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Faced with that, I’d just stay home. He can shovel the snow himself.

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Barack Obama’s infamous Presidential Center in Chicago, already slammed as a dystopian “prison-like” monstrosity, has just received a bizarre new update that’s ignited widespread mockery online.

Actually, I wouldn’t mind having one. In Chicago, you probably need something like this.

The addition of disjointed words from one of Obama’s speeches has been dubbed “headache-inducing,” amplifying the backlash against this $830 million behemoth that’s overrun budgets, displaced locals, and turned a public park into a narcissistic shrine.

A shrine to The Magic Negro. (uh uh uh)

As construction drags on toward a June 2026 opening, the former president’s ego-driven tweaks have only fueled the fire, with X users unleashing savage roasts and memes comparing the structure to everything from a Soviet-era bunker to a “concrete porta potty.”

The latest fiasco stems from Obama’s decision to etch excerpts from his 2015 Selma speech onto the building’s facade. But instead of inspiring awe, the disjointed lettering has sparked hilarity and disgust.

Much like Obama himself.

From the Telegraph (UK):

Police officer sacked for striking violent suspect as he resisted arrest

Headteacher left in wheelchair after attack by special needs student

Small-boat migrants awarded £210k after border agents seized their phones  (Note: These are illegal immigrants.”Confiscating mobiles and SIM cards was a breach of human rights, High Court judges ruled”)

Democracy ‘denied to 15 million’ if elections delayed again

The Birmingham ward where a convicted terrorist is running for office

The Telegraph (UK).

The Green Party is set to vote on legalising heroin in an attempt to make society more “inclusive”.

A motion drafted ahead of the party’s spring conference next month aims to update its existing policy to call for an end to the “prohibition of drugs”.

At the last general election, the Greens promised to set up a commission that would produce an “evidence-based approach” to changing the law around substance use.

However, Zack Polanski, who became the party’s leader last autumn, has since gone further and said he wanted to legalise all drugs.

Heroin and cocaine are included in the motion that calls for a blanket legalisation.

Some people have minds so open that their brains fall out.

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It should not come as a surprise to see the Senator who lost her 2010 primary, then refused to leave congress and ran as a write in candidate; then supported changing the state voting system to a ranked choice structure; who then lost again in 2022 but ultimately won because Democrats all listed her as their second choice in the new structure; come out against anything that would lead to stronger voting requirements.

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“These scientists say the world is closer than ever to ‘doomsday,’” blared the Washington Post. “Atomic scientists set ‘Doomsday Clock’ closer to midnight than ever,” fussed Reuters. “Doomsday Clock hits record, nears midnight. What it means for Alabama,” the Montgomery Advertiser advertised.

Every year, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (who are not atomic scientists and don’t have a bulletin) announce that the world is closer to destruction than ever as long as Trump is here.

After the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Bulletin (which back then at least had both a ‘bulletin’ and ‘atomic scientists’) set the ‘Doomsday Clock’ at 12 minutes to midnight. By 2020, the clock of doom had run out of minutes and was down to seconds. Last year the fake clock ticked down to 89 seconds, and now it’s down to 85. When it finally hits zero, Ed McMahon will return from the dead to tell us we’ve all won the Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes award.

The Telegraph (Uk).

Schoolgirls will be banned from wearing skirts as part of an equality drive that requires all children to wear trousers.

The 1,600-pupil Brynteg School in Bridgend, South Wales, will impose the new policy at the beginning of the next school year in September.

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“The entire population of Gaza is facing the risk of famine,” Sigrid Kaag, the UN’s coordinator for Gaza, falsely claimed, echoing Hamas propaganda. “Israel must halt its devastating strikes.”

Kaag (Pictured above, left), a leftist Dutch politician and UN official, had been picked for the role in Gaza by the Biden administration. And she had all the right credentials including the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO), the World Economic Forum and leftist politics. She had cheered the BLM race riots and claimed that America was systematically racist because New Yorkers had mistaken her husband, who worked for a Muslim terrorist group, for a janitor.

Now she’s been picked for a seat on the Gaza ‘Executive Board’ by the Witkoff team.

Sigrid Kaag had been ousted from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1994 after she secretly married a top member of the PLO, Anas Al-Qaq. The same behavior that made her untrustworthy however qualified her for a job at the UN. There she worked for the IOM, the UN’s mass migration group, and UNRWA, the UN’s ‘Palestinian’ agency: known as a front for Hamas.

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Aging rocker Neil Young has encountered perhaps the most boomer of leftist boomer issues, and of course it’s all President Trump’s fault.

He can no longer use his ancient flip phone because orange man bad.

In a rambling post on his website, Young details his epic struggle to ditch Verizon service, convinced that every dollar he spends fuels a “Trump Fascist regime.”

It’s peak boomer leftist TDS paranoia, where everyday consumer choices somehow morph into grand acts of resistance.

Young kicks off his diatribe with the revelation that his flip phone bears the Verizon logo. “Mornin’ folks….It’s a new day….a big day for my Flip phone. I noticed it says VERIZON on it. Of course I can’t use a Verizon phone. Verizon is a supporter of TRUMP with big $!” he writes, as if discovering a hidden swastika etched into the device.

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NHS staff at Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust have been advised to stop addressing patients as “sir” or “madam” to avoid offending transgender individuals.

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Conspiracy nuts have had a field day over the delayed release of work compiled by the British Intelligence Services warning of possible eco-collapse, mass extinctions, food shortages, conflicts and mass migration. In fact, the flimsy 14-page report is little more than a cutting job from the Guardian. Twenty-six mostly usual suspect sources are named, and highlights of the most extreme scenarios are cherry-picked in yet another Net Zero Blob effort to create population panic. Who knows how much taxpayer money was wasted on this compilation – AI could have done the job in under a minute. The obvious reason for the delay in publication was that someone intelligent in the Intelligence Services said something along the lines: ‘We can’t publish this BS, we will look complete idiots.’

The claim is that the original report was blocked at the top of the British government for being too negative. This is obvious nonsense. No claim of eco-system collapse and devastating climate change would ever be considered too extreme by almost the entire British political class, at least if past evidence is anything to go on. It appears that the report was compiled by the Joint Intelligence Committee, which coordinates the work of MI5 and MI6. It only saw the light of day with publication by the Government’s environment department following a Freedom of Information request from the Times newspaper. Green author and activist Rupert Read was suitably affronted by what was seen as a cover up.

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On Wednesday, January 21st, the French High Council for Equality published a new report on sexism, identifying “masculinism” as one of the new dangers to national security.

Masculinism constitutes a “real threat” and must be recognised as a public security issue, according to the report. This hateful and anti-feminist ideology, spread on social media, is likely to generate violence and radicalisation and, according to the document’s recommendations, should be the subject of a national strategy to combat it.

The High Council for Equality, which reports to the prime minister’s office, even refers to “misogynistic terrorism” and calls for intelligence services to be trained to deal with this new danger. According to the report, 17% of French people subscribe to “hostile sexism,” which “devalues women” and could lead to violence against them.

The report expresses alarm at France’s delay in addressing this public danger, compared to other countries that are much more ‘advanced’ in this area, such as Canada and the United Kingdom.

Unsurprisingly, once it has identified the masculinist enemy, the High Council for Equality is careful not to define the terms precisely. It notes a radicalisation against women that could lead to violence or terrorist acts but never questions the possible origins of such a social drift. Immigration of Muslim origin and the importation into France of predominantly male immigrants from cultures that traditionally place women in a position of inferiority or even encourage the habitual use of violence against them is obviously not called into question here.

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This is actually true: a Utah senator is sponsoring a bill that would see Android adopted as an official state mobile operating system for absolutely no reason at all. In the history of dumb ideas, this is pretty high on the list.

I don’t know where they find these people, much less vote for them.

Roughly half of the US likes Android, half like the iPhone, and from time to time people try out each. You do you. And if Senate Majority Leader Kirk Cullimore (R-Sandy) is an Android fan, that’s a fact of totally no interest to anyone whatsoever.

But it apparently matters a lot to Cullimore, so given his position, he is taking time in the Utah 2026 legislative session to try to get it done. According to KSL local news, Cullimore said it was also about the green and blue bubbles complaint.

Democracy at work resembles nothing so much as a human colon.

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environment. At the same time, it is sending the message that it wants the world to be awash in fossil fuels sold by America, no matter the consequences.

Under President Trump, the United States has become the only nation to renege on a pledge to try to keep warming to 1.5 degrees. Its actions will make the global fight harder, scientists said.

“Emissions will be higher,” warned Justin S. Mankin, an associate professor at Dartmouth College who researches climate variability. “Trump’s greenhouse gas emissions will cause Trump’s heat waves, Trump’s droughts, Trump’s floods, and Trump’s wildfires.”

Trump! Is there anything he can’t do?

The Other McCain.

It’s been nearly 12 years since #GamerGate happened, and I’ve got grandchildren nearly that old. Must we rehash the whole thing — which began with the Tattoo-Covered, Mentally Ill Ex-Stripper Whose Real Name Is Chelsea Van Valkenburg — to explain the comic role played in that saga by John Walker Flynt a/k/a “Brianna Wu”?

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A Waymo was caught on camera driving down Phoenix light rail tracks this week, forcing a passenger to flee the car before it continued along the tracks near an oncoming train.

Video taken by a bystander near Central and Southern avenues shows the moment the self-driving car stops on the tracks just before an oncoming light rail approaches. The passenger runs out of the vehicle before the car continues to drive down the tracks near another train.

“I actually felt a little sorry for the car. It obviously made a bad decision and got itself in a difficult place,” said Andrew Maynard, an emerging and transformative technology professor at ASU.

Maynard said while these situations are rare, they do happen. “This is exactly one of those edge cases, what we call them. Something unexpected where the machine drove like a machine rather than a person,” Maynard said.

Not yet ready for prime time.

The Telegraph (UK).

New toy has eyes that gaze slightly off-centre and bendy wrists for hand-flapping.

Sounds like a lot of Democrat Congresswomen.

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“. . .the Minnesota protests look less like a local eruption and more like the latest deployment of an international revolutionary machine.”

– Insurrection Barbie on “X”

Chrump, Chrump Chrump… He’s come to occupy the Left’s minds like an infestation of weevils chawing away the ligaments of civilized society.

But, of course, the whole wicked, Cluster-B, anomie-driven, insurrectionist extravaganza is a made-for-video production bought and paid for by a tiny coterie of super-wealthy megalomaniacs untouched by consequence — George and Alex Soros (The Open Society Foundations), Shanghai-based American Neville Roy Singham (Codepink and more), Reid Hoffman (funder of Trump prosecutions and more), Lauren Powell Jobs (The Atlantic and the Emerson Collective), Hansjorg Wyss (Berger Action Fund), Bill Gates (of course). . . .

Their main client in all this mischief is the Democratic Party, and the Democratic Party’s chief motivation, its raison d’être going on at least ten years now, has been to hide its multifarious crimes, its vast racketeering operations now garishly on display in the state of Minnesota, where the grift just went too far and was done right in America’s face.

The Telegraph (UK).

An Islamist double killer who took a prison officer hostage has won a court case on human rights grounds because he was depressed after being put in solitary confinement.

David Lammy, the Justice Secretary, has agreed to pay £7,500 in compensation and foot a £234,000 legal bill for Fuad Awale, a convicted double murderer, after a judge ruled that his treatment in jail breached his human rights.

Awale was transferred to a special separation unit for the country’s most dangerous prisoners after he and another inmate ambushed the prison officer and threatened to kill him unless Britain released the hate preacher Abu Qatada.

Naval Gazing.

This week has seen the announcement by the Trump Administration that they are going to be building “battleships”, a subject that is well within my beat, so I figured I would take the time to start by saying that these are nothing of the sort. Defining the battleship is slightly tricky, but the best version I have is that it is a large, gun-armed armored warship. This proposal is certainly large, but it doesn’t really classify as gun-armed, in that the guns are clearly secondary weapons, and there’s been no discussion of armor at all. So whatever these are, they aren’t battleships. Their closest cousin in the Soviet Kirov class, which likewise are somewhat hard to classify, but in the finest tradition of the USN, I’m going to go with “Large Missile Cruiser” for these. But the fact that they’re being called by the wrong name, while personally extremely annoying, is just the tip of the iceberg.

First, a look at the announced specs, as given above. The dimensions are somewhat large given the displacement, as they’re a pretty close match for Iowa, which is 50%+ heavier at full load, although they’re also not too far from the Alaskas, of roughly the same displacement. The length might make sense if they were going for nuclear power, because a very long hull would minimize power requirements, but it seems that it’s IEP instead. But then we get to armament, and things get weird. It starts with the new ship-launched nuclear cruise missile that Trump has been pushing since his first term. This is basically a replacement for the nuclear Tomahawk, and whatever the logic for or against such a program might be, there’s the problem that I’m pretty sure there’s no need to have this new “battleship” to use the missile. Details on the missile are very sketchy, but given that the base program is targeted at submarines, it probably can just go in the VLS with everything else. If it can’t that’s a requirements problem, and we should change those instead of spending money on this thing. I’m sure the crews will love it, too, given the need to guard the VLS all the time to avoid letting anyone know if there are actually nukes aboard.

Second, there are cells for Conventional Prompt Strike, which is the current hypersonic weapon that they’re pushing. It’s not in service yet, and I’m skeptical how much real value it will deliver. I’m also not entirely sure how many missiles will actually be aboard. Zumwalt recently got four tubes in place of her forward gun, each of which carries three missiles, and I could see either four tubes/12 missiles or 12 tubes/36 missiles, with the latter maybe making more sense given the size of the ship. The graphic provided by the Navy (below) is curiously unhelpful about this, almost like it was put together by someone who doesn’t understand any of this stuff.

Such as the people currently in charge of our naval procurement.

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A Christmas Eve screed from Politico has ignited online mockery, with the outlet claiming ‘far-right’ leaders are weaponizing the holiday by emphasizing its Christian origins amid secular pressures and immigration debates.

The article spotlights Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and others for framing Christmas as a “marker of Christian civilization” being under threat. It accuses far-right parties in Italy, France, Spain, and Germany of repurposing seasonal cheer into a culture war tool, positioning themselves against a “hostile, secular left.”

Roberts highlights Meloni’s defense of traditions, quoting her past remarks: “How can my culture offend you?” in reference to nativity scenes in public spaces. The piece notes Brothers of Italy’s lavish Christmas festival, complete with Santa and ice-skating, as a “spectacle” to rally supporters.

The Times (UK).

Santa Claus and his naughty list should be decolonised in the name of diversity, according to a museum.

Brighton and Hove Museums, a public museum and art gallery, suggested that the tale of Father Christmas should be amended so that he works alongside elves to promote equality, adding that a Mother Christmas could help tackle the patriarchy.

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The state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt has approved a renewed corona emergency for the seventh consecutive year, allowing the regional government to continue drawing on a special pandemic fund in 2026, despite the COVID-19 crisis having largely subsided.

The decision, passed on December 16th, follows approval earlier this month by the cabinet led by Minister-President Reiner Haseloff of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Under the renewed emergency declaration, the state plans to spend up to €790 million next year, including on hospital renovations and digitalisation projects.

Saxony-Anhalt has declared a corona emergency every year since 2020. All other German federal states ended comparable emergency measures by no later than 2024. The corona special fund was initially set at around €2 billion, more than half of which had been spent by October 2025. Hundreds of millions of euros more are earmarked for 2026, with repayments scheduled to begin in 2029 in annual instalments of €100 million.

And the hunt for the storied German Totalitarianism Gene continues.

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If you asked, ‘Name a top Democratic contender for president in 2028 who has a nepo-baby, transgender godson,’ pretty much everyone would immediately say Gavin Newsom… and they’d be correct. A few might throw out Tim Walz as a guess, but let’s be real—it’s Gavin, and the only real debate is which of these two is the bigger clown.

The Telegraph (UK).

University of Cambridge students allegedly carved the word “Terf” into a fellow undergraduate’s door after she showed interest in gender-critical books.

Thea Sewell, 20, says she was ostracised by friends at Christ’s College and condemned as a “bigot” for possessing literature which disputed gender theory – the notion that gender is changeable.

The second-year philosophy undergraduate, who is a survivor of childhood sexual assault, says she continues to be shouted at in the street for allegedly holding “reprehensible” beliefs on gender.

Ms Sewell has now co-founded the Cambridge University Society of Women (CUSW) with other gender-critical students to fight for the right to express their views.

Good luck with that.

The Telegraph (UK).

Men who correct women could face disciplinary action under plans being considered by the Green Party.

Party bosses are considering a proposal to broaden the Greens’ definition of misogyny to the point that “any disagreement” between the sexes could lead to the man facing a sanction.

The revelation is included in an internal 53-page report on legal and reputational risk to the party, which has been leaked to the Telegraph.

The dossier also exposes a wider row over the party’s policies on transgender and LGBT rights, posing material legal and financial risk to Zack Polanski’s party.

The report – produced by the Greens’ own lawyers – warns that internal guidance on identifying transphobia and “queerphobia” risks discriminating against members who question disputed gender theory.

The Green Party Council also was “very close” to adding a document called Guidance on Identifying Misogyny and Sexism to its ethics framework, according to the report.

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The esoteric programming language Velato uses music as its source code. The first note of a composition establishes a “command root” note, and the intervals that follow specify instructions. The command root can be changed between statements, and the notes that make up a chord can be interpreted in a specified order, so there’s some latitude to help a composition sound “musical.”

I am not making this up.

The Telegraph(UK).

British workers who are sensitive to rejection and criticism can sue for disability discrimination, according to a tribunal judgment.

Ryan Toghi claimed he had “rejection sensitivity” as a result of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and won a disability discrimination case against Lidl after he was disciplined.

He is in line to receive compensation after successfully suing the supermarket chain at Cardiff Employment Tribunal.

He won unfair and wrongful dismissal, unfavourable treatment because of “something arising in consequence of disability” and failure to make reasonable adjustments.

Mr Toghill began working as a shift manager at the store in Newport, South Wales, in October 2019. He was promoted to deputy store manager in June 2022.

The tribunal heard Mr Toghill is classified as disabled because he was diagnosed with ADHD in May 2022.
A judgment said he experiences “rejection sensitivity” causing him feelings of extreme anxiety in social or work settings.

Watts Up With That.

he article doesn’t say it was a battery fire, but from the video in the BBC article above, it was a pretty impressive blaze for a simple electrical fault. Of course the intensity of the fire might have been caused by all the disposable single use petroleum based plastic used to construct the climate conference pavilion.

The UN seems determined the conference will continue, but with the conference almost at its end, no significant leaders in town, and many conference center evacuees likely relocating to the nearest wine bar to calm their nerves, there is a good chance a lot of people will pack up and go home early.

Well, we can hope. Let their private jets trail CO2 across the skies….

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Similarly, Galaxy owner Mark had his device stolen by a thief riding an e-bike.
Mark says, “I saw him stop, look at my phone, then throw it on the floor. He cycled off and I retrieved my phone.”
Another funny story highlights Simon, who had an unusually friendly stranger (and would-be thief) drop all interest in him after Simon pulled out his phone.
This led Simon to realize that his chance encounter was part of a potential mugging. “[Simon] overhead the would-be thief explaining to his apparent accomplice why they were giving up: “Phone’s dead, innit.””
As noted by John Gruber at Daring Fireball, iPhone-Android ownership in the UK is about 50-50. But clearly, at least because of high resale value, the iPhone remains a lot more desirable.

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A new right-wing political party in Belgium called TRUMP has been launched, taking its name from current U.S. President Donald Trump, whom its founder calls “the ultimate symbol of populism.”

TRUMP is short for Tous Réunis pour l’Union des Mouvements Populistes (All United for the Union of Populist Movements). The group follows earlier francophone movements, including the now-dissolved Chez Nous and the former Belgian Front National.

The party is led by Salvatore Nicotra, a former chairman of the Belgian Front National. Speaking to Brussels outlet BRUZZ, he said Donald Trump represents the values the new party wants to promote.

Unlike Vlaams Belang, Belgium’s largest right-wing nationalist party, which seeks independence for the Dutch-speaking Flanders region, Nicotra says TRUMP supports a unified Belgian state. He describes the platform as “right-wing populist with a social focus.”

TRUMP plans to run in Belgium’s 2029 federal and European elections and may also field candidates at regional and local level. The official launch is scheduled for 30 November.

The announcement comes as Prime Minister Bart De Wever’s five-party coalition struggles to finalise the national budget. De Wever is pushing for €10 billion in spending cuts and has asked King Philippe for more time—until Christmas—to strike a deal.

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It is a snapshot of cultural collapse: A young German woman with pink hair in clergyman’s robes, facing four men, bestowing her approval on their bizarre sexual arrangement, the details of which we are blessedly unaware. The pro-LGBT pastor is now under fire for blessing the ‘marriage’ of four men who showed up at a pop-up wedding fair at Berlin’s St. Paul the Apostle Church recently. Lena Müller, the 33-year-old clergyperson in question, posted a photo of the ceremony to Instagram.

According to the Times, Müller said that the relationship “consisted of two Latvians, a Thai citizen and a fourth man who she believed was Spanish.” This group of men, which I regret to inform you is referred to as a ‘polycule,’ was pronounced a “marriage in the eyes of God,” according to Müller. The wedding fair was “part of a programme offering free blessing for couples who wish to avoid ‘lengthy formalities,’” which in this case would probably include a Constitutional Court case and new legislation.

“Four young men said ‘yes’ to each other, celebrated love with us and placed themselves under G*d’s colourful blessing … What an honour, that these four asked for a blessing with so much trust,” Müller wrote in her Instagram post, which she has since deleted. I can’t help but suspect that upon arriving at the fair, the polyamorous polycule swiftly identified her as the likeliest pink-haired purveyor of the moral approval they sought.

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Is polygamy a human right? This is the question currently being pondered by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg. The case has been brought by a Yemeni refugee, Khaled Al-Anesi, a lawyer who was granted asylum in the Netherlands following the Arab Spring. He arrived in the country with his first wife and their eight children, deciding not to request reunification with his second and third wives, as polygamy is illegal under Dutch law. He did, however, demand that the five children he had with his other wives join him in the Netherlands. At this point, the Dutch government refused, noting that the children were perfectly safe with their mothers in Turkey, where they enjoyed refugee status.

The Telegraph (UK).

A newsreader who went viral after she made a face while changing the word “pregnant people” to “women” during a live broadcast has been found to have broken BBC impartiality rules.

Martine Croxall made the expression as she changed her script in an introduction to an interview with an assistant professor about groups most at risk during UK heatwaves.

Croxall won a legion of fans following the live broadcast, including author JK Rowling.

The broadcaster’s Executive Complaints Unit (ECU), however, considered her facial expression expressed a “controversial view about trans people”.

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There is another bizarre filing from Mark Elias, the controversial Democratic lawyer who helped to secretly fund the infamous Steele Dossier. In a new filing, Elias is challenging the district in New York City with the lone Republican member as violating the state voting rights act. Elias is effectively arguing that voting Republican is evidence of racism.

In the petition, voters bring a New York Voting Rights Act challenge, arguing that the Eleventh District “provides Black and Latino Staten Islanders “less opportunity than other members of the electorate to elect a representative of their choice and influence elections in New York’s 11th Congressional District (“CD-11”), in violation of the prohibition against racial vote dilution in Article III, Section 4(c)(1) of the New York Constitution.”

The filing occurs after New York moved to further gerrymander the state, aiming to eliminate more Republican members of Congress. Across the country, Democrats have pushed for such gerrymandering, but in New York, the efforts are particularly extreme.

Trump received 45 percent of the vote. Republicans are confined to a small handful of districts. It is still too much for Elias.

The Foundry.

Republican organizations and persons by then-special counsel Jack Smith. The new information provided by Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, also prompted a renewed call for Chief Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to be impeached.

In particular, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, denounced the federal judge for signing a gag order preventing AT&T from letting the Texas lawmaker know that his cellphone records had been sought by Smith for at least a year.

“If a judge signs an order reaching a factual conclusion for which there is zero evidence whatsoever, that judge is abusing his power,” Cruz said at the press conference, adding:

“I am right now calling on the House of Representatives to impeach Judge Boasberg.”

Wonder why there is a Senate primary contest in Texas? Because John Cornyn would never even think of doing something like this. To Ted Cruz’s Senator Stork, Cornyn is Senator Log. People want him gone, and if it takes electing Paxton to do it, well, that’s what it takes.

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The headline seems ridiculous, but it is true.

After arriving in Sweden as an asylum seeker when he was a minor, Eritrean migrant Yazied Mohamed raped Meya Åberg in September last year, when she was just 16 years old, while she was on her way back home from work.

According to the Court of Appeal for Upper Norrland, this attack was not “extremely serious”—and so does not warrant deportation—because of its “duration.” This prompted commentator Ian Miles Cheong to note that “the suffering of a 16 year old is now measured in minutes”—a sign of “how far the system has fallen.”

On the ‘seriousness’ of the crime, it is surely worth highlighting that Åberg, now 17, afterwards barely went to school for a year, is still haunted by nightmares and—in her own words—is “really scared to go out and walk by myself.”

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Kohler is expanding its line of bathroom products with Dekoda, an iPhone-connected device that’s designed to be attached to a toilet rim (via The Verge). The device’s included “sensors” point into the toilet bowl, allowing it to analyze what goes on in the bathroom.

Newsbusters.

Gosh, how much “further” right could CBS possibly get? It already has on board hard-core conservatives including Margaret Brennan, John Dickerson, and Norah O’Donnell. Oh, wait.

On Wednesday’s CNN This Morning, lefty media analyst Sara Fischer, discussing Paramount’s purchase of The Free Press, and the naming of Free Press founder Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief of CBS News, claimed that the $150 million that Paramount paid for The Free Press was so excessive as to be “insane,” thereby supposedly proving that Paramount CEO: “David Ellison either has a personal or political interest to sort of bring CBS News further to the right.”

Feel free to laugh at that statement. (What degree of Woke does it take to refer to CBS News as ‘to the right’?)

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A U.S. Postal Service worker was shot in the face during an altercation Friday afternoon in Everett, Washington, and a rival package delivery driver is in custody, according to local police and a postal inspector.

The incident took place at the West Mall Place Apartments. The victim was transported to Providence Hospital with a gunshot wound, the Everett Police Department said in a Facebook post. He was transferred to Harbor View Medical Center in critical condition, Seattle TV station KOMO reported.

Neighbors said the shooter was an Amazon delivery driver, according to KOMO and social media posts. TV footage showed an Amazon vehicle and USPS van behind police crime-scene tape and the Amazon van being towed away later.

“USPS workers don’t let people in the area when they have the mailboxes open. The Amazon driver didn’t particularly like that, they got into an argument, which escalated to a shoving match, which escalated to the Amazon driver shooting the USPS guy in the freaking eye!!! Then he sat there calmly and waited for the cops to show up and claimed self defense,” a poster named Rich Ryan said on Facebook.

Gives “Going Postal” a new meaning.

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A new study has found that people tend to alter their appearance to suit their names. The researchers sought to determine whether parents choose a baby name based on what seems fitting for the baby’s appearance, or if individuals’ facial appearances change over the years to align with the social stereotypes associated with their names.

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Well, it sells everything else….

The Foundry.

After President Donald Trump announced that the Department of Health and Human Services was recommending women abstain from taking Tylenol during pregnancy, some pregnant women with “Trump Derangement Syndrome” began taking the drug in videos they shared on social media.

“There is mounting evidence finding a connection between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and autism—and that’s why the administration is courageously issuing this new health guidance,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said following the president’s announcement.

Now, some pregnant women are ending up in the hospital after overdosing on Tylenol while, in defiance of Trump, aiming to prove that the drug is safe to take during pregnancy.

Think of it as evolution in action.

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Could President Donald Trump become the next prime minister of the United Kingdom? Conservative U.K. politician Jacob Rees-Mogg said the 47th American president could serve across the pond after he wraps his second term.

In an opinion piece published Monday by The Telegraph, Rees-Mogg laid out his case for Trump, which hinges on the Republican president’s Scottish-born mother.

“A child born to a British mother, who was herself born in these Isles, normally has a right to British citizenship,” Rees-Mogg wrote. “Thus, Donald Trump could become a subject of His Majesty, granting him eligibility to stand for Parliament at the next election in 2029, shortly after his term in office as American president ends. If he were then elected, the King could send for him to ask him to form a government as prime minister.”

They could do worse–and have, for decades. But I doubt that he’d do it; Britain is too much of a proglodyte paradise for any rational person’s taste. But never say never….

ALSO: Trump for PM? It might just be possible… (The Telegraph) “This constitutional possibility, an admittedly remote one, has the great virtue of winding up po-faced Lefties who suffer from Trump derangement syndrome, but it also would be an excellent idea, as this country needs a jolt of Trump to extricate it from the slough of despond.”

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What was the true root cause of the anti-immigration riots and protests which rocked the United Kingdom last summer and have continued doing so intermittently ever since? The logical explanation could be that the native population are sick and tired of seeing their civilisation and their culture replaced by unassimilable outsiders, a feeling brought to a head by the murder of three innocent little girls in the town of Southport by a supposed ‘Welsh choirboy’ who later turned out to be a black Rwandan second-generation settler. Yet some British MPs claim to know better: the disturbances were actually caused by crude and ‘offensive’ pictures circulating on the Internet, without which nobody would ever have objected to such acts of senseless infanticide.

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“I’m married to Luigi’s AI; I’m not kidding” a woman among the crowd supporting accused UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin Luigi Mangione proclaimed to a journalist outside a New York courthouse Tuesday.

The unidentified woman was in the crowd that cheered when a judge dismissed terrorism-related charges against Mangione and reduced his first-degree murder charge to second degree. In an on-camera interview, the woman, shown wearing a T-shirt featuring Mangione’s picture inside a heart, described her relationship with an artificial intelligence program designed to mimic the accused killer:

This disease is called “hybristophilia“. It is endemic among women, especially Leftist women.

“AI is the future of romance,” the woman predicted.

And Natural Selection is waiting to purge these people from the gene pool.

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he Cornish are being urged to sign a petition demanding the government recognise Cornwall as the fifth nation of the UK — alongside England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland — and grant it devolved powers.

The campaign is backed by Cornwall council, which passed a motion calling for recognised nation status by 53 votes in favour and 22 against.

The council, run by a Liberal Democrat-led coalition, has been pushing the petition on its social media channels as the deadline looms this week.

Perhaps the Upper Peninsula of Michigan could attempt to become a state. Or maybe the eastern tail of West Virginia. Or even Long Island–wouldn’t that be entertaining.

Rowland O’Connor, the Reform deputy leader on the council, said: “It feels like we are being asked to choose between being English and Cornish. In reality most of us are very proud to be Cornish and English.

Except that the Cornish are not English, unless they came from outside Cornwall. The Cornish are Celts and most closely related to the Welsh, not the Anglo-Saxon-Danes to their West.

On the other hand, it would give Prince William, it’s Duke, someplace to practice being a figurehead.

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It’s pretty hilarious to read economic dunce-in-chief Paul Krugman squawk over President Donald Trump having supposedly worsened a housing crisis that the columnist’s beloved Bidenomics drastically exacerbated in the first place.

Trump is reportedly considering declaring a national housing emergency later this year, as major unit shortages and high rates on 30-year fixed mortgages continue to rankle homebuyers.

Krugman is the poster child for the notion that Economics Is The New Astrology.

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In a few days’ time, France risks finding itself without a government, with a wind of revolt blowing through the streets and the financial markets in turmoil over the spiralling public debt that nothing seems able to stop, but the urgent issue lies elsewhere. Élisabeth Borne, former prime minister recycled as Minister of National Education, retains a sense of real priorities: what if all our present ills stem from the poorly gendered dedication that adorns the Pantheon, the monument that stands in the heart of Paris in honour of the nation’s heroes?