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I wrote recently about the chilling jurisprudence of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who has drawn the ire of colleagues in opinions for her rhetoric and extreme positions.

Many have expressed alarm over her adherence to what has been described by a colleague as an “imperial judiciary” model of jurisprudence. Now, it appears that Jackson’s increasingly controversial opinions are serving a certain cathartic purpose for the far-left Biden appointee.

On ABC News, Jackson stated, “I just feel that I have a wonderful opportunity to tell people in my opinions how I feel about the issues, and that’s what I try to do.”

Her colleagues have not entirely welcomed that sense of license.

We’ve seen this movie before: Revenge of the Affirmative Action Hire.

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The media minions constantly conflating severe weather with a climate apocalypse at the behest of climate cultists with policy agendas will continue to lose audience as those with more sensible and realistic perspectives, who are no longer silenced, are proven to be scientifically correct.

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When the train finally arrived—whether in the form of a populist backlash, a market correction, or simply the reality of physics and economics—the “climate experts” were left standing on the tracks, holding signs about “solidarity” and “resistance,” wondering why the world refused to listen to the apocalypse that never came.

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Starting in 2027, a price shock at the gas station threatens drivers. The EU Emissions Trading System (ETS II) will be extended to include the transport and building sectors.

Another wave of price increases is rolling in. And yes, once again, the engine of inflation will be the European Union’s climate policy, as is so often the case these days. At the end of January, the Bundestag already approved the implementation of the reform of the European Emissions Trading System, which foresees the free trade of CO? certificates from 2027 onward in both the transport and building sectors.

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As Ace points out, former FBI director Christopher Wray had sworn that Antifa was “just an idea.”

I imagine I’m not the only person “of a certain age” who remembers the violent revolutionary perps of the 1960s and 1970s, and is reminded of that. Not exactly the same, of course – but it rhymes. This particular group seems to have very much intended to kill multiple ICE agents and/or police. They were apparently not all that competent at their task, fortunately. They are egged on by the MSM and the Democrat Party, who have made ICE agents out to be more or less the Gestapo, preying on poor innocents.

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Despite its penurious name, the Southern Poverty Law Center has an endowment of more than $700 million, compensates leadership handsomely, and possesses more than $30 million in offshore accounts—likely in the Cayman Islands, its most recent IRS filing reveals.

“It’s very odd and frankly raises suspicion that a nonprofit organization would have accounts in places like the Cayman Islands, or as they reported $30 million in Central America,” Mat Staver, founder and chairman of the law firm Liberty Counsel, told The Daily Signal on Tuesday.

“The Cayman Islands has always been known as one of these places that people select to hide their money from the government,” he noted. “This is a public charity, and they should explain to the public, why do they find it necessary to have money in these offshore accounts? I don’t think there’s any good explanation.”

As I wrote in my book, “Making Hate Pay,” the SPLC gained its reputation by suing Ku Klux Klan groups into bankruptcy, and it publishes an annual “hate map” that includes mainstream conservative and Christian nonprofits alongside Klan chapters. The SPLC uses this map to urge Big Tech and financial companies to blacklist conservatives, to advise law enforcement on “hate” threats, and to urge donors to contribute to its cause of fighting “hate.”

The monetization of hate under the masquerade of opposing it is a specialty of the Left. They’ve been doing it for decades and they are very, very good at it.

The Wall Street Journal, unfortunately these days a Voice of the Crust.

In a coffee shop on the ground floor of 85 Broad St. in lower Manhattan, once Goldman Sachs’s headquarters, the democratic socialist made the case that while he would be focused on income inequality, he was also open to working with the city’s business elite.

“He said, ‘Look, I’m not in favor of government taking over your business,’” Wylde said. “He made clear that he’s not anticapitalist in that sense.”

So it’s all a scam. “What do you want to be when you grow up, Zohran?” “I want to be an incredibly wealthy socialist, like my friends.”

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Obviously having the correct color skin makes you qualified, ipso facto.

Victor Davis Hanson.

After his first-place win in the New York City mayoral primaries, Zoran Mamdani is furiously denying everything that he once glibly thought was cutting-edge and cool.

So, like a good postmodern relativist, Mamdani now claims he didn’t really mean that violence was merely a “construct.”

I suppose Mamdani asked Jewish New Yorkers—the target of 44 percent of all hate crimes in the city—and discovered that their concussions and blood were all too real.

As a good soldier in the ranks of Black Lives Matter, Mamdani now insists he did not trash the police and advocate defunding them. Neither did he really, really mean to claim falsely he was African-American when he applied to college nor did really, really mean to do a video mocking the Jewish holiday of Hannukah.

Mamdani once thought it was cool to boast about defunding the police when he was an edgy, rising, left-wing community activist.

But then it was smarter to play it down as a candidate. And now it is essential to lie and deny it as a front-runner.

As a good communist, Mamdani echoed Karl Marx by bragging about his ultimate agenda: “the end goal of seizing the means of production.”

But whose “means of production” would Mamdani start seizing?

Yours. Mine.

Daily Record (UK).

Rob has been fined £150,000 by the NHS in a funding “claw back” effectively for maintaining his patients healthy teeth through regular check ups and preventative work.

It is an example of the widely discredited NHS dental payment contract which is causing dentists to quit the health service in their droves to see only private patients.

How about that super government-provided health care? Don’t you wish we had a system like that in the U.S.?

Well, it’s on its way, if Democrats have anything to say about it.

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Eleven state agriculture commissioners called on the Trump administration and Congress to yank funding from United Nations programs that they say are hurting American farmers.

“The federal government should stop using American taxpayer dollars to fund the United Nations International Maritime Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and the United Nations Environment Program, because each of these organizations’ net-zero policies will have devastating effects on American consumers, farmers, and ranchers, and further endanger food security for the poor in America,” said the July 1 letter.

“Net-zero” refers to policies that aim to reduce the net amount of carbon emissions to zero by the year 2050, either by fully eliminating them or by offsetting them.

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Yet another stunning example of ‘go woke, go broke’ has come to pass after high end car brand Jaguar has seen vehicle sales fall off a cliff following a mind blowingly stupid non-binary rebrand.

Natural Selection is a stone-cold bitch.

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A day after citing a Gallup poll showing collapsing patriotism among Democrats, we didn’t have to look far for proof: highly educated Boston leftists proudly proclaiming they’re “not proud to be American.” Yet, despite their anti-American rhetoric, they still choose to live here. Strange, isn’t it?

The Boston Globe—owned by Boston Globe Media Partners and run by John W. Henry, the billionaire owner of the Boston Red Sox and Fenway Sports Group, along with his wife, Linda Pizzuti Henry, the co-owner and CEO—shared a short-form video on Instagram featuring a series of interviews with residents about their patriotic views.

Boston Globe journalists and editors somehow failed to find a single person proud to be an American. In fact, every interviewee was reading a script—authentic, right? Not one of these highly educated locals could speak off the cuff?

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Forgive us, Emma Lazarus, our second thoughts about those huddled masses yearning to breathe free. . . the wretched refuse of your teeming shore(s).

That was then and this is now. O, beautiful for spacious skies (but, why so many contrails criss-crossing overhead from the New York Island to the gulf stream waters?).

O, land of tattooed grandmas, hostages of the tiny screens, the sexually confounded, the illiterate and innumerate, the lawless and the feckless, brainwashed youth marinated in Marx, the deranged, befuddled, the bought-off, the bug-eyed and bewildered, the lame, the halt, the addicts, grifters, hustlers, porn-stars, drugstore cowboys, alpha dogs, beta boys, shrieking Karens, and sundry victims of future-shock — whither, this hallowed experiment in nationhood?

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The Department of Homeland Security is closely monitoring a series of attacks near Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities that happened in Texas and Oregon.

“We are closely monitoring the attacks on DHS detention facilities in Prairieland, TX, and Portland, OR, and are coordinating with the USAOs and our law enforcement partners. The Department has zero tolerance for assaults on federal officers or property and will bring the full weight of the law against those responsible,” U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche posted on X.

Late Friday night a shooting occurred near the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado Texas. One officer was injured, and multiple armed suspects are in custody according to authorities. The injured officer was flown from the scene to a Fort Worth hospital, was treated and later released, according to the Alvarado Police Department.

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Attention, all parents and college students worried about the ever-rising cost of college tuition. The Department of Justice has finally—after three decades—started enforcing the federal law that prohibits states from offering in-state tuition to illegal aliens unless they also offer in-state tuition to everyone else—including all citizen students from out of state.

The law it’s enforcing has existed since 1996, when Congress passed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act.

Buried inside that huge law was Section 505, codified at 8 U.S.C. § 1623, which prohibits state colleges and universities from providing in-state tuition rates to illegal aliens “on the basis of residence within the State” unless the same in-state rates are offered to all citizens of the United States.

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The Supreme Court delivered an opinion last week that not even the best of the punditry class was prepared to understand. The decision was Trump vs. CASA, and the topic concerned the nationwide injunction against Trump’s management of U.S. immigration policy. As with more than 40 other cases, federal district judges have intervened to stop the president from exercising executive powers.

The opinion could not be plainer: “Universal injunctions likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has given to federal courts.” That principle applies not only to this case but to the whole panoply of cases that have tethered the ability of the president to manage executive branch operations. The courts have presumed authority over the president that the Constitution plainly does not grant.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett said the following of the unjoined dissent by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson: “[It] is at odds with more than two centuries’ worth of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself. We observe only this: Justice Jackson decries an Imperial Executive while embracing an imperial Judiciary.”

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Thank you, minimum wage.

Thank you, Democrat unions.

Chickens coming home to roost.

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‘Seize’ = ” Steal”: The essence of socialism is theft.

The Antiplanner.

Plenty of people have commented on New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s proposal to lower food prices by creating city-owned grocery stores, but there is still more to be said about this plan. Mamdani either thinks or believes that voters think that store owners are making huge profit through price gouging, and that recent increases in prices have nothing to do with inflation, tariffs, or other government actions.

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Once a government store opens, the public employee unions will quickly organize the workers and demand that the city pay a “living wage,” which will no doubt be defined as sufficient to allow employees to rent an un-rent-controlled apartment. This will more than eat up any savings from not having to earn a profit or pay taxes. Far from saving consumers money, the grocery store will have to charge much more than their competitors to keep afloat.

Except they won’t, because instead of earning a profit the city-owned grocery stores will start out in the red and get only redder over time. The city will start by paying the capital costs of converting some building into a grocery, then agree to cover worker wages and pensions. Soon the whole idea of “covering costs” will be seen as archaic and the city council and state legislature will be told not to look at the revenues when asked to fork over more subsidies.

You only have to look at the transit industry to see how this will play out.

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I propose that we accompany physical detox with a verbal detox: we need to purge our bloated vocabulary of several concepts that are poisoning our understanding of ourselves and the world.

These concepts have been elaborated by people who would describe themselves as “self-aware,” “progressive,” and “liberated,” but they are actually terms more fit for a society of slaves than a society of free persons. Indeed, these concepts, at least as they are typically employed by “progressives,” could be described, without exaggeration, as a species of slavespeak. By this, I simply mean that they are used disingenuously, to rationalise political oppression and slavery.

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A wave of new California laws will take effect on July 1, touching nearly every corner of life, from subscriptions and short-term rentals to wages and student mental health.

Part of a broader package signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom during his latest legislative session, the measures aim to boost transparency, expand health coverage, raise wages, and improve access to legal and mental health support.

What it will inevitably actually do is expand government, hire more government workers, and increase taxes.

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“It was important for our art team to kind of design the world of space, to design the ‘communiverse’ to be this colorful, welcoming, diverse place, this aspirational place where aliens of all shapes and sizes and colors can come and live together,” said director Domee Shi. “And when Elio first lands, he just feels like this is home and he wants to stay.”

Newsbusters.

Why not? The Soviets had them. Just look for the line for bread. Watch the film MOSCOW ON THE HUDSON for details.

UPDATE: Want Soviet Bread Lines? Vote for Zohran Mamdani (John Catsimatidis/Wall Street Journal)

UPDATE: Dems’ NYC Socialist Nominee Ducks and Weaves When Asked to Condemn Term Calling for Killing Jews

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The Supreme Court on Monday threw out appellate rulings in favor of transgender people in four states following the justices’ recent decision upholding a Tennessee ban on certain medical treatment for transgender youths.

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Well, they always say ‘write what you know’, and for a lot of ‘minorities’, race is all they know.

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Under the Biden-Harris regime, and with backing from rogue sanctuary states, thousands—if not tens of thousands—of non-English-speaking migrants have been granted non-domiciled Commercial Driver’s Licenses (CDLs), a decision now under intense scrutiny following a series of deadly crashes involving 80,000-pound big rigs, including a horrific incident in Austin, Texas, that left five Americans dead.

On Friday, the US Department of Transportation (DoT) released a statement about DoT Sec. Duffy is preparing to launch a nationwide audit into states issuing non-domiciled CDLs, more specifically examining the potential for unqualified individuals obtaining these licenses to operate big rigs on America’s highways.

“This action responds directly to a key directive from President Donald J. Trump’s Executive Order on Enforcing Commonsense Rules of the Road for America’s Truck Drivers and is part of Secretary Duffy’s commitment to safety,” a statement read from DoT.

DoT Sec. Duffy stated, “The open borders policies of the last administration allowed millions to flood our country – leading to serious allegations that the trucking licensing system is being exploited.”

Oh, ya think?

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It comes as little surprise that yet another grandiose techno-utopian vision has ended not with a triumphant march toward Net Zero, but with a flick of the off-switch. Last week, Britain’s energy secretary quietly announced that the government “has pulled the plug on a £24 billion plan to bring Moroccan wind and solar power to Britain via the world’s longest subsea electricity cable, citing concerns over security and costs” .

In other words, after years of hype, headline-grabbing simulations and talk of “reliable clean power for 19 hours a day,” the reality of risk and expense finally intruded – and the dream of Sahara sun for all has been consigned to the scrapheap.

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Rules are for thee but not for me.

Michael Barone.

Zohran Mamdani’s lead in first choices in New York City’s ranked-choice mayoral primary, and his inevitable victory when second, third, fourth, and fifth choices of trailing candidates are allocated to candidates voters ranked lower, mean that he’ll be the Democrat nominee for mayor of the nation’s largest city and the likely winner of the general election in November.

Mamdani, 33, is a three-term state assemblyman who calls himself a democratic socialist. He has backed a rent freeze, city-run grocery stores, free buses, putting homeless service centers in the subways, a $30 minimum wage, defunding the police, and replacing police with “community safety” officers.

His tweeting history includes: “NYPD is racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety. What we need is to #DefundTheNYPD,” “Queer liberation means defund the police,” and “Defunding the police is a feminist issue.”

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Time to leave.

ACLU, Servant of Fashionable Victims Everywhere and especially Where White People Live.

Immigrants rights’ advocates today filed a new nationwide class-action lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship. The lawsuit is in response to today’s Supreme Court ruling that potentially opens the door for partial enforcement of the executive order.

This new case was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of New Hampshire, ACLU of Maine, ACLU of Massachusetts, Legal Defense Fund, Asian Law Caucus, and Democracy Defenders Fund on behalf of a proposed class of babies subject to the executive order, and their parents.

The same group of organizations filed a similar suit in January 2025 in the same court, on behalf of groups with members whose babies born on U.S. soil will be denied citizenship under the order, including New Hampshire Indonesian Community Support, League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), and Make the Road New York. The court issued a ruling protecting members of those organizations, and that case is pending at the First Circuit Court of Appeals, with oral argument set for August 1.

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“Hey, if you’re going to shoot yourselves in the groin with this climate-change scam, we’ll be happy to load your gun.”

A new op-ed from oil services CEO Dan Eberhart in Forbes makes the case that climate change litigation is a growing threat to U.S. energy – and that the U.S. could fall behind China as a result.

He notes that Senator Ted Cruz has repeatedly voiced concern that American energy security is under threat—not from foreign armies or economic collapse, but from a coordinated legal campaign masquerading as environmental activism. This week, Cruz’s Judiciary oversight subcommittee is convening a hearing to dig into what he believes is a coordinated effort between China and the U.S. climate litigation movement aimed at undercutting U.S. energy dominance.

According to Eberhart’s piece in Forbes, the wave of climate lawsuits, particularly those brought by firms like Sher Edling, are supported by a network of well-funded foundations and advocacy organizations. These entities, he argues, may be unintentionally serving the strategic goals of America’s geopolitical adversaries—especially China—by hampering domestic fossil fuel production and increasing reliance on foreign-controlled clean energy supply chains.

Matthew Yglesias, a Shill for the Crust.

Before we begin, I want to remind everyone that in accordance with our policy that comments must be civil and constructive, anyone who misgenders Congresswoman McBride or Chase Strangio will get an automatic 24-hour ban.

Apparently True Political Leadership = Censorship of the unWoke. Good to know.

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Amid concerns over election integrity, two senior ActBlue employees were subpoenaed Wednesday by House Republicans investigating claims that the fundraising platform for Democrats knowingly accepted fraudulent and potentially foreign donations.

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It is said that people get more right-wing as they grow older. A quicker way to achieve this appears to be having a large number of asylum seekers housed nearby.

Almost three-quarters of voters in Kreuzberg—described as one of Germany’s most liberal districts—backed the three major left-wing (pro-migration) parties in the last federal election. The more right-wing parties did not achieve double-digit support.

But now that plans are underway for almost 1,000 refugees—likely from Ukraine, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Syria—to be housed in a nearby shelter, currently being renovated, an anti-migration sentiment has begun to stir.

An online survey of residents on the development has received more clicks than any other local issue in recent weeks, according to German daily Berliner Zeitung. Sixty-eight locals said they view the refugee shelter with “concern and fear,” and 28 “expressed anger about the plan.” Thirty-nine said they were “looking forward to new people and movement in the neighborhood.”

Border Gaps and “Lies”—All Quiet on the German Migration Front

District officials have also spoken up, pointing to already overburdened infrastructure in the neighbourhood as well as pre-existing crime rates—especially given that the shelter is supposed to be occupied in part by unaccompanied minors.

A woman who has lived in the area for more than two decades is likewise reported to have said:

We already have enough crime here.

Refugees will apparently only be accommodated in the centre temporarily. Work should be completed on the shelter towards th

The New York Times, a Voice of the Woke.

Because, as we all know, ‘victory over H.I.V.’ is THE MOST IMPORTANT THING that can happen, and if the U.S. government doesn’t do it, NOTHING WILL HAPPEN.

Time, a Voice of the Crust.

And, as in any ‘seismic moment’, those inside need to get outside before things coming crashing down.

The world’s economic capital stands to have a democratic socialist at the helm.

There is nothing ‘democratic’ about socialism. Socialism is founded on theft. ‘Democratic socialism’ is an oxymoron, like ‘Pe0ple’s Republic’.

No. That is not some A.I. hallucination. That really happened Tuesday in New York City’s mayoral primary.

Democrats in New York are crazy. Crazy people are dangerous. Time to leave.

New York is still tallying the votes, for sure. But a 33-year-old state lawmaker who became an avatar for the political movement led by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is leading in the race for Mayor of New York City. The significance of an apparent Zohran Mamdani victory over former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is a seismic moment that signals how much of an insurgent posture Democrats are in at the moment. As party leaders fret about whether Kamala Harris lost for being seen as too “woke” on various issues, the coastal deep-blue enclaves are completely disconnected from that conversation, and the party’s dreadful standing on the national stage.

After the 1968 Presidential election, Playboy magazine ran an interview with an alleged mob hit man. During the course of the interview they asked him (‘Joey’) whom he had voted for in the Presidential contest. He responded, “I had a choice between a fool and a crook. Naturally I voted for the crook.” I suspect that the New York Democrats naturally voted for the fool.

UPDATE Here’s How Much New York City Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani Is Worth (Kyle Khan-Mullins/Forbes)  A man of the people .. the rich people, that is.

UPDATE: NYC: It’s Time Somebody Tried Real Socialism™ (David Strom/HotAir)

UPDATE NYC Goes Full Zimbabwe IThe Other McCain)

UPDATE: Hamas Claims Responsibility For NYC Mayoral Primary (Babylon Bee)

UPDATE: Mamdani Vows To Knock Down World Trade Center To Build More Affordable Housing (Babylon Bee)

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Several other California cities also ranked in the bottom 10 of 148 cities, including Stockton (138), Los Angeles (139), Long Beach (140), Fresno (141), and Oakland (146).

The finance website created a “Quality of Services” score of 36 metrics split into six categories, which was then measured against 148 of the nation’s most populated city’s per-capita budget.

San Francisco came in last overall, ranking 89th in financial stability, 137th in education, 102nd in safety, and 135th in economy.

The WalletHub study also looked at the operating efficiency of cities, by comparing the quality of city services residents receive against the city’s budget.

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A top staffer for Zohran Mamdani, the leading socialist candidate for New York City mayor, appeared to support naming a street after Luigi Mangione, who is accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the Daily Caller reported.

Julian Gerson, the political director for Mamdani’s mayoral campaign, expressed apparent admiration for a murder suspect and said he hoped to one day drive down a street bearing the man’s name.

In a Dec. 29 Facebook post, an account under Gerson’s name linked to an opinion piece that praised Mangione, who is charged with murder in the killing of 50-year-old Thompson on Dec. 4.

No surprises here.

The Times (UK).

Britain is on track to lose a record 16,500 millionaires this year as tax increases and falling economic confidence drive wealthy residents abroad.

The exodus is part of a “historic wave of wealth migration”, with multiple countries competing for talent and capital, according to the latest Henley Private Wealth Migration Report. It says that a record 142,000 millionaires across the globe will relocate to a new country this year.

The study, which analyses migration trends among people with liquid assets of more than $1 million (£740,000), predicts that the UK will lose twice as many high net worth individuals as China and ten times as many as Russia in 2025.

Time to leave.

The Times (UK).

A hospital trust at the centre of a row over transwomen sharing female changing rooms has come under fire for producing a Pride calendar celebrating “polyamory” and “pansexuality”.

County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust is being sued by eight nurses who claim that a policy allowing transwomen to use single-sex changing rooms puts women at risk.

The nurses claimed that a biological male colleague identifying as a woman called Rose stared at their breasts as they were getting undressed and lingered too long in the changing room.

NHS England intervened, urging Darlington Memorial Hospital, where the nurses are based, to act “with speed” to provide male, female and gender-neutral changing rooms.

The Hill, a Voice of the Crust.

Especially if there are cameras.

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In the Reinhardswald near Kassel, known as the Fairytale Forest, a previously untouched natural and cultural landscape with trees over 500 years old, is today being irreversibly destroyed. Why? To protect nature and the climate, the wind industry and green proponents claim.

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Apparently some people are more human than others, and Jews don’t qualify.

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A unanimous panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has struck down California’s “1-in-30” gun rationing law as unconstitutional under the Second Amendment.

The law restricted citizens to one gun purchase every 30 days and was based on a ridiculous rationale that was shredded by the three-judge panel.

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NGOs and connected insiders have made a small fortune on “green” initiatives. As dam removal projects fail to deliver on the restorative promises of west coast governors, devastated agricultural communities are beginning to follow the green trail and ask, “Cui bono?”

The video, criticizing the removal of four dams along the Klamath River—the largest such project in U.S. history—addresses how an “ungodly amount” of sediment unleashed decimated fish habitats, and a rural agricultural economy while undermining the stated goal of restoring the river’s ecosystem.

Siskiyou County, California resident and farmer, Theodora Johnson, accuses environmental NGOs like American Rivers and government entities of hypocrisy, after decades of shutting down timber and mining operations due to fears of sediment release. Johnson argues that regulations, intended to protect fish and wildlife, destroyed rural economies, while releasing an estimated 16.8 million tons of sediment, silt, clay, and heavy metals such as aluminum, chromium, and lead—killing off fish populations for decades to come.

Politico, a Voice of the Crust.

A series of changes to long-running federal student loan programs tucked into the Republican tax plan has doctors panicked and struggling to find GOP allies.

The Senate education committee’s portion of President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill includes a new cap on how much people can borrow for medical school and other professional programs that is well below the sticker price most students are facing. Lawmakers are also proposing to nix a class of federal loans graduate students use to cover housing and other non-tuition expenses.

For low-income and first-generation college students with aspirations of becoming physicians, these plans, if enacted, could squash their dreams, according to medical college leaders. As the full Senate irons out the bill and Trump rattles school finances with funding freezes, doctors’ groups are asking Congress to preserve the more generous loan options or risk a sharp drop in who’s studying medicine — a profession that’s already facing a shortage.

I don’t see in the Constitution where it’s the government’sz–or the taxpayers’– responsibility to pay for the dreams of low-income or first-generation college students wanting to go to med school. If they can’t pay, they can’t have; same as with buying a Bugatti. The reason med school is so expensive is that they jacked the prices up, knowing that the government (i.e. the taxpayers) foot the bill. Without that subsidy, the prices with either come down or they’ll be whistling for students. We are facing a shortage of doctors because (a) the price of med school is too high, and (b) the government and the medical profession put all sorts of road-blocks in the way of building more medical schools.

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Cel-e-brate-Woke-times COME ON….