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We’re talking about the SPLC, of course.

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Several French mayors have raised Palestinian flags on town halls—defying government instructions ahead of France’s formal recognition of a Palestinian state at the United Nations.

The initiative follows Socialist leader Olivier Faure’s call to display the flags, despite warnings from the Interior Ministry about the risks of importing international conflicts onto French territory.

Trump’s Censorship Binge After Kirk’s Killing Is Part of an All-Out Effort to Crush the Opposition (Andy Craig/The UnPopulist)

The Post-Kirk Clampdown … America’s new cancel culture has arrived. (Patrick Frey/Quillette)

The MAGA Movement Is Not a Debating Society (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)

Trump’s economic promises to Black voters fall short after a modest shift in support for him in 2024 (Josh Boak/Associated Press)  Because Democrats have been blocking his moves.

Trump Demands That Bondi Move ‘Now’ to Prosecute Foes (New York Times)

MSNBC Host Claims It’s ‘Hard to Understand’ Exactly What Kimmel’s MAGA Smear Meant

Trump Makes Bonkers Demand for Bondi to Lock Up His Enemies (Jack Revell/The Daily Beast)

Trump is breaking US diplomacy, State Department staffers say (Nahal Toosi/Politico)  Really? Other countries ignored Obama and Biden. Nobody ignores Trump.

In Assault on Free Speech, Trump Targets Speech He Hates (Peter Baker/New York Times)  Which Democrats have been doing since Clinton.

Prosecution Rests Case In Trial Of Trump Assassination Attempt Suspect: 5 Takeaways  Funny, I don’t remember anybody trying to assassinate Obama or Biden. Must be all those white supremacists on the Left.

Trump Pushes Attorney General Pam Bondi to Prosecute Political Foes (Wall Street Journal)

From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why strongmen rely on women at home (Adrienne Matei/The Guardian)  Get your feminist Narrative, right here.

Eric Adams, Donald Trump and the Case That Broke American Justice (Noah Shachtman/New York Times)

Here’s what happens when big-time lobbyists become big-name Trump officials (Caitlin Oprysko/Politico)  And how does that differ from when big-time lobbyists become Demcorartadministration officials? Proglodyte projection in action.

“Path to a dictatorship”: Democrats flame Trump’s public pressure on Bondi (Avery Lotz/Axios) You’d think they’d get tired of shouting “Fascist!” “Authoritarian!” “Dictatorship!” “Nazi!” all the time, when it’s obvious that normal people are just tuning them out.

The US right claimed free speech was sacred – until the Charlie Kirk killing (J Oliver Conroy/The Guardian)  The Kirk assassination brought home the fact that when one side cheats all the time and the other side plays by the rules, the cheaters tend to win, and they’re tired of losing. “If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first.” — Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin, Portion 72, verse 1.

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America is suffering from leftist fatigue. Three left wing shooters in the span of a week, from the murder of Charlie Kirk to an attack on an ABC affiliate station in Sacramento to the most recent event – A shooting at a country club wedding in Nashua, New Hampshire.

This is, of course, not counting the transgender killer who murdered 2 children and wounded 18 others at a catholic school in Minneapolis the week before the Charlie Kirk assassination. In every case there has been clear intent of politically motivated violence. Democrats and woke activists continue to deny they have any culpability, but after a decade of demonizing everyone who disagrees with them as “fascists and Nazis”, isn’t this the end result they always wanted?

The suspect, identified as 23-year-old Hunter Nadeau, was arrested and charged with one count of second-degree murder. Witnesses heard the man scream “The children are safe, free Palestine!” as he started shooting, killing one person and wounding two others before he was hit in the head with a chair by a female party member and ran away with his head bleeding.

Funny how all of these juvenile delinquents attacking weddings and schools and TV stations and such are proglodytes. If the right were such a breeding ground of terrorists, they must be on vacation or something. Slackers.

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“Whoever knew slavery never wants to be a slave again,” said Fidel Castro in February 1993. However, by the hand of the socialist regime established by the Cuban revolution in 1959, slavery has returned to Cuba.

Socialism IS slavery, in its essence.

Newsbusters.

Rolling Stone has come a long way, baby, and not in a good way.

The ’60s era rock bible is now a hard-Left institution that refuses to defend free expression.

Need proof?

The magazine attacked comedian Dave Chappelle for telling the “wrong” jokes about the trans community.

Artists like John Ondrasik (Five for Fighting) faced censorship, and Team Rolling Stone refused to have his back.

The Times (UK).

Jeremy Corbyn has broken his silence on the civil war embroiling his new left-wing party, saying he was “appalled” by the abuse directed by Zarah Sultana and her allies towards one of his advisers.

Corbyn and Sultana, the firebrand Coventry South MP, are locked in an increasingly public spat over the direction and structure of “Your Party” — an attempt to capitalise on socialist dissent towards Sir Keir Starmer’s government and its policy on Gaza.

Sultana ignored Corbyn to prematurely announce the venture in July. Since then, the pair and the factions behind them have competed for control over finances and data.

On Thursday, Corbyn, 76, and four independent pro-Gaza MPs criticised Sultana, 31, for sending an “unauthorised” fundraising email and told supporters to cancel any direct debits.

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In a much anticipated public appearance, Susan Monarez, the former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, attempted to defend her short tenure at the embattled public health agency.

Things did not go well for her from the start (via Camus on X):

Senator Dr. Roger Marshall delivered a stunning rebuke to the CDC, exposing them as the primary cause of vaccine hesitancy. He laid out the truth: by forcing unjustified COVID vaccines and an unnecessary Day-1 hepatitis vaccine on every American, the CDC has shattered public trust.

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The European Parliament will next week take a major step towards deciding whether Italian MEP Ilaria Salis should face trial in Hungary for her alleged role in a series of violent Antifa-linked attacks in Budapest.

Salis, 41, was arrested and imprisoned in Hungary in 2023 for participating in a series of attacks organised by the Hammerbande (Hammer Gang), a German left-wing militant group linked to Antifa. The members of the group surrounded and bludgeoned nine innocent people—who the attackers decided “looked like” neo-Nazis based on their choice of clothing—with telescopic batons and hammers on the streets of Budapest.

One 61-year-old security guard was left with a fractured skull and lasting facial paralysis.

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A clue to what is happening to socialist parties across the West can be found in the choice of Sócrates to lead Portugal’s Socialist Party (PS). Whereas most PMs rise to the position after leading an important ministry or a major city, José Sócrates’s highest office had been that of minister of the environment for all of two years.

How is it that none of the relevant state ministers in previous socialist governments was ready to step into the role of party leader and PM? How is it that an inconsequential environment minister becomes the only alternative available?

The reality is that the most reputed names amongst the socialists chose not to pursue leadership. The very reluctance is the clue to the reason why: socialism was spent. Economically, socialism had been discredited by the communist experiences throughout the world; at times providing real world empirical counterfactuals within the same nation, such as was the case in Korea or Germany. Culturally, the sexual revolution having been won and counter culture reigning supreme, ‘progress’ could only possibly be furthered by delving into more extreme causes. Whether instinctively or fully cognizant, mainstream socialist higher-ups sensed that the future of socialism would have to become increasingly extremist and populist, by necessity.

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Some Christians are familiar with the Apostle’s Creed. That percentage goes up once Episcopalians are not counted. The Credo has long been an integral part of the faith and works as a short hand for both prayer and a statement of faith. It begins, of course, with “I believe…”

Well, the Progressives have their own bastardized version of the Creed since their occult like movement took off. You’ve probably seen it in some fashion or another somewhere. Typically is listed on a multi-colored sign or banner with “We Believe” at the top and the statements of faith listed below. However, unlike the Christian Creed (Episcopalians excluded), the Progressives will update their/thems/zers Creed via Memo and online subscription at the Party’s directives. Such as the latest and greatest Pride Flag or the Progressive Creed. Since I feel like it’s my duty to spread the Gospel of George Floyd, I give you the updated Progressive Creed for the zealots of the Right-side-of-History to give their testimony.

The Atlantic.

As Kamala Harris rushed to pick a running mate last year, her “first choice” was her close friend Pete Buttigieg, but she decided that it would be “too big of a risk” for a Black woman to run with a gay man.

How one would classify Walz is an exercise left for the reader.

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Amid California’s worsening affordability crisis and warnings of a 75-percent price increase at the gas pump, state legislators over the weekend sent a package of bills aimed at tackling energy costs, fuel supply, and pollution to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk.

The funny thing about Reality is that it sticks around even after you refuse to believe in it.

The Telegrapb (UK).

In a hospital in northern England, a middle-aged patient is told he needs a CT scan. It’s an urgent cancer referral. So, he promptly follows the signs in the sprawling NHS hospital to radiology. As he prepares to be loaded into the scanner, staff run through the pre-procedure checks: Any allergies, heart disease, diabetes, previous reactions to X-ray dye? And: Could you be pregnant?

For one senior radiographer, Samantha*, this is a familiar scenario. “It’s mortifying to repeatedly ask middle-aged men – who at that moment have presented for life-saving treatment and are hooked up to monitors and multiple drips – what their sex is. Or worse, if they could be pregnant.”

In around 20 NHS trusts, all patients aged 12-55 having a scan using ionising radiation around the pelvis are quizzed over their pregnancy status – regardless of gender. One trust questions men as old as 60.

The rot has gone deep in Britain. That’s our future … unless we change it.

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The Kiel branch of the Young Socialists (Jusos) is demanding a ban on men’s podcasts, Apollo News reports. Jusos is arguing that the format spreads ‘toxic masculinity’ stereotypes and conspiracy theories, and pose a threat to democratic values. Their motion, set to be debated at the SPD youth organization’s state delegate conference at the end of September, is titled: “Ban men’s podcasts! – Take the microphones away from men!”

According to the motion, podcasts like Hoss & Hopf or the Andrew Tate brand have “developed into a dangerous phenomenon over the past two years.” Jusos Kiel argues that such programs promote “an uncritical glorification of toxic masculinity ideals and the ‘alpha mindset,’” while frequently featuring guests who spread “sexist stereotypes and discriminatory statements.” They further accuse these podcasts of presenting “pseudoscientific theories and numerous conspiracy theories” that are “trumpeted out to the world.”

The Antiplanner.

Oregon’s strategy for saving energy is doomed to failure, say comments on the draft strategy written by the Antiplanner. A key part of the strategy calls for prioritizing multimodal transportation over roads and promoting development patterns that make it easier to live without a car. This strategy has never worked, the comments point out, and if Oregon is going to have an energy strategy it should adopt one that will actually work rather than one that is designed to fail.

ABC News, a Voice of the Crust.

At least 13 people have been wounded, five critically, in two shootings that erupted over a span of 12 hours at homeless encampments in Minneapolis with the city’s mayor saying he wouldn’t be surprised if they are connected.

The shootings on Monday marked the fourth and fifth mass shootings to occur in Minneapolis in the past three weeks, including one on Aug. 27 at Annunciation Catholic School that left two children dead and 21 people injured.
“This is tragic. It’s horrible. It’s unacceptable, and, sadly, it’s not surprising,” Mayor Jacob Frey said at a news conference early Tuesday.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said the city’s latest mass shooting unfolded Monday night at a notorious homeless encampment in southeast Minneapolis, in which eight people were shot and an estimated 30 shots were fired.

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The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Free Speech Rankings crowned California’s Claremont McKenna College with a grade of B- as the best college in the U.S. for free speech, while a string of other California schools received F grades amid anti-free speech environments across campuses.

FIRE released its sixth annual College Free Speech Rankings, which pulled responses on free-speech topics from 68,510 students attending 257 American colleges. The survey highlighted a decline in support for free speech among all students.

Students on both sides of the political aisle are showing a deep “unwillingness” to face controversial ideas, the press releases stated.

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A few years ago, before the trans craze became the ideological leviathan that it is today, I read a news analysis that estimated the proportion of the population identifying as transgender or non-binary as 0.1%. Since then, after continuous relentless promotion of all things transgender by the media and academia, the number has apparently grown by almost an order of magnitude. In March of 2023, just after Audrey Hale carried out her mass shooting at a parochial school in Nashville, Newsweek reported:

According to the Williams Institute research center, around 0.6 percent of Americans over the age of 13 identify as transgender.

However, the ensuing eighteen months must have been busy ones for the trans-promoters, because in late 2024 USAFacts reported that the percentage had increased even further:

About 0.95% of the nation’s adult population identifies as transgender, according to Household Pulse Survey data collected from May to September 2024. This is equivalent to approximately 2.3 million adults.

I’ve seen other estimates that the trans population is 1%, 2%, or even 3%.

In the last few years there have also been a number of mass shootings carried out by transgender or non-binary perpetrators. The pace of such shootings seems to have accelerated in recent months, leading to widespread assertions that the number of atrocities carried out by trans people is disproportionately high, relative to their percentage in the general population. Determining the accuracy of such assertions, however, is a very difficult task, as I discovered over the last few weeks while trying to dig more deeply into the topic. I asked Vlad to help, since he is an adept at using AI for research, but he said that his AI assistant was stymied by his request. The relevant data are simply too diffuse, obscure, or otherwise unavailable.

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Here’s a question my home state of Oregon could easily answer: How many kids have received gender transition surgeries in the last 15 years? The state has this data and is required by law to give it to me. Yet instead of doing so, officials are now telling me that they’ve been illegally selling Oregonians’ health information for years. It’s a head-turning argument, but it’s also false. It shows how desperate the state is to avoid answering my question.

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The plenary session of the European Parliament descended into shouting and jeers on Thursday after left-wing MEPs refused to observe a minute of silence for American conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was murdered on Wednesday. The gesture, requested by representatives of the Conservatives and Reformists group (ECR) and supported by Patriots for Europe (PfE), sparked a verbal confrontation that sharply divided the chamber.

The gesture was proposed at the beginning of the session as a sign of respect for Kirk, a prominent conservative voice on both sides of the Atlantic. However, the left-wing parties rejected the proposal, arguing such tributes should not be part of the institution’s official proceedings.

The refusal sparked a backlash from conservative and patriotic MEPs, who argued that honoring Kirk transcended politics. While conservatives attempted to uphold the minute of silence, boos and shouting were heard throughout the hall.

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California lawmakers have advanced a bill to ban the sale of nonstick cookware and corded kitchen appliances that contain PFAS (forever chemicals) despite strong opposition from an industry group that insists the products are save.

Bill 682 would phase out a range of consumer products in the state – along with many commercial products, that contain any amount of “intentionally added PFAS” starting in 2028.

PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are man-made chemicals, known as forever chemicals because they don’t break down easily and can build up in the human body and the environment.

The bill would make it illegal for anyone to distribute, sell or offer for sale any cookware that contained the chemicals – so all you garage sale sellers better watch out.

“PFAS are leading to an avoidable public health crisis,” said state Sen. Ben Allen (D) who introduced the bill. “It’s clear we need to be taking stronger steps to regulate and minimize the use of these forever chemicals.”

Time to leave.

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The bureaucratic jungle in Germany is expanding unchecked. According to Germany’s Federal Statistical Office, the number of information obligations for businesses has reached a new record high this year.

In private life, state bureaucracy is omnipresent. Whether it’s filing taxes or navigating the paperwork faced by homeowners, the state routinely enlists its citizens to carry out its own administrative work. In essence, the citizen performs a protracted year of social service in administration—without compensation, always under the looming threat of legal coercion.

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On Aug. 22, young Iryna Zarutska was murdered—not with a gun, but with a knife. The horror in the video circulating online comes less from the weapon than from the killer’s casual comment to a bystander: “I got that white girl.”

Those words reveal this was not simply an outburst of rage. They show a moral framework in which killing “that white girl” was normalized—even justified.

That is also what makes the assassination of Charlie Kirk so alarming. Some want to minimize it as just another “gun crime.”

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America’s great cities once symbolized prosperity and culture. Now, many are paying a steep financial price as crime surges and businesses flee. As one line in a new op-ed piece put it, “Crime has a balance sheet. In poorly led cities, that balance sheet is bleeding red ink by the day.”

Retail is bearing the brunt, according to an op-ed by Ted Jenkin at Fox News. The National Retail Federation (NRF) reported U.S. retailers lost $112 billion in 2022 due to theft, up from $94 billion in 2021. Between 2019 and 2023, shoplifting incidents rose 93% and dollar losses climbed 90%. Major chains are pulling back: Target projected $500 million in additional losses this year, Walgreens has shut stores across San Francisco, and Nordstrom left downtown entirely.

“Does it seem insane to you that so many of these retail stores have to lock up much of the merchandise…knowing that they will never be arrested?” the piece asked. The fallout is visible in empty storefronts and shrinking city budgets. San Francisco’s downtown vacancy rate has hit 34.8%, erasing jobs, tax revenue, and foot traffic.

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Why doesn’t Hermes just produce more bags and then everyone can have a Birkin? That’s basically the argument of people pressing President Donald Trump to declare a housing emergency.

The fact is there’s plenty of housing, just not in the most desirable neighborhoods. Population growth is slowing, deportations are increasing and new home construction already outpaces family creation. The shortage is a myth created by activists so they can force residential living patterns to conform to DEI dogma.

A simple calculation proves it. The Census Bureau collects annual data on both the number of households and the available housing stock. The latest data shows 131.3 million households and 146.5 million housing units, an excess supply of over 15 million units.

NBC News, a Voice of the Crust.

New Mexico will become the first state in the country to begin offering free universal child care, Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced.

It is not, of course, ‘free’, but paid for by taxpayers. Yet another piece of ‘wealth redistribution’ in a Clever Plastic Disguise’.

The move amounts to an expansion of an existing program that went into effect three years ago that has aided thousands of families in the state.

And moved them along to the proglodyte dream of the government raising your kids. The Communists in the Soviet Union tried that, and it turned out … badly.

I predict that it will suffer the same fate as single-payer government health care: It will increasingly absorb tax revenues to the point that taxes will have to be raised enormously, while simultaneously providing crappy child care. Scandals will abound, as now happens with Britain’s NHS and Canada’s copycat system.

You heard it here first….

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The brutal killing of Iryna Zarutska (Ukrainian refugee) on a commuter train in North Carolina highlights not only the willingness of leftist corporate media to cover up news stories that jeopardize their woke narratives but also the broader failure of so-called criminal justice reform, which appears to have shockingly backfired and become a major public safety threat. Adding to the mounting outrage, a leftist magistrate judge released the schizophrenic monster on cashless bail (before he killed Zarutska) – another failure point. And then there’s this: far-left nonprofits accelerated the push for disastrous criminal justice reforms.

It’s now widely known that Decarlos Brown Jr., 34, Zarutska’s killer, had been previously arrested 14 times in North Carolina for crimes ranging from assault to firearms possession, and whose own mother admitted he was schizophrenic and should never have been allowed back on the streets, was recently released on cashless bail (before he killed Zarutska) by a progressive magistrate judge despite a two-decade violent crime spree.

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“Another factor in the death of Iryna Zarutska on Charlotte’s light rail–the left-wing MacArthur Foundation giving Mecklenburg county a $3.3 million grant to reduce the jail population. Specifically as part of racial equity aims,” Daily Wire’s Megan Basham wrote on X.

Basham noted, “Like Soros’ Open Society, the MacArthur Foundation incentivizes local municipalities to make residents less safe by leaving threats like Decarlos Brown on the streets.”

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Two weeks ago, before both Bloomberg and Reuters, we told our subscribers to “brace for another huge negative payrolls revision”…

… and just like one year ago when we did exactly the same, we were spot on: moments ago the BLS reported that as part of its preliminary annual benchmark revisions, a record 911K payrolls for the period April 2024-March 2025 would be revised away. As shown in the chart below, the biggest revisions were in Leisure and Hospitality, Professional and Business services, and Retail and Wholesale trade sectors.

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What is more remarkable about today’s print is that after last year’s stunning 818K negative revision, which was the second biggest since the global financial crisis (and which we also warned ahead of time was coming), virtually nobody expected this year’s number to be higher. It was not only higher, but it was the biggest negative revision on record!

Which is why Trump fired the former head of BLS.

ALSO: White House: New Stats Reveal ‘Broken’ Labor Bureau

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A scandal is rocking the French press: a conservative magazine has just provided evidence, backed up by recordings, of public service journalists openly using media to support the socialist Left. The Right, which has long denounced the shameless collusion between the mainstream media and the Left, sees its worst suspicions more than confirmed, while those concerned try, in vain, to perpetuate the myth of their ‘neutrality’ and ‘journalistic ethics.’

These revelations, which came to light on the weekend of September 6 and 7—when French news was dominated by the vote of confidence requested by Prime Minister François Bayrou—were made by our friends from the magazine L’Incorrect, which describes itself as “cultural, conservative and corrosive.”

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What if I told you a man who identifies as a “transgender woman” threatened to victimize girls in girls’ bathrooms, shoot up schools, and bomb churches? Would that make you more likely to support efforts to investigate whether some people who identify as transgender pose a terrorist threat?

Most Americans haven’t heard the name of Jason Lee Willie, a man who identifies as female and goes by the name Alexia, but his case highlights the unnerving possibility that many people who identify as transgender may pose a violent threat to their fellow Americans.

Americans are more familiar with the man identifying as a woman who killed two and injured 17 at a Minneapolis Catholic school last month before taking his own life. They also know about the woman identifying as a man who killed three children and three adults at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, in March 2023.

The list of shooters and offenders who identify as transgender has been growing in recent years, which raises uncomfortable questions about potential ties between gender ideology or experimental gender drugs and violence.

Does the rhetoric of the transgender movement encourage hatred against Christians and conservatives? Do the interventions euphemistically termed “gender-affirming care” make people more unstable?

Power Line.

The future of Western Europe is hanging by a thread, as one government after another has collaborated in invasions by hostile foreigners. Indigenous Europeans are irate, and incumbent administrations are panicking. The London Times reports on the latest shakeup of Keir Starmer’s government. Starmer’s new Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, says the regime will get serious about immigration:

Another party insider said “nothing is off the table” for Mahmood. They said she was likely to want to reform the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and would be far more radical than her predecessor. The source added she would “start with the unthinkable and work backwards”.

“Far more radical” apparently means being less blatant about selling out the British people, not because they are, after all, the ones Britain’s government is supposed to represent, but in order to “stop the advance of Nigel Farage.” What “radical” measures are Starmer’s government now prepared to consider?

Mahmood’s first big intervention as home secretary is expected to come within weeks when she announces plans to build modular accommodation for single, adult male asylum seekers on Ministry of Defence land.

That is better, I suppose, than housing them in “migrant hotels” across Britain, at enormous expense in both money and criminality. But note the implicit acknowledgment that “migrants” are overwhelmingly “single, adult male asylum seekers.” This is why those who pay attention call it an invasion.

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A convicted sex offender from Kenya that a federal judge blocked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from deporting 10 years ago – and who then went on to work as a Minnesota Department of Education director – has been arrested again by ICE.

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Finally, Europe has found a group of refugees who aren’t welcome—Americans.

As reported by Reuters this week, there is a small but growing number of U.S. citizens attempting to claim asylum in Europe, on the grounds that they are transgender. One such individual is Veronica Clifford-Carlos, a 28-year-old artist from San Francisco, who left the U.S. in June this year, hoping to be granted refugee status in the Netherlands. Clifford-Carlos claimed that the U.S. is no longer safe for trans people, and that “I have people screaming ‘faggot’ at me in the street … I have people threatening my life, threatening to assault me, threatening to follow me home and kill my family.”

Shockingly, for a country that normally appears to accept anyone from anywhere, no questions asked, the Netherlands rejected Clifford-Carlos’s application. In August, the American launched a lawsuit against the rejection—the first of its kind. Clifford-Carlos is not, however, alone in fleeing the supposed dystopian hellscape of Trump’s America. The advocacy group backing the lawsuit, LGBT Asylum Support, says it’s currently working with 20 other transgender Americans to make asylum claims. Official data from the Netherlands show that a total of 29 Americans applied for asylum there in the first half of this year, though the reason for each case is not recorded.

It is exceedingly rare for U.S. citizens to be granted asylum in European countries. Usually, this only happens incidentally, when an American dependent of someone with another citizenship—such as a parent—is given refugee status. For the Dutch government—or any European government—to accept an asylum application from America would imply criticism of the U.S. government. This is something that any European government would, understandably, be reluctant to do.

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Police on Friday, September 5th, removed a makeshift memorial dedicated to “the victims of Merkel’s mass migration” near Breitscheidplatz in Berlin.

Concrete blocks, flowers, and photos had been placed at a site close to where a terrorist attacked the Christmas market in 2016, killing 13 people.

According to Deutschland-Kurier, the victims’ photos, including one of police officer Rouven Laur who was killed by an Islamist, were thrown away.

On Thursday, September 4, Berlin police covered the memorial with trash bags, and on Friday morning, a police armored vehicle came to remove the concrete blocks.

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More than half of all planned deportations from Germany continue to fail, highlighting persistent problems in the country’s migration policy.

According to the German government’s response to a parliamentary inquiry by Alternative für Deutschland Bundestag member René Springer, around 250,000 deportations were planned between 2020 and July 2025, but nearly 146,000 were not carried out.

The failure rate has remained consistently above 55%, reaching 60% in 2023 and 60.5% in 2024. In the first seven months of 2025, 35,489 deportations were scheduled, yet 20,982 could not be executed, representing 59.1%.

Springer criticized the federal government, telling NIUS that

the federal government has lost control and is unable to enforce existing law. Those who fail to consistently deport those required to leave the country are turning Germany into a magnet for illegal migration and destroying trust in the rule of law. Springer also argued that the repeated failures of established parties make the AfD the party most trusted by voters to address asylum and migration issues.

Politico, a Voice of the Crust.

A powerful Justice Department appeals panel has declared that anyone in deportation proceedings who entered the U.S. without legal authorization is not entitled to be considered for release on bond by an immigration judge.

Upon which point they vanish into obscurity, and are safe from deportation, becomeing ‘undocumented immigrants’ and near and dear to proglodyte hearts everywhere.

The ruling upends a decades-long understanding of federal law and could subject millions of immigrants to mandatory detention — a loss of liberty that advocates say could cause many to voluntarily leave the country even if they have meritorious cases to remain.

… which ‘understanding’ is responsible for the predicament in which we now find ourselves. People ‘voluntarily leaving the country’ is the desired outcome; ‘meritorious cases to remain’ remain meritorious, just not in the Fashionable Victim sense.

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A new study conducted by a Dutch engineering consultant found that the average sea level rise in 2020 was around 1.5 millimeters per year, “significantly lower” than the 3 to 4 millimeters often projected by climate scientists and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Hessel Voortman and researcher Rob de Vos checked actual observations of more than 200 tide stations against projections and models.

“It is crazy that it had not been done. I started doing this research in 2021 by doing the literature review. ‘Who has done the comparison of the projections with the observations?’ And there were none,” Voortman told independent journalist Michael Shellenberger.

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In the wake of the tragic mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, where two children were killed and 17 others injured by a deranged transgender identifying individual, a small group of lunatics have sparked widespread outrage by protesting, apparently in defense of trans ideology.

The group positioned themselves directly across the street from the school, where the children were attacked as they prayed,

They heckled Vice President JD Vance and his wife Usha as they arrived at the church Wednesday to meet with victims’ families and pay respects. The ‘protesters’ held signs reading “Hate Won’t Make America Great.”

Crazy ‘trans’ people won’t make America great, either. In what respect shooting kids praying doesn’t qualify as ‘hate’ escapes me.

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In a new op-ed Seattle talk radio host Jason Rantz exposes how University of Washington faculty—through the American Association of University Professors (AAUP)—are deliberately trying to keep their political organizing out of public view. The evidence comes from an email circulated by Abraham Flaxman, a UW professor, forwarding AAUP leadership’s warning that:

“Emails that are sent to an employer-issued email address could be accessed by the employer or be subject to records requests from legislators or members of the public, putting our members’ privacy at risk.”

As Rantz points out, this isn’t about privacy in the ordinary sense—it’s about making sure “taxpayers—or the media—[don’t learn] about the ideological activism they push under the guise of academic freedom.”

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An uncomfortable truth surfaced earlier this week in California when the chair of the California State Student Association (CSSA) openly admitted that the California State University (CSU) system “proudly” serves 10,000 illegal alien students.

CSSA Chair Aaron Villarreal stated, “The CSU is proud to serve nearly 10,000 undocumented students. The highest number at any university system in the country.”

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The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit challenging an Illinois law that provides student financial aid to illegal immigrants, arguing it “plainly violates federal law” by unconstitutionally discriminating against U.S. citizens.

Last month, Gov. JB Pritzker, a Democrat, signed a bill amending the Retention of Illinois Students and Equity Act, known as the RISE Act, to expand eligibility for state-funded scholarships, grants, stipends, and other financial aid administered by local governments and public universities to illegal immigrants in Illinois who are not eligible for federal aid. The law goes into effect on Jan. 1.

Illinois has more than 27,000 illegal immigrants enrolled in higher education, according to data from Higher Ed Immigration Portal.

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On Monday, September 1, a Gaza-bound flotilla carrying humanitarian aid and pro-Palestinian activists—including environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg—set sail from Barcelona again, hours after strong winds forced it to return to the Spanish port.

Around 20 vessels left the city on Sunday, reports the Global Sumud Flotilla.

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I guess Mother Nature didn’t know Who She Was.

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Israel was fairly soft on Greta Thunberg following her first failed Gaza ‘aid mission.’ The Swedish eco-zealot-cum-Gaza activist-cum-“human trafficker” accepted deportation after reportedly refusing to watch a film documenting the atrocities of Hamas’ October 7th terror attack, while the tiny amount of aid she transported—just about enough for “maybe a dozen people,” according to some commentators—was transferred to Gaza through proper humanitarian channels.

But Benjamin Netanyahu’s team appears now to have run out of patience and is preparing a much tougher response to Thunberg’s latest endeavour to deter any future so-called “Palestine rescue missions.” Indeed, the activist has already threatened to “go back” if her expedition is again cut short by Israeli forces.

After Greta and co. left Spain on Sunday on the largest flotilla yet bound for Gaza, Israeli paper Israel Hayom reported that Netanyahu’s ministers are drawing up plans to put the activist in detention “under terrorist conditions” and to convert her ships into a police fleet.

They ought to turn her over to Hamas and see how long she would last.

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“These incidents do not occur where international officials live and work. They happen in the rotten areas of the city, in Anderlecht, in Molenbeek, in places like that,” Alain Hutchinson, Brussels’ commissioner for Europe and international organizations said in a recent interview, downplaying the wave of violence hitting the Belgian capital. He even claimed that in the European quarter, “we have never had this kind of problem” and that expats “have nothing to worry about.”

However, that discourse, intended to reassure the thousands of EU officials living in Brussels, apart from showing complete disregard for ordinary people, clashes head-on with the official data. Far from being confined to a handful of neighborhoods, violence is spreading across the city and has reached levels more akin to a town at war: since January, there have been 57 shootings, 20 of them in just three summer months.

The offensive classism draws a clear line between the lives of European officials and those of ordinary citizens who must learn to live with the increasingly deteriorating security situation in ‘the capital of Europe.’

Freeberg nails it.

The Director of the CDC is refusing to step down after Trump has fired her.

I’m picking up a pattern here, what with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass pledging not to be intimidated by President Trump…um…attempting to clean up her city?

Defiant liberals who refuse to be intimidated, are all over the place. We could use them as landfill. But I notice you haven’t got long to wait until you see the next one, being defiant, refusing to be intimidated. And I also notice they’re never up to anything good.

In fact, it occurs to me. When a duly elected President fires your ass, and you defiantly refuse to move out of there for whatever reason. That’s a “Deep State,” right? That’s what it is. Unaccountable to The People. Can’t dislodge it. Not going anywhere.

Are they really committed to these bad policies they want to keep going, by refusing to budge? Because if not, and all they really want to do is show how defiant and hard it is to intimidate them, maybe we could come up with some special environment like a deserted island, or an empty lot, over which they can do their ruling and reigning and whatever. Then out here in the real world, we could enact some sensible policies and lower the crime rate, with them out of the way. They could lord over their little bottle-worlds and continue to show anyone paying attention how defiant and not-intimidated they are.

Just an idea.

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A flotilla carrying aid and activists including Greta Thunberg, is to leave Barcelona on Sunday, August 31st, to try to ‘break the blockade of Gaza,’ organizers said. The exact number of ships and the departure time were not given.

More boats are expected to leave from other Mediterranean ports, like Tunis, on September 4th. The flotilla aims to reach Gaza by mid-September.

Organizers call it the largest solidarity mission so far involving activists, lawmakers, and public figures from several countries.

The activists have not signaled intention to raise their voices for the Israeli hostages still held in Hamas dungeons in the Gaza Strip.

I’d like to know who’s funding all this virtue-signaling. It’s not as if these people have Real Jobs.