DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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

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

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

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And who could blame her?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I fail to see a down side to this development.

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

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Think of it as evolution in action.

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

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

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

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

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It’s time to dismantle one of the most degraded sectors in American higher education: schools of education. The colleges responsible for training and certifying the majority of our nation’s teachers have become factories for mediocrity and indoctrination—the embodiment of what Allan Bloom termed “the closing of the American mind.” States have both the authority and obligation to replace these monolithic institutions by promoting better teacher-prep pathways that are already proving their worth across the nation.

As recent graduates of Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education, we believe that teachers must be more than competent technicians—they must deliberately form American citizens.

Today, however, schools of education are the chief culprits in the growing disquiet among pundits and everyday Americans about the value of the traditional four-year college experience. Graduates with bachelor’s degrees in education are among the lowest earners of any college major. Even more alarmingly, recent research shows their degrees aren’t worth what they paid and are often financed with loans.

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Alex from the Bronx is here to relate to black southerners.

AOC traveled to Atlanta this weekend to take the pulpit at Ebenezer Baptist Church, former home to MLK Jr. and current home church of Georgia senator Raphael Warnock, in order to whip up racial tensions over redistricting.

Color of their skin? Awesome! Content of their character? Not so much….

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Police in Toronto have arrested a man they say shot at “visibly identifiable members of the Jewish community” on two occasions a week apart.

Ruslan Novruzov, 18, is charged with assault with a weapon and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose in conjunction with the shootings, which took place on April 30 and Thursday, one week later.

In both incidents, people experienced minor injuries, according to the Toronto police. The shooting on Thursday targeted three people standing outside of Congregation Chasidei Bobov, an Orthodox synagogue.

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Documenting the exodus from Illinois.

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Democrats have gone into what party insiders openly describe as panic mode as Republicans suddenly see a clearer path to holding the House in 2026.

A series of court rulings on redistricting and voting rights has given the GOP a clear path to pick up at least 10 House seats, political experts say.

What only weeks ago appeared to be a growing Democrat advantage in the national redistricting battle has now dramatically reversed.

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New organized labor reforms signed into law by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis last week require a majority of members to be present for teachers union certification or recertification votes, increase fines for illegal strikes, and establish merit-based pay for educators.

In Idaho, after July 1, teachers unions will be prohibited from collecting dues directly from members’ paychecks, using paid time off for union activities, or recruiting new members during school hours.

A similar law in Arizona, which also bans teacher strikes and prohibits organized labor members from using any school property—even email addresses—for union activities, will be decided on by voters in the November election.

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Bahrain’s Interior Ministry announced on Saturday the arrest of 41 citizens, including multiple Shia religious leaders, over alleged ties to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

The ministry said security services uncovered the alleged network through “investigations, security reports, and previous Public Prosecution cases related to espionage involving foreign entities.” The detainees are accused of “espionage involving foreign entities and sympathy with blatant Iranian aggression.”

Around 30 Shia Muslim clerics were among the 41 arrested, as the Gulf monarchy intensifies a campaign of raids and arrests predominantly targeting Shia religious figures and seminary teachers in Bahrain.

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The Maryland Office of People’s Counsel (OPC), a state agency that represents its utility consumers, filed a complaint before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) regarding PJM Interconnection, LLC’s plans to charge it $2 billion of the $22 billion it spent to upgrade its grid to accommodate increasing demand from data centers. According to the OPC’s press release, this $2 billion bill will cost the state’s consumers an extra $1.6 billion in the next ten years alone — that means an extra $823 million for residential (approx. $345 per customer), $146 million for commercial (approx. $673 per customer), and $629 million for industrial customers (approx. $15,074 per customer).

“Without FERC action, Maryland customers face paying billions for transmission infrastructure that PJM is advancing to benefit data centers,” said Maryland People’s Counsel David S. Lapp. “PJM’s cost allocation rules are broken. Maryland customers have neither caused the need for these billions in new transmission projects nor will they meaningfully benefit from them.”

PJM Interconnection, LLC is the United States’ largest electricity transmission company, and covers 13 states plus Washington, D.C. This includes Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia, covering about 65 million people, or about 20% of the entire U.S. population. Some of these states, including Maryland, host a large number of data centers, so the firm needs to upgrade its infrastructure to meet projected demand from these power-hungry AI systems.

Why not let them provide their own power? Say, small nuclear reactors?

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Baylor College of Medicine researchers have found that the human brain is capable of sophisticated language processing while in an unconscious state from general anesthesia. The findings, published in the latest edition of Nature, challenge what we know about the role of consciousness and cognition, and could open new ways of understanding memory, language and brain-computer interfaces.

“Our findings show that the brain is far more active and capable during unconsciousness than previously thought,” said Dr. Sameer Sheth, professor and Cullen Foundation Endowed chair of neurosurgery and a McNair Scholar at Baylor. “Even when patients are fully anesthetized, their brains continue to analyze the world around them.”

Sheth, who is also a neurosurgeon at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center, and his collaborators first recorded neural activity from hundreds of individual neurons in the hippocampus, a part of the brain associated with memory, while patients were under general anesthesia during epilepsy surgery. Patients undergoing this type of surgery were sought after because it allowed researchers access to this particular part of the brain.

Using Neuropixels probes, a technology which had not been used in this part of the brain before, the team collected data on how the brain processed sound and language without conscious awareness.

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The death toll from a suicide attack on a security post in northwest Pakistan rose to 14 police officers early Sunday, authorities said as a self-proclaimed breakaway group of the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.

A suicide bomber and several gunmen detonated an explosives-laden vehicle near the post in Bannu, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, late on Saturday, senior police official Sajjad Khan said. The attack triggered a shootout, and some officers were killed in the exchange, while others died later after the building collapsed.

Rescuers searched for hours and used heavy machinery to retrieve bodies from under the rubble, Khan said, adding that three police officers were wounded in the attack.

As long as Islam exists, ‘jihadis’ will be a problem. It’s been that way for 1400 years, and there is no indication that it will change. Whether our Ruling Class will continue prating how ‘peaceful’ Muslims are while ignoring the mass murder, or whether they will wake up and decide to do something about it, is an exercise left for the reader.

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In 1921, Woodrow Wilson, the first of America’s four transformative progressive presidents, became the first president to remain in Washington and make the nation’s capital his permanent home after leaving office. In very mild defense of the man who did more than any other to establish the administrative state and thus pervert America’s carefully constructed constitutional design, Wilson had suffered a debilitating stroke two years prior that left him partially paralyzed and nearly blind. He died just a few years later, in 1924.

Former President Barack Obama, the nation’s fourth transformative progressive president (following Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson), had no such excuse when he and his wife, Michelle, decided, like Wilson, to similarly make the District of Columbia’s tony Kalorama neighborhood their permanent home after leaving 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Surely, the physical proximity to the White House was one factor in the Obamas’ decision; the 44th president officially visited his former vice president there at least once, with perhaps other unofficial visits as well.

But convenience of his physical proximity to the White House aside, Obama’s residential decision has proven to be even more symbolically potent. The 44th president has declared that he is still here and he is not going anywhere.

Some recent presidents, such as George W. Bush, have decided to ride off into the sunset and enjoy peaceful, private retirements after leaving the Oval Office. Bush even took up painting as a hobby. Obama is a golfer, but he seems to enjoy politicking and punditry more than the links.

Unfortunately, the American people are suffering the consequences of Obama’s insatiable desire to insert himself into the national conversation. He has been vocal in criticizing the Trump-era GOP and boosting Democrats on the campaign trail ever since making the 2-mile trek from the White House to Kalorama.

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Chindogu, the Japanese art of crafting quirky and impractical gadgets, literally translates to ‘valuable’ or ‘priceless tool.’ It’s a unique cultural phenomenon where creativity meets eccentric problem-solving.

These gadgets, though clever, often tread the line between ingenious solutions and the potential embarrassment of public use.

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Maryland is one of many blue states that have transformed into a failed progressive experiment, where net migration flows are negative as productive, working-class taxpayers flee the state, not just because of high taxes and the power bill crisis, but also because they’ve had enough of left-wing politicians and their failed criminal justice and social reforms that have fueled a decade of violent crime chaos.

We’ve extensively covered more than a decade of violent crime, riots, population collapse, and the exodus of taxpayers and businesses from imploding Baltimore City, which has been hit hard by a commercial real estate crisis in parts of the downtown area. But rarely have we focused on Baltimore County, just north of the city, where, yet again, left-wing politicians who masquerade as competent managers but are merely DEI activists have unleashed years of lawlessness through failed policies.

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As ought to be self-evident, it is only possible to clearly recognize a Nazi salute, or what Germans call the ‘Hitler salute,’ in live action or in a video, but not in a still image. In a still image, anyone waving or beckoning—even, say, hailing a taxi—may appear to have been giving the Nazi salute when they were not. In certain still images, given other congruent elements, we can safely assume that those portrayed are indeed giving the Nazi salute. Thus, for example, in the historical photograph below, we can safely assume that the assembled Wehrmacht officers are not just waving to the Führer. But, otherwise, without such congruent elements, we cannot know from a still image if an outstretched right arm is a Nazi salute or not.

When seen by a disapproving proglodyte, obviously.

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He seemed a genuinely nice fellow, and appeared sincere in his commitment to the cause. He had attracted quite a following among well-meaning and progressive-minded non-Muslims, many of them Jews. He presented the tantalizing possibility that Islam could be transformed into a more an enlightened version of itself, one that would no longer be the religion of vengeance, violence, and bloodshed.

Was he for real? Or was it taqiyya? There was no way to tell. And it doesn’t really matter, because from a Counterjihad perspective Dr. Jasser is just is dangerous in either case. Islam can’t be, and won’t be, reformed from within, because it is an evolutionarily stable strategy whose core rules block any efforts to change it before they can even begin. Would-be reformers are blasphemers who must be killed.

Non-Muslims who look to Zuhdi Jasser as the great Islamic hope are wishful thinkers pursuing a phantasm. Opponents of Islam who put all their eggs in that basket are wasting their energy on a hopeless quest. And I’m sure that’s just fine from the perspective of the Muslim Brotherhood: “Let the foolish infidels chase after the good doctor! It will keep them out of our hair until we have sufficient numbers and have successfully penetrated all the major redoubts of their culture, after which we can strike the final blow and implement Sharia.”

The New Neo.

Reaction after reaction follows a pattern that shows zero understanding of the fact that states have different rules from each other about how to accomplish redistricting, and that Virginia didn’t follow its own rules. A lot of tweets and comments follow a “they did it in [fill in the blank with a Republican-controlled state], so why can’t we do it in Virginia?” Well, because Virginia has different rules, and this is a state-by-state proposition.

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Once again, I don’t think this is mere stupidity. The concept of federalism is not a difficult one, and I’m pretty sure these people could easily master it. Their reaction is politically motivated, of course. To me, it also indicates the desire for states all to have the same rules, and for those rules to always favor Democrats. Plus, I think these tweets come from people who may (accent on the “may”) know better, but who count on the idea that their readersdon’t know better and are trying to stir them up to rage. It’s one of the reasons Democrats want education to be leftist indoctrination that keeps people ignorant of some very important facts about our government and our history.

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Watch carefully as Britain flushes itself down the toilet….

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One of the co-authors of California’s controversial ‘one-time’ tax on billionaires appeared to suggest that the levy could extend beyond a single imposition.

Marxist economics professor Emmanuel Saez, who hails from France, made the comment during a Tuesday debate against economist Arthur Laffer at the University of California, Berkeley.

“I don’t think it’s going to be a one-time tax. Because you can’t surprise billionaires more than once,” Saez said. “Even then, maybe some of them were expecting something like this. So, it’s going to be a debate about this time, you know, a permanent wealth tax at a low rate that’s going to last for a number of years.”

Time to leave.

The Foundry.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is already having success in redistributing wealth, right out of his city.

It seems the socialist mayor’s creepy video celebrating Tax Day and directly calling out billionaire CEO Ken Griffin as a target for a new pied-à-terre tax may have backfired.

While the slickly produced video—where he gleefully spoke about taxing the “rich”—may have been good short-term politics, it could ultimately create a financial doom cascade for a New York City already facing a “historic” budget crisis.

According to a report in the New York Post, Griffin and other “billionaire bigwigs” are earnestly considering leaving the city, or at the very least looking to make future investments elsewhere.

“The splashy one-two punch of Citadel CEO Ken Griffin and Apollo Global Management honcho Marc Rowan pledging to expand outside New York City has been coupled with a silent wave of businesses ‘quiet quitting’ the city over its hostile environment,” according to the Post.

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A prominent X account recently posted her insane $9,000 bill for a hospitalization from a year prior. Then, as always happens, someone on the internet announced with great confidence that this is what happens when healthcare is left to the free market. As if the most regulated industry in America actually functions in a free market.

Nowhere in America is a free market, except maybe schoolkids trading baseball cards.

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A curriculum audit for an Arizona school district last year identified a resource that urged teachers to direct students to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “hate map” and avoid the websites of “hate groups” or their sympathizers.

Critics have faulted the SPLC for putting mainstream conservative and Christian groups, such as Moms for Liberty, Turning Point USA, PragerU, Focus on the Family, Alliance Defending Freedom, the Family Research Council, and others, on a “hate map” with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan.

The Lake Havasu Unified School District told The Daily Signal that no teacher ever used the resource, which the district said had been created by Savvas Learning Company.

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Fraud in government programs is often treated like an urban legend—something that happens in faraway blue cities run by corrupt political machines. But the truth is more unsettling: Some of the most brazen theft of taxpayer money is happening in places governed by Republicans, right under their noses.

Consider Ohio.

At one address in Columbus, investigators found 94 different companies registered in the same building. The windows were covered. The offices appeared empty. Yet, according to The Daily Wire investigative team led by Luke Rosiak, that single address has billed taxpayers more than $66 million.

This is not a minor accounting error. It is not mere “waste.” It is a system being exploited.

The War Zone.

The U.S. carried out new attacks on Iranian targets today, striking several empty oil tankers trying to break the blockade, according to a post on X by U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM). This latest incident comes as the UAE says it was attacked again by Iran today and hours after the U.S. and Iran exchanged blows in and around the Strait of Hormuz.

U.S. forces “disabled M/T Sea Star III and M/T Sevda, May 8, prior to both vessels entering an Iranian port on the Gulf of Oman in violation of the ongoing U.S. blockade, CENTCOM stated. “A U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet from USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) disabled both tankers after firing precision munitions into their smokestacks, preventing the non-compliant ships from entering Iran.”

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Celebrity land thief Billie Eilish flaunted her hypocrisy again, this week, when she scolded Americans that we are all morally repugnant for eating meat.

“Eating meat is inherently wrong,” she proclaimed in an interview with Elle Magazine.

“Two things cannot coincide,” she continued, lecturing viewers that loving animals and enjoying a good ribeye are mutually exclusive.

Apparently that makes all of us carnivore dog owners Cruella de Vil!

The self-righteous pop star expectedly alienated many with her take, to which she doubled down with an even more tone deaf and grammar-blind response.

“Go watch some footage of what is done to the animals! if that footage was hard for u to watch i encourage u to pls take a look at urself,” she wrote on Instagram.

That’s rich, coming from a militant abortion cheerleader who has previously stated banning the dismemberment of pre-born babies makes her “so mad.” Maybe she should go watch some footage of what is done to HUMAN BEINGS in the womb and take a look at herself, if it’s also hard to watch.”

If “standing up” and “having empathy for living beings” is so “controversial,” like Billie claims, leftists like her are the reason why.

The Foundry.

Not only was the SPLC allegedly boosting members of the hate groups it says it exists to oppose while demonizing mainstream conservatives, but it also reportedly settled a racial discrimination lawsuit as recently as 2024.

Michael Edison Hayden, who worked as a senior investigative reporter at the SPLC’s Intelligence Project, wrote a tell-all article on Substack last month.

Hayden faulted the SPLC for not attacking conservatives enough; for harassing members of the SPLC’s union; for responding poorly to the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and its aftermath; and for engaging in racial discrimination against him.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

As anti-LGBTQ legislation proliferated across the United States in late 2024, leaders at two Jewish nonprofits began discussing the mounting crisis for LGBTQ Americans who no longer felt safe in their home states but lacked the financial means to leave.

Having more queer people around = ‘safe’? News to me.

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Minnesota Senate Democrats recently voted – unaminously – against removing deceased persons from the state’s voter rolls.

This tracks with the fact that almost 100% of dead people vote for Democrats, making them Democrats’ most loyal voting bloc, even surpassing that of serial killers.

(This may explain why, historically, Democrat gerrymandering seems designed to encompass as many cemeteries as possible. O.K., that is just an unfounded assertion, but it seems likely, does it not?)

The dead — and serial killers — are groups that vote heavily for Democrats? Talk about a symbiotic relationship! The latter provide the former! Genius! Kismet!

This after they also voted — unanimously — against an oversight committee effort to compel Rep. Ilhan Omar to testify after she missed a deadline to provide documents to the committee investigating the Somali fraud rampant in the North Star State.

So the multi-millionaire or poverty-stricken representative (take your pick) from Somalia escapes a subpoena, at least for now.

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A longtime donor to Michigan Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has been charged with 16 felonies for allegedly misusing $20 million of state funds.

New York Post.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has been roundly scorned after she claimed on a podcast this week that the idea anyone can earn their way to billionaire status is a “myth.”

“You can’t earn a billion dollars. You just can’t earn that,” the Bronx and Queens rep told comedian Ilana Glazer on Thursday on the latter’s podcast, “It’s Open.” “You can get market power, you can break rules, you can do all sorts of things.

“You can abuse labor laws, you can pay people less than what they’re worth. But you can’t earn that, right? And so you have to create a myth that — since you didn’t earn that, you have to create a myth of earning it.”

AOC doubled down in a post on X Thursday evening, writing: “The single largest form of theft in America is wage theft. $50 billion a year are stolen from American workers … Some people get enraged that I draw attention to this. That’s on them. Let them call me shrill, dumb, inexperienced, girly, uneducated – these folks will say anything to distract from or undercut the truth that working people are getting screwed, and giving people a fair shake means we must have a grown conversation about reigning [sic] in abuse of power.”

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It was supposed to cost $33 billion when voters approved the train in 2008. It will now cost at least $126 billion.

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An Islamic State-affiliated group attacked villages in Congo near the border with Uganda, killing at least 40 people and burning and looting homes, a local civil society group said on Friday.

The Foundry.

A dozen Democrat-led states declared victory Thursday in a legal battle that effectively checked off two priorities from a liberal coalition’s 2024 template for blue states to thwart President Donald Trump’s agenda.

An attachment to a Dec. 13, 2024, email to the coalition Governors Safeguarding Democracy outlined the organization’s priorities to oppose then-President-elect Trump through litigation and policy battles, including opposition to deporting illegal aliens and efforts to prevent the loss of federal funding.

In the Thursday action, the Department of Homeland Security dropped an appeal to withhold Federal Emergency Management Agency funding from sanctuary jurisdictions, which had originally prompted the 12-state lawsuit against the administration.

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Germany’s labour minister has been accused of denying reality after insisting “nobody immigrates into our social welfare system” despite government data showing foreigners are heavily overrepresented among welfare claimants.

The controversy erupted during a government question session on Wednesday, May 6th, when right-wing AfD MP René Springer asked why the government was not cutting spending “where it is obvious: immigration into our social systems” as Germany struggles with rising welfare costs and mounting budget pressure.

Labour Minister Bärbel Bas dismissed the claim outright, arguing instead that immigration was helping to address labour shortages.

Invasion and replacement proceeds apace.

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The UK government’s efforts to stop the boats met with reality on May 8th, as the total number of small-boat arrivals since 2018 officially surpassed the 200,000 mark.

A group of 70 migrants, intercepted by the Border Force vessel Ranger after launching from Dunkirk at dawn, brought the cumulative total to 200,013.

The news serves as a secondary blow to the prime minister, who is already reeling from a disastrous set of local election results overnight.

While the Home Office points to a 35% drop in year-to-date crossings compared to 2025, maritime experts warn that the reprieve is largely due to unseasonably poor weather rather than policy success.

Invasion and replacement is on course.

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The Virginia Supreme Court just struck down the new congressional map steamrolled through by Spanberger. The old map with Republican seats remains intact.

UPDATE: Virginia Considering New Measure That Just Makes It Illegal For Republicans To Vote (Babylon Bee)

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Color me surprised.

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The “reasonable” party, the party of empathy, has struck again.

Even their most reasonable politicians, like former Army Vet Wes Moore, who is now the governor of Maryland and seen as a rising star among Dems, are totally captured by the most insane ideas of the party.

I would let his 12-year-old son ‘change gender’ too. He deserves to have his genes subtracted from the gene pool.

Natural Selection works every time.