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As is often the case, you have to watch the videos to really get a true picture of what happened at University of California, Berkeley on Nov. 10. In the days that have transpired since the event, many newspaper accounts have made it sound like a tempest in a teapot, as if a couple of hotheads disrupted the otherwise quiet, if intense, protests at a Turning Point USA event on campus.

No. The videos reveal, in fact, a slew of violence: smoke bombs and glass bottles flying, fights breaking out, angry students pushing back on police in riot gear, screaming obscenities and threats while lunging and shoving at people attempting to enter the event.

None of this was a surprise to anyone. If the founder of the Turning Point movement could be shot dead two months ago at one of the most sedate campuses in the country, it was pretty much a given that push would come to shove at a university infamous for its out-of-control protests in the name of “free speech.”

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A major trial of alleged members of the far-left extremist group known as the ‘Hammer Gang’ (Hammerbande) is set to begin Tuesday at the Higher Regional Court in Dresden.

Among the defendants are the group’s leaders, Johann Guntermann and Paul M., who face charges of membership in or support of a far-left criminal organization as well as attempted murder. The trial had been postponed several times, with the latest delay due to the unavailability of the defense.

Guntermann, long identified as a key figure in the gang alongside Lina Engel, is accused of carrying out violent attacks in Germany and Budapest. Several left-wing extremists allegedly attacked innocent passers-by in Budapest, targeting people they assumed had taken part in a right-wing memorial march. Victims were bludgeoned with hammers and telescopic batons, with some sustaining life-threatening injuries.

The gang has a documented history of violence, including a series of hammer attacks between 2018 and 2020 in Leipzig, Wurzen, and Eisenach. In May 2023, Lina Engel and three other members were convicted by the Dresden Higher Regional Court for violent assaults and sentenced to more than five years in prison.

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Europe has a housing crisis. In almost 40% of major European cities, houses are no longer affordable—meaning that the average income cannot cover rent or mortgage payments. In 47% of cities, housing is considered “at risk” of becoming unaffordable. And in just 14%, the housing market remains at an affordable level. The cause for this is at once highly complex and frustratingly simple—there aren’t enough homes.

In 76% of European metropolises, the main driver for rising prices is that demand exceeds supply. This can be partially blamed on high construction costs—something that 71% of cities flag as a major barrier to affordability. Third is land availability, a factor noted by 60% of cities. Housing, obviously, cannot be built if there is nowhere to build it.

There is one thread that runs through all these complaints—environmental regulations. Demand is outpacing supply because developments are being held up by ludicrous laws, on both a national and European Union level, that prioritise trees, animals, and even barren scrubland over human flourishing. These rules place immense burdens on developers and ring-fence land that could otherwise be used for much-needed housing and vital infrastructure.

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Both on Sunday’s Velshi show and on Tuesday’s Morning Joe on MS NOW, the claim was repeated that only 16 illegal aliens arrested in Chicago out of over 600 were dangerous criminals even though more than 1,100 who were already deported were not covered in that calculation.

On his eponymous Sunday morning show, Ali Velshi compared liberal activists defending illegal aliens from deportation to the Civil Rights Movement as he spoke with frequent guests — Fordham University’s Christina Greer and New York City comptroller Brad Lander.

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A recent case in Sweden has posed the question of whether someone born male who identifies as a woman should have access to a women-only gym.

A key issue is whether such requests can coexist with the safety and privacy needs of women who rely on female-only spaces.

The incident took place at Tjejernas Athena, a women’s gym in Norrköping that has operated for 40 years and has only one changing room. In December 2023, a so-called transgender woman—born male but living socially as a woman and undergoing hormone treatment—asked to join the gym. He had not undergone genital surgery, according to information the gym received at the time.

The Foundry.

Advocates of transgender medical interventions euphemistically referred to as “gender-affirming care” often seek to silence critics, rather than engaging in a debate on the science—and one of the authors of the Department of Health and Human Services’ report on the issue says he thinks he knows why.

HHS published a review of the evidence regarding medical transition for minors in May, finding “extremely weak evidence” for any benefits from “gender-affirming care.” HHS sought peer review, submitting its report to medical professionals and pro-transgender health associations. Yet two of the three pro-transgender groups HHS approached refused to engage, and the remaining organization appeared not to have read the full report.

The back-and-forth appears in a supplement to the final review, published Tuesday.

“HHS offered the leading organizations advocating for these treatments an opportunity to have their experts participate in a rigorous peer-review process and point out whether the review might have made errors or omissions,” Leor Sapir, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and one of the review’s nine contributors, told The Daily Signal. “As the supplement clearly shows, no such errors or omissions could be identified.”

“Perhaps that’s why advocates of these controversial drugs and surgeries prefer to silence critics and engage in smear campaigns,” he added.

The Foundry.

Lawfare has grown to be a huge problem. If a set of activists cannot win an election or get a favorable bill passed, they find and run to a sympathetic court. An additional emerging form of lawfare has now taken root in America: local governments and states suing domestic energy producers over their alleged role in climate change. These campaigns are sold as accountability, but they also threaten the strategic foundation of American foreign policy.

Energy is not just another sector of the economy. It is the engine of diplomacy and the backbone of military power. Retired Gen. Richard B. Myers and retired Adm. Michael G. Mullen recently reminded the Supreme Court that petroleum products supplied by American companies “have been critical to national security, military preparedness, and combat missions.” They stressed that “achieving energy security is a prerequisite for national security” and warned that unilaterally stripping the United States of higher-performing fossil fuels would “weaken our armed forces while relatively strengthening those of our adversaries.”

That warning should resonate far beyond the courtroom. America’s diplomatic leverage depends on affordable and reliable energy. Yet climate litigation and new climate superfund schemes attempt to regulate global emissions through a patchwork of state liability theories.

Newsbusters.

Pseudo economics savant Paul Krugman just can’t give up trying to sell the snake oil of Bidenomics as being the unsung hero of the economy that the supposedly dumb plebeians just couldn’t appreciate.

Seriously, bro. Just take the “L” and move on.

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A Labour government plan to house 600 young men at an army training camp near an East Sussex town brought 2000 residents onto the streets in protest on Sunday, November 16th.

Crowborough (pop. 21,688) is scheduled to see asylum seekers housed in a currently disused army training camp on its outskirts. The move has been condemned by the local authority, Wealden District Council.

Sussex Police noted a planned peaceful protest on its patch Sunday morning, with no arrests made. Slogans used included “Starmer Out” and “Crowborough Says No!”

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Leftist media figures are increasingly walking on eggshells when discussing President Trump, hastily retracting or clarifying statements to avoid potential defamation lawsuits that could bankrupt their networks.

Yeah, accountability is a real bitch.

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The progressive left never admits they are wrong and they always double down on failure. This is the mindset that continues to lead Democrats down a path of self destruction along with the cities they inhabit. One cannot separate the ongoing decline of US cities from far-left policies; one precipitates the other.

The implosion of Joe Biden’s faux presidency and the defeat of the Kamala Harris campaign left Democrats reeling and searching for answers, but it didn’t take long for them to dismiss the idea of self reflection and come to the predictably insane conclusion they are right and everyone else is the enemy.

The answer, they argue, is not to abandon their radical ideology and find their way back to common sense. Rather, they believe that they lost the elections because their candidates were “not extreme enough.”

But what could possibly be more extreme than Biden’s mass online censorship campaign? His calls for pandemic vaccine passports for Americans to keep their jobs? His implementation of DEI and CRT programs across the federal government and the US military? His consistent denials over the stagflation crisis? When he declared Easter Sunday as “Transgender Day of Visibility?” What about the topless LGBT parties on the White House Lawn?

How much worse can a political leader get? Well, we’re about to find out.

American Greatness. (Not the Babylon Bee)

The CEO of Crowds On Demand is urging members of Congress to pass a Transparency In Political Demonstration Act (TPDA) that would require greater transparency in groups that hire demonstrators for events around the country.

Adam Swart wrote a letter to Congress on November 11, calling for more transparency in who is hiring protestors in order to “protect free speech while ensuring accountability and safety.”

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During the recent government shutdown, the temporary interruption of benefits to 42 million food stamp recipients was hyped as practically the greatest human rights violation of our time. A Nation magazine headline howled: “The United States Is Letting Its People Starve.” But the delayed payments had scant impact in part because many states offered supplemental benefits, many recipients had leftover benefits on their Electronic Benefit Cards (EBTs), and because vast numbers of food pantries and other private charities provided relief.

Democrats accused Trump of “weaponizing hunger.” But the real problem is that politicians going back more than half a century have weaponized dependency to destroy limits on government power.

Most Americans support giving government assistance to people who are unable to feed themselves. But politicians profited by multiplying the number of people who relied on Washington for their next meal.

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As flight delays ease nationwide after days of disruption, a former air traffic controller is placing blame for the FAA’s long-running staffing shortages on hiring policies implemented under the Obama administration.

Former air traffic controller Michael Pearson told Newsmax on Thursday the FAA’s workforce crisis traces back to 2011, when he asserted the administration “chose color over competency” by discarding a pool of roughly 3,000 qualified applicants and introducing a controversial biographical assessment.

According to Pearson, those applicants had already passed aptitude tests, held relevant college degrees, and completed controller training programs at no taxpayer cost.

The Foundry.

Karl Marx famously wrote in his 1848 Communist Manifesto, “The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains,” and it was these unchained proletarians who elected Zohran Mamdani mayor of New York City, along with other socialists in municipal elections from Atlanta, Georgia to Portland, Oregon and cities in between. But the 2025 elections did more than sweep a surprising number of socialist politicians to power. They also revealed contradictions inherent to all leftist ideologies.

One big contradiction involves affordability, a major issue in the 2025 elections, particularly in terms of housing. But proletarians voting for socialists in the hopes of achieving the dream of homeownership don’t realize they’re voting for the kind of big government that’s already putting it out of reach.

A report by Murray Weidenbaum at Washington University in St. Louis found that in three surveyed locales—Colorado, St. Louis, and New Jersey—the cost of government regulations added $1,500 to $2,500 to the price of an average house in the mid-1970s. By 2011, government mandates increased home prices by $65,224. Over the next decade, government made homes $93,870 more expensive. Socialists decry the high price of housing, but intrusive government contradicts them by burdening homebuyers with escalating regulatory costs, and socialists are not prone to surrendering government control of people’s lives.

Quillette.

When New Yorkers elected Zohran Mamdani as their mayor on 4 November, many commentators and politicians treated the result as a political earthquake. In his victory speech, Mamdani also adopted the language of epochal change. “New York will remain a city of immigrants,” he told supporters, “a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant.” Then, quoting Jawaharlal Nehru, he cast his election as a wild new watershed: “A moment comes, but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new. … Tonight, we have stepped out from the old into the new.”

For progressives, Mamdani’s rhetoric was exhilarating. The Guardian’s Margaret Sullivan reported that his message possessed “a clarity that stands in sharp contrast to most Democratic politicians,” while others on the Left saw his win as proof that the city’s younger voters—many of whom are renters struggling with the cost of living—were finally asserting themselves against decades of failed centrist compromise. On the Right, meanwhile, people reacted with the same intensity but the opposite emotion. Republican Representative Nicole Malliotakis spoke for many conservatives when she warned that the result would be “a disaster.” Her mother, she added, “fled communist Cuba to not live in a communist New York.” President Trump went further, calling Mamdani “a 100% Communist lunatic” and predicting economic ruin (although he hasn’t given Mamdani a Trump nickname yet).

Both sides, in their own way, reinforced the sense that something extraordinary had just happened. However, history and the constraints of American federalism suggest that the euphoria and catastrophism are misplaced. Campaign idealism may have propelled Mamdani to power, but the arithmetic of governing New York tells a different story. The city has been here before, after all, from Fiorello La Guardia’s New Deal municipalism to Bill de Blasio’s “Tale of Two Cities.” The details change, but the structural constraints on ambitious mayoral candidates do not.

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Archbishop Paul Stagg Coakley, elected this week as the new president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, has steadfastly maintained that pro-abortion lawmakers should not receive Holy Communion.

That includes former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., LifeNews reported Wednesday.

Coakley, archbishop of Oklahoma City, was elected Tuesday and will serve a three-year term as president of the USCCB. He has established a long-standing record of supporting the denial of Communion to certain politicians, a stance he has held for more than a decade.

And about time, too.

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It’s an outcome that survival and preparedness experts have been predicting for years: The engineered decline of US cities into lawlessness supported by progressive political relativism, leading to an exodus of conservatives (and anyone else with a brain) to rural America.

The formation of separate conservative communities is a natural response to the political divisiveness of far-left controlled urban centers, as well as the disturbing revelations of pandemic lockdown hysteria in blue cities and states. However, when dealing with any progressive movement it’s important to remember that communists and their ideological cousins don’t like it when the people they are trying to control walk away and start their own thing.

This is not allowed. You’re supposed to stick around and act as their punching bag.

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Chicago has experienced a dramatic double-digit decline in violent crime since the launch of the Department of Homeland Security’s “Operation Midway Blitz,” a federal crackdown ordered by President Donald Trump targeting illegal aliens protected by Illinois’ sanctuary policies.

According to new DHS data, shootings are down 35% — the lowest in four years — robberies are down 41%, and carjackings are down 48% since the operation began in September.

Homicides have dropped 16%, while transit crime is down 20%, marking what the agency called “a historic win in the fight against violent criminal illegal alien crime.”

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For more than half a century, Delaware stood as America’s corporate capital, renowned for its business-friendly laws, respected Chancery Court, and consistent legal rulings. But in recent years, leftist activist lawmakers and politicized judges have undermined that very foundation, sparking an exodus of major companies seeking stability and fairness to more welcoming states like Texas and Nevada.

On Wednesday morning, Coinbase joined the growing exodus, announcing on its website and in a Wall Street Journal op-ed by Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal that it is moving its state of incorporation from Delaware to Texas.

“For decades, Delaware was known for predictable court outcomes, respect for the judgment of corporate boards, and speedy resolutions,” Grewal wrote in the op-ed.

However, he pointed out that recent inconsistent Chancery Court rulings and reliance on ad hoc legislative fixes do not create a sustainable business environment.”

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A Utah judge on Monday rejected a new congressional map drawn by Republican lawmakers, adopting an alternate proposal creating a Democrat-leaning district ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

Republicans hold all four of Utah’s U.S. House seats and had advanced a map poised to protect them.

Judge Dianna Gibson ruled just before a midnight deadline that the Legislature’s new map “unduly favors Republicans and disfavors Democrats.”

The Foundry.

Is America about to be hit with a Mamdani-style socialist tidal wave?

That’s what more than a few Americans are thinking as the dust settles on the unnerving election of socialist Democrat Zohran Mamdani in New York City.

Make no mistake, his faction of the Democratic Party absolutely has momentum after the win. So right now, much of the national political discourse is focused on the “meaning of Mamdani.”

I grew up in California, the Bay Area, and got used to “fringy” leftists in local government. But to see an American city as massive and iconic as New York fall under the sway of a man fond of quoting Karl Marx is certainly a significant event. How did this happen? Will his playbook truly be replicated elsewhere? Is this style of politics truly the future of the Democratic Party?

To answer those questions we have to first diagnose how Mamdani pulled off this victory.

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write a book, I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose”.

Two minutes later there is a photo of a BLM activist holding up an “I can’t breathe” sign.

Such unintentional irony pervades a documentary which claims that what George Orwell really wanted to warn about in ‘1984’ were the dangers of free speech and political dissent.

Not Communism.

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

The Sierra Club calls itself the “largest and most influential grass roots environmental organization in the country.” But it is in the middle of an implosion — left weakened, distracted and divided just as environmental protections are under assault by the Trump administration.

The group has lost 60 percent of the four million members and supporters it counted in 2019. It has held three rounds of employee layoffs since 2022, trying to climb out of a $40 million projected budget deficit.

Its political giving has also dropped. Federal campaign-finance records show $3.6 million in donations from the Sierra Club during the push to defeat Donald J. Trump in 2020, but none as Mr. Trump stormed back to the presidency in 2024.

And this year, as the Trump administration returned better organized and better prepared than in its first term, the Sierra Club was the opposite. While Mr. Trump boosted coal power, canceled wind farms and rolled back pollution limits, the club was consumed by internal chaos, culminating when the board fired its executive director, Ben Jealous, a former president of the N.A.A.C.P.

This goes beyond shooting yourself in the foot, this is shooting yourself in the groin. Such is a perennial problem with the Wokerati—it isn’t enough to be in favor of just one or a few of the Woke agenda, you have to be equally in favor of every piece of the Woke agenda or you get caught by the circular firing squad.

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A senior academic has threatened legal action against the London Mathematical Society (LMS) over its new transgender-inclusion policy, accusing the organisation of discriminating against members with gender-critical views.

John Armstrong, a lecturer in financial mathematics at King’s College London, has issued a pre-action letter through lawyers claiming the policy breaches the Equality Act and restricts free speech. The guidance warns that repeatedly using incorrect titles, pronouns or names for transgender people could lead to suspension, and affirms support for individuals using facilities aligned with their “affirmed identity”.

Armstrong argues this conflicts with an April Supreme Court ruling defining sex in law, and says requiring members to use pronouns such as “they/them” or “xie/xer” is discriminatory. He further alleges the rules effectively ban humour relating to transgender issues.

LMS trustees have rejected his claims, saying pronoun use does not limit expression and that offensive conduct should not be tolerated.

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Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., is calling on the Department of Justice to investigate Code Pink, alleging the left-wing activist group has ties to a terrorist front organization and the Chinese Communist Party, The Washington Free Beacon reported Friday.

The Beacon cited a letter Cotton wrote to Attorney General Pam Bondi on Friday, in which he made claims of “potential violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) and material support to foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs).”

Code Pink — notorious for disrupting Congress with anti-Israel outbursts — has advocated for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a U.S.-designated terrorist group, raising “serious questions about whether it has provided material support,” Cotton wrote.

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The Supreme Court delivered a victory to the Trump administration regarding a policy that passports should identify people based only on biological sex.

“Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth—in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment,” the high court’s unsigned order says.

The three liberal justices dissented.

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In case you hadn’t noticed how brazen far-left Democrats have become since President Donald Trump won the 2024 election, allow me to introduce you to a woman who previously admitted that she was living in the U.S. illegally and who just won an election to become the next mayor of St. Paul, Minn. The left isn’t even hiding the fact that illegals are participating in our political/governmental systems anymore.

How bold do you have to be to declare, openly, that you’re in the country illegally and then run for political office while not being a citizen? And the government is allowing this to happen right out in public, without much, if any, pushback.

Democratic State Rep. Kaohly Vang Her took home a big victory on Tuesday night, defeating incumbent Democratic Mayor Melvin Carter after a tabulation of second-choice votes. She, who was born in Laos and entered the country as a refugee, once stated during a public debate that both she and her family were illegal migrants. She later walked the comment back, but obviously, if she previously admitted this, it’s likely true.

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The answer is they aren’t cheaper…

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To paraphrase and utterly subvert one of Karl Marx’s best-known quotes, a “spectre” is haunting Silicon Valley—the spectre of authentic abundance. All the powers of woke California have entered into an unholy alliance to exorcise this spectre: public sector unions, the environmentalist lobby, the crony capitalists, Antifa radicals, and Reddit trolls.

They’re going to lose. For all the power the state’s ruling unholy alliance still wields with its “No Kings” populism, its partisan Prop. 50 redistricting, and its absolute grip on state and local governance, it is now in conflict with a far greater historical and cultural momentum. Innate to California and irrepressible, the forces of innovation and creativity that have defined the state for nearly two hundred years are asserting themselves in new domains. Authentic abundance is on the way, and nothing can stop it.

I hope that’s true, but I’m not sanguine. There are plenty of Democrats in Silicon Valley, and You Cain’t Fix Stupid.

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The longest U.S. government shutdown in history certaintly hurt Republicans, as Democrats scored victories in Tuesday’s elections, including socialist Zohran Mamdani becoming New York City’s next mayor, and Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill winning their respective gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey. However, none of that momentum rolled into the Democratic Party’s color revolution-style operation on Wednesday to surround the White House under the banner “The Trump Fascist Regime Must Go Now.”

Refuse Fascism, a “No Kings” partner funded by dark-money NGOs, planned sentiment-shaping operations aimed at swaying public opinion and undermining the Trump administration ahead of the 2026 midterm cycle. One might have expected, given the momentum from last night’s election results, that this front group of unhinged leftist boomers would have managed to rally more supporters out of the retirement homes – but like the last No Kings protest, it fell entirely flat…

The Left  has this delusion that they live in an Eisenstein movie, that every Republican loss in an election will inevitably lead to the storming of the Winter Palace White House, and the Red Hordes will sweep the land.

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The UK is doomed under Labour, the boss of Ryanair has warned as he claimed wealthy people were scrambling to ‘get the hell out of London’ before being hit by a Budget tax raid.

Michael O’Leary said he had no faith in the Chancellor’s ability to restore growth and branded her tax policies ‘dumb’.

The comments came amid reports that Rachel Reeves is planning to target the wealthy with a mansion tax in the Budget later this month.

He told the Guardian: ‘The UK economy under the current leadership is doomed.’

‘The UK badly needs growth, but the way to deliver growth is through selective tax cuts… you are not going to grow the UK economy by taxing wealth or taxing air travel.’

Mr O’Leary’s comments add to a chorus of criticism of Labour from UK business leaders – following warnings about tax from the likes of Marks & Spencer boss Stuart Machin and Asda’s Allan Leighton.

The Federalist.

More than a year after the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding local rules banning homeless camps on public property, Grants Pass is still a mess. The southeast Oregon city is also Exhibit A of what Christopher Rufo calls the homelessness industrial complex.

Grants Pass won. In 2024, the Supreme Court struck down lower court decisions and held that laws regulating camping on public land do not violate the Eighth Amendment’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment. The ruling was a win for local control.

The win was short-lived.

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Within a progressive controlled nation, who gets punished by the law is greatly dependent on their political and ethnic affiliations. Left leaning groups (and people like migrants who are useful to left leaning groups) enjoy a separate set of legal standards compared to people who oppose leftist ideology. This has become a clear trend within the UK in recent years.

This two tier legal system helps the encourage future crimes by leftists and their allies while the hammer is brought down on conservatives and patriots to ensure they are fearful of stepping out of line in the slightest.

This double standard is obvious once again in the recent acquittal of three Just Stop Oil activists who made headlines after they spraying down the historic site of Stonehenge with a mixture of powder and orange dye.  The dye cost around $1000 to clean but luckily did not leave lasting damage.  The stunt was allegedly designed to draw attention to JSO’s climate change agenda.

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Straws, soda, now paper bags. Is there anything batshit insane Democratic government officials don’t want to tax or micromanage?

In Philadelphia, that answer is apparently ‘no’, according to 6ABC.

While drug ravaged Kensington remains an issue, homeless people litter the streets and violent crime remains a problem, Philadelphia’s City Council just voted 10–5 for a truly groundbreaking idea (eye roll): charging 10 cents per paper bag.

The bill is now on Mayor Cherelle Parker’s desk, and she hasn’t said if she’ll sign it.

Time to leave.

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Since October, Danish farmers have been required to feed their cows Bovaer—a methane-reducing additive intended to make agriculture more climate-neutral. However, several farmers have reported that some animals have become ill or died after consuming the supplement, Danish media, including Nyheder TV2, reports.

The new regulation, effective from January 1st, 2025, mandates that all farms with more than 50 conventional dairy cows feed Bovaer for at least 80 days a year. Many farmers began using the additive on October 1st. Reports describe cows suffering from fever, reduced milk output, or sudden death shortly after consumption. One farmer said he lost several cows, each representing a financial loss of about 10,000 Danish kroner (€1,300).

Bovaer, developed by the Dutch company DSM-Firmenich, contains 3-nitrooxypropanol (3-NOP), a compound that inhibits methane-producing enzymes in a cow’s digestive system.

The Telegraph (UK).

The £33m aid project was designed to help poor Ugandan farmers deal with the impact of climate change.

But the reality saw their crops and homes destroyed in an “inhuman” project that left them “on the brink of starvation”.

Local government officials, who were guarded by armed security forces, razed crops, trees and homes as they claimed to be re-wilding wetland in a project run by the Green Climate Fund (GCF), which has received £2.6bn in UK taxpayers’ money.

It is one of a number of controversial projects uncovered in a seven-month investigation by The Telegraph into how the Government is spending £11.6bn in International Climate Finance (ICF).

On Friday, The Telegraph revealed how the public has paid for a £52m road to nowhere through the jungle in Guyana, rusting solar panels on schools in Zimbabwe and condoms in the Congo all under the guise of climate aid.

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Several arson attacks took place in Leibertingen (Baden-Württemberg) last week. According to the police, a 22-year-old man threw Molotov cocktails at a car and two neighbouring houses. He also attacked police officers and other emergency services with incendiary devices. It has now emerged that the attacks were probably politically motivated. Among the victims of the arson attempt was Michael Koppatz, a former politician and active member of the AfD (Alternative for Germany).

The mother of the alleged perpetrator, Tobias K., is the mayor of a neighbouring town.

The suspect first set fire to Koppatz’s wife’s company car in the parking lot. Firefighters managed to extinguish the fire in time before it spread to Koppatz’s house. Shortly afterwards, he allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at the window of Koppatz’s house, but it did not cause any damage. The former MP retired from politics some time ago because he no longer agreed with some of the party’s policies.

While police officers and a firefighter were investigating the scene of the fire, another Molotov cocktail was thrown at them, landing a few meters in front of them and exploding on the street.

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Some of the most prestigious medical journals are refusing to publish corrections to papers that contain demonstrably false claims about ‘gender medicine.’

That’s the main finding of Dr. J. Cohn, author of ‘Censorship of Essential Debate in Gender Medicine Research.’ She noted the ‘low or very low-certainty evidence for the benefits of medical gender interventions’—echoing last year’s Cass Review—including suicide prevention. Despite the facts, academic medical journals continue to publish demonstrably false claims about gender medicine.

Since 2022, when these dubious ‘facts’ appeared online or in print, including in the JAMA, the New England Journal of Medicine, and Pediatrics, Cohn has submitted corrections: a normal part of the peer review process. Typically, journal editors responded with assertions about their confidence in the articles and their parallel doubts about the rigorous scholarship cited by Cohn.

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The Democratic Party’s power grip on the Mid-Atlantic, particularly in Maryland, appears to be eroding.

Local headlines and a Justice Department statement confirm that leftist-controlled Baltimore County has been removed from the federal list of sanctuary jurisdictions after signing a cooperation agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The DoJ wrote in a press release that the county’s cooperation represents progress in restoring public safety, despite state-level restrictions on federal immigration enforcement. The county had been listed as a sanctuary jurisdiction since August, a designation leftist County Executive Kathy Klausmeier argued was a mistake.

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The ongoing debate over France’s budget continued on Friday, when the National Assembly voted down a proposal for a 2% tax on assets exceeding €100 million, known as the Zucman tax after its economist proponent, Gabriel Zucman. The measure, supported by an alliance of left-wing parties, aimed to target around 1,800 wealthy households and would, Zucman has said, generate €15-20 billion annually. Center- and right-wing lawmakers united in opposition, citing concerns about capital flight, job losses, and economic harm, while the government warned the tax would be unconstitutional. A milder ‘Zucman-light’ variant from the Socialists, proposing a 3% levy on assets over €10 million, with exemptions for family and “innovative” firms, also failed to pass.

The vote escalates political tensions as France races to approve its 2026 budget by year-end, with the deficit projected to hit 6% of GDP amid post-pandemic recovery strains. Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu faces mounting pressure, as he lacks a parliamentary majority and is reliant on Socialist support to pass the budget.

If the minority government excludes wealth redistribution measures, left-wing deputies have threatened to topple it. To pacify furious lawmakers on the Left, Lecornu offered concessions like abandoning planned freezes on pensions and welfare benefits, which would otherwise fail to adjust for inflation. Lawmakers did approve a compromise: a 2% tax on non-operational assets held in holding companies, expected to raise up to €1 billion.

Zucman, a 39-year-old Berkeley professor, decried the vote as a “missed opportunity for fiscal justice.” Critics, including budget minister Amélie de Montchalin, argued it would drive wealthy taxpayers abroad and undermine business competitiveness. With Senate review pending, further amendments could reshape the budget, but analysts warn of prolonged gridlock.

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Dr. Wrong. The Population Bomb is the stuff of jokes as obesity has overtaken famine in the developed (non-statist) world–thanks to more, not less, people. Game, set, and match to Paul Ehlich’s intellectual foe, Julian Simon.

The New Neo.

That way you can still be a liberal and have the limousine too.

Why don’t they move further away? I guess because they want to keep their NYC jobs and access, and are willing to commute. It will be fascinating – if Mamdani is in fact elected – to see if there’s a massive exodus from New York or not. The rich have more options than the poor, as usual.

Perhaps the rich will leave the city entirely and leave it to the poor. We can have our own Socialist Failed State right there on the Hudson.

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A new report by Americans for Public Trust claims that a group of foreign-based charities has quietly spent almost $2 billion funding U.S. nonprofit organizations engaged in climate advocacy, litigation, and policy campaigns.

The 31-page study, Foreign Charities Fueling Extreme Policies in the U.S., names five European foundations that it says have steered hundreds of millions of dollars into American organizations promoting rapid transitions away from fossil fuels and other energy reforms.

The report identifies Britain’s Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, Denmark’s KR Foundation, Switzerland’s Oak Foundation and Laudes Foundation, and the United Kingdom’s Quadrature Climate Foundation as key financial sources.

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The permanent protest industrial complex, fueled by billionaire-funded NGOs and far-left activist groups, is preparing to mobilize a coordinated color revolution–style operation targeting the White House under the banner “The Trump Fascist Regime Must Go Now.” The upcoming protest activity mirrors tactics historically associated with American statecraft overseas in regime-change operations, but appears to be domestically funded through a web of dark-money-funded NGOs aligned with sinister globalist interests and amplified by the unhinged leftists of the Democratic Party.

“Beginning November 5, the one-year anniversary of Trump’s election, flood DC in nonviolent protest. Surround the White House. Surround the Capitol. Surround the illegitimate fascist-packed Supreme Court,” the far-left group Refuse Fascism wrote on its website.

We’ve got some great new memes here: “unhinged boomer activist”, “protest industrial complex”. File them with AWFUL.

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One of the most notorious billionaire pontificators on the climate change boondoggle just did an about-face and told the eco-extremists screeching Armageddon to take a chill pill.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates shocked the political sphere by completely skewering the leftist narrative that we’re all going to die from climate change in a few years in an October 28 blog post.

Gates first outlined the doomist narrative: “‘In a few decades, cataclysmic climate change will decimate civilization. The evidence is all around us—just look at all the heat waves and storms caused by rising global temperatures. Nothing matters more than limiting the rise in temperature.” Then came the kicker: “Fortunately for all of us, this view is wrong. Although climate change will have serious consequences—particularly for people in the poorest countries—it will not lead to humanity’s demise.”

Okay, who is this guy and what did he do with Bill Gates?

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Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen posted on Instagram that brand owner Unilever had prevented the company from making a flavor in support of Palestine, so “I’m doing it myself.”

He said that the flavor would be based on watermelon, which The Times of Israel noted has become a symbol of Palestinians on social media in recent years due to its colors resembling those of the Palestinian national flag.

In his post, Cohen asked the public to send in ideas for a name for the flavor and for additional ingredients, as well as suggestions for ideas for the design on the ice cream container.

What is he going to call it? Judenhasse Sherbet? Genocide Gelato?

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Fresh insights into the ecological devastation caused by onshore wind turbines around the world are contained in a shocking new paper published last month by a group of ecologists in Nature. The paper is paywalled and has attracted little mainstream media interest, but it highlights research that illustrates that the effect of utility-scale wind energy production “can be far reaching and sometimes have large and unexpected consequences for biodiversity”.

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A bronze statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike, toppled and burned by demonstrators in 2020 protests, has been reinstalled in Judiciary Square.

Crews placed the statue Saturday, surrounded by fencing and signs reading “Historic preservation work in progress,” Channel 4 in D.C. reported.

The Department of the Interior said the restoration follows President Donald Trump’s directives on restoring historic monuments, citing compliance with federal preservation law and executive orders promoting the beautification of the nation’s capital.