DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

The American Prospect, a Voice of the Crust.

At the end of the legislative session, the Democratic governor and presidential hopeful wants to cap liability for power companies that start deadly fires.

As corrupt Democrats love to do.

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New York Governor Kathy Hochul, a self described feminist and “social justice Catholic”, has raised eyebrows this week after appearing in a hijab at an Islamic Cultural School in the Bronx to make statements against “Islamophobia”. The visit is part of a greater Democrat Party effort to strengthen political alliances with world immigrants and Islamic immigrants in particular.

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In bombshell findings, Los Angeles County sliced a wildfire housing fund in half and steered the cash toward households claiming income loss from ICE raids, detentions, and deportations – without requiring anyone to disclose immigration status.

Taxpayers who watched entire neighborhoods burn in January 2025 now watch the same government treat federal immigration enforcement as another “emergency” worthy of six-figure rent wipeouts.

After the Eaton and Palisades fires, supervisors approved $10 million to help tenants and landlords dealing with fire-related rent losses. They then kept $5 million for fire claims and moved the other $5 million into a priority category covering “economic hardship because of federal actions targeting immigrant communities.” Another $9.788 million from the Affordable Housing Trust Fund was pointed at the same category unless fire victims still had unmet need.

The Other McCain.

It was past 11 p.m. on July 4, 2025, when police in Alvarado, Texas, stopped the red van that had been circling streets near the scene of a shooting. The first officer to look inside the van spotted a firearm on the front passenger side floorboard and immediately told the officer on the other side to detain the driver, who gave his name as “Meagan Morris.”

Morris had apparently driven comrades in an Antifa terrorist cell to the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Prairieland Detention Facility, where several of them began shooting fireworks toward the facility, while another terrorist, Benjamin Song, stood watch with an AR-15-style rifle. The plan for this “protest,” as the participants called it, had been hatched at a communal home in Dallas known as “The Big Gay House,” where 10 activists including Morris lived together.

After the fireworks and vandalism began, security officials inside the ICE facility called 911. The first law enforcement officer to arrive on the scene was Alvarado Police Lt. Thomas Gross. The Antifa terrorists began to flee. Gross shouted for them to stop and drew his pistol. Song nearby opened fire, hitting Gross in the shoulder, but the officer managed to stay in the fight. Gross fired three shots, one of which struck Song’s rifle, causing it to jam. Song took off running. He managed to remain at large for the next 11 days before finally being apprehended at a Dallas hideout.

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CTH continues to get considerable questioning about how the U.S-Canada fracture will take place, what it means for the Canadian dollar (CAD) and when the issues can be expected to apex. It appears that part of the reasoned disconnect people are struggling with is directly related to the messaging from the Canadian government in combination with the financial media.

In short, despite the increased trade friction, a decoupling of the U.S. economy from the Canadian economy just seems unfathomable to most observers. The main question we receive is ‘when will things happen‘? Meaning when will financial markets react? The most obvious answer to that question is, when the USA announces the termination of the USMCA (CUSMA) trilateral.

If you hold the opinion that all of these trade friction points will be resolved within the margins of the USMCA, then it is correct to predict that no significant material impact will be felt north of the border. If, however, you hold the opinion that the USMCA will be terminated because the core of the issues between the two countries are irreconcilable, then the material impact will come as soon as that announcement is made.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, the only Canadian government official to attend President Trump’s inauguration, appears on Fox Business. Like all other Canadian officials, she cannot contemplate the elimination of CUSMA/NAFTA. Such an outcome is simply beyond her comprehension.

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James Talarico, the Democrat candidate from Texas running for the U.S. Senate, recently weighed in on the conviction of Karmelo Anthony for the April 2025 murder of Austin Metcalf.

“Right now, we’ve got a system that doesn’t serve all Americans equally, and, and we know that black Texans have been, um, have not gotten the justice they deserve,” he said.

This is a perfect illustration of the Sixth Woke Commandment in my book “The Ten Woke Commandments (You Must Not Obey)”—“You Shall Be Woke to Imaginary Oppression.”

Anthony was convicted by a jury drawn from the area he lived in. He told police, “I was protecting myself,” but those jurors apparently did not believe he was reasonably in fear of his life so as to justify fatally plunging a knife into another boy’s heart.

Activists and race-hustlers in Texas and nationally claimed that Anthony was unfairly convicted, mostly because there were no African American jurors. The ugly implication is that black jurors would ignore the facts and decide guilt or innocence based on race alone. I hope not.

Of course they do. That’s what identity politics is all about.

Babylon Bee.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the installation of a Muslim foot-washing station at the base of the 9/11 Memorial in preparation for marking the 25th anniversary of the Islamic terrorist attacks.

Presumably this is a parody, although you never know. I wouldn’t be surprised were Mamdani actually to do it.

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My, what a surprise.

Not a peep from ‘environmentalists’, of course.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

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Britain’s domestic intelligence service is once again telling White university students they are not wanted.

For the 2027 Summer Intelligence Internship, MI5 has confined applications to people from a “black, Asian, mixed heritage or ethnic minority background” who also come from a “socially or economically disadvantaged background.”

DEI is strong and thriving in Londonistan.

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More than 100 children aged 12 or under were referred to the British government’s Forced Marriage Unit between 2021 and 2025, new Home Office figures show.

The figures include 27 children aged five or under.

Dame Jasvinder Sanghera, a campaigner who escaped a forced marriage when she was 14, described the number of very young children as “deeply disturbing.”

She warned that some children could disappear from school because they had been taken away for a forced marriage.

“I know that when schools open in September, there will be missing children,” she said. She also warned that some children could return to school engaged or even married.

Dame Jasvinder said some children could be “promised to somebody from birth,” with the marriage taking place many years later.

Import Turd World people, wind up with Turd World problems.

The Antiplanner.

In the past five years, says the Oregonian (a.k.a. OregonLive) and Oregon Public Broadcasting, the state of Oregon “has given developers an unprecedented $1.4 billion” for affordable housing, and one result has been that “the cost of developing each apartment has nearly doubled.” But Oregonians are denied the right to find out where all that money has gone.

Chances of getting a responsive answer from the proglodyte Democrat state government: Zero.

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Since the end of July, Spanish soldiers have been deployed to Ceuta to try to keep a lid on the seething mass of illegal migrants that have invaded and taken up residence in various parts of the enclave. Unfortunately, they are burdened with rules of engagement that give violent migrant invaders the advantage, and their equipment leaves something to be desired.

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Before Caesar Chavez, Venezuela leased its oilfields to American companies who drilled, pumped, and transported oil. The companies generated profits which they shared with the Venezuela government. Then, Chavez and the socialists came in; kicked the American companies out; seized all their equipment; and began drilling, pumping, and transporting the oil themselves so that they could keep more of the profits. Over time, the equipment declined due to inadequate maintenance. As the decline continued, the amount of oil drilled, pumped, and transported also declined. The socialists blamed others and vowed to fix the problems, but the decline continued. The post-Maduro government, at gunpoint, is now putting America companies back in charge.

Until the next Democrat President gives it all away again.

Florida is hot, muggy, and flat. Much of Florida is uninhabitable swampland. Hurricanes happen in Florida. The historic concentration of money and talent in New York City is unsurpassed. New York City has been the real “city that could” for generations. California’s natural gifts, and the talent those gifts attracted, made California our most populated, our richest, and our most visited state. Vast areas of Texas are attractive only to Texans. The most beautiful parts of Texas would be considered below average in many states.

The defining story, so far, of the American 21st Century is the migration of wealth and talent out of California and New York into Florida and Texas.

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When the South Carolina congressman travelled to Wisconsin in 2024 to visit with poll workers and not candidates, no one seemed curious about the intent. When South Carolina had the opportunity to redistrict that same congressman, the professional republicans in the palmetto state protected him.

Now the organizer of the AME Church network of poll workers appears on NBC to say at the first available opportunity the Democrats should pack the court with another four leftist judges to ensure all of the constitutional restraints are removed from the judiciary. Yep, that’s James Clyburn.

Clyburn begins his remarks in this segment by decrying Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for not adhering to the manipulative racial expectations of his position. Clyburn then advocates for adding as many justices as needed in order to advance his agenda.

New York Post.

We know Trump-deranged New York Attorney General Letitia James campaigned on jailing the president, but an explosive all-staff email from one of her star prosecutors Friday claims her office explicitly directed him to “find and pursue crimes” to pin on Donald Trump and his allies, according to the Albany Times- Union.

In a bridge-burning email to 2,000 colleagues at 10 a.m. Friday, Assistant Attorney General Daniel Wiesenfeld claimed that he had been instructed by his supervisor “to find and pursue crimes committed by specific individuals and organizations affiliated with Donald Trump.”

“The best part of having f–k you money is being able to tell the truth, without fear of consequences so here we go,” his email began, before listing James’ efforts to frame Trump, according to a readout provided to The Post.

Wiesenfeld, 34, alleged his boss, bureau chief Shamiso Maswoswe, directed him to target “Trump himself, Truth Social, Hewlett Packard (DOJ approved merger) .?.?. without having a credible reason for targeting these organizations and individuals .?.?.

“Presumably she acted at the behest of Tish [James] .?.?.

“Tish’s personal grudges with Trump sets the agenda. Find a crime and any crime of his would do.”

The Telegraph (UK).

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

The Telegraph (UK).

Suspected travellers have bulldozed a wildlife haven in an alleged bank holiday land grab.

Heavy machinery was used to destroy the field in the town of Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, over the weekend.

The unauthorised work in Sheering Mill Lane began early on Saturday morning, apparently to clear space for mobile homes, and prompted an angry response from residents.

Hundreds of people protested as diggers tore up the “wildlife hotspot” and builders installed fencing.

The work was carried out without planning permission and has since led to the council successfully appealing to the High Court for an injunction to halt all construction.

Councillor Greg Rattey, a former Sawbridgeworth mayor, said residents were dismayed by the “illegal settlement” that he said had been “built by travellers”.

Wikipedia:

Itinerant groups are communities that travel habitually from place to place rather than living in one permanent location. The origins of the traditionally itinerant groups in Europe are not always clear. The largest of these groups is the Romani people (also known as Roma or Gypsies, with the latter being increasingly taken as derogatory). They left India around 1,500 years ago, entering Europe around 1,000 years ago via the Balkans. They include the Sinti people, the second largest group. Travellers, assumed to have begun travelling from necessity during the early modern period, are unrelated to the Romani, and are assumed not to be ethnically distinct from their source population. However, recent DNA testing has shown that the Irish Travellers are of Irish origin but are genetically distinct from their settled counterparts due to social isolation, and more groups are being studied. The third largest group in Europe is the Yenish, an indigenous Germanic group.

Many itinerant groups speak their own language or dialect, though with outsiders they will use the language of the surrounding settled population. Such insider languages are often a blend of the regional settled language and Romani language, but sometimes a cant based on a regional language without Romani influence. As opposed to nomads, who travel with and subsist on herds of livestock, itinerant groups traditionally travel for trade or other work for the sedentary populations amongst which they live.

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Purely a coincidence, I’m sure.

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The US government is exploring an unusual legal route for dealing with Iranian oil and ships captured as part of its blockade: bringing back a wartime maritime system that has barely been used for generations, according to Bloomberg.

The Justice Department, working with the Pentagon, is preparing to use prize law, which historically allowed courts to decide whether vessels and cargo captured during armed conflict could legally become property of the United States. The mechanism was once commonplace in naval warfare but largely disappeared from American practice after the 19th century and has been dormant since World War II.

The appeal for the administration is largely practical. At present, the government generally relies on civil forfeiture to take ownership of vessels accused of sanctions violations or other offenses. Those cases can become complicated and slow, particularly when shipping companies, creditors, terrorism victims or other parties assert competing rights to the ship or its cargo. A prize proceeding could potentially narrow those disputes and allow captured oil to be sold more quickly, with the proceeds going to the US Treasury.

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The Department of Health and Human Services commissioned a study that found a measurable link between accepting transgender ideology and supporting left-wing political violence.

Researchers at Rutgers University, the Manhattan Institute and the Network Contagion Research Institute produced the report, called “Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology?” which was obtained by the New York Post ahead of its release.

 

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If they were any good, they wouldn’t be dependent on Federal funding for their research.

Obviously they will be more at home in socialist Canada.

And we are much improved by their absence.

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The Ayatollah of Albany and Ayatollah of the City of New York have been asked to not attend the Ground Zero’s 25th anniversary 9/11 commemoration. Gov. Hochul and Mayor Mamdani are planning to go regardless of the fact that they do not support law enforcement in the State of New York or the City of New York.

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A small sideline story that reflects a combination of sociological and economic facets. A Yacht Club in the Hamptons of New York is forced to cancel their restaurant services after their staff is removed from the USA due to immigration enforcement.

The swanky oceanfront Devon Yacht Club in Amagansett — which reportedly charges around $100,000 in initiation fees — canceled its Wednesday night dinner service after its foreign cooks had to leave the US because of problems renewing their H-2B temporary work visas, according to a letter sent to members the same day.

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These are the typical climate change and “renewable” energy obsessions that bring blackouts, rolling outages, and the highest gasoline and electricity prices in America.

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I recall reading about a person who set up a compact apartment inside a Walmart sign.

I also recall seeing a YouTube video with instructions on how to cobble together a fake electrical utility box that could be used as a secret hide.

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Much of the world sucks, by design.

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Yeah. Bernie’s “so honest, so direct, and so authentic” that he’s one of the millionaires he and fellow millionaire Professor Umbrage spend most of their waking hours denouncing.

The basic problem Democrats have is, that even the people on the fringes of the IQ bell curve (the proglodyte base)  are realizing that Socialists Are Not Your Friends. The rich ones are coming to understand that Democrat intend to stick their sticky fingers deeply into their pockets as well as those of Elon Musk, and the poor ones are starting to realize that what Democrats steal doesn’t trickle down to the Underclass.

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Other countries are doing it, and it’s good to know that Americans are persisting.

Newsbusters.

The vacuum speaks.

We had to rub our eyes a few times before we came to grips with the fact that pseudo-economist Paul Krugman — the poster child for TDS and Bidenomics infatuation in media/academia — is actually trying to make “Biden Derangement Syndrome” a thing.

Krugman blurted out yet another of his wild-eyed Substack takes August 27 in a piece simply headlined, “Biden Derangement Syndrome.” The unhinged wordsmith who tried convincing the world for months that Bidenflation was “transitory” snooted that “A clear indicator that Trump sycophants realize that they are caught in reality’s snare is how they respond to any question about current economic difficulties.”

That’s pretty rich coming from the same guy who browbeat struggling Americans who were fed up from Biden-era price spikes, “A lot of it is simply — a lot of people who say the economy is lousy —what they’re really saying is, ‘I hate the idea that a Democrat is president.’”

Newsbusters.

Few in the liberal elitist media have as wide of a gulf between how smart they think they are and how smart they actually are than MS Now’s Lawrence O’Donnell. Students of history are aware of several classic military blunders: touching America’s boats, invading Russia in winter, and engaging in a land war in Asia. Yet on Thursday’s The Last Word, O’Donnell, who fancies himself a history buff, proved he would commit another: promise to end a war by Christmas.

“Well, the list of what Donald Trump didn’t do today is, as usual, much, much longer than the list of what he did do today,” O’Donnell the pseudointellectual proclaimed.

Aside from the fact that literally everyone’s list of things they didn’t do in a day was longer than the list of things they did do, O’Donnell was aghast that President Trump had not promised the service members fighting Iran and their families that the war would be over and they’d be reunited by Christmas.

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Earlier this week, the Council on American-Islamic Relations sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice asking officials to reject Gov. Greg Abbott’s request for an investigation into Texas airports.

CAIR’s letter comes after Abbott sent a letter referring Dallas Fort-Worth International Airport and the George Bush Intercontinental Airport to the DOJ for an investigation into alleged religious discrimination.

“These ablution stations single out one subset of the population for special treatment based on religion,” Abbott said. “They are not interfaith chapels open to all. They exist to benefit the Muslim population alone. Government-owned airports cannot favor one religion over all others.”

Nature magazine.

Shadowed by past disasters, nuclear engineers are developing different types of reactor, fuel, coolant and material that could help to make fission the zero-carbon energy technology of choice.

Michael Sartain: “Every woman in America who has breast implants., blonde hair, and owns a gun voted for Donald Trump.”

BBC, a Voice of the Crust.

The “dough feeder”. The sauce and cheese modules – even the pepperoni-sprinkler. All lay still.
A now defunct duo of robots were supposed to be churning out pizzas at a Moto Pizza restaurant in Seattle.
However, in May the pair were rendered “basically useless” when their supplier, Picnic, abruptly shut down. Technical support for the robots evaporated at that moment, says Lee Kindell, founder and chief executive of Moto Pizza.

Welcome to the real world.

He was left wondering what to do with the $160,000 (£118,000), cabinet-like machines and whether buying in pizza bots was really worth it.
“I don’t know if I want to do a partnership again because of the failures,” he says.

Bear in mind that the Narrative Media regard AI and robots as an existential threat to all that is Right and Good second only to Donald Trump.

People who invest in immature technologies hoping to steal a march on their competitors are always SO SURPRISED when they crash and burn.

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Apparently your girlfriend is just a rental, so there’s no point in complaining about imperfections because you won’t have it very long.

George Carlin: “Consider how stupid the average person is. Then consider that half of the population is even more stupid than that.”

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To copy DNA, you generally use DNA as a template. To make RNA, cells generally use DNA as a template, while RNA in turn provides the instructions for making proteins.

But now a bacterium has revealed a different path, and it’s deeply surprising.

In one half of this newly discovered system, a protein acts as a molecular template for building a specific repeating DNA sequence – basically allowing information written in amino acids to determine information written in DNA.

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Humanity’s family tree is long and tangled. Scientists sort our ancient relatives into three familiar groups: Homo, Australopithecus, and Paranthropus.

Each of these is a “genus,” the rank just above a species. (In Homo sapiens, Homo is the genus and sapiens is the species.)

These names dominate how we talk about human origins. But new fossils, advances in genetic analysis, and more rigorous methods for figuring out who’s related to whom show these groupings don’t really reflect the true shape of our family tree.

Is it therefore time to come up with a new way to classify humans and our closely related extinct relatives? As I argue in a new paper in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology, the current system is overdue for revision.

I’m fully comfortable with thinking that homo sapiens and proglodytes are different species.

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The land-based Harpoon Coastal Defense System (HCDS) scored a direct hit during US Navy trials ahead of its planned deployment to Taiwan’s military. The HCDS is currently not under contract for the US or any other military besides Taiwan’s, making the successful live-fire test a critical step in fulfilling Taipei’s $2.3 billion order.

An American Harpoon missile system that will be fielded by Taiwan struck a vessel in a maritime strike test.

The Boeing-made Harpoon Coastal Defense System successfully struck the test target during a developmental test. According to the Portfolio Acquisition Executive Munitions release, the test was designed to validate the ground-based Harpoon system’s ability to engage at-sea threats.

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You know, call me crazy, call me a xenophobe, call me whatever you want, but I think it’s a little important for our elected officials to view the places they’re representing as their homeland.

So he’s a foreigner, proved out of his own mouth. Don’t vote for foreigners. Don’t let foreigners vote. For God’s sake don’t let foreigners run for U.S. elective office.

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I’m thinking California.

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This sort of scam has been going on in California for decades; I first heard of it a long time ago, when a friend was a victim.

Now, though, with the advent of dashcams, it’s easier to prove it and even to find the perps.

A crew of bozos targeted unsuspecting drivers in a series of staged crashes on busy Big Apple highways — scoring more than $80,000 in insurance payouts before a viral video brought the fraud ring down.

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Brent crude futures initially jumped overnight after The Wall Street Journal reported that President Trump has no interest in reviving the memorandum of understanding (interim peace deal) reached with Iran in June. The war-risk premium in Brent has since faded in New York premarket trading amid mounting developments this week that major Gulf producers, including Kuwait and Qatar, are increasing tanker flows through the Strait of Hormuz. Emerging diplomatic traction between Oman and Iran has also further reduced the perceived risk of a prolonged disruption.

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And about time.

In the complete absence of any meaningful government action, the people of Ceuta have taken matters into their own hands.

When the government isn’t doing its job, you do what you have to do.