DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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Japan needs people.  Apparently they want white people.

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A Spanish Supreme Court ruling restricting the immediate return of migrants arriving by sea has been blamed for an influx that has overwhelmed the reception system in Spain’s North African territory of Ceuta.

Between 1,500 and 2,000 migrants, mainly from Morocco, reached Ceuta by sea over a period of nine or ten days, according to the city’s Mayor-President, Juan Jesús Vivas.

“In the last few days, more than 1,500 migrants, including adults and minors, have reached Ceuta by sea,” Vivas told journalists.

“The reception centers have collapsed and are over-saturated,” he said. Ceuta’s temporary migrant reception centre, which has 512 official places, was housing nearly 600 people, while more than 400 others waited outside.

“We are in a very serious situation. We are in a very difficult situation,” Vivas added, warning of conditions like those in May 2021, when around 8,000 illegal migrants stormed and entered Ceuta in just two days, equal to around 10% of the local population.

Footage circulating on the internet shows how easy it is to enter the exclave by sea, as migrants only need to swim around a short pier to bypass the fence that marks the Spanish-Moroccan border.

And this will continue to happen as long as Spain doesn’t get rid of them as soon as possible.

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A think-tank has warned that British police forces are being hampered by an obsessive focus on diversity, equality and inclusion, with the ideology of “anti-racism” now set against the foundational duty to police without fear or favour.

Policy Exchange’s latest analysis, led by its head of crime and justice David Spencer, points to the failures surrounding the Southport atrocity, the Nottingham stabbings and the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak as evidence of what it calls systemic distortion.

The report estimates that forces across England and Wales have spent at least £631 million on DEI measures and the Police Race Action Plan since 2020.

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Germany’s federal government just dropped numbers that should end every soft-border talking point still circulating in European capitals.

Of the 1,087 suspects identified in 751 recorded gang rapes last year, 53 percent were foreign nationals.

Non-Germans make up less than 17 percent of the population. The 772 victims were overwhelmingly German: 619 of them, or 80 percent, including 565 women.

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In November, California voters will have the opportunity to vote on Proposition 39. The measure, officially the Voter Identification, Citizenship Verification, and Registered Voter List Administration Initiative, would require Californians to show identification when they vote and force state officials to clean up the voter rolls and verify that the people on them are eligible citizens.

All signs suggest it will pass. A poll from the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies found in May that 71% of Californians support requiring proof of citizenship for first-time voter registration, and 54% want it required before every election. However, Attorney General Rob Bonta is trying to make sure it doesn’t pass.

His latest move came on July 21, just months before the November election, when Bonta rewrote the official ballot title for Prop 39, replacing the language he himself approved last year with a new title that proponents say is engineered to make voters reject it.

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Far-left foot soldiers linked with Black Lives Matter and Antifa have established a two-block autonomous zone along Williamson Street in Madison, Wisconsin, following the death of 38-year-old Corey Durrell Ruiz.

Ruiz, who had reportedly been released from prison (read report) shortly before the incident, was approached by police while riding a bicycle after allegedly attempting to enter several vehicles. Far-left activists have since designated the occupied area the Corey Ruiz Autonomous Zone, or CRAZ.

The encampment appears designed to demonstrate control over public space while creating conditions in which any police intervention could be framed as state repression. However, reporting from local media and anti-communist commentator Karlyn Borysenko suggests the local government is accommodating, and potentially enabling, the occupation rather than moving to dismantle it.

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A criminal investigation into UK Green Party leader Zack Polanski was dropped by London’s Metropolitan Police on Wednesday, July 29th, sparking another row over ‘two-tier policing.’

The row began when 20 images were shared on one of eco-zealot Polanski’s official social media accounts. One featured a photo of a Bristol activist wearing a T-shirt depicting a guillotine and the words “We’re only making plans for Nigel.” Reform UK leader Nigel Farage reported the post to police, arguing that it amounted to incitement.

Farage has recently drawn attention to the large number of death threats he receives, particularly since the killing of his colleague Ann Widdecombe. There may be a free speech argument for allowing the image to be shared—even with Polanski’s 713,000 Instagram followers—but Reform officials are understandably nervous. On Wednesday, Farage said that Polanski, as a political leader with a large following,

cannot put out on his social media the image that he did, my name, the guillotine, without some consequences.

However, the Met concluded that sharing the image did not meet the threshold for incitement. Avon and Somerset Police, which examined the conduct of the person wearing the T-shirt because the photograph was taken in its area, also found that “the threshold for a criminal offence has not been met”:

The Antiplanner.

“Yes, you read that right,” enthuses California journalist Joe Mathews. “Morocco has high-speed rail. And California has excuses.”

At first glance, Morocco’s high-speed train, known as Al Boraq (“the lightning”), sounds pretty amazing. It goes up to 200 miles per hour. Costing just $10 million per mile, it cut the travel time between Casablanca and Tangier from 4-3/4 hours to 2-1/4 hours.

Up close, it isn’t quite as amazing. While the route is 201 miles, only 116 miles were built new; the other 85 miles was existing track whose top speed is 100 miles per hour. Still, that’s no more than $18 million a mile for the new construction. The average speed from Casablanca to Tangier is about 88 miles an hour, indicating that not many miles reach the top speed of 200 miles per hour.

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The McKinney Islamic Association is facing continued scrutiny after the McKinney City Council announced it will be holding a final vote on a proposed mosque and Islamic center.

Last week, it was revealed that McKinney’s Planning and Zoning Commission voted 7-0 to recommend approval of the association’s plan to build a new mosque and community campus off Virginia Parkway near two residential neighborhoods. The council is scheduled to approve or deny the project at its Aug. 4 meeting.

Ammon Blair, senior fellow for the Secure & Sovereign Nation initiative at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, told the Daily Signal that Texas needs to “demand complete transparency regarding MIA’s funding, foreign contributions, institutional affiliations, tribunal activities, use of campus facilities, dispute-resolution practices, and protections against coercion.”

“Texas must enforce one constitutional order, one civil sovereign, and one controlling rule of law,” he said. “No religious, ideological, political, or foreign-linked organization stands above that standard.”

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Dr. Karim Ab? Zaid confirmed to The Dallas Express last week that Salahuddin Future Academy purchased the former Korean church, writing in a statement that the “purchase of the property has been completed.”

According to Authentic Ilm Mission’s website, the project will include what it describes as America’s first national residential Dawah Seminary, offering programs leading to both a diploma and a bachelor’s degree in Islamic studies.

In addition to the seminary, K-12 academy, and mosque, the property will also house an Ansar Pantry, a community food bank open to the public. The pantry will provide a variety of food items while specifically sourcing and distributing halal meat to meet Muslim dietary needs.

Not the Bee.

So we’ve got that going for us.

Now we know why Fauci was taking the Fifth.

Trump, 80, Falls Asleep After Mocking Lindsey Graham at His Funeral (The New Republic) And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Trump Crashes Into Reality (Jonathan Lemire/The Atlantic)  Uh, no, merely the Narrative.

At Graham’s Farewell, a Glimpse Into Power in Trump’s Washington (Peter Baker/New York Times)  ‘Trump’s Washington’? Which Washington would that be? Not Washington state, which is reliably Blue. Not D.C., which is also reliably Blue. What is this ‘Trump’s Washington’ of which you speak?

Trump Will End Subsidies for Medicare Drug Premiums (New York Times)  Because, as we all know, paying for drugs for those on Medicare is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government—and the Federal taxpayer.

What the Crackup of the Heritage Foundation Says About the Post-Trump Right (Elisabeth Zerofsky/New York Times)  Come get yer Narrative, right here.

Trump’s waning sway over the world (Edward Luce/Financial Times)

Elon Musk Is a Menace to Society (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)  It’s all those Trump Cooties.

FEMA said yes to Democratic disaster requests. Trump killed them anyway. (Thomas Frank/Politico)  Because, as we all know, coping with disasters is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government—and the Federal taxpayer.

CNN Poll: Americans doubt Trump is paying enough attention to the country’s most important problems (Ariel Edwards-Levy/CNN)  And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

The fake historian advising Trump’s anti-Smithsonian crusade (Popular Information)  And the fake journalists pushing the Narrative.

With Blanche Nomination at Stake, Payouts to Trump Allies Continue (New York Times)

Alex Jones calls for immediate Trump impeachment (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)

DHS Agents’ Raging Texts About ‘Stunt’ Targeting Newsom Revealed (Leigh Kimmins/The Daily Beast)

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you move.”

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Advocates for voter ID in California have sued the state over altered ballot language for the November initiative.

The ballot initiative Proposition 39, which would amend the state constitution to require that voters provide government-issued identification to vote, originally included the description, “Establishes additional voter identification and citizenship verification requirements.”

However, last week, California Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat, changed the language to say: “Prohibits citizens from voting unless they present government-issued identification.”

Plaintiffs supporting the passage of Proposition 39 say it would not “prohibit” any votes. Under federal law—the Help America Vote Act—voters can cast provisional ballots if there is a question about their eligibility.

Further, supporters of the ballot initiative contend that state law requires state officials to “give a true and impartial statement of the purpose of the measure” in developing ballot language, KCRA Channel 3 Sacramento reported. The lawsuit calls the state’s updated description “not a true and impartial statement of the measure’s purpose.”

And Democrats were crooked every age….

Babylon Bee.

Hey, we all make bad choices in life….

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Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division headed to duty on the U.S.-Mexico border will be among the first to live in new 3D-printed barracks unveiled this week at an Army base in Texas.

Two new 3D-printed barracks buildings at Fort Bliss, Texas, which opened on Tuesday, are built for transient soldiers who are not permanently assigned to the base, Army officials said in a release. The service signed a $62.8 million contract with construction company ICON to build 10 barracks that can hold 560 troops.

Army officials said some of the first residents will include soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division’s 1st Mobile Brigade “Bastogne” unit from Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Their deployment to the southern border was announced in June.

I have an idea—let’s 3-D-print a wall along the southern border so these guys can stay in Kentucky.

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Her parents fled Laos in 1976. Her father lied on the immigration forms to “skip a step” so they could get into the U.S. faster. She then automatically got U.S. citizenship when her parents became citizens.

Even after the controversy, Kaohly was elected the mayor of St. Paul in November 2025, because of course.

Fast-forward to July 2026, and the police chief has filed a criminal complaint against Mayor Her, alleging that she sent inappropriate messages to city employees.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

ATQUE: Her’s on first (Power Line)

Newsbusters.

One hand washes the other.

Newsbusters.

Christiane Amanpour, the eponymous host of PBS’s Amanpour & Company, welcomed author and activist Bill McKibben to Tuesday’s show to partake in the latest doom-and-gloom prognostications on the environment. According to McKibben, climate change is mostly former President Ronald Reagan’s fault and any additional blame should be directed at President Trump for engaging in “economic-self sabotage.”

Towards the end of their discussion, Amanpour invited McKibben to “Tell me your story about President Carter back in the ’70s. There was the oil crisis there, and he did all sorts of things, including putting solar panels on the roof of the White House. What did he tell people back then? Tell the American people?”

McKibben mourned, “What he told people was that the sun was, in fact, the future. And in his last budget, he put aside another R&D money that the plan was for America to be producing 20 percent of its power from the sun by the year 2000. Had we done that, we would live in a very different world today, a much cooler one, because this renewable revolution would have been pushed forward several decades.”

Lamenting Reagan’s election, McKibben continued, “Instead, of course, Ronald Reagan was elected over Mr. Carter, and he took down those solar panels from the White House roof. More importantly, he took that money out of the budget and locked us into this cycle of endless drilling for more oil that’s come to define not only America’s economy, but America’s politics.”

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History was made with the flip of a switch at 12:30 a.m. on June 4, under partly cloudy skies and a waning three-quarter moon in Idaho’s Arco Desert, when a prototype reactor sustained a nuclear chain reaction, becoming the first new design to achieve “criticality,” or viability, in the United States since 1973.

In that midnight milestone’s wake, the future is following fast. Since Antares Nuclear’s Mark-0 design was validated in early June, three other novel reactor designs have met the U.S. Department of Energy’s criticality requirements and, according to Energy Secretary Chris Wright. Up to four more could do so by year’s end.

While technologies, fuels, and applications vary, these prototypes share common traits. All are far smaller than the conventional reactors with massive cement cooling towers, and all are designed to be mass-produced, portable, and scalable. Several can fit in the bed of a pickup truck.

Me want.

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The American Bar Association president, Michelle Behnke, gave a disastrous performance at a House Oversight Committee Task Force hearing last week.

She doubled down on DEI and couldn’t answer even straightforward questions.

In one emperor-has-no-clothes moment, she refused to answer what her implicit biases might be—even though the ABA proclaims that everyone has them.

In another, she said that she didn’t know if the U.S. has ever had a transgender Supreme Court justice.

And in yet another, she refused to repudiate President Joe Biden’s exclusion of black men—solely on their biological sex—from consideration to be a Supreme Court justice.

The list goes on.

You can’t make this shit up.

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On July 15th, Mario Roggero, a jeweller from Piedmont charged with fatally shooting two of the three robbers who had just raided his shop in 2021, received a final sentence of fourteen years and nine months in prison. This protracted legal battle has opened up a new political front in Italy and reignited a heated debate: to what extent does a citizen have the right to defend themselves when the state is no longer able to protect them?

With a new election cycle just a few months away, the case has become a powerful symbol for the Italian Right, which sees it as an illustration of a justice system more concerned with the rights of offenders than with those of victims. Conversely, the judiciary and the Left are defending the ruling as essential to upholding the rule of law, refusing to equate self-defence with a right to revenge.

The events date back to 28 April 2021. Three armed men entered Mario Roggero’s jewellery shop in Grinzane Cavour, Piedmont. The shopkeeper, his wife, and his daughter were threatened during the robbery. When the criminals fled, Roggero grabbed his legally owned gun, chased them down the street and fired several shots at their vehicle. Two robbers were killed; the third was seriously injured.

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Sweden’s left-wing parties are running Arabic-language advertisements aimed at immigrant voters ahead of this year’s elections, repeating a strategy used during the 2022 campaign.

The advertisements have appeared on Al Kompis, an Arabic-language website aimed at immigrants in Sweden who cannot speak Swedish. Political parties and public authorities have previously used the platform to reach the country’s Arabic-speaking population.

Among those advertising during the current campaign are the Social Democrats and the Centre Party.

An advertisement featuring Social Democrat leader Magdalena Andersson promises greater investment in healthcare and schools. It links to a dedicated campaign page claiming that the party’s economic policies would leave “ordinary people” with more money.

The party also promises support for workers, families and pensioners struggling with rising electricity, fuel, food and borrowing costs.

The Centre Party’s advertisements focus on fighting racism and discrimination. One features MEP Abir Al-Sahlani, who says she is “equally skilled at cooking Iraqi and Swedish dishes.”

On the party’s campaign page, Al-Sahlani says she wants Sweden to have “a balanced immigration policy that upholds human rights.”

Taking bets on which Nordic country turns full Muslim first.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

I hope Rand Paul can lead him into some post-pardon perjury.

ATQUE: Committee Could Hold Fauci in Contempt of Congress, Paul Warns

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Viral footage circulating online shows a British man methodically working his way along the streets of his own city with a wheeled bin and litter picker, clearing the rubbish left by others. He is not being paid and not making a political point. He is simply trying to prevent the area from descending into a tip.

Remarkably, as he works, foreign shopkeepers and residents repeatedly emerge from their premises to instruct him to clear the mess outside their own doors, standing by as he does so.

One older local, taking in the state of the streets, observes that if President Trump were to see them he would declare the place a “shithole.”

And he would be correct. Import Turd World people, wind up with Turd World problems (i.e. shithole).

Newsbusters.

Not really knews, but a useful reminder.

Newsbusters.

The Elitist Media Evening News are continuing to do their level best to ignore the explosive details of both the Fauci Files and the Biden Tapes. None of the evening newscasts on ABC, CBS, NBC or PBS devoted any coverage to these two crucial and grossly undercovered stories.

The consensus national story on tonight’s evening news appears to be…the squirrel that disrupted play at Detroit’s Comerica Park between the hometown Tigers and the Baltimore Orioles. Here is that report as aired on ABC World News Tonight on Tuesday, July 28th, 2026:

tReason magazine, a Voice of the Looney Libertarian Left.

When you add it all up, 150 of this year’s congressional races featured no meaningful competition, according to a new report from Unite America, a nonprofit advocating for election reforms.

“These 150 candidates, mostly incumbents, ran unopposed in the dominant party primary for districts that the Cook Political Report rates as uncompetitive in the general election,” the report explains. “In other words, we already know not only which party is all but guaranteed to win these seats in November, but which person will win.”

This is an underappreciated problem plaguing American democracy—and one that contributes to other, more visible problems, like gerontocracy and Congress’ general flaccidity in the face of executive overreach. In those 150 districts where there are no competitive elections this year, over 84 million Americans have been effectively disenfranchised. Those voters can’t make a different choice, no matter how badly they might want one.

They could move. Nobody has nailed their feet to the ground. People who “can’t make a different choice” in California and New York have been moving to Texas and Florida for quite a while now. People in ‘competitive’ districts who lose the election can “make a different choice” all they want to, but their views still aren’t represented by the winning party’s candidate. How does this improve their lives? This is not rocket science.

I am constantly scratching my head about this fetish certain people have for ‘competitive districts’ for Congress. On the part of ‘journalists’ I can understand it, because political sturm und drang pays their bills, but for people who in theory actually follow (and allegedly think about) politics don’t have that excuse. The cure for ’84 million Americans have been effectively dis[en]franchise’ is to increase the percentage of the minority so that when the election is over even more people are ‘dis[en]franchised‘? How does that make any sense?

THE PURPOSE OF CONGRESS IS REPRESENTATION. The more ‘uncompetitive’ a district is, the more accurately the resulting winner will represent the existing inhabitants of that district. A district that is 95% Democrat or 95% Republican will represent the viewpoint of the overwhelming majority of the people. If the district becomes ‘competitive’, meaning it drops to, say, 55% of one party and 45% of the other, THAT INCREASES THE PERCENTATE OF PEOPLE IN THE DISTRICT WHO, WHEN THEY LOSE THE ELECTION, ARE ‘DIS[en]FRANCHISED’ (in the sense that their ‘representative’ represents the viewpoint of the other side).

The best representation is when 100% of the people in a district favor one party; the only questions that arise in an election are internal differences within the broad range of what that party stands for. That’s democracy pure and simple.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE’s) Homeland Security Investigations carried out a nationwide operation between June 22 and July 10 that dismantled “SIM farms” run by transnational criminal organizations.

EuroNews.

A digital tool lets users explore the Roman Empire’s road network and, using historical data, estimate how long journeys between cities took 2,000 years ago.

If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

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A French warship fired 17 live rounds near a boat carrying Britain’s shadow home secretary as he observed French authorities escorting migrants towards the English coast.

Chris Philp, the Conservative Party’s spokesman on immigration and policing, accused the French military of attempting to intimidate him while he monitored illegal Channel crossings on Tuesday.

Philp was being interviewed aboard a fishing boat around two miles off the French coast when the patrol ship Flamant approached within approximately 300 metres and began firing a handgun into the water.

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The Telegraph (UK).

The US has said it successfully intercepted a “surprise attack” by Iran on American forces in the Middle East.

At this point, what constitutes a ‘surprise’?

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces “launched multiple ballistic missiles in an attempted surprise attack on US forces”, US Central Command said on Tuesday evening.

Perhaps the ‘surprise’ attack interrupted the usual attack.

The Telegraph (UK).

A new tax on income to fund social care is among the plans drawn up by officials for Andy Burnham to consider in his first weeks in office.

Civil servants have developed proposals that would require workers to make mandatory contributions to a new privately managed fund to pay for their care in later life.

The plans, drawn up by officials in the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC), could fund a new care system costing £18bn a year.

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My, what a surprise.

It’s all Trump’s fault, of course.

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Moderate Republicans in the Senate Committee on Health, Education and Pensions have introduced two bills that would prohibit outsourcing certain education programs from the U.S. Department of Education to other federal agencies, blocking a complete shutdown of the federal agency.

Under bill S. 5046, sponsored by Sens. Tim Kaine, D-Va., Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, the Education Department could not transfer offices that oversee special education, postsecondary education, elementary and secondary education, and Native American education programs.

“Moderate GOP Senators” = RINO minions of the Deep State. The fact that it was co-sponsored by former Democrat VP-nominee Tim Kaine tells you all you need to know.

Thank God Mitt Romney is no longer in office, and John McCain is dead.

ATQUE: Keep Dismantling the Department of Education

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Locals lined up outside a Toronto bagel shop on Monday in a show of support after attacks on two outposts of the Jewish-owned chain, adding to a string of incidents facing Jewish businesses in the city.

Two locations of Kiva’s Bagel Bar, a fixture for Toronto Jews since it opened in 1979, were targeted late Saturday and early Sunday. Gunfire hit the windows of one storefront just an hour after another storefront was vandalized and its front glass shattered, according to the Toronto Police Service.

Police said their Hate Crime Unit was investigating, and they believed the same SUV may have been involved at both scenes. The bakeries were closed at the time and no injuries were reported.

Undoubtedly white supremacists.

Babylon Bee.

I had to check to make sure it wasn’t The News.

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I am not making this up.

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So, not only did Biden spend four years opening the floodgates to allow millions of illegal aliens into the country, but in his final days in office, his administration hatched a plan to hamstring Trump by offering protected status to as many foreigners as possible.

He just ran out of time to do it all.

As Bombs Fall in Iran, Trump Bombs in Washington (John F. Harris/Politico)

Trump Gutted the Kennedy Center. A Tour Guide Wants You to See It Anyway. (Elizabeth Williamson/New York Times)  Gutted! Kennedy Center guts strewn all over D.C.! Carnage unimaginable!

The predictable disgrace of the White House Correspondents Dinner (Margaret Sullivan/American Crisis)

The Saudi nuclear farce and governance by whim and meme (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)  Funny, I was under the impression that ‘governance by whim and meme’ was a Democrat habit.

A Tale of Two Speeches — The press’s responsible handling of Trump’s incoherent speech … (Jem Bartholomew/Columbia Journalism …)

Republicans worry about rising gas prices — but won’t blame Trump (Kevin Frey/MS NOW)  No, we blame Biden.

Why Trump’s team is letting some Republicans distance themselves from him (Vaughn Hillyard/MS NOW)  As if they had a choice. Democrats are totalitarians and so think the Republicans must be totalitarians too.

In Memphis, an ‘anti-crime’ task force quietly turned into an ICE crackdown (Kat Lonsdorf/NPR)  Note the assumption that rounding up and deporting illegal immigrants is somehow different from ‘anti-crime’.

Capitol agenda: Thune tries to focus as Trump fumes (Politico)

Appeals Court Blocks Trump Mail-In Voting Order In 23 Democrat-Led States, Setting Up SCOTUS Fight

Congress Budgeted Billions for Big Transit Projects. Trump Isn’t Spending It. (New York Times)  The swine! How dare he not spend all of this Democrat money?

What’s the Worst Thing Trump Can Do in the Midterms? (Jeffrey Toobin/New York Times)  Fail to kill himself?

Fauci expressed disillusionment with ‘rambling, crazy’ Trump in journal (Martin Pengelly/The Guardian)

The Ellisons Discover the Hard Way That Trump Is the Anti-Midas (Mark Gongloff/Bloomberg)

Trump aid cuts put HIV response at risk, reports show (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill)  Because, as we all know, fixing a disease that is a problem only because homosexuals (3% of the population0 can’t be bothered take precautions is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government—and the Federal taxpayer.

Trump tries to sell an economy voters aren’t buying (Josephine Walker/Axios).

July 26, 2026 — From the time he took office in January 2025, Trump and his cronies … (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters …)  Because, as we all know, only Trump has ‘cronies’.

After Trump meltdown, Cracker Barrel bends the knee and replaces CEO (Quispe López/Advocate)

Newsbusters.

New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker tweeted on X on Saturday that it is time for the White House Correspondents’ Association to “rethink” its annual dinner with the president, after the event with President Donald Trump did not “advance” the cause of reporting “without fear or favor.” As if that motto isn’t ridiculous at this point?

“Have been a member of the WHCA almost continuously since the 1990s. Our mission is to defend the First Amendment rights of White House correspondents to report on the president without fear or favor. Unfortunately last night did advance that cause,” Baker posted. “Time to rethink the dinner.”

He elaborated on that argument on MS NOW with Alex Witt over the weekend, noting the president is suing journalists and issuing subpoenas for their work. That’s funny, because his hero President Obama ordered more leak investigations into reporters than all previous presidents combined. But they were celebrating him at White House reporter dinners just the same. Friends and political allies make for warm dinners.

It gave The New Hitler a platform to mock the people who hate him. We can’t have that.

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Time,” said Anthony Saldivar, his eyeglasses slipping down his broad nose, “is always the biggest enemy.” Sporting a black tie and thick suspenders, his shirtsleeves cuffed at the elbows, Saldivar was one of eight contestants stationed across four folding tables inside a cavernous glass-and-steel convention center in Chicago, all of whom were attending to the same ticking-clock task. They had three hours, split over two afternoons, to rehabilitate a decomposing human head. The heads, of course, weren’t real. They were props furnished by funerary-cosmetics supplier Post Mortem Restorative Cosmetics, a company founded by the Hollywood special-effects technician Dean Jones, who parlayed techniques honed on the sets of Blue Velvet and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine into a career in the mortuary sciences.

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It hardly seems possible nowadays, but if you give a search engine a phrase, it may well search for it. I sense this is facilitated if the phrase you provide is in a foreign language. The machinery, otherwise bent on giving you what it thinks you want rather than what you just said you want, is baffled and just obeys rather than mess with your mind. Or maybe, since what I just said I want is to get married in a mosque, it rightly decided this request was unsubstitutable. None of this Did-you-mean-in-a-bus-station tentativeness. The first hit I got was for what I asked.

I should say that I personally don’t want this, and that I was asking in Turkish, for reasons I will describe below the fold. That hit was on a website calling itself, in Turkish, Girls Are Asking. Oh, I’m also not a girl, so the search engine really was indulging me. I am guessing that in Turkey, girls are likewise indulged.

The reason I was looking up this stuff at all was, on Steve Sailer’s Substack was a revisitation of a very good idea he’d had a few years ago. Wondering if there was any way to determine what sort of architecture people really like, he came up with what I’d call an objective measure of subjectivity: note where young ladies want to get married. His point was that brides strongly and publicly prefer venues that look good. California, where Steve lives, has every example there is of building fashions, and the ones that were in force before about 1945 are definitely favored. The Substack article contains long quotes from the Washington Post about how a lot of gals are uninterested in church weddings and opting for civil ceremonies, but not the ultra-simple, in-the-JP’s-office-right-now ones. Many cities are offering more elaborate packages, ones where the couple invites a modest number of friends and family to witness the knot-tying, inside City Hall or some similarly venerable municipal or county edifice. Sounds pretty nice!

Quillette.

A curious paradox sits at the heart of many advanced economies. Employers complain constantly about labour shortages. Governments respond by importing record numbers of migrants to fill vacancies. Yet at the same time, a growing number of men have quietly withdrawn from work altogether.

These men are not showing up in unemployment queues or appearing in dramatic economic statistics. In many cases, they are not even looking for jobs. Instead, they exist in a liminal space between participation and withdrawal, cycling through gig work, periods of welfare dependence, disability payments, online entertainment and increasingly isolated lives.

The phenomenon is most pronounced in the United States, where male labour-force participation has been declining for decades, particularly among men without university degrees.

Feminist complaints about ‘patriarchy’ appear to be illusionary.

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Nigel Farage has reported the leader of Britain’s Green Party to the police after he shared an image appearing to threaten the Reform UK leader with execution.

Zack Polanski shared a photograph of a man wearing a T-shirt featuring a guillotine alongside the words “We’re only making plans for Nigel”—a reference to the 1979 song by the British band XTC.

The Telegraph reports that the image appeared in a collection of photographs from a Green Party rally in Bristol and was shared with Polanski’s 700,000 Instagram followers. It was originally uploaded by another account, which invited the Green leader to become a co-author of the post.