DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When seen by a disapproving proglodyte, obviously.

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

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

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

The New Neo.

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

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

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Watch carefully as Britain flushes itself down the toilet….

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

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

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

Time to leave.

The Foundry.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Consider Ohio.

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

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

The War Zone.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Foundry.

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

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

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

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

New York Post.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Foundry.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Invasion and replacement proceeds apace.

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

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

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

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

Invasion and replacement is on course.

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

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

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Color me surprised.

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

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

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

Natural Selection works every time.

Tim Graham.

Leftists in the media cannot stand the idea that Team Trump is coming to the defense of white males at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). They believe white males should never file a complaint, given their centuries of massive white male privilege.

Last week, The New York Times reported scornfully on how discrimination claims by white men and Jews are “Discrimination Cases That Match Trump’s Agenda,” according to their headline. In their view, the EEOC should always match the leftist agenda. It’s supposed to be a captive agency of the Left under every administration.

This week, the EEOC sued The Times for discrimination against a white male employee who applied for a deputy real estate editor position. Despite experience in real-estate journalism, he was excluded from the final pool of candidates, which was composed of a white female, a black male, an Asian female, and a multiracial female. The multiracial female won the job, despite a lack of experience in real-estate journalism.

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Childcare workers across Wales are being trained to spot and report “racist incidents” by toddlers under fresh guidance endorsed by government ministers and bankrolled with taxpayer cash.

The push, which includes lessons on “white privilege,” turns playgroups and nurseries into surveillance hubs for the state’s ‘anti-racism’ agenda — even when the alleged offenders are barely out of nappies.

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States won by President Donald Trump in the 2024 election collectively gained more than $2.2 trillion in adjusted gross income from interstate migration between 2012 and 2023, while states won by Vice President Kamala Harris lost nearly $2 trillion during the same period.

Steve Graham.

Welcome to Dr. Fantasmo’s Dental Fun House

My wife and I went in for dental cleanings, and we learned something that might be very helpful to you. And it’s time-sensitive.

The hippies and trannies have ruined dental floss.

Many people have huge gaps between their teeth, so they can use any kind of floss they want. My teeth are close together, so if I use the wrong floss, it snaps. This is not a rare condition.

In order to fix the problem, our wonderful dental establishment came up with floss made from Teflon. The best-known brand is Glide. It moves in and out of dental gaps much more easily than the old string-and-wax stuff.

I have been buying the Walmart version of this stuff for a long time. I buy it in large quantities so I get the best prices and so I don’t run out fast. I am still working on my last container.

At my cleaning, my hygienist got very angry. She was using some kind of horrible floss that kept snapping, and it felt like she was dragging butcher’s twine between my teeth. She got fed up and started using some kind of little pointy things to get the polishing paste out. I wondered why she was using floss she clearly hated.

I told her I used Teflon floss, and she said it was no longer available.

I was horrified, and when I got home, I did some research. She was right. Since I bought my last shipment of floss, the hippies in a couple of degenerate hippie states banned Teflon floss. Of course, this means it’s banned for everyone else, because companies don’t want to make different floss for different states, and because they don’t want hysterical, hormonal women crying that Oral-B is trying to kill their children.

There are chemicals called PFAS (or something like that) and they are used in the manufacture of Teflon floss. By the time the floss is made, there are only tiny traces of these chemicals in it, and you can probably imagine how much of that will get into your body in a lifetime of flossing. Doesn’t matter. Estrogen is the mind-killer, and you can’t reason with a nose-ringed woman full of SSRI’s.

Incidentally, one of the outfits that got rid of good floss is called Silent Spring, which is named for the 1961 Rachel Carson book that killed millions of little brown people by getting DDT banned because of a greatly exaggerated fear that it might thin bird eggshells. With the use of DDT, the incidence of malaria in Ceylon went from millions per year to 17, and when DDT was withdrawn, numbers shot back up, and there was a tsunami of fatalities as needless deaths resumed.

Malaria is not a joke. You can’t just take a spoonful of quinine and get out of bed, instantly healed, and do jumping jacks. It causes excruciating pain and kills people.

Mosquitoes spread other diseases such as zika and yellow fever. But never mind. Rachel Carson got her chance to virtue-signal.

So what do you do if you want to floss your teeth?

I use a tool called GUM Soft Picks. Using actual dental floss is Too Much Like Work.

The Telegraph (UK).

The Press watchdog has ruled that publications are entitled to describe Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide.

The First Amendment saves Americans from being subject to a ‘press watchdog’.

The Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) rejected a complaint from a member of the public about the term being used as a statement of fact in a newspaper article.

Ipso said it was “not in a position to adjudicate on the actions of Israel”, even though the UK Government had been clear that genocide was not being committed.

I wonder how they classify Muslim attempts to exterminate the Jews?

The Telegraph (UK).

A group of suspected Islamic State (IS) brides have been arrested in Australia after arriving with their children on flights from Syria.

Three women were immediately taken into custody after two flights with women and children linked to IS landed in Sydney and Melbourne on Thursday.

Kawsar Abbas, 53, who arrived in Melbourne, was expected to be charged with four counts of crimes against humanity relating to slavery, the Australian Federal Police said. Each charge would carry a maximum of 25 ?years in prison.

The Telegraph (UK).

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

The Telegraph (UK).

Children’s clothes of all shapes, sizes and colours hang on rails along the walls of the second-hand clothes shop in Al-Khiyam. Parents who live in what remains of this part of southern Lebanon are grateful for the hand-me-downs.

A small square hole in the floor, however, betrays a more sinister purpose.

It’s a squeeze, but once you are through it, a tight spiral staircase descends a metal-lined shaft. It opens up at a depth of perhaps 10 to 15 metres into a formidably well-organised Hezbollah tunnel complex, connecting multiple buildings in the village.

Of course they don’t. Who would be such a fool as to think they might?

There are no ‘innocent civilians’ in Gaza.

The Times (UK).

A magistrate has told a teenage shoplifter that she has never seen offending on such a scale after he avoided a custodial sentence for thefts that totalled £116,000

In other words, no prison time.

The 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, participated in dozens of raids in London shops over the past two years, Highbury Corner youth court was told.

He was captured on CCTV either “directly participating” in taking cosmetic products off the shelves or acting as a lookout. The court was told the boy acted alone and as part of a group on a number of occasions and there was an investigation into other perpetrators.

And still, no prison time.

The Times (UK).

Candidates in the Birmingham city council election posted a “celebration” video praising Iran’s success in the war with Israel and America.

Wajad Burkey and Sardar Khan, candidates for the Workers Party, posed with a box of sweets and a superimposed Iranian flag in the video shared on TikTok.

Burkey, a candidate for Bordesley Green, an inner-city ward, spoke in favour of the Iranian government in the footage, believed to have been posted after Tehran closed the Strait of Hormuz.

ScienceDaily.

A test designed to push the limits of single cell DNA sequencing ended up revealing something far more surprising: a microscopic organism from a pond at Oxford University Parks appears to use the genetic code in a way scientists had not seen before.

Naval News.

Russia is investing heavily in a new generation of “super weapons” designed to bypass and potentially nullify conventional defenses. Foremost among them is Poseidon, an autonomous, nuclear-powered, nuclear-armed underwater weapon with effectively intercontinental range. Details about its newest dedicated carrier submarine, Khabarovsk, are only gradually coming into focus.

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President Donald Trump took decisive action last year to halt crime in Washington, and the results have been spectacular.

But that success now looks even more impressive considering recent reports that high-ranking members of the Metropolitan Police Department had been previously cooking the books to create the mirage that crime was lower than it was.

The House Oversight Committee released a report in December uncovering that during their investigation of crime in the capital, they heard “testimonies from commanders that there are clear pressures placed on MPD personnel to lower the classifications of crime to present to the public the perception of low crime in the District.”

The police commanders said, according to the committee, that “on numerous occasions, they were not only pressured, but also instructed, to lower crime classifications to lesser intermediate offenses in such a way that those offenses would not be included in the DCR reported to the public.”

U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro said Friday in an interview with Fox News that her office conducted a review as well and found that 50 witnesses and more than 6,000 police reports backed up the claim that there was tampering with the crime stats.

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And apparently is a Woman of Color. (Considering the major part that Arabs and other Muslims played in the slave trade, it constantly astonishes me how American Africans cozy up to Islam and it’s ephemera, e.g. “Hakim” Jeffries.)

On another page of her website for this educational center in Hurst, Texas, DOCTOR Aminah Knight spells it “Leaning.”

Perhaps a Freudian Slip?

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A top House Democrat is being accused of breaking federal law after she admitted to meeting with foreign ambassadors about getting oil to Cuba’s communist regime despite U.S. sanctions, defending the outreach as “literally our right and responsibility.”

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D?Wash., made the remarks during a recent briefing in Seattle following a congressional delegation trip to Cuba, where she discussed the island’s worsening fuel shortages and U.S. policy toward the communist regime.

“I was in conversations with ambassadors from Mexico and some other places … trying to figure out how to get oil there,” Jayapal said during the briefing, describing conditions on the island as “a crisis beyond imagination.”

A ‘crisis’ of their own making.

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The controversy surrounding the banquets organised by Le Canon français shows no sign of abating. The initiative, launched by two young entrepreneurs to revive traditional banquets centred on culinary specialities from across France, has come under fire from the press and the Left on the grounds that it perpetuates an ideology of exclusion and promotes far-right ideas. The rector of the Paris Mosque has spoken out publicly to, in turn, attack these festive gatherings which bring together several thousand enthusiastic guests in towns and cities across France.

In a video dated April 29th, Chems-Eddine Haffiz, rector of the Paris Mosque—who, given his official position, is regarded as a kind of spokesman for Islam in France—lashed out at the Canon français and its banquets: the fact that it celebrates a cuisine featuring pork, he claimed, is proof of a logic of exclusion. He condemns the “4,000 guests gathered around a spit-roasted pig” and accuses them of “symbolically” excluding those who do not share this cuisine—that is to say, Muslims.

His statement was met with outraged reactions from right-wing politicians, as well as from ordinary “canonniers”, as the participants in these popular feasts are known.