf oil exports have surpassed prewar levels as a makeshift shipping network operating under U.S. protection helps tankers navigate escalating Iranian attacks in the Strait of Hormuz, according to new reports.

Middle East oil shipments through Hormuz and alternative routes averaged more than 24 million barrels a day during the week ending Oct. 18, exceeding the prewar average of 23.3 million, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing ship-tracking firm Kpler.

Preliminary figures put flows through Hormuz, including offshore transfers in the Gulf of Oman, at about 14 million barrels a day, or 82% of prewar levels.

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As we approach the 2026 midterm elections, Americans concerned about public safety must confront a growing and dangerous trend: the increasing influence of the Democratic Socialists of America within the Democratic Party.

While the DSA markets itself as a movement for “economic justice,” its platform includes abolishing police, closing prisons, and opening national borders–policies that would dismantle the institutions that keep our communities safe.

For decades, the DSA’s impact on national politics was limited. But according to Brookings, the 2026 cycle has produced a series of high?profile wins by candidates aligned with or adjacent to the DSA’s far?left ideology, including victories in swing?state primaries.

In fact, of 282 DSA-supported candidates in local, state legislative and congressional races, DSA candidates won 43.6% (123) of the time. This surge has alarmed many centrist Democrats who fear that nominating candidates far outside the mainstream could cost the party winnable seats–and more importantly, put public safety at risk.

The DSA’s official platform calls for defunding and ultimately abolishing police and prisons, freeing incarcerated individuals, and eliminating immigration enforcement. These are not fringe ideas–they are central to the organization’s stated goals.

And their influence is spreading.

The Foundry.

The Foundry.

Sometimes a consequential immigration decision turns not on a new act of Congress or a ruling by the Supreme Court, but on whether an agency finally gives existing statutory language its full effect. That is the promise of Matter of A-V-O-, a Sept. 17 ruling by the Board of Immigration Appeals. The board concluded that an aggravated felony conviction can do more than make an alien removable: It can also make that person inadmissible as an immigrant because the conviction permanently forecloses citizenship.

That could prove quite helpful to the Department of Homeland Security. But promising precedent is not the same thing as a settled enforcement policy, much less a final judicial victory. How DHS uses this decision in charging cases—and whether the federal courts of appeals sustain it—will determine whether its promise becomes practice.

 

“We live in a world where you either order shit or you deliver shit. And you really don’t want to deliver shit.”

— Chris Rock

The Nation, a Voice of the Far Left.

The omnipresent consultant-cum-tantrum-thrower has long outlived whatever relevance he once had, but cable producers, podcast hosts, and Democratic campaigns haven’t got the memo.

Go against the Narrative, and you wind up under the bus.

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The New York Post cover on October 19 summed it up in two words: “FRANCE BURNS.” Over the weekend, there was massive unrest in France from leftist extremists. So there were several interesting journalism patterns.

Labeling. Typically, reporters didn’t want to label protesters as “far left,” let alone “left.” Note to reporters: When Greta Thunberg shows up in solidarity, it’s a leftist protest. But some reporters stayed vague, like ABC’s Marcus Moore: “A protest that started with high school students now spiraling to more general concerns about the cost of living, and France’s future.” Anyone with eyes could see it wasn’t just “students” in the streets, and that it’s not just about economics.

Funny Riots? During his one-day work week, Comedy Central star Jon Stewart unfurled the whole “hey, the French are natural rioters” comedy: “They stormed the Bastille! Other than adultery, it’s the most French thing you can do! It’s like blaming immigrants in America for remembering the Alamo. Riots are just a part of the general ambiance in France!” Would this be funny to people whose cars and businesses were looted or destroyed?

Political Exploitation. After a few days of violence and destruction, the political implications inevitably break out. The New York Times front page on October 20 lamented: “French Right Has Opening In Upheaval: Riots Fit Rhetoric as Election Approaches.”

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The BBC’s education platform, used by nearly 1.7 million schoolchildren every week, is gamifying open borders. In a Roblox-hosted game called Increasing Immigration aimed at pupils aged 11 to 14, choosing to deport migrants living in the UK without proper visas loses points on the economy and public health.

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Every time political anger spills into French streets – whether over pension reforms, fuel taxes, police shootings, or the annual ritual of Saint-Sylvestre on New Year’s Eve – the post-mortem follows a familiar script. The Ministry of the Interior tallies the arrests, insurers calculate the millions in property damage, and municipal crews sweep up the melted asphalt before morning commuters arrive. The rioters – who kicked this off in working-class banlieues (which has high concentrations of North African and sub-Saharan immigrants) are burning whatever they can get their hands on; cars, tires, plastic bins, buildings, etc.

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A public company in the UK was building a high-speed railway when it suddenly faced a regulation that few could have predicted: a £100 million ($132 million) bat tunnel.

The railway passed through Sheephouse Wood, an area inhabited by rare Bechstein’s bats. To comply with environmental regulations that protect the bats from colliding with high-speed trains, the company had to build a roughly one-kilometer covered structure alongside the railway. This structure has since become widely known in the UK as the “bat tunnel.”

If you think this is just one case, let me tell you about the fish disco.

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Good luck with that.

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Descendants of the Native American chief whose likeness inspired the Washington Redskins logo are pressing the Commanders to restore the NFL team’s name and image, and want the team’s new stadium named for him.

The estate of Chief John Two Guns White Calf, a Blackfeet leader born on Montana’s Blackfeet Indian Reservation, says the family was never consulted before the team, now the Washington Commanders, dropped the name and logo in 2020, amid long-standing objections from Native American activist groups that considered the name a slur, KRTV reported.

“They tried to erase us, like we didn’t exist anymore,” estate lead Kenneth Conway told the television station in Great Falls, Montana.

Newsbusters.

On Monday and Tuesday, the top broadcast network morning shows checked the boxes by covering the far-left, multiculturalism run amok in France, with mass riots causing near-apocalyptic damage in Paris and other major cities.

However, ABC, CBS, and NBC dismissed the role of the left in the rioting, asserting the “anti-government” sentiment over “the cost of living, and the state of France’s public services” was “hijacked” by “masked groups.”

Starting with CBS Mornings, Monday’s show was explaining it away from the start as co-host Norah O’Donnell said in a tease that “[a]nti-government protests in France turn[ed] violent with rioters torching cars and buildings.”

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Anthony Stephen Fauci harmed millions of Americans by mismanaging the pandemic. Google’s YouTube and its woke censors helped him every step of the way.

The pandemic is over. The censorship is not. YouTube still suppresses speech that threatens Dr. Fauci and the failed policies he built. The latest example is an interview I gave to Epoch Times Senior Editor Jan Jekielek about my new book, “Why Fauci Must Rot in Prison.”

YouTube runs its censorship under what it calls the “Four R’s of Responsibility”: Remove, Raise, Reduce, Reward. It did not Remove the interview; a takedown would have made news. It chose the quiet R: Reduce.

Here is what Reduce looks like. The interview premiered on Oct. 13. Five days later it had 21,248 views. The 10 full episodes of Mr. Jekielek’s American Thought Leaders posted before mine averaged about 170,000 views; the five immediately before it averaged 73,000. In the show’s China playlist, where my interview sits, the 10 prior episodes averaged 124,000. An episode with Dr. Phil posted one day ago already has 47,000—more than double mine in a fifth of the time.

This is not an unpopular video. According to Mr. Jekielek, it is performing massively on other platforms. Only on YouTube has it been wounded on arrival.

New York Post.

A Minnesota rapper who traveled to France to join escalating riots has urged white people to “raise hell” and “f–k s–t up” as part of a revolution on American soil, The Post discovered. And communist-linked groups in the US may be working to bring that hell to the nation’s capital.

Artist Tufawon, whose real name is Rafael Gonzalez Jr., joined Swedish activist Greta Thunberg outside Paul Éluard, the high school at the heart of the leftist protests marred by violence, looting and arson.

He addressed balaclava-clad protesters before performing his song “No One Is Illegal,” and riling up the crowd with chants of “f–k ICE” and “ICE out.”

The War Zone.

NATO member Finland is preparing to reintroduce anti-personnel landmines into its military arsenal, with a contract for around one million examples due to be signed soon, following the country’s withdrawal from the Ottawa Convention that aims to eliminate these weapons. The move comes as Helsinki looks to strengthen its territorial defenses against a longstanding Russian threat and the prospect of a larger Russian military presence along its eastern border in the years ahead.

Finland’s withdrawal from the treaty, which prohibits the use, stockpiling, production, and transfer of anti-personnel mines, took effect on January 10 of this year. Reflecting growing concern among NATO’s eastern-flank members about Russia’s military posture and the lessons of the war in Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia have also moved to leave the convention.

Mines have, for many centuries, been used to complicate an attacker’s movement, slow operations, and force troops to devote time and resources to clearing obstacles. Anti-personnel mines, in particular, have long been employed in defensive campaigns, but they come with significant humanitarian risks. They can kill or maim civilians long after hostilities end, which has seen them fall foul of international humanitarian law in many countries — at least when those nations don’t see a realistic risk of invasion.

It is a measure of how badly the European security environment has deteriorated that anti-personnel mines are back on the agenda.

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Sargon of Akkad (Carl Benjamin) turns over a rock.

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Tim Pool does a deep dive.

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You are the mayor. You know exactly what this city needs. Now get it past the zoning board, the neighbors, the appeals court and the next election.

Not the Bee.

In 2025, Laura Lee Yourex was arrested for illegally registering her dog to vote and casting a ballot in her dog’s name: twice.

The second time after the dog had died.

Lest you should worry that California had somehow reformed and would attempt to rein in illegal voting like this, you’ll be happy to know Yourex just had all her charges dropped.

Bear in mind, one of those votes was actually counted in the gubernatorial recall election, so this wasn’t a harmless act!

The New Neo.

Obama: knave, not fool.

Indeed.

Yes, many politicians hide things – sexual promiscuity, for example, or their academic records. And sometimes they change their minds on something or even several things. But I can’t offhand think of another president who ran for office in the first place on a lie about who he was and what he intended. Obama did exactly that.

When arguing with people on the topic of Israel, I’ve often brought up India and Pakistan. They all have looked at me blankly; they either have no idea what I’m talking about and/or they don’t care because to them analogies are dangerous because they threaten their entrenched views about Israel. Can’t have that.

Spot on.

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Sergey Brin once called government a “giant bonfire of partisanship” and spent years on the political sidelines. But in recent months, the Google co-founder has emerged as a political force in California, pouring unprecedented sums into the fight to defeat a proposed tax on billionaires.

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“Brin could have easily just run a No campaign and defeated [Prop 40], but he built a whole organization,” said Brandon Castillo, a veteran ballot measures consultant who is not working on either side of the wealth tax campaign. “They’ve awakened him. He wants to be a political player.”

Brin has learned the Microsoft Lesson: Those who ignore politics are doomed to be buggered by those who don’t.

We have the technology.

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My grandmother kept a cupboard she called the just-in-case, and for most of my childhood I read it as a harmless eccentricity rather than what it was – a wound made edible. She had been a girl during the Depression, and somewhere in her twenties she had learned to keep tinned beans, sacks of flour, jars sealed with wax and paper, all of it rotated with the humourless discipline of a quartermaster provisioning for a war that had already ended but might, at any hour, resume. Nothing in that cupboard was ever eaten first. It sat at the back of the shelf like a private insurance policy against a world that had once taken everything from her family and could, she believed, do so again at a moment’s notice.

Costco sells emergency rations at an affordable price. I’ve got a tub of them in my garage. Why take a chance? That’s all I’m sayin’….

The Race Is On for Trump Staffers to Hire Lawyers in Case Democrats Win Midterms (Wall Street Journal)

Obama calls Trump officials’ investigation of Ilhan Omar ‘appalling’ (Raquel Coronell Uribe/NBC News)  Mommmeeee! Donald hit me back!

Republicans already know who they want to blame if they suffer big midterm losses (Politico)  I’d be tempted to say ‘Politico’, but I’m pretty sure they mean Trump.

Republicans fall back to the red wall (Politico)  Politico is really pushing the Narrative as we get down to the wire.

Trump Presidencies See Return of Federal Executions  For all of you out there who are ‘triggered’.

Michigan senator wants to save democracy by bullying young people so they are terrified to work for her political opponents

Vance Went Off-Script. It Didn’t Go Well (Nia-Malika Henderson/Bloomberg)  Must have been all of those Trump cooties.

Meet the researchers leaving the US because of Trump’s funding cuts and politicization of science (Adithi Ramakrishnan/Associated Press)  It’s surprising how many people think that they’re entitled to spend their lives being supported by taxpayers while poking around into stuff that interests them. I’d love to have that job.

This Cybersecurity Agency Is Supposed to Protect U.S. Elections. Officials Fear It’s Been Compromised by Trump. (ProPublica)  Democrat officials, of course.

Donald Trump is Politically Bankrupt. Be Very Afraid (Paul Krugman)  If he’s so barnkrupt, why is The Vacuum so afraid of him?

Donald Trump Is Learning That He Can’t Steal This Election (Paul Blumenthal/HuffPost) The Paper of Record of Feminism is strongly pushing the Narrative.

‘Happy Birthday, Vlad. Yours, Always.’ – DJT. (William Kristol/The Bulwark)  One of the benefits of having Trump as President is that it flushes all of the RINOs out of the underbrush. The Kristol krew have revealed their Democrat souls, and it is not a pretty sight.

Trump’s Golf Empire Is A Billion-Dollar Tax Shelter (Dan Alexander/Forbes)  Of course, if he were a Democrat no word would be said.

Abdul El-Sayed’s fighting style terrifies MAGA (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)  ‘Fighting style’? You mean ‘jihad’? (Amanda Marcotte loses her shit.)

To Russia With Love, Signed Donald (Wall Street Journal)  The WSJ has apparently fully embraced being a Voice of the Crust.

Sen. Slotkin Threatens Trump Supporters, Staff with ‘Ton of Problems’  Looking for authoritarianism? Democrats got you covered.

Trump says New Mexico should ‘immediately’ change name to New America (Dan Diamond/Washington Post)  Ah ah ah ah yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains….

Trump approval falls to record low of 31% as midterms near, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds (Jason Lange/Reuters)  Pushing the Narrative as hard as they can.

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“The Dems are a total mess of cluster B psychopathology. They will continue to humiliate themselves & alienate the normal population.”

– JD Haltigan on X

Looks like the punishments will continue across the pond until morale improves. France on fire in the “mostly peaceful” riots – according to the BBC – this past weekend could yet ignite a final, furious, Globalist-Jacobin bid to wreck Western Civ as populist nationalism looms ever larger to defeat them. That is, whatever the demonic coalition of desperate Euro elites backed by the Soros NGO empire, the WEF, the UN bureaucracy, possibly the British Crown, and the EU, can induce their Lefty-left useful idiots to act out intifada-style against the people and their culture.

President Macron stepped up Sunday to ask, “How can French people do this to France?” as the ancient tower of the Limoges city hall collapsed in flames. Somebody please inform him that the parties responsible for all the fiery chaos are not necessarily French people. Any way you cut it, this has got to be the end-of-pretend that flooding Europe with jihadis for two decades was a grand and noble idea. Where’s that whiff of grapeshot when you really need it?

You also must wonder whether the American Lefty-left has riot-envy. Their handlers in the Democratic Party and its dark entourage of “resistance” foundations, billionaire NGO-funders, and Deep State seditionists must be itching to unleash similar punishments across the USA, as they managed to do in 2020 to honor the saintly George Floyd. Of course, they don’t have the same resources they enjoyed back then. The US president – know who that is? – has choked off a good deal of their money-laundered cash-flow.

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Four in 10 college students say offensive speech should be subject to criminal prosecution, the highest share in the three years the question has been asked, according to an Inquire survey sponsored by the Buckley Institute.

The survey of 803 full-time undergraduates at four-year colleges found 40% agreed that offensive speech should be prosecuted as a crime, while 52% disagreed and 9% were unsure. Support rose from 33% last year and 31% in 2024.

Thirteen percent strongly agreed and 26% somewhat agreed.

I would be in favor of raising the voting age to 24. That’s about the time when kids get over being stupid, as insurance rates plainly show.

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This November, California voters will decide whether a fraction of the state’s population should pay a 5% wealth tax to help fund public programs. Proposition 40 would make roughly 200 of the richest Californians bail out the state’s deficits and save the budget for another year of easy spending.

California is not the only blue “paradise” with this plan. Nationwide, at least 10 Democrat-run states facing pressure to deliver on promises to expand welfare programs have reflexively reached for the wallets of the wealthy. The appeal is obvious: These taxes fall on relatively few voters, while the resulting revenue can finance programs benefitting a far larger population.

However, taxing the rich is not a “get out of debt free” card. It’s a way for states to ignore their own financial mismanagement while forcing their highest earners and most profitable businesses to pick up the slack. When progressive taxes push high earners to relocate to more business-friendly states, they take with them investments, charity, productive businesses, job opportunities, and taxable income.

Despite these consequences, a wave of income tax revisions is hitting blue states. Connecticut Democrats aim to raise the top marginal rates to 7.5% for earners over $250,000 and 7.99% for those making over $500,000. Michigan’s ballot proposal would levy a 5% tax on individual income over $500,000. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani proposed a 2% income tax increase on residents making $1 million, creating a top marginal rate of nearly 17%. Rhode Island has even approved a 3% surtax on income above $1 million.

Although taxing the rich may appear to be an attractive source of revenue for government officials, it comes at a cost. Massachusetts provides perhaps the best test case.

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Geothermal has long been the clean, firm power source that was always a few breakthroughs away from being cheap enough to matter. Numbers buried in a Nevada utility filing suggest that day may have arrived.

Babylon Bee.

Very kind of them.

Not the Bee.

No doubt soon to be replaced by city-owned and operated bread lines and soup kitchens, as is traditional in socialist jurisdictions.

You can’t use your EBT in a restaurant, so nobody gets to use a restaurant. Just looking out for the little people by making bigger people smaller.

Not the Bee.

Last week, Angie Nixon said she wanted to lock up her opponent.

She was then offered a chance to amend her statement on CBS Face the Nation.

This stems from a grand jury ruling that said funds were misappropriated, but no one was named as responsible. An appeals court then looked at the case and struck down the grand jury report.

This means there’s already been an investigation. There’s already been a legal ruling. Gov. DeSantis said the whole thing was an obvious hoax.

But Nixon says Republicans are guilty and AG Ashley Moody needs to go to prison because she allegedly “knew” about the scandal that turned out to be a non-scandal with no legal wrongdoing. Nixon claims this non-scandal will cause kids to die.

Even CBS’s Margaret Brennan was completely shocked and taken aback by her answer.

If you’re looking for fascists, Democrats have got you covered.

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Five years after Berliners voted to expropriate their landlords, the German capital finally has a government willing to do it.

On Saturday, Die Linke, the Greens and the SPD presented the 30-page exploratory paper that will underpin their coalition agreement for the next Berlin Senate, and buried among the usual promises sits a plan to socialize, under Article 15 of the German constitution, every apartment a private landlord owns in Berlin above the first 10,000. The compensation for this act of municipal generosity: a hard cap of €16 billion which works out to about €105K per unit, or 58% of book value… and even that cap is conditional on “fiscal sustainability.”

The bond market did the rest: Adler Group’s 10% notes due 2029 plunged 20 points on Monday to a record low around 59 cents on the euro (they dropped as 53 earlier in the session), as creditors scrambled to price in the possibility that 43% of Adler’s yielding Berlin portfolio is about to be bought by the state at a 42% to 48% discount to book.

New York Post.

Federal agents collared suspects in a slew of voter fraud cases Monday morning, chasing targets across California drawn from a list of more than 20,000 suspected noncitizens in the state who allegedly registered to vote in next month’s midterm election.

Under the effort dubbed “Operation Protect the Vote,” law enforcement authorities sought more than two-dozen foreign nationals charged with fraudulently registering to vote in US elections, in which most of them allegedly cast illegal ballots. Department of Justice officials called it the largest such takedown in the state’s history.

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A Palestinian teacher working for the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees says a school administrator threatened to cut out her tongue after she challenged lessons she said encouraged hatred of Jews and glorified Hamas.

The 40-year-old geography teacher told the New York Post in an interview published Monday that an administrator confronted her with scissors days after she argued with a colleague about teaching girls.

“[The school official] told me, ‘We’ll make you wish for death, and if you don’t stop arguing, we will cut your tongue,'” she recalled through a translator.

I’ll bet Democrats wish they could get away with saying that.

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As France’s fiery student protests merged with a nationwide revolt on Saturday, a communist leader and academic, Vijay Prashad, celebrated the unrest with a message linking protests across three continents.

“Paris-New Delhi-Buenos Aires,” Prashad posted on X, borrowing a line from the British punk band The Clash: “Let fury have the hour, anger can be power.”

Prashad was important not only for what he said, but for who he is: executive director of Tricontinental Ltd., a nonprofit funded by an American-born Marxist tech tycoon, Neville Roy Singham, who lives in Shanghai.

The message captured how France’s riots have become part of a wider international narrative of rebellion — a kind of “Chaos Inc.” — amplified by a transnational network of communist and socialist organizations stretching from Europe to Asia, Australia, Africa and South America and North America.

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A super PAC supporting a Republican candidate who shares a name with Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, has received millions of dollars from groups linked to progressive donors, according to newly disclosed campaign finance records.

Democrats are hoping that the Alaskan voters are too stupid to figure out which is which.

In a state that keeps returning RINO Murkowski to the Senate, I can’t say they’re wrong.