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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.

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The appearance of a European Parliament staff member wearing a keffiyeh—the traditional Palestinian scarf—during a meeting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has triggered a heated debate within the chamber. Members of the European People’s Party (EPP) criticised the gesture, considering the attire an ideological display inappropriate for an institutional employee.

The incident occurred during a parliamentary committee meeting held last week. Apparently, the staffer was asked to leave the room following protests by Spanish MEP Antonio López-Istúriz White, who stated, “Civil servants are not here to promote ideology,” supported by Bulgarian EPP MEP Andrey Kovatchev. A Parliament spokesman later explained that the meeting was briefly interrupted while “precautionary measures” were taken to allow it to continue without disruption.

The reaction from progressive MEPs was swift—and unsurprising. Several of them and their assistants attended parliamentary sessions the following days wearing the keffiyeh in solidarity. “I don’t see the issue. That person was dressed completely normally,” said Belgian MEP Marc Botenga from The Left group, who also pointed out that no one had raised objections when Ukrainian symbols were previously displayed in the same context.

Virtue-signaling is the opiate of the attention-whore.

The Foundry.

“I never thought I’d vote Republican,” one Virginia mother told her local school board. “But then my daughter came home with a new name, new pronouns—and no permission slip.”

That story isn’t rare anymore. It’s part of a growing national pattern. And it’s fueling one of the most significant political realignments of our time.

Across the country, classical liberals, independents, and disaffected Democrats are rediscovering liberty—not as a talking point, but as a lifeline. Not out of partisanship, but out of necessity. They’re standing up for parental rights, biological reality, local control, and rejecting the notion that public institutions should reprogram children instead of serving families.

The cultural Left, once a champion of autonomy and tolerance, now operates by coercion. “Equity” departments at schools, corporations, and governments write top-down speech codes. School administrators silence dissent. In some cases, even the American flag is deemed too divisive.

Democrat response: “EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN!”

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The nation’s largest teachers’ union plans to promote a version of Holocaust remembrance that does not mention Jews, according to its 2025 handbook, which references “victims of the Holocaust from different faiths” and teaches that Israel was founded through “forced, violent displacement and dispossession,” its most recent guide for members shows.

The National Education Association, which represents nearly three million public school teachers and education workers, outlined the priorities in its 2025 handbook. The NEA publishes the document each year as a guide on the group’s priorities and strategic goals for the association’s national and state leaders, staff, and members. It includes the NEA’s bylaws and is updated with any new resolutions and policy positions the union has endorsed.

The news comes amid a surge in both anti-Semitism and anti-Israel extremism at public schools and within teachers’ unions themselves. The NEA Representative Assembly—the union’s parliamentary body—passed a resolution to boycott the Anti-Defamation League’s Holocaust education materials earlier this month, a vote the union’s leadership rejected.

The NEA handbook, though, indicates that union leadership does back the extremist anti-Israel and anti-Jewish positions of many of its members.

The handbook says the union will “promote the celebration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day” by “recognizing more than 12 million victims of the Holocaust from different faiths, ethnicities, races, political beliefs, genders, and gender identification, abilities/disabilities, and other targeted characteristics.” The description does not mention the attempted extermination of the Jewish people by the Nazis.

Look for … the Union label….

The Daily Record (UK).

An autistic 17-year-old girl died after being admitted to hospital in “an advanced state of starvation”, a coroner has said. The teen died on May 5 2024, having been taken to A&E at Cramlington’s Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital on April 30.

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Senior Coroner Hetherington has subsequently issued a “prevention of future deaths” notice in which the girl’s name has been redacted. He has highlighted seven areas where in his view improvements are required. NHS organisations have admitted the care the girl received was “not at the standard anyone would expect”.

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

Don’t worry, ‘Obamacare’ was just the first step….

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Spanish officials have spent the months since one of the worst power outages in European history publicly blaming everything but their overreliance on renewables. But their actions behind the scenes show they know this to have been the true cause.

Most tellingly, the nation’s gas consumption for electricity generation soared by an impressive 41% in the first half of the year. Bloomberg reports that this heavier-than-normal reliance on fossil fuel was intended to “stabilise the country’s power network in the wake of a nationwide blackout in April.”

Spanish energy boss Arturo Gonzalo is also quoted in the paper saying “gas played a decisive role in restoring normality in Spain after the April 28th blackout, ensuring supply to all consumers,” adding that combined-cycle plants went from supplying about 5% of the electricity produced in Spain to 49% “during hours that were critical for the country.”

The Foundry.

Countless Americans see the United States as the land of opportunity. This belief is vividly demonstrated through the relentless pursuit of the American dream. According to the Small Business Administration, there are over 30 million small businesses across America.

For each one of the individuals behind these businesses, opportunity is not just an ideal, it is a reality. Small business owners sacrifice their time, savings, sweat, and tears for the chance at providing meaningful services and jobs for their communities, all while pursuing their own American dream.

For a small business, customers and employees are more often viewed as an extension of family and community. Yet, for the last decade, Democrats in Washington, D.C., and unelected bureaucrats—people who have never started a business or created a job in their communities—have worked to advance costly, burdensome regulations, pretending that they know what is best for small businesses and their employees.

Those that can, do. Those that can’t do, teach. Those that can’t teach, get a government job.

The Telegraph (UK).

A four-star hotel in Canary Wharf is being earmarked by the Home Office to house migrants.

Protesters gathered outside the Britannia International Hotel on Tuesday night after incorrect reports claiming asylum seekers were being transferred from Epping to London’s financial district.

The Home Office later clarified this was not the case.

However, according to Tower Hamlets Council, Labour intends to repurpose the London hotel as temporary accommodation for asylum seekers.

On Wednesday morning, workers were pictured wheeling beds and mattresses into the hotel.

UPDATE: Police take pro-migrant protesters to asylum hotel

UPDATE: Unmasked: The men masterminding the Channel migrant crossings

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Sunday marked six months to the day since President Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office, but the epidemic of “Trump Derangement Syndrome” shows no signs of abating.

To the contrary, this pernicious affliction, which has ravaged the mental health of hundreds of thousands on the Left, appears to be worsening with each new public policy pronouncement of the Trump administration—most recently, the defunding of PBS and NPR.

Still, no one has yet suggested “stopping the spread” of Trump Derangement Syndrome—TDS, for short—through mandatory masking or six feet of social distancing.

That would seem to be advisable, given the monthly nationwide outbreak of “No Kings,” “50505,” and “Good Trouble” anti-Trump rallies.

These astroturf (i.e., not grassroots) uprisings are superspreaders for the TDS virus, intended for transmission to otherwise normal, mentally stable individuals.

There’s no known treatment, much less a cure, for this contagion.

Short of that, Rep. Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, has introduced the Trump Derangement Syndrome Research Act of 2025.

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In a classic case of central planning, lawmakers in Los Angeles passed a bill in May to bring the minimum wage for hotel and airport workers to $30 by 2028, while also imposing a new $8.25 per hour mandatory health care contribution. Implementation of that bill is currently on hold as the city clerk reviews the signatures of a referendum petition that would bring the bill to a public vote in June 2026.

Los Angeles’ sector-specific wage hike follows on the heels of California’s statewide $20 minimum wage mandate for fast-food workers that went into effect in April 2024.

The consequences of that wage hike on the fast-food industry should be a warning sign to Los Angeles, especially as it prepares to host the 2028 Summer Olympics. Crucial to the success of those Olympic games will be the capability of the city’s hotels and its Los Angeles International Airport to serve an estimated 15 million visitors.

According to a new study published in the National Bureau of Economic Research, California’s 25% increase in the minimum wage (from $16 to $20) for fast-food workers led to a 3.2% decline in fast food employment, which translated to 18,000 lost jobs.

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The United States will leave the United Nations’ culture and education agency UNESCO as President Donald Trump continues to pull his country out of international institutions he has long criticized, two European diplomats said.

I remember as a child being forced by my school to go door to door and beg for pennies for UNICEF. I root my hatred for the U.N. and all its works in that experience.

UPDATE: Trump to pull US out of UNESCO over DEI policies, pro-Palestinian, pro-China tilt (Diana Nerozzi/New York Post)

John C. Wright.

Leftism is a process of removing all good things from Christian life until nothing is left by the mocking void of Hell.

The process consists of four steps. We will use the Sexual Revolution as the example.

DEMORALIZATION. the first step is to remove common sense rules and restrictions, traditions and guidelines by calling them “taboos.” Those who uphold traditional Christian virtues are scorned and demoralized. Teaching virtue stops. Anarchy results.

DESTABILIZATION: The next step is to demand equality and nonjudgmentalism between healthy versus unhealthy expressions of the sexual anarchy. This is done by stigmatizing virginity as uncool, while stigmatizing marriage as an oppression against women. Sexual roles are abolished. Young women, naturally, fall prey to the unchecked lust of men of all ages, and young women become the especially enemy of old women.

Family life is stigmatized. Fatherhood is demeaned. Boys are drugged and conditioned to act like girls. Contraception is legalized. Abortion is renamed “reproductive health” in a perfect Orwellian word-reversal.

CRISIS: Third, morality is inverted. Whores become aspirational culture heroes, boasting of how many men couple with them. Ugliness, such as tattoos and nose rings, replaces lipstick and high heels, which are now the particular province of cross dressers. Chivalry is anathematized as “white knighting.” The ME TOO movement now redefines all sexual activity (except for fetishism and perversion) as rape culture. All male attention is the “male gaze” and Playboy magazine, at one time the foremost advocate of sexual liberation, is now the enemy of women. Chastity becomes perversion and perversion becomes the norm. The abomination of sodomy becomes a sacrament of marriage.

NORMALIZATION: Public institutions enforce the new inverted morality. This requires strict censorship of all press, media, entertainment, and, in the Internet Age, social media and private thought. Silent prayer near abortion mills is outlawed. Idols to Satan are erected in public spaces, while Christian decorations and monuments are banished.

In order for men to be women and women to be men, fact and reason are outlawed. Honest discussion of scientific matters is outlawed. Honest reporting in the news is outlawed.

Gaslighting — lies too outrageous ever to be believed — becomes the norm in all discussions and thought. Reason stops. The gift of speech, in effect, is removed from the Sons of Adam.

And women kill more children in the womb than all the wars of all men of all time combined.

Hell reigns.

Power Line.

Until the big beautiful bill passed, the federal government was not able to review Medicaid data to determine whether beneficiaries were claiming benefits in more than one state. Amazing, but apparently true. The Unleash Prosperity Hotline explains:

Acting on new authority from the One Big Beautiful Bill, CMS has scanned the Medicaid rolls, and found that an astonishing 2.8 million people were enrolled in either Medicaid programs in multiple states or both Medicaid and an Obamacare exchange plan. Ending this double-dipping alone will save an estimated $14 billion per year.

Estimates of Medicare fraud run as high as $120 billion per year, and Medicaid fraud is, in all likelihood, even worse. Double dipping in two states is the barest tip of the iceberg.

Here in Minnesota, we have essentially no eligibility checks on Medicaid benefits. We don’t even know whether recipients of Medicaid live in Minnesota, so, among other things, we make it easy to claim benefits in two or more states. This is so stupid that even Minnesotans don’t like it. The polling that we have unveiled on our Minnesota DOGE tour and in the current issue of Thinking Minnesota, just now dropping in mailboxes, finds that 75% of respondents want Medicaid recipients to have their eligibility reviewed annually–remarkably, we don’t do that–and 89% favor requiring all Minnesota Medicaid recipients to live in Minnesota. One can only wonder about the remaining 11%.

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The French high authority for health, which has been working on transgender issues since 2022, has published its recommendations, which exclude minors—a victory for those who work tirelessly to protect children from transgender madness.

Three years ago, the Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS), an independent public authority responsible for advising the state on health issues based on scientific recommendations, launched a working group on the “medical transition pathway for transgender people.” There was every reason for concern, as Le Figaro had pointed out that the group in question was overwhelmingly composed of trans people, members of trans activist associations, or health professionals closely aligned with the trans lobby, to the exclusion of other organisations that could have provided a different and more measured perspective.

On Friday, July 18th, the HSA published a document outlining its initial recommendations for adults—while excluding minors “due to a lack of consensus.”

No matter how bad we have it in the U.S., other countries have it worse.

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Taxpayer money is being funnelled through the health ministry in Baden-Württemberg—a state in southwest Germany—to a drag workshop for children. And all this under the guise of “child and youth protection.”

The local administration’s official website for the event—one of many “protection action days” listed for the coming months—says it is targeted specifically at “queer youth” who will be enabled to “creatively explore gender identity, gender expression and social role expectations.”

Through makeup, costume styling, and performance, the young people develop their own looks and stage performances, which they work on together with experienced drag artists.

Apollo News states that the event is aimed at 14- to 27-year-olds who will be taught dances by drag artists. It is unclear how much money has been handed to its organisation.

The stated aim of this event, which is set to be held in the evening on July 27th, is to protect queer youth “from experiences of discrimination by allowing them to express themselves in a protected and valued manner.” It has received some backlash on social media, but has gone largely unreported.

News of the class comes less than a month after a Christian Social Union (CSU) member in Bavaria was threatened with expulsion from the party for protesting against a separate drag event for children.

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The problem of leftist activist judges is growing more worrisome by the day, and one has to wonder how may crimes these officials have facilitated in their efforts set criminal illegals free and “stick it to Republicans”.

Immigration authorities in Chicago have arrested a Mexican illegal immigrant this week accused of decapitating a missing Illinois woman.

Jose Luis Mendoza-Gonzalez, 52, of Waukegan, Illinois, was arrested in April and charged with concealing a corpse, abusing a corpse and obstruction of justice, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Gonzalez reportedly claims that the victim, 37-year-old Megan Bros, had “died of an overdose” at his home.

However, instead of reporting the death to authorities, Gonzalez allegedly broke her cell phone and is accused of abusing the corpse, decapitating her and storing her body in a storage container of bleach on his property (The kind of precaution a murderer might take to hide evidence, though the suspect has not yet been charged with murder).

I am in favor of deporting his corpse.

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The author appears to believe that just showing up at a doctor’s office entitles you to medical treatment.

No surprise. Leftists (of whom ‘journalists’ are a significant subset) all believe that.

However, this isn’t Britain or Canada, where you are entitled to government-provided health care.

This is America. Doctors aren’t your slaves. They don’t have to treat you if they choose not to.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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Marches under the slogan ‘Stop Immigration’ took place across Poland on Saturday, July 19th, including in Bialystok, Krakow, Poznan, Warsaw, and Wroclaw.

More and more Poles are demanding the closure of the borders with Belarus, Lithuania, Slovakia, and Ukraine. This relates to both the alleged actions of Minsk weaponising releases of migrants into Polish borders as a form of hybrid warfare, and the wider sense that migration has led to a deteriorating crime and security situation within Poland itself.

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Reeling from their 2024 election loss, Democrats are scrambling to reconnect with the working class—yet their brilliant strategy of embracing socialist and communist candidates, doubling down on un-American woke ideology, shielding criminal illegal aliens, and supporting dark-money NGOs that fuel insurrectionist behavior like the Los Angeles riots—isn’t a comeback plan but just political suicide.

The party of leftist social justice warriors is cracking under the weight of its own failures. Woke culture is imploding, “green” fantasies are backfiring, and nowhere is this more evident than in the Democrat stronghold states of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, where the retirement of stable, affordable fossil fuel power in favor of unreliable solar and wind is driving up energy costs to the highest in the nation this summer and breaking the pocketbooks of working-class families they claim to champion.

Energy policies should balance three key objectives: affordability, reliability, and environmental sustainability — often referred to as the “energy trilemma.” Yet Democrats rammed through climate policies that torched two objectives, affordability and reliability for the environment.