DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

“If two weird things happen so close together, they are usually connected somehow.” — April Lewis

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Many of us grew up in times when our public workers were deservedly revered. This was because they were positive and helpful despite being both overworked and underpaid.

Those days are long gone. Today, most public employees seem either apathetic or simply unwilling to help the taxpayers who pay their salaries. To make matters worse, today they are paid much better than their private industry equivalents.

That was colorfully announced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in a recent news release. The statisticians responsible told taxpayers that private industry employees make an average of $32.37 per hour, and that their counterparts in state and local governments make $40.24 per hour.

This difference is more significant when benefits are added to the picture. Each private industry employee receives an average of $13.68 per hour in benefits, compared to $25.04 per hour for the poor, humble public employee. That is an overall cost of $46.05 vs. $65.28 for our public employees. That is a whopping difference.

The disparity is dramatically illustrated by the Los Angeles Unified School District’s move to give starting teachers an annual pay rate of $77,000 and 15-year veterans pay of $125,156. That is before a rich benefits package and on top of the perk of having summers off. Meanwhile, the district is an overstaffed operation with shrinking enrollment that matriculates poorly educated students.

Those figures are for the period ended September 2025. You might notice that federal employees are not included in this study, meaning the pay disparity between them and private sector workers might be even worse.

Think of it this way: When you go to the Department of Motor Vehicles to be harassed and ignored, the worker behind the counter is making more than the average person pleading to escape the DMV’s dysfunctional dystopia.

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Seattle’s new socialist mayor is in the process of being mugged by reality and her response is to say that it’s, like, no big deal. Tee hee!

In a recently surfaced video from an event at Seattle University, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson—the West Coast Zohran Mamdani—was asked if Washington State’s new taxes are a good thing for the tax climate in her city. The state recently passed a “millionaire tax” along with several other significant tax increases.

This means that Seattle now has the highest state and local tax burden for high-income earners in the country.

Once in a blue moon, the truth creeps out of Trudeau’s Wokery.

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They don’t call it the Turd World for nothing.

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She is, of course, a Female Of Tincture (or FOT, not to be confused with THOT, which is a different gig that pays better).

Sarah Hoyt.

The problem with the left right now — no, I know they have many, but hear me out — is that they don’t acknowledge their shadow. In this sense, they’re not fully adults, and they do the most bizarre things because they think of themselves as “the good people” as though being good were bestowed by assignment at birth. In fact you could say all their other problems come from being unable to acknowledge their shadow.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

A candidate in the United Kingdom’s Green Party is under fire after posting under the social media handle “thereal.anne.frank” that “every single Zionist” should be killed, marking the latest antisemitic scandal to hit the party in a matter of days.

Two other candidates have been charged with spreading hate online in relation to anti-Israel social media posts, while the party’s Jewish leader, Zack Polanski, is fending off allegations of deep-seated antisemitism.

The latest scandal came after the Jewish News revealed that in a series of posts on Threads, Tina Ion, a Green party candidate in Newcastle, referred to “Zionists” as “vermin” and “rats” and posted an image of an industrial shredding machine, which she called a “Zionist juicer.” She also referred to “Jewish Nazis” as “money grubbing thieves” who “have built mountains of money over centuries,” according to the newspaper.

The profile photo for the account, titled “thereal.anne.frank,” featured an image of a young woman wearing a keffiyeh, the traditional Palestinian headscarf. In one post referencing the image, Ion allegedly wrote that it was used “because Ann Frank wearing a keffieh pisses Zionists off.”

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The financial industry understands itself to be an arm of the government. We were inducted into this service other-than-willingly through the ordinary operation of law and regulation.

This is uncontroversial and unsurprising to insiders.

A claim which will be more surprising: some regulated financial institutions have delegated authority for account- and transaction-level decisioning to a non-profit.

Another: that non-profit includes a private intelligence agency, which runs covert assets, publishes intelligence estimates, develops target lists, and communicates them to decisionmakers.

Still another: the non-profit organized a coalition of the willing as an outgrowth of its intelligence agency. The willing non-profits, that is. The coalition engaged in a years-long campaign to coerce financial infrastructure and other firms to give them the ability to direct accounts to be closed. The infrastructure built to do this against domestic terrorists was applied to an American politician’s fundraising efforts, and no one seemed to think that was odd.

Last week, the DOJ unsealed an indictment against the organizing non-profit for bank fraud. This was based, in part, on how it paid the intelligence agency’s covert assets.

They likely developed evidence for that indictment using the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) mandatory reporting regime.

We begin, as always, with the bank fraud.

The Telegraph (UK).

Qatar has been accused of “eradicating” its Bahá’í religious minority, with families living in the country for decades facing imminent expulsion.

More than 40 per cent of the small Bahá’í population is being targeted for deportation in a “deliberate campaign of religious erasure”, the Bahá’í International Community (BIC), a non-governmental organisation, said.

The community, whose presence in the region predates the modern Qatari state, has been reduced to a few hundred members after decades of systematic discrimination.

Muslims tolerate non-Muslims only when they have to.

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In a major break with tradition, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle has directed that the Navy ships that transport Marines into war zones be commanded by surface warfare officers instead of aviators.

The change applies to amphibious assault ships, transport docks, and dock landing ships, Caudle wrote in an April 24 memo that has been shared on Reddit. The Navy confirmed to Task & Purpose that the memo is authentic.

The Navy currently has a total of 32 amphibious warfare ships, including nine big deck amphibious assault ships, which carry Marines and vertical-take off aircraft like the MV-22B Osprey, helicopters and F-35 fighters.

In the memo, Caudle wrote that his decision is tied to Navy efforts to improve amphibious warfare ships’ readiness.

The Foundry.

California college graduates have been struggling to take their next steps into the career world. According to one congressman, the issue is not a lack of jobs, but a prioritization of foreign workers.

For years, the Golden State’s Bay Area has been a haven for jobs within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

But Republican Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt told the Daily Signal that companies and universities have been passing up American workers and instead relying on temporary employment tied to international students’ major area of study—known as Optional Practical Training (OPT).

“We went from displacing blue-collar workers with sending jobs overseas, and then illegal immigrants suppressing wages and taking other jobs,” Schmitt said. “Then you also have white-collar job issue[s] with H-1B visa[s], which we tried to highlight, but also displacing recent grads and American students through these programs like OPT.”

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Democrats have an extremism problem, and it’s not clear how they can solve it. After yet another gunman tried to assassinate President Donald Trump at last weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, liberals nobly renewed their commitment to moderation. “We need LESS violence in America, not MORE violence in America,” wrote CNN’s Van Jones. Quite right. But the American Left has not exactly put itself in a good position to calm down its radicals.

Consider: last Wednesday, the New York Times hosted superstar streamer Hasan Piker for a podcast with writer Jia Tolentino. Piker has fantasized on camera about murdering landlords and once told his viewers that “If you cared about Medicare fraud or Medicaid fraud, you would kill [Florida Senator] Rick Scott.” He joked with Tolentino about “microlooting”—that is, shoplifting—and equivocated about whether UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson deserved to die at the hands of his alleged murderer, Luigi Mangione.

Thompson “was engaging in a tremendous amount of social murder,” said Piker, citing Friedrich Engels to suggest that the killing was retribution for “systematized forms of violence” in the healthcare system. Piker is just one online celebrity, but the problem is that he represents a significant portion of the base that Democrats must now cater to. One survey found that 41% of young voters, and 22% of Democrats, considered Mangione’s actions “acceptable.”

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Dozens of ‘pro-Palestinian’ activists travelling on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla disembarked in Crete on Friday, May 1st after being intercepted by Israeli forces near the island.

The group of around 175 activists, according to Israeli estimates, was escorted to shore by Greek coast guards and transported on four buses to a location that was not publicly disclosed. Organisers of the flotilla, however, said the total number of people involved was 211.

Israel’s foreign ministry stated that more than 20 boats were stopped during the operation on Thursday. In a post on X, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said the transfer of activists was carried out “in coordination with the Greek government,” adding that Israel appreciated Greece’s “willingness to receive the flotilla participants.”

Several European governments whose citizens were among those detained have called for their immediate release, arguing that Israel’s actions represent a serious breach of international law.

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Bro, the school system is taking kids on a field trip to a May Day rally which, this year, is essentially an anti-Trump, anti-ICE protest.

She literally said students are going on a field trip to a May Day protest!

You simply cannot parody this!

Notice that, although there are fewer Blue states, they have almost as many Reps as the Red states. (D.C. doesn’t count as a ‘state’ and has only a non-voting Rep, a Democrat.)

The Left Coast and the Lake Coast states have hinterlands that manage to elect the odd Republican, although who knows how long that will continue?

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A swarthy knife-wielding mujahid of unknown ethnicity terrorized the northern London suburb of Golders Green earlier today, stabbing and seriously wounding two Jews before being subdued by police and arrested. The attacker reportedly yelled (wait for it) “Allahu Akhbar” during his rampage.

Golders Green is known for its large Jewish community. The two victims were Orthodox, i.e. “visibly Jewish”. The two attacks were spread out over several blocks as the Soldier of Allah walked around looking for targets.

Contrary to their usual reticence in such matters, the British authorities have already declared the action to be “terrorism”. An Iranian terror group called Ashab al-Yamin has claimed responsibility for the attacks.

The Daily Mail and The New York Post provide extensive coverage of the incident, with plenty of useful information and lots of photos and videos.

Most of the videos available online have been pixellated or otherwise sanitized. An unpixellated version of the stabbing at the bus stop is particularly hard to find. Fortunately, Vlad has managed to acquire such a clip, along with footage of the arrest of the suspect, and combined them in the video below.

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Polling shows that more Democrats under 50 have a favorable view of Iran than of Israel.

That comes fresh off the Islamic regime massacring tens of thousands of its own protesters after helping perpetrate the Oct 7 massacre inside Israel. The victims of both sets of atrocities, from the protesters in Tehran to Nova music festival attendees in Israel, were young and liberal.

And yet the young liberals of America have chosen the old theocrats who ordered their deaths.

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Nearly half a million years ago – far earlier than researchers once believed – early human ancestors were already building wooden structures.

A research team from the University of Liverpool and Aberystwyth University, reporting in Nature, excavated remarkably well-preserved wood at Kalambo Falls in Zambia.

The finds date to at least 476,000 years ago, long before modern humans, Homo sapiens, evolved.

Shortly after making this discovery, Professor Larry Barham from the University of Liverpool and his team identified a wedge, a digging stick, a log cut with the help of tools, and a branch with a deliberate notch.

Such woodworking extends far beyond what was once thought possible of early humans living so long ago. These artifacts were preserved thanks to the waterlogged conditions at Kalambo Falls.

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Researchers at Harvard have developed a fleet of robotic ants that mimic the self-organizing behavior of social insects to build and dismantle structures without blueprints or central leadership.

How very Progressive.

These are simple, decentralized robots that can spontaneously organize to build — and just as easily destroy — complex structures.

Instead of chemical pheromones, these robots use light fields (photormones) to communicate.

“Our new study shows how simple, local rules can lead to the emergence of complex task completion that is self-organized and thus robust and adaptive,” said Professor L. Mahadevan, the Lola England de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and Physics at SEAS and FAS.

“We also introduce the concept of exbodied intelligence, where collective cognition arises not solely from individual agents, but from their ongoing interaction with an evolving environment,” Mahadevan added.

Automated activists. That ought to save Democrats some money.

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You know how the definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results? Someone hasn’t told the liberal women about it yet.

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This deranged bulldyke was triggered by Turning Point students who set up a table on the Kent State campus, so she took scissors to their patriotic balloons while mocking them as “neck gushers,” referring to the way Charlie Kirk was killed in October of last year.

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Why must you do land acknowledgements before school plays and then ban parents from campus if they have something to say about it? And why must you call Child Protective Services over these things?

Real story. Not joking.

Babylon Bee.

A true hardship. Weep for them.

Associated Press, a Voice of the Crust.

What did they expect to happen?

Activists on a flotilla of boats seeking to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza said Thursday that Israel forces intercepted the vessels overnight, smashing engines and detaining some of those onboard while they were sailing in international waters near Greece, hundreds of miles (kilometers) from Gaza and Israel.

The Global Sumud Flotilla set sail earlier this month from Barcelona. Organizers have said more than 70 boats and 1,000 people from around the world would be participating, with more vessels joining the original boats as the flotilla sailed east across the Mediterranean.

According to the ships’ tracker published on the activist group’s website, 22 vessels were intercepted in international waters west of the southern Greek island of Crete, while a further 36 were still sailing midday on Thursday.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry said in a post on X that it was taking about 175 activists from more than 20 boats participating in the flotilla to Israel.

“Israel’s actions … mark a dangerous and unprecedented escalation, the abduction of civilians in the middle of the Mediterranean, over 600 miles from Gaza, in full view of the world,” the group said in a press release. The distance is more than 1,000 kilometers from Gaza.

‘Activists’ have this bizarre notion that they an do whatever they want without any consequences. Israel doesn’t play those games. If you say that you are their enemy,  they will believe you, and act accordingly.

“If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first.” — Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin, Portion 72, verse 1.

The Telegraph (UK).

Members of a religious sect have been arrested over allegations of sex offences, forced marriage and modern slavery.

More than 500 police officers from a number of forces took part in a raid on the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light (AROPL) headquarters in Crewe on Wednesday morning.

The group, based at Webb House, a former orphanage, is a Shia religious sect founded by Abdullah Hashem, an Egyptian-American, in 2018.

The Telegraph (UK).

The sale of traditional tumble dryers is to be stamped out in a net-zero drive that will push consumers toward more expensive machines that take longer to dry clothes.

Ed Miliband, the Energy Secretary, is introducing new laws that will phase out the sale of condenser tumble dryers and promote heat-pump alternatives to help cut carbon emissions.

The move, condemned as a “mad” form of “Soviet control” by the Tories and Reform, will align Britain more closely with the European Union which has already implemented similar rules.

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Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin fired back at Democratic Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro on Monday while she tried to lecture him on climate change.

In his place, I would have been tempted to say “Sorry, I only take questions from humans.”

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The Zohran’s extravagant promises of free stuff – so attractive to NYers – have just run face first into the hard reality of double-entry accounting. All that money needed to pay for all that free stuff has to come from somewhere. And the mayor lacks the authority to unilaterally raise taxes. On that front, Commie Mamdani actually had more power when he served in the State Legislature.

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Remember the J6 prosecutor who stabbed another driver on the highway during a road rage incident?

Well, two-and-a-half years later, he has finally been sentenced to jail.

For 90 days.

This all happened in FLORIDA, by the way. This wasn’t some woke DC judge like the kind who screwed over J6 protesters.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Two Jewish men were stabbed on the street in a heavily Orthodox neighborhood of London on Wednesday, escalating anxieties amid ongoing incidents targeting local Jews that police say reflect Iranian involvement.

A man was arrested at the scene in Golders Green after being apprehended first by members of the Shomrim, a Jewish security force that operates in parts of London. Hatzola, the Jewish-operated nonprofit emergency service whose ambulances were recently burned in an arson, treated the two victims.

“One male was seen running along Golders Green Road armed with a knife and attempting to stab Jewish members of the public. Shomrim responded immediately and detained the suspect. Police attended and deployed a taser,” Shomrim said in a post to social media.

Both men who were stabbed — one in his 70s and the other in his 30s — are hospitalized in stable condition, according to the Metropolitan Police.

The first duty of government is to keep people safe. Britain has been failing at that for a long time.

ATQUE: Muslim man caught on camera stabbing Jews outside London synagogue

The shit the government buys is all crap.

Daniel Greenfield.

The latest Trump assassin wasn’t a radical. He was a Democrat.

There was nothing radical about Cole Tomas Allen: the attempted White House Correspondents’ Dinner assassin. Allen’s manifesto reads a lot like that of the previous three-named assassin Ryan Wesley Routh who was stalking President Trump at a golf game.

Apart from the explicit murder plots, there is nothing in Routh’s ‘Dear World’ letter and Allen’s manifesto that you wouldn’t find in the Washington Post, a Jimmy Kimmel or Stephen Colbert monologue or a rant by a Democrat member of Congress. Routh was obsessed with Iran and Ukraine, sounding like Thomas Friedman when he complained that Trump had “ended relations with Iran like a child and now the Middle East has unraveled.”

Allen offered even more generic foreign policy criticisms that seemed plucked from network newscasts and fake news coverage of Trump’s campaign against illegal alien criminals, drug cartels, Islamic terrorists in Iran and the cutoff of funds to USAID, ranting about being (“raped in a detention camp”, “fisherman executed without trial” “schoolkid blown up” or “a child starved”).

Did Allen really care about events in Iran or Latin America? Could he even tell them apart?

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There are two distinct but related things going on with the Democrats. One is that the party is rapidly moving ideologically leftward and embracing previously inconceivable positions ranging from socialism to treason and the other is that much of the party is not ideologically radicalizing so much as it’s driven by a violently fervent hatred of Trump and a conviction that he’s Hitler.

This is not some grassroots phenomenon but the messaging from the top down of the party and its media apparatus. That’s why Allen’s views are entirely reflective of their rhetoric. He wasn’t a Marxist, a Communist or a Socialist… his views were those of the mainstream of his party. (The amount of distance between the Democrats and the Marxists of course is rapidly shrinking.)

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I’ve been convinced for quite some time that the political polarization of America has passed the point of no return. At this stage there seems to be no political solution to the problem. To be blunt about it: there is no voting our way out of this.

Where political matters are concerned, the hard Left — which seems to occupy a larger and larger portion of the Democrat Party — has all but cornered the market on violent, incendiary rhetoric. If you disagree with them, you should be beaten up and imprisoned. If you oppose the Narrative, you need to be put up against the wall and shot.

Republican responses to the Democrats’ at-your-throat fighting style are generally weak dishwater. The mainstream Right has always been reluctant to play hardball with their progressive adversaries, but at this point regular hardball will no longer suffice. A harder ball is required, one that would lead to a situation that most of us would rather not contemplate. It’s hard to imagine any Republicans being willing to pick up that ball.

As I said above, there is no voting our way out of this.

The New Neo.

I have no solution. But I’ll have a go at an explanation. The analogy to contagion is a good one, although obviously there are no microbes involved. People come to believe Trump is a Hitler equivalent, tremendously evil and otherwise unstoppable politically, so it follows that he must be killed. The analogy to Hitler is not an idle one because there were indeed many failed attempts on Hitler’s life and most people consider those who tried to do so to be heroes. The fact that Trump bears no resemblance to Hitler is irrelevant, because most people don’t evaluate things for themselves and their sources – their trusted sources – say Trump is tremendously evil, Hitlerian, and out to destroy our country and must be stopped.

Why those sources are trusted is another story. It’s different for different populations. For older people, it’s the news media amplified by social media. For younger people, the source is other online platforms such as TikTok and Twitch (Hasam Piker is a huge Twitch personality, for example). For many of all ages, they live in communities where pretty much everyone thinks this way, whether it be a blue city or just their own family or their own ethnic group. Often a clergyman or church or synagogue group is part of the echo chamber (in which case Trump-hate is not a religious substitute but is considered consistent with their religion as a sort of “just war”), and of course many Democrat politicians and spokespeople, as well as celebrities, artists, authors, and public intellectuals.

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Law is an incrementally maintained system authored by distributed agents with partial authority over time, requiring stable fine-grained addresses for external reference.

Every element of this definition is load-bearing.

Babylon Bee.

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Federal agents raided 22 locations in Minnesota on Tuesday as part of an investigation into widespread taxpayer fraud.

“Today the FBI with federal, state and local law enforcement is involved in court-authorized law enforcement activity as part of an ongoing fraud investigation,” a Department of Justice spokesperson said in a statement.

The raids focused on 22 prominent businesses, some of them tied to Somali immigrants, including daycares like the “Quality Learing Center” in Minneapolis that drew national attention for fraud allegations.

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Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard said on Friday that her government will no longer use the term ‘Islamophobia,’ describing the concept as “problematic”—not least because it “brings to mind the irrational fears of individuals.”

The announcement was music to the ears of the right-wing populist Sweden Democrats, whose MEP Charlie Weimers on Monday said “Islamists exploit ‘Islamophobia’ to advance their agenda and secure EU funding.”

Weimers celebrated that the government was “FINALLY scrapping the made-up concept” for good, as well as the fact it is pushing Brussels and United Nations officials to do the same.

Islamophobia is like arachnophobia—a natural response to a serious threat.

The Foundry.

What’s behind the alarming spike in leftist political violence?

In the past two years, President Donald Trump has faced three assassination attempts, with the most recent one arguably coming Saturday night at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Members of his administration have also faced violent threats. Last year saw the assassination of Charlie Kirk, one of Trump’s most prominent supporters, and some on the left have celebrated the assassination of a health care CEO, Brian Thompson.

Just last week, leftist podcaster Hasan Piker suggested in a New York Times interview that Thompson deserved to die because he “was engaging in a tremendous amount of social murder.” Piker argued that “the systematized forms of violence, the structural violence of poverty, the for-profit, paywalled system of health care” justified the assassination.

Also, last year, Virginia elected Jay Jones as attorney general, despite the fact that he previously sent messages fantasizing about shooting Republican former Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates Todd Gilbert. Jones stated at the time that he wished Gilbert’s young children would die in their mother’s arms, and he justified this death wish by saying, “Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy.” Jones later apologized for the texts after they were made public during his campaign for Virginia attorney general.

Meanwhile, Democrats largely looked the other way while riots in the name of the Black Lives Matter movement took over city streets in the summer of 2020, claiming the lives of at least 27. Many of them demonized Supreme Court justices who had voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, even as pro-abortion activists stalked these justices and tried to assassinate Brett Kavanaugh.

The Right is far from perfect, but this torrent of political violence isn’t an accident. It arguably traces back to the Left’s ideological foundation.

The New Neo.

It was early in Trump’s first term that I noticed people talking about killing Trump. These were people I knew and had known for five decades or more. I’d never talked about politics before with these people, and I hadn’t been aware that they’d had any especially deeply-held feelings about politics. But all of a sudden, each of them stated in a casual manner that they wanted Trump killed.

It was the casual manner that got me. Neither knew my political leanings, but it was assumed that I agreed with them – didn’t everyone who didn’t sport a tail, horns, and a swastika tattoo? With the first person I was so stunned I said nothing. But later, with the second person, I challenged him – to no avail.

You’ve probably seen similar public statements from Trump-haters over the years – on TV and on social media, for example. It’s become standard. In the last year I’ve heard it again from two different friends, each of them people I’ve known for many years and who’ve never spoken this way before. Neither have any history of being leftist firebrands and in fact each have long been political moderates.

But not on the topic of Trump, apparently. The first was over the phone, and my long-time friend said that if she ever was given a terminal diagnosis she would try to kill Trump. This seemed only slightly tongue-in-cheek and deeply unfunny. She went on to vent quite a bit on how much she hated him. My response was that I hope she never receives a terminal diagnosis.

While Hillary and Fauci are still above ground, there’s no time for Trump.

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In 2019, the Scottsdale Unified School District in Arizona spent over $20 million to tear down and completely rebuild a school named Pima Elementary. This year, it voted to close the school.

Pima Elementary, designed for up to 840 students, reopened at less than 60% of that capacity, and it continued to decline. This fall, just seven years later, the school building won’t contain a single student.

Far from a one-off tale of district mismanagement, the closing of a brand new $20 million school building illustrates how easy special interest groups find it to manipulate school districts.

A nationwide baby bust had begun eight years before the bond election, meaning that there were already fewer students to go around. Likewise, the high price of housing in Scottsdale became a significant deterrent to young families locating there.

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They talk about the need to censor social media to control right-wing violence, while their media openly calls for assassination and violence—which then actually occurs.

Where are the Democrats we knew?

They demand that government take over health care because our private system is too costly, they even cheer when a health insurance company exec is murdered, but they don’t notice or care that government health and welfare programs in California and Minnesota lose billions in theft by predators who deliver no service. No one on the right has murdered a Somali Minnesota-Man millionaire. Nor is right-wing media suggesting such a thing would be understandable or justified.

They talk about “saving our democracy” with aggressive gerrymandering, registration of illegals, mail ballot abuse and preventing simple, fair rules and accountability.

They bemoan the failure of Obama and Biden to institute Wilsonian rule, complete with censorship, outlawing opposition parties, federal prosecution of political enemies, untouchable administrative agency powers…and then decry an “imperial presidency” that is more democratic and far less inclined to rule-bending.

They simultaneously claim that the most recent assassination attempt must have been staged but bemoan its failure. They now try to forget that they paid for the KKK to appear and lied about Trump praising them as “fine people.” They lied about Putin fixing an election, launched bogus impeachments, and…I could go on and on. People under Communist rule pretended to believe the party line, but what kind of loser tries to make himself believe nonsense when he does not have to?

Who are these people?

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A new report from Mississippi State Auditor Shad White has uncovered that illegal aliens in the state received at least $10.5 million in Medicaid benefits between 2023 and 2025.

“If this money had gone to benefit lawful citizens, it could have reduced our taxes, paid our teachers, paid our police officers—frankly, anything would be better than serving as a magnet for illegal immigrants to come to the United States,” White told The Daily Signal.

“Mississippi taxpayers deserve to know the cost of illegal immigrants in our state, even if it makes some folks uncomfortable,” White added. “My team will always tell you how your money in being spent, warts and all.”

You can imagine what it’s like in a Blue state.

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Pope Leo XIV met on Monday with Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally, urging unity to evangelize more effectively.

The papal audience at the Vatican was part of Mullally’s first trip abroad since taking up her position last month as the first woman to serve as the Church of England’s top cleric and the symbolic leader of the Worldwide Anglican Communion.

In an address published by the Vatican, Leo told Mullally and her delegation:

“While our suffering world greatly needs the peace of Christ, the divisions among Christians weaken our capacity to be effective bearers of that peace.”

Leo cited progress between the two churches on “historically divisive issues” but noted that “new problems have arisen in recent decades,” without specifying further.

In the Good Old Day, the Pope would have no patience for this kind of New Age cosplay.

Of course, in the Good Old Days, we had real Popes.

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Dr. Margaret Conolly, sister of Irish president Catherine Connolly, has joined an international flotilla attempting to challenge Israel’s long-standing naval blockade of Gaza, setting sail on Sunday, April 27, as part of the Global Sumud Flotilla.

The mission, which organisers describe as a humanitarian effort to deliver medical aid and open a maritime corridor to Gaza, is expected to face interception by Israeli forces, as with previous attempts over the past two decades.

Dr. Conolly’s participation comes against the backdrop of a sharp shift in Irish politics following the election of her sister, Catherine Connolly, a far-left independent who secured a landslide victory in October 2025. The president has been an outspoken critic of Israel and Western governments over Gaza, repeatedly accusing them of moral failure and aligning herself with pro-Palestinian positions.

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Apple’s Vision Pro has hit another medical-use milestone, with a New York ophthalmologist becoming the first surgeon to perform cataract surgery using the spatial computing headset.

Dr. Eric Rosenberg of SightMD completed the initial procedure in October 2025 and has since performed hundreds of additional cases using ScopeXR, a surgical platform he co-developed for Apple’s mixed reality device.

ScopeXR streams live feeds from 3D digital surgical microscopes directly into the Vision Pro, which lets the surgeon view the operative field in stereoscopic 3D while overlaying preoperative diagnostic data. The platform also supports real-time remote collaboration, allowing surgeons to virtually join procedures and see exactly what the operating surgeon sees.