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The epicenter of America’s power crisis appears to be on the PJM Interconnection grid, with the Mid-Atlantic area at ground zero. Power bills in the Baltimore area are skyrocketing, driven mostly by disastrous green policies that have shuttered reliable, low-cost fossil fuel power generation plants in favor of unreliable solar and wind energy, allegedly to address a climate crisis. Now demand is surging, whether from AI data centers, EVs, or other electrification trends, which means there’s a massive mismatch in power supply versus power demand.

Goldman analysts led by Hongcen Wei have been tracking the power crisis and warned in a note on Wednesday that power market tightening has expanded from the three grids they covered last month (read here) to all regional markets.

“We find that 9 out of 13 US regional power markets have already reached critical tightness this summer, while expecting all but one to reach critical tightness by 2030,” Wei wrote in the note to clients.

Really: Ayn Rand predicted this back in the 1950s in Atlas Shrugged.

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Common Cause, a group historically opposed to gerrymandering and partisan redistricting said it will not speak out against California’s efforts to redraw its congressional maps to benefit Democrats, Politico reported.

My, what a surprise.

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British maritime authorities report recovering the largest known single dinghy used, to date, in an illegal Channel crossing.

A ‘mega dinghy’ was found with 107 law-breaking passengers, smashing the previous record for a single boat (96) and pointing to a dangerous new phase in the UK’s migrant crisis. The long boat carried the largest single load to arrive in UK waters overnight prior to its discovery on Wednesday, August 8. Last month, an average migrant boat was carrying around 60 people.

While the inflatable raft was taken to Dover harbour for Border Force inspection, it could point to a change in tactics by people smugglers. The gangs, looking resilient and unsmashed, have already switched to using inland and ‘taxi boat’ launches to ply their risky trade, innovating more quickly than the French and British authorities.

A supply line of larger vessels would accelerate the already record-breaking pace of illegal migration into Britain by sea. Such boats have already been deployed across established Mediterranean smuggling routes. At 18 metres in length, the new vessels—likely made to order in China—are seven metres longer than the current most widely used boats in the Channel.

Who’s providing them with those bright orange life vests? Obviously the French. This is an act of war, but the Labour government isn’t saying a peep about it.

The Guardian, the Voice of Wokery in the UK.

“Dance Against Vance”? Really, you can’t make this shit up.

Since when is the U.S. Vice-President the business of anybody in the U.K.? Wm. F. Buckley rightly said that liberals are the sort of people who reach into your shower to adjust the water temperature.

The Times (UK).

Treasury officials are drawing up options to raise more money from inheritance tax, it was reported, as Rachel Reeves seeks extra cash in the autumn budget.

The chancellor’s tax raising plans are at an early stage but she is widely expected to need to find tens of billions extra to deal with rising costs and gloomier economic forecast.

Officials are looking at options such as tightening rules that allow people to give away assets before they die, according to The Guardian. This could include a lifetime cap on money that can be given away, or adjustments to the rate at which inheritance tax liability tapers in the seven years between a gift and death.

Governments, inevitably faced with problems due to spending more money than is coming in, are always looking for new ‘sources of revenue’ (i.e. deep pockets to pick). Spending less is so far off the table that it’s not even mentioned, by anybody.

UPDATE: Families face fresh inheritance tax grab (The Telegraph)

The Times (UK).

The vast majority of voters fear Labour’s new towns will fail, describing their predecessors as soulless, boring, concrete and full of “roundabouts”.

Town planners are urging ministers to let new town residents design their own homes and experiment with styles and approaches to avoid a repeat of the top-down and rigid post-war generation of new settlements, which remain divisive.

Next month ministers will receive recommended locations for about a dozen new towns which will contain hundreds of thousands of homes. Sir Keir Starmer wants building to begin before the end of this parliament. Ministers have promised to drive through local opposition to towns they deem in the national interest.

“That’s Britain,” I hear you say, “That’s not here; who cares?” Because Britain is a leading indicator of how Wokery is derailing our lives. Shitty things they do there will appear here sooner or later because the same mindset infects the Ruling Class in both places. What Labour is doing is what Democrats would love to do, but can’t easily because of our famous Checks And Balances [TM]–and believe me, Democrats are watching what happens in Britain very carefully.

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Greta Thunberg’s recent ‘Palestinian rescue mission’ was a total failure, carrying a tiny amount of supplies—enough, said some commentators, for “maybe a dozen people”—and resulting in her deportation from Israel.

So she’s going to do it all over again!

This time, the Swedish activist, best known for her green zealotry, is planning on heading from Spain to Gaza with “dozens of boats,” with the overall intention of “break[ing] the illegal Israeli siege.”

Meanwhile, citizens across the world have been asked to participate in “encampments and demonstrations that will happen simultaneously.”

The initiative has been dubbed the ‘Global Sumud Flotilla’ and will supposedly include activists from more than 40 countries.

Others have dubbed it as yet another attempt to cover Thunberg with publicity.

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For the past week, around 200 migrants have been camped outside of Paris’ Hôtel de Ville (City Hall) to protest against a supposed lack of proper accommodation.

Outlets have described this as a ‘mobilisation’ by desperate individuals, pointing in particular to the participation of many women and children. But the gathering—like many that have come before it—was actually organised by France’s leftist ‘Utopia 56’ activist group, set up in 2015 to help illegal migrants.

Utopia 56 has been behind many such migrant encampments, including on other occasions outside the City Hall. Indeed, its founder, Yann Manzi, is a campsite manager. The group has even been the target of criminal investigations over its actions at the sieve-like French-UK border, where it carries out its own migrant-friendly coastal patrol.

Government officials have previously described the activists as “anarchists” who want “chaos” and “to put the state in difficulty.” Yet reporters continue to fall for their spin.

During the encampment, a spokesman for Paris City Hall noted that it continues to open “centres in both summer and winter to shelter people and their families.”

The camp was cleared on Tuesday morning after local police officials issued an eviction order. Utopia 56 complained that “no solutions are proposed for the more than 300 people, including around a hundred children, who have been mobilising for a week.”

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Shades of Atlas Shrugged.

Over a million residents across central Maryland, particularly in the Baltimore metro, were warned moments ago by the local utility that a substation failure linked to a major power plant could trigger widespread blackouts this afternoon. The alert comes barely a week after President Trump handed Maryland Governor Wes Moore and the Democratic Party in Annapolis a political lifeline to prevent power blackouts, underscoring the fragility of the state’s power grid under the weight of failed Democrat-driven green energy policies.

Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE) has asked all 1.3 million of its electric customers in central Maryland “to conserve electricity to reduce the potential for widespread outages this afternoon and evening, due to a power plant experiencing an unplanned disconnection from the BGE electric system.”

Time to leave.

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Taxachusetts lives up to its name.

When Elizabeth Warren pushed her own wealth tax, I noted that the high starting income or wealth levels would likely be lowered with time if Congress were ever allowed to cross this constitutional Rubicon.

As taxes ALWAYS do. Income taxes were originally a trivial percentage for the income of only very rich people. Now it takes between a quarter and a have of the income of everyone with an income above the poverty level. Government always wants to spend more of your money, and they are very proficient at coming up with a fine-sounding excuse for picking your pocket. As Wm. F. Buckley once famously said, “Liberals are people who feel entirely justified reaching into your shower and adjusting the temperature of the water.”  (Read the new Buckly biography. It’s an adventure.)

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COVID-19 levels are rising in the United States, with the highest numbers occurring along the West Coast, according to new data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

COVID recognizes its rightful prey: Blue State hand-wringers.

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Snake Pliskin, call your office.

UPDATE: NYC offices add armed guards, dogs and new turnstiles after 2 Midtown shootings

The Foundry.

For all of their pious pontificating about the nobility of illegal immigrants as people who simply came here in search of a better life for themselves and their families, Democrats and others on the Left in and out of Congress actually have a much more patronizing view in unguarded moments.

While out of one side of their mouths, the Left lionizes illegals as latter-day huddled masses yearning to breathe free, these same leftists speak of the migrants in ways that are condescending or at best utilitarian, even as they fight to block President Donald Trump from deporting them back to their countries of origin.

Most of these liberals, in unscripted moments, appear to be less concerned about the well-being of the millions of illegals the Biden administration allowed to pour into our country unvetted and more concerned about their food supply, even though none of them looks like he or she has ever skipped a meal.

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Marxist-Leninist nominee for mayor of New York City, it’s tough to pick the ugliest.

His “end goal” involves “seizing the means of production.” Government confiscation of industry is textbook Communism. Since 1917, this policy has spread misery from Moscow to East Berlin, Pyongyang, Havana, Managua, and Caracas.

New York State Assemblyman Matt Slatertold Fox News that Mamdani “referred to his colleagues” in Albany as his ‘comrades.’” This is an almost comically stereotypical indication that Mamdani is a full-throated Communist, not merely the Leninist-lite “democratic socialist” whom he claims to be.

Mamdani’s hateful statements about the New York Police Department in 2020 have aged even worse than Robert Redford.

Newsbusters.

Pretty ironic, complaining about Trump ‘fascism’ and then fleeing to the Land of Trudeau.

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

Guess they’ll have to raise their wages to attract people other than illegal aliens. Like, say, Americans.

You know, what they ought to have been doing from the beginning, rather than ‘outsourcing in place’.

“It’s a wipeout,” said Gary Rohwer, the owner. “We’re building back up from ground zero.”

These are the very people that the Woke usually delight in trash-talking for ‘exploiting the poor workers.’ But because the Woke are Democrats, and Democrats need illegals to keep their numbers up, nary a word will be said in the Narrative Media.

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A North Carolina congressman is calling attention to an anti-immigration enforcement organization that gets its donations through the Democrat fundraising platform ActBlue.

“By teaching illegal aliens how to evade [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] detention, organizations like Siembra NC are actively promoting an invasion of our country,” Rep. Mark Harris, R-N.C., told The Daily Signal. Siembra is Spanish for “sowing” or “seed time.”

“Siembra and its financial backers should be held accountable for undermining the rule of law and making North Carolina communities less safe,” Harris said.

Siembra NC operates a hotline to report ICE activity in local communities.

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To gender-critical feminists, the social contagion of transactivism (enforced mainstreaming of trans ideology) is all down to perverted men and their “misogyny.” Men started it; men must stop it. It’s a (white) male supremacist, men’s rights movement, privileging the reality show of ‘gender’ over the reality of sex, while normalising paedophilia, porn, prostitution or their variants. Women have nothing to do with it. After all, misogyny is what’s done to—not by—women.

Rightly, these women denounce transactivism. But framing it as ‘woman-hating’ disingenuously classes women as nothing but victims, men as the only villains. It lets women off the hook, projects them as helpless, without agency in ‘a man’s world.’ It glosses over women’s complicity in co-shaping this contagion, making it harder to undo or prevent harm to billions of ordinary women who wanted nothing to do with the virtue-signalling of influential women. Without so much as an apology from the latter, it’s the former who are paying the price: forfeiting friends, family, and jobs, and being censored or cancelled for being ‘conservative.’

Unless ordinary women confront transactivists within their ranks, they’ll keep losing ground that celebrated women first ceded.

Not all transgenders are naughty or nefarious, but many are both. What perverts do in private matters less, but transactivism insists that everyone genuflect to gender ideology.

Transwomen aren’t women. They’re men, pretending, or pining, to be women. Trouble is, too many prominent people who’ve said or implied the opposite, in practice or policy (if not phrasing), are women, not men. It isn’t just perverted men who shouted down women (and men) protesting trans-tyranny; it’s prominent women too.

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England witnessed a day of protests on Saturday, August 9th, aimed at the national policy of housing asylum applicants close to local communities.

The form of the problem varies, from the Home Office filling entire hotels with migrants to local authorities renting ‘houses in multiple occupation’ (HMOs) from private landlords which they then fill with asylum seekers. This growing population primarily involves undocumented young men, whose alleged crimes fuel local safety concerns.

The most notorious current cases are in Epping, Essex and Nuneaton, Warwickshire, where an Ethiopian and two Afghans respectively are charged with serious sexual offences. While the Nuneaton protest was covered by the press as something of a national flashpoint, there were also protests in the cities of Bristol, Leicester, and Birmingham. At the Liverpool protest, counterdemonstrators now stand accused of assaulting GB News Reporter Sophie Reaper, whereas the Bournemouth anti-migrant hotel protests coincided with the launch of local ‘vigilante’ patrols.

Following the pattern established in Epping, the protests are typically set up by concerned parents—and fronted by mothers—and backed by town councillors from Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

In contrast, echoing the various out-of-town counterdemonstrators that show up, the British media focuses on the supposed involvement, even leadership, of the ‘far Right.’ In the absence of Tommy Robinson, the Guardian claimed the Nuneaton protest was organised by “the extremist nationalist group Homeland party,” adding snootily “some protesters could be seen taking turns to sing karaoke on the street outside the Wetherspoon’s pub.”

J D Wetherspoon is a popular, reasonably priced pub chain reviled by the political elite in Britain. The barely coded barbs directed at it in the Guardian are symptomatic of the wider disconnect between the establishment and the British people who, in the face of illegal ‘small boat’ migration, are saying ‘enough is enough.’

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London’s Metropolitan Police detained at least 474 people on Saturday, August 9th, targeting expressions of support for Palestine Action. The actions were in keeping with the protestors’ previously announced strategy of provoking the arrests in order to ‘break’ the criminal justice system.

Many of those arrested produced handwritten signs at an agreed time to support the proscribed group, banking on it forcing a police response. Following a warning, arrests began. Those successfully prosecuted could face anything up to 14 years’ imprisonment under anti-terror laws.

Keir Starmer’s Labour government pushed through the policy after Palestine Action members vandalised a UK military facility. By grouping ‘direct action’ vandals in with Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis—but weirdly not the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps—Starmer and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper have made a rod for their own backs. This is clear from the Met Police’s current commitment to arresting people for holding specifically worded placards.

This is what happens when you don’t have a written Constitution with a Bill of Rights.

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So they have spent $300 million for a project that will inevitably fail at its stated mission, while ruining what was previously a perfectly nice park. This is not really much different from spending hundreds of billions of dollars on an energy transition that can’t possibly work. Or, for that matter, from spending a trillion or so dollars per year on the project to cure poverty, without ever putting a dent into the poverty rate.

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One of the most important developments this century has been a major increase in energy access across the globe: Billions of people have gained access to modern energy, a precondition for rising from poverty.

Sub-Saharan Africa is the only region of the world not benefiting from this transformation. In Africa, energy poverty is growing. For the first time since World War II, access to electricity is also backsliding in Africa.

Over the past year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has sought to address Africa’s rising energy poverty, through organizing conferences and publishing reports. The IEA and global leaders gathered in conferences in Africa. The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation was a major funder of the endeavor. Yet, the IEA did not offer any practical solution to address the rising energy poverty in Africa because it is unable to utter the essential words: fossil fuels.

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Italy has for the first time grounded an NGO reconnaissance plane, suspending Sea Watch’s Seabird 1 for 20 days over violations from June 30. The order came from the National Civil Aviation Authority (ENAC), extending Rome’s clampdown on activist groups from the sea to the air.

The German NGO tried to link the decision to its recent claim of a “failure to rescue” by Italian authorities that allegedly left three migrants dead—an accusation ENAC has not confirmed. Sea Watch denounced the measure as a “pretext” and vowed to defy the suspension, calling for donations to fight it in court.

A 2024 ENAC directive already bans NGO ships and aircraft from operating in the central Mediterranean without Coast Guard coordination, citing maritime law and national security. Rome has repeatedly accused NGOs of undermining state-led border controls.

This is an ongoing process with such NGOs. Their favorite is to hover off the coast of North Africa waiting for some overpacked boatload of “migrants” to make it past the 3-mile limit, then swoop in and “rescue” them and haul them to rest of the way to Europe, where they enter the “asylum” system and are never gotten rid of.

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NY begins the last chapter of its self-destruction this year. By 2035, every new motor vehicle offered for sale in NY must be fossil-fuel free…that is, electric. But that electric-vehicle mandate begins its 10-year phase in at year-endthis year! By the end of 2025, 35% of new vehicles on dealers’ lots must be electric. That percentage gradually increases to 68% by 2030 and 100% by 2035. The mandate includes all cars, SUVs and pickup trucks. Where will the electricity to power these vehicles come from? Governor Hochul neither knows nor cares. But I’d predict electricity rates in NY will be on the way up. So will the prices of reliable used cars.

To help offset the increased cost of cars and electricity, Governor Hochul will be handing out free money. Nothing stokes inflation like a free money giveaway. But, having learned nothing from the 20% inflation ignited in part by the Covid giveaways and the grossly misnamed “Inflation Reduction Act,” as part of her 2026 budget deal, the governor has unveiled a $2 billion “inflation refund” plan for 2026. The initiative will distribute checks to some 8 million New Yorkers. Checks will be for $200, $300 or $400, depending upon income. More inflation is sure to follow.

Eventually there will be only two types of people in New York: Rich people with expensive electric cars, and everybody else walking or taking public transit.

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A Brazilian women’s rights activist has been granted full refugee status in an unnamed European country after facing criminal charges in Brazil for referring to a male-to-female transgender politician as a man.

Isabella Cêpa, a social media commentator and feminist known for her advocacy against domestic violence, was facing up to 25 years in prison under Brazil’s “social racism” law, a legal provision that treats alleged transphobic speech as a form of racial discrimination.

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Various Democratic cities are already implementing UBI systems.

Now, a new study finds (as did some prior studies) that UBI systems have not achieved significant improvements and may actually have some negative consequences for recipients.

A working paper?with the National Bureau of Economic Research shows that UBI recipients did indeed spend more money, including a 13 percent increase on child-related expenses. There was also a slight increase in parental supervision of children.

However, there was no improved school performance and a slight increase in reported developmental and stress-related problems with children.

Stanford’s Basic Income Lab is tracking more than 160 UBI projects?in the U.S..

So far, the results are at best mixed.

Guess what? You get more of what you pay for. If you pay people to not-work, they won’t work.

But somebody has to pay for that. Guess who? The people who DO work.

Natural Selection is not mocked. Eventually this system will come apart, and the old ways will re-assert themselves.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

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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.