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Since his election as mayor of Saint-Denis, the second-largest city in the Île-de-France region, Bally Bagayoko—the La France Insoumise mayor of Malian origin—has been constantly in the news and sees himself as a champion of the anti-racist cause. Yet his approach to politics only serves to highlight his racist vision of the ‘new France’ that is being built before our very eyes, with the media’s blessing.

It takes some people longer to wake up than others.

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Minneapolis has become a super-gay (and surprisingly, Somali) version of Gotham, so I guess this was bound to happen.

The anonymous crusader, who took up the role because “a law enforcement career didn’t appeal,” appears mostly to just wander around Minneapolis.

The stolen bike recovery and the Internet “nemesis” battle were, alas, both staged. But he’s apparently done some vague sort of community-service crime policing, including having “escorted drunk people home.”

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Slavery was a universal feature of every society until Christians decided to stop in in the 18oos.

The reparations effort is being led by Ghana, which is, of course, setting itself up as one of the chief beneficiaries of the U.N. resolution.

“We are demanding compensation—and let us be clear, African leaders are not asking for money for themselves,” Ghana’s foreign minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa said to the BBC. “We want justice for the victims and causes to be supported, educational and endowment funds, skills training funds.”

Ah, so Africa’s politicians aren’t trying to enrich themselves personally. That would be brazen and crass. No, they are merely attempting to loot other countries to pay off their constituents. How noble. How heroic.

That’s ultimately what this reparations push is about. It’s an attempt by several African countries to use globalist institutions and the façade of international law to essentially receive a permanent stipend from self-loathing Western suckers, I mean nations. It’s also a tool whereby other antagonists of the West can score some historical points against their rivals while ignoring their own modern crimes and tyranny.

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So-called “teen takeovers” in Chicago are becoming increasingly violent, to the point that even little boys are being savagely brutalized, says the founder of a “violence interruptor” group that intervened during Wednesday’s teen mob outbreak.

“Well, we got about two or three hundred kids just running back and forth, jumping on cars, just fighting, taunting the police,” Chitown Crime Chasers Founder Justin Peters, who was at the scene of the teen takeover at Chicago’s Loop, said in an interview with Fox Chicago 32.

Peters described how his group intervened to help one little boy who was being stomped on by some of the teens in the mob:

“Unfortunately, viral video is circulating showing me rendering aide to a teenage boy who was violently jumped and stomped on unconscious,” Peters reported, sharing Chitown Crime Stoppers video from the teen takeover on X.com.

Judging from the video, they all look to be Teenagers of Color.

Imagine how low the crime rates would be if young black males were prohibited from possessing firearms.

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A viral video has revealed that CVS is locking up darker makeup shades behind security devices while lighter ones sit open — because stores secure what thieves steal most, and the data backs it up.

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Hee hee hee hee hee….

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In the most recent election cycle, three incumbent black judges in San Antonio lost their primaries, and the other two first time black candidates also lost. In this article in the San Antonio Express-News appears the following quote:

“I think it’s a very bad look for the criminal justice system not to have any African American judges,” said attorney Andrew Birrell, president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys. “The bench ought to reflect A, the society, and B, the people who come before the court. That’s how you get the fairest result that people are the most accepting of.”

Now, it really bothers me that someone can make such an absurd statement and no one raises an eyebrow. This is one of those fallacious arguments that has become so widespread that no one seems to notice anymore. Is this stuff impossible to overcome, or are we fated to have to hear it until the end of days?

Have you ever noticed how much trouble black women go to in order that their hair looks like white-woman hair rather than black-woman hair?

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It was a case that captured the nation’s attention 20 years ago. In March of 2006, a black stripper accused three members of Duke University’s nearly all-white lacrosse team of rape. The only evidence for the crime was her own testimony, which changed repeatedly. It didn’t matter that every other eyewitness disputed the rape claim. An opportunistic district attorney, a vengeful cop, a feminist nurse, and a ravenous media were all ready to believe the Duke lacrosse rape, and that was enough to make it “truth” in the public eye for much of 2006.

The Duke lacrosse hoax offered a preview of America’s coming social conflicts in the age of woke. Imagined racial grievance, feminism, and belief in “white privilege” all fueled this story. The media was all too eager to buy it. Journalists wanted to believe it was true to show that white men are the real menace to society. It was a story too “good” to pass up. It was also a story too “good” to be true.

No lessons were learned from the Duke lacrosse case. We would see similar lies play out with Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Rolling Stone’s infamous “A Rape on Campus” story. While District Attorney Mike Nifong paid a high price for his reckless pursuit of the case, the media and activists who aided him suffered no real consequences. Hate hoaxes would flourish as a result.

Larry Elder.

Former President Barack Obama long ago surpassed the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton as America’s most influential race hustler. The country got a reminder when Obama spoke at Jackson’s funeral, even though Jackson’s son urged the speakers “not to bring their politics” to the service.

Obama said: “Every day you wake up to things you just didn’t think were possible. Each day, we’re told by those in high office to fear each other, and to turn on each other. And that some Americans count more than others.” Same old Obama.

In his 2004 Democratic National Convention speech, he famously declared, “There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America—there’s the United States of America.” It was the line that launched him and made millions across party lines believe he could bridge divides.

Obama won the presidency with just over 52% of the popular vote, but he entered the Oval Office in January 2009 with a nearly 70% approval rating. Polls in late 2008 and early 2009 showed both Black and white Americans believed race relations would improve under his leadership.

By the time he left office in 2017, polls showed majorities or pluralities of both Blacks and whites thought race relations had gotten worse.

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Senator John Cornyn is in the fight of his life. In a throwback to the Tea Party primaries of the early 2010s, the senior senator from Texas (first elected in 2002) has been forced into a runoff for the first time in his career by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Paxton, who was impeached by the Texas House of Representatives in 2023, managed to effectively tie Cornyn in the initial primary, with both receiving around 42% of the vote. While Cornyn is favored to win a runoff, particularly if President Donald Trump endorses him, it is by no means a sure thing.

Cornyn and his team may be wondering how they got to this point. They are not alone. Across the Western world, center-right individuals and parties are in deep trouble and seem unable to figure out why.

In Europe, the “respectable” center-right is a political dinosaur on its way to extinction. The German CDU is neck-and-neck (though more often than not, in second place) with the populist-right Alternative for Germany. Austria’s Freedom Party has been leading for the past three years, while Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy has led the country for over four. Poland’s right wing is dominated by two parties: a populist-right party and one that’s even further to the right. France and the United Kingdom have both seen their center-right parties decimated, replaced by the populist-right National Rally and Reform parties, respectively.

The Other McCain.

Wow, has it been nearly two years since I used that headline? I created the Violence Against Women category specifically for the kind of “violence against women that feminists will ignore.” You can call it “intersectionality” or just call it hypocrisy, but if you pay attention a while, you’ll notice that there seems to be a double standard regarding this issue that feminists claim to care so much about. If the perpetrator of “violence against women” happens to be a Democrat, or a member of a key Democratic Party constituent group, then there will be no headline-making protests, no angry speeches in Congress, etc. Like everything else liberals in America claim to care about, this issue only matters when they see an opportunity to exploit it as a vote-getting trick for Democrats.

The problem with conservatives is that it is impossible for most of us to imagine how utterly cynical liberals really are. Everything they do is ultimately about trying to help Democrats win elections, without regard for whether Democrats actually do anything that helps the people liberals claim to care about. Because I was born and raised a Democrat, of the old-fashioned New Deal-era Yellow Dog type, this cynicism was never apparent to me until Bill Clinton (whom I voted for in 1992) became president, and proceeded to betray everything I’d ever believed in.

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The U.S. Department of Education has agreed to rewrite the exclusionary race-based eligibility rules of a federal student scholarship program, resolving a lawsuit filed against the program.

The Telegraph (UK).

The rise is partly down to the increasing number of families securing exemptions from the household benefits cap, which is supposed to prevent them taking more home in welfare payments than they can get by working.

However, there are 16 different benefits which are not limited. These include Personal Independence Payments (PIPs) for long-term physical and mental disabilities and Disability Living Allowance (DLA).

The number of people in England and Wales claiming these two benefits has risen from almost 3.2 million in 2010-11 to about 4.4 million in 2023-24. The Government expects it to reach 6.7 million by 2030.

People will game any system that can be gamed.

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Cornell University is being accused in a federal civil rights lawsuit of excluding an evolutionary biologist from a tenured faculty position because he is white.

The America First Policy Institute filed the lawsuit Monday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York on behalf of Colin Wright.

The complaint alleges the university violated federal law when it sought to fill a faculty position in December 2020.

The complaint cites internal documents showing that Cornell allegedly reserved the position in its Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology for candidates who satisfied a “diversity axis” — a term used in faculty emails to classify applicants by race, sexual orientation, and disability status.

According to the lawsuit, Cornell never publicly posted the job opening, as required by its own policies, and kept the hiring process hidden from potentially qualified applicants.

“This was a racial litmus test administered in secret,” Leigh Ann O’Neill, AFPI’s chief legal officer, said Wednesday in a statement

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“Black Lives Matter was created from a fabrication,” Bill Jacobson, founder of Legal Insurrection and professor of law at Cornell University, tells substitute host Jack Fowler on this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”

The two also unravel the shocking hostility Jewish students have faced since the Oct. 7 massacre.

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ttorney General Pam Bondi announced Thursday that law enforcement had arrested Nekima Levy Armstrong, a leader of the agitators who invaded a church service in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Sunday.

“Minutes ago at my direction [Homeland Security Investigations] and [FBI] agents executed an arrest in Minnesota,” Bondi posted on X Thursday morning.

“So far, we have arrested Nekima Levy Armstrong, who allegedly played a key role in organizing the coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota,” she added. “We will share more updates as they become available.”

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A long-standing Los Angeles school policy created decades ago under court-ordered desegregation is now under fire in federal court, with a conservative group alleging it discriminates against white students.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday by the 1776 Project Foundation, challenges a Los Angeles Unified School District policy dating to the 1970s that provides smaller classes and other advantages to schools deemed “racially isolated minority” campuses.

Those schools are defined as having student populations that are more than 70% nonwhite.

 

Newsbusters.

On Monday’s edition of The View, to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, actress Pam Grier was teed up by co-host Sunny Hostin to recall the racism she experienced while growing up in Columbus, Ohio in the 1950s. According to her, her mom would often have to get her and her siblings to avert their eyes lest they see a body hanging from a tree. But according to the Ohio Lynching Victims Memorial, the last lynching was in 1911. Other details about the story were questionable as well.

There are lies, damned lies, and Democrats.

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What was Renee Nicole Good thinking when her girlfriend yelled, “Drive baby, drive” and grinning she drove her 4,000 lb Honda Pilot SUV at an armed federal law enforcement officer?

Her last thoughts were likely of her imaginary white privilege and why it failed to protect her.

Good had supported BLM and had inhaled its mythology of ‘the talk’, the idea that law enforcement is a racist institution, that police started out as ‘slave catchers’ and that they exist to persecute black people while giving white people a pass. This would have come as a surprise to the over 2,000 white people who have been shot by police officers since 2020.

White leftists go into confrontations with law enforcement officers wearing their imaginary white privilege like the emperor’s new clothes. This ideological fiction that underpins Marxist identity politics works about as well in real life tests as Marxism does. That’s what Renee found out.

The Radicalist.

I read a shocking statistic today. In an essay for Compact Magazine, “The Vanishing White Male Writer,” Jacob Savage writes:

Not a single white American man born after 1984 has published a work of literary fiction in The New Yorker.

Not a single one.

I sat with that, as they say, and then, of course, I thought of my recent essay, “The banal provocation of Doreen St. Felix’s racism,” and the fact that, in the Remnick era, as Andrew Sullivan succinctly put it when sharing the piece, white male writers are deliberately censored from the pages of the magazine, yet a sociopathic racist is given a staff writing position. Remnick, by the way, refers to David Remnick, who has been the editor of The New Yorker for the last 27 years. But America’s preeminent literary magazine wasn’t always what it is today.

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Democratic Socialist Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) was triggered this week by a Homeland Security post on X featuring a B-2 stealth bomber overhead and a cowboy below, accompanied by the text in the center of the image that read: “We’ll Have Our Home Again.”

“What does it evoke in you when you see this? Literally, when I see it, as a Muslim, as a Palestinian, as a child of immigrants, I see it as something that evokes the feeling that I’m not welcome here,” Tlaib said.

Tlaib’s reaction is very revealing. She called herself “a Muslim, a Palestinian, a child of immigrants” and doesn’t even bother to call herself an American.

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A U.S. judge Monday rejected Amazon.com’s bid to dismiss a proposed class-action lawsuit accusing the online retailer ?of price gouging during the COVID-19 pandemic.

‘Price-gouging’ sounds pretty horrible until you realize that it has no definite meaning but is just another of those statist smear-terms (like ‘black market’ or ‘war profiteering’) created for the sole purpose of beating on people who the accuser doesn’t like. ‘Price-gouging’ boils down to ‘you’re charging more for your product than I think is proper’, a verbal finger-wag that has no hint of anything other than disapproval.

Newsbusters.

Race … GRIFTers! dah DAH dah….

One week after YouTuber Nick Shirley posted a video alleging mass fraud at children’s daycare centers in Minnesota, involving some in the Somali community, many in the liberal media are still casting doubt on the legitimacy of that video, and are still attacking Shirley personally, claiming he had previously created anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim videos, while never presenting any proof of that allegation. Last Friday’s edition of CNN’s NewsNight with Abby Phillip continued the attacks.

From the start of the segment on Shirley’s findings, which has resulted in a federal investigation, Phillip’s mission was to delegitimize his findings, and repeat vicious unsubstantiated claims of racism against him.

As they do.

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In 1965, Ronald McKinley Everett changed his name to Maulana Karenga, in 1966, he invented the fictional holiday of Kwanzaa, in 1969, members of his US black nationalist organization got into a gunfight with Black Panthers at UCLA, in 1971, he was arrested for torturing two women, and in 1989, he was hired as the chair of the black studies department at a California State University college where he currently teaches on subjects such as “the socio-ethical thought of Malcolm X” and “Ancient Egyptian Maatian Ethics” (after the goddess Maat).

The story of Kwanzaa and Karenga is a small part of the larger story of how California’s public colleges, its UC (University of California) and CSU (California State University) systems, incubated, financed and inflicted some of the worst racial political extremism on America.

When Chancellor Charles Young (later the head of the Qatar Foundation) took office, UCLA had a 12% minority population. Young, like many radical administrators, was on a mission to rapidly increase the minority population through affirmative action and make it more appealing to them with identity politics courses of the kind being championed by the Ford Foundation.

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Former New York Times reporter and Howard University professor Nikole Hannah-Jones has long been controversial as a writer who expressly rejects objectivity and neutrality in journalism. That was most evident in her “1619 Project,” which was ridiculed by historians and law professors in claiming that slavery was the driving force behind American independence. Nevertheless, the project was awarded the Pulitzer Prize despite glaring historical errors. Yet, this month, Hannah-Jones is back on the pages of the New York Times again rewriting history. This time, she is praising cop-killer and 1960s revolutionary Assata Shakur.

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The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is furious with journalist Megyn Kelly after she accused prominent Jews in the media – Ben Shapiro and Bari Weiss – of “making antisemites” through their attempts to censor criticism of Israel.”

Well, they’re certainly giving it the old college try.

(If you don’t care about any of these people, feel free to stop reading here… fair warning)

Don’t call them ‘conspiracy theories’—call them ‘spoiler alerts’.

To bring you up to speed: Following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, podcaster Candace Owens pointed the finger at Israel, suggesting that Kirk’s shifting views on Israel made him a target – and suggesting that Israel and France plotted Kirk’s death. This drew sharp criticism from the Daily Wire‘s Ben Shapiro (Owens’ former boss), journalist Bari Weiss, and the ADL – with Shapiro further accusing Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson of amplifying ‘antisemitism’ by platforming Owens and refusing to condemn her claims, while Kelly says attempts to censor criticism of Israel is in fact ‘making’ people into antisemites.

So – a lot going on here. Prominent Jews are condemning conservatives who haven’t condemned Candace Owens – accusing them of fueling antisemitism, while Megyn Kelly says that in general, attempts to label conservatives critical of Israeli policy as ‘antisemites’ is actually creating antisemites.

Tensions peaked at Turning Point USA’s AmFest conference last week, where Shapiro downplayed the 1967 USS Liberty incident in which Israel attacked a US Navy ship and killed 34 Americans – calling it a ‘mistake’ that’s now largely irrelevant because it happened so long ago.

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Slavery is often discussed in fragments—confined to one region, one trade route, or one time period. However, the global slave trade was an interconnected system that spanned continents and lasted for centuries, reshaping societies, economies, and cultures in ways that still reverberate today. From the transatlantic slave trade to the lesser-known enslavement of Europeans and Asians, the movement of human lives under force has left an undeniable mark on history.

However, human trafficking existed in many forms across the world. The Barbary slave trade, active from the 16th to 19th centuries, saw an estimated 1.25 million Europeans captured and enslaved by North African pirates. The Crimean-Nogai slave raids devastated Eastern Europe, with an estimated 3 million people enslaved between 1441 and 1774.

Bet you didn’t know that.

In the Ottoman Empire, slavery was deeply entrenched in society. Between 1450 and 1700, approximately 2.5 million Europeans were sold into bondage. The Arab slave trade, spanning over a thousand years, trafficked millions from Africa across the Middle East and Asia. These markets, though lesser known, left an enduring legacy on the demographic and cultural fabric of many regions.

Slavery was a universal human institution since time out of mind down to the early 19th century. That it is today considered exceptional rather than business as usual is the result of a bunch of British activists who actually took their Christianity seriously. (Islam, by contrast, never had—and, if truth be told, still doesn’t have—a problem with slavery.)

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Note that the fat ugly black chick in the Build Large Mansions t-shirt has the trigger discipline of a five-year-old.

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India plans to include castes in its upcoming census for the first time since 1931 and it is causing a polarizing discussion in the country. While opponents say that castes are an outdated social construct that India should move beyond instead of legitimize, proponents argue that the country will be better off having more information about modern-day caste membership as it can be used to better steer equality initiatives often based on caste.

Data from the National Family Health Survey by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare conducted between 2019 and 2021 shows that three quarters of Indians name themselves as members of castes that are eligable for reservations, a term for affirmative action programs. Among them are 22 percent of the Indian population describing themselves as Scheduled Caste, also known as Dalits or Untouchables, which are identified as such in the Indian Constitution. A further 42 percent count themselves as part of a group called Other Backward Class, which combines disadvantaged castes not listed in the Constitution. On top of these are 10 percent of the Indian population who are members of Scheduled Tribes, on average the most underpriviledged people in today’s India.

This leaves only less than a quarter of Indians who are part of the so-called upper castes, while 5 percent of Indians claimed no caste or tribe membership. However, lines of wealth and economic hardship have blurred in India and are diverging from caste membership. While almost half of Scheduled Tribe members fell into India’s lowest wealth distribution quintile, this number stood at one quarter for Scheduled Caste, 16 percent for Other Backward Class and 11 percent for those not falling into these categories.

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TeleSURtv reporter André Vieira captured video showing dozens of what he described as “indigenous people” breaking through barriers and storming the UN’s annual global climate summit in Belém, Brazil. The summit brings together globalist world leaders, left-wing climate activists, and “trust-the-science” researchers to discuss climate pledges that they aim to transform into enforceable actions.

“Indigenous people occupied the #COP30 on the night of this Tuesday to demand that negotiators place them at the center of the debates,” Vieira wrote on X, adding, “Nearly 3,000 indigenous people are in Belém to participate in the activities over the coming days.”

Vieira’s X post also featured a video of indigenous people storming COP30, the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

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The Democratic Party never stops talking about accountability. But when it comes to its own history of supporting slavery and enforcing Jim Crow, the silence is deafening.

For all its moral posturing, the Democratic Party has never issued a formal apology for its direct role in some of the darkest chapters of American history. That’s not a small detail. It’s a glaring double standard.

From the early days of the Republic through the Civil War, Democrats were the party of the slaveholding South. Its leaders defended slavery as an economic necessity and a moral good. They fought to protect it politically and, eventually, militarily. And when the war ended and slavery was finally abolished, Democrats didn’t seek redemption—they found new ways to keep power.

Southern Democrats built the Jim Crow system, a web of laws designed to control and humiliate Black Americans. These laws segregated schools, blocked voting rights, and enforced second-class citizenship through intimidation and violence. For nearly a century, the Democratic Party was the political engine behind racial oppression in the South.

This isn’t opinion. It’s historical fact. Yet despite all the talk about “equity” and “justice,” the Democratic Party has never said the simple words that matter: We were wrong. We’re sorry.

And reparations! Don’t forget reparations!

Victor Davis Hanson.

There’s been a lot of recent controversy over the indictments of former national security adviser John Bolton, former FBI Director James Comey, and now New York Attorney General Letitia James.

And people are arguing that President Donald Trump had promised not to have a so-called revenge tour and use the law, in a weaponized fashion, against his political enemies, given what they did to him. And now he’s doing it.

I think it’s time to pause.

First, there’s a question of magnitude. Donald Trump was indicted 91 times in four different jurisdictions, local, county, federal. Those were coordinated.

Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis’ main prosecutor, Nathan Wade, met with the White House counsel just three days after Donald Trump announced his 2020, Nov. 15, reelection bid. That same day, Jack Smith was appointed by Merrick Garland, the Biden Justice Department attorney general, to be special counsel, to go after Donald Trump at the federal level. That same day, Matthew Colangelo, who had come from the Letitia James state prosecution of Donald Trump, resigned his blue-chip job—No. 3 in the DOJ—to go to work for whom? Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

And that was 91 indictments. So far, we’ve only seen three key people indicted. In addition to that, we’re not even talking about the SWAT raid on Donald Trump’s home or the effort to get 25 states to de-ballot him.

The Telegraph (UK).

A prominent Syrian influencer living in Denmark said she has been forced to return home to protect her children from being taught about LGBT rights in school.

Salma Naddaf fled the civil war in 2014 and built a new life in Denmark as a refugee, gaining millions of online followers for DIY home improvement content.

The 36-year-old mother announced this week that she had left her adopted homeland because the Scandinavian country had made gender transition “part of education”, arguing the country no longer reflected her family values.

In a tearful video, she called it the “hardest decision” she had ever made in her life, but said she was “absolutely convinced that my children shouldn’t grow up in a place where neither the customs nor the traditions are like ours”.

Savor the irony.

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A probe into the Marxist nonprofit Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF), which was initially opened under the Biden-Harris administration, has seen renewed interest from federal prosecutors in President Trump’s second term over allegations that the far-left group defrauded donors.

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Eleanor Holmes Norton, Washington D.C.’s 88-year-old congressional delegate, claims to sit on multiple boards at prestigious institutions, but investigations reveal she hasn’t been active with them in years. Some of these positions no longer even exist according to a report by Luke Goldstein and Dan Boguslaw.

According to her latest financial disclosure, Norton lists positions on roughly half a dozen boards. However, when contacted, three organizations reported no recent contact with her, while two confirmed their boards had been dissolved years ago.

These revelations follow a troubling NBC4 report that obtained a police document detailing how scammers posing as HVAC repairmen defrauded Norton of $4,400 for services never performed. The report also noted that Norton has a caretaker with power of attorney who reported the fraud.

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The Justice Department is investigating whether leaders in the Black Lives Matter movement defrauded donors who contributed tens of millions of dollars during racial justice protests in 2020, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.

In recent weeks, federal law enforcement officials have issued subpoenas and at least one search warrant as part of an investigation into the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Inc. and other Black-led organizations that helped spark a national reckoning on systemic racism, said the people, who were not authorized to discuss an ongoing criminal probe by name and spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press.

It was not clear if the investigation would result in criminal charges, but its mere existence invites fresh scrutiny to a movement that in recent years has faced criticism about its public accounting of donations they have received. The recent burst of investigative activity is also unfolding at a time when civil rights groups have raised concerns about the potential for the Trump administration to target a broad variety of progressive and left-leaning groups that have been critical of him, including those affiliated with BLM, the transgender rights movement and anti-ICE protesters.

UPDATE: Federal prosecutors investigate BLM leaders over alleged misuse of $90M+ in donations (Fox News)

Newsbusters.

On Sunday’s Velshi show, frequent MSNBC guest Elie Mystal charged that Chief Justice John Roberts is the “biggest enemy towards black people” on the Supreme Court since the pro-slavery Dred Scott decision from1857.

His typically hyperbolic attack on Justice Roberts came during a segment devoted to fretting over the possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court will strike down legal precedents that for decades have required that oddly shaped congressional districts be drawn to ensure the existence of black-majority districts, mostly filled by black legislators.

Host Ali Velshi suggested that a conservative court ruling would be as bad as taking voting rights back to 1964 as he posed his first question to the race-obsessed justice correspondent for the far-left The Nation magazine.

Victor Davis Hanson.

Here in California—which might be a model for other states as well—Gov. Gavin Newsom has now approved a formal commission to administer reparations to black Californians. And they’re trying not to use the word reparations since it has such a bad connotation. But it’s a bad idea in so many ways.

Remember, when California was admitted to the Union, it came in as a free state. It had no prior record of being a slave state. It has never been a slave state. It has no historical baggage as, perhaps, the former Confederacies. So, there’s no argument that people who happen to be in California are owed anything from it, by the state, of any race.

The second thing is we don’t know how many black Americans that are residents of California could trace their lineage back to California. In other words, do we really believe that most of the African Americans in California, who came after World War I and during World War II, have descendants that were suffering the fallout from slavery in California? It’s really absurd.

The third thing to remember is the black population of California is about 5.4% of the 41 million people. Who are going to be paying the reparations? The so-called white oppressor, victimizer class is only 42%. It is a minority. And many of them can trace their lineage back to the Oklahoma diaspora of the 1930s and ’40s, when they arrived here completely destitute.

And then, in addition, we have about 15% to 16% Asian. Some of them came from horrendous conditions in Vietnam. Some of them have families that were Japanese, have received money from the government as direct compensation for property they lost during World War II during the relocations. Some of them can argue that they were oppressed from the 19th century. Leland Stanford Jr., the president of the Southern Union Pacific Railroad, used Chinese labors in a very exploitive manner.

The point is that each particular minority group will then argue that they have claims on—whom? Who is going to be the victimizer class when the so-called white population is the minority?

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Imagine my distress.

The growing opposition in Hollywood to AI generated “actors” is in many ways similar to the growing feminist fury over AI girlfriends: If you’re a good actor (or a good woman), then you should have no fear of being replaced. If you can’t compete with a robot or software for the affections of the masses, then perhaps you deserve to lose your exalted position in society.

AI design is not particularly impressive (at least not yet). Characters are graphically realistic but the Uncanny Valley effect is ever present; the human mind processes them as off-putting in most cases and making an entire film using them would require extensive input from human CG artists. Still images and short clips are effective enough, but this is not film making.

I’ve seen any number of those ‘robot girlfriends’ and I have to say they’re very low maintenance compared to the Modern SingleWoman.

Meanwhile, I’m waiting for the Cherry 2000.

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On Monday the Daily Mail revealed that James’ has been letting her grandniece Nakia Thompson – along with Thompson’s three children – live in the Norfolk, Virginia house at the center of James’ federal indictment.

Thompson has been living at the property since 2020, after ducking authorities in North Carolina for failing to finish her probation. She is considered a fugitive and has an active warrant for her arrest if she’s located in North Carolina.

“Ms Thompson was sentenced to probation for misdemeanor convictions for assault and battery and trespassing, and has willfully avoided probation supervision,” Keith Acree, communications director for the North Carolina Department of Corrections told the Mail, adding “An absconder is considered a fugitive.”

And Democrats are crooked every age.

The Times (UK).

Socialists and their running dogs on the Left always blame other people for the problems that they themselves cause.

Only days earlier, at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool, Starmer had drawn rapturous applause from delegates after he said Nigel Farage was a “snake oil merchant” who promulgated racist policies.

One might say the same of DEI advocates.

Washington Examiner.

The chaotic event unfolded in downtown Montgomery right after a college football game between Tuskegee University and Morehouse College.

Both Tuskegee and Morehouse are ‘historically black colleges’.

Imagine how low the crime rates would be if young black males were prohibited from possessing firearms.

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Thereby admitting that ‘transgender’ people are mentally unstable. Good to know.

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For years, many of us have raised concerns over the political weaponization of the New York legal system from the civil fraud case against the Trump company by New York Attorney General Letitia James to the criminal prosecution by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. The popularity of these lawfare warriors shows how a dual legal system has taken hold in the city. That was never more evident than in the outrageous decision of Bragg to drop the case against Brianna J. Rivers, 30, who assaulted a pro-life advocate in a case of political violence. The refusal to prosecute Rivers is only the latest example of enabling those who turn to violence in our political system.

Rivers was captured on videotape attacking Craven Antao after she asked Rivers questions about abortion and repeated her answers.

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Boston Black Lives Matter activist Monica Cannon-Grant is expected to plead guilty to federal fraud charges stemming from allegations that she and her late husband defrauded donors out of more than $1 million in grants and donations to fund their lavish lifestyle, according to multiple reports.

The Boston Herald reported Thursday that Cannon-Grant, who was honored as ”Bostonian of the Year” in 2020, is set to plead guilty to all 18 charges, including mail and wire fraud. She filed a motion for a change-of-plea hearing last week.

Her trial was scheduled to begin in U.S. District Court in Boston on Oct. 14.

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A young woman is facing hate crime charges after allegedly assaulting a fellow passenger in a violent, unprovoked attack on a Manhattan subway train, according to the NY Post.

The incident unfolded around 2:10 a.m. Sunday aboard a southbound L train at the 1st Avenue and East 14th Street station. Authorities said Genesis Gittens — who had just celebrated her 20th birthday on Monday — was yelling when a 28-year-old man sitting nearby glanced in her direction.

That look reportedly sent Gittens into a fury. She began striking the rider in the face multiple times while hurling slurs, shouting, “White boy” and “cracker,” according to a criminal complaint. The repeated punches left the victim with a bloody nose, though he declined medical treatment, police said.

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

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The U.S. Department of Education has stopped awarding grants to colleges based on the share of minority students they enroll, saying it is unconstitutional to use taxpayer dollars to promote “racial or ethnic quotas” at those schools.

As indeed it iw.