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The Left, for all its protestations about the travails of the working class, is a movement of radical intellectuals, effete upper-class dilettantes and professional activists who are detached from the ‘plight’ of the ‘proletariat’ whose rights they claim to be campaigning for. Its academic theories, from Marxism on down, are not grounded in anything except abstract sophistry marshaled on behalf of the perpetually oppressed who are to benefit from the totalitarian rule of the Left.

The inauthenticity of the Left, its power and privilege, its detachment from what it considers to be ordinary life, leaves it forever searching for authentic victims, whose lives follow the patterns of socialist theories, rather than being the ones who stand apart and make those theories.

The mimicry of working-class attire by leftists had been mocked as far back as Orwell. Radicals who didn’t work loved adopting the costumes and accents of the working class as if they were ideological method actors who could discover the authenticity they lacked by playing a part. (It is no coincidence that acting is a profession rife with leftist politics and that so many of those who play the embodiment of the ordinary man or woman on screen proved to be nothing of the sort. To paraphrase Shakespeare, all the Left’s a stage and its activists mere players.)

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Far-left Maryland lawmakers, sitting high in their Annapolis castle, are completely detached from reality. They masquerade as public servants but are merely progressive activists who cannot govern properly. Instead of addressing the state’s incoming financial crisis and worsening power crisis, these woke lawmakers have focused on condoms for kids and other disastrous left-wing policies. It’s as if these politicians are sabotaging the state…

Democrats in the state have been spending taxpayer monies like drunken sailors, driving the state to the brink of a financial crisis marked by a $3.2 billion deficit, heightened credit downgrade risk, and a worsening power crisis. Compounding the situation, DOGE-related cuts to the bloated federal bureaucracy threaten to trigger a devastating recession in the state, whose economy is mainly dependent on the federal government and produces little value in the private economy.

On Wednesday, instead of addressing the mounting problems, Democratic lawmakers passed a bill in a 101–36 vote to establish a commission tasked with studying and recommending potential reparations for slavery and the lasting effects of racial discrimination in the state.

I think Democrats ought to be the ones to pay reparations, since they were the ones who owned the slaves.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom stands behind his claim that “Big Oil” is responsible for California’s higher gas prices and vowed on April 1 to continue his fight against the industry. The pledge comes after new research put the blame on state regulations and policies for the high prices at the pump.

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A new study published March 16 by Michael Mische from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California says the evidence contradicts Newsom. Mische’s research indicated California’s high gas prices were caused by the state’s regulations and policies.

“There is no economic data to support the allegation of price gouging,” Mische told The Epoch Times. “It just doesn’t exist.”

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Imagine that.

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The Nation’s justice correspondent Elie Mystal told “The View” co-hosts on Tuesday that all laws passed before the 1965 Voting Rights Act should be deemed “presumptively unconstitutional.”

Mystal claimed that the U.S. was “functionally an apartheid country” before the passage of the Voting Rights Act, a Civil Rights-era law that prohibited racial discrimination at the ballot boxes. The Supreme Court ruled in June 2013 that a part of the law allowing for federal review of proposed election-related changes before they took effect is unconstitutional.

The justice correspondent accused President Donald Trump’s administration of citing so-called racial laws passed before the Civil Rights Movement to justify the arrest of non-citizens who may pose a threat to the U.S.

Daily Mail (UK).
A toddler has been kicked out of nursery after being accused of transphobia, new figures reveal.

The child, aged either three or four, was suspended for ‘abuse against sexual orientation and gender identity’, data from the Department for Education shows.

The offences took place in the 2022-23 academic year at a state school, according to The Telegraph.

Statistics indicate 94 pupils at similar primary institutions were suspended or permanently excluded for transphobia or homophobia in the same year.

This included ten pupils from Year 1 and three from Year 2, where the maximum age was seven, and one child was of nursery age.

Aren’t you glad you don live in Britain?

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Who didn’t know that such things would happen? Where is the FBI when you really need them?

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On the campaign trail, Donald Trump used contentiousness around transgender people’s access to sports and bathrooms to fire up conservative voters and sway undecideds.

One of the Left’s primary objectives is to make the exception into the rule and the rule into the exception.

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Wokeism, the ideology that infiltrated the permanent bureaucracy and increasingly gave it ideological ballast, is, if anything, an insurrection against the West. Woke, a term borrowed from black American slang, means being acutely awake to what its supporters believe to be the systemic oppression of the marginalized by society’s winners.

That is why Musk, whom President Donald Trump appointed to lead the Department of Government Efficiency, posts about how he also sees his role as saving Western civilization. DOGE is not a department but an effort outside of the government itself, and it’s charged with slashing this bureaucracy.

The oppressor versus the oppressed paradigm is a way of looking at all human experience directly from Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto

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Democrats unleashed their coordinated, NGO-driven color revolution—dubbed the ‘Tesla Takedown’—nationwide on Saturday, though it unfolded in a notably unimpressive fashion.

The days of million-man (or woman) marches, usually bankrolled with taxpayer dollars funneled through now-defunct USAID, appear to be over, as their ability to sway national sentiment has diminished significantly. Still, these dark and corrupt NGOs receive monies from leftist billionaires, as we’ve previously reported.

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Democrats have been wallowing in the despair of last November’s elections for months, unable—or maybe unwilling—to crawl out of the pit of public opinion they find themselves in. “It’s hard to win if you don’t know why you lost,” Axios’ Alex Thompson observed. But it’s even harder, some would say, if you know and do nothing about it.

To most people, the solution to the party’s problems is simple. After a year of losing ground with virtually every demographic—men, black Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, young people, Independents, suburban moms—the polling all points to Democrats being completely out of step with everyday voters. So why not just abandon the extremism Americans rejected? For the party of Barack Obama and Joe Biden, the answer is much more complicated.

The crisis facing Democrats isn’t about their identity; they have one. The crisis is that they can’t moderate their ideology—or embrace it—without severe consequences. As National Review’s Rich Lowry put it, “The reason Joe Biden won in 2020 is he didn’t seem like a progressive, and one reason that his party lost in 2024 is that he governed like one.” For Democrats, ideological extremism is their kryptonite and their lifeblood. It’s what excites the base and repels the populace. In other words, it’s a recipe for long-term political disaster.

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Air travel will soon be the preserve of the privileged, an airline boss has admitted, as Net Zero makes low-cost air travel a thing of the past. The truth the Net Zero is making us poorer is slowly leaking out, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.

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A California policy that prevents schools from requiring staff to disclose a child’s gender identity or sexual orientation to his or her parents may be in violation of a federal law, the U.S. Department of Education announced Thursday.

The federal agency’s Student Privacy Policy Office, which oversees the Family Educational Rights Privacy Act (FERPA), is investigating instances in California where school personnel in various districts allegedly hid information from parents and assisted students with their gender “transition,” a March 27 news release notes.

The Department of Education alleged that AB 1955, which took effect on Jan. 1, conflicts with FERPA, which gives parents the right to review students’ records. The department’s news release said federal law supersedes any state law in this case.

Newsbusters.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom hosts a podcast. Why not? He has plenty of free time.

In the last few years, California experienced a net population loss of nearly 1 million people. The average price of a home in the state is twice that of the national average. Its K-12 test scores in reading and math place California 37th of 50 states. The state’s January 2025 unemployment rate, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, was the second highest in the nation.

As for California’s poverty rate, CalMatters, a respected, California-based nonprofit news organization, wrote: “The Public Policy Institute of California, using a methodology similar to that of the Census Bureau, calculated that in 2023, 31.1% of Californians were either at or near poverty. Deep poverty, defined as ‘families with less than half of the resources to meet basic needs,’ was at 3.4%.” (California’s homeless population, at an estimated 187,000, is the nation’s largest.)

In a separate report, CalMatters wrote, “Nearly a quarter of all unhoused Americans live in California — as well as 28% of all homeless veterans and 44% of all ‘chronically homeless’ Americans (people who have a disability and have been homeless for a significant period of time.)”

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Remember in 2006 when Al Gore released An Inconvenient Truth and made lots of frightening claims about climate change, none of which came true?

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In the end, we are left with a strange theological message: the road to environmental heaven is paved with good intentions, reinforced stitching, and a sturdy sense of self-righteousness. And if you can’t save the Earth, at least make sure your bag says you tried.

The New Neo.

This article caught my eye. It describes what you might call the Rosie O’Donnell phenomenon of people leaving the country because of their hatred of Trump and fear of what he has in store for them. Ordinarily the latter bears zero relation to reality. But that seems to be the echo chamber in which they live, and they’re willing to act on it.

These proglodytes are afraid that Trump might do to them what they’d love to do to us.

I can’t even figure out what rhetoric of Trump they might be relying on to think that those rights would be threatened by Trump during his term. He did nothing about it during his first term, either. And a policy of blocking medical transition for youths actually supports gay people, because a great number of de-transitioners finally settle into accepting that they are gay rather than trans.

But logic has little to nothing to do with fear of Trump.

Good riddance, I say.

Jonathan Turley.

Yesterday, there was a curious aspect to the coverage of the video of a woman attacking a young man for wearing a MAGA hat. Ignored by many mainstream outlets, conservative news sites described the woman as a “Karen” who got “karma.”

The video below was viewed as a funny payback as the woman fell while chasing the man from the New York subway car. However, the incident is not karma but a crime. This is political violence perpetrated on the New York subway, and yet no one in New York seems to be calling for the arrest of this person.

If you watch the video, the woman starts by harassing the young man in the subway car. She is shown yelling, “If you f—-ing voted for Trump, you’re a racist!… He’s a racist!”

One can dismiss the verbal attacks as an exercise of free speech. However, she then repeatedly grabs and strikes the young man as she chases him from the car:

Of course, if he defended himself, he’d be the one in jail for ‘hitting a girl’.

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Pamphlets outlining how to “build a culture of resistance against” Immigration and Customs Enforcement were available in Columbia’s main library Monday night, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. A second stack of handouts detailed how radical activists can protect themselves while participating in various protests, including encampments and while occupying administrative buildings.

The first pamphlet, titled “8 THINGS YOU CAN DO TO STOP ICE,” was attributed to the anarchist group CrimethInc. and calls on activists to “Abolish ICE” and “Shut Out The Police.” The second set, adorned with the anti-Israel National Lawyers Guild’s logo and titled “KNOW YOUR RIGHTS FOR CAMPUS PROTESTS,” warned that corporations may use lawsuits “to target protected speech” and suggested finding allies among faculty and school administrators.

Both sets of flyers, obtained by the Free Beacon, filled a bin sporting two labels: one that read “Know Your Rights Educational Resources,” and another that read “Property of library staff—do not remove.”

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As they do.

Publicly, Columbia University interim president Katrina Armstrong says she’s committed to implementing the reforms the Trump administration is demanding. Behind closed doors, she is telling colleagues not much is going to change.

In a weekend meeting with roughly 75 disgruntled faculty members, Armstrong told colleagues that, despite national news headlines indicating the school had genuflected before the administration, there would be “no change to masking” and that the university’s disciplinary process “remains independent” and “has not been moved to my office.”

Armstrong said something different days earlier when announcing several changes to the school’s operating procedures. In a memo presented to the Trump administration on Friday, she indicated that “face masks or face coverings are not allowed for the purpose of concealing one’s identity” and that anyone wearing a face covering during a protest is subject to a mandatory ID check.

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Our think-tank MCC Brussels has been investigating the use of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) by the European Union. Our published reports expose the laundering of billions of euros to institutions charged with promoting the European Commission’s propaganda throughout Europe.

This misuse of taxpayer’s money is an outrage. But what is of even greater concern is how this corruption of civil society undermines democratic decision making in the EU’s member states. In particular, the EU-NGO propaganda complex has sought to use pliant NGOs to promote regime change in Hungary and Poland.

The EU has channelled funds to NGOs in countries such as Poland (€38 million) and Hungary (€41 million) through the CERV program, aimed at promoting ‘EU values’ and, in some cases, undermining the elected government. For example, the Ökotárs Foundation in Hungary, which received a €3.3 million grant from the EU, has been involved in disputes with the Orbán government and stands accused of being a “local distribution centre” for foreign influence.

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CBS loves to pose as the opponents of propaganda and misinformation, but when it comes to their own long history of making propaganda, they can only glorify themselves. On Sunday’s 60 Minutes, they aired a 13-minute puff piece on Democrat activist and actor George Clooney, now making a Broadway play out of his CBS-mythologizing movie Good Night and Good Luck.

CBS interviewer Jon Wertheim made a disclosure early in this puff piece about his work with Clooney and his partner Grant Heslov: “Full disclosure, the three of us collaborated on an unrelated sports documentary out later this year.”

The truth gets mangled early on in this segment. Wertheim explained about Sen. Joseph McCarthy: “At the height of the Red Scare, the Wisconsin senator led a crusade to weed out supposed communist infiltration of the U.S. government.”

Supposed? We’re not in the 1950s any more. Anyone who’s read the Venona papers knows the Soviet Union infiltrated the U.S. government, including Alger Hiss, who the Clooney types pretended was innocent for decades. This is the myth that CBS and Clooney are still promoting, that they were on the “right side of history” as they were gaslighting and getting it wrong about Soviet espionage.

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By the way, as I see it, the people being removed are being removed because they entered the country illegally. That they supposedly have violent criminal backgrounds or are members of violent gangs is the reason for prioritizing their removal, but not the sole reason for their removal. Some of the “due process” concerns I have read or heard pertain to whether or not these people are actually gang members. But I don’t see that distinction as relevant to the question of whether they can be removed because they entered the country illegally.

And I understand that the reason these people were removed to El Salvador rather than to their home country of Venezuela is that Venezuela refused to allow them back in.

I can kinda understand having a little more process when revoking previously granted permission to enter the country (i.e., revoking a “green card” or a visa) because the person violated the terms of the permission. But I still don’t see that those processes need to be as stringent as the full criminal due process requirements. Being sent back to your home country is categorically different from being sentenced to prison or to death.

Proglodytes chant ‘DUE PROCESS! DUE PROCESS! DUE PROCESS!’ as if it were an magical spell that will act as a Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free card (which is actually Habeas Corpus, but that’s law school talking).

What everybody is ignoring is the fundamental question of: What ‘process’ is ‘due’?

If you accuse someone of Not Following The Rules, then the immediate concern is, what version of The Rules are you talking about? Because the legal system has many different sets of The Rules depending on the circumstances, and nobody seems willing to do the heavy lifting of talking about which set of The Rules applies.

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This all sounds reasonable, but where is the “first, check your premises” caveat? Greater speed to the wrong destination is not a virtue, as the late founder of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), Fred Smith, stated. Path dependency and “the tyranny of the status quo” in climate research and understanding can ruin a student’s time and subsequent career path.

Lisa Sachs repeated refusal to address intellectual diversity and the need for balanced debate on open climate questions speak for themselves. It is climate propaganda at Columbia U.

The Antiplanner.

On her first day in office, Oregon Governor Tina Kotek signed an executive order calling for the construction of 36,000 new homes per year. She was especially hoping for lots of new apartments because, as everyone knows, driving is evil and people who live in apartments drive less than people who live in single-family homes.

It should come as no surprise to anyone who understands how well central planning works that apartment construction in Portland, where close to half of Oregonians live, is now at its lowest level in more than a decade. There are several reasons for this, but among them are several idiotic government policies that have discouraged more construction.

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Francesca Padilla was awakened by the sound of screaming people and breaking glass. Soon she could hear the tortured howls of her neighbor’s dog Togo as the bungalow right next to her Venice home was engulfed in flames.

“It was yelping so loud—the sound isn’t the usual dog sound—it was suffering,” another neighbor told a local newspaper. “It was suffering.”

The homeowner, Dr. Courtney Gillenwater, a pediatrician, was at work when the fire started around 3 a.m. Her neighbors tried and failed to break into her bungalow to rescue Togo. But the Husky-mix ultimately died, and Gillenwater’s home in this Los Angeles neighborhood was destroyed.

Gillenwater suspected that drug addicts from the growing homeless encampment nearby started the April 2021 fire because she had asked city officials to remove a dumpster behind her house where they would congregate.

Her neighbor, Padilla, also believes the homeless were the culprits. “Anyone can see the correlation between homeless encampments and the rise of fires,” she said. “We have people cooking drugs out in the open right across the street. Is that not a recipe for disaster?”

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Gosh. I looked up to them in the ’70s and ’80s when they were saving whales from those seemingly evil Japanese fishermen. They used to take on noble causes with honorable intent. Or so it seemed to my youthful perspective.

But then, they started acting more and more fringe, becoming more destructive and aggressive—the opposite of the second half of their name, “peace” . Looking at some of the historical accounts, it appears they were always pretty aggressive and destructive, but the media, even then, portrayed their actions with glossy noble terms and portrayed their actions as honorable and justified. The leftist propaganda was less overt then, but it still sucked me in. Most courts agreed. Internationally, Greenpeace “activists”* were arrested and charged with assorted crimes of trespass, assault, vandalism, destruction of property, etc. And courts decided these were “acceptable actions” because they were performed by those with a noble cause – that is, “environmentalism”.

Well with all human interactions, if you remove barriers and consequences to actions, you get more of and more extreme actions than were permitted and excused.

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In just one year, over a million migrants in Britain received more than £7.6 billion in welfare, an analysis of government data has found.

The Centre for Migration Control (CMC) estimates that around 1,158,000 foreign nationals received universal credit for low income individuals, after collating Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) data.

The figures are from 2023 when a supposedly conservative government was in power, and before the current far left Labour government was elected.

I guess the question to ask in Britain is: Are you a Right-Wing Socialist or a Left-Wing Socialist?

I wonder what an equivalent review for the U.S. would find. I suspect it would be in the hundreds of billions.

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L.A.’s financial problems exploded into a full-blown crisis on Wednesday, with the city’s top budget official announcing that next year’s shortfall is now just shy of $1 billion, making layoffs “nearly inevitable.”

City Administrative Officer Matt Szabo advised the City Council to focus on cost-cutting measures, including a potential reduction in the size of the workforce, to bring the budget into balance for 2025-26.

Szabo, in his presentation to the council Wednesday, attributed the city’s financial woes, in part, to increased spending on legal payouts, which have ballooned over the past few years. Tax revenues have been coming in much weaker than expected — and are expected to soften further in the upcoming budget year, which starts July 1.

Pay raises for city employees that are scheduled to go into effect in the coming budget year are expected to consume an additional $250 million. On top of that, Szabo said, the city needs to put hundreds of millions into its reserve fund, which has been drained in recent months in an attempt to balance this year’s budget.

As Margaret Thatcher famously said, the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.

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A North Dakota jury on Wednesday found Greenpeace liable for defamation and other claims brought by a pipeline company in connection with protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline.

The nine-person jury awarded Dallas-based Energy Transfer and its subsidiary Dakota Access hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.

The lawsuit had accused Netherlands-based Greenpeace International, Greenpeace USA and funding arm Greenpeace Fund Inc. of defamation, trespass, nuisance, civil conspiracy and other acts.

Actions have consequences, and the Woke Get-Out-of-Jail-Free card no longer works.

Federal judge indefinitely blocks Trump's ban on transgender service members, saying it's 'soaked in animus' (Devan Cole/CNN)

Judge bars Trump’s EPA from taking back $20B in climate grants — for now (Politico)

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty sue over grant termination (Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing/Politico)

America’s “Constitutional Crash” (Doomsday Scenario)

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty sues Trump administration over canceled contract (David Folkenflik/NPR)

Judge Slams Trump For Putting Fired Probationary Workers On Paid Leave (Dave Jamieson/HuffPost)

Judge blocks Trump administration from terminating $14 billion in ‘green bank’ grants (Associated Press)

Democrats Turn to Legally Dubious Ruling Coauthored by DEI Activist To Protect California’s EV Mandate

Republicans want to make ‘Trump derangement syndrome’ an official mental health disorder (Minnesota State Senator Arrested In Sting On Same Day He Introduced ‘TDS’ Bill (David Moye/HuffPost))

Emails Reveal Top IRS Lawyer Warned Trump Firings Were a “Fraud” on the Courts (Pro Publica)

Federal Judge Orders Price Of Eggs To Go Back Up (Babylon Bee)

Susan Quinn: Israel Re-Starts the Bombing of Gaza: Blame Trump

The court-case presidency – With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine – Embed: (Jack Blanchard/Politico)

Trump Has Gone From Unconstitutional to Anti-Constitutional (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)

The Constitutional Crisis May be Upon Us (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

Trump defies court orders to dump Venezuelans in Salvadoran slave jail (Liz Dye/Public Notice)

How major law firms are responding to Trump’s attacks (Daniel Barnes/Politico)

Trump administration pushes back on judge’s request for answers about deportation flights (NBC News)

Judge denies Trump administration’s attempt to dismiss Mahmoud Khalil’s challenge to his deportation – live (The Guardian)

Trump’s Sister Declared The Immigration Law He Used Unconstitutional (Stuart Anderson/Forbes)

Trump doubles down on attack against judge after Roberts rebuke (Brett Samuels/The Hill)

Biden-Appointed LGBT Judge Blocks Trump’s Military-Transgender Ban

Supreme Court to Decide if States Can Withhold Medicaid Funding From Planned Parenthood

Trump’s Military Transgender Ban Blocked by Federal Judge Facing Misconduct Complaint

Judge Blocks Policy That Would Expel Transgender Troops (Dave Philipps/New York Times)

Blitzer Tries To Push Breyer Into Saying Trump Is Causing ‘Constitutional Crisis’

U.S. Institute of Peace sues to block DOGE ‘takeover by force’ (NBC News)

Poll: As Trump and courts clash, voters weigh whether each branch of government has too much power (Ben Kamisar/NBC News)

Judge rules DOGE’s USAID dismantling likely violates the Constitution (Associated Press)

Obama-Appointed Judge Temporarily Blocks EPA From Canceling Climate Grants

Judge Orders Trump to Return 2 Trans Inmates to Women’s Prisons

The American Mind.

Much has been written about Trump Derangement Syndrome, that mental and emotional affliction that distorts its victims’ ability to make measured judgments about the doings of our past and present president. No doubt much more will be written about it, because this malady shows no signs of abating.

One of the worst side effects of TDS is the widespread circulation of bogus constitutional claims. As Trump, the astute politician that he is, has staked out popular positions on many issues of interest to the public, his critics, at a loss for other arguments, routinely say he is trashing the Constitution.

This is a serious problem. Preserving our constitutional system, and the many blessings that flow from it, depends on preserving a correct understanding of the Constitution’s various provisions among the public. But the public’s understanding of the Constitution is undermined by the TDS brigade’s continual reiteration of fanciful claims of constitutional violations.

TDS, regrettably, is not just a problem on the American Left. There are plenty of conservative sufferers who cannot evaluate Trump dispassionately and twist the Constitution to find grounds on which to denounce him. A prominent case is National Review’s Andrew C. McCarthy, who recently condemned President Trump’s executive order regarding the law firm Perkins Cole.

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“They patrol L.A.’s streets in search of ICE, Trump immigration raids,” is how the Los Angeles Times described the pro-illegal alien activists sabotaging the arrests of illegal alien criminals. The newspaper breathlessly described how ‘community patrols follow ICE vehicles and alert illegal aliens that federal law enforcement is on the way.”

The pro-illegal alien activists use megaphones to make noise, hoping to scare away the criminals that ICE has come to protect the community from, to the applause of the media.

During one recent raid in Alhambra where ICE, the FBI and DEA were preparing to arrest dangerous criminals, Union del Barrio activists began shouting through megaphones, and alerting any nearby criminals that law enforcement was here.

But who are they?

Metropolitan Review, an obscure Voice of the Crust.

In which a Modern Woman attempts to cope when reality intrudes:

This was the first time it crossed my mind that a young woman like us — a knowledge worker, a writer, a leftist — might regret her independent youth and wish she had married a loving person at a young age. I’d associated this idea with a type of womanhood we considered totally outside of our zone of interest: anti-intellectualism, a belief in the primacy of motherhood. I was blindsided by the suggestion that we might be better people if we were recused from formative independence and struggle. I looked around at my friends and acquaintances, especially the married ones, and wondered if there was any truth in the idea that the years they spent as poor captains of their own ships, unmoored and often lonely, were in fact not remotely necessary or enlightening.

Read the whole thing, although the cluelessness is very tragic.

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A little-known law in Illinois requires private companies to finance the DEI industry if they wish to do business with the state—giving a lifeline to an unpopular industry that currently finds itself on the ropes as major companies across the country ditch their DEI programs and President Donald Trump works to eradicate its influence across the federal government.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D.) signed a bill into law in 2021 that essentially requires businesses that seek to do business with the state of Illinois to bankroll the DEI industry. The law, which went into full effect in 2024, established a “commitment to diversity” factor in all state contracts that grades companies in large part on how much money they donate to DEI nonprofits and how much time their leaders personally volunteer to promote DEI in their communities. The higher the score companies receive on Pritzker’s DEI factor, the more likely they are to secure contracts from his administration.

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America’s public high schools are strange places to find displays of the alphabet. Perhaps with plummeting standardized test scores and a substantial increase in English-as-a-second-language students in sanctuary districts, high school educators feel the need to review kindergarten basics. In Fairfax County, Virginia’s West Springfield High School, located just 17 miles from the White House, school administrators and teachers have decorated the history hallway this month with a special, leftist rendition of the alphabet.

The display, titled “The ABCs to ME,” is decorated with the school’s colors: a blue background lined with an orange border. Featured in the display is a sign that reads, “A is for Abortion” with an image of a coat hanger with a positive pregnancy test.

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For two decades, the public has been bombarded with dire warnings of an impending climate-induced agricultural apocalypse. The claim is that a climate warmed excessively by the carbon dioxide emissions of human activity will ravage the food supply and plunge humanity into famine and chaos.

For many reasons, none of this ever made sense. Now, a new study published in Scientific Reports has turned this narrative of catastrophe on its head, revealing that a global temperature rise of even 5 degrees Celsius (9 degrees Fahrenheit) would not reduce crop yields—and might even increase harvests.

The paper, written by economist Ross McKitrick, dismantles a key pillar of the Biden administration’s always-suspect upward revision of the “social cost of carbon”—a metric used by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to quantify the supposed economic damage of carbon dioxide emissions. The fivefold increase of the social cost of carbon—from $51 per ton of carbon dioxide to more than $250—was based partly on the assumption that warming would devastate agriculture.

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My, what a surprise.

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Climate activists have found a new way to force us to pay more for energy.

New York and Vermont passed laws that will raise the price of oil, gas, and electricity by taxing the past.

New York’s new law demands fossil fuel companies pay $75 billion for carbon emissions dating back to the year 2000. Other Democrat-controlled states plan to follow suit.

In my new video, Travis Fisher, energy director at the Cato Institute, argues that taxing the past is wrong: “I’ve been filling up my gas tank for 25 years. Will they go after me for every time I’ve filled up my tank?”

Maybe.

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Two monumental events have shaken the U.S. foreign policy establishment since the inauguration of President Donald Trump. They took place at roughly the same time, but few have recognized their connection.

The first was the widespread exposure of USAID as the “world’s hipster vanguard of globalist, cultural Marxist revolution,” in the words of J. Michael Waller. When it wasn’t outright funding jihadist terrorism, USAID redirected billions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer money to left-wing organizers promoting LGBTQ, anti-racism, climate change, and every other imaginable progressive policy around the globe.

While “charity” CEOs living in taxpayer-funded luxury wailed about how cuts would cost lives, the debate among the online Right was about burning USAID to the ground and salting the earth, or perhaps repurposing some form of foreign aid to support an America First foreign policy agenda.

The other earthshaking event was Vice President JD Vance’s transformational speech before the Munich Security Conference. Vance warned that our European allies, who cynically appeal to the shared principles that united America and Western Europe during the Cold War, have increasingly shunned the consent of the governed in favor of a heavy-handed bureaucratic censorship regime that resembles our former Soviet enemies.

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The anti-free speech movement in the United States was largely an outgrowth of higher education where viewpoint intolerance has taken hold of many schools. Indeed, intolerance and orthodoxy are often defended on the left in the name of tolerance and pluralism. Harvard Professor Timothy McCarthy is one of those voices demanding the removal of faculty with opposing views in the name of tolerance. He recently told New York University’s Washington Square News that any faculty who do not support “gender-affirming care” should be stripped of their academic titles and fired.

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Indivisible, the left-wing group behind red-district town hall protests targeting Elon Musk’s DOGE, is providing local activists with a “reimbursement program” to cover certain expenses associated with opposing what it calls the “Trump-Musk coup.” Included among the reimbursable items are “chicken suits,” according to Indivisible’s co-executive director.

Local Indivisible chapters, a webpage outlining the program states, can receive up to $200 per congressional recess for protest expenses like audio and video equipment, signage, promotional materials, and gas. For lawmakers who decline to hold town halls during the upcoming recess, Indivisible encourages local activists to hold their own events and purchase “cardboard depictions of your Member of Congress” and “chicken suits,” both of which Indivisible will pay for.

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Members of the European Parliament (EP) have rebuked the European Commission for aiming to bypass them using an emergency clause to fast-track the legislative process. The reprimand came on Wednesday, March 12th, as MEPs adopted a resolution to endorse the basic outlines of the European Union executive’s colossal €800 billion defense investment scheme, as well as to call for the EU’s further military integration.

The core proposal of the Commission’s ‘ReArm Europe’ scheme is a massive €150 billion joint loan for arms procurement. To speed up the approval, Brussels is invoking Article 122 of the EU treaty, which allows legislative files to skip parliamentary negotiations during states of emergency and go straight to the EU Council to be tweaked and adopted by member states in record time.

This means that if the Commission proceeds as planned, the only EU body with directly elected members will have no say about the final contents of what is potentially the term’s most important package—except for holding meaningless debates and passing non-binding resolutions should it so wish.

Eurocrats don’t give a shit about your so-called democracy.

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Another long-standing restaurant in one of Baltimore City’s popular bar districts is closing its doors, marking another casualty in the city’s imploding hospitality scene. While the farewell messages from these establishments offer little explanation for their abrupt departures, the broader message has been very clear: Years of lawlessness, gang violence resembling a war zone, carjackings, out-of-control youth, high taxes, and deteriorating public safety have taken a toll on business owners. Meanwhile, City Hall—under far-left Democratic control—continues marching the metro into economic demise as the city’s population tumbles to a century-low.

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In preparation for an international climate summit this fall, Brazilian state officials are clearing tens of thousands of acres of the Amazon rainforest to complete a new four-lane highway, the BBC reported.

The COP30 summit will be held Nov. 10-21 in the Brazilian city of Belém, and is expected to draw about 50,000 attendees, including world leaders and business people to discuss climate change. COP stands for Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

However, the development sparked controversy among locals that contend such deforestation of the Amazon rainforest and construction undermines the purpose of the gathering.

Do tell. I’m sure John Kerry will tool in on his private jet to wag his finger at the rest of us.

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In 2011, Brown University’s Choices Program, which develops curriculum on history and current issues for K-12 schools in all 50 states, taught high school students “of the historic Jewish ties to the land that is now Israel.” In 2015, anti-Israel academic Beshara Doumani, then a founding director of Brown’s Center for Middle East Studies, began advising the program—and the materials shifted in tone.

That year, the Choices Program released a revamped version of its unit titled, “The Middle East in Transition: Questions for U.S. Policy.” The unit, which included an acknowledgment of Doumani’s “invaluable” contributions, provided students with new definitions of “colonialism” and “imperialism,” according to an Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) review of the curriculum materials obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. It also included a map that listed Tel Aviv—not Jerusalem—as Israel’s capital.

Two years later, an updated edition of the same unit went further. Included alongside the map of Middle Eastern capitals was a quiz calling on students to “fill in the missing countries and capitals below.” Students received credit for writing “Israel” next to the listed “Country Capital” of Tel Aviv. The unit also eliminated a section on Israel’s creation, according to the ISGAP review, “instead moving the discussion about Israel’s creation to a few brief paragraphs within the section titled ‘Israel and the Palestinian Territories.'”

Brown has always been the most proglodyte of the Ivy League schools, being the preferred destination for Eurotrash who want a fancy American degree.

NBC News, a Voice of the Crust.

The ‘misgendering’ is this delusional politician pretending to be a woman. Keith Self is my Congressman, and I approve his message.

Quillette.

It was predictable that Hamas officials and their radicalised international supporters would deny that sexual violence against Israeli women and men was committed on 7 October 2023. But denials from the academic field of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies are more surprising because they appear to violate two of the field’s salient principles: support for women’s sexual autonomy and insistence that women who lodge charges of sexual violence should be believed. Instead, a number of academic feminists have not only rejected Israeli claims, they have also embraced Hamas, along with all the reactionary patriarchal baggage of radical Islam, thereby abandoning their own stated values.

The positions that proglodytes take are always less about principle and more about political fashion.

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When the Trump administration announced it was investigating California’s long-troubled high-speed rail project, the top official overseeing it pressed back. Though the project has more than tripled in price to $106 billion, the official said that “every dollar is accounted for.”

While the money is indeed accounted for, that accounting does not paint a rosy picture for the Golden State. State audits over the past 15 years, which the Washington Free Beacon reviewed, have found a litany of wasteful and bizarre spending and financial commitments, ranging from $177,000 for PoliticoPro subscriptions to $5 million for graffiti removal. One company received more than $50,000 to head diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, while active environmental service contracts total $537 million.

The high-speed rail project launched in 2008. It promised to offer 220 mph trains between Los Angeles and San Francisco, with an estimated completion date of 2020 for $33 million. Construction didn’t begin until 2015. Since then, no track has been laid, no stations have been built, and there’s no estimate on when it will be finished. Even the shorter-term goal that Gov. Gavin Newsom (D.) announced in 2019—a 171-mile rail in the Central Valley—will likely miss its 2033 deadline, according to the project’s inspector general.

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Mark Carney, the former central banker infamous for his Brexit scaremongering and deep ties to globalist institutions, will be Canada’s new prime minister—despite not even holding a seat in Parliament. The former Bank of England governor won the battle to lead the country’s ruling Liberal Party with 85% of the vote of the 151,899 Liberal party members who voted, replacing ‘King of Woke’ Justin Trudeau.

In his victory speech on Sunday night, Carney’s rhetoric was incendiary, portraying U.S. President Donald Trump as a dire threat to Canada’s “way of life” and vowing to push back against American economic power. “They want our resources, our water, our land, our country… If they succeeded, they would destroy our way of life,” he claimed.

However, critics question how long he can survive in office: he has no seat in Parliament, his mandate is shaky, and an election must be held by October—one that polling suggests the Liberals will likely lose to the Conservatives under Pierre Poilievre.

Canadians are responsible for voting for the statist Liberal Party and the Liberal Party is responsible for handing over power to the statists Trudeau and now Carney. They have no one to blame but themselves when the shit hits the fan. Trump ought to craft an immigration support plan for Canadians like that he’s doing for South Africans.