DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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Last week California certified a Billionaire Wealth Tax for the November ballot: a 5 percent one-time levy on the state’s billionaires, paid out over five years, to raise about $20 billion a year for health care, food aid, and schools after federal cuts. We understand the impulse. The state has a revenue hole, and billionaires can afford to help fill it.

But the tax will fail at the thing it’s for, and it will fail for a simple reason: billionaires, unlike land, have feet.

We just spent months building the empirical case, calculating the aggregate of California’s land values, in a new report from the Center for Land Economics. The short version: land is one of the biggest pools of wealth there is, California has more of it than almost anything else, and it cannot leave the state.

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The wealth tax’s own math assumes a $2 trillion base, which is a nearly 2x overestimate due to wealth flight.

Six California billionaires — Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Peter Thiel, Don Hankey, Travis Kalanick, and Steven Spielberg, worth roughly $540 billion combined — had already moved their tax residency out of state before the measure’s January 1, 2026 cutoff. Mark Zuckerberg (about $220 billion) followed in early 2026 and will almost certainly fight the retroactive reach in court. Add a roughly $200 billion overestimate that other economists have flagged in the proposal’s own model, and nearly half the assumed base is gone.

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I really doubt that he’s all that useful.

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The Karmelo Anthony story never seems to end, and perhaps that’s a testament to the era we live in. It seems as though every prominent trial with any media attention is automatically politicized – From the Lindsay Clancy circus to the Luigi Mangionne case to Anthony stabbing Austin Metcalf, the political left has been particularly invasive. Not only do they consistently take the side of the murderers, but they continue in their efforts to blame and terrorize the victims.

Such is the ongoing reality of the Metcalf family, who are now faced with an array of threats from online lunatics and race militants looking for “payback” after the conviction of their hero, Karmelo Anthony.

A Missouri woman is currently facing federal charges for threatening to kill Austin Metcalf’s father (Jeff Metcalf) and “put him in a body bag” because of Anthony’s prison sentence. Court documents show Sharifa Nicole Henderson, who is also known as Riffa Henderson, was arrested on September 11 and indicted on three federal counts over messages she allegedly sent “on or about June 9” – which was the day Anthony was convicted and sentenced to 35 years behind bars.

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One of President Donald Trump’s major focuses has been rooting out fraud across taxpayer-funded public services. Through their White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, Co-chairs Vice President JD Vance and Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson have touted unprecedented efforts to expose and crack down on massive instances of fraud since February 2026.

Yet, despite the national implications and scope of Trump, Vance and Ferguson’s campaign against fraud, Google News implemented a months-long blackout of coverage of their key actions and accomplishments in its morning feed. Put into practice, the blackout means that millions of active Google News users are effectively kept in the dark about the White House’s actions against fraud.

The Trump administration has taken at least 51 key actions and victories against fraud since February, ranging from massive healthcare fraud takedowns to the suspension of billions of dollars in government funding. Yet, Google News featured none of them in its top 20 morning listings.

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Among the many woke winners of this year’s prestigious National Book Awards is a black Columbia University professor whose screed attacks “white paint” as racist.

Professor Wendy Walters’ new book, “A Dead White: An Argument Against White Paint,” claims that white paint is not the “neutral” architectural design element that it initially appears to be.

Instead, she “interrogates all that we have taken for granted about the substance that colors, or fails to color, the structures and objects that surround us – and what the collective impulse toward white paint can tell us about culture, politics, and individual desire,” the publisher’s description states, in part.

The Foundry.

The Daily Signal has obtained the death threats made against an outspoken House Freedom Caucus member and his kids that have landed the perpetrator with an almost 10-year sentence in federal prison.

The man behind the threats, 26-year-old Edwin Guerrero, was also hit with a $15,000 fine, United States Attorney Gregory W. Kehoe announced.

“This pro-Hamas individual said he was going to kill me, my children, and make me watch as he killed them. I’m incredibly grateful that now he’s experiencing his own 9/11,” Fine told the Daily Signal in an exclusive interview. “The judge sentenced him to 9 years and 11 months in prison, one month shy of the maximum.”

The Foundry.

An outspoken member of the House Freedom Caucus has called on President Donald Trump’s administration to remove a photojournalist from the United States after he publicly admitted in an online video interview that the conditions of his work were dictated by Hamas officials in the Gaza Strip.

The journalist, Motaz Azaiza, who has been championed by Rep. Rashida Tlaib and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, also admitted to witnessing the Israeli hostages of the Oct. 7 massacre being beaten and paraded in the streets of Gaza, but refused to take photos of the incident.

“People got out, watched, beat them, hit them, and I followed them and filmed,” Azaiza told the “Taqarrab” podcast over the weekend. “But I did not publish those videos.”

“Why? Because I did not want to ruin the lives of the people who were filmed,” the photographer continued. “I understood that Israel would use those videos to identify every person who was there and eliminate them.”

In an exclusive interview with the Daily Signal, Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., said that Azaiza “needs to be deported.”

Not the Bee.

Rev. Flourish Klink has a very interesting theological theory about Jesus!

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I’d ask “Which side are they on?” but it’s pretty obvious.

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The soy is strong with this one.

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Tim Pool lays out the case that Trump is in charge of who gets access to the White House.

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Stanford University took a real photograph of three students in a dining hall, ran it through artificial intelligence, and published the result as a “Welcome Home” banner. However, one of those students, Hispanic undergrad Billy Ramirez, class of 2027, was gone.

In his place stood an AI-generated Black woman. The two students next to him had their faces slimmed and altered. Clothing was even changed into Stanford merchandise.

This was not a student meme. It was official marketing from Residential & Dining Enterprises, the office that runs housing and dining for one of the richest universities in America – an institution that still soaks up hundreds of millions in taxpayer money while preaching ethics about “synthetic media.”

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Stanford’s own AI guidelines for marketing and communications are not vague. The university forbids creating or publishing AI-generated content that “falsely depicts Stanford people, events, research, facilities, or achievements.”

Harper’s.

On August 5, 2013, a man and a woman ate a burger. Not just any burger: a world-historical burger, made from cattle cells grown in a lab by Mark Post, a professor of vascular physiology at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. The burger had taken two years to produce and cost $330,000, money furnished by the Google co-founder Sergey Brin. Now it was being tasted in public for the first time at Riverside Studios in London, at an event attended by two hundred members of the press and livestreamed to thousands.

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Pakistan conducted airstrikes on 10 locations in Afghanistan that it said were being used ?to launch and store drones, some of which had been used ?against Pakistan a day earlier, Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said on Thursday.

When there aren’t any Christians or Jews handy, Muslims will quite happily kill each other.

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When Bari Weiss was hired to lead CBS News last year, many of the network’s star reporters feared the centrist founder of The Free Press news site would turn the network into a mouthpiece for the Trump administration. Longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley was fired after he accused Weiss of “murdering the show.”

If the season premiere of “60 Minutes” is any indication, progressives have little to complain about. In a segment titled “The Pardon Economy,” veteran CBS reporter Lesley Stahl alleges that Trump has upended the way U.S. presidents have dispensed pardons for “100 years or more” by creating a “new system” that involves lobbyists and high-priced “pardon brokers.”

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To situate Trump in this “pardon lobbyists” narrative, Stahl links the White House to two convicted con artists who claim close ties to Trump without disclosing one critical detail: There is no evidence the two have ever succeeded in getting anyone a pardon. While their efforts suggest that some in Washington may be trying to capitalize on the narrative about Trump’s alleged corruption – inspired, in part, by questionable pardons he has issued previously – “60 Minutes” offers no concrete proof connecting the administration to these money-making schemes.

Stahl’s report also ignored the long history of wrongdoers paying exorbitant fees for lobbyists to get their pardons viewed by the Oval Office – most famously Bill Clinton’s brother, Roger, and Hillary’s brothers, Hugh and Tony Rodham.

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The Democratic Socialists of America’s unofficial cheerleader, far-left streamer Hasan Piker, has stated an inconvenient truth for the Democratic Party: its far-left fringe will eat the party alive, quite literally.

Listen to Piker in his own words: “I will throw you in prison. I want Chinese-style communism to happen inside of the Democratic Party right now. I want to do cultural revolution shit.”

Anti-communist Spencer Pratt, who really should be the anti-communist czar for the Trump administration if Trump’s team sets up a messaging task force, wrote on X, “Hamas Piker just flat out admits he wants to imprison and kill Democrats in a literal communist revolution. These are animals.”

Newsbusters.

ABC’s The View was having abang up day on Tuesday. In addition to co-host Sunny Hostin bragging about being a holdout juror who kelp a killer cannibal out of prison, co-host Sara Haines grew emotional as she whined about Patrick Clancy divorcing his wife, Lindsay Clancy after she strangled their three children to death. Haines couldn’t understand at what point his “marital love” ended.

Haines’ hysterics began with her noting that so many other people in Lindsay’s life were there in the courtroom for her but Patrick wasn’t.

“They were able to see her as a sick woman who, and even though they too were mourning the loss of their grandbabies and their nieces and nephews,” she bemoaned.

Haines was bewildered by how Patrick’s “marital love [could] end so quickly” and was willing to leave the woman who killed his three children.

Growing more emotional, Haines shared her hope that her husband Max Shifrin wouldn’t leave her if she strangled their kids with exercise bands. “I would hope that my husband wouldn’t sit there and just move right along and like not care,” she said.

A proper husband would have made her dead as soon as he was capable of doing so. That she is still alive represents serious cowardice on his part.

Quillette.

On a November afternoon in 1967, at a hall in Roskilde, Denmark, a panel of the most celebrated left-wing intellectuals in the world delivered a unanimous verdict at the second session of its “International War Crimes Tribunal”: the United States government was perpetrating a genocide against the people of Vietnam. The event was organised by Bertrand Russell, and Jean-Paul Sartre had spent months building the legal case. The tribunal’s investigators had made five fact-finding trips to Vietnam, where they collected testimony and documents, and assembled reports on everything from the origins of American intervention to the use of fragmentation bombs and the destruction of civilian areas.

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The tribunal was funded by the North Vietnamese government. Russell had personally requested this from Ho Chi Minh. Political activist Staughton Lynd—chairman of the 1965 “March on Washington” and a staunch opponent of the war—rejected Russell’s invitation to join the tribunal, once it was made clear to him that Russell and the rest of the tribunal would not be investigating Viet Cong atrocities. The violence of the oppressed, he was told, could not be judged by the same standard as the violence of the oppressor. As Lynd recalled in an essay published that year in an issue of Liberation:

In conversation with the emissary who proffered the invitation, I urged that the alleged war crimes of any party to the conflict should come before the Tribunal. After all, I argued, a “crime” is an action that is wrong no matter who does it. … I asked, “What if it were shown that the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam tortures unarmed prisoners?” The answer, as I understood it, was, “Anything is justified that drives the imperialist aggressor into the sea.” I declined the invitation to be a member of the Tribunal.

If it weren’t for double standards, the Left would have no standards at all.

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For the last six weeks or so our attention has been focused on the massive migrant invasion of Ceuta, a Spanish enclave/exclave on the North African coast. However, Melilla is another exclave adjacent to Morocco that has been facing similar problems. In the past I have reported on the successful attempts that large groups of culture-enrichers have made at scaling the border fence or breaking through it.

Now the local authorities in Melilla are expressing their opposition to the building of a new migrant reception center in the city.

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Union membership in the U.S. private sector has fallen to record lows, with 2024 data showing that only 5.9% of the U.S. private sector workforce is unionized, according to research by the Pew Research Center. It points out that this is down sharply from 20.1% in 1983 and 37% in 1957.

That number is about to get lower as employees at Penske Truck Leasing in Richmond are officially free from the unwanted “representation” of Teamsters Local 592 union officials, after the National Labor Relations Board certified a vote of Penske workers to “decertify” Teamsters union bosses.

The decertification effort was spearheaded by Penske employee Jordan Cutrell, who received free legal aid from National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys during the decertification process.

Virginia is one of 26 states that still have “right to work” laws on their books. These safeguard workers by making union membership and dues payment strictly voluntary. But that position has fallen under attack as recently as the last General Assembly session.

While passing minimum wage hikes, compensation reforms, paid family leave, and employment regulations on hiring, state Sen. Jennifer Carroll Foy, D-Prince William, tried but failed to repeal the right-to-work law. The Senate did not take it up before the session’s deadline, effectively killing it for now.

MS NOW Legal Analyst Andrew Weissmann Compares WH Bans to 1930s Nazi Germany  Of course he does. Notice that none of them compare anything to 1930s Soviet Russia or 1940s Communist China.

Trump says he’s renaming AI to ‘super intelligence’ (Violet Jira/Washington Post)

Trump rejects global entity for AI oversight (Alex Gangitano/Politico)

Susan Collins Was Target of Federal Bribery Case … Until Trump Gutted the FBI (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone)  Gutted!

‘Drive Them Into Hell’: Trump Makes Wild Threats in Chaotic UN Speech (Jack Crosbie/Rolling Stone)

San Francisco Sues to Stop Early Access to Trump’s Truth Social Posts (Heather Knight/New York Times)

California Sues Trump Administration Over $111 Million Offshore Wind Buyout

Trump threatens Iran in UNGA speech (Irie Sentner/Politico)

9 minutes in GOP heaven, 1 week in hell (Politico)

Fact-Checking Trump’s Speech at the United Nations (Linda Qiu/New York Times)

3 Leading News Outlets Say Their Sudden Banishment From the White House Is Unconstitutional (Jacob Sullum/Reason)

AI & The Same Old Politicized Hysteria

America’s Allies Are No Longer Waiting for Trump to Leave (Vivian Salama/The Atlantic)

Fox News stars are going to new lengths to avoid bad news for Trump (Matt Gertz/MS NOW)

Bitter Much? Enraged by Ban, CNN REFUSED to Carry Trump’s UN Speech

The next generation of American scientists is fading away (Anjana Ahuja/Financial Times)

Hispanic Voters, Abandoning Trump, Are Transforming the Midterm Map (Nate Cohn/New York Times)

Trump TV is live. Here’s what it’s actually showing (Herb Scribner/Axios)

Trump’s focus on the press distracts Republicans from pocketbook issues ahead of Election Day (NBC News)

Trump’s White House media ban faces long odds in court, legal experts say (Jack Queen/Reuters)  Experts say! That proves it!

MAGA Festival Canceled Last-Minute as Dismal VIP Ticket Sales Exposed (William Vaillancourt/The Daily Beast)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

World Liberty’s Crypto Ties Enriched Trump as Investors Lost Out (Bloomberg)

Trump’s Grip on GOP Slips as Midterm Election Anxiety Sets In (Bloomberg)

Ban Fight: CNN Gives Trump Dictator Label, Questioning ‘State of Mind’

White House Melts Down at CNN Host With Vile Slur (William Vaillancourt/The Daily Beast)  Vile slurs against Trump, of course, are just fine.

Trump’s last-ditch hunt for voter fraud (Brittany Gibson/Axios)  Well, they seem to be finding a lot of it.

Social Media Cooks Democrat’s Goose

The trickle of Republicans opposing Trump will become a flood (Paul Waldman/Public Notice)  They hope, they hope, they hope.

Trump Blasts CNN, MS Now Over UN Coverage

There’s growing concern that Trump may deploy the National Guard ahead of elections (Kat Lonsdorf/NPR)  I guess they don’t want to get caught.

Byron Donalds scrubs website of numerous references to Trump (John Pacenti/Tallahassee Democrat)  Running scared RINO.

Trump’s midterm woes deepen amid worsened economic backdrop: CNN poll (Ariel Edwards-Levy/CNN)  Come get your Narrative, right here.

Blocking Windmills? Banning Press? Building an Arch? Trump Cites National Security. (New York Times)

Daily Show Gushes Over Iran, Cuba While Warning Of ‘Rising Tide Of Authoritarianism’

It’s “Underwear on the Outside” Time (Paul Krugman)  The vacuum speaks.

Stephen Miller’s MAGA Terror Campaign Exposed by Damning New Leaks (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit.

We’ll Tolerate Tyranny, But Not Rising Prices. (The Bulwark)

WSJ: HHS Shifted $12 Million to Fund RFK Jr. Security  With good reason.

Morning Joe Fears ‘Demolition of Democracy,’ Decries WH Bans with CNN’s Dana Bash  Dana Bash is certainly well-named.

Juvenile Kimmel Uses CNN Ban To Mock Trump’s Penis

Portrait of an Anti-Anti-Trumper in Despair (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)

MAGA Podcasters Are Tuning Out Trump. We Tracked What They Are Talking About Now. (Wall Street Journal)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Trump Seeks Power Over Midterm Voting With Redistricting, Mail Ballots (Zoe Tillman/Bloomberg)

Hollywood Accuses California Of Folding To Trump On Paramount Merger

President Trump keeps casually accusing news outlets of treason (Matt Gertz/Media Matters for America)  Nothing casual about it. It’s obvious to the most ‘casual’ observer.

Benefits of Trump’s 2025 Tax Cuts Touted by Manufacturers in All 50 States

Preservation group launches legal defense fund as it battles Trump over ballroom and other projects (Jill Colvin/Associated Press)

Newsbusters.

While the Democrat-pleasing “fact checkers” at PolitiFact aren’t throwing any “False” flags at wild-eyed Trump haters comparing the president to mass-murdering dictators (“Hitler to Stalin to Idi Amin”) over pulling White House access for CNN, MS NOW, and Politico, they did pull out the “Mostly False” card for a mostly true claim about Team Biden dramatically shrinking the press-pass list in 2023.

PolitiFact research analyst Jeff Cercone took after a TikTok video with 72,000 views from “Barbie Unfiltered 67” which said, “Biden changed the White House press pool and CUT OFF 440 reporters’ credentials, yet got ZERO outrage from the fake news media.”

The actual facts: Correct, and correct. Team Biden shrunk the list without almost anyone in the elitist media noticing. They only care about their own access.

Cercone admitted the numbers weren’t wrong, but were somehow Mostly False.

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No wonder taxes in California are so high.

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As an example of the problem, in the article in The Guardian on the Church of England and the slave trade we are told that 45 clergymen can be traced who invested in the slave trade.[ii] The author seems shocked. But is this a large number or a small one? Pettigrew and Co. do not say. But do the maths: in 1550 there were just shy of 9000 Anglican parishes across England and Wales, and about a 1000 more in Scotland. In 1800 the relative numbers were 11,000 in England and Wales and about 950 in Scotland. What’s surprising is not how many Anglican clerics invested in the slave trade across 250 years, but how few. But they won’t tell you that in The Guardian, probably because they haven’t thought to make the necessary calculations.

Pettigrew accepts that ‘slave traders were a tiny minority of the British population’ but gives them ‘outsized influence on this golden age of British development’.[iii] Yet the scale of that influence is never calibrated, merely asserted. ‘Interest in human trafficking’ apparently ‘cascaded down the social hierarchy’ but the 13,000 named individuals include no agricultural labourers or early industrial workers who made up the vast bulk of British society. This is hardly surprising as the Legacies of British Slavery project at University College, London – a much better example of scholarship than this Register – has estimated that somewhere between 5% and 15% of the British elite derived wealth from slavery, a group that might be numbered as a few thousand only, therefore.[iv]

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Operation Make Harvard (More) Gay is a success.

Former president Claudine Gay resigned 3 years ago after being exposed as a plagiarist and a fraud.

But now, she’s back.

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The shareholders for the most infamous U.S. newspaper in circulation are holding it to account for the antisemitic and anti-Israel bile that has been replete throughout its reporting apparatus.

Shareholders launched a lawsuit against The New York Times alleging that the “paper has failed to meet its obligation: to tell readers the truth and correct itself in a timely fashion when it doesn’t.”

The suit, filed by the State Board of Administration of Florida (SBA) and the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR), was first revealed in a September 23 exclusive by The Free Press. It petitions the New York County Supreme Court to “ to force the Times board of directors to hand over internal records the company has refused to produce for four months, the majority of which pertain to the paper’s coverage of the Israel-Hamas war.”

Newsbusters.

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Not a single Democrat actively participated in Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on protecting women’s sports. Democrats did not show up, did not fill their two witness seats, or question the witnesses who were impacted by males competing in women’s sports.

Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin, the ranking member of the committee, claimed that America does not care about men competing in women’s sports and diverted his opening statement to his own agenda, then left. The other nine Democrat members on the committee did not show up.

According to polling, over 70% of Americans disagree with biological men competing in women’s sports, and over 60% favor laws that would require transgender athletes to compete on teams that match their biological sex instead of their gender identity.

The Foundry.

On Tuesday, British police confirmed the fears of Manchester’s Jewish community. Two men were arrested in the city center the night before Yom Kippur, on suspicion of plotting an imminent attack. The arrests and searches in Salford and Liverpool came just before the anniversary of the Heaton Park attack, when two worshippers were killed outside a synagogue.

The Heaton Park attack was the first deadly antisemitic terror incident in Britain since 1984, carried out by an Islamic State supporter. The anniversary was marked by armed police outside synagogues across Manchester, underlining the ongoing threat.

For Orthodox Jews visibly walking to synagogue, the message from the heavy police presence was clear: You are a target. The national terror threat level remains severe, and Jewish communities increasingly feel under siege on their holiest days.

Palestine has made Jew-hatred cool again amongst the British Crust.

Antisemitism is one of the oldest hatreds, with deep historical and religious roots. In 627, in Medina, the violent conflict between Muhammad and the Jewish tribes, which ended in mass executions of the Jews, set a pattern of hostility repeated for centuries in many societies, including modern Britain.

Hamas is in the same position; in its 1988 charter, it references a well-known hadith attributed to Muhammad, which says that, in the last days, even the stones and trees will cry out, “O Muslim, there is a Jew behind me—come and kill him.”

The document prepared at the time when Hamas was founded declares that the struggle against the Jews is both great and serious, and that the only solution to the Palestinian question lies in jihad. The Oct. 7 massacre was no exception; it was the embodiment of that ideology.

Newsbusters.

Over at Salon.com, atheist Amanda Marcotte is in a state of joy over her belief that notorious biblical cherry picker James Talarico, could be an “existential threat” to the beliefs of Republican Christians during the course of his Texas campaign for the U.S. Senate.

It is no error or slur to label Marcotte as an atheist since she herself flat out admitted it. In fact her brand of atheism goes beyond merely tolerating religion to outright hostility of Christianity in particular as you can see in “Salon’s Marcotte: ‘Merry Christmas!’ Is Conservative Code For ‘F**k You!’.”

With an attitude like that you can read Marcotte’s Monday story, “James Talarico’s campaign could do lasting damage to the GOP,” with a huge grain of salt as she engages in the obvious pretense of somehow supporting Christianity but only in a very liberal cherry-picking way which nixes large sections of the Bible in order to reinterpret it as Socialist/Woke dogma much as her candidate hero has done.

Nobody does hate like proglodyte scribblers.

New York Post.

A woke “black” and anti-Israel activist has been dubbed the “Palestinian Rachel Dolezal” after she was outed for being a white, Jewish woman who lied about her identity for years.

Hannah Gann, a Philadelphia teacher, was forced to confess she was a “white woman of significant privilege and wealth” after fellow lefty activists grew suspicious of her background and confronted her.

“I lied about my identity and have been lying for years. I have no Palestinian or Tunisian heritage,” she wrote in a self-aggrandizing apology on Instagram.

Not the Bee.

The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice appears to be enforcing civil rights law for everyone now!

In recent findings, the DOJ has discovered that the University of California, San Francisco, is actively discriminating against white and Asian students at its medical school with a brazen, racist admissions policy.

Must be why it’s increasingly difficult to find a white male doctor who isn’t an elderly high-priced specialist.

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You gotta love how gay Canada is all the time. They make it so easy to make fun of them.

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

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It’s 2026 and I think I’ve found the most woke video to ever exist.

This lady discovered that cotton fields still exist, and obviously the existence of this crop is racist towards black Americans.

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Third World migrants are being led across the channel by French authorities, where British police then escort them into harbor, put them aboard taxpayer-funded coach buses, and give them a police escort with hundreds of officers.

Well, I guess we know whose government it actually is now.

Worse on Purpose.

Over the past two months, six readers have written in about sewing machines. I have never once mentioned sewing machines in this newsletter. All the complaints arrived independently, through the tip line.

I must admit that I am not a sewist. The extent of my capability is limited to ugly patches and button repairs, so I was hesitant to investigate the category at all. But given the sheer number and conformity of the reader messages, I knew there must be an interesting story here.

The general shape of all of the complaints is that Singer is riding on a reputation it earned a long time ago. Readers describe machines that are now plastic, sealed, and generally not worth repairing.

Several found that brands they assumed were competitors turn out to have the same owner. One reader bought a new Singer that broke in under a year. They also bought a Singer from the ‘50s, for a fraction of the price, that still runs.

The pattern is one we’ve covered many times before. A market that most buyers cannot navigate, where reputations carry little meaning and honest information is hard to come by.

What makes this investigation worth your time, whether or not you sew, is how effectively it demonstrates what happens when a reputation stops being something a company protects and instead becomes something it extracts.

What follows is the story of a once-great American company. I’ll also cover who actually makes the machines you see for sale, and what I’m planning on buying.

My grandmother had a pedal-powered Singer sewing machine with which she made all of the clothes her seven children wore through the Depression until they graduated from high school. My cousin inherited it from her when she died in ’98 and says it’s still going strong.

My wife has a Brother machine that is never used; I don’t recall ever having seen her machine-sew anything (knitting is her thing). I do any sewing that needs to be done and I sew by hand, as I have since I was first taught how to sew (by my grandmother) at age six. This proved lucrative when I was in the Navy.

John Stossel.

Schools are ending gifted and talented programs. They will no longer separate kids by ability.

Why?

To address “inequity.”

PJ Media.

Although I consider myself a constitutional purist, I suspect that when the Founding Fathers wrote, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed,” they hadn’t considered the dangers of handing firearms to scrotum-phobic dudes in stilettos, sexual deviants calling themselves “furries,” and even a crazy man dressed as Little Bo Peep.

The transamabobs have a long history of mass shootings (and attempted mass shootings) that many of us have not heard of, likely because many law enforcement institutions define a mass shooting as four or more people shot in a fluid situation, not counting the shooter. Thus, if a Decepticon ventilates three people, chances are we won’t hear about it. Also, the Operation Mockingbird press is typically likely to hide the fact that some testicle-dodging dudette is responsible for such an atrocity.

Whenever you come across a ‘they/them’, it usually turns out to be a ‘ho/hum’.

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Something unusual is happening in several of this year’s U.S. Senate contests: Democrat nominees are disappearing from the ballot while “independent” candidates emerge as the principal challengers to Republican incumbents.

The pattern is especially visible in Nebraska, Idaho, and South Dakota.

And it comes at a moment when the independent label may carry more political appeal than either major party’s brand.

The party that dare not speak its name.

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“Kamala Harris just accused Republicans of ‘cheating’ for doing something most Americans call basic election integrity: removing ineligible voters and illegal immigrants from the rolls,” Fox News Channel Host Sean Hannity explained Wednesday.

“At a Detroit NAACP event, Harris told the crowd Republicans ‘took’ the tools Democrats ‘relied on for the last 50 years’ and are ‘cheating by purging voter rolls.’ Watch her make the case herself,” Hannity wrote in an Instagram post of Harris’ comments.

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The United Kingdom is about to discover the part of the Laffer Curve where the billionaire taxpayers simply get on a plane and go somewhere else.

His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs has now assigned a dedicated “compliance manager” to every billionaire it has identified with a UK tax footprint, dramatically expanding the government’s oversight of the country’s richest people, according to a new report from Bloomberg this week.

HMRC is using its own records, public information and data shared by foreign governments to identify billionaires with UK tax exposure and map their connections to businesses, trusts and other entities. “The UK tax authority has assigned a personal compliance manager to every billionaire within its reach as it seeks to get a better grip on the super-rich’s tax liabilities,” the report says.

HMRC says the goal is straightforward, making sure wealthy taxpayers pay what they legally owe, and the government confirmed this month that every billionaire with a UK tax footprint was allocated a Customer Compliance Manager over the summer.

But consider the message Britain is sending: become extraordinarily successful, build companies, accumulate enough capital and pay enough taxes, and eventually the government assigns an individual bureaucrat to keep tabs on you.

And has his hand ready to dip into your pocket. (How long before Newsom’s California does the same?)

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

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Two leading progressive lawmakers, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar, are unveiling legislation Wednesday that would ban artificial superintelligence and create a federal agency to oversee advanced AI as some of the industry’s own leaders urge Congress to impose guardrails on the advancing technology.

The bill, provided first to The Associated Press, would also pause advanced AI development until guidelines are implemented while creating the Department of Artificial Intelligence. Multiple employees at leading AI companies are endorsing the bill.

Of the two things, the more important in the eyes of a statist like Bernie is the creation of a federal agency to ‘oversee’ it. The worst thing in the world, in the eyes of a typical statist Democrat, is for something, some area of human activity, to be ‘unregulated’. Whenever you hear Democrats fear-mongering about something, be it COVID or AI, is them beating the drum of “It’s unregulated!”

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Behold the most ludicrous argument unfolding after President Trump’s latest attempt to deny White House press passes to Trump-loathing reporters. Somehow, the liberal elitists shamelessly claim they represent the entire American people in the briefing room, and not just their own pink-haired audience.

See National “Public” Radio White House reporter Tamara Keith, who told an CNN interviewer about her job: “I’m doing it on behalf of the American people. I’m not doing it for me. Um, and by kicking people out, he’s kicking the American people out of the room. He’s kicking the American people out of the people’s house.” This ignores the many millions of people who voted for Trump – and against all the elitist media noise.

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Whether heading into Chicago or leaving it behind on the Stevenson Expressway, commuters are driving past a new billboard campaign from Florida’s top business lobby.

Expanding its multimillion-dollar recruitment campaign into the Midwest, the Florida Chamber of Commerce is launching its next “Free Enterprise” billboard campaign targeting Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker as the Chamber says data shows billions of dollars in income moving from Illinois to Florida.

“The billboards will look very much like the billboard we did in New York, but we’ll have two of them in Chicago, and we’ll be naming Governor Pritzker the runner-up ‘Florida Economic Developer of the Year,’” Florida Chamber President and CEO Mark Wilson exclusively told Fox News Digital.

“This isn’t personal, right? This is about policy. And the person responsible for all of Illinois’s policies is the governor there, just like our governor in Florida has top responsibility for what we do here,” he added. “When we look at how unsafe Chicago is, when we look at the extraordinarily high taxes that we have in Chicago — I’m from there, by the way, and so I have firsthand knowledge on what’s happening in Illinois and what’s happening in Chicago… And all of Illinois is losing people, more businesses are leaving Illinois than are moving to Illinois, and Illinois is losing billions of taxable income. And so the whole state is in a death spiral.”

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a document Monday debunking “lies spread by the mainstream media, far-left activists, and sanctuary politicians regarding the shooting of a criminal illegal alien” by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in Austin, Texas.

Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, an illegal alien from Venezuela who entered the U.S. during the Biden Administration, was shot Sunday by an ICE officer who tried to arrest him, prompting a hailstorm of anti-ICE media and accusations, prompting DHS to issue a statement correcting the record.

“Sanctuary politicians and the mainstream media have wasted no time in spreading lies about an ICE officer-involved shooting of an illegal alien in Austin, Texas,” DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in the statement.

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In Part One, we examined whether Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s crackdown on NGOs was having an effect. We now revisit that question, examining the far-left groups and subversion networks involved in mounting a revolution against the U.S.

The National Network on Cuba released a “National Rapid Response Plan” that called for nationwide actions against U.S. bases, ICE, and other federal facilities. Nothing happened. Black Alliance for Peace published an interactive map of U.S. military bases, urging their followers to use the map to find facilities in their communities and “strategize how and where to organize and agitate.” Again, Nothing happened.

The Marxist Neville Roy Singham network, which has become the primary driver of the protest-industrial complex nationwide, also seems to have lost its momentum despite opening up Liberation Centers across the country to organize protests. Despite their deep pockets and extensive infrastructure for mobilization, they also seem to be unable to mobilize large crowds of their comrades as they used to post-October 7th. ANTIFA, which was designated by the Trump administration as a domestic terrorist organization in September of 2025, also appears to be on its back heels and unable to take control of public space in the way they did in Portland during the Summer of Love riots of 2020.

So we must ask ourselves, why?

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Despite an exhaustive grand-jury investigation that turned up no evidence of a crime in the death of Nolan Wells, a black 18-year-old Mississippian, CNN This Morning host Audie Cornish didn’t stop stirring the racial pot.

The Wells family retained race-hustling lawyer Benjamin Crump for the case. On Tuesday’s episode, Cornish cited social media on other deaths of young black people and used them to insist there’s racism in so many unsolved mysteries involving young black people:

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The network of liberal billionaire Michael Bloomberg appears to have taken a page from the George Soros playbook by backing groups specifically engineered to install radicals in state prosecutors’ offices who conform to his agenda.

The Washington Free Beacon reporter Thomas Catenacci released a damning report September 21 finding that the State Energy and Environmental Impact Center — backed by Bloomberg — quietly shut its doors following mounting congressional scrutiny.

The Center, which was housed at New York University School of Law, was designed specifically to provide “legal, analytic, and communications support, as well as facilitating coordination across multiple offices of state attorneys general” on the climate change boondoggle. As Catenacci noted, the radical group’s “signature initiative involved placing paid, climate-focused ‘fellows’ in Democrat-controlled state attorney general offices nationwide as those offices sued the oil industry and other energy providers.”