DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

Read it.

The trial in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas follows President Donald Trump’s executive order on Sept. 22, 2025, designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization.

The Fort Worth trial completed its second week in what is expected to be a three-week trial.

?Members of Antifa, short for “anti-fascist,” have not faced terrorism-related charges until now, although they have been involved in organized protests across the country that have at times turned violent.

In the landmark case, the government alleges that an Antifa cell launched a coordinated attack against the Prairieland Detention Center housing illegal immigrants outside Dallas on July 4, 2025.

The prosecution claims Benjamin Song ambushed law enforcement at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility outside Dallas, firing 11 shots at police and detention officers, wounding one officer in the neck.

Read it.

A 2024 Newsweek report analyzing this map found that these 8 places would be the most affected by radiation exposure risk, and are therefore the most dangerous states to live in, which were:
Montana
Wyoming
Colorado
Nebraska
South Dakota
North Dakota
Iowa
Minnesota

Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

Gizmoco.

In 1962, researchers hypothesized that diamond’s known form—a mostly cubic crystal—wasn’t the coveted mineral at its greatest hardness. Ever since, researchers have strived to recreate a hexagonal diamond, claimed to be roughly 50% harder than a regular diamond. But a new finding by Chinese researchers may finally bring this race to an end.

A Nature paper published yesterday describes the synthesis of a “millimeter-sized, phase-pure hexagonal diamond,” made with a highly specific method of compressing graphite at elevated temperatures. The resulting diamond, roughly 0.04 inches (1 millimeter) in size, was slightly harder, stiffer, and more resistant to oxidation compared to cubic diamonds.

What’s more, the team scrutinized their product with X-rays and atomic-scale microscopes, confirming that the crystal’s structure was hexagonal with minimum defects. Overall, this result may provide the strongest evidence thus far that hexagonal diamonds can exist, the team says.

Lucky us.

ScienceAlert.

Say hello to ionocaloric cooling. It’s a new way to lower temperatures, with the potential to replace existing chilling methods with a safer, better-for-the-planet process.

Typical refrigeration systems transport heat away from a space via a fluid that absorbs heat as it evaporates into a gas, which is then transported through a closed tube and condensed back into a liquid.

As effective as this process is, some of the choice materials we use as refrigerants are particularly unfriendly to the environment.

There is, however, more than one way a substance can be forced to absorb and shed heat energy.

A method unveiled in 2023, developed by researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley, takes advantage of how energy is stored or released when a material changes phase, as when solid ice turns to liquid water, for example.

Read it.

Have you ever wondered if bed bugs are afraid of anything? These tiny blood-sucking insects cause stress in homes around the world. Once bed bugs enter a room, getting rid of them can feel almost impossible.

But new research from the University of California Riverside has revealed something surprising. Bed bugs fear water.

A recent study shows that moisture and wet surfaces make bed bugs quickly turn away. This discovery could help scientists and pest control companies better understand how to deal with infestations.

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

The Economist.

eaverton is home to a thriving colony of the furry, wood-chewing creatures. The mayor, however, doesn’t give a dam: he decides their forest habitat should be dislodged to make room for a freeway. Mabel, a teenage environmental activist, is outraged by these plans but faces apathy from the locals. After she discovers an experimental science project—one that allows her to “hop” her consciousness from her body into that of a robotic beaver—she befriends the animals and galvanises them to fight tooth and claw.

This is the zany premise of “Hoppers”, a new film (pictured), which is released on March 6th. It is one of a string of highly anticipated animated movies coming soon to cinemas: indeed, an unlikely coalition of beasts, toys and Italian plumbers may make 2026 the genre’s best-ever year. This summer there will be new instalments in the lucrative “Despicable Me” and “Paw Patrol” franchises, not to mention “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” and “Toy Story 5” (both of which are expected to exceed $1bn in ticket sales). “goat”, which imagines what would happen if various hoofed animals were allowed to play professional sport, has made $130m since its release in February, making it the second-highest-grossing film of the year so far.

Animated films are typically aimed at small children, but they are mighty popular with audiences of all ages. In 1995 animated films made up just 2.8% of the film market in America and Canada; in 2024 they accounted for 23.9% (see chart). That year “Inside Out 2” became the highest-grossing animated film of all time, taking $1.7bn at the global box office. In early 2025 it was eclipsed by “Ne Zha 2”, a Chinese animated fantasy which has now earned over $2bn. (Only six other films have surpassed the $2bn mark.) “Ne Zha 2” may soon be beaten by “Zootopia 2”, released in November, which has made $1.9bn. How did animation become such a draw?

Read it.

Short answer: because math. Longer answer: because prime numbers don’t divide into each other evenly.

I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

Daily Record (UK).

One woman believes she holds the answer to cracking the biggest aviation enigma of recent times.

Katherine Tee, a British sailor, claims she witnessed part of the missing Malaysia Airlines aircraft on fire when it went down 12 years ago.

On March 8 2014, 227 passengers and 12 crew members disappeared after boarding the Boeing 777-200ER in Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing, China. Just 40 minutes into the journey, the plane vanished from radar tracking, never to be spotted again.

Tee is convinced the “bright orange” glow and the “trail of black smoke” she observed over the Indian Ocean was the Boeing aircraft engulfed in flames.

The Antiplanner.

San Francisco remains one the least affordable urban areas in the country, yet after adjusting for inflation its home prices are dropping, according to data released on February 25 by the Federal Housing Finance Agency. It will be a long time before San Francisco Bay Area homes are affordable again, but in the meantime homeowners and homebuyers can’t count on their homes as a stable source of wealth.

That’s because San Francisco is essentially an expensive Turd World shithole.

Read it.

Thank God the two Muslims arrested were not the sharpest tools in the shed.   The devices were filled with home-brew TATP – the explosive of choice of Islamic terrorists worldwide.   They didn’t get the formula right and the devices failed to go off.   But it wasn’t for lack of trying.   They were targeting a protest outside Gracie Mansion whose aim was to raise awareness about the Islamification of NYC.   The Muslim call to prayer is now broadcast in the city.   The two wanna-be terrorists threw the devices at the anti-Islam protesters while someone shouted “Allah Akbar”.  They later told police they targeted the protest because “they insulted our religion.”   Thats the religion of peace for you.

Interestingly, Mayor Mamdani’s statement implies that the anti-Islam protesters were the problem and threw the devices …

Yesterday, white supremacist Jake Lang organized a protest outside Gracie Mansion rooted in bigotry and racism. Such hate has no place in New York City. It is an affront to our city’s values and the unity that defines who we are.

What followed was even more disturbing. Violence at a protest is never acceptable. The attempt to use an explosive device and hurt others is not only criminal, it is reprehensible and the antithesis of who we are.

I want to thank the brave men and women of the NYPD who acted quickly to keep New Yorkers safe. Our officers ran toward danger without hesitation, demonstrating once again the courage and dedication it takes to protect this city every single day.

My administration is closely monitoring the situation and I remain in close contact with our Police Commissioner.

Talk about fake news.   The local news followed suit, breathlessly reporting that the Mayor and his wife are safe … as if they were in danger.

UPDATE: Mamdani Condemns New Yorkers For Making Muslims Throw Bombs At Them (Babylon Bee)

Read it.

Mexican cartels are increasingly avoiding direct attacks on Americans in Mexico as President Donald Trump threatens military action against traffickers and pushes a tougher regional crackdown that U.S. officials say is meant to raise the cost of cartel violence.

Cartels have long sought to protect business interests and limit actions that could trigger a major government backlash.

Some analysts believe that calculus includes avoiding the deliberate targeting of American tourists and citizens in Mexico, Fox News reported.

That broader pressure campaign is being articulated openly by the administration and its allies.

The question you need to ask yourself is, “Am I feeling lucky?”.

Al Jezeera, a Voice of the Turd World.

I refuse to accept that someone named “Hussam Ayloush”, whose day job is “CEO of CAIR California”, has any right to pretend to speak for “the American people”.

The Telegraph (UK).

A British aircraft carrier may need to be escorted by a French warship if it is deployed to the Middle East.

HMS Prince of Wales has been placed on advanced readiness, with the crew told it must be ready to sail with five days’ notice.

However, with most of the Royal Navy’s major warships unavailable or undergoing maintenance, protection would probably need to be provided by allies such as France, the US and other European countries.

…

The Royal Navy has six destroyers, but only HMS Dragon is known to be ready for action and is due to sail to the eastern Mediterranean very soon to protect the British sovereign base areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia in Cyprus.
Of the fleet’s seven frigates, only HMS Somerset and HMS St Albans are understood to be available. The rest are undergoing maintenance or struggling with defects.

Britain has turned into a Turd World country, both in its population and in its capabilities.

Read it.

Sir Keir Starmer has been sent a letter by Labour MPs calling on the UK to pay reparations to Palestine for “war crimes” they allege British forces committed.

The 18 backbenchers and one Labour peer demand that an apology be made for Britain’s decision to withdraw from Palestine, which led to the creation of Israel.

It is part of a campaign by Britain Owes Palestine, the organisation that submitted a 400-page legal petition to the government in September, in which it claimed there was “incontrovertible evidence” that the UK breached international law when it controlled Palestine under the British Mandate.

No mention of Palestinian reparations for their ‘war crimes’, of course.

The Times (UK).

MPs are demanding the Foreign Office postpone the King’s state visit to America because of President Trump’s “disrespectful” attacks on the UK.

Wouldn’t want him to catch Trump Cooties.

Labour backbenchers have said they believe ministers should send a message to the United States that “words matter” when it comes to the special relationship.

What special relationship? Britain hasn’t acted as if it had a ‘special relationship’ with the U.S. for decades.

Watch it.

This is why we can’t have nice things.

Read it.

Rupert Lowe is fond of reminding everyone that his favourite historical figure is Oliver Cromwell. One can see the resemblance: a farmer, faithfully married for four decades, who sets down his plough to reluctantly take up an office of state in the years preceding imminent civil unrest. Lowe collects commemorative coins and books about Cromwell. A portrait of the Lord Protector hangs in his office. He named his faithful farm dog after him. While I’m more a Guy Fawkes man myself, it is obvious that Lowe is the Old Noll that Britain needs.

Fortunately, Lowe’s new political party, Restore Britain, isn’t planning on bringing back blasphemy laws or banning music, maypole dancing, and Christmas. (Though Britain’s growing number of Muslim candidates might.) After he announced his plan to stand candidates at the next election on Friday the 13th, Rupert’s former home turned rivals, Reform UK, simultaneously said he would split the vote and that nobody has heard of him. But even John Cleese can see this isn’t a squabble between Judean People’s Fronts. Restore Britain is not a heretical sect, formed from splitting hair-shirts over apostolic succession. As Nigel Farage revealed during his shadow cabinet announcement, Lowe was expelled from Reform because he called for deportations of Pakistani Muslim rape gang collaborators. The “bullying” investigation, police raid of his farmhouse, and confiscation of Lowe’s shotguns were all, in Farage’s eyes, a “brutal” but necessary way of “getting rid of him.”

If such tactics are permissible to prevent people who conspired to cover up the gang rape of children being banished back to Pakistan, then we shouldn’t be shocked that Reform’s surrogates spent the week following Lowe’s announcement comparing Restore supporters to the Nazis. What prompted such insults? Restore’s campaigns director, Charlie Downes’ definition of Britishness, being based on “ancestry” and Christian faith. Downes was guilty of stating what was obvious to everybody until the Cool Britannia messianism of Tony Blair reduced our history and heritage to a liberal pluralist Scout’s pledge of “British Values”.

Read it.

Don’t call them ‘conspiracy theories’; instead, call them ‘spoiler alerts’.

ATQUE: Inmate Account Revives Epstein Death Questions

ATQUE: The Epstein Files Have Become Another #MeToo

Read it.

Is there? I have never heard anybody argue in favor of this time change, althugh everybody parrots the line about there being divided opinions on the subject. The only disputes I have heard are whether we ought to stick to standard time all year around or daylight-saving time all year around. I HAVE NEVER HEARD ANYONE ARGUE IN FAVOR OF CHANGING THE TIME.

Call me a ‘conspiracy theorist’ if you will; I’ve been called worse.

ATQUE: 64% of Americans want to stop changing the clocks (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)

Read it.

The BBC has been caught yet again manipulating comments from the Trump administration to radically alter their meaning.

During a March 2 press conference about the war in Iran, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said that the United States is bringing death to the same regime that chanted “death to America.”

BBC Persia, however, substituted the word ‘people’ for ‘regime’ – fundamentally changing Hegseth’s meaning to sound like America was targeting all Iranians vs. the regime.

No doubt the BBC considers the two words synonymous.

Read it.

A leaked draft of the UK Government’s new ‘social cohesion’ strategy has sparked outrage by labeling the flying of English, Scottish, and Union Jack flags as potential “tools of hate.”

You can fly a foreign flat—Gay Pride, Palestinian, Pakistani, whatever—without disturbance. It’s only your own country’s flag that apparently is a ‘tool of hate’.

This is the future that the Democrats have in mind for the U.S. They are watching what happens in Britain with notebooks open and pencils ready.

Read it.

New York counterterror police said they were investigating on Saturday after a man threw “ignited devices” near far-right protesters demonstrating outside the mayor’s home.

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the devices contained nuts, bolts and screws as well as a fuse — but it was not yet clear if they were functional improvised explosive devices, or hoax imitations.

The FBI New York said in an X post that its Joint Terrorism Task Force was “actively investigating”, along with New York City Police.

Note that ‘far-right protesters’ don’t do this at BLM, AntiFa, or pro-Palestinian demonstrations.

You’d almost get the impression that all of the terrorist violence were coming from the Left….

ATQUE: Two Radicals Arrested After Targeting Anti-Islam NYC Protest With Shrapnel-Packed Devices

Newsbusters.

Emily Goodin at the New York Post reported that Jesse Jackson’s raucous funeral on Friday with three former Democrat presidents included a pile of attacks on President Trump. One would think the networks would love that — but on the Friday night newscasts, the broadcast networks skipped over the anti-Trump zingers, keeping it as positive and nebulous as possible.

For gossips, let’s note that Michelle Obama skipped this event again. Hillary Clinton was there. Jill Biden was there. Kamala Harris was there. Michelle skipped a black funeral in her own home town. None of these networks mentioned her, either.

ABC’s World News Tonight spent two minutes on the funeral with lots of upbeat music, and small upbeat quotes from Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris. Pierre Thomas gushed: “They came today 10,000 strong to help keep hope alive — not for a funeral, but a black church-style homegoing service. To celebrate the life and legacy of Jesse Jackson, civil rights legend and major American political figure….Jackson, that clarion voice for justice, will never be silenced.”

Jesse Jackson was the second-worst race-hustler and grifter to come out of the civil-rights disturbances of the 1960s (Al Sharpton takes the prize there). It came as no surprise to those who were paying attention that his son, Jesse Jackson Jr., was elected to Congress as a Democrat and eventually wound up in prison. He was a master of the race-shakedown, threatening big business with racial disturbances and racial lawfare unless he and his henchmen were paid off.

He will not be missed, except possibly with a sigh of relief.

Read it.

Sigh. It’s all so exhausting. Not all of New York’s wealthiest residents are sounding alarms over Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan to raise taxes on high earners. In fact, a small group of millionaires says the backlash is a bit over the top, according to Bloomberg.

Members of the Patriotic Millionaires — including filmmaker Abigail Disney, granddaughter of Roy O. Disney of The Walt Disney Company — argue the rich can easily afford to contribute more if it helps fund things like schools, transit and child care.

“I’ve gotten tax cut after tax cut after tax cut. And I never needed any of them,” Disney said, backing Mamdani’s proposed 2-percentage-point income-tax surcharge on millionaires. “All these things have fallen out from under the middle class — an education system that works, public transportation, infrastructure, health care.”

First of all, being a millionaire doesn’t mean that you know your ass from a hole in the ground—especially when, like Abigail Disney, you inherited your money and decided to dabble in artsy-fartsy occupations like ‘film-maker’. The number of billionaire Democrats demonstrates rather conclusively that Intelligence and Wisdom are ‘two different rolls’, as my brother the Dungeon Master used to say. (Bill Gates is the poster child for the notion that being clever and a fool is not impossible.)

Secondly, these people, when they argue that they’re happy to pay taxes, are doing a statist shuck-and-jive: After all, if they wanted to ‘pay more taxes’, all they have to do is write a check; I don’t know of a single layer of government that would turn it down. No—they want other people to pay more taxes, taxes that millionaires can usually afford and others maybe not so much. They just want to do the Socialist Two-Step of Spending Other People’s Money.

Thirdly, they are dyed-in-the-wool Democrats: The things that they say have ‘fallen out from under the middle class’ are all government services: ‘an education system that works’ (public, that is)’, ‘public transportation (which goes from where you aren’t to where you don’t want to be), ‘infrastructure’ (public roads, sewers, water, and electricity), ‘health care’ (paid for by the government, for preference). All of these are things that people within my lifetime used to pay for themselves, and could again if taxes weren’t so high. What these Bernies want, is for all of your money to be taxed away, and then returned to you via government subsidies—under their control, and the control of political hacks like themselves. This is the Democrat program, and has been since Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty (which, despite trillions of dollars spent, doesn’t seem to have reduced poverty by a bit).

The next time you hear a ‘millionaire’ bloviate about how they would be glad to pay more taxes, just mosey on up and ask, ‘Well, why don’t you write a check, rather than trying to increase MY taxes along with yours?’ Watch them scuttle like roaches for the cracks and crevices, leaving a spoor of word-salad behind them.

The Times (UK).

It is frequently said that President Trump is a transactional politician. Yet Sir Keir Starmer is the prime minister who has readily set aside his own politics to pursue what he deems the long-term reward in having close, if improbable, ties with his American counterpart.

He illustrated the prize in the most performative terms available to him last May, when, shortly after brokering a deal to cut tariffs with the United States, he headed to Jaguar Land Rover’s factory in Solihull to meet workers. Standing before a gleaming red vehicle on the factory floor, Starmer proudly declared: “We are the first country to secure such a deal with the United States. In an era of global insecurity and instability, that is so important.”

To those on the left and right who had doubted his courtship with Trump, culminating in a hand-delivered invitation from the King for a second state visit, there came the rejoinder. Cars. Jobs. Exports.

The question after Trump’s latest intervention — in which he condemned Starmer for initially failing to support his intervention in Iran, saying: “We don’t need people that join Wars after we’ve already won!” — is whether the old calculations any longer apply.

To quote a wise old Gunnery Sergeant: “If your friend pulls a gun on you, he is no longer your friend—he’s a threat, and must be dealt with accordingly.”

The Times (UK).

An architect of Iran’s assassination plots in Britain and elsewhere in the West has been killed in the bombardment of Tehran.

Yahya Hosseini Panjaki, an intelligence chief involved in co-ordinating overseas attacks, died in the first wave of Israeli airstrikes that also killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

MI5 has tracked nearly 50 Tehran-backed plots in the UK. On Friday armed counterterrorism officers arrested four men on suspicion of helping Iran’s intelligence services to spy on the Jewish community in London. Their arrests may have been expedited amid concerns that the US and Israeli military action against Iran could prompt supporters of the regime overseas to launch retaliatory attacks.

“Today I settle all family business.” — Michael Corleone

ATQUE: How long will we let Israel and the US fight our battles for us? (The Telegraph [UK])

The War Zone.

As expected, Iran has repeatedly targeted prized missile defense radars across the Middle East in retaliation for the joint U.S.-Israeli air campaign that is ongoing. Iran’s attacks on high-value radars that enable the region’s missile defense capabilities appear to have succeeded on multiple occasions. The irony that lower-end long-range kamikaze drones are perhaps the biggest threat to extremely advanced radars capable of providing telemetry for intercepting targets traveling at hypersonic speeds, sometimes in space, is glaring. The losses of the radars and/or damage to their facilities should finally serve as a stark wake-up call regarding the vulnerability of these critical but largely static assets.

Based on the information at hand, it appears that Iran has been able to destroy one U.S. AN/TPY-2 radar in Jordan and damage the massive American-made AN/FPS-132 phased array radar in Qatar, prompting immediate concerns about available radar coverage to help respond to further barrages. There are strong indications that a number of other similar systems have been destroyed or damaged, as well.

The advent of phased-array radars has been a gane-changer in naval and coastal defense combat information networks.

Watch it.

A Christian Arab named Raymond Ibrahim, who has forgotten more about Islam than you or I will ever know, explains just how bad the threat is.

Watch it.

Everything you want to know about the oil business.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

For more than a century, U.S. military chaplains have worn insignia identifying their faith — a cross for Christians and tablets with a Star of David for Jews. Now Jewish chaplaincy groups are asking the Pentagon to intervene after chaplains from Messianic Judaism, a Christian movement that blends Jewish practices with belief in Jesus, began wearing the Jewish symbol.

The effort is being led by the Aleph Institute, a Chabad-affiliated organization that endorses Jewish chaplains for the U.S. military.

Aleph asked the military to investigate the Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations, which endorses Messianic chaplains, and to revoke its endorsement authority if it continues allowing clergy to wear Jewish insignia traditionally reserved for Jewish chaplains.

“It is clear that [the Union of Messianic Jewish Congregation] is acting in a manner incompatible with the interfaith cooperation and respect that has defined 150 years of U.S. military chaplaincy,” Aleph wrote in a letter to the Armed Forces Chaplains Board.

In a view shared by many Jews, Aleph suspects that the Messianic movement is a facade — a deceitful tactic aimed at proselytization.

Read it.

America doesn’t have a crime problem; it has a repeat offender problem. High crime in this country has mostly been a matter of choice by reckless politicians beholden to prison “reform” ideologues.

A recent story highlights that reality.

On Tuesday, NYPD arrested 47-year-old Damon Johnson, a resident of Brooklyn, and charged him with murder, assault, and reckless endangerment. Johnson was charged in connection to the lighting of a homeless man on fire in Penn Station, one of the busiest train and subway stations in the country.

This wasn’t the defendant’s first rodeo with violence.

The Foundry.

President Donald Trump’s military response to Iran’s decades-long war against the United States has already reaped massive dividends in its first week.

On America’s 250th anniversary, Trump isn’t just reshaping the Middle East—he’s reshaping the global balance of power and strengthening the United States’ position.

“Operation Epic Fury” has already yielded three massive victories in the first week.

Read it.

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” So wrote William Shakespeare in As You Like It. Yet certain modern-day theatregoers apparently do not understand the difference between the space upon the boards and off them; hence, they have taken Shakespeare’s words literally and decided to reshape the world around them into one gigantic interactive left-wing morality play, with themselves as the central heroes and heroines.

Working-class ‘groundlings’ crowding into the pit of the theatre during Shakespeare’s own day were notoriously unruly, but such misbehaviour was largely limited to hurling abuse and rotten fruit at thespians they took a dislike to. Middle-class theatregoers in our own day are far worse, actively attacking and trying to kill any actors they don’t like—on the grounds they are supposedly ‘Nazis’.

Read it.

A Minnesota state employee who vandalized six Tesla vehicles last year, causing up to $21,000 in damage, received no jailtime and just a single-day suspension from his job, state records show.

…

He also admitted that he vandalized the Teslas “in hopes the owners would disassociate themselves from Elon Musk and Tesla.”

Adams told investigators he was “on a break” or “out sick” during the times he was out keying Tesla vehicles, however Adams’ state time card, obtained by Alpha News, shows he logged a full eight-hour workday during the time period he was committing some of the crimes.

Read it.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned that the U.S. Supreme Court had asserted a “newfound authority” after it halted a New York state court order that would have required the state to redraw New York City’s only Republican-held congressional district before the 2026 midterm elections.

The ruling left the current lines in place for now in a closely watched fight over House control.

The emergency action stopped a January ruling that had found the district unfair to Black and Hispanic voters. The district is represented by Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., and covers Staten Island and part of Brooklyn. The move preserves the current map as New York’s election calendar advances.

Sotomayor, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, said the court had inserted itself into a state election dispute before New York’s highest court had ruled.

She argued that the justices had acted without explanation and warned that the move could pull the court into election-law disputes nationwide as states continue to fight over congressional boundaries.

Malliotakis praised the decision, saying it kept New York’s 11th Congressional District intact and protected Staten Island and southern Brooklyn voters from losing the ability to elect a representative who reflects their views.

And so the battle lines are drawn.

Democrats join legal challenge to Trump’s planned 250-foot arch (Dan Diamond/Washington Post)

House Democrat seeks to bar Trump from closing Kennedy Center for renovations (Ryan Mancini/The Hill)

With Healthcare Fueling U.S. Jobs, More Trouble Ahead Due To Trump Cuts (Bruce Japsen/Forbes)  Because, as we all know, funding health care is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government—and the Federal taxpayer. (The question no ‘journalist’ asks: Hey, maybe if we reduced taxes people would be able to pay for their own health care?)

As Trump Focuses on Cuba, DOJ Seeks Charges Against Its Leaders (New York Times)

Pam Bondi’s Ludicrous New Scheme to Protect Lying DOJ Lawyers (Slate)

Mills: Trump Admin “Reveling In The Carnage” As Tehran Burns

DOJ releases Epstein files with accusations against Trump (Miami Herald) Epstein! Epstein! Epstein!

Trump has privately shown serious interest in U.S. ground troops in Iran (NBC News)  We have no proof, so we’ll just insinuate….

Read it.

Just over a year ago, President Trump issued two executive orders banning destructive diversity ideology (a.k.a. “DEI” or “diversity, equity, and inclusion”) from the federal government and its contractors, including colleges and universities. The EOs sought to restore merit as the basis of hiring, advancement, and college admissions.

Both EOs reinforced prior actions by the president as well as by the Supreme Court: In his first term, Trump signed EO 13950, Combatting Race and Sex Stereotypes, which banned divisive concepts based on race and ethnicity, a measure duplicated in many states; and in June of 2023, the Supreme Court decided Students for Fair Admission v. Harvard (“SFFA”), which found that diversity rationales for racial preferences in admissions were themselves discriminatory and therefore unlawful.

Notwithstanding these major legal developments against DEI, colleges and universities, especially in Virginia, are continuing business as usual to promote it, albeit under different names, a move known as rebranding. “To avoid scrutiny,” said one official at the University of Virginia, diversity offices are now called offices for “community and belonging,” while “queer brunch” is now marketed as “cozy brunch.” At George Mason University, the DEI office is now called the Office for Access, Compliance, and Community—same staff, same stuff. They do this even though Trump’s EO explicitly banned rebranding, stating such programs are illegal “under whatever name they appear.”

Read it.

The office of Fairfax, Virginia Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano has dropped murder charges against a man suspected of murdering a man at a bus stop – just days after the George Soros-backed prosecutor drew national criticism for dropping charges against an illegal alien who later went on to be charged with the murder of a woman at a bus stop last month.

“The Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney is in the spotlight again,” FOX 5 DC wrote Thursday, reporting that a second-degree murder charge has been dropped against Robert Andrew Reed, who had been accused of fatally stabbing another man at a bus stop last summer.

Reed isn’t the only bus stop murder suspect to have charges dropped, the local Fox affiliate explains.

Newsbusters.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s presidential campaign trial run masquerading as a book tour took him to Katie Couric’s Next Question podcast on Thursday, where she expressed concern over Newsom’s reputation as “slick.” During that portion of the episode, the former CBS and NBC anchor would ask such difficult questions as “Are you just ridiculously good-looking?” and wonder if that plays into concerns about his authenticity.

He’s a Democrat. No Democrat has ‘authenticity’, they are all The Joker in Clever Plastic Disguises.

Read it.

Russia is providing Iran with targeting information to attack U.S. troops and military assets in the Middle East, an American defense official confirmed to Newsmax on Friday.

First reported by The Washington Post, the development puts one of the United States’ chief nuclear-armed competitors in the rapidly expanding conflict.

Iran has, for years, provided Russia with its Shahed drones to attack Ukraine, and now Russian intelligence is returning the favor by aiding Iran in its retaliatory attacks across the Middle East.

Doesn’t seem to have done them much good; like giving a sniper scope to a rifleman facing a machine gun.

Read it.

For years, of course, we have tracked the fundamental drivers which impact the gold price (from DXY debates, inflation signals, and de-dollarization headlines to COMEX outflows).

All of these complex signals and themes ultimately boil down to a simple realization: Gold rises as debt-trapped nations debase their currencies to monetize their increasingly unloved IOUs.

This is pure fundamentalist thinking, and it works. Gold’s direction is easy, because the fall of paper currencies is now obvious.

In short, real money (gold and silver) historically gets the last say over paper money (USD), paper metals (COMEX) and paper promises (USTs).

Or stated even more simply: Rock openly beats paper.

Read it.

Late last year the federal judiciary quietly released a document that almost nobody outside legal circles normally notices: the fourth edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence. Within weeks one section of that manual vanished.

The reason it vanished reveals something deeply troubling about how climate science, academic institutions, and high-stakes litigation have become entangled.

The manual itself is not obscure inside the legal system. Since the early 1990s it has served as the judiciary’s technical guidebook for evaluating scientific claims presented in court. The need for such a guide arose after the Supreme Court’s 1993 decision in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, which placed judges in the position of evaluating whether expert testimony is scientifically reliable before allowing it to reach a jury.

Judges are not physicists or epidemiologists. They are generalists. The manual exists to translate complex scientific disciplines into language courts can use.

Because of that role, the document carries extraordinary weight. Judges cite it. Lawyers study it. It is produced jointly by the Federal Judicial Center—the research arm of the federal courts—and the National Academies of Sciences.

Neutrality is supposed to be its defining feature.

The fourth edition, released on December 31, 2025, contained a new element: a chapter devoted entirely to climate science. That chapter ran roughly ninety pages and attempted to explain the fundamentals of climate research and the emerging field of climate attribution.

Within weeks it became the center of a political and legal storm.

In January 2026 a coalition of 23 state attorneys general sent a letter to the judiciary raising concerns that the chapter presented contested scientific issues as settled fact. Members of Congress soon followed with similar objections.

The concern was not abstract.

Read it.

Ukraine (Zelenskyy) was angry at Hungary (Orban) for blocking the €90 billion EU loan (a loan with no payback clause) which was backed by confiscated Russian sovereign wealth funds. A splendidly European financial scheme.

To get back at Viktor Orban, Volodymyr Zelenskyy destroyed an oil/gas pipeline hub in Ukraine that transferred Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia (Robert Fico).

Hungary and Slovakia were furious, and Zelenskyy said repairs were too complicated to be easily fixed. Viktor Orban and Robert Fico then doubled down on blocking Ukraine funds and Ukraine’s assentation to the EU.

When Zelenskyy was questioned about Hungarian or EU inspectors visiting the site to evaluate the repairs, Zelenskyy said they would not be allowed access.

Zelenskyy further noted when he was told Patriot Missiles were in short supply, he did not get to visit the inventory; implying his lies were similar to lies told by the United States.

Caught in a lie, Zelenskyy followed up by saying he didn’t care, it was Russian oil so get lost.

Two days ago, Hungary then intercepted two Ukraine vans carrying $40 million in cash dollars, €35 million in cash Euros, and 9 kg of gold – presumably a money laundering transfer intended to fund Zelenskyy and his intelligence chiefs.

…

Upon hearing of the intercept yesterday, a highly angered Volodymyr Zelenskyy then threatened to send Ukraine “special military operators” to the home of Viktor Orban to extract revenge.

Fortunately, not our circus—not our monkeys.

The American Mind.

The American university is broken. The people running the universities know it, which is why they have redoubled their efforts to make sure you can’t do anything about it.

The story has been told so many times in conservative circles that retelling it risks being a bore: William F. Buckley warned us in 1951 about the free fall that had already begun in higher education. Allan Bloom sounded the alarm in 1987. Ross Douthat offered his critique in 2005. A generation of conservatives has poured time, treasure, and talent into reforming higher ed. We’ve funded centers, endowed chairs, launched institutes, filed lawsuits, and written enough op-eds to fill the Library of Alexandria. Yet still—still—the average graduate of an American university is more likely to be able to explain the nuances of “systemic oppression” than to tell you who wrote The Federalist Papers.

That should be a sign that the old approach, whatever its merits, was fundamentally wrong—not because the diagnosis was wrong, but because the strategy was. As Aristotle says, we should deliberate about means, not ends. Conservatives have been trying to reform the university from within a system that is designed, at every level, to resist exactly the kind of reformation we seek. It is time to stop playing a rigged game and build our own system.

Read it.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Friday, March 6th that 56 Afghan civilians had been killed—nearly half of them children—since hostilities with neighboring Pakistan intensified last week.

When Muslims fight, there are no civilians.