DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

MAGA Is Melting Down Over the Results From L.A.’s Mayoral Primary (The New Republic) MAGA is the New Nigger.

Move over, MAGA — it’s time to take America back (The Hill) MAGA is the New Nigger.

This district judge just blocked Trump’s $100,000 application fee for H-1B immigrants because of course

President Trump Notes California Ballot Curation Likely to Eliminate Steve Hilton  Because, as we all know, Republicans have no business running for office in California.

EXCLUSIVE: Steelworkers Union Spent Millions Against Trump Agenda, Showing Gap With Membership

Clerical error inadvertently exposes shady donations to Jim Jordan and MAGA groups: report (Travis Gettys/Raw Story)  ‘Shady’ means ‘We didn’t find anything improper but we’re going to try to persuade you we did without being specific.’ Oh, and MAGA is the New Nigger.

Trump’s ‘Meet the Press’ walkout shows a presidency that’s already finished (Matthew Bartlett/MS NOW)  They hope they hope they hope….

Top DOJ prosecutor is latest to spread lies about California vote counting (Jacob Knutson/Democracy Docket)  Telling the truth is ‘lies’ when you’re pushing the Narrative.

Judge tosses Trump bid to restrict renewable energy tax credits (Rachel Frazin/The Hill)

They Went to Jared — How Donald Trump’s son-in-law used his position to hop in bed with autocrats–and sell out America. (Casey Michel/Mother Jones)

Jared Kushner Makes Hunter Biden Look Like a Boy Scout (w/ Casey Michel) (Andrew Egger/The Bulwark)

‘Ruin a Good Thing’: CNN Hypes Hate of Trump Attending Knicks Games

CNN’s Cornish Likens Hegseth D-Day Speech to Language ‘Nazis Would Have Used’

Trump Wants to Call the Shots. But in Iran, He Keeps Hitting His Limits. (Anton Troianovski/New York Times)

Trump hits back at Stephen A. Smith after ESPN analyst ranted he would blame president for Knicks defeat (Chris Bradford/New York Post)

He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him. (Annie Waldman/ProPublica)  Because, as we all know, the government is TOTALLY resposible for stopping people getting sick.

California’s “red mirage” feeds MAGA fraud frenzy (Zachary Basu/Axios)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Inside Hegseth’s Pentagon, where distrust and suspicions of loyalty are rampant (CNN)  The mind-readers azt CNN are on the march.

Trump is becoming Jimmy Carter (Edward Luce/Financial Times)

Under the Trump crypto playbook, the family always wins. Investors don’t (Reuters)

The Supreme Court Hasn’t Ruled On Birthright Citizenship. Trump May Be Deporting Newborn Citizens Anyway (Madiba K. Dennie/Balls and Strikes)  Because, as we all know, laws Democrats like aren’t really laws until the Supreme Court rules, and maybe not even then.

The Trump Administration’s Dubious Case for Work Requirements (Can We Still Govern?)  Because, as we all know, it’s a violation of our human rights to expect people to actully work.

‘TRUMP CURSE’: Furious Knicks Fans Blame President for Jinxing Team’s Winning Streak as They Lose to Spurs (Sarah Rumpf/Mediaite)  Nothing is so fringe that it can’t be blamed on Trump.

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Tim Walz, a Democrat, to the Justice Department for a criminal investigation.

A report of the House Oversight Committee released Monday alleges Walz and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison were “aware of widespread taxpayer fraud in federally funded social programs for years” but did not attempt to stop it.

“Minnesota state officials are not above the law, and if they facilitated fraud, lied under oath about what they knew, or harassed and intimidated whistleblowers, they must face justice,” Vance said Monday on X.

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The latest figures released by England’s Department for Education offer a glimpse into the country’s future, revealing how the British are slowly becoming a minority in their own country.

According to the data for the 2025–2026 school year, the proportion of pupils identified as white British has fallen below 60% for the first time, while the share of pupils from minority ethnic backgrounds has reached a record high of nearly 39%.

These developments are presented by British commentator Matt Goodwin on his Substack as evidence of accelerating demographic and cultural change within England. He argues that the trends visible in schools today provide a preview of the country’s future population and social landscape, being based not on British traditions and the English language but dominated by immigration.

The statistics suggest that England’s classrooms are changing at a pace that would have been unthinkable only a decade ago. During the 2015–2016 school year, white British pupils accounted for 70% of all schoolchildren. Now, that figure has fallen to 59.7%.

The Register.

The process for producing triple-layer drug-delivery particles and materials for tissue regeneration could get easier, thanks to a new advance in creating the electrospray nozzles used to make them. A team of MIT researchers has now used a 3D resin printer to output tiny electrospray nozzles without the expensive cleanrooms they normally require.

A team led by MIT principal research scientist Dr. Luis Fernando Velásquez-García detailed its work developing tiny arrays of triaxial electrospray emitters in a recent paper. Before jumping into what they actually did, it might be worth explaining exactly what we’re talking about and why it’s such a potential breakthrough.

Electrospraying is a process that relies on tiny nozzles – we’re talking fractions of a millimeter, here – that are subjected to an electric field to atomize liquids into droplets smaller than what can be achieved through purely physical methods. Electrospraying can be done with lots of different liquid materials, and has a variety of uses, from ionizing liquids for mass spectrometry, to space propulsion.

Such cutting-edge applications traditionally require expensive equipment, and electrospray nozzles have classically been no different.

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James Talarico, the most insanely leftist candidate to ever run in a statewide election in Texas, has decided that it’s important to pretend to be a moderate Democrat in his face-off against Ken Paxton.

I would encourage every vegetarian in Texas to run for public office if it means that they have to eat barbecue in public.

You can’t make this stuff up.

We told you yesterday about a Pride display at a Washington public high school that featured actual vials of testosterone for trans-identifying females.

Yeah, turns out testosterone is a Schedule III controlled substance, so, uhh, it’s not some sort of overreaction for the sheriff to come in like this.

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You gotta give him credit for originality. Most crooks will just make a run for it. Some of them might call their lawyer. It’s rare that they call the very same people that are arresting them!

Mr. Gonzalez met a rather predictable fate in this exchange.

Read ity. And watch the mostly peaceful videos.

Hard to tell whether that’s a warm welcome or just a bunch of boos, but it didn’t seem too bad for an NBA game in New York City.

Outside, however, New Yorkers got mostly peaceful after the Knicks lost.

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I wonder whether this will persuade AWFULs to give up their support for Palestinians and other random Miuslims…?

Nah.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service announced Tuesday that an 18-year-old man has been charged in connection with the March arson attack that destroyed four ambulances owned by Hatzola, a Jewish volunteer emergency service.

Subhan Ahmed, a British national, was charged on Monday with “assisting an offender” in connection with the arson.

The ambulances were set ablaze in the early morning of March 23 in Golders Green, a heavily Jewish neighborhood in London. The incident spurred increased patrols in Jewish communities.

Think how peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.

ATQUE: Playskool Introduces ‘My First Hobo Camp’ For California Children (Babylon Bee)

Reminds me of the top-knot worn by pre-modern samurail

They looked silly, too.

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The following report describes a video that shows an “Italian” culture-enricher assisting and instructing his little boy as the wee bairn pees on a police car. The report is current, but the incident apparently occurred back in April, when the video was recorded.

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The current problems for the Democrats can be summarized in four words.

You won’t lose you favorite doctor due to Obamacare.

We don’t believe you.

Trump supporters are a “Basket of Deplorables”.

We don’t believe you.

There was nothing scandalous in Hillary’s 30,000 deleted emails.

We don’t believe you.

The Clinton Family Charity raising money from foreign interests while Hillary was Secretary of State had nothing to do with Hillary’s decision to use a private server for all her emails.

We don’t believe you.

The Foundry.

Delayed vote tallies in Calfornia are attributable to the vote-by-mail system and weeklong deadlines for receiving ballots, which undermines confidence in results, election experts say.

Tuesday is the deadline for the last of California’s ballots to arrive, where about 80% vote by mail and about 40% of ballots arrive after Election Day in the nation’s most populous state. These are among the factors that contribute to repeatedly delayed results.

On Sunday, it appeared that Republican mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt would fall out of contention for the general election after several days of appearing in the top two vote recipients along with L.A. Mayor Karen Bass, a Democrat. Another Democratic candidate, Nithya Raman, appeared to overtake Pratt for second place to face Bass in the general election. The state’s primaries allow the top two vote-getters, rather than party nominees, to advance to the general election.

California also doesn’t allow local jurisdictions to require voter ID, and allows 22 days for “curing” ballots. Curing is when a voter’s ballot needs to be corrected or clarified to count, such as fixing illegible marks on the ballot or inserting a missing signature on the ballot envelope.

Tim Pool explains it all to you.

Similar apparent flips have occured in previous elections in the state, including in races for the U.S. House of Representatives. On election night in 2024, Republican incumbent Rep. Michelle Steel was leading, but that lead turned into a loss days later as Democrat Derek Tran won the seat 22 days after the election.

That’s not suspicious at all. Perish the thought.

ATQUE: On the LA vote-counting process that is giving LA two leftist Democrats to choose from for mayor (The New Neo).

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I won’t show you the full video here, though I will link to it for the sake of providing my sources (be warned that it is horribly graphic).

I will, however, show you this brief clip of an Irishman whacking the Somali upside the head to get him off the victim.

Sura 47: 4: “So when you meet the disbelievers ?in battle?, strike ?their? necks until you have thoroughly subdued them, then bind them firmly.”

UPDATE: Video of Attempted ‘Beheading’ in Belfast by “Somali” Man Goes Viral 

Canadian Broadcast Company, a Voice of the Crust.

You might think, based on the volume of her Facebook posts, that Nieta Aqila is an Albertan who supports separation.

“I signed the Alberta independence petition” because “Canada is not a great country anymore,” an account in her name wrote in a popular Facebook group called Alberta Independence that promotes the movement and has more than 100,000 members.

In another post, Aqila said she was harassed and had rocks thrown at her as she canvassed for petition signatures.

The account’s posts have generated thousands of reactions, comments and shares in recent months as the issue heated up.

But the account owner, according to a CBC visual investigation, was posing as a Canadian and is actually a noodle merchant and content creator from Indonesia, who in some cases was just stealing content from real Albertans.

“Real Albertans”? Sounds l ike racism to me.

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Title Head of Stonehenge

Location Stonehenge, Amesbury, Wiltshire, SP4 7DE

Salary From £64,189 p.a. depending on skills and experience

36 hours per week

Permanent Job type Permanent Ref 16449

I’m curious as to what type of ‘skills and experience’ they’re looking for.

I suppose showing up for the interview painted with woad would be a plus….

The Register.

The US government is reportedly weighing whether to take a financial stake in AI companies, which looks a bit like negotiating for a seat on the Titanic.

Neither OpenAI nor Anthropic, the marquee brands in US AI, are profitable yet. While Anthropic may be nearer to that point if its accounting survives scrutiny, OpenAI’s $1.4 trillion in financial commitments over the next eight years have been interpreted as a red flag for investors.

This raises (at least) two questions: Should the US government be picking winners? And should the US government be picking losers?

Bernie Sanders is, of course, very happy with the government picking winners and losers—so long as they are Politically Correct winners and losers—but he’d avoid the whole problem by just stealing half of an AI company for the government rather than actually, you know, paying for it.l

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Republican Rep. Thomas Massie took to the House floor Monday to call for an investigation into Israel’s 1967 attack on an American spy ship, giving new prominence to a decades-old conspiracy theory that has become a touchstone for critics of Israel.

“It’s my great honor, maybe one of the biggest honors of my lifetime, to stand here on the floor and do something that’s 59 years overdue, to recognize the survivors and those who gave their lives on the USS Liberty,” Massie said. “Fifty-nine years ago today when they were viciously attacked by IDF jets and also after that by torpedo boats.”

The attack on the USS Liberty occurred on June 8, 1967, in the midst of Israel’s Six-Day War. The intelligence-gathering ship was stationed off the shore of the Sinai Peninsula during the conflict when it came under attack by Israeli forces, killing 34 crew members and injuring 171 more.

Israel later apologized for the attack, explaining it had mistaken the boat as Egyptian, and paid damages to the United States and the families of the victims. Multiple U.S. investigations, including by the CIA, have since determined that the attack was a mistake.

Still, the incident has become a rallying point for critics of Israel who claim the attack was deliberate and gained more adherents lately as anti-Israel sentiment has swelled. On Friday, Massie cited a host of U.S. military and intelligence officials he said had cast doubt on the outcomes of the U.S. investigations.

ATQUE: Remembering the USS Liberty – and why it still matters

‘It’s Happening Again’: Trump Reacts as Raman Overtakes Pratt in LA Mayoral Race

Lammy says he told JD Vance his Nowak comments were ‘wrong’ (Joshua Nevett/BBC)

‘Checked Out’ RFK Jr. Missing as Agency Spirals (Wiktoria Gucia/The Daily Beast)

House Democrats Plan to Investigate Trump

Maine Dems plot response if Nebraska GOP tweaks Electoral College votes (Holly Otterbein/Axios)

President Denies He Pledged Not to Start New Wars (Katie Rogers/New York Times) Innuendo: Trump is going to start more wars.

Democrats eyeing investigations, and perhaps prosecutions, of Trump officials (Mike Lillis/The Hill)

Trump drags feet on drone deal with Ukraine, mystifying experts (Ellen Mitchell/The Hill)

Congress thought it had a spy-powers deal. Then Trump came in. (Politico)  innuendo: Trump is screwing things up again.

Deep in Rural Virginia, a MAGA Pro-Gun Push Takes an Unnerving Turn (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Pam Bondi was the worst AG in history. Until now. (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)  Worse than Merrick Garland? Worse than Erich Holder? I don’t think so.

Trump-Hating Pink Frets ‘State of the World,’ ‘Trans Siblings’ Losing ‘Rights’at Tony Awards

How the Drive to Find a Conspiracy Against Trump Rocked the Justice Dept. (Devlin Barrett/New York Times)  Innuendo: There is no conspiracy against Trump. Perish the thought. (There doesn’t need to be a conspiracy when everybody already knows what they need to do.

Former Biden J6 Prosecutor’s ActBlue-Funded Firm Sues To Stop Trump’s UFC White House Event

It’s Johnson’s Gavel But Trump’s House (Reese Gorman/NOTUS)  Innuendo: This is illegitimate in some vaguely sinister way.

Knicks fans warn Trump to expect hostile reception at NBA Finals game (Dan Diamond/Washington Post)

On campaign promises about foreign wars, Trump rewrites recent history (Steve Benen/MS NOW)  Innuendo: Trump is a weasel.

The Trump administration’s multiple investigations of the 2020 election may have more to do with 2026 (Votebeat)  Nothing to see here … move along … move along….

Court blocks Trump’s $100K visa fee (Kyle Cheney/Politico  We want that cheap foreign labor!

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On Monday, the Supreme Court vacated a lower court ruling that upheld Biden Energy Department regulations that would outlaw gas stoves and water heaters in Americans’ homes and require homeowners with these to either renovate their homes or switch to electric appliances.

In American Gas Association, et al. V. Dept. Of Energy, et al, the District of Columbia’s district court upheld the Biden Administration’s regulations banning the use of non-condensing appliances, effectively eliminating gas furnaces and water heaters from the marketplace.

In response, the American Gas Association, American Public Gas Association and National Propane Gas Association asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the decision. In their petition to the high court for a writ of certiorari, they stressed the consequences of allowing the lower court’s decision to stand.

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he Trump administration has referred more than 100 employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for suspension and debarment after investigators alleged they participated in Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel or were members of Hamas-linked militant groups.

The report issued Friday by the USAID Office of Inspector General, the office overseeing U.S. foreign assistance programs, recommends that 101 individuals be placed on a governmentwide exclusion list barring them from participating in U.S.-funded foreign aid projects for 10 years.

According to the report, those identified included “UNRWA school principals, teachers, security personnel, attendants, psychosocial counselors, and medical professionals” who were found to be members of Hamas’ Al-Qassam Brigades or other militant organizations.

Among those cited were a “deputy school principal serving as an al-Qassam deputy company commander in the Ain Gallout/5th infantry battalion” and a “math and computer teacher” with “ties to an Al-Qassam intelligence squad.”

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Brent crude futures jumped as much as 5% to $97.83 a barrel, while WTI traded around $95 a barrel, as renewed Iran-Israel fighting threatened to unravel a fragile US-Iran ceasefire and further disrupt energy flows.

On the maritime chokepoint front, Iran-backed Houthis declared a full ban on Israeli vessels in the southern Red Sea, warning that any Israeli ship (or linked ship) will be seen as a military target.

“First: We declare a complete and total ban on maritime navigation for the Israeli enemy in the Red Sea, and we consider all enemy movements to be military targets for our Armed Forces from the moment this statement is issued,” the terror group said Monday in a statement.

The statement continued, “Second: We affirm that we will meet escalation with escalation, and that our military operations will escalate in line with events, the battle, and in conjunction with the axis of Jihad and Resistance.”

“Third: We affirm the right of our people and the peoples of our free nation to confront American-Israeli aggression, and that we will not stand idly by in the face of the unjust siege imposed on our people and the peoples of the axis of Jihad and Resistance in Palestine, Gaza, Iran, Lebanon, and Iraq. All enemy attempts will fail, God willing, and our operations will continue as long as the aggression and siege against us and the axis of Jihad and Resistance continue,” the statement concluded.

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But only among the reality-based community.

“It’s not the people who vote that count, it’s the people who count the votes.” – Stalin

Newsbusters.

When the polls close on Tuesday night in Maine, it’s all but guaranteed that the man who has been accused of “toxic relationships” by three woman, sexting with women outside his marriage, referred to himself as a communist, called police officers “bastards,” said rural White Americans are racist and stupid, and sported a Nazi tattoo, Graham Platner, will be the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate. The liberal media, in an effort to get out in front of this Democratic disaster, have taken to equating Platner with President Trump and Texas GOP Senate nominee, Ken Paxton. That was the case Saturday on CNN Newsroom.

ATQUE: Platner Supporters Unfazed by Allegations of Misconduct (Eliza Collins/Wall Street Journal)

ATQUE: LA voting debacle reflects a democracy in crisis (Joel Pollak/New York Post)

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Six people were injured in a stabbing inside New York’s Penn Station on Sunday evening, authorities said, less than a day before thousands of fans are expected to descend on neighboring Madison Square Garden for Game 3 of the NBA Finals.

A suspect was taken into custody after the attack, which unfolded around 7 p.m. in one of the nation’s busiest transportation hubs.

I predict that it will be a Person of Color, because

Authorities did not immediately release details about what led to the stabbing or whether the victims were targeted.

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A Navy veteran is one of three men recently arrested for allegedly trying to pay more than $2,000 to a person whom they thought was a member of the Islamic State group, or ISIS, to buy rocket-propelled grenades and drones for an attack against U.S. troops overseas, officials said.

Bareen Dzayee, 25, was taken into custody on June 5 along with two other men, a Justice Department news release says. Prosecutors claim Dzayee suggested the drone attack target U.S. Special Forces, according to the Justice Department, according to the Justice Department.

Dzayee enlisted in the Navy in November 2021 and served until July 2024, reaching the rank of seaman, according to his service record, which was provided by the Navy.

After completing the service’s boot camp and Surface Warfare Engineering School in Illinois, Dzayee served on the destroyer USS John S. McCain from March 2022 to July 2024, his record says. KNSD, an NBC television station in San Diego, first reported that Dzayee had served in the Navy.

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On the 82nd anniversary of D-Day, the leader of the Virginia Senate budget conference decided to start firing on her political opponents from her fortified bunkers on the hill she has occupied, while the governor tries to take the political beach from her and her allies with covert operations.

Here’s where the fun begins.

Saturday, rather than spend time sharing stories of locals who were part of the landing operation in France 82 years ago, Senate conference leader Louise Lucas took out her social media flamethrower.

In response to a post by Sen. Scott Surovell decrying the suggestion of a “DC-style continuing resolution,” the Senate president pro tempore wrote, “we had a meeting with ‘Data Center Diva’ [Gov. Abigail Spanberger] and she agrees with ‘Amazon Don’ (House Speaker Don Scott) who doesn’t want to impact the richest corporations in America!”

The Antiplanner.

In recent posts, I’ve noted that the nation’s transit agencies are carrying far fewer riders than in 2019 and yet since that year the size of the transit bureaucracy has grown by more than 50 percent. Two MIT researchers, Vicky Yang and Levi Grenier, have offered a new explanation for such bureaucratic bloat. Instead of looking at transit, they were struck by MIT, whose faculty has grown by 9 percent and the number of students has grown by around 30 percent since 1985, but the number of administrative staff has almost tripled.

The Foundry.

More nonprofits are urging the software company Benevity—which hundreds of companies use to allow employees to donate their time and money to charities—to stop systematically blacklisting conservative nonprofits.

Twelve organizations first sent a letter to Benevity in October following the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. The new letter, sent Monday and exclusively provided first to the Daily Signal, will feature three new signatories: Turning Point USA, PragerU, and Focus on the Family.

“Charitable giving programs should empower generosity, not enforce political conformity,” Douglas Napier, executive chairman and CEO of 1792 Exchange, which helped organize the letter, told the Daily Signal in a statement Friday.?????????????????????????????????????????????????? “Benevity must immediately end its use of Southern Poverty Law Center’s defamatory ‘Hate List’ and ‘Hate Map’ to block mainstream charitable organizations like Turning Point USA and Focus on the Family.”

“1792 Exchange’s research found that hundreds of major corporations rely on Benevity’s platform, making this a critical moment for corporate leadership to reject ideological gatekeeping,” Napier added. “Benevity must completely remove any use of the SPLC filter, adopt a viewpoint-neutral process, and restore full access to the organizations it has unjustly excluded.”

“For far too long, major corporations have been relying on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s nefarious ‘Hate List’ to decide what organizations and charities their employees may give to as part of their corporate giving programs,” Paul Batura, vice president of communications at Focus on the Family, told the Daily Signal. “These entities have been relying on a distorted definition of ‘goodness.’”

“In fact, citing and sourcing the SPLC is the equivalent of a company promising clean water drawing their water from a polluted or toxic aquifer,” Batura added. “It’s our privilege to join the 1792 Exchange’s growing coalition in urging companies to stop making decisions and recommendations based on information from the SPLC.”

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Aspects of the 15-minute city are praiseworthy. I yield to no one in my embrace of the pedestrian city. I have long believed that walking as the best of all possible modes.

I also believe that cities should be freed from the business regulations that make it difficult to start small shops and cosy cafes in residential neighbourhoods. An exciting mixed-use neighbourhood can be one of the best gifts of urban entrepreneurship. In the US, we regulate the entrepreneurship of the poor far more than we regular the entrepreneurship of the rich. The rich innovate in cyberspace, which is largely a regulation free zone. The poor innovate on the ground, in real things, and local government rules micromanage the physical.

But the basic concept of a 15-minute city is not really a city at all. It’s an enclave — a ghetto – a subdivision. All cities should be archipelagos of neighbourhoods, but these neighbourhoods must be connected. Cities should be machines for connecting humans – rich and poor, black and white, young and old. Otherwise, they fail in their most basic mission and they fail to be places of opportunity.

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The U.S. general fertility rate has fallen by 22% since 2007, a sustained decline not readily explained by economic conditions, contraceptive use, housing or childcare costs, or other commonly cited factors. We assess the potential role of a different shock: the diffusion of the smartphone. The U.S. rollout of the iPhone, the first modern smartphone, provides a natural experiment: from June 2007 through February 2011, the device was sold only on AT&T, allowing us to identify its effect from variation in AT&T’s mobile broadband coverage. Entropy-balanced Poisson and synthetic difference-in-differences event studies imply that access to the iPhone reduced births by 4.5–8.0% at ages 15–19 and 3.2–6.6% at ages 20–24, with statistically significant but smaller declines among older cohorts. Placebo analyses applied to Verizon and Sprint’s pre-2011 coverage footprint are null. Taken together, these cohort effects imply that the diffusion of the iPhone deepened the decline in births among women under 30 while suppressing the rise in births among older women. Overall, the diffusion of the iPhone explains 33–52% of the decline in the general fertility rate among women aged 15–44. National-survey evidence on time use and sexual behavior is consistent with the iPhone reducing in-person interactions, increasing pornography use, and reducing sexual frequency.

iPhone -> social media -> dating apps -> massive amounts of attention -> women aren’t happy with their locally available prospective sex partners -> waiting for Drake to text … and waiting … and waiting….

Pretty straightforward.

The Register.

Britain’s much-heralded scheme to attract top scientific talent has managed to attract a total of 18 takers, the government has admitted.

The Global Talent visa program was launched last summer following announcements from the EU and France that they intended to tempt scientists unhappy with their lot in Trump’s America and elsewhere.

But while the EU was putting up €500 million ($575 million) in funding for foreign eggheads, the UK could only stump up a dedicated pot of £54 million ($72 million) to lure boffins to Britain.

According to the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), UK research organizations have managed to attract ten leading international researchers in the latest wave, who are expected to drive breakthroughs in clean energy, life sciences, and other advanced technologies.

This is on top of eight researchers previously announced by the agency.

The downside is that you have to live in Britain—or France.

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Zul Mohamed is running for mayor of Carrollton, Texas, and he doesn’t think military vets sacrificed anything for his freedom.

Well would you look at that, a foreign Muslim doesn’t support U.S. military.

This is the same guy who pleaded guilty to voter fraud in the State of Texas.

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Jacob Soboroff is an anchor on MSNBC/MSNOW, one of the chosen media outlets for Democrat propaganda.

He says everything is totally fine and there’s nothing to see here. DEMOCRACY IN ACTION!

Meanwhile:

Nithya Raman is the Zohran Mamdani of Los Angeles. She is an extremely wealthy champagne socialist who wants Los Angeles to become even more “progressive” than it has under current Democratic Mayor Karen Bass.

She was a solid 8 points behind Republican reality star Spencer Pratt on Election Day.

As many people anticipated, over the last week, the distant 3rd-place Raman has managed to overcome her deficit despite her dismal polling and debate performance.

You can see how Raman SURGED in the mail-in count.

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

UPDATE: California Reminds Voters There Are Just 30 Days Left To Vote In Last Tuesday’s Election  (Babylon Bee)

Obama-Appointed Judge With Deep Democrat Ties Overturns Trump Immigration Rules Quelle surprise.

Trump’s cognitive impairment endangers us all (Justin Glawe/Public Notice)  Assuming what you’re supposed to prove is a classic Narrative Media trick.

Capehart Says Trump And Republicans Are Why Platner Shouldn’t Drop Out

New GOP Resistance Emerges for Trump in Congress  The RINOs you have always with you.

Watch: Leftists Are Crying Over Trump’s Beautifully Restored Reflecting Pool

Trump cries ‘steal’ over slow California vote count, but anti-fraud system works, say experts (Roque Planas/The Guardian)  Experts say! That proves it!

Obama-Appointed Judge Orders Trump Admin To Restart Processing Asylum Claims

Fact-checking Trump’s interview with NBC News’ ‘Meet the Press’ (Jane C. Timm/NBC News)

The Five’s Tarlov Defends Platner’s ‘Platform’, Says Won’t Be Lectured By Party Of Trump

‘I’ve Had Enough!’ Trump Storms Out of Meet the Press Interview in Wild Fashion — Explodes On NBC’s Kristen Welker After She Hits Him With Fact Checks (Joe DePaolo/Mediaite)

The MAHA moms who helped elect Trump are out of patience (Cheyenne Haslett/Politico)  The mind-readers at Politico are hard at work crafting the Narrative.

Watch Trump walk off the set during Meet the Press  Trump won’t put up with the usual Narrative Media bullshit.

President Trump Walks Out of Combative NBC Interview with Kirsten Welker

President Trump Meet the Press Interview – Full Video and Transcript

‘I’ve Had Enough, Thank You Darling’: Trump Walks Out On NBC Interview

Lawsuit Aims to Stop U.F.C. Fights at White House on Trump’s Birthday (Zach Montague/New York Times)

Trump cuts off interview with Welker: ‘I’ve had enough’ (Max Rego/The Hill)

5 key moments from Trump’s cut-short “Meet the Press” interview (Andrew Pantazi/Axios)  Building the Narrative one moment at a time.

Trump walks out of ‘Meet the Press’ interview when challenged over false claims (Isaac Arnsdorf/Washington Post)  They have to put ‘false’ in the headline so you’ll know what the Narrative is.

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It’s amazing what can happen when attorneys get desperate enough. In the case of Cook County Circuit Judge James R. Brown, they got pretty desperate.

The controversy erupted when Judge Brown wrote a caustic piece, after he had retired from his position, protesting the kinds of misbehaviors he saw in government when he wrote a column for John Kass in Chicago:

Please note that he was a retired judge when he wrote this column. After he had been retired for five years, the Illinois Supreme Court called on him to serve a temporary assignment in Cook County’s traffic courts due to an overload of cases.

Of course, the Democrats were enraged. When the Cook County Bar Association and the Chicago Council of Lawyers demanded that the Illinois Supreme Court rescind Brown’s appointment, they did. They claimed that he had “clearly violated” the code of conduct (even though he had written the column earlier during his retirement).

Judge Brown was not going to take his removal lying down, and filed suit in federal court, seeking a court order to reverse the state high court’s decision to abruptly toss him from the bench:

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The Bank of England has now admitted the quiet part out loud. Historical figures including Winston Churchill were removed from future banknotes after researchers told officials they were “elitist and divisive.”

Nicholas Kristof, a Voice of the Crust.

A quiz question: Which state does best at ensuring the well-being of its citizens, giving them health, education and hope?

The question lays bare Kristof’s life-long career as a Woke proglodyte statist.

How is it the duty of the state to give its inhabitants ‘health’, ‘education’, or ‘hope’? And you’ll notice that he pays no attention to things that most of us might be interested in, such as freedom, law enforcement, and opportunity.

It comes as no surprise that his answer is Minnesota, heartland of Somali fraud, male bathroom tampons,  and BLM riots.

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A violent Antifa protest erupted outside the Turning Point Women’s Leadership Summit in San Antonio, Texas on Saturday. After protesters attempted, but failed, to storm into the event through a police blockade, the violence escalated.

One man, who had been pepper-sprayed for storming police, was seen washing his eyes with water from a plastic bottle. He immediately threw the bottle at a nearby police officer and ran. The protester was caught. Though he resisted arrest, he was thrown to the ground and taken away.

The Foundry.

State auditors across the country were unable to verify billions of dollars in unemployment spending, Medicaid payments, and pension obligations in federally-funded programs, according to a new report by a government watchdog group.

The findings in the 2026 Financial Transparency Score report, released by the government watchdog Truth in Accounting, found that 13 states failed to earn clean audit opinions. The report comes as the Trump administration is cracking down on how states are spending federal dollars.

The organization used data from annual comprehensive financial reports, or ACFRs, produced by each state as a requirement for getting federal funding.

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California’s punishing cost of living isn’t inevitable—it’s policy-driven. Burdensome regulations have sent housing and energy prices soaring, crushing incomes and deepening poverty. Smarter deregulation could bring back the Golden State’s long-lost affordability and historic role as a “land of opportunity.”

In 2024, California had a poverty rate of 17.7%, meaning about 7 million people were unable to afford basic necessities, well above the national rate of 10.6%. Child poverty nearly tripled from 7.5% in 2021 to 18.6% in 2024. The state also reports the nation’s largest homeless population of 187,084 individuals in 2024.

These outcomes stem from an economy burdened by regulations, particularly those governing housing supply and energy production, which inflate costs and trap Californians in cycles of poverty.

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When the next governor—Democrat Gavin Newsom—was sworn into office in January 2019, it seemed almost a certainty that during his tenure, the state’s population would exceed 40 million. But, according to the Census Bureau’s latest estimates, California’s population has not increased under Newsom, it has decreased.

In Newsom’s first two years, California’s population made miniscule gains. From 2018 to 2019, it grew from 39,437,463 to 39,437,610—an increase of a mere 147. In 2020, it hit 39,527,808—an increase of 90,198. Then in 2021 and 2022, it dropped—first to 39,152,927 and then to 39,125,347. In 2023, it moved up again slightly, but in the two years after that it dropped again, hitting 39,355,309 in 2025.

That was down 82,301 from the 39,437,610 who inhabited the state in 2019, the year Newsom took office.

What has happened under Newsom to reverse California’s long-term trend in population growth?

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On March 25th, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution describing the transatlantic slave trade and the enslavement of Africans as “the gravest crime against humanity.” The text was adopted by 123 votes to 3, with 52 states abstaining, including France, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom, and most European countries. The United States, Israel, and Argentina voted against.

The symbolic significance of this resolution is considerable. No one would dispute that the transatlantic slave trade constitutes one of the greatest tragedies in human history. For several centuries, millions of Africans were deported to the Americas under appalling conditions, reduced to the status of commodities, and integrated into an economic system based on their dehumanisation. The memory of this crime deserves to be acknowledged and passed on.

But it is precisely because the history of slavery is too grave to be exploited that we must question the ideological assumptions underlying this resolution. For the controversial nature of the text does not lie in its condemnation of the transatlantic slave trade but in what it omits.

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I couldn’t resist a pun for the title of this post. But the content is no joke. We all knew that the vote counting in California is very very slow, and that there’s a history of it turning towards the left as it goes on and if there’s a hint of someone on the right doing relatively well.

Does that mean there’s cheating? Maybe. There’s certainly a strong desire to win coupled with a less-than-convincing devotion to assuring that the will of the voters will be carried out no matter what the outcome. The mail-in ballots that can come in late, the drop-boxes, the rabid leftist partisanship, all combine to create at the very least a lack of trust in the system on the part of anyone on the right.

And so it was almost a foregone conclusion that this would be happening, and that it would seem suspicious whether it is or not.

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We have known for some time that our federal employees have cushy lives compared to the people for whom they work (us). What is particularly infuriating is that so many of them either don’t pay their taxes or are seriously delinquent on what they owe their employer—the federal government.

Recently, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration found in a new report showing that 6.9% of federal employees are delinquent on their IRS taxes. That amounts to about 215,000 employees. This is a marked increase in three short years from 4.9%. It is appalling that the rate was previously as high as it was, but it has now hit crisis level, seemingly with little or no consequences. This is in contrast to a 5% delinquency rate among the general population.

The number of delinquents exploded during the Biden administration, which was lax on enforcing anything for favored groups. We can only speculate as to why federal employees felt they had the right to forgo paying their taxes. It might be Biden allowing so many people to go without repaying their student loans that encouraged the government’s employees to skip payments.

The fascinating aspect of this is that these employees are W-2 wage earners who have withholding taken out of their paychecks. The government can easily enforce additional withholding to make sure its employees are in compliance. The feds can easily garnish workers’ wages, as they certainly know where they work. Indeed, the feds do this all the time to ordinary citizens.

I must confess that I am the last person to think ill of people who resist having the Deep State pick their pockets.

Atlas Obscura, an impressively well-named site. (With thanks to VA Viper, a kindred soul.)

ONE DAY THIS PAST APRIL, the residents of Durham, North Carolina, saw the sky turn a peculiar but familiar shade of chartreuse. Enormous clouds of a fine, yellow-green powder engulfed the city. It looked, and felt, like the end of the world. “Your car was suddenly yellow, the sidewalk was yellow, the roof of your house was yellow,” says Kevin Lilley, assistant director of the city’s landscape services. Residents, quite fittingly, called it a “pollenpocalypse.”

Male trees are one of the most significant reasons why allergies have gotten so bad for citydwellers in recent decades. They’re indiscriminate, spewing their gametes in every direction. They can’t help it—it’s what evolution built them for. This is fine in the wild, where female trees trap pollen to fertilize their seeds. But urban forestry is dominated by male trees, so cities are coated in their pollen. Tom Ogren, horticulturalist and author of Allergy-Free Gardening: The Revolutionary Guide to Healthy Landscaping, was the first to link exacerbated allergies with urban planting policy, which he calls “botanical sexism.”

In trees, sex exists beyond the binary of female and male. Some, such as cedar, mulberry, and ash trees, are dioecious, meaning each plant is distinctly female or male. Others, such as oak, pine, and fig trees are monoecious, meaning they have male and female flowers on the same plant. It’s easy to identify female trees or parts—they’re the ones with seeds. And yet more, such as hazelnut and apple trees, produce “perfect” flowers that contain male and female parts within a single blossom. But while both monoecious and male dioecious trees produce pollen, Ogren claims the latter are primarily to blame for our sneezes and watery eyes.

Nothing is too obscure to escape Politial Incorrectness.