DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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Call me when it crosses the Atlantic.

Newsbisters.

The Big Four News Apps follow a predictable script: elevate articles from left-leaning outlets, suppress their right-leaning counterparts, while giving prime real estate to some of the most radical news outlets on the left. Yahoo News typically pushes that script even further. In April, the news aggregator appeared to mask that pattern by flooding its platform with BBC content, but the underlying bias quickly resurfaced.

Yahoo News has a record of sidelining not only stories from the right but also center-leaning sources that may offer balance. Its strong preference for the most extreme outlets on the left — Salon, The New Republic and The Daily Beast — has resulted in it being scored by the Media Research Center’s Digital News Tracker as the second-most leftist of the Big Four News Apps over the November 2025 through April 2026 period.

The aggregator dramatically ramped up its publication of BBC stories in April — which is still technically classified by AllSides as centrist — in an apparent bid to offset its extreme left-leaning bias rating. However, this tactic failed to deliver true balance as Yahoo News sacrificed right-leaning stories to elevate the scandal-plagued BBC, even though the British broadcaster has shifted leftward since AllSides’ last evaluation in July 2024.

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A Marina del Rey woman has admitted to running a voter registration scheme that allegedly exploited homeless people living on Los Angeles’ Skid Row in exchange for cash, cigarettes, and other small items, according to federal prosecutors.

Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong, 64, known as “Anika,” agreed to plead guilty to a felony charge of paying people to register to vote in federal elections, the Justice Department announced Monday.

Authorities say Armstrong spent years working as a paid petition circulator for California ballot measures before allegedly turning the operation into a voter registration scheme targeting vulnerable homeless individuals.

I’m willing to bet that she isn’t a Republican.

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A California school district spent $300,000 to partner with an LGBTQ center that provides “affirming programs, resources, and community care” to minors ages 12 and up.

Pomona Unified School District in Pomona, California, signed a memorandum of understanding for the 2024-2025 school year for a “mentoring program” with Pomona Valley Pride.

Under the memorandum obtained by The Daily Signal, the pride center was to provide “academic support, mentoring, and tutoring services to all students in middle and high school who identify themselves LGBTQ+ and their families to address their unique needs and challenges.”

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For years, the European Union has presented itself as a global defender of privacy and personal data rights. But a joint investigation by media outlets in the UK, Germany, and Greece claims that Europol, the EU police agency based in The Hague, operated parallel systems for storing and analysing data for years. Those systems allegedly contained huge amounts of personal information, including data on citizens with no criminal record or proven connection to criminal activity.

The issue highlights a growing tension inside the EU itself: the push for stronger preventive security based on mass data collection, alongside repeated promises to protect fundamental rights and personal privacy.

At the centre of the investigation is a system known as the Computer Forensic Network (CFN). Created in 2012, it was designed to process large amounts of digital material linked to criminal investigations. Its original role was relatively limited: storing and filtering information before transferring it into Europol’s official systems.

But the November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris changed the situation dramatically.

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Two teenage gunman opened fire on Monday at the Islamic Center of San Diego in California, killing three men outside the mosque, one of them a security guard, before the two suspects were found dead, apparently from self-inflicted gunshot wounds, police said.

All of the children who were attending a day school that is part of the mosque complex – the largest in San Diego county – were accounted for and safe after the shooting, which erupted shortly before 12 noon PDT, according to San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl.

Wahl said the FBI was called in to assist in the investigation of the incident, which the police chief said authorities were treating as a hate crime.

Scores of law enforcement officers called to the Islamic Center encountered the bodies of three men shot dead outside the building, including a security guard who Wahl credited with likely having helped prevent further bloodshed.

A short time later, police discovered the bodies of two teenage males, aged 17 and 19, in a vehicle in the middle of a street, dead from apparently self-inflicted gunshot wounds, the chief said at an afternoon news conference.

Imagine how peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.

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Rep. Chip Roy introduced the Inhibiting Militant Adversarial Mullahs (IMAM) Act on Monday, which would bar radicalized leaders of certain religious denominations from being admitted into the United States.

“The United States should never roll out the red carpet for foreign clerics who preach anti-American hatred, celebrate terrorism, or serve as mouthpieces for radical regimes,” the Texas Republican told the Daily Signal in a statement.

If passed, the simple two-page bill would amend Section 101(a)(15)(R) of the immigration code to prevent nonimmigrant religious worker visas for “an alien with the title of Imam, Grand Imam, Shaykha, Mufti, Grand Mufti, Ayatollah or Grand Ayatollah from entering the United States.”

Roy, a co-founder of the congressional Sharia Free America Caucus, introduced the legislation following reports that some Muslim clerics have promoted hostility toward the United States.

At last—somebody who knows what we’re facing and has the courage to act.

Babylon Bee.

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The Babylon Bee can’t compete with this.

Seriously, imagine being Seth Dillon and Kyle Mann over at The Bee. How do you make a joke that’s crazier than this? How do you keep up with reality?

Still, Christians (including the prophets at The Bee) have longed warned that reality and satire would merge.

If Scots will elect this sort of travesty, they deserve what they get. Think of it as evolution in action.

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“I believe they’re just seeking a public humiliation ritual for the girls,” 12-time NCAA All-American female athlete Riley Gaines said Monday after California high school girls were forced to share the podium and first-place with a biological male at a track and field competition Saturday.

Biological male AB Hernandez finished ahead of all girl athletes in the high jump, long jump and triple jump – just as he did last weekend at another California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) track and field competition for high school girls.

This time, however, a newly-revived rule placed both the top girl and top biological male (transgender) athletes side-by-side on the podium to receive first-place awards.

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Virginia’s shift toward higher taxes and new regulations is triggering an interstate economic “brawl,” as West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey moves to lure businesses and workers across the border.

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger has promoted an “affordability agenda,” but a wave of proposed tax increases and regulatory changes from legislative Democrats has opened an opportunity for neighboring states to compete for businesses and residents.

Even though some of these proposals never made it to Spanberger’s desk or claimed her signature, the political climate has prompted West Virginia officials to actively target Virginia’s workforce and employers, pitching lower taxes and fewer regulations as a competitive alternative.

Speaking to Fox News Digital, Morrisey said he plans to take that pitch directly into Virginia communities, including Loudoun County, to draw businesses and workers into West Virginia.

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The Left believes there is a contrived war on higher education. However, recent analysis counters that claim by showing that there is an economic disadvantage for many Americans taking on the cost of an advanced degree. The analysis has now landed firmly on the conclusion that much advanced education is a rigged game.

This is not news to my family. In 2008, our son attended the University of Kansas. He wanted to pursue a career in sports administration and had obtained a position at the university working for legendary athletic director Lew Perkins.

As Sam considered his next step, we researched master’s degrees in sports administration. There were about 150 programs in the discipline across the country with about half offering master’s degrees. Because of the multitude of programs, I had already concluded that getting any degree in the specialty would at best guarantee the degree holder a job at a Foot Locker store.

We asked Lew about the degree’s value. He said, “If you want to work for me, get an MBA.” Here was a top-level person in the business telling us those degrees were worthless.

That analysis is not just true of sports administration but applies across the spectrum of degrees.

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The surveillance state has found its newest frontier: your car’s dashboard. What used to be a symbol of American freedom and independence is rapidly morphing into a high-tech cage that watches your every move and can override your decisions at will.

In a widely shared post on X, users detailed complaints pouring in about Subaru’s upgraded AI ‘EyeSight’ system now featured on the latest models.

Drivers report the system pouncing on brief glances away from the road – while Biden-era federal mandates prepare to make this level of surveillance mandatory in every new vehicle by 2027.

“Biden” and “fascism” seem made for each other.

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Italy’s government has warned against dismissing the Modena car-ramming attack as merely the act of a disturbed individual, as the case reignites fierce political debate over immigration, integration, and public security.

Eight people were injured on Saturday after a driver at high speed ploughed his car into pedestrians and cyclists in the centre of the northern Italian city of Modena. Four victims remain in serious condition, including a woman who had to have both of her legs amputated.

The suspect, 31-year-old Salim El Koudri, an Italian citizen of Moroccan origin born in Bergamo, attempted to flee the scene before stabbing a passer-by who tried to stop him. He was eventually overpowered by members of the public and arrested.

You don’t need a conspiracy if everybody knows what they’re supposed to do.

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Illegal immigration detected at the European Union’s external borders fell by 40% between January and April 2026. On the West African route, which connects with the Canary Islands, the decline reached 78%.

On paper, the figure appears to point to a significant shift after years of growing migratory pressure, but Frontex data only measures irregular crossings detected at specific border points. It does not measure the total immigration to Europe.

The distinction is more important than it may seem. Frontex counts interceptions or detected crossings. The agency itself notes that the same person may appear multiple times in different records and that the figures only concern external borders and specific routes. The decline therefore indicates that fewer entries are being detected on those corridors, not that Europe is receiving fewer foreign arrivals overall.

The New York Times, Paper of Record of the Crust.

Even the most capable autocrats cannot rule alone.
In Russia, Vladimir V. Putin needs his circle of handpicked oligarchs; in Iran, the Revolutionary Guards and its allies in the business world protect the regime’s power; Viktor Orban transformed Hungary into an “elected autocracy” with the help of a few crucial judges, political enforcers and friendly tycoons. But to actually carry out the dirty work of consolidating and maintaining power, such leaders rely on help from a far greater number of lower- and midlevel people: military officers, secret police and bureaucrats.
Yet until recently, researchers paid little attention to how leaders convince and recruit ground-level workers to go along with their demands. The incentives for elites to stay loyal have been studied extensively, but the rank and file have remained something of a black box. In the absence of real data, researchers have tended to assume that they cooperate because of ideological extremism, fear of persecution or some combination of the two.
New research, drawing on an extraordinary data set from Argentina’s Dirty War in the 1970s and ’80s, suggests a very different explanation. It turns out that the kinds of career pressures familiar to employees everywhere — the desire to revive a stalled career or obtain a minor promotion — can be enough to incentivize lower- and midlevel officials to violate professional obligations, fundamental norms and even basic morality. The people who make those decisions, the research suggests, are neither extremists nor victims. They are often just middling workers looking for a way to get ahead.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

An Iraqi man who was recently arrested in Turkey has been charged with plotting an array of attacks against Jewish targets, including on a synagogue in New York City, in response to the U.S.-Israel war with Iran.

A criminal complaint that was unsealed on Friday claims that Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi, 32, is a commander in the Iraq-based Kataib Hezbollah that functions as a proxy for Iran. The complaint was unsealed when al-Saadi appeared in federal court in Manhattan.

The complaint alleges that al-Saadi is responsible in part for organizing the attacks in Europe that have been claimed by a new group, Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya. It marks the first major disclosure of intelligence information tying the group directly to the Quds Force, the overseas arm of the Iranian regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and includes multiple photographs of al-Saadi meeting in person with IRGC leaders.

Attacks that al-Saadi organized include 18 in Europe that Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya publicly claimed, as well as the stabbing of two Jews in London last month, the complaint alleges. He also organized multiple attacks in Canada that were carried out and plotted others that did not take place, the complaint alleged.

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I’m starting to think that promoting fatherlessness in black households was a bad idea.

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The Israeli military began intercepting several boats on Monday morning that are part of a flotilla attempting to break the Gaza blockade.

More than 50 vessels departed from the port in Marmaris last week in what the organizers of the Global Sumud Flotilla described as the final leg of their journey to Gaza’s shores.

The organization’s livestream showed activists aboard several vessels putting on life jackets and raising their hands before a boat carrying troops approached. Israeli troops wearing tactical gear boarded the ship, and the livestream abruptly ended. Many of the ships are currently off the coast of Cyprus.

An hour prior to the interception, Israel’s Foreign Ministry called activists to “change course and turn back immediately.”

“Once again, a provocation for the sake of provocation: another so-called “humanitarian aid flotilla” with no humanitarian aid,” the Foreign Ministry posted on X. The Israeli military declined to comment on the ongoing operation.

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A French intellectual, who goes by Brivael Le Pogam on X, has written a tightly focused and brief explanation of it worthy of Eric Hoffer, putting his finger on the thinking of French philospher-historian Michel Foucault, French philosopher Jacques Derrida, and French philospher-literary critic Gilles Deleuze, the first of whom claimed there was no such thing as truth, just power relationships, the second of whom claimed truth was malleable, and the third of whom made the really weird claim that seeds were greater than fully developed trees because becoming was more important than being, poor romantic devil.

Married to guilt-tripping academics of the U.S., he explains how wokery was the result.

His tweet is in French, but Grok translate kicks in on my site, so I will post the translation below the tweet.

The Antiplanner.

Fifteen years ago, the Onion reported that the Obama administration was replacing its high-speed rail plans with plans for high-speed buses operating on existing freeways at speeds of up to 165 mph. Instead of spending $17 billion on high-speed rail projects, the administration proposed to spend $46,000 on an equivalent high-speed bus network.

Now humor has become reality with the twist that California is considering building both high-speed rail and high-speed bus lanes. Under the proposal, the uncompleted high-speed rail line would be supplemented by 140-mph high-speed buses running on new lanes built in the median strips of existing freeways.

Quillette.

Even before war broke out in Iran, the US military was strained. In early March, the Government Accountability Office reported that readiness had diminished over the past two decades. In the recent past, support for Ukraine, the defence of Israel, and air strikes against the Houthis have all depleted critical munitions. The present high-intensity conflict in Iran is only aggravating this already dangerous situation. There is little doubt that the United States, which faces its most consequential military challenge in the Pacific, will need to husband resources more carefully if it is to deter China in the coming years.

Full dress rehearsals for the siege and subjugation of Taiwan have raised the possibility that America may be unprepared for a clash with the world’s strongest authoritarian state. To make matters worse, should a direct confrontation with Beijing be necessary, time may not be on America’s side. In a protracted battle between great powers, as the historian Paul Kennedy put it, “victory has repeatedly gone to the side with the more flourishing industrial base.”

At this precarious historical moment, The American Edge by Seth G. Jones delivers an ominous warning but also a hopeful message. Jones, a scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, wastes no time in laying out the strategic stakes. “The tragedy today,” he writes, “is that the United States is in a wartime environment, but its defence industrial base is operating on a peacetime footing.” To drive home the point, Jones channels the British naval historian Andrew Gordon who believed that policymakers in peacetime needed to act more like rat-catchers (those who effectively cut regulatory corners to win wars) and less like regulators (who tend to be stymied by excessive bureaucracy).

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Last month, firsthand testimony from a former Han Chinese police officer who supervised Uyghur labor transfers in Xinjiang described how the system works. Workers are taken to cotton fields under armed escort. Identity cards are confiscated to prevent escape. Those who refuse state-mandated assignments are sent to short-term detention facilities where, in the officer’s words, they are “intentionally subjected to hardship and suffering” until they comply.

The same coercion architecture underpins the labor that sustains Chinese crystalline silicon solar manufacturers, which continue to seek access to the U.S. market.

Five years after the United States moved to specifically ban Uyghur forced labor, it remains the largest system of state-imposed forced labor in the world – and it is larger than ever. Our research found that China recorded more than 3 million labor transfers of Uyghurs and other ethnic groups in 2025. This was the highest figure on record and a year-on-year increase, despite the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA), which was meant to curb the practice. China’s silicon solar industry, which has lobbied for years to preserve its access to the U.S. market, remains an active participant in it.

People lose track of the fact that a Communist country is a Communist country, and acts like a Communist country whenever they think they can get away with it.

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I reported yesterday about Salim El Koudri, a culture-enriching “Italian” of Moroccan ethnicity who deliberately drove his car at high speed into a crowd on the sidewalk in the city of Modena. Eight people were wounded, including a woman whose legs had to be amputated.

The Register.

The terms “blindingly obvious,” “logical consequence,” and “that is not how it works” appear nowhere in the government handbook of internet legislation. In particular, the discovery that imposing age access controls on websites has pushed users to VPNs has come as a huge surprise to legislators in the UK, the EU, Canada, and Australia. Nobody here knows how old VPN users are, be they kids unwilling to lose access or adults unwilling to disgorge personally identifying data to who knows what.

As they recover from this shocking discovery, these fine people are looking at ways to control VPNs, whether by adding age verification here too or by some magical “digital age of consent” technology that somehow evades the paradox that demanding more personal information in the name of safety itself reduces safety. Yet here, as in so many ways, the rest of the world is lagging behind America – more specifically, the great state of Utah, which has just enacted an anti-VPN law.

This law makes it compulsory for any site that the state says needs age verification – porn, basically – to impose those checks on anyone physically in Utah whether or not they are using any VPN. Those would be the same VPNs whose sole purpose is to prevent the geolocation of their users. Which would seem, and is, another paradox.

ATQUE: Mozilla warns UK: Breaking VPNs will not magically fix Britain’s age-check mess

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People across the United States are cutting down, smashing, and dismantling Flock Safety surveillance cameras. At least 25 cameras have been destroyed in five states since April 2025. One Virginia man faces 25 criminal charges for systematically destroying 13 cameras—he says he did it for the Fourth Amendment. The destruction comes as public anger builds over Flock’s documented ICE connections. Cities are hiding camera locations. Reddit threads show near-universal support. This is what happens when a $7.5 billion surveillance company ignores public opposition.

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Scientists have found a massive reservoir of water buried about 700 kilometers below Earth’s surface, and it could hold three times as much water as all the oceans combined. This hidden ocean is trapped inside deep mantle rock and cannot be directly accessed or seen.

The discovery suggests that a lot of Earth’s water may have come from inside the planet itself, not just from comets or asteroids crashing into the early Earth. It could also explain why ocean levels have stayed relatively stable over hundreds of millions of years, even with continents drifting and climates changing.

Learning how water behaves deep in the mantle helps scientists understand Earth’s geology and how the oceans we know today have lasted so long.

New York Post.

Incline Village on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe has seen an influx of ultra-wealthy Californians fleeing the state’s proposed billionaires tax.

Silicon Valley billionaires like Google co-founder Sergey Brin, SpaceX investor Steve Jurvetson, and Naveen Rao, with Unconventional AI, have recently moved to the Nevada bordertown on the north shore of Lake Tahoe ahead of a proposed “billionaire tax” in the state.

“Our primary market is Californians seeking tax refuge in Nevada and people buying second homes,” Cole Mizak, a top luxury real estate broker in the area told The Post.

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The state has two monopolies it must protect whatever the cost: the monopoly on decreeing what is legal tender and on force.

We’re entering an era in which push comes to shove will lead to immovable objects encountering irresistible forces. All sorts of verities and vanities will be bulldozed as kicking the can down the road descends into desperation to stave off collapse, a desperation that unleashes second order effects the desperate did not anticipate. The only responses at this late stage are even more desperate, so desperation is self-reinforcing.

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Separate groups of protestors converged on the capital. One route was taken in the build-up to a “Unite the Kingdom” rally, organised around the activist Tommy Robinson (born Stephen Yaxley-Lennon).

The separate annual pro-Palestinian Nakba Day march commemorating the displacement of Palestinians in 1948 also went ahead, in line with the pattern of weekly ‘pro-Palestine’ marches in the capital that began in the immediate aftermath of the Hamas-led October 7 pogrom in Israel.

Attendees at the Robinson event travelled from across the country, with some wearing “Make England Great Again” hats, or carrying wooden crosses and chanting “Christ is King.” British authorities had earlier banned at least 11 foreign right-wing speakers from entering the country ahead of the demonstrations.

The New York Times, Paper of Record of the Crust.

Let that be a lesson to us all.

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The mainstream media’s outrage over religious expressions by government institutions and politicians is highly selective. At bottom, it the event is Christian, they attack. If it’s any other religion, they applaud.

Did the mainstream media publish indignant diatribes when leftist NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani held Muslim dinners at City Hall and Gracie Manor for Ramadan? The answer is no, of course they didn’t. Because Islam is celebrated by modern liberal movements and Christianity is despised. And, it’s important to take note of what leftists hate, because if they hate it, it’s probably good.

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One of the biggest mistakes globalists made in their bid for perpetual medical authoritarianism during the Covid pandemic was reveling a bit too much. Numerous high level officials from the WEF, WHO, the Imperial College of London and an army of politicians were giddy with excitement and bragged publicly about all the power they were going to grab as the masses huddled in fear of a virus with a 99.8% average survival rate.

This arrogance cost them, triggering an awakening of millions of former skeptics who are now avid “conspiracy theorists”. Today, the ability of the elitist class to sucker the populace into a new pandemic theater is greatly reduced.

No one believes them anymore. And even if there was a legitimate biological threat, no one is going to trust an corrupt organization like the WHO to solve the problem.

We have see the consequences of the covid farce with the recent Hantavirus scare, which has failed to inspire any noticeable reaction from the public. As we noted a few days ago, the WHO has been exposed as a perpetrator of pandemic disinformation and is no longer trusted by the public.

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Earlier today I posted about Salim El Koudri, an “Italian” of Moroccan background who plowed his car into a crowd on a sidewalk in the city of Modena, wounding a number of people, some of them grievously. There’s not very much known about Mr. El Koudri as of now, but the report below fills in a little bit more information.

Imagine how peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.

Ever wonder why Christians and Jews rarely go on religiously-motivated killing sprees, yet Muslims frequently do?

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Tesla’s Solar Roof was supposed to revolutionize residential solar. Elon Musk unveiled the product in 2016 with the promise of beautiful solar tiles that would replace your entire roof — and he set a target of 1,000 new Solar Roofs per week by the end of 2019. Nearly a decade later, Tesla has installed roughly 3,000 Solar Roof systems total, stopped reporting deployment numbers, and is now quietly pivoting to conventional solar panels.

The gap between Tesla’s Solar Roof promise and reality is one of the most stark examples of unfulfilled ambitions in the company’s history — and it has left thousands of customers stuck with an expensive product that Tesla appears to have deprioritized.

Be not the first by whom the new is tried
Nor yet the last to cast the old aside.

Politico, a Voice of the Crust.

President Donald Trump keeps knocking out his political enemies in the GOP. On Saturday, Sen. Bill Cassidy was the latest to fall.

It’s a massive warning sign for any Republicans who’ve provoked the president’s wrath: Trump’s revenge campaign has already mobilized voters in both Indiana, where he successfully ousted several state GOP senators over redistricting, and Saturday night in Louisiana. Tuesday’s primaries in Georgia and Kentucky, where Rep. Thomas Massie is up for reelection and he’s picked sides in the open Senate race, will be another test. Now, the president is entering those races with the wind at his back.

Cassidy’s distant third-place finish marks the end of his tenure in the Senate, one that was doomed by his vote to convict Trump on impeachment charges related to the Jan. 6 insurrection five years ago.

The Telegraph (UK).

An Albanian triple murderer who was granted asylum and citizenship in the UK while he was on the run has been apprehended in the US.

Sokol Hoxha, 50, fled mainland Europe for Britain after killing his 19-year-old wife in 1997 in Belgium and murdering two brothers in Albania in the same year.

He came to Britain using a false identity, fraudulently claiming that he was a Kosovan refugee, which allowed him to claim asylum and ultimately British citizenship.

The Telegraph (UK).

Trump administration officials are encouraging the United Arab Emirates to get more heavily involved in the Iran war and seize one of Tehran’s Gulf islands, The Telegraph understands.

Some in Donald Trump’s circle have suggested the UAE should take Lavan Island, which was reportedly bombed in secret military strikes by the Emiratis in early April, a former senior Trump security official told The Telegraph.

“Go take ’em!” the official said. “It would be UAE boots on the ground instead of US.”

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If you notice any trends here, I’m told that makes you a racist or something.

Imagine how peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.

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Major corporations are continuing a historic exodus from Delaware, abandoning the state long considered America’s corporate capital in favor of business-friendly states such as Texas and Nevada.

The latest high-profile corporate departures from Delaware include Formula One owner Liberty Media and cloud security firm Datadog — with a combined market cap of more than $80 billion.

The past two years alone major corporations with a market capitalization totaling more than $3.2 trillion have left Delaware — as the state loses its status as America’s corporate capital in favor of business-friendly states such as Texas and Nevada.

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Summer is nearly here and a hard-left Los Angeles city councilmember has proposed something that the people have surely been yearning for: banning backyard barbecues.

Yes, really.

Los Angeles City Councilwoman Nithya Raman, who is also running for mayor, introduced a motion on Wednesday to ban backyard barbecues during certain high fire danger days in the city, the California Post reported.

Obviously, some fires are more equal than others.

The Third Bit, a Voice of the Fringe.

The Left just bubbles with ideas for scary-sounding tags for the people that do Politically Incorrect things: “black market”, “windfall profits”, “profiteering”, “price gouging”, etc. This is the latest proglodyte buzz-word. (Not to be confused with “technofeudalism”, which was created by another hive.)

Notice that you don’t see anybody jumping up and down about “technosocialism” or “technocommunism” or even “technoprogressivism”. Think about why that is.

Popular Science.

Japan’s bear problem continues, and the country is running out of the robot wolves that help keep them at bay. First released in 2016 by the manufacturer Ohta, Monster Wolf was originally designed to ward off the agricultural foes like boars, deer, and the island nation’s Asian black bear (Ursus thibetanus) and brown bear (Ursus arctos) populations.

It’s always something….

ATQUE: Japan’s robot wolf sells out as record bear attacks drive demand

The Existentialist Republic, obviously a Voice of the Crust.

Full disclosure: The founders of the Federalist Society—Lee Otis, Dave McIntosh, Steve Calabresi, and Gene Meyer—are friends of mine from Yale. It’s very gratifying to learn that they have the right enemies.

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A recent study conducted on behalf of the city of Vienna highlights a concerning trend among young Muslims regarding their religious and political views. This follows the recent announcement that Muslim children now comprise nearly 41 percent of the population in Vienna’s compulsory schools, making them the largest religious group.

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According to Stonewall News, the Seattle LGBTQ Commission has recommended that the city declare a civil emergency.

The reason?

There are too many LGBTQ people in Seattle — specifically LGBTQ people from Texas.

And the Great Sort continues apace.

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One of the saddest thing about the Obama and Biden Administrations is how they renormalized bias. By the end of the George W. Bush Administration discrimination on the basis of race, of bigotry was on life support. No, it wasn’t entirely gone, but it was fading away. For most people the important question was not “what color are you?” It was “can you do the job? It was glorious. When I dealt with a co-worker I did not wonder whether they got their position because of the color of their skin. They got it because they could perform.

For Obama and Biden, that was a bug, not a feature. Both were grifters, race-hustlers. If bias faded away, they lost their grift. They began stoking the fires of discrimination and disparagement; dividing us not by the content of our character, but by the color of our skin. I saw it growing during the first years of the Obama Administration. Unprincipled people – especially at government contractors – began using accusations of bias as a means of clotheslining career rivals.

Were you in competition for a position or promotion with one of them? Anonymous complaints would be made against you on the ethics hotline accusing you of racism. It did not matter if the accusation was baseless or distorted. The accused went through an inquisition. Even if you knew who was doing it, you could not confront the individual. That would be retaliation.

By the middle of the Biden Administration, as far as the government went, race was the marker by which people were assigned jobs. It did not matter how incompetent someone was. What mattered was how they filled the grievance matrix. One only has to look at Biden’s choices for Vice-President and Supreme Court Justices to realize how pervasive – and pernicious – the grievance matrix had become.

Checking multiple boxes on the grievance matrix was also a marvelous shield against consequences. No one dared investigate or accuse those with the right national origin, religion, and skin color of criminality or even incompetence. If you did, the accusations were treated a proof of systemic racism against the accused. Instead, in the new race-based justice system the accuser would be investigated for thought-crime, declared a bigot.