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Attention DePaul University donors! Do you want to check out how your funding is being put to use? The institution just initiated an obnoxious, new anti-ICE journalism institute in partnership with radical ex-Mayor of Chicago Lori Lightfoot and another Chicago-based left-wing group financed by some of the most notorious leftists in American politics.

The supposedly Catholic DePaul — which sits comfortably on a roughly $1.15 billion endowment — announced that it was launching the cringely-named Institute for Journalism and Racial Justice (IJRJ) during a February 25 campus event, according to student newspaper The DePaulia.

he announcement came following a “community briefing for a new Immigration and Customs Enforcement accountability platform led by” Lightfoot. Who held Lightfoot accountable? The Firearm Industry Trade Association panned Lightfoot’s tenure as Mayor in 2023 as being tainted by some of “the worst criminal and gang violence in memory.” Chicagoans reported a 43 percent crime increase in 2022 above pre-pandemic levels under her administration. But apparently, DePaul sees the former Democrat mayor as its guiding “Lightfoot.”

DePaul is a notoriously radical left-wing institution.

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told lawmakers Wednesday that sanctuary jurisdictions declined to turn over 17,864 illegal immigrants in local police custody to federal immigration authorities in 2025.

Noem provided the figure during a House Judiciary Committee hearing after Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, asked how often Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainers had not been honored last year.

“17,864 detainers were declined,” Noem said.

“Many of those people are out on the street, is that fair to say?” Jordan asked.

“That’s correct,” Noem responded.

The Telegraph (UK).

Labour has told employers not to use the word “competitive” in job adverts because it is too masculine.

I can see why Labour would have a problem with that.

Companies should not use “terms associated with male stereotypes” when writing job adverts, including words such as “competitive” and “ambitious”.

I can see why they would have a problem with that, too.

In new guidance from the Office for Equality and Opportunity, bosses have also been told to use “neutral job titles” to ensure a greater gender balance among applicants.

No, they want men to lose and women to win. That’s not ‘balance’.

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The collapse of Hollywood has been on the radar for some time now, though the industry consistently and vehemently denies they are in decline. The movie industry Titanic is sinking fast and the celebrity rats are abandoning the ship. Some of are even leaving the US for foreign shores. The media claims that the death of Hollywood is a signal that America is “no longer the cool country.”

This was the narrative of Fortune Magazine in a recent article discussing the celebrity exodus from America and it’s effect on the US as a center of “global culture.” The platform argues:

“An odd thing is happening as America, long a beacon worldwide as the defining destination for people in search of a new hope and a new life, is starting to feel like the “old country” that people quietly plan to leave behind. More than that, to be American is downright uncool…”

What? Are they not sticking around in California so that the state can tax their wealth? What a bunch of fascists!

(Hey, guys. don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out….)

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In a rare and controversial move, New York Attorney General Letitia James has ordered a Manhattan hospital to resume offering gender-transition treatment to transgender youth. NYU Langone had discontinued such treatments after funding threats from the Trump administration. It is now caught between the proverbial rock (HHS) and a hard place (NYAG).

Last year, President Donald Trump signed an executive order entitled “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” seeking to restrict gender-transition treatment for people under 19. HHS then threatened hospitals with a cut off of federal Medicaid and Medicare funding for continuing such treatment for children.

Various European countries have also halted certain procedures after countervailing studies suggesting that the risks are too high. England’s National Health Service 2024 report on the subject, known as the Cass Report, found concerning evidence of harm for minors and inconclusive benefits.

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The U.S. has formally notified the UN that it is withdrawing from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

According to the UN, the U.S. will officially be out of the UNFCCC on February 27, 2027. A withdrawal takes effect one year after the UN’s receipt of the notification of withdrawal (which in this case was February 27, 2026) or on a later date specified in the notification.

The Telegraph (UK).

The chief executive of the Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) has been arrested on suspicion of corruption, The Telegraph can reveal.

Mukund Krishna was arrested with two other senior figures by officers from City of London Police.

The arrests followed an investigation into allegations of financial wrongdoing at PFEW, which represents 130,000 rank-and-file officers.

Mr Krishna, a former management consultant, is the first chief executive of the PFEW, and is reported to earn more than £700,000 a year.

On Wednesday, officers carried out a series of raids on premises in Wales, Somerset, London and Surrey to arrest suspects and gather evidence.

Import Turd World people, get Turd World problems.

The Times (UK).

MPs have been urged to address the £100,000 tax trap before they fall victim to it themselves, with their pay expected to reach £110,000 a year by the end of this parliament.

Gee, I wonder whether this could be why so many rich people are bailing out?

Members of parliament earn a basic annual salary of £93,90, which is set to go up to £98,599 from April. The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, which sets their salaries, yesterday said it expects MPs’ basic salary to reach £110,000 by 2029.

For every £2 of income you earn (excluding pension contributions) over £100,000 you lose £1 of the £12,570 tax-free personal income allowance. Once you earn £125,140, you get no personal allowance at all.

It means that those earning between £100,000 and £125,140 face a marginal income tax rate — the amount they will pay on the next £1 they earn — of 60 per cent (62 per cent if you include national insurance).

Britain now is where the U.S. will be in future under the Democrats. Let us learn from their mistakes, shall we?

The Times (UK).

Rachel Reeves has increased taxes to the highest level in postwar history in a move that risks damaging economic growth and disincentivising people from trying to earn more money, the official forecaster has said.

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) said taxes would hit 38 per cent of national income in 2030-31, a postwar record. It said the level of taxation could “distort or constrain economic activity by more than expected”.

The spring forecast highlighted soaring tax revenues after the chancellor’s decisions to increase the employers’ rate of national insurance and freeze income tax thresholds. It said that revenues from the two taxes would rise from £480 billion in 2025-26 to £600 billion in 2030-31.

The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.

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Golden State groomers were dealt a devastating blow on Monday after the Supreme Court sided with parents challenging school policies in California that restrict when educators may disclose changes to a student’s name or pronouns, handing parental rights advocates an early but significant victory in a closely watched culture-war dispute.

In an unsigned ‘shadow docket’ order, the justices restored a lower court’s injunction blocking enforcement of policies that prevent teachers from informing parents when their child socially transitions at school. The Court said the parents are likely to succeed on their claim that the policies violate their First Amendment right to freely exercise their religion.

“The parents who assert a free exercise claim have sincere religious beliefs about sex and gender, and they feel a religious obligation to raise their children in accordance with those beliefs,” the Court wrote. “California’s policies violate those beliefs.”

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A North Dakota judge officially ordered Greenpeace to pay $345 million to the developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline following a nearly yearlong tug-of-war over a Morton County jury’s verdict.

The jury in March 2025 originally ordered Greenpeace to pay Energy Transfer about $667 million, finding the environmental group at fault for harming the company during anti-pipeline protests in North Dakota in 2016 and 2017 and for publishing false statements that harmed the company’s reputation. Greenpeace denies these allegations and says Energy Transfer’s lawsuit is a veiled attempt to punish the environmental group for supporting the demonstrations.

Southwest Judicial District Judge James Gion in October slashed the jury’s award to $345 million, though he didn’t finalize the amount until Friday.

The final judgment also orders Greenpeace to pay 11% interest on the sum, starting from March 19, the date the jury announced its verdict, until the full amount is paid.

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Germany’s Green Party has presented a 24-point plan in the Bundestag aimed at promoting a “diverse Muslim life” across the country, including in schools, prisons, hospitals, and the Bundeswehr.

The motion calls for expanded Islamic religious education, nationwide Islamic pastoral care, and the removal of headscarf bans in public institutions. The Greens argue that Muslim life is an integral part of German society and that structural discrimination and lack of recognition have historically marginalized Muslim communities.

Lamya Kaddor, the Greens’ domestic policy spokeswoman, called for stronger state support and civil society initiatives to ensure “real participation” and counter stigmatization.

I wonder whether they would support such a program for Jews. I suspect not.

The Antiplanner.

The California High-Speed Rail Authority doesn’t expect to complete the rail project before 2040, and it predicts that, when completed, it will have cost $126 billion, according to the agency’s latest business plan. While that’s not really news, what is news is that a close look at the plan reveals that it is as unrealistically optimistic as when the agency projected it would cost $33 billion and be completed by 2020.

My, what a surprise….

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Vienna, once hailed as one of Europe’s safest capitals, is grappling with a wave of violent crimes linked to unchecked migration, alongside a deepening crisis in schools where German is becoming a minority language.

My, what a surprise.

Import Turd World people, get Turd World problems.

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT.) is rolling out yet another exercise in class-warfare fantasy legislation on Monday, this time a proposal to extract a staggering $4.4 trillion from the nation’s roughly 1,000 billionaires through an annual 5 percent annual wealth tax, according to The Washington Post.

Well, he always said he was a socialist, and the cornerstone of socialism is robbery.

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Fairfax County police have charged a Sierra Leonean man, who authorities say illegally entered the U.S. in 2012, with second-degree murder after the fatal stabbing of 41-year-old Stephanie Minter at a bus stop shelter in Virginia’s Hybla Valley area last month.

Police responded at 7:16 p.m. Feb. 23 to reports of an injured woman at the bus stop near Richmond Highway and Arlington Drive, where they found Minter of Fredericksburg suffering from stab wounds to her upper body.

Officers and emergency personnel attempted lifesaving measures, but she was pronounced dead at the scene.

The case has drawn public attention and sharpened debates over criminal justice practices and cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

Investigators identified Abdul Jalloh, 32, through surveillance footage and interviews, noting he was seen with Minter exiting a bus near the attack site shortly before the killing, police said.

On Tuesday, officers located Jalloh after an employee at a local business recognized him and contacted police.

UPDATE: Media Ignore Arrest of 14-Year Illegal Alien with 30 Arrests in Case of Va. Bus Stop Stabbing Murder

The Antiplanner.

BART is proposing to close 15 stations if voters don’t agree in November to a tax increase to support the bloated agency. BART’s 2025 ridership was only 49 percent of 2019, yet its operating costs were at least a third greater and “general administration” (bureaucratic overhead) was more than two-thirds greater.

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Import Turd World people, wind up with Turd World problems.

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Import Turd World people, wind up with Turd World practices.

ODF.

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Attorney General Pam Bondi announced charges Friday against 30 more people who are accused of civil rights violations in a January protest inside a Minnesota church where a pastor works for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The new indictment comes a month after independent journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort and prominent local activist Nekima Levy Armstrong were charged for their alleged roles in the protest at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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Bill O’Reilly has called for the Secret Service to haul in Robert De Niro for an “intensive interrogation” following the actor’s repeated threats against President Trump, warning that De Niro could face up to five years behind bars if convicted under federal law.

The demand comes amid growing scrutiny of De Niro’s unhinged anti-Trump rants, which have exposed the depths of Trump Derangement Syndrome among leftists desperate to undermine America First leadership.

O’Reilly zeroed in on De Niro’s recent MSNBC interview where the actor repeatedly declared “we got to get rid of him” in reference to Trump.

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You can already hear some liberals and left-leaning libertarians now: “He paid for his crime, right? So what’s the problem? What about the politicians mentioned in the Epstein files…?”

But “whataboutism” is not a valid argument for rationalizing societal decay. And if America isn’t capable of applying the most basic standards at the lowest levels of government, then America is lost.

Rene Campos, a registered sex offender, is seeking elected office in California – launching a campaign for Fresno City Council amid fierce backlash and renewed questions about whether someone with his record should hold public office.

My, what a surprise.

The Foundry.

The woman who helped organize the invasion of a St. Paul, Minnesota, church in the middle of service last month now faces an ethics complaint that may cost her the ability to practice law in the state.

Nekima Levy Armstrong, a former president of the Minneapolis NAACP, has admitted to leading the agitators who invaded Cities Church on Sunday, Jan. 18. Agitators said they targeted the church because one of its pastors also works for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Armstrong faces federal charges for interfering with the First Amendment rights of Christians, and she has pleaded not guilty.

In order to practice law in Minnesota, attorneys must maintain an active license with the Minnesota Lawyer Registration Office and abide by professional standards.

The Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility in Minnesota investigates and prosecutes complaints of unethical conduct by lawyers, and the Center to Advance Security in America filed a complaint against Armstrong last month.

“Nekima Levy Armstrong’s outrageous behavior in leading aggressive activists into a church during worship and potentially committing a federal crime is unacceptable conduct for an attorney,” James Fitzpatrick, the center’s director, told The Daily Signal in a statement Wednesday. “We are hopeful the Minnesota Bar will initiate an investigation based on our complaint and are encouraged to see the Department of Justice investigating the matter.”

Fox News.

In the dark of the night, 10 minutes before President Donald Trump even announced that the U.S. and Israel had attacked Iran, a network of U.S. nonprofits aligned with China, Russia and Tehran activated foot soldiers to hit America’s streets.

Groups funded by Neville Roy Singham, a Shanghai-based, American-born tech tycoon, which regularly parrot messaging from America’s adversaries, swung into action even as the initial bombs were dropping. The nearly instantaneous response was the latest salvo in an information war on the U.S., with foot soldiers called upon to converge in protests and echo anti-U.S. talking points.

At 2:34 a.m. ET, the ANSWER Coalition, a nonprofit project whose leaders self-describe as Marxist and communist, announced: “EMERGENCY NATIONWIDE DAY OF ACTION TODAY, SAT. FEB 28 — STOP THE WAR WITH IRAN!”

If someone tried that in Communist China, of course, they’d be ‘disappeared’ and probably used for spare parts.

The Telegraph (UK).

A 38-year-old man has been charged with criminal damage after graffiti was sprayed on the statue of Winston Churchill in Westminster, police said.

The Metropolitan Police said Caspar San Giorgio, of no fixed address, was arrested shortly after 4am on Friday.

He was taken into custody and charged with criminal damage just before 4am on Saturday.

Graffiti was daubed on the statue of the former prime minister in Parliament Square in the early hours of Friday morning, branding him a “Zionist war criminal”.

Other phrases including “Stop the Genocide” and “Free Palestine” were sprayed in red paint on the bronze sculpture.

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Thirty-five years ago, American political scientist Francis Fukuyama made a name for himself by advancing the proposition that the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union promised the ascendency and universalization of so-called Western liberal democracy. As a Marxist-Hegelian who saw the progression of history as an evolutionary process with a natural and predetermined conclusion, Fukuyama envisioned Western-styled liberalism as both “the endpoint of mankind’s ideological evolution” and “the final form of human government.” Expecting all human struggles to barrel toward a state of imminent equilibrium and future peace, Fukuyama stated out loud what many other late-twentieth century thinkers also believed: Humanity had reached the end of history.

After the 9/11 Islamic terror attacks in the United States, two decades of the “Global War on Terrorism,” communist China’s expansive “Belt and Road Initiative,” immigration-fueled social strife, the collapse of public trust in government institutions, the prevalence of pre-civil war conditions across Europe, the rise of Indian economic power, the emergence of Donald Trump’s nationalism as a counterbalance to the World Economic Forum’s vaunted globalism, the return of the Russian Federation as a major source of European angst, the growth of “multiculturalism” and its attendant fracturing of national unity, the “great powers” competition for hydrocarbon energies and other natural resources, the new geopolitical race to project strength in the Arctic, and the ever-present discussion of an impending World War III — just to name a few of the numerous global conflicts of the first quarter of the present century — Fukuyama’s “end of history” argument has probably reached the end of its usefulness.

Much like “Marxist-Hegelian” Fukuyama himself.

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A Virginia school board settled Friday with two male high school students who were punished for objecting to a female student using the boys’ locker room, WJLA 7News reported.

The Loudoun County School District, which has a history of controversy on gender issues, actually investigated the two students for objecting to a female student, who identified as a male, using the locker room at Stone Bridge High School.

The female student also reportedly recorded the male students in the locker room.

As The Daily Signal previously reported, the school district found the two sophomore students responsible for Title IX sexual harassment and discrimination, and suspended them for 10 days.

After the investigation, the students’ families sued the school district to have the finding removed from their sons’ records.

Newsbusters.

Contrary to claims by leftist “fact checkers,” such as Politfact.com, transgender individuals actually commit a disproportionately high share of mass public and active shooting attacks, new analysis by the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) reveals.

Regardless of the data analyzed or estimates of transgender population used, transgenders commit a far higher proportion of mass public and active shootings than their share of the U.S. population would suggest, the CPRC study finds.

In 2024, for example, their share of mass public and active shooting attacks was at least 12 times – and possibly more than 16 times – their share of the population.

Attempts by groups like Politifact to use data to dismiss concerns of transgender violence are based on faulty analysis – because they don’t factor in transgender individuals’ share of the violent attacks in the U.S. relative to their share of the population.

Proglodyte Politifact distorting data to prove a political point? Say it ain’t so….

Jewish Teelgraphic Agency.

The founder of radical pro-Palestinian group Within Our Lifetime has sued the right-wing militant Zionist group Betar USA, alleging that it violated her civil rights by putting out social media “bounties” on her and harassing her with beepers.

Nerdeen Kiswani announced she had filed the lawsuit Wednesday evening, She accused the revamped historic Revisionist Zionist group of violating the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, which makes conspiring against an ethnic minority a federal crime.

The lawsuit comes more than a month after Betar USA agreed to cease its operations in New York following a settlement with the state’s attorney general — which Kiswani’s lawsuit notes. The office of AG Letitia James found that Betar USA had engaged in a “campaign of violence, harassment, and intimidation against Arab, Muslim, and Jewish New Yorkers.”

Proglodytes always hate it when they are treated the way they treat others.

The Foundry.

A total of 39 people now face charges in the anti-ICE invasion of Cities Church in St. Paul last month, according to a superseding indictment that the federal district court unsealed Friday.

“YOU CANNOT ATTACK A HOUSE OF WORSHIP,” Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote on X after the court unsealed the indictment. “If you do so, you cannot hide from us—we will find you, arrest you, and prosecute you.”

Bondi announced that federal agents had already arrested 25 of the 30 new defendants included in the new indictment.

 

The American Mind.

etty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique, which was published 63 years ago this month, marked the beginning of the modern wave of American feminism. It has contributed perhaps more than any other radical ideology to the dissolution of traditional American culture and social order. This is a good moment to remind ourselves precisely how far out of touch with reality Friedan’s book is, as part of the ongoing effort to reclaim the culture it set out to demolish.

Based on interviews with her former Smith College classmates 15 years after graduating, Friedan’s book describes what she calls “the problem that has no name.” By this she meant a purportedly widespread perception that college-educated women believed their lives were crushingly unfulfilling, a problem that would require a complete re-envisioning of the family and the sexual division of labor to address.

However, among the book’s readers who were eager to accept Friedan’s critical diagnosis, few bothered to look closely enough to see that by her own analysis “the problem that has no name” should have been called “the problem that does not really exist except in the minds of a few discontented radicals like Betty Friedan.” She did not discover a problem—she simply found a way to interpret reality in a way sympathetic to her desires.

Feminism constantly attempts to turn girls into defective men, boys into defective women, and our culture into a sewer.

The Other McCain.

You will never understand liberals until you read Thomas Sowell’s The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy. However often I’ve recommended that book over the years, I occasionally feel the need to repeat the recommendation for the simple reason that Sowell demystifies what would otherwise be incomprehensible, i.e., the persistent tendency of the Left to make their own good intentions an argument for supporting policies that are objectively harmful to the very people that liberals claim to be “helping.” Liberals think of themselves as morally and intellectually superior (i.e., “the Anointed”) and regard others as ignorant, at best, if not indeed immoral (“the Benighted,” as Sowell says). Because liberalism is so prevalent in the education system and the media, it is possible for the liberal to go through life with this attitude and never be forced to examine their own belief system.

Great book. Highly recommended.

Newsbusters.

A 64 year-old convicted serial child molester was immediately rearrested upon his Elderly Parole Program release in California on Thursday.

National outrage over the parole of David Allen Funston – who had been serving more than three consecutive life sentences since 1999 for convictions on 16 counts of kidnapping and child molestation of eight children between three and seven years old – was quelled Thursday when the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced that it had turned Funston over to local law enforcement to face new charges:

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This is the real story: the left’s climate crusade was never about the planet. It was about control, optics, and punishing the right villains. When Tesla’s EVs stopped being their mascot, they trashed them. Now that tariffs threaten their borderless worldview, “buy local” is out the window too. Next, they’ll be boycotting farmers’ markets if Trump tweets about them. For a movement obsessed with saving the Earth, they sure love abandoning their own ideas the minute the politics shift. The climate’s just a prop—until it isn’t.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Jewish leaders and California elected officials have condemned an antisemitic chant that was audible during a protest Wednesday against the repeal of a local San Francisco tax ordinance.

During a news conference addressing a new housing construction development plan hosted by San Francisco mayor Daniel Lurie and San Francisco District 5 Supervisor Bilal Mahmood, protesters with the Democratic Socialists of America chanted “tax the rich.”

According to videos reviewed by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, one woman on the scene can be clearly seen and heard chanting “tax Israel” and “tax the Jews.”

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nationalist activist Quentin Deranque in Lyon reclassified as premeditated murder, after CCTV footage showed a scooter repeatedly circling the area shortly before the fatal attack.

Seven people have already been charged in the case, all of them activists close to the La Jeune Garde anti-fascist movement. According to information revealed by Europe 1, investigators have recently focused their attention on a scooter, spotted several times at the scene of the crime by the neighbourhood’s CCTV cameras. The vehicle does not follow a random route, but makes several trips back and forth, confirming the hypothesis of reconnaissance.

It has been established that scouting by scooter is one of the methods used by Antifa activists in Lyon, who typically identify their potential victims—starting with tracking them on social media—before launching a physical attack, blocking an isolated target in an ambush. A former member of La Jeune Garde, who testified openly for Frontières magazine, confirmed this practice, which he himself engaged in alongside MP Raphaël Arnault.

The scooter’s licence plate was identified by one of the victims of the attack that cost Quentin his life. For the moment, despite police investigations, the vehicle remains untraceable. However, it is a key piece of evidence in the case: if the direct involvement of the scooter driver is established, the charges against the suspects could be reclassified from “voluntary homicide” to “murder.”

At the same time, an investigation has been opened by the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office against La Jeune Garde for “reconstituting a dissolved league.” La Jeune Garde had been officially dissolved in June 2025 by decision of the council of ministers but continued its activities in defiance of the law. Another parliamentary assistant from the far-left La France Insoumise (LFI) who was a member of La Jeune Garde has since resigned quietly.

Even as the murder investigation continues, MP Raphaël Arnault is set to publish a Manual for Anti-Fascist Response on March 20th. In the book’s introduction, we read that “the grassroots activist and co-founder of La Jeune Garde proposes to reopen certain strategic discussions and advocates for comprehensive anti-fascism, from the streets to the Assembly.”

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The leak of the preliminary report of the European Parliament’s Committee on Petitions mission to the Canary Islands, carried out last year, has once again put the management of the southern Atlantic border in the spotlight. The document notes the “disproportionate” pressure borne by the archipelago and supports a greater role for the European Union on the migration route.

Based on that political backing, the Canary Islands government has once again urged Pedro Sánchez’s executive to immediately request the deployment of Frontex ships, aircraft and drones in waters near the islands.

However, the request does not imply a paradigm shift in migration policy. Sources close to President Fernando Clavijo acknowledge that the European reinforcement would serve as “real support in rescue tasks and in the orderly management of flows,” but it would not mean an effective closure of the route.

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The statue to Winston Churchill, the great British statesman who led his country from the brink of defeat to victory when serving as prime minister in WWII, was defaced on Thursday night. According to British media reports, the statue was cordoned off on Friday morning.

This is what Labour has done to Britain, and what Democrats want to do to the U.S.

UPDATE: Man arrested after ‘Free Palestine’ graffiti spray-painted on Winston Churchill statue

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Surrey County Council has removed more than 1,000 St George’s and Union flags citing lack of official approval.

According to municipal records, 1,003 flags—installed across the county as part of the “Raise the Colours” movement—have been taken down to down, with an estimated 308 still in place.

The campaign, launched last summer to encourage public displays of patriotism, saw thousands of national flags attached to lampposts and other street furniture. While the council acknowledged that flags are “symbols of national pride” and continues to fly the Union flag at its headquarters in Reigate, it insists that any public display must be legally authorised.

This is what Labour has done to Britain, and what Democrats want to do to America.

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Vice President JD Vance announced he is withholding Medicaid reimbursements from Minnesota while the administration investigates fraud in the state.

When asked by The Daily Signal if this plan should be viewed as a playbook for fighting fraud in the rest of the country, Vance said, “I think you can, certainly.”

“There are certain things that we’re doing in Minneapolis and Minnesota that I’m not gonna be able to do in other parts of the country, because the fraud is gonna be different in each place,” he said. “But yeah, I get this basic model of saying to people, ‘Hey, you get a massive amount of money to provide a service to people.’ Did you actually provide that service?”

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And yet, if you believe yesterday’s article, the banishment of fossil fuels, which was to be such a boon to the United States, is somehow a problem in Cuba.

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Well, let’s see whether it works.

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Days after the firm announced that they were scrapping DEI requirements for new board members, and six years after the death of George Floyd that ushered in institutionalized virtue-signaling, the bank’s head of DEI is leaving.

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New revelations from the Stop The Harm Database expose a grim reality: between 2019 and 2023, thousands of American children were subjected to life-altering surgeries, hormone treatments, and puberty blockers in the name of transgender ideology.

The Antiplanner.

Oregon Housing and Community Services, the agency that hands out state and federal subsidized housing grants, is biased toward developers who support the agency’s ideology regarding social services, a former affordable housing developer emailed to me. Responding to my recent posts about Portland’s affordable housing projects, this developer notes that “the most expensive project I ever built [was] 50 units of two story garden apartments” that averaged 1,000-square-feet in size and cost just “$88 per square foot.”

That was in 2008. As I reported in my previous post, costs in the Portland area are now averaging nearly $700 per square foot. “How is it that very profitable development went from under $100/SF in rural towns to over $600/SF in big cities in less than two decades?” this developer asks rhetorically.

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President Donald Trump’s newly appointed chief immigration judge said he believes as many as 25 million to 30 million people are in the United States illegally, far exceeding official estimates.

My, what a surprise….

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Following all the controversy swirling around transgenderism, you would think that this outrageous act couldn’t possibly have happened. Of course, the person charged must be proven guilty of sexual abuse. But knowing the mental issues of the transgender community, and the other disgusting abuses that have occurred, I think this one is true.

My, what a surprise….

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When Zohran Mamdani ran for mayor, he sold New Yorkers a vision of relief. Free childcare. Free buses. A rent freeze. A city that would finally tilt toward the struggling rather than the secure. What he did not campaign on was a nearly 10% property tax hike affecting more than three million residences and over 100,000 commercial properties. Yet, days after his election, here we are.

The proposal, floated as leverage in a standoff with Kathy Hochul, is being marketed as a reluctant last resort. But for a mayor elected on affordability, threatening one of the broadest tax increases available to City Hall is not just ironic—it’s revealing. When the numbers got tight and Albany didn’t comply, Mamdani’s idiotic grand promises collided with fiscal gravity. And instead of rethinking the scale of the agenda, the answer was to reach for the biggest local tax lever available.

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The Plenary of the Spanish Congress will debate this week a non-binding motion presented by the far-left party Podemos that seeks to implement mandatory comprehensive sex education at all stages of the education system, from Early Childhood Education —starting at the age of three— through Baccalaureate and Vocational Training.

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It also proposes that the content be developed in collaboration with specialists in “sexual health, feminist pedagogy and LGBTQIA+ rights,” and that teachers receive specific and ongoing training in “sexual and reproductive health.”

According to the document, the objective is to avoid territorial inequalities and ensure that these contents do not depend on occasional or voluntary initiatives by individual schools.

The aim is to continue indoctrinating not only children but also teachers, and to standardize content across all regions so that parents cannot have options to educate their children according to their own values.

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In a quiet corner of Lyon, a young man lies dead, his skull fractured by the boots of masked militants. Quentin Deranque, a nationalist student whose only crime was to stand in defence of women exercising their right to peaceful protest, has become the latest offering on the altar of left-wing fanaticism. The suspects charged with his murder are not lone wolves or aberrant criminals; they are the uniformed enforcers of La France Insoumise, men with direct ties to a far left wing parliamentary party and funded, indirectly, by the French taxpayer.

But as the French establishment begins to question its fifty-year-old assumption that the pariah of politics must always be the far right, we in Britain would do well to cast our gaze closer to home and begin rounding up the trolls of the far left for closer inspection by Prevent.

For the beast that stalked the streets of Lyon has a long pedigree on these shores. It often wears the mild-mannered guise of the Fabian, the academic Marxist, and the well-heeled Labour Party activist. And its philosophy, whether dressed in the tweed of the don, the Palestinian keffiyeh or the combat jacket of the Antifa thug, leads inexorably to the same destination: the doxxing, the intimidation, and ultimately, the grave.