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Right before Election Day, Biden finally released the names of his ‘bundlers’: the big money fundraisers who backed his 2020 campaign. One of them was ‘Muhammad’ Tahir Javed: a Biden surrogate, Democratic National Committee deputy finance chair, and future Pakistani cabinet member.

Javed bragged that he had “raised over $2M for the Biden Harris transition team” and “recruited 30+ donors to the transition team and general campaign, four of whom were recognized along with myself… to have raised over $100,000 personally.” These donors would have likely come through Javed’s roles in various Islamic and Pakistani groups operating inside America..

The Congressional Pakistan Caucus Foundation, founded by Javed, was announced at an event with Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, Rep. Eric Swalwell (who was later caught having relations with a Chinese Communist spy) and Rep. Henry Cuellar (currently indicted for bribery) with the expectation that another 37 members of Congress would also join.a Pakistani ‘caucus’. Javed had donated around $15,000 to Rep. Jackson Lee, and around $9,000 to Swalwell and Cuellar.

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The recent approval by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of billionaire activist George Soros’ acquisition of more than 200 Audacy radio stations has ignited controversy.

According to the NY Post, the FCC adopted an order to approve Soros’ purchase of more than 200 radio stations in 40 markets just weeks before the US election in November.

This development has prompted allegations from Republican FCC commissioners and lawmakers of straight up malarkey. According to the Post, this deal was pushed through with a partisan 3-2 vote just before the presidential election, potentially enhancing Soros’ reach to over 165 million Americans during a critical time.

The Crust takes care of its own.

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According to Examining Widespread Fraud in Pandemic Unemployment Relief Programs, a recent report from the House Oversight Committee, taxpayers were ripped off for some $191 billion. A key player in the widespread fraud is Biden-Harris labor secretary Julie Su, former secretary of California’s Labor and Workforce Development Agency in charge of the state’s Employment Development Department (EDD).

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Ute Krüger is originally from Germany, but has lived in Sweden for almost 20 years; she worked for years there as a senior physician and speaks Swedish well. She specializes in pathology and is also a cancer researcher.

Krüger has decades of experience in analyzing how changes in cells and tissues in patients can be linked to specific diseases. She has recently co-published a book in German with documentation of patients who have probably been killed by the Corona vaccines. In this connection, she gave a video interview in Swedish.

Together with Professor Walter Lang, in Berlin in 2024 Ute Krüger published the textbook Geimpft — gestorben. Histopathologischer Atlas der Corona-Impfschäden. Gedenkschrift für Prof. Arne Burkhardt. This can be translated as “Vaccinated — died. Histopathological atlas of Corona vaccine damage. Commemorative publication for Prof. Arne Burkhardt.” The book contains 138 pages with 112 illustrations and 57 case descriptions. Work is underway to translate it into English.

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Seven hundred past and present intelligence and other government officials and retired military officers have endorsed Kamala Harris. This includes at least some of the “dirty fifty-one” who assured us that Hunter’s laptop was fake, and the same crowd who pretended that the Steele dossier was real. People who have gutted our national defense with DEI hiring and the insane Obama policy deference to Islamist nutballs, while also calling for government censorship of critics, have declared that Xi, et al, would prefer Trump, an allegation even more absurd than their previous consensus on Hunter and Steele.

On the downside, it is depressing that within government and academia, mere titles and tenure are presented as viable substitutes for competence and character. It is deeply pathetic that these people believe they are remotely trustworthy.

On the upside, it’s nice to have a working list to start draining the swamp if the opportunity arises in 2025.

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The population of Haiti is just under 12 million, and in the past few years around 300,000 of them have come to the United States. The population of Springfield, Ohio is around 58,000, and in the past few years, they have experienced a remarkably sudden and massive influx of new residents: 20,000 Haitians. So 7% of those who left Haiti for a better life in America moved to Springfield, Ohio.

Much has been written about this.  Republicans are complaining that this could have a negative impact on the social structure and financial viability of Springfield.  Democrats are rolling their eyes and saying that Haitians don’t eat cats.  But I’m stuck on a question further upstream:  How did Springfield, Ohio suddenly become such a popular destination for Haitians?  Is it really possible that just spontaneously, for no reason, 20,000 Haitians woke up one morning and all said in unison, “You know, I’d love to move to Springfield, Ohio.  Wherever that is.”  Ok, so if we presume that all those individual Haitians didn’t decide on Springfield, then who did?

Because YOUR GOVERNMENT wants to make rural America as much of a Turd World shithole as the Democrat-ruled major metropolitan areas have become. Thank you, Joe Biden.

Who, exactly, did this?

Who paid for it?

And why? Why Springfield, Ohio?

I would love to know the answers to those three questions.

As would we all.

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California has passed two new bills protecting actors and performers against AI, in a potentially precedent-setting moment for tech legislation across the country.

While these largely overlap with the AI safeguards that SAG-AFTRA passed last year, the new laws not only bolster those existing protections but extend them to everyone in California — not just to people working in front of a camera in Hollywood, as IndieWire notes.

Together, the bills, which were passed by Governor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday, make it illegal to use an AI-generated digital replica of an actor’s likeness or voice — or technically, any Californian’s — without their explicit consent.

No, they weren’t passed by Newsom, they were passed by the state legislature and signed by Newsom. But I can understand how ‘journalists’ can confuse the two.

Will the movie/TV business leave California as a result? Let’s stay tuned.

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Many of us are probably aware of the outrageous actions of our federal law enforcement agencies against our citizens. There was the raid on the home of Roger Stone in 2021 in the early hours of the morning—it’s worth noting that Stone was an associate of Donald Trump. No one could reasonably explain why the raid of 30 armed men needed to arrive so early. Then there’s the 6:30 am raid of the home of pro-life activist Mark Houck when he was swarmed and arrested by two dozen armed agents; he was accused of pushing a pro-abortion activist at an abortion clinic who was harassing his 12-year-old son. His attorney had suggested that he voluntarily surrender, but the FBI refused. Four months later he was found not guilty.

But it seems that the government is prepared to murder people when events don’t go their way:

The Hill.

Harris, the Deep State candidate, appreciates their support.

When I first read the headline, I thought it said ‘highly rank’, and I thought to myself, ‘Yeah, that’s about right’.

CNN.

What do they know that you don’t?

Time to leave.

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The Biden White House held its first cabinet meeting in a year, and for some bizarre reason that no one can fathom, Joe Biden’s wife was chairing it.

Gothamist.

Federal law enforcement officials served a subpoena to the director of the New York City’s Office of Asylum Seeker Operations on Friday, adding yet another twist to the ongoing investigations into Mayor Eric Adams’ administration.

The building where the director’s parents live also got a visit from law enforcement, according to surveillance footage provided to Gothamist.

The office Molly Schaeffer leads was launched in March 2023 as part of Adams’ response to the influx of migrants to the city. When the office was established, Adams said it would focus on the city’s ongoing efforts to provide “resettlement and legal services,” along with a new “24/7 arrival center for asylum-seekers.”

One of these days a government employee is going to be seized by an Attack of Honesty and call their workplace the Office of Handing Out Your Money to People Who Don’t Deserve it.

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ICE Detains Illegal Migrant Accused Of Raping Pre-Teen In Nantucket…More Than A Month After He Walked On Bail
Each day it becomes increasingly clearer that the migrant crime the left side of the aisle wants us to believe is a figment of our imagination…isn’t.

The latest example came from, of all places, Nantucket, where 28 year old illegal migrant Bryan Daniel Aldana-Arevalo was accused of raping a pre-teen child this past July after entering the U.S. from El Salvador.

There once was a girl in Nantucket….
It did not end well.

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The Air Force finally handed over a trove of documents pertaining to its sweeping “goal” of reducing the number of white male applicants in a popular officer program after spending months stonewalling requests for their release.

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman C.Q. Brown—at the time the highest-ranking member of the Air Force—issued a memorandum in 2022 that the branch was updating its racial and gender demographic goals for applicants seeking to become officers, in a bid to prioritize “diversity and inclusion.”

Internal documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation include a slideshow from 2022 where the Air Force outlines racial and gender quotas and details how it hopes to “achieve” a reduced number of white males in its Reserve Officers’ Training Corps officer’s applicant program.

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Earlier this month, we took a deep dive into Minnesota’s state checkbook. Unlike the state budget, a broad plan to allocate funds, the checkbook contains every line-by-line expenditure the state makes in a given year. By comparing the paid vendors with those who donated to Governor Tim Walz’s reelection campaign, we found interesting examples of overlap but not enough information to identify confirmed conflicts of interest.

By suing the state, a constellation of interests was able to negotiate a deal behind closed doors on the controversial topic of treating and housing transgender inmates. While taxpayers foot the bill, as always, their representatives in St. Paul were sidestepped in the policymaking process.

The bill came to $495,000, but updated policies mean Minnesotans can expect more costs in perpetuity.

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Democrats lie. It’s what they do.

Newsbusters.

U.S. Ambassador to Hungary David Pressman went to bat for a Soros-funded, Hungarian media outlet against Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government. Pressman just happened to also have dubiously shoveled American taxpayer dollars into that outlet.

Pressman condemned Hungary, a NATO ally, for investigating the so-called independent media outlet Átlátszó which received $197,478 from Soros from 2017 through 2020. Notably, Pressman made these remarks at a Sept. 18 forum sponsored by the Soros-created Central European University’s (CEU) Democracy Institute and the Soros-funded organization Political Capital. Soros has given $1,084,390,977 (yes, over a billion) to CEU between 2016 and 2023 alone. The leftist billionaire also gave $685,123 to Political Capital from 2016 to 2023.

“In Hungary, we find an unironically named ‘Sovereignty Protection Office’ that has publicly announced three investigations,” Pressman said. He went on to mock the Orban government for looking into “the threat to Hungary’s sovereignty posed by … Átlátszó, an independent media outlet, whose name means ‘transparency,’ focused on exposing corruption.”

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An FBI informant who shared his home with two of the 9/11 hijackers has been accused in civil court of being “co-opted” by Saudi Arabian intelligence to help carry out the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

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These days, most people have a pretty good idea of what tariffs are. They’re an additional tax on goods made in another country, traditionally put into place to protect a homegrown industry. Application of tariffs has been one of the tactics used by the president of the United States in ongoing trade negotiations with China and the European Union.

This story is not about those tariffs. It’s the story of how one company has dealt with tariffs for decades, and the implications that has for stuff you end up buying at the store.

Tariffs are an excellent example of how micromanaging economic activity is the thin edge of the wedge toward a nation in which the government sticks its nose into every orifice of your body.

Tooze and Peter Bragdon, executive vice president and chief administrative officer, are basically the tariff guys at Columbia Sportswear. They told Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal that Columbia has been doing something they call “tariff engineering” for decades — they design apparel and products in accordance with American tariff policy.

For example, certain women’s garments with “pockets below the waist” get lower duty rates than those without. Because of that, a number of the women’s shirts Columbia Sportswear makes are intentionally designed with tiny pockets near the waistline, which lowers the cost of importing them. One of the company’s shorthands for “pockets below the waist” is “nurse’s pocket.”

An example of one of Columbia’s most popular women’s garments with pockets below the waist is a short sleeve shirt called the PFG Tamiami, which retails on the company’s site for $40 for a standard size, $45 if it’s a plus size.

According to Peter Bragdon, this pocket “is a prime example of how the real designers of apparel and footwear in this country live on Capitol Hill.”

Indeed it is.

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A key House committee has begun an investigation into Census Bureau overcounts and undercounts that favor Democrats in awarding congressional apportionment and Electoral College votes.

House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., wrote Census Bureau Director Robert Santos on Wednesday to inquire about its communications about the overcounts and undercounts of state populations with the Biden-Harris administration and its Commerce Department, which includes the bureau.

After the 2020 census, the Census Bureau’s 2020 Post-Enumeration Survey, or PES, released the following year identified significant errors in the counts.

Such miscounts did not occur in the 2010 census, Comer noted in his letter to Santos.

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This week U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released its latest statistics showing at least 530,000 migrants flew into the U.S. and were paroled into the country as part of the Biden administration’s controversial mass parole program for those migrating from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela (the CHNV program). The program essentially expedites the transfer of migrants from these countries with minimal vetting under refugee laws and allows them to stay in the US for at least two years with a work visa.

The CBP also notes that at least 800,000 more migrants have applied for the program at US ports of entry, meaning they are likely already in the country. The numbers are not counted as illegal border crossings. The CBP has warned that once the two-year work period ends they do not have the manpower to track down those migrants that refuse to leave voluntarily.

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DOE and its minions are running out of stuff to regulate under existing energy efficiency statutes within EPCA. A move to carbon efficiency regulation vastly expands their regulatory empire. The IRA is providing obscene amounts of taxpayer funding to force-feed this anti-consumer agenda.

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About two-thirds of Americans believe they pay too much in taxes, and only about 25% believe they get good value in return for their money. Add in the maddening complexity of our tax code and the plethora of (often insane) advice flying around, and it’s easy to see why people put so much effort into avoiding as much tax as they can.

Of course it can be beneficial to reduce the amount of tax that you have to pay every year. If you have the flexibility and a portable income stream that you can take with you, moving to a tax-advantaged area can be an effective way to accomplish that—but it’s not as simple as googling states with no income tax and hopping on Zillow. You need to consider the overall tax burden, and then get creative.

If ten percent is good enough for Jesus, it ought to be enough for Uncle Sam.

Of course, the actual answer to this question is ‘Nowhere in the United States’.

Go Where You’re Treated Best.

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In April, police inspectors at the Indianapolis FedEx distribution center seized a box containing nearly $43,000 in cash. Even though no criminal charges have been filed in connection with the package, it’s been in the government’s possession for about four months.

Now, the box’s intended recipient, Henry Minh Inc., is pursuing a class action lawsuit against the state of Indiana. The jewelry wholesale business consists of the husband-and-wife duo Henry and Minh Cheng.

Working with the Institute for Justice, a nonprofit focused on civil liberties, Henry Minh alleges a widespread pattern of unlawful package seizures at Indy’s FedEx processing facility.

Civil forfeiture started out as a way to get at drug dealers and other ‘organized criminals’ that normal law enforcement methods were unable to reach. It has since become a method for governments to confiscate people’s property without the bother of having to prove the commission of a crime.

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Two days ago, tech streamer and host of Code Therapy René Rebe was streaming one of many T2 Linux (his own custom distribution) development sessions from his office in Germany when he abruptly had to remove his microphone and walk off camera due to the arrival of police officers. The officers subsequently cuffed him and took him to the station for an hour of questioning, a span of time during which the stream continued to run until he made it back.

René Rebe and fans of his work can only guess what motivated this incident. Unfortunately, the police seemingly have no idea who did it and acted based on a tip sent with an email. Finding the perpetrators could take a while, and options will be fairly limited if they don’t also live in Germany.

Our world–and welcome to it.

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In the glorious age of the Kamala Ascendency, the TSA is no longer restraining its contempt for American travelers. After squeezing millions of butts and boobs and never catching a terrorist, TSA decided to have fun by taunting its victims.

After a traveler asked online, “Why does TSA need social media anyways?” TSA’s Instagram account taunted: “Idk Kyle, why do your friends keep bringing stuff they shouldn’t in their carry-on?”

Almost 40,000 people liked that post (slightly fewer than the total number of TSA employees).

Yet another reason not to fly commercial.

Financial Times.

‘Loophole’ is Crust-speak for ‘Do what I want, not what I say’.

The Biden administration is moving to close a trade loophole used by platforms like Temu, Shein and AliExpress to flood the US with cheap Chinese products.

The China-founded ecommerce groups have supercharged their growth by shipping cheap packages direct to American consumers by air and claiming what is known as the de minimis exemption to skip paying import tariffs on the shipments.

But the White House on Friday proposed new rules that would exclude a wide array of goods from being able to claim the exemptions, which extends to shipments of less than $800 in value. The proposed regulations will also make claiming duty free status more complex.

If you try to follow the rules, they will change the rules on you, which means that there actually are no rules,  just the will of our lords and masters.

The difference between a dictatorship and a democracy is that a dictator’s whims have limits.

Navy Matters.

People keep wanting to believe that satellites can track every ship on the ocean in real time, with the data being tied directly to the launch buttons of anti-ship weapons. I keep refuting this idea but it persists. Here’s some relevant information on the subject from our space force.

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Thank you, Joe Biden.

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The U.S. budget deficit reached $1.897 trillion for the first 11 months of the 2024 fiscal year, the Treasury Department said Thursday, as annual interest costs on the public debt topped $1 trillion for the first time.

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Texas authorities say they are shutting down a crime-ridden hotel housing Tren de Aragua gang members and investigating the gang’s criminal involvement in other cities.

Reluctantly, it would seem.

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The third world used to be something Americans used as a measuring stick to hold against other cities or countries we visited or dealt with. When I would pull the newspapers back over a child sleeping in a doorway on the streets of Olongapo, that was “third world.”

When a couple of American Marines weren’t sure if, going in with the first wave to Somalia, they could shoot their “African brothers.” Their first whiff of Mogadishu and first encounter with life on the streets there soon made them realize they weren’t related – that was the third world.

For sure, we have grinding poverty here, but there is someone always working to do something about it. There is always that American Dream, as elusive as it may be in some circumstances.

In the third world, class distinctions and brutalization keep people in endless cycles of poverty, violence, ignorance, and despair. Stealing food and fighting for supremacy over turf is the way of life. Survival is the way of life.

The American Mind.

as a grinding tale of “indigenous resilience in the face of, and resistance to, the impositions of settler colonialism.” Under a three-year program to create a “national context narrative” on the Southern Plains Conflicts of 1864-1869, the agency will contract a group of writers to follow a pre-written script that will result in a politically-charged view of our past. This project should be stopped not just because it will distort Southern Plains history but also because it is an insult to a free society.

Leftists assailed the Trump Administration’s 20-member 1776 Commission, which produced a report on American history in 2021. But the Biden Administration’s institutionalization of official history within a state agency is far more nefarious. The 1776 Report was a one-off written by outsiders and having no official standing in government or education. The Southern Plains Conflicts report, on the other hand, is being managed by bureaucrats who work for the taxpayer, and it will be used as the official handbook for government operations, including tour guides, historical preservation, and, of course, grants to tribes. “The narrative will provide a framework of the US government’s policy towards Indigenous populations, and its support of American economic development and settlement west of the Mississippi River,” the program notes.

Most people associate officially-approved histories with the Soviet Union or Mao’s China. The state, we assume, should not be in the business of foisting its current political attitudes onto our understanding of the past. But our Scandinavian Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, who is never seen without native American jewelry to emphasize her indigenous bona fides, has made a point of doing just that.

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The Biden-Harris administration abandoned $57.6 million in American funds, a “significant amount of classified information,” and advanced biometric data that enabled the Taliban to hunt down nearly 500 former Afghan officials during its bungled 2021 withdrawal, according to the findings of a three-year long congressional investigation.

The report, published Monday by the House Foreign Affairs Committee, provides previously unknown details about the scope of cash and sensitive information left behind when the United States left Afghanistan in a rushed evacuation that left hundreds of Americans stranded and 13 service members dead.

Because of these security failures, Taliban-controlled Afghanistan is now “a hotbed of terrorist activities.” But the Biden-Harris administration has not conducted a single anti-terrorism operation in the country since 2021, suggesting the withdrawal severely hindered the military’s ability to target militants operating in the country.

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It is remarkable how many well-informed conservative foreign policy strategists have never even heard of the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM). Even those who closely follow immigration and border issues rarely understand the role PRM plays in accommodating and promoting the worldwide movement of illegal migrants.

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The US, UK and other backers of Ukraine told Kiev to reject the deal reached at the 2022 Istanbul peace talks with Russia, former US under secretary of state Victoria Nuland has said.

In an interview with Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar, former editor-in-chief of the opposition news channel Dozhd, which aired on Thursday, Nuland was asked to comment on reports that the peace process between Moscow and Kiev in late March and early April 2022 collapsed after then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson traveled to Ukraine and told Vladimir Zelensky to keep fighting.

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Gov. Tim Walz has made much of being a former high school teacher in his political campaigns. The DNC brought out former students of his on stage and the media has rolled out adulatory stories claiming that Walz’s time as a teacher will help him shape America’s education policy.

The recent release of the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCA) test scores for 2024 by Education Commissioner Willie Jett, a Walz appointee, were described by the Minnesota Star Tribune as “stagnant with only about half of students meeting or beating grade-level standards in math and reading.” The paper struggled to describe an empty glass as half-full.

The actual numbers showed that 49.9% of Minnesota students reached grade-level proficiency standards in reading, only 45.5% did so in math and only 39.6% managed it in science: a more accurate description would be that well less than half of Walz’s school students are proficient.

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No studies needed. No cooperation from academia or the corporate media. No DHS whistleblowers with stuff we already basically knew anyway. National Republicans and alternative media commentariat just say things like, hey, remember how before 9/11 we didn’t have a Department of Homeland Security? It’s unconstitutional. It’s unnecessary. It’s a waste of money. People hate it. Let’s get rid of it*.

All of the above is true even if you don’t subscribe to the Officially Licensed Conspiracy Theory of the Deep State’s botched JFK-ish assassination attempt. But if you do, if you think they’re out to get Trump, and saving Trump is important because he’s going to save the Union, how do you not spend every day talking about how awful DHS is?

I don’t expect Republicans to seriously (or even haphazardly) advocate for disbanding DHS. Because Republicans don’t actually believe those things. Saint Ronnie didn’t defeat communism; he Americanized it. Republicans love central planning. They love federal government agencies. They love projecting power from DC.

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The University of Vermont solicited applications for a postdoctoral fellowship that was only open to “BIPOC/POC scholars,” according to a job posting obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, raising questions about the school’s compliance with civil rights law as universities face scrutiny over the racial breakdown of their newest classes.

Advertised on the American Political Science Association’s (APSA) online job bank, the posting—which has since been removed—indicated that the Henderson-Harris fellowship, which has existed since the 1990s, “specifically seeks applicants” who “identify as people/persons of color.” The two-year position pays up to $70,000 and fast-tracks winners for a tenured professorship at the university.

“Applicants should be BIPOC/POC scholars,” the posting read. “Preference will be given to candidates whose research focuses on the themes of inequality and/or exclusion.”

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The University of South Carolina required students to affirm the value of “diversity and inclusion” as part of a mandatory training this summer, underscoring the tenacity of diversity programs in the face of public blowback and raising concerns about compelled speech at a school that has marketed itself as a bastion of free expression.

In a module on “Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging,” which included 10 multiple choice questions, the training asked students how “diversity and inclusion help create a healthy, positive campus environment.” Students who said these values do not create such an environment—or that they give “unfair advantages” to “people from marginalized identity groups”—were told that their answers were “incorrect,” according to screenshots shared with the Washington Free Beacon by the First Amendment watchdog Speech First.

The right answer was that “diversity and inclusion exposes students to people from different backgrounds, thus enriching the overall campus experience.”

So does invading a random Middle Eastern country, but I doubt that the University of South Carolina would be up for that.

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In yet another headline you won’t see from corporate media, 75% of those arrested in Midtown Manhattan in recent months for crimes like assault, robbery, and domestic violence are migrants.

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

In Queens, it’s around 60%, the NY Post reports, citing police sources.

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According to the report, the sanctuary city laws make it ‘almost impossible’ for authorities to handle the problem.

Time to leave.

The Register.

(Sorry, I’m just tired of poor grammer in headlines. Or anywhere, really….)

Tech companies are forever acquiring each other, but future buys will likely face more scrutiny after four US federal regulators decided to share data that they hope will help antitrust investigators assess whether an acquisition impacts labor markets – not just the market for tech.

Let no business be un-over-regulated. (After all, It’s For The Children.)

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Welcome to our world. Be careful not to step in the diversity.

The Register.

NASA has successfully extended into orbit an 80 m2 (860 square foot) sail that is designed to catch emissions from the Sun and convert them into propulsion for space exploration.

The Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) was launched on April 23 from New Zealand aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron hardware and – after months of careful checking – was successfully unfurled at 1333 EDT (1033 PDT) on Thursday, August 29. Such is the compact nature of the spacecraft that the whole thing fit inside a 23x23x34 centimeter (9x9x13 inch) CubeSat before being deployed.

“The sail will appear as a square about half the size of a tennis court,” NASA Ames reported.

“Now, with the sail fully extended, the Solar Sail System may be visible to some keen skywatchers on Earth who look up at the right time. Stay tuned to NASA.gov and @NASAAmes on social media for updates on how to catch the spacecraft passing over your area.”

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An Idaho Army National Guard officer is under fire for expressing his religious beliefs on social media, leading to his removal from command and a heated debate over First Amendment rights within the military.

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Nearly one-third of K-12 students across the country are behind their grade level as of the end of the 2023-24 school year, according to a new survey released by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).

Gee, those government schools work great, don’t they? Must be the teachers’ unions, yeah,  that’s the ticket.

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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has sparked debate by awarding billions of dollars in extra paid leave to DHS employees, leading to questions about the impact on the department’s budget and mission, a new report says.

As Jerry Pournelle was fond of saying, the purpose of government is to hire and pay government workers.

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As the 2024 election looms, the Biden administration is accelerating efforts to distribute billions in clean-energy loans, fearing the program could stall if former President Donald Trump is re-elected, the Wall Street Journal reported.

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If you’ve been wondering how it’s possible for so many woke movies, streaming series and video games to continually fail yet still get made, the answer is of course ESG funding. These products don’t necessarily have to bring in consumer dollars because the companies already got paid by an army of NGOs and government programs.

Though the flow of ESG cash has slowed dramatically ever since central banks started raising interest rates there’s still a long list of projects that were initiated several years ago that are finally being released today. This is why, despite the complete public rejection of woke propaganda and dying ESG, we are still being inundated with far-left media.

For many years it has been suspected that leftist government officials are involved in directly financing social engineering projects using public tax dollars. In film and TV the influence is more obvious, but what about video games (the largest entertainment market on the planet)?