DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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I love it when Wokerati conduct a civil war about whose turn it is to be the victim.

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Housing prices ultimately come down to supply and demand. So how has Tokyo managed to keep housing relatively affordable, while New York has struggled to do the same?

Tokyo has been focused on keeping up with demand; its housing stock nearly tripled between 1963 and 2013, reaching 7.36 million homes. To do this, Japan keeps zoning flexible. Instead of limiting each area to a single use, zoning allows homes, shops, and light industry to coexist on the same blocks. Projects that follow these rules can be built “as-of-right,” without discretionary review or giving neighbors the power to block them.

As usual, government is the reason we can’t have nice things.

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Roughly 500 troops are being dropped onto islands in the Rio Grande by Chinook helicopters, days after suspected cartel gunmen opened fire on a US Coast Guard crew from the Mexican side of the river.

The deployment figure comes from sources who confirmed it to NewsNation, which also obtained video of the Chinook drops. Officials have not put a number on it publicly. Breitbart reports the size and duration are being withheld for operational security, with troops expected to stay staged in the sector for at least 30 days.

Quillette.

What is the purpose of a university? People ask this question all the time in conferences about academic freedom and the future of higher education. But an institution like the academy has different purposes for different people. And this is what we should expect in the modern world. A company likely has one purpose for its customers, another for its employees, another for its shareholders, and maybe a fourth for society at large. So too with academia. But do these varying purposes have any common thread?

The whole educational establishment is a massive illustration of Scott Adams’ contrast of goals vs. systems. Modern education is based on goals when it ought to be based on systems.

Anybody who gets 60% of the questions correct on a test will get an F. But think about it. The test-taker has absorbed almost two-thirds of what was being taught. And this is denigrated as failure? The distinction between ‘goals’ and ‘objectives’ needs to have a great place in our lives.

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As I reported on Friday, based on information from Spanish military intelligence that was publicly released, last summer’s invasion of Ceuta was enabled and coordinated by Moroccan intelligence. Both intelligence agents and soldiers from Morocco were secretly embedded in the invasion, the former to oversee and direct the operation, and the latter to manage the ragtag horde of 70,000+ “refugees” who surged over the border from Morocco to Ceuta.

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Whenever Muslims move to another country they make that country worse with three notable exceptions, the secular Iranians who moved to L.A, the Ahmadiyya muslims who moved to Britain and Iraqi translators who converted to Christianity.

Notice a pattern here? Iranians are mostly secular. The Ahmadi are persecuted by other Muslims for not being Muslim enough. And Muslims who leave Islam are by definition, not Muslim.

Most immigrant groups tend to stick together for a generation or two before they start integrating and intermarrying and so on. But Muslim populations don’t integrate because of their religion. (Surah 5:51) Furthermore, their religion says they are superior to others (Surah 3:110) Getting into Quranic interpretations is complicated but from what I’ve read it’s bad. Perhaps more importantly, what we can observe from group behavior, the bad parts of the Quran are well respected.

Imagine how peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.

New York Post.

Four teens were busted in connection to a drive-by shooting that killed a Tennessee high schooler after a football game in late August.

The arrests came exactly six weeks after Cameron Frierson, 16, was fatally shot in front of his younger brother Chris after the two boys attended a football game at Pearl-Cohn High School in Nashville on August 21, local police said.

Jon’quavous Johns-Collins, 18, Marcelle Stem Jr., 17, Lil Tay Webster, 17, and Zachkeius Brown, 16, were each slapped with charges of criminal homicide and engaging in criminal conspiracy, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department announced Friday.

Imagine how low the crime rates would be if young black males were prohibited from possessing firearms.

The main problem black people face in this country isn’t ‘white supremacy’ but rather black depravity.

New York Post.

“Monty Python” legend John Cleese is doubling down on his months-long string of incendiary posts about Islam after activists filed a complaint that asked Britain’s counter-radicalization program to scrutinize him over the missives.

“How exciting,” the 86-year-old comedian wrote after learning that a member of the public had referred him to Prevent, a British government program designed to intervene when authorities believe someone may be vulnerable to radicalization or becoming involved in terrorism.

The September 22 referral, first reported by Muslim-focused British news outlet 5Pillars, accused Cleese of a “sustained pattern” of online activity that “demonizes, dehumanizes, and collectively attributes violence and criminality to Muslims and Islam.”

That’s like saying ‘online activity that demonizes, dehumanizes, and collectively attributes violence and criminality to Nazis’.

Prevent operates in what the British government calls the “non-criminal space,” with referrals assessed to determine whether someone may need intervention.

Cases can be closed without further action, while those deemed appropriate can be referred to Channel, a voluntary intervention program for people considered vulnerable to radicalization.

There is no public evidence that Cleese has been placed in Channel or subjected to a criminal investigation. But the extraordinary complaint nevertheless put one of Britain’s most famous comedians into a government system created to head off radicalization.

In other words, hunting down Heretics and Sinners.

Rory Sutherland:

Actually, the really good thing about capitalism is that it solves the same problem in eighteen different ways.

Friday (10/2) News Roundup: Trump “Is Not Well”; Russ Vought, “Shadow President”; Hegseth Needs to Be Impeached ASAP (Lowkell/Blue Virginia)

Mass. Resident Indicted in Katie Miller Stalking Case

How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights (NBC News)  Why should ‘disabled’ people have rights that other people do not?

Trump Tourism Effects (Kieran Healy)  Tell the truth, do we really need a lot of tourists in this country? Overstaying a ‘touris visa’ is a well-known scheme for remaining in this country illegally.

GOP senators warn Trump is hurting Republicans with independents (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)

JD Vance Says Black, Socialist Candidate for Senate Doesn’t ‘Belong in America’ (John Light/Talking Points Memo)  Which, indeed, he doesn’t.

How Low Can Trump Go? — Donald Trump’s job-approval numbers have steadily eroded throughout his second term as president. (Ed Kilgore/New York Magazine)  The continuing Narrative.

Here’s Who Democrats Want to Impeach Next (Matt Viser/The Atlantic)

The 2030 Census is in Trouble ??? A new proposed rule from the Trump administration … (Margo J Anderson/Can We Still Govern?)  The “We” in their name obviously refers to Democrats.

Not To Alarm You, But Trump’s Brain Is Melted (William Kristol/The Bulwark)

Who’s calling for the Trump administration to send federal agents to polling places? (Media Matters for America)

MAGA podcaster Benny Johnson sued for defamation over ICE ride-along videos calling protesters ‘terrorists’ (Brandy Zadrozny/MS NOW)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Is There Anything Kash Patel Won’t Do for Trump Before the Midterms? (Sarah Fitzpatrick/The Atlantic)

Amid rising diesel prices, Republicans turn against Trump for first time on handling inflation (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)  The continuing Narrative.

South Dakota Is Trump Country. Can This New Strategy Change That? (Paul Blumenthal/HuffPost)  Bias? What bias?

Bill Pulte Guts the IG Office That Investigated Him (David Kurtz/Talking Points Memo)  Guts!

Voters can stop MAGA from running elections in more than a dozen states (Stephen Wolf/The Downballot)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

BLACKOUT: Evening Networks Ignore Major Upward Revisions in GDP Numbers

Time magazine’s big interview with Trump was a huge missed opportunity (Dan Froomkin/MS NOW)

Trump’s powerful new friends are making MAGA uncomfortable (Julia Manchester/NewsNation)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

NBC Joins Network-Wide Pile-on Hyping ‘Struggling’ Trump, GOP Ahead of Midterms

Letitia James Indicts Trump In Cornell Case  (Babylon Bee) You know it’s comin’….

California, 6 Other States Sue Trump Admin Over Funding Cuts To Immigration, Race Projects

“Told You To F–k Yourself”: GOP Senator Tells Trump Off In Profanity-Laced Leaked Texts  With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats?

Stelter on Trump and TIME: How Dare He Kvetch About His Hypernegative Press!

The View Whines Hegseth ‘Bullying’ Fatties in Military, Need to Be ‘Taking Anyone’

Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency (New York Times)

‘God made Trump’ ad and at least 12 others are part of controversial taxpayer-funded ad campaign (Betsy Klein/CNN)

Trump revisits the scene of his political ascent as Republicans struggle (Cat Zakrzewski/Washington Post)

CBS Bashes Trump Over Polls Numbers and SNAP Changes Amid Midterm Campaigning

Trump visa policies weigh on Columbia journalism program as admissions pause (Reuters) Sounds like a win—fewer foreigners being trained to hate America.

Diesel Don is tanking the GOP (Tom Schaller/Public Notice)  The continuing Narrative.

Trump, Critic of Voting by Mail, Urges Republicans to Do It in Midterms (New York Times)  They say that like it’s a bad thing. For evil men to triumph, it is only necessary for good men to do nothing.

‘Trump? I think he’s a disaster’: Ohio voters aggrieved as president prepares to visit (Stephen Starr/The Guardian)  Beating the drum of the Narrative.

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Egyptian authorities have detained the entire newsroom of one of the country’s only independent media outlets in a move that rights groups have denounced as a “first” and an “alarming escalation” on free speech.

On September 28 and 29, security forces raided the homes of the six journalists – Mohamed Ashraf Abu Emeira, Abdallah Qadry, Islam Barakat, Omar Helal, Mohamed Mahmoud and Mohamed Adel – who constitute the entire team working for Matsada2sh (Arabic for “Don’t believe”). The arrests bring the number of journalists detained in Egypt to 24.

Of all the Muslim-majority states in the world, not one can be accurately characterized as a democracy. Coincidence? I think not.

Muslims are doing their damnedest to put the same totalitarian regimes in place in Western Europe and in the U.S.  Time to wake up.

The New Neo.

Hochul and James are excellent examples of what happens when the left completely takes over a state, and there is no need anymore to even have a pretense of fairness or evenhandedness.

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There’s generally a strategy to the madness; you just have to wait until it starts to become visible. The anniversary of October 7, 2023, massacre is right around the corner.

Not the Bee.

Two people were shot outside of the stadium in what police called a targeted shooting, meaning it was not a mass shooter event. The two victims were transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Alpha News reports that it was Somali gang violence.

This video shows several Somali women in hijabs next to a group of black men, likely Somali (though as Somalis have increased in number, there has growing conflict between Somali gangs and historic African-American gangs).

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The Daily Signal has learned from top Democrat staffers that the 120th Congress will include a new “Squad” of Democratic Socialists of America members, called “the bloc,” with at least seven anti-capitalist members.

The bloc will include two of the remaining members of the original Squad, Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.

The new members likely include two progressives running in New York’s Democrat strongholds, Darializa Avila Chevalier and Claire Valdez, who have both expressed their disgust for the United States, as well as Pennsylvania state Rep. Chris Rabb, who has faced criticism for providing cover to Islamic extremists.

Melat Kiros, who refused to condemn the Islamic arsonist who killed a Holocaust survivor last year, is now running in a Democrat congressional district in Colorado to be another member of the so-called bloc.

Donavan McKinney, a far-left Michigan state representative, is months away from representing Detroit in the “bloc.”

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The Green Party is going to war against language, having decided the words “mother” and “father” are no longer fit for its members.

Ahead of its conference in Brighton this weekend, Zack Polanski’s party has circulated an ‘Inclusive Terminology Guidance’ telling activists to drop “mothers and fathers” for “parents and carers”, and warning that the wrong vocabulary can create “unwelcoming or exclusionary” environments and feed into bullying and harassment under the party’s own code of conduct.

The Telegraph reports that the document, already in use as equalities training, brands a run of ordinary English “unacceptable”, then tells members what to say instead. ‘Sexual preference’ is out because it “implies that attraction is a choice”. ‘Transsexual’ is out because it “does not encompass non-binary people”. ‘Homosexual’ is discouraged for the same reason.

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Democrat Justice looks a lot like the old Soviet Union.

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Chuck Schumer knows that the Democrats have already been thwarted from rigging the election, from flooding the polls with illegal immigrant voters, with dead voters, with voters who moved out of state but still got mail-in ballots sent to their old addresses, with voters registered as living in Walmart parking lots, and so on. Chuck Schumer knows that the Civil Rights Division of DOJ is sending hundreds of lawyers to observe the action in swing state polling places. ICE might even be on hand to see who turns up.

So, Chuck Schumer is pretending that the Republicans will try to do what the Democrats actually did in several previous elections (including the last midterm, 2022, viz., AZ, GA, NV), and would have liked to do in this midterm, but can’t. The Democrats will holler like crazy about it before the election to plant this idea in credulous minds. They will jump up and down going woo-woo-woo on Election Day itself to water the idea. And after the election they will blitz every critical precinct with lawsuits to prevent the vote from being certified, using select “activist” judges to issue TROs and writs to delay election results and de-legitimize the vote.

And if none of that avails – which it won’t – they’ll call out their ground troops, Antifa, BLM, Free Palestine, LGBTQ2S+, the furious transsexuals, the hysterical cat ladies, and suchlike to make a giant ruckus so as to provoke the president to invoke emergency powers to quell the mayhem. And then they’ll point at Mr. Trump shrieking, “See! Tyrant!”

Chuck Schumer is such a shithead. Everybody knows that he intends for the Democratic Party to inflict lawfare and commit warfare on the midterm election (in that order), and hence on the American people, behind an Alinsky-grade cloud of gaslight claiming the other side is doing it.

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The push to effectively elect a president through a national popular vote is within striking distance, just 48 votes shy, prompting Electoral College advocates to step up their appeal to state Democrat lawmakers across the country.

In April, Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed a bill to make her state the latest to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, bringing the total to 18 Democrat-leaning states and the District of Columbia, which have 222 electoral votes. The agreement takes effect when enough states have joined to reach the 270 votes to elect a president.

Lobbyists for both sides have cranked up their efforts.

“I’ve asked lawmakers: Would you want your state’s electoral votes going to a candidate the people of your state didn’t vote for?” Jasper Hendricks, executive director of Democrats for the Electoral College, told the Daily Signal. “If this had been in effect, Virginia would have gone to Donald Trump in 2024, when Kamala Harris won it. That would not be fair, and it would have led to lawsuits.”

Funny world when waking up to the truth is characterized as ‘deteriorating’….

Islam is the only religion that promotes violence. Christians don’t. Jews don’t. Buddhists don’t. Hindus don’t. Just Muslims.

Newsbusters.

1619 Project founder Nikole Hannah-Jones recently penned a column in The New York Times where he revealed that she purposefully gave her daughter a poor education in order to align with her left-wing beliefs. Defending herself on PBS’s Amanpour and Company on Thursday, Hannah-Jones insisted her decision was “for the collective and common good.”

Interviewer Michel Martin recalled the horror story that was the school Hannah-Jones decided to send her daughter to, “You write about this devastating moment when she was in the fourth grade, you get her math work back and you discover that almost every answer is wrong. And then the teacher, part of the reason it’s wrong is the teacher hadn’t been checking it.”

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CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten said Wednesday that Republicans have beaten their September polling in Ohio, Iowa and Michigan by wide margins in recent election cycles. If that pattern repeats in November, the GOP could keep control of the Senate despite current Democratic leads in all three states.

With just over a month before the midterms, Democrats have spent weeks enjoying a Senate map that looked impossible a year ago. Democrats need to net just four seats to win the majority. Republicans started the second half of President Donald Trump’s term with what looked like a firm hold on the upper chamber. The Democrats’ original plan was to defend Michigan, Georgia, and New Hampshire, then take Republican seats in Alaska, Maine, North Carolina, and Ohio. Then the map got bigger for the Democrats. Trump’s falling approval numbers and voters’ frustration with the economy gave Democrats openings in states the party had long given up on. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer took a victory lap almost immediately.

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“But here’s the question, what if the polls are wrong?” CNN anchor John Berman asked the network’s chief data analyst Harry Enten.

“We’ve had really good Democratic polls coming out from Ohio, Michigan, Iowa,” Enten told CNN. “And, you know, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me four times, I just have to ask the question, could it happen again?”

His data suggests it might. “In Iowa, where the Democrats have been getting really good polls, Republicans outperformed their September polls by nine points back in 2024. How about Ohio? Six points. How about Michigan? Five points.”

Newsbusters.

On Wednesday’s Morning Joe show, co-host Joe Scarborough gave no pushback to liberal author Malcolm Gladwell claiming that the Second Amendment was meant to apply to slave patrols as he complained about the U.S. Supreme Court making gun control more difficult to enact.

The comments came during a discussion of Gladwell’s latest book, The American Way of Killing, which focuses on gun-related violence. After the first part of the discussion pointed out that European countries have substantially more police officers to help focus on crime compared to the U.S., MS NOW contributor Mike Barnicle followed up by comparing guns to a disease.

Gladwell ripped the Supreme Court over prominent rulings that have supported gun rights — even the Heller case which guarantees that Americans have a right to be armed in their homes: “Yeah. I mean, here I have two chapters in the book on the Supreme Court. And the Supreme Court has been a significant impediment here. They have — the last two major gun rulings — in the Bruen case and the Heller case — are abominations.”

The New York Times, Paper of Record of the Crust.

Other than Donald Trump — who is himself worth nine figures — billionaires are perhaps the most common foil for Democrats running for office this year. Whether they’re trying to win a safe blue seat or a competitive red one, Democrats invoke billionaires as the root cause of the country’s political and economic malaise. “The American dream has become an American nightmare,” James Talarico, the Democratic Senate candidate in Texas, told a crowd last month. “People are working hard, every day they’re playing by the rules, but those rules of today weren’t written for us. They were written for billionaires,” he added.

It’s hard to dispute this political logic. Several of the world’s wealthiest people have aligned themselves with Mr. Trump, at times literally: Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos were among those seated close behind the president at his inauguration. Elon Musk — briefly the world’s first trillionaire — was a fixture in the Oval Office for a few months last year. Billionaires are astronomically rich, arguably lightly taxed, often allied with Republicans and, in a gift to speechwriters, provide a unified theory of societal decline.

Two words: George Soros. “Arguably lightly taxed” is according to the leveling logic of progressivism, whose devotees feel that every dollar a billionaire has that the progressive doesn’t is some sort of oppression. Far from being a ‘theory of soeietal decline’, billionaires underline the fact that if you provide a service that a lot of people are willing to pay money for, people will give you a lot of money for it. Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos have provided more work for more people, and a better live for everybody, than any Democrat who ever lived. (Despite which they are notorious liberals. Go figure.)

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On July 30 of this year a mass invasion of the Spanish enclave of Ceuta began. On that day and the days following, an estimated 72,000 migrant invaders, most of them sub-Saharan Africans, crossed the border from Morocco by breaking through the fence or swimming around the sea barriers.

The “migrants” who crossed into Ceuta, like those who arrive in various parts of Western Europe, are overwhelmingly young men of military age. By any reasonable definition of the word they are invaders, rather than migrants or refugees or asylum seekers. However, because they arrive unarmed and are not openly and immediately violent, they are assumed to be refugees by the media and the governments that receive them.

This legerdemain of nomenclature serves two ends: (1) the receiving governments avoid the expense and risk of opposing the invasion by military means, and (2) those extra-governmental operators whose interests are served by the replacement of the native European populations get what they have been paying the people-traffickers for.

And the invasion serves the interests of Islam, of course, but that’s a separate topic.

The behavior of the government of Spanish Prime Minister Sánchez is a strong indicator that reason #2 figures most prominently in Spain’s state policy. For whatever reason, the government wants those invaders to gain entrance to Spain and the European Union, and does its utmost to avert its eyes from the catastrophe that Moroccan intelligence has engineered in Ceuta.

However, it seems that Spanish nationalists and regional government leaders have now put a stick in the spokes of Mr. Sánchez’s bicycle. The Spanish king has arranged a state visit to Ceuta and Melilla (the other Spanish enclave in North Africa), arousing the ire of the Moroccan government. Since Morocco has never recognized Spanish ownership of the two enclaves, the government in Rabat considers the king’s visit a grave affront to the sovereignty of the Moroccan state.

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Twenty-five years after the 9/11 attacks, we hardly need reminding that aviation security can never be taken for granted. But we got one anyway.

On Sept. 30, a Flydubai flight carrying 174 passengers from Dubai to Tel Aviv made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia after the co-pilot stabbed the captain and, according to Israeli officials, attempted to crash the aircraft.

The details are extraordinary, and the lesson is simple. Threats can emerge without warning, and aviation security depends on trained people being ready to respond.

That is why Americans should pay attention to a newly filed Transportation Security Administration record detailing the operational burden of the agency’s 2024 collective bargaining agreement. The federal government is now appealing a court injunction keeping that agreement in force.

Americans for Fair Treatment, of which I am CEO, has been fighting this battle for years. Congress never expressly granted collective bargaining rights to TSA screeners. The current union system began with a 2011 decision by Obama-era TSA Administrator John Pistole.

The legal questions belong to the courts, but TSA’s own record raises a broader question: How much union bureaucracy should a national security agency be expected to absorb?

Jerry Pournelle was fond of saying that the purpose of government was to hire and pay government employees.

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The same left-wing activist groups that oppose President Donald Trump’s enforcement of immigration law also appear to be mobilizing against the Census Bureau’s proposed rule to exclude illegal aliens from the 2030 census for purposes of determining seats in the House of Representatives and votes in the Electoral College.

Critics see this mobilization as evidence of maneuvering for political advantage.

“The Left opposes deportations and supports counting illegal aliens for congressional apportionment for the same reason—to maintain their own political power,” Lora Ries, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center, told the Daily Signal in a statement Thursday.

The Census Bureau argues that apportionment should be based on a person’s “usual residence,” as the census traditionally includes members of the military stationed overseas and excludes tourists.

Under the proposed rule, the Census Bureau would exclude illegal aliens and other non-permanent residents from the apportionment count.

Adriel I. Cepeda Drieux, deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Voting Rights Project, told NPR her group is considering litigation, saying the rule would “fly against centuries of constitutional tradition in the United States.”

Customary practice doesn’t trump the Constitution … or the law. We haven’t before had organized groups of people attempting to allow millions of illegal immigrants swamp our territory, and changing facts on the ground ought to lead to changing practices.

The New Neo.

It makes no sense to me, but all signs are that the US voting public is poised to put Democrats in charge of Congress. As time passes, I become more and more convinced that voters operate through pique and illogic. Things aren’t perfect? Turn the bums out and put in the far greater bums.

I guess they want to see endless and meaningless impeachment theater again.

Meanwhile, the economy is doing rather well, although you wouldn’t know it from the MSM.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two Muslim holidays into law this week, making California the second state to officially recognize them.

On Sunday, Newsom signed Assembly Bill 2017 into law, which will make Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha state holidays. That means public schools will be closed on those days and state employees will have the days off.

Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson also signed those holidays into law in 2025.

Eid al-Fitr is also called the “Festival of Breaking the Fast,” which coincides with the end of Ramadan, the ninth month of the Muslim calendar.

Eid al-Adha is called the “Festival of the Sacrifice,” typically lasts between three and four days and marks the culmination of the annual Muslim Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca.

The bill was initially proposed by Assemblyman Matt Haney, a Democrat, and passed the California Assembly and Senate by near-unanimous margins.

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As a physician, I don’t make any decisions without assessing my patients, reviewing the data, and ensuring I’ve considered every course of action to find the best one. Before recommending treatment, I want to know not simply whether it will work, but what complications might occur and how vulnerable my patient might be if something goes wrong.

Virginia voters should expect the same rigor from our policymakers.

Yet, this November, voters have been asked to decide whether to establish a “constitutional right to reproductive freedom”—in other words, a right to abortion—even though the commonwealth itself does not require abortionists to report one remarkably basic category of information: abortion complications.

I am one of nearly 300 medical professionals in the commonwealth urging voters to reject Question 1. I oppose the amendment for several reasons, but you do not need me to share my views on abortion to see a problem here.

Virginia’s own reporting rules make it remarkably difficult to answer a straightforward public health question: What complications occur after induced abortions happen in our state?

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New evidence released by Collin County Precinct Chair Rachel Elliott documents campaign contributions, political endorsements, Islamic event attendance, and other interactions between McKinney elected officials and the McKinney Islamic Association before the City Council’s Aug. 4 vote approving the organization’s proposed mosque site plan.

The McKinney City Council voted 7-0 to approve the site plan for a new McKinney Islamic Association facility at 5301, 5311, and 5321 Virginia Parkway after hours of public testimony. City records state that the proposed project complied with applicable zoning and development requirements.

Documents and videos compiled by Elliott show that multiple council members, the current mayor, and former Mayor George Fuller had documented interactions with the association, including campaign donations, endorsements, religious events, proclamations, and appearances at organization events.

The Foundry.

The Democratic Socialists of America believes that if society were to eliminate “the nuclear family,” which it describes as a “structure built to preserve capitalism,” the United States would enjoy more “women’s, queer, and Indigenous liberation.”

I’m here to debunk that myth. This is nothing more than another DSA fairy tale.

When I was a child, attempting to flee Venezuela after the communist uprising of 1998, my parents, who were of age and not Venezuelan nationals, were allowed to leave the country. I wasn’t, simply because I was a kid. I was considered “property of the state.”

Divine intervention is what granted my family and me a life here in the United States, a country we now call home.

Now, this move by the Venezuelan regime was not intended to liberate women, as I’m not one, or to advance the cause of Indigenous self-determination, as I’m not Indigenous either. The Indigenous population of Venezuela was and remains a minority of the country’s population.

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As Islam makes disturbing inroads into nearly aspect of American life, the legitimacy of calling it a religion is coming into question. Islam has been practiced not only as a religion, but also as a political and legal system that the most ardent practitioners embrace.

We have seen Muslims enter every level of our political system, from boards of education, to city, state and even national government. The question that arises is: can a Muslim who adheres to sharia law, a law that directs Muslims to apply it strictly to every aspect of their lives, exist in a country that is bound by the Constitution? The potential not only for conflict, but also for sharia law superseding American law, must be carefully examined.

Clarifying the nature of sharia is key to this understanding. Muslim scholars have been debating for years whether Islam is only a religion, or if it is also a political and legal system; the majority of Muslim scholars believe that it is both. Reformers state that Islam is only a religion, and that sharia law does not need to be closely followed.

At some point, extremists will probably win out, due to the influx of Muslims from other countries.

Part of the problem is that some mainstream Muslims believe there is no conflict between accepting both sharia and the Constitution. For example, Texas has one of the largest Muslim populations in this country, and that is one place where the practice of sharia is being advocated.

Islam is an oppressive totalitarian ideology masquerading as a religion with which no co-existence is possible.

The Telegraph (UK).

The Muslim Greens, an affiliate group of the Left-wing party, made the claim in guidance that outlines how members can identify Islamophobia and anti-Muslim hate as part of its code of conduct.

The guidance, published on the Muslim Greens website, is intended for the Green Party in England and Wales. On the website, the group says “queerphobic legislation in many Muslim-majority countries is deeply tied to colonialism”.

It claims that suggesting Muslims are “uniquely queerphobic because of Islam denies acknowledging how modern-day queerphobia is strongly rooted in the British Empire”.

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

Trump Is in Denial About AI’s Danger  Peggy Noonan, in common with most of the Chattering Class, cannot conceive of the possibility that maybe, just maybe, Trump os smarter than she is.

Justices Take Up Trump Immigration Case That May Revive ‘Catch and Release’

Trump admin quietly changed overseas voter form at 11th hour to disenfranchise Democrats, lawsuit says (Alexandra Hutzler/Democracy Docket) Uh, the correct term is ‘disfranchise’, not ‘disenfranchise’

.Supreme Court Will Review Trump’s Mandatory Immigrant Detention Policy (Jackie Llanos/The Washington Sun)  “DHS wants to hold millions of immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally, even those who have lived here for decades and haven’t committed crimes.” Other than being here illegally, WHICH IS A CRIME, the penalty for which is deportation. The Narrative Media don’t seem able to appreciate the fact that just being here illegally IS A CRIME.

Hegseth puts the future of warfare in the hands of major Maga donors (Aram Roston/The Guardian)  There’s that MAGA guy again. (MAGA is the New Nigger.)

CBS Joins Gleeful ABC in Boasting GOP Has ‘Struggling’ Candidates, Wretched Polls  According to them, of course.

‘I feel hoodwinked’: In red states, some of Trump’s former supporters turn on the president (MS NOW)

Renee Good’s family sues Trump administration, ICE agent (Kyle Stokes/Axios)  Whose turn is it to be the victim?

Trump could target three Fed governors. Removing them may be harder than it looks (Matt Peterson/CNBC)

Trump illegally fired Seattle’s U.S. attorney, judge rules (Jeremy Roebuck/Washington Post)

Competitive Authoritarianism in America (Steven Levitsky/Journal of Democracy)  Funny how these concerns never arise during the Democrat administrations that have advanced authoritarianism in the U.S. since Wilson.

Pete Hegseth Just Declared Victory in the Wrong War (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker)  Of course! Let’s just ask writers for the New Yorker how to run our military! It’s all clear to me now!

DNC: Trump Admin Move Impedes Voting by Americans Abroad

Lemire Hits Hegseth For Using ‘Explicitly Christian’ Psalm. It’s Actually Jewish

Households will pay more for energy because of Trump’s policy changes, think tank says (Jennifer McDermott/Associated Press)

Perpetual Paranoia Over CNN Turning ‘MAGA-Friendly,’ Like CBS!

Democrats are making huge gains in Trump country. The battleground states are a different story. (Mychael Schnell/MS NOW)

A “Who You Gonna Believe?” Election (Paul Krugman)  The vacuum speaks.

I wonder whether he’s taking new patients.

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What, you didn’t know that Sinapore had a government-run dating service?

Coming soon to a fringe Democrat platform near you….

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My,  what a surprise.

A London mosque with charitable status is under investigation for posting sermons that tell husbands to hit disobedient wives and setting out execution methods for gay men, including being thrown from tall buildings.

The lectures were not smuggled out of a private meeting. They sit on the Hackney Islamic Community Centre’s own YouTube channel, delivered from the mosque also known as Masjid Daar Al-Hadeeth. The National Secular Society referred the material to the regulator. The Daily Mail published the tapes. Britain’s official response is a case file.

The Charity Commission has opened a regulatory compliance case. It has not, so far, taken the charity’s status away.

Of course not. that would be Wacist.

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One lesson governments never seem to learn is that when taxes push the legal price of something high enough, a black market will eventually show up to collect the difference.

Australia is now getting a particularly ugly demonstration of that principle. After more than a decade of relentlessly increasing tobacco taxes in an effort to crush smoking, the country has created an enormous price gap between legal and illegal cigarettes, and organized crime has rushed in to fill it, according to the Financial Times.

A legal pack of cigarettes now costs close to A$60, or roughly US$42, making Australian cigarettes the most expensive in the world. Excise taxes account for more than 70% of that price, and the cost of legally purchased tobacco has roughly tripled since the end of 2016. Meanwhile, contraband cigarettes can be bought for around one-fifth of the legal price.

Markets will exist even when somebody in power doesn’t want them to.

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A new analysis of U.S. Senate polls from 2018 to 2024 in Iowa, Michigan, and Ohio shows Democratic support was overstated by an average of more than 6 percentage points a little more than a month before Election Day.

Echelon Insights pollster Patrick Ruffini posted Wednesday on X that 93% of the polls examined overstated support for the Democratic candidate, with an average miss of 6.2 points 33 days before Election Day.

The average Democrat polling advantage in the three states this year is 6.6 points at the same point in the cycle.

Of course they are. Polls are not sources of information but rather tools of propaganda. This is plainly demonstrated by the publicity they receive by whichever side of a question appears stronger in the ‘poll’, as if a statistical trick were an invariable guarantee of the result.

MeidasTouch, a Voice of the Deranged Left.

A perfectly defensible position, and one that I am prepared to argue.

Newsbusters.

In Tuesday’s OutFront, Erin Burnett once again dove into her, and the leftwing media’s, obsession with Russia’s apparent collusion in U.S. elections. With the November midterms now just weeks away, Burnett couldn’t resist piling on another claim: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s order to defend this election season from foreign interference was another ploy for Republicans to steal votes.

It’s no secret the liberal media has had it out for Trump ever since he won in 2016. With Clinton’s loss being a hard pill to swallow, the Republican and Russia conspiracy was born. Instead of acting like a regular loser, however, Democrats fed Americans the fantastical narrative that “Russia hacked the election” and literally stole votes for the Republican Party.

Burnett turned her segment into an electoral safeguard hate party when she bashed Hegseth’s order for the military to utilize intelligence and cyber capabilities to defend the election from foreign interference. Before her charade, Burnett admitted to this being “something the military has done in the past,” in which initiatives were rolled out in the past eight years during elections to counter foreign hackers.

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Yeah, it cut costs by shifting them to the customers, many of whom don’t appreciate doing the work that the vendor ought to be doing.

According to an April survey from Toast, a point-of-sale and restaurant management platform, approximately 36 percent of 340 small and midsize retail operators said they used self-checkout lanes this year, down from 43 percent in 2025.

That decrease could be attributed to merchandise losses.

According to a report from ECR Retail Loss, grocery stores experienced an average 22 percent increase in merchandise losses in the year after installing self-checkout lanes. These losses included both theft and accidental errors, such as missed scans and incorrect product selections.

Gee, who could have foreseen that?

The Guardian, Voice of the Left in Britain.

Yeah, that’s going to end well.

The Telegraph (UK).

There are many reasons teenagers resent going to school. Early starts, no access to their phones, too much homework.

But in France, these frustrations have prompted a wave of violent youth protests, and the hard-Left, which needs the young to carry them in the next election, have been blamed for fanning the flames.

With the country bracing for fresh violence on Thursday, the protests have become a controversial political issue among presidential contenders eight months before Emmanuel Macron steps down.

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The new school year is well underway, but federal officials are looking ahead to next year’s school calendar and a new federal school choice option. This week, the U.S. Department of the Treasury released proposed and temporary guidance on the program to help state officials and families prepare.

As part of the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” signed by the White House in July 2025, lawmakers included a federal tax credit program for K-12 students that will take effect next year. The federal initiative is modeled after state education choice opportunities that make individuals and/or corporations eligible for tax credits on donations made to private school scholarship organizations.

The organizations then use the contributions to award K-12 private school scholarships to eligible students. Arizona lawmakers adopted the first such program in 1997, and policymakers in states across the country have approved similar provisions.

The federal tax credit only applies to individual, not corporate, tax filers and is capped at $1,700 per individual ($3,400 for married couples filing jointly). A unique—and troubling—provision in the federal program is that scholarship organizations can raise money for public schools.

Parents and taxpayers should wonder why this provision was included in a law modeled after private school choice laws. Today, the average per student spending in traditional schools has climbed to more than $20,000 per child, even as reading and math scores in most grades have been on a steady decline since before the COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, state private education choice options result in cost savings to taxpayers.

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Trump Signs Order to Significantly Reduce Mosquitoes and Ticks in D.C. (Justice Covert/The Washington Sun)  Bad news for Democrats.

Trump says ‘MAGA and REAL Patriots’ will never like Fox News over hosting Democrats (Tara Suter/The Hill)  He’s right.

Daniel Dale Scolds: ‘Mainstream’ Media Have ‘Regularly Failed’ on Trashing Trump’s Lies!

Trump’s Iran War Leaves Three More Tankers Struck as Husted Tries to Rewrite His Vote (Brett Meiselas/MeidasTouch)  Actually, it’s Jimmuy Carter’s Iran War. Trump is just the first guy willing to fight it.

FCC Chairman Doesn’t See Anything “Out Of The Ordinary” About White House Airing Of Taxpayer-Funded Trump Ads (Ted Johnson/Deadline)

FCC head says government-funded Trump ads are ‘normal’ and ‘don’t raise any red flags’ (Dareh Gregorian/NBC News)

FCC’s Carr brushes off concerns about Trump’s taxpayer-paid election ads (Steve Benen/MS NOW)

Trump Defends His Taxpayer-Funded Campaign Ads (Gavin J. Quinton/The Washington Sun)

Key allies left out of Trump’s new in-crowd NATO group (Politico)

Trump acknowledges bind he faces on immigration policies (Cat Zakrzewski/Washington Post)

We Are DOOMED: ABC, CBS Melt Down Over No Gov’t Regulations From WH’s AI Summit

Hegseth details new initiatives in partisan address to troops (Washington Post)  Partisan!

Trump Orders Major Mosquito, Tick Cuts in D.C.  Democrats and government employees hardest hit.

Iran publishes propaganda letter urging US voters to punish Trump in midterm elections (Ronny Reyes/New York Post)  They know who their friends are.

Chuck Lorre Wishes Death on Trump, Insults Melania and Mocks RFK Jr.’s Speech Disorder

The Flailing President ??? Poll after poll shows that Trump’s presidency is not going well. (Jonathan Lemire/The Atlantic)

Trump, Big AI go all-in together (Zachary Basu/Axios)

Most Americans blame Trump for high prices as midterms approach, a new AP-NORC poll finds (Associated Press)

Scenes from a personality cult (Paul Waldman/Public Notice)

What Trump Has Built — Eric Cortellessa … Donald Trump struts onto the new White House helipad … (Eric Cortellessa/Time)

A high-stakes fight for state political power heats up, with Trump’s agenda on the line (Associated Press)

Most blame President Trump for higher prices and are unhappy with how he is handling the economy (Marjorie Connelly/AP-NORC)

Trump’s economic polling sinks, rivaling Biden’s worst (Ben Berkowitz/Axios)

The Daily Wire Is Quietly Shooting a Pro-ICE Movie. We Got the Script. (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)  Will Sommer loses his shit.

Fox News has spent almost two years claiming Trump’s deportations are targeting “the worst of the worst.” The administration just contradicted that narrative. (John Knefel/Media Matters for America)  So his beef is with Fox News. But he blames Trump, just because.

O’Donnell Compares GOP Senator To A ‘Drunk Joe McCarthy,’ Insists Trump Has Dementia

Judge rules Trump can’t fire court-appointed prosecutors (Erica Orden/Politico)

Trump looms over Becerra-Hilton debate in deep-blue California (Politico)

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Couldn’t happen to a more deserving group of people.

Shooting yourself in the foot is bad enough, but doing it with a flamethrower takes the cake.