DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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.

Newsbusters.

How far will New York Gov. Kathy Hochul go to keep immigrant criminals in this country?

So far, she’ll even pardon a man convicted of an aggravated felony, if that’s what it takes to prevent the United States Supreme Court from setting a restrictionist precedent.

Keisy Guerrero Mariano is a Dominican who spent two years in prison for committing a violent crime: second-degree assault.

Mariano, known as “G.M.” in court documents, is exactly the sort of lawbreaker Americans overwhelmingly want to see deported.

But not Hochul — she granted him clemency on Aug. 28.

His case stood out from those of the other five people she pardoned that day:

The others were nonviolent offenders who’d committed their crimes decades ago: two in the 1980s, two in the ‘90s, and just one as recently as 2007.

G.M. was convicted in 2015.

The governor decided he merited special leniency, for political reasons.

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The American Mind.

On August 21, 2024, I rolled into the Indiana Dunes at the end of an 825-mile bicycle ride from Washington, D.C.—a ride that raised over $100,000 for I AM ALS, founded by former Obama White House counsel Brian Wallach. Two days before my arrival, Wallach was just a few miles away in Chicago, addressing the Democratic National Convention (DNC) alongside his wife, Sandra.

Also inside that convention hall was one of the party’s most prolific progressive fundraisers, a woman named Evan Barker. Her recent loud break with the Democratic Party, overnight as it looked, had been a long time coming. She walked out during Oprah Winfrey’s speech, recorded a video on the convention floor, and posted it to TikTok, garnering millions of views. After the 2024 election, she wrote an essay for The Free Press admitting she’d voted for Donald Trump.

Nearly two years later, the full story behind Barker’s split from the Democratic Party is told in her new book, Nothing Left: Confessions of a Democratic Operative. While she isn’t the first person to write about Kansas, the working class, or the Democrats’ fall, Barker is the first to do it with a true insider’s perspective. The solution she offers reads less like a fix than a final warning to a party that looks to be spiraling out of control.

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The US has announced it has space weapons in orbit….days after a Chinese spy satellite “broke up” and around the time it was announced that China had provided satellite targeting data to Iran……is the game afoot?

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When my parents went to high school, the boys were taught a useful skill that would get them a job and the girls were taught what they would need to know to run a household as wives and mothers.

Now it is assumed that everyone is going to college, whether or not they’ve got the smarts for it, and nobody gives a shit if you don’t fit that pattern.

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I spent six years in low-wage work. Waitressing, a call center, selling laptops at Circuit City, handing out T-shirts for a radio station.

Now I work in policy. When I read coverage of low-wage workers, it flattens something that’s actually quite complex. Low-wage work isn’t a job. It’s a whole world with its own logic and norms. Most coverage misses that. I think that gap is costing the left politically.

Here’s what the media tends to miss.

Low-wage work is a system, not a job.

I’m down for anything that costs the left politically.

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An ISIS fanatic who pledged allegiance to the caliphate, circulated execution videos, and blagged his way into an NHS heart unit with a fake degree is lining up for parole in November.

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Paramount could pull nearly 58,000 jobs and $21 billion in annual economic activity out of California if the company follows through on a threat to relocate its headquarters and operations amid an antitrust fight over its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, according to a preliminary economic analysis from the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp.’s (LAEDC) Institute for Applied Economics, which was obtained by Politico

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A Massachusetts family has spent nearly two years fighting the state for custody of their daughter after a public school socially transitioned her behind their backs and child-welfare officials treated the parents’ refusal to play along as the crime.

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It’s not surprising, but it is discouraging how accurate the conservative analysis of the Lindsay Clancy trial has become. Every suspicion has proven correct about the jury and every fear about their motives is proving more substantial. The trial itself symbolizes a disastrous miscarriage of justice in favor of ideology; it offers proof that in an age of social media and political cultism, finding an impartial jury is increasingly impossible.

Thanks to the “rogue juror” the deliberations did not lead to a calculating child killer going free (in Massachusetts, patients incarcerated in mental health facilities get a review and the possibility of release every six months). However, that juror has come under relentless attack from the media, from Clancy’s defense team and from the other jurors involved in the case.

Their primary argument? That the rogue juror was “not following the rules of reasonable doubt” and was not acting impartially. As more information has been released in regards to jury proceedings, it’s becoming clear that there was a large group of jurors who came into the case with an agenda and these jurors pressured the others to conform.

One anonymous female juror insinuated as much during an interview with local media.

Not a surprise, but a useful reminder.

The Antiplanner.

“You have no debt,” the DSA continues. “You don’t need health insurance. You don’t pay a mortgage or have a landlord, because comfortable housing is a human right. Your retirement is publicly funded. Food, education, energy, medicine, and transportation aren’t for-profit businesses; they are common goods and utilities.”
The simplistic response is: if you only have to work as much as you want and housing, food, health care, education, energy, and transportation are all paid for by the government, then why would anyone work? And if no one works, then who pays for housing, food, health care, education, energy, and transportation?
Of course, they envision that people would work, though it isn’t clear how they manage to get quality work out of those workers. But let’s say that people do the work. How does that work out for society?
To answer this question, we don’t have to look at the Soviet Union, China, or even Britain when it was ruled by the socialists between 1948 and 1979. Instead, we only have to look at a socialist institution found here in the good ol’ USA: public transit.
As of 1964, transit was mostly private and the few public agencies that operated transit were funded mainly out of their fare revenues. But starting in 1965, Congress offered to subsidize public agencies that operated transit. Within a decade the transit industry was almost entirely socialized (or, as they called it then, “municipalized”).
Today, thanks to socialism, urban residents can go anywhere they want to go on transit — provided they want to go downtown. Those who want to go almost anywhere can expect to take hours on transit. Transit’s failure to serve anyone other than downtown travelers is shown by the commuters it carries: while around 30 percent of downtown workers in the nation’s 50 largest urban areas commute by transit, less than 4 percent of workers in the rest of those urban areas take transit to work.

Public transit goes from where you aren’t to where you don’t want to be—and takes three times as long.

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Swedes voted in a parliamentary election yesterday, and the results provide a wake-up call for those Westerners who might still think the immigrant vote won’t be a decisive factor in the electoral process.

According to this article from Remix News, an estimated 70% of the migrant vote in Sweden supported one or another of the left-wing parties — all of which, not coincidentally, favor migrant-friendly policies.

The migrant vote tipped the outcome in favor of the Left, whose parties squeaked by to gain a slight majority of seats in Parliament. The Social Democrats (Socialdemokraterna) received the highest percentage of the vote, enough to be able to attempt the formation of a governing coalition.

These election results occurred in the face of a swing towards nationalism and anti-immigration sentiments among ethnic Swedes. Without the immigrants tipping the election, a government that included the Sweden Democrats (Sverigedemokraterna) would have been a distinct possibility.

Muslim immigrants vote as a bloc. White natives (in Sweden and other Western countries) don’t. They tend to distribute their votes almost equally between Left and Right, so that the result is usually close.

And now we can see what happens when the Muslim vote becomes sufficiently large. Muslims tend to vote for the leftist parties that favor open borders, until their numbers have sufficiently increased through their continuous hijra and greater fecundity. At that point they form Islamic parties (which have already appeared in some European countries), and begin the gradual shift away from democracy towards Shariah.

Such is the future that awaits the West. All of it. The process is well underway. Sweden is just the first domino to fall.

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Everyone knew exactly what the Lawfare approach entailed. Lower court judges delayed rulings, then rejected the arguments citing insufficient time for the states to comply with U.S Postal Service rule changes for mail-in ballots. By the time the Supreme Court could weigh in, the clock had generally expired. The 2026 midterm election mail-in ballot fraud will proceed as before without impediment.

New York Post.

New York’s race to the bottom in education continued apace Monday, as the Board of Regents scrapped the requirement that the state’s high schoolers actually learn something to graduate.

For 30 years, students needed to pass at least four Regents exams — in math, English, science and Global Studies — to earn a diploma. To be clear, this standard was the barest minimum. The governing board kept lowering the score needed to pass the tests, watering down the results.

But it was something: A tangible requirement — a responsibility — that showed we as a state cared about accountability.

And that’s exactly the word that the Teachers Union hates. It meant parents and politicians would start to question why a whopping 15%-20% of students didn’t meet graduation requirements. Testing highlighted bad instructors and bad schools. As usual, COVID is partly to blame here. The Regents board “temporarily” lifted requirements during the pandemic, and graduation rates rose to 87% in 2022. When the Regents tests returned, the state rate fell to 85%. The city’s: 81%. It was the largest year over year percentage drop in 20 years.

Lamentations 5:1-2:

Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

² Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

Newsweek, a Voice of the Crust.

The number of Americans renouncing their citizenship, along with long-term green card holders ending their United States tax residency, reached its highest level since 2020 over the past 12 months, according to an analysis of Federal Register data.

A total of 5,790 names appeared on the register’s U.S. expatriation list over the past four quarters, representing individuals whose loss of U.S. citizenship or long-term permanent resident status was reported to the Treasury Department. According to Greenback Expat Tax Services, that is the highest four-quarter total in six years.

The increase was particularly sharp between April and June, when 1,781 names were recorded in the register’s list, up 68.5 percent from the same quarter last year. That brought the first-half total to 3,243, up 38.5 percent from the first half of 2025.

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Tim Pool has a lot of fun with the latest California ‘you-can’t-make-this-shit-up’ story.

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I have to agree with him on the panoramic glass roofs. I’m sure it makes government satellite surveillance easier, but I can’t think of any other reason to have one.

Being relatively tall, my head is only a few centimeters away from the hot, burning glass radiating directly onto my middle aged balding scalp. In summer the interior side of the glass gets so hot that it hurts to touch.

Well, that’s what you get for being all hip & trendy.

The Other McCain.

No intelligent person would have predicted a long life for Mikquale Cooper, a/k/a “BloodHound Q50.” In all honesty, it was surprising that Cooper lived to be 22 years old before he got riddled with bullets early Sunday morning on the south side of Chicago. Cooper was a practitioner of what is known as “drill rap,” which involves urban gangsters bragging about their crimes and threatening to murder their rivals.

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A Democrat administration violating the law? Say it ain’t so!

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But you knew that.The Democrat Party has been moving Left non-stop for over 30 years. Polling by Pew Research from 1994 to 2017, showed a lurch to the Left for the median Democrat.

(Pew stopped issuing this poll in 2017 … my private suspicion is that the median Dem no longer fit on the graph)

But it’s now clear … Democrats ARE Socialists. It became obvious to me back in 2020. Biden won the Dem primary in 2020 by switching horses mid-stream. While he started out as a “moderate” Dem, those positions got no traction. So, after losing the first several primaries in embarrassing fashion, he basically co-opted Socialist Bernie Sanders’ positions. And with the public support of South Carolina’s Jim Clyburn, the new-version Biden won the 2020 Dem primary.

And it’s now official … in a newly released Quinnipiac University poll, 59% of registered Democrats say they support the Democratic Socialists of America.

‘WE HAVE TO WIPE (TRUMP) OUT:’ Tapper Ignores Gallego’s Wild Rhetoric

Poll: Democrats More Motivated to Stop Trump, GOP If motivation won elections the Woke would be in power.

Pardon brokers offer to “put pressure on the president” — at sky-high costs (Gabe Kaminsky/CBS News)  But THAT trick NEVER works.

ESPN’s Cruz Control (Natalie Korach/Status)  Funny how an alleged sports channel is always pushing the proglodyte agenda.

Jeffries’ Dems May Impeach Trump With House Win  *YAWN*

TDS Infects Washington Post Review of 14th Century Film ‘The Uprising’

Paid brokers tout ties to Trump’s orbit to lobby for presidential pardons (Lesley Stahl/CBS News)  Good luck with that.

The left puts out another smear campaign against Trump — spreading hate on 9/11 anniversary (Michael Goodwin/New York Post)  As they do.

How Republicans secretly got Fetterman for their convention (Alex Isenstadt/Axios)  Secretly!

Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarch Close to Putin (ProPublica)  All it needs is a sly reference to Nick Fuentes or Alex Jones to be perfect.

Is the Trump Family Preparing to Cash Out on Its Own Crypto? (Jeff Stein/The Washington Sun)  The universal rule of thumb is that the correct answer to a question in a Narrative Media headline is “no”.

\\A centrist House Democrat may be replaced by ‘Trump before Donald Trump’ (Praveena Somasundaram/Washington Post)  TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!

Trump, Vance open midterm campaign tour as GOP troubles deepen (Washington Post)

MAGA Is Making the World Safe for Corruption (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

“Trump Dividend” is the new Trump Steaks (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)  No mention of how Obama and Biden tried the same trick.

Illegal deportations spike under Trump’s ICE push (Politico)

It’s Not Just Trump Who’s Dumb About Economics–It’s the GOP Generally (Michael Tomasky/New Republic)

States and Cities Sue Over Trump’s Policy to Restrict Green Cards (Madeleine Ngo/New York Times)

Morning Joe Fears For Freedom of Speech, Angry at Bush For Not Being Anti-Trump Activist

Donald Trump Jr.’s wife says Russian oligarch hosted post-wedding festivities as a “gift” (Kathryn Watson/CBS News)  Let’s user some scare-quotes, shall we?

States, Cities Sue to Block Trump Immigration Rule on Public Benefits  Because giving taxpayer money to foreigners (who will then vote for the Party of Free Stuff) is what Democrats are all about.

‘Musk’ film is almost four hours long, engrossing and terrifying. What to know. (Travis M. Andrews/Washington Post)  Four hours of Narrative in one place. What’s not to like?

Jeffries Refuses To Rule Out Trump Impeachment If Democrats Win House  Oh,  dude, that will be their first priority. It won’t go anywhere without control of the Senate, but it virtue-signals to their base without actually having to produce any results, a Democrat’s wet dream.

CNN to Biden: Forget Debt, Spend Out of COVID. CNN to Trump: You Can’t Grow Out of Debt

Mamdani, Letitia James sue to block Trump admin from refusing immigrants over welfare status (Anders Hagstrom/Fox News)  How can the Party of Free Stuff buy elections without giving taxpayer money to foreigners?

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Well, I’m glad SOMEBODY is.

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Don’t ever say we don’t have useful stuff here.

Investigative Project on Terrorism.

Imtiaz Mohammad, the Republican nominee for Florida House District 103 following an uncontested primary, has undergone a striking political transformation. His history in Democratic and progressive politics, involvement with controversial Muslim groups, appearances at an institution linked to persons implicated in terrorism, and past statements disparaging America present a political résumé more aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) than the Republican Party.

Let’s pay more attention, people.

Babylon Bee.

Took ’em long enough….

ATQUE: Climate Activists Blame Global Warming For Zero Hurricanes Forming In Atlantic This Year

Not the Bee.

No, this isn’t satire.

Why do you ask?

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Because the ‘mayor’ is a Democrat and can’t be bothered.

Thirty-eight of the biggest names in American business just sent a memo to city hall, and it reads less like corporate lobbying and more like a performance review nobody asked for.

Microsoft, Starbucks, Costco, Nordstrom, Zillow, Alaska Airlines, T-Mobile, and the Seattle Mariners put their names on a letter to Mayor Katie Wilson demanding a public safety plan with a deadline, a budget, and monthly report cards. When Brad Smith and Brian Niccol start writing performance reviews for the mayor, you know the mayor’s own staff stopped writing them.

I have spent thirty years advising institutions on risk, and risk shows up first in the data nobody wants to read out loud. The coalition’s own numbers do the reading for them. A poll it commissioned in mid-August found just 34% of Seattle voters confident the city has an effective public safety plan. Every proposal the pollster tested cleared 75% support, and 90% of voters backed something as basic as foot and bicycle patrols in high-crime areas.

That is not a partisan split. That is a city agreeing with itself and watching its government do something else entirely.

Democrats aren’t about governing, any more than insurance companies are about paying claims. They’re about getting elected, oppressing the Heretics & Sinners, and dividing up the swag. Keeping people safe? Ain’t nobody got time for dat.

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What’s she gonna do, confess?

(Ever notice how many ‘black’ women do their damnedest to look anything other than African?)

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You can’t get more Democrat than that.

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Just remember: John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett decided that everyone born in America has the automatic right to be an American, even the small armies of Chinese anchor babies being born to foreign billionaires!

On the other hand, if I were a Chinese billionaire, I’d probably do the same thing.

I can fill you in on the motive.

China wants to rule the world. The U.S. has a stupid “birthright citizenship” rule that allows anyone to magically get American citizenship if they are born here. This incentivizes birth tourism to get access to citizenship.

Chinese billionaires have lots of money. Thanks to surrogacy, they can sire hundreds of “American” kids that will then work to help China in the decades to come.

And California is leading the way in this Chinese baby-factory business.

Think of it as evolution in action. Reality has a bad tendency to stick around even when you say LA LA LA I CAN’T HEAR YOU….

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If a college prioritizes non-whites over whites, you get a student body that looks like the Turd World.

Reality doesn’t go away if you ignore it.

NARRATIVE: Texas Republican Slammed for Racist Post About UT Football Fans (Joe Lovinger/Bloomberg)

MORE NARRATIVE: MAGA media back GOP nominee’s racist social media post complaining about nonwhite college students in Texas (Media Matters for America)

BALANCE: Texas man tries to tank GOP candidate by sharing his “racist” messages

The Foundry

Abdul El-Sayed would like voters to know that he is not a socialist.

The Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan made that clear during a July debate. “When it comes to the question of socialism, I’m not a socialist,” he said.

Fair enough.

But what a politician calls himself matters far less than what he wants to do.

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The Bank of England has spent more than £85,000 of research money to justify wiping Winston Churchill, Jane Austen, J.M.W. Turner and Alan Turing off Britain’s banknotes and swapping them for hedgehogs, foxes and puffins.

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Hint: Yes.

It’s a curious position for European governments; for the past few years they have been rattling their sabers over the Russian war in Ukraine, calling for boots on the ground. It’s the kind of intervention that would automatically trigger WWIII. Yet, these same governments are completely unprepared in terms of military spending, armament and training.

When the British government refused to join the US blockade against Iran in the Strait of Hormuz, almost no one cared because the British have allowed their navy to decay into irrelevance. Twenty years ago, they had nearly 50 active fighting vessels and today they are down to 22 vessels. Britain’s GDP per capita is currently lower than the state of Alabama. And, they keep importing thousands upon thousands of third world migrants, with the vast majority relying on taxpayer funded subsidies.

When given a choice between funding the British military or funding more immigrants, the government has chosen to fund more immigrants. Britain has increased welfare spending by 16% in the past 5 years alone.

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Import Turd World people, get Turd World problems.

The New Neo.

Seems there are two extremes right now on the subject of the Clancy case, at least in terms of the bulk of online discussion. I don’t fit into either camp – not those who say Clancy is some sort of heroic persecuted figure (or that her husband did it), nor those who say she’s nothing but a vicious killer who wanted her kids dead and came up with the excuse of mental illness for her own evil actions.

Modern-day jurors have a tendency to discuss trials and deliberations publicly, and a number of Clancy case jurors have come out with a lot to say, post-trial. Their decision came down, as I figured it would, to the idea of reasonable doubt, held by eleven jurors who would have put Clancy in a mental hospital for an undetermined amount of time rather than in prison for life.

I’ve written before about the fact that Massachusetts law supports that verdict (whether you think it’s a good law or not, and personally I do not) and how unusual that law is.

Power Line.

It’s been evident for a while that the Trump administration is investigating legal issues in the matter of Ilhan Omar. President Trump garbled the facts when talking about her case a while back. Vice President Vance has suggested that she is under criminal investigation. White House border czar Tom Homan has also referred to an “ongoing criminal investigation.”

Omar is under investigation, but I don’t think any one of these statements is entirely accurate. I don’t know what it’s all about, but I know something about it. This past January I was interviewed by two federal agents regarding my own work on the Omar case. I have covered the case on Power Line over the past ten years, beginning with “Ilhan Omar: Her back pages.” Most recently, I looked back in “Ten years on the curious case.”

Last week Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin made news with the comment that “Ilhan Omar ‘married her brother’ and could be deported: DHS secretary.” The linked New York Post story by Victor Nava cites the City Journal column I wrote about “The curious case of Ilhan Omar” in early September 2016, before Omar had even been elected to the lowly office for which she was running at the time. Nava doesn’t mention the New York Post column I wrote about Omar a year ago.

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Statistics compiled by the Institute for Family Studies revealed that there were 30.4 million single men aged 18 to 39 in 2025 in the U.S., amounting to almost 10 million more bachelors than there were in 2000 (20.7 million). The Institute for Family Studies further estimated that there were 15 million more single men than husbands in this age group in 2025. In 2000, there was only a 2.6 million difference.

This rise in male singleness has translated to fewer married men. Over the last 25 years, the number of wedded men has plunged from 18.1 million to 15.4 million, a 15% drop.

Experts say the sinking numbers are extremely troubling for the future prospects of the country in a host of ways. Sociologists like Institute for Family Studies fellow Brad Wilcox point out that single men are “more likely to be lonely, prone to deaths of despair and unhappy,” adding that “it’s never good for a society to have large numbers of unattached, dispirited and unhappy young men.” Data shows that unhappiness is rising among single men, from 16% in 1980 to 23% in 2020. Comparatively, the rate of unhappiness among married men has stayed steady, hovering between 8%-7% over the same time span.

Over 50% of American marriages end in divorce, and 80% of divorces are initiated by the wife.

Men don’t want to get married and face the prospect that the wife might dump them, take half their money and their kids, and pretty much destroy their lives.  An entirely rational decision.

Marriage is the only ‘contract’ where one party is paid to leave.

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It is a gift of Anglosphere culture that we can have obfuscatory rhetoric in any size or shape we want. Perhaps because of the wealth of options, it is not so strange that the first example that comes to my mind is from a 1978 novel titled The Empty Copper Sea. A Florida businessman disappears, presumed drowned in the Gulf of Mexico, but there is some evidence he made it across the water and is now living under a new identity. There is also some evidence that he had been selling assets and emptying bank accounts. I won’t spoil the story by revealing how he is found, or where, or in what physical or financial condition, but I do want to mention his attorney. This man is as genuinely ignorant as everyone else in their seaside town, but he feels that his client, dead or alive, still has interests to be defended. The advocate cannot agree with the idea that money was stolen, or even hidden. On the contrary, he suggests the man was fixing to turn his failing businesses around, as he had often done before, and to that end had simply “enhanced his cash position.”

One of finest of the Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald. Read The Whole Series.

Come to think of it, I’ve read quite a few stories like this – I think they had titles like The Story, or maybe The Novel, or was it The Book – but while John Grisham is a talented author, I think John D. MacDonald was better at this. What I really want to discuss, however, are the two ways we can say something in English: Germanic and Latinate. Harsher words like “stolen” and “hidden” are Germanic; gentler words like “enhanced” and “position” are Latinate. What I really want to pursue is how other cultures manage this – if indeed they do at all. What about cultures that are largely or completely Latinate? Or ones that aren’t at all? In those, what do you do when you want to sound like a pompous jerk?

The reason English is everybody’s second language is exactly this overwhelming flexibility. (Plus Britain and America.)

It may be that riders of mass transit in Guatemala City and Mexico City say with a straight face – there being no other way to do it – that they’re using movilidad integrada. And it may be that the school system in Slovenia still says it’s dealing with Gypsy students using fleksibilna diferenciacija. I can believe education bureaucrats everywhere embrace such lingo. But what do people in, oh, Asia do?

I’m sure you’re going to tell us….

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Thus matching the number of children murdered in cold blood by Lindsay Clancy.

Compare and contrast the proglodyte reactions.