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?

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Well, what did she expect? Flowers and a box of candy?

Gothamist.

Marketing experts aren’t surprised. The surprise saturation, they say, has been building for years alongside another growing trend: the algorithm-based predictability of online shopping. And they say that New Yorkers are increasingly drawn to the unknown, and even paying more for it, because they’re exhausted by all the choices and control available to them in other areas of life, particularly online. Some predict that this trend is only beginning.

“?Surprise is an emotion intensifier. It’s a way to just kind of turn up the volume on the vibrancy of life,” said psychology researcher and “surprisologist” Tania Luna, who co-authored the 2015 book “Surprise: Embrace the Unpredictable and Engineer the Unexpected.”

“We’re living an increasingly algorithm-driven existence that really is catering to comfort, predictability, ease, convenience,” she said, noting that many of us experience a “numbness” from spending so much time scrolling and looking at screens. Surprise can function as a balm, she said.

Since, as Democrat voters, they have no idea what their tax dollars are paying for (or into whose pockets they’re landing), they ought to be used to it by now.

Q: Where is Bruce Wayne when you really need him?
A. He moved to Florida with the other billionaires to escape high taxes and ungrateful Underclass scumbags.

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A professor of physics and gender studies who has argued that “white empiricism” undermines Einstein’s theory of general relativity now sits on a top physics advisory panel within the Department of Energy, raising questions from fellow scientists about the panel’s integrity and providing a potential target for the Trump administration as it seeks to stamp out DEI within the federal government.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a cosmologist at the University of New Hampshire who has suggested that string theory “failed to succeed” because the field has too many white men, was appointed to the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP) under the Biden administration in 2024. The panel advises the Energy Department on research and funding priorities for particle physics, giving it significant say over which projects receive federal support.

Prescod-Weinstein will remain on HEPAP until 2027 unless the Trump administration takes action to remove her. Her role at the Energy Department has rankled some scientists, who say that an institution tasked with directing federal research should not be advised by a woman who, in one 2020 paper, wrote that “Black feminist theory intersectionality should change physics.”

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Humans have made the world less hospitable for birds in many ways. One obvious and intentional example of this can be found in towns and cities worldwide: anti-bird spikes. The pointy wires you might see attached to roofs, ledges, and light poles are meant to deter urban species like pigeons from landing, pooping, and even nesting where people don’t want them to. But in an avian act of poetic justice, a handful of European birds have struck back.

Apparently Carrion Crows and Eurasian Magpies are stealing and repurposing the spikes as a nest-building material. Nests featuring the deterrent were documented in a study published Tuesday in the Dutch journal Deinsea, an online periodical from the Natural History Museum Rotterdam.

Many birds are known to use human-made elements in their nests. In fact, 176 different species have been documented nest building with synthetic materials, according to another study published this week in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Yet the birds in the Dutch study are exceptional for having taken something so purposefully built to minimize their presence and using it to rear the next generation.

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Is this a great country or what?

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You can’t make it up: There are few things climate activists love more than holding conferences to congratulate themselves on saving the world. This year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference will be held in Belém, Brazil. To accommodate the more than 50,000 attendees—along with their private jets and SUV motorcades—local officials are bulldozing tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest to make way for a new four-lane highway called “Freedom Avenue.”

OffGuardian.

In December 2024, a Romanian court cancelled the second round of the planned Presidential election and annulled the completed first round, citing (totally theoretical) “Russian interference”.

This caused massive protests in Romania, as you can imagine. The first round had been won by right winger C?lin Georgescu following a social media-based campaign, and he was predicted to quite easily win the second round as well.

The Romanian opposition – denied a likely victory – took their case to the European Court of Human Rights.

Then, earlier today, the ECHR threw the case out without even hearing it. Apparently, the Romanian courts were perfectly within their rights to simply indefinitely postpone their election on the basis of unproven allegations, and all those people who already voted and wanted to vote again can just go to hell.

This is the ECHR, which lectures the world on rights and democratic norms on the regular.
And everyone is apparently just fine with it. It’s crazy.

REVEALED: The enormous amount of money you now have to earn to be considered middle class (UK Daily Mail)

What does it take to be middle class in 2025? New study explains (The Hill)

This is what it takes to be a middle class earner in Houston in 2025 (CultureMap Houston)

How much you need to earn to be middle class in Columbus and Ohio (NBC4 Columbus)

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As a prospective Senate candidate, Pete Buttigieg is denouncing the diversity trainings that have become synonymous with the Democratic Party’s liberal wing, saying they look “like something straight out of Portlandia.” As mayor of South Bend, Ind., he championed such training, with his administration implementing a series of diversity sessions that lectured cops on “sizeism” and “languageism” amid a surge in violent crime.

Buttigieg, speaking Tuesday at a University of Chicago Institute of Politics panel on the “Future of the Democratic Party,” addressed the party’s focus on “diversity.” He said he would “always fight” to care “for people’s different experiences.” He also took aim at diversity training, saying Americans shouldn’t be made to “sit through a training that looks like something out of Portlandia, which I have also experienced, and it is how Trump Republicans are made.”

Cops in South Bend had a similar experience when Buttigieg served as mayor.

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Yes, really.

Because it begins with ‘man’ it is somehow holding back women from going into the manufacturing industry.

Schakowsky, the ranking Democrat member on the House Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade Subcommittee, for some unfathomable reason, posited that only around 13 percent of people in manufacturing are female because the word itself just “sounds like a guy.”

I guess Biden isn’t the only Democrat with brain-rot.

Your tax dollars at work.

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The dangerously spiralling mental health crisis in America was on full show Tuesday as the City Council in Worcester Massachusetts voted in favour of becoming a “sanctuary city for the transgender community.”

City officials voted to enshrine a commitment to transgender rights, and not to prevent people seeking so called ‘gender-affirming care.’

The measure will also prevent information on transgender identifying and ‘gender diverse’ individuals being shared with out-of-state agencies.

The vote was brought after Councilor-at-Large Thu Nguyen, a non-binary identifying member of the board, alleged that ‘they’ had been harassed and misgendered by other city officials.

A parade of individuals spoke for hours in public comments about how unsafe they feel since President Trump’s signed an executive order outlining that the federal government recognizes only “two sexes, male and female.”

Practically every person who spoke at the hearing appeared and sounded completely unhinged, again underscoring that this is a mental health problem that shouldn’t be normalised.

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Officials in the Brdy region of the Czech Republic were at an impasse.

Despite securing more than one million dollars’ worth of funding for a new dam to address water issues, the project had stalled after seven years of planning because the necessary building permits for such a structure couldn’t be acquired.

But then, everyone woke up one morning in January to find that the job had been completed—by eight beavers. For free.

Sometimes the old ways are best. Come, follow the Way of the Beaver.

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Believing that Trump (ironically, one of the two most pro-gay presidents in American history) wants to kill or imprison homosexual couples gives meaning to their lives. A perverse meaning, to be sure, but meaning nonetheless. Strangely, this desire to be oppressed only happens in a decent and tolerant society.

If this were the 1950s America or a Muslim country today, this lesbian couple couldn’t afford their beliefs. In a similar fashion, children of super-rich people who are secular tend to be Marxists because they can afford nonsense beliefs that spiritually fulfill them.

Now, modern Marxism (Wokism) doesn’t make people very happy. Wokists are similar to the most miserable type of Christian imaginable, one constantly hating this or that group of people. I recall in Angela’s Ashes a Catholic in Ireland watched a lovely Protestant family enjoying Christmas Eve through a window as he was working as a mailman. Watching a happy Protestant family celebrating Christmas day, he thought to himself, “How can these Protestants be so happy? Don’t they know they are going to hell?”

Bloomberg, a Voice of the Crust.

Former President Joe Biden re-signed with Creative Artists Agency, returning to the talent representatives who managed him after eight years as vice president.

While a CAA client, Biden published his memoir Promise Me, Dad, launched the 42-date American Promise tour, selling more than 85,000 tickets nationwide, and headlined numerous speaking engagements, CAA said Monday in a statement.

Creative Artists is one of the top talent agencies in the world, with clients that include personalities in film and entertainment, sports and music.

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The monetary black hole that is the MTA apparently hasn’t figured out a way to secure its property, despite what appears to be an incessant, neverending need for additional cash.

That’s because the NYPD is now searching for six suspects who allegedly stole an R train from a Brooklyn storage yard and took it for a joyride, traveling down the tracks.

The incident occurred around 10 p.m. Saturday near the 71st Avenue station in Forest Hills, Queens, according to Fox 5.

Fox reported that the suspects operated the train and vandalized its camera by marking the glass panels. No arrests or injuries have been reported. Their identities and whereabouts after leaving the train remain unknown.

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Cue ‘Sheep Will Safely Graze’ from Handel’s Messiah.

Sheepherder JR Howard accidentally found himself in the middle of Texas’ burgeoning clean energy transition. In 2021, he and his family began contracting with solar farms — sites with hundreds of thousands of solar modules — to use his sheep to eat the grass.

What was once a small business has turned into a full-scale operation with more than 8,000 sheep and 26 employees.

It’s an ill wind that blows nobody good.

The Guardian, a Voice of the Crust.

Proglodytes are always looking for ways to stop people they don’t like from doing things they don’t like.

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You can’t make this stuff up.

Residents of Worcester, Massachusetts are spending taxpayer dollars so their “non-binary” town councilor can take a month-long “mental health” leave of absence. Why? Because “they” were “misgendered,” of course!

“Mr. Chairman, under your leadership, I have felt unsafe around this council body,” announced Thu Ngyuen, a Keffiyeh-wearing council member over a Zoom call on Tuesday.

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It’s not proglodyte incompetence, it s CLIMATE CHANGE that’s to blame!

UPDATE: Three Hard Truths About California’s Fire Crisis

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Everyone knows National “Public” Radio hates half the public, the half that voted for Donald Trump. On Wednesday’s terribly named All Things Considered, an eight-minute story on NPR promoted “Sequeerity,” an LGBT security force in Minneapolis protecting their own from the allegedly violent hatred of the Trump-loving right-wing extremists.

The reporter was their “domestic extremism” reporter Odette Yousef, who doesn’t report on any LGBT extremism — they don’t acknowledge that exists. that can’t be identified. The sympathetic headline was “Neighbors protecting neighbors: Worried marginalized communities prep for Trump term.”

Newsbusters.

No play or musical is safe, at this point, from being re-written into a woke cliche.

But if you didn’t think a classic could be done any more injustice than by turning Oz gay, Broadway just employed our Supreme Court’s DEI judge to ruin Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet!

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The tortured take, which recycles overplayed pop songs as their official score, decides Juliet doesn’t “need no man” because she’s a strong independent woman, of course! So they thought… What better way to promote that message than by rewarding Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who doesn’t know what a woman is, with a cameo?

In a performance riddled with second-hand embarrassment, Jackson marched out on stage, Saturday night, wearing a pants-dress getup.

UPDATE: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, a longtime theater lover, makes her Broadway debut (Rachel Treisman/NPR)

UPDATE: ‘HISTORIC’: CBS’s Norah O’Donnell Gushes Over Justice Theater Kid’s Broadway Cameo

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When the dust of history settles, some episodes are destined for the “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up” department. Case in point: Climate Defiance, a climate activism group, recently made headlines by “shutting down” the Department of Energy. Or so they claimed. In reality, they staged a protest blocking the entrance to an unused parking garage, which is as effective as barricading a revolving door with a sticky note. Their social media triumphalism was rich: “Revolution in the air!” they proclaimed, while senior DOE officials apparently remained blissfully unaware of this Earth-shaking inconvenience.

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The New York Times added menstrual products to its Manhattan office’s men’s bathrooms over the summer, according to internal communications obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

The paper’s decision was announced by the vice president for global real estate and facilities, Victor Liu, in a company-wide Slack message. From July 26 to July 29, Liu said, the company would begin “adding menstrual products and sanitary baskets” to the office’s men’s restrooms “to support transgender and non-binary colleagues.” The company also announced that it was “removing gendered imagery and adding language that colleagues are welcome to use the restroom in which they feel most comfortable.”

The move highlights the growing cultural and political rift between legacy media companies and the general public. Polls show that Americans generally support policies that require individuals who identify as transgender to use bathrooms that match their biological sex. President-elect Donald Trump hammered the transgender issue in his successful campaign last fall, which surveys show was one of his most impactful talking points.

The Times declined to comment.