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A generation after the Islamic terrorist attacks of September 11, not only is a supporter of Islamic terrorism ensconced in Gracie Mansion, but the New York City Council is preparing to purge one of the few remaining critics of Islamic terrorism from its already depleted ranks.

One of the five men convicted in the brutal rape of the Central Park jogger is a New York City councilman while another is running for his own spot on the council, but the City Council’s ethics committee is instead charging Councilwoman Vickie Paladino with “disorderly” behavior for criticizing Zohran Mamdani and his raft of appointees sympathetic to Islamic terrorism.

The New York City Council Committee on Rules, Privileges, Elections, Standards and Ethics, whose members include 8 Democrats and only 1 Republican, has taken no action over the fact that a New York City Council employee, Rafael Bohorquez, turned out to be a criminal illegal alien who had been arrested for assault, but is charging a 71-year-old Republican elected official with “disorderly” behavior because it doesn’t like her tweets criticising Islamic terrorism.

And Zohran Mamdani.

The committee hasn’t launched investigations into any other councilmembers over their tweets.

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When a 7-year-old’s heartfelt sketch promoting equality gets twisted into “racism” by leftist school officials, it’s a chilling sign of how far indoctrination has gone—now finally overturned in a resounding First Amendment victory.

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The UK government is ramping up its assault on free expression, now urging schools, councils, and workplaces to monitor and report “anti-Muslim hostility” as part of a broader strategy that critics slam as a tool to silence legitimate debate.

Under Labour’s plans, institutions will be encouraged to track incidents of ‘prejudice’ against Muslims, with a new definition adopted to clarify unacceptable behavior. This comes amid a surge in hate crimes, but opponents warn it could muzzle criticism of Islamism or immigration policies.

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A group linked to a late-night street takeover forced its way into a luxury downtown Los Angeles apartment tower early Sunday, fighting with staff and leaving shattered glass and overturned furniture behind, according to police and video of the incident, according to the NY Post.

The disturbance happened around 3 a.m. at the Circa LA Apartments on South Figueroa Street, the Los Angeles Police Department said.

Authorities told KTLA that a crowd involved in a nearby street takeover moved toward the upscale high-rise and began vandalizing the property.

Time to leave.

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“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” So wrote William Shakespeare in As You Like It. Yet certain modern-day theatregoers apparently do not understand the difference between the space upon the boards and off them; hence, they have taken Shakespeare’s words literally and decided to reshape the world around them into one gigantic interactive left-wing morality play, with themselves as the central heroes and heroines.

Working-class ‘groundlings’ crowding into the pit of the theatre during Shakespeare’s own day were notoriously unruly, but such misbehaviour was largely limited to hurling abuse and rotten fruit at thespians they took a dislike to. Middle-class theatregoers in our own day are far worse, actively attacking and trying to kill any actors they don’t like—on the grounds they are supposedly ‘Nazis’.

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A Belgian online news outlet has been reprimanded by the country’s press ethics body after publishing the full text of a speech by U.S. vice president J.D. Vance, sparking debate about censorship and media freedom.

The controversy stems from a speech delivered on February 14th, 2025, at the Munich Security Conference, a major annual gathering of Western political and military leaders. Speaking the day after a deadly attack in Munich, Vance sharply criticised what he described as a decline in freedom of speech and democratic values across Europe.

Among the examples he cited were censorship of social media, threats to shut down online platforms, the cancellation of a presidential election in Romania, and the criminalisation of prayer in the United Kingdom. The remarks were widely discussed in the international media.

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The European Commission presented its new strategy, “ProtectEU: Agenda to prevent and counter terrorism,” an ambitious document that seeks to update the Union’s response to an evolving threat environment.

On paper, the initiative aims to anticipate risks, prevent radicalisation, and strengthen police and judicial cooperation. In practice, however, it seeks to broaden the concept of “terrorism” and “violent extremism” to such an extent that it ultimately encompasses increasingly diffuse political and cultural categories (and is convenient for those in power).

The result is a framework in which the boundary between criminal violence and ideological dissent becomes dangerously blurred.

The document itself acknowledges that, although jihadist terrorism remains “the most prominent and lethal threat,” terrorist actors are driven by a “growing range of motivations,” including the “rejection of European democratic values,” antisemitism, anti-Muslim hatred and, among others, “anti-LGBTQ+ hatred,” misogyny, racism, “anti-system ideologies,” or even “nihilism.”

What the E. U. really needs is a First Amendment. No chance of that, though.

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Sweden’s state broadcaster SVT has been ruled against—twice—for referring to illegal migrants as “illegal migrants” during a news report.

The decision came from the country’s media watchdog, Granskningsnämnden, after two viewers complained about the wording used in a segment on SVT’s flagship programme Rapport last September.

The report covered protests in Britain against immigration. Viewers were told that “right-wing extremist groups” were behind the demonstrations before interviews were aired with participants.

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This week, CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss was supposed to give the UCLA Burkle Center’s annual Daniel Pearl Memorial guest lecture on “The Future of Journalism.” It was a wonderful opportunity for students to hear from one of the impactful voices in the media. However, they will not be able to do so after a successful cancel campaign supported by faculty members.

UPDATE: Column: Bari Weiss, The Latest Target of Antisemitic Campus Intolerance

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A sergeant and an officer in Detroit have been suspended by the city Board of Police Commissioners after they contacted U.S. Border Patrol during separate traffic stops, according to MLive.

The board voted 10-0, approving Police Chief Todd Bettison’s recommendation to place Sgt. Denise Wallet and Officer James Corsi on administrative leave for 30 days.

Both will be suspended without pay for 30 days, MLive reported.

Last December, Corsi contacted Border Patrol during a traffic stop, and earlier this month Wallet called federal agents for translation assistance instead of using the department’s 24-hour contracted language line, MLive reported, citing department officials.

In both cases, civilians involved in the stops were detained by federal agents, according to MLive.

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Employees of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have been busy lately, working to fulfill their mandate to remove undocumented immigrants.

Perhaps the most controversial aspect of ICE’s activities is its alleged presence in public schools across the nation.

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Four years ago, amid the run-up to the 2022 Winter Olympics, an Indigenous-led Canadian group announced it was seeking to bring the 2030 Olympic games to the province of British Columbia. One reason to support the project, the national CTV News network told readers, was that it would help heal emotional wounds caused by the claimed discovery of 215 “unmarked graves” of Indigenous students on the grounds of a former Kamloops, B.C. residential school in May 2021.

“With the recent confirmations of hundreds of unmarked graves at former residential school sites… many Canadians are only now confronting the ugly truth of the country’s past—and beginning to understand the important role reconciliation will play in its future,” wrote Vancouver-based CTV News reporter Ben Miljure. “A successful bid could bring those important issues onto the world stage.”

Canada’s Unmarked Graves: Four Years, No Bodies Found

A new book catalogues the damage to Canadian society caused by a 2021 social panic over non-existent ‘unmarked graves.’

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James Heidorn, who taught at Gary Elementary School in West Chicago, found himself at the center of a community firestorm that cost him not just his teaching position but his identity as an educator, all for posting two words on Facebook: “Go ICE.”

The incident began in late January when Heidorn, a 14-year physical education teacher, responded to a news story about a local police department pledging cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. His personal Facebook post sparked immediate backlash in the heavily Hispanic district, with local activists circulating screenshots and demanding action against him.

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activist who was last week attacked in Lyon. French authorities opened a murder probe on Monday and have since detained 11 suspects.

Among those who have been taken in by officers is Jacques-Elie Favrot, a (now former) assistant to Raphaël Arnault. Arnault is a member of parliament from the far-left La France Insoumise (LFI) party and, importantly here, founded the ‘antifascist’ La Jeune Garde group, which officials believe was involved in the deadly attack.

Jewish Telegraph Agency.

Since assuming office last year, Florida Jewish Rep. Randy Fine has ignited pushback on a regular basis over his comments about Muslims and Palestinians.

This week anger over a new tweet from the GOP Congressman spilled over even further, igniting a wide rebuke from Jews and pro-Israel figures on the other side of the aisle — some of whom are now calling for Fine’s censure or resignation.

The blowback followed Fine’s tweet on Sunday in which he stated, “If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one.”

Of course, if the headline had reas “Muslim Democrat X Draws Sharp Criticism After Suggesting He Prefers Dogs to Christians”, (a) nobody would believe it because nobody ‘respectable’ would criticize it, and (b) nobody would believe it because it wouldn’t be news. Muslims say that sort of shit all the time and nobody blinks because it’s so common.

The Telegraph (UK).

A jazz lecturer whose lessons were boycotted after he questioned critical race theory is not a racist, a leading conservatoire has admitted.

Martin Speake, 67, said his life was “destroyed” after students at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in Greenwich, south-east London, avoided his lessons because of his views.

The internationally renowned saxophonist was “cancelled” for claiming there was no “systemic” racial inequality in British jazz and that critical race theory was “very dangerous”.

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If you’ve been following the news feed over the last few days, you’ll be aware that a young French identitarian named Quentin was severely beaten by Antifa thugs in Lyon, and eventually died from his wounds.

Hard-left militants attacked 23-year-old Quentin Deranque after a peaceful demonstration organized by the right-wing feminist organization Collectif Némésis during a conference hosted by Rima Hassan. Mr. Deranque was helping to provide security for the women of Collectif Némésis, protecting them from the same people who eventually killed him. He was attacked by at least six thugs, and a disturbing video shows the vicious final kick in the head that he received.

Ms. Hassan is an activist of Palestinian descent who was born in Syria and moved to France as a child. In 2023 she founded the “Action Palestine France” collective and joined La France Insoumise, a far-left political party founded by Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

This is one of those rare instances when the media and political leaders (including Justice Minister Gerald Darmanin) have referred to the “far left” when discussing the murder of Quentin Deranque in Lyon.

Below is a brief news video about the attack on Quentin Deranque.

UPDATE: France Still in Shock After Murder of Young Patriot by Far-Left Mob

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The “ultra-left” in France was behind the fatal beating of a French youth aligned with the far right, the justice minister said on Sunday, after the killing inflamed political tension in the country ahead of elections.

Justice Minister Gerald Darmanin also accused hard-left politicians, including from the France Unbowed (LFI) party, the largest left-wing faction in parliament, of fuelling violence with their language.

The victim, Quentin Deranque, aged 23, had been hospitalised and placed into a coma on Thursday after being attacked in the southeastern city of Lyon. The office of the Lyon prosecutor on Saturday told AFP Deranque had died of his wounds.

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Jim Ratcliffe, co-owner of the football team Manchester United, has apologised for his previous comments claiming Britain is “colonised” by immigrants after facing backlash from the political left for his views.

Radcliffe issued a statement expressing regret over his remarks, saying, “I am sorry that my choice of language has offended some people in the UK and Europe … It is important to raise the issue of controlled and well-managed immigration that supports economic growth.”

Note that he didn’t retract his remarks; he merely expressed regret that ‘some people’ were offended. This is the non-apology ‘apology’ people put out when they aren’t really apologizing but want to appear polite.

The Football Association (FA) launched an investigation into his comments to see if they breach the organisation’s ‘hate speech’ policies, despite the apology. Another statement by Ratcliffe—”You can’t have an economy with nine million people on benefits and huge levels of immigrants coming in”—is also under evaluation for potentially breaching the FA’s policies.

He still may get cancelled, since the Football Association appears to have some pretty Woke rules in place. If I where him, I’d look to sell his interest in the team and focus on other hobbies.

The Times (UK).

The prime minister has asked Sir Jim Ratcliffe to apologise after Manchester United’s co-owner said Britain has been “colonised” by immigrants. But who is the billionaire businessman?

Sir Jim Ratcliffe: Britain has been colonised by immigrants

Ratcliffe led The Sunday Times Rich List in 2018 and has since dropped to 7th last year with an estimated net worth of £17.046 billion.

The 73-year-old founded the global chemicals company Ineos in 1998 and acquired a significant minority stake in Manchester United football club in February 2024, taking control of football operations.

It would appear that billionaires not named Soros have a realistic view of the immigration problem. One of the nice things about being a billionaire is that you can tell Woke statists like Starmer to fuck off.

Raised on a council estate in Greater Manchester as the son of a joiner, Ratcliffe moved his primary residence to the tax haven of Monaco in 2020 to avoid up to £4 billion of tax.

Well. There it is. People who have made their own fortunes tend to dislike the government stealing from them.

UPDATE: Farage backs Ratcliffe over claims UK ‘colonised by immigrants’ (The Telegraph [UK])

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A Sunday yoga class at Minneapolis CorePower Yoga studio turned into an unscripted protest earlier this month, as a group of enraged customers berated front-desk staff for not condemning federal immigration enforcement, prompting the Denver-based chain to ban one regular and agree to post anti-ICE signage in its studios.

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Climate alarmism has lost at the ballot box time and time again, and last year, even Bill Gates significantly dialed down his support for it. However, enterprising lawyers on the Left are still trying to smuggle in an effective carbon tax through the courts—and the Supreme Court should put an end to it.

It works like this: local governments or activist groups file a lawsuit against oil and gas companies, claiming that the burning of fossil fuels impacts the climate, and these impacts negatively harmed people. Activist lawyers bring cases in state courts that are more likely to rule in their favor, and—presto!—you’ve got a “carbon tax” imposed on oil and gas companies without needing a vote in Congress.

Don’t take my word for it. David Bookbinder, who served as part of the legal team representing the left-leaning city and county of Boulder in suing oil companies, described the climate lawfare as “an indirect carbon tax.”

“Tort liability is an indirect carbon tax,” Bookbinder said on a Federalist Society panel in October. “You sue an oil company, an oil company is liable. The oil company then passes that liability on to the people who are buying its products.”

Tellingly, he added, “I’d prefer an actual carbon tax, but if we can’t get one of those… this is a rather, somewhat convoluted way, to achieve the goals of a carbon tax.”

The thing is, the law isn’t supposed to work that way.

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As pointed out by my friend Gene Meyer, “fascist” these days merely means “something the Left doesn’t like”.

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Nick Shirley, the YouTuber who went viral for exposing alleged Somali-run daycare fraud in Minnesota, has revealed that leftists have put out hits on his life.

In a shocking update, Shirley’s security team informed him he was the “number one man” targeted, forcing him to switch hotels amid fears for his and his family’s safety. This comes after his investigative video highlighted millions in taxpayer funds vanishing into ghost daycares with no children in sight.

Shirley detailed the terrifying backlash in a recent appearance, saying people have sent him photos of bodies in ditches with captions like “that’s going to be you” and openly telling him to “k**l yourself.”

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For several years now, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has made the presence of Christian images and symbols in public spaces one of its recurring battles. After Italy was pressured through litigation to remove crucifixes from its schools, Greece is now being targeted over the presence of holy icons in its courts. Italy ultimately won its case. Will Greece succeed in safeguarding this essential part of its historical and spiritual heritage?

Some cases have a long life. In 2009, the ECtHR issued a ruling requiring Italy to remove crucifixes from public schools. The unprecedented mobilisation of twenty-one European states alongside Italy forced it to back down, and two years later, in 2011, in the case known as Lautsi v. Italy, it finally handed down a ruling in favour of Italy’s position, allowing it to keep its crucifixes.

The Lautsi case was followed by a period of relative calm in the fight against the presence of religious symbols (Christian, needless to say) in public spaces.

In 2020, a request was filed inviting the ECtHR to take up another contentious case: the presence of Orthodox icons in Greek courts.

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Shortly before Christmas, the U.S. State Department slapped visa sanctions on five individuals whom it described as being agents of a “global censorship-industrial complex” bent on restricting the freedom of speech of Americans. The headliner of the sanctions list was, of course, Thierry Breton, the former EU internal market commissioner, who spearheaded efforts to enforce the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) during the last years of his tenure in the Commission. But the directors of three organizations allegedly involved in censorship activities were also sanctioned: HateAid, the Global Disinformation Index, and the Center for Countering Digital Hate.

As discussed in my recent portrait of HateAid, the German organization is directly integrated into the DSA censorship system as a so-called trusted flagger of allegedly illegal or harmful online content. Under the DSA, online platforms and search engines are required to give priority treatment to the notifications of ‘trusted flaggers’ precisely because they have been certified as ‘trusted’ by EU member state governments—in this case, the German government.

But even though it does not have ‘trusted flagger’ status, another of the organizations targeted by the U.S. sanctions has likewise been a major player in the EU’s efforts to ‘regulate’ online speech, which in fact began many years before the passage of the DSA. Moreover, it, too, has important, if largely unclarified, ties to Germany. The organization in question is the Global Disinformation Index (GDI), whose executive director and best-known figure, Clare Melford, was placed on the sanctions list.

Gates of Vienna.

Although I have never met him, I consider Ned May (‘Baron Bodissy’) at Gates of Vienna to be a friend. Make of that what you will.

I posted on Tuesday about my recent encounter with the Australian chapter of the Deep State. It seems the earnest burghers of Oz are insistent that I take down Brenton Tarrant’s manifesto (pdf), to the point that they have levied an exorbitant fine against me for every day I fail to comply.

Vlad has posted a lengthy AI-assisted discussion of the situation that everyone should read. ChatGPT is right: this is a blatant attempt to control the Narrative about Brenton Tarrant and his manifesto. If the general public has no access to the original manifesto, then state agents and the media can exercise full control over what people know about it. The Powers That Be don’t even need to misquote it or make up text — all they have to do is describe it, quote from it selectively, and mischaracterize it in a way that supports and affirms the Narrative.

As long as there are copies of the original floating around out there, the carefully-crafted Narrative will remain shaky, and may even collapse. That’s why the dedicated bureaucrats Down Under are so keen to strong-arm little ol’ Gates of Vienna. Maintenance of the Narrative is of crucial importance.

The Pandemic Panic has turned Australia from Next Best Country After America to Next Worst Country After Canada, which is a real pity.

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Each day more and more people are starting to realize/notice there are elements of the United States intelligence apparatus that are targeting Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard. The need for control is a reaction to fear, and Tulsi Gabbard has the DC Intelligence Community very worried.

What you will read below is something that was written back in 2024 about the potential for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), if President Trump were to win the election. Subsequently, he did win; and while we are not saying this is the exact ODNI script that is being followed, we are certainly not disputing that either.

Read the roadmap below –Written in 2024– compare it to current events and decide for yourself if this is something that rings a bell and may explain the IC apoplexy.

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Yet another nurse has been fired for posting a viral video wishing the harm, or even killing, of conservative Americans and federal immigration law enforcement officers.

On Monday, a video of Chicago-area nurse Chad Malinowski went viral after Libs of TikTok posted a compilation of video clips from Malinowski that he had posted on social media. The montage has drawn more than six million views on the Libs of TikTok X.com account.

Introducing the video, the post summarizes the healthcare worker’s on-camera malicious wishes of harm for patients who work for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or who support President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) goals:

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It has come as a shock to many of us in the alternative media sphere when, on December 15, the EU put the esteemed analyst, political commentator, and former Swiss Army colonel Jacques Baud, on its Russia-Sanctions list. He was one of several newly sanctioned individuals (alongside, for instance, the popular French journalist, Xavier Moreau). Baud is already the second Swiss to be sanctioned. In June 2025, the EU announced that Nathalie Yamb, a Swiss-Cameroonian activist against neocolonialism, would be sanctioned.

Being on the EU sanctions list is a devastating event for the people concerned, especially if they reside in an EU country or a closely associated state like Switzerland, Norway, or the UK. It means banks will freeze their accounts, credit companies will cancel their cards, they are not allowed to enter into contracts with EU-affiliated companies or private persons, and no business in the EU is allowed to have dealings with them, which, in theory, even precludes them from buying bread and other necessities of life. Furthermore, many international businesses will cancel all their services to them, including mail providers, social media platforms, etc. Even Swiss banks freeze or cancel accounts, out of fear they might get in trouble if they don’t comply with EU regulations. I recently interviewed two sanctioned people, Nathalie Yamb and Hüsseyin Dogru, and their testimonies are heartbreaking. For an equally harrowing account by Jacques Baud, see the most recent interview with him on Nima Alkhorshid’s ‘Dialogue Works’ channel. Nathalie also posted the short video below, in which she gives an overview of the ordeal (post in French, subtitles in English).

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The U.S. agency that enforces laws banning workplace discrimination said in a court filing Wednesday it is investigating Nike for allegedly discriminating against white people through its diversity policies.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in the filing that Nike has refused to comply with a sprawling subpoena seeking information such as data on the racial and ethnic makeup of the company’s workforce and a roster of employees chosen for mentoring and development programs.

The commission said it is investigating allegations that Nike intentionally discriminated against white employees and job applicants, including by disproportionately targeting them for layoffs, and that it needed the information to determine whether Nike violated the law.

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A Canadian comedian with a solid international fanbase just watched six sold-out shows vanish in Minnesota. Ben Bankas lost his gigs at Laugh Camp Comedy Club in St. Paul after clips of his routine on Renee Good’s death blew up online – the routine hit raw nerves in a city still reeling from the January 7 shooting.

Club owner Bill Collins cited threats, media frenzy, and street chaos as the reasons for the cancellation. “After discussions with, and concern from public authorities, legal counsel and staff, combined with heightened threats, increasing media attention and civil disorder, we have determined the risks and related liabilities cannot be overcome,” Collins told People Magazine.

Search YouTube for Chris Rock’s video “How Not To Get Your Ass Kicked by the Police,”

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One week after the European Commission opened a new formal investigation into Elon Musk’s X under the Digital Services Act (DSA) and expanded a separate probe launched in December 2023, X’s Paris office was raided by France’s cybercrime unit as part of an investigation into the distribution of sexual deepfakes and Holocaust denial content.

“A search is being carried out at the French premises of X by the cybercrime unit of the Paris public prosecutor’s office, together with @CyberGEND and @Europol , as part of the investigation opened in January 2025,” the Paris prosecutors’ office wrote on X early Tuesday.

The Paris public prosecutor’s office also said it is leaving the X platform and will post exclusively on Reid Hoffman’s LinkedIn and Meta-owned Instagram.

The Telegraph (UK).

Icebreakers, as these vessels are known, can weigh more than 30,000 tons and have become critical in moving cargo, supplying research stations and projecting military power in the region.
The US may be the unchallenged power in its own hemisphere, but it is far more vulnerable in the Arctic because its fleet of icebreakers lags well behind those of rival powers and allies alike. The situation is “abysmal”, one former admiral told The Telegraph.
Canada, which has a formidable array of icebreakers, plus the expertise to design and build them, could help Donald Trump assert his authority in the region.
But amid the president’s threats to annex his northern neighbour and pummel its economy with extortionate tariffs, experts question whether icebreaker diplomacy could help Canada to bring Mr Trump to heel.

Of course, brining Mr Trump ‘to heel’ is what all right-thinking people want to do.

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Turin, Italy saw scenes of extreme violence on Saturday during a demonstration agains the eviction of the illegally occupied Askatasuna anarchist ’social centre’ last December. The centre was shut down and the property seized at the end of last year by DIGOS, the General Investigations and Special Operations Division (DIGOS) of the Italian Police, after the centre’s activists took part in an attack against the headquarters of Italian newspaper La Stampa.

The Saturday protest quickly escalated and for about an hour, between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m., it turned into what the authorities describe as urban guerrilla warfare. Reportedly, at one point a large group of demonstrators pulled out homemade shields, and initiating a clash with the riot police. The violent mob burned garbage cans, and threw stones, fireworks and smoke bombs at the police.

A video shared on social media by Prime Minister Georgia Meloni, Defence Minister Guido Crosetto and former Democratic Party senator Stefano Esposito shows the moment a group of demonstrators surround and brutally attack a police officer, ten against one, kicking and beating him with a hammer. (Viewer discretion advised.)

The Other McCain.

This post is not going to be one of those “look-what-the-crazy-liberal-said” exercises, as enough such work has already been done on podcaster Jennifer Welch’s most recent outburst. Sure, I’ll quote what Welch said, but my point here is to explain why she said it.

Huffington Post, a Voicce of the Crust.

Sydney Sweeney’s latest deflection is a bust.

Cosmopolitan dropped its latest issue this week with the “Euphoria” star on the cover, showing her against a pink backdrop and pushing out her breasts while wearing a low-cut top.

“I can’t make everyone love me,” she’s quoted as saying on the cover, despite the cover implying that she’s trying very hard to make some people love something about her.

Despite the booby trap of a cover, however, many social media users on X and Bluesky seemed way more interested in the content of her interview than her physical endowments — especially since Sweeney has a habit of dodging questions about her personal politics amid an extremely political time.

As with every totalitarian ideology, Wokeism cannot allow CrimeThink anyway in society. It’s not enough to Love Big Sister; you have to SAY you Love Big Sister.

The New Neo.

Hordes of leftist activists are roaming Minneapolis and some other areas of Minnesota, attacking anyone suspected of having something to do with ICE, and the police have apparently have been told to stand down. No doubt the hordes believe themselves to be virtuous, so what they’re doing is A-OK.

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Yet another example of why American parents are increasingly pulling their kids out of public institutions and turning to home schooling. Parents at an elementary school in Kansas are upset after students were reportedly told that they were not allowed to list President Donald Trump, late conservative activist Charlie Kirk and even Jesus Christ as their role models for an assignment.

The incident at Marshall Elementary School in Eureka, Kansas occurred in October and only recently came to light because students were originally instructed not to tell their parents about what happened. The American Center for Law & Justice, described as “a politically conservative, Christian-based legal organization,” has filed a formal civil rights complaint with the school.

The complaint accuses the district and Marshall Elementary School of religious discrimination, political or viewpoint discrimination, violation of free speech rights and retaliation. Students say a school guidance counselor, Kacey Countryman, gave sixth-graders an assignment called “Find Your Voice” as part of their “Leader In Me” program. They were asked to identify their role models, but conservative role models were apparently not allowed.

“When a student identified Charlie Kirk as a role model, the guidance counselor got very uncomfortable and refused to allow this name to be written on the board, yelling that he was ‘not a hero,’ and that he was not a role model,” the complaint says. When a student chose Trump as their role model, the guidance counselor reportedly had the same response.

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Irish teacher Enoch Burke has been returned to Mountjoy Prison after defying a High Court order concerning a school policy on transgender students.

Burke, a teacher of German and history and an Evangelical Christian, was arrested by Gardaí at Wilson’s Hospital School in Co. Westmeath on the morning of January 19th and taken to the High Court in Dublin.

Burke had been released from prison just days earlier to prepare legal proceedings against a disciplinary appeals body reviewing his dismissal from the school. His release was conditional on avoiding the school premises, but he appeared there multiple times, stating that it was “my duty to be at my workplace.” The High Court ordered his immediate return to prison after finding that he repeatedly breached the court injunction.

Enoch Burke has been imprisoned multiple times since late 2022 for breaching a High Court injunction that barred him from the school.

The dispute originated when Burke objected on religious grounds to a request from school management to address a transitioning student by a new name and the pronoun “they.” Burke has consistently argued that complying would violate his Christian beliefs and constitutional rights. Over the course of the legal proceedings, he has spent more than 560 days in prison and faced fines totaling €225,000.

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Conservative activist Jake Lang was physically assaulted Saturday during an “anti-Islam” rally in downtown Minneapolis, leaving him with scrapes and bruises as counterprotesters overwhelmed the small demonstration, local reports say.

Lang, a controversial figure pardoned this year by President Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot, organized a protest in support of federal immigration enforcement.

As he left the area, a crowd of counterdemonstrators confronted the group and Lang appeared to be struck, suffering noticeable injuries. Police intervened and ordered crowds to disperse.

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A man was seen on video allegedly being chased into a parking garage and struck in the head with a flagpole by a mob of apparent anti-ICE agitators, as violent protests unfolded Saturday afternoon in Minneapolis.

The mob continued following the unidentified man, who was walking to a car in the garage to leave, and allegedly pepper sprayed a gash on his head and struck the wound with their hands.

“I’m trying to be done, but you guys keep harassing me,” he told the crowd, his jacket soaked with blood.

A protester could be heard shouting into a megaphone, “Hey no seriously, this guy needs medical help—he needs mental help. The bleeding is natural for Nazis, but he needs mental help.”

“F— you Nazi,” agitators shouted as they followed him into the garage.

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The Irish schoolteacher who became famous over his perseverance in protecting his freedom of conscience returned to his former workplace on Thursday morning, January 15th, less than 24 hours after being released from prison, despite a High Court warning that doing so could see him jailed again.

Enoch Burke, a German and history teacher and an Evangelical Christian, arrived at Wilson’s Hospital School in central Ireland shortly after 9.15 a.m., one day after walking free from Mountjoy Prison in Dublin.

Burke had been released on Wednesday by the High Court to allow him to prepare legal proceedings against a disciplinary appeals body reviewing his dismissal from the school.

The judge warned that the release was conditional on Burke not presenting himself at the school and stated that he would be returned to prison if he did.

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Melissa Martin, a veteran Texas educator with some 30 years of experience, was thrilled when the state passed a law in 2025 that required the state’s 9,000 public schools to post the Ten Commandments in classrooms.

For Martin, it was a bright spot—a swing back toward classical education rooted in Western civilization in an otherwise liberal teaching environment.

Her excitement quickly turned to disappointment at the Houston-based public charter school in which she works.

“I was real surprised when they didn’t jump at putting the Ten Commandments up,” she told The Epoch Times.

?Texas’ Senate Bill 10 has sparked the nation’s largest state-led effort to put the Ten Commandments into schools—and it is facing concerted legal challenges. A hearing on the constitutionality of the new law is scheduled before the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals this month.

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The majority of debanking cases in the US are a result of government pressure, rather than individual banks’ policies, according to a new report from the American think tank the Cato Institute.

Cato Institute analyst Nicholas Anthony explained in a report on Thursday that debanking could take several forms: religious or political, the idea that a financial institution closes accounts solely due to political or religious belief or affiliation; operational, when a bank chooses to close a customer’s account as it’s no longer in the bank’s interest; or government, when a government pressures a financial institution to close a customer’s account.

“While media and political narratives often attribute these closures to political or religious discrimination, this study finds that the majority of debanking cases stem from governmental pressure,” he said.

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A shocking scene played out in a Latin American country Thursday, but this time it’s not Venezuela, but nearby Honduras.

A Honduran legislator from the country’s conservative National Party of president-elect Nasry Asfura was speaking to the press within the halls of the Honduran national congress, or just outside, when suddenly an explosive device was thrown, detonating just behind her head. The disturbing incident, which she survived, was filmed given the many cameras around at the time of the attack.

Deputies had been summoned to meet, and the attack victim – Gladis Aurora López – collapsed to the floor during the explosion, her jacket left torn apart.

Witnesses immediately rushed her to begin giving her medical attention, and authorities in a later update announced that her injuries were thankfully not life-threatening.

Violence is a primary political tool for those on the Left. Their calls for ‘revolution’ leave no doubt of that.

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John Solomon’s Just the News reports that a dark-money NGO network tied to CCP-linked communist billionaire Neville Roy Singham was allgedly activated as a command-and-control support node to organize nationwide anti-ICE protests just hours after the deadly shooting in Minneapolis.

“China may be helping astroturf far-left protests against ICE via a financial network in league with radical-left financier and multi-millionaire Neville Roy Singham. Singham funds a network of groups expressing anti-American sentiment,” Solomon’s team wrote in a note.

On Wednesday, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) wrote on X, “I have formally made a motion to subpoena Neville Singham, an American billionaire with ties to the CCP.”

During a House Oversight Committee meeting earlier that day, Luna said the China-based Singham “has been funding extremist organizations that fuel division and civil unrest in this country, especially regarding the anti-ICE riots last summer.”

The Telegraph (UK).

A teacher in an English school was accused of posing a risk to children and referred to the Government’s counter-terrorism programme after showing Donald Trump videos to his US politics class.

The teacher, who is in his 50s, has told The Telegraph he was “likened to a terrorist” after showing the videos, including one of Mr Trump’s inauguration, to A-level students.

Henley College, a sixth-form in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, with more than 2,000 students, reported the politics lecturer to the local child safeguarding authority, which concluded a referral to Prevent, the Government’s counter-terrorism programme, was a “priority”.

‘Sixth form’ is a two-year program corresponding to 11th and 12th grades in the U.S. Typically British education stops at what Americans would consider the 10th grade, with the final two years only given to people intending to continues to University. Students completing the ordinary course take the test for GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education) or ‘school-leaving certificate’ (which used to be called ‘O-levels’), which is sort of the British equivalent of the American high-school diploma. A ‘sixth-form college’ will give students an additional two years of college prep, after which they take the ‘A-level’ exams to find out what university admittance they can expect. It’s the sort of highly-centralized government-centric sytem that underscores the contrast between how the British do things and how Americans do things.

Jewish Telegraph Agency.

On the first day of AmericaFest, Turning Point USA’s convention in Phoenix, Ben Shapiro lit into a host of conservatives that he said were “frauds and grifters.”

He listed Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly and Steve Bannon as “charlatans who claim to speak in the name of principle but actually traffic in conspiracism and dishonesty.” Together, he said on Thursday, they presented a danger to the conservative movement.

Shapiro was extending an assault that he began earlier in the week during a speech at the Heritage Foundation, a heart of conservatism that has been thrown into turmoil by its president’s backing of Carlson after Carlson hosted the Holocaust denier and avowed antisemite Nick Fuentes on his podcast.

An Orthodox Jew and avowed supporter of Israel, the conservative pundit has been mounting a public effort to repudiate antisemitism and similarly aligned forces within his own party. His campaign comes as the GOP’s younger flank have become increasingly disillusioned with American support for Israel in the aftermath of its war in Gaza.

The reason it’s Not Going Well is that “The Right” doesn’t have the same dog in this fight that Ben Shapiro and the Jewish Telegraph Agency do.

I understand that Jews in general are very sensitive to sniffs of antisemitism because they’ve been on the receiving end of genocidal expressions of the same, but that doesn’t justify going all Hunt for Heretics and Sinners on people who have different points of view that, quite frankly, don’t actually comprise meaningful antisemitism.

This is the same sort of CrimeThink expedition in which the Left has been engaged for the last fifty years; it doesn’t look any better when worn by pro-Israel people, and actually hurts the cause they nominally support by providing fodder for the real antisemites who are watching from the sidelines rubbing their hands with glee.

UPDATE: Vance declines to draw a line against rising influence of antisemitic figures in Republican party  Let the panic begin!

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1. Notice that these three are all women.
2. Notice that what these Karens do is exactly what the so-called Southern Poverty Law Center does.

UPDATE: US bars five Europeans it says pressured tech firms to censor American viewpoints online (Fatima Hussein/Associated Press)

UPDATE: US Bars 5 Europeans Over Tech Censorship Push

UPDATE: U.S. Bars 5 European Tech Regulators and Researchers (Steven Lee Myers/New York Times)

UPDATE: Trump Admin Bans Anti-Free Speech EU Globalists From Entering US