Read it.

Left-leaning labor unions and activist groups are seeking to influence artificial intelligence, not just in how it is deployed in schools and the federal government, but also in how technology companies build the AI models themselves.

The American Federation of Teachers, the U.S.’ second-largest teachers union and a major Democrat ally, has teamed up with Microsoft to craft rules for AI in education. The American Federation of Government Employees, a federal government union endorsing Democrats, aims to incorporate AI influence into union contracts. Meanwhile, the LGBTQ+ activist group GLAAD has published guidelines to shape the way AI companies build their systems.

Each group targets a different layer of the AI ecosystem. AFT shapes how AI enters classrooms. AFGE seeks influence over how government agencies deploy AI. GLAAD targets the underlying rules governing training data, content moderation, and AI model behavior.

“If Republicans in Congress continue to wait on passing commonsense AI safeguards, we are going to lose the fight to the activist Left,” Janet Kelly, CEO of the Alliance for a Better Future, told the Daily Signal in a statement Friday. “Teachers unions and radical advocacy groups aren’t waiting. They are already working to pressure tech companies to strangle innovation and inject woke priorities directly into the code.”

New York Post.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Read it.

States with strong teachers’ unions are the least likely to adopt policies that improve early-literacy outcomes, Progressive Policy Institute Education Policy Director Rachel Canter explains, reporting the results of the Institute’s analysis.

“Powerful teachers’ unions are an obstacle to reform. But Mississippi’s dramatic breakthrough proves that evidence-based literacy can succeed anywhere,” Canter writes in her Wall Street Journal article, “Mississippi Fixed Its Schools. Here’s How Other States Can Too.”

Canter presents the new policies that helped rocket Mississippi, from a last-place tie in fourth grade reading and math in 2019 to seventh in reading and 13th math in 2024, as a template for states looking to improve their early education results.

Many states haven’t adopted these policies, Canter writes, noting the differences between those states that do, and don’t, embrace the reforms – such as the degree of influence of teachers’ unions.

Read it.

“Teen takeovers” have gone from a social-media spectacle to a serious public-safety issue. While the name conjures images of high schoolers innocently hanging around a drive-in à la American Graffiti, at its core, this phenomenon is about sowing violence and chaos—and leaving communities to deal with the consequences.

The 2026 Wisconsin State Fair concluded its final evening with a massive brawl, during which violent “teens” swarmed the park and beat unassuming fair guests. One man was kicked and beaten as he lay in the fetal position. Earlier this summer, a teen takeover at a Chipotle in Washington, D.C., forced frightened patrons to scramble as youths began throwing chairs and screaming.

In cities across the nation, the same pattern of brutality has emerged: swarms of young, primarily black teenagers will suddenly invade a public space to fight, threaten police, destroy private property, and occasionally get involved in shootings.

This is happening because over the past decade, our public institutions have encouraged black Americans to see themselves as perpetual victims of so-called systemic discrimination. As Spencer Klavan points out in his analysis of the fast-evolving political climate, “Wokeness in all its form is grievance politics.” Activists expanded DEI programs, decried America’s alleged systemic racism, and pushed for prison-abolition movements and reparations.

The behavior at teen takeovers is an outgrowth of the so-called peaceful demonstrations Black Lives Matter encouraged during the height of the George Floyd protests. Though the BLM movement has gradually lost traction—its corruption is widespread, and policies like abolishing the police are unpopular—its cultural influence endures.

Constant exposure to BLM has shown young people that if they commit wanton acts of violence en masse, they can get what they want. They can hop fences, smash windows, blast music, and brawl in the streets—and Democratic politicians will then attack peaceful citizens, demanding that they give away their livelihood and communities to correct “systemic injustices.”

Read it.

• “Only a coalition of Marxists and Islamists can destroy the United States.” — Carlos the Jackal

Read it.

Read it.

Hey, it all depends on the price.

Read it.

Proglodytes need to learn that they can’t just get away with this shit.

Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

Read it.

For years, the right across the West has noted that mass immigration has been a boon for left-wing parties, which are essentially importing a new voting base. Sweden’s latest election appears to once again affirm this view, with the left narrowly winning the election, in large part due to their overwhelming support from those with a non-European background in Sweden.

Read it.

Pouring effusive and slobbering praise over the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, the anointed “middle power” leader of a shrinking -and increasingly irrelevant- new world order, with grand pontifications EU Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen announced today that Canada is the first “Associate Member” of the European Union. It’s a major award!

Watch it.

‘Feminism’ has mutated from ‘equal rights for women’ to men-hating and Perpetual Victimhood.

Read it.

Because the wrong people have seized control of the language of public policy discussion.

In the increasing debates over capitalism vs. socialism/communism, one of the assertions I read most often from anti-capitalists is that the existence of significant wealth inequality among people in a capitalistic society such as the United States shows that capitalism is “unfair.”

I note that none of these assertions are accompanied by any description of wealth distribution under communism or socialism.

Most of us here however see that every communist or socialist nation seems (at least on the surface) to have a great deal of wealth inequality. And even theoretically, a system of “equal” wealth distribution requires some limited number of people to decide (or to design a system that decides) what is “equal.” Given human nature, such systems are going to favor somebody (or at least be subject to accusations that it favors somebody).

Unfortunately the language of the Declaration have given the Levellers a huge stick with which to beat the dimwitted underclass and the products of our failed government schools.

Read it.

Cue the usual derogatory comments about sororities.

the opposite. It is breaking the contract,” Allie Coghan, one of the plaintiffs, told the Daily Signal in an interview after oral arguments.

Coghan and four other University of Wyoming Kappa Kappa Gamma members sued the sorority in 2023 after it admitted a man who identified as transgender. They claimed the sorority’s leadership violated its fiduciary duty to members and breached its contract with members.

Judge Alan B. Johnson, an appointee of President Ronald Reagan, had dismissed the case with prejudice in August 2025, ruling that the court “may not interfere with Kappa’s contractually valid interpretation of its own Bylaws.” He ruled that “nothing in the Bylaws or the Standing Rules requires Kappa to narrowly define the words ‘women’ or ‘woman’ to include only those individuals born with a certain set of reproductive organs.”

The rot quickens.

Read it.

Here we are in another election cycle, and just like the migratory birds that return every season, so has the progressive cause célèbre of single-payer universal health coverage, also being marketed as Medicare for All.

This has become a central part of the socialist platform and is the cornerstone of the Senate campaigns of Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan and James Talarico in Texas, among scores of other socialists running as Democrats this year.

This is not a new concept, yet with more dissatisfaction regarding the high cost of healthcare and frustrations with medical insurance, its message may be gaining traction.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has been the driving force behind this effort, but it has fallen short in the past. In his home state of Vermont, the Green Mountain Healthcare Plan was considered but quickly abandoned because of exorbitant costs. Every resident was going to see a state tax of 9.5% and businesses an 11.5% tax to pay for this plan.

Read it.

Paramount could pull nearly 58,000 jobs and $21 billion in annual economic activity out of California if the company follows through on a threat to relocate its headquarters and operations amid an antitrust fight over its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, according to a preliminary economic analysis from the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp.’s (LAEDC) Institute for Applied Economics, which was obtained by Politico

Read it.

It’s not surprising, but it is discouraging how accurate the conservative analysis of the Lindsay Clancy trial has become. Every suspicion has proven correct about the jury and every fear about their motives is proving more substantial. The trial itself symbolizes a disastrous miscarriage of justice in favor of ideology; it offers proof that in an age of social media and political cultism, finding an impartial jury is increasingly impossible.

Thanks to the “rogue juror” the deliberations did not lead to a calculating child killer going free (in Massachusetts, patients incarcerated in mental health facilities get a review and the possibility of release every six months). However, that juror has come under relentless attack from the media, from Clancy’s defense team and from the other jurors involved in the case.

Their primary argument? That the rogue juror was “not following the rules of reasonable doubt” and was not acting impartially. As more information has been released in regards to jury proceedings, it’s becoming clear that there was a large group of jurors who came into the case with an agenda and these jurors pressured the others to conform.

One anonymous female juror insinuated as much during an interview with local media.

Not a surprise, but a useful reminder.

The Antiplanner.

“You have no debt,” the DSA continues. “You don’t need health insurance. You don’t pay a mortgage or have a landlord, because comfortable housing is a human right. Your retirement is publicly funded. Food, education, energy, medicine, and transportation aren’t for-profit businesses; they are common goods and utilities.”
The simplistic response is: if you only have to work as much as you want and housing, food, health care, education, energy, and transportation are all paid for by the government, then why would anyone work? And if no one works, then who pays for housing, food, health care, education, energy, and transportation?
Of course, they envision that people would work, though it isn’t clear how they manage to get quality work out of those workers. But let’s say that people do the work. How does that work out for society?
To answer this question, we don’t have to look at the Soviet Union, China, or even Britain when it was ruled by the socialists between 1948 and 1979. Instead, we only have to look at a socialist institution found here in the good ol’ USA: public transit.
As of 1964, transit was mostly private and the few public agencies that operated transit were funded mainly out of their fare revenues. But starting in 1965, Congress offered to subsidize public agencies that operated transit. Within a decade the transit industry was almost entirely socialized (or, as they called it then, “municipalized”).
Today, thanks to socialism, urban residents can go anywhere they want to go on transit — provided they want to go downtown. Those who want to go almost anywhere can expect to take hours on transit. Transit’s failure to serve anyone other than downtown travelers is shown by the commuters it carries: while around 30 percent of downtown workers in the nation’s 50 largest urban areas commute by transit, less than 4 percent of workers in the rest of those urban areas take transit to work.

Public transit goes from where you aren’t to where you don’t want to be—and takes three times as long.

New York Post.

New York’s race to the bottom in education continued apace Monday, as the Board of Regents scrapped the requirement that the state’s high schoolers actually learn something to graduate.

For 30 years, students needed to pass at least four Regents exams — in math, English, science and Global Studies — to earn a diploma. To be clear, this standard was the barest minimum. The governing board kept lowering the score needed to pass the tests, watering down the results.

But it was something: A tangible requirement — a responsibility — that showed we as a state cared about accountability.

And that’s exactly the word that the Teachers Union hates. It meant parents and politicians would start to question why a whopping 15%-20% of students didn’t meet graduation requirements. Testing highlighted bad instructors and bad schools. As usual, COVID is partly to blame here. The Regents board “temporarily” lifted requirements during the pandemic, and graduation rates rose to 87% in 2022. When the Regents tests returned, the state rate fell to 85%. The city’s: 81%. It was the largest year over year percentage drop in 20 years.

Read it.

A Democrat administration violating the law? Say it ain’t so!

Read it.

The Bank of England has spent more than £85,000 of research money to justify wiping Winston Churchill, Jane Austen, J.M.W. Turner and Alan Turing off Britain’s banknotes and swapping them for hedgehogs, foxes and puffins.

Read it.

Hint: Yes.

It’s a curious position for European governments; for the past few years they have been rattling their sabers over the Russian war in Ukraine, calling for boots on the ground. It’s the kind of intervention that would automatically trigger WWIII. Yet, these same governments are completely unprepared in terms of military spending, armament and training.

When the British government refused to join the US blockade against Iran in the Strait of Hormuz, almost no one cared because the British have allowed their navy to decay into irrelevance. Twenty years ago, they had nearly 50 active fighting vessels and today they are down to 22 vessels. Britain’s GDP per capita is currently lower than the state of Alabama. And, they keep importing thousands upon thousands of third world migrants, with the vast majority relying on taxpayer funded subsidies.

When given a choice between funding the British military or funding more immigrants, the government has chosen to fund more immigrants. Britain has increased welfare spending by 16% in the past 5 years alone.

Read it.

Import Turd World people, get Turd World problems.

The New Neo.

Seems there are two extremes right now on the subject of the Clancy case, at least in terms of the bulk of online discussion. I don’t fit into either camp – not those who say Clancy is some sort of heroic persecuted figure (or that her husband did it), nor those who say she’s nothing but a vicious killer who wanted her kids dead and came up with the excuse of mental illness for her own evil actions.

Modern-day jurors have a tendency to discuss trials and deliberations publicly, and a number of Clancy case jurors have come out with a lot to say, post-trial. Their decision came down, as I figured it would, to the idea of reasonable doubt, held by eleven jurors who would have put Clancy in a mental hospital for an undetermined amount of time rather than in prison for life.

I’ve written before about the fact that Massachusetts law supports that verdict (whether you think it’s a good law or not, and personally I do not) and how unusual that law is.

Read it.

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have been much in the news lately. Their candidates have won some Democratic Party primaries, and a few have even been elected to local offices.

According to the DSA website, it rejects authoritarian forms of socialism. Yet the same website celebrates the career of Fidel Castro, the brutal communist dictator who converted Cuba from a prosperous and rather mild dictatorship into a poverty-stricken concentration camp. If you know nothing more about DSA other than its celebration of Castro’s career, that may be sufficient.

Consistent with the celebration of Castro is that the DSA’s website features sound bites from the writings of Karl Marx and from past communist propaganda campaigns. Examples include “World to win” (from Marx’s and Friedrich Engels’s Communist Manifesto), “international struggle,” “socialist solidarity,” “working class,” and so forth.

‘Democratic Socialist’ is an oxymoron, like ‘Democratis Fascist’.

The Foundry.

One of the most frustrating aspects of the debate over ESG–which stands for environmental, social, and governance investing–is that the term has no set definition.

Although the term “ESG” has general outlines and a basic connotation, the particulars are ephemeral. It can mean one thing one day to one investor, company, or ratings agency, and something completely different the next day or to the next individual or organization.

For example, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) recently released a list of more than 100 companies that applied under the EU’s new regulatory framework to be considered ESG ratings agencies.

Each of these ratings services has its own proprietary assessment variables and formulas and, as a result, its own proprietary definition of ESG–meaning that the term has more than 100 technically different meanings, even among those who are closest to the process and most heavily involved in its harmonization.

It’s been more than three years since BlackRock CEO Larry Fink told the Aspen Ideas Festival that he quit using the term “ESG,” yet his firm’s iShares family of ETFs is still by far the most dominant ESG firm in the world, managing roughly a third of global ESG investments.

ESG means nothing … and everything. It means whatever the user of the term wants it to mean at any given moment.

Much like ‘diversity’ … or ‘patriarchy’ or ‘supremacist’ or ‘misogyny’ or any of the other proglodyte smear-words.

Read it.

Thousands of judges across the nation have sat through climate-science training and received literature from trusted federal bodies and scientific institutes. Those judges had every right to expect that the information they received was neutral, objective, settled science.

They were mistaken.

Read it.

Leaders of the governing pro-independence parties in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland will meet in Cardiff on Monday to sign a joint declaration calling for independence referendums….

Uh, thats ‘referenda‘, chaps….

Read it.

Zach Goldberg’s most famous graph depicts the strange phenomenon whereby every racial group in America likes themselves, except for White liberals, who like other groups more than they like Whites.

…

Has it always been this way? No. White liberal self-derogation is a recent phenomenon, timed after the so-called ‘Great Awokening’ that came with Obama’s re-election and fomenting of race relations.

Read it.

Instead of paying to freeze and store her eggs with money — the going rate in New York City, where Sue lives, is about $18,000 — [Sue] would use a currency she already had in abundance: the eggs themselves. Cofertility’s clients must, in the company’s words, ‘donate half of the eggs retrieved to intended parents that need the help of an egg donor to have a baby.’

…

The company advertises its services to intended parents with ghoulish headlines such as “How to Find an Ivy League Egg Donor.”

I’d pay good money to avoid finding ‘an Ivy League Donor’. (Sure, Wokeness probably isn’t genetic—but why take a chance?)

The Foundry.

Microsoft teamed up with America’s second-largest teachers union to release a “National AI Safety & Privacy Standard” Wednesday, and critics are warning about the union’s left-leaning bias and the coalition’s apparent absence of engagement with parent associations or parental rights groups.

The American Federation of Teachers, its New York City affiliate United Federation of Teachers, and Microsoft jointly presented the standard, aiming to establish “legally enforceable protections to ensure the safety of students, families, and educators” following “months of intense negotiations and in the absence of any meaningful federal and state rules.”

Microsoft says the policy will go into effect on Nov. 1 for every school district that already has contracts with the company, and districts will not have to wait until renewal or to opt in.

“We have forged a hard-fought, iron-clad privacy agreement with real teeth that protects students and families, because no one else, including the federal government, has stepped up to do the real work,” AFT President Randi Weingarten said.

The AI company Anthropic, when launching its Claude for Teachers program, noted that it, too, was working with AFT “to align our terms and privacy practices with gold standards they’re developing.”

Yet critics sounded the alarm.

I’ll just bet they did. Teacher Unions regard parents as roadblocks on the way to indoctrination of children with the One True Way, and exclude them from any influence on their child whenever the opportunity presents itself.

Don’t ever send your kid to a government school.

The Other McCain.

Every time I use the word liberalism — as it has been commonly used in the United States for decades, describing the belief system associated with the Democratic Party — some pedant will invariably show up in the comments to scold me with a lecture about “classical liberalism” as if I’m an ignorant schoolboy in need of their tutelage, which I am not. Nobody needs to teach me about John Locke, Adam Smith, et al., whose books have been on my shelves for 30 years. Nor am I ignorant of the fact that most young left-wingers nowadays make a point of scorning liberals, instead referring to themselves as progressives or socialists.

I always use the term ‘proglodyte’, a convenient amalgam of ‘progressive’ and ‘troglodyte’ that is true in almost every case.

What struck me was how, 25 years later, we’re still stuck with the same problem — the decadent elites haven’t changed, except insofar as they’ve gotten worse. And, in point of fact, the problem hasn’t really changed since before I was born.

Except to get worse.

If liberalism means anything, it means a commitment to equality — or Equality, with a capital “E,” denoting its quasi-religious status in the liberal mind. The liberal is unable to say that Islam (or Communism) is wrong and bad, because the Muslim or the Communist must be treated as an equal. The fact that an avowed enemy seeks to kill us — well, who are we to say that he is wrong for this? Instead, the liberal believes, we must critically examine ourselves to see what we have done to provoke the enemy’s murderous rage. Of course, it’s lunacy to think like this, but the liberal never breaks down his arguments into the form of a syllogism, with the premises clearly delineated and the structure of the argument made evident. Instead, his fanatical commitment to Equality is an unexamined prejudice from which every error of his belief emerges.

And that’s where I break with the Declaration. “All men are created equal…” Nope, they demonstrably are not.

Liberals are so certain of their moral and intellectual superiority that, even when their errors are pointed out with the utmost precision — as Buckley did — they refuse to acknowledge they have been proven wrong. No matter how skillfully you deploy facts and logic to contradict them, nothing can persuade them to admit their mistake or change their policy, because this would be tantamount to confessing that they are not actually so superior.

Hence the accuracy of the ‘troglodyte’ component of ‘proglodyte’. They live in a cave of their own creation, guessing about the nature of the objects passing by outside, but never able to looks directly at reality because of the chains that tie them down, invisible but unbreakable.

Read it.

Looking for systemic racism? Look no further.

Read it.

Wakey wakey.

Read it.

Ask me whether I care.

All of this hand-wringing over Ebola victims (the number of which is vastly exceeded by the number of traffic victims in any major metropolitan area) is merely a ploy to get the U.S. taxpayer to cough up the bucks that Turd World emergencies have traditionally attracted.

Newsbusters.

In Virginia, the Fairfax County Public School (FCPS) district advised teachers that they should not link the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people with radical Islam and instructed them to create “safe spaces” for Muslim students when discussing the 25th anniversary of the terror attacks.

A copy of the guide, titled “25th Anniversary and Commemoration of 9/11,” was obtained and analyzed by Fox News Digital, which notes that the guide’s focus has “prompted critics to accuse Fairfax County (Virginia) Public School’s liberal leaders of coddling post-9/11 sensitivities rather than teaching history.”

That’s like telling teachers not to link Buchenwald and Dachau with Nazis or National Socialism.

The Foundry.

Of course they do.

The Foundry.

Leftists and Democrats say the craziest things, and they can do it without fearing that a practitioner of the “fact-checking” arts is going to label them “Pants on Fire” liars on the internet. Occasionally, I will tweet these outrageous statements under the title “Zero Fear of Fact-Checkers.”

Many of these bizarre bangers are about race and racism, and the Republicans are smeared as segregationists and authoritarians. Here’s my recent collection.

New York Post.

Those who know this don’t need proof. Those who refuse to believe it won’t believe proof, either.

Read it.

Crypto investor Ben Delo said on Friday he would donate a record £36 million ($48.7 million), or £1 million a month before the next national election, to Britain’s populist Reform UK to help the party get ready for government.

Delo, the British co-founder of crypto trading platform BitMEX who was convicted of a ?Bank Secrecy Act violation in the United States and pardoned by President Donald Trump, said he wanted to ensure a “fair fight” with Britain’s two main parties — the governing Labour Party and main opposition Conservatives.

There’s nothing like being targeted by the Crust to bring one to a true appreciation that if you’re not one of them they will crush you like a bug, so you need to support people who are also in that same position. You must all hang together or you will all hang separately.

CNN, a Voice of the Crust.

A pointed reminder that Red China is still a totalitarian concentration camp.

Of course, nobody at CNN dares to wake up and think, “Hey, maybe socialism isn’t such a good idea.”

Newsbusters.

Quite agree.  Unfortunately, socialists aren’t any better.

Read it.

A professor of pan-African studies with a leadership role in Black Lives Matter urged her audience to “f— up” an officer with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Sunday, stating that there should be nowhere the agent could “go where they are comfortable.”

Melina Abdullah, a professor of Pan-African studies at California State University, Los Angeles, identified the ICE agent by name, mentioning the hotel he was staying at.

She urged her audience to “study guerrilla warfare” and use “every single tool in your toolbox.”

“So, when I say f— him up—and I say f— Brian Palacios up, who may be staying at the Hilton Garden Inn—when I say f— him up, I mean in many ways, they don’t get to do their shit invisibly,” she added. “There should be nowhere that they go where they are comfortable.”

Abdullah spoke at the La Defensa del Pueblo Summit, organized by the immigrant rights group Ventura County Defensa, with union support.

Read it.

Gloria Steinem, a popularizer of feminist dogmas, died last week at the age of 92. She promoted many of the false doctrines of women’s liberation beginning in the 1960s through her persona, writings, publications, and speeches. As she passes from the scene, few of the original so-called second-wave feminists remain. Yet the overwhelming victories the movement has achieved in the decades since have largely obscured the radicalism at its center.

As I researched my second book, The Recovery of Family Life: Exposing the Limits of Modern Ideologies, I read Steinem’s influential 1970 Time essay, “What It Would Be Like If Women Win,” to understand what the fully realized feminist project would look like. What emerged from my survey of her work was the idea of an unfinished and unfinishable Rolling Feminist Revolution.

Feminists are stereotypical Progressives, and the signature psychosis of Progressives is that they have no end game—there is never any  point in their program where they can say, “Okay, we’ve won, we can stop now.”

Benjamin Franklin:

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

Quillette.

A review of Deborah Soh’s Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy. Be aware that Dr. Soh is a feminist, even in the face of all the evidence she has accumulated and shared.

So the painting depicts a tragically isolated woman, burdened with a thoroughly distorted view of the world, unable to survive contact with reality when love strikes for real, and doomed to die alone.

Which brings me neatly to the matter of modern dating. Or rather, the stark lack of dating, or sex, or babies.

Quillette.

In April, Memorial University—the only university in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador—posted five job openings for prestigious Canada Research Chair (CRC) professorships. In all five cases, it was specified explicitly that able-bodied white men need not apply. Rather, the jobs were reserved for members of “equity groups, including women; 2SLGBTQIA+ people; Indigenous peoples; racialised persons; and persons with disabilities.”

Following the uproar, Memorial administrators refused to apologise or back down. Instead, they explained that universities across Canada were all doing the same thing (even if they weren’t so blatant about it)—since any school seeking to get Canada Research Chair funding from the federal government must demonstrate that they are tearing down “systemic barriers in academic hiring.”

Memorial University isn’t wrong. As a group of researchers led by University of Buckingham professor Eric Kaufmann details in a new report published by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Canada’s $300-million-per-year Canada Research Chairs program restricts disbursements to universities that hit aggressive affirmative-action targets set by government officials.

The Antiplanner.

Portland’s light-rail system was 40 years old last Saturday and naturally TriMet, the region’s transit agency, has a celebratory article all about how Portland managed to escape the evil Robert Moses, who was trying to force everyone to drive cars in the 1950s and 1960s. Needless to say, the article never mentions that the share of the region’s workers who commuted by transit fell from 9.6 percent before light-rail construction began to 6.5 percent when the first line was completed and it has never recovered since.

Read it.

This is what they call one of those dangerous ‘ah-ha‘ moments. A British Police Commissioner from Hampshire, was discussing the newest illegal migrant influx that has been happening on the eastern coastline of the U.K. During the final 19 seconds of Donna Jones remarks, she identified the core issue that has perplexed many:

…”This is a real wake up call to the government, yet again, that the British people are fed up with the lack of control of our borders. Which is why, we really need to be looking as a country about our membership in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), because that’s why we can’t turn the boats around and send them back to France”…

That 19-seconds was immediately cut out of the BBC rebroadcast of the interview. However, the moment was caught and shared on the X platform.

Read it.

Over the holiday weekend, another illegal immigrant was involved in a deadly crash, this time in Fairfield County, Ohio. Other Ohioans have also been killed in recent crashes allegedly caused by illegal immigrant drivers.

Both Sen. Bernie Moreno and Sen. Jon Husted, two Republicans from Ohio, called attention to the matter on X to express their outrage, especially regarding the frequency of the tragic events.