DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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Sometimes the old ways are best.

New Yoek Post.

Lifelong New Yorker and real estate investor Charles Kushner is fleeing NYC for Florida because of, he says, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and First Lady Rama Duwaji’s antisemitism.

“I don’t want to pay taxes and live in a city with a blatantly antisemitic mayor and his antisemitic wife, period,” Kushner told The Post. “I also don’t want to live in the city with the people who voted for him.”

Kushner said his decision was driven less by Mamdani’s socialist policies than by what he described as the mayor’s hostility toward Jews and Israel — pointing to Mamdani’s refusal to march in the Israel Day Parade, his call to have Benjamin Netanyahu arrested as a war criminal, his outreach to Columbia University protesters who celebrated Hamas and Duwaji seeming to celebrate the horrific attacks on October 7.

If the taxes don’t get you the Judenhasse will.

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From bathtub gin to bathtub broccoli.

University of St. Andrews.

Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees, you know.

New research from the University of St Andrews and Université de Neuchâtel, has uncovered the mechanism which allows sperm whales to sleep in a unique vertical position, just under the ocean surface.

I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

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An interactive simulation.

The Register.

Dougherty County Police Department (DCPD) near Albany, Georgia, is appealing for help from the local community after someone set two Flock Safety cameras on fire.

Police initially investigated whether the automated license plate readers (ALPRs) had malfunctioned. After examining evidence from both scenes, however, officers reclassified the incidents as criminal damage to property.

In an update communicated to journalists, reported by Fox 5 Atlanta, DCPD revealed nothing about what caused the fires at the 2400 block of Radium Springs Road near the intersection of Williamsburg Drive, nor did it offer any details about potential suspects that might help generate tips.

The locations provided by police closely correspond to two reported ALPR locations mapped on the deflock.org platform, a community-driven project to map these cameras across the US.

Flock, for the uninitiated, is a tech company that makes ALPRs, as well as other security devices such as cameras, gunshot audio detectors, drones, and more.

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Two Italian girls in Milan were promised a tattoo by a Tunisian culture-enricher, but instead were raped after being lured by him to a secluded farmhouse.

Import Turd World people, wind up with Turd World problems.

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The Pacific Research Institute released a study this week breaking down how taxpayers are paying for “a program that has grown beyond the state’s ability to effectively manage it.”

The findings come as the Trump administration announced on July 21 that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is pausing over $860 million in funding to California after federal officials discovered in-home supportive services claims that significantly exceeded national trends.

Sally Pipes, the institute’s president, told the Daily Signal that rooting out fraud should be lawmakers’ top priority.

“If lawmakers could make only one thing happen this year, it should be eliminating fraud, waste, and abuse from Medi-Cal, which now covers 15 million Californians at a cost of $220 billion. The entire state budget for fiscal 2026-27 is $351.7 billion,” she said.

Good luck with that.

The Foundry.

For at least 30 years, the American welfare state has become a global magnet for immigrants, both legal and illegal, despite longstanding law to prevent exactly that.

Since the late 19th century, federal law has barred any immigrant likely to become a public charge from entering the country. In 1996, with bipartisan support, Congress declared self-sufficiency the explicit policy of the United States and required many legal immigrants to have a sponsor sign a legally binding contract that they would support the immigrant to prevent their enrollment on welfare programs.

But, to put it mildly, Democrats have changed in the years since. Most recently, the Biden administration’s 2022 “public charge” rule gutted a principle as old as the Republic itself: Those who come to America should get to work, not get on welfare.

Yet, half of all households headed by noncitizens use at least one welfare program—a rate much higher than that of households headed by the American-born, according to census data analyzed by the Center for Immigration Studies. Some countries’ immigrants, like those from Somalia living in Minnesota, receive welfare at more than a 70% clip when they show up in the U.S.

The New Neo.

I saw this headline today, “Nearly 150,000 mail ballots rejected in California’s primary despite efforts to count every vote.”

That doesn’t tell us much. Were they ballots that should have been counted and somehow were missed? And if so, why? Or were they ballots that were not legal and uncounted for that reason? And why so many – or so few? In other words, was this just the tip of the iceberg of the number of ballots that shouldn’t have been counted in that state? Or should many of these have been counted and were they unfairly excluded?

The article doesn’t say.

Of course not. The Narrative Media are called that for a reason.

This is how the article begins:

Nearly 150,000 California voters had their mail-in ballots rejected for the state’s June primary, a spike from recent elections even as the state attempts to make voting easier with the goal of boosting participation and counting every ballot.

Let’s rewrite that a bit:

Nearly 150,000 California mail-in ballots were rejected for the state’s June primary, an increase from recent elections even as the state attempts to make voting easier with the goal of boosting Democrat votes and relaxing the rules so that every mail-in ballot is counted whether it’s valid or not..

Saying the quiet part out loud….

The Telegraph (UK).

Police failed to arrest a violent Afghan national hours before he fatally stabbed a dog walker despite being told he posed a danger to the public, The Telegraph can reveal.

Dawood Safi, 28, carried out a triple stabbing in Midhurst Gardens, Uxbridge on Oct 27 which resulted in the death of Wayne Broadhurst, 49.

Two other people, 45-year-old Shazhad Farrukh, Safi’s landlord, and a 14-year-old boy were injured in the attack.

At the Old Bailey last week, Safi, who entered the country illegally in the back of a lorry in 2020, was found guilty of the attempted murder of Mr Farrukh.

He had previously pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Mr Broadhurst through diminished responsibility.

The Telegraph (UK).

A mega-dinghy carrying 165 migrants has crossed the Channel, setting a new record for the number of arrivals on a single small boat.

The packed vessel – intercepted by Border Force on Thursday – beat the previous record from July 11, when 128 migrants crossed in one boat.

It was one of three dinghies to cross the Channel on Thursday, bringing a total of 366 migrants. The other two vessels carried an average 100 people each.

The higher number reflects efforts by people-smuggling gangs to cram more migrants onto each boat to maximise profits.

No mention of stopping them, or of penalizing France for allowing this shit to go on, or to sending them back.

Imagine what Trump would do….

The Telegraph (UK).

When you’re chief qualification (sometimes your only qualification) is your skin color….

When Jason Arday became a Cambridge professor at the age of 37, he was lionised by the academic world and became a poster boy for the university’s diversity drive.

He had beaten almost impossible odds to get there. Diagnosed with autism, and non-verbal until the age of 11, he had only learnt to read and write at 18 but obtained a degree and a doctorate before forging a career in teaching.

And what wink-wink-nod-nod helped him get those degrees?

Now, on the eve of the publication of his autobiography, the University of Cambridge’s professor of sociology of education has become the subject of a bitter row over plagiarism that has pitted his peers against each other.

On one side of the argument are professors at other universities who believe Prof Arday’s published works, including his PhD thesis, contain passages that are remarkably similar – and in some cases identical – to other academic papers, without proper attribution.

My, what a surprise. “I’m black, y’all, I’m black, y’all, I’m black black blackety black, y’all….”

The Telegraph (UK).

Iran has been caught sending suspected covert operatives across the English Channel into the UK, The Telegraph can reveal.

Yeah, but what are they going to do about it? Under Labor, fuck all.

Individuals with links to Tehran’s intelligence agencies are understood to have been intercepted by UK authorities while attempting to enter Britain on small boats.

People smugglers working on the Continent told The Telegraph that the Iranian regime facilitated the passage to Britain of migrants living at Calais in exchange for a “favour” for Iran after they settled in England.

BuzzFeed, a Voice of the Crust.

Have you ever been on a first date so bad you seriously thought about walking out mid-meal? Same. The reasons can be all over the place. For one person, the reason could just be a date who chews with their mouth open. For another, it could be something more universal…like them showing up completely hammered with their shirt on inside out. And I know one person’s yuck is another person’s yum. But I think we could probably agree that most of these are pretty egregious.

Quite frankly, I’m astonished that such a feminine-negative treatment would get published in so gynocentric a publication. But people will surprise you. If you’re wondering about the ‘dating crisis’, look no further.

Says something about the sort of people who hang out at BuzzFeed, I suspect.

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The Bronze Age Mycenaeans were an ancient civilization from the Greek mainland known for their impressive architecture, rich culture, and mysterious decline. Perhaps most famously, the Mycenaeans were the lead cast in Homer’s stories of the Trojan War, The Iliad and The Odyssey. These include Agamemnon, the legendary king of Mycenae who led the Greek forces in the Trojan War; Menelaus, king of Sparta and husband of Helen, whose abduction sparked the war; and the cunning Odysseus, the king of Ithaca who had to face numerous challenges during his long voyage home after the Trojan War.

While the epic poem The Iliad is generally recognized as a work of fiction, some of Homer’s accounts are nevertheless considered historically accurate. For instance, Troy was real, with most historians agreeing that it used to be located in Hisarlik, Turkey. The Mycenaean Greeks were also real people, although the legendary characters in Homer’s works are fictitious, acting as literary devices meant to explore themes of heroism, war, and human nature.

Now, a new and exciting study suggests that some of Homer’s accounts of Mycenaean warfare, long thought to be mere artistic embellishments, are plausible and may have been historically accurate. The findings center around one of the oldest European suits of armor, a marvelous 3,500-year-old suit discovered in the village of Dendra in 1960.

ScienceAlert.

If scientists managed to overcome every other aspect of aging, humans still couldn’t live forever, the new research shows. Random DNA mutations would continue accumulating in our cells until the body could no longer function.

Simulations conducted by a team at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology in Russia suggest this process could impose a fundamental limit on human lifespan, with most people living no longer than about 150 to 190 years under this optimistic scenario.

That’s roughly double humans’ current longevity, of about 79 years in fortunate circumstances, but it’s still a hard limit on the human lifespan.

About what Numenoreans have. If it’s good enough for Aragorn, it’s good enough for me.

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Life has scarcely found a boundary on Earth that it can’t push. While much of life’s diversity exists in lush, bountiful habitats like tropical rainforests and coral reefs, even the most brutal corners of the planet are also occupied. The organisms that thrive in extreme environments — blistering temperatures, crushing pressures, corrosive acid — are what we call “extremophiles.”

Most of these imperiled pioneers are rugged microbes, such as bacteria or archaea. Some have evolved to live in poisonous brine that would fatally pickle nearly everything else. Some can happily grow in subzero temperatures, using special enzymes that chug along where others grind to a halt. Others can shrug off the menaces of heavy metals, ionizing radiation, or the vacuum of space and still thrive.

These organisms aren’t just curiosities. Understanding their resilient biology has many possible applications. Discovering biochemicals that function under extreme temperatures, pH levels, or pressure could be a boon for a broad array of industrial processes. The organisms may also help clean up toxic pollutants by growing, thriving, and digesting where nothing else can. Extremophiles and their enzymes are even responsible for the modern era of genetics and molecular biology.

How Trump and His Allies Can Corrupt the Midterms (David French/New York Times)  One of the biggest laughs I’ve  had for a month of Sundays was an article in a Voice of the Crust labeling David French as ‘right-leaning’.  French is the poster child for Lenin’s concept of the Useful Idiot.

Dems Alarmed Over Possible US Strikes on Mali Terror Group  Terrorists, especially foreign terrorists, are a cornerstone of the Democrat base.

MS NOW’s Catherine Rampell Begs for International Investigation Against Trump  Because, as we all know,  Trump needs to be investigated, and who better to investigate Trump than foreigners?

Pentagon Pete Strips Fallen Heroes of Status as War Dead (William Vaillancourt/The Daily Beast)  Because, as we all know, anybody adversely affected by the current administration is ipso facto a Hero.

Wu Shaoping escaped China’s repression, only to get busted by ICE in Pa. (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)  Will Bunch loses his shit.

DOJ Sues Milwaukee Over ICE Mask Ordinance  The proglodyte mob has an inalienable right to identify ICE agents for retaliation.

Democrats Prepare for Possible Election Clashes With Federal Government (Nick Corasaniti/New York Times)  Because, as we all know, Democrats have an inalienable right to steal elections.

Trump Returns to White House Correspondents’ Dinner After April Attack Halted Gala

Angry Trump Openly Urges GOP to Rig Midterms as Brutal Fox Poll Hits (New Republic)  Because, as we all know, only Democrats are entitled to rig midterms.

MAGA’s “pasta pass” talking point is height of gaslighting (Lisa Needham/Public Notice)  Getcher Narrative, right here.

Trump-backed SAVE Act is newest effort to collect private voter information (Nathan Lee/ABC News)  Like “Are you a citizen?”

Trump’s Tariff Runaround Defies the Courts and Common Sense (Natasha Sarin/New York Times)  Because, as we all know, common sense is what the NYT says it is.

Poll: Republicans’ gas price problem is even worse than it seems (Jessie Blaeser/Politico)  Because, as we all know, gas has a ‘price problem’ under Trump even though gas is cheaper than under Biden. (Who are you going to believe, the Narrative Media or your lying eyes?)

Quagmire of the Vanities ??? Yesterday Donald Trump declared that the Iran war is going … (Paul Krugman)  The vacuum speaks.

Dinner with a side of ‘vicious’ (Politico)

Elon Musk Melts Down Over Perfectly Normal Questions in Wild New Interview (Matt Novak/Gizmodo)  Because, as we all know, “Why are you such a ricist?” is a perfectly normal question to ask a Heretic and Sinner. (WATCH: Elon Musk Verbally Smacks Pompous British Journalist Around)

‘We Are All Screwed’: Rosie O’Donnell Recounts Fleeing Trump’s America

PBS’s Updegrove Ups the Anti-Trump Insanity: Stacey Abrams’ ’10 Steps’ to Tyranny

Senior Navy official placed on leave after vowing to undo Trump’s policies in undercover video (Emily Hallas/Washington Examiner)

Trump accused of using forced labor as ‘convenient’ justification for tariffs (The Guardian)  Of course, if he hadn’t, they’d have bitched and moan about him not doing so.

MS NOW Gets ‘Triggered’ By GOP’s ‘Red-Baiting’ Of The DSA  It’s not ‘Red-Baiting’ if they actually are Reds.

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Joel Salatin wants to liberate Americans from over-regulation with neighbor-to-neighbor food commerce.

Salatin, who runs Polyface Farm in the hills of Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, is pitching the concept of a “Food Emancipation Proclamation.”

I have a number of Salatin’s books. He has many original ideas about agriculture, hates factory farms, and hates government regulatory micro-management. He’s the guy who convinced me to start boying pasture-raised eggs.

Through what he envisions as a federal declaration, consenting adults would be allowed to buy and sell homemade and farmstead food directly, without the costly commercial infrastructure and cumbersome government regulation currently in place.

Salatin’s mission reflects a push among homesteaders and independent farmers to cultivate local food networks, where food is grown and raised without chemicals and consumers can gain a more transparent connection to how food is produced.

The reason such a movement is needed is the effective erasure of the Institute for Justice calls the Dormant Commerce Clause in the Constitution, whereby anything that the government wants to pull within its clutches can be done by sophistry about what is and is not ‘interstate commerce’.

Got a pond on your farm? That’s a ‘wetland’ and the government can regulate it.

Grow crops for your own use? That affects Interstate Commerce because if you didn’t grow your own food all such food these days comes across state lines, so the government can tell you what to do and how to do it. Same reasoning applies to trading food with neighboring farmers or selling it locally.

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The organizers of the American Diabetes Association meeting had a group of researchers removed from the event for sharing an editorial about negative impacts of policy changes to research funding.

Note that it was the ADA organizers who had the scientists removed, apparently for CrimeThink.

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Congress doesn’t. Democrats in Congress do. The existence of tax-sheltered retirement accounts has been a running sore with the Democrat looters from day one.

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., rolled out the Retirement Fairness for Working Americans Act this week, and the name alone tells you how Washington sells a bad idea. There is nothing fair about capping retirement accounts and forcing selloffs on people who did exactly what the tax code told them to do for 30 years. Fairness does not shrink the pot. This bill does.

I have spent three decades building investment strategies for single-family offices, running a hedge fund, and structuring private credit deals, and I serve as a designated expert witness on fiduciary duty in federal and state courts. I know the difference between closing a genuine loophole and moving the goalposts on savers who followed the rules Congress wrote. This bill is the second thing dressed up as the first.

The legislation, in both its House and Senate versions, targets anyone with more than $10 million combined across IRAs and defined contribution plans, barring further contributions and forcing a 50% annual drawdown on the excess, once income tops $400,000 for individuals or $450,000 for couples.

To justify this, Wyden and Neal point to Peter Thiel, whose Roth IRA grew into a multi-billion-dollar account after he placed early PayPal founder shares into it decades ago.

What’s yours is yours, unless Democrats want it, in which case it becomes theirs.

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The Foundry.

Under President Ronald Reagan, Americans understood communism for what it was. We knew it wasn’t an ambitious social program or a compassionate alternative to capitalism. Everyone knew—without question—that it crushed faith, confiscated property, silenced dissent, and turned citizens into subjects of the state.

Then the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union collapsed. We defeated the communists so completely that following generations of Americans never witnessed their evils. They never saw the breadlines or watched families risk their lives to escape the regimes. They inherited freedom without learning what was required to preserve it.

Communism is not making a comeback because it was ever successful. It’s returning because Americans forgot why it failed. Now its advocates are walking down a red carpet rolled out by the Democratic Party…

It is said that Nikita Khrushchev once claimed that “Your grandchildren will live under communism.” I have been unable to track down the source of that meme, but it matches what I saw of Khrushchev when I was younger. (Yes, I am that old.)

The Foundry.

According to a recent report from the Utah legislative auditor general, the state’s higher education system lost over $830,000 in recent years to “ghost students” who apply to receive financial aid and run off with the money without pursuing a degree.

“Institutions reported disbursing $834k to suspected fraudulent applicants and spending over 15,000 hours working to mitigate enrollment fraud,” the 2026 Performance Audit on Enrollment Fraud in Higher Education report noted.

Salt Lake Community College alone saw at least 2,000 fraudulent applications in recent years, the report highlighted.

The community college did not respond to the Daily Signal’s request for comment.

It’s easy to defraud the government because nobody has a vested interest in pursuing such fraid—after all, it’s just Free Government Money. If education were paid for by the consumer (student/parents), such fraud would be far less frequent, and more likely prosecuted.

The American Mind.

The most consequential domestic policy development of the 2020s is neither COVID-19 nor Donald Trump’s reelection. It is Joe Biden’s decision to import ten million foreigners into the United States in violation of standing federal law. Many of the defining political fights of this decade stem from that choice: government shutdowns over border enforcement, states unilaterally redefining the meaning of citizenship, the growing willingness of the restrictionist wing of the Republican Party to defy its own business class, major fraud investigations in Minneapolis and New York, and the unraveling of consensus over whether federal law binds the states.

These are battles in a larger fight over who constitutes the American people, one that escalated with President Biden’s decision to actively facilitate the mass importation of illegal aliens into this country by land, air, and sea.

American politics is no longer primarily a contest over how we govern ourselves. It is a contest over who we are and who decides.

It is also a bitter lesson in the fact that any Democrat President, even a sock puppet like Joe Biden, can push the country further into the toilet than a subsequent Republican President can retrieve it.

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If California succeeds here, nothing stops it from imposing similar nationwide costs in energy, agriculture, transportation, consumer electronics, you name it. SB 54 is not just a plastics law. It is a blueprint for how one state can impose its preferences on the entire country.

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French investigating judges have added racism as an aggravating circumstance to the cases against all the suspects formally investigated over the 2023 killing of 16-year-old Thomas Perotto.

The decision, announced on Thursday, July 23rd, comes more than two and a half years after the fatal attack at the village’s winter dance in Crépol, in south-eastern France.

According to a source close to the investigation, the judges amended the charges after considering around 10 witness statements reporting remarks hostile to white people at the end of the dance, including: “We’re here to stab white people.”

Thomas Perotto, a secondary school pupil and rugby player, was fatally stabbed during the night of November 18-19, 2023, after violence erupted at the village event. Three other people were seriously wounded.

The alleged perpetrators are believed to be a group of young men from North African immigrant families from the working-class neighborhoods of nearby Romans-sur-Isère.

On June 12, prosecutors in Valence requested that eleven people stand trial over Thomas’s death.

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According to figures from Germany’s Federal Foreign Office, Berlin granted 53,598 family reunification visas during the first half of 2026, even though the government of Friedrich Merz had announced the suspension of this entry route.

The figure contrasts with the statements made during the federal election campaign. In April 2025, a month before taking office as Chancellor, Merz declared on X that his government would “manage and control migration better” and “suspend family reunification.”

Family reunification was suspended for two years on June 27, 2025, with Bavarian Minister-President Markus Söder insisting on television that it amounted to “a return to the way things were before 2015 when it comes to law and order.”

The official records, however, show a gradual decline rather than a halt. In the first half of 2024, 63,637 visas of this type were granted; in the same period of 2025, around 57,000, a 10% drop; and in the first semester of 2026, a slightly lower figure. If the same pace is maintained in the second semester, the annual total would once again exceed 100,000 arrivals through this route.

The discrepancy between what has been promised and the figures is explained by the actual scope of the measure. The approved suspension affects only beneficiaries of subsidiary protection, a status granted to those who obtain neither the right to asylum nor recognition as refugees, but who could suffer serious harm if returned to their country of origin. It is a subgroup within the broader category of family reunification, not the whole of it.

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Believe it or not, Mayor Mamdani thinks this might have been a hate crime.

I, for one, don’t believe that he really does, although he may say that he does.

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They would face a country where 100 million private citizens own guns.

LifeHacker.

Do you “accept” or “reject” that cookie request? Browser cookies don’t just remember your login details: They can track your browsing history across websites, follow you around with specific ads, or even hijack your active browser session to log into your accounts without a password. On the other hand, if you don’t click accept when you see a cookie banner, that can affect your browsing experience—many websites need cookies to function normally.

Luckily, cookie management isn’t just a binary choice any more. You can choose which cookies to accept on a website, auto-delete cookies after a set amount of time, or even switch between browser profiles to control which cookies stay active during a session.

ProPublica, a Voice of the Crust.

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.

But never abuses of power by Democrats or Democrat-controlled government. They save their ire for anything with ‘private’ attached to it. Only government employees can be trusted with the spending of ‘taxpayer dollars’.

CNBC, a Voice of the Crust.

About half of Americans believe it isn’t appropriate for the U.S. government to take ownership in U.S.-based companies, CNBC’s new All-America Economic Survey found.

Gee, that doesn’t faze Bernie Sanders. He wants the government to take a half-share in all of the AI companies, and CNBC doesn’t complain about that (or, if they do, I can’t find it).  Of course, he wants to Just Steal It through a ‘special tax’ rather than ‘negotiating deals’, the more legal method Trump would use, but that’s Bernie for you.

ScienceAlert.

Do you really, really, really like the ocean?

Do you like it so much that you would spend multiple days living on the seafloor in a structure that is part laboratory, part dormitory, and part diving vessel?

Soon, a crew of ‘aquanauts’ will do exactly that, inhabiting the first iteration of Vanguard, a short-term stay subsea habitat designed by ocean engineering company DEEP.

More fembot ‘journalism’. What’s important is not what you KNOW but rather what you FEEL.

Stick with it, though; eventually she will get around to the point.

(Who, What, When, Where, Why? Fuggedaboutit.)

Quanta.

t was 9 a.m. on a Thursday, and Martin Picard was watching his blood flow from an IV in his arm through a hole in the wall. He was sitting on a twin bed in a claustrophobic chamber less than a shoulder’s width from a stainless steel sink and porcelain toilet. Every hour over 24 hours, including while he slept, a nurse channeled blood from his arm to a research team next door; at each time point, if he was awake, he also provided a saliva sample and filled out a survey about his mood.

As with any article written by a female, no information is communicated in the first three paragraphs—the primary need is for a little story so you can identify properly with whomever the story is about (or cultivate an appropriate aversion, if it’s about somebody like Donald Trump or Elon Musk). Stick with it, though; eventually she’ll get around to the point.

New York Post.

Fuming Long Island residents are fighting to the opening of a Muslim boarding school for boys that’s expected to house 120 teenage students — claiming it will destroy a quiet suburban neighborhood.

A group of Bay Shore homeowners claims the proposal for an overnight dorm is illegal under codes for the suburban Saxon Avenue, on a 13-acre waterfront property that housed a Catholic seminary years ago.

“The proposed use by the new property owner is far more intensive than what is appropriate for a quiet residential neighborhood,” Kevin Colgan, an Islip resident and leader of the anti-boarding school movement in the neighborhood, known as “Saxon Says No,” said in a statement.

“This is about protecting the integrity of our zoning laws — not opposing any individual or organization — zoning laws exist to preserve the character, integrity, and quality of life within our neighborhoods while ensuring that land uses are appropriate for their surroundings,” Colgan said.

Tie Times (UK).

Gary Lineker has called on Andy Burnham to tax millionaires more, telling the new prime minister: “We can afford it.”

If you can afford it, just write a check. But that’s not your point, is it? You want to force everybody else to pay what you think they ought to pay, rather than just deciding for yourself. This is what totalitarians do.

The former footballer joined more than 100 British-based millionaires including the screenwriter Richard Curtis, the novelist Val McDermid, and the ex-City trader Gary Stevenson who signed a letter urging Burnham to impose a 2 per cent levy on wealth over £10 million.

Note that these guys don’t have Real Jobs, where you have to make and sell a product and meet a payroll. They push words; words are free and there are always new ones available. No word-pusher ever has his supply of words liquidated in bankruptcy, or repossessed.

Burnham has previously signalled his intention to overhaul the tax system in order to fund his policy ambitions and refused to rule out a wealth tax when speaking on Lineker’s podcast earlier this month. He told the former Match of the Day presenter that his government may “ask for a little more”, adding: “I do believe we need a greater sense of fairness.”

Like many socialists, he apparently thinks that ‘millionaires’ have money-bins, like Scrooge McDuck, where their money just sits around waiting for them to swim in it. Word-pushers may have that, I don’t know. But most ‘millionaires’ have their money invested in businesses that provide jobs, provide goods or services, and actually generate the GDP that keeps the machines running.

Neal Stephenson.

Because I am known to write using a fountain pen on paper, a number of people have pointed me to this post and its underlying research. I won’t rehash what is said in those sources, but the gist of it is that when you write things down by hand you’re recruiting more of your brain, which is a good thing.

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

I’m not an expert on how the brain works, but I can say that, when writing by hand, one is continually solving a series of small problems having to do with the spacing of words, how letters are connected, the crossing of the letter t (sometimes more than one in the same word) and the dotting of the letters i and j, and how to accomplish all of those things through coordinated movements not just of the fingers but of the whole arm. All of that has to be integrated in real time with whatever is happening on a more abstract level in the brain’s processing of ideas and imagery.

Concurrently I have been following discourse on Reddit and other sources about how widespread use of AI has forced educators to return to the long-abandoned practice of having their students take exams in person by writing things out longhand in blue books. This has created new challenges for students who never really learned how to write by hand, and for teachers who can’t make sense of their students’ terrible handwriting.

When I was in school, bad handwriting could cost you when it came grading time. That focused the mind excellently.

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Corporate autopsies on the brands you trust. Who bought them, who gutted them, and what’s still worth buying.

We pessimists stand ready to say “We told you so…”

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Socialism doesn’t grow strong leaders. That’s why nominally socialist movements eventually adopt fascism, as Italy and Germany did in the early 20th century, in order to make any progress.

For years I’ve been puzzled by the left’s odd combination of arrogance and self-loathing. They think there is no God higher than themselves, so they can do whatever they want without being held accountable for their actions – they can do whatever they want. But they also view humans as a blight on the planet and you shouldn’t be allowed to do whatever you want – you can’t drive an SUV, for example. But abortion is ok. It takes a lot of bourbon to figure out things like that.

I’ve also been confused by another dichotomy, which may be similar: Leftists believe in the use of government to improve people’s lives. They hope to use strong centralized control structures to make society more just and fair. As those who lived under Mao, Hitler, Castro, Mussolini, Stalin, etc will tell you, that type of system generally involves a strong leader using force to control the citizenry. Ok, makes sense. You need a strong leader to control a large, powerful government.

Ok. So who do modern leftists elect to leadership positions? Joe Biden. Kamala Harris. Gavin Newsome. Kier Starmer. Justin Trudeau. Elizabeth Warren. Leftists envision an all-powerful government designed to control the entire world. And then they elect incompetent empty suits to direct the entire enterprise. That seems odd. But I think I may have some idea why they do that, now. See if you agree with me.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

My, what a surprise.

ATQIE: New Yorker Being Stabbed On Street Corner Glad To Know Mamdani Focused On Bringing Netanyahu To Justice (Babylon Bee)

The American Mind.

Johann Kurtz’s essay on why younger generations feel left behind economically, even while official statistics from GDP to stock markets send signals that our economy is thriving, touched a nerve.

Kurtz’s central argument is that young people only appear to be doing fine in official statistics because those measures fail to capture the collapse of “social capital”—the free inheritance of trusted neighbors, functional public schools, safe streets, and marriageable norms that previous generations received at no cost. Because that commons has been liquidated and privatized, young people must now repurchase its components individually at market prices. Expensive homes in good districts, private schooling, daycare, credentials, and more—all of it requires substantial financial resources, even as incomes have risen only modestly. Meanwhile, the cost of these essentials has increased many times over.

The result is a measurement failure: cheap electronics and rising nominal incomes make the young look prosperous, but the actual building blocks of a middle-class life have moved beyond the reach of average Americans, which explains why younger generations are delaying or forgoing them entirely.

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A 26-year-old railway security guard remains in a medically induced coma after a violent altercation with an alleged fare dodger ended with him falling from a moving regional train. Meanwhile, public outrage is growing as the suspect has been set free by a regional court, despite prosecutors asking for his arrest.

Airedin M. was working aboard a German regional train between Offenburg and Karlsruhe on July 17th when he checked the ticket of a male passenger, who claimed he could not show his digital ticket because his phone battery was dead. Witnesses also described the man as heavily intoxicated.

Federal police were contacted, and the situation briefly calmed. However, the dispute soon reignited when the passenger allegedly stood up and attacked the security guard. During the struggle, both men fell to the floor near one of the train’s doors. According to witnesses, the suspect punched and kicked Airedin M. next to a train door, which opened during the assault, causing the guard to fall from the train while it was traveling at approximately 120 km/h.

The young father suffered life-threatening injuries, including a severe traumatic brain injury and multiple fractures to his left leg. He remains in intensive care at a Karlsruhe hospital, where doctors placed him in a medically induced coma because of the severity of his condition. Police arrested the suspect following the incident.

Relatives are hoping the victim will one day recover enough to return to his wife and one-year-old son.

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New surveillance footage appears to show a German migrant rescue group receiving around 90 migrants directly from masked smugglers off the Libyan coast.

The footage was recorded on May 11 by a surveillance plane operated by the EU border agency Frontex. It shows five masked men transferring around 90 migrants from a speedboat to two inflatable boats sent out by Sea-Watch 5, a ship run by the German NGO Sea-Watch.

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On July 1st, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, European Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration Magnus Brunner, and Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos travelled to Turkey. The purpose was to meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan.

“Türkiye is a key partner on security, migration, and energy, as well as an EU candidate country,” Kallas posted on X after meeting Erdo?an, adding that the country “is making a significant contribution to protecting NATO’s eastern flank.”

Europeanconservative.com spoke with Emmanouil Koulas, Head of Office to Greek MEP Afroditi Latinopoulou and Board Member of the Patriots for Europe Foundation, about Brussels’ stance on Turkey, Erdo?an’s expansionist foreign policy, and how mass migration affects Europe.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau did not invent the idea that man is naturally good, but he was the thinker who gave it the intellectual form that would eventually transform much of modern political culture. Since then, the belief that human beings are born naturally good and are corrupted only by society has become part of the cultural mainstream. Consequently, if evil does not reside within man himself, then it must be found in institutions, traditions, the family, religion, inherited culture, or any form of authority.

Formulated in the eighteenth century, this thesis has survived revolutions, world wars, and the collapse of the great ideological systems. Today it reappears in the language of woke culture. The terminology has changed, but the underlying intellectual structure remains the same. The problem is no longer sin, human frailty, or personal responsibility, but a system of oppression said to have distorted an originally innocent human nature.

For Rousseau, natural man lives in harmony with himself. He is not virtuous because he has acquired virtue, but because he has not yet been contaminated by civilization. Property, social prestige, and institutions become the true sources of selfishness. History is thus understood as a process of degeneration.

Rousseau did greater damage to human civilization than Marx ever could.

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All it took was roughly one month of relentless international outcry for British authorities to admit that they made a mistake.

It might be the first time the UK has dropped a charge against a white guy in years!