DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

Newsbusters.

On Friday’s Morning Joe on MS NOW, the show continued misinforming viewers about the recent ICE shooting in Austin in spite of the fact that fact checkers like Fox News host Will Cain had already debunked some of the claims pushed by liberals.

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Higher education is suffering through a self-inflicted crisis of declining public confidence. Only now are its faculty members and administrators starting to recognize that fact, but they collectively remain incapable of acknowledging the heart of the issue.

That’s my take from a recently released report from Cornell University titled “Report of the Committee on the Future of the American University.” The Wall Street Journal reported that it “confronts the crisis in higher education.” But I disagree. Instead, it plucks at a few well-known but serious issues that plague modern colleges and dodges the real cause of the crisis.

In fairness, a separate, largely accurate Wall Street Journal editorial calls the report a “limited self-critique,” but I’d go even further than that. I’d say that it’s an attempt to sidestep and distract from the bigger problem that the authors know exists but want to ignore (because abandoning it would be akin to abandoning their religion).

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I bet you didn’t know that.

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Just in case you were wondering.

Saturday Evening Post, a relic of a better time.

Today, vending machines are an ordinary sight in offices, hospitals, subway stations, and other high-traffic locations, offering everything from snacks and drinks to fresh meals with the tap of a card. But the idea of purchasing a product without interacting with a seller is far from modern.

The first known automated dispensing device was designed in Roman Egypt — an imperial province that served as an economic powerhouse for the Roman Empire from 30 BCE to 642 CE — by a Greek engineer and mathematician named Hero of Alexandria. The automated device served as a tool to ration goods and prevent theft without requiring regulation by a temple attendant.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

How the Bare Nails Trend Became a Class Issue

BBC, a Voice of the Crust.

In recent months, artsy shots of glossy naked nails have been flooding social media and taking over fashion runways and red carpets, which some are viewing as the latest symbol of “quiet luxury”.

But critics argue the bare nails trend actually says something about class, the hamster wheel of beauty standards, and who gets to define what is considered tasteful.

Nail art’s historical and creative roots are linked back to black, Latino, and Asian communities and the suggestion that bare nails are now a sign of high status could stigmatise bold manicures, they say.

“That trend really promotes blankness and this kind of sameness and erasure of culture and identity that is so important to black and brown communities,” beauty journalist Kristina Rodulfo tells the BBC.

“They are often called elegant or tasteful, and these are often usually euphemisms that perpetuate white supremacist standards of beauty.”

Funny how men have lasted for thousands of years without nail polish. White supremacy goes back a lot farther than I realized. (If we’re talking about ‘white supremacist standards of beauty’, let’s talk about black women who do everything in their power to not look like black women. All of those black women on TV with straight hair and bleached hair must be white supremacists. Good to know.)

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Here a Crack. There a Crack. Everywhere a Crack Crack!

Yes, if Politico is seeing cracks (of the GOP variety) then you know it must be election season. And right on cue with a little over a month left until the midterm elections Politico is seeing huge cracks in the Republican party. In fact they are so insistent on GOP cracks that you almost get the sense they want Republican-inclined voters to get demoralized and neglect to vote this year.

For an example of how much Politico is desperately hyping the GOP Crack theme you need only to look at their Friday front page. The big crack headline at the top of that page (as of this writing) has a couple of Florida crackers, Gary Fineout and Kimberly Leonard, boldly declaring that things are so bad for the cracking GOP in Florida that they seem to need a life boat to rescue them from the inevitable: “‘We are hemorrhaging’: Cracks emerge in GOP’s Florida firewall.”

Just a couple of stories down, Politico’s Myah Ward and Erin Doherty gaze upon yet more emerging crack in “Poll: A crack is emerging in Trump’s coalition over deportations.”

Let us now watch the “Cracks emerge in GOP’s Florida Firewall,” or at least what the pair of Florida crackers desperately want us to believe is emerging:

Newsbusters.

MS NOW’s Ari Melber welcomed author Naomi Klein to The Beat on Friday to continue her End Times Fascism book tour. Both would hail New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s “compelling offer against fascism,” while showing a fundamental lack of understanding of what fascism actually is.

In their eyes, fascism is anybody who disagrees with them. Pretty straightforward.

The Foundry.

Two hypothetical college graduates who are married now have a combined annual income of $240,000; they each earn $120,000 per year.

Should an American who graduated from high school but never went to college—and who now works as a delivery truck driver, earning $43,950 per year (the median annual earnings for that job) be forced to help pay off the federal student loans of these two college graduates who make $240,000?

If former President Joe Biden had gotten his way, that truck driver and other hardworking American taxpayers would indeed have seen their tax dollars help pay off those loans.

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Palestinians in the Italian city of Turin — and presumably their allies among left-wing extremists in Italy — have chosen October 7 as an appropriate day to express support for Gaza and celebrate the “resistance”.

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When Nick Freitas walks down a city street in the opening scene of his new documentary, recounting his days as a Green Beret, most viewers might think he’s somewhere in the Muslim world. I certainly did.

He’s in Britain. And the transformation he documents there, driven by decades of mass Muslim migration and a political class unwilling to demand assimilation, is one Americans ignore at their peril.

Freitas, a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates, joined me on “Midterm Report” to discuss “The Immigration Crisis That Will Destroy the West,” a film he made with The Heritage Foundation and The Blaze. It features Heritage experts Mike Gonzalez, Nile Gardiner, and Lora Ries.

Asked how a nation is demoralized and destabilized, Freitas has a simple answer.

“In the simplest terms, you give it an identity crisis,” he told me. “And I think we’re suffering that in the West in general, and we’re starting to see it become a significant problem in the United States.”

Poll: A crack is emerging in Trump’s coalition over deportations (Politico)  The Crust love polls, especially those whose results they can jigger.

Duckworth: Trump’s Arch Could Threaten Air Safety

Supreme Court blocks Trump-backed Missouri congressional map (Jason Rosenbaum/NPR)

Senators Tell Trump to Uninvite Putin From the G20 Summit (Hamed Ahmadi/The Washington Sun)  Because, for politicians, virtue-signaling is more important than actually getting anything productive done. Your Tax Dollars At Work.

The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for ‘Musk’ (Exclusive) (Steven Zeitchik/The Hollywood Reporter) Trump cooties!

White House blocks CNN from trip on Air Force One (Scott Nover/Washington Post)

ABC Still Bashes Trump Over White House Media Bans and Iran At End of Xi Summit

Trump’s disruption to TV coverage during Xi visit frustrates Chinese officials (CNN)

Trump Is Predicting Midterms Success but Republicans Are Starting to Panic (Wall Street Journal)  They hope, they hope, they hope.

White House bars CNN from covering Trump on behalf of major TV networks as he travels to Tennessee (CNN)

Trump Angers Lawmakers With $810 Million in Cuts (Joseph Pisani/Wall Street Journal) Spend that money! Spend that money!

White House Removes CNN From Planned Weekend Trip (Melissa Korn/Wall Street Journal)

CNN ‘Barred’ From Trump Trip to Tennessee, React As You Would Expect

Trump posts map showing ‘Trump Strait’ off Iran, and other Mideast developments (MS NOW)  Ah, ah, ah, ah, yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains….

A 7-Day Standoff That Said So Much About Trump and the Media (Michael M. Grynbaum/New York Times)  More about the latter than the former.

‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Apoorva Mandavilli/New York Times)

Trump Promised the Truth About UFOs. These Scientists Are Waiting. (Ilan Greenberg/Politico)

White House Blocks CNN From Air Force One (Erik Wemple/New York Times)

Poland to Pay Up to $4.4 Billion for Fort Trump, Report Says (Wojciech Moskwa/Bloomberg)

House Democrats Plan Broad Trump Oversight, Impeachment Possible  Possible? Almost certain.

White House TV pool appears to be back in operation, but CNN’s media analyst calls situation ‘fluid’ (Hallie Golden/Associated Press)

Trump’s Angry Tirade Over Failing Press Ban Reveals His Achilles’ Heel (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit,  as he so often does.

Not the Bee.

My, what a surprise.

‘Trans’ people are demonstrably mentally ill. ‘Parthers’ of ‘trans’ people are arguabley even more mentally ill.

And yet their vote is as good as yours…. (Depending on the state, sometimes even better.)

Newsbusters.

MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart’s Friday appearance on PBS News Hour provided a revealing look at the media’s Main Character Syndrome as he falsely declared that journalism is the job protected by the Constitution while taking a victory lap on CNN, MS NOW, and Politico returning to the White House. Meanwhile, The Atlantic staff writer David Brooks was not completely useless. While he criticized Trump for the initial ban, he also criticized the media for being too friendly with Democrats.

Host Amna Nawaz and asked Capehart to juxtapose Trump’s actions with the fact that Chinese dictator Xi Jinping was in town for a state visit. Capehart began incorrectly declaring, “Everything is upside down, Amna. One, covering the White House, access to the White House is a right. It is a public facility. The press is the only profession protected in the Constitution because of our role of informing the citizenry. And so this is another example of the president sort of warping what it means to be in the White House, to be president of the United States.”

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British Prime Minister Andy Burnham used his first United Nations speech this week to announce a ‘National Centre for Information Defence’ – a new state machine to “detect, attribute and disrupt” what ministers call hostile information attacks, and to stop a “distorted and untrue narrative about Britain.”

Unfortunately for him, most of the ‘distorted and untrue narrative about Britain’ come from the Left, the Narrative Media, and the Labour Party.

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An 18-year-old woman has been gang raped and beaten by up to ten different men, many of them with a Syrian background, in the Dutch city of Dordrecht. Although the rape occurred in May 2025, the suspects are only now being arrested. In response to the rape, political leader Geert Wilders wrote that the Netherlands also has Islamic grooming gangs and called for all the perpetrators to be removed from the country along with their families.

Newsbusters.

In its rush to paint the GOP as Doomed in the November mid-term elections, Wednesday’s PBS News Hour not only made a full meal out of a new PBS News/NPR/Marist poll showing lagging enthusiasm for the Republican Party, but interviewed former Kansas Republican Gov. Bill Graves who was apparently making big news by (once again!) endorsing a Democrat, this time one running against sitting Republican Sen. Roger Marshall.

RINOs gotta RINO.

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And, if it is, would that surprise anybody? Anybody at all?

The state of California spends billions of state and local tax dollars each year on welfare benefits for illegal immigrants through programs built to sidestep federal restrictions on public assistance, according to a new report from City Journal.

The report estimates that California taxpayers spent at least $11 billion subsidizing illegal immigrants during the last fiscal year. Federal law prohibits states from spending federal money on illegal immigrants, so Sacramento built a shadow welfare system financed with state and local funds and opened it to anyone who walks in. Residents paying the nation’s highest tax rates cover the tab. The pool of potential beneficiaries keeps growing, with more than a quarter of California’s residents today foreign-born.

Reporters for the outlet visited four public-services offices across Southern California to see how the system works on the ground. Officials at every stop confirmed that illegal immigrants can sign up for benefits themselves or collect them through their children. Nobody seemed concerned about who might be asking.

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Here’s how you know The Atlantic is a Democrat Party organ: it dumps on a “mainstream media” outlet when it prints anything damaging to a Democrat. Everyone can read the “gift article” by leftist screed-demon Jonathan Chait under this headline:

Another Female Democrat Is Mean, Apparently

A New York Times report on Representative Mary Peltola’s management is revealing—about her younger employees’ self-regard.

Chait loves bashing female Republicans. He made Peltola’s fellow Alaskan Sarah Palin into a regular punching dummy (with his emphasis on “dummy”) and also penned a piece in 2013 titled “Michele Bachmann Retires As President of Crazyland,” so he’s not exactly pleading for the fairer sex, just for his favored party.

The Other McCain.

More than two decades have elapsed since Deborah Frisch, Ph.D., lost her position as a psychology instructor at the University of Arizona because of her harassment of “Protein Wisdom” blogger Jeff Goldstein. Rather than move on with her life, instead Frisch became obsessed with Goldstein and harassed him so persistently that finally, in 2018, she was sentenced to prison in Colorado. Frisch was released from prison in July 2025 and we all waited to see how long it would take her to relapse into her criminal habits and earn herself a return trip to prison.

Call it a hunch, but I don’t think it will be much longer.

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Behold the most ludicrous argument unfolding after President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to deny White House press passes to Trump-loathing reporters. Somehow, the liberal elitists shamelessly claim they represent the entire American people in the briefing room, and not just their own pink-haired audience.

Indeed, most of them actually believe it.

See National “Public” Radio White House reporter Tamara Keith, who told a CNN interviewer about her job: “I’m doing it on behalf of the American people. I’m not doing it for me. Um, and by kicking people out, he’s kicking the American people out of the room. He’s kicking the American people out of the people’s house.” This ignores the many millions of people who voted for Trump—and against all the elitist media noise.

These reporters never represent all Americans when Democrats are the ones facing national scrutiny. Keith’s most memorable act of journalistic flattery came when Hillary Clinton seized the Democrat nomination for president in 2016. She wasn’t going to press Clinton about the scandal over her private email server to avoid media scrutiny when she was secretary of state, or any other troublesome topic. She was there to gush.

Selectively, of course.

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Refrigerators are probably the last thing anyone would consider a national security vulnerability, which is precisely why the unusual refrigeration failures at U.S. military commissaries deserve more attention than they are getting.

There is no public evidence that the incidents were caused by a cyberattack or a foreign adversary, and they may ultimately prove to be nothing more than equipment, software, or maintenance failures. But when refrigeration systems at multiple military installations experience problems within a relatively short period and at Fort Huachuca all of the commissary’s freezers reportedly went into defrost mode overnight, leaders at the Pentagon should be asking a larger question: If a sophisticated adversary wanted to test its ability to disrupt the infrastructure supporting America’s military without firing a shot, is this what it might look like?

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A young culture-enricher from Tunisia experienced a sexual emergency while he was in a park in the Italian city of Turin. He attempted to co-opt the services of a female jogger to relieve his need, but she was reluctant, and even had the bad taste to bite him on the arm. Nevertheless, he insisted on her compliance, and then ran away. The bite mark on his arm helped identify him later.

He was apprehended by the police, but was deemed not to be a flight risk, and was released on his own recognizance. For some strange reason he failed to appear for his court date, and is thought to be back in Tunisia.

Fortunately for his victim, he may end up being convicted in absentia. I’m certain that will assure her that justice has been done.

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On Thursday I found a parcel waiting at the front door of my Wandsworth flat: a ‘free’ food waste caddy, a starter roll of compostable liners and a note from the council that deserves a place in the annals of municipal self-congratulation. Recycling my food waste, it explained, could save me “as much as £720 every year”. My leftovers would become “a sustainable power source and liquid fertiliser”. And because it is “much cheaper” for the council to recycle scraps than to bin them with the rubbish, the whole exercise “helps keep your Council Tax low”. Each of these claims turns out to be false, an evasion or a subsidy in disguise.

There is no such thing as a free lunch, as Milton Friedman never tired of pointing out. A local authority that pretends otherwise is not practising environmental stewardship. It is practising virtue signalling at other people’s expense. Let’s take the £720 first. It is not a recycling saving at all. It is a Love Food Hate Waste talking point about buying less food in the first place, describing what the average family could save by throwing away less edible food. That is a saving from wasting less, not from recycling more. WRAP, the climate NGO behind the campaign, now puts the annual cost of edible food binned by a family of four at £1,000. But the money is lost by typical household behaviour, not because food waste remains uncollected by the local council.

American municipal authorities are even worse, reflecting the fact that most significant American cities are run by Democrats and therefore reflect the Democrat determination to virtue-signal at taxpayer expense.

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In 1986, the federal government built a computer database called SAVE, Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements. The purpose was simple – when a noncitizen applies for public benefits the state govt can check whether the applicant was legally in the country. The SAVE system worked. Nobody talked about it for 39 years.

In March 2025, President Trump signed an executive order expanding SAVE’s use. The order told DHS to use the SAVE system to verify citizenship of registered voters and people registering to vote. The order instructed the Social Security Administration to share its records with DHS for that purpose.

Two months later, DHS launched the modified version. Two changes: (1) it now checks Social Security numbers against SSA databases. (2) it allows state and local authorities to run bulk searches; the entire voter roll at once.

The Narrative Media, of course, never mention this database without calling it ‘flawed’ or ‘incorrect’. (Remember: These are the people who are fighting tooth and nail to prevent it from getting information that would improve its accuracy and usefulness.)

ATQUE: Supreme Court clears way for Trump administration to use modified voter verification database (Amy Howe/SCOTUSblog)

ATQUE: The Supreme Court revives a controversial data system for citizenship checks (Jude Joffe-Block/NPR)

ATQUE: Supreme Court Lets Trump Use Beefed-Up Citizenship Verification System That Could Hurt Eligible Voters (Kate Riga/Talking Points Memo)

ATQUE: Supreme Court Ruling Could Have Limited Impact on Voter Screening in Midterms (New York Times)

The Foundry.

Black gender and sexuality, Filipino sexuality culture, colonialism, social justice, and white supremacy are all phrases you might hear in a progressive activist meeting, but at California State University, East Bay, these represent ethnic studies courses that are a required part of the curriculum.

An investigation by Defending Education found that students only have the option to pick from eight different courses, all of which uphold a narrow narrative of systemic racism.

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Every time you go to the toilet, you could be flushing away a valuable resource – your urine.

Today, we see urine as a waste product – but that wasn’t always the case. Historically, it was a highly valued commodity, used to dye cloth, tan leather and make gunpowder. Roman writer Pliny the Elder even recommended people use it to whiten their teeth (though don’t try that one at home).

But now, we see our pee as an unseemly bodily fluid that should be disposed of with as little fuss as possible. It’s hidden away from view in our sewer system, until it reaches a water treatment plant where it can be removed.

Such treatment takes a lot of energy though. As we become more and more aware of the impact our waste has on the environment, researchers are looking for ways we can turn our pee into something more useful.

One such ‘pee-cycling’ advocate is Prof Kai Udert from the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology. Udert has spent his career looking into ways we can improve our sanitation systems and trying to break down the taboos about urine.

We spoke to him about why he is so passionate about pee.

Whatever would we do without ‘scientists’?

(Wouldn’t that look great on a tombstone: “Passionate About Pee”.

Dem Senator Wants To Regulate The Internet To Prevent Another Trump From Happening

Senate Rejects Latest Bid to Curb Trump’s Iran War Powers

CNN Treats WH Return Like It’s Gettysburg, Normandy; ‘Press Freedom Is Your Freedom’

Trump rolls out red carpets for Xi Jinping, though he has portrayed China as a global menace (Peter Nicholas/NBC News)  Unlike Democrats, Republicans can distinguish their personal opinions from the behavior required by their office.

Senate Democrats put Trump’s D.C. makeover on notice (Hans Nichols/Axios)  Democrats always like to posture as if they were somehow in charge, even when they’re not. The pomposity is strong in this one.

Unused Tents and Uneaten Food: Watchdog Finds ‘Waste’ in Immigration Crackdown (Eileen Sullivan/New York Times) As opposed to Democrats, who just steal stuff.

Freudian Slip! NBC News Accidentally Admits Trump Tariff Scare Porn Was a Load of Crapola

Tucker Carlson has reconsidered Trump. And quite a bit else (Steve Inskeep/NPR)

The Week Republicans Finally Panicked About Trump (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker)  Come and get your Narrative, right here.

58% say the U.S. is worse off under Trump vs Biden, 24% say it’s better (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)  Sure, I believe that.

There’s one guy to blame for Americans’ economic discontent (Justin Glawe/Public Notice)  Yeah—Obama.

In Trump’s White House, China’s Dictator Is Welcome. American Media, Less So. (Peter Baker/New York Times)  China’s Dictator doesn’t pretend to be an American, nor does he pretend to be objective or impartial.

Kimmel, Once Again, Falsely Claims Trump Got Him Suspended  Liars lie. It’s what they do.

MAGA Radio Host Humiliates Trump by Leaking Truly Brutal GOP Poll Data (New Republic)  Sounds to me he’s more proglodyte than MAGA.

Trump administration moves to limit fixes for systemic racism in schools (Annie Ma/Associated Press)  The only ‘systemic racism’ in schools is that against white people.

NY Times Finally Frets Over Squashing of Political Dissent, But Only by Trump?

Liberal journalist SHOCKED that DC crime has plummeted for some strange reason

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Tim Pool looks at the chances of war with Cuba.

Not the Bee.

Not the Bee.

I thank God every day that I don’t live in Canada.

Newsbusters.

Some incidents are considered much more newsworthy than others…especially if ICE agents are involved. Violent crimes by illegal immigrants are not considered newsworthy. This week, DHS released a list of criminal aliens they’ve arrested in Texas. You’ll likely never hear their names on national TV.

On Tuesday, new videos emerged shedding more light on the ICE shooting of Venezuelan illegal immigrant Wilber Garces Perez, Sunday in Austin Texas, including that a car chase, appears to have occurred after he had been stopped by ICE, leading to the shooting. Tuesday on CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper, both a report on the videos and a follow-up with Perez’s attorney, ignored obvious questions raised by the videos.

Tapper began the segment in a manner most sympathetic to Perez, describing the illegal alien as, “A 28-year-old Venezuelan man, Wilber Garces Perez. He was shot in the back by an Immigrations and Custom Enforcement agent or ICE agent on Sunday while the gentleman was driving DoorDash.”

After giving an update on Perez’s health status, Tapper noted that existing videos, “don’t shed much light” then presented two conflicting accounts of what led up to the shooting.

Newsbusters.

As we saw once again this week, the most important story the Elitist Media will often cover is…the Elitist Media. Due to a combination of narcissistic coverage of the White House media ban and the usual stack of nonsensical filler, there are a multitude of important stories that were left off the network evening news. Here are a few of them.

Former Alaska congresswoman and current Senate candidate Mary Peltola was the subject of a recent article detailing her as an awful boss who addresses individuals with terms considered to be off-limits in the current discourse.

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And not unreasonably so. They are scary people.

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Unfortunately for them, a military coup would more likely be pro-Republican than pro-Democrat.

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An accused ISIS member has been arrested by counter-terrorism agents over allegations he instructed people how to plan and conduct mass-casualty attacks from his base in Australia.

The Melbourne man, who the Australian Federal Police alleges was a propagandist for the Islamic extremist group, is accused of sending about 10,000 documents, messages, images, videos and audio files relating to executions and torture.

The 65-year-old retiree allegedly pledged allegiance to ISIS.

The man, a Somali-born Australian citizen, is alleged to have acted on the behalf of the terrorist group without traveling to the territory it controlled during conflict in the Middle East.

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The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Department of Homeland Security to continue its citizenship verification program.

In a 6-3 shadow docket ruling in the case of DHS v. League of Women Voters, the justices allowed the Trump administration to expand the program that allows states to use Social Security records and other information to check voters’ citizenship status.

“By prohibiting interference with the disclosure of information regarding citizenship status to DHS—’notwithstanding any other provision of Federal, State, or local law’—Congress necessarily authorized DHS to request and receive that information,” the majority opinion says.

The three liberals, Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissented.

The Foundry.

“I was wrong” is one of the rarest sentences in American public life. Standard practice is to double down, spin, or wait for the news cycle to move on.

So it’s worth noticing when Bill Maher said it anyway, on his own show, to his own audience, about a claim he’d made about President Donald Trump.

On a recent episode of “Real Time,” Maher walked back something he’d said the week before: that Trump was “winning almost none” of his primary endorsements.

Trump, unwilling to let the line go unanswered, texted Maher directly.

Maher checked the numbers. He found he’d spoken wrongly. The actual record, Maher said, was just nine of the 260 candidates Trump endorsed this cycle have lost—a 97% win rate. Instead of quietly letting this falsehood slide, Maher acknowledged this on the air: “I did overstate it. That wasn’t true. Overstated. There, was that so hard, to not be a d— about everything?”

The problem is that ‘being a dick about everything’ seems to be the default setting for progs—those that aren’t being a cunt about everything.

This is why therapy is a pseudo-science.

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I thank God every day that I don’t live in Canada.

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The organization tasked with accrediting the nation’s law schools will appear before a federal advisory panel later this month to defend its government-recognized status as an accreditor. This status gives the Council of the American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar the power to determine which schools have access to federal student aid and, in most states, whether graduates may sit for the bar. In short, federal recognition gives the council extraordinary power over entry into the legal profession.

With results as you see them.

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Explicit calls to overthrow capitalism only suggest revolutionary goals within the reformist socialist movement. There have been reports that some of these reformist socialists have coordinated with foreign subversion networks in Cuba and China or used NGOs to conduct hybrid information warfare.

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On Sunday, CNN’s State of the Union hosted Governor Wes Moore (D-Maryland). Bash questioned Moore about crimes committed by illegal immigrants, but the conversation quickly shifted to criticizing ICE. Moore claimed that ICE is bigger than the FBI and is putting “unaccountable and unqualified people” into communities.

Bash began the segment by focusing on the “illegal immigrant who was a rideshare driver” that raped his 17-year-old female passenger. She emphasized, “The fact is that Homeland Security is saying he was an undocumented immigrant and the Biden administration let him come in 2023.” Bash then asked Gov. Wes Moore whether he understood “how upset this makes people.” Then she allowed Moore to speak uninterrupted for a minute and a half.

Moore reassured the residents of Maryland that he has “no tolerance for violent offenders” and “there is nothing that we will not do to make sure that our communities are safe.” He confidently continued, “if someone commits a violent crime in our state, I want him in handcuffs in 24 hours and they will have accountability coming their way.”

Sure, I believe that.

Watts Up With That.

The price of electricity in America rose about 30% in five years. Washington has decided the culprit is a building that, for the most part, hasn’t been built yet.

Americans are right to be angry, and both parties are scrambling to respond before the midterms. Data centers are the most visible piece of the energy landscape, so data centers are getting the blame for higher prices. But that view misses the real issue.

To be clear, data centers should pay for the infrastructure built to serve them, and host communities deserve enforceable commitments rather than press releases. But those are questions about allocating cost. None of them create another megawatt, and the reason your bill is going up is that we stopped creating megawatts.

As usual, government is the reason we can’t have nice things.

Watts Up With That.

The climate movement just got weirder.

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I’m struggling to get past the “Planetary Guardians” reference. Could you imagine introducing yourself to someone as a member of the “Planetary Guardians” with a straight face?

In brightest day, in darkest night
No grievance shall escape my sight; 
Let those who worship reason’s might
Beware my power: The Proglodyte!

ATQUE: Wrong, Guardian, If Humanity Can No Longer ‘Flourish,’ Someone Forgot to Tell Humanity

New York Post.

A group of masked Massachusetts teenagers stormed a McDonald’s restaurant and attacked an employee who was behind the counter during the chaotic invasion caught on camera.

Four teens were arrested for their roles in the violent takeover in Lynn — about 10 miles outside Boston — on Sept. 18 after a local football game let out, WHDH reported.

Distressing cellphone footage recorded from inside the McDonald’s shows the massive group descending into the fast-food joint before two of the teens are seen viciously attacking one of the workers.

Blue State Blues.