DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

MS NOW Speculates Election Day Will ‘Be The Equivalent’ of Jan. 6  The Narrative Media seem to think that ‘Jan. 6’ is as scary to everybody as, say, 9/11. They forget that the ‘Jan. 6’ fuss has been exposed as a Deep State operation and makes most people yawn.

Trump Showed Up at a Rally With Lustrous Locks. The Memes Won’t Stop. (Wall Street Journal)  The best of American high-school journalism.

Prosecutor Fired Over Old Posts Critical of Trump Sues DOJ

Trump Officials Deport Group of Mexicans Despite Torture Risk (Hamed Aleaziz/New York Times)  Because, as we all know, ‘torture risk’ invalidates all American laws.

Trump won’t let the Supreme Court have the last word (Isaac Arnsdorf/Washington Post)  Just like a Democrat!

CNN’s Audie Cornish Falsely Claims Birth Tourism ‘Already Illegal’

Interesting Engineering.

A U.S. critical minerals company has recently confirmed the nation’s largest known tungsten resource at its Railroad Valley Minerals Project in Nye County, Nevada, despite a NASA land withdrawal restricting exploration across part of the site.

In its updated resource report, 3 Proton Lithium (3PL) said that the project hosts an inferred resource of 1.78 million tons of tungsten. The company revealed that the deposit is part of a mineral system that also contains world-class resources of lithium, potash, and boron.

Newsbusters.

Journalists in Washington often sound like their first objective is to make sure Democrats are as electable as possible. In Wisconsin, socialist gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong has a difficult job explaining a raft of bizarre and extreme tweets where she seems to hate a collection of American holidays, starting with Thanksgiving.

Politico “Playbook” reporter Irie Sentner labored mightily to help Hong prepare her appeal to a broader election after she wins the Democrat primary, as expected.

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The days might still be long, but this is a dark season in our country’s politics. Everybody’s nervous and many are furious, and yet all that emotion goes nowhere, just eats you up while you watch and wait for signs that help is on the way. What would that help even look like? Maybe a concerted effort to bum-rush a whole lot of bad ideas out of American life and replace them with better ideas that are worth building a life around.

Of the two political parties that used to vie between the interests of property and of labor, there is almost nothing left — nothing coherent, anyway.

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I posted on Wednesday about a young woman named Paula in the Spanish city of Santander who was stabbed to death by her ex-boyfriend, a Moroccan culture-enricher.
was arrested by police after he allegedly stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death.

I think it’s important to keep in mind that Paula had entered of her own free will into a relationship with her alleged killer, and had let him father her child. Many thousands of European women who put themselves in the same plight have become victims at the hands of their culture-enriching lovers. It’s as if they’ve never heard about the risks involved in such relationships, and perhaps they haven’t, since the politically correct media and popular culture strive mightily to hide the truth.

The Telegraph (UK).

A driver has been denied car insurance because he put “Jesus loves you” stickers on his car.

Simeon Chandra was told his insurer had “declined the modification” and needed photographic evidence that they had been removed.

Photographs show the 35-year-old’s 2009 Nissan Pixo with the words “Jesus loves you” on one side, and “Jesus loves you v much” on the other.

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

The Telegraph (UK).

A pro-Palestinian organisation held a four-day “summer school” in the Peak District, at which young people chanted: “We will have victory over Zionism.”

The event, arranged by Palestinian Youth Movement Britain, was attended by more than 100 guests who recited anti-Israeli slogans in Arabic and discussed the “next phase of our national liberation struggle”.

Lessons included lectures on Ghassan Kanafani, a militant activist, in a classroom decorated with an Arabic banner reading: “Our revolution is for victory.”

Trump Has Called Warsh Repeatedly Since He Became Fed Chair (Wall Street Journal)

Dunh dunh DUNHHHHHHH….

Trump’s Economy Speech Veers Into an Extended Riff on Communism (Ben T.N. Mause/NOTUS)  According to the Narrative, of course, this talk about communism is totally irrelevant.

Trump Wants To Steal the Midterms – But the Dems Actually Have A Plan To Fight Back (Zeteo) Proglodyte Projection: When the Left accuses you of planning to do what they are planning to do.

Trump Is Losing the Battle With Public Opinion on Data Centers (Mara Hoplamazian/NOTUS)  As measured by the Narrative Media, of course.

At Trump’s DOJ, watchdogs gutted as misconduct complaints soar (Reuters)  Watchdog-guts all over the highway….

MS NOW Fearmongers About Trump DOJ Election Monitors  As they do.

Anti-Trump GOP Governors Plot To Undermine President’s Immigration Crackdown With Work-Visa Scheme  Democrats never forget which side they’re on. Republicans are often their own worst enemies. (New book from Tillis dubs Miller, Hegseth as ‘MAGATS’)

Our Chaos Agent President Has Another Big Card to Play (Andrew Egger/The Bulwark)  And the pink mind-readers  at The Bullshitwark are just the guys to spill the beans.

Trump Administration Has Repeatedly Confessed in Court to Withholding Money From Blue States (Talking Points Memo)  ‘Confessed’? Say rather ‘boasted’.

Under Trump, 90% of ambassador nominations have gone to political supporters (Washington Post)  As of the Democrats never did that.

Did MAGA Infiltrate the Green Party in Michigan? (The Bulwark)  Apparently the Michigan ‘Green Party’ is becoming so unhinged that even the pinks at The Bullshitwark are suspecting a false flag operation.

How Donald Trump Made the World Safe for Kleptocrats (Casey Michel/New Republic)  Most of whom are to be found in the Democrat party.

CBS, NBC Whine Over Trump Birth Tourism Executive Order  As they do.

Behind the Curtain: Trump’s quicksand (Axios)  Come and git yer Narrative, right here.

How the Reflecting Pool Came to Mirror Trump’s Washington (New York Times)  In the sense that every time he attempts to give us something good, proglodytes come along and pee all over it.

Lying Liars Lie to Each Other Too (Paul Krugman)  Case in point: Paul Krugman, the Most Wrong Man in the World.

Iran’s Hormuz deal with Oman has Trump poised for the big surrender (Nicholas Grossman/MS NOW)  The mind-readers at the former MSNBC get it wrong, as usual.

Transcript: Angry Trump Unravels as Humiliating New Iran Leaks Hit (New Republic)

O’Donnell Continues Baseless Fearmongering Over Election Monitors  As he does.

Crypto bill ethics counteroffer includes divestment requirement for Trump (Jasper Goodman/Politico)  How about a divestment requirement for Sanders, Warren, and Mamdani?

Elitist Media to MAGA: We Are Scared of You Flag-Waving, Crazy Christian Nazis

Trump Snapping Up America’s Means Of Production While He Labels Everyone Else A Communist (S.V. Date/HuffPost)  Which, compared to him, most of them are.

Team Trump uses taxpayer money to scuttle yet another renewable energy project (Steve Benen/MS NOW)  As he was elected to do.

Donald Trump Won The Iran War (James Jay Carafano/19FortyFive)

Newsbusters.

They both want to destroy Western civilization?

The principles and values of Islam, as far as I can tell, are in total contrast to the values and principles that define today’s Democratic Party.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend … for now.

Newsbusters.

Michael Steele’s devolution from RNC chairman to being indistinguishable from any of his left-wing MS NOW colleagues was on full display again on Thursday as he filled in for former Biden White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on The Briefing. At one point, Steele welcomed failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams to the show to accuse the GOP of wanting to bring back Jim Crow and naturally spread unfounded conspiracy theories about voter suppression.

Thursday also happened to be primary night in Tennessee, which, given the state’s redistricting efforts earlier in the year, led Steele to wonder, “I just want to, out of the box, just ask about Memphis specifically, where the Ninth Congressional District, the one that was a majority black district, was completely erased. There were tons of protests when that happened. And I think it was my impression, at least, that such an action could motivate Democrats, and not just Democrats, but independent and even some Republicans in that district to show up and vote today. Have you seen any evidence of that energy, either in Tennessee or in other states where Republicans have taken similar actions?”

Pseudo-Republicans and soi-disant ‘conservatives know that they can get a hefty payday by turning their coats.

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Footage circulating purporting to be from the North African desert shows what looks like an enormous column of sub-Saharan African men moving under escort.

Some estimates put the number at a hundred thousand. Commentators claim Algerian military vehicles and personnel are shepherding them toward the coast.

If the scale and direction prove accurate, Europe faces another deliberate pressure wave on top of the chaos already unfolding in Ceuta.

I’d even vote for a Democrat to get rid of one of these clowns.

Hours After Murkowski Predictably Sides With Dems, Cassidy Unblocks Blanche AG Nomination

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

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Perhaps shooting them in the leg would have got the message through.

Task & Purpose.

For former enlisted, I would look first for Good Conduct Medals.

Bringing veterans into your organization shouldn’t be a charitable act, or some abstract nod to patriotism. The sacrifices military service requires, even for a single enlistment, can demonstrate to savvy hiring managers that this individual knows how to successfully integrate into a group and improve it at every level. The military is not a status quo organization. I like to hire veterans because, time and again, they will outperform my expectations.

Whether in sales, estimating, field management, or administration, construction — my industry — is an unforgiving business. Projects have tight schedules, changing priorities, demanding customers, and little room for excuses. Success depends on people who show up every day, solve problems under pressure, and remain committed to the team when things become difficult.

Those are the exact characteristics the military develops.

They also beat into you the notion that The Mission Comes First. That is an excellent work ethic to offer an employer, and more than one employer during my working life have told me how much they appreciate it.

Newsbusters.

All OutKick founder Clay Travis did was challenge the WNBA and “the Science” cult to put their money where their mouth is and prove that biological males don’t have an unfair physical advantage over women in sports, and the alphabet soup mafia in the media are already losing their collective mind.

To the extent that they have minds.

Travis pledged $10 million August 3 for the WNBA to put their defending champion Las Vegas Aces up against a boys’ high school basketball team of his choosing, with the apparent intent of showcasing the idiocy of biological males competing in women’s sports.

I’d bet on the high school team. Easy money.

Jana Shortal, an anchor of Twin Cities NBC-affiliate TV station KARE 11 personality, short-circuited her brain seething over Travis’ challenge during the August 3 edition of her show Breaking The News. “Today, [OutKick’s] founder took to a new stunt — one that really makes no sense if OutKick is really concerned about caring about women in women’s sports.” Nah, it makes plenty of sense actually, Shortal.

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Yeah, our ‘critical supplies’ of avocados are a high risk. Call out the Marines….

The Investigative Project on Terrorism.

In March 2023, Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich claimed at a conference in France that, “there is no such thing as a Palestinian people.” News outlets quoted him saying “There is no such thing as a Palestinian nation. There is no Palestinian history. There is no Palestinian language,” and asking rhetorically “Is there a Palestinian history or culture? There is none.”

Smotrich was correct in many respects. There is no nation called “Palestine” and no “Palestinian” language, but there is a Palestinian culture. It was forged mostly by Yasser Arafat, the PLO’s leader for five decades, and is singularly defined by violence. Unique among all other Arab cultures and national identities, Palestinian culture and the Palestinian identity are predicated on a single political goal – the unceasing desire to destroy an existing country, in this case Israel.

Take away the resistance, and there’s nothing left of a distinctly Palestinian culture.

Not all Muslims are terrorists (just as not all Nazis were genocides) but almost all terrorists are Muslims.

Newsbusters.

The New York Times has finally noticed the academic credibility meltdown at one of the premier universities in the world, Cambridge: Ex-professor Jason Arday, a plagiarist and fabulist who rocketed up the academic ladder, enabled by gullible or perhaps intimidated fellow scholars, aided by lawyerly muscle and even Scotland Yard to keep doubters quiet.

Yet the Times article saved its harshest words for Arday’s exposers, smearing a scholar with the effrontery to challenge Arday’s ludicrous C.V. as “racist.”

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Reporters Jennifer Schuessler and Alexandra Alter treated Arday with the journalistic equivalent of raised eyebrows — yet reserved their true hostility for a scholar who dared expose Arday’s plagiarism. As “philosopher of biology” Nathan Cofnas wrote on X: “The only person explicitly smeared in the NY Times’ write-up of the Arday affair is me.”

As they habitually do. That’s what being Narrative Media is all about.

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Spain is bracing for a possible second mass migrant crossing into Ceuta as the political fallout from last week’s unprecedented border breach spreads from Madrid to Brussels.

The Guardia Civil is closely monitoring social media messages calling on migrants to gather in the Moroccan border town of Castillejos on August 15 before attempting to enter the Spanish enclave.

Sources within the force told 20minutos that the threat was “more than a rumour,” with mobilisation messages circulating through WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook groups with as many as 400,000 members.

Officials believe another influx on the scale of July 30—when Spanish authorities say more than 72,000 migrants crossed from Morocco—is unlikely because security has since been dramatically reinforced. But Interior Ministry sources acknowledged that another attempted mass entry was a real possibility, saying authorities would be prepared.

I roll to disbelieve….

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Life under Sharia in America: compulsory female genital mutilation, apostates and critics killed, adulterers stoned, legalized wife-beating, marital rape, women can’t leave the house, no music, amputation for theft, Muslims murdering non-Muslims without consequence, America’s monuments destroyed as ‘idols’. It’s all right there in Islamic scripture. Can’t wait — sign me up!

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Every such order that he signs involves his opponents in time and trouble and expense. And he has made it clear that he’s going to keep trying to fix the problem as long as he remains President. (Sound familiar? It’s the same trick Democrats have used since Wilson.)

President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on Thursday aimed at limiting birthright citizenship, after the Supreme Court in June struck down his previous order restricting the policy.

“We had a very unfortunate decision in the Supreme Court concerning birthright [citizenship]… so we’re making adjustments,” Trump said in the Oval Office.

Birthright citizenship is the practice of the babies of noncitizens receiving citizenship if they are born in the United States. The Supreme Court’s majority opinion in Trump v. Barbara, authored by Chief Justice John Roberts and issued on June 30, stated that the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment requires all children born within the United States to automatically qualify as citizens at birth.

Trump’s first executive order, signed on Thursday, identifies certain categories of children of noncitizens who are not entitled to birthright citizenship. The White House says those categories are consistent with historical exceptions recognized by the Supreme Court.

The second order directs the secretaries of state and homeland security to end the practice of birth tourism, when a foreign national travels to the U.S. for the purpose of giving birth to a child and obtaining citizenship for that child. In recent years, Chinese nationals have hired surrogates to give birth to their children on U.S. territory.

“People are building businesses around it, from—wealthy people are building businesses around birthright citizenship. That’s not the way it’s supposed to work. It’s a disgrace,” Trump said. They’re buying their way in, and we’re not going to let it happen.”

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Of course it is. He’s a Democrat. I challenge you to find an honest Democrat. Just one. Go ahead. I’ll wait.

Supporters of an Arizona version of the SAVE Act allege that the state’s top election official used loaded and inaccurate language to describe the measure when putting it on the November ballot.

A group of Arizona voters is suing the office of Democrat Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, alleging the office omitted key provisions, inserted political commentary, and made unsupported claims about the legal effect of Proposition 144, a proposed state constitutional amendment to add voter ID and proof of citizenship requirements in elections.

The Legislature referred the measure to Fontes’ office in the form of a four-page bill and did not propose a summary to use in ballot language. Plaintiffs contend the secretary of state is still required to provide neutral language in the summary, and are asking the court for new ballot language before early voting on the measure begins in October.

The New Neo.

It signifies that the ruling clerisy is composed of idiots.

By now you probably know that Cambridge professor Jason Arday has quit his position without acknowledging guilt. The final straw was apparently that he had claimed to have written a book that doesn’t exist. He blames his decision to resign on harassment by the people who uncovered his lies.

It’s really an extraordinary letter, under the circumstances – the circumstances being that Arday was caught in an enormous number of lies, and with having issued other statements about his history that were so suspicious as to probably be lies. And yet he claims both integrity and victimhood, even as he leaves the fray.

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And utterly wasted.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a federal legislation Thursday in the House and Senate aimed at protecting houses of worship from disruptive demonstrations, following a series of protests outside of synagogues this year.

The Right to Worship Act was introduced by Sens. Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, and Elissa Slotkin, a Michigan Democrat, alongside Reps. Brad Knott, a North Carolina Republican, and Tom Suozzi, a New York Democrat. It would establish a 100-foot “buffer zone” around houses of worship during religious services — mirroring similar legislation recently enacted in New York.

“The First Amendment guarantees every American the right to freely exercise their faith, and Congress has a duty to ensure that guarantee is met,” Cruz said in a statement Thursday.

The legislation would also establish civil penalties for offenders and provide pathways for individuals, including state attorneys, to seek court orders and damages in federal court. While the legislation would target protesters who knowingly disrupt scheduled religious services, houses of worship would not be required to make their schedules public.

The bill’s sponsors say the measure is aimed at conduct rather than the content of protesters’ speech.

*sigh* Protesters (mostly leftists) aren’t going to care about this law any more than criminals care about gun control laws. LAWS ONLY AFFECT THE ALREADY-LAW-ABIDING, and those aren’t the people causing the problem. This is nothing more than politicians virtue-signaling. s

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Nearly all Jewish students surveyed on Canadian university campuses said they have experienced or witnessed antisemitism, according to a new government-commissioned report.

The survey from the Department of Canadian Heritage found that 95.7% of Jewish students said they were exposed to antisemitism, with 70% saying their university did not take antisemitism seriously and 22% reporting physical violence against Jews.

“Antisemitism on Canadian campuses is neither isolated nor episodic,” said Jack Jedwab, the report’s main author, at a press conference in Ottawa on Wednesday. “It can reasonably be described as systemic.”

The surveyed students anonymously detailed rhetoric, discriminatory treatment, vandalism, intimidation and physical attacks from their classmates as well as professors and administrators. Some 45% said they experienced Holocaust denial or distortion often or sometimes, and 65% said they encountered it “at least rarely.”

One respondent said they had witnessed a friend who wears a kippah being chased out of a school building by a group of students who shouted, “There is a Jew … let’s get him.”

As long as Jews keep voting for socialists, they’re going to have this problem. When are they going to realize that the only real difference between Socialists and National Socialists is the color of their uniforms?

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But the days of 25 year old men naively getting hoodwinked into thinking they actually did something wrong are rapidly coming to a close, if not, are outright over. Long gone are the days where men fall for the vile trap of “if you don’t know, I’m not telling you.” And not a single guy believes you have to cancel the date because your “girlfriend just broke up with her boyfriend and really needs her right now.” Because while men today may be leaderless, fatherless, and not have an older brother to warn them about “the ways of women,” they do have the internet. And its existence has fundamentally upended the dynamic between men and women.

Once you’ve taken the Red Pill, you never go back.

I heartily recommend the books by the author of this post, Aaron Clary. Don’t let his acerbic tone dissuade you.

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Wealthy New Yorkers are seeking exemptions to Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s second-home tax, with thousands filing applications to avoid the levy.

Time to leave, not beg favors from the government.

New York City Hall confirmed to FOX Business that as of Monday, about 4,800 property owners have started the process of applying for an exemption to the pied-à-terre tax. Of that total, about 2,000 property owners have completed their exemption applications.

The fact that exemptions are available suggests that, in addition to making a political talking point, it’s also going to serve as a vehicle for Democrat graft.

Individuals who have been notified about being potentially subject to the pied-à-terre tax have until Sept. 18 to apply for an exemption, according to the New York City Department of Finance. That deadline was extended from the original deadline of Aug. 21.

Available to the politically well-connected … and those who pony up the appropriate sweetener, no doubt. This is, after all, New York.

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Might this be the oldest surviving structure in the world? It could very well be, but it wasn’t crafted by the hands of modern Homo sapiens.

To find it, archaeologists had to tread carefully for 336 meters (1,102 feet) into the dank Bruniquel Cave, located in a picturesque pocket of southwestern France, not far from Toulouse.

Once they reached its largest chamber, they were confronted with two structures made from stalagmites that had been yanked from the cavern floor, broken into bits, and placed in a circular formation.

The Telegraph (UK).

A 20-year-old Swiss woman in a black leather trench coat and high heels posing in front of a helicopter may not look like the typical Pokémon card collector.

But Jolina Gisele has amassed what is believed to be the world’s largest collection of the Japanese trading cards.

The self-styled “Pokémon princess” is now selling her 60,000-card collection, which is estimated to be worth £90m, after building it since she was seven.

The War Zone.

The Houthi rebels of Yemen have launched one of their biggest attacks on Saudi-aligned forces in that country in years. The strikes are a flare-up in what up until recently has been a largely dormant conflict. They took place in eastern Yemeni provinces of Marib and Hadhramaut, which are areas controlled by local forces opposed to the Houthis. This unfolded as the Iranian-backed rebel group is also expanding its campaign against Saudi shipping in the Red Sea region and its oil production infrastructure.

The Houthis claim they killed and injured hundreds of the Saudi-aligned troops. Yemeni government officials said that at least 30 troops were killed while there has been no official comment from Riyadh. However, the U.S. Embassy in Yemen, the Yemeni Defense Ministry and the Saudi-led forces confirmed the attacks.

“Our armed forces carried out a broad and precise military operation targeting the Saudi enemy’s mobilizations in the areas of Al-Ruwaik, Al-Abr, and Al-Thaniyah, and other camps belonging to what is called the First and Third Emergency Divisions, using a large number of ballistic missiles and drones,” Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree stated on X. In addition to “the deaths and injuries of hundreds of Saudi enemy mercenaries,” Saree claimed the “destruction and burning of a large number of Saudi enemy camps, mobilizations, storage depots, and weapons in the Al-Wadiah area in the east of the country” as well as the “destruction of a large number of vehicles.”

The Other McCain.

One of the problems with American politics is how the two-party system tends to foster a Manichean duality on every issue. The Democrat “borg” (which includes media and academia) pushes whatever its policy agenda may be at any moment, and demonizes anyone who dissents. Meanwhile, those of us in the conservative opposition (Republicans, by default) are compelled to naysay whatever Democrats are advocating. Over the course of decades, one may see the two coalitions change — constituent groups changing loyalties — but this process is usually so gradual that it is not recognized at the time such shifts are happening.

One of the sudden shifts came in 1994, when the Republican Party’s “Contract With America” helped produce one of the most consequential midterm elections in American history. For the first time in 40 years, the GOP captured control of both Houses of Congress. Among other things, 1994 marked the beginning of the end of moderate or conservative Democrats being able to win elections in the South. This was ironic, in that Bill Clinton had been elected as an alleged moderate, but during his first two years as president, enacted an agenda so left-wing that it completely alienated many of his erstwhile supporters — including me.

You don’t get to backstab me twice.

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Believing that they are better than everybody else — not merely smarter, but also more “compassionate,” etc. — is what makes our elite so insufferably obnoxious, especially to those of us who tested pretty doggone good ourselves, even if we didn’t go to Harvard.

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Members of Britain’s notorious grooming gangs could be released after serving only half their prison sentences because of a loophole in the Labour government’s early-release scheme.

The Times reports that several men convicted of sexually abusing vulnerable girls may qualify despite Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s promise to exclude grooming offences from the policy.

The loophole applies to crimes committed before specific anti-grooming laws were introduced in 2003. Because the perpetrators were prosecuted under older offences such as indecent assault, they fall outside the government’s exemptions.

Among those who could benefit are Mohammed Imran Akram, Safraz Ahmed Latif, Wajid Hussain, Mohammed Naheem, and Nadeem Ali. The five men were jailed last year for abusing a Bradford girl from the age of 13 while she was in care.

They received sentences of between six and eight years—a combined total of 35 years—but some could now be released by the end of 2028.

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

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The seven people arrested following a violent shooting and stabbing in Cologne have all been released after prosecutors concluded that there was insufficient evidence to justify keeping them in custody.

The incident unfolded late on Monday evening, August 3rd, on Berliner Straße in Cologne, where two large families from immigrant backgrounds became involved in a violent confrontation that left four people seriously injured. Two victims suffered gunshot wounds, while another two were stabbed. Despite the violence occurring on a public street, police said there was no danger to the wider public.

Investigators initially detained the four injured individuals along with two 19-year-olds and a 21-year-old in connection with the attack. However, the public prosecutor’s office announced that none of the suspects would remain in custody because the legal threshold for arrest warrants had not been met.

According to a spokesperson for the public prosecutor’s office, the “necessary level of suspicion” could not be established because investigators were unable to determine which individual was responsible for which specific act during the confrontation.

While all seven suspects have now been released, prosecutors stressed that the investigation is continuing. Authorities believe the violence was preceded by an ongoing dispute between the two families involved.

Import Turd World people, receive Turd World problems.

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Irish health chiefs have declared that “pregnant men” are entitled to maternity leave—despite pregnancy and childbirth being exclusively female.

Gript reports that new guidance from the state-run Health Service Executive (HSE) says transgender employees who are legally recognised as male can claim 26 weeks of paid maternity leave if they become pregnant or give birth.

“Since 2023, transgender men who are pregnant or have given birth can access maternity leave,” the advice states.

To qualify, employees must hold a gender recognition certificate under Ireland’s Gender Recognition Act 2015, which allows a woman to change her legal sex to male.

They can also claim a further 16 weeks of unpaid maternity leave immediately after the paid period ends.

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You wanted to slow down ALL immigration? This is how you do it.

Democrats will still give them free handouts, but at least it will be less than it was.

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Her husband was freaking out back when she slapped the teenage Trump fan at the Jersey Shore and was detained.

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This is just tremendous to see.

Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar is running for governor, and at a debate hosted at Farmfest she told one of the biggest whoppers of all time.

Minnesota farmers were not having it.

Richard Epstein.

On July 1, 2026, New York City put into place its tax on second homes—the so-called pied-à-terre tax on high-value homes, condos, and co-ops within the city. That tax was applied retroactively from January 1, 2026, but its retroactive application is only one of the many problems with a tax whose two major supporters are New York State Governor Kathy Hochul and Mayor Zohran Mamdani. On the day of its publication, the lead editorial of the New York Times dismissed an anticipated fuss over the new tax as though it were no big deal, billing it as a corrective against out-of-staters who freeloaded on New York’s vast cultural and social resources. The Director of Finance in the City, Richard Lee, announced that the city is “committed to implementing the new nonprimary residence property surcharge fairly and efficiently.” But the public mood sharply changed when the Mamdani administration took one large and foolish step when it published a list containing some 960,000 units that could be subject to the tax, including, as the New York Post notes, such celebrities as Woody Allen, Anna Wintour and Cynthia Nixon. The mayor thinks that he can clear $500 million per year, while the Democratic City Controller puts that number between $340 and $380 million—which, given the pace of events, could also be too high. But the bad news is out of the bag: the tax roll already “far exceeds early estimates.”

The story already looks like a colossal policy misadventure. So as the events continue to play out, it is useful to conduct a post-mortem to explain how the legal situation came to this. The driving force behind the campaign is a proud boast: TAX THE RICH. Mamdani makes no bones about it. As he stated on Tax Day, “I promised that we would tax the rich, and with our new pied-à-terre tax, that is exactly what we have done . . . to fund our parks, schools, and libraries.” At the same time, Governor Hochul pleads with the rich ex-New Yorkers to return home, knowing full well that their exodus was driven by a mix of oppressively high taxes and repressive regulations. A pied-à-terre tax is not a way to lure them home.

So now the acid test for the new pied-à-terre tax is this: what does it do to help the situation, especially when it doesn’t only tax the rich? To see how counterproductive the new pied-à-terre tax system is, look at the full table put out by the Department of Finance that covers all classes of non-primary residents, even though there can be only one primary residence, even for full-time New Yorkers with two or more homes in the city.

This says the quiet part out loud: Most of “The Rich” in New York are exactly the Wokerati that Mamdani counts on as his base. Politics is all well and good when it just means verbal virtue-signaling; when it hits the actual pocket-book, well … I suspect that the exodus from New York City will accelerate.

The Telegraph (UK).

Prof Jason Arday has resigned from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph revealed he falsely claimed to have published a book.

In a statement on Wednesday evening, Prof Arday said he was stepping down “with immediate effect” from his position at the university and at Jesus College citing the “unrelenting level of public scrutiny”.

It came hours after the university announced it was investigating him following new information regarding his “academic qualifications and honorary appointments”.

Prof Arday, who was a professor of sociology of education, has been at the centre of a plagiarism row after The Telegraph reported accusations he had copied parts of his PhD thesis from another student.

Earlier on Wednesday, The Telegraph also revealed that Prof Arday had repeatedly claimed that he was the author of a book called Being Young, Black and Male: Challenging the Dominant Discourse.

The book was listed in his biography description in published essays as well as in promotional material for speaking events, and was attributed to the Palgrave Macmillan publishing house.

There is no evidence that any book was written or published.

Another affirmative action hire bites the dust. Thousands to go.

Carl Benjamin (Sargon of Akkad) goes over it in depth.

The War Zone.

From short-range missiles that threaten Taiwan to dual-capable weapons that can reach Guam, these varied systems are a key component of China’s anti-access strategy.

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My favorite is the Flaming Pig.

“What is that delicious smell? OH MY GOD IT’S THE FLAMING PIG!”

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German police have launched a double homicide investigation after two corpses were discovered near an asylum accommodation facility in the southern city of Augsburg. Shortly afterwards, a 29-year-old man was taken into custody as the primary suspect.

According to a police spokesperson, authorities were called to the scene in the southern district of Augsburg on the evening of Monday, August 3rd. Investigators discovered the bodies of two men: a 39-year-old with dual Syrian and Saudi Arabian citizenship, and a 54-year-old Iraqi national.

The suspect, whose identity has not been released in accordance with German privacy laws, is a 29-year-old man holding both Syrian and Saudi Arabian citizenship. He was provisionally arrested at the scene and is currently being investigated on two counts of manslaughter (Totschlag).

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Ali Shehab, a leading figure in Sweden’s Foxtrot criminal network, has been sentenced to life in prison by an Iraqi court for drug trafficking, Swedish prosecutors confirmed on Tuesday..

The 22-year-old, who has dual Swedish and Iraqi citizenship, was arrested in Iraq in December 2025 in a joint operation involving Iraqi police and Swedish authorities. Prosecutors said he was convicted for his role in drug trafficking operations that were run from Iraq and directed a criminal network supplying the Swedish market.

According to Swedish prosecutors, Shehab is a close ally of Foxtrot leader Rawa Majid and has been linked to multiple serious crimes in Sweden. He is suspected of ordering the October 2025 shooting on a public street in Gävle, in which a 13-year-old boy opened fire and injured six young people. Authorities also accuse him of instigating murders and attempted murders in Lund, Gävle, Norsborg, and other locations, totaling five murders and 23 attempted murders.