DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

As always, government is the reason why we can’t have nice things.

Oh, and if you don’t subscribe to Bluebird of Bitterness, my source for this cartoon, the angels will weep for you.

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Universities have decided the phrase “ethnic minority” is now an offence. The approved substitutes are “racialised minority” and “global majority.” The delivery system for this newspeak is a compulsory lecture for students.

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Alternative media reports say social unrest in France has spread to Belgium.

Those X accounts say that far-left groups are mobilizing young people and migrants, while corporate media coverage emphasizes the narrative that overcrowded classrooms, teacher shortages, long school days and deteriorating facilities are to blame for the chaos.

Whether the unrest reflects the coordinated weaponization of young people or simply parallel local grievances remains unclear at this moment.

European political news website Remix News published footage earlier on Monday, stating, “Student protests have now spread to Liège in Belgium.”

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Gunmen on motorcycles attacked the Christian town of Suqaylabiyah in the Hama countryside in Syria on Saturday, smashing shops and opening fire on residents, the Syrian Justice Archive (SJA) reported.

Armed men coming from the nearby Sunni town of Qalaat al-Madiq attacked Christian-owned shops and opened fire on residents with Kalashnikov rifles, wounding a woman on Al-Mashwar Road.

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The math comes straight from UD’s own 2026-27 cost-of-attendance page. Undergraduate tuition for Delaware residents is $15,740. For non-residents it is $42,470.

A qualifying illegal alien who went to high school in Delaware pays the first number. A US citizen from Pennsylvania or Maryland pays the second. That is a $26,730-a-year premium for the crime of being an American from the wrong state, or roughly $107,000 over four years at current rates, before fees.

To qualify, according to NBC Philadelphia, a non-citizen must have attended a Delaware high school for at least three years, graduated there or earned a GED, lived with a legal guardian while in school, enrolled at UD within 18 months of graduating, and provided evidence of permanent residency or an application for U.S. citizenship.

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President Donald Trump on Monday argued that refinery disruptions in Russia and the United States, rather than the ongoing war with Iran, are now the primary reason gasoline prices remain elevated, pointing specifically to Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries and refinery closures in California.

Trump said oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz have recovered enough that the waterway is no longer the main factor driving gasoline prices, while disruptions to refining capacity have created a separate supply problem.

“What’s driving up Gasoline is no longer the Strait of Hormuz, because Record Numbers of Barrels are coming out now on an almost daily basis, but the word, ‘Refineries,’ where Russia’s are being blown up by Ukraine, and where ours are being closed up, in Blue States, like California, by the Dumocrats,” Trump wrote Monday on Truth Social.

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Nearly 12,000 instances of book bans were recorded in public schools nationwide during the 2025-2026 school year, the highest number recorded in a single year by free expression group PEN America.

Texas accounted for more than 8,100 of the reported bans and Florida more than 3,200, according to a report released Monday. The group attributed much of the increase to new state laws and pressure on school districts to remove books.

Florida had ranked first for the three previous years.

Of course, these are not book ‘bans’, merely exclusion of books with a tendentious political/cultural agenda from schools. People with strong feelings on the subject can get them from Amazon and have them the next day. The unspoken assumption is that government schools ought to be allowed to push any radical notion on their unwitting charges and their clueless  parents that they want to, without any accountability.

In a September post on X, the Florida Department of Education wrote: “SEXUALLY EXPLICIT and INAPPROPRIATE content has NO PLACE in Florida schools.

“Florida school districts will be held ACCOUNTABLE for failing to protect our children from this type of content. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.”

The post included a statement signed by Education Commissioner Henry Mack.

Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. Feel free to send your kids to a Woke private school that can drill them in Marxism until quitting time.

The Antiplanner.

Since 2019, the Pearl Transit Company has received more than $1.6 million in federal funds to carry around elderly and disabled riders in California, Georgia, and North Carolina. The problem is that none of the people Pearl claimed to transport received rides — in fact, some of them were dead — and the drivers Pearl claimed to employ did not work for the company — their identities were stolen by the company. Instead of moving people, the money went to renting Porsches ($100,000), Loro Piana clothing (where a jacket can cost $9,900 and a wool hat is $500), and international travel.

For some reason, the U.S. Justice Department took exception to this and has successfully prosecuted the owners of Pearl Transit, a husband-and-wife team named Luis Pino-Copete and Jael Watts, for fraud. But I have to wonder why this fraud gets prosecuted when the much larger fraud that is the U.S. transit industry is ignored by the Justice Department.

Between 2019 and 2024, the amount of federal dollars spent on operating transit grew by $7.9 billion, a 186 percent increase. Nearly 63 percent of that increase went to “general administration,” i.e., bureaucratic overhead, the functional equivalent of renting Porsches and buying luxury clothing. Yet the number of people carried by transit declined by more than 22 percent.

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1985, Anthony Burgess’ novel of a dystopian future (now present-day) Britain, opens with these words:

It was the week before Christmas, Monday midday mild and muggy, and the muezzins of West London were yodeling about there being no God but Allah:

“La ilaha illa’lah. La ilaha illa’lah”

It seems that the UK is not the only country that has to put up with the yodeling. The Netherlands has been experiencing the same high-decibel cultural enrichment, and now some lawmakers in the national parliament say they have had enough (genoeg).

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Congressional candidate Lily Tang Williams told the Daily Signal that witnessing Democrats push the same policies she experienced under the Chinese Communist Party motivated her to want to unseat Rep. Maggie Goodlander, D-N.H.

Goodlander, who spent more than 10 years in Washington before running for Congress in 2024 and served as a legal counselor to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland under former President Joe Biden, has refused to condemn socialism when asked. She also voted “present” on the September House resolution condemning socialism.

Tang Williams, during her interview with the Daily Signal, said she became politically involved under former President Barack Obama after realizing that “what he said, what he did” reminded her of what she “went through in China.”

“I don’t want my kids to live in some socialist country,” she said. “It sounded familiar to me. [Obama] was pushing for common core, centralized government and education, and the bribe state with the federal dollars to push.”

“I took my kids out of public school and put them in a charter school to exercise my parental choice,” Tang Williams added.

Al Jezeera, a Voice of Islam.

United States President Donald Trump has ordered the use of a firing squad in the execution of a former army psychiatrist who killed 13 people in a mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, the Pentagon spokesman has said.

Nidal Hasan, a US citizen of Palestinian descent, would be the first US soldier to be executed by the US military in more than 60 years.

And it’s been too long in coming.

He said during his court-martial that the shooting was an effort to stop the soldiers from going to Afghanistan and killing his fellow Muslims, and made almost no effort to defend himself.

And that’s all you need to know.

The Telegraph (UK).

Police have charged at student protesters and fired tear gas into crowds as France braces for its largest day of education demonstrations.

Some 40,000 people are expected to march through Paris today, with the country’s trade unions joining students and teachers to demonstrate against poor school conditions.

Pupils have barricaded schools from Lille to Marseille. Around 1,800 institutions have been blockaded or are closed for today, according to a French students’ union.

The Telegraph (UK).

Police are being diverted from 999 calls to deal with anti-migrant protests over a new mega-dinghy route across the Channel, a policing chief has warned.

Donna Jones, police and crime commissioner for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, revealed that around 200 officers from seven forces had been pulled off crime-fighting duties to manage protests in Gosport.

Protesters gathered in the Hampshire town on Sunday night after a third migrant boat crossed the Channel from Normandy.

The Telegraph (UK)

The former head of Germany’s BND intelligence service has been arrested on suspicion of espionage and attempted treason.

In potentially the most serious spy scandal in German history, August Hanning is suspected of alleged treasonous espionage, the disclosure of state secrets, attempted treason and intelligence activity.

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Mr Hanning served as president of the Federal Intelligence Service, or BND, from December 1998 to November 2005.

The prosecutor’s office did not reveal who the men were suspected of spying for.

The War Zone.

The Saudi-backed Yemeni forces battling the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels claim they have regained a large swath of territory in a new counteroffensive launched on Monday. This includes the recapture of the Red Sea port city of Mokha and other key positions near the highly-strategic Bab al-Mandeb Strait (BAM). As we reported last month, the Houthis had taken these areas during an offensive of their own.

“On Monday, the Nation Shield Forces, the Giants Brigades, and the Tihama Resistance—supported by the Popular Resistance—seized control of the city of Al-Mokha in western Taiz Governorate following fierce battles against the terrorist Houthi militias backed by the Iranian regime,” the official Yemeni Saba news outlet reported. “The forces, aided by air support, succeeded in capturing Al-Mokha after clashes with the terrorist Houthi militias, which had controlled the city since early last September. The battles, which took place at various locations surrounding Al-Mokha, involved the use of diverse weaponry and resulted in casualties among the terrorist Houthi militias, the capture of several of their members, and the flight of others.”

Dubbed Operation Yemen Dawn, the counteroffensive aims to “restore state institutions, liberate the capital Sana’a, and end the Houthi terrorist militia coup,” Rashad al-Alimi, president of the internationally recognized government of Yemen, stated Monday on X.

Poll: Latino voters swing away from Trump and Republicans (NBC News)  And the ‘poll’-driven Narrative lives on.

He Wanted to Modernize the Military. Pete Hegseth Forced Him Out (Kevin Maurer/Rolling Stone)  ‘Modernize’ is Democrat-speak for ‘make more Woke’.

Inside Democrats’ efforts to secure Election Day and respond to fears of Trump interference (CNN)  ‘secure election day”‘means ‘cheat successfully’ and ‘Trump interference’ is ‘making sure only legitimate votes are counted’.

Trump won’t be in the White House during the next census. But his directives could outlast his presidency. (Elleiana Green/Politico)  Needless to say, Politico considers that a bad thing.

Trump Blasts Fox for Censoring Rallies, Says MAGA Could Abandon Network  You mess with the bull….

At Trump’s Rallies, a Familiar Mix of Rituals and a Plea to ‘Please Pretend’ (Katie Rogers/New York Times)  Bias? What bias?

Trumpism in Trouble on the Prairie (Lauren Egan/The Bulwark) There is, of course, no such thing as ‘Trumpism’ except in the fever dreams of the Narrative Media.

Democrats are divided over how hard to go after companies that courted Trump (Politico)  Not whether; HOW HARD.

Republicans in Safe Red States Are Breaking With Trump, Too (Avani Kalra/The Washington Sun)  Spooked by the Narrative.

The unmanly truth about Trump’s jobs record (Paul Waldman/MS NOW)  Bias? What bias?

The Trump Administration is a Cesspit of Corruption (Paul Krugman)  This from the guy who took $5o,000 from Enron for no work.

A Death. A Funeral. And the Trump Rally Down the Block. (Andrew Egger/The Bulwark)  Don’t forget ‘A Narrative’.

White House defends new press aide who posed with rifle in ‘Fuck Joe Biden’ shirt (Robert Mackey/The Guardian)  I like him already.

Trump’s Economic Meltdown Is the Ultimate Self-own (Matt Bai/Rolling Stone)  Sure, we all go to Rolling Stone for our economic analysis.

On ABC, New York Times Opinionator Bizarrely Blames Trump in Cornell Rape Case  Of course she does.

A Democratic Senate Should Adopt Secret Impeachment Ballots on a Priority Basis (Andy Craig/The UnPopulist)  Democrats thrive in darkness.

Job numbers make clear that Trump has a reality problem, not a public relations problem (Steve Benen/MS NOW)  Although not a touch on the reality problem that MS NOW has.

Democrats Map Plans to Reverse Trump Actions After Midterms  Of course they do.

Using the Power of the Government to Win Elections (Paul Rosenzweig/The Atlantic)  Proglodyte Projection on the hoof.

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Everybody loves ‘equity’ unless their special snowflake is disadvantaged.

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Recently, I have bumped into multiple cases where I believe the correctness of the results, the honesty of the people writing them, or the lack of curiosity once they are told that their results are wrong, incorrect, faulty, or misleading, has been unsatisfying. Simply put, researchers are not too interested in learning that their papers or reports are wrong, and/or misleading others who don’t happen to know that the results are — known to the authors, and a few select others to be partially — incorrect.

The issue is, once you published the paper, and got the promotions and fame, it doesn’t matter that the results are wrong, and known to be wrong or misleading, and potentially doing harm to the advancement of science. It’s not your problem. It’s someone else’s problem. In fact, when I challenged the authors of one such paper, considered state-of-the-art, and known to the authors to have incorrect evaluation, one of the author’s response was along the lines of acknowledging the issues, but refusing to retract the paper, and instead asking if it’s bothering me in publishing my paper.

Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees. (Remember this the next time you trip over somebody shouting TRUST THE SCIENCE!)

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Funny how the people telling kids to get jobs in the trades tend to be white-collar.

Or maybe not so funny….

There’s a popular story about working in the trades that goes something like this: College prices have spiraled wildly out of control, while trades salaries have skyrocketed, often surpassing those of college graduates. Even if you do get a degree, AI will displace most knowledge work. So why would anyone, the story goes, spend $200,000 on a worthless college education when union electricians make six figures performing work that’s impossible to replace with AI? There’s a populist angle here, too: The nerds with guaranteed B averages who waltzed into high-paying jobs will get their comeuppance as they’re pushed aside by the hard-working blue-collar moderates who ceaselessly toil at the real work of building the country!

The skilled trades hold a special place in the public imagination as a route out of poverty. Trades have advocates like Mike Rowe, former opera singer and host of the TV show Dirty Jobs, whose foundation routes smart, hard-working kids into the trades via scholarships. (Today, its website prominently advertises “AI-proof six-figure jobs.”) But Rowe has something in common with most people selling this popular narrative: a college degree.

Trades workers tell a very different story. When I was an apprentice over 30 years ago, we would tease the old-timers for badgering us to quit construction and return to school (the “look at these hands” lecture). In fact, one of the most reliable indicators of an apprentice’s low intelligence was being quickly embraced by old-timers, because it meant they immediately recognized that the kid’s greatest potential was in construction.

No one understood the physical demands and uncertain rewards of trades jobs better than older tradespeople. So take it from an older tradesman: The story is more complicated than you might think.

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Residents of Gosport, the Royal Navy harbor town across the water from Portsmouth, spent Sunday under police orders that let officers direct people to leave town, as a migrant boat from France made its way toward their coastline.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary imposed a Section 34 dispersal order covering the entire town under the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, running until 7am Tuesday. It lets officers order people to leave an area and not return, and refusing is a criminal offense. Police stacked several more restrictions on top.

Not the Bee.

Not satire. We checked.

I’m glad she has a ‘beautiful lesbian brain’, because the rest of her is fugly.

Not the Bee.

Ask yourself why Muslims get a pass for stuff for which white people would be subject to a blue-haired mob.

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The decline of higher education into an ideological echo chamber has been widely discussed on this and other sites. Polls show record lows in the public trust in our universities and colleges as revenues decline and closures increase. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon responded to this meltdown with a common-sense call for greater transparency and tolerance.

The response from teacher unions has been nothing short of hysteria, led by Randi Weingarten at the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and Todd Wolfson at the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) – two of the most polarizing and political figures in teaching.

Secretary McMahon released a policy statement titled “National Call to Action to University Presidents and Governing Boards.” I encourage you to read it. Few Americans would disagree with the call for universities to post policies on how they can achieve greater intellectual diversity and openness in both admissions and hiring.

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Gonville and Caius College, one of Cambridge’s oldest foundations, is compelling its undergraduates to attend mandatory “inclusivity training” from the start of term.

The 90-minute sessions are being delivered by Stop Hate UK, a ‘charity’ activist organisation whose own materials tell students their free speech rights may be restricted, that “Islamophobia is a crime”, and that a facial expression can count as harm.

The order lands in the same university that spent the better part of two years investigating a philosopher for lawful speech, and in the same education system that has spent 2026 drilling children in white privilege, “racism requires power”, and compulsory hijabs.

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The British government has been handing out thousands of hijabs to illegal migrants washing up on the shores of the country in boats, while Home Office staff have been spending time in Calais cooking meals for them.

Internal figures show 974 hijabs issued to small-boat arrivals between January and June, at a rate of 162 a month. Run that rate forward and the year’s total is already past 1,000 and heading for 1,500.

The same clothing data also proves that the vast majority of those arriving are fighting age males, with more than 10,000 male packs being provided against 2,670 for women, while children’s packs number just 773 for boys and 829 for girls.

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One of the enduring weaknesses of the modern US economy is the lack of redundancy. As long as most of the world is operating normally and there are no serious geopolitical disruptions, America’s “just in time” system works fine. But, throw a monkey-wrench into distribution, global exports, freight systems, shipping or elements of production and cracks quickly form in the armor.

This does not mean that the US economy can’t adapt; the pandemic shutdowns were horrifically pointless but they did prove that the system has the ability to function despite deep deficiencies. However, when it comes to the management of vital resources, such as energy resources, it’s clear that some changes need to be made in the near term.

Before the war in Iran a large portion of the public was oblivious to the fact that the US is the largest exporter of oil in the world, and of the foreign oil supplies we do receive, only 8% come from Gulf nation producers. A mere 7% of those supplies travel through the Strait of Hormuz. In other words, the US doesn’t rely on the Gulf for oil. With the new Venezuelan deal and oil flows from the gulf back to 98% of pre-conflict levels, the war is even less of a concern when it comes to US energy.

Similarly, the U.S. has too few competent Navy ships because it has too few competent shipyards—in marked contrast to China, South Korea, and Japan, for example.

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Federal prosecutors have charged a father and son in an investigation into the deaths of two University of Mississippi students, as colleges from Mississippi to Cornell University confront dangerous drugs and calls for greater access to overdose-reversal medication.

U.S. Attorney Scott F. Leary for the Northern District of Mississippi said in a news release that a criminal complaint charged Yahya Mohamed Mosleh, 51, and his son, Islam Yahya Mosleh, 18, with possession of controlled substances with intent to distribute.

A complaint contains only allegations, and the men are presumed innocent.

The existence of the Narrative media requires this notice for the dimwitted. Didn’t need it in the old days.

One might presume that college students would be smarter than that, but one would be wrong.

On the other hand, this sort of thing weeds out the weak and stupid, and that is not necessarily a bad thing, however tragic it might be for the families involved. Natural selection is a stone-cold bitch. The wheels of evolution grind slowly, but they grid incredibly fine.

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The first being the ‘social science’ is in any meaningful respect a science.

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When they don’t have Christians and Jews available, Muslims will cheerfully kill each other.

The New Neo.

I fear the answer is “no.” Voting Democratic is a deeply-ingrained habit, plus the mail-in voting system solidifies Democrat control even further.

I can’t recall when I first heard the term “virtue signaling.” I think it wasn’t long after I began blogging, more than twenty years ago. It has occurred to me more and more over the years that virtue-signaling is at the heart of the appeal to the Democrat voter. The idea is that one is proving oneself to be a good person, a kind person, a generous person, a non-bigoted person – and that those who vote otherwise are neither good, nor kind, nor generous, and that they are bigots.

This is also the source of the hatred many Democrats have for Republican voters. These convictions have broken up family and estranged old friends who should know better.

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When I was U.S. Consul General in Marseille, France from 2017–2020, I visited countless schools across the south. One was the Lycée de la Méditerranée, a high school in the city of La Ciotat on the Mediterranean coast. By French standards it was a tough school, though it would not have seemed so in comparison with inner-city America. Many of its students had family roots in France’s former colonies.

Today, I watched a video of young people at that Lycée, who may not all have been students there, assault and pour gasoline on a teacher, with the presumed intent to set him alight.

Elsewhere across France, there has been rioting and mayhem. In Marseille, rioters set their school on fire and then torched the fire truck sent to put it out. In Nantes, rioters caused millions of euros in damage to 40 schools. In Paris, high schoolers blocked their school, set fire to e-bikes, and played cat-and-mouse with riot police. French police have arrested around 2,000 people–mostly young folks, though not necessarily students–so far.

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Biden Justice Department officials raised serious concerns about the DOJ treating concerned parents like domestic terrorists before Attorney General Merrick Garland released his memo directing investigations into school board protests in 2021, a new report from the Trump administration’s Weaponization Working Group reveals.

DOJ attorneys repeatedly questioned the proposal internally. One official called the effort “ridiculous.” Another complained that the department was deploying “an awful lot of federal manpower for what is currently non-federal conduct,” and that “almost all” of the conduct cited by school boards involved speech protected by the First Amendment.

The issue traces back to September 2021, when the National School Boards Association sent a letter to President Joe Biden urging federal action against alleged threats against school board members. The letter suggested the government could treat some conduct as “the equivalent of a form of domestic terrorism,” and cited disputes involving COVID-19 mandates, critical race theory, transgender orthodoxy, and other issues.

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Former special counsel Jack Smith monitored the phone communications of Susie Wiles when she was Donald Trump’s campaign chief in 2024, newly released documents show.

This included her communications with at least five journalists, 21 different defense attorneys, and several political advisers.

Smith’s team obtained the information through what is called a pen register, sometimes called a trap-and-trace device. This does not access the content of conversations. Rather, it’s a surveillance tool that records metadata, such as the numbers called and the times of the calls.

Most names were redacted, but the documents show the news outlets she was in contact with included CNN, The Washington Post, Politico, and Just the News.

This was part of the “Plasmic Echo” investigation of Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents.

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Today was a big day at the “migrant” favela on Trampolín Beach in Ceuta. In a little over a week, King Felipe VI of Spain will pay a state visit to Ceuta, so the local authorities made like Prince Potemkin preparing for Catherine the Great: police began the laborious process of clearing the tents and makeshift shanties from the beach. It’s important to get the place looking neat and tidy for when His Majesty pops in for a visit.

But don’t get your hopes up: the eviction of the culture-enrichers from Trampolín Beach doesn’t mean they’ll be deported. They’re just being relocated to a place where they’ll be less of an eyesore, at the El Tarajal industrial estate hard on the border with Morocco, where several warehouses have been converted to migrant accommodations.

The Foundry.

When Zohran Mamdani said he’d govern New York City as a socialist, he meant it. And the way the mayor is doing that is by merging the Democratic Socialists of America and other left-wing groups with the official functions of city government.

It’s an ominous development for New York City.

Mamdani is creating a patronage machine—one writer cleverly coined the phrase “hipster Tammany Hall” to describe it—where he operates as the kingmaker of New York electoral politics and the chief administrator of New York’s government managerial class.

It’s that second function that could transform the city, if not permanently, at least for as a long as Mamdani is in office and probably for his successors too.

Ensuring that DSA candidates sit atop the ticket in local elections is one thing. Mamdani clearly intends to create an enduring coalition. But by integrating the larger left-wing organizing network into official government business he is more likely to transition New York from the financial capital of the United States into Havana on the Hudson.

Mamdani is doing this by creating new bureaucracies that prioritize its goals and is even funding an army of influencers who technically promote his agenda as private citizens but are functionally part of the larger governing apparatus. This has been engineered to the point where it’s increasingly unclear where the line is between the DSA and City Hall.

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An immigration activist group that receives substantial taxpayer funding helped push a California law creating new privacy protections for immigrant-service organizations, drawing criticism from watchdogs who say the measure will reduce transparency and public accountability.

AB 2624, which California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed in August, extends a privacy program to immigrant-serving nonprofits, their staff, and volunteers, allowing them to acquire substitute addresses in public records rather than their home and business addresses. The law also bans anyone from posting information on the internet with the intent of enabling another person to threaten violence against an immigration support services provider.

The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights—which received more than two-thirds of its revenue from government grants between July 1, 2021, and June 30, 2025—co-sponsored, testified in support of, and lobbied for the bill. CHIRLA, which operates an “immigrant political power project,” did not respond when asked whether it expects to apply for the protections in the bill.

Democrats thrive in darkness.

The Other McCain.

The Ivy League Is Decadent and Depraved, as I have been saying for years, and recent events at Cornell University confirm my judgment.

Note: The Whiffenpoofs aren’t from Harvard (that’s the Krokodillos) but from Yale.

New York Post.

Sixteen years after his deadly rampage at Fort Hood, the United States Army is preparing to formally recommend the execution of Islamist terrorist Nidal Hasan — at last.

President Donald Trump, when he receives that request, should swiftly order Hasan’s death: That would be necessary justice.

But it will not absolve our government for its years-long policy of lies and euphemisms surrounding Islamic radicalism that empowered Hasan to kill 13 service members — a policy that began under President George W. Bush and continued through the Obama and Biden administrations.

Fort Hood was not an unexpected “tragedy.”

It was a preventable act of jihad, made possible by institutions that treated the truth about Islamist violence as more dangerous than the violence itself.

Hasan, an Army major who was given preferential treatment solely because of his Muslim religion and Arab ethnicity, murdered 13 Americans and wounded 33 others at Fort Hood, Tex., on Nov. 5, 2009.

New York Post.

Wanying Zhang, also known as “Heather,” was busted at the airport Sunday as she tried to board a flight to Shanghai.

The 34-year-old, who lives in Irvine, Orange County, is accused of working with handlers from the People’s Republic of China to surveil the son of Taiwan’s president Ching-Te Lai.

And people wonder why Japanese-Americans were rounded up and interned during World War II.

New York Post.

Chris Rock – How not to get your ass kicked by the police!

“There are no words to fully describe the heartbreak of watching our daughter being hurt by someone entrusted to protect and serve our community,” the family said.

Hmmm. The entitlement is strong in this one. How about the heartbreak of your having raised a daughter too stupid to know not to interfere with a police arrest? That ought to be the first concern.

Futurism.com.

Brought together by Trump’s funding cuts, Julia Van Etten and her rag tag team of biologists pursued their research in a motel room.

So I guess government funding is not the absolute necessity for ‘science’ that its beneficiaries say it is.

And it was out of this makeshift lab that they made an incredible discovery: two new microscopic organisms that may be crucial to tracing the origins of life, the New York Times reports.

So I guess government funding is not the absolute necessity for ‘science discoveries’ that its beneficiaries say it is.

It’s not the only example of scientists resorting to unorthodox measures to fund their research. A team of researchers studying marmots resorted to creating an OnlyFans account dedicated to marmot content after Trump axed their federal research grants.

So I guess government funding is not the absolute necessity for ‘anything good in the universe’ that its beneficiaries say it is.

Good to know.

New York Post.

LA’s “mansion tax,” sold to Angelenos as a way to tax the rich and boost housing, has instead blocked the building of 9,100 homes, wiped out 16,650 full-time construction jobs and cost $452 million in revenue.

A damning new report says the tax, officially known as United to House LA, or ULA — has had a negative impact on the city’s high-end and multi-family real estate markets and collected less than half what it was expected to generate to tackle the city’s housing crisis.

The ULA was expected to raise about $900 million a year, or $2.7 billion over its first three years. Instead, it brought in about $1.2 billion.

Politicians universally believe that they can slap a tax on something and people will just sit quietly and pay it. It’s like thinking that ‘gun control’ laws will reduce ‘gun violence’.

Despite its nickname, LA’s “mansion tax” applies far beyond luxury homes. Apartment buildings, offices, warehouses and vacant land can all trigger the tax if they sell above the thresholds.

About 1,000 of the 9,100-plus new homes lost would have been affordable units — the very thing the tax was supposed to create — according to RAND corporation, a non-partisan, nonprofit research group.

Westside real estate broker Danny Brown told The California Post the tax was ”another disaster initiated by the incompetent socialists who run our city.”

“ULA has chopped the legs from under the residential and commercial real estate industry, which is one of the largest parts of our city’s economic engine,” Brown said.

Gee, who could have seen that coming?

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More than 1,000 people were gathered as more than 50 shots were fired in at least two locations about a block apart in Vienna, Georgia, according to Dooly County Sheriff Craig Peavy.

Deputies were on patrol at a neighborhood block party around 1:25 a.m. when shots were fired on the 900 block of Pine Street, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said in a statement. The sheriff’s office had requested the assistance of the GBI.

Two people were pronounced dead at the scene from gunshot wounds. Most of the 35 injured victims suffered gunshot wounds, while several others were hit by cars or suffered other injuries as people fled the scene. The 35 injured victims were transported to hospitals for treatment.

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The victims killed in the shooting were identified as Jaquevion Jackson, 21, of Cordele, and Macaleb Jackson, 23, of Hawkinsville, the agency said.

Guess that ethnicity!

The incident happened over homecoming weekend for Dooly County High School.

Dooly County High School student body is about two-thirds black.

Vienna Mayor Eddie Daniels said the city had not issued any kind of permit for the block party, and he did not know if it was a homecoming party.

Permit!? We don’t need no stinkin’ permit! (Ponder the assumption that you have to have a permit to have a ‘block party’.)

The Telegraph (UK).

Cambridge dons have accused the university of breaching equality law by denying “support and advice” to academics who are not black.

My, what a surprise.

The university contacted all students and staff in August following the death of Jason Arday to inform them that “black members of staff” could contact its “senior black leaders group” for assistance.

Imagine the reaction if they had a ‘senior white leaders group’.

Academics believe the offer breached the Equality Act by failing to extend help “on the same basis irrespective of race”.

Which it obviously did, but in fact some people are more equal than others.

The War Zone.

Seven companies are said to now be in the running to develop a lower-cost and highly modular drone to succeed the MQ-9A Reaper. Though the field has some well-established entrants and some far lesser known names, the inclusion of Otto Aerospace in this group is particularly unexpected and interesting to examine. Otto has made bold, but still unrealized pronouncements about disrupting the aviation industry with potentially revolutionary high-efficiency designs that could have civilian and military applications. TWZ has been steadily tracking the company’s developments since we first reported on the existence of the Celera 500L aircraft back in 2017.

Air & Space Forces Magazine first reported on Wednesday that Otto Aerospace (previously Otto Aviation), as well as Anduril, Chaos Industries, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Grid Aero, Shield AI, and Swarm Aero, had “made the cut” for the Massed Modular Aircraft (MMA) program, citing anonymous sources. The MMA effort formally kicked off in July, and the Air Force is now aiming to have a fleet of at least 500 of these drones by 2032.

An industry source has also told us that these seven companies are moving ahead in the MMA program. The Air Force has not yet offered an official confirmation.