DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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I used to think that people were pretty smart. Meaning if I were walking down the street, or through a crowded mall, I could be pretty certain that most people I ran into were at a certain level of intelligence.

What do they say? That the average IQ is 100? And when you start getting really low in IQ, the number of people who have that lower IQ gets smaller and fewer in number. It is like the classic bell curve. The middle of the bell curve is the number of people with an IQ of 100; outliers on either side get lower or higher.

That’s what I used to think.

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The Toto story is a fun and interesting illustration of corporate diversification and how strange bets can pay off. But that type of diversification—a toilet company that also produces photocatalytic coating and high-precision components for semiconductors—isn’t really unique to Toto. Practically every company in Japan seems to do a thousand very different things.

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It’s no secret that some humanoid robotics companies are training their machines for work on factory floors, while others are positioning their bots to enter homes in the coming years.

One of the first real signs of humanoids entering homes today is a new cleaning service in San Francisco that uses what appear to be Unitree humanoid robots trained to clean everything from floors and countertops to stovetops, mirrors, and nearly any surface in the house.

Called “Gatsby,” the new service deploys humanoid robots to homes for a flat service charge of $150.

The New Republic, a Voice of the Woke.

Because black people are too stupid to figure it out so they need to do what white Democrats tell them to do.

New York Post.

Almost 300 illegal migrants with commercial driver’s licenses were stopped and prosecuted in Indiana over the last three months, according to a top aide to the state’s Gov. Mike Braun.

Tony Ferraro, an aide to the governor who also serves on the Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission, told the board on Thursday that the state has discovered at least 283 undocumented drivers operating trucks at its weigh stations over a 90-day stretch.

“That’s over three a day that we pulled out of trucks,” he said, according to the Chicago Tribune.

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Immediately before WWII, the biggest threat to Europe was Soviet socialism.

During WWII, the biggest threat was the open socialism (in the form of fascism) in Germany and Italy.

After WWII, during the Cold War, the biggest threat, once again, was Soviet socialism. Nevertheless, the post-war Europeans embraced socialism and touted its success, never realizing that it worked only because the U.S. paid their defense costs and absorbed the costs of wars around the world.

When the Soviet Union collapsed, and America’s defense spending waned, the true costs of socialism began to be clear: The economies became sluggish; the birthrates collapsed, necessitating importing third world, usually Muslim, labor; the social services started imploding, especially because those same third worlders drained the systems, despite never having contributed to them; soft on crime policies destroyed civilized society; and the brain rot of socialism saw Europe embrace the madcap, self-destructive idea of Net Zero carbon output, which has seen Europe retreat from the modern world into a cold, dark, pre-modern time.

All of this is what today’s Marxist Democrats want for America.

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Appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press to promote his character and principled superiority to all other congressional representatives, the professional political narcissist, Thomas Massie, pledges to create as much turmoil as possible in his final seven months.

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Against the backdrop of Tulsi Gabbard resigning her position as Director of National Intelligence, there is an opportunity to explain how the Washington DC Intelligence Community functions in real life.

ODNI Tulsi Gabbard has rightly been receiving a lot of praise for her efforts at removing the shroud of secrecy that is often used by an intensely territorial IC network. Simultaneously, she has received criticism or what Machiavelli called, “the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution”; because, in reality Tulsi Gabbard might be considered the first functional DNI.

It was DNI Tulsi Gabbard who released the receipts showing how the CIA and IC ran an impeachment operation against President Trump. CIA operative Eric Ciarmella, ICIG Michael Atkinson and HPSCI Chairman Adam Schiff all collaboratively involved.

Here it becomes more important for the next sequence of events to fully understand what it was about Tulsi Gabbard in the position of DNI that made such a big difference. What was it about her approach to the office of the DNI that made Gabbard stand out? This is a discussion worth having.

 

Brilliant.

ATQUE: Spencer Pratt Literally Uses LA Shithole Filth As Campaign Ad

Steve Magness.

ATQUE: Bubble-Wrapped World: How Safety Culture Has Destroyed Our Sense Of Adventure

CNN, a Voice of the Crust, goes full Climate Panic.

“Scientists say”! That proves it!!!

Actually, they keep promising that coastal cities will be under water “any time now” and it never happens.

Let’s see: New York, Boston, Balimore, DC, LA, San Francisco, Seattle, all under water—that sounds like a win to me.

ATQUE: Germany’s AfD Party Calls Debunked Climate Scenarios “Greatest Fraud in Human History”

The Telegraph (UK).

Four pro-Palestinian flotilla activists were allegedly beaten by police, dragged across the floor and detained at Bilbao airport after their deportation from Israel.

Footage posted on X shows the moment activists clashed with police that resulted in the detention of three flotilla participants and one of their supporters.

In a jibe at Spanish officials, the Israeli government, which has been criticised by the Spanish government for its alleged treatment of flotilla activists, reposted the video on X and wrote: “We demand an explanation from the Spanish government regarding its treatment of the flotilla anarchists.”

FA, FO. Simple, concise, accurate.

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Riot police stormed the offices of Turkey’s main opposition party to remove its leader following a three-day stand-off.

Officers fired tear gas and rubber bullets at Republican People’s Party (CHP) supporters and officials as they moved in to enforce a court order that forced the removal of Özgür Özel. They then broke through heavy gates to enter the party’s HQ in Ankara.

Supporters had attempted to resist police by spraying them with fire extinguishers, but were quickly overcome. Doors, furniture and ground-floor windows were smashed in the raid on Sunday.

Mr Özel, who was elected as party leader in November 2023 but removed by an appeals court ruling, left the building to cheers and applause from supporters outside.

Welcome to the Turd World. Be careful not to step in the Diversity.

The Telegraph (UK).

Inside a mud-brick hut on the edge of a camp for people displaced by terrorism, an ex-Boko Haram fighter is explaining what drew him to the group.

“I joined because I had no choice,” said the former militant, Bahana Alhadji. Then aged 22 and struggling to make a living fishing on Lake Chad, he told The Telegraph that joining the group gave him status, camaraderie and a reliable source of food. “When I was there, we were given rations every week. They made me feel welcome.”

As a kind of perverse signing bonus, Alhadji was given three teenage ‘wives’. The group is notorious for systematically enslaving young women and girls and forcing them into marriages with its fighters.

The Telegraph (UK).

The US and Iran have agreed in principle to a deal that will reopen the Strait of Hormuz and see Tehran surrender its stockpile of highly enriched uranium, a US official has said.

It is hoped that the agreement will end the US and Iranian blockades of the vital waterway, restoring stability to the Middle East and ending the global energy crisis triggered by the war.

A US official stressed that, while the broad framework had been decided, final sign-off was still needed from Donald Trump and Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader.

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The idea took off after one resident pointed out the obvious: if neighborhoods are blanketed in graffiti that the city ignores, simply spray “Vote Pratt” over it and watch the cleanup crews mobilize within minutes.

The Foundry.

The Congressional Black Caucus, which frequently complains that Congress is silencing black voices, has denied the application of four congressional black voices.

The four black members of Congress include Reps. Burgess Owens, R-Utah; Wesley Hunt, R-Texas; Byron Donalds, R-Fla.; and John James, R-Mich.

“Unfortunately, for the Left, their priorities are power and profit” Owens told the Daily Signal.

Owens and Donalds pushed to rename the Capitol’s press gallery after civil rights icon Frederick Douglass, a Republican, but caucus members refused to co-sponsor the resolution.

The CBC has never ever allowed a black Republican Congressman in. In their view, the only black Congressman is a Democrat Congressman.

The Other McCain.

By early 2025, Kylie Brewer had developed a fairly large following on TikTok and Instagram, with an audience of tens of thousands for her short-form feminist videos. However, her audience as a drop in the bucket compared to the “Whatever” podcast, which has 4.5 million subscribers on YouTube. On her own TikTok/IG channels, Kylie occasionally had people leave rude comments, but these people were not skilled polemicists — knowledgeable and articulate, communications professionals capable of making persuasive arguments. As mentioned previously, I’ve been unable to find an online biography of Andrew Wilson, so I don’t know anything about his educational background or career experience, but it is obvious that he is highly skilled as a debater, and Kylie Brewer was not ready to meet such an antagonist.

She got embarrassed in front of an audience of millions, and it completely freaked her out. She had an episode of Bell’s palsy — partial paralysis of her facial muscles, almost certainly a stress response — and threatened a lawsuit against the “Whatever” podcast. That’s how she became notorious as “Crash Out Kylie,” and she’s been living with that notoriety ever since.

What happened to Kylie Brewer highlights what’s fundamentally wrong with contemporary elite education. A native of California, she was such a promising high school student that she was admitted to Brown University. Conservative faculty are extremely rare in Ivy League institutions. Studies have shown that academia, which was always tilted toward liberalism, has shifted even more leftward in the past 25 years.

If you’ve never watched the Whatever podcast, you might find it amusing; I certainly do.

Andrew Wilson is not only a skilled debater but an entertaining fellow. Highly recommended.

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Saturday, May 24th saw a rights watchdog claim that Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government was undermining democracy with “abusive tactics” against the main opposition party.

Refresh my memory: When has Turkey EVER had democracy in any meaningful sense?

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Public health disparities provide an important lens for understanding social and political change in the USA. Using individual-level medical data and death records, this study shows that conservative Americans experienced worsening health and higher mortality than liberals during the 2010s. Here we find evidence consistent with two potential mechanisms. First, demographic realignment within political coalitions brought less healthy individuals into the conservative camp. Yet by the 2020s, demographic change, public policy and COVID-19 do not fully account for the widening gap in mortality rates. Public opinion data are consistent with a second mechanism: declining trust in medical professionals among right-leaning individuals, including lower willingness to seek care, follow clinical advice or believe in medication effectiveness, even for issues unrelated to COVID-19. These patterns suggest that growing ideological divides in health behaviours are leaving conservative Americans increasingly vulnerable to preventable health risks.

Two words: Doctor Fauci.

New York City, by Samuel Johnson:

There none are swept by sudden Fate away,
But all whom Hunger spares, with Age decay:
Here Malice, Rapine, Accident, conspire,
And now a Rabble Rages, now a Fire;
Their Ambush here relentless Ruffians lay,
And here the fell Attorney prowls for Prey;
Here falling Houses thunder on your Head,
And here a female Atheist talks you dead.

There is nothing new under the sun.

Babylon Bee.

After yet another failed assassination attempt against President Trump yesterday, the national media has agreed to just start reporting when Trump wasn’t shot at.

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Mary, a veteran Silicon Valley marketer who can’t find a job, considers herself a victim of an H-1B visa program run amok.

Her story, a U.S. native replaced by a foreign-born employee who is willing to work at a significantly lower wage, has become commonplace, particularly in the tech industry. Adding insult to injury, she says, her CEO, who hails from India, told her to train the man he selected to replace her before laying her off.

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Another MAGA victory took place earlier this week, but this one has flown under the radar a little bit.

Lee County, Alabama, home of Auburn University, has had the same sheriff since before the turn of the 21st Century. But on Tuesday night, Jay Jones was narrowly defeated, largely because he would not participate in basic illegal immigration enforcement.

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The left-wing U.K. government has claimed it is making real progress in tackling the ongoing migration crisis enveloping Britain after official statistics published on Thursday showed that net migration had decreased to 171,000 last year. However, that figure alone doesn’t tell the whole story.

“I promised to restore control to our borders. My government is delivering,” under-pressure Prime Minister Keir Starmer wrote on X in response to the latest publication by the Office for National Statistics.

“Net migration is now at 171,000, down from a high of 944,000 under the Conservatives,” added Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, claiming the government had “restored order” after the unprecedented figures under the last Conservative administration.

Yet, a glance at the broader figures shows the reported number isn’t as impressive as the government would have you believe.

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The Secretary-General said it makes clear Member States’ responsibility to protect their own people from what is an “escalating climate crisis”.

The resolution drawn up by Vanuatu – a Pacific island nation on the frontline of the climate crisis, and several other countries – was adopted after intense discussion including multiple proposed amendments with 141 votes in favour, eight against and 28 abstentions.

The Court also ruled that if States breach these obligations, they are legally responsible and may be legally required to stop the wrongful conduct, offer guarantees that it won’t happen again, and make full reparation, depending on the circumstances.

Although the ICJ’s advisory opinions are not binding, they carry significant legal and moral authority – helping to clarify and develop international law by defining States’ legal obligations.

The Telegraph (UK).

At least 24 people have been killed in a blast targeting a train carrying military staff in Pakistan.

Army servicemen were among the victims in the attack on Sunday in the turbulent south-western province of Balochistan, a senior official said.

The attack in the provincial capital of Quetta had also left more than 50 people injured, the official told AFP news agency.

If Muslims don’t have any Christians or Jews handy, they’ll quite happily kill other Muslims.

The Telegraph (UK).

I see that The Telegraph has adopted the American spellling of ‘jail’.

A girl who was raped by two teenage boys has attacked a judge’s decision to spare them jail sentences as being like a “rock straight in my face”.

The victim was 15 years old when she was raped in an underpass near the River Avon in Fordingbridge, Hampshire.

The two defendants, who are now 15, were also convicted of attacking a second victim, who was raped in a field in January 2025 at knifepoint. Another boy, now 14, was also convicted for aiding and abetting the second attack.

The boys filmed the attacks on their phones and later shared some of the footage online.

During sentencing at Southampton Crown Court on Thursday, the judge stressed the “seriousness” of the crimes and said the filming of the assaults had made them even “more serious”.

However, he said he wanted to avoid “criminalising” the “very young boys” and praised their behaviour during the trial.

The Telegraph (UK).

Millions more families could be dragged into paying a “death tax” on their loved ones’ estates under Andy Burnham’s plans to fund social care.

The Greater Manchester mayor supports scrapping the existing inheritance tax and replacing it with a new levy on assets to fund a National Care Service.

Mr Burnham, who is preparing to oust Sir Keir Starmer as Prime Minister if he wins the Makerfield by-election on June 18, has previously insisted that the wealthiest would contribute the most.

The Telegraph (UK).

Iran has agreed to surrender its stockpile of highly enriched uranium as part of a “largely negotiated” deal to end the war, according to US sources.

The deal includes an “apparent commitment” to giving up the uranium, but a concrete plan of how this would be done is expected to be established in further rounds of talks, two US officials told The New York Times.

Iran’s nuclear programme has been a sticking point in negotiations since the US and Tehran agreed to a ceasefire in April, and agreeing to give up its uranium would represent a major concession from the Islamic Republic.

UPDATE: Iran has not agreed to hand over highly enriched uranium stockpile, senior Iranian source tells Reuters

The Times (UK).

The Cabinet Office and the role of cabinet secretary would be abolished by a Reform UK government, according to an 11-page blueprint that reveals plans for an overhaul of Whitehall.

The document, devised by Danny Kruger, the Reform MP who is leading the party’s preparations for government, outlines changes to the civil service, predicting cuts of about 50 per cent to communications, human resources and policy roles.

There were 520,000 full-time civil servants last year, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics, the highest headcount in two decades. One in five are based in London.

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More than 500 years ago in what is now Peru, the Inca Empire relied on one of the world’s most distinctive, and poorly understood, systems for recording information: sets of intricately knotted cords known as khipus. For centuries, archaeologists and historians believed making and reading these cords was a job for the elite, reserved only for men who were literate bureaucrats. Yet a single lock of hair is challenging that picture.

After analyzing a 500-year-old khipu made of human hair, a team of anthropologists found that its creator’s diet did not include foods associated with the Inca upper classes such as maize and meat. The results, published today in Science Advances, suggest the khipu wasn’t made by an imperial bureaucrat, but rather by someone of much lower status, like a commoner.

The finding suggests “that numeracy was much more widespread in the population … [and] probably not just in the hands of men,” says Karenleigh Overmann, an archaeologist at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs who was not involved in the study. “Anybody can tie knots and strings.”

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In a new study published today, scientists discovered that keratin, a protein found in hair, skin and wool, can repair tooth enamel and stop early stages of decay.

The King’s College London team of scientists discovered that keratin produces a protective coating that mimics the structure and function of natural enamel when it comes into contact with minerals in saliva.

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While fluoride toothpastes are currently used to slow this process, keratin-based treatments were found to stop it completely. Keratin forms a dense mineral layer that protects the tooth and seals off exposed nerve channels that cause sensitivity, offering both structural and symptomatic relief.

The treatment could be delivered through a toothpaste for daily use or as a professionally applied gel, similar to nail varnish, for more targeted repair. The team is already exploring pathways for clinical application and believes that keratin-based enamel regeneration could be made available to the public within the next two to three years.

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First Daughter Ivanka Trump was allegedly targeted in an assassination plot by an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-trained terrorist seeking revenge for the killing of Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani. Iraqi national Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, 32, reportedly pledged to kill Ivanka Trump and was found with a blueprint of her Florida home after his recent capture, according to an exclusive report from the New York Post.

The alleged plot traces directly to the January 2020 drone strike that killed Soleimani in Baghdad.

Imagine how peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.

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The Army successfully hit its recruiting goal for the 2026 fiscal year, more than four months ahead of its deadline.

The Army announced on Saturday that it reached its goal of signing 61,500 people for active-duty contracts. It’s the third year in a row that the Army met its recruitment goal, after falling short in 2022 and 2023. It also is the second year in a row that it beat the deadline by roughly four months; in 2025 the Army hit the milestone in the first week of June. The fiscal year closes at the end of September.

According to the Army’s release on meeting its recruitment goal, the service credited “innovative outreach, enhanced career incentives, and a focus on critical technical skills” with helping to bring in the new soldiers, although the announcement was vague on what those moves were. However the service has continued several programs created over the past few years that have helped to bring in more recruits and assist them in meeting standards for military service.

The guy at the top makes all the difference.

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Since April 14, Morocco has been conducting large-scale deportation operations targeting sub-Saharan Africans migrating to Europe, reportedly arresting over 100 per day, local sources told Middle East Eye.

According to Moroccan human rights groups, around 800 people were detained during coordinated raids in the forests between Fnideq and Belyounech, in the northern tip of the North African state, where many were sheltering before attempting to reach Europe.

The Telegraph (UK).

Andy Burnham is set to bring in a land value tax if he becomes Britain’s next prime minister.

The Mayor of Greater Manchester, who is expected to launch a leadership challenge against Sir Keir Starmer if he returns to Westminster, told The Telegraph he believed land was “under-taxed” and he wanted to introduce a new levy.

While he has vowed to respect Labour’s 2024 manifesto, Mr Burnham has not ruled out campaigning for a land tax at the next general election.

Time to leave.

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HR departments were originally created as a means of monitoring compliance with state and federal laws to avoid liability. In many cases this revolved around “sexual harassment” or “discrimination” in the workplace, but it ended up becoming a progressive crusade to make women, LGBT and minority groups a protected class of workers that are difficult to fire because HR is more concerned with lawsuits.

This lack of accountability based on gender and minority privilege reached its peak during the height of the woke era and DEI. Companies were rife with useless employees who did little work while raking in six-figure salaries.

Today, the situation is changing rapidly. A wave of layoffs has hit the white collar sector since 2025. The end of DEI is leading to mass cuts which are largely affecting women, with minority women making up the bulk of the job losses.

One company CEO, Ryan Breslow of Bolt, saved his company from implosion by a simple change which allowed him to more easily make a number of other changes: He fired his entire HR department.

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Like Jeff Bezos? Or George Soros?

There’s a reason why the PDF that was shared says in red letters “Sourcing not provided for many claims in this section.” Start with the evidence that newspaper endorsements for president in 2024 were 54 for Kamala Harris and six for Trump, and that’s factoring in that the left-tilting Los Angeles Times and Washington Post were prevented by their owners from endorsing Harris as they had wanted.

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People set fire to an Ebola treatment center in a town at the heart of the outbreak in eastern Congo on May 21 after being stopped from retrieving the body of a local man, witnesses and police said.

“The police intervened to try to calm the situation, but unfortunately they were unsuccessful,”Alexis Burata, a local student who said he was in the area, told The Associated Press.

“The young people ended up setting fire to the center. That’s the situation.”

An Associated Press journalist saw people break into the center at Rwampara Hospital and set fire to objects inside, and also to what appeared to be the body of at least one suspected Ebola victim that was being stored there. Aid workers fled the treatment center in vehicles.

The crowd set fire to two tents fitted with eight beds run by a medical charity called The Alliance for International Medical Action (ALIMA), said Deputy Senior Commissioner Jean-Claude Mukendi, head of the public security department in Ituri Province.

Welcome to the Turd World. Be careful not to step in the Diversity.

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A shocking video making the rounds shows the reality of life under Los Angeles bridges: a sprawling setup of makeshift homes complete with lighting tapped into the city power grid, tables of items, and a self-contained community living off public resources.

Paul Graham.

How do you convert between wealth and income tax? If a government imposes a wealth tax of 1%, what’s the equivalent in income tax?

It’s clear from the way most politicians talk about the subject that they not only don’t know the answer, but don’t even realize there’s such a question.

In fact the conversion rate between them is about 20. A wealth tax of 1% is equivalent to an income tax of 20%.

To convert between wealth and income tax rates, you have to divide by the rate of return on capital. The conversion rate of 20 comes from assuming that the risk-free rate of return is 5%. Historically that’s an optimistic assumption. 4% might be more realistic. But 5% will do. [1]

If we run through an example it will be clear how this works. Suppose you have $100, you’re getting a 5% rate of return on this capital, and there’s a 20% income tax. The 5% rate of return means at the end of one year your $100 has made you another $5. But you have to pay 20% of that, or $1, in income tax, so your after-tax income is $4. At the end of the year, after paying taxes, you have $100 + $4 = $104.

Now suppose instead of a 20% income tax, there’s a 1% wealth tax. At the end of the year your $100 has made you another $5, as before. But that year you had to pay 1% of your $100, or $1, in wealth tax. So at the end of the year you have $99 + $5 = $104.

Each 1% of wealth tax is equivalent to 20% of income tax.

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Olabode Soniregun is a Nigerian man who migrated to Las Vegas and got U.S. citizenship (because in 2026, the rules are made up and the points don’t matter).

He then “fled” to the UK in November 2024, claiming he feared for his life because he is black and identifies as both Mormon and Jewish. No, really, that’s what he says.

You can’t make this shit up.

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You can’t make this shit up.

Naval News.

Needless to say, the U.S. Navy has nothing like this.