DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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Some money is better than others. This is foundational to how money and banking works. I explore this idea and its many consequences, without any prerequisites or jargon.

All money is debt. Money starts as a store of value, and trading that store of value makes it a medium of exchange (‘currency’).

Nature, which purports to be a scientific publication that somehow winds up invariably on the Woke side of the aisle.

Tutankhamun’s tomb in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings has long puzzled archaeologists. Might hidden chambers — suspected to hold the remains of Nefertiti — lie beyond its walls? Now, researchers say they have found new evidence pointing to this controversial conclusion.

The decision of whether to peek into the supposed chambers, a few metres from the existing tomb, is in the hands of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities. If approved, careful drilling to deploy miniature tractors equipped with cameras could start in November, co-author of the study George Ballard told Nature.

The researchers conducted a range of geophysical surveys, including the first use of gravitational techniques to probe the density of ground around the site, as well as ground-penetrating radar (GPR) from inside the tomb. Taken together with studies of the tomb structure, the ground around it and wall paintings, the data strongly suggest that there is a “hidden complex” of corridors and rooms that pre-dates the entombment of Tutankhamun, says lead researcher Mamdouh Eldamaty, an archaeologist at Ain Shams University in Cairo and former antiquities minister of the Egyptian government.

Soon to be a major motion picture…

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New public records indicate that faculty members at Utah Valley University sent hostile messages regarding Charlie Kirk to the university’s administrators in the weeks following his assassination on the UVU campus, even though the university had previously issued public statements advocating civility and free expression.

Judicial Watch obtained the 133 pages of emails and text messages through a Utah Government Records Access and Management Act request. The records went to then-UVU President Astrid S. Tuminez and other administrators.

Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, was assassinated on the UVU campus while launching a nationwide campus speaking tour. University administrators spent the following months talking about healing and dialogue. Some of the correspondence flowing into the university president’s inbox tells a different story.

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A recent editorial in the New York Times titled “This California Educational Juggernaut Doesn’t Need the SAT,” highlighted the mentality that has led to the erosion of merit in our nation’s top schools and the flagging public support that was once near universal.

The author of the piece, Miriam Pawel, acknowledged that the University of California’s abandonment of the SAT, which had already become quite watered down in recent decades, may have led to a less able student body, but that it didn’t matter.

By admitting more nonwhite students with weaker test scores, the state is fixing inequality through DEI by giving them a new leg up in a world that’s unfair to them, or something like that.

What about exceptional student applicants who don’t check the correct, “historically oppressed” boxes? Meh, too bad.

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Ensuring America has secure elections might be the largest and most consequential fight for conservatives ahead of the November 2026 midterm elections. Requiring identification and proof of citizenship to vote is an 80-20 issue for Americans, and conservatives are fighting to deliver it.

The SAVE Act, which would establish a requirement for voter ID and proof of citizenship for voter registration, has passed the U.S. House multiple times, but the Senate has repeatedly failed to pass any version of it. Instead of waiting around for the Senate to act, state officials are taking it into their own hands.

Multiple states have already passed their own versions of the SAVE Act. A charge led by the State Freedom Caucus Network, a group of state elected conservatives, is advancing legislation in Arizona, South Dakota, and Wyoming, with more to come.

Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, told the Daily Signal at the network’s annual summit that this is “absolutely” a solution to the Senate refusing to act. Self was a keynote speaker at the summit in Dallas, Texas.

Self is my Congressman, and does a find job.

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Our brain may be a hybrid of two ancient nervous systems that were packaged together hundreds of millions of years ago. This is based on the finding that the front and back brain regions in people and several other species develop from two distinct cell types in embryos, instead of sharing the same developmental origin, as previously thought.

“Our research suggests that evolution took two existing neural systems and pushed them together spatially,” says Kyle Loh at Stanford University. “Having the brain as one organ would probably be more efficient, but we rely on this primordial way to make the brain as two separate pieces.”

 

Not the Bee.

By ‘we’ I assume she meant ‘me and pretend Christians like me’.

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Italy is preparing to ban face coverings in schools and ?to cap the number of foreign students per class, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Sunday as she played up her right-wing credentials at a youth event organized by her party.

Italy is among the European countries most exposed to migrant ?arrivals because of its central Mediterranean location, making migration ?a hot-button issue and a major challenge for successive governments.

The integration of migrants, particularly those from Muslim-majority countries, remains ?contentious in Italian politics and society. Debates over religious symbols, cultural integration, ?citizenship rules and immigration policy frequently polarize public opinion.

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Margot Cleveland, a Dearborn resident since 2007 and senior legal correspondent for The Federalist, a conservative online publication, filed a 42-page complaint Thursday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.

Represented by the American Freedom Law Center, a nonprofit legal group, Cleveland alleges city officials spent taxpayer money on Ramadan displays while ignoring her requests for equal recognition of Easter and Passover.

The complaint accuses Mayor Abdullah Hammoud and the city of violating the Establishment Clause, which prohibits the government from favoring one religion over another, as well as Cleveland’s free speech and equal protection rights.

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“J” from Men In Black is a font of wisdom. But for the Middle East in general and Gaza in particular: “Don’t start nothin’ won’t be nothin’” seems particularly apt. Maybe Ed Sheeran and Macklemore should take a lesson too.

On multiple occasions since the late 1940’s the option to have their own State had been on the table. All the potential Palestinians had to do was sit down, shut up, and play nice with their neighbors. But at each opportunity they have chosen violence instead. Not satisfied with half a loaf, they repeatedly risked everything to try to get it all. Their success would mean destruction of Israel and the Jews therein. And they failed each time. They should consider themselves fortunate to have what they have.

Newsbusters.

NPR’s Weekend Edition September 12 story by “domestic extremism correspondent” Odette Yousef once again only spied extremists on the right side of the ideological divide, ignoring worse activity on the left, and ridiculously implied that conservatives invented “doxxing” — revealing private information about a person online toward hostile ends — after the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

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A leaked video of a French military chaplain addressing paratroopers in a cathedral has circulated widely on social media. In the clip, the chaplain makes disparaging remarks about leftists, tells soldiers to keep fighting for their national heritage, and warns of the risk that French values and culture could be displaced.

Newsbusters.

On Thursday, Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.) released a campaign ad she taped outside the White House attacking President Trump’s immigration enforcement policies, claiming she felt “betrayed” because he is targeting too many illegal immigrants without criminal records.

Needless to say, the left wing media latched on to this, and Friday on CNN’s Inside Politics, Dana Bash used the ad to confront Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin in a nearly 22 minute long sit-down, but it was Mullin who schooled Bash on issue after issue. Here are some of the highlights.

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For most people of a political bent, the big takeaway from Jake Tapper’s interview of Gavin Newsom while engaged in performative fly fishing together in Montana which was aired by CNN on Monday was Newsom’s pledge to not run for president in 2028 if fellow Californian Kamala Harris decides to once again throw her hat into the presidential race. However, wildlife experts focused in on the inadvertent comedy entertainment provided by the cosplaying fly fishermen.

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I don’t know about you, but when we look for words of wisdom on world issues, we tend to shy away from anyone whose primary audience is toddlers on YouTube. In particular Rachel Griffin Accurso, better known as “Ms. Rachel,” who has once again inserted herself into an international firestorm, by calling on “every wealthy, white celebrity” to match her $1 million donation to support Palestine.

The call comes in the wake of rapper Macklemore’s removal from Ed Sheeran’s Loop tour after Macklemore called to “Free Palestine” during a 2-minute speech followed by a performance of his anti-Israel song Hinds Hall during his opening act at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on Sept. 4th and 5th.

After his dismissal, the rapper announced on Instagram he was donating his tour proceeds to six different charities, some with alleged terrorist ties- the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF), HEAL Palestine, Gaza Soup Kitchen, Medical Aid for Palestinians, UNRWA USA National Committee and American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA).

Quillette.

Bernie Sanders is a man of many eras. The senator and political activist from Vermont began his career in the early 1960s, taking part in sit-ins against segregated housing, and marched in the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

Today, the self-styled “progressive” has a new calling: pushing for much stricter restrictions on artificial intelligence, including an outright ban on what his proposal defines as “Artificial Superintelligence”—artificial intelligence that can “match or exceed human cognitive performance and capabilities across a broad range of domains or tasks.”

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Pinker makes a valid point that this is not necessarily the same thing as human intelligence. It does indeed have a different profile of strengths and weaknesses as compared to humans. But regardless of the accuracy of the term, capability of the kind embodied by advanced AI systems is rare. It is valuable. Having a problem-solving tool of that power available on demand is an extraordinary prospect.

Why does Bernie Sanders think this is such a bad thing?

Because proglodytes are stuck in 1900. Consider their fetish about trains.

The Telegraph (UK).

The Singapore Prosperity had docked at a series of Saudi ports in mid-August as it made its way through the Gulf. The tanker, roughly the size of three football pitches, was carrying an estimated two million barrels of crude oil as it headed for the Strait of Hormuz.

Then it disappeared.

Two days later, according to reports, it reappeared on maritime trackers as its transponder was apparently turned back on, near Fujairah, on the other side of the strait.

I thought I could go a day without this shit cropping up, but no luck.

Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children (Alexandra Villarreal/The Guardian)

Gold Statues and Staff Cuts: How Trump Has Disrupted America’s Parks (Maxine Joselow/New York Times)

Speak at Your Own Risk (Adam Serwer/The Atlantic)  All about Trump; nothing about Woke mobs.

Trump’s Census Proposal Could Cut House Seats From Red States (New York Times)

Thousands rally outside shuttered Kennedy Center, chanting ‘Hands off!’ (Washington Post)

Why Trump’s Latino voters are fleeing him (Vox)

Has Trump Lost Touch With Reality? (New York Times)

White House Turns Away Journalists After Trump Declares Ban (Marissa Martinez/The Washington Sun)  And they are SO SURPRISED….

Inside the White House media ban (Politico)  The mind-readers at Politico demonstrate why they were banned.

Farm-state Republicans are having a cow over Trump’s beef imports as Election Day approaches (Samuel Benson/Politico)

Governor Newsom signs new laws to protect California elections from Trump interference (Governor of California)

PBS Hates New Trump Naturalization Regulations, Omit War Criminals Getting In

The Media’s Determined to Proclaim Trump’s Losing the War on Iran

De Niro, Jamie Lee Curtis, other Trump-deranged celebs pledge to defend the constitution

Babylon Bee.

Concerned Americans have started a GoFundMe to purchase some clothing for the obviously destitute Sydney Sweeney.

Not the Bee.

I’ve been informed that if you oppose American workers being replaced with cheaper foreign labor and having to train their replacements, then you’re a bigot and a racist hater who isn’t a real American.

I’ve heard the same thing.

Not the Bee.

Reality is stranger than satire.

Guess the ethnicity….

Newsbusters.

When CNN’s Erin Burnett wants to offer up a hot take, she launders it through former Trump lawyer-turned anti-Trump doomsday prophet Ty Cobb. Earlier this week, Burnett welcomed Cobb to spread baseless conspiracy theories about the upcoming midterms, while in August, she invited Cobb to compare the Trump DOJ to a cast of Nazis. This Friday, Cobb was more diverse in his dictator analogies as he suggested Trump’s effort to ban CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House was part of a Hitlerian, Stalinist, and Putinist dream to shut them down altogether.

Burnett began by putting the ball on the tee, “I want to go now to Ty Cobb. He’s a former Trump White House lawyer. Ty, from a legal standpoint, does Trump have any basis to ban CNN, MS NOW, Politico? And he says more to come from the White House.”

Newsbusters.

A week ago, NBC’s Saturday edition of Today highlighted what it considered an in-depth report from its Boston affiliate on the lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy triple murder trial but in reality was just a doxing operation. Now, a week later, correspondent Emilie Ikeda reported on the threats to the juror but omitted any role NBC had in exposing the man to threats and harassment.

Ikeda began by declaring that, “The sole holdout is breaking his silence, publicly identifying himself as Michael Desronvil. In a statement shared by his attorney, he said he kept getting cut off during deliberations and that he thought the prosecution had enough proof that Clancy knew exactly what she was doing and planned, also saying, ‘I didn’t have any doubts.’ In contrast to what other jurors, including the foreperson, have suggested since the mistrial.”

She then played a clip of jury foreperson Roni Carlson telling NBC10 Boston, “He admitted he had reasonable doubt, and I started filling out the forms…and then he said, but I’m still not going to say that she’s not guilty by reason of insanity.”

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Gee, I wonder why?

Modern education in a nutshell.

Newsbusters.

On Friday, ABC’s World News Tonight was the only network evening newscast to avoid the news of a U.S. deal with Denmark that would give the U.S. military rights to Greenland and bar adversaries like China and Russia from building bases on the island.

After all networks led with news of Trump banning reporters from CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House, ABC was the only network not to shift to news of the Greenland deal. Instead, it decided to go back to bashing the lone holdout juror in the Linday Clancy murder mistrial.

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Officials in Hennepin County, Minnesota, shut down a $2 million relief fund for businesses claiming to be affected by federal immigration enforcement after officials discovered widespread fraud among applicants, forcing them to end the program. The county board created the fund to help businesses “harmed” by Operation Metro Surge, the federal immigration enforcement operation that began in December 2025. Federal agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, in Minneapolis in January, turning it into one of the most scrutinized immigration enforcement actions in the country.

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Of the world’s “holidays,” Talk Like a Pirate Day (or, to use its full name, International Talk Like a Pirate Day) is probably not high on most people’s list. It was promulgated in 1995 by two guys in Oregon named John Baur and Mark Summers who were playing racquetball. One injured himself and said, “Aaarrr!” Given the associations of this phrase with stereotypical piratical conversation, the two decided that a day (September 19 was chosen) should be established in which all talked like pirates. What they mean, the scholars say, is to talk in the dialect of the West Country, meaning South West England.

Yet, whether it is widely celebrated is less interesting than its premise that we all know—or think we do—what pirates sound like. We also all think we know what pirates look like. Where did our images come from? They came from that genius of American art, illustration, and children’s fiction, Howard Pyle.

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Left-leaning labor unions and activist groups are seeking to influence artificial intelligence, not just in how it is deployed in schools and the federal government, but also in how technology companies build the AI models themselves.

The American Federation of Teachers, the U.S.’ second-largest teachers union and a major Democrat ally, has teamed up with Microsoft to craft rules for AI in education. The American Federation of Government Employees, a federal government union endorsing Democrats, aims to incorporate AI influence into union contracts. Meanwhile, the LGBTQ+ activist group GLAAD has published guidelines to shape the way AI companies build their systems.

Each group targets a different layer of the AI ecosystem. AFT shapes how AI enters classrooms. AFGE seeks influence over how government agencies deploy AI. GLAAD targets the underlying rules governing training data, content moderation, and AI model behavior.

“If Republicans in Congress continue to wait on passing commonsense AI safeguards, we are going to lose the fight to the activist Left,” Janet Kelly, CEO of the Alliance for a Better Future, told the Daily Signal in a statement Friday. “Teachers unions and radical advocacy groups aren’t waiting. They are already working to pressure tech companies to strangle innovation and inject woke priorities directly into the code.”

New York Post.

A Missouri woman was indicted on federal charges for threatening to kill Austin Metcalf’s father around the time Karmelo Anthony — the teen’s killer — was found guilty, according to a new report.

Sharifa Nicole Henderson, 34, allegedly sent “violent and vulgar threats” to Jeff Metcalf, the slain high school football’s dad, as Anthony’s trial wrapped up in Collin County, Texas, CBS News reported.

Black people killing white people seems to be all the rage these days.

Black people killing white people seems to be all the rage these days.

New York Post.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

New York Post.

An elderly Walmart customer was beaten to death by the parents of a teen employee who he had argued with after accusing her of nearly ramming his wife with a shopping cart, according to his grieving widow.

Bert Atienza died of blunt head trauma at a hospital on June 8, a day after two people attacked him inside a Walmart in Norfolk, Va., WTKR reported on Monday.

The victim.

“He said, ‘You almost hit my wife with your heavy cart, and you did not even say excuse me or apologize to her,’” Josephine Atienza told the outlet.

“If he sees things that he doesn’t like, he will tell it to you straightforward. That’s how it is. He doesn’t care who you are,” Josephine said, explaining her husband’s personality.

Atienza and the unidentified employee argued for a moment before the worker chucked a can towards the couple as they walked away, she said.

The teen allegedly called her parents for backup and Travis White and Erika Mitchell were hunting down the elderly couple inside the store minutes later.

Bert Atienza was browsing a shelf in one of the aisles when White and Mitchell allegedly attacked him as their working daughter looked on, according to store surveillance video obtained by WTKR.

Black people killing white people appears to be all the rage these days.

The Telegraph (UK).

Balaclava-clad children as young as five have been filmed shoplifting in a brazen raid.

Erdogan Yigitoglu, who runs the corner shop targeted by the youths in Charminster, Dorset, claimed that the children’s parents had stood nearby and congratulated their offspring afterwards.

Security footage showed two children approaching stalls where fruit and vegetables were displayed, before hurriedly helping themselves to a slice of watermelon.

dThe Telegraph (UK).

Thousands of migrants charged through the streets of Ceuta on Friday as police attempted to move them to a new camp.

The migrants, the majority of whom had travelled to the Spanish territory from Morocco, had been sleeping rough on beaches for weeks, waiting to be relocated to an official camp in the port area.

The crowds reportedly became impatient when only a few officials arrived to facilitate the move, and began running towards the new camp just before 7am on Friday.

Footage taken from above showed people stampeding along the Ceuta seafront, cheering and shouting as they ran.

The Telegraph (UK).

The brain is two separate organs that work together, rather than a single unified unit, scientists at Stanford University have discovered.

Researchers now think that at some time in human evolutionary history, the two parts of the brain may have been separated in space – similar to how jellyfish have two nervous systems in different parts of their body – before moving together.

The human brain, therefore, consists of two ancient nervous systems which are “cleverly packaged together” and have evolved independently over millions of years, experts believe.

Republican Rep Maria Salazar Attacks President Trump – Says ICE Deportations “Gone too Far”

ChatGPT Erases History, Hides Its Previous Response Comparing Trump to Hitler

The Trump Justice Department Is Way Too Comfortable Violating Court Orders (Madiba K. Dennie/Balls and Strikes)

CNN’s Erin Burnett Shouts About Trump Driving Up World Prices

Trump Wanted Canada as the 51st State. He Ended Up Pushing It Toward the European Union. (New York Times)  Nope. They did that all by themselves.

‘Should be removed’: Democratic senators ramp up calls to impeach Education Secretary Linda McMahon (Arthur Jones II/ABC News)  Trump cooties!

Joe Rogan Unloads on ‘Rabid’ Trump Fans in Shocking Reversal (Dana Herrnstadt/The Daily Beast)

NY Times: Trump Could Gut Endangered Species Act  Gut!

Exclusive: These international observers have monitored US elections for decades. This time, the Trump admin didn’t invite them (Matt Cohen/Democracy Docket)  For a good reason—They’re all  proglodyte enemies of America.

OMISSION DEJA VU: Elite Media Newscasts HIDE Chilling New Trump Shooter Details

Trump Administration Moves to Gut a Core Endangered Species Protection (Catrin Einhorn/New York Times)  Gut!

Trump’s Minnesota Surge Threatened Democracy, Judge Warns (Mattathias Schwartz/New York Times)

Sen. Cassidy: Measles Surge ‘Terrible Legacy’ for Trump  Yeah, he was just wandering around giving people measles. What’s up with that?

Donald Trump Returns to the U.N. Amid the Collapse of the Old Order (Ishaan Tharoor/New Yorker)  The New World Order is coming apart, and proglodytes are blaming Trump because the truth is too uncomfortable.

Hundreds of Election Deniers Will Be on the Ballot This November (David Gilbert/Wired)

Trump spotted looking at ‘Kennedy Center DEMOLITION’ booklet as his pouting over name change grows (Joe Sommerlad/The Independent)  Pouting!

Trump Aides Are Prepping an AI Takeover of Government Services (The Washington Sun)

DHS Chief Mullin Rebuts Salazar’s Break From Trump Over Immigration

Trump says he’s ‘banning’ CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House (Brian Stelter/CNN)

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States with strong teachers’ unions are the least likely to adopt policies that improve early-literacy outcomes, Progressive Policy Institute Education Policy Director Rachel Canter explains, reporting the results of the Institute’s analysis.

“Powerful teachers’ unions are an obstacle to reform. But Mississippi’s dramatic breakthrough proves that evidence-based literacy can succeed anywhere,” Canter writes in her Wall Street Journal article, “Mississippi Fixed Its Schools. Here’s How Other States Can Too.”

Canter presents the new policies that helped rocket Mississippi, from a last-place tie in fourth grade reading and math in 2019 to seventh in reading and 13th math in 2024, as a template for states looking to improve their early education results.

Many states haven’t adopted these policies, Canter writes, noting the differences between those states that do, and don’t, embrace the reforms – such as the degree of influence of teachers’ unions.

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You know the midterm election is a struggle session testing whether our country wants to be sane or insane. Of course, this raises the question: what’s so great about being insane? If nothing else, it implies a lot of bad decision-making, leading to all manner of sorrow and woe in life.

So, why would so many opt to be crazy?

Babylon Bee.

Reports indicated that a modern “Underground Railroad” had been established to help the lone black juror from the Lindsay Clancy case escape from angry, violent, white Democrats.

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Which is pretty much all of them, I’m thinking.

Newsbusters.

While the elitist media continue their attacks and slurs on hard-working ICE agents, they have ignored the almost daily cases of illegal immigrants committing terrible crimes.

On September 16, family members of victims of illegal immigrants blasted Democratic lawmakers for their sanctuary city policies that have led to the deaths of their loved ones.

The refusal of the leftist media to report on these cases has pushed their narrative that the Trump administration’s increased immigration enforcement is an “authoritarian” overreach, instead of a necessary response to the lax Obama-Biden years.

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For years, the left has lectured Americans about the dangers of “foreign interference” and dark money in our elections. But a sweeping congressional investigation has laid bare a vast Democratic fundraising apparatus that paved the way for just that: ActBlue, the billion-dollar financial engine of the Democratic Party, created a mechanism that encouraged illicit foreign cash – and then, investigators say, covered it up. Read on.

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Many of us in Britain still flatter ourselves that we live in a free country. Although the UK isn’t quite a police state (not yet anyway), neither is it a country in which the individual can any longer speak without glancing over his or her shoulder. The old compact of a liberal society was simple – the state punished genuine criminality, while opinion was left to the rough justice of argument, satire and public disagreement.

That compact has now been comprehensively torn up. Across Britain, speech that would once have been answered by rebuttal or humour is now treated as a matter for police, regulators and secretive Whitehall machinery. A report published this week by civil liberties and privacy campaigning organisation Big Brother Watch states that more than 62,000 people in the United Kingdom were arrested for communications offences over a five year period, with at least 18,500 charged and 12,292 convicted. These numbers should alarm anyone who still believes the citizen is master and the state is servant.

I thank God every day that I don’t live in Britain.

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Paramount Skydance Chairman and CEO David Ellison is exploring a potential California exit as the studio battles a multistate challenge to its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.

Politico reported late Wednesday that the studio is seeking roughly 400,000 square feet of office space in Nashville, signaling that its relocation is in the works. We have reported in the last few days and last month of Paramount’s plan to exit the left-wing state (read here & here).

The studio could move at least some operations to the Tennessee capital within two to three years, according to the report. No relocation has been announced, but the search raises the risk that California could lose a major Hollywood studio headquarters. Such a loss would deepen concerns about the state’s ability to retain businesses as its entertainment industry struggles and the exodus of businesses and residents shows no signs of stopping.

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The same online machine that turned a confessed child killer into a cause has a new target. After hanging Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial, the lone holdout juror’s family says TikTok extremists have them trapped indoors, leaving notes at his mother’s house and refusing to let them live in peace.

The juror’s brother told the New York Post that the family’s life has been flipped over since the September 4 mistrial in Plymouth, Massachusetts. He rejected the claim that Catholic faith drove the holdout vote.

“I don’t think religion had anything to do with it,” he said. “He looked at the case, and he made the call. For me, that’s how I would do it. I would just listen to the case with all the evidence, and go from there.”

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“Teen takeovers” have gone from a social-media spectacle to a serious public-safety issue. While the name conjures images of high schoolers innocently hanging around a drive-in à la American Graffiti, at its core, this phenomenon is about sowing violence and chaos—and leaving communities to deal with the consequences.

The 2026 Wisconsin State Fair concluded its final evening with a massive brawl, during which violent “teens” swarmed the park and beat unassuming fair guests. One man was kicked and beaten as he lay in the fetal position. Earlier this summer, a teen takeover at a Chipotle in Washington, D.C., forced frightened patrons to scramble as youths began throwing chairs and screaming.

In cities across the nation, the same pattern of brutality has emerged: swarms of young, primarily black teenagers will suddenly invade a public space to fight, threaten police, destroy private property, and occasionally get involved in shootings.

This is happening because over the past decade, our public institutions have encouraged black Americans to see themselves as perpetual victims of so-called systemic discrimination. As Spencer Klavan points out in his analysis of the fast-evolving political climate, “Wokeness in all its form is grievance politics.” Activists expanded DEI programs, decried America’s alleged systemic racism, and pushed for prison-abolition movements and reparations.

The behavior at teen takeovers is an outgrowth of the so-called peaceful demonstrations Black Lives Matter encouraged during the height of the George Floyd protests. Though the BLM movement has gradually lost traction—its corruption is widespread, and policies like abolishing the police are unpopular—its cultural influence endures.

Constant exposure to BLM has shown young people that if they commit wanton acts of violence en masse, they can get what they want. They can hop fences, smash windows, blast music, and brawl in the streets—and Democratic politicians will then attack peaceful citizens, demanding that they give away their livelihood and communities to correct “systemic injustices.”