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As radical Islamist threats continue to plague Australia, politicians are pivoting to policing speech and tightening gun laws on law-abiding citizens—now openly admitting curbs on free expression are needed to shield their multicultural agenda.

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has unveiled a sweeping plan to combat what she calls rising anti-Semitism, but the measures conveniently sidestep the core issue of unchecked radical Islamism behind recent attacks, focusing instead on doxxing anonymous social media users and reviewing gun laws.

In a joint news conference, Allan announced legislation that would force social media platforms to reveal identities behind anonymous accounts accused of spreading ‘hate’. “Under Victoria’s civil anti-vilification scheme which starts in 2026, the speaker of a vilifying statement generally needs to be identifiable and held accountable,” she stated.

As usual, women are the vangard of galloping totalitarianism.

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Britain is now the sort of country where you can get an instant answer to ‘What is the carbon footprint of a sausage roll?’. Yet if you ask, ‘Are we importing risk to women along with importing people?’ our nation state stares at its shoes and starts muttering about ‘complexity’.

Let us begin with two official lines that any half-awake citizen can see are rising at the same time.

Line one, sexual violence.

The ONS crime bulletin for the year ending June 2025 reports 211,225 sexual offences recorded by the police in England and Wales are up 9% from the previous year. It also reports 72,804 rape offences, up 6% year on year, with rape making up around 34% of all recorded sexual offences.

The ONS, to be fair, sticks in a big asterisk. Part of the rise is not a sudden outbreak of more predators. It is a change in the bookkeeping. That means some of what now shows up as an ‘increase’ is simply behaviour that was previously recorded differently, or not cleanly separated at all, now being captured under a new label. In short, not every uptick is more men doing worse things in dark alleys.

Fine. Caveat accepted. The numbers are still brutal.

Line two, immigration.

The ONS estimates long term immigration at 898,000 in the year ending June 2025. Of those, non-EU nationals accounted for 670,000, about 75% of the total. Net migration in that year is estimated at 204,000.

The Times (UK).

Taxpayers will be kept in the dark about how much public money is being spent so that union officials can have paid time off work, under the government’s workers’ rights reforms.

Despite new figures showing that last year almost £107 million was spent on so-called facility time, Labour has scrapped powers to cap it and removed the requirement for public bodies such as the NHS and schools to declare it in the future.

At the same time, the right to be paid to carry out union duties has been extended to equality representatives in workplaces to allow them to focus on equality duties.

Democrats pull this shit all the time in the U.S. Fortunately our Constitution gives is tools to pry this sort of information out of them, and a political system that enables people like Trump to erase it.

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When environmentalists first claimed that polar bears would be extinct by 2050, it seemed like a fairly safe bet. The claim made in 2007 was pegged to 43 years away. Practically an eternity. By 2050, we’d have flying cars, colonies on Mars and Martian environmentalists protesting them.

Media headlines blared “Most Polar Bears Extinct by 2050.” Public school kids were barraged with crying polar bear propaganda and told to recycle or all the cute white bears would die.

But nearly twenty years later, global warming has a major problem. The bears are still here.

With another 25 years on the clock, you would think that there would be signs that a major species is disappearing. Instead the 22,000 polar bear population from 2007 is now estimated at 26,000. The numbers for polar bear extinction, like Gaza genocide, are going the wrong way.

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Critical Race Theory will get you if you don’t watch out.

A recent report from Defending Education has found that more than half of collegiate social work programs appear to embed anti-racism and diversity, equity, and inclusion standards into their core competencies, admissions requirements, and field work evaluations.

This is not by accident. The sole accreditor of these schools, the Council on Social Work Education, requires adherence to these standards.

This means, in practice, that left-wing ideologies—many of which promote discrimination on the basis of race—are de facto orthodoxy in most of the nation’s social work programs, just so the institution can remain accredited.

This accreditation is required for graduates of these programs to gain licenses necessary to work in their fields.

So, what are students in college and graduate school learning in their social work programs?

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Britain’s newly appointed equalities chief has triggered a political backlash after dismissing concerns about mass migration and defending the increasingly controversial European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

Mary-Ann Stephenson took over this month as chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), an unelected quango with wide influence over equality and human rights policy in Britain. In her first major interviews, she urged politicians and the media to stop “demonising” migrants, arguing that describing migration as a danger to Britain makes life “very, very difficult” for migrants and ethnic minority citizens.

Stephenson dismissed growing calls to leave the European Convention on Human Rights, despite withdrawal now being backed by parties representing a large share of the electorate. Reform UK, currently leading in the polls, has pledged to withdraw from the convention, arguing it enables activist lawyers to prevent the deportation of dangerous migrants. After months of prevarication, the Conservatives later followed suit.

Her remarks mark a clear departure from the stance of her predecessor, Baroness Falkner, who warned last year that integration in Britain was failing amid record levels of legal and illegal migration.

The Telegraph (UK).

Father Christmas is too white and should stop putting children on the naughty list, a museum has said.

Brighton and Hove Museums claimed Santa Claus needed to be decolonised in the name of diversity, in a blog on its website.

The blog also said that Santa should work alongside elves in the name of equality and a “Mother Christmas” would help tackle the patriarchy.

The Telegraph (UK).

The new head of the equalities watchdog has attacked those who describe migration as a risk to Britain.

Mary-Ann Stephenson, the chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), used her first major intervention since taking the job at the beginning of December to warn against the demonisation of immigrants.

Ms Stephenson, who was chosen by Sir Keir Starmer’s administration to succeed Baroness Falkner of Margravine, also said that leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) – the treaty that has been blamed by critics for blocking migrant deportations – would be a mistake.

Our future, unless Trump can prevent it.

The Times (UK).

“Bargain-hunting” Arab, American and Chinese multimillionaires are snapping up the London homes being sold by departing UK non-doms — and they intend to use them as “holiday mansions” for only a few weeks a year.

An analysis of official sales data for homes sold for £15 million or more in 2025 shows how London’s high-end demographics are changing thanks to the chancellor Rachel Reeves’ decision to abolish the previously lucrative non-dom status in April.

Non-dom status allowed wealthy UK residents to designate a permanent home — or domicile — for tax purposes as being overseas, which meant they avoided paying tax on overseas income and were only taxed on money earned in Britain. About 68,000 people benefited from the arrangement, but as many as 1,800 have left the country since it ended.

Blast from the past: Listen to the Beatles song THE TAXMAN to get an appreciation of Britain under Labour before Thatcher. Both the Beatles and the Rolling Stones left Britain rather than give up 95% of their income to the government.

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California is expected to begin reissuing approximately 17,000 non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses that the state had planned to revoke following federal enforcement pressure. The decision comes despite ongoing corrective action requirements from FMCSA and raises fundamental questions about federal enforcement authority when a state openly defies compliance directives.

State transportation officials confirmed to sources that the Department of Motor Vehicles will begin restoring the contested licenses to immigrant drivers who received 60-day cancellation notices on November 6. The state has not clarified the specific process but points to the D.C. Circuit Court’s November 13 emergency stay of FMCSA’s interim final rule restricting non-domiciled CDL eligibility.

What California apparently misunderstands, or is choosing to ignore, is that the court stay addressed only the September 29 interim final rule. It did not address the separate compliance failures FMCSA documented during its 2025 Annual Program Review, which found that approximately 25% of California’s non-domiciled CDLs were improperly issued under regulations that existed before the emergency rule was ever published.

The federal government threatened to withhold more than $150 million in highway funding from California over these pre-existing violations. Those threats remain fully in effect regardless of the court’s stay of the new rule.

Judge Dismisses Complaint against Miami Land Transfer for Trump’s Presidential Library

It’s Time to Kick Trump, 79, Out of the White House–and Into a Padded Cell (David Rothkopf/The Daily Beast)  TDS straight up.

Hysterical Debbie Wasserman-Schultz Declares Trump Larger Threat Than Islamic Terrorism  To Democrats, certainly.

Trump’s Attacks on Rob Reiner and Others Characterize an Uninhibited 2nd Term (Peter Baker/New York Times)  What ‘attacks’? Trump just points out the inconvenient truth, and of course in the proglodyte playbook that equals an ‘attack’.

‘Execution was abysmal’: Trump economy speech doesn’t meet GOP hopes (Eli Stokols/Politico) Disappointing minions of the Narrative Media is what Trump does best.

5 Rules for Reading the Epstein Files (Ankush Khardori/Politico)  Because, of course, you’re too stupid to read them for yourself without a Narrative Media zampolit to guide you.

Lies, Damned Lies and Trump Speeches (Paul Krugman)  The vacuum speaks.

Monkey Sounds, “White Power” and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under Trump (ProPublica)  The primary users of “the N-word” are black people. Is anyone going to charge them with racism? The question answers itself.

The legal “defense” for Trump’s ballroom is a joke (Lisa Needham/Public Notice)  Laugh, clown, laugh.

Voters blame Trump for their economic woes (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)  Oh, really? (Polling Signals Serious Trouble For Democrats in Upcoming Midterms)

It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced (Samuel Moyn/The Guardian)

Trump Is Walloping Construction Businesses. The Industry Stays Quiet. (Catherine Rampell/The Bulwark)  Perhaps because it’s not true?

Kimmel Decries Administration For Saying ‘Men Are Men’ Without Medical Degrees

104 murders in 107 days — One of the more surreal phenomena of the last year … (Radley Balko/The Watch)

White House inner circle seeks to get Trump on script (Julia Manchester/The Hill)

Revealed: FBI opened domestic terrorism investigations into anti-ICE activity across US (Sam Levin/The Guardian)  This is news?

Undaunted in Faith —In our warped political era, bullies and bigots with the chutzpah … (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

‘A Disgrace’: Dems Erupt As Kennedy Center Board Votes To Rename It ‘Trump-Kennedy Center’  Ah, ah, ah, ah, yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains….

As polls show low approval for Trump on the economy, will taking his economic agenda to voters help? (Oren Oppenheim/ABC News)

A Somber Mood at Science Meeting as Trump Budget Cuts Continue (Eric Niiler/New York Times)  Because, as we all know, science is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government—and the Federal taxpayer.

The Horns and Whistles Work (Amanda Moore/Mother Jones)

Trump ousts more Biden-era ambassadors (Nahal Toosi/Politico)  Good.

Smug Dickerson, DuBois Sign Off ‘CBS Evening News’ with Trump Jab, Nod to Gaza

Federal judge temporarily blocks HUD permanent housing cuts for homeless (Cassandra Dumay/Politico)

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Republican Senator Eric Schmitt has accused European governments of enforcing what he described as a sweeping censorship regime at home and attempting to export it to the United States, warning that American free speech is increasingly being affected by regulatory decisions made in Brussels, London, and other foreign capitals.

In a letter sent to Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy Sarah B. Rogers, published on X, Schmitt said, “European governments have imposed tyrannical censorship on their own citizens. Now, they’re trying to impose it on America.” In the letter, he urges the Trump administration to “sanction foreign actors—in the European Union and elsewhere—who aid and abet this censorship regime.”

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Brussels woke up on Thursday shrouded in smoke, sirens, and the roar of tractors. The European Quarter—the administrative heart of the Union—was transformed for hours into a veritable battlefield. Smoke grenades, police charges, and blocked access points defined a day in which Europe’s countryside decided to make itself heard by force, exhausted by ignored warnings and endlessly postponed promises.

What filled the air was not just another sectoral protest, but accumulated frustration with a bureaucratic class that talks endlessly and delivers little. The violence—growing, undeniable, and deeply uncomfortable—did not come out of nowhere. It is the visible symptom of a political fracture Brussels has spent years refusing to confront.

The protest did not take place in a vacuum. It coincided—by no means accidentally—with yet another last-minute postponement of the EU–Mercosur agreement, a trade deal that has been in negotiation for 25 years and once again failed to reach a conclusion. Italy, under heavy pressure from its farming sector, forced the delay and left the agreement in political limbo, reinforcing an inconvenient truth: Mercosur has never enjoyed broad or genuine support across Europe’s nations. From the outset, it has been a top-down project, driven by offices, committees, and summits rather than by national parliaments or solid social consensus.

Newsbusters.

An illegal alien in Fairfax County, Virginia with a history of arrests, mental illness and apparent ties to MS-13 was arrested and charged with second-degree murder Wednesday – just one day after the illegal sanctuary county chose to release him rather than honor a detainer request by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

On Tuesday, 23 year-old Marvin Morales-Ortez – an illegal alien from El Salvador being held in jail on charges brandishing a gun, assault and causing injury – was released after charges were dropped and the sheriff’s office, led by Stacey Kincaid, refused to honor ICE’s detainer request.

“If Fairfax County would have simply worked to uphold our nation’s laws, then this tragedy may have never happened,” an ICE spokesman said, commenting on the fatal shooting of a man Morales-Ortez lived with, 40-year-old Marvin Ernesto Morales.

“The sanctuary politicians of Fairfax have blood on their hands,” a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson said.

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Critics are now questioning whether the prestigious institution deliberately disabled security cameras, inadvertently creating blind spots that allowed the shooter to escape detection.

According to the latest reports shared by Headline USA, the shooter was identified as Claudio Neves Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national. He has reportedly been found dead.

Conservative commentator Greg Price posted a video showing a tense moment when a Providence police press conference ended abruptly after a Latino Rhode Island radio host confronted officials. The journalist accused authorities of deliberately removing security cameras at Brown University because of sanctuary city laws designed to prevent recording of illegal aliens.

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President Trump ordered the suspension of the U.S. green card diversity lottery after federal investigators said the suspect in the Brown University shooting and the killing of an MIT nuclear scientist was a non-citizen who entered the country through the program.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrote in an X post late Thursday that, at Trump’s direction, she had ordered U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to pause the Diversity Immigrant Visa (DV) program.

“At President Trump’s direction, I am immediately directing USCIS to pause the DV1 program to ensure no more Americans are harmed by this disastrous program,” Noem said.

The New York Times, a Voice of the Crust.

Hannah C. Dugan, a Wisconsin state judge, was found guilty on Thursday of obstructing federal agents, a high-profile victory for the Justice Department in a prosecution of a judge who it said was illegally aiding an undocumented immigrant.

Judge Dugan faces up to five years in prison and, as a person who has been convicted of a felony, she is likely ineligible to continue to hold office as a judge in Wisconsin, according to the State Constitution.

She was acquitted of a less serious charge of concealing a person from arrest.

One of the most deleterious effects of Girl Boss Equality is that it puts women in positions of power, in which they inevitably prefer ‘feels over reals’. Emotion is a bad thing in a judge, because it leads to arbitrary and capricious rulings.

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In a swift turn toward justice, police have opened an investigation into Michelea Ponce, the leftist agitator caught on video berating an elderly Target employee named Jeanie for daring to wear a Charlie Kirk “FREEDOM” shirt.

The harassment, which exploded across social media, highlights the toxic entitlement of progressives who can’t stomach symbols of patriotism in everyday life.

As we highlighted, the incident unfolded in a Chico, California Target store where Jeanie calmly folded clothes while Ponce unleashed a profanity-laced rant, accusing Kirk of racism and threatening to escalate the matter to management.

Michaela? Not Karen?

The cornerstone of proglodyte ideology is YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE AN OPINION THAT DIFFERS FROM THEIRS. That’s what we have to work with. Be prepared.

The Foundry.

California and Rhode Island judges won our October and November “Dishonorable Conduct Award” for their judicial misbehavior.

The December award winner, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, is a super legislator who identifies as a federal judge. In a ruling in July, Talwani, a Biden appointee in Massachusetts—call us shocked—tried to override Congress’ constitutional authority over the federal purse and force taxpayers to subsidize Planned Parenthood.

Some judges who have tried to use injunctions to change the law were ultimately reversed by the Supreme Court. Talwani was so out of line, even the very liberal U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit caught it first. In a Dec. 8 order, it administratively stayed her injunction.

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This is the centennial year for the Scopes “monkey trial” in Dayton, Tennessee, 1925’s “trial of the century”. In the dock was John Scopes, a substitute high school teacher who was accused of violating the state’s recently passed Butler Act, which prohibited any state school from teaching any theory of the origin of man that contradicted the account in Genesis. Scopes’ conviction was later overturned by the Tennessee Supreme Court on a technicality.

By any objective measure, the Scopes trial should arouse no greater attention in 2025 than Dayton’s 1925 Strawberry Festival. It set no legal precedent, led to no repeal of the Butler Act, and everyone involved just got on with their lives. Yet here we are, still talking about it a hundred years later, in commemorative conferences, in high profile commentaries, on podcasts, and even a documentary (full disclosure, produced by me).

Interest in the Scopes trial has been kept alive by a prevailing narrative that has built up over the last century: of two titans of 1920s America, William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow, squaring off in an epic courtroom confrontation of science versus religion [still a big talking point with the Left], evolution versus creation [an argument as dead as Hitler and Mussolini], academic freedom versus state control of education [which proglodytes have been inverting for the last fifty years].

We have known for some time that little of this narrative is true. The Scopes trial was a put-up job, instigated by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Dayton town luminaries who wanted to bring commerce and publicity to their small town and its sluggish economy. The “epic confrontation” was more performative than substantive, with drama provided by the defense’s claim that evolutionism and Darwinism were crystalline scientific truths, and that any contrary claims, particularly when the doubts were religiously-motivated, posed a threat to civilization itself. Ever since 1925, scientists generally have bought into the Scopes defense’s narrative. But just how strong was their case?

The Scopes trial is kept alive by the same spirit that keeps alive the lynching of Emmet Till, the Ku Klux Klan, the 1619 Project, “reparations”, and all of the other decomposing relics of the past that proglodytes depend on in order to keep their troops in line and de-humanize those who don’t accept the Narrative. It’s why they jump to call everybody they dislike Nazis and Fascists. It’s the Hunt for Heretics and Sinners that keeps their creaking wagon train in motion.

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Santa Claus is alive and psychotic on the Left Coast.

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As farmers storm Brussels, discontent is growing in France, where roadblocks are multiplying. The authorities fear congestion on the roads as Christmas approaches.

Since the beginning of December, protests by farmers have been increasing in response to health measures imposed to stem the epidemic of Contagious Nodular Dermatitis. Roadblocks and demonstrations aim to prevent the slaughter of infected herds but, above all, to alert public opinion to the endless crisis affecting the primary sector in France and in Europe.

Final negotiations on the implementation of the free trade agreement with Mercosur are adding to the anger of farmers, who feel that they are constantly being sacrificed and ignored by the authorities.

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Notwithstanding the current Republican control of Congress and the Presidency, these are perilous times. The next time Democrats take power, things could get very bad, very fast.

Nonetheless, long term, I am fairly serene. In the long run, in America, freedom wins. There has been 250 years of ups and downs, but the Declaration and the First Amendment continually unites us and defines us. The First Amendment ensures America will be great. The Second Amendment ensures that the First Amendment will endure.

I am not serene about the fate of Europe. They have neither the First, nor the Second Amendment. They used to be united by centuries of blood and soil national pride and loyalty. Not today. They imported a population with no loyalty to the land. Worse, they imported a population that holds ancient European culture in contempt. Europe has no history of assimilation, and no assimilation has taken place in the last 50 years. Immigration without assimilation is invasion. When you see the last 50 years of European history, you can’t help but conclude that things will not end well.

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A small French town finds itself in an unprecedented situation: its mayor and the entire municipal council have resigned in protest because they refuse to celebrate the marriage of one of the town’s inhabitants, who has been ordered to leave French territory. The law requires them to proceed with performing the wedding of this individual—who is present in the country in violation of French law. Faced with an increase in this type of absurd situation, members of parliament are attempting to change the legislative framework, so far without success.

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America’s four largest public sector unions spent more of their members’ dues on politics and activism than they did on the traditional “representational activities” for which unions exist (such as bargaining for higher wages and better benefits), according to a new report.

The National Education Association; the Service Employees Industrial Union; the American Federation of Teachers; and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees spent a combined $649 million on political and ideological agendas, and only a combined $642 million on “representational activities,” according to a report from the Commonwealth Foundation.

“Every month, union members unwittingly fund progressive causes,” David Osborne, the foundation’s senior director of labor policy and the report’s author, told The Daily Signal. “Their dues, the money expected to benefit their working conditions, negotiations, and benefits, is instead used to fund a progressive political machine.”

Sarah Hoyt.

Today I ran across an idiot on Twitter talking about how Elon Musk could eliminate homelessness by giving his money to all the homeless.

And then the movie Dan had on was about how this woman wanted to make enough money to eliminate homelessness in LA.

Guys? Seriously?

How many millions do cities like LA and San Francisco plow into homelessness? How much money have cities like Denver spent on the homeless.

What have they got for it? That’s right. more homelessness. Which is absolutely logic.

You get more of what you pay for.

But if I must explain the mechanism, it is this: when you create “homeless services”, like free health care, and shelter and clothing (well, Denver was doing all of that at one point) you will attract more homeless.

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From banning masks for law enforcement officers and requiring gender-neutral restrooms in schools, to enhancing artificial intelligence regulations and completely banning plastic bags in stores, here is an overview of some major laws Californians can expect next year or late this year.

Time to leave.

The American Mind.

Northwestern University recently struck a deal with the United States Department of Education (ED). The university will pay a $75 million fine and guarantee there will be no more Jew-hating on the quad and no race discrimination in the admissions office or on faculty hiring committees. Then, federal money will start to flow again. But can Northwestern be trusted to honor its end of the bargain?

The Trump Education Department seems to have settled on a case resolution strategy to reform America’s ivory-tower malefactors. The trial balloons suggesting direct federal oversight of higher education appear to have been a negotiating tactic. ED will settle for using its longstanding (and frequently abused) practice of imposing policy by means of a “voluntary” agreement with an individual university—an agreement that administrators at every other institution of higher education (IHE) in the country will take as a hint as to how to behave if they want to avoid a federal lawsuit. After all, the Trump Department of Education has reached six anti-discrimination case resolutions with universities: the University of Pennsylvania, Brown University, the University of Virginia, Cornell University, Columbia University, and now Northwestern.

The case resolution strategy has generally followed the same pattern: the university pays a sizable fine and then commits to cease tolerating anti-Jewish intimidation, sex discrimination by way of “transgenderism,” and race and sex discrimination in admissions, hiring, and staffing. It also commits to reviewing its dependence on foreign students and international branch campuses. Finally, it agrees to join with the Department of Education in selecting an independent monitor who will make sure the university lives up to its commitments. Or the university president can certify compliance under penalty of perjury. The university is free to run its own affairs. Yet if it breaks its promises, the independent monitor will alert ED, which will then impose new sanctions.

The tools that enabled the Marxist Long March Through the Institutions can also be used to deconstruct what they have built. But that didn’t happen in a day, and its disassembly won’t happen in a day, either. Right-thinking people need to buckle down for a long haul.

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No one spends a dollar better than the person who earned it. That adage reveals the crux of massive fraud and improper payments that plague federal health insurance programs and drive up costs for taxpayers.

According to a report from the Government Accountability Office, more than 95% of the fictitious applications the GAO created and attempted to enroll in Obamacare were approved and enrolled, with insurance companies receiving thousands of taxpayers’ dollars per month on behalf of those fake enrollees.

The details of the GAO report reveal the utter negligence and perverse incentives that result when the federal government puts taxpayers’ money up for grabs to people who didn’t earn it.

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The number of asylum seekers in the UK found to have falsely claimed to be children has quadrupled over the past decade, according to Home Office figures published this week, intensifying scrutiny of Britain’s age-assessment system amid a series of high-profile violent crimes.

Official data show that 224 asylum seekers were identified as adults posing as minors in 2014. That figure has now risen to more than 1,000 a year, with authorities warning that the true number may be higher as many arrivals lack identity documents or destroy them en route to the UK.

The issue has returned to the spotlight following the conviction this week of two Afghan asylum seekers, Jan Jahanzeb and Israr Niazal, who were sentenced to lengthy prison terms for raping a 15-year-old girl in Leamington Spa. Both entered Britain illegally by small boat and were treated as unaccompanied minors.

If there is a system, people will try to game it. The system ought to be set up to make that as difficult as possible. Government employees don’t care to do that, because it’s work, and they’re not there to work—they’re there to pick up a paycheck in return for as little work as possible.

The Foundry.

For years, pharmaceutical executives have insisted that drug prices are out of their hands. Government red tape, research costs, and reimbursement rules are all offered as explanations for why Americans pay more at the pharmacy counter than anyone else in the developed world.

It’s a tidy narrative. It’s also only half-true—pharma could easily drop its prices. But government has ensured that it has little reason to do so.

In a functioning market, companies charge what the market will bear. Those prices typically lower over time due to innovation, competition, and other factors. In only a few industries has the opposite happened—housing, higher education, and health care—all industries where incentives are skewed by government policies.

David Harsanyi.

During oral arguments in Trump v. Slaughter, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor threatened America with a good time, warning that the administration is “asking us to destroy the structure of government.”

Great. It’s about time an unaccountable fourth branch of the state was decimated. Trump v. Slaughter revolves around the president’s ability to fire executive branch officials without cause at “independent” agencies. For one thing, nowhere does the Constitution empower Congress to create “independent” anything. The notion is a concoction of our worst former president, Woodrow Wilson, and it was codified nearly a century ago in Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, when the court ruled that the Federal Trade Commission was a quasilegislative, executive and judicial agency.

Google AI still informs me that the Federal Trade Commission is an “independent agency” that is “technically within the executive branch structure,” which is not a real thing. Moreover, even if it were one, the scope of “independent” agencies has expanded significantly since 1934. In some ways, they now have more power over Americans than any branch. There is no conception of the founding that included a sprawling autonomous administrative state empowered to create its own rules, investigate citizens, adjudicate guilt, impose fines and destroy lives. The Supreme Court already overturned the Chevron deference, which granted agencies nearly unfettered powers to create regulatory regimes without Congress. Humphrey’s Executor deserves the same fate.

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President Joe Biden’s decision to limit his Supreme Court nominees to black women was widely criticized as a product of DEI-mania, but the ensuing racial controversy was a red herring, a political sleight of hand, designed to distract Americans from Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s true purpose on the bench: to protect, preserve, and defend the deep state from the constraints of the Constitution.

The fallout from the nomination was familiar; CNN’s opinion pages called Republican Senators, including Tom Cotton (R-AR), Josh Hawley (R-MO), and Ted Cruz (R-TX), “racist and sexist” for opposing Jackson; Georgetown Law Professor Ilya Shapiro was suspended for stating that the most qualified candidate was an Indian man, not a black woman; Al Sharpton threw his support behind President Biden.

But Justice Jackson’s position was never intended to be a statement of racial representation or judicial excellence; it was the Biden administration’s anointment of a praetorian guard for the unelected and unaccountable bureaucracy that seeks to prevent President Trump from gaining control of the nation.

Like Michelle Obama, Justic Jackson’s career has been one long exercise in Grievance Studies. She is the very model of a modern Democrat Supreme Court Justice.

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The National Consumers League is America’s oldest consumer advocacy organization and a group trusted by the left, especially, to stand up for consumers’ interests.

But according to a review of its tax filings by the Washington Examiner, it has also become part of a web of astroturf groups shilling for the corporate interests of PhRMA, the massive drugmaker trade association that operates in Washington, DC, which donated close to $1 million to it just last year.

The organization’s 2024 tax form, which became available a few days ago, shows that the non-profit spent close to $600 million last year advocating for Big Pharma’s financial interests and policy agenda in Washington, DC, and state capitals across the country.

And a key way in which that advocacy was accomplished was through the National Consumers League, also known as NCL.

The Examiner reports that “PhRMA donated roughly $2 million to NCL between 2020 and 2024, including $875,000 in 2024 alone.”

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Josep Borrell’s latest outburst as former High Representative—accusing the United States of wanting “a white Europe divided into nations”—has triggered a political shockwave that reveals far more than he intended.

Rather than describing an external threat, his message exposes how, for years, a substantial part of the EU’s governing elite has stopped viewing Europe as a constellation of distinct peoples with their own identities and has instead reimagined it as a post-national, multicultural space managed technocratically from Brussels. The mere fact that Borrell frames the historical existence of European nations as something negative illustrates just how far the institutional narrative has drifted from the continent it purports to represent.

The former EU foreign policy chief (a role now held by Kaja Kallas) posted on X words that leave little room for doubt: “Vance already made clear in Munich his disdain for Europe, now elevated by Trump to the level of a National Security Strategy. It is a political declaration of war against the EU. He wants a white Europe divided into nations, subjected to his demands, and voting for whoever he wants.”

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economy. To pay for it, heirs, high performers, and savers are being drafted into service. The end of the eco-socialist nightmare will be convulsive and chaotic.

Last Friday, the federal cabinet agreed to introduce a new EV subsidy. Roughly three billion euros are set to flow into this bloodless market segment over the coming years—a drop in the bucket compared to the vast sums used to artificially keep the green patronage complex alive. But it is a signal.

The decision joins a long list of political misfires in recent months—a list unlikely to end with subsidized industrial electricity, heat pumps, or refinancing packages for wind turbines. The state simply has too much money at its disposal to be forced to abandon its wasteful, destructive project.

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Elite universities are training their students to be good Democrat apparatchicks, i.e. corrupt grifters. This ought to come as a surprise to nobody.

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Attorney General Pam Bondi and Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon announced Tuesday that the Justice Department will no longer have “disparate impact” regulations.

“For decades, the Justice Department has used disparate-impact liability to undermine the constitutional principle that all Americans must be treated equally under the law,” Bondi said in a statement.

“No longer. This Department of Justice is eliminating its regulations that for far too long required recipients of federal funding to make decisions based on race.”

All part of The Death Of Woke.

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Democrat meme and congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is running for the US Senate in the deep red state of Texas, and Republicans are cheering. Notorious for providing some of the worst political takes of the past year, Crockett is widely considered to be the embodiment of leftist DEI – A low intelligence person artificially elevated into law and politics because of her minority status. Her presence on the national stage has produced endless comedy gold, but it’s about to get better.

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I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.” – William F. Buckley, Jr.

For a glimpse into the timelessness of Bill Buckley’s almost 64-year-old observation, consider the different worlds inhabited by the credentialed and elite class of Americans versus working-class Americans. One tends to be more isolated from the effects of their pet policies and causes, while the other lives with the consequences of those policies every day. It’s essentially the difference between theoretical solutions to luxury problems and reality, and at the moment reality is sending the cloistered elite so far out of their minds that their last functioning brain cell just filed for unemployment.

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Greenpeace appears to think European courts have pre-eminence over US courts, even for events which happened in the USA.

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Although that’s not always a guarantee.

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You couldn’t make this stuff up if you tried…

The 2026 World Cup has been the talk of the sports – and political – world lately. The United States, Mexico, and Canada will host it, and last week, the presidents of all three countries attended and participated in the draw to determine which teams would play in which groups.

In the United States, Seattle is one of the host cities, and one of the matches in that city will take place on June 26.

Before the draw, local organizers there determined that the theme for that particular night would be LGBT-etc “Pride Night” to coincide with June being “Pride Month.” Why? Because Seattle’s going to Seattle and insert propaganda into sports, no matter how much it alienates people.

So now that everything’s finalized and settled, we know who will be paying in that particular match: Egypt and Iran. No, I’m serious.

Newsbusters.

Under Democrat Governor JB Pritzker, Illinois has refused to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), resulting in the release into the state of nearly 1,800 criminal illegal aliens since President Donald Trump took office, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reported Monday.

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The head of a Louisiana diocese has become the fourth Roman Catholic bishop to allow illegal migrants fearing deportation to skip their weekly obligation to attend Mass.

Bishop Michael Duca of the Diocese of Baton Rouge granted a dispensation from Sunday and holy day Mass attendance for immigrants who are “rightfully afraid” to go to church because of immigration enforcement concerns.

He said the climate of “fear and anxiety” has made attendance “untenable” for some faithful.

During the persecutions in the fourth century, priests would sneak into prison in order to give communion to imprisoned Christians. I think that the modern Roman church has lost rack. Presumably their parishioners also get a plenary indulgence for having broken the law to get here.

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The Department of Health and Human Services changed the nameplate on an official portrait of Adm. Rachel Levine, the department’s former assistant secretary, replacing the legal name with a prior name.

The portrait is displayed at the Hubert H. Humphrey Building in Washington alongside those of past holders of the assistant secretary role.

NPR first reported the nameplate beneath Levine’s portrait was altered to read “Richard,” Levine’s birth name.

Officers of the Public Health Service wear uniforms similar to those of the Navy and use Navy rank terminology, but that’s just cosplay. Levine was no more a real Admiral than a real female.

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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and several other senior U.S. officials have criticized the internet policies of the European Union (EU), likening them to censorship, after the governing bloc last week levied Elon Musk’s social media platform X with a $140 million fine for breaching its online content rules.

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A new StopAntisemitism report card finds that antisemitism remains widespread and largely unaddressed across American college campuses, with 14 schools receiving an F grade for failing to protect Jewish students.

The 2025 assessment, shared exclusively with the New York Post before its public release, surveyed students at 90 colleges and documented campus incidents throughout the year.

“The schools that received Fs in the report have become ground zero for antisemitism in American higher education,” StopAntisemitism founder Liora Rez told the Post.

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A month’s supply of Miebo, Bausch & Lomb’s prescription dry eye drug, costs $800 or more in the U.S. before insurance. But the same drug — sold as EvoTears — has been available over-the-counter (OTC) in Europe since 2015 for about $20. I ordered it online from an overseas pharmacy for $32 including shipping, and it was delivered in a week.

This is, of course, both shocking and unsurprising. A 2021 RAND study found U.S. prescription drug prices are, on average, more than 2.5 times higher than in 32 other developed nations. Miebo exemplifies how some pharmaceutical companies exploit regulatory loopholes and patent protections, prioritizing profits over patients, eroding trust in health care. But there is a way to fix this loophole.

Note that the problem isn’t with Bausth & Lomb, as the author suggests, but rather with the regulatory scheme imposdd by the FDA in the U.S. that makes such shenanigans profitable. Too many modern people, steeped in proglodyte indoctrination, accept the government schema as a given and then look for scapegoats in the business world. Companies must comply with the law, and if the law gives them a path of advantage they’re going to take it. The problem is not with the companies but with the law.