DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

City Journal.

Just days after Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a major U.S. policy to “dismantle” the International Criminal Court because it threatened American sovereignty, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani mused about the possibility of arresting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the basis of an ICC warrant.

This has become an ongoing theme for Mamdani—making vague claims about international law as an excuse to ignore domestic laws. When protesters gathered outside Park East Synagogue in New York in May, he condemned the Jews inside, not the violent mob outside. The synagogue was hosting a real-estate fair for properties in Israel.

“Mayor Mamdani is deeply opposed to the real estate expo this evening that includes the promotion of the sale of land in settlements in the Occupied West Bank,” his office said. “These settlements are illegal under international law.”

That made the second time in a week that the mayor had opined on a public international law issue. On social media, he had denounced as “a brazen violation of international law” Israel’s boarding of a flotilla of vessels seeking to run a blockade to resupply Hamas-controlled Gaza.

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Foreign policy is an exclusively federal domain, but Mamdani regularly invoked international law even when he was only an assemblyman. As a mayoral candidate, he expressed support for boycotts and sanctions against Israel as a way of “creating compliance in international law.” As mayor-elect, he made his first threats to arrest Netanyahu because of ICC warrants against him. This was needed, he said, to make New York a “city of international law.” Of course, the United States is not a member of the ICC, having refused to join under both Republican and Democratic administrations because of the institution’s clear bias. ICC warrants are thus meaningless in America, and arresting Netanyahu would be a naked violation of a foreign head of state’s immunity. In short, Mamdani’s threats would be breaking international law, not enforcing it.

Oh, the cleats Trump will be wearing when he jumps in Mamdani’s shit if the socialist tries to pull something.

I kinda hope he does….

The Foundry.

Despite multiple losses at the U.S. Supreme Court, Colorado continues to try to force an LGBTQ agenda on residents, and it costs taxpayers a great deal.

“There’s just double down after double down after double down,” Jonathan Scruggs, senior counsel and vice president of litigation strategy at Alliance Defending Freedom, told the Daily Signal in an interview Wednesday. “Even if that means losing in court, even if that means paying large amounts of attorney’s fees, that seems to be a lesser priority than targeting certain people, targeting certain beliefs.”

“You can teach a First Amendment class just on Colorado cases,” he added. “They’re doing a service to law students across the country.”

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They take their jobs as Mouths of Sauron seriously.

Not the Bee.

Even for Trump, this is pretty freakin’ Trump.

Trump doesn’t mess around.

Weep not for the Woke lawyer. He has made friends with the Mammon of Iniquity, and they will welcome him into their luxurious houses. Not to shabby for less than a day’s work.

New York Post.

Good luck with that.

New York Post.

Hypergamy Watch;

Gender stereotypes have come a long way, but that isn’t to say that in 2026, some women are just fine giving up their careers to marry rich to never work another day in their lives.

In the r/GirlDinnerDiaries forum on Reddit, one 20-year-old decided to do just that. She described herself as an ambitious person who was studying to become a dentist, yet had recently had a change of heart and decided that life is too short to spend it stressed and working.

So instead, she’d rather give it all up and marry a man with money to live a life of luxury.

Hard to pretend that you’re a princess with your fingers in somebody’s mouth … unless it’s on your OnlyFans page.

“… until I turned 19, I was very ambitious and passion-driven, I wanted to establish a stable career and become financially independent asap, but in the last two years of my life, I’ve experienced a sudden and dynamic shift in my way of thinking and being,” she wrote.

“I’ve realized that it’s quite literally impossible for me to achieve all the things I wish to, at least in this lifetime alone. My time here is limited, I can’t build a career, buy a house, afford basic necessities and also travel the world, buy designer and do as I please while also being under 30. Those things take a lifetime,” the original poster wrote.

As a result of having this ephiphany, she declared that she now wants to marry rich, have kids and “do as I please without working again a day in my life.”

So let some schmuck beta male do all of the heavy lifting and bill-paying. So much for feminism.

OH NOES WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE.

But we never actually do.

The Dallas Express.

A Muslim outreach leader told visitors at a Plano mosque Saturday that Sharia is “already here,” describing it as a religious framework Muslims follow through charity, family obligations and personal conduct.

Outside the Islamic Association of Collin County, an Iran-born Christian who said he lived under Sharia offered a starkly different warning. He argued that Islamic law becomes dangerous when it gains political power and is enforced by the state.

The competing messages unfolded during an open house billed as “Understanding Islam & Shariah: Myths vs Facts.” About 100 people attended the event at the mosque.

Truth vs. Taqiyya.

The Times (UK).

The security services have advised vulnerable MPs to set up safe rooms in their homes in case of attacks amid growing concern for politicians’ safety.

Individuals at high risk, including MPs, local councillors and foreign dissidents, recently received updated guidance from the National Protective Security Authority (NPSA), an arm of MI5, suggesting they set up a “safer area” where they can take shelter if their homes are targeted by “hostile actors”.

The room could be a dedicated space or somewhere within a normal room. It may need to be equipped with fog machines and bulletproof walls to delay intruders, the guidance states. Timed indoor lights should be installed, says the advice, to provide the illusion that an empty house is occupied and bushes outside the property should be cut back to remove hiding places.

Britain was a safe place back before Labor started importing the Turd World.

Don’t forge the red & blue blankets.

The Other McCain.

Sometimes I have to remind people that I actually knew Sam Francis who, in recent years, has been recognized as a sort of prophet who foresaw the rise of what has become known as the MAGA movement.

Most of Sam’s younger admirers, knowing of his long battle against neoconservatives — which came into focus with his criticism of the 1991 Iraq war — are not exactly friends of Israel. What many of them may not realize is that Sam made a remarkable contribution to an understanding of the Middle East conflict, which his neoconservative opponents sought to erase from memory once he fell out with them during the first Bush presidency. Good luck finding an online copy of Sam Francis’s 1981 policy paper, “The Soviet Strategy of Terror,” which had an enormous influence on the Reagan administration’s foreign policy. Sam was at one point a research fellow for the Heritage Foundation, which published that paper, but once he was cast out for being too politically incorrect, Heritage effectively “de-published” it, removing it from their website, a deliberate insult they have not repented more than 20 years after Sam Francis died.

Read it.

As they do.

The Other McCain.

You know, I’m old enough to remember when normal people were Democrats. Like, maybe you wouldn’t vote for Walter Mondale, but he wasn’t some kind of sick freak into transgenderism and BDSM. Nowadays, though, the LGBTQIA2S++ agenda means we’re not only required to play along with this guy’s “Brianna” fantasy, but he also expects police to let him off the hook for terrorizing his ex because it’s just a “misunderstanding.” And if you don’t agree, you’re a bigot.

Speaking of dangerous psycho-trannies, Andy Ngo has announced his next book The Zizians: Inside a Trans Death Cult is available for pre-order on Amazon. It is scheduled for release Oct. 13.

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The Potomac Tea Party has posted an extensive investigative report (which seems to be the first of a series) on the promotion and financing of Islam by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The extent to which the Mellon Foundation has facilitated the Islamization of the United States is nothing less than astounding. And it is hardly the only major philanthropic organization in the country that is promoting Islam, so the future prospects for the USA are not encouraging.

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It has been well over a year since I last reported on the murder of Saman Abbas in Italy. For readers who are unfamiliar with what happened, here is a précis of the case:

In the spring of 2021 a young Pakistani woman named Saman Abbas disappeared from the Italian town of Novellara. The local authorities eventually concluded that she had been “honor-killed” by her parents and male relatives for refusing to be married to her cousin and for daring to want to live like a normal teenage girl. It wasn’t until months later that her body was found.

Saman’s father and mother fled to Pakistan. Her uncle and two cousins were arrested in various European countries. At first her uncle Danish was identified as the likely killer, but he fingered her mother as the perpetrator.

Saman’s parents were tried and convicted — the mother in absentia, since she was still in Pakistan, although the father had been extradited — and sentenced to life in prison. Eventually her mother was also extradited to Italy.

As of my most recent reports, the two cousins had been acquitted when the parents were acquitted. However, in the interim the prosecution has appealed the acquittals, and the cousins were eventually convicted and sentenced to life.

After an appeal to the Court of Cassation, the court upheld the convictions. I’m not certain whether this is the end of all appeals, or whether there might possibly be more.

Watch the video.

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My, what a surprise.

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Betcha none of ’em are Republican….

The Foundry.

A Texas imam is under fire after appearing to celebrate the death of U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, writing, “May you live an eternity in ruins.”

On July 12, hours after Graham’s death was announced, Omar Suleiman, president and co-founder of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research, posted on social media.

“In other news, Lindsey Graham is dead,” Suleiman wrote. “Bye Lindsey. May you live an eternity in ruins for the ruins you helped create in Gaza. Ameen.”

His remarks sparked outrage among Republican lawmakers, with U.S. Rep. Chip Roy of Texas writing on social media, “A U.S. Senator dies—and an Imam in Texas celebrates. We are at war—and only one side understands it.”

Suleiman is no stranger to members of Congress.

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Amnesty International UK is under growing pressure after experiencing pushback from a number of organisations it smeared for their alleged ‘anti-trans’ or ‘transphobic’ outlook.

A Growing Threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK was published on July 8th, 2026, and removed just two days later. The hasty response—from an organisation which took two yearsto acknowledge the Hamas October 7th atrocities—was prompted by a backlash from many of the groups the report berated for being part of an “anti-rights” movement. Past donors also raised concern about Amnesty’s capture by gender ideology.

The most pressing threat to Amnesty came from Beira’s Place, a women-only women’s refuge set up by J.K. Rowling. Lawyers acting for the charity accused Amnesty of defaming the organisation and have threatened legal action. Rowling has invited those on the “blacklist”—from the LGB Alliance to a now-defunct group dedicated to keeping men out of women’s prisons—to apply to the JK Rowling Women’s Fund to help with legal costs.

A Growing Threat claims that a key UK Supreme Court ruling, that ‘sex’ in Section 10 of the Equalities Act means is defined biologically, has led to discrimination (and worse) against ‘trans’ people, mostly crossdressing men who claim to be female. Amnesty now claims to ‘regret’ compiling the list, and its head was urged to quit over the report and related documentation. It has now reported itself to the Charities Commission for investigation.

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Irish teacher Enoch Burke has been ordered by the High Court to pay over €200,000 in fines following his refusal to comply with a request to use a student’s preferred pronouns and new name, in a case that has become one of Ireland’s most controversial legal battles over free speech and religious freedom. The controversy began in 2021, when Burke refused to comply with the directive of the principal of Wilson’s Hospital School that said teachers were “expected” to refer to a biologically female who had decided to ‘transition’ as “they.”

A good time not to be living in Ireland.

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Italian prosecutors are investigating the captain of the ship Sea-Watch 5 for possible aggravated complicity in illegal immigration after aerial footage recorded by Frontex showed the German NGO vessel receiving migrants directly from a boat apparently operated by smugglers.

The footage, recorded on May 11th, approximately 45 miles northeast of Tripoli, shows five masked men supervising the transfer of 90 people using several smaller boats. Once the transfer is completed, the men wave to the crew and head back at high speed towards the Libyan coast. The following day, other videos show another vessel approaching the Sea-Watch 5 without any visible signs of damage or distress.

The ship later disembarked 166 people in Brindisi, Italy. Most of the illegal immigrants are Bangladeshi nationals, reports say. Italian police searched the vessel, copied its navigation data and seized several logbooks.

Sea-Watch denies that any prior rendezvous took place and maintains that its crew was fulfilling its international obligation to assist people in danger. The organisation also alleges that a Libyan patrol boat fired at and threatened the vessel during the operation.

Here’s how this scam works:

1. ‘Smugglers’ put migrants in a boat and travel outside of the source territorial waters.
2. NGO Pro-immigrant ‘rescue boat’ swoops in to ‘rescue’ the puir wee distressed migrants.
3. NGO ‘rescue boat’ takes migrants to European territory, where the promptly claim asylum upon landing.
4. Pro-immigrant bureaucrats start the Dance of Eternal Paperwork.
5. ‘Migrants’ disappear into the sunset, never to be seen again.

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A flight from Turkey to Düsseldorf became the scene of a violent altercation—with a ‘culture clash’ at the heart of the conflict.

In the early hours of June 1, a male passenger refused to take his assigned seat with Turkish Airlines because it would mean him sitting next to a woman. He explicitly cited Sharia law to justify his actions. When a female flight attendant approached the man to address his non-compliance and defuse the situation, the confrontation quickly escalated.

Witness testimonies now coming to light reveal that the passenger slapped the flight attendant during the dispute. Upon landing at Düsseldorf Airport, federal police officers immediately boarded the aircraft to secure the scene and file a formal report for bodily injury.

The suspect, identified as a German citizen of Turkish descent, reportedly admitted to the assault on the spot during his initial questioning by federal authorities.The investigation has since been handed over to the Düsseldorf Police Department for further legal action.

Industry estimates suggest that flight attendants now face some form of aggression on roughly one out of every 500 flights.

Babylon Bee.

But the extra money is certainly welcome.

Not the Bee.

I wasn’t sure the UK would convict her, honestly, given the state of the country.

That’s the mom of Vikrum Digwa, one of the many friends and family members who aided and abetted Vikrum after he stabbed a young Englishman and then told police HE was the victim of a hate crime.

One of the major reasons for the disintegration of Western civilization is importing tons of people from Turd World tribal societies and pretending that they will act the same way that First World people do.

Not the Bee. 

My, what a surprise.

The Telegraph (UK).

Andy Burnham is planning to hand billions of pounds of income tax to Labour mayors.

The incoming prime minister is expected to accelerate plans to give more power to mayors to fund economic growth projects as part of his devolution strategy.

The Telegraph understands that Treasury officials have worked up a plan for “income tax sharing” to be presented to Mr Burnham in his first days in office.

Gee, Democrats have been doing that for years; so much so that when Trump cuts them off they sue.

Watch it.

Winston Marshall interviews James A. Lindsay, tracing the historical roots of modern proglodyte fascism.

Watch it.

Maxinomics tealls you everything you wanted to know … and more.

I notice that today the price of SpaceX stock is below that of their IPO price.

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According to a leaked internal report, the company recorded around 2,200 cases of sabotage targeting railway infrastructure during the first six months of 2026, a 7% increase compared with the same period last year.

The incidents include arson, vandalism, and theft that causes significant damage to railway infrastructure and disrupts train services, costing taxpayers increasing amounts to repair each year.

The latest incident occurred in the early hours of Tuesday, July 14, when an electrical distribution box connected to railway signalling and safety systems caught fire in Neu Wulmstorf, Lower Saxony. Around 200 train services were cancelled, passengers were transferred to replacement buses, and normal operations only gradually resumed later that evening.

Witnesses and emergency responders reported two separate fires: one at the distribution box, which damaged critical signalling cables, and another around 50 metres away at equipment controlling a level crossing.

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The announcement marks a major milestone in Saronic’s mission to restore U.S. shipbuilding capacity at scale. First introduced as a vision for the future of maritime manufacturing, Port Alpha now moves from concept to reality through a planned investment of more than $3 billion that aims to establish one of the most advanced shipyards in the world, built for software-defined shipbuilding and autonomous maritime systems.

The project is expected to generate more than $160 billion in regional economic impact for Cameron County and $264.5 billion for the State of Texas, while creating up to 10,000 direct jobs. This makes Port Alpha one of the largest economic development projects in modern Texas history. Construction is anticipated to begin in 2026, with Port Alpha expected to open for operations in 2028.

Real Clear Defense.

On Taiwan and its sovereignty, alarmism has become a hallmark of conflict prediction and analysis. Some of it is well-founded, such as the critical lack of interceptors and exquisite strike munitions available to the United States and its allies, but much of the current fear is the sum of highly specific views on how a war would unfold. The prevailing framing relies on readers accepting that China can pursue multiple strategies at once while Taiwan and its allies merely observe, which drives an unrealistic view of the “China Threat” as potentially overwhelming. A recent example is the claim that warning times of a Chinese attack have been decreasing. In reality, this does not mean that the People’s Liberation Army can make thousands of troops and their logistics appear overnight on the beaches of Northern Taipei; it more likely means the missiles on the ships that China keeps moving ever closer to Taiwan (within range of Taiwanese Hsiung Feng III batteries) have to travel less distance to hit their targets.

This position should be reframed: policy makers should focus on what is possible, and analysts should present causal arguments organized by their commonalities or contrasts with past cases. This is the essence of John Stuart Mill’s method of agreement and disagreement, which identifies common or uncommon variables across like or differing cases. On China, two key factors, both with abundant historical examples, should drive analysis: what does Beijing seek to accomplish, and what can the Chinese military actually do? Crucially, these assessments cannot be made in a void in which each analyst selects the variables that best justify a preferred conclusion. To be credible, an argument must engage the existing body of work, and it should either challenge the conventional wisdom or build upon it; reinventing premises from scratch only propagates confirmation bias.

Not the Bee.

We have the technology.

Tim Pool;

Here’s the scary reality. When law enforcement becomes AI bureaucracy, you will never get an arresting officer that is going to care, because it is not the job of the arresting officer to review evidence.

Quillette.

It is not a pretty sight.

Earlier this year, a human rights tribunal ordered a former school trustee in the Canadian province of British Columbia, Barry Neufeld, to pay a C$750,000 penalty. Tribunal officials concluded that certain statements Neufeld had made, protesting the inclusion of LGBT-related content in the school curriculum, had exhibited “hallmarks of hate.”

“Transpeople are, by definition, people ‘whose gender identity does not align with the sex assigned to them at birth,’” the tribunal declared. “If a person elects not to ‘believe’ that gender identity is separate from sex assigned at birth, then they do not ‘believe’ in transpeople. This is a form of existential denial.”

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of complying with the National Environmental Policy Act, better known as NEPA. NEPA is what requires projects to perform years-long, thousand-plus page environmental impact studies before construction can begin, and suing a project for an insufficiently detailed environmental study is one of the chief ways environmental groups are able to slow down or stop projects they don’t like. And NEPA’s influence goes beyond federally funded projects: NEPA also influenced the creation of many similar laws, both at the state level (such as California’s CEQA) and in countries around the world.

None of these effects of NEPA, however, were envisioned when the law was written. NEPA was seen primarily as an (aspirational) statement of US environmental policy, which was to “encourage productive and enjoyable harmony between man and his environment, to promote efforts which will prevent or eliminate damage to the environment and biosphere and stimulate the health and welfare of man; [and] to enrich the understanding of the ecological systems and natural resources important to the Nation.” The provision that requires environmental impact statements was added last minute as a way to try to give some teeth to these high-minded but somewhat abstract ideals, and received virtually no attention at the time.

Modern laws are quite predictable, since they were made by idiots for morons.

New York Post.

The participants appear to be Adolescents of Color beating up on Adolescents of Pallor.

Who could have seen that coming?

The Telegraph (UK).

An outbreak of common sense in mainland Europe. Who could have predicted that?

The Telegaph (UK).

Houthi rebels are preparing to shut the Bab el-Mandeb strait on behalf of Iran.

The Yemeni group, Tehran’s most capable regional proxy, is laying the groundwork and quietly extending their reach to the Horn of Africa, according to sources in Yemen.

The Houthis will work with al-Shabab, the Somali militant group, to control both sides of the waterway in order to inflict more pain on the global economy and ramp up pressure on Donald Trump.

“There are a lot of indicators showing coordination between the Houthis and al-Shabab,” one source told The Telegraph.

The Saudis might have something to say about that … and the Egyptians, most of whose foreign exchange hard currency comes from what they make from the Suez Canal.

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

The Telegaph (UK).

Apparently it’s going to take a while before foreigners internalize the fact that Democrats aren’t in charge of the U.S. government any more.

The Telegraph (UK).

My, what a surprise.

Tje New Neo.

Congress may be about to make Daylight Savings Time the permanent time in the US, rather than shifting back and forth seasonally between Standard and DST. The seasonal shifting is annoying to many people, but the change would pit the Morning People against the Night People.

Summer isn’t the problem; it’s winter that creates the issue. Do you want you or your children to get up in the dark to go to work or school – something you may be doing already anyway if your start time is early? Or do you want the depressing experience of night falling long before the afternoon is finished? Your answer matters not only on whether you favor Night or Morning, plus how early work or school starts, but on your latitude and your east-west location in your time zone. The more north you live and the more to the east in your zone, the more extreme your winter/summer sunrise and sunset times.

Not the Bee.

Meet Abdul Karim Mustafa:

Not the Bee.

Remember how the Charlottesville riot, organized in large part by the far-left SPLC, was used by the Left to paint every Republican as a neo-Nazi for a decade?

Remember how they took a statue of Robert E. Lee from Charlottesville and melted it down as a humiliation ritual?

Not the Bee.

Today in Black Privilege….

Babylon Bee.

Seems appropriate.

Democrats keep electing people to Congress who hate America. Don’t really see what they’re accomplishing with that.