The Telegraph (UK).

A university has placed a trigger warning on Ian Fleming’s James Bond classic Dr No, warning students of “racism and xenophobia”.

Fleming’s sixth Bond novel, Dr No tells the story of 007’s investigation into the disappearance of two fellow MI6 operatives in Jamaica. The villain is the Chinese-German mad scientist Dr Julius No, who runs a guano mine from the fictional island of Crab Key.

With steel pincers for hands, the evil doctor was later immortalised in the first Bond franchise film featuring Sean Connery in 1962, using the same title as Fleming’s novel.

But “academic killjoys” at the University of Portsmouth have deemed Fleming’s portrayal of the main antagonist and other characters as “problematic”, warning the book contains instances of “racism and xenophobia”.

UPDATE: Amazon Is Digitally Erasing Guns from James Bond Posters

The Telegraph (UK).

Three “hero” Tube passengers who tackled a man exposing himself in front of children have been interviewed under caution by police.

‘Under caution’ means they’ve been read their rights, similar to being Mirandized in the U.S., and indicating that they are under formal criminal investigation.

Five members of the public removed the naked man from a busy carriage on the District Line in August.

Video footage posted online at the time showed the man repeatedly refusing to pull up his trousers as he shouted and told those trying to intervene to “f— off”. A scuffle then broke out as the individual was tackled to the carriage floor and thrown off the train at East Ham station, where he was eventually arrested on the platform.

However, when he was later detained under the Mental Health Act, the British Transport Police (BTP) began an investigation into his “assault by a number of other passengers”.

No good deed goes unpunished, especially in modern Britain.

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Real America’s Voice correspondent Ben Bergquam visited the ICE facility in South Portland, exposing how the left-wing political machine operates, from Antifa attacks on the building at night to dark-money–funded NGOs providing support to illegal aliens by day. Together, this paints the picture of how the left’s machine works to subvert the nation, and in extension, national security.

Let’s begin with Bergquam’s late-night reporting outside the ICE facility in Portland that shows the federal government personnel countering Antifa warriors who attempted to undermine the Trump administration’s deportation program of criminal illegals.

By early morning, Antifa cells scatter like ants, only to be replaced by workers from leftist NGOs, according to Bergquam, who spoke with Steve Bannon. He noted that these NGO workers are “aiding and abetting illegal aliens” outside the courthouse in Portland.

Bergquam added, “These leftist NGOs are also part of the networks of telling these illegals when ICE is coming to their communities – it’s all a coordinated effort.”

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The New York Times Magazine posted a 2,500-word essay, likely bound for the next print edition of the Sunday magazine, by far-left Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones: “What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed.” Hannah-Jones was the force behind the paper’s discredited revisionist history The 1619 Project, which tied the founding of America to slavery.

The headline deck to this callous piece, another failed and personally obnoxious attempt at ideological revisionism.

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We have no idea whether the current DOJ indictments will lead to a conviction of James Comey, namely that he authorized FBI subordinates to leak to the media and then lied about it, obstructing Congress in the process.

It may come down to the word of Comey, a known fabricator, against the testimony of his former subordinate, Andrew McCabe, an admitted liar. Take your pick.

We know, however, that Comey is not facing a Trumpian $500 million in potential fines, nor 93 indictments, nor the scrutiny of five different local, state, and federal prosecutors. Nor, like some of the J6 arrested, will he be sent to solitary confinement to await a trial in a year or two or be charged with “illegal parading.”

We also know of the crimes or unethical conduct for which James Comey is not currently being indicted or investigated.

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Three women have been indicted by a federal grand jury in California on accusations that they doxed an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent after following him home last month, according to the Justice Department.

Cynthia Raygoza, 37, of Riverside, Californina; Ashleigh Brown, 38, of Aurora, Colorado; and Sandra Carmona Samane, 25, of Panorama City, California, face charges of conspiracy and of publicly disclosing the personal information of a federal agent, The Hill reported.

Prosecutors said the suspects allegedly followed the agent from the Los Angeles Civic Center district to his home on Aug. 28, while livestreaming their pursuit on Instagram and broadcasting directions to the agent’s residence.

Newsbusters.

This past Sunday, some 90,000 people attended the memorial for Charlie Kirk at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. One of those in attendance was Chicago Cubs rookie third baseman Matt Shaw. Shaw missed his club’s 1-0 loss in Cincinnati. The Cubs are assured of making the playoffs which begin next week, and hold a small lead over the San Diego Padres for the first Wild Card spot in the National League, but the whole situation did not sit well with New York Mets veteran announcer Gary Cohen.

During Tuesday night’s Mets-Cubs game, Cohen decided to use his SNY platform to weigh in on Shaw’s decision. “Shaw had Cubs world in a tizzy this weekend when he was not here for the Cubs game with the Reds. A game they lost 1-0 and in which his lack of presence was felt.”

Cohen makes it sound as if the Cubs might have won, if only Shaw had played. I’ m not sure exactly how that was the case. The Reds did not score their one run on an error by Shaw’s fill-in at third base. Shaw is only hitting around .225, with an OPS near .680. Nothing great by any means.

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Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., is accusing Stanford University of punishing a graduate student who refused to pay dues to a union that supported abortion rights and gender transitioning procedures, Blaze News reported Thursday.

In a letter dated Thursday, Cassidy wrote that he was “seriously concerned” over the plight of a graduate student who was threatened with termination as a teaching assistant if he did not pay dues to the Stanford Graduate Workers Union, which sends two-thirds of its dues to the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America.

At issue is that UE “supports abortion and taxpayer-funded gender transition procedures, positions that run contrary to the religious beliefs” of the affected student, Cassidy wrote.

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Andy Ngo, a longtime independent reporter on antifa domestic terrorist cells, has unearthed an anarchist blog calling for the targeting of ICE facilities.

The blog’s call to violence came one day after President Donald Trump signed an executive order designating antifa a domestic terrorist organization, and it was dated one day before Wednesday’s assassin killed one ICE detainee, wounded two others, and took his own life.

“An Antifa blog site is issuing a call for further attacks on @ICEgov facilities across the country,” Ngo, who says he is “next” to be targeted for assassination, wrote on X.

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Carl Benjamin (“Sargon of Akkad”) explains how YouTube helped enforce the Overton Window.

Instead of ‘conspiracy theories’, we ought to speak of ‘spoiler alerts’.

ATQUE: Google Says Users Removed Over COVID-19 Views Can Rejoin YouTube

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A whistleblower letter obtained by The Croton Chronicle has cast new light on a free-speech issue in Croton-on-Hudson, a quiet village 40 miles north of New York City, where a resident’s Trump flag became the subject of code enforcement action and a federal inquiry, even coming to the attention of President Donald Trump.

The letter, written by Code Enforcement Officer Thor Snilsberg and filed with village officials on Sept. 8, alleges that Croton-on-Hudson leaders ordered him to cite local resident Lenny Amicola for displaying a large Trump banner — even while other noncommercial flags and displays in the community went unchallenged.

Snilsberg, who has since taken medical leave citing stress-related health issues, says he felt “used as a pawn in a political game” and pressured to issue a violation that he didn’t believe was legitimate.

The Guardian (UK), a Voice of the Crust.

A former Meta executive who wrote an explosive exposé making allegations about the social media company’s dealings with China and its treatment of teenagers is said to be “on the verge of bankruptcy” after publishing the book.

An MP has claimed in parliament that Mark Zuckerberg’s company was trying to “silence and punish” Sarah Wynn-Williams, the former director of global public policy at Meta’s precursor, Facebook, after her decision to speak out about her time at the company.

Louise Haigh, the former Labour transport secretary, said Wynn-Williams was facing a fine of $50,000 (£37,000) every time she breached an order secured by Meta preventing her from talking disparagingly about the company.

Imagine living in a country in which such an ‘order’ is possible. Britain effectively has no Freedom of Speech, popular delusion to the contrary notwithsanding. (It used to. But that was then, this is now. And with no analogue of the First Amendment, rights depend on the sufferance of the government of the day.)

Britain of today in what Democrats want the U.S. to be.

Newsbusters.

The words of the legacy media suggest that they abhor political violence in all its forms, and condemn such acts. But they continually platform the very politicians that inflame our discourse during delicate times. The latest example of this is Dana Bash’s interview with Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett on State of the Union. 

After a pro forma question on the allegations against Tom Homan, Bash pivots to the House resolution memorializing Charlie Kirk. Crockett’s response was to lament that only two white people voted against the resolution, and to smear Kirk as a “New Age Relic” of the Confederacy:\

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My comment on a recent post by @SusanQuinn expanded into a post of its own, as is not uncommon for the famously verbose GrannyDude. So here you go:

The only definition of political violence that makes any sense is violence that is undertaken with the intention (however quixotic or insane) of affecting the policies and processes of governance. By this definition, political violence is now overwhelmingly coming from the left. It is not merely a matter of fringe elements either, as the behavior of the so-called “fringe” has been encouraged, aided and rewarded by Democrat politicians and office-holders.

One obvious example: The #BLM Mostly-Peaceful-Protests (MPPs) not only had a peculiar tendency to become very violent, its protesters frequently, openly called for violence. E.g. what do we want, dead cops. Unsurprisingly, homicides against police officers, including deliberate planned assassinations, ensued, perpetrated by persons who explicitly claimed #BLM as motivation. The declared intention of #BLM violence—from speech to action, from doxing to assaults to arson to murder—was to change the way government functions, that is, the way laws are enforced (or not enforced).

To a considerable degree, #BLM violence was successful. Police officers themselves became far more hesitant to do proactive policing, many left the profession altogether and potential new hires decided against such dangerous and thankless employment, leaving law enforcement agencies nationwide understaffed to this day.

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In a video that is going viral on X, and which appears to be real and not AI-generated, two British female police officers show up at the front door of a family home, demanding that the phone of a child in the household be handed over to them for an apparently unlawful social media post.

Britain of today is what Democrats want the U.S. to be.

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On the right, Christians have responded with prayer, vigils, and church services. There was no rioting, no burning of private businesses or government buildings after Kirk’s murder. This stands in sharp contrast to how Democrats respond to pivotal events (remember the nationwide BLM riots of 2020).

Meanwhile, on the left, Kirk’s death was celebrated because assassination culture has been normalized by a party that smears opponents as “Nazis” and “Fascists,” while its armed revolutionary groups spread propaganda that it’s acceptable to kill such people.

These people are really sick.

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An American woman living in Britain got a taste of what it’s like to have your freedom of speech taken away when a police officer visited her house to interrogate her over a Facebook post that he claimed had “upset someone.”

Yes, really. The officer demanded that she apologise about the post, without informing her what the post was about or who she was supposed to apologise to.

Britain now is what the Democrats want the U.S. to be.

New York Post.

The slain victim of Saturday’s country-club shooting in New Hampshire threw himself in front of his wife and daughter to save them from the deranged gunman, his mother has revealed.

Robert DeCesare, 59, was having dinner at a wedding with his family at the Sky Meadow Country Club in Nashua when police say 23-year-old Hunter Nadeau stormed the building with a handgun.

“[Nadeau] kicked the door open, and Rob just went right for him and protected his family,” DeCesare’s mother, Evie O’Rourke, told WMUR.

The Telegraph (UK).

Private schools will be charged up to three times more for Ofsted inspections under a fresh raid on the independent sector to be unveiled by the Education Secretary.

Bridget Phillipson will announce plans to axe subsidies for independent schools in a move that could spark more accusations she is waging a class war.

Ms Phillipson is currently currying favour with Labour’s Left-wing members in the battle to succeed Angela Rayner as the party’s deputy leader.

Her move risks further pushing up fees for parents already struggling to cope with the impact of Labour’s VAT raid, which has sparked a wave of school closures.

The Democrats would love to put the Deep State in charge of ‘inspecting’ private schools in the U.S., and would ban them if they could.

The Times (UK).

Elon Musk is a “criminal” and should be arrested after inciting violence during a rally in London last week, Sir Ed Davey has said.

The Liberal Democrat leader said that the tech billionaire had broken the law by telling a protest led by far-right activist Tommy Robinson that “violence is coming to you”. Davey said that the “standard has been met” to arrest Musk if he landed in the UK.

Last Saturday, the Tesla chief executive told a crowd of up to 150,000 demonstrators to “fight back” against immigration “or die”.

The Bernie Sanders of Britain. This is what the Democrats would be saying were it not for the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

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President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced he was designating the anti-fascist movement antifa a “major terrorist organization,” a move that follows last week’s assassination of conservative leader Charlie Kirk.

Trump posted the declaration on Truth Social while on a state visit to the United Kingdom, hours after attending a state banquet at Windsor Castle.

“I am pleased to inform our many U.S.A. Patriots that I am designating ANTIFA, A SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER, AS A MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION,” Trump wrote, adding that he would “strongly recommend that those funding ANTIFA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices.”

And about time,  too.

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A group of around 20 pro-Palestine activist students interrupted a lecture at the University of Pisa’s politics department on Tuesday and reportedly physically assaulted the professor because he would not take their side on the Israel-Hamas war.

The group said in a statement on social media that “we occupied the lecture of a Zionist professor,” adding:

There is no room for Zionists and warmongers in our university!

But the professor, Rino Casella, responded that “they accuse me of being a Zionist just because I’ve always said I’m not pro-Palestinian.” Casella says he and one of his students were “kicked and punched” by the activists and that he ended up in the university’s emergency room as a result of the attack.

Neither Muslims nor Leftists have ever hesitated to use violence against people they dislike. Perhaps that’s why the get along so well together.

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It’s back-to-school season, and some teachers have promised that the racist ideas from diversity, equity, and inclusion would not be in their classrooms this year. That’s the good news. The bad news is that many of these teachers and administrators are clearly telling whoppers.

In fact, K-12 schools and colleges around the country are disguising their DEI offices and their racial preferences.

Take Maryland, across the border from the nation’s capital and where many federal bureaucrats sleep and send their children to school.

State education officials said schools would comply with President Donald Trump’s executive orders calling on schools to reject DEI, citing the ways in which DEI programs violate civil rights laws.

Yet schools in Montgomery County, precisely where the swamp lives, still have resources on their website dedicated to DEI and critical race theory.

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Conservatives have faced many kinds of hostility, including 96 attacks on pro-life pregnancy centers and 356 attacks on Catholic churches since the leak of the Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022. Democrats, too, have faced attacks—most recently the horrific shooting of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman.

This article, however, focuses on physical attacks on Republican leaders or conservative groups.

The Washington Poop, a Voice of the Crust.

Within 24 hours of Charlie Kirk’s killing, an assistant dean at a Tennessee college, a communications staffer for an NFL team, a Next Door employee in Milwaukee, and the co-owner of a Cincinnati barbecue restaurant were fired after posting about it.

They had all used language or memes their employers deemed offensive or insensitive about the 31-year-old conservative firebrand. Kirk evoked strong feelings along party lines, and the fatal shooting in Utah on Wednesday unleashed parallel outpourings: On the right, there were mostly mournful expressions and demands for retribution; on the left, there was mostly condemnation of political violence and some suggestions that he had it coming.

“Looks like ol’ Charlie spoke his fate into existence,” Laura Sosh-Lightsy, assistant dean of students at Middle Tennessee State University, posted Wednesday on Facebook. “Hate begets hate. ZERO sympathy.”

Actions have consequences. Accountability is a stone-cold bitch.

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George Abaraonye, president-elect of the University of Oxford’s debating union, is facing calls to resign after he appeared to celebrate the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, The Telegraph reported.

Abaraonye sent messages to a group chat saying, “Charlie Kirk got shot, let’s [expletive] go” and “Charlie Kirk got shot loool.”

Gregory Stafford, a Conservative MP and former treasurer of the Oxford Union, said Abaraonye has brought the society “into disrepute.”

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A lot of people have noticed that a disproportionate number of teachers have been celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

If you haven’t been following the disastrous state of our public schools and figured out how ideologically captured they are, this might surprise you.

UPDATE: Charlie Kirk’s Murder Cheered Online by Liberal Teachers Across U.S.

The Foundry.

The prophet Isaiah warned a wayward nation: “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness.” Right was condemned as wrong, and what darkened the soul was repackaged as enlightenment. Isaiah cautioned that rejecting God’s word would bring devastation. The warning still stands.

Two developments last week expose the warning’s timeliness. For years, activists in media and government have advanced a gender ideology that tells even children they can choose an identity opposite of their biological reality. That confusion is not benign.

In Minneapolis, a gunman opened fire during a school Mass at Annunciation Catholic Church, killing two children and injuring many others. Police identified the attacker as Robert Westman, who identified as transgender and, in notes posted before the attack, expressed regret and anger about “being trans” and deep confusion about identity.

This is not isolated. Recall the Covenant School massacre in Nashville, and now we have Minneapolis—both carried out by individuals who identified as transgender. The point is not to stigmatize anyone; it is to confront a reality our culture keeps trying to deny: ideas have consequences and masquerading a lie as the truth can be deadly.

Yet rather than pause to reassess the narrative, legacy outlets scolded themselves for “misgendering.” NBC News even issued a correction after its initial report used what it called the wrong pronoun when referring to Westman as “he.” “She used female pronouns,” NBC sycophantically stated. This, despite law enforcement identifying the killer as male.

What a commentary on the press. Apologizing for mistakenly telling the truth reflects a deeper malady: trading evil for good and darkness for light. And when this deception is celebrated, children suffer. A civilization cannot protect what it refuses to name, and language becomes a veil for violence.

Still, the media is not the fountainhead of this confusion; they are its amplifiers. The deeper problem is philosophical. If truth is now established by feelings, then law must enforce the feelings.

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Austria’s Supreme Court has sided with FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl in his legal dispute with the association Plattform Österreich, Die Presse reported.

The case centered on a campaign video that compared Kickl to Adolf Hitler, using the term “Volkskanzler” (“People’s Chancellor”) as part of the imagery.

Plattform Österreich, led by Robert Luschnik—a former federal manager for the Greens and NEOS and now club director of the Pink Party—released the video ahead of the last national elections under the title “Do you want that? Our Austria is in danger.”

The footage juxtaposed black-and-white World War II battle scenes with the question, “Do you really want another People’s Chancellor?” before showing Kickl’s face under the caption “People’s Chancellor Project.”

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Leftist organizations like the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center have been saying for decades that “conservative extremists” are the biggest domestic terror threat in the US. Of course, the ADL and SPLC have been oddly quiet when it comes to the multitude of leftist related shootings and terror attacks in recent years, including several transgender related mass shootings since 2018. These incidents don’t fit the progressive narrative mold.

You will likely never see a TV series based on government agents scouring the internet for left-wing extremists plotting potential mass killings, even though there is an endless gold vein of real life story material to be mined for such a show. Until Donald Trump took office this year, it’s highly unlikely that the FBI was looking into woke zealots with any seriousness.

The focus of Hollywood propaganda, the focus of government propaganda and the focus of NGO propaganda has long been the demonization of conservatives, red pillers, anti-feminists, militia members and “white supremacists” (essentially anyone against mass immigration from third-world nations). Overtly political productions are crushing Hollywood’s profit margins because they still operate on a model that treats the “right wing” as a fringe minority. In reality, the right wing is the majority.

Apple TV apparently still hasn’t gotten the memo, or, they’re releasing content today that they started shooting years ago and it’s too late to turn back. Their latest series, The Savant, is set to be released this month and the trailer has gone viral on social media, but not in a good way.

MAGA splinters as Epstein fight returns to Congress (Tal Axelrod/Axios)

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In the UK, it’s not just the well-known who get punished for gender-critical views. It turns out that even disabled children are considered fair game by the powers that be.

Consequently, a disabled eight-year-old boy, whose rare condition requires round-the-clock care, was banned from a summer camp designed for families like his after his mother responded to an application form asking for her son’s pronouns by saying: “Seriously?”

In a call initiated by the charity months after this application was submitted, a clinical director tried “explaining the importance of pronouns at our camps,” but the mother insisted that people could not change sex. The family was then told in an email, sent moments after the call, that their application had been unsuccessful.

Following a backlash online, the charity has claimed the child and his mother were turned away not because of the mother’s views but because of how she expressed them on the phone. Free Speech Union official Connie Shaw said this was “classic” backtracking.

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Canadian politicians are creating one bonfire after another of freedom and individual rights. COVID crackdowns established persecution precedents that politicians in some provinces refuse to allow to gather dust. Politicians are claiming the right to financially cripple anyone who makes a single misstep in violation of the latest idiotic decrees.

On August 5, Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston decreed a $25,000 fine for anyone walking in the woods or otherwise violating a new prohibition that covered both government and private lands. The prohibition will continue until October. Houston declared, “Most wildfires are caused by human activity, so to reduce the risk, we’re keeping people out of the woods until conditions improve. I’m asking everyone to do the right thing—don’t light that campfire, stay out of the woods and protect our people and communities.” Canadian politicians are exploiting wildfires the same way that former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau exploited COVID to lockdown the entire nation.

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I’m surprised she even bothered. The world indeed has changed.

The Foundry.

The Left is obsessed with the idea that conservatives are the real book banners. California Democrat state Sen. Scott Weiner took to X recently to bash “MAGA” and assumedly Florida, accusing them of banning one of the most famous memoirs about the Holocaust.

“Florida banning the Diary of Anne Frank tells you everything you need to know about the MAGA movement,” Weiner wrote on X.

What? Florida banned the Diary of Anne Frank!? Say it ain’t so. As you probably already guessed, it ain’t so.

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“Black market” is one of those political smears coined by statists who don’t think people ought to be engaging in voluntary private transactions that are unapproved by the government.

The owners of three single-room occupancy (SRO) hotels in San Francisco’s Chinatown recently settled a lawsuit with the city, agreeing to pay a hefty fine of more than $800,000. Among their alleged crimes was that they “illegally converted, combined or added unauthorized housing units” to their properties.

Note the sin: “unauthorized”.

The allegations expose something that should be humiliating for San Francisco: the development of a black market for housing.

The lawsuit was not San Francisco’s only effort to combat the underground housing market. In recent years, to name a few examples, the city sued a man for cramming 15 tenants into a three-bedroom home and fined a developer $1.2 million for constructing an apartment complex with triple the residential units that city planners had approved.

Note the sin: not what “city planners had approved”.

“Unauthorized dwelling units” have proliferated in San Francisco for decades. Unpermitted “in-law suites” attached to single-family homes are so commonplace that locals sometimes call them “outlaw suites.” As far back as 1993, the city faced a scandal after the head of the Bureau of Building Inspection was caught operating two of these outlaw suites for 10 years. A similar story involving a senior building inspector came to light in 2021.

Note the sins: “unauthorized”, “unpermitted”, “outlaw”.

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While Washington, D.C., residents are enjoying feeling safe on the streets of their community once again, angry middle-class suburban protesters want the National Guard to leave the crime-ridden city. When Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth visited the National Guard troops at Union Station this week, protesters used their First Amendment rights to express their opposition to the Trump administration’s actions.

There were over 180 homicides in Washington in 2024. If it were a state, it would have the highest homicide rate in the nation. But Washington’s anti-law enforcement protesters appear more consumed by a political agenda than the safety of those who live and work in the city.

Victor Davis Hanson.

We’ve talked about the challenges to big multiracial democracies like the United States, India, and Brazil. The other two, the latter two, don’t do very well because they accentuate a caste or a racial or an ethic spoils system. The United States is the only one in history that has been somewhat successful, very successful. But it depends on everybody looking at their own identity as incidental to being an American, rather than essential.

So, why am I talking about this? Recently, Joy Reid, who was an anchorwoman at MSNBC and let go, I think, not for any other reasons, because of poor ratings, but she has a podcast and she blasted, collectively, white people. And she said that “they can’t invent anything.” And then she went into a diatribe about American music, that it was solely the domain of black people.

But what I’m getting at is, we’re getting very dangerous in this DEI movement, as it starts to emit its death throes, as it’s challenged for being racist, which it is. It’s racial essentialism. People who defend it double down, and they double down in a way that’s very injurious for the rest of the country.

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A few months ago, an association was set up with the aim of supporting and certifying traditional festivals in French villages. The Left, which identified that the organisation had received support from Catholic billionaire Pierre-Edouard Stérin, launched a smear campaign against the project, claiming that it was a militant offensive by the far Right. Under pressure from the media, the festivals that had been awarded the label were asked to withdraw.

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As companies across America wake up to the risks of “wokeness,” the fight against ideological debanking has become the latest campaign against efforts to weaponize the finance industry to advance a left-wing agenda.

Following President Donald Trump’s Aug. 7 executive order against political debanking, new revelations emerged that bank executives may have been pressured by regulators in the Obama and Biden administrations to deny financial services to Trump and his associates. Fox News reported on Aug. 19 that, according to an unnamed bank executive, pressure from regulators to cancel political adversaries was “very, very real.”

“The banks discriminate against conservatives, they discriminate against religion, because they’re afraid of the radical left,” Trump stated. His own accounts were closed at several banks following the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill riot, he said.

Newsbusters.

X owner Elon Musk can no longer hide behind predecessor Jack Dorsey and the radical programmers who have remained with the company since its change of ownership. Nearly three years after Musk bought Twitter (now X), the platform still favors liberals over conservatives, boosting voices on the left at the expense of account holders on the right. And this includes the accounts of members of Congress.

The rot is deep and strong. It didn’t get there in a day, and it won’t be gotten rid of in a day.

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In Saint-Raphaël, on the French Riviera, the mayor has taken an unusual step: he plans to inaugurate a monument in his town in tribute to the victims of communism. The initiative has sparked outrage from the French Communist Party (PCF), which believes that the time for repentance has not yet come.

The mayor, Frédéric Masquelier, a member of the centre-right Les Républicains party, says he is very proud of his initiative, which is the first in France. With this gesture, he intends to “break a taboo of memory,” namely the responsibility of communist ideology for the deaths of 100 million victims throughout the last century. To date, monuments commemorating the victims of communism are all located in former communist countries.

The Communist Party has made its disapproval known, arguing that this monument has no place, since the only French “victims” of communism were “the Nazis and their collaborators.” The 10,000 French soldiers tortured in communist camps after the defeat at Dien Bien Phu in Indochina, to name but a few, will certainly appreciate being considered “Nazis and collaborators.”

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The Department of Class Solidarity, an emerging left-wing activist group, launched a project to “audit” and track over 1,000 billionaires across the U.S. Their stated goal is not financial transparency, but political warfare: to document billionaire ties to President Trump, and then equip activists with the tools to, in their words, “defeat them.”

The group recently published its first five audits, each featuring a high-profile billionaire with direct or indirect links to the Trump agenda. The names include some of the wealthiest and most influential figures in American business: Elon Musk, Palantir CEO Alex Karp, former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) official Antonio Gracias, Silicon Valley “supervillain” Peter Thiel, and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos.

Each billionaire’s profile is accompanied by a stylized “wanted poster,” underscoring the group’s framing of billionaires as political enemies.

I suggest that these people be careful not to start down that road. Elon Musk could fund a task force out of his pocket change that would make these people disappear, and his agents would be the best professionals money could buy. Never get in a pissing contest with a guy whose net work has three commas in it.

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A Northern Virginia school district will suspend two boys who complained when a girl, who identifies as a boy, used their locker room at school—and the district will also force the boys to work out a “corrective action plan” with school administrators.

“We will be on guard for any attempts to create a plan of indoctrination into the district’s denial of reality and science,” Victoria Cobb, president of the Family Foundation, told The Daily Signal. The foundation’s legal arm, the Founding Freedoms Law Center, is representing the two boys.

Loudoun County Public Schools investigated three high school boys for “sexual harassment” in violation of Title IX—a federal law prohibiting sex discrimination—after they complained about the girl in their locker room. The girl reportedly used her phone to record the boys complaining about her—a violation of school district policy—but the district investigated the boys, not the girl who recorded them.

The Times (UK).

A London council has advised staff not to refer to married couples as husband and wife.

The Royal Borough of Greenwich council in southeast London has provided its staff with an inclusive language guide which suggests they use terms “spouse” or “partner” instead to avoid offending anyone who does not identify as a man or woman.

he 45-page booklet, obtained by The Sun through a freedom of information request, also asks the council’s employees to avoid welcoming “ladies and gentlemen” if they are running public meetings and events.

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“We have to stop believing or following the rules. Break the rules,” New York Attorney General Letitia James recently told a radical leftist magazine. And she’s been doing exactly that.

Since taking office, the state’s top prosecutor has promoted one politically motivated prosecution after another, targeting, among others, the NRA and the Trump family, even as crime in the state soared to horrifying new heights. An exclusive Freedom Center investigation showed that 1,000 people died while Attorney General Letitia James neglected her duties.

Now James and her media allies are crying because the Justice Department is investigating her.

And no one deserves it more than her.

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A social democrat MP pushing for mixing low-income apartment buildings with single-family homes to force integration of immigrants and native Swedes is herself safe from having her home life affected by the proposal: She lives in a single-family home—in Denmark, Samnytt reports.

In May, the Swedish tenants’ union presented a radical proposal identifying highly desirable subdivisions with single-family homes where, it suggested, 600,000 apartments for low-income families ought to be built. And not on existing green spaces between private lots either—according to the proposal, each single-family homeowner should be forced to give up part of his lot for the construction of an apartment building. This, the tenants’ union said, would open up for a “more mixed population.”

A proposal along similar lines was adopted by the Social Democrat party congress a few weeks later.

Socialists in the U.S. love the same trick. They seem to think that putting poor semi-criminal people in the middle of rich people will make them richer and more law-abiding; it merely makes the rich people leave.

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A leftist councillor in the UK who called for “cutting the throats” of anti-mass migration protesters has been acquitted of all charges and set free, while conservatives who expressed anti-illegal immigration sentiment in tweets are still languishing in prison.