DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

Republican Rep Maria Salazar Attacks President Trump – Says ICE Deportations “Gone too Far”

ChatGPT Erases History, Hides Its Previous Response Comparing Trump to Hitler

The Trump Justice Department Is Way Too Comfortable Violating Court Orders (Madiba K. Dennie/Balls and Strikes)

CNN’s Erin Burnett Shouts About Trump Driving Up World Prices

Trump Wanted Canada as the 51st State. He Ended Up Pushing It Toward the European Union. (New York Times)  Nope. They did that all by themselves.

‘Should be removed’: Democratic senators ramp up calls to impeach Education Secretary Linda McMahon (Arthur Jones II/ABC News)  Trump cooties!

Joe Rogan Unloads on ‘Rabid’ Trump Fans in Shocking Reversal (Dana Herrnstadt/The Daily Beast)

NY Times: Trump Could Gut Endangered Species Act  Gut!

Exclusive: These international observers have monitored US elections for decades. This time, the Trump admin didn’t invite them (Matt Cohen/Democracy Docket)  For a good reason—They’re all  proglodyte enemies of America.

OMISSION DEJA VU: Elite Media Newscasts HIDE Chilling New Trump Shooter Details

Trump Administration Moves to Gut a Core Endangered Species Protection (Catrin Einhorn/New York Times)  Gut!

Trump’s Minnesota Surge Threatened Democracy, Judge Warns (Mattathias Schwartz/New York Times)

Sen. Cassidy: Measles Surge ‘Terrible Legacy’ for Trump  Yeah, he was just wandering around giving people measles. What’s up with that?

Donald Trump Returns to the U.N. Amid the Collapse of the Old Order (Ishaan Tharoor/New Yorker)  The New World Order is coming apart, and proglodytes are blaming Trump because the truth is too uncomfortable.

Hundreds of Election Deniers Will Be on the Ballot This November (David Gilbert/Wired)

Trump spotted looking at ‘Kennedy Center DEMOLITION’ booklet as his pouting over name change grows (Joe Sommerlad/The Independent)  Pouting!

Trump Aides Are Prepping an AI Takeover of Government Services (The Washington Sun)

DHS Chief Mullin Rebuts Salazar’s Break From Trump Over Immigration

Trump says he’s ‘banning’ CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House (Brian Stelter/CNN)

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States with strong teachers’ unions are the least likely to adopt policies that improve early-literacy outcomes, Progressive Policy Institute Education Policy Director Rachel Canter explains, reporting the results of the Institute’s analysis.

“Powerful teachers’ unions are an obstacle to reform. But Mississippi’s dramatic breakthrough proves that evidence-based literacy can succeed anywhere,” Canter writes in her Wall Street Journal article, “Mississippi Fixed Its Schools. Here’s How Other States Can Too.”

Canter presents the new policies that helped rocket Mississippi, from a last-place tie in fourth grade reading and math in 2019 to seventh in reading and 13th math in 2024, as a template for states looking to improve their early education results.

Many states haven’t adopted these policies, Canter writes, noting the differences between those states that do, and don’t, embrace the reforms – such as the degree of influence of teachers’ unions.

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You know the midterm election is a struggle session testing whether our country wants to be sane or insane. Of course, this raises the question: what’s so great about being insane? If nothing else, it implies a lot of bad decision-making, leading to all manner of sorrow and woe in life.

So, why would so many opt to be crazy?

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The Vermont teachers union formally recognizes students’ right to play sports based on “gender identity,” rather than biological sex.

The National Education Association Vermont chapter also asserts that the state’s public school teachers must acknowledge the nation’s “white supremacy culture” as responsible for “white privilege” that is “conferred irrespective of wealth, gender, and other factors.”

It also supports sanctuary jurisdictions for illegal immigrants.

The parental advocacy group Defending Education obtained a list of resolutions adopted at the Vermont NEA 2025 Representative Assembly.

Babylon Bee.

Reports indicated that a modern “Underground Railroad” had been established to help the lone black juror from the Lindsay Clancy case escape from angry, violent, white Democrats.

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Which is pretty much all of them, I’m thinking.

Newsbusters.

While the elitist media continue their attacks and slurs on hard-working ICE agents, they have ignored the almost daily cases of illegal immigrants committing terrible crimes.

On September 16, family members of victims of illegal immigrants blasted Democratic lawmakers for their sanctuary city policies that have led to the deaths of their loved ones.

The refusal of the leftist media to report on these cases has pushed their narrative that the Trump administration’s increased immigration enforcement is an “authoritarian” overreach, instead of a necessary response to the lax Obama-Biden years.

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For years, the left has lectured Americans about the dangers of “foreign interference” and dark money in our elections. But a sweeping congressional investigation has laid bare a vast Democratic fundraising apparatus that paved the way for just that: ActBlue, the billion-dollar financial engine of the Democratic Party, created a mechanism that encouraged illicit foreign cash – and then, investigators say, covered it up. Read on.

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Many of us in Britain still flatter ourselves that we live in a free country. Although the UK isn’t quite a police state (not yet anyway), neither is it a country in which the individual can any longer speak without glancing over his or her shoulder. The old compact of a liberal society was simple – the state punished genuine criminality, while opinion was left to the rough justice of argument, satire and public disagreement.

That compact has now been comprehensively torn up. Across Britain, speech that would once have been answered by rebuttal or humour is now treated as a matter for police, regulators and secretive Whitehall machinery. A report published this week by civil liberties and privacy campaigning organisation Big Brother Watch states that more than 62,000 people in the United Kingdom were arrested for communications offences over a five year period, with at least 18,500 charged and 12,292 convicted. These numbers should alarm anyone who still believes the citizen is master and the state is servant.

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

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Paramount Skydance Chairman and CEO David Ellison is exploring a potential California exit as the studio battles a multistate challenge to its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.

Politico reported late Wednesday that the studio is seeking roughly 400,000 square feet of office space in Nashville, signaling that its relocation is in the works. We have reported in the last few days and last month of Paramount’s plan to exit the left-wing state (read here & here).

The studio could move at least some operations to the Tennessee capital within two to three years, according to the report. No relocation has been announced, but the search raises the risk that California could lose a major Hollywood studio headquarters. Such a loss would deepen concerns about the state’s ability to retain businesses as its entertainment industry struggles and the exodus of businesses and residents shows no signs of stopping.

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The same online machine that turned a confessed child killer into a cause has a new target. After hanging Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial, the lone holdout juror’s family says TikTok extremists have them trapped indoors, leaving notes at his mother’s house and refusing to let them live in peace.

The juror’s brother told the New York Post that the family’s life has been flipped over since the September 4 mistrial in Plymouth, Massachusetts. He rejected the claim that Catholic faith drove the holdout vote.

“I don’t think religion had anything to do with it,” he said. “He looked at the case, and he made the call. For me, that’s how I would do it. I would just listen to the case with all the evidence, and go from there.”

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“Teen takeovers” have gone from a social-media spectacle to a serious public-safety issue. While the name conjures images of high schoolers innocently hanging around a drive-in à la American Graffiti, at its core, this phenomenon is about sowing violence and chaos—and leaving communities to deal with the consequences.

The 2026 Wisconsin State Fair concluded its final evening with a massive brawl, during which violent “teens” swarmed the park and beat unassuming fair guests. One man was kicked and beaten as he lay in the fetal position. Earlier this summer, a teen takeover at a Chipotle in Washington, D.C., forced frightened patrons to scramble as youths began throwing chairs and screaming.

In cities across the nation, the same pattern of brutality has emerged: swarms of young, primarily black teenagers will suddenly invade a public space to fight, threaten police, destroy private property, and occasionally get involved in shootings.

This is happening because over the past decade, our public institutions have encouraged black Americans to see themselves as perpetual victims of so-called systemic discrimination. As Spencer Klavan points out in his analysis of the fast-evolving political climate, “Wokeness in all its form is grievance politics.” Activists expanded DEI programs, decried America’s alleged systemic racism, and pushed for prison-abolition movements and reparations.

The behavior at teen takeovers is an outgrowth of the so-called peaceful demonstrations Black Lives Matter encouraged during the height of the George Floyd protests. Though the BLM movement has gradually lost traction—its corruption is widespread, and policies like abolishing the police are unpopular—its cultural influence endures.

Constant exposure to BLM has shown young people that if they commit wanton acts of violence en masse, they can get what they want. They can hop fences, smash windows, blast music, and brawl in the streets—and Democratic politicians will then attack peaceful citizens, demanding that they give away their livelihood and communities to correct “systemic injustices.”

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In his documentary “The Basilica or the Mosque—Mass Migration to Maine,” Daily Signal contributor Steve Cortes details how Somali immigrants take advantage of the American government and its people to enrich themselves and their home country.

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• “Only a coalition of Marxists and Islamists can destroy the United States.” — Carlos the Jackal

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A Frisco ISD high school is facing scrutiny after a classroom was reportedly being used as a prayer room exclusively for Muslim students.

Earlier this month, RAIR Foundation USA reported that Liberty High School in Frisco ISD was using a classroom for Muslim students to pray for two hours a day.

“Frisco ISD taxpayers are paying for a Muslims-only prayer room inside Liberty High School,” RAIR Foundation USA reported.

According to an introduction video posted by the student club, called the Liberty Muslim Student Association, the room was “meant a [sic] space for Muslims to pray,” and “not a hang out spot,” and that “only Muslims will be allowed in.” RAIR Foundation USA reposted the video. The video has since been deleted.

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Looks as if we’ll need a wall in the North as well as the South. You know that those ‘European migrants’ are going to be the non-white troublemakers that have been destroying the EU from the inside.

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The Public Interest Legal Foundation released a new report Thursday titled “Dangerous Imbalance: Why Law Schools Graduate an Army of Activist Election Lawyers.”

The report focuses on the disparity in election law course offerings and the overwhelming number of left-leaning professors teaching these courses compared with right-leaning professors.

Left-leaning and liberal election law professors outnumber right-of-center and conservative professors by 76 to 12, according to the report.

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When the definitive history of Joe Biden’s presidency is written, it will likely conclude that his most important legacy was unprecedented immigration levels. The U.S. foreign-born population (legal and illegal) grew by 8.3 million during his time in office, driven mostly by the border crisis that he instigated.

At first, the media called the massive influx “seasonal” or blamed it on pent-up demand after COVID lockdowns. Later, they claimed that every Western country faced a similar situation. Many argued it was inevitable. As David Bier of the Cato Institute argued in the New York Times, “Biden Can’t Stop Immigration. Time to Embrace It.” Of course, nothing about it was inevitable.

The border crisis began almost immediately after Biden took office. The president’s public statements and his decisions to end the Remain in Mexico policy, dismantle Title 42, and terminate agreements with Central American countries that stopped people from transiting through those nations all played a part. Biden also chose not to pressure Mexico to stop the flow of migrants through its territory. Most important, however, was the administration’s decision to release most people encountered at the border into the United States rather than detain them and expedite their removal.

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Always and everywhere, political institutions are controlled by elites. It doesn’t matter if the regime type is democratic or monarchical. It doesn’t matter if there is a written constitution or not. All political institutions – and certainly every sovereign state – are run by a group of elites who control the means of coercion.The myth of “rule by the people” is precisely that: a myth.

Yeah, but try getting the average dimwit socialist to realize that….

But this leaves a big question open: who are the elites? Wilfredo Pareto, that pioneer of Italian elite theory, convincingly suggests that elites are simply those people who are most skilled in their respective fields. Being skilled does not suggest any sort of virtue or beauty, of course, and we cannot assume that any member of the elite will be more moral or refined than any, say, middle-class mechanic.

In the case of political elites, to be “elite” simply means to be the most effective at organizing and commanding political action. This can be done toward both virtuous ends or evil ends. The political elites excel at the gaining and wielding of political power. Nothing more. In hereditary monarchies, for example, the monarch is a monarch because his ancestors were more effective at using violence – and at stealing and killing – than were their competitors. Their descendants are able to remain in the elite through effective political scheming to maintain their positions. In democracies, those who gain and maintain power are effective at deceiving the voting public and at currying favor with the ruling coalitions of various interest groups. They’re not “the elite” because they are especially virtuous or well educated. They simply excel at cultivating the knowledge necessary to wield the power of the state against their enemies and against potential rivals.

How many of them are done by women? Hmm?

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First, I should state my credentials to give opinions regarding AI. My teenage self was a big fan of Colossus: The Forbin Project.

It is surreal to hear AI companies say “Please stop us from ending life on earth.” The people running AI corporations are blessed with free will. If they think their activity endangers mankind, they are free to stop. The existence of a law that says thou shall not endanger mankind seems, one, a tad ambiguous, and two, sufficiently self-evident so as to be unnecessary.

Much like all of the Chattering Class emphasis on billionaires calling for an increase in their taxes. If they wanted to pay more in taxes, they could just write a check. No, what they want is to increase everybody’s taxes, for a system in which they would have a comparative advantage.

The Antiplanner.

“I’ve got mine; screw you!” is the rallying cry of those who seek to increase the density of urban areas by building multi-story apartment buildings. Actually, the rallying cry is “Yes in my backyard,” but most prominent YIMBYs live in single-family homes and I haven’t heard of a single one of them inviting developers to put apartments in their backyards. Instead, their attitude is “now that I have a single-family home, anyone else moving to this urban area should live in an apartment.”

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Hey, it all depends on the price.

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The numbers for 2025 just came out. And they are really good. It’s too bad we won’t know about 2026 until September 2027, but let’s look at what we do know…

Real (i.e., inflation-adjusted) Median Household Income:

2024 was $85,210
2025 was $87,460

That’s a one-year gain of $2,250 or 2.64%. That’s spectacular. Of course, as the stockbroker commercials caution: past performance is no guarantee of future. But, by way of comparison…

Obama’s total gain over 8 years was $4,970, or 6.88%.

Biden’s total gain over 4 years was $1,620 (1.94%).

Trump v1 total gain over 4 years was $6,360 (8.24%).

The Foundry.

Both the Founders and the progressives recognized the political and civilizational stakes of education. They agreed that certain kinds of schooling prepare students to be citizens of a republic, while others incline them to be members of a centralized state ruled by expert administrators; they disagreed on which goal was desirable and, thus, which educational scheme should be preferred.

The local, classical education that characterized early America, that formed most of the American Founders, and that many Founders prescribed for the new nation reinforced the principles of a free federal republic.

Classical colleges taught Americans that human nature was fixed and purposive; that human beings perfect their nature in and owe profound obligations to their familial, political, and religious societies; that the masterworks of classical Greece and Rome, the teachings of the Christian religion, and the heritage of European civilization are part of our birthright and are indispensable aids in cultivating the moral, intellectual, and theological virtues as well as securing the safety and happiness of our nation.

Some times the old ways are best.

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Unions are a natural component of the Party of Free Stuff.

‘Gulf of Cleveland’: City Council Takes Jab at Trump With Proposal to Rename Lake Erie (Raymond Fernández/The Washington Sun) I’m sure he’s fine with it.

Democrats help turn back Trump impeachment resolution (Alexei Koseff/Washington Post)

Most House Democrats vote to advance Trump impeachment (Riley Rogerson/Politico)

White House preselects reporters to call on ??? after Trump criticized Biden for the same (Isaac Arnsdorf/Washington Post)  “Washington Poop reporter criticizes Trump for doing what Biden did.”

All Negative, All the Time on ABC: ‘GMA’ Opens With Half-Hour of Trump Hate

The Republican Party is all-in on Islamophobia (Vox)  Oh, how I wish that were true, rather than just Narrative Media mudslinging….

6 other ways Trump is meddling in the midterms (Caitlin Dewey/Vox) Like, expecting people to be alive and citizens is just so unfair!

Trump’s Kennedy Center sabotage is complete (Cameron Peters/Vox) Sabotage!

Blanche says investigation into Russian oligarch’s wedding gift to Trump Jr. is unlikely (Mariam Khan/ABC News)  Two words: Hunter Biden.

Top Oversight Dem Opens Investigation of Donald Trump Jr.’s Russian Oligarch-Funded Wedding (ProPublica)  Two words: Hunter Biden.

Atlantic Magazine Hurricane Grumble: Trump ‘One of the Luckiest People in History’

How Trump’s Iran Operation Turned Into A Forever War  No, Muslims turned the Iran operation into a ‘forever war’. And it will be ‘forever war’ until Islam is expunged from the globe.

Canadian PM Breaks Out Trump Impression As He Recounts Bizarre Warning (Ed Mazza/HuffPost)

Inside JD Vance’s Little-Known Years at Yale Law (Chris Whipple/Vanity Fair)

White House doesn’t want voters to see the real Trump (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)  A

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Something like this is never a surprise over there in New England.

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My, what a surprise.

Babylon Bee.

In a bold act of solidarity, Grammy-winning rapper Macklemore staged a surprise rooftop concert in Gaza on Wednesday, performing his gay anthem “Same Love,” before being promptly thrown off the roof by terrorists.

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Proglodytes need to learn that they can’t just get away with this shit.

Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

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Overachiever.

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For years, the right across the West has noted that mass immigration has been a boon for left-wing parties, which are essentially importing a new voting base. Sweden’s latest election appears to once again affirm this view, with the left narrowly winning the election, in large part due to their overwhelming support from those with a non-European background in Sweden.

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The Space Force could turn President Donald Trump’s proposed U.S. Space Academy into a new source of highly skilled civilian employees while continuing to rely on the Air Force Academy to produce military officers, the service’s top officer said Tuesday.

Chief of Space Operations Gen. Douglas Schiess said the NASA-led academy could help address the Space Force’s growing demand for workers with specialized technical expertise.

“We need a lot of technical civilians in the Space Force,” Schiess told reporters at the Air and Space Forces Association’s annual Air, Space, and Cyber Conference outside Washington.

“Anybody that’s space-minded and is going to have that background, that can then get a job in the Space Force as a civilian, that’s great.”

The Space Force is seeking to rebuild and significantly expand its civilian workforce. The service lost nearly 14% of its civilian employees amid federal workforce reductions and is asking Congress to fund about 7,200 civilian jobs in 2027, a 40% increase over 2026.

Civilians make up about one-third of the Space Force workforce and hold critical jobs across missions including satellite communications, missile warning, and cyber operations.

Trump signed an executive order last month creating a presidential commission to develop plans for the U.S. Space Academy, envisioned as a NASA-led federal institution that would educate astronauts, engineers, scientists, operators, civil servants, and others for careers in the nation’s space enterprise.

The commission has 120 days to recommend how the academy should be structured, governed, and accredited, as well as what service obligations graduates would have in exchange for their education.

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Pouring effusive and slobbering praise over the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, the anointed “middle power” leader of a shrinking -and increasingly irrelevant- new world order, with grand pontifications EU Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen announced today that Canada is the first “Associate Member” of the European Union. It’s a major award!

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As the Trump administration seeks to crack down on potential voter fraud in nursing homes, an election watchdog group is providing additional information to long-term care facilities, citing several past criminal cases involving political operatives and staff who took advantage of vulnerable elderly residents.

A Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services memo from late July cited two major cases in recent years, one out of Texas and another out of Wisconsin, involving elderly people being exploited in long-term care facilities for collecting votes.

The memo says facilities have a “responsibility to preserve residents’ rights to vote and to promote participation in the democratic process.” But says, “This activity should not violate federal or state voting laws.” And that staff “cannot engage in inappropriate coercion or other violations of residents’ rights.”

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A conservative group is calling for a Senate investigation into a nonprofit hospital, the New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System, because of its federal grants, executive compensation, and reported “rural” status.

Save Our States noted in a letter Wednesday to Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., that Mount Sinai has filed as a rural hospital, which could allow it to gain access to funds intended for rural communities. However, Save Our States stresses that it’s a Manhattan-based hospital system operating in the nation’s most populous city with 8 million people.

Unfortunately for me, my wife knows more about gun shows that I do.

The Antiplanner.

Oregon Governor Tina Kotek recently announced that she was “pausing” work by state agencies on data centers. She announced it on X with a photo showing people demanding a moratorium on data centers at what appears to be the Oregon state capital. Small letters beneath the photo say, “Made with AI.”

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I reported last weekend on Dr. Charles Hoffe, a general practitioner in British Columbia who testified at the Allison Inquiry on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, which is investigating the adverse consequences reported by people who received one or more of the COVID-19 “vaccines”. The first part of Dr. Hoffe’s testimony concerned the fact that emergency rooms in British Columbia had never been overflowing with COVID patients as described in the official propaganda about the “pandemic”. Then, after the “vaccinations” started, people who had been vaxed started coming down with COVID. The more boosters they received, the more likely they were to get COVID, and the worse their symptoms became. Some of his vaxed patients started exhibiting severe neurological symptoms, but Dr. Hoffe was unable to get them referred to neurological specialists, because he described the problems as vaccine-related. He was told not to say anything that questioned the safety and efficacy of the vax.

Needless to say, he experienced retribution at the hands of the medical establishment for his impertinence, and almost lost his medical license.

The following video documents Dr. Charles Hoffe’s official testimony at the Allison Inquiry.

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‘Feminism’ has mutated from ‘equal rights for women’ to men-hating and Perpetual Victimhood.

Democrat Al Green to force House-wide vote on impeaching Trump (Fox News)  Some light entertainment for the mid-terms.

Jeffries Keeps Third Trump Impeachment on the Table  One-trick party.

60 Minutes Premiere Continues Liberal Framing in Iran Pilot Rescue, Presidential Pardon Stories  As they do.

Russian Businessman Paid for Donald Trump Jr.’s Lavish Wedding After-Party (Ben Protess/New York Times) “The payments, totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars, represented an extraordinary flouting of ethical norms for an American president’s family member.” Two words: Hunter Biden.

Darcy Deputy Invokes ‘Equal Time’ Over Cruz’s ESPN Hit (Even Though It Doesn’t Apply)

Trump approval up from record low, but outlook sours for Republicans, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds (Jason Lange/Reuters)

House Republicans must decide whether they want to pass Trump’s AI loyalty test (Mia McCarthy/Politico)

Democrats Gain Edge as Trump Drags Down G.O.P., New Poll Finds (New York Times)  When in trouble, fake a poll. (Trump Approval Ticks Up in Reuters/Ipsos Poll)

Noncitizens Accused of Illegal US Voting Challenge Trump’s Authority to Prosecute Them

JD Vance will never escape the albatross of the Iran War (Paul Waldman/Public Notice)  I doubt that he worries about it.

Trump’s postings may still move the needle (Matt Phillips/Axios)

Trump lashes out at US Supreme Court justices after ballot ruling (Reuters)  Lashes!

CNN Conspiracy Theorizes About GOP ‘Preparing To Steal’ Midterms  Proglodyte projection!

Trump Slams Supreme Court Over Mail Ballot Ruling (Tyler Pager/New York Times)  Slams!

CNN’s Bash Feels ‘Blessed’ After Bulwark’s Longwell Rants on GOP ‘Triangle Of Doom’

Scoop: Top House Democrat probes Don Jr.’s wedding party (Andrew Solender/Axios)  Scoop?

Trump slams his own Supreme Court appointees over mail ballot ruling (Isaac Arnsdorf/Washington Post) Slams again!

Massie Moves to Impeach Hegseth, Citing ‘Illegal’ Military Operations  RINOs gotta RINO.

Trump Is Ready to Close the Kennedy Center Because He Can’t Put His Name on It (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone)  Proglodyte Pravda and its mind-readers are telling fairy tales again.

Latest approval poll shows Trump underwater in Tennessee for first time (Jordan Green/The Commercial Appeal)  When you’re in trouble, fake a poll.

Fox News all but ignores report that a Russian oligarch bankrolled Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding (Matt Gertz/Media Matters for America)  Those who pretend that a molehill is a mountain have practice in admiring the Emperor’s new clothes.

Trump considered dangerous, corrupt by majority in new poll (Avery Lotz/Axios)

Trump Goes Postal On Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett (Josh Blackman/Reason)  The Useful Idiots at tReason magazine stick their heads out of their hole.

The Supreme Court has finally had it with Trump’s plan to steal the midterms (Ian Millhiser/Vox)  More Narrative Media mind-reading. Next they’ll be casting horoscopes.

Trump’s AI ignorance is ‘truly embarrassing,’ Bernie Sanders says (Gabby Miller/Politico)  Coming from a guy whose ignorance of economics, politics, and human nature is equally embarrassing….

The Census Bureau Is Overrun With Staffers From a MAGA Think Tank (Vittoria Elliott/Wired) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHHHH….

Works in Progress.

In the twentieth century, a radical change took place in global architecture. The modernist movement emerged in the 1920s, favoring unornamented designs, exposed modern materials like steel and concrete, and the abandonment of the complicated visual patterns of traditional planning and facade design. Modernism came to dominate global architecture by the 1950s, and although it has evolved and fragmented since then, styles of broadly modernist character remain dominant today.

Throughout its history, both supporters and detractors of modernist architecture have agreed that it is not widely liked. In 1940, the English architectural historian John Summerson remarked that the public ‘can’t understand it, never will, and hates it like poison’. In 1977, the German-American architectural critic Wolf von Eckardt prematurely announced the death of modernism, claiming that ‘No one mourned. It was never popular.’ The young Summerson was sympathetic to modernism while von Eckardt disliked it, but they made the same observation about its standing with the general public.

Were Summerson and von Eckardt right? In recent years, researchers have begun to study this more systematically using visual preference surveys. In their simplest form, these are just a comparison of two images alongside a neutral, unbiased question, like ‘Which do you prefer?’ Online panels and better image editing have brought down their cost in recent decades. Since the 1990s, around twenty properly sampled visual preference surveys have been run on popular architectural preferences.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

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Because the wrong people have seized control of the language of public policy discussion.

In the increasing debates over capitalism vs. socialism/communism, one of the assertions I read most often from anti-capitalists is that the existence of significant wealth inequality among people in a capitalistic society such as the United States shows that capitalism is “unfair.”

I note that none of these assertions are accompanied by any description of wealth distribution under communism or socialism.

Most of us here however see that every communist or socialist nation seems (at least on the surface) to have a great deal of wealth inequality. And even theoretically, a system of “equal” wealth distribution requires some limited number of people to decide (or to design a system that decides) what is “equal.” Given human nature, such systems are going to favor somebody (or at least be subject to accusations that it favors somebody).

Unfortunately the language of the Declaration have given the Levellers a huge stick with which to beat the dimwitted underclass and the products of our failed government schools.

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Cue the usual derogatory comments about sororities.

the opposite. It is breaking the contract,” Allie Coghan, one of the plaintiffs, told the Daily Signal in an interview after oral arguments.

Coghan and four other University of Wyoming Kappa Kappa Gamma members sued the sorority in 2023 after it admitted a man who identified as transgender. They claimed the sorority’s leadership violated its fiduciary duty to members and breached its contract with members.

Judge Alan B. Johnson, an appointee of President Ronald Reagan, had dismissed the case with prejudice in August 2025, ruling that the court “may not interfere with Kappa’s contractually valid interpretation of its own Bylaws.” He ruled that “nothing in the Bylaws or the Standing Rules requires Kappa to narrowly define the words ‘women’ or ‘woman’ to include only those individuals born with a certain set of reproductive organs.”

The rot quickens.

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Here we are in another election cycle, and just like the migratory birds that return every season, so has the progressive cause célèbre of single-payer universal health coverage, also being marketed as Medicare for All.

This has become a central part of the socialist platform and is the cornerstone of the Senate campaigns of Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan and James Talarico in Texas, among scores of other socialists running as Democrats this year.

This is not a new concept, yet with more dissatisfaction regarding the high cost of healthcare and frustrations with medical insurance, its message may be gaining traction.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has been the driving force behind this effort, but it has fallen short in the past. In his home state of Vermont, the Green Mountain Healthcare Plan was considered but quickly abandoned because of exorbitant costs. Every resident was going to see a state tax of 9.5% and businesses an 11.5% tax to pay for this plan.