DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

Newsbusters.

With less than 40 days remaining until the 2026 midterm elections, the Elitist Media are in full rehab mode for some of the left’s more controversial candidates. The latest example: NBC’s Kristen Welker, doing a little image rehab for Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.

Watch as Welker reassures viewers that El-Sayed is absolutely, positively, pinky swear totally NOT a communist.

Sure, I believe that. Regardless, he’s still a Muslim, which I worry about more than the prospect of his being a communist.

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Human Rights Campaign President Kelley Robinson Saturday compared Immigration and Customs Enforcement patrols to lynch mobs and likened current political battles over LGBTQ issues to the civil rights movement.

HRC, the nation’s largest LGBTQ activist group, has sharply criticized Trump’s policies on transgender issues, including restrictions on military service for people diagnosed with gender dysphoria and opposition to transgender medical procedures on minors.

“This is a dark time in America,” Robinson said at the HRC annual dinner in Washington, D.C. “They say that history doesn’t repeat, but it often rhymes, that the ghosts of our unsettled sins continue to haunt us.”

“The story of Nolan Wells echoes the story of Emmett Till,” she said. Wells, an 18-year-old, mysteriously died in Georgia this summer, while the 14-year-old Till’s 1955 murder became a rallying point for the civil rights movement. “The ICE patrols look a little too similar to lynch mobs. The purging of the voter rolls looks just like poll taxes, and the attacks on our trans children, they are just as haunting.”

Robinson repeatedly framed current conflicts over transgender policies as a continuation of historic civil rights struggles, arguing that government actions targeting transgender identities echoed forms of discrimination previously directed at black Americans.

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Supporters of women’s sports and sex-based protections have reason to celebrate. The Department of Education announced Sept. 28 that it is formally rescinding the Biden administration’s 2024 Title IX rule and reinstating the 2020 Title IX regulations promulgated under the first Trump administration.

Ongoing litigation has prevented the Trump administration from being able to formally rescind the illegal 2024 Biden regulations from the Code of Federal Regulations, even though the Department has been following the 2020 Trump-era Title IX regulations since January of last year.

In April 2024, the Biden administration had issued final regulations rewriting the more than 50-year-old civil rights law, Title IX, to include sexual orientation and gender identity. Essentially, it allowed boys who claim to identify as girls to participate in girls’ and women’s sports at schools that receive federal funding.

It all comes down to ‘federal funding’. These people are whores for ‘free’ government money.

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Some trace much of our current hard times back to the rebellious sixties when we baby boomers came of age and took the arrogance of youth to new levels. Quoting Adam Smith after the horrible year of 1968 would have been an act of wisdom.

Tragically, those crazed baby boomers went on to infiltrate four critical pillars of our civic infrastructure — specifically, K-12 education, colleges, journalism, and entertainment media. For decades, all four of these pillars have been sources of problems, not sources of solutions. They have been causing ruin for over 50 years.

When over a third of our society is in favor of socialism, believes capitalism causes poverty, thinks society would be improved by closing jails and prisons, thinks open borders are beneficial, thinks giving sanctuary to violent criminals from foreign lands is noble and wise, and lack the wherewithal to recognize that Hamas, not Israel, is the aggressor in the Middle East, we are dangerously close to the limit of just how much ruin we can absorb.

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This is the Met Office in Britain, but I doubt that the U.S. functionaries are any more honest.

New York Post.

And who could blame them?

New York Post.

Chalk up one for the good guys.

New York Post.

A dozen teens were shot after gunfire broke out at a chaotic birthday party gone awry inside a Georgia park Saturday night, according to local authorities and reports.

The shots broke out around midnight at Carolyn Crayton Park in Macon, where a “large gathering” had congregated following a birthday party at a nearby Airbnb, the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office said.

Two of the victims –- a 17-year-old boy and an 18-year-old boy — were left in critical condition, while the other 10 were listed in stable condition.

Guess that ethnicity!

New York Post.

How appropriate.

My world—and welcome to it.

The Telegraph (UK).

British police are facilitating breaking the law.

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The first thing I bought when I got to college in 1974 was an IBM Selectric typewriter. It cost me $1,000, which was a lot of money in 1974, and it was the best money I ever spent. A typewriter was so much a part of my life that when I went home for the summer, having left the typewriter in storage at school, I bought a little Smith-Corona portable so that I would have one available.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

The truth behind Donald Trump’s ‘biggest oil deal in world history’ (Aram Roston/The Guardian)  Whenever the Narrative Media purport to tell you ‘The Truth Behind” something, you can be sure they’re just making shit up.

Trump administration uses rare authority to claw back nearly $1B in spending approved by Congress (Associated Press)  They can’t say he doesn’t have the power, so they whine about it being ‘rare and contested’, as if that had anything to do with it.

Iran’s Bitterness and Bewilderment Over How to Make Peace with Trump (Robin Wright/New Yorker)  Well, quit attacking ships and supporting terrorism and murdering Jews just because they’re Jews would probably be a good first step.

How the Trump Administration’s Election Plan Is Falling Into Place (Wall Street Journal)  Don’t you love how all of these TDS ‘journalists’ pretend they can read Trump’s mind about his ‘plans’ and ‘real intentions’ and God knows what else?

Lawmakers slam Trump’s move to cancel $810M in funding approved by Congress (Michael Birnbaum/Washington Post)  Spend that money! Buy those votes!

CBS Reporter Tries Making Pope’s France Trip About Trump  As they do.

Donald Trump Hit With 26 Articles Of Impeachment (Billal Rahman/Newsweek)  I doubt that he even noticed.

Trump says he approved new fuel economy standards, rolling back Biden-era rules (Amelia Lucas/CNBC)

Trump Administration Plans to Gut Clean Car Rules (Maxine Joselow/New York Times)  Guts! Wow, look at all those Clean Car Rules guts spread over the highway in Mystic, Connecticut….

‘The MAGA Flag Is in Tatters’ (New York Times)

Why Does Trump Think He Can Act Like a King? (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)  Yet another Lefty ‘journalist’ who thinsk she can read Trump’s mind.

House Democrats plan vast oversight of Trump administration. Impeachment is an option (Lisa Mascaro/Associated Press)  Democrats always have big plans, most of which involve spending other people’s money and persecuting people they don’t like.

A ‘Big Problem’: Trump’s War With Iran Drags Down Republicans in Midterms (Tim Balk/New York Times)  They hope, they hope, they hope.

Poll: Trump’s MAGA loyalists don’t think he has an affordability problem (Jessie Blaeser/Politico)  Gee, I wonder why? Perhaps because he doesn’t.

Trump Promotes Criticism of Republican Who Broke With Him on Immigration (New York Times)  Goodness, how astonishing.

I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned (Daniel Dale/CNN)  Lie early and often to promote the Narrative.

Daniel Dale: An In-Depth Examination of Trump’s Lies  No in-depth examination of CNN’s lies, of course.

Newsbusters.

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

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

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

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

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I bet you didn’t know that.

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Just in case you were wondering.

Saturday Evening Post, a relic of a better time.

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

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

Sometimes the old ways are best.

How the Bare Nails Trend Became a Class Issue

BBC, a Voice of the Crust.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Newsbusters.

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

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

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

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

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

Newsbusters.

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

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

The Foundry.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Duckworth: Trump’s Arch Could Threaten Air Safety

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Not the Bee.

My, what a surprise.

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

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

Newsbusters.

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

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

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

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

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

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

RINOs gotta RINO.

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

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

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

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

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

Another Female Democrat Is Mean, Apparently

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

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

The Other McCain.

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

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

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

Indeed, most of them actually believe it.

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

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

Selectively, of course.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Foundry.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Whatever would we do without ‘scientists’?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Tim Pool looks at the chances of war with Cuba.

Not the Bee.

Not the Bee.

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

Newsbusters.

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

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

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

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

Newsbusters.

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

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