DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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As Americans gear up for another tumultuous midterm election year, voters should be aware that the most notorious billionaire in politics is still actively trying to bend society into his own personal plaything from an entire menu of political and sociocultural angles.

George Soros, who has emerged as one of the top political donors (again) for the midterms, has dedicated his massive fortune over the years to exploiting the vehicles of media, climate change, terrorism, education, elections, censorship and lawfare to be agents of his dark “open society” worldview.

To that end, Soros has poured well over $32 billion to ensure his Open Society Foundations (OSF) remain a well-oiled machine to ensure that the “arc of history” is foreseeably bent to his will now with his more radical son Alex taking the throne of the empire.

The elder Soros once boasted that “[i]t is a sort of disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out,” according to The Independent in 1993. This is not just the musings of a billionaire overdosing on his own ego. He has developed an international reputation for putting his money where his mouth is. In fact, Morton Abramowitz, a former head of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, once referred to Soros as “the only man in the United States who has his own foreign policy and can implement it.”

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To examine lawfare, we must consider the current context, which is this: we are at war, a cold civil war, against a domestic regime which wants to overthrow America. It is correct to call it a “war,” and not just an unusually wide divide, because the contest is between two moral orders. From a given moral order there flows a given set of laws, values, customs, and other aspects of culture. Obviously, a society can have only one of each. The moral order of the enemy regime rests on group outcome equality. The moral order of our regime, on the other hand, rests on individual merit. These two moral orders – individual merit versus group quotas – are utterly irreconcilable. You can’t admit people to college (or anything else) based on both merit and group quotas. It’s one or the other. This is why today the two political parties can agree on almost nothing. The Left knows that because it knows that it is at war. Thus, it plays by wartime rules. The Right, on the other hand, does not know it and so continues to play by peacetime rules, which include trying to reach across the aisle, a sucker’s game in a war.

One of the most powerful weapons in the Left’s arsenal is Lawfare. But we on the Right don’t understand this; we don’t understand either the nature or power of the Left’s Lawfare.

It’s time we learn.

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Legacy media outlets have been spinning tall tales about Texas ICE agents in recent months, trying to stoke backlash against immigration enforcement. But they’re not telling the full story.

Of course not, They never do. They actively avoid it.

Two shootings of illegal aliens in particular have garnered extensive coverage: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, during July, and Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez in Austin, during September. In both cases, mainstream media cast the men as innocent victims and questioned the agents’ use of force.

But the coverage failed to consider what actually led to the shootings in the first place.

Power Line.

Through Immigration Court, illegal aliens have access to four levels of appeals. In addition, through federal district court, illegal aliens have access to three levels of appeals.

There is no corner of American jurisprudence where actual citizens have access to that amount of due process.

During the Biden years, illegal aliens streamed into America by the millions, without following any laws. Biden-appointed judges insist that those same aliens be afforded infinite levels of due process, all at American taxpayer expense.

Oh, they’re so oppressed!

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A bill to stop insider trading failed to advance in the Senate on Wednesday, with all Democrats voting against it and all Republicans voting for it.

Tells you everything you need to know about the difference between the two parties.

Low-information voters keep forgetting one eternal truth: Any Republican will be better than any Democrat.

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California has a strange relationship with business. Its lawmakers seem determined to make doing business more expensive, yet companies continue to operate there. Taxes rise, regulations accumulate, and new compliance requirements are added, but California remains home to some of the most successful companies in the world. That raises a question more interesting than whether California is “business friendly.” Why do businesses continue to stay – and how far can the state push them before they finally decide the benefits of California are no longer worth the cost?

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Immigration activists say migrants are expecting a Democrat takeover of Congress in the midterms, and a shift toward more relaxed border enforcement.

And there’s the election in a nutshell.

Not the Bee.

Unlike proglodytes, Muslims always know who the Useful Idiots are.

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Proglodyte paradise.

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Even amidst tragic news that at least 18 Christians in Nigeria’s Middle Belt state of Plateau were killed by Fulani jihadists over the past week, there is reason for hope: The nation’s government has finally bowed to pressure and taken concrete action against the plague of anti-Christian violence.

Because of pressure started by President Donald Trump’s campaign to stop the persecution of Christians, the government of Nigeria finally responded with commensurate force to stop these latest attacks in the Middle Belt from turning into something much worse, likely saving hundreds of Christians’ lives.

In the middle of September, local reporters covering persecution in Nigeria—like Masara Kim with Truth Nigeria—began documenting a massive build-up of Fulani jihadists in central Plateau state, one of the epicenters of persecution against Christians in the country. This was not another routine gathering of dozens of attackers, but nearly a thousand armed fighters amassing in the area, coming from all different regions in Nigeria.

The rationale for this terrorist build-up is murky, but it could have been related to reports that a major Fulani militant leader had just been arrested by local forces, or to general attempts to destabilize the country during a presidential election season. Whatever the reason, it appeared that the largest attack on this community in years would be launched imminently.

For context, the last time a coordinated attack of such magnitude occurred was Christmas Eve 2023, when militias devastated 25 villages, leaving almost 200 Christians dead, with pastors beheaded and churches burned to the ground. Over the following months, more than a thousand were killed as the communities were left to fend for themselves, effectively defenseless.

The Foundry.

While the American military action in Iran has been a source of many benefits to the U.S., a collateral negative effect has been the increase in world oil prices and the associated increase in gas prices at the pump for U.S. consumers. However, things may not be as dire as many would lead you to believe.

To understand the real state of things, examining U.S. gas prices over the past two decades provides invaluable insight—and it allows for a more informed and rational discussion of the pros and cons of this Iran conflict.

The table below documents the average gasoline prices during recent U.S. administrations before factoring in inflation. The average price of gas during Trump 1.0 was about 48 cents per gallon less than under Obama. Average gas prices during Trump 2.0 have been about 9 cents per gallon less than during the Biden administration.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

They’d be fools not to. It’s almost impossible to find a foolish Jew outside of the Democrat party.

Sari Watson was too afraid to attend Yom Kippur services. Concerned by rising levels of antisemitism in Canada, she was safely at home 25 minutes away when a gunman charged at her childhood synagogue.

“My internal alarm has been going off, and you begin to think about escape routes or backup plans,” said Watson, 39, who lives in Quinte West, Ontario, about 15 miles west of Belleville, where the attack during Kol Nidre on Sept. 20 culminated in a shootout that left the gunman dead and one policeman hospitalized. “The only reason I wasn’t at synagogue was because I have been terrified of this exact situation, or worse, happening.”

Florida Sen. Rick Scott, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt and President Donald Trump himself, all Republicans, have alluded to the idea of extending refugee status to Canadian Jews who fear the spike in antisemitism in their country.

“’It’s so amazing to know that the Republicans understand the level of antisemitism we’re dealing with here,” she said. “President Trump gets the climate and the danger.”

Not the Bee.

Here’s a new character in the saga of St. Andrew’s Lesbyterian Church in Texas.

The Bible must be a great trial for them, then.

Really—Democrats are entertaining at almost any time, but never more so than during an election, when all of the nonsense that usually flies under the radar in This Great Country of Ours takes to the stratosphere.

Not the Bee.

And you thought James Talarico was nuts!

Well, yes, because he is, but he belongs to a party of nuts, so this doesn’t come as much of a surprise.

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Smart fridges, dumb owners. Think of it as evolution in action.

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White Supremacy is where you find it.

Freeberg nails it.

Observation: Throughout the summer and fall of a midterm year, if the President of the United States happens to be a Republican and male, we marinate in a stew of high profile “news” stories that emotionally divide males and females. And the opinions expressed about these stories would seem to weigh in on an imagined controversy about which of the two sexes should be…something.

No one actually says “Get rid of all the men” or “Get the women back in the kitchen where they belong.” But, the observations I see people making would be pretty useless, and I think even according to them, if the issue under consideration is anything other than “Get rid of this or that sex once and for all.” It’s really a sad thing. We can’t do without the one or the other, we need both. And I think anyone with a working brain understands this.

“Working brain” excludes most proglodytes.

Are women oppressed, really? Weighed down by a “patriarchy”? Suffering from some ingrained bias that’s loud about female misdeeds like murdering your own kids, but silent in other situations where males are the transgressors? Hmmm. It’s hard to see any group of people as oppressed, when some among them seek to win arguments simply by scolding, clearly accustomed to their class instantly winning arguments merely by expressing disapproval. Is that what oppressed people do?

We should all be so ‘oppressed’.

Quillette.

past decade, set the internet ablaze with a bombshell essay detailing the fallout of her decision to send her daughter to underperforming inner-city schools. In the lengthy missive, Hannah-Jones ponders whether she “betrayed” her daughter by forcing her to attend them, ultimately sacrificing the education of her only child in the service of a murky and unquantifiable racial justice framework.

Hannah-Jones’s heartfelt and candid confessions, such as the discovery of her daughter’s inability to produce basic writing or even solve fractions, ignited a flurry of discourse among the commentariat. Some praised Hannah-Jones for being so transparent about the failures of her parenting decisions. Others lauded the writer for actually living by the “diversity” and “equity” principles she publicly champions. However, others lambasted her for ignoring her daughter’s repeated pleas to leave the school, which she described as a chaotic madhouse replete with fighting students and teachers who did not grade homework.

Hannah-Jones’s decision is not unique. Black families across the United States are often confronted with similar choices about their children’s education: Do we send our child to the “best” school, or to a “diverse” one? The former would likely provide a superior education, though the child might feel isolated among their peers. The latter would place the student in an environment with less social friction, but typically at the expense of educational rigour, and amid a dysfunctional culture.

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One of the features of Modern Multicultural Europe is the frequent incidence of violent attacks against very old people. A depressing number of such attacks, perhaps the majority, involve rapes. The unfortunate victims sometimes include men — it seems culture-enrichers don’t pay much attention to gender. As long as they can find an orifice of some sort, they’re good to go.

The following incident from the French city of Toulouse involves a murdered 93-year-old woman. It doesn’t say whether sexual molestation was involved. It also fails to mention the ethnicity of the alleged attacker, but it does say that the naked fellow was in the country illegally.

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When asked about a statement this week where Stelco Holdings Inc. announced they were laying off 500 workers from their steel plant in Hamilton, Ontario, immediately Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney blamed the United States.

He’s lying. It’s ridiculous. However, that’s all Carney can do at this point.

In reality it is (1) Canadian energy, climate and manufacturing policy; in combination with (2) the specific decision to allow the import of cheap steel from China; in combination with the decision to (3) rebuke U.S requests to stop purchasing that Chinese steel; that has driven out Canadian steel manufacturing.

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Democrats on Tuesday for consistently criticizing health care costs without ever addressing the fraud that his task force is targeting.

Vance’s task force has found hundreds of billions of dollars in fraud, with millions stemming from health care.

“I always find it a little ironic when congressional Democrats, who say that they care a lot about Medicare, Medicare, [and the] working people who benefit these programs, don’t do anything to try to cut down on the fraud,” the vice president told Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, during a fireside chat at the Make America Healthy Again Summit.

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Twenty-eight individuals in 12 different states have been charged with election interference or illegal voting in federal elections in the past two weeks, the U.S. Department of Justice says.

The effort to root out illegal, noncitizen voting has come as part of a large-scale move by the Trump administration to ensure election integrity prior to this year’s midterm elections.

This effort has extended to different states across the nation. On Monday, the DOJ announced charges against 12 individuals relating to election crimes committed in seven different states. This comes after the department, on Sept. 18, announced charges against 16 individuals, including three in Georgia, for illegal voting.

A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security commented on the partnership with the DOJ to root out election fraud across the country.

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A Washington state computer science professor who won a First Amendment lawsuit against his university over its response to his mock land acknowledgement says the campus culture that fueled the controversy remains firmly entrenched.

“It’s kind of scary. They broke the law. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the “9th Circuit said you broke the law, and they’re saying, ‘Well, we think we behaved appropriately,’” Stuart Reges, the professor, told the Daily Signal in an interview Monday.

Reges sued the University of Washington, claiming it discriminated against his viewpoint when he published the mock land acknowledgement in a syllabus. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled in his favor, and the university agreed earlier this month to pay $600,000 to settle the case, without admitting wrongdoing.

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Britain now has more illegal Channel arrivals under the Labour government, which has been in power two years, than it has soldiers in the British Army.

Home Office figures put small-boat arrivals since Labour took office on 4 July 2024 at 83,279. The regular Army stands at 83,000.

On Wednesday alone, 781 people came ashore – the worst single day since Andy Burnham replaced Sir Keir Starmer as prime minister in July. The first three days of the week delivered 1,085 arrivals. Across 809 days of Labour government, that works out at roughly 103 people a day.

Newsweek, a Voice of the Crust.

The U.S. Border Patrol is tracking a migrant caravan that departed San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on September 20, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as the group continues its journey north through Mexico toward the southern border.

That Mexico is permitting this invasion is an act of war. Trump ought to respond accordingly.

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Children as young as seven are being sat down in British classrooms and told to list the “positive” aspects of migration – and only the positives. No pressure on housing. No wages. No hotels. No community strain. Just the approved script.

Show Racism the Red Card, which brands itself the UK’s “leading anti-racism charity,” has produced lesson plans that treat migration as an unalloyed good.

Pupils are being handed headlines such as “how many more migrants can we take?” and instructed to rewrite them in a cheerier register – “migrant workers bring fresh hope to British economy” is the model answer. The materials describe the exercise as “an opportunity to explore what is positive and good about migration.”

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The Trump administration put some reasonable limits on federal student loans, and the Left is having a fit about it.

According to a Department of Education rule finalized in July, schools will now need to prove that their degrees are paying off for students to ensure that they remain eligible for federal funds.

The rule change was finalized in July but has only now gone viral. That’s likely because schools must report loan data at the beginning of October.

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Democratic women are far more likely to blame men for their problems than conservative women are — and less than a quarter of young Republican men blame their ills on women, a recent survey found.

Young Democratic women were particularly likely to lay the blame for their problems at men, with 66% of 18 to 29-year-olds saying “the challenges that women face in American society” were “a great deal due to the behavior or actions of men,” according to the Survey Center on American Life.

They also said women faced “a lot” of discrimination in America, the poll found.

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And a 2025 survey from the Universities of Göttingen and Jena in Germany found 47% of left-leaning women would rather stay single than date somebody with opposing political views.

No wonder they’re having problems with dating. Think of it as evolution in action.

The Telegraph (UK).

The Virgin Mary “wore a hijab”, staff at a council have been told.

No, she didn’t. This is outrageous.

In a talk about Islamophobia, North Yorkshire council staff who handle anti-terror work were taught that Islam’s attitude to women did not conflict with Western values.

Oh, yes it does. Ask any non-proglodyte Western woman.

The lecture was part of a publicly funded training programme titled Project Unity, which The Telegraph understands has also been presented to students, police officers and civil servants responsible for the counter-extremism Prevent programme.

The presentation also said that “Jesus grew a beard”, as Muslim men are instructed to, and stated that “the hijab was prevalent in the UK only 100 years ago”, with images showing shawls common in early 20th-century Britain. These have no relation to Islam.

Jesus grew a beard because he was a Jew. This is pure proglodyte propaganda.

The Telegraph (UK).

After being sued by homeowners, the socialist mayor must reimplement his pied-à-terre tax after its “botched” rollout.

The lawsuit argued that the city sent notices to about 17,000 New Yorkers telling them their homes might be subject to the tax before properly checking whether they were full-time residents.

“Homeowners are being substantially harmed and penalised needlessly” by the city’s “method of implementing the tax law”, Judge Wayne M Ozzi, sitting in Staten Island, ruled.

The War Zone.

The Navy has identified the aircraft type at the center of last night’s mishap aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. The service said the incident involved the crew of an EA-18G Growler electronic warfare jet who were forced to eject after the aircraft experienced an arresting gear failure while trying to land. This took place about 6:18 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time Monday as the vessel was off the coast of Virginia.

The Growler crew, attached to the “Zappers” of Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 130, was “promptly recovered by search-and-rescue personnel assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 7. Both aviators were safely returned to the ship,” the Navy added. The cause of the mishap is still being investigated.

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It is unclear at the moment whether the aircraft was lost or if there was any damage to the carrier itself. We have reached out to the Navy to find out more details.

If they had to eject, then yeah, the aircraft was lost. If the arresting wire actually broke, which is implied by the fact that sailors on deck were injured, then yeah, there was damage to the ship.

The failure of an arresting wire is one of the worst nightmares carrier-based fixed-wing naval aircrews and sailors on deck can face. The wire turns into a falling steel whip that can cut a person in half as it slices through the air across the flight deck, and usually, the aircraft it broke away from, ends up in the sea as it doesn’t have enough airspeed or time to get airborne again.

Well, there’s more to it than that. The one invariable rule for carrier landings is that when the aircraft hits the deck the pilot goes to full power just in case they miss the wire or the wire breaks and they have to get airborne again (“bolter”). A functioning arresting wire will stop the plane no matter what its engines are doing; it’s specifically engineered to do that. All this has been thought through and prepared for. It will be interesting to find out the details. (Yeah, I do miss my time on the JFK, even though it’s been fifty years.)

We need to find the words for Trump’s madness before things blow up (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)  Will Bunch loses his shit—as he so frequently does.

The Mean Girls Presidency (Molly Jong-Fast/New York Times)

The Moves That Backfired on Trump and Drove Interest Rates and Inflation Higher (Wall Street Journal)

Trump says he has an off-ramp to his biggest political problem. He refuses to take it. (Dan Merica/Washington Post)

Trump’s Joes exit the front row (Politico)

Trump’s gimmicks aren’t working with voters anymore (Paul Waldman/MS NOW)

Trump loves Xi because he wants to be him (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)

At every turn, Trump’s ideas for aiding U.S. consumers run into resistance (Riley Beggin/Washington Post)

Trump dined with the Anthropic CEO who called for AI slowdown (Cat Zakrzewski/Washington Post)

Trump asked Xi Jinping if China would like to buy US weapons, American ambassador says (Amy Hawkins/The Guardian)

Trump Brought Venezuelan Gold to the U.S., but Refiners Won’t Touch It (New York Times)

California’s Newsom Signs Memecoin Ban And Calls It ‘The Opposite Of Trump’

The Trump-Loving Texas Republican Sounding the Alarm on Data Centers (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone)

CNN, MS NOW See a Taxpayer-Paid Trump Ad and Cry Kim Jong Un and ‘Communism’  But I thought they liked communism?

The Untold Origins of Trump’s Plan to Sharply Restrict Mail-In Voting (ProPublica)

Trump’s press grievances are based in their refusal to do propaganda (Matt Gertz/Media Matters for America)

US Tax Dollars Now Used to Secure Deals for Trump Family Cronies (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)  Two words: Hunter Biden.

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The Supreme Court majority (6-3) has granted the DOJ request to put on hold a Boston-based US District Judge ruling that DHS policy to remove illegal aliens to so-called third countries is unlawful. The process of rapid deportation will continue while the matter is called before the Supreme Court for oral arguments in December (ruling in ’27).

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The University of California tells students that using pronouns or names corresponding to a person’s sex assigned at birth rather than their gender identity can constitute sexual harassment. Now, an education watchdog has won an early victory in court to stop it from enforcing its misgendering policy.

The ruling comes amid a First Amendment challenge to University of California policies that classify certain instances of “misgendering” and “deadnaming” as potential harassment.

Training materials cited in Defending Education’s lawsuit included examples involving bathrooms, pronouns, and “deadnaming.”

The Foundry.

America is about to find out what happens when a municipal government stops merely measuring racial disparities and instead begins organizing its decisions around them.

New York City’s Racial Equity Plan, released Sept. 1 by Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration, is the first citywide racial-equity framework in the Big Apple’s history. It implements a 2022 voter-approved charter amendment requiring citywide and agency-specific racial-equity blueprints.

Under the plan, 45 agencies will examine racial outcomes across housing, employment, contracting, health, public safety, and other areas of government, touching everything from budgeting and staffing to service delivery and land use.

They will break down data by race and ethnicity, identify disparities, and use that information to shape policies and allocate resources. Among the plan’s recurring themes are “budget reallocation” and “targeted investment,” along with directing government attention toward historically underserved communities.

In other words, explicitly racial and ethnic favoritism. Time for white people to leave New York City.

Welcome anytime. Just leave your California attitudes behind.

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Economic debates about inequality usually begin with a familiar question: Who has how much income?

It is an important question. But perhaps it is not the only one we should be asking.

Good luck changing that.

A society can change who becomes rich without substantially changing how unequal the society is. Regulation can weaken one economic elite while creating opportunities for another. Entrepreneurs and investors may lose relative influence while lawyers, compliance specialists, lobbyists, consultants and regulatory experts gain it.

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Income distribution and income-source distribution are not the same thing.

Regulation does more than redistribute income. It changes the relative returns to different kinds of knowledge and human capital. And when those returns change, talented people respond.

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In their defense, black people have always treated it like it’s theirs, so you can’t really blame them.

upcoming midterm elections during an appearance on Fox’s My View with Lara Trump, according to comments Fox News reported Sunday. Minaj, a supporter of President Donald Trump, also accused the Democratic Party of discouraging black voters from breaking with the party.

And the clue-by-four strikes.

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Washington state voters will decide in November whether to repeal a new 9.9% income tax on earnings above $1 million, setting up a major ballot fight over taxes, government spending, and the state’s business climate, The New York Times reported.

The tax, signed into law by Democrat Gov. Bob Ferguson in March, is scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, 2028. It imposes a 9.9% levy on Washington taxable income above a $1 million deduction for individuals and married couples filing jointly.

Initiative 26-645, certified for the Nov. 3 ballot, would repeal the tax before it takes effect and prohibit state and local governments from imposing taxes on individual income in the future.

Time to leave.

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I’m surprised it’s that low. I suspect that’s just the number who would admit it publicly to a pollster. Violence is pretty much the go-to response by proglodytes whenever they get frustrated by people who won’t get with their particular programs.

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Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., said Sunday that a third impeachment of President Donald Trump would be about “setting a standard” of accountability if Democrats retake control of the House in November’s midterm elections.

Like elections in the old Soviet Union. Vote wrong once, and you never get to vote again.

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Wokeness is handy in that in allows us to identify the mentally ill in a convenient fashion.

When your business model’s foundation is catering to mentally ill lunatics, don’t be surprised when the most common sense changes evoke insane responses.

One day, probably in the very near future, there will be a hailstorm of studies done on the Covid pandemic era and the absolute hysteria that surrounded it. The virus was essentially a non-issue with an average infection fatality rate of 0.23%, meaning 99.8% of all people would easily survive. Yet, most of the world shut down vast areas of the economy and tried to force the global population to wear masks that were eventually proven to do absolutely nothing to stop the spread.

Perhaps the most interesting detail of all, though, is the political left’s continued obsession with the lockdown period. Leftists treat the pandemic as their “golden era”, the moment in history when they basked in pure authoritarianism, the moment when they had all the power. And like an addictive drug, they just can’t seem to let the pandemic go.

The Foundry.

A new Senate report highlights startling amounts of health care fraud, including a payment of almost $1 billion in taxpayer dollars to Russian fraudsters and hundreds of millions to others.

The report, which points to some of the most egregious cases out of a total of more than half a trillion in fraud, highlights more than $21 billion in bogus claims billed to the federal government. Of that, more than $3.1 billion in taxpayer money was actually paid out to these fraudsters.

“While some Americans will be fortunate enough to earn a few million dollars over a lifetime, Washington is literally making these scammers instant billionaires off the backs of the working class,” the report says. “Yet, you never hear socialists ranting about this unfair redistribution of wealth.”

The Antiplanner.

The Wall Street Journal reports that “Portland real estate is such a mess that all housing is affordable housing” (ungated). “Six-figure earners are paying some of the same rents as lower-income residents who qualify for subsidized housing.”

Portland housing is definitely messed up, but what the Journal doesn’t say is that the reason why so-called affordable housing is so expensive is because Portland’s affordable housing system is really messed up. The agencies and non-profits running the system spend way too much on such housing, building less than they could with the funds that are available, then don’t make an effort to fill the vacancies. Most people who live in such housing either lied on their applications or can’t afford the rents, and the agency leaders don’t care because they are too busy flying around the country at taxpayers’ expense.

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The problem with housing in Oregon is that, thanks to the state’s urban-growth boundaries, there is a shortage of supply. Giving people money to buy more housing will increase the demand without increasing the supply. That will simply raise housing prices, making housing even less affordable, especially for those who don’t qualify as first-time homebuyers. This is a typical idea for a democratic socialist like Merkley, who wants to throw money at any problem. It is a little surprising that Wyden, who is usually more sensible, bought into it.

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enriching “youths” who are camped out in shantytowns on the beaches of that Spanish enclave on the coast of North Africa.

The Sun reported yesterday on the violent rape of a young woman on the beach in Ceuta. It’s important to note that the victim in this incident was a migrant herself, which is true of the majority of the rapes in the enclave. Women who had the misfortune to join the invasion are considered easy meat by their fellow male invaders when the latter experience sexual emergencies. However, since the female migrants are so few — the males outnumber them by at least twenty to one — the mischievous youngsters are forced to avail themselves of the services of local Spanish women, which they do whenever possible.

ATQUE: A Sexual Emergency on the Beach in Ceuta

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