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Amid a government shutdown fight that highlights disagreements between New York-born President Donald Trump and two Democratic leaders from New York in Congress, the Empire State has found itself in the spotlight.

After Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., denied Republicans his party’s votes necessary to pass a stopgap funding bill to keep the government open, the White House froze funding for subway infrastructure projects in New York City.

“Roughly $18 billion in New York City infrastructure projects have been put on hold to ensure funding is not flowing based on unconstitutional [diversity, equity, and inclusion] principles,” wrote Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought on the social media platform X on the first day of the shutdown. Vought has the authority to determine which programs are essential during a shutdown.

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Streaming giant Netflix saw its shares drop 2.4% this week, or the equivalent of more than $15 billion in only a few days, following the call for a boycott of the company from Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Forbes reported on Thursday.

Musk, billionaire and former White House adviser, urged his 227 million followers on X to cancel their Netflix subscriptions ‘for the health of your kids’ and slammed a cartoon he claimed promoted a pro-transgender agenda to children. Musk was referring to “Dead End: Paranormal Park,” an animated series featuring a gay, transgender teenage boy and a bisexual girl with autism.

The hashtag #CancelNetflix soon went viral.

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Faced with a rapidly worsening budget outlook, German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil (SPD) believes he has finally found a fresh source of revenue. By scrapping the long-standing “marriage splitting” tax benefit—a system that allows couples to pool income and reduce their tax bill—he hopes to plug the ever-widening budget holes. It marks the preliminary climax of a tax hike debate designed less to fix Germany’s fiscal crisis than to relieve politicians from the pressure of implementing structural reforms.

In truth, this development comes as no surprise. The SPD has long sought to abolish marriage splitting. The measure is framed as a response to Germany’s structural deficit, which is projected to balloon to more than €170 billion by 2029—provided, of course, that the German economy does not sink even deeper into recession than it already has.

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Crazed Trump hater Joy Reid took a break from ranting into her iPhone from her couch to appear on on Black Entertainment Television’s The Breakfast Club, where she claimed that working hard to earn more money and leave it to your own children is a major part of some sort of evil racist MAGA plot.

Funny how black women do their best to alter their appearance to get as far as they can away from looking like black women.

Newsbusters.

As the Trump administration takes on the latest wave of left-wing violence, an obituary reminds us what happens when political killers get away with their crimes.

The law never caught up with Joanne Chesimard, aka Assata Shakur.

She died last Thursday, age 78, an honored guest of Cuba’s Communist regime — and honored, disgracefully, by tenured radicals in America’s universities, too.

Professors have placed the convicted murderer on lists of “African-American heroes” and present her as a model for activism.

Stanford University’s dean of students, Mona Hicks, quoted a “loving refrain from Assata Shakur” in a campus email at the time of the George Floyd riots:

“It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.’”

That language wasn’t metaphorical — when Shakur said fight, it was a call to violence.

She wasn’t just an activist. She was a terrorist, a self-styled “revolutionary” of the Black Liberation Army, a Marxist-Leninist radical group in the 1970s.

Revolution for them meant robbing banks, planting bombs and killing cops.

Tim Pool.

My, what a surprise.

Washington Times.

Federal authorities revealed what they called a shocking level of immigration fraud after a major enforcement surge in Minnesota, saying they found problems with nearly half of the cases they investigated.

The fraud spanned a variety of immigration programs, including high-skilled guest workers, student visas, fraudulent marriage and the Biden-era Uniting for Ukraine program.

In one case, they found a man who obtained a fake death certificate for his wife to advance his fraudulent application, despite still being married to her — and having another wife in Sweden.

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Hollywood has been sliding into a financial abyss that the town may never recover from, so one might expect film industry moguls to back away from the woke cancer that put them on the bad side of the American public. The problem is, many production companies have projects that began principle filming before the 2024 election when the political left still naively believed that they were the national majority.

Now, those companies are stuck with these movies even when they know box office failure is guaranteed. One such movie is the latest from director Paul Thomas Anderson and lead star Leonardo DiCaprio, called “One Battle After Another”.

The movie is being hailed by the woke media as a “celebration of modern day Antifa revolutionaries”. Hollywood In Toto says the film “casts an Antifa-style group as its heroes,” while The San Francisco Chronicle described the film, referring to the protagonists as “an allegory that involves antifa-like left wing extremists, a well-funded right wing militia group, and immigrants avoiding ICE.” The Daily Beast called it a “gonzo Antifa rallying cry.”

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In hockey, it is routine for a defenseman to project a slap shot from the blue line into a crowd in front of the net. The hope is that his or her teammate’s stick—or, inadvertently, an opponent’s body—will deflect the puck, alter its course, and steer it past a goaltender who is moving in the opposite direction and, thus, has little chance to make a save. While not a fan of soccer (a.k.a. “football”), I suppose this play has its equivalent in other sports, where the kick is projected toward the goal and a teammate “heads” the ball into the net past the flailing goalkeeper.

Speaking of projection, deflection, and kicks to the head, this routine maneuver undoubtedly constitutes page one of the left’s political playbook. The question is whether the right can keep their eye on the puck and prevent the left from firing unfounded shots into the electoral scrum and, abetted by a gaggle of media milling about the goal crease, scoring partisan points and winning elections through projection and deflection.

Newsbusters.

Sunday’s New York Times front-page investigation, “Remarks on Kirk’s Assassination Bring On Broad Wave of Firings,” by Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Bernard Mokam, was galling for anyone whose sense of history goes back five years.

During the 2020-era George Floyd hysteria, the Times ran little news coverage of the many people (many not even conservatives) getting cancelled and fired or pushed out of positions for insufficient worship of Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement. Yet when the reverse is happening regarding Charlie Kirk, it’s disturbing front-page news?

The 2020-era firings were mostly ignored by corporate media. But the online job screening firm FAMA posted a gleeful blog listing some of the myriad firings in the aftermath of the George Floyd’s death and the resulting protests, many of which devolved into rioting and killing: “People are Getting Fired for Racist Comments about George Floyd Protests.”

The New York Times, a Voice of the Crust.

For close to a year, Democrats have been locked in debate over their path out of the wilderness. In party retreats and private Slack channels, along with testy exchanges on social media and strategic leaks to reporters, Democratic insiders have wrestled over the mistakes of the Biden administration and the shortcomings of the Harris campaign.

The stakes of those arguments have risen even higher in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, with the White House intensifying its crackdown on dissent, and MAGA leaders declaring holy war against the left.

But an air of denial — and, more recently, panic — has pervaded the discussion about what comes next. It’s easy to say drastic reform is needed, but there’s no agreement on what this should look like. In practice, the party establishment is doing what party establishments always do: counting on the other side to self-destruct so it can squeak back into power while changing as little as possible.

The strategy would be a lot more defensible if Democrats could write off Trumpism as a fever that was bound to break with time. But the evidence of the past few years points in the opposite direction — shrinking populations in blue states, an alarming drop in Democratic voter registration, dire math for retaking the Senate and crushing majorities who say the party is out of touch. Worst of all is the ongoing rightward shift in the working class, a challenge that goes beyond winning elections to strike at the heart of what it means to be a Democrat.

A few campaigns have bucked those trends. The problem for Democrats is that the best examples come from candidates running against the Democratic Party.

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It is a familiar sight for revelers traveling Interstate 15 from Southern California to Las Vegas: In the final stretches of the Californian Mojave Desert, just before the Nevada border, there is little else interrupting the vast, Martian expanse aside from a near-abandoned border town and this glittering relic of California’s renewable energy boom.

A little more than a decade ago, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System opened to great fanfare, with a $1.6 billion loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)—part of the Obama administration’s push to install green energy production on public lands—and a promise to help California meet its increasingly ambitious decarbonization goals.

At the time, it was the world’s largest solar plant, its nearly 4,000 acres covered in a blinding array of high-tech mirrors, arranged in supplication around three 450-foot towers. It nearly doubled the amount of solar thermal energy then produced in the United States, according to the DOE.

Originally, the project had an estimated operational life of 50 years, according to the final environmental impact statement. Its two buyers, Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), had purchase agreements through 2039.

Now, Edison has pulled out of its contract, and Ivanpah is set to close. The facility’s concentrating solar power (CSP) technology will likely be converted to a photovoltaic (PV) installation, a technology that experts say has outpaced CSP in terms of cost, efficiency, and versatility.

”To save money for our customers, Southern California Edison has agreed to stop buying electricity from the Ivanpah Solar Power Plant,” Jeff Monford, a spokesperson for the utility, told The Epoch Times. The decision, he said, has been an “ongoing negotiation among a few parties, including the owners of the plant and the Department of Energy.”

The Foundry.

President Donald Trump just visited the United Nations to offer a customary annual presidential address.

Before he arrived, there were reports that U.N. staffers had joked about shutting down the escalator to chastise Trump for cutting out aid to some U.N. programs.

Upon arrival, as if on cue, Trump was met by a series of mysterious coincidences.

As soon as he and first lady Melania Trump mounted the escalator, it suddenly froze—forcing them to walk up.

Other escalators worked fine. Shortly afterward, the supposedly broken escalator was just as mysteriously running again.

When Donald Trump went to the podium, his teleprompter mysteriously quit—and his alone.

As he delivered his speech from a text, the amplification in parts of the assembly was mysteriously lowered to near imperceptible levels.

Despite U.N. denials, all three “accidents” were too closely tied to Trump to be coincidences.

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A German court has sentenced far-left activist Hanna S. to five years in prison for her role in a string of violent assaults in Budapest last year, German media reported. The ruling by the Munich Higher Regional Court is not yet final.

Between 9 and 11 February 2023, masked attackers linked to the Antifa movement targeted people they claimed were “fascists,” assaulting them with sticks and knives at five locations across the Hungarian capital. Nine people were injured, six of them seriously.

The case has gained attention because one suspect, Italian activist Ilaria Salis, was elected to the European Parliament this year. Her new parliamentary immunity has so far blocked efforts by Hungarian prosecutors to bring her to trial.

Hungary’s government has since officially designated “Antifa” and “Hammerbande / Antifa Ost” as terrorist organisations. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said the decision was the “first step” in treating Antifa as a terror group under Hungarian law.

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A coalition of 16 states and the District of Columbia is suing the Trump administration to keep materials they say “recognize and affirm gender identity” in their federally funded K-12 sex education programs.

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Chinese communist-style digital tracking is coming to the UK with a new “right to work” scheme in the form of a universal ID called the “Brit Card”. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, facing unprecedented backlash from native born citizens for his open border policies and two-tier justice system protecting migrants from prosecution, is attempting to exploit public anger to gain support for an Orwellian surveillance rollout.

The government says the mandatory ID, based on the UK One Login system, will help to stop “illegal” immigrants from crossing the channel by denying them access to work. The UK One system was introduced in 2023 and is built on biometric tracking; similar programs have been attempted for two decades in the UK but they have been consistently thwarted by public pressure.

The problem with the immigration claim is that it is a clearly baseless con.

Take note that Starmer distinguishes “illegal migrants” as the targets of the ID, but most immigrants coming to the UK are allowed in legally, aided by numerous subsidized programs and asylum policies. Starmer’s choice of words is very deliberate and highly disingenuous.

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Think of it as evolution in action.

CNN, a Voice of the Crust.

Federal employees from agencies across the US government say they’re “terrified,” “disoriented” and filled with anxiety as they brace for a possible shutdown that the Trump White House has threatened will pave the way for new rounds of fast-tracked mass layoffs.

There is widespread confusion and fear among federal workers as the Tuesday night deadline approaches for Congress to approve a spending package, according to more than a dozen employees from 11 federal agencies who spoke to CNN. Many are still waiting to find out who will be required to work through a shutdown — and who will be furloughed.

Complicating matters, the White House budget office has directed federal agencies to “use this opportunity” to prepare sweeping new layoffs, based on which programs lose funding in the event of a shutdown and which don’t align with President Donald Trump’s priorities, according to a memo obtained by CNN.

There’s a new sheriff in town.

“I’m absolutely terrified about going through the same thing all over again,” said one federal worker who was fired and rehired this year as part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s cuts. “This kind of treatment is inhumane. I don’t even know how to prepare for the complete unknown.”

The federal employee, like many others who spoke to CNN, insisted on speaking anonymously because they feared retribution by the Trump administration.

“My employer doesn’t have my back,” the employee said.

That’s because their ’employer’ is no longer a Democrat who relies on the Deep State playbook.

They realize that, under Trump, the old reliable Deep State playbook no longer applies. That’s enough to scare everybody.

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A California solar power facility once hailed as a renewable energy breakthrough is shutting down two decades ahead of schedule after killing tens of thousands of birds and failing to meet electricity output goals, Blaze Media reported.

The Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in California’s Mojave Desert was once the largest solar plant in the world. Built on 3,471 acres of public land, the $2.2 billion project included three 459-foot power towers and more than 173,000 heliostat mirrors, according to the U.S. Department of the Interior.

Launched with $1.6 billion in federal loan guarantees from the Obama administration, Ivanpah began operations in 2014 with an expected lifespan of 30 years. But it is now scheduled to shut down in 2026 after failing to generate solar power efficiently, the New York Post reported.

Washington Examiner.

Thus validating Trump’s designation of them as a terrorist organization.

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If the Supreme Court wants to correct one of the worst decisions of the progressive era, one that violated basic separation of powers principles and vitiated the constitutional authority of the president as head of the executive branch, it will finally overturn Humphrey’s Executor v. U.S. after 90 years of poisoning the government well.

If you’ve never heard of the case, don’t be embarrassed. Most people, aside from government wonks and constitutional nerds, haven’t. However, it’s finally being brought to the fore because of President Donald Trump’s firing of government officials at so-called independent agencies, and it’s about time.

The Supreme Court just issued a temporary stay of lower court orders in Trump v. Slaughter that told Trump he couldn’t fire Rebecca Slaughter, a commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission. This followed other recent cases in which the justices stayed lower court decisions banning Trump from firing officials such as Gwynne Wilcox and Cathy Harris from the National Labor Relations Board and the Merit Systems Protection Board, respectively.

All of these government officials sued, claiming Trump lacked the authority to fire them. They relied on Humphrey’s Executor, which appears to be on life support. So, what was that case all about and why is it still important today?

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(€68.13 million) to groups that are allegedly tied to terrorism or extremist violence, a new report has claimed.

It comes shortly after sources told journalists that the FBI is investigating leftist groups for possible ties to the killing of Charlie Kirk. The Washington-based Capital Research Center (CRC) that produced this report is also looking into whether Alex Soros, who was handed his father’s multi-billion dollar empire in 2023, will “build on his father’s legacy” or “tear it down.”

The CRC paper states that the evidence behind its claim is “stark” and says it should “form the justification for various accountability actions,” possibly including the revoking of the Open Society Foundations’ tax-exempt status.

Perhaps most significantly, it points to the awarding by Open Society of “at least” $23.27 million (€19.82 million) to seven groups that “directly assist domestic terrorism and criminality on U.S. soil.”

The Foundry.

Jimmy Kimmel’s return to the nation’s airwaves is proof of just how unseriously left-wing violence is taken by the liberal media.

If Johnny Carson had gone on air after the murder of John F. Kennedy and said, “We hit some new lows this weekend with the Democrat gang trying to characterize this kid who killed President Kennedy as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” what would his network have done?

Kimmel is a hater and a purveyor of disinformation, but he’s able to get away with saying that about “the MAGA gang” because his bosses approve of the lie.

Indeed, liberals have spent the days since Charlie Kirk’s murder insisting that the real danger to free speech comes not from left-wing killers’ bullets but from Republican officials.

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The Netherlands is the second most densely populated country in Europe, and with surging mass immigration, has been experiencing a raging housing crisis for years.

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

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American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten has written Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy, a book she claims will empower us and give us hope. The problem is that every word coming from the union boss’s mouth is nonfactual lefty claptrap.

You don’t need to buy the book to understand what I mean. In an interview with a sycophant at The Progressive, a far-left magazine that covers politics and culture, Weingarten claims that “the undermining of public education is an intentional strategy of the right; they favor school privatization.”

Why should a teacher care whether schooling is public or private? A bit of a political agenda, perhaps?

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California is one pen stroke away from enacting a controversial bill that would impose fines of up to $1 million on major social media platforms that fail to censor content deemed in violation of state civil rights laws.

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Monday on his eponymous YouTube show, former CNN host Don Lemon went into the ugly, vile depths of political rhetoric with a torrent of hatred toward the Charlie Kirk memorial service, quoting from his own book published last year to call it “white nationalism wrapped in religious nationalism” imbued with false, “performative” Christianity, and a tribute to Americans of the past who glorified slavery.

All to celebrate a man Lemon deemed an unrepentant racist who said “racist shit” and created “a movement claiming divine permission to rule” with “domination” and deny “their sexual diverse children’s right to exist.”

Lemon even predicted his hateful, vile comments spanning some 79 minutes would draw blowback, but nonetheless argued he had a special right as a black man given America’s past to call out those as false Christ followers while arguing Erika Kirk was seemingly the only person there channeling Jesus.

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For every terror attack by a transgender leftist or Antifa militant that you hear about in the news, there’s many attacks that you don’t hear about. The establishment media has been very careful to obscure these incidents with ambiguous reporting, denials and outright lies.

For example, Nicholas Roske, the man who attempted to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2022, identifies as transgender. This fact has been quickly buried by the media, just as the man’s political affiliations were ignored at the time of his arrest. Though, Wikipedia was very quick to change Roske’s gender and refer to him as “her” on their Brett Kavanaugh assassination plot page.

At the time, the media complained that the event could lead to legal actions removing protesters from outside the homes of judges (leftist groups were attempting to intimidate the Supreme Court over their decision to overturn Roe v Wade). They also focused more on the abortion decision, insinuating that it was the Supreme Court’s fault if members faced assassination threats. Democrats stalled on passing a bill that provided more security for SC Justices; the Kavanaugh incident finally forced them to take action.

There have been numerous leftist and Antifa related terror incidents over the past several years, most of them barely mentioned by mainstream journalists and few of them categorized as political terrorism by organizations like the ADL. Whenever an attack involving any suspect who is remotely right wing occurs, the news is flooded with coverage.

In the case of alleged Charlie Kirk shooter, Tyler Robinson, the media continues to deny that the gay leftist is associated with leftist causes. Even going so far as to misinform the public and attempt to tie the man to MAGA, despite his family and friends admitting he is a leftist.

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Former FBI Director James Comey is expected to be indicted in the Eastern District of Virginia in the coming days, MSNBC reported Wednesday, citing three sources.

“The full extent of the charges being prepared against Comey is unclear, but the sources believe that at least one element of the indictment–if it goes forward–will accuse him of lying to Congress during his testimony on September 30, 2020 about whether he authorized a leak of information,” an MSNBC reporter wrote on X.

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shooter with a rifle opened fire from a nearby roof onto a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement location in Dallas on Wednesday, killing a detainee and wounding another two critically before taking his own life, authorities said.

“This morning, a deranged gunman attacked a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Dallas field office from a nearby rooftop,” the Department of Homeland Security wrote on X. “The shooter fired indiscriminately at the ICE building, as well as at a van in the sallyport where the victims were shot. Three detainees were shot.

More indiscriminate violence from the Left.

ATQUE: Sniper Attack Kills Two At ICE Facility – Shooter Dead On Roof

ATQUE: 3 people shot at immigration detention facility in Dallas and the shooter is dead, official says (Associated Press)

ATQUE: Live Updates: One Dead and Two Wounded in Dallas ICE Facility Shooting (New York Times)

ATQUE: 1 dead, 2 others hospitalized after shooting at Dallas ICE facility, police say (CNN)

ATQUE: 2 dead after shooting at ICE facility, ICE spokesperson said (NBC News)

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blockade of Gaza said Wednesday that some of their boats were attacked by drones overnight while sailing south of Greece.

The Global Sumud Flotilla said it was attacked during the night by “unidentified drones and communications jamming.” It said that “at least 13 explosions” were heard on and around several flotilla boats, while drones or aircraft dropped “unidentified objects” on at least 10 boats.

No casualties were reported but there was damage to the vessels and “widespread obstruction in communications,” it added.

Nobody ever said that virtue-signaling would be easy….

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Well, we know whose side they’re on.

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The European Parliament’s legal affairs committee voted today, on September 23rd, against lifting the immunity of the Italian leftist MEP Ilaria Salis, who was arrested and imprisoned in Hungary in 2023 for participating in attacks organised by the Antifa-linked Hammerbande (Hammer Gang).

Members of this group bludgeoned nine innocent people—claiming they “looked like” neo-Nazis—with batons and hammers on the streets of Budapest.

Salis’s election to Italy’s Greens and Left Alliance in the European Parliament last year secured her immunity, which Hungarian authorities had requested to be lifted.

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The Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF), a multinational convoy of around 40 ships attempting to break Israel’s maritime blockade of Gaza, has been shaken by internal disputes and resignations.

The conflicts arose over the participation of queer and ‘LGBT’ activists, which several participants criticized as unrelated to the flotilla’s stated mission.

Khaled Boujemâa–the flotilla’s coordinator–resigned on September 16th in protest against Saif Ayadi, who identifies as a “queer activist.” Activist Mariem Meftah and moderator Samir Elwafi also criticized attempts to push a “culturally progressive agenda” into the mission. Meftah stated that homosexuality is a private matter and that exploiting the “holy cause of Al-Aqsa” for unrelated ideological purposes contradicts Islamic values.

The internal turmoil led Greta Thunberg to step down from the flotilla’s leadership team. She remains on board only as an organizer and volunteer.

Israeli-Swedish journalist David Stavrou has highlighted in the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet that the flotilla includes participants with extremist, antisemitic, and chauvinist views, which raises serious questions about the operation’s true intent.

No question at all–it’s ‘true intent’ is virtue-signaling, pure and simple.

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The United States is considering imposing sanctions as soon as this week against the entire International Criminal Court, putting the court’s day-to-day operations in jeopardy in retaliation for investigations of suspected Israeli war crimes.

Washington has already imposed targeted sanctions on several prosecutors and judges at the court, but naming the court itself in the sanctions list would be a major escalation.

Six sources with knowledge of the matter, all speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive diplomatic issue that has not been publicly announced, said a decision on such “entity sanctions” was expected soon.

Sounds like a plan.

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Gaza is the snail-darter of the modern Left.

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We’re talking about the SPLC, of course.

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Several French mayors have raised Palestinian flags on town halls—defying government instructions ahead of France’s formal recognition of a Palestinian state at the United Nations.

The initiative follows Socialist leader Olivier Faure’s call to display the flags, despite warnings from the Interior Ministry about the risks of importing international conflicts onto French territory.

Trump’s Censorship Binge After Kirk’s Killing Is Part of an All-Out Effort to Crush the Opposition (Andy Craig/The UnPopulist)

The Post-Kirk Clampdown … America’s new cancel culture has arrived. (Patrick Frey/Quillette)

The MAGA Movement Is Not a Debating Society (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)

Trump’s economic promises to Black voters fall short after a modest shift in support for him in 2024 (Josh Boak/Associated Press)  Because Democrats have been blocking his moves.

Trump Demands That Bondi Move ‘Now’ to Prosecute Foes (New York Times)

MSNBC Host Claims It’s ‘Hard to Understand’ Exactly What Kimmel’s MAGA Smear Meant

Trump Makes Bonkers Demand for Bondi to Lock Up His Enemies (Jack Revell/The Daily Beast)

Trump is breaking US diplomacy, State Department staffers say (Nahal Toosi/Politico)  Really? Other countries ignored Obama and Biden. Nobody ignores Trump.

In Assault on Free Speech, Trump Targets Speech He Hates (Peter Baker/New York Times)  Which Democrats have been doing since Clinton.

Prosecution Rests Case In Trial Of Trump Assassination Attempt Suspect: 5 Takeaways  Funny, I don’t remember anybody trying to assassinate Obama or Biden. Must be all those white supremacists on the Left.

Trump Pushes Attorney General Pam Bondi to Prosecute Political Foes (Wall Street Journal)

From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why strongmen rely on women at home (Adrienne Matei/The Guardian)  Get your feminist Narrative, right here.

Eric Adams, Donald Trump and the Case That Broke American Justice (Noah Shachtman/New York Times)

Here’s what happens when big-time lobbyists become big-name Trump officials (Caitlin Oprysko/Politico)  And how does that differ from when big-time lobbyists become Demcorartadministration officials? Proglodyte projection in action.

“Path to a dictatorship”: Democrats flame Trump’s public pressure on Bondi (Avery Lotz/Axios) You’d think they’d get tired of shouting “Fascist!” “Authoritarian!” “Dictatorship!” “Nazi!” all the time, when it’s obvious that normal people are just tuning them out.

The US right claimed free speech was sacred – until the Charlie Kirk killing (J Oliver Conroy/The Guardian)  The Kirk assassination brought home the fact that when one side cheats all the time and the other side plays by the rules, the cheaters tend to win, and they’re tired of losing. “If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first.” — Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin, Portion 72, verse 1.

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America is suffering from leftist fatigue. Three left wing shooters in the span of a week, from the murder of Charlie Kirk to an attack on an ABC affiliate station in Sacramento to the most recent event – A shooting at a country club wedding in Nashua, New Hampshire.

This is, of course, not counting the transgender killer who murdered 2 children and wounded 18 others at a catholic school in Minneapolis the week before the Charlie Kirk assassination. In every case there has been clear intent of politically motivated violence. Democrats and woke activists continue to deny they have any culpability, but after a decade of demonizing everyone who disagrees with them as “fascists and Nazis”, isn’t this the end result they always wanted?

The suspect, identified as 23-year-old Hunter Nadeau, was arrested and charged with one count of second-degree murder. Witnesses heard the man scream “The children are safe, free Palestine!” as he started shooting, killing one person and wounding two others before he was hit in the head with a chair by a female party member and ran away with his head bleeding.

Funny how all of these juvenile delinquents attacking weddings and schools and TV stations and such are proglodytes. If the right were such a breeding ground of terrorists, they must be on vacation or something. Slackers.

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“Whoever knew slavery never wants to be a slave again,” said Fidel Castro in February 1993. However, by the hand of the socialist regime established by the Cuban revolution in 1959, slavery has returned to Cuba.

Socialism IS slavery, in its essence.

Newsbusters.

Rolling Stone has come a long way, baby, and not in a good way.

The ’60s era rock bible is now a hard-Left institution that refuses to defend free expression.

Need proof?

The magazine attacked comedian Dave Chappelle for telling the “wrong” jokes about the trans community.

Artists like John Ondrasik (Five for Fighting) faced censorship, and Team Rolling Stone refused to have his back.

The Times (UK).

Jeremy Corbyn has broken his silence on the civil war embroiling his new left-wing party, saying he was “appalled” by the abuse directed by Zarah Sultana and her allies towards one of his advisers.

Corbyn and Sultana, the firebrand Coventry South MP, are locked in an increasingly public spat over the direction and structure of “Your Party” — an attempt to capitalise on socialist dissent towards Sir Keir Starmer’s government and its policy on Gaza.

Sultana ignored Corbyn to prematurely announce the venture in July. Since then, the pair and the factions behind them have competed for control over finances and data.

On Thursday, Corbyn, 76, and four independent pro-Gaza MPs criticised Sultana, 31, for sending an “unauthorised” fundraising email and told supporters to cancel any direct debits.

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In a much anticipated public appearance, Susan Monarez, the former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, attempted to defend her short tenure at the embattled public health agency.

Things did not go well for her from the start (via Camus on X):

Senator Dr. Roger Marshall delivered a stunning rebuke to the CDC, exposing them as the primary cause of vaccine hesitancy. He laid out the truth: by forcing unjustified COVID vaccines and an unnecessary Day-1 hepatitis vaccine on every American, the CDC has shattered public trust.

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The European Parliament will next week take a major step towards deciding whether Italian MEP Ilaria Salis should face trial in Hungary for her alleged role in a series of violent Antifa-linked attacks in Budapest.

Salis, 41, was arrested and imprisoned in Hungary in 2023 for participating in a series of attacks organised by the Hammerbande (Hammer Gang), a German left-wing militant group linked to Antifa. The members of the group surrounded and bludgeoned nine innocent people—who the attackers decided “looked like” neo-Nazis based on their choice of clothing—with telescopic batons and hammers on the streets of Budapest.

One 61-year-old security guard was left with a fractured skull and lasting facial paralysis.

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A clue to what is happening to socialist parties across the West can be found in the choice of Sócrates to lead Portugal’s Socialist Party (PS). Whereas most PMs rise to the position after leading an important ministry or a major city, José Sócrates’s highest office had been that of minister of the environment for all of two years.

How is it that none of the relevant state ministers in previous socialist governments was ready to step into the role of party leader and PM? How is it that an inconsequential environment minister becomes the only alternative available?

The reality is that the most reputed names amongst the socialists chose not to pursue leadership. The very reluctance is the clue to the reason why: socialism was spent. Economically, socialism had been discredited by the communist experiences throughout the world; at times providing real world empirical counterfactuals within the same nation, such as was the case in Korea or Germany. Culturally, the sexual revolution having been won and counter culture reigning supreme, ‘progress’ could only possibly be furthered by delving into more extreme causes. Whether instinctively or fully cognizant, mainstream socialist higher-ups sensed that the future of socialism would have to become increasingly extremist and populist, by necessity.

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Some Christians are familiar with the Apostle’s Creed. That percentage goes up once Episcopalians are not counted. The Credo has long been an integral part of the faith and works as a short hand for both prayer and a statement of faith. It begins, of course, with “I believe…”

Well, the Progressives have their own bastardized version of the Creed since their occult like movement took off. You’ve probably seen it in some fashion or another somewhere. Typically is listed on a multi-colored sign or banner with “We Believe” at the top and the statements of faith listed below. However, unlike the Christian Creed (Episcopalians excluded), the Progressives will update their/thems/zers Creed via Memo and online subscription at the Party’s directives. Such as the latest and greatest Pride Flag or the Progressive Creed. Since I feel like it’s my duty to spread the Gospel of George Floyd, I give you the updated Progressive Creed for the zealots of the Right-side-of-History to give their testimony.

The Atlantic.

As Kamala Harris rushed to pick a running mate last year, her “first choice” was her close friend Pete Buttigieg, but she decided that it would be “too big of a risk” for a Black woman to run with a gay man.

How one would classify Walz is an exercise left for the reader.

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Amid California’s worsening affordability crisis and warnings of a 75-percent price increase at the gas pump, state legislators over the weekend sent a package of bills aimed at tackling energy costs, fuel supply, and pollution to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk.

The funny thing about Reality is that it sticks around even after you refuse to believe in it.

The Telegrapb (UK).

In a hospital in northern England, a middle-aged patient is told he needs a CT scan. It’s an urgent cancer referral. So, he promptly follows the signs in the sprawling NHS hospital to radiology. As he prepares to be loaded into the scanner, staff run through the pre-procedure checks: Any allergies, heart disease, diabetes, previous reactions to X-ray dye? And: Could you be pregnant?

For one senior radiographer, Samantha*, this is a familiar scenario. “It’s mortifying to repeatedly ask middle-aged men – who at that moment have presented for life-saving treatment and are hooked up to monitors and multiple drips – what their sex is. Or worse, if they could be pregnant.”

In around 20 NHS trusts, all patients aged 12-55 having a scan using ionising radiation around the pelvis are quizzed over their pregnancy status – regardless of gender. One trust questions men as old as 60.

The rot has gone deep in Britain. That’s our future … unless we change it.