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Belgian conservative-nationalist Dries Van Langenhove has again been sentenced on appeal to one year in prison as a suspended sentence for what the judge said were violations of the Racism and Negationism Act.

We’ll give you a ‘suspended sentence’ so that if you open your mouth wrong we can sling you in jail without any bother.

The sentence stems from racist memes that were not even posted by him, but by members of a group chat he administrated seven years ago.

The sentence was delivered today by the Court of Appeal in Ghent, although Van Langenhove does not accept the sentence, and the case now goes into cassation.

The Foundry.

Last week, the Trump White House hosted PragerU CEO Marissa Streit to launch a patriotic exhibit called “The Founders Museum,” a joint effort involving the White House, PragerU, and the Department of Education.

That seems a rather odd thing for an “antigovernment extremist group” to do, yet that’s exactly the label the Southern Poverty Law Center applies to PragerU. According to the SPLC, this nonprofit, best known for its five-minute educational videos, secretly works to “protect white supremacy” and belongs on a “hate map” with chapters of America’s most notorious hate group, the Ku Klux Klan.

The SPLC’s ire against PragerU comes as no surprise. After all, the SPLC has a long track record of putting mainstream conservative and Christian nonprofits on its “hate map,” and PragerU’s videos spread far and wide, encouraging Americans to defend family values, free markets, systems based on merit rather than identity—in short, the virtues of America.

This patriotism explains why PragerU is celebrating America’s 250th anniversary at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, so why does the SPLC hate it so much?

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A nonprofit organization bankrolled by numerous Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-linked entities advocated for a New York law that authorizes the state to charge energy companies billions for their roles in climate change.

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Five years after the death of George Floyd, the political Left is increasingly embracing violence as legitimate action, aided and abetted by soft-on-crime forces funded by billionaire George Soros.

Floyd’s death sparked numerous deaths and other violence, including massive property damage to predominantly black neighborhoods and businesses. The Minneapolis–Saint Paul riots alone saw two people killed, 604 people arrested, and up to $2 billion in property damage.

Five years later, and we’re already seeing signs of another “Summer of Love.”

Well, after all, it’s Trump’s fault for being Hitler.

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I did a scan of the news coverage, and our Daily Signal column reporting on the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association petitioning the president for the pardon was the only one I could find that delved into Jenkins’ court proceedings and the judge’s restrictions on the sheriff’s defense. The judge limited Jenkins’ ability to present contradicting testimony and the timeline of events that preceded the Department of Justice’s “sting operation” against him.

To many, that sting operation seemed intended to ensnare the sheriff for joining other Virginia sheriffs in declaring their counties would be “sanctuaries” for gun owners after the Democrat-controlled Virginia General Assembly proposed several anti-Second Amendment bills. Jenkins was also gaining significant national media attention for this as well as for being part of the team investigating the Hunter Biden laptop scandal.

But to the public that only saw the TV or local newspaper coverage, Jenkins had been found guilty of the kind of corruption that in most circumstances would be abhorrent to a conservative. He was accused of selling auxiliary deputy positions in his department for campaign contributions.

SQL-Workbench, “SQL Workbench/J is a DBMS-independent, cross-platform SQL query tool. It is written in Java and should run on any operating system that provides a Java Runtime Environment.”

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A volunteer has been banned from a railway charity scheme in the UK after he asked a basic question regarding a train that had been wrapped in ‘Pride’ colours.

The Telegraph reports, “Matthew Toomer, 48, was thrown out of West Midlands Railway’s ‘Adopt a Station’ scheme after he privately contacted company bosses to express concern about its ‘Progress Pride’ train.”

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What awful hateful thing did Mr. Toomer say?

He commented on a social media post about the rebranded train, asking if it would “return to its natural state once the event is over.”

Oh the horror.

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There are troubling reports that the Ontario Food Terminal—the largest wholesale fruit and produce hub in Canada, moving 2 billion pounds annually—has been disrupted by far-left activists chanting “Free Palestine.”

“Masked protesters stage a blockade at the Ontario Food Terminal, preventing freight trucks from accessing Canada’s largest wholesale fruit and vegetable distribution center,” citizen journalist “CarymaRules” wrote on X early Sunday morning, adding, “The demonstration began shortly before 2:00AM, ahead of the day’s scheduled deliveries.”

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Seattle police said they arrested 23 people Saturday after left-wing protesters confronted Christian activists at a prayer rally held in a popular LGBTQ neighborhood.

Protesters waving transgender flags gathered on the outside of a “Mayday USA” Christian rally when police said multiple people in one demonstration started throwing items at the other group around 1:30 p.m. Saturday.

“Officers immediately moved to arrest the people responsible, and while taking the individuals into custody, were assaulted by more protesters, resulting in even more arrests,” police said in a news release.

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The year of 2020 was an unmitigated disaster for the US for numerous reasons. With so many chaotic events happening simultaneously, one can be forgiven if they have completely forgotten about the bizarre CHAZ/CHOP takeover of a section of Seattle by woke activists for around a month. The protest led to extensive violence and some deaths, but was widely supported by city officials. It was also a wellspring of hilarious memes as ignorant protesters tried in vain to establish a self sustaining progressive community complete with socialist garden spaces.

Seattle is one of the few leftist enclaves in the US still clinging to the old days of BLM and covid mandates, and they are back in the news again. This time because of an organized and violent mob attack on a peaceful Christian rally this week at Cal Anderson Park. The rally, held by a group called Mayday USA, spoke on pro-life issues and against transgender hormones and surgeries for children.

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If you go to the Vancouver International Auto Show, you can see all the new models. However, if you want to see a Tesla, you must go down the road to check out a car without a political litmus test. The organizers are just the latest group to join the mob retaliating against Elon Musk for working with the Trump Administration to remove waste and fraud in government through his DOGE program. What was most striking was the pathetic rationalization of the organization for engaging in political retaliation.

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A rabbi whom pro-Hamas activists assaulted last year urged the Department of Justice on Thursday to investigate Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), alleging that officers have been ordered “not to enforce D.C. law against anti-Israel protesters.”

Anti-Israel activists assaulted Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld—leader of Washington’s Yeshivas Elimelech Jewish studies center—while he prayed outside the Israeli embassy. The protesters, who had demonstrated near the embassy since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, attempted to disrupt Herzfeld’s prayer by blasting sirens in his ear, ultimately damaging his hearing.

Herzfeld approached the MPD officers after the assault, asking why they did not intervene. The officers “told Rabbi Herzfeld that they had been instructed not to enforce the noise ordinances against Palestinian protesters who protested outside the Israel Embassy,” his letter to the Justice Department reads.

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A Florida woman has been charged with battery for allegedly assaulting a 72-year-old man who was wearing a Make America Great Again hat, reports Fox News.

Florida police say Laura Garrett, 33, assaulted Garry Gama in the community of Largo on Tuesday around 5:30 p.m. She was also charged with battery on a police office and obstructing or resisting arrest.

“The defendant and the 72-year-old victim were at the park when a verbal argument broke out between them regarding the victim wearing a ‘MAGA’ hat,” an affidavit read.

Say hello to Laura Garrett:

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Major defense contractor Lockheed Martin announced Thursday that it will phase out employee resource groups, which divide workers along racial, LGBTQ, and activism lines, after President Donald Trump’s recent executive orders and after shareholders expressed concern about an anti-Christian double standard.

“As we shared in January, Lockheed Martin took immediate action to ensure compliance with President Trump’s Executive Order 14173, encouraging merit-based talent management practices within U.S. companies,” Lockheed Martin Chairman, President, and CEO Jim Taiclet said in an email to staff shared with The Daily Signal.

The executive order, issued Jan. 21, declared that “diversity, equity, and inclusion” efforts in the federal government, companies, the medical industry, higher education, and other places can violate federal civil rights laws, which bar discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. The order directs federal agencies to encourage the private sector “to end illegal DEI discrimination and preferences.”

In the order’s wake, Lockeed Martin “conducted a thorough review of our efforts to recruit, retain, and promote the best aerospace and defense talent in the world to ensure full alignment with the executive order and our core values—Do What’s Right, Respect Others, and Perform with Excellence,” Taiclet shared.

Power Line.

Tom Wolfe’s much-quoted adage is that “the dark night of fascism is always descending on America but always lands in Europe.” In a similar vein, one can say that the authorities and the press are always looking for “domestic terrorism” on the right, but in fact, it consistently comes from the left.

The latest left-wing terrorist is Elias Rodriguez. Rodriguez was obsessed with Israel and chanted “Free, free Palestine” after murdering Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, just as if he were participating in a demonstration at Columbia. He left behind a self-justification on Twitter in which he called Israel a “genocidal apartheid state,” a sentiment that could have come from a number of members of Congress. Israel is so evil, according to Rodriguez, that “to many Americans,” murdering Israelis is “in some funny way, the only sane thing to do.”

As is generally the case these days, Rodriguez’s hatred of Israel (and, I assume, Jews in general) was squarely located in a left-wing context. He was a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which is now distancing itself from his murders. He participated in at least one Chicago demonstration sponsored by the Communist organization International ANSWER. In his Twitter self-glorification, Rodriguez praised just one other anti-Zionist, Aaron Bushnell. Bushnell was the Air Force member who set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington. Bushnell, too, was a leftist. The New York Times says that Bushnell threw “himself into leftist and anarchist activism, talking often about alleviating poverty and opposing capitalism.”

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In 2021 Loudon County Schools in Virginia were implementing DEI policies that allowed for trans students to use the bathrooms and locker rooms of their preferred gender. The institutional decision to let trans students essentially do whatever they please regardless of safety concerns led to an incident in May of that year in which a trans girl (boy pretending to be a girl) sexually assaulted a female student in a school bathroom.

The Loudon case sparked a national firestorm, not just because of the rape (which the boy was eventually convicted of), but because of the reported attempts by school officials to cover up the attack.

The teen perpetrator was found criminally responsible for two counts of sodomy in the May 28 incident at Stone Bridge High School and a separate incident on Oct. 6 at Broad Run High School after he was transferred to that school. He was placed on supervised probation in a locked juvenile treatment facility until his 18th birthday.

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According to recent articles, engaging in physical exercise is now linked to right-wing extremism.

The narrative suggests that lifting weights, building discipline, and taking responsibility for your body are somehow dangerous acts. The Guardian claims that getting in shape could turn you into a “right-wing jerk,” while TIME runs pieces on “the white supremacist origins of exercise.” MSNBC warns that during the pandemic, workout trends ended up leading to “extreme” ideologies.

Seriously? Can we just stop with the nonsense?

I’ll tell you the real reason fitness is under attack. It breeds autonomy. And autonomous men are a threat to systems built on dependence and compliance.

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The two-day ‘Reactionary politics, women, and feminist critique’ conference at Loughborough University in Leicestershire, England, starting on Wednesday, May 21st, promises a keynote on ‘Feminism After Neoliberalism and the New Far Right’—economic and political perspectives that are typically difficult to reconcile.

“This event focuses on women and feminised popular culture in the context of resurgent reactionary politics,” the organisers advertise, effortlessly linking ‘reactionary’ and ‘far right.’ One of the major smears thrown from Brussels at the growing populist revolt is effortlessly integrated into higher education’s vocabulary, almost as if it has been captured by the Left (spoiler: it has).

Sponsored by the European Journal of Cultural Studies, speakers at the conference promise to tackle “Popular feminism, the gig economy, and the discursive potency of women’s safety;” “Self-Care and ‘Disappointing’ Politics in the Trump-Era Novel,” and “‘Gender Debate’ Discourse: Polarising, bigoted and validating’”—no debate there then. Casting such preoccupations further afield, other speakers will condemn “Female-fronted anti-feminism in Sweden, Germany and Russia” and the “Rise of Trans Exclusion in Self-identifying Radical Feminists in South Korea.”

Other targets include ‘tradwives,’ ‘momfluencers,’ and ‘victimcould,’ with no one there to make the counterargument. Digitally themed sessions typically imply an online threat from some types of men, while others seem to downplay physical threats to women’s safety from others, hinting at a ‘far-right’ agenda—unless the danger comes from the U.S.-European ‘manosphere.’

Not since academics gathered in Sheffield to discuss “How Do You Solve a Problem Like GB News”—answer: more regulation—has there been such confirmation bias on display at a supposedly scholarly gathering. To be honest, such get-togethers happen week in, week out at a campus near you—typically at your expense.

New Economics, a Voice of the Crust.

It has long been accepted that there is a line beneath which people have too little to thrive or survive. In a period defined by rapidly growing wealth inequities, there is increasing discussion about whether we should also be asking how much is too much. At what point does wealth accumulation become excessive, unjust, or harmful?

Excessive – in whose opinion? Unjust – in whose opinion? Harmful – in whose opinion? The envious levelers who permeate proglodyte space?

The concepts of a poverty line and an extreme wealth line (EWL) are not the same. One focuses on the minimum income, or the level of resources, required to access life’s essentials such as food, shelter, and clothing. The other considers whether there is a point beyond which the concentration of global wealth, such as income-generating land, properties, and financial assets, in the hands of relatively few people, is harmful – to individuals, to society, and to the environment. Drawing a line in either case has the potential to be highly contested, but also hugely impactful: it enables us as a society to discuss and reassess our tolerance for inequities and ultimately design better policies to tackle them.

Socialism red in tooth and claw.

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While the Colorado Legislature passed a new transgender bill, sponsors compared parental rights groups to the Ku Klux Klan. Now, those groups are suing to block the legislation, mere days after Gov. Jared Polis signed it.

“The State of Colorado cannot stifle viewpoints it doesn’t like simply because it finds those views offensive or disagreeable,” Sarah Parshall Perry, vice president and legal fellow at the parental rights group Defending Education, told The Daily Signal in a statement Tuesday.

The parental rights groups Defending Education, the Colorado Parent Advocacy Network, and Protect Kids Colorado teamed up with the medical watchdog group Do No Harm and a medical doctor, Dr. Travis Morrell, to file the lawsuit Monday, challenging HB 25-1312, which Polis, a Democrat, signed Friday. The law amends the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act, which bars discrimination on the basis of “gender expression,” specifically stating that refusing to use a person’s “chosen name” will constitute discrimination.

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Maine State Rep. Laurel Libby, a Republican, filed a federal lawsuit against Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau for censuring her after she sounded the alarm on a biological male student beating his female competitors at the Maine State Class B Championship in pole vault for girls.

Fecteau asked her to apologize for the post, and after she refused, censured her.

“This is a victory not just for my constituents, but for the Constitution itself,” Libby said on X. “The Supreme Court has affirmed what should NEVER have been in question — that no state legislature has the power to silence an elected official simply for speaking truthfully about issues that matter.”

And what did the Usual Suspects do?

Liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson were the only two to vote against Libby and her battle to defend women’s sports.

The Washington Poop, a Voice of the Crust.

An Arizona judge has ordered state prosecutors to send back to a grand jury a case in which Republicans were charged last year for their alleged roles in trying to overturn the 2020 election, potentially jeopardizing the high-profile indictments.

Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sam J. Myers sided with the Republicans and found that prosecutors failed to provide the grand jury with the text of an 1887 federal law that is central to the Republicans’ defense. The law, known as the Electoral Count Act, spells out how presidential electoral votes are to be cast and counted.

“We are extremely pleased with the court’s ruling, and we think the judge got it exactly right,” said Stephen Binhak, the attorney who spearheaded the effort to get the case back to a grand jury.

The decision is a major setback for Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D), who promised to appeal the ruling so she could keep the prosecution going.

Foreign Affairs, a Voice of the Crust.

Spend a few minutes browsing political commentary or scrolling social media and you will discover a seemingly settled truth: inequality in the West is soaring, the middle class is being hollowed out, and democracies stand on the brink of oligarchy. The idea is seductive because it fits everyday anxieties in many Western countries—housing has grown increasingly unaffordable, billionaire wealth mushrooms unfathomably, and the pandemic exposed yawning gaps in social safety nets. Yet the most influential claims about inequality rest on selective readings of history and partial measurements of living standards. When the full balance sheet of modern economies is tallied—including taxes, transfers, pension entitlements, homeownership, and the fact that people move through income brackets across their lives—the story looks markedly different. Western societies are not nearly as unequal as many believe them to be.

This is not a call for complacency. Concentrated economic power can distort markets and politics; pockets of deep poverty persist in rich countries; and in the United States, the top of the distribution has indeed sprinted ahead of the rest. But focusing only on the eye-catching fortunes of tech founders or hedge-fund managers obscures a quieter, broader transformation: households across the income spectrum now own capital on a scale unimaginable to earlier generations, and basic measures of well-being in Western societies—including life expectancy, educational attainment, and consumption possibilities—have improved for nearly everyone.

Getting the facts right matters because bad diagnosis breeds bad prescriptions. If governments assume that capitalism is inexorably recreating the disparities of the Gilded Age, they will reach for wealth confiscations, price controls, or ever-larger public sectors funded by fragile tax bases. If, instead, the evidence shows that free-market economies have enriched middle classes by expanding asset ownership, that entrepreneurs’ fortunes are associated with advances shared with the broader public, and that much of the post-1980 rise in recorded inequality reflects methodological quirks, then a different agenda follows: states should encourage ambition, protect competition, widen access to wealth-building, and ensure that public services complement—not smother—private prosperity. In short, before treating inequality as an existential crisis, it is worth double-checking the thermometer.

NBC News, a Voice of the Crust.

The car bombing outside a California fertility clinic that killed one person and injured four others appears to have been driven by anti-natalist ideology, according to two senior law enforcement officials briefed on the incident.

Anti-natalism refers to the belief that no one should have children. Investigators are focusing on social media posts made by the suspect, including a 30-minute audio recording, which they say support anti-natalist views. While the posts and the recording are still being verified, officials believe they reflect the ideology behind the bombing.

As The Other McCain likes to say, “Crazy people are dangerous”.

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In the wake of U.S. Supreme Court victories in favor of Jack Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop who had been targeted because he refused to bake a custom cake for a gay wedding, and high school football coach Joe Kennedy, who was fired for going against a school order not to kneel in prayer on the field after a game, you would figure (incorrectly) that the culture warriors might be rethinking their far-left positions on social issues.

No, instead, they are turning it up “to 11.” In this case, a Virginia real estate broker is potentially facing the end of his career, and, like Phillips and Kennedy, he didn’t think he was doing anything wrong. And, as you will see, he wasn’t.

It’s the case of Wilson Fauber, the next victim of the “Culture War.” As a Realtor, he is a career-long member of the National Association of Realtors, and that organization proprietarily controls access to the Multiple Listing Service that a member like Wilson uses to show his clients all the available listings of properties for sale and where he lists their properties.

Newsbusters.

CNN has a weird obsession with making itself look completely stupid by trying to stoke bad vibes whenever it has to report on any good news that can somehow benefit President Donald Trump. Instead of just reporting the straight news on price pressure relief for American consumers, CNN reporter Matt Egan instead chose May 14 to run one of the dumbest Tasmanian Devil spin headlines yet, “Good news! Prices are falling. But it might be for bad reasons.” Uh, what!

The Labor Department’s recently released inflation report showed a welcome unexpected slowdown in the increase of consumer prices against economists’ expectations. This was bolstered by the biggest monthly decline in grocery prices since September 2020 largely attributable to a whopping 12.4 percent decline in the retail price of eggs.

Yet, Egan, who is notorious for being a hapless Bidenomics simp, began his piece by noting that “The lowest inflation rate in four-years was made possible by a trend that will surely bring smiles to the faces of Americans: Falling prices.” Then came his absurd spin: “But not all price drops are created equal. Some of the good inflation news might be happening for a bad reason: a weakening economy.”

There’s no pleasing some people.

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White people need not apply.

Gothamist.

The city is moving to uproot the organizers of a Queens community garden who required prospective members to sign a “statement of values” that included a commitment to opposing Zionism, homophobia and transphobic behavior.

Parks department officials wrote in an April 16 letter that the leaders of Sunset Community Garden in Ridgewood violated guidelines by imposing a “litmus test” and “improper requirement” on garden members.

“Our decision to terminate the garden group’s license agreement has nothing to do with anyone’s political beliefs or gender expression,” said Margaret Nelson, a deputy commissioner at the parks department.

“This is about ensuring that our community gardens are responsibly managed and accessible as public spaces. We never want a termination, but the group’s leadership has repeatedly refused to work with us on their outstanding issues.”

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Far-left activists in Brussels have continued their intimidation campaign against the conservative think tank MCC Brussels. The campaign aims to force conference venues around the European capital to close their doors to one of the very few right-wing organizations that speak out on behalf of the already limited freedom of speech and plurality in the EU.

This time, the Antifa activists targeted the Stanhope Hotel, the venue of MCC Brussels’ upcoming event about how President Trump has been reshaping the global order. The event is planned for Wednesday, May 14th, and includes as speakers an associate professor from Cambridge and the chair of the Edmund Burke foundation, as well as a former undersecretary in the Italian foreign ministry.

Typical Nazis, right? Well, the Antifa certainly thinks so, as the vandals covered the hotel’s entrance with eggs and graffiti on Tuesday morning, just one day before the event, in what they regard as protesting the ‘extreme right.’

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The Trump administration is admitting as refugees white farmers from South Africa who are being dispossessed from their lands, and in some cases murdered, by the black majority. This, of course, will be one more blow to the feeble South African economy, but taking someone else’s property is always easier than earning your own.

Liberals don’t like this policy because, I suppose, white people are “privileged,” so how can they be refugees?

There have been refugees for thousands of years, and legitimate refugees generally consist of family units. When there is a column of people crossing your border, and they are overwhelmingly young men, you are seeing invaders, not refugees.

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The Episcopal Church has refused a Trump administration request to help resettle white South Africans on their way to the U.S.

… love your neighbor like yourself–so long as that neighbor is not white.

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A standard play from the Crustian playbook. Yale did the same thing with student groups that it didn’t like. “Black Student Association at Yale”? No problem. “Yale Free Press”? Copyright violation.

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The old Lenin double standard of “Who? Whom?”.

The Register.

The prompt used, as noted in a statement issued Tuesday, was the following:

Using the list of names provided, please evaluate each person for scandals. Scandals include but are not limited to homophobia, transphobia, racism, harassment, sexual misconduct, sexism, fraud.Each person is typically an author, editor, performer, artist or similar in the fields of science fiction, fantasy, and or related fandoms.

The objective is to determine if an individual is unsuitable as a panelist for an event.

Please evaluate each person based on their digital footprint, including social, articles, and blogs referencing them. Also include file770.com as a source.

Provide sources for any relevant data.

In other words, vet the potential panelists for CrimeThink, so we can hurl them into the void.

Note that ‘homophobia’ and ‘transphobia’ lead all the rest,

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A school board in Colorado cannot remove sexually explicit, profane, and “transgender” books from school libraries because the school board is conservative, according to a federal judge touted as the first openly lesbian judge west of the Mississippi.

The ACLU’s Colorado chapter filed a suit on behalf of two minors, the NAACP Wyoming State Area Conference, and the Authors Guild, claiming that the school district engaged in viewpoint discrimination when removing the books. The judge granted a preliminary injunction in March, forcing the Elizabeth School District (in Elizabeth, a suburb southeast of Denver) to restore the books.

Judge Charlotte Sweeney second-guessed the school district’s objections to the books’ contents, calling the objections “pretexual” and condemning the removals as partisan because school board members had discussed following their conservative convictions when debating the removal of the books.

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Despite attempts by the progressive Left to prevent its publication, a research book on the influence of wokeism on French universities has finally been published by Presses Universitaires de France. It has been enthusiastically received by critics while embarrassing the progressive intelligentsia.

The book, commissioned by the prestigious publishing house Presses Universitaires de France, was due to be released in early April but was met with a smear campaign orchestrated by a handful of left-wing intellectuals who attempted to prevent its publication on the grounds that it promoted “Trumpist” and “pro-Putin” clichés.

The manoeuvre delayed its release, but did not prevent it: the collective work by professors Pierre Vermeren, Emmanuelle Hénin, and Xavier-Laurent Salvador finally hit bookshops on Wednesday, April 30th. On the day of its official release, the premises of the Presses Universitaires de France were vandalised in protest—proof that the danger denounced by the authors, namely the presence of a woke ideology in the university that does not tolerate dissent, is not a figment of the imagination but a reality.

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John Lithgow’s reaction to journalists pressuring him to reconsider his part in the new “Harry Potter” series says it all.

This isn’t 2020 anymore.

The actor will play Albus Dumbledore in the upcoming Max series, one of the most talked-about projects in Hollywood. The role originally played by Richard Harris and, later, Michael Gambon represents a key figure in the Potterverse.

Most actors of a certain age would jump at the chance. Lithgow, 79, did just that.

Famous for his part as Dr Emilio Lazardo in BUCKAROO BANZAI and the popular meme “Laugh while-a you can, monkey boy”.

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After progressives and greens for years pushed for a transition away from internal combustion engines to (allegedly) more ‘environmentally friendly’ EVs, suddenly ideological purity has become more important than air quality.

Tesla owners in Vienna have started finding threatening notes on their cars, Remixreports, telling them to sell their cars—or they will be vandalized.

“Our condolences! It’s not your fault. It will only be your fault if you don’t act now,” says one flyer found by Austrian Tesla owners, which goes on to tell them that their car is associated with “right-wing agitator” Elon Musk:

Maybe a few years ago you simply wanted to buy a cool car … Now you own a car that you may be ashamed of, whose value has gone to its knees and you have to be afraid every night that someone will scratch a big ‘f**k Tesla’ into your paintwork.

Other European Tesla owners have reported similar harassment. In Paris and Berlin, Teslas have been vandalized with paint and stickers, and Amsterdam has seen protestors confronting drivers for owning “capitalist machines.”

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As the Trump administration launches multiple probes of the Harvard Law Review in the wake of a Washington Free Beacon report on the journal’s race-based policies, the law review itself will be conducting its own investigation—not into the evidence of discrimination revealed by dozens of documents, but into who leaked those documents to the Free Beacon.

The journal’s top editors asked members of the law review last week to come forward with any information that might help identify the leaker, writing, “The information contained in the article should not have been shared.”

“We are looking into the matter,” the editors said Friday in an email. “Our inboxes and offices are open to anyone with information about these recent events. We will update you with developments.”

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In what the Telegraph refers to as a “highly unusual move”, a serving member of the Royal Marines, an elite corp, has publicly warned about the lowering of standards for female trainees, stating that lives could be at risk.

The commando says that up to 1,000 of his fellow Marines backed a private letter to military chiefs raising fears that so-called diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) policies were in danger of creating an “unrecognisable, weak and compromised version of the corps”. The letter claimed that some women at the Commando Training Centre were being “artificially pushed through training”, resulting in what was described as “unearned paper-passes”.

Given that this same process of lowering standards for female trainees has been observed in the past in the US military, it’s not surprising that the same thing is happening in Britain. And given the British government’s cult-like obsession with far-left ideology, the imposition of DEI will probably be unstoppable and catastrophic for fighting forces.

But the problem goes well beyond the risks of war. The soldier in question has now been reportedly held by Police Scotland while entering the country after a holiday, and detained under the British “Terrorism Act” because he has voiced such warnings. He says government officials initially dismissed the letter or petition as a product of “Russian bots”, then held an internal inquiry to investigate the soldiers involved.

Remember: No matter how bad it gets in the U.S., Britain has it worse.

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Climate alarmists live in a self-righteous bubble where humankind is the scoundrel. Nature is optimal and fragile; anthropogenic change cannot be good, even toward greening, warming, and moistening. Think about that nonpolluting trace gas, carbon dioxide (CO2).

To the Church of Climate, there cannot be any debate against the narrative of alarm–or pushback against forced energy transformation. The opposition is evil against the common good, defined so vaguely as to preclude real human betterment. So psychological explanations emerge.

UPDATE; Trump Administration Finally Pulls the Plug on the Climate Fear Factory

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The fellow on the right giving the Hitlergruß (Sieg Heil) in the above photo is the estimable Karl Lauterbach, the outgoing Social Democrat health minister in the soon-to-be-defunct Traffic Light government in Germany. Readers may recall him as “Klaboosterbach”, the intellectual heavyweight shown in the photo below, whose face was all over TV and the Interwebs during the “pandemic”.

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The Hitlergruß is in the eye of the beholder, of course. A gesture may be characterized as such only if the political opinions of the gesturer are in disfavor. Thus, when Elon Musk does it, he’s making a “Nazi salute”, but when Hillary Clinton does it, she’s just waving to the crowd.

A group of Querdenkers, whose political opinions are very much in disfavor in Germany, got themselves in a heap o’ trouble by raising their right arms. They were accordingly fined for their Hitlergrußen.

I don’t have to tell you that when Klaboosterbach raised his right hand, it was not a Nazi salute, unlike the gesture made by the unfortunate Querdenkers. The issue reached a Kafkaesque level of absurdity, however, when the woman who made the poster comparing the Querdenkers with Herr Lauterbach was also fined for her “crime”.

UPDATE: German Woman Fined €3,500 for Image of Politician With Raised Right Arm

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Northwestern University warned its Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) chapter that its constitution, which bars Zionist Jews from joining, violates the school’s new anti-discrimination policy, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.

The constitution for the anti-Israel student group states that “members are expected to be anti-Zionist and identify with Judaism” and requires a faculty adviser to be a “Jewish anti-Zionist or support anti-Zionist philosophies.” According to its mission statement, JVP aims to build an “anti-Zionist Jewish community on campus.”

The group seems committed to that goal, playing a significant role in anti-Israel campus activity with an adviser, Sarah Schulman, who has repeatedly blamed the Jewish state for Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack. But JVP’s constitution doesn’t square with Northwestern’s updated non-discrimination policies, which incorporated the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism. That definition states that “denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor,” is a form of anti-Semitism.

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The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has made a groundbreaking decision mandating Poland to officially acknowledge and safeguard same-sex unions, emphasizing the country’s responsibilities as an EU member to uphold “equal rights” for all couples.

Poland’s refusal to recognize same-sex marriages, particularly those performed abroad, was deemed a violation of individual rights, with the court urging the government to enact appropriate legislation.

This is not the first time the ECHR has addressed Poland’s treatment of same-sex couples. In 2023, the court found that Poland’s refusal to recognize same-sex unions violated Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Micha? Wo?, former deputy justice minister under the Law & Justice (PiS government), criticized the ECtHR ruling, saying it is part of a broader effort by European elites to force values onto Poland that conflict with its national identity. He pointed out that, under Poland’s constitution, marriage is defined as a union between a man and a woman.

Draft bills on registered partnerships and civil unions in Poland, released in October last year, propose changes to more than 200 existing laws but face opposition from both PiS and the center-right Polish People’s Party (PLS).

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“The effort to be more inclusive has gone too far: it has increasingly been used to silence and exclude those who hold different opinions,” the founder and CEO of Meta said in January of this year regarding the censorship prevailing on social media platforms. The Facebook owner also admitted, “Governments and traditional media have been pushing for more and more censorship. A lot of this is clearly done for political reasons.”

Mark Zuckerberg’s volte-face is clearly linked to the election of pro-freedom Donald Trump as president. Previously, Facebook censorship was defended with the argument that Meta is a private company and, according to its own rules, restricts whatever it wants on its platforms. Meta also used to claim that there were no political interests influencing this process. These arguments, of course, were completely nullified by Zuckerberg’s admissions. Incidentally, judicial practice previously considered it a “public statement” if someone expressed their opinion on Facebook—not in a private message—or made a defamatory statement about someone, or damaged someone’s reputation.

What was truly novel about the billionaire tech guru’s statements, however, was the bluntness with which he spoke about the interventions of the globalist elite.

The Times (UK).

Two protesters have been arrested after disrupting the London Marathon by throwing red powder paint in front of the elite runners.

At 1035am the two activists jumped over the barriers at Tower Bridge, wearing T-shirts that read “Youth Demand: Arming Israel”.

Youth Demand describes itself as a “new youth resistance campaign fighting for an end to genocide”.

The pair of protesters, who were arrested by City of London police, were named as Willow Holland, 18, from Bristol, and Cristy North, a live-in carer from Nottingham.

Women. Of course. Of course it doesn’t occur to them that they are doing their cause more harm than good by being so irrationally irritating.

The Foundry.

America’s two highest-profile socialists once had real Marxist street cred. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., was a young barista who steamed her way into public service. Bernie Sanders is a U.S. senator from Vermont with a vaudeville-grade Brooklyn accent. Endearingly rumpled, he appeared to embody the phrase “living paycheck to paycheck.”

These two joined forces early. Their Grandpa-and-Granddaughter-of-Government-Overreach shtick was almost touching in an old-timey way—much like flipping through faded photos of Truman-era coal miners, sipping soup from lunch-pail Thermoses.

They’ve come a long way, baby!

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An official at the World Health Organization (WHO) brazenly admitted to being behind worldwide censorship during the COVID-19 pandemic, but that’s not his most disturbing confession.

WHO Team Lead for Digital Channels Andy Pattison explained during an April 15 interview with the Planet Classroom Podcast the role his globalist organization took in pushing major social media platforms to censor users. Pattison discussed how the WHO worked with Big Tech on so-called misinformation prior to COVID-19. He addressed these companies’ efforts to “make their misinformation and disinformation policies a little bit stronger,” adding, “we were advising them on how best to do that.”

Disinformation policies on Big Tech platforms did in fact get “a little bit stronger” during the pandemic. In fact, MRC Free Speech’s exclusive database CensorTrack, shows that MRC researchers have found more censorship related to COVID-19 than any other specific issue. The 1,319 examples included seven examples of platforms censoring U.S. senators and 11 examples of platforms censoring members of Congress. Big Tech even censored at least 45 doctors or medical researchers. The MRC found 569 accounts that Big Tech platforms deleted and hundreds more that these platforms locked.

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Procter & Gamble and other prominent corporations fund a “racial justice” group whose leader, a former Obama White House official, lashed out this week at what he called “white mediocrity” and urged a “woke” army of black youth “to wage war with whiteness.”

David Johns, who led President Barack Obama’s White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans, made the remarks at an event Tuesday to promote a boycott against Target for rolling back its DEI programs.

Johns is the executive director of the National Black Justice Coalition, a black LGBT group that aims to fight “anti-Blackness.” The nonprofit lists companies like Airbnb, Sephora, Sony, and Procter & Gamble as sponsors. Procter & Gamble, which sells household brands like Gillette and Charmin, contributed $515,000 to the National Black Justice Coalition in 2023, around one-fourth of the nonprofit’s budget, according to tax records. The Department of Health and Human Services under President Biden awarded the National Black Justice Coalition a $1.2 million contract through 2026 as part of the government’s “Let’s Stop HIV Together” campaign. It is unclear if HHS is still funding the coalition, but Johns said last month his organization was “proud to be a grantee” of the HIV program.

Speaking at the anti-Target event, Johns endorsed the boycott and railed against President Donald Trump as a “fascist trying to rob us of our wealth.” He also urged black consumers to shop at black-owned businesses as part of a movement to “reclaim … African ways of being.”

“We don’t need nothing from white people. We don’t need nothing from white people,” said Johns. “They can’t even make potato salad.”

Nothing stopping him from going back home to Africa, where he wouldn’t have to put up with white people.

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Berlin Senator Cansel Kiziltepe, of the Social Democratic Party  (SPD), decided to attack Elon Musk on X, comparing his Tesla cars to “Nazi cars,” creating a massive backlash in the neighboring state of Brandenburg, home to Europe’s only Tesla car factory. The post is particularly odd, given her role as state minister for labor.