DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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“Choice” Feminism

4th August 2026

Brett Cooper discusses this in passing but if it’s the New Thing on the Left it represents a serious escalation among the People Who Want to Destroy Civilization. Apparently “Choice Feminism” is a form of feminism that allows individual women to choose their own lifestyle, whether they want to be bar-crawling street hoes or corporate girl bosses (or maybe even wives and mothers). Apparently this is the new category of Heretic and Sinner for the Left.

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British Man Only Gets Two Years in Prison for Stuffing Dead Mom in Freezer So He Could Continue to Collect Her Benefits

4th August 2026

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Hey, we’ve all wanted to do that.

They’ll probably spend more supporting him in prison than it would have cost them in benefits.

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This Dude Swam 56 Hours Without Sleep to Be the First to Swim From Sweden to Poland

4th August 2026

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The Muslim problem in Sweden must be pretty bad.

ATQUE: Australians baffled as to why trash is suddenly piling up along roadsides in their new, diverse society

 

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Planned Parenthood: “Abortion Is Gender-Affirming Care”

4th August 2026

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I guess all women are trans (not-birthing) women now.

 

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Bonus Thought for the Day

4th August 2026

Is Education About Native American Heritage & History Required by Your State Constitution?

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Anti-Jewish Hate Crimes in New York Grow Even as Violent Crime Across the City Decreases

4th August 2026

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Ah, yes, the warmth of collectivism….

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Thought for the Day

4th August 2026

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Mamdani’s tax roll blunder will backfire on everyday New Yorkers as buyers head South, developer warns

4th August 2026

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Miami has already outsold Manhattan in ultra-luxury deals this year as buyers reconsider New York investments

Homeowners across New York City now have an extra month to prove their primary residency and avoid Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s new pied-à-terre tax, an extension triggered by mass confusion over a publicly posted tax roll.

But as the city tries to address problems with the rollout, real estate leaders caution that targeting high earners could ultimately backfire on working-class New Yorkers if revenue shifts out of state.

“Policymakers need to be honest about the trade-offs and what drives the local economy,” Aria Development Group founding partner David Arditi told Fox News Digital, warning that if high-earning taxpayers leave, “it doesn’t just hit the people who left, it shows up much more prominently in the budget of those who will stay behind.”

“Every city that leans this heavily on a small group of high earners has to reckon eventually with this possibility. New York still continues to have real staying power, but we’re clearly in a moment where that’s being tested,” he continued.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you flee.

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Don’t Believe the Spin – Spain Hasn’t Taken Back Control in Ceuta

4th August 2026

The Telegraph (UK).

So that is that, apparently. Crisis over. Nothing to see here.

That was the smug verdict in much of the commentary over the weekend. Tens of thousands of people may have crossed illegally into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta.

But when Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s prime minister, declared shortly afterwards that “practically all” of them had returned to Morocco, relief quickly gave way to mockery – even though almost nobody had bothered to verify Madrid’s claims.

Giorgia Meloni’s outrage, and her suggestion that Schengen free movement with Spain might have to be temporarily suspended? Wildly overblown, apparently. So too was the criticism coming from other European capitals.

German liberal weekly Die Zeit denounced what it called “fact-free Spain-bashing” and went further still: “The new arrivals were returned quickly and without bureaucracy, so precisely what conservative and Right-wing parties always demand has happened.”
It would be comforting if that were true. It is not.

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Mega-Dinghy ‘Carrying 160 Migrants’ Catches Fire in Channel

4th August 2026

The Telegraph (UK).

A mega-dinghy believed to be carrying 160 migrants has caught fire during an attempt to cross the Channel.

Search and rescue services were launched at around 6am on Tuesday after the vessel’s engine went up in flames in French waters.

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) Eastbourne was deployed alongside both the British and French coastguards as part of a rescue operation to retrieve the migrants and return them to France.

It is understood that up to 160 people were on board the dinghy, it is not yet known whether any of those on board have been injured or killed.

The average number of people per small boat has increased from seven in 2018 to 63 in the year ending this March, and up to 70 last month.

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Burnham Allows PC Harper’s Killers to Walk Free Early

4th August 2026

The Telegraph (UK).

Pc Andrew Harper’s killers will be released from prison early under plans approved by Andy Burnham.

Criminals guilty of manslaughter will be eligible to be freed halfway through their sentences, despite Labour’s review of the scheme.

Rapists and serious child sexual offenders, including grooming-gang perpetrators, will no longer be released early following pressure from victims, MPs and front-line prison officers.

Writing in The Telegraph, Mr Burnham said he had “pushed to the very limits of what is possible” but could not exempt more criminals without the prison system “collapsing within months”.

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Black YouTubers Have Discovered Orania

3rd August 2026

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Carl Benamin (Sargon of Akkad) takes a look at what happens when Africans are in charge.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

3rd August 2026

How a Top Law Firm Went From Standing Up to Trump to Bending the Knee (New York Times)  If there were a Democrat President, of course, all would be fine.

Trump’s promise of an economic ‘golden age’ collides with reality (Paul Waldman/MS NOW)  More accurately, the Narrative that Trump hasn’t brought any economic benefits collides with reality—like gas prices.

Trump slashes Medicare drug subsidies, cutting against affordability message (Mallory Wilson/The Hill)  Medicare drug subsidies don’t ‘cut drug costs’, they merely shift the costs to the taxpayers. That’s not what Trump promised to do.

Is MAGA Melting Down? — MAGA continues to be powerful, but we may be in the last months of the height of its powers. (Don Moynihan/Can We Still Govern?)  MAGA is the New Jooz.

2028: Trump’s final act begins (Jim VandeHei/Axios)  Narrative Media mind-readers get a lot of mileage out of their fantasies.

Pre-Trump GOP is coming for Vance (Mike Zapler/Axios)  Sorry, Narrative, the Wall Street Journal hasn’t been ‘the standard bearer of traditional conservatism’ for at least a decade. Next, you’ll try to pretend that David French is a conservative … Oh, look: World War Two-and-a-Half Is Breaking Out (David French/New York Times)

Even Republicans in Congress can see how unpopular Trump’s immigration agenda is (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)  Unpopular with whom? The Usual Suspects? It certainly seems popular with ‘Republicans in Congress’.

Sen. Mark Kelly says Trump administration is “flailing” in Iran and “has to try to figure out a way out of this” (Kaia Hubbard/CBS News)  Compared to what Biden and Obama did, he’s been pretty successful. Of course, a Democrat Senator can’t even hint at that….

MAGA Rep Accused of Wife Beating Streams Jaw-Dropping Attack on Her (Laura Esposito/The Daily Beast)  MAGA is the New Jooz.

Media shifts to more aggressively fight Trump in courts (The Hill)  Since their lapdogs the Democrats dont’ appear to be having much luck.

Did Trump Finally Find an Offramp for the Iran War? (Damian Paletta/Wall Street Journal)  The ‘off-ramp’ has always been there; Iran has just refused to take it. You would think that a writer for the Wall Street Journal would be paying better attention….

Trump overhaul could gut Head Start preschool standards, leaving states to set the rules (Moriah Balingit/Associated Press) Wow, look at all those preschool standards guts all over the place…. Of course, as we all know, letting states set any standards is TOTALLY reprehensible. That would be (whisper it) democracy! Why, they might be Republicans! WE CAN’T HAVE THAT!

MAGA vs. Mullin (Politico)  MAGA is the New Jooz.

This Sleazoid MAGA Congressman May Just Have Turned a Red Seat Blue (Michael Tomasky/New Republic) MAGA is the New Jooz.

Let’s Talk About the Massive Parking Garage Trump Wants to Build at Dulles (Martin Austermuhle/NOTUS)  If a Democrat President had proposed it, of course, he’d be the new FDR.

Trump denigrates fellow golfers as lacking ‘talent’ as he boasts about winning trophy on his own course (Ariana Baio/The Independent) I guess Britain has high-school journalism as well.

Trump Gets To Keep Tax Immunity Under DOJ Deal With Republican Senators (Arthur Delaney/HuffPost)

Iran denies Trump claim that new talks will start Monday after he called off attacks (NBC News)  Lucy with the football. I hope Trump has a plan.

‘Stark example of brutality’: Trump’s ICE used court orders in plan to force-feed at least 10 hunger strikers in detention (Jos?? Olivares/The Guardian)  I’d let them starve, but ICE can’t do that in this degenerate bleeding-heart world.

For Iran, Trump’s Reversal on Escalation Shows Who Has the Upper Hand (Erika Solomon/New York Times)

Trump’s Smithsonian Attacks Are Attacks on America’s Future (M. Gessen/New York Times)  Of course, the NYT assumes that The Future is Woke.

Senate Republicans see Trump as a growing political liability (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)  He’s getting in the way of the Uniparty. Can’t have that….

Senate Republicans Rush to Immunize Money Launder-in-Chief’s Tax Crimes (emptywheel)  Don’t hold it in; tell us how you really feel.

MS NOW Host Ali Vitali Frets Trump’s ‘Otherizing’ Illegal Alien Truckers, No Mention of Deaths

Trump’s Meddling in Justice Dept. Causes Problems of His Own Making (Alan Feuer/New York Times)  It’s All About Trump.

For Trump, the Year Is Always 2020 (Katie Rogers/New York Times)  Yeah, that’s when you guys pissed him off.

MAGA Erupts at Trump DHS Chief–and Accidentally Exposes Big MAGA Scam (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit. (MAGA is the New Jooz.)

Lincoln Project’s Clout Fades in Trump’s Second Term

Sen. Warren Cites Trump in Push to ‘Scrap’ Debt Ceiling  We mustn’t let him keep us from spending money.

Dem States Sue to Challenge Trump’s Latest Tariffs He can’t tax American business. Only WE can tax American business.

 

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ID To Buy Gov’t Bread & Milk, But Not To Vote: This Is Mamdani’s Socialist NYC Utopia

3rd August 2026

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So far, in Zohran Mamdani’s socialist utopia in New York City, it can take multiple forms of identification to shovel snow and, if his proposal is implemented, potentially to shop at government-run grocery stores.

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Murders in the us Set to Hit 126-Year-Low Following Illegal Immigrant Deportations: DHS

3rd August 2026

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Gee, imagine that. There must not be enough black teen gangbangers to take up the slack. Bummer.

Crime rates have fallen to “historic lows” across the United States, with homicides this year on track to register the lowest level in at least 126 years, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

In the first half of 2026, homicides were down 18 percent compared to the first half of last year, DHS said in a July 31 statement. Carjacking crimes tumbled 47 percent during this period, motor vehicle thefts fell 20 percent, robberies dropped 17 percent, and residential burglaries declined 13 percent.

The numbers come from a July 2026 report from the nonpartisan think tank Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ) that assessed crime stats across various U.S. cities.

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The Anti-Trump Crew on the “Right” Plan to Go Third Party

3rd August 2026

The New Neo.

This isn’t exactly news – I wrote about it in this previous post about Tucker Carlson, for example – but it’s a little more official now, or as Ace writes: “Tuq’r Qarlson, Marjorie Trailer-Queen, Thomas Massie, and Joe Kent Meet and Announce New Party for Nazis and Lunatic Conspiracy Theorists.”

They can add the Kristol Krew, the DavidFrenchiphiles, the RINOs in the Senate—Oh, the places they’ll go….

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Virginia Restores Voting Rights to 66,000 Felons After Purging 6,500 Noncitizens From Voter Rolls

3rd August 2026

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Raise your hand if you think that a convicted felon is going to vote Republican.

I didn’t think so.

Shortly after Virginia removed more than 6,500 noncitizens from its voter rolls, Gov. Abigail Spanberger said she has restored voting rights for 10 times that many convicted felons in the state.

Virginia’s state constitution permanently disenfranchises convicted felons but gives the governor’s office broad discretion in restoring the rights. Spanberger announced Friday that 66,085 formerly incarcerated Virginians have had their voting rights restored since she took office in January.

“The right to vote is foundational to who we are as Americans. As a Member of Congress, as a candidate for Governor, and in the months since I took office, I have heard from many Virginians who have shared their personal stories of redemption with me — and heartfelt reflections of the moment their voting rights were restored by previous governors,” Spanberger said in a public statement.

Accordingly, the restoration of voting rights to a convicted felon ought to entail the same sort of scrutiny as pardoning said criminal. But Democrats need the votes, so blanket amnesty it is.

ATQUE: This November, Remember New Jersey’s Voter Rolls

 

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Abdul El-Sayed’s Michigan Rise Exposes Democrats’ Moral Morass

3rd August 2026

New York Post.

John Fetterman is a little less lonely these days, but not because his courage has proven contagious to Democratic elders.

The Pennsylvania progressive has been branded a Benedict Arnold for speaking the truth about the ascendant, anti-civilizational forces within his own party

Bernie Sanders “keeps pushing these communists and these . . . awful anti-American people,” Fetterman argued last month after the collapse of Graham Platner’s candidacy in Maine.

His “anti-American” modifier was of special import because it cut to the core of the conflict.

The Democrats’ bloody civil war isn’t about health care, or immigration, or LGBT issues, or marginal tax rates.

It’s about two irreconcilable worldviews: one that celebrates the United States as exceptionally commendable, and the other that scorns it as exceptionally reprehensible — often using Israel as a proxy.

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Mining the Oceans for Fresh Water – and Uranium

3rd August 2026

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Woke Astronomer Warns Lunar Colonizers That Moon Is Part of “Indigenous Sky Country”

3rd August 2026

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You thought woke was dead, but it turns out it’s gone to the moon.

Every time I hear an Australian accent these days I can’t help but translate it to retard.

That’s Dr. — yes, DOCTOR — Rebecca Allen, the co-director of the Space Technology and Industry Institute at Swinburne University of Technology.

This happened during a real segment on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation concerning a discarded SpaceX rocket stage that will apparently slam into the moon, creating a crater. Allen is concerned that Elon won’t have the proper respect for the “indigenous sky country” honored by people groups who never invented the wheel.

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To Prove Islam Is Not Violent, Muslim Debater Warns Oxford Opponent That Muslim Mob Outside Would “Cook” Him If Not for Her Benevolence

3rd August 2026

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Islam, the pit bulls of human religion.

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Mamdani, Who Hates Voter ID, Will Require ID in Government Grocery Stores

3rd August 2026

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Well looky, looky, it seems Mamdani’s communist grocery stores are of the Jim Crow variety.

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Here’s What We Know About the Heroic Gunslinger Who Engaged a Mass Shooter at In-N-Out

3rd August 2026

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ATQUE: Democrats Express Concern Over Increase In Gun Violence Against Active Shooters (Babylon Bee)

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Thought for the Day

3rd August 2026

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People with friends waste a lot of time and trouble on other people’s problems, and don’t get me started on family….

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Leftist Activists Establish ‘Autonomous Zone’ In Madison

3rd August 2026

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Far-left activists with apparent ties to the Democratic Socialists of America recently established their own autonomous zone in Wisconsin’s capital city, Madison.

The tent cities have become a familiar sight in far-left cities where the destructive and disruptive occupation is openly encouraged by government officials.

Imagine what would happen if Alex Jones or Nick Fuentes tried something like that.

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Suspected Suicide Bombing Kills 14 in Pakistan

3rd August 2026

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If Muslims don’t have any Jews or Christians handy, they’re happy to blow up other Muslims.

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9/11 Families Don’t Want Mamdani Participating in Memorial Ceremony

3rd August 2026

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And who could blame them?

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Crack Pipes, Get Yer’ Crack Pipes! Free Crack Pipes!: California Taxpayers Fund Drug Paraphernalia

3rd August 2026

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Crack-heads appear to be a core Democrat constituency.

 

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Obama-Appointed Judge Defies SCOTUS, Now Faces Impeachment

3rd August 2026

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Which is exactly what impeachment is for.

An Obama-appointed federal judge just decided the Supreme Court’s rulings are more like suggestions, and Republicans in Congress are done pretending she has the authority to make that call.

U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs issued an order on Friday blocking the Trump administration from ending Temporary Protected Status for Somali nationals. It was a brazen display of judicial activism, and it took Republicans about a weekend to respond.

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) announced he will file articles of impeachment against Burroughs on Monday, accusing her of trampling both the Constitution and a Supreme Court ruling that should have ended this fight already.

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Entitled Migrants Complain About Hospitality and Prices After Invading Spanish Territory

3rd August 2026

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And why not? What evidence exists that they aren’t entitled to feel entitled?

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America Has Been Funding Its Own Destruction

3rd August 2026

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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was shut down about a year ago. Since then, I’ve noticed a couple of things:

1) Latin American and other countries around the world are electing more pro-American leaders.

2) America’s Democratic National Committee is out of money.

It’s hard to say for sure, of course, but I don’t think that these two events are coincidences. I think they are direct results of USAID’s money spigot being turned off.

The vast majority of USAID money was used for leftist and other anti-American causes. So around the world, leftist and anti-American leaders are suddenly underfunded. And here in America, our leftist and anti-American party (the Democratic Party) is suddenly underfunded.

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Veterans’ Benefits Docked After Military Pensions Classed as ‘Unearned Income’

3rd August 2026

The Telegraph (UK).

Ministers have been accused of launching a “stealth clawback” of military pensions, leaving veterans who claim benefits thousands of pounds worse off.

Hey, they gotta get the money they spend from somewhere.

Officials at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have informed veterans that their military pension is considered “unearned income” and will therefore result in a pound-for-pound reduction in benefits.

In some cases this has resulted in veterans being ordered to repay tens of thousands of pounds, as well as having their monthly benefit payments reduced.

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Cambridge Professor Made Impossible Claim He Was on Seven Up

3rd August 2026

The Telegraph (UK).

A Cambridge professor hailed as a diversity poster boy claimed that he had featured in Seven Up decades before he was born.
Prof Jason Arday said he had appeared in the TV series, which follows the lives of a group of people for decades from the age of seven.
The inaugural episode was broadcast in 1964. He was not born until 1985.

Meet the ‘professor’ in question:

Prof Jason Arday became a professor at Cambridge at the age of 37

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Why Is Everyone Trying to Build a Solid-State Battery?

3rd August 2026

Construction Physics.

A battery technology that’s getting a lot of attention is solid-state batteries, lithium-ion batteries that replace the liquid electrolyte with a solid material. Chinese battery manufacturer CATL alone had more than 1,000 people devoted to solid-state battery research as of 2024, and battery manufacturers like BYD, LG, and Samsung are also working on the technology. US and European startups making solid-state batteries have collectively raised over $4 billion as of 2025.

Solid-state batteries have several potential advantages over the lithium-ion batteries with liquid electrolyte we use now. For one, replacing the liquid electrolyte with a solid should allow for lighter batteries, requiring less mass per unit of energy delivered. And because the liquid electrolyte currently used in batteries is flammable, replacing it with a solid could make batteries safer and less susceptible to fire.

I wanted to better understand why, exactly, solid-state batteries have these advantages compared to conventional lithium-ion batteries, and how they fit into the broader arc of lithium battery improvements.

 

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Liberal Podcaster Says He Was ‘Doxed’ by Mamdani’s ‘Wanted Poster’ of Property Owners

3rd August 2026

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Prominent liberal podcaster and NYU professor Scott Galloway called out New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s publicly accessible database, saying it endangers landowners like himself.

Yup, sure does. Will he learn anything from that? Only time will tell.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani opened a new front in his ongoing battle with New York City’s wealthy after his administration published a searchable database identifying affluent property owners who could be subject to the city’s proposed pied-à-terre tax, a move critics say could expose them to harassment and public safety risks.

I’m waiting for him to call out millionaires like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Waiting … waiting … waiting….

Galloway proceeded to read out the definition of doxing as “’publishing private identifying information to expose someone to public pressure or harm without their consent,’” and said that while he is a fan of the tax, he is not a fan of how the list has become a “wanted poster” for property owners.

Well, that answers the question of whether he’s going to learn anything from this. Survey says: No.

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Steve Wynn Sells $110M Beverly Hills Mansion for Massive Discount as Billionaires Flee California Taxes

3rd August 2026

New York Post.

Steve Wynn has finally unloaded his jaw-dropping Beverly Hills megamansion, “Villa Lulu” — and the house definitely did not win this time.

The 84-year-old former casino head honcho just cashed out on his 27,150-square-foot Benedict Canyon estate for a final price of $47.75 million, listing broker Leonard Rabinowitz of Christie’s International Real Estate told The Post.

While that sum sounds like he hit the jackpot, for Wynn, it’s a bust.

The 11-bedroom, 14.5-bath castle with multiple kitchens, initially had an eye-watering $135 million whisper price in 2020.

Rabinowitz blamed the pricing situation on California’s tax rate and tax on billionaires, which is causing residents to flee the Golden State for places like Florida and Texas.

When laws are passed targeting Jews, it’s time for Jews to leave.

When laws are passed targeting rich people, it’s time for rich people to leave.

This is not rocket science.

 

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The Fourth Turning Is Here: The Old Order Is Breaking Down

3rd August 2026

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In 1997, historians William Strauss and Neil Howe published “The Fourth Turning,” a cyclical theory of Anglo-American history built around generational archetypes and recurring saecular rhythms of approximately 80 to 100 years — roughly the length of a long human life.

Their framework identified four “turnings,” each lasting roughly 20 to 25 years, that repeat in sequence.

The First Turning, the High, is an era of institutional confidence and community solidarity following a great crisis. The rules work, people trust them, conformity is rewarded — think the post-WWII boom, or the post-Civil War Reconstruction era.

The Second Turning, the Awakening, is a spiritual and cultural awakening that challenges the institutional consensus of the High. Individualism resurges; the establishment is questioned — the consciousness revolution of the 1960s-70s, the Second Great Awakening of the 1820s-30s.

The Third Turning, the Unraveling, sees institutions weaken, individualism reach its apex, and civic order decay. Trust collapses — in government, media, corporations, each other — as it did through the Culture Wars era of the 1980s-90s, or the Gilded Age of the 1870s-90s.

The Fourth Turning, the Crisis, is a decisive era of institutional destruction and reconstruction, typically catalysed by an existential threat — war, economic collapse, or civilisational rupture. The old order is swept away; a new one is forged. The Great Depression and WWII. The Civil War. The American Revolution.

If you see a blonde riding a dragon, it’s time to leave.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

2nd August 2026

MAGA Exiles Declare War on Trump: ‘He Betrayed Us All’ (Mary Papenfuss/The Daily Beast)

McGlinchey: Trump’s Damage To US Diplomacy Could Last A Generation  Who?

 

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The Banality of Disruption

2nd August 2026

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Like medieval monks who preserved civilization after the fall of Rome, traditionalists can live active lives and work to keep the flame of Western culture alive. To do so, we must build loving families, construct independent schools, and erect parallel institutions to challenge those that have betrayed their purpose.

 

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Why Intelligent People Are No Longer ‘Nice’ to Stupid People

2nd August 2026

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If correcting nonsense costs you 10x the energy of the person producing it, and low-quality interaction measurably reduces your well-being, what does a rational actor do? They stop. Not because they’re mean, but because they do that math that you haven’t done yet.

Nothing personal—it’s just business; I always liked him.

“You cain’t fix stupid.” —Ron White

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Thought for the Day

2nd August 2026

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I used to feel bad about reading during meals but nowadays that seems positively extraverted.

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UK High Court Moves to Ban Display of English and British Flags

2nd August 2026

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A Liberal Democrat council has secured a High Court injunction that effectively bans the unauthorised display of the St George’s Cross and Union Flag on lampposts and public highways across an entire English county.

What began as a grassroots campaign to raise the colours of the nation has been declared a threat to community safety, with the full force of the courts now deployed against it.

Oxfordshire County Council, run by the Liberal Democrats, won its landmark case after months of legal action against the Raise the Colours campaign.

If you can’t fly your country’s flag, it isn’t your country any more.

Democrats would love to do the same in America, I have no doubt.

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

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Republicans Want Voters to Elect Kansas Supreme Court Justices and Move Court to the Right

2nd August 2026

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What a give-away: If you allow elections, the Court will ‘move to the right’.

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, a term-limited Democrat who opposes the measure, said gerrymandering and dark money have put the Legislature out of step with the state and, “to think you can make the judicial branch a part of that dysfunctional system is frightening.”

Meanwhile, the national and state affiliates for abortion provider Planned Parenthood contributed another $1.6 million toward the vote-no campaign’s $8 million-plus in spending.

There’s that pesky ol’ democracy that Democrats love to talk about but never like to practice.

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No, The Spanish Invaders Have Not All Just ‘Gone Home’

2nd August 2026

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Spanish authorities and their leftist allies are pushing the line that the tens of thousands of migrants who stormed Ceuta have mostly “gone home.” The claim is pure fantasy. Fresh video from the streets shows the city still under siege, with invaders assaulting facilities, smashing graves, clashing with locals, and turning a Spanish enclave into a no-go zone.

This is the same dangerous mass migration reality that open-borders ideologues keep denying, even as the evidence piles up in real time.

The official narrative landed hard on Friday. Spain’s Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares declared that “the practical totality of those who entered Ceuta have already returned to Morocco.” The Spanish Embassy in the UK amplified the message, insisting almost everyone was gone, that no one could reach the mainland without ID checks, and that Schengen integrity remained fully guaranteed.

And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Locals on the ground immediately called it a lie. One Ceuta resident posted that around 50,000 invaders remained, the city was collapsed, and the official numbers were pure spin. Video filmed that same afternoon showed streets still packed, nothing like the “most have left” story.

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Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge

2nd August 2026

Public Domain Review.

Centuries before Neo instantly mastered Kung Fu in The Matrix, medieval scholars found a shortcut to years of difficult study: a magical manuscript that promised to fast-track advanced learning. Anne Lawrence-Mathers investigates the Ars notoria, its supposed powers, and the demonic influence it had upon some users.

The author is female with a hyphenated last name, so read with caution.

Mastering the full range of subjects taught in medieval universities normally required many years of hard and expensive study. From the thirteenth century on, however, an anonymous work known as the Ars notoria promised, through diagrams, incantations, and arcane rituals, to rapidly transmit to scholars the total knowledge of anything they might need. Condemned by church authorities, the fifty-six extant manuscripts nevertheless testify to the seductiveness of that offer.

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Book Review: Self-Help from the Middle Ages

2nd August 2026

Alma Boykin.

Jones begins with pride, superbia, which was and is considered the worst of the seven, then through envy, wrath, sloth, avarice, gluttony, and lust. The medieval terms for each one differ from what we use today, and had different connotations. For each one the author provides a personal example, then medieval discussions, illustrations, what was recommended by the church as ways to turn error into something helpful or outward-looking, and a conclusion. I admit, some of the descriptions and discussions made me twitch, because they struck a little too close to home. These are things we all struggle with, even if we are not all church members, let alone Roman Catholics. Who has not flown into a rage, often over something that would otherwise be a minor irritation? Who has not ignored other people’s opinions, or tried to stand out a little too much at some point, with the idea that we are better than the other person or people? Many of us have probably been unhappy about someone else’s success, perhaps not to the point of trying to damage or destroy it (medieval “envy.”)

I have this book on order from Amazon, on her recommendation. (If you haven’t read her Familiar Tales series of books, I weep for you.)

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Kamala Harris Moves to $8.5M Mansion in 94% White Neighborhood

2nd August 2026

Read it.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris has long spoken about the importance of being surrounded by other black or minority Americans. But her new $8.5 million home is located in an exclusive Malibu neighborhood where the population is overwhelmingly white.

And progressive—let’s not forget that part.

Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, purchased a 4,000-square-foot mansion in Point Dume, one of Malibu’s most exclusive coastal enclaves. Point Dume’s population is approximately 94% white and just 0.2% black, according to a Fox News report citing the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2019 American Community Survey.

She may be stupid but her husband is not.

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Scarborough Says Republicans Are the True Socialists, Mocks DSA Fears

2nd August 2026

Newsbusters.

On Friday, as socialists continued their rise as a part of the Democratic Party through primary election victories, Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough took his own route with socialism claims of his own and instead claimed the Republicans were actually the socialists. He also seemed to minimize the actual rise of socialists in the Democratic Party, a topic his show has recently covered extensively, as he called the DSA “fringe.”

The conversation started at the very beginning of the premier liberal morning show as, between Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski’s bickering about who would lead the segment, Scarborough remarked, “Let’s start with the socialists… that nobody’s talking about.”

After Brzezinski agreed, Scarborough continued, “but everybody should be talking about it because socialists are taking over some of the most important companies in America’s economy.”

Joe Scarborough, who once pretended to be a Republican when it was profitable, has been fully assimilated by the Proglodyte Borg.

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Mika’s ‘Know Your Value’ Segment: Male Breadwinner Norm is Something to ‘Break’

2nd August 2026

Newsbusters.

The feminist psychological castration of men proceeds apace.

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Proof: TDS Is Anti-Christian

2nd August 2026

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New data exposes the purest form of Trump Derangement Syndrome yet: young Americans so thoroughly programmed that they will abandon church itself rather than sit in a pew next to someone who supports the president.

A survey from the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center Research Institute found that nearly half of Gen Z adults – 48 percent – say Christians’ support for Donald Trump has made them less likely to attend church.

Among strong Democrats the figure hits 76 percent. Atheists clock in at 72 percent. Even 30 to 44 percent of young people who still call themselves Christian claim the association turns them off.

I suspect that’s just a case of correlation, not causation. A lot of people call themselves Christian who aren’t, in any meaningful sense, much like the ‘trans community’.

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