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This deranged bulldyke was triggered by Turning Point students who set up a table on the Kent State campus, so she took scissors to their patriotic balloons while mocking them as “neck gushers,” referring to the way Charlie Kirk was killed in October of last year.

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Why must you do land acknowledgements before school plays and then ban parents from campus if they have something to say about it? And why must you call Child Protective Services over these things?

Real story. Not joking.

Associated Press, a Voice of the Crust.

What did they expect to happen?

Activists on a flotilla of boats seeking to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza said Thursday that Israel forces intercepted the vessels overnight, smashing engines and detaining some of those onboard while they were sailing in international waters near Greece, hundreds of miles (kilometers) from Gaza and Israel.

The Global Sumud Flotilla set sail earlier this month from Barcelona. Organizers have said more than 70 boats and 1,000 people from around the world would be participating, with more vessels joining the original boats as the flotilla sailed east across the Mediterranean.

According to the ships’ tracker published on the activist group’s website, 22 vessels were intercepted in international waters west of the southern Greek island of Crete, while a further 36 were still sailing midday on Thursday.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry said in a post on X that it was taking about 175 activists from more than 20 boats participating in the flotilla to Israel.

“Israel’s actions … mark a dangerous and unprecedented escalation, the abduction of civilians in the middle of the Mediterranean, over 600 miles from Gaza, in full view of the world,” the group said in a press release. The distance is more than 1,000 kilometers from Gaza.

‘Activists’ have this bizarre notion that they an do whatever they want without any consequences. Israel doesn’t play those games. If you say that you are their enemy,  they will believe you, and act accordingly.

“If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first.” — Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin, Portion 72, verse 1.

The Telegraph (UK).

The sale of traditional tumble dryers is to be stamped out in a net-zero drive that will push consumers toward more expensive machines that take longer to dry clothes.

Ed Miliband, the Energy Secretary, is introducing new laws that will phase out the sale of condenser tumble dryers and promote heat-pump alternatives to help cut carbon emissions.

The move, condemned as a “mad” form of “Soviet control” by the Tories and Reform, will align Britain more closely with the European Union which has already implemented similar rules.

The New Neo.

I have no solution. But I’ll have a go at an explanation. The analogy to contagion is a good one, although obviously there are no microbes involved. People come to believe Trump is a Hitler equivalent, tremendously evil and otherwise unstoppable politically, so it follows that he must be killed. The analogy to Hitler is not an idle one because there were indeed many failed attempts on Hitler’s life and most people consider those who tried to do so to be heroes. The fact that Trump bears no resemblance to Hitler is irrelevant, because most people don’t evaluate things for themselves and their sources – their trusted sources – say Trump is tremendously evil, Hitlerian, and out to destroy our country and must be stopped.

Why those sources are trusted is another story. It’s different for different populations. For older people, it’s the news media amplified by social media. For younger people, the source is other online platforms such as TikTok and Twitch (Hasam Piker is a huge Twitch personality, for example). For many of all ages, they live in communities where pretty much everyone thinks this way, whether it be a blue city or just their own family or their own ethnic group. Often a clergyman or church or synagogue group is part of the echo chamber (in which case Trump-hate is not a religious substitute but is considered consistent with their religion as a sort of “just war”), and of course many Democrat politicians and spokespeople, as well as celebrities, artists, authors, and public intellectuals.

The Foundry.

What’s behind the alarming spike in leftist political violence?

In the past two years, President Donald Trump has faced three assassination attempts, with the most recent one arguably coming Saturday night at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Members of his administration have also faced violent threats. Last year saw the assassination of Charlie Kirk, one of Trump’s most prominent supporters, and some on the left have celebrated the assassination of a health care CEO, Brian Thompson.

Just last week, leftist podcaster Hasan Piker suggested in a New York Times interview that Thompson deserved to die because he “was engaging in a tremendous amount of social murder.” Piker argued that “the systematized forms of violence, the structural violence of poverty, the for-profit, paywalled system of health care” justified the assassination.

Also, last year, Virginia elected Jay Jones as attorney general, despite the fact that he previously sent messages fantasizing about shooting Republican former Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates Todd Gilbert. Jones stated at the time that he wished Gilbert’s young children would die in their mother’s arms, and he justified this death wish by saying, “Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy.” Jones later apologized for the texts after they were made public during his campaign for Virginia attorney general.

Meanwhile, Democrats largely looked the other way while riots in the name of the Black Lives Matter movement took over city streets in the summer of 2020, claiming the lives of at least 27. Many of them demonized Supreme Court justices who had voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, even as pro-abortion activists stalked these justices and tried to assassinate Brett Kavanaugh.

The Right is far from perfect, but this torrent of political violence isn’t an accident. It arguably traces back to the Left’s ideological foundation.

The New Neo.

It was early in Trump’s first term that I noticed people talking about killing Trump. These were people I knew and had known for five decades or more. I’d never talked about politics before with these people, and I hadn’t been aware that they’d had any especially deeply-held feelings about politics. But all of a sudden, each of them stated in a casual manner that they wanted Trump killed.

It was the casual manner that got me. Neither knew my political leanings, but it was assumed that I agreed with them – didn’t everyone who didn’t sport a tail, horns, and a swastika tattoo? With the first person I was so stunned I said nothing. But later, with the second person, I challenged him – to no avail.

You’ve probably seen similar public statements from Trump-haters over the years – on TV and on social media, for example. It’s become standard. In the last year I’ve heard it again from two different friends, each of them people I’ve known for many years and who’ve never spoken this way before. Neither have any history of being leftist firebrands and in fact each have long been political moderates.

But not on the topic of Trump, apparently. The first was over the phone, and my long-time friend said that if she ever was given a terminal diagnosis she would try to kill Trump. This seemed only slightly tongue-in-cheek and deeply unfunny. She went on to vent quite a bit on how much she hated him. My response was that I hope she never receives a terminal diagnosis.

While Hillary and Fauci are still above ground, there’s no time for Trump.

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They talk about the need to censor social media to control right-wing violence, while their media openly calls for assassination and violence—which then actually occurs.

Where are the Democrats we knew?

They demand that government take over health care because our private system is too costly, they even cheer when a health insurance company exec is murdered, but they don’t notice or care that government health and welfare programs in California and Minnesota lose billions in theft by predators who deliver no service. No one on the right has murdered a Somali Minnesota-Man millionaire. Nor is right-wing media suggesting such a thing would be understandable or justified.

They talk about “saving our democracy” with aggressive gerrymandering, registration of illegals, mail ballot abuse and preventing simple, fair rules and accountability.

They bemoan the failure of Obama and Biden to institute Wilsonian rule, complete with censorship, outlawing opposition parties, federal prosecution of political enemies, untouchable administrative agency powers…and then decry an “imperial presidency” that is more democratic and far less inclined to rule-bending.

They simultaneously claim that the most recent assassination attempt must have been staged but bemoan its failure. They now try to forget that they paid for the KKK to appear and lied about Trump praising them as “fine people.” They lied about Putin fixing an election, launched bogus impeachments, and…I could go on and on. People under Communist rule pretended to believe the party line, but what kind of loser tries to make himself believe nonsense when he does not have to?

Who are these people?

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A new report from Mississippi State Auditor Shad White has uncovered that illegal aliens in the state received at least $10.5 million in Medicaid benefits between 2023 and 2025.

“If this money had gone to benefit lawful citizens, it could have reduced our taxes, paid our teachers, paid our police officers—frankly, anything would be better than serving as a magnet for illegal immigrants to come to the United States,” White told The Daily Signal.

“Mississippi taxpayers deserve to know the cost of illegal immigrants in our state, even if it makes some folks uncomfortable,” White added. “My team will always tell you how your money in being spent, warts and all.”

You can imagine what it’s like in a Blue state.

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Pope Leo XIV met on Monday with Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally, urging unity to evangelize more effectively.

The papal audience at the Vatican was part of Mullally’s first trip abroad since taking up her position last month as the first woman to serve as the Church of England’s top cleric and the symbolic leader of the Worldwide Anglican Communion.

In an address published by the Vatican, Leo told Mullally and her delegation:

“While our suffering world greatly needs the peace of Christ, the divisions among Christians weaken our capacity to be effective bearers of that peace.”

Leo cited progress between the two churches on “historically divisive issues” but noted that “new problems have arisen in recent decades,” without specifying further.

In the Good Old Day, the Pope would have no patience for this kind of New Age cosplay.

Of course, in the Good Old Days, we had real Popes.

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Dr. Margaret Conolly, sister of Irish president Catherine Connolly, has joined an international flotilla attempting to challenge Israel’s long-standing naval blockade of Gaza, setting sail on Sunday, April 27, as part of the Global Sumud Flotilla.

The mission, which organisers describe as a humanitarian effort to deliver medical aid and open a maritime corridor to Gaza, is expected to face interception by Israeli forces, as with previous attempts over the past two decades.

Dr. Conolly’s participation comes against the backdrop of a sharp shift in Irish politics following the election of her sister, Catherine Connolly, a far-left independent who secured a landslide victory in October 2025. The president has been an outspoken critic of Israel and Western governments over Gaza, repeatedly accusing them of moral failure and aligning herself with pro-Palestinian positions.

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Yes, you read that correctly. The suspect in the most recent assassination attempt thought Trump didn’t really get shot in the ear at the Butler rally in 2024.

“But a man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest….”

New York Post.

Billionaire Sergey Brin has broken his silence on California’s proposed billionaire tax — invoking his Soviet upbringing as new details surface on a tense showdown with Gov. Gavin Newsom and his Trump-loving ‘gut influencer’ girlfriend.

Brin, the Google co-founder with an estimated net worth of $270 billion, discussed his family history under socialism in an extraordinary rebuke of the billionaire tax, which qualified for the November ballot after organizers submitted 1.6 million signatures.

“I fled socialism with my family in 1979 and know the devastating, oppressive society it created in the Soviet Union,” Brin told the New York Times in a statement.

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For years, Democratic politicians and their allies in the legacy media have spread the damnable Charlottesville Hoax: the propaganda myth that President Trump praised bigots who rioted in 2017 in the Virginia town.

Of course, the opposite is true, as Trump actually said: “I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and white nationalists because they should be condemned totally.”

Now, we learn that the entire hoax of Trump and Charlottesville is, itself, built upon another grand lie. The media and people like Joe Biden have continually pushed the narrative that some big, organic gathering of hateful Americans descended upon Charlottesville and represented some larger threat to the republic itself. But it now turns out that the “Unite the Right” rally was organized and financed by the highly partisan, left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center.

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Of all the things we’ve seen or heard since Saturday’s assassination attempt, this might be the most disturbing.

Tennessee’s Andy Ogles was one of the guests at the WHCD on Saturday and during the assassination attempt, he recounts hearing the most disgusting remark from one of the “journalists” present.

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We have a major problem.

Half the country read the manifesto written by the shooter, saw his friends and family admit that it sounds like him, and read the shooter’s own anti-Trump, leftwing posts on Bluesky.

The other half of the country – the half that listens to the fake news – is told we don’t have any motive and we shouldn’t jump to conclusions.

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Fox is reporting that the would-be assassin at last night’s correspondents’ dinner in Washington DC was politically motivated and wrote anti-Trump and anti-Christian screeds online before the shootings.

Note the conjunction: ‘anti-Trump’ and ‘anti-Christian’. Wonder how much those two circles overlap….

ATQUE: Key question: How did armed man get so close to Trump WHCD event?

The Other McCain.

But you knew that….

Very seldom do I use the same headline twice in one week, but seldom does an idea as monstrously bad as Samuel Monyn’s attract my attention. To summarize as succinctly as possible, Moyn’s argument is this: “Old people have too much stuff. We should kill them and steal their stuff.”

Have I exaggerated for the sake of brevity? Perhaps so, but the subtext of Moyn’s book-length argument (Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It) is pretty clear — everything wrong in America is because of old people, and therefore we should adopt policies to inflict harm on these elderly enemies. If you’re 65 or older, you are analogous to a Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994 and Professor Moyn is Radio Hutu. This is simply hate propaganda, demonizing the elderly, and nothing good will come of it. Both Ed Morrissey and Matt Taibbi have taken stabs at explaining what’s wrong with Moyn’s idea, as expressed in the professor’s New York Times op-ed.

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Fourteen years ago, the Southern Poverty Law Center named me a hate group of one. The honor wasn’t mine alone, I shared it with a sign outside a bar and a brand of gun oil.

What was behind the SPLC’s sloppy hate group designation of one man, a bar sign and other random items was its obsession with manufacturing a constant rise in ‘hate groups.’

Year after year, the SPLC would issue reports claiming that hate groups were increasing in number, and then fundraise off the urgent threat that they had invented.

I caught them doing it time and time again.

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One consequence of a hard-fought, very close election is blame-gaming.

Take the case of Virginia’s extreme gerrymander referendum, which passed by the narrowest of margins on Tuesday, 88,218, out of over 3 million votes cast. “Yes” forces outspent “no” campaigns by at least 4:1. Turnout in mostly rural areas again trailed that in urban and suburban jurisdictions. And, again, two-thirds of the mail-in voters opted for it. Democrats continue to dominate mail ballot harvesting, the least safe and lowest-integrity method of voting, while heavily subsidizing the failing US Postal Service to keep their dubious and untrustworthy voting scheme alive.

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These guys never learn. Go look up Prohibition, you silly cunts.

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I am shocked, shocked I tell you, to discover that Loudoun County schools, the district which had a dad arrested for speaking out about his daughter being raped by a trans student, and the school district which has doubled and tripled down on woke, would have done something like this.

They hired a “trans woman” (aka a man) to be a substitute teacher in their schools, and it turns out the man was making threats against schools online the whole time.

Babylon Bee.

Despite videos of masked Patriot Front members shouting seemingly unscripted mantras like “we sure don’t like black people, eh fellas?”, new reports suggest that such videos may have actually been staged by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

“This is completely unexpected. It just seemed so real,” said local man Matthew Porter. “Everything pointed to these people being very genuine, terrifying white supremacists. All of the crisp, dance-like choreography they had, the camera always posted to capture certain shots… it all seemed so grassroots and natural. I am in total shock that any of this could have been somehow orchestrated by outside forces.”

Even the FBI was reportedly left dumbfounded by the revelation, as the agents who had posed as Patriot Front members were convinced that the other members were real. “I remember when we set up the first meeting, and in comes this guy Dave who asks if ‘anyone here wants to do a racism’. I can’t believe it was all fake,” said Agent Mark O’Hara. “If you can fake something as real-seeming as the Patriot Front, I don’t even know what to believe.”

The Telegraph (UK).

Greggs will serve food and drink from behind theft-proof counters to combat shoplifting.

The high-street bakery chain has reportedly scrapped self-service displays in new “fortress stores” across the UK.

The pilot scheme, according to The Sun, has been rolled out to cut thefts and combat violence against staff.

The Telegraph (UK).

Britain’s leading Jewish private school will remain open after raising enough money to stave off closure following Labour’s VAT raid.

Governors at Immanuel College, in Bushey, Hertfordshire, said last week that “significant and sustained” financial pressures meant that the school would be forced to shut in August.

The £29,700-a-year secondary school blamed several factors, including Rachel Reeves’s employers’ National Insurance increase and her decision to add 20 per cent VAT to private school fees from January 2025.

Socialists want everybody to go to a government school (under their control. of course).

The Telegraph (UK).

Sir Keir Starmer was a pioneer of “groundbreaking” legal claims that paved the way for the witch hunt against British troops in Iraq, according to his Attorney General’s own testimony.

No surprise here. Socialists are always on the side against their country.

The Times (UK).

And socialists are robbers every age.

Donald Trump should be stripped of his Scottish golf courses for launching an “illegal” war with Iran, the Green Party leader has urged.

Zack Polanski, the party’s English and Welsh leader who was campaigning in Scotland on Friday, called on the UK government to sanction the US president.

But Sarah Malone, executive vice-president of Trump International Scotland, described Polanski as an “imbecile”.

Concur.

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Leave it to Canada to always be so very … Canada.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Two teenagers were arrested this week for an alleged plot to drive through a Houston synagogue and “kill as many Jews as possible,” according to local authorities.

Angelina Han Hicks, 18, of Lexington, North Carolina, was arrested at her home on Wednesday and charged with conspiring with two other individuals to commit an attack on Congregation Beth Israel, the oldest Jewish house of worship in Texas, according to the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office. She is being held in the Davidson County jail under a $10 million bond.

In Houston, a 16-year-old boy was also arrested in relation to “a threat directed towards certain Jewish institutions in our area.” It was unclear whether the second arrest was connected to Hicks, but the judge who ordered Hicks detained said she should be prevented from communicating with unnamed co-conspirators.

“At this time, there is no other known credible threat,” the Houston Police Department said in a statement.

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t’s fascinating to watch as American cities are forced to rediscover common sense.

An interesting report in The Atlantic, of all places, on Monday highlighted how the San Francisco Bay Area, like a broken clock, finally hit on a good idea.

The Bay Area Rapid Transit system, which for years has been plagued by low ridership and dysfunction, has apparently had a huge turnaround.

The Atlantic’s Henry Grabar noted, with some surprise, that all it took was one simple trick: Last year, BART widely installed new fare gates by station exits and entrances.

These new and improved gates made fare evasion dramatically more difficult than it was with the old 1970s-style, waist-high gates. I can’t even count the number of times I’ve seen fare evaders effortlessly hop over those old gates as if they weren’t even there.

The effect of just this one change has been staggering, apparently. Crime is way down 41% since last year, according to BART’s numbers—and maintenance costs have plummeted.

Kumbaya,  Lord, Kumbaya….

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Alright ladies and gentlemen, and I do mean ladies and gentlemen, buckle up because we’ve got an insane story to dig through here.

The Federal Bureau of Investigations had to fly to Cuba to rescue a 10-year-old child from his trans dad (who thinks he’s a lady) who fled the country and took the child from his mother so that he could trans said kid.

From an evolutionary standpoint, this is a self-correcting problem. Hard on the kid, though.

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Racism is back, baby.

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Democracy means that 51% of the people can piss in the soup of the other 49% whenever they want to.

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There is a peculiar madness sweeping through Britain’s polling stations. While the country frets over the usual inadequacies of Labour and the Conservatives, a far more insidious force has crept up on the inside. The Green Party, once a harmless receptacle for earnest students and angry pensioners, is now within striking distance of power. And its programme is not merely eccentric. It is a recipe for national self-destruction.

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My,  what a surprise.

ATQUE: Southern Poverty Law Center indicted for fraud, money laundering (Politico)

ATQUE: After Losing SPLC Funding, KKK Forced To Buy Robes Off Temu (Babylon Bee)

ATQUE: Should You Donate To The KKK? A Helpful Flowchart (Babylon Bee)

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In a stunning display of racial exclusion dressed up as “equity,” a California school district barred white students from a taxpayer-funded field trip centered on “social justice.”

I” bet the white kids blessed God that they had dodged a Woke bullet.

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She is always free to become a Muslim.

Yvette Flunder is the senior pastor of the City of Refuge United Church of Christ (UCC) in Oakland, California, as well as the Presiding Bishop of The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries.

An avowed ‘womanist’ and proponent of liberation theology, she is ‘gay-married’ to another woman and is about as progressive and liberal as they come.

A high bar indeed.

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According to court documents, the offender, who is not being named, pleaded guilty to choking his girlfriend’s toddler and kicking him in the head. Twice. The incidents were captured on nanny cam, showing the man violently assaulting the defenseless toddler. The judge herself noted the violence would likely cause long-term trauma.

The Telegraph (UK).

Labour’s plan to seize control of people’s pensions has been blocked for the second time by the House of Lords.

MPs approved a “reserve power” within the Pension Schemes Bill last Wednesday, allowing ministers to force schemes into investing billions of retirement savings in private markets.

However, peers have voted again to block the controversial measure, sending the Bill back to the House of Commons in a Parliamentary process known as “ping pong”.

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On April 17, Amazon removed one of the most cited books of our current cultural moment because it’s just too offensive to suggest that importing a billion migrants might destroy your civilization.

Jean Respail’s Camp of the Saints describes what the Wokerati have done to America and Europe.

“Camp of the Saints” was published in 1973 and authored by French explorer Jean Raspail. In the book, millions of migrants from Africa and Asia to sail to Europe, which then buckles under the strain. The migrants set up their own governments, murder and oppress white European natives, and reshape Western Civilization according to their own cultural norms.

Available direct from Vauban books.

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For decades insecure women have used feminism as a vehicle to crusade against “body shaming” and male objectification – Which is essentially a war on men who dare to have beauty preferences.

Nearly every feminist movement has roots in female physical insecurity, from the “fat positivity” movement, to the “slut walk” protests, to diversity requirements that are eliminating attractive women from popular media, to the “inversion” movement in which average women deliberately make themselves uglier “in rebellion” against the men who were never interested in them in the first place.

It’s no secret that female insecurity rules almost everything women do politically. One could say that feminism is essentially the weaponization of female insecurity as a means to gain power over society.

The latest trend to spew from the bowels of feminist activism is called “Catching Print” – Activists claim men are objectifying and shaming women, so women should objectify and shame men…by staring at and rating men’s junk. The problem is, these people don’t seem to understand that the vast majority of men simply don’t care.

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The jokes write themselves.

The Foundry.

President Trump’s endorsement of Steve Hilton for governor of California earlier this month has sent the Democratic establishment into predictable convulsions.

Katie Porter, one of the leading Democratic hopefuls, declared that the race now boils down to a stark choice: “California values against MAGA.” Others called Hilton a “Trump puppet.” The implication is clear: Any candidate endorsed by President Trump is a dangerous interloper foisting flyover-country extremism on the enlightened progressive utopia that is modern California.

One wonders what these “California values” actually are. The term is invoked with the same pious certainty once reserved for the Ten Commandments, yet the state it supposedly defines is America’s poster child for policy-induced decline.

Under one-party Democratic rule (with legislative majorities dating back decades and a full trifecta since 2011), California boasts the highest state income tax in the country, the highest gas prices, and among the most punitive regulations on business and housing. It leads the nation in homelessness while spending billions with little visible result.

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It appears that retirement isn’t exactly suiting leftist billionaire George Soros, as America’s most notorious political kingmaker was revealed to have dropped another massive fortune ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

The Soros group, Fund for Policy Reform, pumped a whopping $50 million into his political cash guzzler Democracy PAC January 13, according to Federal Election Commission filings.

Despite officially handing the reins of his $25 billion Open Society Foundations to his more unhinged acolyte son Alex, the elder Soros is signaling that he has no intention of abandoning his years-long obsession with buying control of the U.S. government for Democrats and politically handicapping his nemesis President Donald Trump. As Forbes magazine contextualized April 16, Soros has once again positioned himself as the largest midterm election donor so far.

Jonathan Turley

There has been growing criticism (and falling poll numbers) of Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger after she ran as a moderate and then immediately veered to the far left after her election. Once in power, Spanberger and the Democrats unleashed a slew of tax increases, moved to eliminate all but one Republican district in the purple state, passed an array of anti-gun laws, and enacted other controversial measures. One of these measures is a clearly unconstitutional effort to strip pro-Confederate groups of their tax exemption.

This week, Spanberger signed HB167, the law that eliminated the tax exemption for various confederacy-linked groups, including the Virginia Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the General Organization of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the Confederate Memorial Literary Society, the Stonewall Jackson Memorial, Incorporated, the Virginia Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, and the J.E.B. Stuart Birthplace Preservation Trust, Inc.

Notably, as soon as they came into power, Democrats also passed House Bill 1377 to move against the Virginia Military Institute, including appointing a task force that could effectively close the historic school. Many Democrats have previoulsy sought to close VMI despite its unique and inspiring history in training some of our most famous military leaders, including General George Marshall. Liberals want to close the school due to its history from the Civil War.

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An April 2026 housing report by Highland Cabinetry highlights a growing affordability crisis across major American cities, revealing that the true cost of housing goes beyond total price and is better understood through the lens of cost per square foot. By analyzing home prices, rental costs, and average property sizes across 40 large cities, the study shows where Americans are paying the most for the least amount of living space. This approach offers a clearer picture of value, emphasizing how much space residents actually receive for their money rather than just the overall cost of buying or renting a home.

At the center of this trend is San Francisco, which ranks as the most expensive housing market in the country for both buyers and renters. Homebuyers in the city pay more than $1,000 per square foot on average, with a typical home costing around $1.24 million for just over 1,100 square feet. Renters face similar challenges, with average monthly rents exceeding $3,500. Despite these high costs, the amount of space available remains limited, meaning residents often pay a premium for relatively small living areas. This imbalance between price and space has made San Francisco the clearest example of how housing value has eroded in dense urban markets.

Just behind San Francisco is San Jose, which actually surpasses it in terms of price per square foot for homebuyers. In San Jose, the average cost exceeds $1,200 per square foot, pushing typical home prices to around $1.4 million. The rental market is similarly expensive, with monthly costs rivaling those in San Francisco. These high prices are largely driven by strong demand tied to the region’s technology sector, where high salaries continue to fuel competition for limited housing supply. As a result, even relatively modest homes command exceptionally high prices.

The Antiplanner.

Downtown Seattle lost more than 13,000 jobs last year, many of them fleeing a new 5 percent income tax that is supposed to support subsidized housing. A new report from the Downtown Seattle Association says that downtown currently has 317,000 jobs, down from 330,000 last year and from 350,000 jobs just before the pandemic.

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n contrast with liberal media like MS NOW and CNN, Fox News this week has been informing viewers of a recent violent assault on a right-leaning reporter by left-wing activists in Minneapolis.

On Tuesday morning, Fox & Friends showed video of TPUSA reporter Savanah Hernandez being attacked by a mob of anti-ICE demonstrators. At one point, she was even pushed to the ground by a large man.