DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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July marks the critical window for cotton topping in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. In cotton fields across Xinjiang, farmers are racing against the farming schedule to carry out topping operations with fleets of robotic cotton toppers, replacing traditional manual labor with digitalized, precision farming work.

If we can ever figure out how to have robots pick crops, one of the chief incentives for winking at illegal immigration will go away.

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Iran knows that if they are losing they can call for a ‘truce’ (hudna) and they will get one, giving them time to re-build and re-arm before attacking again, which history shows they will always do.

I keep waiting for American politicians to catch on to this scam but they never do. Failure to learn from history is the main reason why we can’t have nice things.

The Foundry.

There are only two lanes to the Democrat presidential nomination two years from now, and one of them is already blocked—by Kamala Harris.

Get ready for the Kamala comeback, followed, in all likelihood, by a replay of her crushing defeat by the Republican nominee.

Believe it or not, the ex-VP occupies what counts as the “center lane” within the party, and for most of the last three decades, that’s the one that’s led to the nomination.

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At 4:00 AM, while most people were sleeping, Christopher Bruton-Frazier was having the time of his life, driving a $300,000, 4-ton, armored, tactical S.W.A.T. BearCat.

If he was a S.W.A.T. officer that might have made sense, but Frazier was just some guy off the street who was walking by the NJ Transit Emergency Services Unit headquarters parking garage in Newark and saw an opportunity.

Apparently, no one was around to notice him strolling through the facility, opening the door, and driving out.

New Jersey. What can you say?

They then pulled the security footage and ran it through facial recognition software, which pulled up Frazier’s profile. When they showed up at his house, they found the BearCat’s backup camera in his room as well as some stacks of heroin.

Blue State Blues.

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A family summer beach event in the UK city of Nottingham now sits behind portable anti-ram steel barrier, the latest admission that open borders have turned public spaces into soft targets.

Local authorities across Britain are quietly installing more of what critics now call “diversity barriers” – heavy portable steel devices designed to stop vehicles being driven into crowds.

The annual artificial “Nottingham Beach” event opened this week behind a line of bright red Husson H-Stop units.

Import Turd World people, get Turd World problems.

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Institutions built to prevent atrocities eventually face the question of what they actually protect. For the United Nations, voting patterns, internal investigations and its own decisions this year no longer support the fiction of neutrality. An UNRWA school in Gaza sat above a Hamas tunnel shaft and three anti-tank positions, and its own principal was on the payroll of both institutions at once – a fact that American investigators, not the UN, brought to light.

The pattern is old: during the oil-for-food scandal, a mid-level program director faced US prosecution while the officials who managed the program from above kept their positions. When UN failures surface, line staff absorb the exposure. The people who set the policy rarely do.

The arithmetic alone dismantles the pretense of balance. In 2025 the UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted 15 resolutions targeting Israel, and only 11 addressing the rest of the planet combined – a tally covering North Korea, Iran, Myanmar, Russia and the United States together. From 2015 through 2024, the total reached 173 resolutions against Israel, compared to 80 for all other member states combined. The UN Human Rights Council has run comparable numbers since 2006, adopting 112 resolutions against Israel compared to 45 against Syria, despite a civil war there that killed hundreds of thousands.

Harvard Magazine.

DURING THE LAST 50,000 years, human beings have transformed from nomadic hunter-gatherers roaming savannas to a species that traveled to the moon, invented the internet, and created an artificial form of intelligence. Yet many scientists believed that, during the same time frame, human DNA hadn’t changed much. Most research during the past two decades hinted that human evolution has largely slowed or changed so subtly that existing tools couldn’t detect it; evidence seemed to suggest that civilization put humans beyond the reach of natural selection.

“It’s like we had in our heads that a few hundred thousand years ago we had reached some kind of evolutionary optimization,” says professor of genetics and human evolutionary biology David Reich.

That changed with Reich’s latest work. Using the largest collection of ancient human DNA samples ever compiled, paired with new statistical methods, Reich and his colleagues discovered that the human genome has actually evolved rapidly during the past 10,000 years. The study, published in Nature in April, showed hundreds of genetic shifts in 16,000 individuals who lived in modern-day Europe across an 18,000-year period. The longer timespan provided a baseline that allowed the researchers to see how genes evolved during the most recent 10,000 years.

Natural selection is still working; it’s just selecting for different characteristics. It’s an automatic process, like gravity.

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The Nazi salute. As soon as you look up anything at all about World War II, you’re bound to come across the so-called Nazi salute within a few minutes, or even seconds. Although today it primarily symbolizes Nazism and reverence for Hitler, the Nazis were not actually the ones who invented this salute. Its origins go back much further, as it was based on the Roman salute, which was first adopted by the Italian fascists under Mussolini. But why did the German Nazis also adopt this salute?

The Hitler salute can actually be traced back to the Roman Empire. There is even a painting of it, often considered one of the earliest depictions of the salute, which is now primarily recognized as the Hitler salute. The painting is “The Oath of the Horatii” from 1784. It illustrates a Roman legend: three brothers swear to protect Rome. And the symbolism behind this is more significant than you might think.

It was Benito Mussolini who had one key motivation: restoring the Roman Empire. Or rather, restoring the power and glory of the ancient Roman Empire. Italy was to be transformed into a dominant military power in the Mediterranean. He therefore called this sea Mare Nostrum, or “our sea.” But what does this have to do with the Hitler salute?

It was precisely this desire that prompted Mussolini to create a salute derived from the Roman salute. It became a salute with an outstretched arm, long before Hitler began to use the salute officially within the NSDAP. Mussolini and his Italian fascists began using this Roman salute around 1920 to 1922. In 1925, Mussolini also made the salute officially mandatory for civil servants in Italy.

The Guardian, the Mouth of Sauron in Britain.

These black cameras, which are hooked up to a rectangular solar panel and typically mounted on a pole, snap photos of passing vehicles and run the pictures against large databases. They have sparked nationwide backlash from pro-privacy critics, who point to public records suggesting that these devices can help law enforcement keep tabs on specific license plates and the people driving these cars. That they can sweep in so many people’s location from an innocent act in a public space – regardless of whether the target is a suspect in a crime, and without a warrant – has led to fears of mass surveillance.

Flock, based in Georgia and valued at $8.4bn, says its cameras scan license plates billions of times each month in about 6,000 communities in nearly every state in the US.

The company said in a February blogpost that its ALPRs are “not mass surveillance tools” and that it “cannot track vehicles, much less individual people”.

CNN, a Voice of the Crust.

More to the point, why would we care? Climate Change, of course!

When astrobiologist Adam Frank walked into the office of NASA scientist Gavin Schmidt, he had what he believed was the weirdest question: do aliens experience climate change? It took just moments for Schmidt to out-weird him.

Frank, a University of Rochester professor who looks for signs of life in the universe, was digging into whether advanced civilizations would inevitably trigger climate shifts, just as humans are doing now. He was looking at other planets, he told Schmidt that day back in 2017, “because, of course, we know that there have been no other civilizations on Earth.”

Schmidt immediately cut him off. “How do you know that?” he asked.

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The Iran-U.S. conflict is threatening to widen dramatically after Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels opened a new front by targeting Red Sea shipping, raising the prospect of a broader regional war involving Saudi Arabia, Israel, and potentially Pakistan.

The Houthis have declared a blockade on Saudi oil shipments through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and claimed responsibility for attacks on two Saudi-linked tankers, further escalating tensions as President Donald Trump weighs military action against Iran.

The strategic waterway, which connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden, carries roughly 12% of global trade and has become even more critical as Iran’s actions have disrupted shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.

The video of the Houthis giving Nazi salutes while standing on a mock American flag is a nice touch—not that any of the Usual Suspects of the American Left will ever mention it.

Washington Poop, a Voice of the Crust.

Ben Nelson was a senator and governor of Nebraska. He is a senior adviser for Saving America’s Family Enterprises.

He explains how most advocates of ‘wealth taxes’ are ignorant of the way ‘wealth’ is measured these days and are dealing in superficial indicators that can only cause disaster.

WorseOnPurpose.

Fall back on “I just like it” and you sell the knowledge short, because standing in that store I wasn’t just voicing an arbitrary preference, I was detecting something. “This is a thing of quality. It is the one I want.” Fifteen years of ownership keep proving my instinct that day right.

That gap, between knowing good on contact and being able to say what good is, is one of the oldest open problems in Western philosophy. It is also the fundamental question this newsletter is attempting to answer.

Every investigation I’ve published documents the same story: a product stripped of what made it good while everything a shopper can check stayed intact. Same logo, same spec sheet, same four and a half stars, same price or higher. What got swapped out, the steel gauge, the stitch count and the years of service life, sits in the parts you can’t check from the aisle.

That gap between what you can verify and what actually matters is the whole game, for them and for you. They use it to slowly diminish the quality of the products you once loved without tripping an alarm. You can use it to watch the theft happen.

So this essay is about what quality is and where it actually lives, which makes it the philosophical foundation under every investigation this publication will run.

New York Post.

The ex-GOP aide accused of staging a politically motivated hate-crime hoax in New Jersey by slashing her body with scars is now dating a career criminal with an ankle monitor and a rap sheet spanning three states, sources told The Post.

Natalie Greene, who faces federal charges for allegedly orchestrating a fake 2025 attack in which “Trump whore” was carved onto her body while working for Republican Rep. Jeff Van Drew, recently shared a smiling Fourth of July selfie with the heavily tattooed man.

People familiar with the relationship identified him as her boyfriend, 34-year-old Dylan Wayne Goetz, whom she allegedly met on the dating app Hinge.

You can’t make this shit up.

The Telegraph (UK).

Minnesota is planning to hand out transgender dolls to children as young as four years old.

The paper dolls, which feature removable genitalia, were created by the University of Minnesota Medical School for children under ten to “learn about the different options that exist for who they can be”, according to The New York Post.

Each doll has a gender-neutral name, removable internal and external genitals, and more than 100 pieces of clothing, accessories and hairstyles.

Governor Tim Walz reportedly funded the controversial project, which has prompted anger from conservative groups.

The Telegraph (UK).

Islamic bookshops selling anti-Semitic texts have been granted the right to bring “skilled” migrants to Britain, The Telegraph can disclose.

The Home Office has given powers to sponsor “skilled worker” visas to a string of bookshops, which are thought to have used them to bring dozens of people into the UK.

Books sold by some of the stores claim that Jewish people had a “wicked nature”, while other texts are deemed a radicalisation threat by UK prisons.

One book on sale is Milestones by Sayyid Qutb, the influential Muslim Brotherhood leader whose work rails against Western civilisation and “world Jewry”.

Other works on offer include those by Hasan al-Banna, the Brotherhood’s founder, and by Bilal Philips, a cleric banned by the Home Office, whose writings offer advice on beating wives. All the books reviewed by The Telegraph can legally be sold in the UK, and there is no suggestion the bookshops have broken any rules.

The Telegraph (UK).

Police in Germany are hunting a 21-year old “Islamist” after a van rammed into a crowd of people at Berlin’s Pride festival.

The suspect, named by police as Abdul B, is known to authorities “as a member of Islamist circles in Berlin”.

He is described as slim, approximately 1.90m tall and was seen on the night wearing a black hooded jumper and white trousers.

At least one person was killed and 17 others were injured on Saturday night, including three critically, after a white van mowed down a crowd of people at the event.

My, what a surprise.

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A Canadian intern at NATO military headquarters in Belgium was arrested for espionage. The name of the intern is Chinese, but to protect the Canadian government from embarrassment the nation the woman was spying for remains undisclosed. Go figure.

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The Southern Poverty Law Center’s descent from its once-vaunted role as a sentinel against extremism has been precipitous and ironic. An organization whose “hate map” promiscuously equates parental rights groups such as Moms for Liberty with neo-Nazi organizations now stands indicted by the Department of Justice on charges of wire fraud, false statements, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

Federal prosecutors allege that, between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC secretly funneled millions of donor dollars—more than $4 million by some accounts—to individuals associated with the very groups it professed to combat, including the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, and National Socialist outfits. Prepaid credit cards and shell accounts, it is said, facilitated this curious philanthropy.

To the disinterested observer, such revelations ought to suffice as a final discreditation. Yet portions of Corporate America remain stubbornly unpersuaded. Many large firms continue to rely on Benevity, a Canadian “corporate social responsibility” software provider, for employee charitable matching and donation programs.

Benevity’s platform has deployed the SPLC’s tendentious diagnostic tools—including its notorious hate map—to screen and redirect contributions away from conservative and religious nonprofits.

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Sometimes the old ways are best.

New Yoek Post.

Lifelong New Yorker and real estate investor Charles Kushner is fleeing NYC for Florida because of, he says, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and First Lady Rama Duwaji’s antisemitism.

“I don’t want to pay taxes and live in a city with a blatantly antisemitic mayor and his antisemitic wife, period,” Kushner told The Post. “I also don’t want to live in the city with the people who voted for him.”

Kushner said his decision was driven less by Mamdani’s socialist policies than by what he described as the mayor’s hostility toward Jews and Israel — pointing to Mamdani’s refusal to march in the Israel Day Parade, his call to have Benjamin Netanyahu arrested as a war criminal, his outreach to Columbia University protesters who celebrated Hamas and Duwaji seeming to celebrate the horrific attacks on October 7.

If the taxes don’t get you the Judenhasse will.

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From bathtub gin to bathtub broccoli.

University of St. Andrews.

Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees, you know.

New research from the University of St Andrews and Université de Neuchâtel, has uncovered the mechanism which allows sperm whales to sleep in a unique vertical position, just under the ocean surface.

I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

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An interactive simulation.

The Register.

Dougherty County Police Department (DCPD) near Albany, Georgia, is appealing for help from the local community after someone set two Flock Safety cameras on fire.

Police initially investigated whether the automated license plate readers (ALPRs) had malfunctioned. After examining evidence from both scenes, however, officers reclassified the incidents as criminal damage to property.

In an update communicated to journalists, reported by Fox 5 Atlanta, DCPD revealed nothing about what caused the fires at the 2400 block of Radium Springs Road near the intersection of Williamsburg Drive, nor did it offer any details about potential suspects that might help generate tips.

The locations provided by police closely correspond to two reported ALPR locations mapped on the deflock.org platform, a community-driven project to map these cameras across the US.

Flock, for the uninitiated, is a tech company that makes ALPRs, as well as other security devices such as cameras, gunshot audio detectors, drones, and more.

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Two Italian girls in Milan were promised a tattoo by a Tunisian culture-enricher, but instead were raped after being lured by him to a secluded farmhouse.

Import Turd World people, wind up with Turd World problems.

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The Pacific Research Institute released a study this week breaking down how taxpayers are paying for “a program that has grown beyond the state’s ability to effectively manage it.”

The findings come as the Trump administration announced on July 21 that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is pausing over $860 million in funding to California after federal officials discovered in-home supportive services claims that significantly exceeded national trends.

Sally Pipes, the institute’s president, told the Daily Signal that rooting out fraud should be lawmakers’ top priority.

“If lawmakers could make only one thing happen this year, it should be eliminating fraud, waste, and abuse from Medi-Cal, which now covers 15 million Californians at a cost of $220 billion. The entire state budget for fiscal 2026-27 is $351.7 billion,” she said.

Good luck with that.

The Foundry.

For at least 30 years, the American welfare state has become a global magnet for immigrants, both legal and illegal, despite longstanding law to prevent exactly that.

Since the late 19th century, federal law has barred any immigrant likely to become a public charge from entering the country. In 1996, with bipartisan support, Congress declared self-sufficiency the explicit policy of the United States and required many legal immigrants to have a sponsor sign a legally binding contract that they would support the immigrant to prevent their enrollment on welfare programs.

But, to put it mildly, Democrats have changed in the years since. Most recently, the Biden administration’s 2022 “public charge” rule gutted a principle as old as the Republic itself: Those who come to America should get to work, not get on welfare.

Yet, half of all households headed by noncitizens use at least one welfare program—a rate much higher than that of households headed by the American-born, according to census data analyzed by the Center for Immigration Studies. Some countries’ immigrants, like those from Somalia living in Minnesota, receive welfare at more than a 70% clip when they show up in the U.S.

The New Neo.

I saw this headline today, “Nearly 150,000 mail ballots rejected in California’s primary despite efforts to count every vote.”

That doesn’t tell us much. Were they ballots that should have been counted and somehow were missed? And if so, why? Or were they ballots that were not legal and uncounted for that reason? And why so many – or so few? In other words, was this just the tip of the iceberg of the number of ballots that shouldn’t have been counted in that state? Or should many of these have been counted and were they unfairly excluded?

The article doesn’t say.

Of course not. The Narrative Media are called that for a reason.

This is how the article begins:

Nearly 150,000 California voters had their mail-in ballots rejected for the state’s June primary, a spike from recent elections even as the state attempts to make voting easier with the goal of boosting participation and counting every ballot.

Let’s rewrite that a bit:

Nearly 150,000 California mail-in ballots were rejected for the state’s June primary, an increase from recent elections even as the state attempts to make voting easier with the goal of boosting Democrat votes and relaxing the rules so that every mail-in ballot is counted whether it’s valid or not..

Saying the quiet part out loud….

The Telegraph (UK).

Police failed to arrest a violent Afghan national hours before he fatally stabbed a dog walker despite being told he posed a danger to the public, The Telegraph can reveal.

Dawood Safi, 28, carried out a triple stabbing in Midhurst Gardens, Uxbridge on Oct 27 which resulted in the death of Wayne Broadhurst, 49.

Two other people, 45-year-old Shazhad Farrukh, Safi’s landlord, and a 14-year-old boy were injured in the attack.

At the Old Bailey last week, Safi, who entered the country illegally in the back of a lorry in 2020, was found guilty of the attempted murder of Mr Farrukh.

He had previously pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Mr Broadhurst through diminished responsibility.

The Telegraph (UK).

A mega-dinghy carrying 165 migrants has crossed the Channel, setting a new record for the number of arrivals on a single small boat.

The packed vessel – intercepted by Border Force on Thursday – beat the previous record from July 11, when 128 migrants crossed in one boat.

It was one of three dinghies to cross the Channel on Thursday, bringing a total of 366 migrants. The other two vessels carried an average 100 people each.

The higher number reflects efforts by people-smuggling gangs to cram more migrants onto each boat to maximise profits.

No mention of stopping them, or of penalizing France for allowing this shit to go on, or to sending them back.

Imagine what Trump would do….

The Telegraph (UK).

When you’re chief qualification (sometimes your only qualification) is your skin color….

When Jason Arday became a Cambridge professor at the age of 37, he was lionised by the academic world and became a poster boy for the university’s diversity drive.

He had beaten almost impossible odds to get there. Diagnosed with autism, and non-verbal until the age of 11, he had only learnt to read and write at 18 but obtained a degree and a doctorate before forging a career in teaching.

And what wink-wink-nod-nod helped him get those degrees?

Now, on the eve of the publication of his autobiography, the University of Cambridge’s professor of sociology of education has become the subject of a bitter row over plagiarism that has pitted his peers against each other.

On one side of the argument are professors at other universities who believe Prof Arday’s published works, including his PhD thesis, contain passages that are remarkably similar – and in some cases identical – to other academic papers, without proper attribution.

My, what a surprise. “I’m black, y’all, I’m black, y’all, I’m black black blackety black, y’all….”

The Telegraph (UK).

Iran has been caught sending suspected covert operatives across the English Channel into the UK, The Telegraph can reveal.

Yeah, but what are they going to do about it? Under Labor, fuck all.

Individuals with links to Tehran’s intelligence agencies are understood to have been intercepted by UK authorities while attempting to enter Britain on small boats.

People smugglers working on the Continent told The Telegraph that the Iranian regime facilitated the passage to Britain of migrants living at Calais in exchange for a “favour” for Iran after they settled in England.

BuzzFeed, a Voice of the Crust.

Have you ever been on a first date so bad you seriously thought about walking out mid-meal? Same. The reasons can be all over the place. For one person, the reason could just be a date who chews with their mouth open. For another, it could be something more universal…like them showing up completely hammered with their shirt on inside out. And I know one person’s yuck is another person’s yum. But I think we could probably agree that most of these are pretty egregious.

Quite frankly, I’m astonished that such a feminine-negative treatment would get published in so gynocentric a publication. But people will surprise you. If you’re wondering about the ‘dating crisis’, look no further.

Says something about the sort of people who hang out at BuzzFeed, I suspect.

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The Bronze Age Mycenaeans were an ancient civilization from the Greek mainland known for their impressive architecture, rich culture, and mysterious decline. Perhaps most famously, the Mycenaeans were the lead cast in Homer’s stories of the Trojan War, The Iliad and The Odyssey. These include Agamemnon, the legendary king of Mycenae who led the Greek forces in the Trojan War; Menelaus, king of Sparta and husband of Helen, whose abduction sparked the war; and the cunning Odysseus, the king of Ithaca who had to face numerous challenges during his long voyage home after the Trojan War.

While the epic poem The Iliad is generally recognized as a work of fiction, some of Homer’s accounts are nevertheless considered historically accurate. For instance, Troy was real, with most historians agreeing that it used to be located in Hisarlik, Turkey. The Mycenaean Greeks were also real people, although the legendary characters in Homer’s works are fictitious, acting as literary devices meant to explore themes of heroism, war, and human nature.

Now, a new and exciting study suggests that some of Homer’s accounts of Mycenaean warfare, long thought to be mere artistic embellishments, are plausible and may have been historically accurate. The findings center around one of the oldest European suits of armor, a marvelous 3,500-year-old suit discovered in the village of Dendra in 1960.

ScienceAlert.

If scientists managed to overcome every other aspect of aging, humans still couldn’t live forever, the new research shows. Random DNA mutations would continue accumulating in our cells until the body could no longer function.

Simulations conducted by a team at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology in Russia suggest this process could impose a fundamental limit on human lifespan, with most people living no longer than about 150 to 190 years under this optimistic scenario.

That’s roughly double humans’ current longevity, of about 79 years in fortunate circumstances, but it’s still a hard limit on the human lifespan.

About what Numenoreans have. If it’s good enough for Aragorn, it’s good enough for me.

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Life has scarcely found a boundary on Earth that it can’t push. While much of life’s diversity exists in lush, bountiful habitats like tropical rainforests and coral reefs, even the most brutal corners of the planet are also occupied. The organisms that thrive in extreme environments — blistering temperatures, crushing pressures, corrosive acid — are what we call “extremophiles.”

Most of these imperiled pioneers are rugged microbes, such as bacteria or archaea. Some have evolved to live in poisonous brine that would fatally pickle nearly everything else. Some can happily grow in subzero temperatures, using special enzymes that chug along where others grind to a halt. Others can shrug off the menaces of heavy metals, ionizing radiation, or the vacuum of space and still thrive.

These organisms aren’t just curiosities. Understanding their resilient biology has many possible applications. Discovering biochemicals that function under extreme temperatures, pH levels, or pressure could be a boon for a broad array of industrial processes. The organisms may also help clean up toxic pollutants by growing, thriving, and digesting where nothing else can. Extremophiles and their enzymes are even responsible for the modern era of genetics and molecular biology.

How Trump and His Allies Can Corrupt the Midterms (David French/New York Times)  One of the biggest laughs I’ve  had for a month of Sundays was an article in a Voice of the Crust labeling David French as ‘right-leaning’.  French is the poster child for Lenin’s concept of the Useful Idiot.

Dems Alarmed Over Possible US Strikes on Mali Terror Group  Terrorists, especially foreign terrorists, are a cornerstone of the Democrat base.

MS NOW’s Catherine Rampell Begs for International Investigation Against Trump  Because, as we all know,  Trump needs to be investigated, and who better to investigate Trump than foreigners?

Pentagon Pete Strips Fallen Heroes of Status as War Dead (William Vaillancourt/The Daily Beast)  Because, as we all know, anybody adversely affected by the current administration is ipso facto a Hero.

Wu Shaoping escaped China’s repression, only to get busted by ICE in Pa. (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)  Will Bunch loses his shit.

DOJ Sues Milwaukee Over ICE Mask Ordinance  The proglodyte mob has an inalienable right to identify ICE agents for retaliation.

Democrats Prepare for Possible Election Clashes With Federal Government (Nick Corasaniti/New York Times)  Because, as we all know, Democrats have an inalienable right to steal elections.

Trump Returns to White House Correspondents’ Dinner After April Attack Halted Gala

Angry Trump Openly Urges GOP to Rig Midterms as Brutal Fox Poll Hits (New Republic)  Because, as we all know, only Democrats are entitled to rig midterms.

MAGA’s “pasta pass” talking point is height of gaslighting (Lisa Needham/Public Notice)  Getcher Narrative, right here.

Trump-backed SAVE Act is newest effort to collect private voter information (Nathan Lee/ABC News)  Like “Are you a citizen?”

Trump’s Tariff Runaround Defies the Courts and Common Sense (Natasha Sarin/New York Times)  Because, as we all know, common sense is what the NYT says it is.

Poll: Republicans’ gas price problem is even worse than it seems (Jessie Blaeser/Politico)  Because, as we all know, gas has a ‘price problem’ under Trump even though gas is cheaper than under Biden. (Who are you going to believe, the Narrative Media or your lying eyes?)

Quagmire of the Vanities ??? Yesterday Donald Trump declared that the Iran war is going … (Paul Krugman)  The vacuum speaks.

Dinner with a side of ‘vicious’ (Politico)

Elon Musk Melts Down Over Perfectly Normal Questions in Wild New Interview (Matt Novak/Gizmodo)  Because, as we all know, “Why are you such a ricist?” is a perfectly normal question to ask a Heretic and Sinner. (WATCH: Elon Musk Verbally Smacks Pompous British Journalist Around)

‘We Are All Screwed’: Rosie O’Donnell Recounts Fleeing Trump’s America

PBS’s Updegrove Ups the Anti-Trump Insanity: Stacey Abrams’ ’10 Steps’ to Tyranny

Senior Navy official placed on leave after vowing to undo Trump’s policies in undercover video (Emily Hallas/Washington Examiner)

Trump accused of using forced labor as ‘convenient’ justification for tariffs (The Guardian)  Of course, if he hadn’t, they’d have bitched and moan about him not doing so.

MS NOW Gets ‘Triggered’ By GOP’s ‘Red-Baiting’ Of The DSA  It’s not ‘Red-Baiting’ if they actually are Reds.

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Joel Salatin wants to liberate Americans from over-regulation with neighbor-to-neighbor food commerce.

Salatin, who runs Polyface Farm in the hills of Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, is pitching the concept of a “Food Emancipation Proclamation.”

I have a number of Salatin’s books. He has many original ideas about agriculture, hates factory farms, and hates government regulatory micro-management. He’s the guy who convinced me to start boying pasture-raised eggs.

Through what he envisions as a federal declaration, consenting adults would be allowed to buy and sell homemade and farmstead food directly, without the costly commercial infrastructure and cumbersome government regulation currently in place.

Salatin’s mission reflects a push among homesteaders and independent farmers to cultivate local food networks, where food is grown and raised without chemicals and consumers can gain a more transparent connection to how food is produced.

The reason such a movement is needed is the effective erasure of the Institute for Justice calls the Dormant Commerce Clause in the Constitution, whereby anything that the government wants to pull within its clutches can be done by sophistry about what is and is not ‘interstate commerce’.

Got a pond on your farm? That’s a ‘wetland’ and the government can regulate it.

Grow crops for your own use? That affects Interstate Commerce because if you didn’t grow your own food all such food these days comes across state lines, so the government can tell you what to do and how to do it. Same reasoning applies to trading food with neighboring farmers or selling it locally.

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The organizers of the American Diabetes Association meeting had a group of researchers removed from the event for sharing an editorial about negative impacts of policy changes to research funding.

Note that it was the ADA organizers who had the scientists removed, apparently for CrimeThink.

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Congress doesn’t. Democrats in Congress do. The existence of tax-sheltered retirement accounts has been a running sore with the Democrat looters from day one.

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., rolled out the Retirement Fairness for Working Americans Act this week, and the name alone tells you how Washington sells a bad idea. There is nothing fair about capping retirement accounts and forcing selloffs on people who did exactly what the tax code told them to do for 30 years. Fairness does not shrink the pot. This bill does.

I have spent three decades building investment strategies for single-family offices, running a hedge fund, and structuring private credit deals, and I serve as a designated expert witness on fiduciary duty in federal and state courts. I know the difference between closing a genuine loophole and moving the goalposts on savers who followed the rules Congress wrote. This bill is the second thing dressed up as the first.

The legislation, in both its House and Senate versions, targets anyone with more than $10 million combined across IRAs and defined contribution plans, barring further contributions and forcing a 50% annual drawdown on the excess, once income tops $400,000 for individuals or $450,000 for couples.

To justify this, Wyden and Neal point to Peter Thiel, whose Roth IRA grew into a multi-billion-dollar account after he placed early PayPal founder shares into it decades ago.

What’s yours is yours, unless Democrats want it, in which case it becomes theirs.

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The Foundry.

Under President Ronald Reagan, Americans understood communism for what it was. We knew it wasn’t an ambitious social program or a compassionate alternative to capitalism. Everyone knew—without question—that it crushed faith, confiscated property, silenced dissent, and turned citizens into subjects of the state.

Then the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union collapsed. We defeated the communists so completely that following generations of Americans never witnessed their evils. They never saw the breadlines or watched families risk their lives to escape the regimes. They inherited freedom without learning what was required to preserve it.

Communism is not making a comeback because it was ever successful. It’s returning because Americans forgot why it failed. Now its advocates are walking down a red carpet rolled out by the Democratic Party…

It is said that Nikita Khrushchev once claimed that “Your grandchildren will live under communism.” I have been unable to track down the source of that meme, but it matches what I saw of Khrushchev when I was younger. (Yes, I am that old.)

The Foundry.

According to a recent report from the Utah legislative auditor general, the state’s higher education system lost over $830,000 in recent years to “ghost students” who apply to receive financial aid and run off with the money without pursuing a degree.

“Institutions reported disbursing $834k to suspected fraudulent applicants and spending over 15,000 hours working to mitigate enrollment fraud,” the 2026 Performance Audit on Enrollment Fraud in Higher Education report noted.

Salt Lake Community College alone saw at least 2,000 fraudulent applications in recent years, the report highlighted.

The community college did not respond to the Daily Signal’s request for comment.

It’s easy to defraud the government because nobody has a vested interest in pursuing such fraid—after all, it’s just Free Government Money. If education were paid for by the consumer (student/parents), such fraud would be far less frequent, and more likely prosecuted.

The American Mind.

The most consequential domestic policy development of the 2020s is neither COVID-19 nor Donald Trump’s reelection. It is Joe Biden’s decision to import ten million foreigners into the United States in violation of standing federal law. Many of the defining political fights of this decade stem from that choice: government shutdowns over border enforcement, states unilaterally redefining the meaning of citizenship, the growing willingness of the restrictionist wing of the Republican Party to defy its own business class, major fraud investigations in Minneapolis and New York, and the unraveling of consensus over whether federal law binds the states.

These are battles in a larger fight over who constitutes the American people, one that escalated with President Biden’s decision to actively facilitate the mass importation of illegal aliens into this country by land, air, and sea.

American politics is no longer primarily a contest over how we govern ourselves. It is a contest over who we are and who decides.

It is also a bitter lesson in the fact that any Democrat President, even a sock puppet like Joe Biden, can push the country further into the toilet than a subsequent Republican President can retrieve it.

Read it.

If California succeeds here, nothing stops it from imposing similar nationwide costs in energy, agriculture, transportation, consumer electronics, you name it. SB 54 is not just a plastics law. It is a blueprint for how one state can impose its preferences on the entire country.

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French investigating judges have added racism as an aggravating circumstance to the cases against all the suspects formally investigated over the 2023 killing of 16-year-old Thomas Perotto.

The decision, announced on Thursday, July 23rd, comes more than two and a half years after the fatal attack at the village’s winter dance in Crépol, in south-eastern France.

According to a source close to the investigation, the judges amended the charges after considering around 10 witness statements reporting remarks hostile to white people at the end of the dance, including: “We’re here to stab white people.”

Thomas Perotto, a secondary school pupil and rugby player, was fatally stabbed during the night of November 18-19, 2023, after violence erupted at the village event. Three other people were seriously wounded.

The alleged perpetrators are believed to be a group of young men from North African immigrant families from the working-class neighborhoods of nearby Romans-sur-Isère.

On June 12, prosecutors in Valence requested that eleven people stand trial over Thomas’s death.

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According to figures from Germany’s Federal Foreign Office, Berlin granted 53,598 family reunification visas during the first half of 2026, even though the government of Friedrich Merz had announced the suspension of this entry route.

The figure contrasts with the statements made during the federal election campaign. In April 2025, a month before taking office as Chancellor, Merz declared on X that his government would “manage and control migration better” and “suspend family reunification.”

Family reunification was suspended for two years on June 27, 2025, with Bavarian Minister-President Markus Söder insisting on television that it amounted to “a return to the way things were before 2015 when it comes to law and order.”

The official records, however, show a gradual decline rather than a halt. In the first half of 2024, 63,637 visas of this type were granted; in the same period of 2025, around 57,000, a 10% drop; and in the first semester of 2026, a slightly lower figure. If the same pace is maintained in the second semester, the annual total would once again exceed 100,000 arrivals through this route.

The discrepancy between what has been promised and the figures is explained by the actual scope of the measure. The approved suspension affects only beneficiaries of subsidiary protection, a status granted to those who obtain neither the right to asylum nor recognition as refugees, but who could suffer serious harm if returned to their country of origin. It is a subgroup within the broader category of family reunification, not the whole of it.