DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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Appearing on MSNBC to talk to Lawfare ally Nicole Wallace, wife of New York Times narrative engineer Michael Schmidt – the guy who received leaks from FBI Director James Comey via Daniel Richman, former CIA Director John Brennan notes there are “legions” of operatives still embedded within the DOJ, FBI and CIA who are working against President Donald Trump.

This is not a surprise as we have noted the Trump administration continues to take apart the tentacles of Lawfare and Intelligence operatives in Main Justice, various U.S. Attorney offices, FBI Headquarters, FBI field offices and various Intelligence Community silos.

Marco Rubio has been working to clean up the National Security Council as well as the State Department operations, including USAID. Tulsi Gabbard and John Ratcliffe have been working on the NSA and CIA collaboratively, and Todd Blanche has been working through the Dept of Justice. FBI Director Kash Patel has removed about ten percent of the problem in his agency.

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A watchdog group is appealing after the New York Supreme Court declined to launch an ethics investigation into Gov. Mikie Sherrill, D-N.J., after Sherrill falsely accused her political opponent of mass killing and launched a campaign to oppose immigration enforcement.

“The New York Attorney Grievance Committee declined to investigate Mikie Sherrill, stating reasons that cut against the most basic of legal principles governing license discipline cases,” James Fitzpatrick, director of the Center to Advance Security in America, told The Daily Signal.

He noted that the grievance committee “has not given the same treatment to Republicans.” The committee investigated former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani in 2021 for alleged false statements after the 2020 presidential election. A New York appeals court disbarred Giuliani in 2024.

“This is seemingly a double standard at issue here: in order to move forward with a complaint against Mikie Sherrill the committee is requiring a conviction, but in the case of Mayor Giuliani, this convenient prerequisite was nowhere to be found,” Fitzpatrick added.

I’m curious as to why the Governor of New Jersey is any business of the New York Supreme Court.  Perhaps it’s a bar-membership issue.

The Foundry.

A controversial Virginia prosecutor apologized to the mother of a daughter slain by an illegal immigrant but still defended his county’s sanctuary policy during a contentious House hearing Thursday.

“I am deeply sorry for your loss, I say that not only as a prosecutor but as a parent of a daughter,” Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano said to Cheryl Minter, mother of Stephanie Minter, during a hearing of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement.

“I’m sorry for what you are having to endure and I promise that my office is doing everything we can to prosecute the man responsible,” Descano added.

Fairfax County law enforcement refused to honor an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer for Abdul Jalloh, who was released and allegedly killed Stephanie Minter at a local bus stop in February.

Ask yourself: What do they know that you don’t?

The Washington Poop, paper of record for the Deep State.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a fierce China critic, was banned in 2020 from entering the country. On Thursday, however, he sat across from Chinese officials in Beijing — with a nameplate displaying a new Chinese spelling of “Rubio” that perhaps made his visit possible as part of President Donald Trump’s entourage.
The change predated Trump’s summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Chinese state media and official records began using a different transliterated character for the “Ru” or “Lu” in Rubio’s name after Trump named him secretary of state in 2025.
Beijing made the tweak without fanfare. But this week, it has been a buzzy topic on Chinese social media, with Rubio in Beijing as one of the top officials in the U.S. delegation. During the elaborate welcome ceremony, he stood in the first row of the group of American visitors and shook hands with Xi.
Chinese transliteration of English names matches characters phonetically to English syllables. There can be multiple Chinese characters that sound similar to the English equivalent. There are two different Chinese spellings for “Trump,” for example.
In Rubio’s case, the change may be a clever diplomatic tool. Because Beijing placed sanctions on him under a different spelling, the new name allowed the U.S. and China to avoid conflict over his entry ahead of the high-stakes summit.

Welcome to the Red Chinese version of Yes Minister.

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This week the Democrat mayor of Arcadia, CA pled guilty to charges of acting as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China. Prosecutors alleged that from 2020–2022 (pre-mayor but continuing into her time in office), she and an associate operated a website promoting pro-China propaganda at the direction of PRC officials, without registering as a foreign agent.

She faces at up to 10 years in prison for the crime, and it raises questions about how many more US mayors are on the payroll of foreign governments. But this scandal, like most scandals surrounding Democrats, will probably be erased from public discussion and forgotten within days. It’s a tale that keeps repeating over the last decade and the lack of scrutiny (or pattern recognition) is leading to devastating consequences for the US as a whole.

The common reaction among many conservatives when they come across such news is to dismiss it as predictable. “The idiots living in that city got exactly what they voted for…” is the often heard retort. The implication being that it’s “not our problem” and that leftists should be allowed to rot in the hellholes they created for themselves. But the truth is, it is a problem, for the entire country.

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Remote, resource-poor, and sparsely populated, the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu is not known for many achievements, if you’ve heard its name at all. It does, however, hold the distinction of being the most at-risk country for natural disasters, ranking consistently first on the World Risk Index due to its frequent exposure to cyclones and earthquakes—sometimes within days.

In addition to its exceptional bad luck with the gods of nature, Vanuatu has for almost a decade been subjected to a peculiar curse from the would-be arbiters of global governance. It is one of a handful of jurisdictions to have appeared on both EU financial and tax blacklists and, by far, the one that has remained there the longest.

Little known outside corporate compliance circles, the EU maintains two distinct blacklists: one targeting “high-risk” jurisdictions for money laundering and terrorist financing, created in 2016 by the European Commission; and another for “non-cooperation for tax purposes,” maintained since 2017 by the European Council. The former was ostensibly modeled after the ‘grey list’ of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)—an independent, intergovernmental watchdog established in 1989 by the G7 to set global standards for combating money laundering, terrorist financing, and proliferation financing. The latter draws heavily on OECD transparency and tax governance standards.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Peggy Flanagan is the far-left Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota. She has been present throughout Tim Walz’s disastrous tenure in office, but has left little mark. If she is known for anything, it is 1) being part Native American, and 2) holding down the farthest left position on the political spectrum. Flanagan is now running for Minnesota’s vacant seat in the U.S. Senate and, despite her radicalism (or on account of it) she has been endorsed by pretty much all the prominent Democrats, from Bernie Sanders to Ilhan Omar to current Senator Tina Smith.

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

Jews are under assault in Mayor Madman’s New York City. Would you have the temerity to wear a mezuzah around your neck or a kipot on your head in public? Would you have the gall to gather for services at a local congregation? The New York Post reports “An anti-Israel mob clashed with counter-protesters near a Brooklyn synagogue on Monday night — less than a week after a similar demonstration rocked Manhattan.”

The current Post headline refers to last week’s mob that materialized outside a Manhattan synagogue. The Post reported that story in “Hateful anti-Israel mob descends on historic NYC synagogue, clashes with cops in rowdy protest.” How rowdy can you get?

Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon is on the case. Today the Post also reports “Rowdy anti-Israel NYC protesters could be hit with federal charges, DOJ threatens.”

The Post headlines refer to the animus on display as “anti-Israel.” That is nasty, but the animus goes beyond the Jewish state to the Jewish people. In tune with the mayor, the New York mobs are wildly anti-Semitic.

The Daily Signal’s Jarrett Stepman compiles X posts depicting this past Monday’s mob in an excellent round-up/review: “The Intifada Comes to Brooklyn Under New York’s Socialist Mayor.” A mob grows in Brooklyn.

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It is no secret that the recent local election results were catastrophic for the Labour Party. Of course, this comes as no big surprise. Labour’s policies are bankrupting the country. Yields on UK government bonds show that the market has lost trust in Britain. More or less everything is impoverished, broken or dysfunctional. Britain has become a bloated welfare state whose main purpose is to act as a safe haven for illegal migrants. Labour – a party of misguided, progressive activists – has no strategy whatsoever other than to force some kind of cultural warfare on its ethnic British population.

I wouldn’t call it financial incompetence. It goes way beyond that; it is almost as if they are doing it on purpose. In the May local elections, traditional Labour footholds were obliterated. In places like Sunderland, Labour supporters flocked to Reform in more or less their entirety. It will be generations before they would trust again a Labour government; a Labour government that has shown it despises the white working-class voter labelling quarter of a million white rape victims as ‘racists’.

True to fashion, the three key electoral strongholds of the gay Left to be found in Oxford, Cambridge and Camden continued to vote Labour and in particular the Green Party – a party that has nothing at all to say about the environment, but instead bizarrely courts simultaneously the gay and the Muslim vote.

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If you’ve ever ondered what the Electronic Frontier Foundation was, here’s the story.

EFF has also been heavily involved in matters pertaining to intellectual property and reminding society of the fundamental differences between soft and hard goods. We work on fostering virtual community, promoting network-distributed communications multimedia, and educating law enforcement agencies and corporate security forces on the culture and actual threat posed by computer “hackers.”

The first half of my life was about landscape, place, dirt, physicality, facts, and experience. I now find myself trying to understand a world which has moved off the territory, where such things exist, and onto the map, where they are replaced simulation, thought, process, image, relationship, and information. In other words, information.

I have profound misgivings about this weird new place, but it has several advantages over the one in which I am leaving behind. (Besides, as we’re headed there whether we want to be or not, one might as well enjoy the ride…)

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The Department of Labor keeps careful track of employment and the demographics thereof. Their latest report on men in the labor force is both mysterious and deeply alarming. It turns out that the labor force is missing about 7 million men who would otherwise be working. Close to a third of working-age men have vanished from the labor force.

 

Steve Graham.

My wife and I had an interesting conversation today. I had noticed a story about Sting, the elderly rock musician who used to be so popular. He was bragging about not leaving his children anything, as though it made him a genius and a great parent.

We both thought he was an idiot.

He’s not alone. Gordon Ramsay is in the same camp. Tony Curtis disinherited all his kids. Bill Gates doesn’t trust his children to handle his fortune. Neither does Warren Buffett.

There are certain eternal truths God expects us to know, and one is that families are supposed to be built up by inheritance. In the Bible, having no inheritance was a great curse, and stealing an inheritance was one of the most wicked things a person could do. Unfortunately, few people know the Holy Spirit, so most don’t know how things work. They come up with their own stupid ideas, and the results are pretty bad.

The excuse these people usually give is that they don’t want to ruin their kids by handing them things they haven’t earned. Mind you, often, these are often people who didn’t raise their kids well, so they care enough to deprive them of money but not enough to teach them to thrive as adults without inheritance.

Think of it as evolution in action.

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Note to employers: When you discover your twin brother employees are ex-cons who did time for hacking into the US State Department, and go to fire them, make sure you fully disable their access.

February 2025, twin brothers Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter turned a routine job termination into one of the most brazen insider sabotage incidents in recent U.S. government history. Just minutes after being fired from Opexus – a Washington, D.C.-area contractor that provides critical case-management software to more than 45 federal agencies – the brothers allegedly launched a rapid digital assault that deleted approximately 96 government databases containing sensitive FOIA records, investigative files, and taxpayer data.

I’m curious as to whom in the government it seemed like a good idea to put persons named Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter in charge of data for U.S. Federal agencies. That guy ought to have been fired as well.

The Foundry.

Democrats on the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government sharply criticized a GOP?led hearing Wednesday that examined concerns about Sharia law and Islamic terrorism in the United States, calling it a “conspiracy theory” rooted in “unconstitutional bigotry.”

“There is no evidence of any plot to impose Sharia law,” Ranking Member Mary Gay Scanlon, D?Pa., said during the hearing, accusing Republican politicians of “shamefully scapegoating Muslims for political gains.”

“They made up a conspiracy theory about their Muslim neighbors to intimidate voters. Saying lies over and over again doesn’t make them true, and it doesn’t make unconstitutional bigotry legal,” she added.

The Foundry.

Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice launched a federal civil rights investigation into Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano over allegations that his office gave preferential treatment to illegal immigrants accused of serious crimes.

This Thursday, mere days after that announcement, Descano—who has received more than $650,000 from Soros-backed PACs and affiliated groups—is scheduled to testify before Congress at a House Judiciary Committee hearing examining the dangerous consequences of sanctuary policies in Fairfax County, Virginia.

Indeed, Descano is a key player contributing to the increasingly dangerous environment in Fairfax County. In February, police arrested Abdul Jalloh, an illegal immigrant from Sierra Leone, and charged him with the fatal stabbing of Stephanie Minter, a 41-year-old mother, at a bus stop in Fairfax County. Jalloh had previously been arrested more than 30 times, only to be released back onto the streets. In more than a dozen of his arrests, Descano’s office entered “nolle prosequi,” a legal term meaning it chose not to pursue the charges.

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Currently active CIA analyst James Erdman, presented himself as a whistleblower to congress to outline how the Intelligence Community had evidence and knowledge about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and how it was created by “gain of function” research (weaponizing a virus) in a biolab in Wuhan, China funded by the United States government.

According to the testimony, there are elements inside the Intelligence Community, specifically the CIA, who worked with scientists to coverup the origin of COVID-19 and the fact the virus was man made and leaked from a lab. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, pressured and influenced scientists in the intelligence community to fabricate information and lie about the origin of the virus.

Fauci has denied accusations that he lied about the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) role in funding research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China and argued that the research did not meet the level of gain-of-function research. However, a longtime advisor of Fauci’s, David Morens, who served as a top advisor at NIAID, was indicted by the DOJ last month and accused of using his personal email account to hide communications related to a controversial coronavirus research grant that involved collaboration with the Wuhan Institute.

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No wonder Biden pardoned him.

The Foundry.

Trial lawyers are putting a heavy focus on a Democrat House majority by not only donating to organizations backing House candidates, but also dumping money into drawing favorable congressional maps.

A report from the watchdog group Alliance for Consumers, set to be released Thursday, shows that since 2025, trial lawyer-aligned political action committees have given $100,000 to the House Majority PAC, which focuses on getting Democrats elected to the U.S. House. The PACs also gave $50,000 to the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, run by former Obama administration Attorney General Eric Holder.

The redistricting committee has been influential in the last year, donating $150,000 toward the election of Democrat candidates for the Virginia state legislature, and another $150,000 toward the election of Democrat gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger.

Immediately following the donations in October, the Virginia Democrats called a special session to attempt to amend the state constitution to allow for new gerrymandered districts, which would flip the state’s 6-5 Democrat congressional map to a 10-1 Democrat advantage. The new map passed in a referendum, but last week the Virginia Supreme Court found the procedure unconstitutional.

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The Democrats in the Tennessee House of Representatives, including our least favorite knuckleheads Justin Jones, Justin Pearson, and Gloria Johnson, once again comported themselves with utmost shame during the redistricting vote last week.

In a democracy, elected officials need not consider what is good for the general population,  only what is pleasing to the people who voted for them. If the people who voted for them are idiots, then those elected officials will do idiotic things.

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Think of it as evolution in action.

The American Mind.

The New York Times columnists Ross Douthat and Ezra Klein disagree more often than they agree, which made it significant that just before the first anniversary of the 2024 election each arrived at, basically, the same explanation for Donald Trump’s victory. “It is completely obvious that the [Democratic] party lost in 2024 because it overcommitted to a range of unpopular left-wing positions,” Douthat wrote. Whatever else the 2024 election may have been, it “was also an ideological referendum, and progressivism lost.”

Klein’s explanation was even more detailed, making it a tougher read for his followers, who are more sympathetic to the Democratic cause than are Douthat’s. “From 2012 to 2024, Democrats moved sharply left on virtually every issue,” Klein observed, with electoral results that were precisely the opposite of those expected and intended.

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In February 2023, the Bay Area Council Economic Institute issued a report that
analyzed business tax structures across 20 of the region’s largest cities. For each of
those cities, we calculated the annual business tax payment for three hypothetical
companies in office-based industries using business tax rates in each jurisdiction. In all
three examples, estimated tax liabilities in San Francisco were far beyond other Bay
Area cities – with only Oakland approaching a similar scale to San Francisco. As such,
we concluded that San Francisco’s business tax regime created a disincentive for
companies to add employment in the city and was a driving force behind relocations to
other parts of the Bay Area.

The New Neo.

One reason is that the gap between the parties has grown in terms of goals and policy, and so there are few areas of agreement anymore. But that brings up another question: why has that happened? I think it was the fruit of a few decades of leftist indoctrination in the education system, plus the fall of the Soviets which allowed new generations to wax Romantic about socialism/Communism, the spread of leftist ideas online, and the presidency of Barack Obama – our first leftist president, as far as I know. He carefully calibrated his leftist policies to fit what the electorate could take, but he definitely moved the Overton Window to the left.

But it’s not just about policy, and in fact policy may be way way down on the list. To say it’s about power doesn’t really say much either, although power is a big draw for some people of a certain personality type. But power is also about money. With revelations such as this about the vast sums given to NGOs, for example, or Medicaid fraud (and kickbacks and/or payment in votes from the grateful fraudster community), not to mention speaking fees and insider trading and the like, there’s a lot of money to be had.

Trump in particular is a threat – not because he’s a “Nazi” – they clearly don’t mind Nazis if they’re Democrat Nazis – or an “authoritarian” (likewise; authoritarians are great if on the left). It’s because he’s actually serious about “draining the swamp,” which not only has the potential of cutting off the power they wield even when Republicans are in charge, but cutting off the money spigot or at least reducing it.

The Foundry.

The intifada is coming to an American neighborhood near you. Or at least it has if you live in New York and you have a sympathetic leftist mayor.

On Monday night, a mob of not-too-peaceful protesters gathered at a synagogue in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn. They yelled angrily and, in some cases, harassed the Jews who happened to be there over what they say is the synagogue’s support of settlements in the West Bank.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

An elected Supreme Court justice in Pennsylvania announced Monday night that he has left the Democratic Party and registered as an independent, citing concerns about antisemitism.

In a statement, David Wecht, who is Jewish and served as Pennsylvania’s Democratic Party chair from 1998 to 2001, said he believed antisemitism has moved from the fringe of the Democratic Party to the mainstream.

“Nazi tattoos, jihadist chants, intimidation and attacks at synagogues, and other hateful anti-Jewish invective and actions are minimized, ignored, and even coddled,” he wrote. “Acquiescence to Jew-hatred is now disturbingly common among activists, leaders and even many elected officials in the Democratic Party.”

Wecht wrote that he had long understood that antisemitism “always festered on the fringe” of the right, a fact that hit home in 2018 when a far-right shooter killed 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh where he and his wife were married in 1998.

“In the years that have followed, that same hatred has grown on the left,” he said in his statement. “It is the duty of all good people to fight this virus, and to do so before it is too late.”

Wakey, wakey….

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Things are popping off in the Netherlands.

The building used to be the town hall of Loosdrecht. Locals have spent weeks telling the government that they do not want it to be converted into a housing center for more illegal aliens.

ATQUE: “We Don’t Feel Safe Anymore”: Dutch Women March Against Migrant Centre

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As they do.

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In 2020, this man was arrested for shooting at cops. He was only sentenced to five years in jail.

According to police, that man is Tyler Brown, a convicted felon.

But he’s a Person of Color. Let’s not forget that.

Thank the Lord that most criminals/terrorists/leftists are horrible shots.

Thankfully, there were two good guys with guns to stop him, including a civilian (it is very hard to get a concealed carry license in the woke state of Massachusetts).

Don’t Californicate my Texas….

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In case Europe hadn’t already been completely overrun enough, there’s apparently a fresh batch of migrants ready to hit its shores!

Plevris issued a (seemingly empty) threat to migrants that, if any of them were found not to qualify for asylum, they would be detained and later turned away.

As if Greece — along with other European nations — hadn’t reached its limits for taking in migrants. Now they’re already at a breaking point, with few options for dealing with the crisis.

The Foundry.

Agitators shouted “fascist” and obscenities over the weekend outside a Portland, Oregon hotel where they believed FBI Director Kash Patel was staying, according to Fox 12 Oregon and several posts on social media. Patel was reportedly attending a friend’s funeral.

The agitators gathered outside the Sentinel Hotel in downtown Portland. Some of the videos were posted on social media on Saturday; others were posted on Sunday.

Leftists are never happy unless they are  peeing in somebody else’s soup.

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Eileen Wang, mayor of Arcadia in California, resigned after agreeing to plead guilty to acting as a foreign agent of China, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Prosecutors said Wang and an associate operated a website presenting itself as a news source for local Chinese communities, but in reality used to spread pro-Chinese propaganda between 2020 and 2022, including material that denied allegations concerning the persecution of Uyghurs in Xinjiang and was shared rapidly after contact with Chinese officials.

The Democrat mayor also communicated with Chinese officials and John Chen, a senior intelligence-linked figure previously convicted in the United States, and co-operated with Yaoning Mike Sun, who later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to prison for acting as an illegal foreign agent.

According to Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli, individuals who secretly act on behalf of foreign governments undermine democratic institutions, while officials said the case forms part of broader efforts to counter alleged Chinese influence operations in the United States.

City officials in Arcadia said the allegations were deeply troubling but emphasized that no city finances, staff, or decision-making processes were involved, noting that the conduct described occurred before Wang was sworn into office in December 2022. The FBI continues to investigate the case and related figures including John Chen and Yaoning Mike Sun, who have already received prison sentences.

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A new study on religious attitudes among young people in Vienna has triggered fierce political debate in Austria after researchers found that a significant proportion of Muslim youths place religious rules above the country’s laws.

The study, commissioned by the City of Vienna and based on interviews with 1,200 people aged between 14 and 21, found that 41% of Muslim respondents agreed with the statement that the rules of their religion stand above Austrian law. Among Christian respondents, the figure was 21%.

Researchers also found that 46% of Muslim youths surveyed believed people should be prepared to “fight and die” for their faith, compared with 24% of Christians.

In addition, 65% said Islamic rules should apply strictly to all aspects of daily life, while more than half supported Muslim women wearing headscarves in public.

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A newly elected Green Party councillor in the UK has sparked controversy after sharing footage of himself driving a Lamborghini shortly after winning his local election seat—drawing accusations of hypocrisy given his party’s policies on reducing car use and taxing drivers.

Mohammad Baghdadi Khan, who won the Halliwell ward in Bolton, Greater Manchester, posted a video showing him at the wheel of a Lamborghini Huracán Spyder, a high-performance sports car worth up to £270,000 (€311,000). The clip, which also included footage of his election win, was reportedly filmed at a wedding in 2023 where a convoy of luxury vehicles was used.

In addition to the Lamborghini footage, Khan also shared clips of himself driving a Mercedes with personalised number plates, a vehicle he reportedly used during his election campaign. During that campaign, he pledged to stand up for the people and support “greener spaces” while also backing higher taxes on the wealthy.

Rules are for thee but not for me.

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French authorities have arrested a 27-year-old Tunisian man suspected of plotting a jihadist-inspired attack in Paris, the national anti-terror prosecutor’s office said.

The suspect was detained on May 7th following a preliminary investigation into a possible “terrorist criminal conspiracy.” He was later placed in pre-trial detention. According to investigators, he had considered carrying out an attack on a Paris museum and targeting members of the Jewish community, although no specific site had been definitively selected.

Sources cited by French media reported that the Louvre museum was among the potential targets, along with areas linked to the Jewish community in the capital’s 16th arrondissement.

Quillette.

If the treatment of gender dysphoric youth were treated like any other medical topic, there would be little controversy about how patients should be cared for. Two years ago, Dr Hilary Cass, a former president of Britain’s Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, released an exhaustive report that examined the most reliable peer-reviewed research from around the world. She concluded that the laissez-faire policy of reflexively “affirming” gender-distressed minors, which has been ideologically fashionable since the mid-2010s, isn’t supported by science. She debunked the myth that puberty blockers are harmless drugs that merely hit the “pause” button on a child’s development; as well as the morbid propaganda claim that speedy “affirmation” is necessary to prevent gender-distressed individuals from committing suicide.

In the weeks that followed the report’s release, transgender activists—along with their allies in journalism, psychotherapy, and medicine—howled in outrage, insisting that Dr Cass’s analysis must somehow be flawed. For many in this camp, questioning the wisdom of medicalised gender transition is not only inherently pseudoscientific, but also indicative of transphobic bigotry.

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In July 1998, the Rome Statute created the legal basis for the International Criminal Court (ICC), a body designed to “guarantee lasting respect for and the enforcement of international justice.” The Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) was also created to initiate investigations and seek arrest warrants for anyone charged with crimes within the Court’s jurisdiction. Article 70 of the Statute empowers the Court to prosecute individuals for bribery, intimidation, or corrupt influence, but no one seems to have entertained the possibility that the prosecutor himself might be guilty of one or more of these offences. This oversight looks spectacularly naive in retrospect.

On 28 April, the Wall Street Journal reported allegations that the Qatari government had said it would “look after” ICC prosecutor Karim Khan if he indicted Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister Yoav Gallant. Khan sought arrest warrants for both men on 20 May 2024 and denies receiving any such assurances from Qatar or any other state prior to doing so. Arrest warrants were also sought for Hamas leaders, but not for the Iranian and Qatari officials who financed and armed the group for years. In November 2025, the Guardian reported that Qatar had allegedly hired a private intelligence firm in Britain to discredit a Malaysian ICC staffer who has accused Khan of sexual assault. If substantiated, this conduct could raise questions about the applicability of Article 70. Notably, Khan’s decision to pursue Israeli leaders for war crimes was taken shortly after the emergence of the assault allegations, which he also categorically denies.

Allegations like these highlight the threat that financial incentives and judicial activism can pose to the pursuit of international justice. The notion that international courts are impervious to foreign influence is a delusion that The Hague has nurtured for decades, and it helps to explain why the system has failed to deter the commission of atrocities. This is a problem of institutional design. These courts were forged in debates about competing state interests and their independence from the UN Security Council, which baked power politics and reputational management into their architecture from the outset. A decade ago, these courts were widely depicted as neo-colonial instruments, advancing Western political interests against African states under the guise of human rights. Today, they have overcorrected into postcolonial theory, and like virtually every other liberal institution in the modern West, they have been captured by self-destructive ideologies and hostile foreign interests.

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WhatCable explains cable speed, charging limits, e-marker data, and connected devices in plain English. No more guessing why a cable charges slow or refuses to drive your display.

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If you tossed something about LGBT folx and homeless addicts into this story, it’d be the most “California” article of all time.

I’m told Eileen, who is a U.S. citizen, is just as American as me!

ATQUE: Arcadia mayor Eileen Wang admits acting as Chinese spy, running fake news website with ex-lover in shocking plea deal  (New York Post)

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And who could blame her?

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has decided to skip out on the upcoming mayoral debate scheduled for Wednesday, according to debate organizers who posted on social media over the weekend.

Campaign spokesman Alex Stack said Bass will instead travel to Sacramento, where she will be “fighting for critical state funding for housing, homelessness, and Palisades recovery, and will also discuss the city and state partnership on the Olympics and World Cup,” according to City News Service.

“It’s time to move past debates,” Stack said on why the mayor pulled out of a scheduled debate with the primary election less than a month away.

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Well, aside from every Democrat elected to Congress and every member of the Congressional Black Caucus….

A pertinent 19 minute video is making the rounds today. It might be a commemorative effort to push someone somewhere into arresting this mass murderer before the statute of limitations expires on his pushing COVID protocols that were deliberately deadly, as well as his pushing the COVID vaccines.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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My understanding is that North Korean ballistic missiles might possibly be able to reach the Left Coast, if that.

I fail to see a down side to this development.

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Because, as we all know, refugees wherever found are TOTALLY the responsibility of the U.S. government—and the U.S. taxpayer.

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Think of it as evolution in action.

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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Democrats are scheming to pack a court after justices clearly upheld the law in opposition to their agenda.

No, it isn’t the U.S. Supreme Court, for once. Instead, it’s Virginia’s highest court—and Democrats’ lawless scheme is positively Machiavellian.

When the Virginia Supreme Court rightly struck down Old Dominion Democrats’ constitutional amendment on redistricting, Democrats responded by… scheming to effectively nuke the Virginia Supreme Court.

According to a bombshell report from The New York Times published Sunday, Democrats who represent Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives held a private discussion with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y.