DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

Quillette.

For neo-decolonial activists, Western civilisation reflects all of the things they regard as oppression: capitalism, Zionism, borders, prisons, police, property, universities, legal systems, national sovereignty, and the ordinary habits of middle class life.

To call for our civilisation’s “total eradication” is to demand a revolutionary unmaking of the world that Western people inhabit. It is a politics of purification. It’s hard to view this as anything other than naked destructivism. They are talking about dismantling our whole society.

Western civilisation is a lot of things beyond simplistic labels like “capitalist”. Western civilisation is the assumption that government is limited by law; that a person can speak, worship, publish, own property, marry, dissent, sue, vote, and be judged as an individual. Western civilisation means the various habits of argument, self-criticism, contracts, due process, scientific inquiry, and voluntary association that make modern life possible. It is the system that has lifted billions of people out of poverty worldwide.

During the George Floyd protests, when another user asked whether there was a better slogan than “defund the police,” Chevalier reportedly replied: “Fuck you. We’re gonna defund and abolish. You don’t get to water down our movements.” When someone suggested that abolition meant ending policing “as we know it,” she corrected them: “No. It means ending policing full stop. Period. No more police at all ever.”

Freeberg nails it.

The straight white male privilege is: If people want to play this tribe game, your tribe is the first one they’re going to excoriate. It’s pretty consistent. So it’s not at all hard to pick out these people. They hate you already.

Winnowing down this friends list is as easy as falling off a log, for us straight white males. We just say “You don’t want to have anything to do with me? Fine. Your terms are acceptable.” And that’s it. No muss no fuss.

Gays…transgenders…blacks…”native Americans” and women…who have figured out the above three truisms and are struggling to get them implemented in their own lives…I dunno. I dunno how they even get started on it. It must be awful. A bunch of damn fair-weather friends and you have to figure out which ones are lying. Who’s only pretending to be your friend, so they can be someone else’s.

It would drive me bonkers. In a heartbeat.

Glad I’m a straight white male. A loathed, native-born, third-generation, Scandihoovian, meat eating carbon spewing always-wrong SWM.

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Mice get all the good stuff.

Not the Bee.

The Left tells us that if we just submit to government medicine and allowed the entire medical industry to become socialist, everything will be okay.

Meanwhile, as The Guardian reports, the reality is somewhat different.

It’s absolutely horrible.

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Reckless driving and aggressive driving can describe similar behavior, but they are not the same legal idea. Reckless driving is usually the more serious label because it turns on willful or wanton disregard for safety. Aggressive driving usually describes a pattern of hostile or impatient traffic behavior, and some states do not use that label as a separate charge.

There is no single national rule. A speed, lane change, or tailgating incident can be treated differently depending on the state, the road conditions, the risk created, and whether the driver threatened or endangered someone else.

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

Not the Bee.

It’s Somali Independence Day in Little Mogadishu, and this Minnesota man got stuck in the crowd.

Memo to self: Avoid Minnesota.

Not the Bee.

Arab Muslim migrant Loay Alnaji, a former community college professor, walked up to 69-year-old Paul Kessler at a protest in Thousand Oaks, California, two months after the horrific October 7th terror attack carried out by Hamas jihadis.

Alnaji, a jihad-lover, was angry that Kessler was counter-protesting the mostly peaceful pro-jihad rally. The two traded verbal spars, then witnesses say Alnaji walked over to Kessler and smacked him on the head with his megaphone.

Kessler fell backward on the concrete, busted his head open, and died due to the resulting brain bleed.

Judge Derek Malan offered Alnaji a sweetheart deal after he pled guilty in May to felony involuntary manslaughter and felony battery causing serious bodily injury. On Tuesday, he was sentenced to one year in county jail and two years of probation.

Memo to self: Avoid California.

Not the Bee.

This is your average pro-LGBT Democrat right here. Nothing going on upstairs. Just repeat the line.

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According to the UN Environment Programme, the world can expect to generate 408 million tons of waste by 2040. If nations around the world successfully adapted their systems, including getting better at reusing plastics and improving their processes for sorting recycling, then this total could be brought down to 216 million tons.

While multiple surveys show that there is overwhelming global support for a ban of some single-use plastics and consumers have also repeatedly claimed that the topic is important to them, Statista data shows that this is not necessarily trickling down all the way into shopping behaviors. According to a survey carried out by Statista Consumer Insights between April 2025 and March 2026, only between a third and a tenth of shoppers in most surveyed countries say that they avoid plastic packaging when buying food. This rate was especially low in Japan, known for its high use of single-use food packaging, at 7 percent. It stood at just 17 percent in the United States. India was one of the outliers of the survey. There, almost half of urban respondents said they had an eye on the matter. A comparably high level of respondents said the same in Vietnam, potentially showing that in countries where supermarkets still play a smaller role in daily shopping, plastic waste can be considered more by consumers.

The survey also reveals something about the nature in which respondents answer questionnaires. When asked if they actively try to reduce harmful packaging, many people tend to respond that they do. This is called social desirability bias, meaning that respondents might exaggerate their positive deeds in order to feel better about themselves. The answers displayed in the chart are from a multi-pick question in which respondents could pick all options that apply to them from a list of food consumption statements. Despite being free to check all boxes, many respondents focused on a few central statements, disregarding some of the desirable, but potentially less true behaviors.

They’re asking the wrong questions. Most shoppers don’t get to choose the packaging in which their products come. If they did, they might choose something other than plastic. But they want the product, and, however much they might prefer that it not come in plastic, they don’t get to chose—they have to take what the maker of the product offers. Nobody is going to choose one product over another merely based on the packaging unless it’s a total commodity, and even then price is far more dispositive.

Navy Matters.

More and more, the Western naval ship acquisition world is reverting to ‘existing designs with only minor modifications’ instead of new ship designs. This is due to fear rather than combat requirements: fear of runaway costs, fear of schedule delays, fear of bad publicity and criticism, fear of innovation, etc. Fear. The Western naval world is acquiring ships as a reaction to fear of their own ineptitude

Instead of honestly and objectively assessing the reasons for acquisition failures and fixing the problems, Western navies have opted for the perceived path of safety over that of combat effectiveness.

That’s an Aggie for you.

The Telegraph (UK).

The Treasury has removed a numeracy test from its graduate scheme to boost diversity.

What kind of ‘graduates’ find numeracy a barrier?

The government department quietly scrapped the numerical reasoning test from its application process in 2020 owing “to evidence of the test having an adverse impact on candidate diversity”.

I guess diversity is more desired than, say, core competency.

The measure, uncovered by the Spectator magazine, has been described as “insane” and “through the looking glass” by critics.

Well, duh.

The Telegraph (UK).

Of course they do. They’re Muslims.

The Telegraph (UK).

One 20-year-old student says barriers he faces in education and employment because of his race have left him wanting to leave the UK.

And who could blame him?

The Telegraph (UK).

White working-class students are excluded from almost all Oxbridge diversity scholarships, an analysis by The Telegraph has found.

More than a dozen scholarships, bursaries and financial aid schemes are available to Oxford and Cambridge university students based on their ethnicity and not their socioeconomic backgrounds.

While all of the schemes can be used by students from black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds, they almost entirely exclude white working-class students, who are one of the most under-represented groups in higher education.

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An Ashura procession in Berlin has sparked widespread condemnation after participants chanted support for deceased Islamist terror leaders and flagged controversial symbols, Junge Freiheit reports.

During the march, observing a holy day that holds major historical and religious significance for Shiite and Sunni Muslims, attendees openly chanted the name of former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in a 2024 Israeli airstrike, and paid tribute to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

The event drew severe criticism online and from civic groups, particularly due to the treatment of young children during the processions. Social media footage showed children dressed in ceremonial robes and bound with ropes, being led through the streets in 40-degree heat. The Jewish Forum for Democracy and Against Antisemitism (JFDA) condemned the scene on its X account, calling it a “disturbing instrumentalization of children” who were put on display for an “Islamist spectacle” under dangerous weather conditions.

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Of course it is.

A nationwide campaign in Germany portraying Muslims as an inseparable part of everyday life has drawn renewed scrutiny over its federal taxpayer funding. Launched by the Berlin-based non-profit organization CLAIM, the ‘Action Weeks Against Anti-Muslim Racism’ initiative aims to combat discrimination by highlighting Muslims in various professional and social roles. As reported by the Hungarian Conservative, the initiative is funded by the Federal Family Ministry through its ‘Live Democracy!’ program, with the organization receiving a grant of nearly €625,000 for 2026, alongside substantial funding from the Interior Ministry and other federal streams.

Despite receiving extensive state financial support, CLAIM has faced ongoing controversies regarding its historical organizational links. Until its dissolution in November 2025, the wider CLAIM alliance consisted of more than 50 organizations, some of which had documented links to political Islam. For instance, Inssan, a co-founding member of the alliance, appeared in Berlin intelligence reports for its proximity to Muslim Brotherhood networks and individuals associated with a meeting point for Hamas supporters. Although CLAIM has denied any connection to these extremist groups and has since distanced itself from Inssan, the recurring controversies previously threatened the group’s eligibility for public funding.

To safeguard its access to federal grants, CLAIM reorganized its structure, officially dissolving the controversial alliance in late 2025 and transferring its operations to a newly incorporated non-profit limited-liability company. Total federal support connected to CLAIM exceeded €1.22 million in 2025 alone.

The Antiplanner.

An urbanist named Devon Zuegel compares an aerial photo of the city center of Siena, Italy with a Houston freeway interchange (specifically, the eastern intersection of I-10 and I-610). Both occupy about the same amount of land, she says, but one is home to 30,000 people.

And don’t get me started on the sewage situation….

The Other McCain

The Revolutionary Black Panther Party (RBPP) “is an active, Marxist-Leninist black nationalist organization in Michigan,” according to an AI summary. The Michigan chapter of the RBPP is part of a nationwide organization reportedly founded in 1992. Saturday they staged an armed rally in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, to protest the police shooting of Da’Quain Trey Johnson. That got my attention

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Barbara Boyd discusses three Democratic Socialists of America-backed candidates endorsed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani winning upset victories in New York congressional primaries, framing the results as part of a long-term cultural project rather than a purely economic platform. She argues the DSA’s internal education centers on communist theorist Antonio Gramsci and his strategy of revolution through cultural “hegemony,” citing a deleted Instagram post from a group tied to one winner that called for the “total eradication of Western Civilization.”

Boyd highlights a newly published DSA platform proposing major constitutional changes, then links Gramsci to the Council on Foreign Relations’ “post-Trump world” series, noting CFR fellow Charles Kupchan opens with a Gramsci quote and attacks reindustrialization and tariffs. She claims British imperial networks historically sponsored Marx and later Gramsci, using communism and counterculture against rivals, and urges promoting Trump’s “American System” economics and an optimistic national culture ahead of the midterms.

Not the Bee.

Thieves in Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, Mexico are all asking one question: ¿Quién eres tú?

And the terrifying answer in the night is, ¡Yo soy, Batman!

According to authorities, a masked vigilante is swooping in, beating up bad guys, and leaving them gift wrapped for the cops to pick up.

No good deed goes unpunished … by the state.

These are the same police who are quite happy to receive a polite bribe if you are moved to offer one. Just to be nice.

Not the Bee.

You’ve probably never met Tlaleng Mofokeng, Special Rapporteur on the right to health at the UN. But there’s no time like the present.

Sorry, but I don’t take health advice from the morbidly obese.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

A closely watched Colorado primary on Tuesday could see attorney Melat Kiros join a growing class of democratic socialists and staunch Israel critics headed to Congress.

Kiros, a Democratic Socialists of America member, is looking to unseat incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette, in a district that covers nearly all of Denver. The race comes one week after a slate of progressives won their Democratic primaries in New York City, energizing left-wing advocates who are looking for additional victories around the country.

A number of Jewish leaders and groups in Colorado have voiced concerns about Kiros, who drew criticism after calling Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack “inevitable” and declining to refer to the Boulder firebombing attack as antisemitic.

Kiros has made her sharp criticism of Israel and its relationship with the United States a central part of her campaign. Her platform includes a complete arms embargo on Israel and ending military subsidies to the Jewish state.

“Democratic Socialist” is an oxymoron. Socialism is inherently statist and therefore cannot be ‘democratic’.

… how you see a plethora of videos on YouTube and TikTok from women asking Where All The Good Men Are, but you don’t see ANY videos from men asking Where All The Good Women Are?

Just sayin’….

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The podcast Idea Theory explains it all better than I could.

The politics have changed. The 2016 calculation was “Don’t anger the Chinese government.” But the 2026 calculation is “Demonstrate diversity to the right audiences.” But the underlying practice is the same. The role isn’t being cast in any deeply artistic sense. It’s being solved for against a  political backdrop by a marketing department. Once again, the actor is the variable. Once again, the politics are the function. And it turns out what we are looking at is a marketing department using actors as semaphore flags to signal political alignment. But what you can’t do, and what no functioning art form has been able to do for very long, is treat your actors as semaphore flags, because once the actor becomes a flag, the work stops being about what the actor is doing on-screen, and starts being about what the actor represents off it. And what you have at that point isn’t really art so much as advertising for an ideology. And then there’s the hypocrisy of how all this gets justified. If suddently we’re told that Helen is mythic, and that mythic figures can be anyone, and that no Greek queen has a fixed ethnicity anyway, the Helen of 2026 turns out to be infinitely flexible in a way that the Tibetan monk of 2016 was not.

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Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

A growing number of Jewish, Democratic and LGBTQ figures are condemning the harassment of Jewish congressional candidate Scott Wiener by anti-Zionists at the San Francisco Trans March on Friday.

And the proglodite Coalistion of the Fringes gets fringier and fringier every day.

Wiener had been filmed at the march while several activists, including the man filming him, surrounded him and yelled at him about Gaza and Israel; he ultimately left the scene. The incident followed another at which Wiener was accused of supporting genocide while at a sports bar, and preceded a filmed anti-Zionist harassment of another local Jewish LGBTQ politician at a San Francisco Pride march.

There is absolutely no evidence that these people aren’t a dyed-in-the-wool progs; it’s just because they’re Jewish. Of course, under Identity Politics, Who You Are inflexibly determines What You Think, whether that matches Actual Reality or not, so this was entirely predictable and entirely unpreventable.

CCOS: If I were named Scott Wiener. I would be unable to resist the impulse to start a podcast or newsletter called The Wiener Report. (You can imagine what it would cover … or uncover, as the case may be.)

ATQUE: Scott Wiener Learns Why The Left Is Violent

New York Post.

The architect behind California’s controversial billionaire tax dismissed warnings the proposal is already driving wealthy residents out of the Golden State, calling the claims “entirely fabricated” even as a growing list of billionaires have reportedly relocated or are weighing an exit ahead of the November election.

Dave Regan, president of SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW), said there is “absolutely no evidence” that wealthy Californians are fleeing because of the proposed one-time tax, pushing back against critics ranging from Gov. Gavin Newsom to business groups and Silicon Valley executives.

“There is absolutely no evidence that billionaires leave,” Regan told KCRA’s Ashley Zavala Sunday as the bill made it onto the November ballot.

Well, let’s ask Sergei Brin about that, in his new digs in Florida….

His comments come months after reports that at least six California billionaires had already severed their residency before Jan. 1 — the cutoff date written into the ballot measure to avoid the proposed tax.

Among those who have reportedly left or significantly shifted their residency are Google co-founder Larry Page, who has established a presence in Florida after purchasing more than $170 million worth of Miami-area real estate; Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel, who has deepened his Florida ties and already votes there; and venture capitalist David Sacks, who relocated from San Francisco to Austin, Texas.

Others have reportedly followed similar paths.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has been linked to South Florida real estate while also relocating to Nevada’s Lake Tahoe region.

Why do progs lie so blatantly? Do they think that nobody reads the news?

The labor leader argued that similar predictions failed to materialize elsewhere.

Oh? Like where? A socialist country where people were trapped behind the border?

The War Zone.

One of Russia’s commercially flagged vessels in the Baltic has appeared armed with heavy machine guns, and it isn’t just any cargo hauler. The weapons fit is likely intended to provide close-in protection against naval drone attacks but is also evidence of increasingly bold measures taken by Moscow to ensure that military bases in its strategically important Kaliningrad exclave continue to be supported. After all, the ship in question, the Marshal Vasilevskiy, is a highly strategic one — Russia’s only floating storage and regasification vessel — that plays a key role in supporting Kaliningrad.

This comes at the same time that Russia ramps up efforts to protect its notorious ‘shadow fleet,’ used to circumvent Western sanctions on oil exports, despite efforts to interdict it.

Evidence of the armed tanker development was brought to light in an exclusive report from Holger Roonemaa, an investigative journalist working for Delfi Estonia, an Estonia-based news website.

Roonemaa secured the release of imagery from the Estonian Border Guard showing the Marshal Vasilevskiy operating in the Baltic Sea last month, with machine gun positions on either side of the deck above the bridge.

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History does not repeat. But it rhymes often enough that at some point you would think someone might look up from the chanting and notice.

One of the stranger political alliances of the modern West has been taking shape in plain sight. You can see it in city protests, elite universities, nonprofit coalitions and legislative chambers. On one side, the progressive left: equity, feminism, LGBTQ+ rights, anti-capitalism, decolonization, the whole familiar kit. On the other, Islamism. Not Islam as a faith. Islamism as a political project. Sharia law, religious supremacy, traditional gender hierarchy. All of it openly hostile to the liberal West.

These two movements agree on almost nothing. Not women’s rights. Not gay rights. Not free speech. Not secular government. Not the relationship between religion and the state. They agree on the enemy. America, Israel, Western (classical) liberal democracy, market capitalism, the inherited institutions of the West. Apparently, that is enough to build a coalition. Successful coalitions have been built on less.

The question nobody seems especially eager to ask is “What happens if they win?”

I don’t mean winning an election, not a campus resolution. Win in the larger sense. Assume, for the sake of argument, that the old Western order is discredited, hollowed out and finally pushed aside. The institutions go. The restraints go. The polite assumptions go. The last faction standing gets the keys.

Who is it? It’s the Islamists, and it’s not even close.

We do not need to work this out from first principles. Iran already ran the experiment.

I reject that there’s any essential distinction between Islam and “Islamism”. “Islamism” is a deliberately construction Confusion Word for people who refuse to do the work required to understand Islam in history. It is of no more significance than any attempted distinction between National Socialism and “Hitlerism”, with the former being Actually Very Nice People Once You Get to Know Them while the latter are genocidal maniacs.

Tru dat.

The Guardian, Mouth of the Left in Britain.

Many liberals celebrated when Hamtramck, Michigan, elected a Muslim-majority council in 2015 but a vote to exclude LGBTQ+ flags from city property has soured relations

Gee, I wonder why?

Hamtramck was at one time a traditionally heavily Polish area. But, apparently, not any more. Michigan is becoming more and more Muslim as time goes on, as its liberal bent bends it to the breaking point.

In 2015, many liberal residents in Hamtramck, Michigan, celebrated as their city attracted international attention for becoming the first in the United States to elect a Muslim-majority city council.

They viewed the power shift and diversity as a symbolic but meaningful rebuke of the Islamophobic rhetoric that was a central theme of then Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign.

This week many of those same residents watched in dismay as a now fully Muslim and socially conservative city council passed legislation banning Pride flags from being flown on city property that had – like many others being flown around the country – been intended to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community.

Muslim residents packing city hall erupted in cheers after the council’s unanimous vote, and on Hamtramck’s social media pages, the taunting has been relentless: “Fagless City”, read one post, emphasized with emojis of a bicep flexing.

The Leftist mind consists of innumerable individual compartments: One labeled “Free Palestine”, one labeled “Believe all women”, one labeled “LGBTQXYZ”, etc., and at no point do these compartments overlap, or even touch.

Watch The Religion Question America Keeps Refusing to Ask by Tom Bilyeu, who is asking the questions that everybody else is hushing up.

Keep that focus, kid, you’ll go far.

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And who could blame them? We have rights. Europeans only have obligations.

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California has achieved something almost impossible in the annals of bureaucratic absurdity: It has made citizenship easier to assert for voting than sexual orientation is to document for favored utility contracting.

To register to vote, a person fills out a form, signs an affidavit, and attests under penalty of perjury that he is a U.S. citizen and California resident. The state may check identifying information against databases, but it does not generally require a passport, birth certificate, or naturalization certificate before letting him enter the electorate.

For something as grave as sovereignty—deciding taxes, judges, crime policy, schools, and the future of the state—citizenship is treated largely as an attestation.

But if a small business wants to qualify as LGBTQ+ owned under California’s utility supplier-diversity system, Sacramento suddenly discovers verification.

The applicant must prove the company is majority-owned and controlled by an LGBTQ+ person. How? Marriage or domestic-partnership records. Health insurance paperwork. Joint living arrangements. A letter from an LGBTQ+ chamber leader. Media coverage identifying the owner as LGBTQ+. A physician or attorney letter. Or, most absurdly, three personal-reference letters from people who have known the owner for more than a year and can attest to the owner’s LGBTQ+ status.

Citizenship is treated as an attestation. Sexual orientation is treated as a credential.

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The right-wing Sweden Democrats (SD) have expanded their online migration map by introducing a new filter showing the locations of mosques and Muslim prayer facilities across Sweden.

The initiative is intended to provide the public greater with insight into the growth of Islam in the country.

According to SD MEP Charlie Weimers, the new feature identifies 238 mosques and prayer venues, together with information on their religious affiliation and, where known, sources of funding.

The data has been compiled using public registers, maps, and information gathered through a nationwide volunteer effort.

Weimers stressed that the map is not intended to provide a definitive count of Sweden’s mosques, but rather an illustrative overview. He said the project would continue to be expanded and invited members of the public to submit information, particularly regarding mosque financing.

The mosque filter is the latest addition to Weimers’ ‘Migration Map’ website, which already includes information on Sweden’s no-go zones and the proportion of residents with a foreign background.

The Foundry.

The House Judiciary Committee is threatening to hold the Southern Poverty Law Center in contempt of Congress for failing to hand over documents related to the SPLC’s use of “field sources” inside extremist groups and its work with the Justice Department under President Joe Biden.

“The committee has made several good-faith efforts to work with your counsel to obtain documents responsive to the subpoena,” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, wrote in a letter to SPLC’s incoming president and CEO, Ryan Haygood, first obtained by the Daily Signal. “To date, the committee has still not received any such documents. Therefore, the SPLC must promptly produce all materials responsive to the committee’s subpoena as soon as possible, but not later than 5:00 p.m. on July 9, 2026.”

“The committee is prepared to use available mechanisms to enforce its subpoena,” Jordan concluded.

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I recently read an interesting passage about sex slavery written a hundred years ago about Sacagawea. She was a sex slave. I found that interesting because I wasn’t taught that in school. Her Shoshone Plains tribe in Montana was attacked by the Minitari raiding party who traveled all the way from North Dakota. The Minitari (who are also called Hidatsu) killed a bunch of Shoshone and took the girls as slaves/wives. But the man who owned her had a bad run of gambling, and Sacagawea was sold to a French fur trader who was neither handsome nor kind.

So, yeah. That was normal. What was interesting was that there was no religious or philosophical justification. If another tribe pulled off a good ambush on your tribe, they took your women and horses.

It was pretty similar to a Greek king who was captured as a slave by another Greek king.* The enslaved one helped the victor. He had won after all. The gods must have favored him. Many Native Americans of the 1800s would agree.

Welcome to the Turd World. Be careful not to step in the diversity.

Not the Bee.

Nice to see the UK has its priorities right.

In other words, sacrifice yourselves to save the planet, Brits.

So if you live on the ground floor, you get to choose between dying of heat or letting criminal migrants break into your home to kill you.

Thank God I don’t live in Britain.

The Telegraph (UK).

Iran said it struck a US navy and air base in two separate missile attacks overnight as renewed fighting between the two sides entered a third day.

Tehran claimed it had targeted military facilities in Kuwait and Bahrain and warned of a “crushing response” if Washington continued its strikes inside Iran.

The US attacked targets inside Iran on Saturday after an interim peace deal between the two countries broke down on Friday.

Because Iran broke it by attacking a commercial ship. I guess the hudna is over.

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Did the humanities go woke because they went broke? That scenario has become one of the more persuasive explanations for the present crisis in the humanities. As their enrolments declined and federal funding shrank, and universities began sending money (and, thus, prestige) toward STEM and professional programs, the humanities went looking for support wherever they could find it. If serious funders wanted academic work to be framed in the language of social justice, then scholars were willing to adapt accordingly. Tyler Austin Harper recently made this case in The Atlantic, arguing that what looked like ideological capture may, in fact, be economic desperation.

The Antiplanner.

“Parking minimums are a waste of money and land,” planners argue, so they immediately turn around and impose parking maxima, saying that people will be happy to live without cars if they aren’t required to pay for parking. Many developers have learned to their sorrow that this isn’t true, the latest being Scape, a British developer that was persuaded to build a 23-story apartment tower on the edge of downtown San Jose. Calls the Fay, the building offers only one parking space for every three units and the developer was unable to fill units that didn’t come with parking spaces.

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The Anglican Church of Canada has taken a step that, until just a few years ago, would have been difficult to imagine even within the most progressive Christian denominations.

Its General Synod has authorized for “trial use” a specific liturgy intended to accompany people who have chosen euthanasia, known in Canada as Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD). The document includes prayers to be read immediately before the fatal drugs are administered, as well as prayers after the patient’s death.

The 66-page text goes far beyond offering pastoral guidance for terminally ill patients. It establishes a complete set of religious rites adapted to the moments before and after euthanasia: confession, the laying on of hands, anointing with oil, Holy Communion, blessings, and specific prayers for those who have chosen to end their lives through medical intervention.

Leaving Christianity is like bankruptcy: Slowly at first, and then quickly.

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The official line in Brussels is one of denial, but Muslim migrant ‘influencers’ are making clear their ambitions online.

Anonymous Italy-based social media account, Radio Genoa, highlighted what it called “North African Muslims mock Europeans: ‘Brussels is ours!’”

In the clip, a young man of probable North African heritage says, “It’s not Belgium anymore—Brussels has become an African city.”

More sinisterly, a clip with 13.4 million views posted by Elon Musk shows a German policeman being told by an African arrestee that “no one is gonna save you. Europe is finished.”

One might call it clickbait, but wise Europeans will pay attention to the explicit messaging spreading across social media.

John C. Wright.

In addition to the Russian Collusion Hoax, and the Wu Han Wet Market Origin Hoax, please do not forget these. Years passed. To date, not one newsman, social media oligarch, pundit, nor politician has printed correction, retraction, nor apology.

The Bloodbath Hoax
The Find Votes Hoax
The Fine People Hoax
The Drinking Bleach Hoax
The Dictator from Day One Hoax
The J6 Insurrection Hoax
The Trump Overfed Koi Fish Hoax
The Trump Mocked A Disabled Person Hoax
The Border Patrol Agents Whipped Migrants Hoax
The Threat to Democracy Hoax
The January 6 Protesters Killed Police Hoax
The Presidential Immunity Hoax
The Muslim Ban Hoax
The Suckers and Losers Hoax
The Grabbed Steering Wheel Hoax
The Hunter’s Laptop is Russian Misinformation Hoax

The Foundry.

The Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America are becoming indistinguishable from one another.

That’s clearly the case in New York City, as a wave of socialist House candidates backed by openly socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani won primary elections on Tuesday against incumbent Democrats.

In some cases, both leading candidates were quite far to the Left, but Democrat primary voters simply voted for the one who was more fervently anti-Israel—which is absolutely becoming the biggest litmus test in Democratic Party primary fights.

One of Tuesday night’s victors in a House primary election, Darializa Avila Chevalier, is truly off the deep end in every way. Chevalier backs full prison abolition, which she is unable to defend coherently, though still fervently supports it. She’s opposed to deporting any illegal aliens, even rapists and murderers.

Oh, and she founded a college campus organization that’s mostly committed to rabidly hating Israel, but also in favor of “fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization.”

There ought to be a bounty on such people. $5 ought to do it.

Babylon Bee.

Hey, guy, make up your minds….;