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

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

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

The New York Times, a Voice of the Crust.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Michaela? Not Karen?

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

The Foundry.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Santa Claus is alive and psychotic on the Left Coast.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sarah Hoyt.

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

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

Guys? Seriously?

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

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

You get more of what you pay for.

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

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

Time to leave.

The American Mind.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Foundry.

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

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

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

David Harsanyi.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

All part of The Death Of Woke.

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

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

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

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

NewsBusters.

Although that’s not always a guarantee.

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

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

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

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

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

Newsbusters.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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With the 2026 midterms in sight, one major question on Capitol Hill is if Republicans will vote on the Chloe Cole Act, a bill that seeks to end the chemical or surgical mutilation of children.

The legislation was introduced by Rep. Bob Onder, R-Mo., in September and is currently cosponsored by more than 30 Republicans in the House, and supported by Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., and Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mont. in the Senate.

Onder’s office referred The Daily Signal to the congressman’s September statement on the legislation. “As a member of Congress, a doctor, a parent, and an American, I am committed to protecting our nation’s children. That’s why I am proud to introduce the Chloe Cole Act, a landmark bill that will put a permanent stop to one of the most dangerous and barbaric medical procedures in modern history,” Onder said.

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Less than one week after the NY Times (of all rags) torched Minnesota governor Tim Walz over a massive and sprawling fraud scandal involving Somalians that federal prosecutors say siphoned over $1 billion from the state’s social safety net programs, Walz is opening yet another avenue for fraud – giving taxpayer-funded leave illegal immigrants.

Well, he’s nailed down the illegals vote.

UPDATE: Walz Upset by Drive-By ‘R-Word’ Taunts at His Home

UPDATE: Tim Walz ‘deeply concerned’ about people shouting ‘R-word’ driving by his home after Trump swipe (Josh Christenson/New York Post)

Richard Hanania.

There’s a new article in The Atlantic about how more and more students are identifying as “disabled” to receive extra time on exams.

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The long-awaited trial of 24 humanitarian workers on Lesbos has begun, marking a significant moment in Greece’s effort to strengthen border security during years of intense migration pressure.

The defendants, active on the island between 2016 and 2021, face serious charges—including participation in a criminal organisation, facilitating the illegal entry of third-country nationals, and money laundering—offences that carry sentences of up to 20 years.

Greek authorities argue that the case centres on safeguarding the country’s borders at a time when Lesbos had become a major gateway for irregular migration. Officials maintain that strict enforcement is necessary both to protect national security and to curb smuggling networks that profit from dangerous sea crossings.

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Repeatedly imprisoned for thoughtcrimes including the “incorrect” use of a ?transitioning’ pupil’s pronouns, Enoch Burke—and his family—were threatened with criminal proceedings after he appealed his conviction.

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The city of San Francisco filed a lawsuit against some of the nation’s top food manufacturers on Tuesday, arguing that ultraprocessed food from the likes of Coca-Cola and Nestle are responsible for a public health crisis.

“Ultraprocessed food” is any food that proglodytes dislike.

City Attorney David Chiu named 10 companies in the lawsuit, including the makers of such popular foods as Oreo cookies, Sour Patch Kids, Kit Kat, Cheerios and Lunchables. The lawsuit argues that ultraprocessed foods are linked to diseases such as Type 2 diabetes, fatty liver disease and cancer.

“Linked to” means “we can’t point to any causal connection, but correlation is good enough to bring the hammer down.”

“They took food and made it unrecognizable and harmful to the human body,” Chiu said in a news release. “These companies engineered a public health crisis, they profited handsomely, and now they need to take responsibility for the harm they have caused.”

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The nation’s largest teachers union is planning a workshop on “Advancing LGBTQ+ Justice,” prompting criticism from a conservative national parent group that obtained the training handouts and released them to the public ahead of the session.

The National Education Association’s (NEA’s) next Focus Academy session is planned for Dec. 2 to Dec. 4. Participants will “develop a toolset of tactics for dismantling systems of privilege and oppression as it relates to LGBTQ+ educators and students,” the union’s website states.

The union’s national headquarters are in Washington, but the registration page does not disclose an address for the training. Upcoming Focus Academy sessions on advancing “racial justice” and winning school board elections are scheduled for early 2026.

Defending Education, a parent and research organization that opposes progressive curricula and policies such as transgender ideology, critical race theory, and diversity, equity, and inclusion in public schools, obtained and released the handout in November.

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Last year during sweeping British protests triggered by the stabbing murders of three young girls at a dance recital by the radicalized 17-year-old child of Rwandan migrants, London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley threatened to have American citizens “arrested and extradited” to the UK for “stoking racial violence” (i.e. pointing out that third world migrants and often the children of third world migrants are a societal net negative and should be deported).

The event sparked a series of thousands of arrests of UK citizens for crimes as meager as posting memes online and hoisting British flags in the presence of immigrants. In the past year at least 12,000 such arrests have been made in the name of “quelling hate speech”, an ill defined violation based on arbitrary guidelines and left up the whims of leftist bureaucrats.

No US citizens have been extradited, likely because the action would start 1776 Part II and a handful of armed Americans delivered on a Carnival Cruise Liner would end up conquering the UK in a week or less.

However, it would seem that the British authorities have decided to take out their frustrations on their own citizens who dare to visit the US to enjoy some of the freedoms they don’t have at home.

A British IT consultant was arrested by West Yorkshire Police after posting pictures on LinkedIn of himself holding guns during an American vacation. Jon Richelieu-Booth, 50, shared the photograph taken at a Florida homestead on August 13. The post sparked a 13-week ordeal, which began with a police warning at his residence. Officers cautioned him about online content and its “potential impact on others’ feelings”.

You can’t make this shit up.

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Democrats continue to double down and pander to the woke demographic whenever they see an opportunity.  These gestures are usually designed to virtue signal and rarely have any significance in terms of political change, however, leftists don’t necessarily pass laws or make declarations because a problem actually exists.  Rather, they do these things in order to encourage false perceptions within the populace.

In other words, equality has been a legal fact within the US for decades, but leftists want people to believe racism is a never-ending battle that requires their perpetual activism and government intervention.  The more they demand “equity”, the more division and conflict they end up inciting.

Democrat Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro insists that racism is an ongoing problem in his state and he has taken bold action to fight back by passing the “CROWN Act”, a law which prohibits discrimination based on a person’s hairstyle, type or texture.

Will this bar black women from straightening their hair in order to look like white and Asian women? I think not.

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In the past five years the institutional discussions surrounding climate change have shifted noticeably from “net zero” goals (zero net carbon emissions from target countries) to a more mercenary debate over carbon taxation.  The question on everyone’s mind is this:  Who gets the most access to those delicious climate funds?

Who gets access to the cash is less important than who gets to manage the cash, but we’ll get to that issue in a moment.

The recent COP30 event held last week in Brazil was largely focused on wealth redistribution with a lesser emphasis on carbon reductions.  Climate “financing” is the name of the game, and COP30 was largely a squabble over which countries will get the most access to the various carbon taxes and donations collected by global intermediaries.  In fact, the conference was largely considered a failure.

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teachers union in the US, focus on training educators to become far-left activists in support of spreading woke propaganda to their students.

According to information gathered by a conservative non-profit called Defending Education, the NEA’s upcoming training at an undisclosed location this December doesn’t focus on academics, but on attacking Republicans as “racist and transphobic,” pushing race-class-gender narratives, and promoting gender-transition guides for staff.

The training is targeted for union staff and teams as part of the NEA UniServ and Organizing Training Program 2025–2026.

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An energy worker advocacy group sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security urging it to review whether climate advocate Greta Thunberg—along with others—should be allowed entry to the nation due to safety concerns arising after recent bannings she has faced elsewhere and the pattern of “disruption” that appears to follow her.

Founder and executive director of energy group Power the Future Daniel Turner told The Center Square: “Secretary [Kristi] Noem and the Trump Administration are working tirelessly to keep America safe, and we urge them to take a hard look at whether agitators like Thunberg should be allowed onto American soil.”

Power the Future is a nonprofit dedicated to Americans working in reliable energy sources and sent the letter concerning Thunberg’s entry to the United States.

Turner told The Center Square that “everywhere Greta Thunberg goes, chaos follows.”

“We have enough internal instability from the climate movement without importing foreign extremists who are further committed to unrest,” Turner said.

The Telegraph (UK).

Labour’s tax rises are forcing wealthy people to flee Britain, the Business Secretary has admitted.
Peter Kyle said he was not going to “duck the fact” that individuals of a high net worth had been driven out by Rachel Reeves’s tax raid on non-doms.
He also said entrepreneurs were abandoning Britain “in their droves” because they “haven’t had the funding to succeed”.
Labour has been accused of targeting wealthy people with tax rises while plotting £15bn of extra benefits spending in this week’s Budget.
On Monday, Mr Kyle was asked whether the Government was prepared to acknowledge that Labour’s tax decisions had led to people leaving the country.
He said: “I do. I’m not going to duck the fact that we have put up taxes, and we’ve closed some of the loopholes for non-doms.
“Some people are going to leave because they are here because of how the old non-dom system worked.”

Go where you’re treated best.

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We are rapidly approaching the first anniversary of the Los Angeles area wildfires that destroyed Pacific Palisades and Altadena.

As I reported recently, it appears that three-quarters of Pacific Palisades and two-thirds of Altadena residents remain in temporary housing. Court cases for compensation and identifying the causes and contributing factors are also continuing.

Now, attorneys for Palisades fire victims are moving to question Los Angeles firefighters under oath to explore claims that a California State Parks official limited how the department responded to an earlier blaze, which later reignited into the catastrophic firestorm that destroyed thousands of homes. This is in response to accusations that the official was concerned about…”native plant species“.

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The idea that global warming could paradoxically shut down the Gulf Stream, plunging Europe into a new cold spell—a scenario popularized by the film The Day After Tomorrow—is a powerful narrative.