DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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.

Taste, a Voice of the Crust.

Come along with a scion of the Left Coast slumming among the proles.

Babylon Bee.

You think the illegal immigrants were bad? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet! Wait ’til we send in the clowns socialists!

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Editors across Wikipedia are going all out to salvage the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) reputation.

The biased, so-called online encyclopedia’s editors downplayed, hid and even deleted content about the recent grand jury indictment of the SPLC across Wikipedia. The SPLC – accused of “manufacturing racism to justify its existence” – was indicted on “11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.”

While Wikipedia routinely elevates indictments against Republicans and right-of-center organizations, the website’s editors pushed news of the indictment further and further down the SPLC’s own Wikipedia page. Wikipedia editors ultimately buried the news in the 65th paragraph of the entry, making “Federal indictment” a small subheading of “Lawsuits against and criticism of the SPLC.”

By contrast, Wikipedia consistently includes indictments, charges or investigations against Republicans and organizations on the right in the introductory section of their Wikipedia articles, many times as high as the third paragraph. Wikipedia boosted legal attacks on the pages of The Trump Organization, Fox News, former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, White House trade advisor Peter Navarro, former Trump advisor Roger Stone and former White House National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.

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Of course it is.

The scrapping of the term ‘Islamophobia’ is one thing. But a lecture recently delivered to Swedish students suggests that the country’s political class has a lot more to do in what it describes as its fight against Islamist infiltration.

A man who calls himself Yosef Ahmad on social media has recently shared footage of himself telling young Muslims in Sweden that democracy is incompatible with their religion, because it gives politicians the mandate to decide what is ‘halal’ (allowed) and ‘haram’ (forbidden) instead of Allah.

Reports say Ahmad is connected to Hizb ut-Tahrir, an Islamist organisation banned in multiple countries, including in the UK and Germany. It has even been banned in several Muslim countries.

According to the Doku Foundation, which examines the Islamist environment in Sweden, Hizb ut-Tahrir “advocates that Muslims best protect themselves and their children by studying Islam, as an ideology in stark contrast to secular democracy, in order to avoid becoming receptive to other ideas and thereby counteract assimilation.”

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Man, I would’ve never guessed that a guy who crashed a car, tried to steal a bunch of cars, and then was shot dead after trying to steal another car was an illegal alien from Mexico.

Yeah, that would have totally escaped me….

Babylon Bee.

A federal judge ordered the release of Jeffrey Epstein’s purported suicide note, which oddly appears to have been written on Hillary Clinton’s personal stationery.

Nothin’ to see here—move along, move along….

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Over the last year, I’ve come to an unsettling realization—the upper middle class is caught in a trap, and many of them don’t realize it.

A few weeks ago I wrote about why private school isn’t worth the cost. My argument hinged on the fact that the upper middle class pays a lot for private education despite there being no significant impact on lifetime outcomes. In The Death of the Amex Lounge, I found the same thing—premium travel experiences had become crowded while remaining expensive.

And, after recently digging into the data on housing, I’m having déjà vu. Homes are getting smaller even as prices rise. LendingTree reported that, from 2014 to 2024, the average size of new single-family homes shrunk by 11% even as the price per square foot surged by 74%! This is just the average too. A home near a public elementary school with a GreatSchools rating of 9 or 10 costs 78.6% more than a home in the surrounding county.

All of these trends point toward the same thing—people are paying more and getting less. This is what I call the upper middle class trap.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that….

Quillette.

The claim that Jews are imperialist “colonisers” isn’t new. It emerged from the Victorian-era antisemitism of an influential English journalist and matured in the early Soviet Union, long before the modern state of Israel was founded. As Paul Johnson (1928–2023), the great historian, observed:

The Soviet campaign against the Jews, after 1967 a permanent feature of the system, was itself conducted under the code-name of anti-Zionism, which became a cover for every variety of anti-Semitism. [The] Leninist theory of imperialism, like Marx’s theory of capitalism, had its roots in anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.

As Johnson showed, the claim that Jews are “imperialists” predated Vladimir Lenin, leader of Soviet Russia from 1917 until his death in 1924. Johnson traces the source of this claim to the English writer and journalist J.A. Hobson, who travelled to South Africa to cover the Boer War in 1899. Hobson, as Johnson relates, regarded Jews as “almost devoid of social morality,” and possessing “a superior calculating intellect” that allows them “to take advantage of every weakness, folly and vice of the society in which he lives.”

Quillette.

Homeowner Jane invites the homeless James to live with her. “I’d hate to be homeless,” she tells herself. James starts to exploit and abuse her. She accepts it. “I would not exploit and abuse someone unless something truly terrible had happened to me,” she thinks. This is what Gad Saad would call “suicidal empathy.” In his book of the same name, the Canadian commentator rails against “the orgiastic misfiring of one of our most noble virtues, empathy.”

There is merit to Saad’s critique. He is correct that empathy is problematic when people exaggerate the similarities between individuals. In all likelihood, James is not exploiting and abusing Jane because he has been maddened by trauma. He is, fundamentally, a less conscientious person.

Saad is clear—and rightly so—that he has no inherent objection to empathy. He objects to empathy, and all other emotions, when they are not regulated by rationality. The extent to which we empathise with other people must be framed by a rational understanding of those people and their circumstances.

Associated Press, a Voice of the Crust.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

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It is quite interesting to compare the writing style of Papal Encyclicals from Popes down to Paul VI with those from John Paul II onward. The former are very florid and have a distinctive structure, whereas John Paul II and his successors have written in more direct and bare-bones style. (Well, I thought it was interesting.)

When I was an undergraduate at Yale I had to depend on the Sterling Library’s copies of Actae Apostolicae Sedis, which is the official ‘gazette’ of the Vatican, for contemporary Latin writings. Now, of course, there is the Finnish site Nuntii Lantini (article here) and, if you look for them, a number of people who write in Latin on the Internet. And, of course, Google Translate does its best.

It’s a great time to be alive….

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Let’s just phone in everyone on the planet to decide local American elections?

Okay, so if I get a work visa to Paris, Tokyo, or Berlin, I should be able to vote in their elections too, right? I should get a say in how the biggest cities in France, Japan, and Germany operate, yes?

If not, why does it only work one way?

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A fourth vessel has been hijacked by Somali pirates, this time off the coast of Yemen. The oil tanker MT Eureka was captured in the Gulf of Aden on May 2 and reportedly taken toward Somalia, marking the latest incident in a renewed wave of Somali piracy, which resurfaced in 2023. Analysts attribute the resurgence to naval resources having turned their attention to Houthi attacks in the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea, and more recently, to the blockade in the Strait of Hormuz.

Data from the International Maritime Organization shows that since 2000, East Africa has been the global hotspot for successful hijackings, with 161 cases recorded. This figure is largely the result of Somali piracy, which peaked between 2007 and 2012. West Africa ranks second, with 52 hijackings over the same period.

It’s the South China Sea, however, that has recorded the highest overall number of piracy incidents, with more than 2,000 recorded since 2000. These were mostly lower-level attacks, alongside 42 successful hijackings. High shipping traffic and the region’s island chains, which provide ideal hiding spots, have contributed to the high frequency of attacks over the years. Incidents of piracy and armed robbery of ships have declined sharply from 142 in 2013 to just 10 in 2024, partly thanks to increased cooperation between states.

The Telegraph (UK).

“Game of Thrones” dire wolf pups, which were brought back from extinction, are healthy and ready to breed, the biotech company behind the breakthrough has said.

Last year, Colossal Biosciences announced that it had used DNA from thousands of years ago to alter the genome of modern wolves and resurrect the lost species.

Dire wolves became extinct towards the end of the last ice age, about 12,000 years ago. They became well known among Game of Thrones fans after George RR Martin, the author, included them in his best-selling fantasy novels.

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Seattle’s new socialist mayor, Katie Wilson, has been going viral quite a bit in the last few weeks and for all the wrong reasons.

I know violent crime videos proliferate on social media these days, but this one is especially hard to watch.

In a clip captured by a closed-circuit television camera in Seattle, two young men can be seen senselessly beating a 77-year-old man and leaving him face down in the street.

“Ahmed Osman”?

The Foundry.

Democrats’ heated rhetoric may have contributed to the Palisades Fire—but not by warming the global climate.

When the Los Angeles-area fire burned 23,707 acres, destroyed 6,833 structures, and killed 12 people, those on the left rushed to blame it on man-made climate change. Only later did we learn that the human causation was far more direct.

Yes, the Palisades Fire, like the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the attempts on President Donald Trump’s life, and the Covenant School shooting in Nashville, is yet another example of leftist political violence.

A new court filing reveals the mindset of Jonathan Rinderknecht, the 20-year-old man charged with setting the fire. Let’s just say he wasn’t a member of the Proud Boys.

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Yet Another Corrupt Black Female Democrat.

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We’ve got an update here nearly a decade in the making.

Southwest Airlines fired flight attendant Charlene Carter way back in 2017 because she posted pro-life opinions on her personal social media page.

Yes, on her personal page.

Then, after years of lawsuits, in 2022 a court ordered Southwest to hire her back and pay her over $900,000 in damages.

When he’s not being a rabid TDS socialist, Trudeau has the ‘stopped clock’ thing down.

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Believe it or not, this happened at around 6 p.m.on a Tuesday in Cheney, Washington. The child was not injured at all, just to let you know. The lady, a 56-year-old named Wendy A. Clemente, has been charged with first-degree attempted assault, DUI, and first-degree criminal trespass.

I’m guessing, but not sure, that the drunk lady was mad that a kid would be riding a dirt bike in the street. So she started chasing him.

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The Department of Education opened an investigation into Smith College, probing whether the women’s college discriminated on the basis of sex by admitting men who claim to identify as transgender women.

“Smith College, while still portraying itself as a women’s-only institution, admits natal men who feel like women, and on nothing more than their say-so,” Sarah Parshall Perry, vice president and legal fellow at Defending Education, told The Daily Signal in a Tuesday statement on the investigation. “That renders the gains of second-wave feminists who fought for Title IX mere relics of ancient history.”

“Title IX was a historic achievement for women’s equality in education, but Smith College seems to have forgotten that,” added Perry, who filed the complaint that led the department to open the probe.

“The college’s linguistic gymnastics are jaw-dropping, and as a recipient of federal funding, it must follow federal law—state law to the contrary notwithstanding,” she added. “We look forward to the Department of Education’s resolution of the claims against Smith.”

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A Turkish state-run Islamic association is celebrating its 40th anniversary in Hamburg from May 14 to 17. While the city has provided a public square for the cultural event, the extremist guest list has sparked major controversy.

Although four of the DITIB’s six original speakers were recently disinvited, critics warn that the remaining guests hold extremist and antisemitic views. Islam expert Eren Güvercin highlighted that Furkan Tira?ç?, a Turkish müezzin, has downplayed the Hamas-led October 7 massacre and praised its leader Ismail Haniyeh as a “martyr,” while comparing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Hitler.

Another speaker, Mahmut Sa??r, reportedly used classic antisemitic tropes, referring to a “cursed community” that has “soaked the world in blood for centuries.” With these fanatics onboard, the event continues to face backlash for providing a platform to individuals who glorify terror and spread hate under the guise of religious scholarship.

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Sharia “moral police” must be stopped in Europe, a Swedish MEP has warned, as he demands Brussels track and expose groups accused of harassing residents.

Sweden Democrats (SD) MEP Charlie Weimers said an “EU-wide monitoring framework” should be established to count individuals working to implement strict sharia rules, accusing them of “harassment, intimidation, and threats.”

Weimers describes these “self-appointed moral police” as “immoral thugs,” and claims they have been “surveilling neighbourhoods,” with the overall goal being that “sharia shall dominate here in Europe.”

The American Mind.

The Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Louisiana v. Callais may dramatically alter congressional districts in Southern states. Writing for a 6-3 majority, Justice Samuel Alito unraveled decades of confusing and misguided caselaw construing the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) to hold that states may not engage in racial gerrymandering—or be forced to do so by federal courts—when drawing congressional districts. The Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause forbids race-based discrimination, Alito pointedly declared, preventing Section 2 of the VRA from being interpreted to require the creation of “majority-black” districts to comply with the VRA.

Congress enacted the VRA in 1965 (pursuant to Section 2 of the 15th Amendment) to prohibit states from disenfranchising blacks through obstacles such as poll taxes, literacy tests, property qualifications, white primaries, and grandfather clauses—not to create electoral parity, a long-standing position of Justice Clarence Thomas’s that he repeated in his concurring opinion in Callais. As Justice Alito wrote for the majority, the “Voting Rights Act does not guarantee equal outcomes.”

Contrary to the claims of partisan critics, the decision in Louisiana v. Callais does not “gut” or “hollow out” the VRA. Nor, contrary to Justice Elena Kagan’s hysterical dissent, does the majority in Callais “eviscerate” the VRA or render Section 2 “all but a dead letter.” Justice Alito’s meticulous majority opinion merely prevents the VRA from being abused to dictate “proportional representation”—that is, racial quotas—contrary to the express language of Section 2, which states that “nothing in this section establishes a right to have members of a protected class elected in numbers equal to their proportion in the population.”

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Amsterdam is one of Europe’s most permissive cities, where prostitution is celebrated and going to a ‘coffee shop’ regularly involves getting high on cannabis.

It’s hardly surprising, then, that the city’s decision to ban public adverts for meat—alongside fossil fuel products such as petrol cars and airline travel—has been met with a mix of ridicule and outright condemnation.

Green officials say the move is part of their broader climate strategy. But Belgian MEP Barbara Bonte on Monday said that it more closely resembles “what happens when people with zero-point-zero sense of reality and way too much free time get bored.”

No More Meat and Fossil Fuel Ads in Amsterdam Streets
British foreign policy analyst—and former aide to Margaret Thatcher—Nile Gardiner described the ban as “insane,” while Prague politician Ond?ej Kubín pointed to the contradiction: “In Amsterdam, you can buy a joint and choose a prostitute from a window, but the city won’t sell you advertising space for a hamburger because it has a large carbon footprint.”

Writer André Assi Barreto also predicted that “meat will be treated publicly in the future as the cigarette is today.” And Christopher Snowdon, from Britain’s Institute of Economic Affairs, said the move vindicated those who warned that banning cigarette adverts “would lead to cranks banning adverts for anything they dislike.”

Now, activists are already pushing to extend the ban beyond Amsterdam, with some campaigners in Britain urging Labour to adopt similar restrictions nationwide and calling on other cities to follow suit.

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I have been unable to find out what “Elo” means, but the site itself appears to be tracking how often SF judges let off obvious criminals.

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Wait, a second … so he doesn’t want to get rid of shoplifters, but he does want to charge Walgreens with a crime for wanting to flee a city full of shoplifters?

Like most Chicago Aldermen, when in public he is surrounded by an entourage of Thugs of Color.

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Garland Police says the suspect had crashed into two other vehicles before this all started. As you saw above, the man then tried to steal a few cars before finally being shot dead by an armed Texas man who was protecting his family.

You can thank Tatiana Starks, owner of Garland Smoke and Vape, for providing the video of those previous carjacking attempts. This happened in the parking lot of the strip mall her shop sits in. The rest was caught on surveillance cameras.

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Which it obviously is.

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Not only will airlines, cruises, and car companies not be able to publicly advertise in Amsterdam anymore, but restaurants in Amsterdam will no longer be able to advertise any dishes that contain meat.

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A disused London synagogue was the site of an arson attack early Tuesday, police said, adding to a string of incidents targeting Jews and Jewish sites in the city.

The Metropolitan Police said its officers responded to a call at 5:15 a.m. local time about a fire set outside the Nelson Street Synagogue in London’s East End, once home to a large community of Jewish immigrants.

The synagogue closed in 2020. A Muslim group announced earlier this year that it had put down a deposit to buy the building and turn it into a mosque and education center.

The fire was quickly extinguished, causing no injuries and only light damage to the building’s gates and lock, the police said, adding that counter terrorism officials would pick up the investigation.

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There’s nothing quite like a good old-fashioned Supreme Court beatdown.

Bear in mind that KBJ graduated from both Harvard College and Harvard Law School cum laude.

CBS, a Voice of the Crust.

President Trump’s gambit to push out of office several of the Indiana Republicans who defied his redistricting efforts appeared to largely succeed on Tuesday.

Five of the Indiana state senators who voted against redrawing the state’s House maps last year lost their Republican primaries on Tuesday, ousted by Trump-endorsed primary challengers, The Associated Press projected. A sixth Trump-supported candidate also won the GOP primary in an open seat where a Republican who rejected redistricting decided not to run for reelection.

One senator survived a primary challenge backed by the president on Tuesday. One primary between an anti-redistricting Republican and a Trump endorsee did not have a projected winner as of late Tuesday, with the two candidates separated by a razor-thin margin.

The Statehouse revenge campaign served as a test of Mr. Trump’s influence over his party in a set of normally low-profile races where Oval Office intervention is virtually unheard of — and highlighted Mr. Trump’s intense interest in the nationwide redistricting scramble.

ATQUE: PRIMARY BLOODBATH: The Indiana Republicans who refused to redistrict their map are now unemployed

The Telegraph (UK).

A British singer has been dropped from a United States tour after saying she was cancelled for being a brown Republican voter.

M.I.A, who was born in London and raised partly in Sri Lanka, has been fired by Kid Cudi from his North American tour because of “offensive remarks” she made on stage.

The British rapper reportedly told an audience in Dallas on May 2 that she had been cancelled for her political views.

The Telegraph (UK).

Hutchesons’ Grammar School in Glasgow has listed the courts for an undisclosed fee “as part of the school’s wider reinvestment strategy”.

The private school made the decision after the Government introduced a 20 per cent levy on independent school fees in January last year.

Hutchesons’, which counts Anas Sarwar, the Labour leader in Scotland, and Humza Yousaf, the former first minister, among its alumni, sold its B-listed primary education campus earlier this year.

Socialist statism is why we can’t have nice things.

The Telegraph (UK).

The New York Times (NYT) has been sued for alleged discrimination against a white male employee after he was passed over for an editor’s job which went to a multiracial woman.

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) accused the newspaper of breaching civil rights law by discriminating against the unnamed male candidate based on his race or sex, according to the complaint filed in Manhattan federal court.

The unnamed complainant, who has worked at the newspaper since 2014 and says he has “considerable experience with real estate news”, was interviewed for the deputy property editor role, but not advanced to the final round.

I wish Scott Adams had lived to see this day.

ATQUE: The NYT is FREAKING OUT after a white employee told the Trump admin he was denied promotion “because of his race and gender”