DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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Things are looking up.

“We’re stuck:” GOP accepts Trump’s all-about-me midterms (Marc Caputo/Axios)

Iran Releases Footage Of Drone Swarm Attacks On Several ‘US-Linked’ Ships In Hormuz Strait

Democrats seek to counter RNC’s ‘Trump-a-palooza’ convention in Dallas (Julia Mueller/The Hill)

Trump’s Embrace of AI Data Centers Adds to GOP’s Midterm Peril (Bloomberg)

Hegseth Appears to Mock Canadian Coast Guard over Pride

Biden-Appointed Judge Dismisses DOJ Lawsuit Against New Jersey Law Restricting ICE Operations

In latest win for voters, appeals court rejects bid to revive DHS voter purge database, for now (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)  “Voters” here meaning, of course, “illegal voters”.

Inside AOC’s MAHA outreach (Will Steakin/Politico)

AI, ChatGPT, And Its Anti-Trump Propaganda

Capehart Claims Trump’s Smithsonian Battle Is About Destroying ‘Our Democracy’

The Rush-Job Presidency — Trump wants his ballroom and arch done while he’s in office. There’s a risk. (Janay Kingsberry/The Atlantic)

The U.N. backed a map that shows Africa true to size. The U.S. was sole objector. (Victoria Craw/Washington Post)

As Midterms Approach, Republicans Find There Is No Escape From Trump (New York Times)

Trump is running out of time as he tries to restrict mail voting (Washington Post)

Inside the Battle to Save One Pioneering General From Hegseth’s Purge (New York Times)

CNN edits headline after trying to blame Trump for landslide in Nepal

Why Does Canada’s Capital City of Ottawa Have a Street Named After President Donald Trump?  Not for long.

Donald Trump’s approval rating falls to all-time low in FT poll (Financial Times)  Calvin’s Dad has the same problem in Calvin’s polls. Doubt if he cares any more than Trump does.

RFK Jr.’s Sickening Measles Victory Lap (Jonathan Cohn/The Bulwark)  Anything that sickens a writer for the Bullshitwark has my support.

House Dems plot Trump investigation blitz if they seize majority (Elizabeth Elkind/Fox News)  Of course they do. Plotting is all they’re good for.

Rep. Jamie Raskin says impeachment isn’t a ‘fetish’ for Democrats but ‘a critical tool’ (Megan Brand/NBC News)  Sure looks like a fetish to me.

Pete Hegseth Is a Wrecking Ball (David French/New York Times)  I like him already.

Trump’s War on Mail-In Ballots Has Voters Baffled. That May Be the Point. (New York Times)  It certainly baffles readers of the New York Times, who are (let’s face it) not the sharpest knives in the drawer.

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S&P Dow Jones Indices announced Friday that Nike is being booted from the S&P 100 after nearly two decades, another sign of how America’s most exclusive blue-chip benchmark is being reshaped by the artificial-intelligence spending boom. But that’s not the entire story.

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Being a psychotic murderer appears to be very profitable.

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Remind me what ethnicity is Fat People, that they can be subject to genocide.

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Will they demand the same of the Muslim governments of the Middle East, who transported more black Africans to slavery in the Arab world than crosses the Atlantic.

Of course not.

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Chicago’s archbishop, Cardinal Blase Cupich, joined two orders of Catholic nuns and an Illinois pharmacist in a lawsuit filed Thursday in an effort to block the End-of-Life Options for Terminally Ill Patients Act (EOLOA), the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty stated in a press release. The law, which they say would force the Church to help terminally ill patients kill themselves in violation of its teachings on the dignity of life, was signed by Democratic Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker in December 2025 and is scheduled to go into effect Sept. 12.

Power Line.

Justice Louis Brandeis wrote that “Our Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher.” He was right, for better or worse. Our court system is a part of our government, and trials, especially criminal trials, are also a great teacher. The spectacle of Lindsay Clancy murdering her children and perhaps getting away with it, while being supported by large numbers of sympathetic women, taught unfortunate lessons to many of the millions who followed the story.

The Other McCain.

Carlton Johnson II died Wednesday in a shootout with police at an apartment building in downtown Minneapolis. Johnson killed two people and wounded five others, including two police officers.

The Shoreline Plaza apartment building, formerly known as the Loring Towers, offers “affordable housing,” subsidized by taxpayers. Johnson paid only $105 a month for his apartment, and guess what? He wasn’t even from Minneapolis! He was from Chicago.

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Just like the networks spent months helpfully skipping over the Nazi tattoo on the chest of Maine Democrat Graham Platner, they have largely ignored radical leftist influencer Hasan Piker, who has campaigned with Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed. ABC and NBC haven’t found him, while CBS broke the mold with two stories.

The “PBS NewsHour” hasn’t mentioned Piker, although there was a mention on the PBS show “Washington Week with The Atlantic” on Aug. 14. The show’s host, Atlantic Editor Jeffrey Goldberg, volunteered: “The party has developed something of a Hasan Piker problem. This is a popular hard-left Twitch streamer who has said that America deserved 9/11, that Jews are inbred. He’s praised Mao. He’s praised Houthi terrorists and so on. Democrats are extremely worried about the presence of people like this who are no longer at the margin, who are creating, let’s say, loads of new ads, if nothing else, for Republicans.”

National Public Radio offered more coverage, but none of it dipped to the level of loopy detail that Goldberg did. “America deserved 9/11” never came up, or the Houthis, or praising Chinese communist dictator Mao Zedong as a great leader. On the June 15 “All Things Considered,” Elena Moore, who covers young voters for NPR, tamely described Piker as “a leftist streamer who’s been stumping for progressive candidates. He’s got an audience of millions across social media, but he’s also, Ailsa, divisive because of his strong anti-Israel beliefs.”

Babylon Bee.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

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This woman was riding an e-bike in a town 10 miles outside Philly and cut in front of a classic Volkswagen Beetle.

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A horrific copycat Lindsay Clancy murder of a child has been committed by a woman in Frankfort, Illinois.

Prosecutors say Corie Walsh hanged her 2-year-old son, Barrett, from a basement rafter on Tuesday, then tried to kill herself with a knife. She told police she did it because the boy was the “devil” and the “anti-Christ.”

Witnesses said she had become “very invested” in the Lindsay Clancy trial and was still texting friends about it hours before her son was found.

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Gambians have been in the news lately on both sides of the Atlantic. For some reason the expatriates of that small African country are getting increasingly lively in their attempts to culturally enrich their host countries.

The latest example of a gamboling Gambian comes from the Italian city of Padua, and involves the familiar pastime of shouting “Allahu Akhbar” while brandishing a knife in a public place. The mischievous youth is one of the innumerable “children” who landed in Europe during the Great Migration Crisis, and has availed himself of the benefits conferred by the Italian welfare state ever since, all while helping the police increase the volume of their arrest records.

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On the Lake Ontario battle, HBO host Bill Maher joked: “The liberals are very pissed at this. They say you can’t just go around changing things to fit your political agenda. Just ask any Latinx birthing person.”

As anyone who watches the “evolution” of what terms are acceptable, the Left regularly changes the terminology and expects everyone to follow its changes. Try to keep up with The Associated Press Stylebook, which calls the tune for the press.

G. K.Chesterton:

I HAVE NEVER managed to lose my old conviction that travel narrows the mind. At least a man must make a double effort of moral humility and imaginative energy to prevent it from narrowing his mind. Indeed there is something touching and even tragic about the thought of the thoughtless tourist, who might have stayed at home loving Laplanders, embracing Chinamen, and clasping Patagonians to his heart in Hampstead or Surbiton, but for his blind and suicidal impulse to go and see what they looked like.

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St. Paul politicians pushed rent control, saying rent caps would stop “unfair profiteering.”

But what the heck is “profiteering,” and how is it different from “profit”? Who decides what is “unfair”?

Any phrase with ‘control’ in it—rent control, gun control, price control—is the signature tag of people who want to substitute what they want you to do, using the coercive power of government, for what you want to do.

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Not too long ago I engaged in a discussion with a Muslim individual who asserted our American democracy can be found in some elements of the document commonly known as The Constitution of Medina, or ?a??fat al-Mad?na, which occupies an important place in discussions of early Islamic political history. It is sometimes presented as evidence that Islam developed a form of constitutional democracy centuries before the emergence of modern Western democracy, and particularly before the founding of the United States.

The document is an unusually early example of a written political and legal agreement associated with Muhammad’s community at Yathrib (now Medina) following the hijrah (migration) from Mecca in 622 A.D. It regulates relations among different groups, establishes mutual obligations, addresses collective security, and recognizes the religious identity of Jewish participants. Modern scholars have therefore understandably regarded it as a significant document in the history of Islamic political organization.

Yet acknowledging its historical importance is not the same as identifying it with modern constitutional democracy.

The central problem is anachronism. The Medina Charter can reasonably be described as constitutional in a broad, functional or historical sense. It is much harder to defend the claim that it represents ‘democracy’ in the modern political sense of popular sovereignty, representative government, political equality, separation of powers, and legally protected individual rights.

Theocracy and democracy are clean different things.

New York Post.

The United States military destroyed three Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps crude oil tankers in the Persian Gulf Saturday – after Iran launched ballistic missiles at two US Navy vessels.

Footage shows large tankers blown up in flames, as a thick plume of black smoke rise off the sea.

A US military aircraft crew can be heard over radio warning an oil tanker near Kharg Island, before unleashing a barrage of missiles that lit the vessel in flames.

New York Post.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Remember: Kidney, not carotid—that way you don’t care how sharp the knife is, plus you don’t have to clean up all that mess. Oh, and it reduces the amount of noise the victim makes, as an added bonus.

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The title of this post is a rhetorical question — when push comes to shove, it’s all but certain that the Hosts of Mohammed will clean the clocks of the Pink Legions. The same is true of the militant feminists. But those two struggles are relatively minor fronts in the culture wars, since both groups act as cannon fodder for the Marxist-Globalist forces that aim to impose a borderless New World Order on all of us. Even if the gays and the feminists are still blithely unaware of what Islam intends for them, I’m sure the theater commanders of the NWO have factored it into their planning.

A couple of minor skirmishes in that war took place recently in two very different places, Tucson and Paris.

New York Post.

Funny how all these New York City socialists are rich white nepo kids.

You’ve heard of Red Diaper Babies? I guess we can call these Green Diaper Babies.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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Sure, I believe that.

The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) rejected Jebreal’s defense.

“To be clear, there isn’t a non-racist way to call Leader Jeffries—a Black man—a ‘monkey’ or ‘errand boy,’” the group posted on X.

Oh,  say it ain’t so….

One of the most amusing aspects of modern race-hustling culture is the historical fact that Arab and other Muslim slave-traders exported more ‘black ivory’ to the Muslim world than ever made it across the Atlantic. So African-Americans taking Muslim names makes about as much sense as Jews naming themselves Adolf or Heinrich.

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Across the Muslim world, millions of girls are still married before they reach adulthood. This is not merely a cultural issue. It does not happen simply because of traditions. This violent, misogynistic practice is rooted in religion, reinforced by law, and defended as obedience to God and the example of Mohammad. While activists risk imprisonment, persecution, and even death to challenge these laws. , countless girls continue to lose their childhoods, their education, their health, and often their lives.

Alejandro Betancourt, Trump’s Partner in Venezuelan Oil Deal, Has Faced Investigations (New York Times)  Just like a Democrat!

Feds bust LGBT podcaster, former Christian reality TV star for alleged threats to kill Trump (Peter D’Abrosca/Fox News)

Feds bust podcaster Azariah Southworth in Los Angeles for allegedly threatening to kill Donald Trump (Ben Chapman/New York Post)

Judge Weighs Extending Block on Trump Mail Voting Rules  Indira Tawani—can’t get more American that that….

Vance Defends Friendship With Trump Critic Tucker Carlson (Natalie Andrews/Wall Street Journal)  They’re always SO SURPRISED that everybody isn’t as totalitarianly political as the Wokerati.

Elon Musk’s Midterms Play: Ken Paxton, Susan Collins, Socialist Scaremongering (Bess Levin/New York Magazine)  Hey, socialists provide a lot of scares to monger.

Trump Is Keeping Venezuela’s Dictatorship in Business (Will Saletan/The Bulwark)  Will Saletan loses his shit.

Diesel prices hit all-time high as Trump administration brandishes energy policies (Politico) Rich, coming from the people who want to jack up gas prices with taxes to discourage the use of ‘fossil fuels’. They ought to make up their minds.

Judge Suggests Trump Mail-In Voting Rules Could Cause ‘Major Disenfranchisement’ (Zach Montague/New York Times)  Sorry, but the correct term is ‘disfranchisement’. Learn some English, Indira.

Inside Trump’s Nightmare for Haitians in Springfield: ‘We’re Following Our Orders’ (Asawin Suebsaeng/Zeteo)  I guess only Haitians have nightmares.

ChatGPT Says Trump Is Greatest Threat to Democracy Since Hitler  I guess it’s a Democrat.

Donald Trump is acting like he *wants* to lose the midterms (Strength In Numbers)  The Left never lacks for mind-readers who always have a back-seat from which to criticize the driver.

Newsbusters.

During Wednesday’s OutFront, CNN host Erin Burnett was irked that the Trump administration had agents with the Department of Homeland Security examining voter rolls and removing noncitizens. While framing it as President Trump willing letting Americans be exposed to terrorism and sex trafficking, Burnett brought on Democratic New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill, who recently announced her state had registered thousands of noncitizens, to downplay the problem and claim Trump was trying to steal the midterms.

Leading into the segment, Burnett tried to claim there was no reason for the investigation at all and that the investigators were the ones who couldn’t be trusted.

“The agents are scouring voter rolls for non-citizens, despite a lack of evidence of any major fraud or any widespread fraud at all,” she proclaimed, despite the fact she was about to bring on a governor who admitted over 6,000 noncitizens were registered to vote in her state, with hundreds casting ballots.

“Documents also show agents are using personal information about voters, including partial Social Security Numbers, in their search,” Burnett said, trying to fear monger that the investigators were mishandling their sensitive personal information.

Of course, she omitted that fact that the Social Security Numbers the investigators were using were the ones the noncitizens illegally acquired in order to illegally register to vote.

Newsbusters.

Following the news of the death of feminist Gloria Steinem, MS NOW pulled out the big guests for Thursday’s State of Play as former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Vice President Kamala Harris joined for remembrance in live interviews. However, host Peter Alexander’s questions later turned to referendums on the current Trump presidency, especially in his interview with Pelosi.

After Pelosi showed her thankfulness for her relationship with Steinem, Alexander noted how there was a record number of women in Congress. But then, Alexander started to frame Steinem and Pelosi as fighters against Republicans.

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Austria’s government is beginning work on a proposal to constitutionally ban “political Islam,” following Chancellor Christian Stocker’s call for legislation targeting the ideology that he says is incompatible with democracy and Western values.

Integration and Europe Minister Claudia Bauer is expected to draw up a proposal for Austria’s coalition partners, the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) and NEOS. Bauer wrote on X “Political Islam is directed against our free way of life, against the freedom of girls & women, and against all religions that coexist in Austria in a completely natural and peaceful manner.”

I do not want our children and grandchildren to grow up in an Islamic state,

A bit late to be worrying about that. The time to worry was fifty years ago.

The chancellor continued: “But where believers and non-believers are treated differently, where men and women do not have equal rights, and where our institutions, authorities, and courts are not respected, that freedom ends.”

He has also warned that religious figures must not be allowed to exercise authority over Austria’s democratic institutions. “It cannot be allowed to happen in this country that a preacher dictates things rather than Parliament,” Stocker said.

Stocker also pointed to the religious composition of Vienna’s schools, claiming that pupils with an Islamic religious affiliation now constitute a relative majority in the city’s primary and middle schools. He cited a figure of 41.2%.

Gee, there’s an echo in here….

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Karyann Parkinson let her 5-year-old son, Sam, walk half a mile to collect goose feathers near their neighborhood pond. Last week, a Virginia judge convicted her of a crime for it, and her family is now appealing.

Sam had made that walk safely six times already that morning, down a sidewalk buffered from the street by 10 feet of grass, through a gated community with round-the-clock security guards and a 25-mph speed limit.

A passerby spotted him and called it in. A guard marched the boy home and told him bad people would have taken him. Then came three patrol cars, a security vehicle, and two Child Protective Services caseworkers. CPS logged a “Level 2” finding against Parkinson for inadequate supervision, the trigger for a registry placement, while prosecutors separately pursued her in criminal court. She now carries a Class 1 misdemeanor conviction for contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a suspended six-month jail sentence, and a spot on Virginia’s child abuse and neglect registry, where she’ll stay for seven years.

I spent eight years in private security and executive protection before I earned my securities licenses and built a career assessing risk for a living, first for people’s bodies, then for their money. A 5-year-old walking a supervised sidewalk in a gated community with paid guards on every corner isn’t a crisis. It’s a Tuesday.

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Dana Loesch lays it out.

“Attention-whore communist” pretty much sums it up.

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Like the history of so many wars, the history of the Boer War has been written by the losers, assisted also by those hostile to the British empire in general. There is an alternative version and interpretation as set out here by Alistair Parker.

The Second Anglo-Boer War is amongst the most debated events in British history. The contested aspects include the ‘scorched-earth’ strategy, the British concentration camps, the numbers involved and the motivations behind the war. Yet the most striking feature of many narratives is how they are cast through the prism of our contemporary ethics, economics and politics. Prompted by pre-conceived conclusions on globalisation, imperialism, and racism, and energised by the selective search for evidence that fits, these narratives often fail to ‘add up the numbers’, assess the overall context, or judge human agency by the actual constraints of the time.

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I used to play this clip and then ask the audience a simple question: Look at everything Sal Khan does to learn something. He reads widely. He scaffolds. He draws. He questions. He calls friends. He argues. He makes connections across fields. He builds intuitive understanding from the ground up. And then he builds something to capture all that he had learned to share with others.

Now… how does Sal Khan want my kid to learn?

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The room always got it immediately.

Because nobody in that room would accept that for themselves. We all know, intuitively, that watching someone else explain something is not the same as understanding it. We would never settle for that as learners. And yet, somehow, we accept it as a solution for other people’s children. This is a version of a phenomenon that I have written about earlier: The reductive seduction of other people’s problems.

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Who wants to tell them?

Newsbusters.

On Thursday’s CNN This Morning, at the end of a segment pondering whether President Trump might throw Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth under the bus, host Audie Cornish took things in a very different direction, whining about how, “He very much has completely made good on his promises to focus on culture war issues in the military.” She also falsely claimed military promotions were now reserved for whites only.

As a Black American, she will TELL ANY LIE that advances her agenda.

JD Vance Says He’s OK With Bringing About the End Times (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic) So would I, if it meant the elimination of The New Republic.

Trump Says He’s ‘Happy’ Prince Harry, Meghan Markle Leaving US (Kate Sullivan/Bloomberg)  As are all right-thinking people.

Judge Blocks Newest Trump Order Limiting Birthright Citizenship

Judge blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship order aimed at ‘birth tourism’ (Josh Gerstein/Politico)

Trump’s first midterm ads are heavy on ‘me’ (Aaron Blake/CNN)

How freaked out should you be about Trump’s plot to disrupt mail voting? (Zack Beauchamp/Vox)

Maggie Haberman Reveals GOP Midterms Convention ‘Error’ That Trump’s Team Somehow Overlooked (Lee Moran/HuffPost)

The MAGA Right Is Only Pretending to Be Censored (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)  Anne Applebaum loses her shit.

Federal judges say they’re facing intensified threats since start of Trump’s second term (Jalen Beckford/Politico)  Tell the Left. They’re the ones with violence in their playbook.

Trump’s DOJ Blocked Serious ICE Shooting Charge Over Federal Prosecutor’s “Strongest Possible” Objections (ProPublica)

MS NOW’s Alexander Blames Trump’s ICE for Haitian Immigrant’s Suicide

OMISSION: Nets Hide Guilty Plea of Man who Vandalized JD Vance’s Home

Trump Returns to a Familiar Playbook as the War With Iran Flares Up Again (Erica L. Green/New York Times)

The Trump administration is taking stakes in more companies — and progressives are taking notes (Joseph J. Schatz/Politico)

Republicans fear Trump will keep super PAC money and not spend on the midterms (Washington Post)

MAGA begins to crack as 2026 GOP roster backs away from Trump’s tech vision (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)

How Trump tanked Canadian conservatives (Tom Schaller/Public Notice)

Trump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students (New York Times)  ‘Aid minority students’ being a code-work for ‘illegal racial preferences’.

Trump Sticks With a Losing Midterm Plan (Karl Rove/Wall Street Journal)  Well, we’ll find out.

A Casualty of a Cruel Immigration Policy (Naomi Bethune/American Prospect)  Jerk those tears! Jerk those tears! Women almost always react with emotion rather that thought, and female ‘journalist’ are the worst of the lot.

America’s War on Drug Smugglers at Sea Is Unlawful–and It Is Failing (Just Security)  So sue. Everybody else is.

IRS unveils plan to cancel universities’ tax-exempt status (Brian Faler/Politico)  Because of racism; of course he forgot to explain that part.

Welch Claims She Loves Vance Kids More Than He Does, GOP Doesn’t ‘Give a S***’ About Vets  Hey, you can make up any shit you want.

Gay LA activist arrested for threatening to kill Trump, doxxing Trump’s attorney

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France has launched an advertising campaign to combat the surge in female genital mutilation, as statistics show that 1 in 10 girls living in districts with large Muslim communities are being coerced into this cruel practice.

The three-monthslong campaign, which coincides with the school holiday season when parents are most likely to take their daughters abroad for the procedure, will conclude on Sept. 2.

Hoardings on bus shelters are warning parents: “Female genital mutilation should never be part of the journey.” The advertisement features an image of a young girl whose genitals have been mutilated.

The charity “Excision, parlons-en!” (Let’s Talk About Female Genital Mutilation!) is offering an awareness kit as it partners with the French government. According to statistics provided by the nongovernmental organization, 180,000 girls risk being “cut” each year in Europe.

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The Trump administration plans to end tax-exempt status for private schools that engage in any type of race-based discrimination or race-based admissions.

The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service will issue the proposed regulation Thursday to restore merit.

“Under President Trump, this Administration is standing up for America’s students by ensuring racial discrimination has no place in American education,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told the Daily Caller. “Schools rebranding race-based preferences as equitable, inclusive, or diversity-enhancing does not change their discriminatory nature.”

Bessent added the proposed regulations “establish a clear standard, and the institutions that continue to use discriminatory practices will no longer receive the benefits of federal tax-exempt status.”

The proposed regulation will “put institutions on notice,” said IRS Chief Executive Officer Frank J. Bisignano.

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The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division brought a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against a Kansas school district, applying decades-old laws to combat a new problem: gender secrecy policies allowing school staff to hide a student’s claimed gender identity from parents or legal guardians.

“Parental rights are paramount in the operation of America’s public schools, and Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools does not know children better than their own parents,” Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general in charge of the division, said in a statement on the lawsuit Tuesday.

“The Department will not tolerate school districts playing fast and loose with federal law in the service of radical gender ideology,” Dhillon added.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday, accuses the school district in Kansas City, Kansas, of violating the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (1974) and the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (1978). These laws protect parental access to student records and require parental consent before students participate in federally-funded surveys on sensitive personal topics.

The school district adopted a Transgender Guideline in 2024 stating: “If any staff member learns a student is transgender or gender non-conforming, that information should be relayed to the school principal without delay. The school principal should discuss available accommodations and resources with the student or the student’s parent or legal guardian, including the availability of a planning meeting.”

Yet, “if it becomes known that the student does not want the student’s parent or legal guardian included at this stage, that request will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.” The policy states that requests “will be evaluated by the executive director of student services & family support, director of student support programs, executive director of equity & inclusion, and the district’s attorney.”

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I could get behind a requirement that all liberal women wear bags over their heads.

Imagine all the quiet….

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Of course she does.

A federal judge in Maryland halted President Donald Trump’s newest executive action to restrict birthright citizenship.

U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman issued a temporary injunction late Wednesday, writing, “The 2026 Executive Order is almost certainly unconstitutional … for the simple reason that the Supreme Court in Barbara already decided that the children in the class are citizens at birth.”

Boardman, an appointee of President Joe Biden, also asserted, “The Supreme Court has spoken: Children in the certified class are ‘citizens at birth.’”

Well, we’ll just see about that….

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As they do for everything that happens that they don’t like.

The Atlantic staff writer Annie Lowrey joined PBS’s Amanpour and Company on Tuesday to allege that the reason why the United States does not have “universal, simple benefit systems” like universal basic income or single-payer health care is because of the legacy of Jim Crow.

Jim Crow had a legacy? Boy, I’d like to read that Will….

Lowrey was to promote her book, The Time Tax: How the Government Wastes Our Time and How to Fix, which naturally argues that it costs too much time and money in order to receive benefits in this country due to excessive bureaucracy. While attacking unnecessary bureaucracy may sound nice, Lowrey’s attempt to identify a source was way off track, “Part of the reason that we do not have universal, simple benefit systems in this country, like some of our peer countries have, is because we were creating those programs often during Jim Crow. And we wanted to have ways to get benefits to some people, but not others.”

Yeah, the difference is between ‘people who deserve help’ and ‘lazy feckless parasites’. This distinction is not one that proglodytes make. (Of course, these are the people who think that government is the perfect vehicle for telling everybody how to run their lives. Ironic.)

ScienceDaily.

Two widely used zero-calorie sweeteners, sucralose and stevia, may have effects that linger far longer than the sweet taste itself. In mice, researchers found that both sweeteners altered the gut microbiome, reduced beneficial compounds produced by gut bacteria, and changed the activity of genes involved in metabolism and inflammation. Some of those changes were also detected in later generations that had never consumed the sweeteners themselves.

Sugar. It’s not just for breakfast any more.

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AI sometimes comes up with useful stuff.

1. You’re living with too many strangers.
2. Your attention is actually working.
3. You’re forced to live in the wrong time zone.
4. You were made to squat and kneel, not sit.
5. Modern work is anti-social by design.
6. Your eyes are reshaping to fit indoors.
7. You feel too much in a world that wants you to feel less.