DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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As America prepares to memorialize the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, expect a bright, glaring omission in the upcoming speeches, editorials, and televised survivor retrospectives about this history, important to tell for its warning that national vigilance remains necessary even now.

Left on the cutting room floors will be the all-important, basic “why”, exactly, al-Qaeda hijackers carried out these attacks. The too-offensive-for-public-discourse “why” part of 9/11 can be readily found in, for instance, the recovered United Airlines Flight 93 cockpit recordings, which reveal one hijacker’s motivation at an authentic moment of truth. Nine times over that nosediving flight’s final six seconds before it disintegrated with all 40 victims into a Shanksville, Pa. field, the hijacker repeatedly chanted: “Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar…!” Allah is great.

Expect schoolteachers, media pundits, and elected leaders speechifying at the New York memorial (think New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani), to pretzel-twist themselves around ever saying aloud that a religious motive rooted in Islamist ideology drove the 9/11 hijackers to that mass murder—and still does. Removing even passing references to Islamism as 9/11’s guiding motivation from the coming national discourse short-circuits civic duty to remind Americans that this problem lives on 25 years later as a national security threat.

Not all Muslims are terrorists, but almost all terrorists are Muslims. I wonder why that is….

Angry, Unglued Trump Accidentally Reveals His Contempt for MAGA Voters (New Republic) Greg Sargemt loses his shit.

Lindsay Clancy’s attorney makes public plea for Trump pardon (Victoria Craw/Washington Post)  Don’t hold your breath.

Trump Is Quietly Planning to Majorly Change How National Parks Are Run (NOTUS)  OH NOES!

Morning Joe Clamors for Trump Era to Go to ‘Ash Heap of History’

Former GOP lawmakers join Democrats to challenge Trump’s mail-in voting crackdown (Kevin Frey/MS NOW)  RINO Alert!

Smithsonian’s Secretary to Resign as Trump Tries to Rule the Institution (New York Times)  I guess he does.

Dems Ask for Probe Into Trump Team’s Handling of Anniversary Data (Dan Friedman/Mother Jones)

Trump’s Mail-Ballot Attack Is Already Sowing Midterm Chaos (Mary Ellen Klas/Bloomberg)

Which Republican Senate Candidates Are Skipping Trump’s Convention? (Kellen Browning/New York Times) Let’s read some minds, shall we?

The View: Vote Democratic in Midterms or Everyone Will ‘Literally’ Die  As long as it includes the shrews on The View, I’m good with it.

Trump’s next trade weapon (Courtenay Brown/Axios)  Let’s try some mind-reading, shall we?

Democrat El-Sayed Hits Trump Efforts to Cast Him as Villain (Bloomberg)

At 9/11 Tribute, Trump Claims Firefighters Carried Him to Safety (Katie Rogers/New York Times)  A rather transparent lie.

Veterans group launches new campaign against Trump’s planned arch (Ellen Mitchell/The Hill)

Newsbusters.

Quite agree.  Unfortunately, socialists aren’t any better.

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Blame America First!

And possibly further damage, depending on my mood, the time of day, and the phase of the moon.

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New Hampshire is now officially a Blue State.

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How about that government-provided ‘universal’ health care!

Worse on Purpose.

Today, I want to share the sources that I have bookmarked and return to whenever I make a purchase.

It is by no means a complete list. It is just an account of the resources I have personally come to value over the years. My hope is that we might build a more complete list together in The Community.

Before the list, I’ll outline the three mechanisms that corrupt almost every review you read online, then the three questions I ask of any reviewer. Together, they’ll tell you in about five minutes whether a source is worth your time.

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A real test produces numbers, and numbers produce losers. A costume lab produces ranked lists of only winners in spurious categories with buy buttons on every row.

Alma Boykin.

Is it important to be aware that hitching bulls to a wagon might not go well? Should younger people learn about suckling pig and the reason we eat pigs young (if they are old-breed animals)? How vital today is the knowledge of the death march drums, and military justice, or the sequence of plow-sow-harrow-weed-harvest with sickles?

I”m always somewhat surprised by what some of my students don’t know, and don’t realize that they don’t know. But then they’ve never been around horse and ox farming, don’t see really old wagons and hand tools, have no idea about crafts of the pre-industrial or even pre-WWII world. To describe, oh, Deism as “the watchmaker g-d” makes no sense to people who have never seen the interior of a mechanical watch or clock.

When and where I grew up, horse and ox-drawn farming was not that far away, and some people still had Conestoga-type wagons for reenactments. We read things like the Little House books in school, and I read the McGuffey’s readers. My grandparents had wash pot and washboard, and explained how they were used. I saw people making soap (not fun) candles (only the semi-fun part) and was encouraged to learn how weaving and so on worked. We had a big garden that was attacked by rabbits, which had to be thinned via air-rifle. Composted manure? Taught me about how fertilizer and crop rotation happened before nitrogen fertilizer was invented. “History” wasn’t all that far away, or at least, historic technologies like water-powered grist mills, windmills for water, and so on were not far away.

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Gee, who could have predicted that?

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A professor of pan-African studies with a leadership role in Black Lives Matter urged her audience to “f— up” an officer with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Sunday, stating that there should be nowhere the agent could “go where they are comfortable.”

Melina Abdullah, a professor of Pan-African studies at California State University, Los Angeles, identified the ICE agent by name, mentioning the hotel he was staying at.

She urged her audience to “study guerrilla warfare” and use “every single tool in your toolbox.”

“So, when I say f— him up—and I say f— Brian Palacios up, who may be staying at the Hilton Garden Inn—when I say f— him up, I mean in many ways, they don’t get to do their shit invisibly,” she added. “There should be nowhere that they go where they are comfortable.”

Abdullah spoke at the La Defensa del Pueblo Summit, organized by the immigrant rights group Ventura County Defensa, with union support.

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The other day, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani told Qatari state media that the United States was “spending tens of billions of dollars on killing people” when that money “could have been used to make life easier” for the public. “There always seems to be money for war,” he went on, “but not to feed the poor.”

The United States, in reality, spends immense amounts of money feeding and taking care of the poor—far more than it does on war.

Yet, if you listened to the Left, you’d think military spending was driving the debt and squeezing the poor. National defense comprises around 13% of the federal budget, far less than the primary drivers of debt, Social Security and Medicare.

We spend less on the military than we do paying down the interest on our immense $40 trillion national debt.

A debt that exists predominantly because Democorats never met a dollar that they didn’t want to spend (on something that would buy them votes).

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Gloria Steinem, a popularizer of feminist dogmas, died last week at the age of 92. She promoted many of the false doctrines of women’s liberation beginning in the 1960s through her persona, writings, publications, and speeches. As she passes from the scene, few of the original so-called second-wave feminists remain. Yet the overwhelming victories the movement has achieved in the decades since have largely obscured the radicalism at its center.

As I researched my second book, The Recovery of Family Life: Exposing the Limits of Modern Ideologies, I read Steinem’s influential 1970 Time essay, “What It Would Be Like If Women Win,” to understand what the fully realized feminist project would look like. What emerged from my survey of her work was the idea of an unfinished and unfinishable Rolling Feminist Revolution.

Feminists are stereotypical Progressives, and the signature psychosis of Progressives is that they have no end game—there is never any  point in their program where they can say, “Okay, we’ve won, we can stop now.”

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Chrystia Freeland is an exceptional representative of the mindset showcased by 80% of Canadians. During her tenure as Deputy Minister to Justin Trudeau, Freeland organized “emergency powers” to target government opposition which included the seizure of bank accounts and government control over the income of Canadian citizens they disliked. The events described are not in question.

Current Prime Minister Mark Carney then placed Freeland as the advisor to Ukraine President Zelenskyy on the Ukraine reconstruction banking and finance agenda. A charter member of the globalist control mechanisms within the World Economic Forum, Chrystia Freeland is currently working for Ukraine and the EU-NATO allies in the banking and finance capacity; inside the mechanics of the system that controls the financial fraud within Ukraine.

As Mark Carney is desperately trying to organize a globalist response to President Trump’s program of economic nationalism and sovereignty, Freeland travels back to the U.S. to appear on leftist media outlets and proclaim that Trump’s economic perspective is evidence of “authoritarianism.” The current Canadian approach is to try and influence domestic politics inside the United States, on behalf of the global interests opposed to Trump.

It should be noted that the activity underway by Canadian officials inside the USA is against the law in Canada. The Canadian govt do not permit foreign influence to undermine them and have strict controls over their media.

No wonder Democrats are always threatening to move to Canada. It’s their forever home.

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In 2022, Merriam-Webster declared gaslighting its word of the year after searches for the term increased by more than 1,700%. “It’s a word that has risen so quickly in the English language, and especially in the last four years, that it actually came as a surprise to me and to many of us,” said Peter Sokolowski, Merriam-Webster’s editor at large. “It was a word looked up frequently every single day of the year.”

There is a rapid rise in Americans framing ordinary life through the lens of therapeutic language. And as the categories of the therapeutic expand, ordinary life increasingly appears pathological. We now speak casually of toxic people, trauma, narcissists, emotional safety, triggers, boundaries, and gaslighting. Some of this cultural shift can work toward the good. Mental illness has become less stigmatized, and people who once might have suffered silently feel freer to seek help.

Yet every cultural correction invites overcorrection. While it’s a good thing that those who need therapy seek it, the unchecked spread of therapy-speak and the ease of self-diagnosis carry serious cultural and relational costs. A challenging friend or relative can be dismissed as toxic. If someone pushes back on my perspective, I can either engage in self-reflection or accuse that person of gaslighting me. Therapy-speak makes it difficult to distinguish between genuine psychological manipulation and ordinary human conflict. The ordinary frictions of life turn into catastrophes.

“Therapy” is a scam. Our knowledge of how people think and react to daily situations is about at the level of medieval knowledge of disease. We can see what people do, and there are a multiplicity of theories as to why, but we have no actual knowledge, because the human mind is a complex system, and (like all complex systems) involves so many components that they cannot be either understood or predicted with our current level of technology.

Sure, it can help some people, just as medieval chirurgeons helped some people get well, but that’s more a lucky coincidence than a ‘scientific’ practice. Going to therapy is about as accurate as casting your horoscope, and for the same reason—little of it has actual science behind it, but is rather extrapolation from the favorite theories of people whose problem isn’t what they know but what they know that ain’t so.

Benjamin Franklin:

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

Quillette.

It is said that a fanatic is someone who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject. This insight tells against a growing faction of the Left exemplified by the 10 August issue of New York magazine. The issue’s cover story and 31-page feature, titled “Habibi City,” is ostensibly a celebration of New York’s growing Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) cultural scene. But the magazine is less interested in the rich diversity within that community than it is in a few individuals and organisations advancing a particular agenda. Some ideological traditions are honoured at the expense of others. Kurds and Druze are disregarded, while Jews are presented in almost entirely negative terms.

Quillette.

A review of Deborah Soh’s Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy. Be aware that Dr. Soh is a feminist, even in the face of all the evidence she has accumulated and shared.

So the painting depicts a tragically isolated woman, burdened with a thoroughly distorted view of the world, unable to survive contact with reality when love strikes for real, and doomed to die alone.

Which brings me neatly to the matter of modern dating. Or rather, the stark lack of dating, or sex, or babies.

Quillette.

In April, Memorial University—the only university in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador—posted five job openings for prestigious Canada Research Chair (CRC) professorships. In all five cases, it was specified explicitly that able-bodied white men need not apply. Rather, the jobs were reserved for members of “equity groups, including women; 2SLGBTQIA+ people; Indigenous peoples; racialised persons; and persons with disabilities.”

Following the uproar, Memorial administrators refused to apologise or back down. Instead, they explained that universities across Canada were all doing the same thing (even if they weren’t so blatant about it)—since any school seeking to get Canada Research Chair funding from the federal government must demonstrate that they are tearing down “systemic barriers in academic hiring.”

Memorial University isn’t wrong. As a group of researchers led by University of Buckingham professor Eric Kaufmann details in a new report published by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Canada’s $300-million-per-year Canada Research Chairs program restricts disbursements to universities that hit aggressive affirmative-action targets set by government officials.

The Antiplanner.

Portland’s light-rail system was 40 years old last Saturday and naturally TriMet, the region’s transit agency, has a celebratory article all about how Portland managed to escape the evil Robert Moses, who was trying to force everyone to drive cars in the 1950s and 1960s. Needless to say, the article never mentions that the share of the region’s workers who commuted by transit fell from 9.6 percent before light-rail construction began to 6.5 percent when the first line was completed and it has never recovered since.

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“Be part of the project of forbidding man-made law.” Anjem Choudary urges his followers (NRK documentary on Sharia courts in UK, 2011).

Mr. Choudary is definitive: “Allah is the only one to legislate.” (CBS 60 minutes, 2014). There is a difficulty, however — that is not what the Koran says:

“What has been decided by Allah and His messenger” (Koran 33:36)
“What has been forbidden by Allah and His messenger” (Koran 9:29)
In each case it is a joint decision. Two parties are involved — Allah and his messenger: it is clearly stated. Evidently Allah had a partner.

If Shari’a only applied to Arabs, nobody would have a problem with it, just as nobody has any problem with the Torah, which only applies to Jews. But Muslims seek to impose Shari’a on EVERYBODY, and that’s a problem.

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This is what they call one of those dangerous ‘ah-ha‘ moments. A British Police Commissioner from Hampshire, was discussing the newest illegal migrant influx that has been happening on the eastern coastline of the U.K. During the final 19 seconds of Donna Jones remarks, she identified the core issue that has perplexed many:

…”This is a real wake up call to the government, yet again, that the British people are fed up with the lack of control of our borders. Which is why, we really need to be looking as a country about our membership in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), because that’s why we can’t turn the boats around and send them back to France”…

That 19-seconds was immediately cut out of the BBC rebroadcast of the interview. However, the moment was caught and shared on the X platform.

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Gee, some of us think that it was the whole point.

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Over the holiday weekend, another illegal immigrant was involved in a deadly crash, this time in Fairfield County, Ohio. Other Ohioans have also been killed in recent crashes allegedly caused by illegal immigrant drivers.

Both Sen. Bernie Moreno and Sen. Jon Husted, two Republicans from Ohio, called attention to the matter on X to express their outrage, especially regarding the frequency of the tragic events.

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Ohio’s gubernatorial election is less than two months away, and Democrat Amy Acton has been making headlines for stances that may seem at odds with her party, including on cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Is it a tactic?

An Aug. 26 headline from News 5 Cleveland noted how “Democrat Acton supports ICE collaboration” with a framing of how she “is breaking from her party … “

“We always work with the federal law enforcement, and we will do so—whatever it takes to keep Ohioans safe,” Acton, who had been asked specifically about ICE officers, said. “We need to hold anyone who comes to our state to the same standards of professionalism that we expect of our public safety officers, and I will always fight for that.”

The Daily Signal spoke with two Ohio strategists, Republican Matt Dole and Democrat Brian Rothenberg. Neither works for their party’s nominee for governor.

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On Friday, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed a proclamation commemorating the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack. He then quickly ensured the pen used to sign the proclamation was given to a man who represented an al-Qaeda terrorist and a Gitmo detainee described as the “20th hijacker.”

Mamdani may as well have driven the pen into the heart of those whose loved ones were pulverized on that terrible morning.

Did Mamdani know what he was doing? Does his wife get a thrill up her leg from Hamas?

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The McKinney City Council recall effort has been underway for nearly a month, with petitioners and their supporters alleging that some former elected officials, city-affiliated individuals, and other residents have attempted to discourage people from signing the petition.

Petitioners and their supporters, including some Texans who do not live in McKinney, told the Daily Signal that they have faced criticism and what they describe as intimidation or harassment because of their involvement in the recall effort.

“Opponents of the McKinney recall aren’t just arguing the issues, they’re trying to scare people off from signing. Businesses that let us collect signatures get flooded with calls until they back out. People get followed to their cars, filmed at the tables, and named online so others can pile on,” said petition volunteer Ashley Marie.

Among those opposing the recall is former McKinney Mayor George Fuller, who has used social media to criticize the effort and question some of its supporters.

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My kids just started back at school, and as a mom and an attorney defending parental rights, I want to stand up and applaud President Donald Trump’s work to crack down on the extremism and unconstitutional actions of schools from Kansas to Massachusetts.

Trump is right to use every lever of power he has in the Department of Justice and the Department of Education to make it clear to every woke school district that the constitutional rights of parents and students are not waived when they enter a school.

The only way to hold these schools accountable and stop secret gender transitions is for the Trump administration to take a strong stand. Federal statutes don’t give parents the right to sue the schools, so the president is doing it for them.

Trump’s DOJ just sued a Kansas school district for “facilitating secret ‘gender transitions’ for children without their parents’ knowledge or consent.” This “first of its kind” lawsuit was put in place because the school district was violating federal laws, allowing public schools to play parent, and putting children at risk.

And let’s not forget about the many schools now allowing biological boys to enter girls’ bathrooms.

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I have always wondered about that.

BBC, a Voice of the Crust.

Spanish intelligence services warned of social media calls for a mass migrant crossing into Ceuta the day before tens of thousands of people entered the territory, newly released government documents show.

The revelations emerged in documents declassified by the Spanish government amid accusations it failed to give the full story of the migrant influx.

On 29 July, Spain’s National Intelligence Service (CNI) told Moroccan and Ceuta authorities that social media groups were encouraging migrants to cross the following day.

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has insisted that the events of 30 July were impossible to predict, but opposition parties say the documents show the government misled Spaniards.

As they do.

New York Post.

The number of New York parents choosing to homeschool has exploded by more than 200% over the past 15 years — the highest rate of growth in all school sectors — as the nation’s biggest public school system struggles with an illiteracy and innumeracy crisis.

According to the most recent 2025-2026 figures analyzed by The Post, New York state now has a whopping 53,905 children being homeschooled — a figure that has more than tripled since 2009-10.

In New York City, those figures are also rising — with more than 14,000 children being homeschooled at last count.

A pity. NYC schools used to be among the best in the nation, and a great tool for assimilating newcomers.

Hunter Biden To Launch Memecoin, Will Send To TRUMP Holders  Taking book on how long it takes for one of them to track him down and beat the snot out of him. (I’d be happy to chip in.)

CNN’s Cardona: Charlamagne Wasn’t Wrong — Blame Trump for Violence Aimed at Trump!

Republicans blast out ‘free tickets’ offer to save Trump from Dallas convention embarrassment (Andrew Feinberg/The Independent)

Trump throws fuel on international feuds with Truth Social post bathing multiple countries in the American flag (Josh Marcus/The Independent)

Veterans and Democrats intensify fight against Trump’s planned arch (Dan Diamond/Washington Post)

Trump Tailspins as Leaks about GOP Midterm Panic Take Humiliating Turn (New Republic)

Pete Hegseth will be the next to fall (Paul Waldman/Public Notice)

Trump signs order to remove endangered species protection for grey wolves

Trumponomics triumphs in US jobs report — just in time for the midterms (Daniel McCarthy/New York Post)  There is,  of course, no such thing as “Trumponomics”—that’s just another proglodyte smear-term ‘journalists’ in the Narrative Media can use as a stick in their TDS.

Trump won the battle over his awful arch. The next Democratic president can win the war. (Paul Waldman/MS NOW)  If Obama had proposed it, of course, it would be touted as the greatest thing since the Lincoln Memorial.

Not satire: Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer asks President Trump for pardon on “Good Morning America”  These people are crazy.

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The level of economic and financial ignorance on display from so many people in the debates over “wealth taxes,” “redistribution” of wealth, and taxes in general boggles my mind.

I see way too many opinions and comments premised on, or stating explicitly, the idea that the wealth of wealthy people is just sitting in vaults or in idle brokerage accounts, not circulating in the economy, and thus not benefiting others in society. From this premise the argument is that such wealth would circulate more in the economy to the benefit of all if it were taken from the “wealthy” people who “hoard” it and redistributed to others who are not “wealthy.”

I am [now] an investor. For several decades I was a salaried employee at large corporations. Thanks to careful expense control and other money management by Mrs. Tabby, we accumulated sufficient “wealth” that most people (including most Americans) would call us “wealthy.”

As an investor, I see on my statements and the dashboard at my broker’s that our money isn’t just sitting idly in a MorganStanley warehouse. Our money (in our case mostly pooled with money from other investors with similar goals as ours) is invested in or loaned to companies so those companies can develop, to make, and to distribute the goods and services people want and value.

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A Portland professional soccer team and a prominent women’s sports bar removed fans wearing apparel from XX-XY Athletics, a company that opposes allowing men who claim to identify as women to compete in women’s sports.

A group of eight fans attended the women’s soccer match between the Portland Thorns and the Washington Spirit at the stadium Providence Park Sunday, but security escorted them from the venue. Later, the Sports Bra, a women’s sports bar, expelled the same fans over the XX-XY Athletics t-shirts.

XX-XY Athletics, a sports brand aiming to compete with Nike, notes biological differences between the sexes that give men advantages in many sports. The t-shirts emphasize “XX” and “XY,” the chromosomal markers of men and women, to focus on sex rather than gender identity.

“I would love to hear, why are we being ejected today?” Amy Sousa, one of the women wearing an XX-XY branded shirt, asks in a video published by Fox News.

“I was made aware that some transphobic…” a security guard responds, while women object and cut him off.

The guard states that “somebody was giving out information,” and the women object to that claim, saying they did not distribute materials.

Reality is ‘transphobic’, apparently.

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I was born two years before Sept. 11, 2001. I belong to the first generation of Americans for whom the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon are not a personal memory. Because I do not remember the morning itself, the television images, or the atmosphere of fear and uncertainty that settled over the country, I know Sept. 11 as history.

But the history myself and those of my generation inherited did not end on that day. In some respects, it had only begun.

Twenty-five years after 9/11, the face of Islamic violence looks like a truck driven into a crowded street, a knife attack on a train, and a church attacked and burned. It has meant the consequential transformation of our nation through migration, parallel communities, Sharia courts, and the growing political influence of Islamist movements. Globally, it has meant the rise of the ISIS caliphate, the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas, and the massacre of innocent people worldwide.

My needs are very simple.

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Britain’s highest taxpayers have been drifting offshore since the non-dom regime was scrapped in April 2025 and inheritance tax was extended to worldwide assets.

This shift is already visible on the Sunday Times lists: six of the 2026 Tax List’s top 100 (including Revolut’s Nik Storonsky) had left in the previous year, the compiler noted that one in nine names on that list were no longer UK-resident, and the companion Rich List dropped dozens of foreign billionaires while recording a sharp rise in British nationals now based in Dubai, Switzerland and Monaco.

But, the latest news is likely the most disturbing to the increasingly socialist government as the UK’s 3rd largest taxpayer – hedge fund founder Chris Rokos – is set to leave.

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A young Bangladeshi girl in Italy was threatened with death by her family if she refused to accept an arranged marriage. Fortunately, she was able to alert the police and was rescued before her family could do her any harm.

The article doesn’t give any information about the young lady’s prospective spouse, but one presumes that she was intended to marry a cousin. An arranged marriage to a first cousin is the standard practice for Muslims in that part of the world.

I can’t think of any of my first cousins that I would care to marry. They were all rather unpleasant people.

New York Post.

My, what a surprise.

Karmelo Anthony posed with guns and went on racist, violent rants over text messages before he fatally stabbed Austin Metcalf, according to a trove of new documents.

The 75-page dossier, obtained by the Daily Mail, offers insight into Anthony’s disturbing past — and was never revealed to jurors during his murder trial as part of a “gentleman’s agreement” between prosecutors and his defense team.

Photos show Anthony flashing a handgun in a screenshot of a video he recorded in November 2024, just five months before he killed Metcalf in a tent at a high school track meet in Frisco, Texas

ABC Hosts Disgraced Former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall to Frame Hit Against President Trump

Trump Floats ‘New America’ Name for New Mexico  Ah, ah, ah, ah, yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains….  Funny how the same people freaking out over Trump playing with them are the ones who spent Obama’s and Biden’s administrations attempting to erase the names of famous Americans and replace them with obscure members of Fashionable Minorities. Compared to those efforts, Trump is a piker. (‘Oh Hell No!’ Democrats Object to Trump’s Suggestion to Rename New Mexico (Jenna Monnin/NOTUS))

For Trump’s Former Fixer, a Tortured Path From ‘Rat’ to Reconciliation (Peter Baker/New York Times)  Of course, only Republicans are deserving of such obloquy.

John Eastman Was Disbarred—Larry Krasner Got a Laugh If it weren’t for double standards, Democrats would have no standards at all.

BAD-FAITH FRAME: ABC’s Rachel Scott Repeats ‘No End in Sight’ to Iran War

Why Did Trump Order Up 660 Million Pounds of Mystery Meat? (Eric Schlosser/New York Times) Not difficult to find a ‘mystery’ to the New York Times.

As War Grinds On, Trump Relishes Renovation Projects (New York Times)

Trump should draw a clear midterm line between his record and the blue wave of weirdo Dems (Miranda Devine/New York Post)

Neo-Nazis and the Impotence of Trumponomics (Paul Krugman)  The vacuum has given up any pretense of being an economist and embraced his role as Leftist shill.

Trump’s colonialist Venezuela fever dream (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)  Noah Berlatsky loses his shit.

The federal government is falling apart (Thor Benson/madness)  As it habitually does.

Trump suggests renaming New Mexico amid torrent of online memes and taunts (Dan Diamond/Washington Post)  The Gossip Girls at the Washington Poop are in rare form today.

‘Nakedly political’: US attempts to link trans support to authoritarianism in new health department report (Melody Schreiber/The Guardian)  ‘Trans support’ IS totalitarianism, straight up.

Government Employees Fight Trump’s Reforms From Within the Executive Branch

It’s a tough time for unions in the age of Trump — cities and states can help (Terri Gerstein/The Hill)  A definition of ‘help’ that turns reality on its head.

Trump Threatens to Bar Sale of Canadian Bombardier Jets in US (Jennifer A Dlouhy/Bloomberg)  Let the hand-wringing commence.

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President Donald Trump has expanded his recent geographic rebranding campaign from renaming U.S. locations to sharing AI-generated maps depicting Canada, Mexico, and other foreign territories as part of an expanded America.

Really, he’s having more fun than a human being ought to be allowed to have.

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High schoolers from over 200 Colorado schools walked out of class Friday to protest against the lawful deportation of foreign criminals who entered the United States illegally, many of them violent felons with long criminal records.

(I’m told this means they were protesting “fascism.”)

Colorado, being a Blue state now, has inverted the meaning of ‘school’. (What stupid thing will they do next? Walk out of the hospital? Walk out of the grocery store?)

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Michigan released the results of the 2026 MI Standardized Testing … M-STEP. Despite ever increasing spending, scores are on a persistent downward trend. Read’em and weep…

Math: Only about 33% of 7th graders are at least Proficient.

English : Only about 38% of 7th graders are at least Proficient.

And people wonder why kids eventually can’t get good jobs.

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Gee, who could have seen that coming?

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Another week, another historic church reduced to smoke, rubble. The former Saint Agnes Church on Martha Avenue in Toledo, Ohio went up early Saturday morning. The 116-year-old landmark’s steeple came down. The roof burned out. Nearby homes were evacuated. Once again the cause is listed as currently unknown.

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A certain pattern is emerging on the far left. Political figures spend years currying the favor of other extremists with outrageous commentary, proudly proclaiming their commitment to eliminating the Senate, opening the border, and other measures. Then, they delete all of the comments and declare themselves mainstream. The idea is to run in the center but govern from the far left, the so-called Spanberger strategy. The latest example is William Lawrence, who is running for Michigan’s 7th Congressional District. However, Lawrence’s prior self reveals just how radical this movement could prove.