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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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Treating Democrats like the criminal gang they so often are.

UPDATE: Police escort Texas Democrats to prevent new redistricting walkout as California moves to retaliate (Associated Press)

UPDATE Fort Worth Rep. Nicole Collier refuses to leave Texas House, protesting state trooper escorts (David Montgomery/KERA News)

UPDATE: Nicole Collier rejects Speaker Dustin Burrows’ pledge to return for Wednesday morning vote on Republican push to redraw state’s electoral map (Joe Sommerlad/The Independent)

The Register.

The UK government has gone all-in on AI. More than 50 years after Harold Wilson gave his famous “White heat of technology” speech, this is the hot new thing. An AI Strategy has been released. Datacenters are planned. Steps to strengthen AI supply chains are being formulated. And of course, the public sector will lead by example in AI usage.

Whitehall might talk a big game when it comes to IT, but so far the words haven’t fit the picture. Its own State of Digital Government report, released in January, found the central government’s IT portfolio wanting. It classified 28 percent of central government systems as legacy, rising to 70 percent in some areas. HMRC is still paying contractors top dollar to maintain COBOL systems.

Legacy has a specific meaning in government, per the study: “unsupported, has known vulnerabilities, is difficult to maintain, or is unable to meet current business or user needs.”

“For years this problem has plagued both public and private sector organisations,” says Heather Cover-Kus, head of central government at UK tech industry association techUK. “However, the issue is more complex for the public sector as the cost of getting things wrong is very high, as is the cost of doing nothing.”

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President Donald Trump brought up his prospects of winning a Nobel Peace Prize last month in a phone call to Jens Stoltenberg, Norway’s finance minister.

The call reportedly came as Stoltenberg was walking in Oslo and included other U.S. officials. While tariff discussions dominated, Trump brought up the Nobel during the exchange.

“It is true that President Trump called me a few days before his conversation with Prime Minister [Jonas Gahr] Støre. Several of the president’s staff members also participated in the conversation, including Treasury Secretary [Scott] Bessent and Trade Representative [Jamieson] Greer,” Stoltenberg, the former NATO secretary-general, told Politico.

Ah Ah Ah Ah Yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains….

It must be fun to be Trump, to be able to wake up in the morning and ask himself “Who on the Left’s day can I ruin with just a phone call?” and then actually do it. No wonder he’s smiling all the time.

Rather like being Andrew Tate, but with more money and influence.

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A recent report from the Brandenburg Verfassungsschutz (Office for the Protection of the Constitution), leaked to the media outlet NIUS, has revealed that among the reasons for classifying Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) as “an organization with confirmed extremist objectives” is a suggestion made on social media in 2021 to establish a “day of remembrance” for all women raped or murdered by migrants.

The document classifies the proposal made by Anna Leisten, then leader of the AfD youth branch in Brandenburg, as an “attack on human dignity,” and is listed in the section on “violations of human dignity” alongside other statements made by the party’s regional leaders. Leisten wrote: “Today is the day of the ‘sea rescuers.’ How about having a day in memory of all the women and girls murdered or raped by so-called asylum seekers?”

The 142-page report analyzes AfD’s ideological evolution in Brandenburg since 2019. It concludes that the party has removed any positive reference to immigration or integration, focusing on the “cultural incompatibility” of certain groups with German society—which, apparently, is still anathema in Germany.

Unbelievable.

The New York Times, paper of record for the Wokerati.

On a recent sunny Sunday, residents of San Francisco’s Noe Valley gathered to celebrate the opening of a toilet. But not just any toilet. This was the nation’s most infamous public toilet.

In 2022 my colleague Heather Knight, then at The San Francisco Chronicle, noticed the projected price tag on the commode: $1.7 million, which Assemblyman Matt Haney had secured from the state. This was business as usual in San Francisco. Other public toilets had cost about the same. Local officials were planning a celebration. But Knight’s article set off a furor. Gov. Gavin Newsom clawed back the money. The party was canceled. Haney denounced the project he had made possible: “The cost is insane. The process is insane. The amount of time it takes is insane.” He wanted answers.

Phil Ginsburg, the general manager of San Francisco’s Recreation and Parks Department, responded with a letter that is a masterpiece of coiled bureaucratic fury. He told Haney that the department had been “pleasantly surprised” by the “unexpected allocation” of $1.7 million for the Noe bathroom. “Until now,” Ginsburg wrote, “we have not received any questions from you on the estimate.”

But Ginsburg was happy to walk Haney through the numbers and describe how Haney, as a former member of San Francisco’s powerful Board of Supervisors and a current member of the State Legislature, bore responsibility for them. “As you will see, the process is indeed long and expensive,” he noted. “It is also the result of many years of political choices and exacerbated by skyrocketing costs.”

Politicians waste money and then are shocked, shocked that money is being wasted.

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Don’t Mess With Musk.

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“Homelessness Minister”?

UPDATE: In Lieu Of Dystopian Sci-Fi Movie, American Just Watching News From England (Babylon Bee)

The Telegraph (UK).

Police officers told a shopkeeper to take down a sign calling shoplifters “scumbags” because it could cause offence, sparking a free speech row.

Rob Davies put up a handwritten note in his shop after repeated thefts that read: “Due to scumbags shoplifting, please ask for assistance to open cabinets.”

But officers from North Wales Police attended his retro shop in Wrexham and told him to take down the sign as it could cause offence.

This is what Britain has come to.

The War Zone.

Ukrainian soldier surrounded by Russians was recently saved in a robotic rescue effort, which highlights rapid changes occurring in combat rescue. Though about a mile behind enemy lines and the last surviving member of his four-man team, the soldier managed to escape thanks to a 40kg (about 88 pounds) electric bike dropped by a large drone.

This operation was the latest in a growing trend of troops being rescued by drones, though most of the time it has been by uncrewed ground vehicles (UGVs). This method of evacuation is increasing as mobility in Ukraine becomes increasingly limited due to the ubiquity of short-range loitering munitions.

The rescue of the soldier, call sign “Tankist,” was captured in a wild video taken by his unit, the Force of Freedom Battalion of the National Guard’s 4th Rapid Reaction Brigade “Rubizh.” The battalion later posted it to their YouTube channel.

The Other McCain.

This seemed like it was going to be one of those weird social-media episodes that would get a few laughs and disappear before I could be bothered to write about it, but then ABC’s Good Morning America felt the need to weigh in on the Sydney Sweeney Nazi Jeans Scandal, and so here we are, on a Wednesday, still talking about it.

Making a sophomoric double-entendre — “jeans”/“genes” — American Eagle employed This Year’s It Girl to promote their product: “Great jeans,” get it? And were it not for the fact that Donald Trump is president and half of our fellow citizens are in a state of panic-stricken hysteria, this not-remotely-clever ad campaign would never have become such a thing as to attract scrutiny from Major National News Organizations. But the same deranged mentality that justified baseball taking the All-Star Game out of Atlanta because Joe Biden called their election law “Jim Crow 2.0” continues to prevail among the kind of people who voted for Kamala Harris, so I find myself on a Wednesday being compelled to comment on an advertising campaign for overpriced blue jeans.

The Sunday Times (UK)

Litter pickers can often be found in the park of a Sunday morning. But those gathered on east London’s Hackney Marshes this weekened were more energetic than most.

Around 60 enthusiasts armed with gloves, pickers and bin bags are competing to represent the UK in the world cup of SpoGomi, a Japanese-inspired litter-picking sport.

Despite Japan’s reputation for pristine streets, the British are the reigning champions. Defence of their title and plane tickets to the final in Tokyo were at stake.

I’ll bet you didn’t know that there was a “Litter-Picking World Cup”.

What’s next: A lip-gloss world cup?

I guess everybody needs a hobby.

The Times (UK)

ne woman holds the future of two churches in her hands as the only person who has a vote in both the election of the next Archbishop of Canterbury and of the next Archbishop of Wales. And by the end of the week, she could end up as Britain’s first female archbishop herself.

In the Welsh equivalent of a papal conclave, about 40 people will lock themselves away for up to three days from Tuesday to elect the next Archbishop of Wales. Their choice will serve as head of the Church in Wales, the Anglican sister of the Church of England.

One of the voters will be the Right Rev Mary Stallard, 58, the Bishop of Llandaff. She was also named in May as one of the 17 people who will serve on the Crown Nominations Commission, the confidential body that will choose a successor to the Right Rev Justin Welby as Archbishop of Canterbury. She is one of five representatives from non-English Anglican churches with a vote.

Women do love their cosplay.

The Telegraph (UK).

The man credited with reinventing traditional Irish dance notified the court of a “material change in circumstances” – he was moving back to Ireland to run in their presidential elections.

It raises the prospect of the man who once held the Guinness World Record for tap dancing 35 times per second facing off against McGregor.

McGregor, 37, who recently lost a civil case accusing him of rape, declared his intention to run for president in March this year at the White House, where he gained the tacit endorsement of Donald Trump.

So, whom would you pick: The fighter or the dancer? (Mike Tyson or Michael Jackson?)

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If an international court told the Western world to jump off a cliff, would we do it? We may be about to find out. The UN’s top court, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), ruled on Wednesday that wealthy nations must meet their environmental targets, or else face being sued by the states most affected by climate change.

The case was brought to the ICJ by a group of law students from the Pacific Islands—where countries like Vanuatu are particularly at risk from rising sea levels—and was supported by 132 nations in total. As part of the ruling, Judge Yuji Iwasawa also called climate change an “urgent and existential threat,” said that a healthy environment is a human right, and declared that “states must cooperate to achieve concrete emission-reduction targets.” Those who fail to reduce their fossil fuel consumption could expect to cough up “full reparations to injured states in the form of restitution, compensation and satisfaction provided that the general conditions of the law of state responsibility are met.”

The decision is not legally binding, but it could still prove influential. Campaigners and climate lawyers hope that it’ll pave the way for Western nations to pay out ‘compensation’ to countries most affected by climate change. Experts have warned this also opens the door to lawsuits over historic emissions, as less developed nations vie for ‘climate reparations’ from countries like the UK, where the Industrial Revolution began.

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It’s hard to believe he’s been walking freely for months. A woman overdosed in his home. He concealed her death and dumped her body in a bleach-filled trash can in his back yard – where it remained for more than two months. His alleged crimes were heinous. Abuse of a corpse. Concealing a death and obstruction of justice. Class 4 felonies.

Yet after Jose Luis Mendoza-Gonzalez was finally arrested, he couldn’t be held in jail. His alleged crimes didn’t qualify for pretrial detention under the SAFE-T Act, a law passed in 2021 that makes it more difficult to detain alleged criminals for certain crimes. The Act also made Illinois the first state in the country to ban cash bail altogether.

Incredibly, authorities had yet another opportunity to put Mendoza-Gonzalez behind bars. He’s an illegal immigrant and could have been handed over to federal authorities. But Illinois’ sanctuary status meant, again, he was allowed to walk free while awaiting trial.

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Tim Pool says the quiet part out loud.

I agree with him that this is going to be reversed in two seconds, but it raises the sort of issues that generate law review articles for the next twenty years.

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Think of it as evolution in action.

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There exists today, in 2025, a small group of people still fanatically obsessed with COVID-19. They think national governments, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the World Health Organisation are conspiring to hide the truth about the pandemic. They have lost trust in mainstream scientific research, and instead do their own research on wacky cures and remedies.

These people are not ‘far-right,’ anti-vaxx conspiracy theorists, as you might expect. Rather, they are convinced that the COVID-19 pandemic never ended.

Years after the last lockdown measures were lifted, since the daily press briefings stopped, and since the posters instructing us how to properly wash our hands were quietly taken down, for a small, committed group, the pandemic goes on. These are the ‘forever maskers’—people who continue to wear their N95 masks in public, refuse to meet friends and family indoors, and disinfect every item they touch.

You may have come across them on social-media sites like X, berating others whom they deem to be less virtuous than they are, for not abiding by these insane, self-imposed rules. They insist that the pandemic isn’t over, that it will never be over, and that not taking the ‘right’ precautions could literally kill you or your loved ones.

Hey, you gotta look for yourself … nobody else is going to.

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“Dark Academia is a decorating style that draws inspiration from academic settings, a sense of intellectualism and classic literature.”

Find the intellectualism and classsic literature!  Try to pick it out from the Homeless Encampment Vibe!

“Characterized by its cozy and moody atmosphere and it’s dark color palette. Dark Academia tends to emphasize rooms that emphasize a love of learning and knowledge while simultaneously channelling a moody, nostalgic, Gothic aesthetic with definite Hogwarts undertones. This includes features like

old libraries,

candle-lit study rooms, or, more generally,

think of walking through Edinburgh or Oxford on a rainy winter day.”

The New York Times, a Voice of the Crust.

Six traits can determine your ‘it’ factor, according to researchers who measured coolness around the globe.

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

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On Nov 13, 2015, Muslim terrorists attacked a concert at the Bataclan theater in Paris, opening fire on the crowd while shouting, “Allah Akbar.” The Muslim attackers took 20 hostages, killed 90 concertgoers and left hundreds wounded. A year later the theater reopened under new ownership with ‘Insallah’ or ‘If Allah Wills” by Sting to support the Muslim migrants invading Europe. One of the members of the American band that had been playing during the attack was banned from attending the commemoration because he had been accused of ‘Islamophobia’.

A few years later, there was a Bataclan concert featuring a Muslim rappers supporting Jihad. After Oct 7, the Bataclan was filled with shouts of ‘Free Palestine’ at yet another Islamic concert.

By then Muslim terrorists had racked up multiple concert massacres at the Open Festival suicide bombing in Germany in 2016, the Manchester Arena bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in 2017 which killed 22 people, some of them children, and wounded over 1,000, the Nova festival massacre which killed nearly 400 people and the Moscow concert hall attack in 2024 that killed 145 people and wounded over 500.

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Feel free to laugh. I did.

Natural Selection is SUCH a bitch….

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The Pop Culture Crisis YouTube channel is some of the best free entertainment available.

From an evolutionary standpoint, such women will not reproduce and their defective genes will be flushed from the gene pool. It may take a while; we may not live to see it; but (like the Second Coming) it will happen eventually.

Victor Davis Hanson.

We’ve been in disagreements on trade and other issues about the border with both of them recently. But here’s what’s happened. Given all this contention, you would think that Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Prime Minister Mark Carney in Canada would want to cool passion. But that’s not what happened.

Recently, Canada decided that they were going to enforce the digital services tax. That was something that was passed but not enforced yet. And what it was is a 3% tax on our tech companies—Amazon, Apple, Meta, Google—by anybody in Canada who uses their service.

You buy something online, you buy an ad, you pay a fee to any of these and you’re Canadian, then you’re going to pay 3%—you’re going to have to have a 3% tax for the use of Canadian consumers. And they don’t even have to be in Canada. They can be in the United States. So, they’re going to charge them 3%.

And this is the killer. They’re going to enforce the law all the way back to 2022. So, all of a sudden next month, our tech companies—not that I worry about their financial situation. There’s $9 trillion of market capitalization in Silicon Valley. But the idea that they’re going to be gouged for $2 or $3 billion right in the middle of these heated discussions.

And what are those heated discussions? Canada has $63 billion in trade surpluses with us. That’s one backdrop. They have an unenforced border. As we close the southern border, some of the influxes of drugs and illegal aliens started to come northward. And of course, they pay 1.37% of gross domestic product in NATO contributions.

So, given that all those are contentious issues, why would the Canadians now create a new tax? I know they passed it a while back, but why would they start enforcing it right now and try to rub our noses in it? It makes no sense.

The same thing is true of Mexico. There’s about $1.5 trillion of total trade between Mexico, the United States, and Canada. And if you look at it, most of that growth and wealth is in the United States.

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A class action lawsuit was filed Thursday against Walmart for firing Black workers with criminal records. The suit follows years of accusations by progressive organizations claiming that Walmart has “shown a pattern of firing qualified Black workers” because of past involvement with the legal system – a practice they say perpetuates “racial and economic inequality”.

Maybe they just don’t want to hire criminals. Can’t say that I blame them.

“Having a record does not define you or your character,” said Marcos Ceniceros, with Warehouse Workers for Justice.

No. It illustrates the character you have. Or lack of it.

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Like the Marvel franchise, with its unlimited instalments and spin-offs, a new Covid scare campaign is underway in Australia.

Like the Marvel franchise, the entertainment content exists largely to create demand for merchandise.

Unlike most Marvel films, this latest virus fear-mongering drive is turning out to be a massive flop.

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Belgian activists from the ‘Stop Arming Israel’ campaign group raided buildings of the defense company OIP on Monday, reportedly causing almost a million euros’ worth of damage. Destroyed equipment means a new delivery of military equipment will be delayed by “at least a month,” according to CEO Freddy Versluys, which is a fairly successful result for the protesters…

… except that OIP has not made defence systems for Israel for 20 years. Versluys explained that “we do not sell anything to Israel, they have destroyed vehicles for Ukraine.”

OIP was likely targeted because its parent company, Elbit Systems, is Israeli-owned. But the work of this “extreme left-wing militia,” as Belgian defence minister Theo Francken put it, has simply delayed the delivery of tanks that would have been used in the war against Russia. This, said Versluys, is “the only thing these ‘Hamas sympathisers’ have achieved with their action.”

If these activists are anything like their leaders in Brussels—who slate Israel’s wars against Hamas terrorists and an Islamist regime while apparently pining for a never-ending conflict in Ukraine—they will be sorely hurt by their slip-up.

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A major poll before primary day in New York City shows Queens Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani pulling ahead of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the race to become the city’s next mayor.

According to Emerson College / Pix11 / The Hill, Mamdani – a socialist and former rapper who went by “Mr. Cardamom,” has a 52% edge over Cuomo’s 48% among early voters and likely voters.

New York City is on its way to shoot itself in the foot–again.

Time to leave.

Fortune, a Voice of the Crust.

Obviously he takes evolution seriously–unlike Bill Gates and his Woke brethren.

Really, how much does this differ from what a venture capitalist does? VCs invest in promising entities knowing that a lot of them will fail, in the hope that the ones who win will win big.

ZMan reviews The Accountant 2:

In the first film, Affleck plays an autistic guy who was raised and trained by a military father to be a warrior, but his autism lets him be an accounting savant due to his extraordinary math skills. We first met him when he was hired to audit the books of a biotech company. We learn his backstory as the plot leads him from the audit to the action thriller portion of the story.
The sequel feels like it was made by first putting plot ideas into a hat and then drawing out a bunch of them. These were then given to separate teams of writers to create those sections of the plot. Then it was filmed separately and stitched together by whoever is tasked with editing. It also has far too many people, so it wastes a lot of time trying to explain why they are in the film.
It starts with the J. K. Simmons character from the first film in retirement, working on a mysterious case. He is meeting a female assassin at a bar when a group of assassins turn up to kill him. There is a big shootout with all the John Wick style fighting scenes, but it is unclear if the assassins are there for the female or for Simmons. They kill Simmons, which is the hook to bring in the rest of the cast.
The strong black female who was trained by Simmons in the first film is now being strong and black in his old job. Simmons had written the words “FIND THE ACCOUNTANT” on his arm during the shootout. She sees this at the morgue and then sets out to locate the accountant, Ben Affleck. The death of Simmons is the McGuffin to get the band together to solve the mystery of his death.
At this point the film starts taking detours to explore the characters. We learn that Affleck has been learning how to date. His brother is learning how to buy a pet, which makes no sense at the time. We learn that Affleck works with a secret army of autistic children who help him break into computer systems, identify people, and help him solve mysteries in real time. I did not make that up.

I would encourage you to join ZMan’s Substack, where he pulls no punches.

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Yeah,  that seems to be a pretty firm hint.

Think of it as evolution in action.

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The Swedish Ombudsman for Discrimination (DO) has determined a hospital was guilty of discrimination after a person who gave birth in their maternity ward was referred to as “mother” in medical records despite identifying as a man. The Ombudsman calls it a “clear case of discrimination.”

While staff adhered to the wishes of the patient—spelled out in the birth plan as well as on a whiteboard in the hospital room—and used male pronouns during the birth and aftercare, all medical records did not.

In a letter of complaint to the DO last year, the patient wrote: “Despite multiple occasions at different times and in various contexts when I have said that I want to be referred to with male pronouns, this has been ignored in parts of my medical records. Even though it is clearly stated in the same record.”

The male-identifying woman also felt offended by a survey she received after giving birth, addressed to “pregnant women and new mothers.”

The health care region explains that certain terms—presumably including ‘mother’ for a person who gives birth—are pre-installed in their software and cannot be changed. Changes are in progress, the region said, but DO’s criticism remains.

“For more than ten years now, it has been possible to change gender identity without prior sterilization,” the DO writes. “The region has, nevertheless, not taken any measures to make it possible to change the designation of birthing persons in the medical records system to a gender-neutral term.”

Marie Bennermo, head of patient safety, told Sörmlands Nyheter last year that the healthcare system has not kept up with the new changes: “It may be that we are stuck in the idea that a mother is a mother, and a father is a father. That is why it is important to learn from cases like these.”

Or maybe hospitals and health care providers should stick to the medical and biological facts?

The Antiplanner.

Oregon housing prices are “soaring.” Homelessness is increasing. Not having anything else to do, homeless people turn to drugs, aided by city and county programs giving them free syringes and other paraphernalia.

This leads to conflicts as people who actually have homes find their neighborhoods invaded by homeless people and their tents (given to them by the county government), drug dealers, and associated problems. This has Progressives looking around for someone to blame for all this other than themselves.

The latest scapegoat is the Oregon bottle bill. Passed in 1971 to help control litter, the bottle bill requires a 10 cent deposit on all beverage cans or bottles. As a result, up to 80 percent of Oregon cans and bottles are returned for recycling, as opposed to around a third in states with no bottle bills. Environmentalists and libertarians both support the bottle bill as an incentive-based solution to the problem of littering and pollution.

Yet now the bottle bill is come under attack for “dragging down Portland” because homeless people pick up discarded bottles and take them to redemption centers, which then become centers for drug trafficking. This has led the legislature to amend the bottle bill to make it more difficult to return bottles for a refund.

The Foundry.

Beware: The effort to get woke activism out of investing is really a secret plot to force Christian supremacy and theocracy on the nation!

Don’t believe me? Just ask the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The SPLC has a knack for finding the secret racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-immigrant motive behind anything, and its reporter is on the case.

This time, the intrepid R.G. Cravens has uncovered a conspiracy so deep, it seems utterly incomprehensible to the uninitiated.

I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

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“Jocelyn, you know, I just, I’m really uncomfortable with this conversation because you’re like actually spreading rumors that you don’t know anything about.”

The charge from NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya came during an uncomfortable and confusing interview with Science Magazine reporter Jocelyn Kaiser last week. The DisInformation Chronicle is releasing a recording of the interview and a transcript.

During almost 20 minutes of back and forth, Kaiser pressed Bhattacharya several times to account for canceled grants as well as news accounts of turmoil inside the agency, while Bhattacharya asked Kaiser to clarify and explain exactly what she was asking. Kaiser’s interview then ended up in two Science Magazine articles that falsely implied Bhattacharya misled Kaiser about a new policy on NIH grants.

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While it is not allowed to have statues of Thomas Jefferson or Teddy Roosevelt, among others, in New York City, a 12 ft bronze statue of a random fat black woman just standing there is certainly permitted.

I hope they’re including the four-inch fingernails, the tattoos, and the three kids by different baby daddies….

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No wonder I love it.

If you consume protein, you’re now a right wing MAGA extremist bro, according to Vanity Fair.

Yes, really.

A recent article the moribund magazine published asks “Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Protein?” and provides the answer “blame MAGA,” further referring to “podcast bros” and RFK Jr.’s health push as reasons why protein is popular.

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Former vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz recently told an audience at Harvard’s Kennedy School that former Vice President Kamala Harris chose him as a running mate because of his uncanny ability to connect with the average Caucasian cisgender dude

“I could code talk to white guys—watching football, fixing their truck,” he explained. “I was the permission structure to say, ‘Look, you can do this and vote for this.’”

It’s true, all the fellas are talking about “permission structures” these days.

Norwegians have a word for it. It’s ‘Quisling’.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

I guess being Progressive trumps being Jewish. Good to know.

The Times (UK)

The British Medical Association seems to be full of Woke doctors.

The British Medical Association has been accused of “destroying trust in medicine” and perpetuating “medical misogyny” after doctors condemned the Supreme Court’s ruling on sex.

The wing of resident doctors passed a motion on Saturday stating the court’s verdict that a woman is defined by biological sex was “scientifically illiterate” and harmful to transgender people.

Other doctors have criticised the stance for denying the biological reality of sex. Dr Louise Irvine, co-chair of the Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender, said: “­It is really worrying for female patients to think that doctors are seriously arguing that sex is not a clear-cut category in healthcare. Doctors have to recognise sex in order to be able to practise medicine properly and safely.

“As a doctor, you need to know sex for accurate diagnoses. Sex matters for NHS service provision and single-sex wards. It is misogynistic to negate or ignore women’s rights. Medical misogyny is a huge problem. The profession has a long, long history of misogyny. Now the BMA is making out that sex is a nebulous concept and category. If doctors don’t understand sex then I don’t think they should be doctors.”

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A Canadian court has ruled that children in the province of Quebec can have more than two parents, CBC News reported.

Reuters, a Voice of the Crust.

A U.S. Navy sailor suffered minor injuries when an F-18 fighter jet and its tow tractor fell overboard from an aircraft carrier in the Red Sea, the U.S. military said on Monday.

In a statement, the Navy said that all personnel were accounted for. The carrier, the Harry Truman, is aiding strikes against the Iran-backed Houthi group in Yemen.

*sigh*

UPDATE: US Navy loses $60 million jet at sea after it fell overboard from aircraft carrier (CNN)

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Joe Biden, 82, is still eligible to run for president again in 2028, and hasn’t ruled anything out. The frail geezer shuffled gingerly back into the national spotlight this week, giving the keynote address at a convention of disability rights advocates in Chicago.

It was Biden’s first major speech since leaving office, and it didn’t get off to a great start. He wandered up to the microphone and started talking while his Bruce Springsteen entrance music was still blaring over the loudspeakers. The speech was supposed to be about Social Security. Naturally, the former president opened with a long-winded, inscrutable anecdote about Delaware’s history as a slave state, his father’s career prospects after “coal died” in Pennsylvania, his memory of watching the “colored kids” get bused to school, and how the latter supposedly inspired him to go into politics for the rest of his life. For good measure, Biden blasted “roughly 30 percent” of Americans—the ones who strongly support Donald Trump and his agenda—for having “no heart.”

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In yet another incredulous case, the British justice system has decided in its infinite wisdom that a Somali criminal will be allowed to stay in the UK because returning him to his home country would cause him too much “stress”.

The Telegraph reports that a judge in the upper immigration tribunal ruled that the asylum seeker would suffer “stress” if deported to his homeland, which would worsen his mental health, thereby breaching article three of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which protects against persecution and inhumane treatment.

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Millionaire cosplay socialist Bernie Sanders took his ‘Fight Oligarchy’ tour to Coachella festival over the weekend, perfectly epitomising how fake and contrived the entire thing is.

The tickets for this thing cost several hundreds of dollars a piece. It’s a glamping weekend for trendy comfortable wannabe influencer 20 somethings who have no idea what everyday Americans are going through.

The perfect venue for Democrats like Sanders and his side kick AOC to reel off lists of alarmist ’causes’ they’re making dollars from.

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As President Trump’s long-anticipated reciprocal tariff deadline approaches tomorrow, early signals suggest that the global trading system may soon undergo disruptions and structural shifts. These changes eventually set the path for the administration’s ‘America First’ trade agenda to flourish and raise barriers for foreign automakers seeking to access the U.S. market. In turn, domestic automakers like Ford Motor Company, General Motors, and Tesla will have massive competitive advantages.

One of the first major changes is that Mercedes-Benz Group AG will potentially stop flooding the U.S. with cheap entry-level cars after spending the last three decades shifting down-market to attract younger and broader demographics.

I can think of many things to say about Mercedes, but ‘cheap’ and ‘entry level’ aren’t included.

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*sigh* This is why nobody except young foolish people take ‘journalists’ seriously. ‘Cosplay’ (and that is what all non-violent leftist protests/demonstrations are) is pure theatrical virtue-signaling, which has absolutely no effect in the real world except to convince the undecided that the people on their side are a bunch of delusional adolescents. ‘That’ll show ’em!’

Yeah, it will show them, but showing them doesn’t Get the Job Done. This is like Chris Pratt in Guardians of the Galaxy attempting to do a ‘dance-off’ against a bad guy. In the real world (not in a movie) that would get the fool shot. The fact that it didn’t happen in the movie makes for a good play but reality is not a stage, Shakespeare to the contrary notwithstanding.

E.G: Cory Booker Has Been Bashing Trump on Senate Floor for 17 Straight Hours (Ryan Bort/Rolling Stone)

Senator Cory Booker’s all-night marathon speech in the Senate is a signature example. It didn’t keep the Senate from moving on a piece of the Trump agenda. It was merely mugging for the cameras. Totally worthless except to give warm fuzzies to The Usual Suspects.

Power Line.

A video clip of U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Sec. Brooke Rollins at a recent cabinet meeting shows her making the following statement,

Even at the U.S. Department of Agriculture we’ve cancelled a $300,000 contract educating on food justice for queer and transgender farmers in San Francisco and a similar contract we cancelled in New York, again, educating queer and transgender farmers on food justice and food equality.

I’m not even sure what that means.

I’m with her. Over the years, I have traveled extensively throughout the 49 square miles of the City-County of San Francisco, I have never seen a plot of land that resembles a working farm.

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That seems to be the case as social media has been abuzz in recent days over the university’s choice to offer a new Math course, called MA5, heading into the new year. The Harvard Crimson first wrote about the introduction of the new course back in September of last year, but discussion over the course has caught fire on X in recent days.

The course is called Math MA5, and it is an introductory course addressing gaps in students’ algebra skills, according to Brendan A. Kelly, Director of Introductory Math.

Which begs the question: why are students getting into Harvard incapable of doing algebra, which generally starts in junior high or high school?