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Cel-e-brate-Woke-times COME ON….

Vox, a Voice of the Woke.

Under Joe Biden in 2021, House Democrats passed legislation that would have established a monthly child allowance for most families, an expansion of Medicaid’s elder care services, federal child care subsidies, universal prekindergarten, and a paid family leave program, among other new social benefits.

But that bill failed — and then, so did Biden’s presidency.

Power Line.

I am undoubtedly lacking in imagination, but the trans campaign seems to me the final frontier of the left’s war on nature. It is akin to the axioms of the Party in 1984: War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength. To these we can add: Men Can Be Women. Women Can Be Men. It’s Your Call. As in 1984, the whole point is to shove it down our throats and demand our silence.

The left is relentless. The Tennessee case was a weak front on which to pick a fight. They will be back for more, sooner rather than later.

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The activities of Antifa in Berlin look remarkably similar to those of their cousins in New York or Los Angeles. The mass torching of vehicles for ideological reasons is rapidly becoming the favorite pastime for leftists on both sides of the Atlantic.

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A total of 36 vans were destroyed by fire at two Amazon and two Telekom locations, in a military-style operation from an extremist group, on the night of Tuesday, June 17th.

Antimilitarist Action claimed responsibility for each devastating incident. On Mohriner Allee Britz, 19 Amazon company vehicles were torched completely, with four others damaged. In Buchberger Straße, 17 vans were set alight at multiple locations.

Security services are investigating suspected arson. This follows a similar arson Berlin attack last week, in Schönwalde-Glien (Havelland, Brandenburg), dozens of Amazon and Deutsche Post vans went up in flames at a parking lot.

These blazes seem like part of a wider pattern, with the Anarchist Bunch MRMD group criminally causing a blaze at a Berlin microchip company on Wednesday, June 11th.

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The Columbia River Basin remains a vital artery for America’s energy and agricultural future. To gamble that away on the basis of activist pressure and incomplete science would be not just foolish, but dangerous. For once, a president has drawn a line—and the country will be stronger for it.

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The think tank’s analysis of Reeves’s Spending Review estimates that by the end of financial year 2028–29, the health service will account for half (49 percent) of all day-to-day public services spending, up from 34 percent in 2009–10.

On Wednesday, the chancellor announced a record £29 billion funding injection, which the Treasury said will deliver on the government’s promise to cut waiting lists, improve patient care, and modernise services.

Resolution Foundation Chief Executive Ruth Curtice said in a statement, “Health accounted for 90 per cent of the extra public service spending, continuing a trend that is seeing the British state morph into a National Health State, with half of public service spending set to be on health by the end of the decade.”

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) noted in its initial response to the Spending Review that the funding increase for the NHS was substantial, but questioned whether it will be enough to get the health service back to meeting its 18-week target for hospital waiting times within this Parliament, something which the think tank said was “enormously ambitious.”

The demand for health care, and the funding to pay for it when it is provided by the government, is bottomless. The NHS was a socialist pipe-dream from the beginning, and will eventually destroy British society.

The Guardian, a Voice of the Crust.

I guess “Professor of Fascism” means she teaches people how to do it – I can’t think of any other reason to go to Trudeau’s fascist Canada.

Or maybe she’s just a socialist. If it’s socialism, none dare call it Fascism.

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How about that great government-provided health care? Don’t you wish we had a system like that in the U.S.

Democrats do. Not for them, of course, but for all you Dirt People.

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Our preliminary assessment of the command and control structures supporting the ‘No Kings’ color revolution operation by the Democratic Party has been propped up through dark money networks that continue to finance radical left-wing NGOs engaged in what appears to be a sustained, low-grade color revolution during the day and riots at night. These NGOs, operating with logistical sophistication, have aimed to undermine societal cohesion and erode public trust in the Trump administration.

On Saturday, a coordinated series of demonstrations unfolded across major metropolitan areas, including New York, Denver, Chicago, Houston, Seattle, Portland, and Los Angeles. The protests—supported by a network of nearly 200 entities, many of which include ideologically aligned and far-left NGOs—appear to follow a highly structured mobilization effort reminiscent of prior failed “Tesla Takedown” operations observed earlier this year.

Newsbusters.

eftist professor Maura Finkelstein, conservative professor Amy Wax, and the New York Times’ double standard on academic freedom: In the last two years the paper has run four major articles, two on Finkelstein’s controversy and ultimate firing, and two on Wax’s controversy and ultimate suspension.

While these articles contain some nuanced arguments, the headlines and subheads make clear which side the Times is taking — this radical anti-Israel professor deserves academic freedom, while the conservative professor may need to be fired.

The most recent entry was Sarah Viren’s June 8 cover story for the New York Times Magazine, complete with a flattering photo shoot inside: “A Professor Was Fired for Her Politics. Is That the Future of Academia? — Maura Finkelstein is one of many scholars discovering that the traditional protections of academic freedom are no longer holding.” Viren cited a Change.org petition demanding Finkelstein be fired for “dangerous pro-Hamas rhetoric” and “blatant classroom bias against Jewish students,” and the professor’s post “ISRAEL DOES NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO DEFEND ITS OCCUPATION.”

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The conflict surrounding the Trump Administration’s deportation of illegal aliens is driven by a complex web of NGOs and astroturf activist groups, but Democrat politicians continue to play a considerable role in fomenting civil unrest. State leaders were a key element of the BLM riots in 2020, providing a governmental green light for the mobs by exempting them from covid mandates. City officials ensured that rioters and looters were released without charges, cycling them back out onto the streets to wreak havoc day after day. Other Democrat leaders hobbled local law enforcement and prevented them from intervening in the riots.

The pattern seems to be repeating, with Democrats doubling down on their defense of illegal immigration and interfering in ICE operations. The law, once again, is only important to progressives when it works in their favor. When it doesn’t, they ignore it.

This week multiple Democrat governors defended their sanctuary state policies in a hearing on illegal immigration on Capitol Hill. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, and New York Governor Kathy Hochul testified at the hearing, asserting that the immigration issue was being overblown by the Trump Administration and diminishing concerns over violent migrant crimes.

Tim Walz argued that Trump was using the DHS as his personal “gestapo” and Kathy Hochul called deportations an “assault on American values”.

The Foundry.

California has long prided itself on being a symbol of progressive governance, a supposed beacon of tolerance, opportunity, and inclusivity. But behind the glittering curtain of Hollywood dreams and Silicon Valley innovation lies a troubling reality—a self-inflicted crisis stemming from policies that defy economic logic and common sense. As California grapples with an unprecedented immigration surge, ballooning homelessness, and mass exodus of residents and businesses, the question arises: Should the federal government intervene?

The answer is unequivocally no. In fact, the federal government—particularly under President Donald Trump—should stand back and allow California to confront the consequences of its own ideological delusions.

Between July 2021 and July 2022, approximately 400,000 residents left California. The state, once a magnet for dreamers, is now hemorrhaging taxpayers and employers. Major corporations such as Tesla, Oracle, and Chevron have relocated to more business-friendly states like Texas and Florida. The exodus is not coincidental—it is a direct reaction to California’s punitive tax structure, suffocating regulations, and increasingly chaotic public order.

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If you thought that the leftist delusions of grandeur had finally hit their peak you are about to be unpleasantly surprised. There are no limits to the insanity that progressives will embrace in their pursuit of power, and they continue to adhere to the fantasy that they are the “good guys” despite the fact that most of the world has been telling them for the past several years that their ideology is repugnant.

The events in Los Angeles are just the beginning and the path this situation will take is relatively predictable. There is a large enough percentage of the US population (around 25% to 30%) that is inexorably rooted in the ideologies of Marxism and multiculturalism. Many of them might not even understand what they’re supporting, but they’ll still do what they’re told by their gatekeepers.

For decades now the progressives have treated America like an experiment in social engineering; the US has been their personal multicultural playground. What has them enraged today is the fact that they are hitting a wall of opposition. They aren’t used to being told “No” and the only way they know how to respond is by lashing out.

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According to Kamala Harris, the Los Angeles riots are “overwhelmingly peaceful” and nothing more than “part of the Trump administration’s cruel, calculated agenda to spread panic and division.”

But as one Homeland Security official commented, “These rioters in Los Angeles are fighting to keep rapists, murderers, and other violent criminals loose on Los Angeles streets.”

President Donald Trump and his administration are not listening to Democrats who continue to downplay the violence. The Department of Homeland Security has released the names and photos of the “worst of the worst” illegal alien criminals arrested during the LA riots. All criminal information is from the DHS unless otherwise noted.

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It will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world – that CO2, the life of plants, was considered for a time to be a deadly poison. –Harvard Emeritus Professor Richard Lindzen

When the story of the great turn-of-the-millennium climate science fraud comes to be written by future historians, the central role of the RCP8.5 ‘business as usual’ model scenario as adopted by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will be obvious to all. This ‘pathway’ has polluted climate model predictions for years with its wild and improbable claims of carbon dioxide emissions and soaring temperatures. A huge number of science papers incorporating the pathway are published by obvious Net Zero activists, and their ‘scientists say’ climate psychosis-inducing fairy tales are sped on their way by blinkered journalists in the mainstream press. The science writer Roger Pielke Jr. notes that RCP8.5 has been “falsified” – most knew it was fake, historians are likely to conclude, but the Net Zero addiction was too strong for it to be given up.

By “falsified”, Dr Pielke explains in a recent Substack article, he means that the pathway’s emissions trajectory is already well out of step with reality. To prove his point he offers up the 2021 evidence contained in Burgess et al. highlighted in the graph below.

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Somehow I don’t think it was Republicans who did this.

Time to leave.

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California jails failed to honor more than 13,000 ICE detainers over 2½ years, significantly affecting enforcement of federal immigration law and public safety, according to newly released Immigration and Customs Enforcement records, Breitbart reported.

New records show that Golden State jails did not comply with over 13,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer requests between October 2022 and February 2025. The documents, reviewed by the Center for Immigration Studies, highlight California as the state most frequently refusing to cooperate with federal immigration officials.

An ICE detainer asks local or state law enforcement to hold those under arrest for up to 48 hours after their scheduled release, allowing ICE to take custody for potential deportation. CIS said, “More than half of the declined detainers (52%) were refused by jails and prisons in California.”

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New numbers from the California Department of Education show a continued drop in public school enrollment in the 2024–2025 school year. Despite fewer students, TK-12 education spending continues to increase, begging the question of whether taxpayers are getting value for money.

The 5.8 million students counted for the just-concluded school year represents a reduction of 31,000 from 2023–2024 and 380,000 (or 6 percent) from before the pandemic. But the drop in traditional public school enrollment is even worse than these headline numbers suggest. The totals include charter schools which added 75,000 students since the 2018–19 school year.

Netting out charters yields an enrollment drop of 8 percent, and this is despite the fact that a new grade, Transitional Kindergarten, was added during the period.

People are pulling their kids out of California public schools because they realize that their kids are getting indoctrinated in Woke ideology rather than actually educated. California would be a great place if it weren’t for the Californians.

Time to leave.

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Don’t hold your breath.

Further evidenced that this is an officially sanctioned invasion.s

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A former director of a Massachusetts migrant shelter is blowing the whistle on the disastrous situation wrought by the state’s sanctuary policies for illegal immigrants under Democrat Gov. Maura Healey, combined with the Biden administration’s open-border policies.

Jon Fetherston, who managed a hotel-turned-migrant shelter in Marlborough, Massachusetts, from November 2023 to July 2024, urged Attorney General Pam Bondi in a letter Monday to investigate Healey’s migrant shelter program, calling it “dangerous and corrupt,” Blaze News reported Tuesday. Fetherston added there is “a disturbing pattern of criminal activity, sexual assaults, financial abuse, and the widespread use of no-bid contracts.”

Fetherston shared the letter he wrote to Bondi on his X account. Among the most concerning failures he observed was rampant criminal activity within the shelters, which posed threats to residents and the nearby community.

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DEI practices are ipso facto discriminatory. Harvard is in obvious violation of the ‘civil rights’ laws.

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Wine and spirits distributor Republic National Distributing Company (RNDC) is leaving the California market.

RNDC cited increasing costs and changes among suppliers as one of the reasons it has decided to stop operating in the state.

“This decision follows years of increasing costs, industry headwinds, and supplier shifts that have made it difficult to operate sustainably in the state,” its leadership said in an emailed statement to its customers on June 4. “We are incredibly proud of our California team and all of their hard work over the years. Please know that our commitment to you during this transition remains unwavering.”

Time to leave.

The Times (UK).

Members of Britain’s largest teaching union hosted an event where teachers were told that there is no legal definition for biological sex.

The claims were made at an online seminar held last month by the trans and non-binary network of National Education Union (NEU) members to advise non-trans “allies” how to support transgender rights.

The event, entitled “Solidarity in Practice: Building Sustainable and Effective Cisgender Allyship”, attracted more than 150 people including teachers and other trade union members.

British unions have embraced insanity.

Time to leave.

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Imagine it’s late 2025, and you’re at the grocery store, but your digital wallet’s throwing a tantrum. “Transaction denied: You questioned the climate mandate on X.” Your punishment? No organic kale for you, science denying, conspiracy theorist.

Welcome to the New World Order’s fever dream, where autonomy is as outdated as a VHS tape. We’ve all been shouting into the void about this globalist circus since 2022. Since then we’ve dealt with this geopolitical mess through the trade wars, the CBDC obsession, the wars in Europe and the Middle East, the threat of more scamdemics, all building to a 2025 power grab that will make dystopian novelists jealous.

But we don’t sip the Kool-Aid. This article rips apart the NWO’s playbook, exposes its psychological dirty tricks, and hands you a toolkit to stay free. Ready to outsmart the overlords? Let’s roll.

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“Call me crazy, but I think Dem politicians in LA publicly encouraging riots helps explain why they’re also incapable of issuing building permits for the fires months ago.” —Mark Hemingway

And pretty soon, expect action in a dozen other states, you can be sure, because just as it was in the scorpion’s nature to sting the frog crossing the river in the old parable, it is likewise in the Party of Chaos’s nature to sow chaos in an American summer.

The operation to cue riots over the removal of illegal immigrants has been well-planned in advance. Chief lawfare artists Norm Eisen and Mary McCord have engineered the legal strategy to oppose enforcement of US immigration law. They will clog the courts with lawsuits to prevent it and enlist their allied federal judges to issue injunction after injunction paralyzing the deportation process. They will work day and night to get their violent street cadres out of jail, just as they did in the 2020 George Floyd riots, so that these mutts can go back into the streets to loot and burn some more.

UPDATE: SERIOUSLY? CNN and MSNBC Are Doing the ‘Mostly Peaceful’ Meme Again

The Foundry.

When anti-U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agitators took to the streets in the Los Angeles area over the weekend attacking officers, setting cars on fire, and looting, they drew attention to the left-leaning activist groups that may have helped instigate the riots.

Three major organizations have come under increased scrutiny: the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, Los Angeles; the Party for Socialism and Liberation; and the Service Employees International Union. One of these groups, the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, Los Angeles, has received millions in government funding.

The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, Los Angeles forms part of the LA Rapid Response Network, a group of organizations in Southern California that aim to monitor and counter ICE activity. The coalition has denied playing any role in the protests and the riots, but it helped organize protests before the weekend, and it has called protesters to action on behalf of David Huerta, president of the SEIU’s California chapter.

Power Line.

The insurrection against federal authority in Los Angeles continues. As always, when confronted with a well-organized and well-funded riot, the most pertinent question is: who is behind it? In this case, a significant part of the answer is a non-profit called the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, or CHIRLA.

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Israeli forces stopped Greta Thunberg and her crew on board the Madleen from reaching Gaza on Monday—just as they had promised to do in the hope of deterring future stunts—seizing the vessel and preparing to send the activists back home.

The group set out from Italy at the beginning of June, intending to distribute aid among Palestinians—though, as critics pointed out, they barely had enough to feed a dozen people. After seizing the boat, Israel’s foreign ministry announced that “the tiny amount of aid that was on the yacht and not consumed by the ‘celebrities’ will be transferred to Gaza through real humanitarian channels.”

Give them to Hamas and see how it feels to be a hostage of Muslim terrorists.

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Britain’s official anti-radicalisation unit has released a “refresher awareness” course on the government’s website. It indicates that doubting the wisdom of mass immigration could now be grounds for referring a person to state supervision.

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Israeli forces seized a Gaza-bound aid boat and detained Greta Thunberg and other activists who were on board early Monday, enforcing a longstanding blockade of the Palestinian territory that has been tightened during the war with Hamas.

The activists had set out to protest Israel’s ongoing military campaign in the Gaza Strip, which is among the deadliest and most destructive since World War II, and its restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid, both of which have put the territory of some 2 million Palestinians at risk of famine.

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition, which had organized the voyage, said the activists were “kidnapped by Israeli forces” while trying to deliver desperately needed aid to the territory.

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In these last two years, the march to pull companies back to neutral has outperformed everyone’s expectations. But in this process of rolling back decades of corporate wokeism, one thing is clear: this isn’t over. No matter how much success conservatives have, not everyone will go quietly. When it comes to LGBTQ activism, some businesses are playing for keeps.

While most of this week’s coverage seems to be about who isn’t joining the parade, there’s a proud contingent of CEOs who have no intentions of backing off their radicalism. To those who would shrug and say, “It’s just a few splashy logos. What’s the big deal?” the reality is much more sinister. This isn’t about slapping a few Progress flags outside headquarters or queering the Sesame Street puppets. It’s about financing a dangerous enterprise to keep children in bondage and parents in the dark.

The corporate darling of this year’s celebration, The Trevor Group, isn’t just another rah-rah LGBTQ crusader. Billed as a youth suicide prevention organization, one look under the hood shows that this group is anything but uncontroversial. And yet, sponsors are lining up to finance the group—to the tune of millions of dollars. The heavy-hitters, who are giving upwards of six-figure donations, are mostly familiar names: Macy’s, Petco, Abercrombie & Fitch, Pure Vida, Guess Watches, Kohl’s, Lululemon, MAC Cosmetics, and a collection of lesser-known brands.

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When it was recently reported that protesters disrupted Columbia University’s graduation ceremony, one might ask: which one?

In addition to its main commencement, Columbia hosts no fewer than 10 separate graduation ceremonies, often referred to as affinity graduations. These include distinct events for black, Latino, Asian, LGBTQIA+, Jewish, native, international, disabled, and first-generation/low-income students.

While Columbia claims that it has a “long history” of offering race-based and other segregated graduation ceremonies, this practice only dates back to 2005.

To put this in perspective, Columbia was founded in 1754. For more than 250 years, the university held a single, unified commencement ceremony for all graduates, celebrating their shared academic achievements without division by race, ethnicity, or gender identity.

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The liberal media viscerally hate anything the Donald Trump administration is doing to defund the federal government pushing leftist ideology and squashing conservative counterpoints. One major field has been “misinformation research,” in which professors equate conservative arguments with falsehoods.

In the Joe Biden years, “misinformation” experts at major universities worked with the federal government and Big Tech platforms to prevent apparently under-educated Americans from accepting conservative arguments. The National Science Foundation issued hundreds of grants in this field, and now that they’re being canceled, the leftist media are freaking out.

On “CBS Mornings Plus” June 4, co-host Adriana Diaz sounded the alarm: “The fight against misinformation just got a lot more difficult as the U.S. government slashes funding for programs meant to fight it.”

They brought on as their expert Todd Wolfson, a Rutgers University professor and president of the American Association of University Professors. They presented him as some kind of objective expert, which he is not.

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I scarcely think that they wanted to go to Gaza. Quite the contrary.

(In)famous Swedish climate and pro-Palestine activist Greta Thunberg and her fellow “siege-breakers” picked up four, apparently Sundanese migrants who jumped into the sea from a dinghy being escorted back to the shore by a vessel of the Lybian coastguard.

The group of activists sailing on the Madleen (which also has a diesel engine to enable the amateur sailers to actually move) are headed to Gaza, allegedly to deliver aid to the ‘starved’ Palestinian population.

MEP Rima Hassan (The Left), one of the 12 activists on the ship, said on X they had received a distress call from a boat, most likely leaving Libya for Italy.

Hassan urged her followers on X to help convince the Greek Coast Guard to transfer the four they picked up to Greece by sharing her story widely and tagging Vassilis Kikilias, the Greek minister of maritime affairs. She then reported that Frontex came to pick up the ‘rescued’ migrants.

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Yesterday, the Supreme Court handed down three major cases with unanimous decisions. One, Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, raises additional questions over diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs that have been widely used in higher education and businesses. There is no reason to believe that DEI measures are DOA, but the decision is likely to accelerate challenges based reverse discrimination after the Court rejected the imposition of an added burden for members of any “majority group” including straight, white males.

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The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously tossed out Mexico’s 2021 lawsuit against seven U.S. gunmakers and one wholesaler, ruling that firms like Smith & Wesson and Glock are shielded from liability under the federal Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA).

Mexico’s lawsuit accused U.S. gunmakers of knowingly enabling illegal firearm sales to dealers linked to drug cartels, fueling cartel violence. The government sought $10 billion in damages and a court order imposing stricter rules on the marketing and distribution of firearms.

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Clueless in Cambridge.

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We’re six weeks out from the Northern Hemisphere’s annual temperature cycle peak — and, as predictably as ever, the leftist corporate media, climate alarmists, and the usual “trust the science” suspects are likely preparing to ramp up their annual screamfest, warning that the planet is melting into an irreversible hellish state.

 

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Once hailed as a fast-track solution to California’s homelessness crisis, Project Homekey now looks like a billion-dollar boondoggle littered with empty buildings and broken promises.

In Los Angeles County, shuttered motels meant to house the unhoused stand lifeless—fenced-off, vacant, and increasingly resembling abandoned movie sets rather than havens for the vulnerable, according to Westside Current.

Meanwhile, a stone’s throw away, other properties funded by Homekey have become de facto homeless encampments, complete with tents and makeshift fire pits. Out of 2,157 rooms the county bought with $550 million, a staggering 71% sit empty. The city’s record is only slightly better, with 44% of its 1,237 units still unoccupied despite spending $820 million.

The problem? Bureaucratic delays, ballooning costs, and questionable deals—like a luxury Mid-City apartment building the city bought for $36.5 million despite contractor liens, or a facility flipped for twice the price just days after a private buyer snagged it.

Telegraph (UK).

Now, it has been revealed that a catalogue of surgical errors, doctor in-fighting and omissions from death certificates has led police to investigate the deaths of 11 patients who had the same procedure at Castle Hill’s cardiology department between 2019 and 2023.

Documents seen by The Telegraph reveal how “a rolling power struggle” between consultants charged with running the cardiac unit distracted from caring for patients, while hospital executives alleged that doctors’ abuse of the whistleblowing system had been a “weapon of mass destruction that has harmed patients”.

All of the 11 patients were having a TAVI installed. It involves doctors replacing a damaged valve by accessing an artery, often in the upper leg, and feeding a new valve through a wire all the way to the heart, where it will sit inside the old valve and restore normal function.

Don’t you just love that government-provided ‘health care’ in the UK? Don’t you just wish the U.S. had a similar program?

This is what Democrats want to do to us.

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So: Now guess how much ‘migrants’ in the U.S. are getting.

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In February, President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning transgender athletes (men pretending to be women) from participation in publicly funded women’s sporting events. “We will not allow men to beat up, injure and cheat our women and our girls. From now on, women’s sports will be only for women,” Trump said at the signing ceremony, standing at a podium flanked by female athletes. “With this executive order, the war on women’s sports is over.”

The shift in public sentiment by the end of 2024 was palpable. The western world was being force fed a steady diet of trans propaganda that bordered on worship. The public could not go anywhere without being inundated with LGBT flags and imagery. For a minority that represents less than 1% of the global population, the level of funding and political power behind them has been astonishing.

The proclamation that trans people were a special and privileged class and their feelings had to be protected at all costs was simply too much. The campaigns to control American speech, indoctrinate American children in public schools and insert men into women’s spaces inspired widespread anger.

The Antiplanner.

Portland, Oregon is suffering from the “worst housing crisis outlook” in the country, according to a study published last week by LendingTree.com. The study compared housing prices with household incomes and current vacancy rates to conclude that Portland and three other cities in the Northwest — Boise, Spokane, and Salt Lake — are four of the five worst housing markets out of the top 100 metro areas.

International Man.

France just announced new tax hikes. Italy is raising capital gain taxes from 26% to 42%. The UK got rid of their “non-dom” rules essentially destroying tax incentives, and across the rest of Europe it’s plain wealth taxes.

Norway showed us how this will transpire. The muppets in power there raised wealth taxes to bring an additional $146 million in yearly tax revenue. Instead, individuals worth $54 billion left the country, leading to a loss of $594 million in yearly wealth tax revenue. A net decrease of $448 million.

Spain just recorded 1,000 fewer high-net-worth taxpayers. It was the first negative millionaire migration for the country since they imposed a wealth tax.

Thousands of millionaires are leaving while (coincidentally) tax pressure is at all-time highs.

Democracy is a joke. Who for example voted for higher taxes? Nobody of course, but the peasants will get them anyway.

In the UK, it’s the same story. Millionaires and billionaires are escaping as fast as they can.

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Harvard might be a mere pipe dream for most American college-hunting brainiacs, but for “so many Chinese communist officials” it rates as their top “party school,” The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.

Not only has Chinese President Xi Jinping’s own daughter been a student at Harvard, but a former vice president and Xi’s top negotiator with the first Trump administration studied there as leaders in China see Harvard education as a path to Chinese Communist Party positions.

And it is not a new thing.

The Crust takes care of its own … and their children.

UPDATE: Harvard Has Trained So Many Chinese Communist Officials, They Call It Their ‘Party School’ (Chun Han Wong/Wall Street Journal)

Washington Free Beacon.

In 2012, the Tumblr blog “Nice Guys of OKCupid” spotlighted a now-familiar archetype: the self-proclaimed “nice guy” whose progressive, sensitive façade masks entitlement, resentment, and self-absorption. Matt Gasda’s new novel, The Sleepers, animates a pretentious, Ivy League version of this archetype. Set in Brooklyn, it follows Dan—a hyper-online, upwardly mobile academic—steeped in some of the central tensions of the millennial era.

The year is 2016, and Dan is dating the beautiful but “aging” actress, Mariko, a Tisch graduate whose stagnant performances are precise but uninspired. (“Aging” in quotes because she’s only 32, yet frets over her supposed crow’s feet and fading glow.) As the 2016 election simmers in the backdrop—notifications humming ambiently across Twitter and Facebook—The Sleepers unfolds, saturated in paradox.

Perhaps the most central of those: that so-called male feminists often make the worst boyfriends—their performative wokeness a Trojan horse for ego, entitlement, and resentment. But subtler paradoxes surface, too: that Mariko, the neurotic older sister, is less professionally successful than her free-spirited sibling, Akari; that Dan, a proto-“Social Justice Warrior” online, yawns at the suffering of individuals in real life. There’s also the paradox that the meritocratic hamster wheel he builds a brand critiquing is his only source of meaning. And that his separation from it is only possible through the patrimony of a father whom he scorns, both in the abstract (deeming the nuclear family an “overrated configuration”) and the concrete (his unwillingness to be a decent, communicative son).

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It’s no surprise at all that the mainstream media continues featuring as ‘experts’ discredited war hawks and neocons who’ve gotten every war of the last 20 wars dead wrong – from Afghanistan to Iraq to Libya to Syria, and the list goes on.

Former national security adviser John Bolton, who laughably deems himself a ‘realist’ – was interviewed by NewsNation’s “On Balance” program Friday evening, and the question focused on President Trump’s efforts to secure a fresh nuclear agreement with Iran, which several polls show has broad American public support.

But mustached jingoist Bolton has blasted these efforts as “fruitless” and went so far as to lay out that if Israel pursues preemptive strikes on Tehran’s nuclear facilities, this would be entirely “warranted”. Needless to say, Trump and Bolton long ago had a very public following out and war of words.

Freeberg nails it.

Queer friendly businesses, as a concept, presuppose the existence of queer-hostile businesses. This is where the damage is done. The existence of this mechanism both relies on, and promulgates, a narrative that LGBTQ hostility must exist substantially in both businesses and in their clientele. Notice that no one anywhere is taking on the responsibility of actually saying so.

The entire thing takes advantage of people’s good nature, while at the same time exploiting hasty, low quality thinking: If I don’t have any first hand knowledge about LGBTQ+ people or their plights, going by this as a clue, I would have to presume they’re in a lot of trouble. Needing a special icon so you know what businesses you can patronize, without getting beaten or otherwise abused? How awful.

But meanwhile, every business I can recall ever having patronized — all of them, throughout my entire time on the planet — operated, and if they’re still in operation still operate, on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Does someone somewhere have a different experience? You walk into a bar and the bouncer pointedly inquires “Y’all ain’t one of them homersexuals, are ya?” and makes life tough for you if you can’t answer no. Where has that ever happened?

It’s divisive. For no good reason. There’s no necessity for this.

It just helps people act like victims. Helps them think of themselves as victims.

But we put up with it. Doesn’t affect us in any way, right? Just “tolerate” it.

But then we have to wonder why we’re all so divided.

Well, it’s because of gimmicks like this.

Entirely unnecessary ones.