DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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Evolution, like markets, never stops, despite the best efforts of the fantasists.

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Scientists found that some inherited traits can bypass the traditional rules of genetics, revealing a surprising new layer of inheritance beyond DNA.

For more than a century, Gregor Mendel’s laws of inheritance have served as the foundation of genetics. But new research suggests that inheritance can be more complicated than the DNA sequences passed from parents to their children.

In a federally funded study involving mice, scientists found that certain inherited epigenetic marks, which are chemical modifications that influence gene activity without altering the underlying DNA code, can be transmitted across generations in ways that do not follow Mendel’s classic rules. The researchers estimate that about 7% of the epigenetic inheritance patterns they examined fell outside traditional Mendelian expectations.

Federally funded! That guarantees it!

BBC, a Voice of the Crust.

Robin Hood began as an oral tradition in the 12th Century before morphing into a heroic, family-friendly stereotype – here’s how new takes are restoring his dark side.

When writer and director Michael Sarnoski began shooting his new film, he showed the cast and crew one he has always loved. It was Disney’s 1973 animated Robin Hood, its hero a fox with a feather in his green cap, robbing the rich to give to the poor.

That beloved version could not be further from The Death of Robin Hood, Sarnoski’s dark, thoughtful drama. Hugh Jackman stars as a grey-haired, battle-weary Robin, reflective at the end of his life and acutely aware of his own legend.

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An experimental satellite has mapped the scale of GPS jamming across Europe and the Middle East from space for the first time.

The data surprised the team behind the project and indicated that satellites orbiting far from Earth aren’t the only ones that experience degradation of their positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) signals, which could affect their performance and the safety of their operations.

The new measurements were made by Pulsar-0, the first satellite of the novel Pulsar navigation constellation developed by California-based Xona Space Systems. The experimental satellite orbits 310 miles (500 kilometers) above Earth, testing Xona’s technology before the company begins deploying its navigation constellation of 300 spacecraft in low Earth orbit (LEO) later this year.

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Wedding speeches are one of those traditions that everyone has a complicated relationship with. The father of the bride gets teary, the best man tells a story that makes the groom’s mother visibly uncomfortable, and the groom stands up and says something impossibly sweet that makes half the room reach for their napkins.

What it is not supposed to do is empty the entire room. On the Unfiltered Bride podcast, UK-based wedding planners Georgina and Beth have built a reputation for telling the stories that most people in the industry keep firmly under wraps. This particular wedding-speech story was one that was simply too juicy not to share with their avid listeners.

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Everything was running exactly as a wedding should. Then, the groom stood up…Before properly getting into his speech, he mentioned, almost as an aside, that there were some envelopes being passed around the room, and he would ask everyone to open them. The guests, assuming nothing, obliged. Inside each envelope were photographs. Of the bride. With the best man.

The groom put down the microphone, looked out at the room, said he would be leaving now, and walked out. His entire family, who had clearly been briefed in advance, stood up and walked out with him. Georgina, retelling this with barely contained delight, noted that the timing was not accidental.

The groom and his family waited until after the food had been eaten, and the bride’s family had paid for everything, before making their exit. The bride was left at her own wedding reception with the photographs on every table, the best man presumably somewhere in the room, and a bill that had already been settled. Karma is a cruel mistress. And so was the bride.

I’m curious as to how the groom obtained these presemably compromising photographs. Arguably the groom has perhaps not exactly dodged a bullet but certainly made it bounce off like superman. Certainly the best man is very very lucky that we live in a degenerate modern age, or he would be in a shallow grave out in the desert, perhaps accompanied by the ex-bride.

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Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees, you know….

New York Post.

California’s proposed billionaire tax may be qualified to appear on the ballot this November, but should it get placed, it will have competition with another initiative that if passed would render the tax moot.

A measure to “require audits of programs funded by new state special taxes” qualified for the ballot, the California Secretary of State announced late Tuesday, with more than 962,000 signatures and will be certified June 25th unless withdrawn.

It’s the first to qualify of the multiple ballot proposals backed by Building A Better California, a group where Google co-founder Sergey Brin and other Bay Area tycoons have poured tens of millions of dollars into to fight the billionaire tax.

You want a tax to fund programs for e.g homess people or children? Fine, then make regular audited public reports on how the money is spent. (Politicians recoil like vampires from a cross….)

The controversial billionaire tax is championed by the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) and would levy a one-time 5% tax on the state’s ultra-rich whose assets exceed $1 billion. The goal, supporters say, is to make up for federal healthcare cuts.

Because, as we all know,  healthcare is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government—and the Federal taxpayer—or maybe billionaires stupid enough to live in California, we aren’t picky about whose pocket we pick.

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Since its molecular structure was deduced in the 1950s, DNA has been hailed by many biologists as the secret of life. They’ve read and studied the information stored in the DNA found in the cells of living organisms, known as their genomes, and claimed that this genetic database must be some kind of blueprint, code script, or computer. But if DNA really does harbor some greater secret about how life works, biologists have yet to find it.

In fact, the human genome is less a script than a puzzle that gets harder the closer they look. Knowing the entire sequence — the order of all 3 billion or so of our DNA’s chemical building blocks, nearly fully deduced by the international Human Genome Project between 1990 and 2003 — hasn’t helped much. That investigation showed that barely 2% of the human genome consists of actual genes, the information-coding sequences of DNA.

It’s now clear that understanding the human genome is no longer a matter of figuring out what each gene does. The deeper and much harder question is how those genes are used, or regulated, a question that seems to involve some and perhaps much of the rest of the genome. By switching suites of genes on and off, the many different cell types in our bodies can all be created from the same material. Cells also regulate their genes from moment to moment in response to a constant inflow of signals from their neighbors and surroundings. But the processes that govern gene regulation are proving so complex that some biologists wonder whether a full understanding of it — of how the genome really works — will ever be within the grasp of our puny minds.

Finding out what each gene does is no more useful than finding out what each tool in a toolbox does. What you need to know is exactly how those tools are used, in what order, and on what materials, which is several orders of complexity greater.

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Shall I end this life a pauper? If AI can do all work at human level or better, what stops corporations replacing us all with AI? This is the permanent underclass meme. The idea is: within a few years, all white collar work will be automated by AI, at which point there is no social mobility. The main way people cope is, they tell themselves: if I work hard, accumulate capital, maybe join one of the big AI labs, I might secure my place in the future.

I want to argue this is a fantastically short-sighted view: if there is a permanent underclass, you won’t escape it by owning property, or shares in Anthropic or OpenAI, or guns, or anything else. And neither will the billionaires. You, me, Sam Altman, Dario, everyone who is made of flesh and blood, will be disempowered and replaced by machines.

The rest of this post elaborates the argument. First I explain how most workers will be replaced (if it’s not obvious), then how the “permanent overclass” will be disempowered, and finally how the government will be disempowered.

The Register.

A sealed scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum, which was destroyed by Mount Vesuvius’ eruption nearly 2,000 years ago, has finally given up its secrets, thanks to a combination of machine learning and high-resolution CT scans.

In 2023, researchers managed to decipher a few words from among the char and ash that make up the bulk of the scrolls. Some of those same prize-winning researchers recovered more passages from one of the scrolls, PHerc.Paris.4, netting them the $700,000 grand prize from the Vesuvius Challenge contest in early 2024.

Fast forward two more years, and those grand prize winners are now part of the Vesuvius Challenge team that managed to read the surviving portion of a rolled scroll end-to-end, as the VC team shared in a Thursday announcement and detailed in an accompanying paper.

According to the research paper, the ability to make out the entirety of the scroll was thanks to high-resolution phase-contrast X-ray microtomography performed at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in France – an improved imaging technique over prior methods used to capture prior images that were analyzed in the prize competition.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

As they do. I guess Jesse Jackson’s remarks about “Hymietown” have been forgotten.

Naval News. By all means watch the video.

Known previously for their aerial drones and powerful electronic warfare (EW) systems, Global Mark is taking things below the surface. This steel-hulled, oval-shaped underwater beast is built for heavy-duty strikes, logistics, and neutralizing enemy underwater threats—and it’s small enough to fit inside a standard ISO shipping container for rapid road transport.

According to Global Mark, Sea Trident is an autonomous underwater vehicle designed for long range missions in maritime environments capable or delivering payloads of up to 1,000 kg to strategic targets. The system is tailored for modern asymmetric maritime operations requiring low observability and full autonomy. Low detectability and subsurface movement capability at depths up to 5 meters support covert ingress to contested maritime areas. The UUV is designed as a multi-role platform capable of performing three primary mission profiles.

They actually list four profiles, but hey, sometimes that happens.

For some reason, the mock-up in the booth next to the hot chick in the tank top has its nomenclature in English—I guess nobody there speaks Ukranian.

Navy Matters.

You probably know that the Air Force has attempted to kill the A-10 Warthog, the best close air support aircraft ever built, for many years now but has been repeatedly thwarted by Congress.

The Navy faced a similar situation with the Ticonderoga class cruisers. They attempted to early retire them, multiple times, only to be thwarted by Congress. The Navy’s solution was to agree to a blatantly bogus “modernization” program which, in reality, was a way to remove funding for the cruisers while they literally rotted pier side until the Navy could claim that they could no longer be economically upgraded.

Like the Navy, the Air Force has, yet again, been prevented by Congress from retiring the A-10 but, ignoring the intent of Congress, has settled on the tactic of simply no longer funding the operation, maintenance, and support of the A-10. As Redstate website reports,

… by the end of this year, the A-10 will be without depot support, without a training pipeline, without weapons-school instruction, and without operational-test capacity.

With no funding for support, the aircraft will rapidly fall into unflyable status. The Air Force will have, technically, kept the A-10 but will have achieved practical retirement.

Congress should fire every Air Force general and withhold all Air Force funding until A-10 support is restored.
The military seems to feel it is above the will of Congress. It is past time for Congress to re-exert its authority.

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As the Army retools many of its top-tier infantry units around the buggy-like Infantry Squad Vehicle, or ISV, it’s already looking for a new, beefier version of the truck, dubbed the ISV-Heavy.

Despite the “Heavy” name, that variant won’t be inherently more rugged or armored than its open-sided predecessor. Instead, the trucks will carry a suite of batteries and generators to produce power for electricity-hungry drones, communications equipment, and even a “Directed Energy Weapon Systems,” according to Army contracting requirements released in late March.

An Army official said last week that the ISV-Heavy is designed to fit a “niche requirement” to act as a roving power station for modern, electricity-hungry infantry units. Jesse D. Tolleson Jr., the principal deputy assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology, said during a Senate subcommittee budget hearing last week that the ISV-Heavy is “really going to be focused on the power generation part. One of the things that we do have a critical capability gap on right now is power generation at that mobile brigade combat team level,”

Not the Bee.

It’s apparently not his fault he drank vodka and “raped two 14-year-old girls.”

Not in modern Britain, apparently.

Not the Bee.

If everyone could please stop stealing our tax dollars that would be great.

Hire Turd World people to run your stores, get Turd World schemes and fraud.

The Guardian, Mouthpiece of the Left.

The heatwave scorching western Europe is the most severe and widespread ever and is only possible due to the climate crisis driven by fossil fuel burning, scientists have said.

Scientists say! That proves it! Except for all of the other scientists who say the opposite. But you won’t read what they have to say in The Guardian, of course.

Almost half of Europe’s 850 largest cities are also enduring their worst ever heat stress, a combination of temperature and humidity, they found. Muggier conditions mean sweating is less effective at cooling the body, making heatwaves even more dangerous.

And they won’t allow air conditioning, because Climate Change.

The analysis comes as the UK recorded its hottest ever June temperature on Thursday, 36.7C (98.06F) in Somerset, and much of western Europe recorded a sharp rise in medical emergencies, including some deaths.

In Texas, we call that Thursday. Temperatures in Texas are commonly in the high-90s and low-100s through June, July, and August.

In summer 2022, more than 60,000 people died due to heat in Europe. The statistical analysis needed to assess the impact of the current heatwave will take time to complete. Nonetheless, the heatwave is certain to exact a heavy toll and is also disrupting lives and livelihoods, with schools closed, hospitals struggling and rail and air journeys cancelled across the continent.

And Europeans won’t use air conditioning, especially nowadays that climate alarmism is having local governments remove existing air conditioners.

BBC. a Voice of the Crust.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the Trump administration can strip protected status from hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian migrants which has allowed them to stay in the US for years.

Strip!

The 6-3 ruling overturned decisions by federal judges that had blocked the administration from terminating Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 350,000 people from Haiti and 6,100 from Syria.

TPS is granted to individuals whose home countries are unable to accommodate them, due to war or natural disasters.

In a separate ruling, the court has said that migrants arriving at the border are not entitled to apply for asylum until they set foot on US soil, giving another win to the Trump administration.

Not yet tired of winning….

The War Zone.

The U.N. International Maritime Organization (IMO) paused its plan to evacuate hundreds of ships stuck in the Persian Gulf after a vessel was attacked in the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday. A U.S. official told us the attack was carried out by an Iranian drone, which was confirmed by Iranian officials.

The evacuation plan, which IMO developed with Oman, was designed to provide safe passage to vessels in the Persian Gulf that are still unable to transit the Strait, which has been largely closed since Iran was attacked by the U.S. and Israel. The announcement came as traffic was beginning to move through the Strait again amid ongoing, albeit tense peace talks between the U.S. and Iran. However, these transits represent a tiny fraction of what took place before the war.

The IMO decision today also came after a warning earlier on Thursday by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGC-N) that safe passage through the Strait was limited to routes designated by Tehran and that other routes were “unacceptable and completely dangerous,” according to The Washington Post. The publication cited Iranian state-run media. The IRGC-N also claimed it turned back several ships trying to transit the Strait through the southern route suggested by IMO. There is also a northern route, near the Iranian coastline while concerns remain about mines in the main route, down the middle of the Strait.

IMO said it is pausing its evacuation plan even though the ship that was attacked was not taking part in that nascent effort.

 

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Bruce Blakeman, the Jewish Republican running for governor of New York, drew criticism from Jewish groups for saying that congressional candidate Brad Lander “would be a camp guard in the concentration camp if he could.”

Blakeman’s comment Wednesday came during a discussion on the conservative network Newsmax about New York’s Democratic primary results on Tuesday. Lander, who is Jewish, was one of the three progressives endorsed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to win their race.

“Brad Lander, he’s a disgrace,” said Blakeman, who has often cast his race against Gov. Kathy Hochul as a fight against the New York mayor, a strident critic of Israel. “He’s anti-American, he’s antisemitic even though he’s Jewish.”

Not the Bee.

You can’t make this shit up.

Not the be.

I’d say Massachusetts’ Seth Moulton is a little touchy about Graham Platner, huh?

The Other McCain.

The 1979 psychological thriller When a Stranger Calls is a cult classic, famous for one line: “The call is coming from inside the house.”

That line came to mind Tuesday night after I learned about an interesting controversy on BlueSky, the left-wing echo chamber where many Trump-haters fled after Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022. A Canadian feminist, Phoebe Maltz Bovy, recently published a book The Last Straight Woman: On Desiring Men. A website published a 23-paragraph excerpt of Ms. Maltz Bovy’s book and, when this excerpt was promoted on BlueSky, the book’s theme and its author were angrily denounced.

Of course, I immediately ordered the book from Amazon. Anything that sends the BlueSky crowd into paroxysms of apoplectic rage must be good. After skimming through the excerpt of The Last Straight Woman, however, I quickly located the nexus of Ms. Maltz Bovy’s problem, specifically in the sentence when she declares “we need to be looking for feminist approaches to female heterosexuality.”

Feminism has spent almost 200 years trying to turn women into defective men, men into defective women, and our culture into shit.

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California’s Assembly Bill 1127 is sold as gun safety. In reality, it is the Sacramento Democrats engaging yet again in their favorite sport: punishing the law-abiding for the failures of the government.

The bill bars licensed dealers, beginning July 1, 2026, from selling so-called machinegun-convertible pistols—Glock-style handguns that criminals can illegally alter with switches. But the switch is already illegal. Converting a firearm into a machine gun is already illegal. Possessing an illegal machine gun is already illegal. So why do Sacramento Democrats answer a criminal felony by restricting a lawful purchase?

Why do they fear the pistol in the display case more than the felon in the alley?

This is not new. For decades, California Democrats have treated every criminal adaptation as an excuse to tighten the rules on citizens who were never the problem. Sacramento does not get tougher on criminals; it gets tougher on citizens. And it never works.

In 1989 came Roberti-Roos, with the promise that banning “assault weapons” would tame violence. Did gang members retire? Did criminals submit to statutory language? Of course not.

Every Democrat ought to have tattooed on his or her forhead CROOKS DON’T CARE ABOUT YOUR GUN CONTROL LAWS.

The New Neo.

You can see the videos all over the internet: foreign visitors for the World Cup, enjoying the US – especially the food, the free refills on soda, and the friendliness.

Quillette.

Here is a trivia question: which continent suffers the most heat-related deaths per capita? By a wide margin, the dubious prize goes to… Europe. In the summer of 2022 alone, more than 61,000 Europeans died as a result of the heat.

In case you feel geographically confused: no, the equator does not run through Brussels. Thanks to its northern latitude, Europe in fact endures fewer heat days than almost any other inhabited region on Earth. How, then, can it hold the record for heat mortality? Part of the story is of course demographic. Europe has one of the oldest populations in the world, and the elderly are far more vulnerable to high temperatures. But age explains only a sliver of the gap. The United States is greying too, and Japan is older still than both—yet the risk of dying from heat in either country is dramatically lower.

The real explanation comes down to two letters Europe stubbornly refuses to learn: A/C. Across the continent, only about a fifth of homes have air-conditioning, against nearly 90 percent in the United States and more than 90 percent in Japan.

Sometimes it surprises me that European countries even allow flush toilets.

The New Neo.

One of Trump’s major virtues is that he acts as a litmus test: He brings out the true essence of people who pretend to be part of a group when they really aren’t. Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Bill Kristol—all have stripped their masks away.

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A child under the age of 12 has become the first person in that age group to be euthanised in the Netherlands since the country extended its euthanasia laws two years ago.

Dutch Health Minister Sophie Hermans revealed the case in a letter to parliament, stating that the child died at the end of last year. No details about the child’s age, gender, or medical condition have been disclosed.

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I’m surprised that it’s that few. Customarily any party that isn’t hard Left is tagged ‘far right’ by the Narrative Media and the Usual Suspects.

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Budapest’s escalating flag war took another turn this week after dozens of Hungarian national flags appeared on Elisabeth Bridge, replacing the Pride banners that had flown there only days earlier.

The secret of the new flags was quickly revealed by El?d Novák, vice-president of the nationalist Our Homeland Movement (Mi Hazánk), who said he and members of the party’s youth wing had placed a Hungarian flag in every pole holder on the bridge. They did this before the city’s mayor could replace the Pride flags that had previously flown there until they were thrown into the Danube by a protester.

“Budapest belongs to everyone,” Novák wrote on Facebook. “That’s why it’s unacceptable for it to be appropriated by any party or political movement, such as the LGBTQETC lobby with its flags.”

“Instead of a foreign ideology imported from abroad, we proclaim patriotism and that we Hungarians have plenty to be proud of,” the party added in a statement.

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With the fall of the Assad regime and the end of the Syrian civil war in December 2024, Syrian refugees have lost their legal basis for asylum and, therefore, their formal right to stay in Europe. In practice, however, most European countries have still not begun deporting them, and many of them don’t even want to.

Among them is Austria, where Interior Minister Gerhard Karner (ÖVP/EPP) recently declared that large-scale remigration—a consistent demand of the national conservative FPÖ (PfE), Austria’s largest party—is unrealistic.

According to Karner, returning Austria’s 100,000-strong Syrian migrant community “is neither realistic nor reasonable, because I wonder how many hospitals would still be cleaned.”

Of course, this age-old argument about migrant labor is not only condescending to foreigners but can also be easily defeated by official statistics: only about 25% of Syrian refugees in Austria are employed, with full-time employment estimated to be as low as 15%.

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As did the old Soviet Union.

When proglodytes say ‘mental health’ they mean ‘mind control’. Orwell didn’t write about CrimeThink for fun.

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The publication of the “Draft Report on the findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield” should have been a clarifying democratic moment. Here, after all, was a committee of elected representatives established to examine one of the most ambitious political projects now being advanced in Brussels: the construction of a European Democracy Shield. Its task ought to have been obvious. Ask what this Shield is really for. Ask who defines the threats. Ask who watches the watchers. Ask whether ‘democratic resilience’ is becoming a polite term for the management of public opinion. Ask whether defending democracy from manipulation itself might become a means of manipulating democracy.

But Brussels has a genius for turning scrutiny into liturgy.

The Special Committee’s draft report reads less like a warning about the dangers of democratic overreach than a devotional hymn to it. The Commission’s Democracy Shield, we are told, is a necessary initiative, but apparently too modest, too hesitant, too lacking in operational muscle. It needs more structure, more coordination, more funding, more legal clarity, more enforcement, more monitoring, more permanent capacity and more institutional ballast. In other words, the Shield must be shielded from the terrible possibility that it might remain merely a shield.

Whenever I hear the word ‘democracy’ I reach for my revolver….

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A fire at a 500,000-square-foot Los Angeles warehouse covered in solar panels has blanketed nearby communities with smoke for days, prompting residents to ask a simple question: What exactly are we breathing?

The frozen-food storage facility, operated by Michigan-based Lineage Logistics, has walls densely lined with insulation. According to firefighters, the insulation continued to smolder as the days went on, even after the initial flames subsided, making it more difficult to put the fire out.

Residents have questioned whether hazardous substances associated with industrial fires—including toxic metals such as lead, chromium, and arsenic—could have been carried into surrounding neighborhoods through the smoke.

The problem with ‘sustainable energy’ and ‘renewable energy’ is that it too often depends on fragile technology involving exotic materials. When things go wrong, they go very very wrong.

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Eight people were each sentenced to 30 to 100 years in prison on Tuesday in connection with violence at a Texas federal immigration facility last year that prosecutors called domestic terrorism.

In the incident on July 4, 2025, prosecutors said Antifa militants wearing black tactical gear opened fire on law enforcement officers at Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, about 25 miles south of Fort Worth. A police officer was wounded.

“The sentences handed down today make clear that Antifa terrorists who attack law enforcement and federal facilities will face swift and uncompromising justice,” said acting Attorney General Todd Blanche in a statement.

Benjamin Song, who was convicted of attempted murder and who prosecutors said was the operation’s organizer, got the longest sentence of 100 years, according to court filings.

In hearings at U.S. District Court in Fort Worth, two judges announced sentences of 30 to 70 years for seven other defendants, most of whom were convicted in March on charges including rioting and supporting terrorism.

We do what we have to, to get the job done.

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Scotland’s gamekeepers have issued a stark warning: they will not endorse the Scottish Government’s new Muirburn Code, a decision they claim is born not of defiance, but of a desperate need to prevent catastrophic wildfires. They argue that the new regulations, designed to protect peatlands, will ironically create a tinderbox, stripping them of the very tools needed to manage fuel loads and keep communities safe. In an era of “red warnings” and severe summer heat, the outcome of this policy, they assert, will be a disaster waiting to happen.

At the heart of the matter is a centuries-old land management practice. Muirburn, the controlled burning of vegetation, is a traditional tool used by gamekeepers to create a patchwork of habitats for wildlife, improve grazing, and crucially, to prevent wildfires by reducing combustible material. The Scottish Gamekeepers Association (SGA), which represents these professionals, says that the new Code, set to accompany a licensing regime coming into place, makes the practice “almost impossible” to carry out.

Gamekeepers point to several specific provisions they say are unworkable and dangerous. The most contentious is the new requirement for licensing to burn on peatlands, defined in the Act as land where peat exceeds 40cm in depth. To apply for a licence, gamekeepers must first probe and measure peat depth across the area they intend to manage. The SGA claims the prescribed methodology from government advisers, NatureScot, is so complex that it could take up to 60 days to survey a single estate, at a vast financial cost, with no guarantee a licence will even be granted.

Government can’t touch anything without screwing it up.

I thank God I don’t live in Britain.

Not the Bee.

It happened again.

A boy named Louis was killed by a mob of savages.

That’s right: Louis was supposed to be under the protection of the state.

Instead, he was beaten to a pulp and left for dead by people who share zero heritage or respect for France or Western culture.

The attack happened Friday night around 7 p.m. in the town of Narbonne. A construction worker found him at 9 a.m. the following morning. Remarkably, he still had a pulse, but died in an induced coma 3 days after the attack.

Three minors and two adults were arrested for his death.

The Telegraph (UK).

Labour is poised to encourage farmers to give up beef production and plant lentils to help combat climate change.

On Wednesday, the Government’s long-awaited “farming roadmap” proposed helping landowners switch from high-emission farming – such as cattle – towards “growing oilseeds and pulses” to meet the increased demand for plant-based goods.

“Farmers will play a critical role in delivering this transition by adopting practices that reduce emissions while sustaining productive, commercially viable businesses,” the Government said.

The farming roadmap is intended to set out a long-term vision for British agriculture. It is seen as an attempt by the Government to win back support in the countryside after the family farm tax caused widespread rural unrest.

However, farmers criticised the move, saying the land used by cattle would be inappropriate for growing lentils because it was too wet.

The problem with a centrally planned economy is that when the planner are stupid or insane the entire country gets dragged along.

I thank God I don’t live in Britain.

The Telegraph (UK).

Homeowners are being forced to tear out air conditioning from their private properties under climate laws, despite rising temperatures.

Council planning officers ordered residents to remove air-con units over fears they produce too much carbon dioxide, stating they should only be used as a “last resort”.

The net zero clampdown is part of building regulations that state “active cooling” should only ever be allowed when all other means of “passive cooling”, such as opening windows or using fans, have been exhausted.

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

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Surprise, surprise: There really is no such thing as a free bus.

One of New York City’s socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s key campaign promises was that he would provide free bus services to everyone in the city.

Not only is that goal seemingly not even in the medium-term plans for the mayor, but one of the programs he pointed to as a successful model has gone belly up.

Bloomberg News reported Tuesday that Kansas City, Missouri, ended its experiment to provide free bus services to people in the city. It will now begin charging riders for the service.

“Kansas City reinstated bus fares this month after six years, unwinding a closely watched experiment that inspired zero-fare transit campaigns across the U.S., including New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s,” Bloomberg reported.

Kansas City’s free bus was sold as a cost-saving measure that would make ridership more “equitable.”

The city created the program with a major federal cash influx during the COVID-19 lockdowns. But it became financially untenable as the initial funds ran out in 2023 and the cost of operations reportedly climbed to $15 million a year, nearly double the initial projections.

Part of the problem is endemic to other “free” transportation services in big cities. Without the small amount of buy-in from customers and given the tendency of blue cities to tolerate mass homelessness and recidivism, these services naturally become more dangerous and more expensive.

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unruly behavior. That was particularly the case in New York, following the Knicks’ June 13 clinching of the NBA championship. The parade that followed brought more chaos.

Following that victory over the San Antonio Spurs—the Knicks’ first title in 53 years—hooligans took to the streets, vandalizing as they went, including targeting and torching a school bus. Those in the crowd cheered. Police, meanwhile, could not visibly be seen.

As he showed footage of the chaos during Friday’s episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast” on the Daily Signal, host Tony Kinnett noted how those burning the school bus were both white and black. And the bus driver begging the crowd to stop was black. “The point of the story is that it is not about the race, it is all about the culture,” Kinnett observed.

The revelry of the parade was marred by random gunshots fired into the air to “just cause chaos and panic because that is the celebratory nature that has come out of some of these events,” as Kinnett mentioned.

Meanwhile, New York isn’t doing much to stop lawlessness. “There’s no condemnation of this from the city level. There’s nothing. [Mayor Zohran] Mamdani is busy running around patting himself on the back and praising Islamic migrant stuff,” Kinnett said, also addressing how liberals excuse such behavior as how “it just happens.”

The New York Department of Sanitation unveiled commemorative garbage cans to celebrate the Knicks’ win. (They’re also available online for purchase.) Fans reacted by stealing them, dumping out trash onto the city sidewalk to do so. People could be heard cheering in the background.

During the parade, an individual appeared to be passed out from a drug overdose on the roof of a platform, as individuals sought to help. Kinnett observed that it took place with a “cop standing there, doing very little, ’cause this is just normal behavior in New York.”

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A federal judge in Minnesota, who has donated to an immigrant legal aid group, quashed several federal grand jury subpoenas of documents from Gov. Tim Walz and the mayors of Minneapolis and St. Paul over compliance with immigration enforcement.

In a 29-page opinion issued Monday, Chief U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz of the District of Minnesota accused the Trump administration’s Justice Department of seeking to “harass political opponents” by initiating a criminal investigation and using grand jury subpoenas to pressure state and local officials into changing their immigration policies.

The judge has acknowledged being a donor for “many years” to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota, an organization that provides free legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees. Schiltz has also clashed with Immigration and Customs Enforcement over the agency’s alleged violation of court orders.

The grand jury subpoenas sought records related to federal immigration enforcement, including communications regarding cooperation or noncooperation with ICE and other federal immigration authorities; requests for assistance from immigration officials; communications among state and local officials concerning immigration enforcement; and training or guidance provided to employees regarding interactions with ICE.

The subpoenas were issued to the offices of Walz, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, and St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her, as well as the Ramsey County Board of Commissioners and the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners.

“Initiating a criminal investigation in order to harass political opponents or to coerce them into taking official action—particularly official action that the federal government cannot directly require those political opponents to take—is a blatantly unlawful and unethical use of the grand jury process,” Schiltz wrote.

Not the Bee.

People are allowed to poison themselves with junk food AND you have to pay for it!

At least that’s the latest from our federal courts.

You can’t make this shit up.

Meet (Obama) judge Amy Berman Jackson:

Washingtonian.

The paper’s opinion section frequently cheerleads the controversial server warehouses—but seldom mentions its billionaire owner’s business reasons for doing so.

I doubt seriously that the writers for the Washington Poop spend all that much time trying to figure out what to say that will please the paper’s owner. The best you can say is that they will hesitate to write something they think he won’t like.

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As reported in last night’s news feed, yesterday a gunman went on a rampage in the heavily Jewish Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Montreal, killing a police officer and wounding another one before being shot dead by police.

Much more information on the incident is available today. The gunman’s name was Seth Hatfield, and he hailed from Alberta. It appears that he ignored civilian passersby and targeted police. The civilian who was shot to death, a rabbi named Michael Moshe Mizrahi, was in fact killed by a policewoman who shot him by mistake.

Mr. Hatfield left behind a 104-page manifesto. [Of course he did.] A copy was obtained and watermarked by Rebel News, and all the versions I’ve seen online so far appear to be copied from that one. I have a copy, but since it is widely available, both at Rebel News (PDF) and on Twitter, I see no point in uploading it here. However, if it starts to be suppressed by the Canadian government (which seems not at all unlikely), I’ll put a copy up where people can get it. It’s dense and turgid, like most such manifestos, and even includes footnotes. I have no real interest in reading the whole thing.

People who only read MSM reports on the incident will be misled into thinking that “incel” ideology was the primary motivator for the shooter’s rampage. However, there is much more to it than that: he was a Marxist who railed against capitalism and large corporations. In the manifesto he quotes The Communist Manifesto directly, so lining him up as “far right” seems a bit of a stretch.

In addition to hating women, he also hated “Zionists”. Also, he was particularly enraged by the pornography industry.

The reason why we have ‘incels’ is modern hypergamy:

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European governments are already drawing up plans to send rejected asylum seekers to deportation centres in Africa and Central Asia after Brussels last week approved a major overhaul of EU migration rules. The move marks a significant shift for an EU that spent years resisting many of the same ideas now being promoted by member states.

The first of these offshore deportation centers—known in Brussels jargon as “return hubs”—could soon be built in Rwanda and Uzbekistan, according to diplomats who spoke to Politico.

The development marks a remarkable shift in European migration policy. Just a few years ago, Denmark’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda was fiercely criticised across Europe, while Italy’s attempt to process migrants in Albania became the target of repeated legal challenges. Today, governments across the EU are exploring similar arrangements for rejected asylum seekers.

At this stage, the member states reportedly in talks with the Rwandan and Uzbek governments include Denmark, Austria, Greece, Germany, and the Netherlands, but others may soon join them as well. Their goal is to have these facilities up and running as early as next year.