DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz has forced hundreds of commercial ships onto longer routes around Africa, and Somali pirates are moving quickly to exploit the sudden increase in traffic off the continent’s eastern coast. Oil tankers MT Honour 25, MT Eureka and MT Asana were hijacked in the Gulf of Aden and off Puntland between April and July 2026, the largest attacks by Somali pirates in years. The Iran war has now delivered these groups more targets, spread across thousands of miles of ocean, while diverting naval resources to the Persian Gulf and Red Sea.

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As well they should.

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And here I just thought they bought Kools because, well, it was Kool.

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The invasion proceeds apace.

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Life in blue states is just an episode of SNL now.

My favorite part? When the lawyer pulled the race card. Classic!

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The mayor (again, for a Massachusetts town) has repeatedly said he does not speak English.

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Yes, it’s AI content. That doesn’t make it wrong.

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The Endangerment Finding (EF) is the completely absurd piece of regulatory overreach by which the Obama EPA in December 2009 purported to determine that the trace atmospheric gas carbon dioxide was a “danger to human health and welfare.” That action may have been absurd, but it was by no means benign. CO2 is a principal product of all combustion of fossil fuels. Following on the EF, EPA and other government agencies in the Obama and then Biden Administrations set out to use the EF as the basis to transform our entire energy economy — suppressing drilling, blocking pipelines, forcing closure of power plants, outlawing combustion cars and gas heat and stoves, and much, much more.

In Trump’s first term, EPA never chose to take on the EF; but in Trump’s second term the agency got right to work on the job of rescission, and issued the final rule rescinding the first part of the EF (as to motor vehicle emissions) on February 13, 2026. By February 18, progressive NGOs were already in court (D.C. Circuit) seeking to block the rescission.

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I see Jew hatred as the one unifying force in America today, and it’s growing. I think people are fed up with tolerating every aberration of human behavior and law — the trans movement, multi-culturalism, tattoos. nose rings, pink hair, gay marriage, abortion rights, birthright citizenship — and long to openly display some good old fashioned, widely and historically acceptable form of hate.

The Foundry.

It has never been easier to feel virtuous without making much of an effort.

Put pronouns in an email signature, repost the slogan of the day, or join the online denunciation of someone who used the wrong word. In many circles, such gestures are expected. A person can take part with little at stake and still come away feeling that he has done something morally worthwhile.

The trouble begins when support for fashionable causes is treated as proof of good character.

City Journal.

In June, the president of the United Auto Workers celebrated the victory of one of “the UAW’s own” in a Democratic primary election. Shawn Fain wasn’t talking about a machinist from Flint or an assembly-line worker in Kokomo. He meant Claire Valdez, a program assistant in Columbia University’s visual arts department, who won the primary in New York’s overwhelmingly Democratic Seventh Congressional District with 58 percent of the vote. She will be prohibitively favored to win the seat in November.

Valdez came to politics through her union. She joined UAW Local 2110 as a Columbia employee, served on her unit’s bargaining committee, and in 2022 was elected chair of a unit representing 500 administrative coworkers. Local 2110 holds some 30 contracts covering universities, publishing houses, museums, and law firms, and its Columbia units have included thousands of graduate student workers.

Valdez offers a preview of what the UAW is becoming: a union that puts politics first and is leaning heavily on higher education to sustain its dwindling numbers. The results of this transformation are changing not just unions but higher ed itself.

“Come back with a warrant” certainly works for me.

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In a matter of days, once-pristine beaches in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta have been reduced to open-air dumps and disease-ridden camps occupied by thousands of illegal migrants who refused to leave after the mass invasion from Morocco.

Locals describe feces, urine, garbage, and makeshift shacks covering the sand. Contagious illnesses are spreading. Mass brawls with bladed weapons have broken out.

What was a quiet coastal stretch has become a third-world encampment on European soil.

“It’s not my goddamned planet! Understand, monkey boy?”

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A report released by House committees on Aug. 13 alleged that Harvard University prioritized financial ties over American national security and received more than $600 million from China, the most of any U.S. university.

Newsbusters.

It’s no secret that Forbes magazine has largely betrayed its capitalist foundation by becoming a megaphone for some of the most vile left-wing, cultural Marxist tripe in the media ecosphere. But a new scandal did show that its top leadership didn’t completely abandon free markets when it suited their own interests.

The New York Times reported on Wednesday that Forbes chief content officer Randall Lane was fired after “the company discovered that he had received a payment of about $6 million from the founder of a firm that does business with the magazine.”

The payment was made after RJ Shook, the founder of the firm that worked with Forbes to publish wealth adviser rankings, “sold a majority stake in Shook Research to PPC Enterprises, a private equity firm, last August.” Lane made himself a spectacle of anti-Trump furor in 2021 when he threatened companies that dared to hire people who formerly worked with President Donald Trump, such as former White House press secretaries Sean Spicer, Sarah Huckabee-Sanders, and Kayleigh McEnany.

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A federal judge on Friday cleared the way for U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to strip nearly 1,100 Somalis of legal protections against deportation that have allowed them to live and work in the United States.

The Foundry.

Nothing is more natural when buying a house than looking into how safe the neighborhood is and, if you have or plan to have children, whether the schools are any good.

Yet the last Democrat presidential administration tried to prevent real estate agents from answering those kinds of questions because it prioritized “diversity” over safety and education.

The Trump administration revoked the de facto gag rule this year, but the damage the Biden administration inflicted is still being felt.

What’s worse, state regulations in New York and elsewhere still prevent real estate agents from speaking freely to homebuyers about crime and schools.

Interfering with homebuyers was a first-week priority for the Biden administration.

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The UN’s climate funds spent a July dialogue asking for more money. The best thing America did was stop sending it.

The Telegraph (UK).

Donald Trump said he would declare the Strait of Hormuz a “territory of the United States” despite having repeatedly failed to reopen it.

The US president on Friday said he would annex the waterway, before suggesting he already controlled it anyway.

Iranian officials accused Mr Trump of indulging in “fanciful delusions”.

During a speech in New York on Friday, Mr Trump said: “After we finish defeating Iran, which is being very badly defeated, pretty soon I’ll be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States.

“Essentially, that’s what it is. We have the blockade. No ships get through unless we want them to.”

Ah ah ah ah, yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains….

The Telegraph (UK).

Middle-aged men have been stripped of their right to tests that help detect prostate cancer.

Men aged over 50 will no longer be entitled to a blood test to help identify the disease, with GPs instead deciding who is given one.

Experts described the decision as an “outrageous betrayal”.

Letting one’s doctor decide whether or not one needs a test) Inconceivable!

Of course, this is only an issue because in Britain medical care is provided by the government, and sparks a battle between those who believe that everything provided by the government is ipso factor a ‘right’ (plus those who believe that government bureaucrats, not doctors, ought to make your health care decisions) and those who think that doctors ought to make those decisions. Fortunately, in the U.S. we leave those decisions to the insurance companies, who naturally have our best interests at heart. What could possibly go wrong?

And then there are those anti-social individuals who can afford to have whatever care they want and decide for themselves. Splitters!

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I’m guessing this culprit had the same motivations as the white libs who tore up the Reflecting Pool liner or killed the grass on the National Mall to spell out “86 47.”

No better way to protest the guy you call the next Hitler than to deface the memorial of those who died fighting the real Hitler!

UPDATE: WWII Memorial Vandalism Suspect in Custody, Pirro Says

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My kind of woman.

(I’m not to sure I’d trust a guy in his 40s who has a ‘favorite bird’. Sounds fake & gay to me.)

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In the southern French city of Toulouse on Monday, knives suddenly became active — three of them, to be precise. They were wielded by a young man who is alleged to have been somewhat intoxicated. Two police officers were wounded in the struggle to disarm the miscreant.

The motives of the mischievous knifeman are as yet unclear, according to police. He reportedly uttered “Allahu Akhbar” during the attack, which is Arabic for “I have been diagnosed with an acute mental disability.” This prompted authorities to transfer him to the psychiatric ward of a hospital.

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Minnesota, where the men use tampons, the women wear hijabs, and the poll workers are below average.

Right-wing activist Cam Higby showed up to a polling location in Minnesota to test the election integrity of the city. The very white man put on an entire burqa, with only a cutout for his eyes, told poll workers that he was a Muslim woman, and the results were horrifying.

For Trump, Secret Flight Was a Stunning Ruse. For Putin, ‘a Regular Tuesday.’ (Anton Troianovski/New York Times)  God forbid that the NYT should pass up a chance to link Trump to Putin.

Which Trump Officials Joined Him on His Secret Flight Out of Turkey? (Maggie Haberman/New York Times)  Maggie Haberman goes on a witch-hunt.

How Trump’s Ruse to Evade an Iranian Threat Unfolded on the Tarmac in Turkey (Wall Street Journal)

China Dominates The Humanoid Robot Race. Can Trump Close The Gap?  Because, as we all know, ‘closing the gap’ in the ‘humanoid robot race’ is TOTALLY the responsibility of the President of the United States.

Greenland forces Trump-linked US oil firm to delay drilling (Tom Burgis/The Guardian) LINKED TO: “Linked to” in news stories means “there is a strong correlation but we can’t really say that there’s a causal link without being called out for it, but we’re going to write as if there actually was a causal link because otherwise we wouldn’t be able to stir people up and get more clicks”.

The New Neo.

Like many phenomena, it seemed to come suddenly and out of the blue: all of these far-leftist Israel-hating candidates, many but certainly not all of them Muslim, many but certainly not all of them immigrants or first-generation children of immigrants from third-world countries.

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After the McKinney City Council unanimously voted to approve a mosque relocation proposal, a group of residents is now pushing a recall effort against several members of the council.

On Wednesday, Ashley Marie, a local resident, announced on X that a recall effort was underway. The petition seeks to recall McKinney Mayor Bill Cox and Council Members Justin Beller, Geré Feltus, and Ernest Lynch.

“This recall exists because the government does not get the final say—We the People do. When elected officials ignore the community and force decisions we never approved, they forfeit the right to stay in power,” Marie told the Daily Signal in a written statement. “We are seeing it with the amphitheater, the airport.”

The petition states that the grounds for removal are based on “a loss of public confidence in the ability of the officers named herein to faithfully represent the citizens of the City of McKinney.”

The Foundry.

Special Senate Committee on Aging Chairman Rick Scott sent a letter to New York Attorney General Letitia James demanding answers on alleged rampant Medicare fraud in her state.

The Florida Republican’s letter noted that the number of indictments and convictions for Medicare fraud has declined under the New York Medicaid Fraud Control Unit since James assumed her role.

For instance, from 2023 through 2025, New York secured only 53 Medicaid fraud convictions, while the next-lowest state with a similar population secured 129 convictions, Scott’s letter said. In four of the past five years, New York recorded fewer than 10 criminal fraud indictments, ranking last among comparable states every year from 2021 through 2025.

In his letter, Scott added that the unit’s performance “fell off a cliff” in 2020, as fraud convictions decreased from 56 in 2019 to only 14 in 2020, and patient abuse and neglect convictions collapsed from 30 to just four over that same period.

The Foundry.

Under the administration of President Joe Biden, foreign service officers were asked to read materials on critical race theory, reparations, and so-called white fragility.

The Biden State Department provided a document titled “Resources for Talking About Racism and Injustices” to instructors of Foreign Service Officers. The materials covered topics including “When White Women Cry: How White Women Tears Oppress Women of Color.”

“As shown through this scenario, the White woman’s reality is visible, acknowledged, and legitimized because of her tears, while a woman of color’s reality, like her struggle, is invisible, overlooked, and pathologized based on the operating ‘standard of humanity,’” the article said.

Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter.

Tim Pool brings the low-down.

ATQUE: ICE reportedly set to spend $20 million on “shock gloves” which allow non-lethal force (get ready for libs to lose their minds)

The Foundry.

New Jersey recently exposed a problem poised to change the national conversation about election administration. State officials disclosed a so-called processing error at the Motor Vehicle Commission that resulted in approximately 6,600 people who identified themselves as noncitizens registering to vote between June 2023 and June 2024.

The numbers are troubling, but they are not the most important part of the story. Those individuals reportedly did not falsely claim to be citizens. They told the government they were not U.S. citizens, yet they were registered anyway.

Election officials often assure the public that such incidents are isolated anomalies, clerical mistakes, or software glitches. One case, standing alone, may deserve that description.

But Virginia recently removed more than 6,500 voter registrations associated with declared noncitizens, while North Carolina is investigating nearly 1,600 registrations flagged by the federal SAVE system. Alabama, Iowa, and Ohio have reported similar findings, including documented voting histories among some noncitizen registrants.

At what point does a “glitch” become a systemic vulnerability?

A responsible election system should protect eligible citizens from erroneous removal while also identifying registrations that do not belong on the rolls. Those objectives are complementary, not contradictory.

Guess where all the people flooding into Europe are coming from.

Go on. Guess.

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Boy, she’s right on top of it.

Not to mention that getting outside for a few minutes once the sun has risen sets your circadian rhythm properly. Another thing to do as early as possible after you wake up.

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Eleven years have passed since Angela Merkel opened the floodgates of migration to chaos. The European Union, already firmly in the grip of statists and numerous left-wing currents, has since become almost unrecognizable. The advance of Islamization and the dissolution of established urban milieus, traditions and cultures are progressing and contributing to the disintegration of European societies.

What is particularly striking is the emergence of a kind of Islamo-Marxist movement, a fusion of radical socialist social ideals with a Sharia-based reinterpretation of society – as long as it is directed against the bourgeois West and the civilizational achievements of old Europe. Migration from North Africa and the Middle East is the united Left’s battering ram against the remnants of bourgeois European societies.

Against an increasingly tense backdrop came the Ceuta crisis: the invasion of more than seventy thousand mostly young men, tolerated as a triviality by the Spanish government – initially portrayed by the mainstream media, in a desperate attempt, as a kind of party invasion, later as a wave of poverty migration, and finally, with some reluctance, as an organized and aggressive political act. In the end, one sober conclusion remains: The European Union has no effective border protection whatsoever. Its organization Frontex is a band-aid, hastily stuck onto the gaping wound of a migration policy that, in reality, has made mass migration a goal of the left-wing consensus.

Newsbusters.

The Southern Poverty Law Center was recently indicted on a slew of federal charges, including fraud. Today a top official was indicted in relation to these charges. Then, as now, the Elitist Media Evening News seemingly took a vow of collective silence.

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What compelling stories bumped the indictment of the former SPLC CFO allegedly rerouting donor monies to her live-in neonazi lover from the airwaves? Among other things: ICE spending $20M on electroshock gloves (ABC, NBC), John Hinckley, Jr. shooting his shot with Jodie Foster (NBC), Travis Kelce gushing about his wedding to Taylor Swift (CBS, NBC), and Bob Iger and a Kushner buying the Lakers (ABC).

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A surrogate mother fought tooth and nail to save the baby she was carrying from abortion due to a dangerous but treatable medical condition. The Elitist Media mostly whiffed on the story, and the outlet that did cast pro-lifers in a weird frame.

CBS reported the story mostly down-the-middle, except for the weird framing of Live Action as an “anti-abortion rights group.” And although that characterization might be perceived as a badge of honor, there is much more that the organization does. It’s pretty clear that the Elitist Media haven’t gotten over Dobbs.

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On Wednesday’s CNN This Morning, between coverage of the previous night’s primary elections, the show decided to dedicate a segment to bash the Patriot Games youth sports event and complained that the event seemed like a “MAGA Olympics.” Host Audie Cornish cited a CNN article that complained about the event, and said “many” youth participants “attend private Christian schools” and “appear to be overwhelmingly white.”

Apparently being white is a grievous moral failing. (MAGA is the Noo Jooz.)

Newsbusters.

On Wednesday, the “Big Three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC each covered on the flagship morning newscasts the results of Tuesday’s primaries in six states, focusing specifically on contests in Minnesota, South Carolina, and Wisconsin. This led to more labeling chicanery with 12 combined uses of “progressive” and “socialist” versus nine for “centrist,” “establishment,” or “moderate.”

Of course, there was none for “far-left” or “communist.” But most egregiously, ABC and CBS conveniently chose to wait until Wisconsin communist Francesca Hong lost to let their viewers know about a few of her radical positions.

ABC’s Good Morning America started its coverage with fill-in co-host Rachel Scott tossing to correspondent Jay O’Brien by saying Tuesday “was a big test not only for progressives but also for the President.” ABC used “progressive” four times, “socialist” once, and “establishment” twice.

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Yesterday evening two groups of rambunctious culture-enrichers got a little rowdy in the German town of Düren, in North Rhine-Westphalia. In their collective enthusiasm, they went at each other with baseball bats and axes (in the video below, the weapons look more like hatchets than axes, but maybe I’m wrong).

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As you all know by now, late last month a new migration crisis exploded in Ceuta, one of two Spanish enclaves in North Africa. Tens of thousands of African migrants (possibly as many as 72,000) swam around or broke through the barriers designed to keep them out of Spanish territory, and rampaged through the city. Most of them have supposedly returned home, but thousands remain. The local Spanish population is on edge, and women are terrified, since the New Spaniards have a well-known propensity to rape unprotected white women.

According rumors that have spread via social media, another mass invasion of Ceuta from Morocco is being planned for this Saturday, August 15. In response, the Ceuta military command has ordered the cancellation of leave for all soldiers stationed in the city.

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There is a madness peculiar to the over-educated, chronically online progressive—a psychosis of over-correction, not always malice, though the post-Widdicombe-Kirk strain is real and includes those capable of more than mere cruelty. It is the fever of a machine built to measure injustice, running so hot it melts its own circuitry.

Thankfully, we are hearing its death rattle. But death rattles can be undignified, and pockets remain—university towns, Twitter-addled London boroughs, humanities faculties, underfunded Labour fiefdoms—where the disease still festers.

The Telegraph (UK).

The queue of migrants watched in bemusement as volunteer clowns attempted to lift their spirits.

But Laurence Quetel, 67, and her dungaree-clad troupe’s juggling performance barely elicited a smile from the crowds waiting to be served lunch.

It was an incongruous performance in the squalid camp of Loon-Plage on the outskirts of Calais where 2,500 people were awaiting passage to the UK.

Everybody knows why they’re there, everybody knows that they’re intending to break the law, and nobody is doing a damned thing about it.

The Telegraph (UK).

Moving asylum seekers to middle-class areas will cost taxpayers more, Downing Street has admitted.

Andy Burnham will push ahead with his plan to send asylum seekers to more expensive postcodes as a “point of principle”, despite acknowledging the greater costs.

The principle being that progressives are never happy unless they are pissing in someone else’s soup.

There’s No Vaccine for Stupid (Andrew Egger/The Bulwark)  True enough. Which side is the stupid side is, of course, up for debate.

Trump’s Vaccine Order Puts Parents In a Bind (Lisa Jarvis/Bloomberg)  No, it doesn’t. It puts Wokeratchiks in a bind, but that’s different.

Trump signals openness to unconstitutional plot to take over elections (Jacob Knutson/Democracy Docket)  No, he didn’t.

Human rights groups sue Trump administration over International Criminal Court sanctions (Sammy Westfall/Washington Post)

WHO defends childhood immunization schedules after Trump reduction order (Sarah Davis/The Hill)  Anything Trump does must be bad, by definition.

CNN Likens Trump Administration To Hitler, ‘Himmler, Goring, and Goebbels’  As they do. Surprised they didn’t include Albert Speer.

Maddow, O’Donnell Giddy About Iranian Assassination Plot Against Trump

Trump Used Air Force One Passengers As Decoys, Saved Himself (Margaret Hartmann/New York Magazine)  If Trump does it, it MUST be bad.

Trump’s Airplane Switch Follows a Familiar Presidential Playbook (Maya Davis/Wall Street Journal)  The playbook being the one that requires Narrative Media ‘journalists’ to criticize Republicans in general and Trump specifically no matter what happens.

FACT FOCUS: Trump makes false claims as he signs order urging revisions around childhood vaccines (Associated Press)

Trump Has His Own Communist Manifesto (Keith Johnson/Foreign Policy)  You can’t make this shit up.

Democrats want answers about 18-karat gold ring given to Trump (MS NOW)

Dem Senators Question Diamond Ring Gift Before Tariff Break

Morning Joe Outraged by Trump Calling Dem Candidates ‘Jihadists’  Even though they are.

We need the truth about Trump’s alleged ‘ballroom’ (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)  Will Bunch loses his shit.

With Trump Secretly Evacuated, Imperiled Air Force One Became a Flying Decoy (Peter Baker/New York Times)  No, it became a flying target, because everybody thought Trump was still on board. These people have tofu for brains.

Trump’s Air Force One deception faces scrutiny over ‘decoy’ passengers (The Guardian)  Come and get yer Narrative, right here.

Why the elaborate ruse Trump used in Turkey isn’t like other secret presidential trips (Will Weissert/Associated Press)  Because anything Trump does is BY DEFINITION bad.

See How Trump’s Secret Air Force One Swap Unfolded (New York Times)  Full frontal Narrative. (Reporter breaks 26-year silence on briefing that preceded Clinton’s plane swap (Scott Nover/Washington Post)

Transcript: Trump Blurts Out Vile Plot to Rig Midterms as GOP Unnerved (New Republic)  “Rig the midterms” means “keeping the Democrats from stealing elections.”.

The Five Scandals Within the “Air Force One” Scandal (Garrett Graff/Doomsday Scenario)  How much hot air can they blow into this fantasy?

Trump uses reporters as human shield, gets feted as guest of honor (Liz Dye/Public Notice)  Their finest hour.

Anderson Looks Forward to Trump Being in Hell, Calls Escape From Turkey ‘Dumb’

Hold Republicans Responsible for the Iran Disaster (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

Samuel Alito’s Oil Money Reveals the Worthlessness of the Supreme Court Ethics Code (Madiba K. Dennie/Balls and Strikes)  No, it just reveals the worthlessness of proglodyte hypocrisy. Perhaps they ought to take a look at Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren.

O’Donnell: Trump Is a ‘Deeply Cowardly Man’ for Not Personally Killing Assassins

MS NOW’s Hillyard Makes Plane Switch Story About Trump Health ‘Transparency’  Maybe you can make some sense out of that—I must confess I can’t follow that twisty trail.

We Finally See the Trump Administration’s Sweeping Census Power Grab Emerge (John Light/Talking Points Memo)  God forbid we should avoid counting illegal aliens.

Trump’s cost-of-living crunch (Politico)  He PERSONALLY came and jacked up your prices.

Former CNN Pentagon Reporter Wonders How Trump Plane Deception Was Legal  Not the sharpest knife in the drawer….

US press groups sue Donald Trump over fast access to Truth Social posts (Financial Times)

How to Survive a Republican Scandal: Imitate Trump (Will Saletan/The Bulwark)  Will Saletan loses his shit.

Newsbusters.

Academics from four major universities have combined on a study designed to brand niceness a strategy for advancing White privilege, in the latest effort by progressive professors to manufacture a new form of racism to condemn.

The paper, titled “Niceness as Whiteness in School Police Officers’ Perceptions of Student Arrest,” interprets interviews with school resource officers (SROs) in ways that enable them to provide “evidence” that niceness advantages White people. The study was produced by Vanderbilt Postdoctoral Research Fellow Abigail Beneke, Professors Benjamin Fisher (U. Wisconsin-Madison), F. Chris Curran (U. Florida), and Samantha Viano (George Mason).

Niceness, they conclude, is an “enduring component of Whiteness” that “allows predominantly White people to elide how their own actions contribute to inequality by maintaining a sense of their own benevolence.”

Really, you can’t make this shit up.

Newsbusters.

Cheat early and often?

Tuesday’s New York Times featured “Inside the Left’s Playbook for Scoring Election Wins,” by Kellen Browning, Tim Balk, and Dan Simmons, which whitewashed the radical postures of the new crop of hard-left, socialist candidates who’ve won some Democratic Party primaries, threatening to push the party’s center of gravity further leftward.

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Is it time—or already past time—to consider something that was once called distributism as an alternative to what has long been called capitalism, or what is still being called socialism? Distributism was the name given to this alternative better than a century ago. The idea was to get property and some measure of economic independence distributed into the hands of as many people as possible.

Here we are in 2026, and long-discredited ideas of socialism are making a comeback. Suddenly forgotten are its past failures, as well as Margaret Thatcher’s great line that the trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money. Nonetheless it’s still being sold, and sold as the next logical, even inevitable, step taken in accordance with something called the arc of history.

Also forgotten are the long-ago efforts of Democrats like Harry Truman and Hubert Humphrey to separate socialists, fellow travelers, “no enemies to the left” popular fronters, and yes, even communists from their party. And today? Today those very same forces are being welcomed into today’s version of a “big tent” Democratic party.

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California’s high-speed rail boondoggle may finally be running out of money. It’s bad news for Gov. Gavin Newsom, possibly good news for the people of California.

I’ve been opining about why the California bullet train will never succeed since I wrote my very first column as a young college pup. But even my accurate (though not difficult) prediction about its certain failure didn’t quite capture the sheer depth of the wasteful insanity this project has achieved.

There now may be a glimmer of hope, though a faint one, that the “project”—a word I use loosely in this case—may mercifully starve to death after fattening itself on taxpayer cash for nearly two decades.

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Information provided to Paxton’s office shows that Gabriel was diagnosed at 20 weeks’ gestation. The intended parents, who reside in California and are using a surrogate mother from Alaska, requested that Gabriel be terminated. Following their request, the surrogate traveled to Texas to seek protection and ensure that Gabriel could receive the lifesaving surgery he needed to survive.

The intended parents have refused to consent to the surgery upon birth and may attempt to transport Gabriel out of Texas to prevent him from receiving the procedure, according to Paxton’s office.

After learning of the situation, Paxton filed an intervention in the case and asked a district court to prohibit Gabriel from being removed from the state.

On Tuesday afternoon, Paxton announced that a Dallas County judge had entered an emergency temporary order preventing Gabriel from being removed from Texas.

Babylon Bee.

Oh, the humanity!