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Irish teacher Enoch Burke has been ordered by the High Court to pay over €200,000 in fines following his refusal to comply with a request to use a student’s preferred pronouns and new name, in a case that has become one of Ireland’s most controversial legal battles over free speech and religious freedom. The controversy began in 2021, when Burke refused to comply with the directive of the principal of Wilson’s Hospital School that said teachers were “expected” to refer to a biologically female who had decided to ‘transition’ as “they.”

A good time not to be living in Ireland.

Quillette.

It is not a pretty sight.

Earlier this year, a human rights tribunal ordered a former school trustee in the Canadian province of British Columbia, Barry Neufeld, to pay a C$750,000 penalty. Tribunal officials concluded that certain statements Neufeld had made, protesting the inclusion of LGBT-related content in the school curriculum, had exhibited “hallmarks of hate.”

“Transpeople are, by definition, people ‘whose gender identity does not align with the sex assigned to them at birth,’” the tribunal declared. “If a person elects not to ‘believe’ that gender identity is separate from sex assigned at birth, then they do not ‘believe’ in transpeople. This is a form of existential denial.”

The Foundry.

No good deed goes unpunished.

Britain used to be a Christian country, but apparently not any more.

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Calls for violence against journalists from the German right-wing news outlets Apollo News and Nius have intensified following attacks on reporters during protests against the Alternative für Deutschland’s (AfD) party congress in Erfurt.

On Wednesday, July 8th, an anonymous post published on the left-wing extremist platform de.indymedia.org urged supporters to take action against journalists from both publications, as well as against the AfD.

The post, attributed to a group calling itself the ‘Kreuzberg Anarchists,’ described the arrival of “right-wing institutions” in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district as a “declaration of war” and called on local activists to make it impossible for them to operate.

The message included the business addresses of Apollo News and Nius, as well as details about the AfD’s planned federal headquarters.

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At the protests against the Alternativ für Deutschland’s (AfD) party conference in Erfurt last weekend, a reporter for Apollo News was chased through the crowd and kicked in the head. He suffered a bloody wound. The next day, representatives of the anti-AfD alliance ‘Widersetzen’ were asked repeatedly if they condemned the attack. Initially they refused. Eventually, one activist replied: “Fascists with a press pass are still fascists.”

This was not any old Antifa gathering. Tens of thousands of people had come to oppose the AfD, with varying degrees of direct and indirect state funding. The German Trade Union Confederation (the DGB) mobilised, alongside a broad network of unions and civil society groups. An official Bundestag response to the event listed more organisations involved in the mobilisation, documenting substantial federal grants to several of them, albeit for other work. For example, MOBIT (Mobile Beratung in Thüringen e.V.)—a prominent German civil society NGO fighting right-wing extremism, racism, and antisemitism—received about €1.1 million across the listed period; NaturFreunde Thüringen more than €2 million across several programmes. The government denies funding Widersetzen’s Erfurt campaign. Nevertheless, the point is not that Berlin paid for a journalist to be kicked in the head; it is that the respectable anti-AfD movement rests on an ecosystem of unions, NGOs, and campaign groups, parts of which are publicly funded.

Political thugs are nothing new. What is new in this case is the social context and justifications of their thuggery. Anti-fascism in Germany has changed from a militant fringe concern into the moral common sense of its educated middle classes. One consequence of this is that the label ‘fascist’ now makes violence less objectionable.

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As Marine Le Pen enters the presidential race, her party is in the eye of the storm. The French press is reporting on the ongoing difficulties faced by Rassemblement National (RN) MPs with banks: despite their status as members of the National Assembly, they have found that banks have no qualms about arbitrarily closing their accounts, for reasons that are not officially stated—that is to say, ideological ones. The phenomenon of banking censorship targeting political opponents of the national Right extends far beyond France’s borders.

According to the public broadcaster France Inter, several RN MPs were dropped by their banks shortly after their election. And these are not minor figures, as they include Jean-Philippe Tanguy, one of the party’s leading figures, and Frank Allisio, a close associate of Marine Le Pen and the RN’s former candidate in the Marseille mayoral elections.

The modus operandi is always the same. A business relationship that has often lasted for years—sometimes more than a decade—and then, one fine day, a terse message with no justification whatsoever. “We no longer see fit to maintain our business relationship,” was the message sent to Thomas Ménagé, MP for the Loiret, who was asked to find another bank. The information is only now being made public, but the termination took place immediately after his election to the National Assembly in 2022.

Under French law, upon becoming MPs, these elected representatives also become ‘PPEs,’ or Politically Exposed Persons, to use banking jargon. According to the Banque de France’s website, such individuals require special attention as they are considered “exposed to higher risks of money laundering.” Banks may therefore choose to rid themselves of these potentially troublesome clients.

Not the Bee.

Remind me: Which side are the fascists?

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Hint: ‘Hostile architecture’ consists of features that make it inconvenient for bums and derelicts to Occupy Your Property (which apparently they have an inalienable right to do).

The author is, of course, an extremely hirstute (but opinionated!) foreigner.

Trump threatens America’s World Cup goodwill with one phone call (Herb Scribner/Axios) Trump’s superpower.

The View: White Supremacists on Train Is ‘Defining Image of Modern America’ No matter what happens, it’s Trump’s fault.

‘Excited but Shocked’: U.S. Soccer Fans Struggle With Trump’s FIFA Call (Billy Witz/New York Times) Because, as we all know, Trump is not allowed to use the phone without Narrative Media supervision.

He was Trump’s boyhood friend. Now he’s pushing Trump to declare a ‘national emergency’ and seize control of the midterms (CNN) Funny how Trumps is constantly being castigated for ‘seizing control’ but he never seems to wind up with control.

Trump Passports Debut, Delighting Some and Dismaying Others (Gabe Castro-Root/New York Times)

Trump’s call to Infantino and plot to ‘free’ Balogun that sparked a huge World Cup controversy (The Athletic)  Mostly among the chattering class.

The Joy of the World Cup Just Collided With Trump (Alex Shephard/New Republic)

Key Health Care Panel Is Again Blocked From Meeting (Maggie Astor/New York Times)  Because, as we all know, if a government body doesn’t do something, nothing ever gets done.

Trump’s Intervention in Balogun’s World Cup Suspension Adds to Conflict With Europe (New York Times)  Because, as we all know, without Trump there wouldn’t be any conflict with Europe.

FIFA Is a Cautionary Tale for Trump (David A. Graham/The Atlantic) Funny, it strikes me as a cautionary tale for FIFA.

Inside Trump’s Ideological Fight With the Smithsonian (New York Times)  Because, as we all know, it can’t possibly be the case that the Smithsonian has an ideological fight with America.

MS NOW Calls Trump a ‘Fascist,’ Denies There Are Communist DSA Candidates  If Trump actually were a fascist, they would all be in jail.

This Is What Trump’s Crazed Posts Are Really About: Political Guru (Vic Verbalaitis/The Daily Beast)  Because, as we all know, the mind-readers at the Daily Beast know more about what Trump is thinking than he does.

Trump’s Iran grudge hangs over NATO summit (Axios)  Because, as we all know, Iran is just minding its own business and would be perfectly fine if it weren’t for Trump’s Grudge.

Top Senate Democrats push Trump-affiliated companies for answers about IRS settlement (Jacob Rosen/CBS News

Iranian Strikes on Ships Test Cease-Fire and Threaten Energy Flows in Gulf (New York Times)  There’s that Trump Grudge again.

‘Trump management’: Everyone else has a plan to keep NATO summit on the rails (Politico)

Italy’s Meloni Refuses to Fuel Trump Feud

As NATO Summit Braces For Trump, Ambassador Warns Allies: ‘We’re Not Going Away, Just Doing Less’

Trump and the Fifa debacle (Edward Luce/Financial Times)

Trump’s Chief Design Officer Just Boosted the John Birch Society (Don Moynihan/Can We Still Govern?)

Trump vs. algae is the feud we deserve (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)

Trump’s attacks on Democrats as ‘communists’ only show he’s out of touch (Zeeshan Aleem/MS NOW)  But not as out-of-touch as writers for MS-NOW.

Haddish Claims Red Card Was First Time Trump ‘Defended a Black Person  I guess he’s never seen Trump and Justice Thomas.

The unpatriotic left won’t cheer for Team USA because Trump helped right a World Cup wrong (Isaac Schorr/New York Post)

Trump claims credit for Walmart price cuts, retailer silent on White House role (Scripps News)

Trump’s AG Pick Hit With Massive Revolt of DOJ Veterans (Leigh Kimmins/The Daily Beast)  When you’re getting flak, you know you’re over the target.

Trump’s Vile New Birthright Stance Is So Toxic, Even Fox Admits It (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit.

Trump renews Greenland threats at NATO summit, says U.S. could remove troops from Europe (CNBC)

Trump Administration Guts Efforts to Prevent Gun Violence, Suppressing Reports (Sheryl Gay Stolberg/New York Times)  And those reports had a lot of guts.

Not the Bee.

This is your average pro-LGBT Democrat right here. Nothing going on upstairs. Just repeat the line.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

A growing number of Jewish, Democratic and LGBTQ figures are condemning the harassment of Jewish congressional candidate Scott Wiener by anti-Zionists at the San Francisco Trans March on Friday.

And the proglodite Coalistion of the Fringes gets fringier and fringier every day.

Wiener had been filmed at the march while several activists, including the man filming him, surrounded him and yelled at him about Gaza and Israel; he ultimately left the scene. The incident followed another at which Wiener was accused of supporting genocide while at a sports bar, and preceded a filmed anti-Zionist harassment of another local Jewish LGBTQ politician at a San Francisco Pride march.

There is absolutely no evidence that these people aren’t a dyed-in-the-wool progs; it’s just because they’re Jewish. Of course, under Identity Politics, Who You Are inflexibly determines What You Think, whether that matches Actual Reality or not, so this was entirely predictable and entirely unpreventable.

CCOS: If I were named Scott Wiener. I would be unable to resist the impulse to start a podcast or newsletter called The Wiener Report. (You can imagine what it would cover … or uncover, as the case may be.)

ATQUE: Scott Wiener Learns Why The Left Is Violent

John C. Wright.

In addition to the Russian Collusion Hoax, and the Wu Han Wet Market Origin Hoax, please do not forget these. Years passed. To date, not one newsman, social media oligarch, pundit, nor politician has printed correction, retraction, nor apology.

The Bloodbath Hoax
The Find Votes Hoax
The Fine People Hoax
The Drinking Bleach Hoax
The Dictator from Day One Hoax
The J6 Insurrection Hoax
The Trump Overfed Koi Fish Hoax
The Trump Mocked A Disabled Person Hoax
The Border Patrol Agents Whipped Migrants Hoax
The Threat to Democracy Hoax
The January 6 Protesters Killed Police Hoax
The Presidential Immunity Hoax
The Muslim Ban Hoax
The Suckers and Losers Hoax
The Grabbed Steering Wheel Hoax
The Hunter’s Laptop is Russian Misinformation Hoax

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They want your face. It will be called safety. Verification. Age assurance. A small step to protect children. But strip the language away and the demand is plain: before you may speak, post, or read, you must first prove who you are. And the only way they’ve figured out how to do it is with your government ID, or with your face held up to a camera that decides whether you are old enough to be trusted. This is the deal now being written into law on three continents, and you are meant to accept it quietly. Don’t.

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I asked grok (AI) to write a table of translations of insults commonly used by leftists against the right, and this is what it came up with:

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German director Uwe Boll’s latest film about a man who turns to vigilantism after becoming frustrated by rising street crime has been effectively barred from release in Germany. According to Boll, the ban is linked to the film’s portrayal of migrants as perpetrators of serious crimes.

Citizen Vigilante, starring former Hollywood actor Armie Hammer, has been in effect barred from release in Germany after the country’s film classification board refused to grant it any age rating.

The action thriller, due to debut in North America on June 19, stars Hammer as Sanders, a man whose violent campaign against criminals transforms him into a social media sensation.

Thank God we have the First Amendment—unlike fascist Europe.

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French activist and online commentator Thaïs d’Escufon says she could face prison for saying immigration is the number one threat to French women. In an X video posted on her page, she argues that her case demonstrates the shrinking space for free expression in France.

The case stems from statements she made on BFM TV in 2023, during a discussion about a rape involving an illegal immigrant. d’Escufon, who was herself the victim of a home invasion and sexual assault two years earlier at the hands of a Tunisian migrant, said during the segment that “The main danger for women is immigrant men, Africans, blacks, and Arabs.”

DILCRAH (the Interministerial Delegation to Fight Against Racism, Antisemitism, and Anti-LGBT Hate) filed a complaint after that TV appearance, leading to prosecution.

The Telegraph (UK).

A biographer of Winston Churchill has accused the National Portrait Gallery of a “barefaced lie” over its claim that the wartime prime minister deliberately starved Indians.

Lord Roberts of Belgravia wrote to the gallery’s board on Monday to demand an explanation after The Telegraph exposed its claims that Churchill “wilfully” inflicted mass starvation on India during the Bengal famine of 1943.

The taxpayer-funded attraction recently installed a 40-minute-long film by Helen Cammock, an artist, whose voice-over narration claims that Churchill used mass starvation as a weapon of war.

The letter, signed by more than 50 peers, including Churchill’s grandson Lord Soames, has described the film as an “ideologically motivated rant”.

Proglodytes lie. It’s what they do.

The Telegraph (UK).

A National Portrait Gallery display has claimed Winston Churchill deliberately starved Indians to death.

Helen Cammock’s video installation was recently placed among the portraits of significant figures in British history.

Meet Helen Cammock:

The voiceover of the 40-minute film criticises a number of national figures depicted in the taxpayer-funded gallery, and incorrectly claims that Churchill “wilfully” inflicted mass starvation on Indians.

The accusation relates to the Bengal famine of 1943, a lethal food shortage caused by natural disasters and exacerbated by local mismanagement and wartime supply problems.

Some authors and activists have attempted to pin the blame directly on Churchill, who was prime minister. However, he took action to alleviate the famine, and his Cabinet sent supplies to the subcontinent after he declared that “something must be done”.

While India was under British rule at the time, and fighting against the Japanese, the installation at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) suggests that Churchill used mass starvation as a weapon of war.

Needless to say, he did no such thing. But he’s a Dead White Male, and so must be hurled into the void by the Wokerati.

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The Southern Poverty Law Center allegedly paid at least three people who wanted to leave the white supremacist movement not to do so, according to the Justice Department’s superseding indictment handed down Tuesday.

A federal grand jury in April had indicted the SPLC on charges of wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy to conceal money laundering. The SPLC has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

While the organization “purports to fight white supremacy and racial hatred,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a press conference that “the SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose.”

The charges revolve around the SPLC’s program paying “field sources” inside white supremacist groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups. The organization has maintained that it paid these informants in order to alert law enforcement to extremist violence before it happened, and some of the informants’ information did lead to prosecutions.

However, the indictment claims some of the SPLC money actually went to prop up the organizations—and the superseding indictment reveals more details of the allegations.

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Reading the list of performers who have pulled out of our U.S. 250th birthday party is a joke. These people insist that they thought they were signing up for a non-partisan celebration, but have now decided (without any evidence) that it is a partisan program.

Give me a break.

What’s really going on is that these performers are Lefties, and decided they wanted to stick it to Donald Trump, who initiated the event, by making up false excuses to bow out. They were probably getting flak from those people on the Left who don’t want anything to take place that is remotely connected to Donald Trump. They are all an embarrassment to this country.

What was the event supposed to entail? Here is a partial list of the activities that will take place. Here is another description of the events. There is nothing in these words that suggest partisan influence.

My biggest concern is that Leftist organizations may be determined to wreak havoc on the activities in June and July. They hate this country and would embrace any opportunity to denigrate it, our Founders and our legacy. I don’t know how far they would go in their disruption, but I expect huge crowds will be drawn to the grounds of the White House.

Let’s all hope and pray that people will rely on their patriotic conscience and honor this country for these events. It is a once-in-a-lifetime occasion.

The Other McCain.

When I wrote about Trump Derangement Syndrome over the weekend, it was while following the discourse over the latest scandalous Graham Platner revelations. These are certainly not the first such revelations, nor will they be the last, as GOP operatives reportedly have a vast pile of opposition research on Mr. Nazi Tattoo they’re waiting to unload when the time is right. But the reaction from liberals to what came out over the weekend was to double-down, to dig their entrenchments deeper, to rationalize the necessity of defending Platner at all costs, no matter what.

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Well, this is going to make the weeks-long ballot-counting process in Los Angeles a lot more interesting, isn’t it?

Super eaqsy to do—just get a book of matches, light it, and drop it in the box.

They’re setting fire to vote-by-mail boxes, because those are a big thing in California, and people are targeting voting centers for damage and destruction.

Third-world countries run their elections cleaner than this.

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German remigration activist Maximilian Märkl, who was arrested by federal police on Friday as he prepared to board a flight to Portugal and forbidden to leave the country, defied the travel ban and was greeted as a hero when he arrived at the Remigration Summit in Porto after 22 hours of driving across Europe.

“It was a little European adventure,” Märkl said in an interview with alternative TV channel AUF1, adding that the drive through Germany, France, Spain, and Portugal reminded him of “just how beautiful our homeland is and how much it’s worth fighting for.”

While expecting legal consequences upon his return to Germany, the spokesman for Identitäre Bewegung Deutschland, said he’s counting on alternative media and the organization’s support network to stand behind him.

I would refuse to remain in a country that did that sort of shit.

Fortunately, America is not that bad … yet.

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Christians in Finland are having a hard time of it lately. On the heels of the Finnish Supreme Court convicting MP Päivi Räsänen of “hate speech” over a booklet on the biblical view on homosexuality, now the country is going after mentions of God in songs sung at school graduations.

The Finnish Discrimination and Equality Board has fined the city of Espoo for repeatedly discriminating against the same student by exposing him to Christian content in songs traditionally performed at Christmas and end-of-year celebrations in spring. The city was fined €10,000 and ordered to pay the student an additional €2,500 in compensation.

Parents of the student said in their complaint that they had not been informed ahead of time or given the opportunity to withdraw their student from the events.

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The Fairfax County Police Department in Northern Virginia is investigating a swatting call at the residence of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett Wednesday night.

“Yesterday evening at approximately 9:02 p.m., officers responded to a swatting call at the residence of U.S. Supreme Court Justice in Fairfax County,” the department’s public information officer told the Daily Signal in a Thursday phone call.

“The call was received through the department’s non-emergency line,” the officer explained. “Officers immediately coordinated with Supreme Court police personnel assigned to the residence and quickly determined that the report was fictitious. No additional police resources were utilized.”

“Swatting” refers to the practice of calling police with a false report concerning a threat or violence, aiming to convince law enforcement to send a SWAT team to the targeted location. Since SWAT teams often enter houses with little notice and can cause confusion, these calls may result in unnecessary police violence.

When asked if the police department is investigating the call, the officer said, “That’s definitely part of it; every one of those calls is investigated.”

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A Belgian court has ruled that even “factually correct” statements can constitute criminal hate speech if used to “incite hatred.”

The ruling came as anti-migration activist Dries Van Langenhove was convicted for a second time over remarks linking mass migration to crime.

This is Van Langenhove’s second such conviction, following a speech he delivered at a university in Leuven in February 2024, in which he linked mass migration to crime.

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The owner of a heavily decorated pro-Trump home in Southern California has died days after he was beaten outside his residence, according to reports.

Kerry Sheron, a 69-year-old Army veteran known in Escondido for covering his home with pro-Trump banners and American flags, died Sunday night after spending nearly a week in critical condition following the May 20 attack, FOX 5 reported.

Authorities say Thomas Caleb Butler, 32, allegedly attacked Sheron outside the home in what prosecutors described as an unprovoked assault.

Butler has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder, elder abuse, criminal threats, and battery charges.

Deputy District Attorney Ross Garcia told the court Sheron suffered devastating injuries after being punched to the ground and repeatedly struck in the head.

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Apparently some minorities are more equal that others.

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Appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press to promote his character and principled superiority to all other congressional representatives, the professional political narcissist, Thomas Massie, pledges to create as much turmoil as possible in his final seven months.

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Politicians in Britain are complaining about “ideological nonsense” being instilled into young children, following new reports on the teaching of racism in schools.

An “anti-racism” lesson plan devised by a group of schools in Sheffield is being used to ‘teach’ teenagers that while white people can be racist towards black people, racial prejudice the other way around does not count as racism, which is defined as “racial prejudice plus power.”

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If you want a snapshot of how far Britain has drifted from its liberal inheritance, consider the spectacle of a 78 year-old grandfather and retired pastor being warned by police that he must not preach from the Bible within a public area. His offence was not harassment, obstruction or intimidation. It was reciting and commentating on a verse many learned as children: “For God so loved the world…”

Clive Johnston’s alleged crime was breaching a ‘buffer zone’ around a hospital which houses a sexual health clinic where abortions are performed – despite the fact it was a Sunday afternoon when there were no scheduled abortions, and he made no reference whatsoever to abortion, nor motherhood, nor babies.

The state maintains he risked “influencing” anyone accessing the clinic in relation to abortion or anyone working there – a crime punishable by fine. He was prosecuted, and this week found guilty for doing so.

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As ought to be self-evident, it is only possible to clearly recognize a Nazi salute, or what Germans call the ‘Hitler salute,’ in live action or in a video, but not in a still image. In a still image, anyone waving or beckoning—even, say, hailing a taxi—may appear to have been giving the Nazi salute when they were not. In certain still images, given other congruent elements, we can safely assume that those portrayed are indeed giving the Nazi salute. Thus, for example, in the historical photograph below, we can safely assume that the assembled Wehrmacht officers are not just waving to the Führer. But, otherwise, without such congruent elements, we cannot know from a still image if an outstretched right arm is a Nazi salute or not.

When seen by a disapproving proglodyte, obviously.

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A curriculum audit for an Arizona school district last year identified a resource that urged teachers to direct students to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “hate map” and avoid the websites of “hate groups” or their sympathizers.

Critics have faulted the SPLC for putting mainstream conservative and Christian groups, such as Moms for Liberty, Turning Point USA, PragerU, Focus on the Family, Alliance Defending Freedom, the Family Research Council, and others, on a “hate map” with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan.

The Lake Havasu Unified School District told The Daily Signal that no teacher ever used the resource, which the district said had been created by Savvas Learning Company.

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Celebrity land thief Billie Eilish flaunted her hypocrisy again, this week, when she scolded Americans that we are all morally repugnant for eating meat.

“Eating meat is inherently wrong,” she proclaimed in an interview with Elle Magazine.

“Two things cannot coincide,” she continued, lecturing viewers that loving animals and enjoying a good ribeye are mutually exclusive.

Apparently that makes all of us carnivore dog owners Cruella de Vil!

The self-righteous pop star expectedly alienated many with her take, to which she doubled down with an even more tone deaf and grammar-blind response.

“Go watch some footage of what is done to the animals! if that footage was hard for u to watch i encourage u to pls take a look at urself,” she wrote on Instagram.

That’s rich, coming from a militant abortion cheerleader who has previously stated banning the dismemberment of pre-born babies makes her “so mad.” Maybe she should go watch some footage of what is done to HUMAN BEINGS in the womb and take a look at herself, if it’s also hard to watch.”

If “standing up” and “having empathy for living beings” is so “controversial,” like Billie claims, leftists like her are the reason why.

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Childcare workers across Wales are being trained to spot and report “racist incidents” by toddlers under fresh guidance endorsed by government ministers and bankrolled with taxpayer cash.

The push, which includes lessons on “white privilege,” turns playgroups and nurseries into surveillance hubs for the state’s ‘anti-racism’ agenda — even when the alleged offenders are barely out of nappies.

The Telegraph (UK).

A British singer has been dropped from a United States tour after saying she was cancelled for being a brown Republican voter.

M.I.A, who was born in London and raised partly in Sri Lanka, has been fired by Kid Cudi from his North American tour because of “offensive remarks” she made on stage.

The British rapper reportedly told an audience in Dallas on May 2 that she had been cancelled for her political views.

Bloomberg, a Voice of the Crust.

A little-talked about investment product is taking over the 401(k) world, and offering asset managers a way to increase exposure to private markets.

At the heart of the US retirement industry, underpinning the later-life plans of millions of Americans, is a set of financial products that hardly anyone can tell you a thing about.

No one knows exactly how much money they control. No one can say how it’s all allocated. No single financial regulator is in charge of them. Yet Collective Investment Trusts are now a multi-trillion dollar business to rival mutual funds or ETFs — and are poised to become the backdoor through which more private assets are added to Americans’ retirement savings.
For years now, the country’s biggest employers have been slowly migrating workers’ nest eggs toward these pooled

ehicles, which are used exclusively by retirement plans. For 401(k)s with more than 100 participants, about 40% of all assets were invested in CITs by 2024, according to Department of Labor data, up from 12% in 2010 and above the share allocated to mutual funds.

Notice the statist priorities: Knowing exactly how much money they control. Knowing how it’s all allocated. Most importantly, no single financial regulator is in charge of them.

Things that the agents of the Deep State can’t know, can’t track, and can’t regulate, are a threat. Voices of the Crust are here to tell you how you ought to think about them.

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The name never did make any sense.

When creating a short list of nefarious NGOs that manipulate government policy and socially engineer public opinion, the Southern Poverty Law Center is usually near the top. The group has been fading in influence due to excessive exposure, with new and less visible left wing NGOs taking it’s place. However, it remains a key pillar of the Democratic Party’s propaganda machine and a poisonous cloud looming over grassroots conservative organization.

News from the Trump FBI and DOJ indicates that this reign of political terror may finally be coming to an end. The Southern Poverty Law Center has been indicted on federal fraud charges that accuse it of illegally raising millions of dollars to pay informants in white supremacist and other extremist groups.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the SPLC used paid operatives within extremist circles to incite and intensify racial tensions, arguing the group fostered the very threats it claimed to fight. But why was an NGO allowed to operate like a covert federal agency for so long?

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know this is California, but did they think they could get away with this?

California wants to stop Nick Shirley because Nick Shirley … exposes fraudsters who steal from government programs and indirectly rob American citizens to fund their lavish lifestyles.

Under this bill, which is not yet a law, if you show up to any of these fraudulent businesses, or if you show up to an immigration services center undercover, as the BBC did recently, the fraudsters can call the cops on you, call Newsom on you, and fine and imprison you for undercover journalism.

 

New York Times, Paper of Record of the Crust.

The device burned an exterior gate of the house, in San Francisco, the police said, and it was unclear whether the artificial intelligence executive was home. The authorities arrested a suspect.

This is why rich people have so much security. Any random psychotic can be your enemy without you knowing it.

Remember, even Gandhi was assassinated.

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The leftist Canadian government has been systematically removing rights in the name of hate speech for years, but at least up until now, there were some protections for religious beliefs within those power grabs.

Communicating a sincere religious belief regarding things like biblical marriage and sexuality could now land you in a Canadian prison for up to ten years. That is, if this passes in the Senate.

Not only that, but the bill also prevents any restrictions to entry into houses of worship for things like protesting.

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Lawyers in the Mile High State are now being strong-armed by Democrats into signing a radical anti-immigration-enforcement pledge just to do their jobs.

Starting March 30, 2026, every private attorney logging into Colorado’s official Courts E-Filing system (CCE) must certify – under penalty of perjury – that they will never use or share non-public personal information from court records to assist federal immigration authorities. Refuse? You’re shut out of the system entirely. No filing lawsuits, no checking case files, no representing clients in state court. Period.

The certification reads in part: “I certify under penalty of perjury that I will not use personal identifying information obtained from the database… for the purpose of investigating for, participating in, cooperating with, or assisting in federal immigration enforcement, including enforcement of civil immigration laws and 8 U.S.C. sec. 1325 or 1326, unless required by federal or state law or to comply with a court-issued subpoena, warrant, or order.”

Newsbusters.

There are plenty of things an NBA player can do and still keep his job.

League history is littered with examples: players involved in off-court scandals, arrests, and even allegations of serious violence. Time and again, teams and the league have found ways to look past behavior that, in most professions, would be career-ending.

But there appears to be one line that cannot be crossed — especially during Holy Week.

That line, it seems, is expressing a traditional religious belief.

Enter Jaden Ivey.

The former Purdue standout was the fifth overall pick in the 2022 NBA draft, a rising young guard who averaged 16 points and five assists as a rookie with the Detroit Pistons. By his third season, he was approaching 18 points per game before an injury derailed his momentum. Eventually, he landed with the Chicago Bulls.

By all accounts, Ivey was a productive player still on the rise.

Then came an Instagram video.

In it, Ivey — now a newly converted Christian — criticized the NBA’s celebration of Pride Month. His comments reflected a conventional religious viewpoint: that pride, as celebrated in this context, conflicts with Christian teachings on sin.

“They proclaim Pride Month,” Ivey said. “They say, ‘Come join us … to celebrate unrighteousness.’”

That was enough.

UPDATE: Poison Ivey: Chicago Bulls Release Forward After He Speaks Out Against Pride Month

Huffington Post.

Possibly the only occasion on which The Huffington Post would publish something by someone like Jesse Ventura is one where Trump is being attacked.

“Because how can you send somebody else’s kids to a war if you won’t send your own?” he asked.

Easy. You just do it, as governments have been doing for time out of mind. You only ‘send your kids to a war’ when they are conscripted to do so, under an authoritarian regime. Everybody in the current American armed forces is a volunteer.

Trump isn’t ‘sending kids to war’, he is commanding the armed forces, of which he is commander-in-chief, in pursuit of foreign policy goals, which is what Americans elected him to do.

Jesse Ventura’s attitude is the exact same attitude as the Chinese Communists under Mao, who thought that everybody ought to put some time in hoeing crops and shoveling dirt. Jesse has always been about imposing his values on other people, which negates any respect he may have earned from his military service.

If Barron Trump wants to put in some military service, which I would certainly encourage him to do, that is his decision to make—not that of a blowhard like Jesse Ventura.

Newsbusters.

One of the most preposterous claims from liberals is that somehow, conservatives uniquely try to win elections by using “fear,” “hate,” and “division,” especially on race and religion. Democrats never use any divisive, negative tactics when trying to motivate voters. It’s like they’ve never heard Chuck Schumer saying a Republican voter-ID bill is “Jim Crow 2.0.”

On March 24, PBS stations debuted a long negative campaign commercial disguised as a documentary titled White With Fear, on how “America’s conservative political machine uses racial fault lines to gain power.” The 85-minute film starts with Nixon’s campaigns, then goes on a tear against Fox News, Islamophobia after 9/11, birtherism against Obama, the Tea Party, and then into the Trump era.

In a statement, the propagandist Andrew Goldberg oozed: “I’m grateful to PBS for giving White With Fear such a prestigious platform with an extensive reach of loyal viewers. It’s the ideal home for the film — timely, relevant, and deeply connected to where our country stands today.” This “prestigious platform” is always willing to be a source of vitriolic anti-conservative content. Conservatives are just lucky we’re not paying for this garbage any more….until Democrats get back in control.

The Los Angeles Times summarized the theme: “Goldberg’s film argues that the right, using the language of white supremacy and relying on distortions, lies and misinformation campaigns against Black people, then Muslims and immigrants, have turned the GOP into a racially driven, hate-filled party of grievances.”

Proglodyte Projection: When the Left accuses you of what they are doing.

New York Post.

Loyola University Chicago’s student newspaper is facing backlash for apologizing for its coverage of freshman Sheridan Gorman’s murder — because editors labeled the alleged murderer an “illegal immigrant.”

The Loyola Phoenix originally reported — accurately — on accused killer Jose Medina-Medina‘s status as an illegal alien after he was charged on Monday with the execution of 18-year-old Gorman.

“Immigrant man charged in murder of Sheridan Gorman, DHS involved,” the student paper’s headline originally read, referring to Venezuelan national Medina-Medina, 25, as an “illegal immigrant.”

 

Read it.

n a landmark clash between 15th-century religious tradition and 21st-century equality mandates, the Spanish government has initiated the formal revocation of the Holy Week of Sagunto’s National Tourist Intereststatus.

The move, announced jointly by the Ministries of Tourism and Equality, comes as a direct response to a defiant vote by the Brotherhood of the Immaculate Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

The brotherhood, which has operated with male-only statutes since the late Middle Ages, recently rejected a proposal to allow women into its governing body by a margin of 267 to 114 and limits participation in the Holy Week of Sagunto to males.

The Spanish Socialist government argues that the exclusion of women violates the 2007 Equality Law and the “citizen participation” requirements necessary for state-recognized tourist festivals.

While the Institute of Women asserts that such exclusions are “not tradition but discrimination,” the brotherhood and its supporters view the government’s intervention as an ideological overreach into the autonomous life of a private religious entity.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

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Apparently “dangerous climate lies” like claims there is no climate emergency should not be allowed to go unchallenged in TV programmes.

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The National Trust’s director-general has declared that Britain’s countryside remains unwelcoming to ethnic minorities, blaming everything from clothing choices to ignorance of basic rural etiquette.

This isn’t some fringe activist rant — it’s official policy from the charity tasked with protecting the nation’s heritage, straight out of the same DEI playbook that’s already consumed government agencies.