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The Kiel branch of the Young Socialists (Jusos) is demanding a ban on men’s podcasts, Apollo News reports. Jusos is arguing that the format spreads ‘toxic masculinity’ stereotypes and conspiracy theories, and pose a threat to democratic values. Their motion, set to be debated at the SPD youth organization’s state delegate conference at the end of September, is titled: “Ban men’s podcasts! – Take the microphones away from men!”

According to the motion, podcasts like Hoss & Hopf or the Andrew Tate brand have “developed into a dangerous phenomenon over the past two years.” Jusos Kiel argues that such programs promote “an uncritical glorification of toxic masculinity ideals and the ‘alpha mindset,’” while frequently featuring guests who spread “sexist stereotypes and discriminatory statements.” They further accuse these podcasts of presenting “pseudoscientific theories and numerous conspiracy theories” that are “trumpeted out to the world.”

The Antiplanner.

Oregon’s strategy for saving energy is doomed to failure, say comments on the draft strategy written by the Antiplanner. A key part of the strategy calls for prioritizing multimodal transportation over roads and promoting development patterns that make it easier to live without a car. This strategy has never worked, the comments point out, and if Oregon is going to have an energy strategy it should adopt one that will actually work rather than one that is designed to fail.

ABC News, a Voice of the Crust.

At least 13 people have been wounded, five critically, in two shootings that erupted over a span of 12 hours at homeless encampments in Minneapolis with the city’s mayor saying he wouldn’t be surprised if they are connected.

The shootings on Monday marked the fourth and fifth mass shootings to occur in Minneapolis in the past three weeks, including one on Aug. 27 at Annunciation Catholic School that left two children dead and 21 people injured.
“This is tragic. It’s horrible. It’s unacceptable, and, sadly, it’s not surprising,” Mayor Jacob Frey said at a news conference early Tuesday.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said the city’s latest mass shooting unfolded Monday night at a notorious homeless encampment in southeast Minneapolis, in which eight people were shot and an estimated 30 shots were fired.

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The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Free Speech Rankings crowned California’s Claremont McKenna College with a grade of B- as the best college in the U.S. for free speech, while a string of other California schools received F grades amid anti-free speech environments across campuses.

FIRE released its sixth annual College Free Speech Rankings, which pulled responses on free-speech topics from 68,510 students attending 257 American colleges. The survey highlighted a decline in support for free speech among all students.

Students on both sides of the political aisle are showing a deep “unwillingness” to face controversial ideas, the press releases stated.

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A few years ago, before the trans craze became the ideological leviathan that it is today, I read a news analysis that estimated the proportion of the population identifying as transgender or non-binary as 0.1%. Since then, after continuous relentless promotion of all things transgender by the media and academia, the number has apparently grown by almost an order of magnitude. In March of 2023, just after Audrey Hale carried out her mass shooting at a parochial school in Nashville, Newsweek reported:

According to the Williams Institute research center, around 0.6 percent of Americans over the age of 13 identify as transgender.

However, the ensuing eighteen months must have been busy ones for the trans-promoters, because in late 2024 USAFacts reported that the percentage had increased even further:

About 0.95% of the nation’s adult population identifies as transgender, according to Household Pulse Survey data collected from May to September 2024. This is equivalent to approximately 2.3 million adults.

I’ve seen other estimates that the trans population is 1%, 2%, or even 3%.

In the last few years there have also been a number of mass shootings carried out by transgender or non-binary perpetrators. The pace of such shootings seems to have accelerated in recent months, leading to widespread assertions that the number of atrocities carried out by trans people is disproportionately high, relative to their percentage in the general population. Determining the accuracy of such assertions, however, is a very difficult task, as I discovered over the last few weeks while trying to dig more deeply into the topic. I asked Vlad to help, since he is an adept at using AI for research, but he said that his AI assistant was stymied by his request. The relevant data are simply too diffuse, obscure, or otherwise unavailable.

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Here’s a question my home state of Oregon could easily answer: How many kids have received gender transition surgeries in the last 15 years? The state has this data and is required by law to give it to me. Yet instead of doing so, officials are now telling me that they’ve been illegally selling Oregonians’ health information for years. It’s a head-turning argument, but it’s also false. It shows how desperate the state is to avoid answering my question.

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The plenary session of the European Parliament descended into shouting and jeers on Thursday after left-wing MEPs refused to observe a minute of silence for American conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was murdered on Wednesday. The gesture, requested by representatives of the Conservatives and Reformists group (ECR) and supported by Patriots for Europe (PfE), sparked a verbal confrontation that sharply divided the chamber.

The gesture was proposed at the beginning of the session as a sign of respect for Kirk, a prominent conservative voice on both sides of the Atlantic. However, the left-wing parties rejected the proposal, arguing such tributes should not be part of the institution’s official proceedings.

The refusal sparked a backlash from conservative and patriotic MEPs, who argued that honoring Kirk transcended politics. While conservatives attempted to uphold the minute of silence, boos and shouting were heard throughout the hall.

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California lawmakers have advanced a bill to ban the sale of nonstick cookware and corded kitchen appliances that contain PFAS (forever chemicals) despite strong opposition from an industry group that insists the products are save.

Bill 682 would phase out a range of consumer products in the state – along with many commercial products, that contain any amount of “intentionally added PFAS” starting in 2028.

PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are man-made chemicals, known as forever chemicals because they don’t break down easily and can build up in the human body and the environment.

The bill would make it illegal for anyone to distribute, sell or offer for sale any cookware that contained the chemicals – so all you garage sale sellers better watch out.

“PFAS are leading to an avoidable public health crisis,” said state Sen. Ben Allen (D) who introduced the bill. “It’s clear we need to be taking stronger steps to regulate and minimize the use of these forever chemicals.”

Time to leave.

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The bureaucratic jungle in Germany is expanding unchecked. According to Germany’s Federal Statistical Office, the number of information obligations for businesses has reached a new record high this year.

In private life, state bureaucracy is omnipresent. Whether it’s filing taxes or navigating the paperwork faced by homeowners, the state routinely enlists its citizens to carry out its own administrative work. In essence, the citizen performs a protracted year of social service in administration—without compensation, always under the looming threat of legal coercion.

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On Aug. 22, young Iryna Zarutska was murdered—not with a gun, but with a knife. The horror in the video circulating online comes less from the weapon than from the killer’s casual comment to a bystander: “I got that white girl.”

Those words reveal this was not simply an outburst of rage. They show a moral framework in which killing “that white girl” was normalized—even justified.

That is also what makes the assassination of Charlie Kirk so alarming. Some want to minimize it as just another “gun crime.”

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America’s great cities once symbolized prosperity and culture. Now, many are paying a steep financial price as crime surges and businesses flee. As one line in a new op-ed piece put it, “Crime has a balance sheet. In poorly led cities, that balance sheet is bleeding red ink by the day.”

Retail is bearing the brunt, according to an op-ed by Ted Jenkin at Fox News. The National Retail Federation (NRF) reported U.S. retailers lost $112 billion in 2022 due to theft, up from $94 billion in 2021. Between 2019 and 2023, shoplifting incidents rose 93% and dollar losses climbed 90%. Major chains are pulling back: Target projected $500 million in additional losses this year, Walgreens has shut stores across San Francisco, and Nordstrom left downtown entirely.

“Does it seem insane to you that so many of these retail stores have to lock up much of the merchandise…knowing that they will never be arrested?” the piece asked. The fallout is visible in empty storefronts and shrinking city budgets. San Francisco’s downtown vacancy rate has hit 34.8%, erasing jobs, tax revenue, and foot traffic.

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Why doesn’t Hermes just produce more bags and then everyone can have a Birkin? That’s basically the argument of people pressing President Donald Trump to declare a housing emergency.

The fact is there’s plenty of housing, just not in the most desirable neighborhoods. Population growth is slowing, deportations are increasing and new home construction already outpaces family creation. The shortage is a myth created by activists so they can force residential living patterns to conform to DEI dogma.

A simple calculation proves it. The Census Bureau collects annual data on both the number of households and the available housing stock. The latest data shows 131.3 million households and 146.5 million housing units, an excess supply of over 15 million units.

NBC News, a Voice of the Crust.

New Mexico will become the first state in the country to begin offering free universal child care, Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced.

It is not, of course, ‘free’, but paid for by taxpayers. Yet another piece of ‘wealth redistribution’ in a Clever Plastic Disguise’.

The move amounts to an expansion of an existing program that went into effect three years ago that has aided thousands of families in the state.

And moved them along to the proglodyte dream of the government raising your kids. The Communists in the Soviet Union tried that, and it turned out … badly.

I predict that it will suffer the same fate as single-payer government health care: It will increasingly absorb tax revenues to the point that taxes will have to be raised enormously, while simultaneously providing crappy child care. Scandals will abound, as now happens with Britain’s NHS and Canada’s copycat system.

You heard it here first….

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The brutal killing of Iryna Zarutska (Ukrainian refugee) on a commuter train in North Carolina highlights not only the willingness of leftist corporate media to cover up news stories that jeopardize their woke narratives but also the broader failure of so-called criminal justice reform, which appears to have shockingly backfired and become a major public safety threat. Adding to the mounting outrage, a leftist magistrate judge released the schizophrenic monster on cashless bail (before he killed Zarutska) – another failure point. And then there’s this: far-left nonprofits accelerated the push for disastrous criminal justice reforms.

It’s now widely known that Decarlos Brown Jr., 34, Zarutska’s killer, had been previously arrested 14 times in North Carolina for crimes ranging from assault to firearms possession, and whose own mother admitted he was schizophrenic and should never have been allowed back on the streets, was recently released on cashless bail (before he killed Zarutska) by a progressive magistrate judge despite a two-decade violent crime spree.

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“Another factor in the death of Iryna Zarutska on Charlotte’s light rail–the left-wing MacArthur Foundation giving Mecklenburg county a $3.3 million grant to reduce the jail population. Specifically as part of racial equity aims,” Daily Wire’s Megan Basham wrote on X.

Basham noted, “Like Soros’ Open Society, the MacArthur Foundation incentivizes local municipalities to make residents less safe by leaving threats like Decarlos Brown on the streets.”

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Two weeks ago, before both Bloomberg and Reuters, we told our subscribers to “brace for another huge negative payrolls revision”…

… and just like one year ago when we did exactly the same, we were spot on: moments ago the BLS reported that as part of its preliminary annual benchmark revisions, a record 911K payrolls for the period April 2024-March 2025 would be revised away. As shown in the chart below, the biggest revisions were in Leisure and Hospitality, Professional and Business services, and Retail and Wholesale trade sectors.

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What is more remarkable about today’s print is that after last year’s stunning 818K negative revision, which was the second biggest since the global financial crisis (and which we also warned ahead of time was coming), virtually nobody expected this year’s number to be higher. It was not only higher, but it was the biggest negative revision on record!

Which is why Trump fired the former head of BLS.

ALSO: White House: New Stats Reveal ‘Broken’ Labor Bureau

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A scandal is rocking the French press: a conservative magazine has just provided evidence, backed up by recordings, of public service journalists openly using media to support the socialist Left. The Right, which has long denounced the shameless collusion between the mainstream media and the Left, sees its worst suspicions more than confirmed, while those concerned try, in vain, to perpetuate the myth of their ‘neutrality’ and ‘journalistic ethics.’

These revelations, which came to light on the weekend of September 6 and 7—when French news was dominated by the vote of confidence requested by Prime Minister François Bayrou—were made by our friends from the magazine L’Incorrect, which describes itself as “cultural, conservative and corrosive.”

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What if I told you a man who identifies as a “transgender woman” threatened to victimize girls in girls’ bathrooms, shoot up schools, and bomb churches? Would that make you more likely to support efforts to investigate whether some people who identify as transgender pose a terrorist threat?

Most Americans haven’t heard the name of Jason Lee Willie, a man who identifies as female and goes by the name Alexia, but his case highlights the unnerving possibility that many people who identify as transgender may pose a violent threat to their fellow Americans.

Americans are more familiar with the man identifying as a woman who killed two and injured 17 at a Minneapolis Catholic school last month before taking his own life. They also know about the woman identifying as a man who killed three children and three adults at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, in March 2023.

The list of shooters and offenders who identify as transgender has been growing in recent years, which raises uncomfortable questions about potential ties between gender ideology or experimental gender drugs and violence.

Does the rhetoric of the transgender movement encourage hatred against Christians and conservatives? Do the interventions euphemistically termed “gender-affirming care” make people more unstable?

Power Line.

The future of Western Europe is hanging by a thread, as one government after another has collaborated in invasions by hostile foreigners. Indigenous Europeans are irate, and incumbent administrations are panicking. The London Times reports on the latest shakeup of Keir Starmer’s government. Starmer’s new Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, says the regime will get serious about immigration:

Another party insider said “nothing is off the table” for Mahmood. They said she was likely to want to reform the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and would be far more radical than her predecessor. The source added she would “start with the unthinkable and work backwards”.

“Far more radical” apparently means being less blatant about selling out the British people, not because they are, after all, the ones Britain’s government is supposed to represent, but in order to “stop the advance of Nigel Farage.” What “radical” measures are Starmer’s government now prepared to consider?

Mahmood’s first big intervention as home secretary is expected to come within weeks when she announces plans to build modular accommodation for single, adult male asylum seekers on Ministry of Defence land.

That is better, I suppose, than housing them in “migrant hotels” across Britain, at enormous expense in both money and criminality. But note the implicit acknowledgment that “migrants” are overwhelmingly “single, adult male asylum seekers.” This is why those who pay attention call it an invasion.

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A convicted sex offender from Kenya that a federal judge blocked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from deporting 10 years ago – and who then went on to work as a Minnesota Department of Education director – has been arrested again by ICE.

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Finally, Europe has found a group of refugees who aren’t welcome—Americans.

As reported by Reuters this week, there is a small but growing number of U.S. citizens attempting to claim asylum in Europe, on the grounds that they are transgender. One such individual is Veronica Clifford-Carlos, a 28-year-old artist from San Francisco, who left the U.S. in June this year, hoping to be granted refugee status in the Netherlands. Clifford-Carlos claimed that the U.S. is no longer safe for trans people, and that “I have people screaming ‘faggot’ at me in the street … I have people threatening my life, threatening to assault me, threatening to follow me home and kill my family.”

Shockingly, for a country that normally appears to accept anyone from anywhere, no questions asked, the Netherlands rejected Clifford-Carlos’s application. In August, the American launched a lawsuit against the rejection—the first of its kind. Clifford-Carlos is not, however, alone in fleeing the supposed dystopian hellscape of Trump’s America. The advocacy group backing the lawsuit, LGBT Asylum Support, says it’s currently working with 20 other transgender Americans to make asylum claims. Official data from the Netherlands show that a total of 29 Americans applied for asylum there in the first half of this year, though the reason for each case is not recorded.

It is exceedingly rare for U.S. citizens to be granted asylum in European countries. Usually, this only happens incidentally, when an American dependent of someone with another citizenship—such as a parent—is given refugee status. For the Dutch government—or any European government—to accept an asylum application from America would imply criticism of the U.S. government. This is something that any European government would, understandably, be reluctant to do.

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Police on Friday, September 5th, removed a makeshift memorial dedicated to “the victims of Merkel’s mass migration” near Breitscheidplatz in Berlin.

Concrete blocks, flowers, and photos had been placed at a site close to where a terrorist attacked the Christmas market in 2016, killing 13 people.

According to Deutschland-Kurier, the victims’ photos, including one of police officer Rouven Laur who was killed by an Islamist, were thrown away.

On Thursday, September 4, Berlin police covered the memorial with trash bags, and on Friday morning, a police armored vehicle came to remove the concrete blocks.

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More than half of all planned deportations from Germany continue to fail, highlighting persistent problems in the country’s migration policy.

According to the German government’s response to a parliamentary inquiry by Alternative für Deutschland Bundestag member René Springer, around 250,000 deportations were planned between 2020 and July 2025, but nearly 146,000 were not carried out.

The failure rate has remained consistently above 55%, reaching 60% in 2023 and 60.5% in 2024. In the first seven months of 2025, 35,489 deportations were scheduled, yet 20,982 could not be executed, representing 59.1%.

Springer criticized the federal government, telling NIUS that

the federal government has lost control and is unable to enforce existing law. Those who fail to consistently deport those required to leave the country are turning Germany into a magnet for illegal migration and destroying trust in the rule of law. Springer also argued that the repeated failures of established parties make the AfD the party most trusted by voters to address asylum and migration issues.

Politico, a Voice of the Crust.

A powerful Justice Department appeals panel has declared that anyone in deportation proceedings who entered the U.S. without legal authorization is not entitled to be considered for release on bond by an immigration judge.

Upon which point they vanish into obscurity, and are safe from deportation, becomeing ‘undocumented immigrants’ and near and dear to proglodyte hearts everywhere.

The ruling upends a decades-long understanding of federal law and could subject millions of immigrants to mandatory detention — a loss of liberty that advocates say could cause many to voluntarily leave the country even if they have meritorious cases to remain.

… which ‘understanding’ is responsible for the predicament in which we now find ourselves. People ‘voluntarily leaving the country’ is the desired outcome; ‘meritorious cases to remain’ remain meritorious, just not in the Fashionable Victim sense.

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A new study conducted by a Dutch engineering consultant found that the average sea level rise in 2020 was around 1.5 millimeters per year, “significantly lower” than the 3 to 4 millimeters often projected by climate scientists and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Hessel Voortman and researcher Rob de Vos checked actual observations of more than 200 tide stations against projections and models.

“It is crazy that it had not been done. I started doing this research in 2021 by doing the literature review. ‘Who has done the comparison of the projections with the observations?’ And there were none,” Voortman told independent journalist Michael Shellenberger.

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In the wake of the tragic mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, where two children were killed and 17 others injured by a deranged transgender identifying individual, a small group of lunatics have sparked widespread outrage by protesting, apparently in defense of trans ideology.

The group positioned themselves directly across the street from the school, where the children were attacked as they prayed,

They heckled Vice President JD Vance and his wife Usha as they arrived at the church Wednesday to meet with victims’ families and pay respects. The ‘protesters’ held signs reading “Hate Won’t Make America Great.”

Crazy ‘trans’ people won’t make America great, either. In what respect shooting kids praying doesn’t qualify as ‘hate’ escapes me.

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In a new op-ed Seattle talk radio host Jason Rantz exposes how University of Washington faculty—through the American Association of University Professors (AAUP)—are deliberately trying to keep their political organizing out of public view. The evidence comes from an email circulated by Abraham Flaxman, a UW professor, forwarding AAUP leadership’s warning that:

“Emails that are sent to an employer-issued email address could be accessed by the employer or be subject to records requests from legislators or members of the public, putting our members’ privacy at risk.”

As Rantz points out, this isn’t about privacy in the ordinary sense—it’s about making sure “taxpayers—or the media—[don’t learn] about the ideological activism they push under the guise of academic freedom.”

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An uncomfortable truth surfaced earlier this week in California when the chair of the California State Student Association (CSSA) openly admitted that the California State University (CSU) system “proudly” serves 10,000 illegal alien students.

CSSA Chair Aaron Villarreal stated, “The CSU is proud to serve nearly 10,000 undocumented students. The highest number at any university system in the country.”

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The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit challenging an Illinois law that provides student financial aid to illegal immigrants, arguing it “plainly violates federal law” by unconstitutionally discriminating against U.S. citizens.

Last month, Gov. JB Pritzker, a Democrat, signed a bill amending the Retention of Illinois Students and Equity Act, known as the RISE Act, to expand eligibility for state-funded scholarships, grants, stipends, and other financial aid administered by local governments and public universities to illegal immigrants in Illinois who are not eligible for federal aid. The law goes into effect on Jan. 1.

Illinois has more than 27,000 illegal immigrants enrolled in higher education, according to data from Higher Ed Immigration Portal.

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On Monday, September 1, a Gaza-bound flotilla carrying humanitarian aid and pro-Palestinian activists—including environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg—set sail from Barcelona again, hours after strong winds forced it to return to the Spanish port.

Around 20 vessels left the city on Sunday, reports the Global Sumud Flotilla.

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I guess Mother Nature didn’t know Who She Was.

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Israel was fairly soft on Greta Thunberg following her first failed Gaza ‘aid mission.’ The Swedish eco-zealot-cum-Gaza activist-cum-“human trafficker” accepted deportation after reportedly refusing to watch a film documenting the atrocities of Hamas’ October 7th terror attack, while the tiny amount of aid she transported—just about enough for “maybe a dozen people,” according to some commentators—was transferred to Gaza through proper humanitarian channels.

But Benjamin Netanyahu’s team appears now to have run out of patience and is preparing a much tougher response to Thunberg’s latest endeavour to deter any future so-called “Palestine rescue missions.” Indeed, the activist has already threatened to “go back” if her expedition is again cut short by Israeli forces.

After Greta and co. left Spain on Sunday on the largest flotilla yet bound for Gaza, Israeli paper Israel Hayom reported that Netanyahu’s ministers are drawing up plans to put the activist in detention “under terrorist conditions” and to convert her ships into a police fleet.

They ought to turn her over to Hamas and see how long she would last.

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“These incidents do not occur where international officials live and work. They happen in the rotten areas of the city, in Anderlecht, in Molenbeek, in places like that,” Alain Hutchinson, Brussels’ commissioner for Europe and international organizations said in a recent interview, downplaying the wave of violence hitting the Belgian capital. He even claimed that in the European quarter, “we have never had this kind of problem” and that expats “have nothing to worry about.”

However, that discourse, intended to reassure the thousands of EU officials living in Brussels, apart from showing complete disregard for ordinary people, clashes head-on with the official data. Far from being confined to a handful of neighborhoods, violence is spreading across the city and has reached levels more akin to a town at war: since January, there have been 57 shootings, 20 of them in just three summer months.

The offensive classism draws a clear line between the lives of European officials and those of ordinary citizens who must learn to live with the increasingly deteriorating security situation in ‘the capital of Europe.’

Freeberg nails it.

The Director of the CDC is refusing to step down after Trump has fired her.

I’m picking up a pattern here, what with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass pledging not to be intimidated by President Trump…um…attempting to clean up her city?

Defiant liberals who refuse to be intimidated, are all over the place. We could use them as landfill. But I notice you haven’t got long to wait until you see the next one, being defiant, refusing to be intimidated. And I also notice they’re never up to anything good.

In fact, it occurs to me. When a duly elected President fires your ass, and you defiantly refuse to move out of there for whatever reason. That’s a “Deep State,” right? That’s what it is. Unaccountable to The People. Can’t dislodge it. Not going anywhere.

Are they really committed to these bad policies they want to keep going, by refusing to budge? Because if not, and all they really want to do is show how defiant and hard it is to intimidate them, maybe we could come up with some special environment like a deserted island, or an empty lot, over which they can do their ruling and reigning and whatever. Then out here in the real world, we could enact some sensible policies and lower the crime rate, with them out of the way. They could lord over their little bottle-worlds and continue to show anyone paying attention how defiant and not-intimidated they are.

Just an idea.

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A flotilla carrying aid and activists including Greta Thunberg, is to leave Barcelona on Sunday, August 31st, to try to ‘break the blockade of Gaza,’ organizers said. The exact number of ships and the departure time were not given.

More boats are expected to leave from other Mediterranean ports, like Tunis, on September 4th. The flotilla aims to reach Gaza by mid-September.

Organizers call it the largest solidarity mission so far involving activists, lawmakers, and public figures from several countries.

The activists have not signaled intention to raise their voices for the Israeli hostages still held in Hamas dungeons in the Gaza Strip.

I’d like to know who’s funding all this virtue-signaling. It’s not as if these people have Real Jobs.

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A council in the county of Essex, close to London, has been ridiculed for offering emotional support to employees they claim are feeling unsettled by seeing so many people raising the national flag in the streets of towns and cities across the country.

As we have highlighted, the action is being taken by everyday people in Britain who are sick to the back teeth of mass illegal immigration and the fallout it’s having on their communities.

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The Wokerati don’t like it when the laws that they twisted to hammer normal people are being turned against them. ODF.

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Lackluster student performance has plagued the Schenectady, N.Y., city school district for years.

That’s because the teachers are crap. They won’t admit that, of course.

The school district, like many others, implemented a “grading for equity” policy in response to dismal test scores.

All of which is designed so that Fashionable Minorities can get better grades than they actually deserve, which incidentally hiding the fact that their teachers are crap.

However, as Aaron Gifford reports below for The Epoch Times, a recent national survey indicates that most teachers feel grade equity actually hurts students long term, although more than half of the schools and districts across the nation engage in the practice.

Schenectady’s 2022-2023 academic report said 95 percent of its high school freshmen were behind in math by three or more grade levels.

A year later, the district reported that in the first quarter of the 2022-2023 school year, more than half of its middle school students (grades 6-8) were three or more grade levels behind in both reading and math, while the daily attendance rate for high schoolers had dipped below 79 percent.

Time to leave.

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Florida investigators say some migrants have been using hidden cameras and earpieces to cheat on commercial driver’s license (CDL) exams, allowing them to operate 18-wheelers despite not knowing English, according to WTLV-TV and Breitbart.

According to WTLV-TV, applicants used tiny cameras to transmit test questions outside DMV facilities, where an accomplice provided answers through an earpiece. Police in Jacksonville recently arrested several migrants in the scheme. One man was sentenced to eight months in prison, another was turned over to ICE, and others had cases dismissed after court-ordered conditions.

Officials describe the cheating operation as “highly organized” and likely active nationwide. It comes amid a rise in fatal crashes involving non-English-speaking truckers.

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Why do celebrities turn awards show speeches into political rants?

Because they can, for starters.

They also know there’s no journalist within shouting distance to fact-check their claims. Nor will reporters press them on their lecture’s details.

A similar protection comes via celebrity relief efforts. Stars share their talent and time for various causes, typically with the best of intentions. What if those intentions aren’t enough?

Enter FireAid.

I predict that none of the $100 million will go to the people whose property in rich-people enclaves like Pacific Palisades the City of Los Angeles wants to expropriate and turn into ‘affordable housing’.

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Canada is often portrayed as a land of freedom, opportunity, and prosperity. Reality, however, tells a different story.

Statist policies, crushing taxes, bloated bureaucracy, and a society overtaken by woke ideology have shattered Canada. This is a cautionary tale for those looking at Canada as an ideal living space. If you are asking yourself what living in Canada is like, let me explain: Canada is not a land of fulfilled dreams but of enduring harsh conditions and barely getting by.

As if economic hardships aren’t enough, Canadians are also oppressed by the Orwellian newspeak that woke culture is creating. If you speak your mind, you’re labeled a fascist. If you question social policies, you’re accused of microaggressions.

There are no best places to live in Canada anymore. As a Canadian, I see little chance of Canada becoming livable again. Since I founded Expat Money in 2017, I have been helping expats build their Plan-Bs to protect their wealth and freedom and leave countries like this one.

Let’s look at the unfortunate condition that Canada has fallen into.

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Phillips 66 will begin shutting down its 139,000 bpd Los Angeles-area refinery as soon as next week, sources told Reuters, moving forward on a closure plan announced last year. Units at the plant will idle in phases through Q4 2025, with the facility permanently offline by year-end.

The decision isn’t a surprise—Phillips 66 said in October it would exit the site, citing “market dynamics.” But it comes with fallout: about 600 employees and 300 contractors will lose their jobs by December, with only a handful reassigned to the company’s marine terminal. The company insists it will support workers through the transition, though local officials remain worried about the economic hit.

California, meanwhile, is staring at a bigger problem. Between Phillips 66’s LA facility and Valero’s Benicia refinery, scheduled to close in 2026, the state is set to lose roughly 17% of its refining capacity. That’s a dangerous haircut in a state already paying the nation’s highest pump prices. Analysts warn that by late 2026, California gasoline could top $8 a gallon if supply disruptions collide with fewer in-state refineries.

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Diversity, equity, and inclusion mandates, race-based hiring, and safe spaces are just a few of the noxious turns that have become the standard in American colleges and universities in recent times.

Examples of universities practicing preferential treatment are countless. John Sailer, director of higher education policy at the Manhattan Institute, reports on a faculty job rubric he obtained from the University of Texas at San Antonio, which listed “female/URM” (underrepresented minority) as a scoring category.

Similarly, in an email he received from Northern Illinois University, a computer science professor shared the department’s search committee evaluation rubric, which scored applicants on their “diversity” and awarded points for those who were “non-male or non-Caucasian.”

Newsbusters.

Yet another transgender extremist (biologically male) targeted a religious school and killed two children in a Catholic church during mass, on Wednesday. Despite the monstrous actions and the anti-Catholic messages written on the shooter’s equipment (like “Where is your God now?”), CNN’s Jake Tapper took to his show, The Lead, and wanted to make sure people were using the school shooter’s preferred pronouns and to make sure he wasn’t ‘dead named.

As with all proglodytes, the Agenda comes first.

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Time to leave.

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The Justice Department has opened an investigation into the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) over the department’s focus on racial equity when hiring, promoting and retaining employees.

The government on Wednesday sent a letter to the agency claiming that CalEPA “may be engaged in employment practices that discriminate … based on race, color, sex, and national origin” due to a document titled “Practices to Advance Racial Equity in Workforce Planning,” which advocates for diverse interview panels and for “applying a racial equity lens to every phase of workforce development.”

“In publicly available guidance documents, CAL EPA highlights ‘hiring, promotion and retention practices and policies’ that indicate it may be using protected characteristics to ‘advance racial equity,'” the letter stated. “Further, [the California Air Resources Board] CARB, a division of CAL EPA, appears to use these policies to engage in discriminatory employment practices in its ‘Racial Equity Framework,’ which aims to advance race-based decision-making within the agency.”

Trump is obviously going to keep the pressure on Blue States to eradicate as much DEI nonsense has he can. Once he breaks the seeming right-side-of-history inevitability of Wokeness, we might be able to keep things on a more even keel … but it will take work and constant vigilance.

Remember, Trump hasn’t even finished his first year of this term. I suspect that Democrats are going to become very tired of losing before he passes the torch in 2028.

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture is no longer defending a Biden administration program that gave preferential treatment to farmers based on race and gender for loans, commodities, and conservation assistance, the Washington Examiner reported.

The USDA submitted a motion in a legal case declining to stand behind the initiative, according to a court filing obtained by the Examiner.

The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty had sued the USDA on behalf of a Wisconsin dairy farmer who said he was being discriminated against because he was white, the Examiner said.

Have you ever seen a ‘black farmer’? Ever heard tell of one? I was born and raised in Indiana farm country, and I never have. I suspect that this program was another race-based grift: Hey, black people! Pretend to be a farmer so we can give you money we don’t have to give to white people!

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The Department of Education has put the Burlington, Massachusetts, public school district on notice that it is reviewing the district’s actions of forcing students to take a sex and risk behavior study despite parental decisions to opt their kids out of participation.

The DOE posted that some parents denied the district permission to include their children in the survey, which included the sensitive topics of sexual behavior and gender. But those parental wishes were ignored by the district, and their children were still forced to complete the survey.

The survey was shared by the DOE. It involved extremely personal questions about sexual activities with graphic descriptions, including forced sexual activities. A question regarding gender included the statement: “Your sexual orientation is not the same as your gender identity.”

Huffington Post, a Voice of the Wokerati.

Mayor Muriel Bowser on Wednesday praised President Donald Trump’s surge of federal police into the city, saying it had significantly reduced carjackings.

Officers from various federal law enforcement agencies have backed up the city’s Metropolitan Police Department on patrol in the city for the past two-and-a-half weeks, with the White House taking credit for more than 1,000 arrests assisted by federal officers.

“We greatly appreciate the surge of officers that enhance what MPD has been able to do in this city,” Bowser said at a press conference. “The difference between this 20-day period of this federal surge and last year represents an 87% reduction in carjackings.”

You can almost see the raised eyebrows….