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Shades of Atlas Shrugged.

Over a million residents across central Maryland, particularly in the Baltimore metro, were warned moments ago by the local utility that a substation failure linked to a major power plant could trigger widespread blackouts this afternoon. The alert comes barely a week after President Trump handed Maryland Governor Wes Moore and the Democratic Party in Annapolis a political lifeline to prevent power blackouts, underscoring the fragility of the state’s power grid under the weight of failed Democrat-driven green energy policies.

Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE) has asked all 1.3 million of its electric customers in central Maryland “to conserve electricity to reduce the potential for widespread outages this afternoon and evening, due to a power plant experiencing an unplanned disconnection from the BGE electric system.”

Time to leave.

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Taxachusetts lives up to its name.

When Elizabeth Warren pushed her own wealth tax, I noted that the high starting income or wealth levels would likely be lowered with time if Congress were ever allowed to cross this constitutional Rubicon.

As taxes ALWAYS do. Income taxes were originally a trivial percentage for the income of only very rich people. Now it takes between a quarter and a have of the income of everyone with an income above the poverty level. Government always wants to spend more of your money, and they are very proficient at coming up with a fine-sounding excuse for picking your pocket. As Wm. F. Buckley once famously said, “Liberals are people who feel entirely justified reaching into your shower and adjusting the temperature of the water.”  (Read the new Buckly biography. It’s an adventure.)

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COVID-19 levels are rising in the United States, with the highest numbers occurring along the West Coast, according to new data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

COVID recognizes its rightful prey: Blue State hand-wringers.

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Snake Pliskin, call your office.

UPDATE: NYC offices add armed guards, dogs and new turnstiles after 2 Midtown shootings

The Foundry.

For all of their pious pontificating about the nobility of illegal immigrants as people who simply came here in search of a better life for themselves and their families, Democrats and others on the Left in and out of Congress actually have a much more patronizing view in unguarded moments.

While out of one side of their mouths, the Left lionizes illegals as latter-day huddled masses yearning to breathe free, these same leftists speak of the migrants in ways that are condescending or at best utilitarian, even as they fight to block President Donald Trump from deporting them back to their countries of origin.

Most of these liberals, in unscripted moments, appear to be less concerned about the well-being of the millions of illegals the Biden administration allowed to pour into our country unvetted and more concerned about their food supply, even though none of them looks like he or she has ever skipped a meal.

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Marxist-Leninist nominee for mayor of New York City, it’s tough to pick the ugliest.

His “end goal” involves “seizing the means of production.” Government confiscation of industry is textbook Communism. Since 1917, this policy has spread misery from Moscow to East Berlin, Pyongyang, Havana, Managua, and Caracas.

New York State Assemblyman Matt Slatertold Fox News that Mamdani “referred to his colleagues” in Albany as his ‘comrades.’” This is an almost comically stereotypical indication that Mamdani is a full-throated Communist, not merely the Leninist-lite “democratic socialist” whom he claims to be.

Mamdani’s hateful statements about the New York Police Department in 2020 have aged even worse than Robert Redford.

Newsbusters.

Pretty ironic, complaining about Trump ‘fascism’ and then fleeing to the Land of Trudeau.

The New York Times, paper of record of the Wokerati.

Guess they’ll have to raise their wages to attract people other than illegal aliens. Like, say, Americans.

You know, what they ought to have been doing from the beginning, rather than ‘outsourcing in place’.

“It’s a wipeout,” said Gary Rohwer, the owner. “We’re building back up from ground zero.”

These are the very people that the Woke usually delight in trash-talking for ‘exploiting the poor workers.’ But because the Woke are Democrats, and Democrats need illegals to keep their numbers up, nary a word will be said in the Narrative Media.

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A North Carolina congressman is calling attention to an anti-immigration enforcement organization that gets its donations through the Democrat fundraising platform ActBlue.

“By teaching illegal aliens how to evade [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] detention, organizations like Siembra NC are actively promoting an invasion of our country,” Rep. Mark Harris, R-N.C., told The Daily Signal. Siembra is Spanish for “sowing” or “seed time.”

“Siembra and its financial backers should be held accountable for undermining the rule of law and making North Carolina communities less safe,” Harris said.

Siembra NC operates a hotline to report ICE activity in local communities.

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To gender-critical feminists, the social contagion of transactivism (enforced mainstreaming of trans ideology) is all down to perverted men and their “misogyny.” Men started it; men must stop it. It’s a (white) male supremacist, men’s rights movement, privileging the reality show of ‘gender’ over the reality of sex, while normalising paedophilia, porn, prostitution or their variants. Women have nothing to do with it. After all, misogyny is what’s done to—not by—women.

Rightly, these women denounce transactivism. But framing it as ‘woman-hating’ disingenuously classes women as nothing but victims, men as the only villains. It lets women off the hook, projects them as helpless, without agency in ‘a man’s world.’ It glosses over women’s complicity in co-shaping this contagion, making it harder to undo or prevent harm to billions of ordinary women who wanted nothing to do with the virtue-signalling of influential women. Without so much as an apology from the latter, it’s the former who are paying the price: forfeiting friends, family, and jobs, and being censored or cancelled for being ‘conservative.’

Unless ordinary women confront transactivists within their ranks, they’ll keep losing ground that celebrated women first ceded.

Not all transgenders are naughty or nefarious, but many are both. What perverts do in private matters less, but transactivism insists that everyone genuflect to gender ideology.

Transwomen aren’t women. They’re men, pretending, or pining, to be women. Trouble is, too many prominent people who’ve said or implied the opposite, in practice or policy (if not phrasing), are women, not men. It isn’t just perverted men who shouted down women (and men) protesting trans-tyranny; it’s prominent women too.

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England witnessed a day of protests on Saturday, August 9th, aimed at the national policy of housing asylum applicants close to local communities.

The form of the problem varies, from the Home Office filling entire hotels with migrants to local authorities renting ‘houses in multiple occupation’ (HMOs) from private landlords which they then fill with asylum seekers. This growing population primarily involves undocumented young men, whose alleged crimes fuel local safety concerns.

The most notorious current cases are in Epping, Essex and Nuneaton, Warwickshire, where an Ethiopian and two Afghans respectively are charged with serious sexual offences. While the Nuneaton protest was covered by the press as something of a national flashpoint, there were also protests in the cities of Bristol, Leicester, and Birmingham. At the Liverpool protest, counterdemonstrators now stand accused of assaulting GB News Reporter Sophie Reaper, whereas the Bournemouth anti-migrant hotel protests coincided with the launch of local ‘vigilante’ patrols.

Following the pattern established in Epping, the protests are typically set up by concerned parents—and fronted by mothers—and backed by town councillors from Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

In contrast, echoing the various out-of-town counterdemonstrators that show up, the British media focuses on the supposed involvement, even leadership, of the ‘far Right.’ In the absence of Tommy Robinson, the Guardian claimed the Nuneaton protest was organised by “the extremist nationalist group Homeland party,” adding snootily “some protesters could be seen taking turns to sing karaoke on the street outside the Wetherspoon’s pub.”

J D Wetherspoon is a popular, reasonably priced pub chain reviled by the political elite in Britain. The barely coded barbs directed at it in the Guardian are symptomatic of the wider disconnect between the establishment and the British people who, in the face of illegal ‘small boat’ migration, are saying ‘enough is enough.’

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London’s Metropolitan Police detained at least 474 people on Saturday, August 9th, targeting expressions of support for Palestine Action. The actions were in keeping with the protestors’ previously announced strategy of provoking the arrests in order to ‘break’ the criminal justice system.

Many of those arrested produced handwritten signs at an agreed time to support the proscribed group, banking on it forcing a police response. Following a warning, arrests began. Those successfully prosecuted could face anything up to 14 years’ imprisonment under anti-terror laws.

Keir Starmer’s Labour government pushed through the policy after Palestine Action members vandalised a UK military facility. By grouping ‘direct action’ vandals in with Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis—but weirdly not the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps—Starmer and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper have made a rod for their own backs. This is clear from the Met Police’s current commitment to arresting people for holding specifically worded placards.

This is what happens when you don’t have a written Constitution with a Bill of Rights.

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So they have spent $300 million for a project that will inevitably fail at its stated mission, while ruining what was previously a perfectly nice park. This is not really much different from spending hundreds of billions of dollars on an energy transition that can’t possibly work. Or, for that matter, from spending a trillion or so dollars per year on the project to cure poverty, without ever putting a dent into the poverty rate.

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One of the most important developments this century has been a major increase in energy access across the globe: Billions of people have gained access to modern energy, a precondition for rising from poverty.

Sub-Saharan Africa is the only region of the world not benefiting from this transformation. In Africa, energy poverty is growing. For the first time since World War II, access to electricity is also backsliding in Africa.

Over the past year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has sought to address Africa’s rising energy poverty, through organizing conferences and publishing reports. The IEA and global leaders gathered in conferences in Africa. The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation was a major funder of the endeavor. Yet, the IEA did not offer any practical solution to address the rising energy poverty in Africa because it is unable to utter the essential words: fossil fuels.

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Italy has for the first time grounded an NGO reconnaissance plane, suspending Sea Watch’s Seabird 1 for 20 days over violations from June 30. The order came from the National Civil Aviation Authority (ENAC), extending Rome’s clampdown on activist groups from the sea to the air.

The German NGO tried to link the decision to its recent claim of a “failure to rescue” by Italian authorities that allegedly left three migrants dead—an accusation ENAC has not confirmed. Sea Watch denounced the measure as a “pretext” and vowed to defy the suspension, calling for donations to fight it in court.

A 2024 ENAC directive already bans NGO ships and aircraft from operating in the central Mediterranean without Coast Guard coordination, citing maritime law and national security. Rome has repeatedly accused NGOs of undermining state-led border controls.

This is an ongoing process with such NGOs. Their favorite is to hover off the coast of North Africa waiting for some overpacked boatload of “migrants” to make it past the 3-mile limit, then swoop in and “rescue” them and haul them to rest of the way to Europe, where they enter the “asylum” system and are never gotten rid of.

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NY begins the last chapter of its self-destruction this year. By 2035, every new motor vehicle offered for sale in NY must be fossil-fuel free…that is, electric. But that electric-vehicle mandate begins its 10-year phase in at year-endthis year! By the end of 2025, 35% of new vehicles on dealers’ lots must be electric. That percentage gradually increases to 68% by 2030 and 100% by 2035. The mandate includes all cars, SUVs and pickup trucks. Where will the electricity to power these vehicles come from? Governor Hochul neither knows nor cares. But I’d predict electricity rates in NY will be on the way up. So will the prices of reliable used cars.

To help offset the increased cost of cars and electricity, Governor Hochul will be handing out free money. Nothing stokes inflation like a free money giveaway. But, having learned nothing from the 20% inflation ignited in part by the Covid giveaways and the grossly misnamed “Inflation Reduction Act,” as part of her 2026 budget deal, the governor has unveiled a $2 billion “inflation refund” plan for 2026. The initiative will distribute checks to some 8 million New Yorkers. Checks will be for $200, $300 or $400, depending upon income. More inflation is sure to follow.

Eventually there will be only two types of people in New York: Rich people with expensive electric cars, and everybody else walking or taking public transit.

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A Brazilian women’s rights activist has been granted full refugee status in an unnamed European country after facing criminal charges in Brazil for referring to a male-to-female transgender politician as a man.

Isabella Cêpa, a social media commentator and feminist known for her advocacy against domestic violence, was facing up to 25 years in prison under Brazil’s “social racism” law, a legal provision that treats alleged transphobic speech as a form of racial discrimination.

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Various Democratic cities are already implementing UBI systems.

Now, a new study finds (as did some prior studies) that UBI systems have not achieved significant improvements and may actually have some negative consequences for recipients.

A working paper?with the National Bureau of Economic Research shows that UBI recipients did indeed spend more money, including a 13 percent increase on child-related expenses. There was also a slight increase in parental supervision of children.

However, there was no improved school performance and a slight increase in reported developmental and stress-related problems with children.

Stanford’s Basic Income Lab is tracking more than 160 UBI projects?in the U.S..

So far, the results are at best mixed.

Guess what? You get more of what you pay for. If you pay people to not-work, they won’t work.

But somebody has to pay for that. Guess who? The people who DO work.

Natural Selection is not mocked. Eventually this system will come apart, and the old ways will re-assert themselves.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

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Far left Marxists recently hosted an event in Chicago where a panel argued that the traditional family unit needs to be destroyed because it’s “inherently repressive and racist.”

Yes, really. This is what the left wants for America.

Libs of TikTok has the details of the event that was held last month by National Democratic Socialists of America.

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The Telegraph published this headline yesterday: ‘Exposed: Labour’s plot to silence migrant hotel critics.’

The report concerns a team from the ‘National Security and Online Information Team (NSOIT)’, based in the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology. During last summer’s riots, NSOIT was tasked with monitoring ‘concerning narratives’ on social media and flagging them to technology companies such as TikTok for potential removal.

IngSoc has arrived! Just a bit later than Orwell thought it would.

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Civil servants at HM Revenue & Customs have been criticised for hosting a seminar on the “guilt of being British” while taxpayers struggled to use the customer service hotline.

The hour-long discussion was available to staff remotely from 11am on Wednesday. The seminar, run by the HMRC Race Network, covered topics including “the emotional weight of colonial history”. Reports said it explored the “emotional complexity of being south Asian and British”.

An internal advertisement promoting the seminar, seen by the Daily Mail, said it would explore “career challenges faced by south Asian women — barriers, bias and expectations” as well as “themes of guilt, pride, and identity”. It is not known how many HMRC employees attended the remote event.

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Net Zero is dead in the United States and the last rites have been administered in the devastating official report from the Department of Energy. Released earlier this week, the report cancels the decades-long censorship imposed by so-called ‘settled’ climate science. It is compiled by five eminent scientists and is a systematic take-down of the claims, methodologies and motivations driving activist scientists, politicians and opinion formers promoting the hard-Left Net Zero fantasy. Despite its ground-breaking importance, to date it has been largely ignored by mainstream media including the BBC and Guardian.

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Of course they do. Let not reality intrude on proglodyte fantasies.

Labour activists are openly defying a Supreme Court ruling that defines ‘woman’ as a biological category under UK equality law—reigniting internal party tensions over sex and gender.

This is despite PM Keir Starmer publicly accepting the ruling and the ‘clarity’ that comes with it. Back in April 2025, it was already apparent that some of his MPs—including ministers—had started plotting to overturn the judgement.

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Labor and the Greens have blocked debate on legislation that would have provided a clear definition of a man and a woman in Australia.

Of course they have. Never let reality intrude on proglodyte fantasies.

The Telegraph (UK).

Parents at Britain’s top private schools have defied Labour’s VAT raid by paying fees in advance.

Telegraph analysis shows the most expensive private schools received hundreds of millions of pounds in fees upfront last year as parents scrambled to avoid the 20 per cent tax raid, which came into force on Jan 1 2025.

The scale of the advance payments has stunned tax experts, who warned it posed a challenge to Labour’s revenue-raising plans. Sources suggested that the Chancellor would consider ways to claw back the lost VAT.

This is how the Deep State operates: (1) Socialists in government come up with a scheme to ‘soak the rich’; (2) The prospective victims very rationally change their behavior to avoid getting ‘soaked’; (3) This behavioral change, which the simple-minded apparatchiks never seem able to anticipate, although any normal person could see it coming, throws their More Money to Spend plans into disarray; (4) government bureaucrats plot new ways to ‘claw back’ the money they would have gotten if only the sheep had stood by to be fleeced.

Rinse, repeat. (Thta screech you hear in the background is the voice of Professor Umbrage–Elizabeth Warren–whining about people who won’t stand still and allow themselves to be robbed. The swine!)

The Foundry.

What has happened to Trump Derangement Syndrome? Has there been some new cure discovered or are we just developing herd immunity? Saturday, Aug. 2, was supposed to be the 50x50x1 organization’s ninth day of action in protest of the Trump administration policies. They called it “Rage Against the Regime,” borrowing from the metal band’s name and a word the Left used to revile when it was applied to President Barack Obama’s administration. The event was so poorly attended that posts on the group’s own Facebook page complained about it.

“Hey Folks, we’re [sic] your numbers in attendance for the street rally down today? I’m asking because I’m seeing in our CA Dist 20 there was a low turnout. In more than one place,” wrote a Facebook user calling themselves ‘Anita O Pinion.’ A respondent to their post reported: “Low turnout in Ellensburg WA. I think we need to ask 50501 and Indivisible to coordinate with each other for protests. Don’t need to merge, just coordinate with the protests.” Is that the issue?

It was the same sparse story throughout Virginia.

The American Mind.

At least on paper, DEI in the federal government is dead. On the very first day of his second presidency, Donald Trump issued a presidential action, “Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing,” ending all diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility “mandates, policies, programs, preferences, and activities in the Federal Government, under whatever name they appear.” Employees in DEI-specific positions were fired; DEI positions and offices were dismantled; and DEI training programs, newsletters, and promotion criteria were scrapped.

But it would be beyond naive to think that just because federal agencies are not currently promoting DEI that their workforces do not still widely hold the opinions they were encouraged to hold. Thousands of current federal employees participated in or supported DEI programs. Even those who might disagree were coerced to back DEI if they wanted to keep their jobs.

This means that the problem of getting rid of DEI in the federal government is multi-dimensional. For one, the federal bureaucracy recruits from institutions that are overwhelmingly liberal in composition—with twice as many professors identifying as liberal than conservative—that ideologically forms each new generation of the workforce.

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The entitlement programs to aid the elderly that were modest decades ago are now almost 50% of the entire federal budget, dwarfing all other spending. Entitlements aiding young families are so modest they aren’t even a blip compared to the soaring budgets of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. (Disability entitlements were added to Social Security, greatly expanding the program’s costs.)

No, the problem isn’t “the entire economic order” but rather the interference by government in the entire economic order under color of fixing a problem that government action always just makes worse.

Blanket-blaming “the system” is intellectually lazy and shallow. A system is composed of parts, and some of those parts are good and some of them are bad. Discrimination, even though it has a bad name in these degenerate Woke times, is a necessary component of effective action.

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The Department of Justice has been tightening the noose around the Vera Institute of Justice, a leftist, billionaire-backed nonprofit that has long acted as a shield for illegal aliens. The DOJ has slashed millions in taxpayer funding to the rogue nonprofit, which is reportedly operating a real-time alert system designed to track ICE raids and warn criminal illegal aliens to avoid certain areas and evade arrest.

By now, the DOJ has likely seen, or at least we can hope, the latest undercover investigation by James O’Keefe’s team, which features a secretly recorded interview with Santiago Mueckay, associate director of Vera’s Advancing Universal Representation initiative.

In the footage, Mueckay openly admits to the undercover reporter that leftist billionaires are bankrolling Vera’s operations.

“It’s usually like foundations, like the Gates Foundation, or Jeff Bezos, or some of these huge philanthropists, who have millions of dollars,” Mueckay said in the video.

Mueckay shared information with the reporter that points to Vera creating a database monitoring ICE trends nationwide to alert criminal illegal aliens about impending raids.

The Telegraph (UK).

The HC2 certificates give low-income residents the right to freebies not afforded to most of the public, including free prescriptions, dental care, eye tests, wigs, and discounts for glasses, contact lenses, and travelling to and from appointments.

But new data, released by the NHS Business Services Authority under freedom of information laws, reveal that 920,199 (59 per cent) of the 1.56 million issued across the UK in the last five years were awarded to asylum seekers.

Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, said the figures “are another illustration of the costs of illegal immigration”.

“Those crossing the Channel invariably claim asylum, and then receive housing, bills paid, free money and full healthcare – despite never having paid a penny in tax and having entered the country illegally,” he said. “No wonder illegal immigrants from across Europe are flocking to the UK.”

One of the major flaws in any scheme of government-provided (i.e. taxpayer-provided) health care is that it is heavily weighted toward “the poor” (i.e. people who don’t produce any value to society except votes for the Party of Free Stuff) and turns access to health care from an economic endeavor to a political favor that regime apparatchiks can grant or withhold on their whim.

The YouTuber Sargon of Akkad spends his days documenting what a shit-hole Britain is becoming because of unrestricted importation of young males from the Turd World.

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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting will shut down its operations after the loss of federal funding, the nonprofit said on Friday, ending decades of support for local TV and radio stations that have relied on its grants.

At last.

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What began as a California statewide voter referendum in 2008 to approve initial funding for a high-speed rail system between San Francisco and Los Angeles has become a financial black hole with no railroad to show for it.

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Remember when beautiful people were the standard in American marketing? Remember when advertising focused on demographics according to their common interests and their percentage of the general population? It wasn’t all that long ago, but the woke cult has been working hard over the years to “deconstruct” cultural norms, specifically by hijacking advertising and convincing corporations that DEI is the wave of the future.

Anyone born before Y2K is well aware of the dramatic changes to American media and the startling disappearance of attractive people and white people in ads. TV shows, movies and even commercials have been carefully crafted with a perfect pie chart of diverse representation while removing the one group that is the actual majority (perhaps even more of a majority as deportations continue). Most of America does not look like New York or Los Angeles, but if you were to study modern advertising without context you might assume white people in the US are a minority.

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It’s always Hitler — never Stalin, who killed more people, never Mao, who killed millions more people, never Lenin, who was arguably more evil, never even Franco, who at least was on the right — always Hitler. The Left even likes to call Jews Hitler, which boggles the mind.

The Foundry.

Since the Supreme Court ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that the Constitution contains no right to abortion, the abortion industry has waged a campaign to ensure that an abortion right would continue in effect, if not in law.

Planned Parenthood, the cause’s corporate embodiment, won another victory in that campaign on Monday when it convinced a federal judge in Boston that by excluding Planned Parenthood from Medicaid reimbursements, Congress violated the First Amendment and unconstitutionally punished the abortion provider.

The Massachusetts litigation concerns Planned Parenthood’s challenge to the recently enacted One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a provision of which disqualified organizations like Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid reimbursements.

Federal law already prohibits public funding of abortions, but because money is fungible, public funds paid to Planned Parenthood, even for other medical services, still effectively underwrite the abortion business.

The Telegraph (UK).

New Zealand will reverse its ban on new oil and gas exploration that was put in place under Jacinda Ardern, the former Left-wing prime minister.

The country’s government voted on Thursday to overturn the ban, with Shane Jones, the resources minister, arguing that climate change was “largely moral hysteria”.

He said overturning the ban would stoke investment in petroleum exploration and help ease winter energy supply issues.

Mr Jones said: in a statement: “The ill-fated exploration ban in 2018 has exacerbated shortages in our domestic gas supply by obliterating new investment.”

Ms Ardern – who led the country between 2017 and 2023 – banned new offshore exploration in 2018, citing New Zealand’s “clean, green and sustainable future”.

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Public anger is intensifying over the level of benefits being provided to asylum seekers in Britain, after new footage and council data revealed a two-tier system favouring migrants over taxpayers.

A viral video filmed at a hotel in West Sussex shows migrants living in comfort, with access to buffet-style breakfasts, four-poster beds, PlayStations, jewellery, and even music lessons.

One room appears to contain evidence of alcohol and drug consumption.

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In a recent op-ed, radio host Jason Rantz argues that Seattle Democrats outraged by President Donald Trump’s new homelessness executive order are ignoring their own responsibility for the crisis.

Trump’s order, “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets,” dismantles “Housing First” and “Harm Reduction” strategies, which Rantz calls failed progressive experiments that worsened addiction, street crime, and homelessness. He says local leaders in cities like Seattle and Spokane are “predictably outraged” because the policy is “a direct rebuke to the failed progressive experiments that have crippled Seattle, Spokane, and other left-wing cities.”

Rantz writes that Washington Governor Bob Ferguson called the order “misguided and harmful,” while Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell said it was impractical. Rantz counters that their criticisms are hypocritical, as these leaders presided over a surge in encampments, crime, and drug use.

The Associated Press, a Voice of the Crust.

Because, as we all know, suffering and starvation in Gaza are TOTALLY the responsibility of the U.S. government–and the U.S. taxpayer–and Trump is somehow letting down the side by not at least pretending to be a normal Uniparty President.

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Maine arrested an illegally present Jamaican offender after he unlawfully attempted to purchase a firearm. Officers with ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston in partnership with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested Jon Luke Evans July 25 in Biddeford.

At the time of his arrest, Evans was employed as a reserve police officer with the Old Orchard Beach Police Department.

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Perhaps the greatest example that good policymaking intentions go awry is the minimum wage. Proponents of increasing the minimum wage argue that doing so will help the poor.

If we could snap our fingers and make the poor suddenly rich, there would be no reason to object. Unfortunately, in a world of scarce resources, this is not a possibility. The minimum wage actually tends to make many poor workers worse off and increases unemployment. A recent study on California minimum wage increases demonstrates that fact (yet again).

Professors Jeffrey Clemens, Jonathan Meer, and Olivia Edwards recently put out a working paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) that demonstrates some adverse effects of minimum wage laws.

The paper covers California’s 2023 law, which enacted a $20 minimum wage for restaurants that had at least 60 locations in the US.

 

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Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old New York State Assembly member and self-described democratic socialist, stunned political insiders by clinching the June primary over establishment figures like Andrew Cuomo. His platform is unapologetically bold:

An immediate freeze on rent for nearly two million rent-stabilized units

A jump to a $30 minimum wage by 2030

Publicly owned grocery stores in every borough

Free city buses

Sharply higher taxes on millionaires and corporations

Mamdani has also courted controversy, refusing to denounce the phrase “globalize the Intifada” (he calls it a “human-rights slogan”) and later insisting he “oppose[s] any incitement to violence.”

He’s promised to use city power to enforce the International Criminal Court warrant and, in a May forum, labeled India’s Prime Minister Modi a “war criminal” over the Gujarat riots.

Here’s what I want you to notice: This is not policy tinkering. Rather, it’s a strategic escalation.

Federal News Network, a Voice of the You Know Who.

Since the start of the Trump administration, federal workers across the country have experienced mass layoffs as part of a broader effort to shrink the size of the federal workforce and cut spending.

In the last six months, the Trump administration has employed a range of tactics to dismantle portions of the federal government. First, agencies laid off thousands of probationary employees. In February, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) sent an email to more than 2 million civilian employees offering them to voluntarily leave their jobs in exchange for eight months of pay — some federal agencies later offered another chance to voluntarily resign before they finalized their reduction-in-force (RIF) plans. Entire offices and some agencies have been shut down as a result of these workforce cuts.

Amid a wave of changes and constant fear of potential job loss as layoffs loom, many federal workers found themselves struggling with high levels of anxiety, seeking therapy and medication for the first time in their lives, experiencing chronic insomnia, depression, aggressive outbursts, isolation and even self-harming thoughts, Federal News Network found in a new online survey.

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President Trump has told Sir Keir Starmer he must cut taxes and stop small boat crossings if he is to defeat Nigel Farage and win the next election.

The US president said “politics is pretty simple” as he offered Starmer some unsolicited advice during an hour-long press conference at his Turnberry golf course in Scotland on Monday.

He told Starmer that to defeat Farage, he needs to prove he is the “toughest” on immigration and is a “tax cutter”. Trump described those who cross the English Channel on small boats as “bad people”.

Keep the good people, reject the bad people. Obvious common sense advice that Starmer can’t do because it would basically reverse everything Labour had tried to do since 1956.

“How can I get the people to vote for he and the economy to prosper?”
“Stop being a socialist.”
“But I am a socialist.”
“And that’s your problem.”

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After years of pumping out propaganda and trying to kill independent media outlets such as yours truly, liberal ‘watchdog’ Media Matters is reportedly on the verge of bankruptcy.

Founded by Democratic operative David Brock (formerly in a long-term relationship with DC restauranteer James Alefantis), the Soros-backed pit bull that made a name for itself smearing conservatives and colluding with corporate censors, is reportedly on the brink of collapse as it buckles under legal bills, government investigations, internal drama, and a mass donor retreat, the NY Times reports.

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Less than 400 additional electric vehicle (EV) public charging ports have been installed in the United States following billions of dollars of allocated funding under the Biden administration for building charging infrastructure, said a July 22 report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) of 2021, signed into law by then-President Joe Biden, appropriated $7.5 billion in funding for two programs—the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program (NEVI) and the Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Discretionary Grant Program (CFI). The funds were aimed at supporting the development of public EV charging infrastructure.

However, only 384 charging ports had been built nationwide under the NEVI and CFI programs as of April 2025, the report said.

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Or, since it was Obama doing it, the “making up”.

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over the last year, recent developments suggest the current crisis may actually be rooted in the Biden administration (big surprise, we know…)

That’s because under Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, systemic issues with outdated infrastructure, controller shortages, and mounting flight delays worsened—even as the Department of Transportation (DOT) diverted massive resources toward diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, according to a new report by the NY Post.

During his tenure, Buttigieg allegedly showed little interest in modernizing ATC systems. “He was definitely pushing an agenda,” said one industry official. “Little to no interest” was given to fixing the aging infrastructure, and “definitely zero action” was taken, they added.

In a meeting with airline executives, Buttigieg reportedly dismissed the need for upgrades, saying improvements would simply let them “fly more planes, and so why would that be in his interest?”

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More than 230,000 unaccompanied minors were released from immigration custody into the U.S. during the Biden administration and subsequently became unaccounted for, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari testified in front of the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday. He said 31,000 children were sent to invalid home addresses in the U.S. and that sponsors were not properly vetted before the unaccompanied children were released to them.

The Oversight panel was called to review the findings of a March 2025 report by DHS that found that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is unable to track the status of all unaccompanied minors currently in the U.S. The report’s findings “reveal significant gaps” in ICE’s management of these children, Cuffari testified.