DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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Seventeen Republican attorneys general have filed suit to stop it. They are right. The rest of the country should say so – and reject California’s attempt to impose its policies on everyone else.

California’s Senate Bill 54 effectively tells companies: If you want to sell in California, redesign your packaging, cut plastic on California’s timetable, and pay fees to a private Washington, D.C., organization called Circular Action Alliance. CAA sets the fees, keeps its methodology confidential, and handles disputes through arbitration rather than a court.

But packaging is not a California issue. It is a national supply-chain issue. Companies do not invent a unique box for Sacramento and another for South Bend. They build one system. When California attaches conditions to its market, those conditions travel. Costs travel with them – onto manufacturers, distributors, and the families who buy toothpaste and canned goods in states that never voted for this scheme.

California is using the size of its market to impose its preferences on commerce that happens everywhere else. The attorneys general call that what it is: one state trying to set national policy.

I have seen this movie before.

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Based on data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, psychologist and researcher Jean Twenge found that “the decline appears to be driven almost entirely by girls.”

Girls identifying as lesbian, gay, or bisexual dropped 5 percentage points, hitting 22 percent last year. Among boys, that percentage fell by 2 percentage points to 7 percent.

“The trends are striking,” especially compared to data from a decade ago, Twenge, a professor at San Diego State University, wrote on her blog in late September.

Reasons for the decline in teen in lesbian, gay, or bisexual identification are not readily apparent. “I have to confess: I have no idea,” Twenge wrote.

Determining whether the numbers reflect the start of a trend requires further examination, she and other professionals say.

Competing explanations for the shift are emerging amid a larger debate over alternative sexuality in America.

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Saudi Arabia executes people by beheading them in public. No chance of them waking up afterward with complaints about the process.

Perhaps we ought to farm out the execution of Nidal Hassan to them. I doubt they would bungle it.

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The DOJ Civil Rights Division’s LGBTQI+ Working Group convened quarterly stakeholder meetings with organizations including the American Civil Liberties Union, the Human Rights Campaign, Lambda Legal, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the National Women’s Law Center, and others while the department challenged state laws regarding transgender medicine, bathrooms, and women’s sports.

The newly revealed documents show advocacy groups asking federal officials to discuss “what the federal government can do to limit or stop anti-trans legislation,” “strategic involvement by DOJ,” litigation involving gender medicine, and other policy priorities.

“Under the Biden administration, far-left activist groups were given a seat at the table in shaping the Civil Rights Division’s priorities,” Justice Department spokeswoman Kiersten Pels told the Daily Signal. “Under this administration, the division enforces federal civil rights laws as written, for every American equally, and its litigation and enforcement decisions are not shaped by outside activists.”

The documents do not portray the meetings as one-way briefings by federal officials.

The Foundry.

One of the foundational ideals of a free nation is that all its citizens live under the same rules. Democrats know this. They’ve been lecturing us for years that “no one is above the law.”

So, what happens if a federal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., provides incontrovertible evidence that she obtained citizenship by lying? Should we ignore it? Should Omar be given an exemption from the law because she’s in Congress? Or because she’s a Democrat?

Those on the left carping about the investigation into Omar being politically motivated can’t be taken seriously. Not after they spent a decade engaged in blatant lawfare—first by attempting to annul the 2016 election of Donald Trump by concocting one lurid conspiracy theory after the next, and then by trying to stop him from running for the presidency in 2024.

When you spend your time stripping away norms, you can’t expect the other side to unilaterally disarm.

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Professor David Betz of University College London is interviewed for the Middle Eastern Forum.

Chapters
0:00 Preview
0:21 Welcome and introduction
1:05 Betz’s opening argument
2:30 Two vectors and convex politics
3:59 Factionalism
5:30 Downgrading
7:25 The legitimacy crisis
9:05 Economic precarity
11:25 Declining obedience
13:25 Elite incompetence and disunity
15:45 What the conflict would look like
17:53 No peaceful off-ramp
20:27 Q&A: Antisemitism in the U.K.
23:34 Lessons for the United States
29:04 Could it spread across Europe?
30:51 Belligerents, police and army
39:15 What does the elite want?
43:41 Four possible outcomes
52:33 Closing

The Foundry.

Everyone absorbing the elitist media spin on the midterm elections cannot avoid the swirling symphony of doom for the Republicans. Conventional wisdom suggests a good night for Democrats, and that’s before you look at the president’s dreadful approval rating. Polls can be tricky: one can disapprove of Trump and still vote the Republican party line.

All this doom might be accurate–or it might turn out like 2016. Hillary Clinton had a 98% chance of winning, they said. Then-“CBS Evening News” anchor Scott Pelley suppressed his delight as he claimed, “Time is running out for Donald Trump … No candidate down this far, this late, has ever recovered.” Over on ABC, Jonathan Karl echoed: “Donald Trump is down 17 points among women. You do not get elected … if you are down 17 points among women.”

When all of the media’s polls turned out to look like Fake News, Democrats immediately suspected the election had been stolen and then spent four years denying reality.

So it was amazing when the front page of The New York Times on Oct. 15 boasted new research on the president’s second-term statements about his loss in 2020: “Trump’s Relentless Campaign To Cast Doubt On Elections With Lies and Bold Claims.” They don’t have the slightest bit of shame about anyone turning that around on them. They won a Pulitzer Prize for their “relentless campaign to cast doubt” on Trump’s 2016 election, and they weren’t going to send it back in disgrace.

In 2024, the networks spent the last few weeks of the campaign wildly speculating about how Donald Trump wouldn’t accept his impending defeat and it would be complete chaos. They eagerly shared the alleged data point from the Des Moines Register that Kamala Harris was up 3 points in Iowa–and then she lost by 13.

New York Post.

Welcome to socialism in action.

Be careful not to step in the diversity; it’s impossible to get that off of your shoes.

New York Post.

Crews of motorized bike-riding thieves — some of them illegal migrant gang-bangers — are terrorizing New York City, viciously snatching thousands of dollars in jewelry from the necks of unsuspecting cops and civilians alike, The Post has learned.

There have been more than 20 motorized bike chain-snatchings since September, with at least 10 of them turning violent, according to the NYPD — and police sources say that’s just a drop in the bucket.

“There are hundreds of chain snatchings around the city,” said a law enforcement officer, who asked to remain anonymous because he’s not cleared to talk to the news media.

New York City—bringing the Turd World to you.

If they are caught, lefty judges often spring the crooks just as fast.

And they are never handed over to ICE if their immigration status is in question because NYC is a sanctuary city, an NYPD officer said.

“We’re not allowed to confer with ICE so we just arrest them,” said the cop, who also asked to remain anonymous so he wouldn’t get in trouble. “They get released on their own recognizance [by a judge] and they go back and do it again.”

Time to leave.

The War Zone.

Army leaders preparing for a potential fight in the Pacific told us that some of the biggest lessons they’ve learned from the war in Ukraine and America’s now-paused fight against Iran are to move around assets that you can and find a better way to camouflage those that you can’t. While seemingly common sense, these lessons come from watching how war is now waged. The ubiquity of drones in Ukraine providing constant overwatch and strike capabilities, and U.S. troops killed and equipment destroyed or damaged by massive Iranian barrages on static installations are informing changes to how the Army trains, equips and operates.

These conversations took place during the recently wrapped Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA) annual convention in Washington, D.C., which TWZ attended.

“A lot of the things that are happening right now in terms of long-range fires, integrated air and missile defense, and the lessons that we’re learning from them, we’re able to bring a lot of that to our potential challenges in the Pacific,” Gen. Ron Clark, commander of U.S. Army Pacific (USARPAC), told us at a media roundtable. “Specifically, I am thinking through mobility and camouflage. So it’s one of those age-old Army forgotten sciences of how to hide in plain sight and how to camouflage ourselves from observation, because the ability to be able to see surface entities is almost ubiquitous.”

NBC Frames Trump as Misogynist After Zacharia Press Secretary Ouster  If he were a Democrat, they would be celebrating his willingness to appoint women. (Bias? What bias?)

Infantino told by top Fifa figures to scrap or depoliticise peace prize after Trump furore (The Guardian)

Trump in Georgia falsely claims election of Jon Ossoff was illegitimate (George Chidi/The Guardian)

White House press secretary Katie Zacharia confirms she never passed bar exam after saying she’s a lawyer (Kathryn Watson/CBS News)  You don’t need to pass the bar exam to be a lawyer—all you need is a law degree, which she has. Passing the bar exam makes you an attorney, who can legally practice law, an entirely different thing, and one that ‘journalists’ and politicians keep getting wrong. I have a law degree, and so I am a lawyer; I never took the bar exam, and so am not licensed to practice, and hence not an attorney. This is the sort of ignorance with which we suffer on a daily basis.

Why Europe’s Right Is Breaking Up With MAGA (Wall Street Journal)  There’s that MAGA guy again. (MAGA is the New Nigger.)

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Maxinomics pulls together some information that you won’t see anywhere else.

If the enviro-Nazis hadn’t make nuclear power so impossibly expensive and over-regulated, this wouldn’t be a problem.

The Left and the government are the reason why we can’t have nice things.

Nature.

As large engineering efforts go towards improving the resolution of mobile, augmented reality (AR), and virtual reality (VR) displays, it is important to know the maximum resolution at which further improvements bring no noticeable benefit. This limit is often referred to as the retinal resolution, although the limiting factor may not necessarily be attributed to the retina. To determine the ultimate resolution at which an image appears sharp to our eyes with no perceivable blur, we created an experimental setup with a sliding display, which allows for continuous control of the resolution. The lack of such control was the main limitation of the previous studies. We measure achromatic (black-white) and chromatic (red-green and yellow-violet) resolution limits for foveal vision, and at two eccentricities (10° and 20°). Our results demonstrate that the resolution limit is higher than what was previously believed, reaching 94 pixels per degree (ppd) for foveal achromatic vision, 89 ppd for red-green patterns, and 53 ppd for yellow-violet patterns. We also observe a much larger drop in the resolution limit for chromatic patterns (red-green and yellow-violet) than for achromatic patterns. Our results provide quantitative benchmarks for display development, with implications for future imaging, rendering, and video coding technologies.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Can a college campus accurately assess its antisemitism problem without talking to Jews?

That’s the question facing the University of Pittsburgh, where an internal working group on campus antisemitism recently published a report that did not include, nor appear to have solicited, the perspectives of the school’s estimated 1,400 Jewish students — nor any other members of the campus Jewish community beyond the group itself.

Apparently they didn’t want to be confused by facts.

Newsbusters.

As they do.

We’ve noted California Democrat gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra has lied repeatedly about his life story, for example, announcing in a September 30 CNN debate that his parents “came to this country with $12, and they settled in California.” He also told Ana Navarro his father came to America in his 20s with $12 in his pocket. But an obituary said his father was born in Sacramento.

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Later, they get it right — after getting it wrong twice: “Mr. Becerra’s father was born in Sacramento, and then moved back to Mexico as a child before returning to the United States. Though Mr. Becerra has not focused much on Latino issues during the governor’s race, he has invoked his family history at almost every public appearance.”

This is the whole point — that Becerra is lying in all these invocations. It’s still there on Becerra’s campaign website: “Two immigrants with 12 dollars and a dream. Come to California in pursuit of a better life.” Remember this when they lecture about campaign misinformation.

1Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

4We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

5Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

— Lamentations 5:1-5

New Documents Question Key Claims From Trump’s 2019 Impeachment

Federal Judge Tosses Ex-CIA Chief Brennan’s ‘Speculative’ Lawsuit Against Trump Admin

Trump DOJ suing California marks major ‘escalation’ in election interference attempts, experts warn (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)  Apparently trying to make sure that only legal voters vote is ‘election interference’.

Trump’s Deal With Russia Inflames War He Vowed to Swiftly End (New York Times) “When the facts change, sir, I change my opinions. What do you do?” — John Maynard Keynes.

Trump’s October Surprise Is a Pivot to Putin (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker)

FAKE NEWS: The Media Make Up a Pre-Midterm ‘Record Gas Price’ Category

Trump’s MAGA allies openly discuss martial law (Brittany Gibson/Axios) Sure, I believe that.

Young Voters Say They Are Turning Their Backs on Trump and His Party (New York Times)  At least the ‘young voters’ asked by the NYT. (My, what a surprise….)

Power struggle erupts in Trump’s White House as midterm losses loom (Washington Post)  Pushing the Narrative ahead of the mid-terms.

Trump: The Polls Are All Fixed  I think that’s an accurate statement.

North Carolina and Georgia Senate races look lost for the GOP. Why Trump is going anyway. (Politico)  Let’s push the Narrative@!

Why America’s Political Divide Is Also an Economic Divide (Aaron Zitner/Wall Street Journal)  Between taxpayers and taxeaters.

Trump admits ‘I have some very severe problems’ in Biden-like ramble at White House (Andrew Feinberg/The Independent)  Mostly with the Narrative Media.

Megadonors are powering Republicans’ spending advantage (Jessica Piper/Politico)  Preparing excuses in case the Narrative turns out to be bullshit.

How the White House Historical Association is trying to survive Trump (Dan Diamond/Washington Post)  Save that free Federal money!

FIFA Peace Prize could be scrapped a year on from Donald Trump win (Dan Sheldon/The Athletic)  Trump cooties conquers all.

Where Is the Outrage Over Trump’s Racist Targeting of Ilhan Omar? (Jeet Heer/The Nation)  Maybe nobody but the deranged Left thinks it’s racist. Maybe they think it’s purely political. Hell, maybe people think he’s just letting the DoJ enforce the law. I seem to recall he took an oath to do that when he was inaugurated.

Trump’s Attempt to Deport Ilhan Omar Is Another Leap Toward the Abyss (Michelle Goldberg/New York Times) Bias? What bias?

The Tigers-Eating-Faces Party Is Real (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)  The Bullshitwark business model seems to be to publish deranged stories in hopes that people will find them entertaining.

Judge Orders Trump Admin To Reopen 2027 Diversity Visa Lottery

Judge Threatens Trump With Sanctions to Testify in BBC Lawsuit (Erik Larson/Bloomberg)

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After “defund the police” sparked a political backlash in 2020, Democratic candidates largely stopped using the slogan, but the movement behind it has hardly gone away.

Before you can defund the police, you first have to convince the public that the police themselves are the problem.

In New York City, that is precisely what the Democratic Socialists of America are trying to do. They have turned a federal immigration shooting into a campaign against the Big Apple’s own police department.

On Oct. 8, ICE agents shot and wounded Oscar Belgal during an attempted arrest in the Marble Hill section of Manhattan. Belgal had a prior conviction for grand larceny and was facing a separate drug charge. His 5-year-old son was in the car.

The NYPD had no role in the operation. Its officers arrived afterward and rushed Belgal to the hospital.

But that did not prevent the socialists from seizing on the incident to bash New York’s finest. Their response? Demand that Mayor Zohran Mamdani fire Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch.

The Foundry.

A Michigan health care organization has received tens of millions of dollars in government grants despite donating to a political nonprofit that targets Republican state lawmakers through ad campaigns.

According to recent nonprofit grant disclosures, the Michigan Health & Hospital Association represents $22.3 million in government grants in the 2025 fiscal year and has annual revenue of $62 million.

However, the organization’s tax filings show that it has donated at least $1.15 million to the Michigan Citizens for Better Health, a politically active nonprofit that has spent $2.49 million in advertising targeting seven Republican state lawmakers in Michigan House districts.

2024 tax filings also show that the politically active nonprofit gave $100,000 to a Michigan Democratic Committee administrative account.

The nonprofits’ opposition to Republicans comes after the state Speaker of the House, Matt Hall, questioned hospital pricing practices and called for greater accountability in the health care industry. The speaker’s questions arose after state House Democrats advocated for the passage of the 340B program, which would offer hospitals and medical patients discounted prices, but fails to specify how hospitals would adequately demonstrate that the financial benefits reach each patient.

The nonprofit has previously defended the 340B program, arguing that it increases health care access and offers essential hospital services.

Michigan Citizens for Better Health and Michigan Health & Hospital Association did not respond to the Daily Signal’s request for comment.

Not the Bee.

Although that won’t discourage them from raping non-Muslim teen girls, I suspect.

Not the Bee.

This is a real thing that happened.

After a week of Democrats griping about Trump’s “political persecution” of Ilhan Omar and his supposed attempts to “lock up” his political opponents, Angie Nixon, the Democrat running for Florida’s open Senate seat, reminded us that the Dems want to lock you up (or worse).

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Man, they should’ve been a little more careful when they wrote the 14th Amendment. Look how much it’s cost us.

They did not anticipate that crooks and fools would be in charge of the government in the 20th century.

But yeah, according to the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the annual bill for educating, doctoring, and feeding the U.S.-born kids of immigrants comes out to a cool $150.7 billion — half of which is spent on education (so making them dumber and teaching them about gay stuff).

Serves ’em right.

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Don’t mind the AI. It’s the times we live in.

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Gee, imagine that.

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Folders is a non-textual language, where code is expressed in containment and order alone. The names of the folders are ignored, apart from alphabetical ordering. In other words, they are pure ordered trees.

Inspired by the Whitespace language, Folders is devoted to the idea of dematerialized code. It began with the question What is more empty than a file with no visible text? The empty folder is clutter, an appendage with no purpose. In git, it is ignored entirely (for this reason, it is suggested that Folders programs put .gitignore files in their deepest reaches).

Folders began as a Windows language. In Windows, folders are an even more extreme measure of emptiness: they take up no disk space at all. For proof, create 352,449 folders and get properties on it. In this way, Folders offers not only a dematerialized approach to code but also infinite storage capacity. Keep all your data encoded in folder names and never worry about running out of space again.

For those who use other operating systems, the emulator below gives some of the experience of how Folders manages data and code.

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A Center City woman was arrested after allegedly refusing to move out of the path of a delivery robot.

The confrontation was captured on video and has since drawn online attention.

Philadelphia police said officers responded to the 1200 block of Filbert Street after witnesses reported a disturbance involving Carolyn Marvin and an Uber delivery robot near Reading Terminal Market.

According to police, Marvin repeatedly blocked the robot’s path and ignored multiple commands from officers to move.

She was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct.

I guess asking to see its manager didn’t work.

“I know they’re taking the jobs of human delivery workers and so, I have been protesting them whenever I saw them by standing in front of them and preventing them from going forward,” Marvin said.

Not the Bee.

She felt comfortable saying this on TV. Think about that.

Her number one priority! Nothing is more important to her than this!

Not crime reduction. Not the economy. Not affordability. Not jobs. Not even giving the Wisconsin Badgers the NIL money to become relevant in college sports again.

Just your regular reminder that the average Democrat candidate, even in the conservative-leaning Midwest, wants to invite the entire world to live in America and fundamentally destroy the land built by our forefathers.

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He certainly seems perfectly integrated with modern German culture.

An African man, who was described as “perfectly integrated,” is on trial in Bonn on charges connected to the strangling murder of his wife, whom he then dismembered. The woman’s remains were later found in several locations across Germany, according to court proceedings.

Asmerom G., 42, an Eritrean national, faces the charges in Bonn Regional Court in North Rhine-Westphalia. The case stems from events in mid-November 2025 involving his wife, Weghata A., 32. The couple had married in Ethiopia in 2019, and she arrived in Germany in 2024 through family reunification.

The defendant allegedly met his wife, 32-year-old Weghata A., inside his car, where they began arguing on their way back from a church visit. According to Bonner Generalanzeiger newspaper, Asmerom G. later told police that his wife told him their 3-month-old girl was not his biological child. He reportedly could not remember what happened next.

Yeah,  right.

The American Mind.

The Obama Presidential Center, located on Chicago’s South Side, opened in June 2026, nine years and five months after Barack Obama’s term in office concluded. The politicians who build these centers force themselves to run one final fundraising gauntlet, not to finance an election campaign but to leave behind an edifice that makes an enduring case for their probity, sagacity, and historical importance.

What sets Obama apart is that he began publicly discussing the greatness he hoped for prior to occupying, winning, or seeking the nation’s highest office. “My attitude about something like the presidency is that you don’t want to just be the president,” Barack Obama told journalist Jacob Weisberg in 2006. “You want to change the country. You want to make a unique contribution. You want to be a great president.” Later in the interview he said, “There are, what, maybe 10 presidents in our history out of 40-something who you can truly say led the country? And then there are 30 who just kind of did their best.”

At the time, having been elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004 after serving eight years in the Illinois state legislature, Obama was still a Washington, D.C. newcomer. The author of The Audacity of Hope (2006) lived up to his book’s title in October 2006, during an appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press. “When I think about great presidents, I think about those who transform how we think about ourselves as a country in fundamental ways,” Obama said. Specifically, “they transformed the culture” rather than “simply promoted one or two particular issues.”

By that measure, Trump is one of the greatest U.S. Presidents of all time.

Notably absent from the latter takes, however, were claims that Obama had fulfilled the lofty expectations he had set before being elected. His admirers, rather, had long since concluded that he was a capable leader but not a world-historical figure. Jacob Weisberg, reflecting in 2017 for Slate on the career of the young politician he had interviewed eleven years before, wrote that Obama’s “legacy of integrity, eloquence, and patient commitment” qualified him as an “inspirational” president. But not a “transformational” one.

He was a legend in his own mind.

Not the Bee.

Funny how that works … or doesn’t….

Quillette.

On 24 September, a self-described founder and “adviser to CEOs” posted on LinkedIn about Gucci and Dior withdrawing their handbags from the Australian department store David Jones. After describing the store’s financial difficulties, she suggested that David Jones’s female chief executive was experiencing the “glass cliff.” The “glass cliff” refers to the idea that, having broken through the glass ceiling, women are disproportionately appointed to lead failing organisations, where they are most likely to be blamed when things go wrong.

“What on earth does the management’s gender have to do with it?” asked fellow LinkedIn user Chris Bradley, a senior partner at McKinsey and a director of the McKinsey Global Institute (whom I interviewed for Quillette’s YouTube channel in July).

It was a relatively innocuous question. But the ensuing debate would have a cascade of consequences. Within three weeks, Bradley had been stripped of his directorship and other leadership responsibilities at McKinsey, and had his face plastered across Bloomberg, the Australian Financial Review, The Sydney Morning Herald, the New York Post, Fast Company, and other international publications. Meanwhile, Julia Carreon and Shannon Nutter, whose new book had been recommended in the original LinkedIn post, enjoyed an unexpected burst of publicity.

There is no realm of life that toxic feminism has not corrupted.

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In Australia, a policy debate has broken out following the federal government’s release of its long-promised internet regulation, the digital duty of care. The stakes may be nothing less than the future of freedom on the internet.

The proposed law, an amendment to the existing Online Safety Act 2021, would impose a broad obligation on almost all online services to protect all users, not just children, from harmful content and features, and to manage “reasonably foreseeable risks.”

The government has presented its motivations as being consumer choice and safety. At a press conference launching a draft of the proposed law, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese declared the digital duty of care a “sensible, pragmatic, practical reform” that “is not about giving government control [but] about giving people control.” Communications Minister Anika Wells likened the measure to other kinds of consumer protections: “The same way that we have safety standards for cars, for food, for appliances, Australia is setting basic standards for the online tools and online services within our digital duty of care.”

Thank God for the First Amendment.

Don’t go to Australia.

New York Post.

Young women in my generation were lied to.

We grew up in the era of “sex positivity” and were told that sex was a morally inconsequential pastime.

We were led to believe that by having sex like men, we could achieve liberation.

Guess that didn’t work.

New York Post.

Elon Musk couldn’t hide his delight after unveiling his new Tesla supercar “The Roadster” that could fly and hit 60 mph in under a second.

The SpaceX founder, 55, told guests at an event held at a SpaceX site in McGregor, Texas, on Thursday that the next-generation all-electric vehicle “can basically fly like a rocket”, can do “rolls”, and “crazy gymnastics” while it was being showcased.

“Well it worked,” Musk quipped alongside Tesla’s Vice President of Vehicle Engineering Lars Moravy and Tesla’s Chief Designer Franz von Wolzhausen after the demonstration passed without any accident.

Something you won’t get under socialism.

New York Post.

Two church non-profits have taken in at least $62 million to build the Somali community in Minnesota — leading to the rise of Ilhan Omar and the fraud scandals that have gripped that state, The Post can reveal.

Catholic Charities and Lutheran Social Services were at the forefront of reshaping the frigid Land of 10,000 Lakes thanks to generous government contracts stemming back generations.

“This is a very big pile of government money and a whole bunch of different groups have come to get their own slice of it,” Parker Thayer, an immigration expert at the Washington, DC-based Capital Research Center, told The Post.

Politico, a Voice of the Crust.

At a moment when populist candidates and anti-billionaire sentiment are surging nationally, a campaign to tax the assets of California’s billionaires is faltering.

Opponents are hammering the airwaves with ads portraying the tax as an economic wrecking ball, and the measure’s poll numbers have steadily eroded. Multiple surveys last month found it drawing only a narrow plurality, with support in the mid-40s — a warning sign for a campaign that needs to expand its coalition.

Ballot initiative veteran Chris Lehman pointed to one telling shift: Independents now oppose the wealth tax while supporting a separate tax measure for public schools. That, he said, “should’ve rang every alarm bell on Earth.”

“The trendlines from the polling I’ve seen are all looking bad for the yes side,” said Lehman, who is not working for either campaign. “They’re all looking good for the no side.”

A labor union’s proposal to offset federal health care cuts with a one-time, 5% tax on the state’s fewer than 300 billionaires has convulsed California politics from the moment it was filed late last year. Now, as ballots are hitting voters’ mailboxes, Proposition 40’s supporters are getting knocked back by powerful headwinds — including an opposition alliance comprising some of the state’s most powerful political players and richest residents.

Newsweek, a Voice of the Crust.

Vegan diets have been growing in popularity in recent years. However, experts investigated the impacts of an all-plant based diet in mice and found that it had a worrying effect on their liver.

Researchers at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, saw that when mice were switched to an exclusively plant-based diet, within only a few days their liver function changed and they experienced a significant decrease in motivation to do physical activity.

Unlike human vegans, who are a pain in the ass wherever they go.

Not the Bee.

I mean it. This might be the best thing on Instagram this week.

Trisha Fenimore, a conservative content creator, posted a series of videos on Wednesday theorizing about a “conspiracy” by the Left to break major sex scandals right before elections to sway female voters.

Rollo Tomassi made the same point on his podcast last Sunday. He predicted that on the day after the election the Cornell 7 will disappear into the void. Considering that the incident happened two years ago, I think he’s got a point.

Don’t call it ‘conspiracy theory’—call it ‘spoiler alert’.

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So can migrants—back where they came from.

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The Department of Justice is suing California after state officials failed to comply with a 48-hour ultimatum to review a list of suspected noncitizen voters and set aside their ballots pending citizenship verification.

On Tuesday, acting Deputy Attorney General R. Trent McCotter sent letters to California Secretary of State Shirley Weber and Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder Dean Logan, demanding action on a federal list of potential noncitizens.

The DOJ instructed officials to segregate ballots already returned, stop sending ballots to individuals on the list until their citizenship was verified, and refrain from counting ballots pending verification.

“Allowing noncitizens to vote cancels citizen votes,” McCotter wrote, according to a letter obtained by NBC News.

Gov. Gavin Newsom took to X, calling the demand “dangerous nonsense.”

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About a dozen girls on a Washington state high school cross-country team forfeited a race Tuesday rather than compete against a male runner who switched from the boys team to the girls team mid-season.

Footage of the meet between Camas High School and Battle Ground High School in southwestern Washington shows the starting signal sounding and some runners beginning the race while the protesting girls walk forward before leaving the course.

“I don’t see how it’s OK to discriminate against my daughter and the daughters of everyone else that is trying to fairly compete,” Kevin Burns, whose daughter Holly led the protest, told OutKick.

Last month, a Camas sophomore male switched to the girls team midseason. After finishing 76th in a boys race, he has since won a varsity girls meet and placed second in two others, Outkick reported. The story has gained national attention, with teammates and opponents staging protests.

Camas School District Superintendent John Anzalone said the girls will not be penalized for refusing to compete.

“The girls are entitled to handle this however is best for them, and I was at the meet and it was peacefully done,” he told Outkick. “This was really about supporting and providing that space for the girls who did walk off to do so and not feel any repercussions.”

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American taxpayer dollars were being used to prop up leftist candidates in the Western Hemisphere under former President Joe Biden, a top Brazilian politician who is now seeking refuge in the United States from incarceration under his country’s socialist government, told the Daily Signal on Wednesday.

Eduardo Bolsonaro, the son of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who is now imprisoned, and brother of current presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro, made his remarks after eight countries in the region elected conservative candidates for president since Secretary of State Marco Rubio defunded the U.S. Agency for International Development in 2025.

“Absolutely, after my dad left the presidency, there was an increase in American money via USAID, NED (The National Endowment for Democracy), and the Atlantic Council for Brazil- money that belongs to the American taxpayer. We are talking about $300 million Brazilian Reais ($60 million USD). Now we need to combat the misinformation that the money helped raise.

“For example, we know that at least $5 million USD reached Brazil in 2022 to create these agencies that combat any sort of public criticism of the socialist government, which these agencies referred to as ‘right-wing misinformation,’” Bolsonaro continued.

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