DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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No good deed goes unpunished.

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While police did not provide more details about the party, a flyer circulated on social media after the shooting suggested that an event called Sunday Funday was scheduled at a pavilion near the lake until midnight.

It advertised food, drinks, music and “good vibes, good people.”

Arcadia Lake sits just north of Oklahoma City and is dotted with picnic pavilions, campgrounds, a fishing pier, and swimming beaches.

Arcadia Lake is about 45% black, about the same percentage as it’s white population.

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Reality TV personality and Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt released a hard-hitting ad last week criticizing Mayor Karen Bass and City Councilmember Nithya Raman for their “failed leadership” in response to the Palisades fires and homelessness crisis—so far it has received more than 12 million views.

Released April 29, the ad shows the two Democrats’ posh homes and neighborhoods, which are contrasted with Pratt’s own neighborhood, which burned to the ground in the Palisades fires of January 2025.

“They don’t have to live in the mess they created … they let my home burn down,” Pratt says in the video.

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It is no longer a secret that universities have become one of the arenas where some of today’s fiercest ideological battles are being fought: research and knowledge are being subjected to the dictates of wokeism, in defiance of academic freedom—a glorious European legacy dating back centuries. In France, the phenomenon has reached such proportions that lecturers are forced to organise themselves to fight against what sometimes takes the form of relentless harassment.

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Twenty-three innocent bystanders have been killed and 30 wounded in gang-related shootings in Sweden over the past three years, according to new police data highlighting the country’s ongoing struggle with violent crime.

Authorities say the victims were not the intended targets but were instead caught in the crossfire, struck by stray bullets, mistaken for someone else, or linked to individuals involved in criminal networks.

The Nordic country has spent more than a decade trying to contain shootings tied to rival gangs competing over the drug trade and settling scores.

Sweden was once one of the most law-abiding nations on the planet.

Then they started importing Turd World immigrants.

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Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones asked the Virginia Supreme Court to overturn a ruling by Judge Hurley in Tazewell that blocked the State Board of Elections from certifying the results of the April 21 redistricting referendum. That is notable—so is the justices’ denial of that motion.

First, most anyone that remembers 2020 knows that the first response from anyone, when confronted with proof that shenanigans had taken place during the presidential election, is “the vote has been certified and there is no changing it.” That gets used to justify statements that the 2020 election was unchallenged.

It appears that what the attorney general was trying to do was force the state Supreme Court’s hand by claiming that one district court didn’t have the standing to stop a whole state-wide certification. Jones also argued, with a straight face, that because the redistricting his party supported would eat into the time for candidates to know what district they were running for and if any primaries needed to take place. Any delay could be seen as “vote suppression.”

Had he been successful, any ruling regarding the legality of the referendum would meet the same response the questions about 2020 meet: “So sorry, already certified.” That makes the second part of this compelling.

Bloomberg, a Voice of the Crust.

A little-talked about investment product is taking over the 401(k) world, and offering asset managers a way to increase exposure to private markets.

At the heart of the US retirement industry, underpinning the later-life plans of millions of Americans, is a set of financial products that hardly anyone can tell you a thing about.

No one knows exactly how much money they control. No one can say how it’s all allocated. No single financial regulator is in charge of them. Yet Collective Investment Trusts are now a multi-trillion dollar business to rival mutual funds or ETFs — and are poised to become the backdoor through which more private assets are added to Americans’ retirement savings.
For years now, the country’s biggest employers have been slowly migrating workers’ nest eggs toward these pooled

ehicles, which are used exclusively by retirement plans. For 401(k)s with more than 100 participants, about 40% of all assets were invested in CITs by 2024, according to Department of Labor data, up from 12% in 2010 and above the share allocated to mutual funds.

Notice the statist priorities: Knowing exactly how much money they control. Knowing how it’s all allocated. Most importantly, no single financial regulator is in charge of them.

Things that the agents of the Deep State can’t know, can’t track, and can’t regulate, are a threat. Voices of the Crust are here to tell you how you ought to think about them.

Babylon Bee.

Senator Elizabeth Warren was seen riding into town Monday morning bearing the scalp of her defeated enemy, Spirit Airlines.

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Once again, Democrats are sending their best to run for office.

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Apparently he left multiple other voicemails, which included, “support for armed resistance against ICE, wanting to build gallows to hang the Congress member, and telling the Congress member that he bought a combat knife because he feared the government would kill him.”

Raymond Chandler has now been arrested.

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The Force has once again made it all the way to the high seas this May 4th.

British design studio ThirtyC has unveiled another superyacht concept in honor of Star Wars Day, continuing a tradition that it started over a decade ago.

“We did our first one when we opened the studio in 2015,” studio founder and creative director Rob Armstrong previously told Robb Report. “We felt like we were injecting a bit of fun into our industry. Most of us knew Star Wars while growing up, so it seemed like a good way to add some light humor to what can sometimes become very serious superyacht projects.”

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As of the latest U.S election in late 2024, there were 120 Congressional districts with a non-white majority out of a total of 435. While only 25 to 45 percent are considered to have been created in reference to the 1965 Voting Rights Act specifically, the existence of all could potentially be in danger now that the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday changed an important provision concerning Section 2 of the law, which deals with, among other things, districting for elections.

The Voting Rights Act Section 2 specifies that district maps that give minorities “less opportunity than other members of the electorate to participate in the political process and to elect representatives of their choice” are illegal. This provision has been used in the past to create so called majority-minority districts, for example in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia, and has helped to elect more non-white candidates to Congress. Previously, plaintiffs had to prove that white and non-white voters in a certain locations do overwhelmingly chose different candidates and that the district they were aiming to create or uphold was not overly gerrymandered. On Thursday, the 6-3 Supreme Court decision penned by Justice Samuel Alito said that in the future, maps invoking Section 2 would have to prove present-day discrimination of the non-white group in question to justify such a district in addition to proving their racial voting patterns were distinct from regular partisan voting – something that opponents of the changes say is almost impossible to do.

Dissenting justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson called the changes a “demolition of the Voting Rights Act”.

Which is a blatantly racist and unconstitutional statute.

A Constitution only protects you if it’s enforced. Case in point: The 1918 Conscription cases.

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You know what’s ironic?

All the Canadians who didn’t have kids to keep the environment pristine are now importing workers from countries where garbage is dumped directly into rivers.

Import Turd World people, get Turd World problems.

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Reform UK has pledged to build new detention centres for illegal migrants in areas that vote Green if it wins the next general election, in a proposal it says is designed to ensure “democratic consent” for its mass deportation policy.

Nigel Farage’s party said it would “prioritise” locating facilities in areas with Green councils or MPs, arguing this reflects the Green Party’s position on migration.

The announcement comes as both Reform and the Greens are expected to make significant gains in upcoming council elections. The Greens are projected to perform strongly in major cities including London, Newcastle, Cambridge, and Manchester, while Reform is targeting former industrial towns such as Walsall and Hartlepool, as well as Conservative strongholds like Essex.

Reform says it will deport all illegal migrants in Britain—estimated by the party to number up to 600,000—if it forms a government. It also plans to detain up to 24,000 people at any one time in new facilities while they await removal.

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Europe is in far greater economic trouble that most people realize. In an April 2026 report by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), it was reveled that the UK’s GDP per capita is lower than all 50 U.S. states, including the poorest, Mississippi. While the majority of Britons mistakenly believe the UK is as wealthy or wealthier than the US, data shows the UK’s average income lags behind the lowest-performing US states, highlighting a significant economic gap.

The quiet decline of the once mighty British Empire right under the nose of the general populace is just one of many examples of Europe not understanding their own precarious economic circumstances.

Far-left governments on the other side of the Atlantic have openly sought to sabotage conservative political movements, imposing authoritarian lawfare and mass censorship in order to prevent losing their grip on power. The globalist leadership in these countries has designated the Trump Administration and US nationalist groups as a “bad influence” on their own citizens.

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The 52-year-old man was tracked down by Taranto State Police after the authorities in southern Italy opened an investigation into domestic abuse and forced marriage following a complaint from the young woman last November.

As reported by Il Giornale, prosecutors say the victim told officers her father had demanded she marry a Kurdish man selected by him and had threatened her with death if she resisted or tried to flee abroad.

The woman had traveled from Iraq to join her family in Taranto, but investigators say she soon found herself trapped in what police described as a family campaign to force her into submission.

According to the allegations, her relatives sided with her father because they believed she wanted to live in a way that was too “Western” and incompatible with their cultural expectations.

When she refused to obey, her father allegedly held her captive inside an apartment in the southern Italian city and subjected her to violence that left her with injuries requiring 15 days to recover.

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Many people are familiar with the “blue state exodus” over the past several years, but are they aware of the blue city business exodus?

It might be one of the biggest economic stories in modern US history, and Democrats are trying to keep it as quiet as possible. There is a blood letting going on in blue cities; a financial disaster in the making. And, like most financial disasters, it will probably be ignored until the house of cards comes crashing down completely.

For this examination let’s look at three very different examples, all facing similar crises. We start in New York City, where taxes have been consistently increased in order to offset the loss of billions in public revenues due to citizens leaving. NYC has experienced a net loss of around 220,000 residents since 2021, but it’s not the number of residents that is most important. Rather, it is the wealth of those residents that matters.

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Historically speaking, crawling to communists for help has never been a good idea; there’s always a catch. By extension, making trade deals with China and the CCP from a position of weakness usually ends with diplomatic concessions instead of mere economic concessions. That is to say, the Chinese are less interested in economic benefits, and more interested in political submission.

Canadians are about to speed run this lesson after Prime Minister Mark Carney’s “new strategic partnership” formed with China early this year. The announcement has been heralded as a pragmatic reset in Canada-China relations after years of tensions, aimed at diversifying Canada’s trade amid U.S. tariffs under Trump. The goals of the deal include increased bilateral trade, agricultural agreements, currency swaps and energy exports.

The problem is, Carney also wants Canada to maintain its relationship with Taiwan, which the CCP views as a violation of their “One China” policy. Not surprisingly, China is already using their newfound economic leverage to pressure Canada to submit to their demands on Taiwan.

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am aware that many here do not think that the entire effects of the experimental gene therapy known as the Covid vaccine have been adverse. Some may even still get “boosters” when they are offered. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions and ways of thinking. I have been paying close attention to news and research reports that have always been out there; they were mostly suppressed by the legacy media and banned from multiple social media platforms when reports started showing up in mid-2021, showing numerous adverse effects of the Covid shots, up to and including death.

Right now, even the US government, which actively suppressed news reports of deaths and injuries, and heavily promoted the shots (and refused to allow proven existing medications to be used) is admitting that the harms of the shots are too obvious to ignore any longer. Countless reports of young athletes literally dropping dead on the playing fields have been publicized. Media news readers have collapsed over their desks in front of the public, but doctors continue to be “baffled” as to causes. Most young athletes and employees of media companies were mandated by their employers and schools to receive shots and boosters, yet vaccine injury is still not recognized as a cause in many cases.

On my blog, I do occasional big posts, bringing together news and research stories of individuals, groups, and countries where vaccine injuries leave people dead or severely disabled. Statistics show obvious spikes in deaths from “turbo-cancer” in people who have ZERO risk factors. Today, people under age 45 are being diagnosed with Stage Four colon and pancreatic cancers, who literally were completely healthy before. The only common factor is Covid shots. Yet much of the public remains blind to these risk factors staring them in the face.

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During the California gubernatorial debate, Tom Steyer, who is a billionaire, claimed that the billionaires are out to get him.

“The billionaires and corporations are spending big in this race to oppose me and to support the other people on this stage,” he claimed.

This same statement is made by every Democrat in any race above the level of dog catcher, but when it’s being made by a candidate who is not only a billionaire, but whose only reason for running in any race is being a billionaire, that takes it to a whole other level of hypocritical grifting.

If Steyer were just a working class Bay Area millionaire like Gov. Gavin Newsom or Rep. Ro Khanna, but without their good hair and the connections to the Getty family, Willie Brown and Jeffrey Epstein, no one would have let the confused old leftist run for any kind of public office.

With billions in his pocket, Steyer is able to put $133 million on the table and buy himself a place as the front runner in the race after the previous front runner turned out to be a sex predator.

Democrats depend heavily on billionaire money and on claiming to hate billionaires while promising to tax billionaires, which they somehow never get around to actually doing.

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After Korea’s division in 1945 and the adoption of conflicting ideologies, contact between the two sides ceased, causing the language gap to gradually widen. South Korea adopted the Seoul dialect as its “standard language,” while North Korea declared the Pyongyang dialect to be its “cultural language.”

Over the decades, South and North Korean dialects have evolved in different directions, creating considerable discrepancies. The linguistic challenges defectors face go beyond accent differences, including a complex mixture of words that sound the same but have different meanings, words that sound different but mean the same thing, and South Korea’s rapidly changing slang and foreign loanwords.

These linguistic differences create more than just communication difficulties for defectors — they impact their identity and psychological well-being. This analysis examines specific examples of linguistic differences encountered by defectors and the resulting challenges they face during settlement.

The Telegrph (UK).

A University of Cambridge college has been criticised after it failed to suspend students who made death threats against an undergraduate who visited Israel.

The visit, organised by the Pinsker Centre think tank, took Oxbridge student leaders to Israel, where they met Israelis and Palestinians to better understand the Gaza conflict.

But one of the party, Bradley Smart, 21, said he received death threats from fellow students when he returned to Homerton College.

The Telegraph (UK).

More than 600,000 households received more in benefits than the average worker’s salary, the first analysis of its kind has revealed.

The figures show that 625,618 households were each given more than £32,200 in welfare payouts last year – the average annual salary of a British worker after tax – despite the introduction of a benefits cap.

The analysis, by the Conservatives, also revealed that 16,000 of those households received more than £60,000 in welfare payments – almost twice the average annual take-home pay.

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Elizabeth Warren has built an entire political career on presenting herself as the righteous defender of ordinary Americans against powerful corporations.

Every speech is some variation of the same script: she’s fighting for workers, fighting for consumers, fighting for families, and standing up to greedy executives and monopolistic corporations that are supposedly rigging the system against everyone else. It is a message carefully designed to make her sound like a populist champion of the middle class while putting a polish on inherently broken socialist ideas.

When her flawed ideology collides with reality, it repeatedly produces outcomes that hurt the exact people she claims to represent. Spirit Airlines may be one of the clearest examples yet.

When JetBlue moved to acquire Spirit in 2022, Warren treated the deal like it was Apple, Netflix, Meta, Microsoft, Google, Amazon and the Third Reich all merging into one new authoritarian Orwellian company called Dystopian Evil Holdings, LLC.

She aggressively pushed regulators to block it, warning that the merger would reduce competition and raise ticket prices. The Biden administration’s Department of Justice embraced that argument and sued to stop the acquisition, ultimately succeeding when a federal judge blocked the deal.

As a result it went bankrupt, all of its shareholders lost their money, and all of their employees lost their jobs.

Way to go, Democrats!

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As the Trump administration cracks down on illegal immigration, the Justice Department this week advanced cases against illegal aliens running criminal enterprises—including a gun trafficking scheme orchestrated from behind bars.

In Georgia, the Justice Department announced the 25-year sentence of a Mexican illegal immigrant who used a contraband cell phone from inside a Georgia state prison to manage a massive drug and gun trafficking conspiracy.

Servando Corona Penaloza, a Georgia state prison inmate, was sentenced on Wednesday to 25 years in federal prison for orchestrating the sale of more than 1,000 kilograms of methamphetamine and fentanyl and the purchase of more than 200 military-style firearms transported to Mexico for use by Mexican cartels, according to the Justice Department.

He was in prison serving a sentence for a Gwinnett County drug trafficking offense.

You can only have waste, fraud, and abuse when the government is giving people money. Stop the government from giving people money, and you will also stop the waste, fraud, and abuse.

This is not rocket science….

The Foundry.

Maine Gov. Janet Mills has suspended her Senate campaign after failing to raise enough money to compete with socialist Graham Platner, who will now almost certainly face the perpetual centrist Republican Susan Collins in the general.

Chuck Schumer and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairwoman Kirsten Gillibrand immediately backed Platner, proving that there’s virtually nothing a leftist can say or do that is disqualifying.

So, for 20 years, you’ve had a Totenkopf tattoo, which depicts a skull and crossbones, most famously used by Hitler’s Schutzstaffel, the paramilitary organization that led, planned and executed the Holocaust?

No problem!

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What a great grasp of the obvious.

I’m wondering what’s wrong with the other 40%.

ATQUE: UK Schools Pushing Books On Kids Telling Them “There’s Plenty Of Room” For Small Boat Migrants

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Barack Obama is a real piece of work. Seriously, he has no shame.

One week after the former president successfully gaslit a small majority of Virginians into voting for a redistricting initiative that got rid of the state’s two majority-minority congressional districts, he has the gall to condemn the Supreme Court’s ruling against the practice of redistricting along racial lines.

He doesn’t really care about giving black voters better representation—he cares about the Democrats’ grasp for raw, naked political power, by any means necessary.

Most Democrats are like a sit-com: You know what’s going to happen, the only mystery is how they’ll get there This Time.

The New Neo.

It’s not true that the Left doesn’t have guiding principles. One of the most influential is “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” America and Israel are the enemy; therefore Hamas and the current Iranian regime are the friends because they share the same enemies. Iran calls the US “The Great Satan” and Israel “The Little Satan.” There really couldn’t be more of a mind-meld between the Left and the Iranian leaders than that. Everything else is secondary or lower.

The left pretends to be for “the people” – but it’s the case only if the people are on the same side of an issue as the left. If the people choose wrongly, screw the people. One example of this is the left’s constant attempts to take down the duly-elected Trump, whether through assassination or impeachment or lies. The people of Israel can be raped and murdered or even blown to bits by a nuclear weapon, and according to the left they had it coming and will have had it coming.

And so the left is able to ignore the brutal Iranian regime’s killing of its own protesters. The left is aware that, were the protesters to win their battle, the Iranian people would almost certainly be grateful to none other than the oppressor Trump and The Great Satan the US, not to mention The Little Satan Israel.

Can’t have that.

Gates of Vienna.

It seemed that everyone was “focusing on workers over billionaires”, oblivious to the fact that tycoons such as George Soros and Neville Roy Singham were funding the events, paying for printed signs and banners, bussing in astroturf protesters, providing lunch for the useful idiots, etc. Mind you, Mr. Singham is a relative pauper in this field, being worth a mere $785 million.

All day yesterday I kept checking the riot news, expecting the tossing of Molotov cocktails and columns of smoke rising over “mostly peaceful” protests. But that didn’t happen. Yes, the crowds of earnest progressives turned out, but it wasn’t a repeat of the Summer of George Floyd. There was no sign of the kinetic excess that one would expect if Antifa or BLM had been mobilized for the occasion.

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Yeah, probably.

I’m sure thieves love them.

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Hee hee hee hee hee hee hee….

The Times (UK).

Former Royal Marines and veterans of the Parachute Regiment have been hired to protect synagogues and Jewish schools as Britain braces for further antisemitic violence.

The deployment of elite ex-troops for security patrols can be revealed for the first time after the stabbing of two Jewish men in a suspected terrorist attack in Golders Green, northwest London, and a recent spate of fire bombings in the surrounding area.

The wave of incidents influenced the government’s decision on Thursday to raise the terrorism threat level from substantial to severe, meaning that another attack is now “highly likely”. MI5 said on its website that there was an “elevated threat to Jewish and Israeli individuals and institutions”.

“If two weird things happen so close together, they are usually connected somehow.” — April Lewis

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Many of us grew up in times when our public workers were deservedly revered. This was because they were positive and helpful despite being both overworked and underpaid.

Those days are long gone. Today, most public employees seem either apathetic or simply unwilling to help the taxpayers who pay their salaries. To make matters worse, today they are paid much better than their private industry equivalents.

That was colorfully announced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in a recent news release. The statisticians responsible told taxpayers that private industry employees make an average of $32.37 per hour, and that their counterparts in state and local governments make $40.24 per hour.

This difference is more significant when benefits are added to the picture. Each private industry employee receives an average of $13.68 per hour in benefits, compared to $25.04 per hour for the poor, humble public employee. That is an overall cost of $46.05 vs. $65.28 for our public employees. That is a whopping difference.

The disparity is dramatically illustrated by the Los Angeles Unified School District’s move to give starting teachers an annual pay rate of $77,000 and 15-year veterans pay of $125,156. That is before a rich benefits package and on top of the perk of having summers off. Meanwhile, the district is an overstaffed operation with shrinking enrollment that matriculates poorly educated students.

Those figures are for the period ended September 2025. You might notice that federal employees are not included in this study, meaning the pay disparity between them and private sector workers might be even worse.

Think of it this way: When you go to the Department of Motor Vehicles to be harassed and ignored, the worker behind the counter is making more than the average person pleading to escape the DMV’s dysfunctional dystopia.

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Seattle’s new socialist mayor is in the process of being mugged by reality and her response is to say that it’s, like, no big deal. Tee hee!

In a recently surfaced video from an event at Seattle University, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson—the West Coast Zohran Mamdani—was asked if Washington State’s new taxes are a good thing for the tax climate in her city. The state recently passed a “millionaire tax” along with several other significant tax increases.

This means that Seattle now has the highest state and local tax burden for high-income earners in the country.

Once in a blue moon, the truth creeps out of Trudeau’s Wokery.

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They don’t call it the Turd World for nothing.

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She is, of course, a Female Of Tincture (or FOT, not to be confused with THOT, which is a different gig that pays better).

Sarah Hoyt.

The problem with the left right now — no, I know they have many, but hear me out — is that they don’t acknowledge their shadow. In this sense, they’re not fully adults, and they do the most bizarre things because they think of themselves as “the good people” as though being good were bestowed by assignment at birth. In fact you could say all their other problems come from being unable to acknowledge their shadow.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

A candidate in the United Kingdom’s Green Party is under fire after posting under the social media handle “thereal.anne.frank” that “every single Zionist” should be killed, marking the latest antisemitic scandal to hit the party in a matter of days.

Two other candidates have been charged with spreading hate online in relation to anti-Israel social media posts, while the party’s Jewish leader, Zack Polanski, is fending off allegations of deep-seated antisemitism.

The latest scandal came after the Jewish News revealed that in a series of posts on Threads, Tina Ion, a Green party candidate in Newcastle, referred to “Zionists” as “vermin” and “rats” and posted an image of an industrial shredding machine, which she called a “Zionist juicer.” She also referred to “Jewish Nazis” as “money grubbing thieves” who “have built mountains of money over centuries,” according to the newspaper.

The profile photo for the account, titled “thereal.anne.frank,” featured an image of a young woman wearing a keffiyeh, the traditional Palestinian headscarf. In one post referencing the image, Ion allegedly wrote that it was used “because Ann Frank wearing a keffieh pisses Zionists off.”

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The financial industry understands itself to be an arm of the government. We were inducted into this service other-than-willingly through the ordinary operation of law and regulation.

This is uncontroversial and unsurprising to insiders.

A claim which will be more surprising: some regulated financial institutions have delegated authority for account- and transaction-level decisioning to a non-profit.

Another: that non-profit includes a private intelligence agency, which runs covert assets, publishes intelligence estimates, develops target lists, and communicates them to decisionmakers.

Still another: the non-profit organized a coalition of the willing as an outgrowth of its intelligence agency. The willing non-profits, that is. The coalition engaged in a years-long campaign to coerce financial infrastructure and other firms to give them the ability to direct accounts to be closed. The infrastructure built to do this against domestic terrorists was applied to an American politician’s fundraising efforts, and no one seemed to think that was odd.

Last week, the DOJ unsealed an indictment against the organizing non-profit for bank fraud. This was based, in part, on how it paid the intelligence agency’s covert assets.

They likely developed evidence for that indictment using the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) mandatory reporting regime.

We begin, as always, with the bank fraud.

The Telegraph (UK).

Qatar has been accused of “eradicating” its Bahá’í religious minority, with families living in the country for decades facing imminent expulsion.

More than 40 per cent of the small Bahá’í population is being targeted for deportation in a “deliberate campaign of religious erasure”, the Bahá’í International Community (BIC), a non-governmental organisation, said.

The community, whose presence in the region predates the modern Qatari state, has been reduced to a few hundred members after decades of systematic discrimination.

Muslims tolerate non-Muslims only when they have to.

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In a major break with tradition, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle has directed that the Navy ships that transport Marines into war zones be commanded by surface warfare officers instead of aviators.

The change applies to amphibious assault ships, transport docks, and dock landing ships, Caudle wrote in an April 24 memo that has been shared on Reddit. The Navy confirmed to Task & Purpose that the memo is authentic.

The Navy currently has a total of 32 amphibious warfare ships, including nine big deck amphibious assault ships, which carry Marines and vertical-take off aircraft like the MV-22B Osprey, helicopters and F-35 fighters.

In the memo, Caudle wrote that his decision is tied to Navy efforts to improve amphibious warfare ships’ readiness.

The Foundry.

California college graduates have been struggling to take their next steps into the career world. According to one congressman, the issue is not a lack of jobs, but a prioritization of foreign workers.

For years, the Golden State’s Bay Area has been a haven for jobs within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

But Republican Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt told the Daily Signal that companies and universities have been passing up American workers and instead relying on temporary employment tied to international students’ major area of study—known as Optional Practical Training (OPT).

“We went from displacing blue-collar workers with sending jobs overseas, and then illegal immigrants suppressing wages and taking other jobs,” Schmitt said. “Then you also have white-collar job issue[s] with H-1B visa[s], which we tried to highlight, but also displacing recent grads and American students through these programs like OPT.”

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Democrats have an extremism problem, and it’s not clear how they can solve it. After yet another gunman tried to assassinate President Donald Trump at last weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, liberals nobly renewed their commitment to moderation. “We need LESS violence in America, not MORE violence in America,” wrote CNN’s Van Jones. Quite right. But the American Left has not exactly put itself in a good position to calm down its radicals.

Consider: last Wednesday, the New York Times hosted superstar streamer Hasan Piker for a podcast with writer Jia Tolentino. Piker has fantasized on camera about murdering landlords and once told his viewers that “If you cared about Medicare fraud or Medicaid fraud, you would kill [Florida Senator] Rick Scott.” He joked with Tolentino about “microlooting”—that is, shoplifting—and equivocated about whether UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson deserved to die at the hands of his alleged murderer, Luigi Mangione.

Thompson “was engaging in a tremendous amount of social murder,” said Piker, citing Friedrich Engels to suggest that the killing was retribution for “systematized forms of violence” in the healthcare system. Piker is just one online celebrity, but the problem is that he represents a significant portion of the base that Democrats must now cater to. One survey found that 41% of young voters, and 22% of Democrats, considered Mangione’s actions “acceptable.”

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Dozens of ‘pro-Palestinian’ activists travelling on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla disembarked in Crete on Friday, May 1st after being intercepted by Israeli forces near the island.

The group of around 175 activists, according to Israeli estimates, was escorted to shore by Greek coast guards and transported on four buses to a location that was not publicly disclosed. Organisers of the flotilla, however, said the total number of people involved was 211.

Israel’s foreign ministry stated that more than 20 boats were stopped during the operation on Thursday. In a post on X, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said the transfer of activists was carried out “in coordination with the Greek government,” adding that Israel appreciated Greece’s “willingness to receive the flotilla participants.”

Several European governments whose citizens were among those detained have called for their immediate release, arguing that Israel’s actions represent a serious breach of international law.

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Bro, the school system is taking kids on a field trip to a May Day rally which, this year, is essentially an anti-Trump, anti-ICE protest.

She literally said students are going on a field trip to a May Day protest!

You simply cannot parody this!