Watch it.

The podcast Idea Theory explains it all better than I could.

The politics have changed. The 2016 calculation was “Don’t anger the Chinese government.” But the 2026 calculation is “Demonstrate diversity to the right audiences.” But the underlying practice is the same. The role isn’t being cast in any deeply artistic sense. It’s being solved for against a  political backdrop by a marketing department. Once again, the actor is the variable. Once again, the politics are the function. And it turns out what we are looking at is a marketing department using actors as semaphore flags to signal political alignment. But what you can’t do, and what no functioning art form has been able to do for very long, is treat your actors as semaphore flags, because once the actor becomes a flag, the work stops being about what the actor is doing on-screen, and starts being about what the actor represents off it. And what you have at that point isn’t really art so much as advertising for an ideology. And then there’s the hypocrisy of how all this gets justified. If suddently we’re told that Helen is mythic, and that mythic figures can be anyone, and that no Greek queen has a fixed ethnicity anyway, the Helen of 2026 turns out to be infinitely flexible in a way that the Tibetan monk of 2016 was not.

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New York Post.

The architect behind California’s controversial billionaire tax dismissed warnings the proposal is already driving wealthy residents out of the Golden State, calling the claims “entirely fabricated” even as a growing list of billionaires have reportedly relocated or are weighing an exit ahead of the November election.

Dave Regan, president of SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW), said there is “absolutely no evidence” that wealthy Californians are fleeing because of the proposed one-time tax, pushing back against critics ranging from Gov. Gavin Newsom to business groups and Silicon Valley executives.

“There is absolutely no evidence that billionaires leave,” Regan told KCRA’s Ashley Zavala Sunday as the bill made it onto the November ballot.

Well, let’s ask Sergei Brin about that, in his new digs in Florida….

His comments come months after reports that at least six California billionaires had already severed their residency before Jan. 1 — the cutoff date written into the ballot measure to avoid the proposed tax.

Among those who have reportedly left or significantly shifted their residency are Google co-founder Larry Page, who has established a presence in Florida after purchasing more than $170 million worth of Miami-area real estate; Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel, who has deepened his Florida ties and already votes there; and venture capitalist David Sacks, who relocated from San Francisco to Austin, Texas.

Others have reportedly followed similar paths.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has been linked to South Florida real estate while also relocating to Nevada’s Lake Tahoe region.

Why do progs lie so blatantly? Do they think that nobody reads the news?

The labor leader argued that similar predictions failed to materialize elsewhere.

Oh? Like where? A socialist country where people were trapped behind the border?

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California has achieved something almost impossible in the annals of bureaucratic absurdity: It has made citizenship easier to assert for voting than sexual orientation is to document for favored utility contracting.

To register to vote, a person fills out a form, signs an affidavit, and attests under penalty of perjury that he is a U.S. citizen and California resident. The state may check identifying information against databases, but it does not generally require a passport, birth certificate, or naturalization certificate before letting him enter the electorate.

For something as grave as sovereignty—deciding taxes, judges, crime policy, schools, and the future of the state—citizenship is treated largely as an attestation.

But if a small business wants to qualify as LGBTQ+ owned under California’s utility supplier-diversity system, Sacramento suddenly discovers verification.

The applicant must prove the company is majority-owned and controlled by an LGBTQ+ person. How? Marriage or domestic-partnership records. Health insurance paperwork. Joint living arrangements. A letter from an LGBTQ+ chamber leader. Media coverage identifying the owner as LGBTQ+. A physician or attorney letter. Or, most absurdly, three personal-reference letters from people who have known the owner for more than a year and can attest to the owner’s LGBTQ+ status.

Citizenship is treated as an attestation. Sexual orientation is treated as a credential.

The Foundry.

The House Judiciary Committee is threatening to hold the Southern Poverty Law Center in contempt of Congress for failing to hand over documents related to the SPLC’s use of “field sources” inside extremist groups and its work with the Justice Department under President Joe Biden.

“The committee has made several good-faith efforts to work with your counsel to obtain documents responsive to the subpoena,” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, wrote in a letter to SPLC’s incoming president and CEO, Ryan Haygood, first obtained by the Daily Signal. “To date, the committee has still not received any such documents. Therefore, the SPLC must promptly produce all materials responsive to the committee’s subpoena as soon as possible, but not later than 5:00 p.m. on July 9, 2026.”

“The committee is prepared to use available mechanisms to enforce its subpoena,” Jordan concluded.

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Did the humanities go woke because they went broke? That scenario has become one of the more persuasive explanations for the present crisis in the humanities. As their enrolments declined and federal funding shrank, and universities began sending money (and, thus, prestige) toward STEM and professional programs, the humanities went looking for support wherever they could find it. If serious funders wanted academic work to be framed in the language of social justice, then scholars were willing to adapt accordingly. Tyler Austin Harper recently made this case in The Atlantic, arguing that what looked like ideological capture may, in fact, be economic desperation.

The Antiplanner.

“Parking minimums are a waste of money and land,” planners argue, so they immediately turn around and impose parking maxima, saying that people will be happy to live without cars if they aren’t required to pay for parking. Many developers have learned to their sorrow that this isn’t true, the latest being Scape, a British developer that was persuaded to build a 23-story apartment tower on the edge of downtown San Jose. Calls the Fay, the building offers only one parking space for every three units and the developer was unable to fill units that didn’t come with parking spaces.

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The Anglican Church of Canada has taken a step that, until just a few years ago, would have been difficult to imagine even within the most progressive Christian denominations.

Its General Synod has authorized for “trial use” a specific liturgy intended to accompany people who have chosen euthanasia, known in Canada as Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD). The document includes prayers to be read immediately before the fatal drugs are administered, as well as prayers after the patient’s death.

The 66-page text goes far beyond offering pastoral guidance for terminally ill patients. It establishes a complete set of religious rites adapted to the moments before and after euthanasia: confession, the laying on of hands, anointing with oil, Holy Communion, blessings, and specific prayers for those who have chosen to end their lives through medical intervention.

Leaving Christianity is like bankruptcy: Slowly at first, and then quickly.

Not the Bee.

It’s always fun when liberal logic blows up in their faces.

Take this genius, for example, who sought to drum up sympathy for illegal immigrants in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling that revoked temporary protected status for migrants.

The Other McCain.

Stacy McCain keeps up with this weird shit so that you don’t have to.

The Guardian, Mouthpiece of the Left.

The heatwave scorching western Europe is the most severe and widespread ever and is only possible due to the climate crisis driven by fossil fuel burning, scientists have said.

Scientists say! That proves it! Except for all of the other scientists who say the opposite. But you won’t read what they have to say in The Guardian, of course.

Almost half of Europe’s 850 largest cities are also enduring their worst ever heat stress, a combination of temperature and humidity, they found. Muggier conditions mean sweating is less effective at cooling the body, making heatwaves even more dangerous.

And they won’t allow air conditioning, because Climate Change.

The analysis comes as the UK recorded its hottest ever June temperature on Thursday, 36.7C (98.06F) in Somerset, and much of western Europe recorded a sharp rise in medical emergencies, including some deaths.

In Texas, we call that Thursday. Temperatures in Texas are commonly in the high-90s and low-100s through June, July, and August.

In summer 2022, more than 60,000 people died due to heat in Europe. The statistical analysis needed to assess the impact of the current heatwave will take time to complete. Nonetheless, the heatwave is certain to exact a heavy toll and is also disrupting lives and livelihoods, with schools closed, hospitals struggling and rail and air journeys cancelled across the continent.

And Europeans won’t use air conditioning, especially nowadays that climate alarmism is having local governments remove existing air conditioners.

BBC. a Voice of the Crust.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the Trump administration can strip protected status from hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian migrants which has allowed them to stay in the US for years.

Strip!

The 6-3 ruling overturned decisions by federal judges that had blocked the administration from terminating Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 350,000 people from Haiti and 6,100 from Syria.

TPS is granted to individuals whose home countries are unable to accommodate them, due to war or natural disasters.

In a separate ruling, the court has said that migrants arriving at the border are not entitled to apply for asylum until they set foot on US soil, giving another win to the Trump administration.

Not yet tired of winning….

Quillette.

Here is a trivia question: which continent suffers the most heat-related deaths per capita? By a wide margin, the dubious prize goes to… Europe. In the summer of 2022 alone, more than 61,000 Europeans died as a result of the heat.

In case you feel geographically confused: no, the equator does not run through Brussels. Thanks to its northern latitude, Europe in fact endures fewer heat days than almost any other inhabited region on Earth. How, then, can it hold the record for heat mortality? Part of the story is of course demographic. Europe has one of the oldest populations in the world, and the elderly are far more vulnerable to high temperatures. But age explains only a sliver of the gap. The United States is greying too, and Japan is older still than both—yet the risk of dying from heat in either country is dramatically lower.

The real explanation comes down to two letters Europe stubbornly refuses to learn: A/C. Across the continent, only about a fifth of homes have air-conditioning, against nearly 90 percent in the United States and more than 90 percent in Japan.

Sometimes it surprises me that European countries even allow flush toilets.

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Budapest’s escalating flag war took another turn this week after dozens of Hungarian national flags appeared on Elisabeth Bridge, replacing the Pride banners that had flown there only days earlier.

The secret of the new flags was quickly revealed by El?d Novák, vice-president of the nationalist Our Homeland Movement (Mi Hazánk), who said he and members of the party’s youth wing had placed a Hungarian flag in every pole holder on the bridge. They did this before the city’s mayor could replace the Pride flags that had previously flown there until they were thrown into the Danube by a protester.

“Budapest belongs to everyone,” Novák wrote on Facebook. “That’s why it’s unacceptable for it to be appropriated by any party or political movement, such as the LGBTQETC lobby with its flags.”

“Instead of a foreign ideology imported from abroad, we proclaim patriotism and that we Hungarians have plenty to be proud of,” the party added in a statement.

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With the fall of the Assad regime and the end of the Syrian civil war in December 2024, Syrian refugees have lost their legal basis for asylum and, therefore, their formal right to stay in Europe. In practice, however, most European countries have still not begun deporting them, and many of them don’t even want to.

Among them is Austria, where Interior Minister Gerhard Karner (ÖVP/EPP) recently declared that large-scale remigration—a consistent demand of the national conservative FPÖ (PfE), Austria’s largest party—is unrealistic.

According to Karner, returning Austria’s 100,000-strong Syrian migrant community “is neither realistic nor reasonable, because I wonder how many hospitals would still be cleaned.”

Of course, this age-old argument about migrant labor is not only condescending to foreigners but can also be easily defeated by official statistics: only about 25% of Syrian refugees in Austria are employed, with full-time employment estimated to be as low as 15%.

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As did the old Soviet Union.

When proglodytes say ‘mental health’ they mean ‘mind control’. Orwell didn’t write about CrimeThink for fun.

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The publication of the “Draft Report on the findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield” should have been a clarifying democratic moment. Here, after all, was a committee of elected representatives established to examine one of the most ambitious political projects now being advanced in Brussels: the construction of a European Democracy Shield. Its task ought to have been obvious. Ask what this Shield is really for. Ask who defines the threats. Ask who watches the watchers. Ask whether ‘democratic resilience’ is becoming a polite term for the management of public opinion. Ask whether defending democracy from manipulation itself might become a means of manipulating democracy.

But Brussels has a genius for turning scrutiny into liturgy.

The Special Committee’s draft report reads less like a warning about the dangers of democratic overreach than a devotional hymn to it. The Commission’s Democracy Shield, we are told, is a necessary initiative, but apparently too modest, too hesitant, too lacking in operational muscle. It needs more structure, more coordination, more funding, more legal clarity, more enforcement, more monitoring, more permanent capacity and more institutional ballast. In other words, the Shield must be shielded from the terrible possibility that it might remain merely a shield.

Whenever I hear the word ‘democracy’ I reach for my revolver….

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A fire at a 500,000-square-foot Los Angeles warehouse covered in solar panels has blanketed nearby communities with smoke for days, prompting residents to ask a simple question: What exactly are we breathing?

The frozen-food storage facility, operated by Michigan-based Lineage Logistics, has walls densely lined with insulation. According to firefighters, the insulation continued to smolder as the days went on, even after the initial flames subsided, making it more difficult to put the fire out.

Residents have questioned whether hazardous substances associated with industrial fires—including toxic metals such as lead, chromium, and arsenic—could have been carried into surrounding neighborhoods through the smoke.

The problem with ‘sustainable energy’ and ‘renewable energy’ is that it too often depends on fragile technology involving exotic materials. When things go wrong, they go very very wrong.

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Eight people were each sentenced to 30 to 100 years in prison on Tuesday in connection with violence at a Texas federal immigration facility last year that prosecutors called domestic terrorism.

In the incident on July 4, 2025, prosecutors said Antifa militants wearing black tactical gear opened fire on law enforcement officers at Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, about 25 miles south of Fort Worth. A police officer was wounded.

“The sentences handed down today make clear that Antifa terrorists who attack law enforcement and federal facilities will face swift and uncompromising justice,” said acting Attorney General Todd Blanche in a statement.

Benjamin Song, who was convicted of attempted murder and who prosecutors said was the operation’s organizer, got the longest sentence of 100 years, according to court filings.

In hearings at U.S. District Court in Fort Worth, two judges announced sentences of 30 to 70 years for seven other defendants, most of whom were convicted in March on charges including rioting and supporting terrorism.

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Scotland’s gamekeepers have issued a stark warning: they will not endorse the Scottish Government’s new Muirburn Code, a decision they claim is born not of defiance, but of a desperate need to prevent catastrophic wildfires. They argue that the new regulations, designed to protect peatlands, will ironically create a tinderbox, stripping them of the very tools needed to manage fuel loads and keep communities safe. In an era of “red warnings” and severe summer heat, the outcome of this policy, they assert, will be a disaster waiting to happen.

At the heart of the matter is a centuries-old land management practice. Muirburn, the controlled burning of vegetation, is a traditional tool used by gamekeepers to create a patchwork of habitats for wildlife, improve grazing, and crucially, to prevent wildfires by reducing combustible material. The Scottish Gamekeepers Association (SGA), which represents these professionals, says that the new Code, set to accompany a licensing regime coming into place, makes the practice “almost impossible” to carry out.

Gamekeepers point to several specific provisions they say are unworkable and dangerous. The most contentious is the new requirement for licensing to burn on peatlands, defined in the Act as land where peat exceeds 40cm in depth. To apply for a licence, gamekeepers must first probe and measure peat depth across the area they intend to manage. The SGA claims the prescribed methodology from government advisers, NatureScot, is so complex that it could take up to 60 days to survey a single estate, at a vast financial cost, with no guarantee a licence will even be granted.

Government can’t touch anything without screwing it up.

I thank God I don’t live in Britain.

Not the Bee.

It happened again.

A boy named Louis was killed by a mob of savages.

That’s right: Louis was supposed to be under the protection of the state.

Instead, he was beaten to a pulp and left for dead by people who share zero heritage or respect for France or Western culture.

The attack happened Friday night around 7 p.m. in the town of Narbonne. A construction worker found him at 9 a.m. the following morning. Remarkably, he still had a pulse, but died in an induced coma 3 days after the attack.

Three minors and two adults were arrested for his death.

The Telegraph (UK).

Labour is poised to encourage farmers to give up beef production and plant lentils to help combat climate change.

On Wednesday, the Government’s long-awaited “farming roadmap” proposed helping landowners switch from high-emission farming – such as cattle – towards “growing oilseeds and pulses” to meet the increased demand for plant-based goods.

“Farmers will play a critical role in delivering this transition by adopting practices that reduce emissions while sustaining productive, commercially viable businesses,” the Government said.

The farming roadmap is intended to set out a long-term vision for British agriculture. It is seen as an attempt by the Government to win back support in the countryside after the family farm tax caused widespread rural unrest.

However, farmers criticised the move, saying the land used by cattle would be inappropriate for growing lentils because it was too wet.

The problem with a centrally planned economy is that when the planner are stupid or insane the entire country gets dragged along.

I thank God I don’t live in Britain.

The Telegraph (UK).

Homeowners are being forced to tear out air conditioning from their private properties under climate laws, despite rising temperatures.

Council planning officers ordered residents to remove air-con units over fears they produce too much carbon dioxide, stating they should only be used as a “last resort”.

The net zero clampdown is part of building regulations that state “active cooling” should only ever be allowed when all other means of “passive cooling”, such as opening windows or using fans, have been exhausted.

I thank God that I don’t live in Britain.

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unruly behavior. That was particularly the case in New York, following the Knicks’ June 13 clinching of the NBA championship. The parade that followed brought more chaos.

Following that victory over the San Antonio Spurs—the Knicks’ first title in 53 years—hooligans took to the streets, vandalizing as they went, including targeting and torching a school bus. Those in the crowd cheered. Police, meanwhile, could not visibly be seen.

As he showed footage of the chaos during Friday’s episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast” on the Daily Signal, host Tony Kinnett noted how those burning the school bus were both white and black. And the bus driver begging the crowd to stop was black. “The point of the story is that it is not about the race, it is all about the culture,” Kinnett observed.

The revelry of the parade was marred by random gunshots fired into the air to “just cause chaos and panic because that is the celebratory nature that has come out of some of these events,” as Kinnett mentioned.

Meanwhile, New York isn’t doing much to stop lawlessness. “There’s no condemnation of this from the city level. There’s nothing. [Mayor Zohran] Mamdani is busy running around patting himself on the back and praising Islamic migrant stuff,” Kinnett said, also addressing how liberals excuse such behavior as how “it just happens.”

The New York Department of Sanitation unveiled commemorative garbage cans to celebrate the Knicks’ win. (They’re also available online for purchase.) Fans reacted by stealing them, dumping out trash onto the city sidewalk to do so. People could be heard cheering in the background.

During the parade, an individual appeared to be passed out from a drug overdose on the roof of a platform, as individuals sought to help. Kinnett observed that it took place with a “cop standing there, doing very little, ’cause this is just normal behavior in New York.”

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As reported in last night’s news feed, yesterday a gunman went on a rampage in the heavily Jewish Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Montreal, killing a police officer and wounding another one before being shot dead by police.

Much more information on the incident is available today. The gunman’s name was Seth Hatfield, and he hailed from Alberta. It appears that he ignored civilian passersby and targeted police. The civilian who was shot to death, a rabbi named Michael Moshe Mizrahi, was in fact killed by a policewoman who shot him by mistake.

Mr. Hatfield left behind a 104-page manifesto. [Of course he did.] A copy was obtained and watermarked by Rebel News, and all the versions I’ve seen online so far appear to be copied from that one. I have a copy, but since it is widely available, both at Rebel News (PDF) and on Twitter, I see no point in uploading it here. However, if it starts to be suppressed by the Canadian government (which seems not at all unlikely), I’ll put a copy up where people can get it. It’s dense and turgid, like most such manifestos, and even includes footnotes. I have no real interest in reading the whole thing.

People who only read MSM reports on the incident will be misled into thinking that “incel” ideology was the primary motivator for the shooter’s rampage. However, there is much more to it than that: he was a Marxist who railed against capitalism and large corporations. In the manifesto he quotes The Communist Manifesto directly, so lining him up as “far right” seems a bit of a stretch.

In addition to hating women, he also hated “Zionists”. Also, he was particularly enraged by the pornography industry.

The reason why we have ‘incels’ is modern hypergamy:

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European governments are already drawing up plans to send rejected asylum seekers to deportation centres in Africa and Central Asia after Brussels last week approved a major overhaul of EU migration rules. The move marks a significant shift for an EU that spent years resisting many of the same ideas now being promoted by member states.

The first of these offshore deportation centers—known in Brussels jargon as “return hubs”—could soon be built in Rwanda and Uzbekistan, according to diplomats who spoke to Politico.

The development marks a remarkable shift in European migration policy. Just a few years ago, Denmark’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda was fiercely criticised across Europe, while Italy’s attempt to process migrants in Albania became the target of repeated legal challenges. Today, governments across the EU are exploring similar arrangements for rejected asylum seekers.

At this stage, the member states reportedly in talks with the Rwandan and Uzbek governments include Denmark, Austria, Greece, Germany, and the Netherlands, but others may soon join them as well. Their goal is to have these facilities up and running as early as next year.

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Polish President Karol Nawrocki has warned that Poland must not follow what he called the failed Western European model of using immigration to address demographic decline, arguing that the approach has created social problems without solving falling birth rates.

Speaking at the Poland Future Summit in Warsaw on Monday, the conservative president said Poland should respond to its demographic crisis by strengthening families and encouraging higher birth rates rather than relying on migration.

“Migration has not solved the problem; it has only brought ghettoisation, assimilation problems, social unrest, and everything else Western Europe is grappling with today,” Nawrocki said.

“This is not, and will not be, the Polish path. We will not replace the demographic crisis by succumbing to migration pressure.”

 New York Post.

Not just any men: Cute men—which precisely illustrates the problem.

On the left, what the dating scene was like before feminism and social media. On the right, the way it is today. Effectively, 70% of all men are invisible to 100% of women. 100% of women are fighting for 30% of men. ‘Cute men’ aren’t ‘going out’, to bars or anywhere else, because they don’t have to. The women come to them.

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So Andy Burnham is coming for Number 10. The Manchester mayor—who has spent the last decade cosplaying as a northern everyman while racking up spending pledges like a teenager with a stolen credit card—is about to knife Sir Keir Starmer and claim the crown.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

How shallow does your life have to be such that ‘a straight ally for LBGTQWXYZ Jews’ is a major accomplishment?

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A Brooklyn café posted on Instagram that it refunded a purchase made by Rep. Dan Goldman, saying that it doesn’t serve “genocide enablers.”

“Do you see how it doesn’t taste like genocide juice?” the post by Poetica Coffee read. “Or are you still having a hard time telling the difference?”

In the post, the coffee shop included a photo of Goldman at the Lorimer Street location of their five Brooklyn spots. “Too bad we didn’t recognize you right away or we would have turned you away,” the post said.

The caption on the post said Goldman’s money is “probably coming from AIPAC anyways” and told Goldman never to come back. The post was accompanied by the song “F— You” by British singer-songwriter Lily Allen.

Jewish community leaders immediately condemned the post, which was deleted when Poetica Coffee deactivated its account Monday.

Proglodyte virtue-signaling has consequences.

Not the Bee.

She may have been the worst VP of all time, she may have been shellacked by Donald Trump, but somehow Kamala Harris is still making our days over here by dropping in and tossing us random word salads when we least expect it.

Behold this monstrosity spewed forth on Don Lemon’s show….

“I really, truly believe this. We we each have have light inside of us. And we need to know that that is what inspires our hope as much as anything external to ourselves. And when we feel that and and and not allow an election or an individual to dampen that light, and instead light, let that light kind of carry us in particular through moments of darkness, that that we not only act on that hope, but we inspire that hope in each other. And in particular, at this moment, it is so important that we not only have hope, but that we understand that that should be a verb.”

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You can’t make this shit up.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down a state-funded scholarship program that awarded financial aid based on the race of college students. The Democrat-controlled court followed the precedent laid out by the United States Supreme Court in finding that Gov. Tony Evers and the state were violating the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution.

Two of the most liberal justices, however, wrote a concurrence denouncing the bar on the use of race for such scholarships.

If Democrats are able to pack the Supreme Court as demanded by many party leaders, this concurrence is an example of the likely changes that a packed court will bring in reversing anti-discrimination and other rulings.

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Will climate litigation now become the most lucrative game on the planet after AI and the World Cup? The so-called “climate-vulnerable” communities, the small island states and other developing countries are dancing a resilience-and-reparations tango with renewed vigour.

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Evem Orthodox Jews don’t have as many mitzvot to obtemper as Climatistas.

Politico, a Voice of the Crust.

More tenants living in New York City’s least expensive housing units aren’t paying their rent — a trend that risks further destabilizing the city’s affordable housing market.

They realize that the mayor is a Socialist of Color so they quite naturally decided not to pay out money that they can eventually get the actual taxpayers to fork over through some sort of political scheme.

The uptick in rental delinquency isn’t new. It started six years ago, when the pandemic flung the city’s economy into chaos and plunged low-income New Yorkers into dire financial straits. But even as the city has rebounded, rent collection rates in affordable housing remain short of pre-pandemic levels. As costs balloon, landlords say insufficient rental income is threatening their ability to stay afloat.

Of course, in the New York Political world, landloards might as well have Trump Cooties for all that anybody gives a shit aobut them.

The issue has confounded owners and operators of these buildings, many of them nonprofits, which are often celebrated as a model for addressing the extreme dearth of housing options for very low-income people.

And they will stay confounded, brecause reality doesn’t pay any attention to their Kiumbaya fantasies. Markets work even when you don’t want them to, whether you understand them or not.

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Team Algae and Filth has been busy at work, supported by CNN, ABC and various leftist media, in an attempt to grow algae back in the DC reflection pool, and cut out the newly installed lining. A few arrests have been made by DC park police.

Yes, these folks are that unstable.  Liberalism is a mental disorder.

Not the Bee.

Just sayin’….

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I am most enjoying the reactions to visitors to the United States for the World Cup games. But it’s also still fun to mock hateful anti-American leftists.

Many of us have mocked institutions (often “educational” institutions), and individuals for beginning meetings, events, and presentations with “land acknowledgments” that “acknowledge” that the event is being held on land “stolen” from some “indigenous” peoples.

But we mock the “land acknowledgments” because they never include an offer to return the land to the peoples from whom the land was supposedly stolen.

I suppose the defenders of such “land acknowledgments” could note that since the occupying institution has occupied the land for an extended time, returning the land to the peoples from whom the land was “stolen” would be impractical.

OK. But, former President Obama doesn’t have that excuse with respect to his recently constructed and just-opened Obama Presidential Center.

I want to know why they made it as ugly as possible.

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After the Southern Poverty Law Center scandal of actually funding and encouraging racist protests, it appears that at least one individual has created his own orchestrated racist incident.

In Chicago (where Jussie Smollett committed his infamous racist hoax), a burning cross was denounced by Mayor Brandon Johnson as a sign of the racism in society.

Johnson, however, refused to address the fact that the cross burning was actually the work of an anti-Trump liberal student.

University of Illinois senior Merlin Lu said it was never intended as a racist symbol, but the question is whether it could still be charged as a hate crime.

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

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The Justice Department Fraud Taskforce announced today fifteen individuals, 11 illegal aliens and four U.S. citizens, have been charged and arrested for benefit fraud in Massachusetts. The defendants are charged with more than $1.4 million in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefit fraud, MassHealth benefit fraud and disability and unemployment benefit fraud.

The Register.

Of course they do. Anything that intrudes reality into the personal delusion space is a threat. We must take people’s statements of their identity as factual in evrey circumstance, as with ‘gender identity’. On the Left, you are what you say you are, not what you actually are—unless of course we hate you, in which case we get to say what you are whether you like it or not.

Not the Bee.

Nope, not satire.

Not the Bee.

So you wanted to hide your homeless in these tiny homes during the World Cup, eh?

No joke, they’ve got five whole residents at these things. Quite a failure.

Not the Bee.

Those Biden years were so “great” for America, weren’t they?

Turns out flooding the country with tens of millions of illegal immigrants creates a shortage of affordable housing.

These numbers come from James Carter, who served as a deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury in the George W. Bush administration.

Not the Bee.

Behold, the benefits of green energy!

So the solar panels that are supposed to save us all from destruction at the hands of environmental disasters are now bursting into flames and poisoning the environment?