DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin fired back at Democratic Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro on Monday while she tried to lecture him on climate change.

In his place, I would have been tempted to say “Sorry, I only take questions from humans.”

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The Zohran’s extravagant promises of free stuff – so attractive to NYers – have just run face first into the hard reality of double-entry accounting. All that money needed to pay for all that free stuff has to come from somewhere. And the mayor lacks the authority to unilaterally raise taxes. On that front, Commie Mamdani actually had more power when he served in the State Legislature.

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Remember the J6 prosecutor who stabbed another driver on the highway during a road rage incident?

Well, two-and-a-half years later, he has finally been sentenced to jail.

For 90 days.

This all happened in FLORIDA, by the way. This wasn’t some woke DC judge like the kind who screwed over J6 protesters.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Two Jewish men were stabbed on the street in a heavily Orthodox neighborhood of London on Wednesday, escalating anxieties amid ongoing incidents targeting local Jews that police say reflect Iranian involvement.

A man was arrested at the scene in Golders Green after being apprehended first by members of the Shomrim, a Jewish security force that operates in parts of London. Hatzola, the Jewish-operated nonprofit emergency service whose ambulances were recently burned in an arson, treated the two victims.

“One male was seen running along Golders Green Road armed with a knife and attempting to stab Jewish members of the public. Shomrim responded immediately and detained the suspect. Police attended and deployed a taser,” Shomrim said in a post to social media.

Both men who were stabbed — one in his 70s and the other in his 30s — are hospitalized in stable condition, according to the Metropolitan Police.

The first duty of government is to keep people safe. Britain has been failing at that for a long time.

ATQUE: Muslim man caught on camera stabbing Jews outside London synagogue

The shit the government buys is all crap.

Daniel Greenfield.

The latest Trump assassin wasn’t a radical. He was a Democrat.

There was nothing radical about Cole Tomas Allen: the attempted White House Correspondents’ Dinner assassin. Allen’s manifesto reads a lot like that of the previous three-named assassin Ryan Wesley Routh who was stalking President Trump at a golf game.

Apart from the explicit murder plots, there is nothing in Routh’s ‘Dear World’ letter and Allen’s manifesto that you wouldn’t find in the Washington Post, a Jimmy Kimmel or Stephen Colbert monologue or a rant by a Democrat member of Congress. Routh was obsessed with Iran and Ukraine, sounding like Thomas Friedman when he complained that Trump had “ended relations with Iran like a child and now the Middle East has unraveled.”

Allen offered even more generic foreign policy criticisms that seemed plucked from network newscasts and fake news coverage of Trump’s campaign against illegal alien criminals, drug cartels, Islamic terrorists in Iran and the cutoff of funds to USAID, ranting about being (“raped in a detention camp”, “fisherman executed without trial” “schoolkid blown up” or “a child starved”).

Did Allen really care about events in Iran or Latin America? Could he even tell them apart?

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There are two distinct but related things going on with the Democrats. One is that the party is rapidly moving ideologically leftward and embracing previously inconceivable positions ranging from socialism to treason and the other is that much of the party is not ideologically radicalizing so much as it’s driven by a violently fervent hatred of Trump and a conviction that he’s Hitler.

This is not some grassroots phenomenon but the messaging from the top down of the party and its media apparatus. That’s why Allen’s views are entirely reflective of their rhetoric. He wasn’t a Marxist, a Communist or a Socialist… his views were those of the mainstream of his party. (The amount of distance between the Democrats and the Marxists of course is rapidly shrinking.)

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I’ve been convinced for quite some time that the political polarization of America has passed the point of no return. At this stage there seems to be no political solution to the problem. To be blunt about it: there is no voting our way out of this.

Where political matters are concerned, the hard Left — which seems to occupy a larger and larger portion of the Democrat Party — has all but cornered the market on violent, incendiary rhetoric. If you disagree with them, you should be beaten up and imprisoned. If you oppose the Narrative, you need to be put up against the wall and shot.

Republican responses to the Democrats’ at-your-throat fighting style are generally weak dishwater. The mainstream Right has always been reluctant to play hardball with their progressive adversaries, but at this point regular hardball will no longer suffice. A harder ball is required, one that would lead to a situation that most of us would rather not contemplate. It’s hard to imagine any Republicans being willing to pick up that ball.

As I said above, there is no voting our way out of this.

The New Neo.

I have no solution. But I’ll have a go at an explanation. The analogy to contagion is a good one, although obviously there are no microbes involved. People come to believe Trump is a Hitler equivalent, tremendously evil and otherwise unstoppable politically, so it follows that he must be killed. The analogy to Hitler is not an idle one because there were indeed many failed attempts on Hitler’s life and most people consider those who tried to do so to be heroes. The fact that Trump bears no resemblance to Hitler is irrelevant, because most people don’t evaluate things for themselves and their sources – their trusted sources – say Trump is tremendously evil, Hitlerian, and out to destroy our country and must be stopped.

Why those sources are trusted is another story. It’s different for different populations. For older people, it’s the news media amplified by social media. For younger people, the source is other online platforms such as TikTok and Twitch (Hasam Piker is a huge Twitch personality, for example). For many of all ages, they live in communities where pretty much everyone thinks this way, whether it be a blue city or just their own family or their own ethnic group. Often a clergyman or church or synagogue group is part of the echo chamber (in which case Trump-hate is not a religious substitute but is considered consistent with their religion as a sort of “just war”), and of course many Democrat politicians and spokespeople, as well as celebrities, artists, authors, and public intellectuals.

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Law is an incrementally maintained system authored by distributed agents with partial authority over time, requiring stable fine-grained addresses for external reference.

Every element of this definition is load-bearing.

Babylon Bee.

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Federal agents raided 22 locations in Minnesota on Tuesday as part of an investigation into widespread taxpayer fraud.

“Today the FBI with federal, state and local law enforcement is involved in court-authorized law enforcement activity as part of an ongoing fraud investigation,” a Department of Justice spokesperson said in a statement.

The raids focused on 22 prominent businesses, some of them tied to Somali immigrants, including daycares like the “Quality Learing Center” in Minneapolis that drew national attention for fraud allegations.

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Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard said on Friday that her government will no longer use the term ‘Islamophobia,’ describing the concept as “problematic”—not least because it “brings to mind the irrational fears of individuals.”

The announcement was music to the ears of the right-wing populist Sweden Democrats, whose MEP Charlie Weimers on Monday said “Islamists exploit ‘Islamophobia’ to advance their agenda and secure EU funding.”

Weimers celebrated that the government was “FINALLY scrapping the made-up concept” for good, as well as the fact it is pushing Brussels and United Nations officials to do the same.

Islamophobia is like arachnophobia—a natural response to a serious threat.

The Foundry.

What’s behind the alarming spike in leftist political violence?

In the past two years, President Donald Trump has faced three assassination attempts, with the most recent one arguably coming Saturday night at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Members of his administration have also faced violent threats. Last year saw the assassination of Charlie Kirk, one of Trump’s most prominent supporters, and some on the left have celebrated the assassination of a health care CEO, Brian Thompson.

Just last week, leftist podcaster Hasan Piker suggested in a New York Times interview that Thompson deserved to die because he “was engaging in a tremendous amount of social murder.” Piker argued that “the systematized forms of violence, the structural violence of poverty, the for-profit, paywalled system of health care” justified the assassination.

Also, last year, Virginia elected Jay Jones as attorney general, despite the fact that he previously sent messages fantasizing about shooting Republican former Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates Todd Gilbert. Jones stated at the time that he wished Gilbert’s young children would die in their mother’s arms, and he justified this death wish by saying, “Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy.” Jones later apologized for the texts after they were made public during his campaign for Virginia attorney general.

Meanwhile, Democrats largely looked the other way while riots in the name of the Black Lives Matter movement took over city streets in the summer of 2020, claiming the lives of at least 27. Many of them demonized Supreme Court justices who had voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, even as pro-abortion activists stalked these justices and tried to assassinate Brett Kavanaugh.

The Right is far from perfect, but this torrent of political violence isn’t an accident. It arguably traces back to the Left’s ideological foundation.

The New Neo.

It was early in Trump’s first term that I noticed people talking about killing Trump. These were people I knew and had known for five decades or more. I’d never talked about politics before with these people, and I hadn’t been aware that they’d had any especially deeply-held feelings about politics. But all of a sudden, each of them stated in a casual manner that they wanted Trump killed.

It was the casual manner that got me. Neither knew my political leanings, but it was assumed that I agreed with them – didn’t everyone who didn’t sport a tail, horns, and a swastika tattoo? With the first person I was so stunned I said nothing. But later, with the second person, I challenged him – to no avail.

You’ve probably seen similar public statements from Trump-haters over the years – on TV and on social media, for example. It’s become standard. In the last year I’ve heard it again from two different friends, each of them people I’ve known for many years and who’ve never spoken this way before. Neither have any history of being leftist firebrands and in fact each have long been political moderates.

But not on the topic of Trump, apparently. The first was over the phone, and my long-time friend said that if she ever was given a terminal diagnosis she would try to kill Trump. This seemed only slightly tongue-in-cheek and deeply unfunny. She went on to vent quite a bit on how much she hated him. My response was that I hope she never receives a terminal diagnosis.

While Hillary and Fauci are still above ground, there’s no time for Trump.

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In 2019, the Scottsdale Unified School District in Arizona spent over $20 million to tear down and completely rebuild a school named Pima Elementary. This year, it voted to close the school.

Pima Elementary, designed for up to 840 students, reopened at less than 60% of that capacity, and it continued to decline. This fall, just seven years later, the school building won’t contain a single student.

Far from a one-off tale of district mismanagement, the closing of a brand new $20 million school building illustrates how easy special interest groups find it to manipulate school districts.

A nationwide baby bust had begun eight years before the bond election, meaning that there were already fewer students to go around. Likewise, the high price of housing in Scottsdale became a significant deterrent to young families locating there.

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They talk about the need to censor social media to control right-wing violence, while their media openly calls for assassination and violence—which then actually occurs.

Where are the Democrats we knew?

They demand that government take over health care because our private system is too costly, they even cheer when a health insurance company exec is murdered, but they don’t notice or care that government health and welfare programs in California and Minnesota lose billions in theft by predators who deliver no service. No one on the right has murdered a Somali Minnesota-Man millionaire. Nor is right-wing media suggesting such a thing would be understandable or justified.

They talk about “saving our democracy” with aggressive gerrymandering, registration of illegals, mail ballot abuse and preventing simple, fair rules and accountability.

They bemoan the failure of Obama and Biden to institute Wilsonian rule, complete with censorship, outlawing opposition parties, federal prosecution of political enemies, untouchable administrative agency powers…and then decry an “imperial presidency” that is more democratic and far less inclined to rule-bending.

They simultaneously claim that the most recent assassination attempt must have been staged but bemoan its failure. They now try to forget that they paid for the KKK to appear and lied about Trump praising them as “fine people.” They lied about Putin fixing an election, launched bogus impeachments, and…I could go on and on. People under Communist rule pretended to believe the party line, but what kind of loser tries to make himself believe nonsense when he does not have to?

Who are these people?

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A new report from Mississippi State Auditor Shad White has uncovered that illegal aliens in the state received at least $10.5 million in Medicaid benefits between 2023 and 2025.

“If this money had gone to benefit lawful citizens, it could have reduced our taxes, paid our teachers, paid our police officers—frankly, anything would be better than serving as a magnet for illegal immigrants to come to the United States,” White told The Daily Signal.

“Mississippi taxpayers deserve to know the cost of illegal immigrants in our state, even if it makes some folks uncomfortable,” White added. “My team will always tell you how your money in being spent, warts and all.”

You can imagine what it’s like in a Blue state.

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Pope Leo XIV met on Monday with Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally, urging unity to evangelize more effectively.

The papal audience at the Vatican was part of Mullally’s first trip abroad since taking up her position last month as the first woman to serve as the Church of England’s top cleric and the symbolic leader of the Worldwide Anglican Communion.

In an address published by the Vatican, Leo told Mullally and her delegation:

“While our suffering world greatly needs the peace of Christ, the divisions among Christians weaken our capacity to be effective bearers of that peace.”

Leo cited progress between the two churches on “historically divisive issues” but noted that “new problems have arisen in recent decades,” without specifying further.

In the Good Old Day, the Pope would have no patience for this kind of New Age cosplay.

Of course, in the Good Old Days, we had real Popes.

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Dr. Margaret Conolly, sister of Irish president Catherine Connolly, has joined an international flotilla attempting to challenge Israel’s long-standing naval blockade of Gaza, setting sail on Sunday, April 27, as part of the Global Sumud Flotilla.

The mission, which organisers describe as a humanitarian effort to deliver medical aid and open a maritime corridor to Gaza, is expected to face interception by Israeli forces, as with previous attempts over the past two decades.

Dr. Conolly’s participation comes against the backdrop of a sharp shift in Irish politics following the election of her sister, Catherine Connolly, a far-left independent who secured a landslide victory in October 2025. The president has been an outspoken critic of Israel and Western governments over Gaza, repeatedly accusing them of moral failure and aligning herself with pro-Palestinian positions.

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Apple’s Vision Pro has hit another medical-use milestone, with a New York ophthalmologist becoming the first surgeon to perform cataract surgery using the spatial computing headset.

Dr. Eric Rosenberg of SightMD completed the initial procedure in October 2025 and has since performed hundreds of additional cases using ScopeXR, a surgical platform he co-developed for Apple’s mixed reality device.

ScopeXR streams live feeds from 3D digital surgical microscopes directly into the Vision Pro, which lets the surgeon view the operative field in stereoscopic 3D while overlaying preoperative diagnostic data. The platform also supports real-time remote collaboration, allowing surgeons to virtually join procedures and see exactly what the operating surgeon sees.

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A memorial to affordable living.

BBC, a Voice of the Crust.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is quitting the Opec and Opec+ groups of major oil producing nations next month after nearly 60 years of membership.

The UAE said its decision would help it meet growing global energy demand in the long term after recent investments to boost its production capacity.

It is seen as a blow to the cartel, with one analyst describing the exit as “the beginning of the end of OPEC”.

The Gulf state’s energy minister said being a country with no obligation under the groups would give it more flexibility.

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Never forget that Anthony Fauci received a random and very suspicious pardon from a not-all-there Joe Biden right before Joe left office.

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Sometimes, unintentional humor is the best humor.

Reality has limits. Human greed has none.

Give them ‘reparations’ including shipping them all back to Africa and barring them from returning except as tourists.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

After a man riddled a Jewish-owned restaurant with bullets in uptown Toronto, police accomplished something earlier this month that they hadn’t done following previous attacks on Jewish sites: identify and charge a suspect.

The 35-year-old suspect, Mohamed Mahdi, was arrested just a few days after the April 3 attack and charged with on multiple gun-related offenses.

His arrest provided the first, and to this point only, public pieces of information that could chip away at the mystery that has roiled Toronto’s Jewish community: Who is shooting at these synagogues and Jewish businesses? And how do they keep getting away with it?

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The race to build global satellite internet networks is entering a new phase. On April 27, 2026, United Launch Alliance (ULA) launched 29 satellites into orbit for Amazon’s Project Kuiper, marking the first full-scale deployment of the constellation and a major milestone for one of the most ambitious challengers to SpaceX’s Starlink. While other major projects have also recently been launched, this development signals that competition in low-Earth orbit (LEO) broadband is intensifying rapidly.

As our chart shows, Starlink remains by far the dominant player at the moment. Operated by SpaceX, the constellation had already deployed more than 10,300 satellites as of April 2026, with regulatory approval for around 15,000 and plans to deploy up to 42,000. The network is already providing broadband services in more than 100 countries and territories worldwide and continues to expand. Its U.S. rival, Amazon’s Project Kuiper, is now moving from testing to deployment. With 239 satellites already launched and a planned constellation of 3,236 satellites, the company aims to leverage its cloud infrastructure (AWS) and partnerships with launch providers such as ULA to compete in the global broadband market.

China is emerging as the main challenger in this sector, with multiple large-scale constellations underway. The state-backed Qianfan project, led by Shanghai Spacecom Satellite Technology (SSST), has already deployed more than 100 satellites and aims to reach around 15,000 in the long term. At the same time, the Xingwang constellation, overseen by the China Satellite Network Group (CSNC), is scaling up, with nearly 200 satellites in orbit as of April 2026 and plans for about 13,000 in total. Together, these initiatives highlight Beijing’s strategic push to build a sovereign satellite internet infrastructure.

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Yes, you read that correctly. The suspect in the most recent assassination attempt thought Trump didn’t really get shot in the ear at the Butler rally in 2024.

“But a man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest….”

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Pro-Palestinian activists, some reportedly shouting antisemitic invective, forced Jewish groups out of a procession celebrating Italy’s Liberation Day from Nazism and fascism in Milan over the weekend.

About 100 protesters on Saturday blocked a group commemorating the Jewish Brigade, a unit of 5,000 Jews from British Mandate Palestine who volunteered to fight against the Germans in Italy during World War II.

The protests led to a two-hour stalemate before police escorted the Jewish Brigade out of the march, according to the Italian newspaper la Repubblica. The event marked the 81st anniversary of the end of Italy’s Nazi occupation and fascist collaborationist regime led by Benito Mussolini.

New York Post.

Billionaire Sergey Brin has broken his silence on California’s proposed billionaire tax — invoking his Soviet upbringing as new details surface on a tense showdown with Gov. Gavin Newsom and his Trump-loving ‘gut influencer’ girlfriend.

Brin, the Google co-founder with an estimated net worth of $270 billion, discussed his family history under socialism in an extraordinary rebuke of the billionaire tax, which qualified for the November ballot after organizers submitted 1.6 million signatures.

“I fled socialism with my family in 1979 and know the devastating, oppressive society it created in the Soviet Union,” Brin told the New York Times in a statement.

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For years, Democratic politicians and their allies in the legacy media have spread the damnable Charlottesville Hoax: the propaganda myth that President Trump praised bigots who rioted in 2017 in the Virginia town.

Of course, the opposite is true, as Trump actually said: “I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and white nationalists because they should be condemned totally.”

Now, we learn that the entire hoax of Trump and Charlottesville is, itself, built upon another grand lie. The media and people like Joe Biden have continually pushed the narrative that some big, organic gathering of hateful Americans descended upon Charlottesville and represented some larger threat to the republic itself. But it now turns out that the “Unite the Right” rally was organized and financed by the highly partisan, left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center.

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Of all the things we’ve seen or heard since Saturday’s assassination attempt, this might be the most disturbing.

Tennessee’s Andy Ogles was one of the guests at the WHCD on Saturday and during the assassination attempt, he recounts hearing the most disgusting remark from one of the “journalists” present.

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Wild story right here.

Last year, Abdul Saleh — an employee at Sal’s Deli & Grocery in the East Village — went on local news to sound the alarm. He told ABC 7 that violence in bodegas was rampant, that “always something happens and no one really cares,” and that when people get shot, robbed, or worse, the cops show up three or four hours later.

Now we have this.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

A pair of incidents took place outside of Jewish sites in the Toronto area over the weekend, adding to a series of attacks that have left the city’s Jewish community unnerved.

During Shabbat services on Saturday, a man tried to force his way into the Sephardic Kehilah Centre, in the suburb of Vaughan. After the man was turned away by security, he reportedly encountered a father and son on their way to the synagogue and punched the father in the face. The father was left with no serious injuries.

The following day, photos circulated after a rock was hurled and broke the window of Aleph Bet Judaica, a shop on the heavily Jewish Bathurst Street corridor. Police did not confirm which business was hit, but confirmed that a rock was thrown at a business near Bathurst Street and Regina Avenue, and that the Hate Crime Unit “was consulted and is aware.”

No suspects have been identified in either incident.

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We have a major problem.

Half the country read the manifesto written by the shooter, saw his friends and family admit that it sounds like him, and read the shooter’s own anti-Trump, leftwing posts on Bluesky.

The other half of the country – the half that listens to the fake news – is told we don’t have any motive and we shouldn’t jump to conclusions.

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There’s a passage in Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs that gets quoted less than the famous ones. Jobs talked about how great companies die, and his theory was that the rot has nothing to do with competition or markets or innovation cycles. The rot starts when the salespeople end up running the company.

He named names. He pointed at IBM under John Akers. He pointed at Microsoft under Ballmer. He even pointed at the Sculley era of his own Apple as the cautionary tale. The phrase Jobs kept circling back to was that the people running these companies eventually “have no conception of a good product versus a bad product.” They can’t tell the difference. They can run a supply chain better than anyone alive, but they couldn’t tell you whether the radius on a button looks right.

That’s not a small criticism. That’s the founder of Apple, on the record, naming the disease and warning the company against catching it.

Then, in 2011, Apple promoted its head of operations to CEO.

I’m not saying Cook was a bad pick at the time. He was the right person to keep the trains running while everyone caught their breath after losing Steve. But fifteen years later it’s worth asking the question Steve himself would have asked. What kind of products are we shipping now?

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Babylon Bee.

In a the wake of yet another failed assassination attempt against President Trump, leading Democrats across the nation announced they would observe the long-standing tradition of a five-minute pause in calling Trump “literally Hitler”.

ScienceDaily.

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral population in Africa. By analyzing genetic data from diverse modern African groups—especially the highly distinct Nama people—and comparing it with fossil evidence, researchers found that early humans likely evolved from multiple intermingling populations over hundreds of thousands of years. Rather than a clean split, these groups stayed connected, exchanging genes even after beginning to diverge around 120,000–135,000 years ago.

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Hey, we never said it would be easy….

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has halted payments to more than 400 hospices in Los Angeles and across California, with the estimated fraud being greater than $600 million, according to the anti-fraud task force led by Vice President JD Vance.

Sheila Clark, CEO of the California Hospice and Palliative Care Association, is questioning how these alleged instances of fraud have slipped through the cracks.

“How do you put a hospice in a burrito stand in California? How do you put a hospice in a tire store? That all had to be vetted through licensure, certification, and accreditation,” Clark said during a House of Representatives hearing on April 21.

VA Viper (a Friend of the Blog)

This essentially reproduces a dish much enjoyed at the restaurant Da Gemma in Amalfi in April 2002. In Hazan’s recipe I have substituted fettuccine for spaghetti and added the beef extract to give a slightly meatier flavor. In fact, the extract can be omitted to yield an entirely vegetarian dish. An interesting discussion of the historical origins of Genovese sauce (La Genovese) is found in Naples at Table by Arthur Schwarz (1998).

I guess it’s time for dinner….

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ICE has arrested an illegal alien child sex predator in Abigail Spanberger’s Virginia. Authorities there tried to protect him by declining an ICE detainer last year and releasing him back into the community.

The suspect, Roni Mendez-Escobar, a Guatemalan national, faced charges including multiple felony counts of possession of obscene material and child pornography with intent to distribute.

remain free despite the detainer – exactly the outcome sanctuary policies are designed to produce.

This isn’t an isolated failure. It’s the predictable result of Virginia Democrats turning the state into a magnet for criminal illegal aliens while American families bear the cost. Spanberger ran as a “moderate,” yet her administration’s moves to limit cooperation with ICE have repeatedly put Virginia children and residents at risk.

Just weeks ago, ICE urged Spanberger not to release another criminal illegal alien from Guatemala, Misael Lopez Gomez, who allegedly bludgeoned his own three-month-old daughter to death with blunt force trauma in Fairfax.

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I’m willing to ask the hard question: How badly do modern women stink if men are turning to AI?

At least an AI won’t divorce you after 10 to 20 years of marriage and take your kids and half your stuff.

This is CNN.

I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning….

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Fox is reporting that the would-be assassin at last night’s correspondents’ dinner in Washington DC was politically motivated and wrote anti-Trump and anti-Christian screeds online before the shootings.

Note the conjunction: ‘anti-Trump’ and ‘anti-Christian’. Wonder how much those two circles overlap….

ATQUE: Key question: How did armed man get so close to Trump WHCD event?

The Other McCain.

Democrats are crazy and evil, but also utterly incompetent.

Notice something missing in that Associated Press story? “Assassination.” You could say, “an apparent assassination attempt,” or use the phrase “would-be assassin,” but the AP goes out of its way to avoid saying the obvious: THIS GUY WANTED TO KILL TRUMP.

Furthermore, despite cramming the story full of all kinds of irrelevancies — quotes from this or that politician in attendance — the AP doesn’t include important details about the suspect’s background: First, that Cole Allen donated to Kamala Harris’s campaign, and second, that there was a campaign sign for a Democratic candidate for a state judge position in the front lawn of Allen’s home in California. In other words, evidence clearly suggests the shooter is a Democrat with a political motive, but the Associated Press didn’t think that merited inclusion in the story.

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A divided federal appeals court on April 24 allowed Texas to enforce a state law that permits the arrest and prosecution of individuals thought to have unlawfully crossed the U.S.-Mexico border.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit voted 10–7 to undo a 2024 injunction that had prevented enforcement of the law known as Senate Bill 4. Initially, the former Biden administration had challenged the statute, but the second Trump administration dropped the challenge in March 2025.

SB 4, which Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, signed in December 2023, would make it a state-level crime to illegally enter or re-enter Texas from a foreign country, give state judges authority to order that violators leave the United States, and allow prison sentences ?of up to 20 years for those refusing to comply.

The Fifth Circuit did not address the merits of the case because it found that the groups challenging the law—Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center and American Gateways—lacked legal standing to do so.

Hey, I’ve got an idea! Let’s kick the can down the road!

The groups had argued that SB 4 was preempted—or superseded—by the federal Immigration and Nationality Act.

Which is obviously is—but its enforcement relies on an Administration that actually enforces laws and all that other right-wing picky shit.