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In just one year, over a million migrants in Britain received more than £7.6 billion in welfare, an analysis of government data has found.

The Centre for Migration Control (CMC) estimates that around 1,158,000 foreign nationals received universal credit for low income individuals, after collating Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) data.

The figures are from 2023 when a supposedly conservative government was in power, and before the current far left Labour government was elected.

I guess the question to ask in Britain is: Are you a Right-Wing Socialist or a Left-Wing Socialist?

I wonder what an equivalent review for the U.S. would find. I suspect it would be in the hundreds of billions.

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L.A.’s financial problems exploded into a full-blown crisis on Wednesday, with the city’s top budget official announcing that next year’s shortfall is now just shy of $1 billion, making layoffs “nearly inevitable.”

City Administrative Officer Matt Szabo advised the City Council to focus on cost-cutting measures, including a potential reduction in the size of the workforce, to bring the budget into balance for 2025-26.

Szabo, in his presentation to the council Wednesday, attributed the city’s financial woes, in part, to increased spending on legal payouts, which have ballooned over the past few years. Tax revenues have been coming in much weaker than expected — and are expected to soften further in the upcoming budget year, which starts July 1.

Pay raises for city employees that are scheduled to go into effect in the coming budget year are expected to consume an additional $250 million. On top of that, Szabo said, the city needs to put hundreds of millions into its reserve fund, which has been drained in recent months in an attempt to balance this year’s budget.

As Margaret Thatcher famously said, the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.

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A North Dakota jury on Wednesday found Greenpeace liable for defamation and other claims brought by a pipeline company in connection with protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline.

The nine-person jury awarded Dallas-based Energy Transfer and its subsidiary Dakota Access hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.

The lawsuit had accused Netherlands-based Greenpeace International, Greenpeace USA and funding arm Greenpeace Fund Inc. of defamation, trespass, nuisance, civil conspiracy and other acts.

Actions have consequences, and the Woke Get-Out-of-Jail-Free card no longer works.

Federal judge indefinitely blocks Trump's ban on transgender service members, saying it's 'soaked in animus' (Devan Cole/CNN)

Judge bars Trump’s EPA from taking back $20B in climate grants — for now (Politico)

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty sue over grant termination (Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing/Politico)

America’s “Constitutional Crash” (Doomsday Scenario)

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty sues Trump administration over canceled contract (David Folkenflik/NPR)

Judge Slams Trump For Putting Fired Probationary Workers On Paid Leave (Dave Jamieson/HuffPost)

Judge blocks Trump administration from terminating $14 billion in ‘green bank’ grants (Associated Press)

Democrats Turn to Legally Dubious Ruling Coauthored by DEI Activist To Protect California’s EV Mandate

Republicans want to make ‘Trump derangement syndrome’ an official mental health disorder (Minnesota State Senator Arrested In Sting On Same Day He Introduced ‘TDS’ Bill (David Moye/HuffPost))

Emails Reveal Top IRS Lawyer Warned Trump Firings Were a “Fraud” on the Courts (Pro Publica)

Federal Judge Orders Price Of Eggs To Go Back Up (Babylon Bee)

Susan Quinn: Israel Re-Starts the Bombing of Gaza: Blame Trump

The court-case presidency – With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine – Embed: (Jack Blanchard/Politico)

Trump Has Gone From Unconstitutional to Anti-Constitutional (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)

The Constitutional Crisis May be Upon Us (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

Trump defies court orders to dump Venezuelans in Salvadoran slave jail (Liz Dye/Public Notice)

How major law firms are responding to Trump’s attacks (Daniel Barnes/Politico)

Trump administration pushes back on judge’s request for answers about deportation flights (NBC News)

Judge denies Trump administration’s attempt to dismiss Mahmoud Khalil’s challenge to his deportation – live (The Guardian)

Trump’s Sister Declared The Immigration Law He Used Unconstitutional (Stuart Anderson/Forbes)

Trump doubles down on attack against judge after Roberts rebuke (Brett Samuels/The Hill)

Biden-Appointed LGBT Judge Blocks Trump’s Military-Transgender Ban

Supreme Court to Decide if States Can Withhold Medicaid Funding From Planned Parenthood

Trump’s Military Transgender Ban Blocked by Federal Judge Facing Misconduct Complaint

Judge Blocks Policy That Would Expel Transgender Troops (Dave Philipps/New York Times)

Blitzer Tries To Push Breyer Into Saying Trump Is Causing ‘Constitutional Crisis’

U.S. Institute of Peace sues to block DOGE ‘takeover by force’ (NBC News)

Poll: As Trump and courts clash, voters weigh whether each branch of government has too much power (Ben Kamisar/NBC News)

Judge rules DOGE’s USAID dismantling likely violates the Constitution (Associated Press)

Obama-Appointed Judge Temporarily Blocks EPA From Canceling Climate Grants

Judge Orders Trump to Return 2 Trans Inmates to Women’s Prisons

The American Mind.

Much has been written about Trump Derangement Syndrome, that mental and emotional affliction that distorts its victims’ ability to make measured judgments about the doings of our past and present president. No doubt much more will be written about it, because this malady shows no signs of abating.

One of the worst side effects of TDS is the widespread circulation of bogus constitutional claims. As Trump, the astute politician that he is, has staked out popular positions on many issues of interest to the public, his critics, at a loss for other arguments, routinely say he is trashing the Constitution.

This is a serious problem. Preserving our constitutional system, and the many blessings that flow from it, depends on preserving a correct understanding of the Constitution’s various provisions among the public. But the public’s understanding of the Constitution is undermined by the TDS brigade’s continual reiteration of fanciful claims of constitutional violations.

TDS, regrettably, is not just a problem on the American Left. There are plenty of conservative sufferers who cannot evaluate Trump dispassionately and twist the Constitution to find grounds on which to denounce him. A prominent case is National Review’s Andrew C. McCarthy, who recently condemned President Trump’s executive order regarding the law firm Perkins Cole.

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“They patrol L.A.’s streets in search of ICE, Trump immigration raids,” is how the Los Angeles Times described the pro-illegal alien activists sabotaging the arrests of illegal alien criminals. The newspaper breathlessly described how ‘community patrols follow ICE vehicles and alert illegal aliens that federal law enforcement is on the way.”

The pro-illegal alien activists use megaphones to make noise, hoping to scare away the criminals that ICE has come to protect the community from, to the applause of the media.

During one recent raid in Alhambra where ICE, the FBI and DEA were preparing to arrest dangerous criminals, Union del Barrio activists began shouting through megaphones, and alerting any nearby criminals that law enforcement was here.

But who are they?

Metropolitan Review, an obscure Voice of the Crust.

In which a Modern Woman attempts to cope when reality intrudes:

This was the first time it crossed my mind that a young woman like us — a knowledge worker, a writer, a leftist — might regret her independent youth and wish she had married a loving person at a young age. I’d associated this idea with a type of womanhood we considered totally outside of our zone of interest: anti-intellectualism, a belief in the primacy of motherhood. I was blindsided by the suggestion that we might be better people if we were recused from formative independence and struggle. I looked around at my friends and acquaintances, especially the married ones, and wondered if there was any truth in the idea that the years they spent as poor captains of their own ships, unmoored and often lonely, were in fact not remotely necessary or enlightening.

Read the whole thing, although the cluelessness is very tragic.

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A little-known law in Illinois requires private companies to finance the DEI industry if they wish to do business with the state—giving a lifeline to an unpopular industry that currently finds itself on the ropes as major companies across the country ditch their DEI programs and President Donald Trump works to eradicate its influence across the federal government.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D.) signed a bill into law in 2021 that essentially requires businesses that seek to do business with the state of Illinois to bankroll the DEI industry. The law, which went into full effect in 2024, established a “commitment to diversity” factor in all state contracts that grades companies in large part on how much money they donate to DEI nonprofits and how much time their leaders personally volunteer to promote DEI in their communities. The higher the score companies receive on Pritzker’s DEI factor, the more likely they are to secure contracts from his administration.

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America’s public high schools are strange places to find displays of the alphabet. Perhaps with plummeting standardized test scores and a substantial increase in English-as-a-second-language students in sanctuary districts, high school educators feel the need to review kindergarten basics. In Fairfax County, Virginia’s West Springfield High School, located just 17 miles from the White House, school administrators and teachers have decorated the history hallway this month with a special, leftist rendition of the alphabet.

The display, titled “The ABCs to ME,” is decorated with the school’s colors: a blue background lined with an orange border. Featured in the display is a sign that reads, “A is for Abortion” with an image of a coat hanger with a positive pregnancy test.

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For two decades, the public has been bombarded with dire warnings of an impending climate-induced agricultural apocalypse. The claim is that a climate warmed excessively by the carbon dioxide emissions of human activity will ravage the food supply and plunge humanity into famine and chaos.

For many reasons, none of this ever made sense. Now, a new study published in Scientific Reports has turned this narrative of catastrophe on its head, revealing that a global temperature rise of even 5 degrees Celsius (9 degrees Fahrenheit) would not reduce crop yields—and might even increase harvests.

The paper, written by economist Ross McKitrick, dismantles a key pillar of the Biden administration’s always-suspect upward revision of the “social cost of carbon”—a metric used by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to quantify the supposed economic damage of carbon dioxide emissions. The fivefold increase of the social cost of carbon—from $51 per ton of carbon dioxide to more than $250—was based partly on the assumption that warming would devastate agriculture.

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My, what a surprise.

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Climate activists have found a new way to force us to pay more for energy.

New York and Vermont passed laws that will raise the price of oil, gas, and electricity by taxing the past.

New York’s new law demands fossil fuel companies pay $75 billion for carbon emissions dating back to the year 2000. Other Democrat-controlled states plan to follow suit.

In my new video, Travis Fisher, energy director at the Cato Institute, argues that taxing the past is wrong: “I’ve been filling up my gas tank for 25 years. Will they go after me for every time I’ve filled up my tank?”

Maybe.

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Two monumental events have shaken the U.S. foreign policy establishment since the inauguration of President Donald Trump. They took place at roughly the same time, but few have recognized their connection.

The first was the widespread exposure of USAID as the “world’s hipster vanguard of globalist, cultural Marxist revolution,” in the words of J. Michael Waller. When it wasn’t outright funding jihadist terrorism, USAID redirected billions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer money to left-wing organizers promoting LGBTQ, anti-racism, climate change, and every other imaginable progressive policy around the globe.

While “charity” CEOs living in taxpayer-funded luxury wailed about how cuts would cost lives, the debate among the online Right was about burning USAID to the ground and salting the earth, or perhaps repurposing some form of foreign aid to support an America First foreign policy agenda.

The other earthshaking event was Vice President JD Vance’s transformational speech before the Munich Security Conference. Vance warned that our European allies, who cynically appeal to the shared principles that united America and Western Europe during the Cold War, have increasingly shunned the consent of the governed in favor of a heavy-handed bureaucratic censorship regime that resembles our former Soviet enemies.

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The anti-free speech movement in the United States was largely an outgrowth of higher education where viewpoint intolerance has taken hold of many schools. Indeed, intolerance and orthodoxy are often defended on the left in the name of tolerance and pluralism. Harvard Professor Timothy McCarthy is one of those voices demanding the removal of faculty with opposing views in the name of tolerance. He recently told New York University’s Washington Square News that any faculty who do not support “gender-affirming care” should be stripped of their academic titles and fired.

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Indivisible, the left-wing group behind red-district town hall protests targeting Elon Musk’s DOGE, is providing local activists with a “reimbursement program” to cover certain expenses associated with opposing what it calls the “Trump-Musk coup.” Included among the reimbursable items are “chicken suits,” according to Indivisible’s co-executive director.

Local Indivisible chapters, a webpage outlining the program states, can receive up to $200 per congressional recess for protest expenses like audio and video equipment, signage, promotional materials, and gas. For lawmakers who decline to hold town halls during the upcoming recess, Indivisible encourages local activists to hold their own events and purchase “cardboard depictions of your Member of Congress” and “chicken suits,” both of which Indivisible will pay for.

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Members of the European Parliament (EP) have rebuked the European Commission for aiming to bypass them using an emergency clause to fast-track the legislative process. The reprimand came on Wednesday, March 12th, as MEPs adopted a resolution to endorse the basic outlines of the European Union executive’s colossal €800 billion defense investment scheme, as well as to call for the EU’s further military integration.

The core proposal of the Commission’s ‘ReArm Europe’ scheme is a massive €150 billion joint loan for arms procurement. To speed up the approval, Brussels is invoking Article 122 of the EU treaty, which allows legislative files to skip parliamentary negotiations during states of emergency and go straight to the EU Council to be tweaked and adopted by member states in record time.

This means that if the Commission proceeds as planned, the only EU body with directly elected members will have no say about the final contents of what is potentially the term’s most important package—except for holding meaningless debates and passing non-binding resolutions should it so wish.

Eurocrats don’t give a shit about your so-called democracy.

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Another long-standing restaurant in one of Baltimore City’s popular bar districts is closing its doors, marking another casualty in the city’s imploding hospitality scene. While the farewell messages from these establishments offer little explanation for their abrupt departures, the broader message has been very clear: Years of lawlessness, gang violence resembling a war zone, carjackings, out-of-control youth, high taxes, and deteriorating public safety have taken a toll on business owners. Meanwhile, City Hall—under far-left Democratic control—continues marching the metro into economic demise as the city’s population tumbles to a century-low.

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In preparation for an international climate summit this fall, Brazilian state officials are clearing tens of thousands of acres of the Amazon rainforest to complete a new four-lane highway, the BBC reported.

The COP30 summit will be held Nov. 10-21 in the Brazilian city of Belém, and is expected to draw about 50,000 attendees, including world leaders and business people to discuss climate change. COP stands for Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

However, the development sparked controversy among locals that contend such deforestation of the Amazon rainforest and construction undermines the purpose of the gathering.

Do tell. I’m sure John Kerry will tool in on his private jet to wag his finger at the rest of us.

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In 2011, Brown University’s Choices Program, which develops curriculum on history and current issues for K-12 schools in all 50 states, taught high school students “of the historic Jewish ties to the land that is now Israel.” In 2015, anti-Israel academic Beshara Doumani, then a founding director of Brown’s Center for Middle East Studies, began advising the program—and the materials shifted in tone.

That year, the Choices Program released a revamped version of its unit titled, “The Middle East in Transition: Questions for U.S. Policy.” The unit, which included an acknowledgment of Doumani’s “invaluable” contributions, provided students with new definitions of “colonialism” and “imperialism,” according to an Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) review of the curriculum materials obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. It also included a map that listed Tel Aviv—not Jerusalem—as Israel’s capital.

Two years later, an updated edition of the same unit went further. Included alongside the map of Middle Eastern capitals was a quiz calling on students to “fill in the missing countries and capitals below.” Students received credit for writing “Israel” next to the listed “Country Capital” of Tel Aviv. The unit also eliminated a section on Israel’s creation, according to the ISGAP review, “instead moving the discussion about Israel’s creation to a few brief paragraphs within the section titled ‘Israel and the Palestinian Territories.'”

Brown has always been the most proglodyte of the Ivy League schools, being the preferred destination for Eurotrash who want a fancy American degree.

NBC News, a Voice of the Crust.

The ‘misgendering’ is this delusional politician pretending to be a woman. Keith Self is my Congressman, and I approve his message.

Quillette.

It was predictable that Hamas officials and their radicalised international supporters would deny that sexual violence against Israeli women and men was committed on 7 October 2023. But denials from the academic field of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies are more surprising because they appear to violate two of the field’s salient principles: support for women’s sexual autonomy and insistence that women who lodge charges of sexual violence should be believed. Instead, a number of academic feminists have not only rejected Israeli claims, they have also embraced Hamas, along with all the reactionary patriarchal baggage of radical Islam, thereby abandoning their own stated values.

The positions that proglodytes take are always less about principle and more about political fashion.

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When the Trump administration announced it was investigating California’s long-troubled high-speed rail project, the top official overseeing it pressed back. Though the project has more than tripled in price to $106 billion, the official said that “every dollar is accounted for.”

While the money is indeed accounted for, that accounting does not paint a rosy picture for the Golden State. State audits over the past 15 years, which the Washington Free Beacon reviewed, have found a litany of wasteful and bizarre spending and financial commitments, ranging from $177,000 for PoliticoPro subscriptions to $5 million for graffiti removal. One company received more than $50,000 to head diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, while active environmental service contracts total $537 million.

The high-speed rail project launched in 2008. It promised to offer 220 mph trains between Los Angeles and San Francisco, with an estimated completion date of 2020 for $33 million. Construction didn’t begin until 2015. Since then, no track has been laid, no stations have been built, and there’s no estimate on when it will be finished. Even the shorter-term goal that Gov. Gavin Newsom (D.) announced in 2019—a 171-mile rail in the Central Valley—will likely miss its 2033 deadline, according to the project’s inspector general.

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Mark Carney, the former central banker infamous for his Brexit scaremongering and deep ties to globalist institutions, will be Canada’s new prime minister—despite not even holding a seat in Parliament. The former Bank of England governor won the battle to lead the country’s ruling Liberal Party with 85% of the vote of the 151,899 Liberal party members who voted, replacing ‘King of Woke’ Justin Trudeau.

In his victory speech on Sunday night, Carney’s rhetoric was incendiary, portraying U.S. President Donald Trump as a dire threat to Canada’s “way of life” and vowing to push back against American economic power. “They want our resources, our water, our land, our country… If they succeeded, they would destroy our way of life,” he claimed.

However, critics question how long he can survive in office: he has no seat in Parliament, his mandate is shaky, and an election must be held by October—one that polling suggests the Liberals will likely lose to the Conservatives under Pierre Poilievre.

Canadians are responsible for voting for the statist Liberal Party and the Liberal Party is responsible for handing over power to the statists Trudeau and now Carney. They have no one to blame but themselves when the shit hits the fan. Trump ought to craft an immigration support plan for Canadians like that he’s doing for South Africans.

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On Saturday a group of French feminists – who we’re sure are absolute peaches to be around, did what any woman trying to be taken seriously would do – whipped out their tits and finger paints, then decorated each other with various flags, swastikas, and the message “FASCIST EPIDEMIC.”

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Growing up in America through the 1980s and 1990s there was a general sense of “live and let live” among Gen X and Gen Y that truly defined the era and our notions of what a society should look like. We all knew gay people were a permanent fixture in society. For the most part nobody bothered them and they kept their gayness to themselves (and far away from children). Frankly, it was working just fine.

There were some protests and marches, but the only “individual right” straight people had that they didn’t was the right to legal marriage.

This is patently untrue. Homosexuals had exactly the same rights as heterosexuals when it came to marriage: they could marry a person of the other sex. What homosexuals did not have (and what they wanted), the right to marry someone of the same sex, was denied to heterosexuals as well. All of the handwaving in the world doesn’t affect this simple fact.

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It’s been almost six years since the delinquent child activist Greta Thunberg promoted a so-called scientist’s warning that “climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels” by 2023. The scientist in question, Harvard University professor James Anderson, also predicted “there will be no floating ice remaining” in the Arctic Ocean by 2022 absent a “Marshall Plan-style endeavor in which all of the world takes extreme measures to to transition off of fossil fuels completely within the next five years.” That didn’t happen, but climate activists are still warning that the Arctic could be ice-free at some point between 2035 and 2067.

Not surprisingly, there is a long history—dating back to the 1970s—of so-called climate scientists and government bureaucrats making catastrophic predictions about the environment that never materialized. Here are 10 of the most egregious examples.

Quillette.

Anyone wanting to take the pulse of progressive America can consult the opinion pages of the New York Times. That’s where, earlier this year, I found Ezekiel Kweku, one of the paper’s editors, complaining bitterly about Hamilton. A decade after the musical about America’s neglected founding father became a Broadway sensation, Kweku wants his readers to know that it has not aged well. Kweku’s critique repays attention, not only for its revisionist interpretation of a popular piece of political art, but also because it crystallises the dilemma facing the political Left in the (second) age of Trump. Kweku’s polemic is emblematic of the unease—if not outright resentment—with which the Left regards American patriotism. And until it outgrows that defect and embraces national solidarity and pride, the Democratic Party will continue to flail in the political wilderness.

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It’s finally happening. After years of government subsidies, media cheerleading, and financial markets propping up a house of cards, a hedge fund manager has come forward to say what many of us have known all along: the so-called clean energy sector is “dead for now.” Nishant Gupta, founder and chief investment officer at London-based Kanou Capital LLP, didn’t mince words when describing the dire state of solar, wind, hydrogen, and fuel cell investments.

“The whole sector… is dead for now,” Gupta stated plainly?. This marks a turning point—when even those inside the financial world, who have long played along with the green energy narrative, admit that the numbers simply don’t add up.

It’s no secret that the clean energy sector has been in trouble. Over the past year, the S&P Global Clean Energy Index has plummeted by 20%, while the broader S&P 500 has gained 16%?. That’s a devastating underperformance, especially in an industry that was supposed to be on the cusp of taking over the world.

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The left-wing parties of the European Parliament have announced they want the European Commission to finance globalist NGOs whose U.S. funding has been cut by Donald Trump’s administration.

In a letter to all the members of the European Parliament, MEPs from the socialist, the liberal, and the Green groups are urging their colleagues to sign a letter to the Commission to plead for increased funding for leftist non-governmental organisations.

“They basically want Brussels to use EU taxpayers’ money to fill the gap for the agenda of these so-called ‘NGOs’, which are financed on ideological grounds and serve the political interests of the liberal elite,” Hungarian MEP Kinga Gál of the right-wing Patriots for Europe group tweeted, attaching a copy of the letter to her post on her X social media account.

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Reality rules, while socialists posture.

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Did you know that the very first gender clinic—established to pump people full of experimental drugs to make their bodies resemble those of the opposite sex—in India opened thanks to your tax dollars?

Meanwhile, “independent media outlets” in Ukraine have been forced to shut down because President Donald Trump froze U.S. foreign aid.

Don’t buy the Democratic hype—this foreign aid pause isn’t about blocking food from starving children in Africa. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has signed an emergency humanitarian waiver to ensure that “life-saving humanitarian assistance” continues when it comes to medical services, food, and shelter.

Unfortunately, Trump’s pause in foreign aid is essential because the leftist bureaucrats at the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development directed funds to woke priorities in the name of humanitarian aid. This makes it difficult for Rubio to determine which humanitarian assistance is truly necessary and which merely funds the Left’s ideological priorities.

Perhaps the most egregious example involves that gender clinic in India.

ZMan looks back in anger.

Over the last thirty years, many people have noticed that all moral claims within the public policy sphere can be reduced to a few time periods. In the realm of foreign policy, it is always about 1938 and the events around that time. If it is a domestic issue in the United States, then it is always 1968. Perhaps the slow Progressives will try to make it about the 1980’s when their hero was president. For Americans, public policy is trapped in one of three historical frameworks.

On the foreign policy side, it is easy to see how this works. There have been so many new Hitlers on the stage, no one can keep count. Every foolish and destructive misadventure by Washington involves a Hitler figure. They are not just a generic bad guy in the propaganda sense of it, but they represent the re-emergence of the timeless enemy and the timeless struggle. Everything about American foreign policy since the Cold War is about preventing an imaginary past.

This cognitive defect has made its way across the ocean to Europe. Whenever there is a meeting of the local satraps of the American empire, they take turns looking worried in front of the cameras, talking about the possible reemergence of you know who and the danger of resembling Neville Chamberlain. This moral framework is so powerful that they were unable to notice the irony of the Ukrainians using German tanks to attack the Russians in the Kursk region.

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Democrats are upset about President Donald Trump renaming the former Gulf of Mexico but want to replace the word “mother” with “inseminated person.” You can’t make this up.

The Left’s war on language has reached a new level of insanity, and this time, they’ve set their sights on one of the most sacred and fundamental institutions in human existence: motherhood.

In Wisconsin, Democrat Gov. Tony Evers and his administration are pushing to erase the word “mother” from official documents, replacing it with the sterile and dehumanizing term “inseminated person.”

If that sounds absurd to you, that’s because it is.

The Washington Poop, a Voice of the Crust.

It was never about principle; it’s always about the money.

Not tired of winning yet….

ZMan does some history.

The 19th century was a wild time in America. Prior to the Civil War, it became increasingly clear to the industrializing North that the Constitutional framework was not working for them. The Hartford Conventions, largely erased from the history books now, were a series of conferences in the North to debate leaving the Union. This process was short-circuited by the War of 1812, but the sentiment merely found a new home in abolitionism and finally flowered in the Civil War.

The post-Civil War period was no less tumultuous. Reconstruction was a failure, but a foreshadowing of what would be a feature of the progressive ideology. That is the belief that societies can be reordered in such a way that the people in those societies change how they think about themselves, their neighbors, and the state. The abolitionist fanatics did not abandon these beliefs after the failure of reconstruction. They continued to refine this belief as progressivism flowered in the 20th century.

Of course, progressivism itself is a 19th century phenomenon. It emerged out of American Protestantism as a belief that human society can only advance through relentless social reform. The same people who were sure they could reinvent society to accommodate the freed slaves as equals were now sure they could use the lessons from industrialization to reorder America and the world. Religious social reform became a secular political movement.

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Last Wednesday, student radicals at Columbia stormed a campus building at Barnard, sending a security guard to the hospital in the process. A day later, a Columbia instructor canceled class so his students could attend an anti-Israel demonstration, a blatant violation of university policy.

That instructor, our Alana Goodman and Jessica Costescu report, who wasn’t named by the university, was Conor Cullen, who teaches philosophy at Columbia and who has been a vocal supporter of anti-Israel encampments on campus. He dismissed his contemporary civilization class after students asked for time off to “support the student protest movement” and attend an anti-Israel rally. Even Columbia’s administrators described the move as inappropriate and launched an investigation.

ZMan says the quiet part out loud.

Ronald Reagan was famous for saying that “the closest thing to immortality is a government program.” He was not the first person to say it. There are examples of American politicians saying a version of this going back to the 1930’s. There are probably versions of this concept going back to the Kingdom of Ur, because it is the nature of government to create constituencies in favor of its actions and those constituencies always lobby for more of what created them.

You see this with Project Ukraine, which was largely created by a small number of zealots called the neocons in the Obama administration. They overthrew the government of Ukraine, installed an anti-Russian government and just like that there was money and opportunity in Ukraine. By the time Trump came along in 2016, the Ukraine project had a sizable constituency in the Western ruling class, which is why Trump was impeached. He threatened the project.

Since the war broke out in 2022, the power of the Project Ukraine constituency has grown much stronger for monetary and political reasons. Important interests in Western countries are making money from the war, so they support politicians who seek to keep the war going. The politicians are happy to oblige, as the war is a nice distraction from the boring tasks the voters expect from government, tasks that the political class has thoroughly and completely ignored.

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How will you ensure access to dental care across the state of Georgia? That’s the sort of question the state’s Department of Community Health asked in 2015 to determine which insurance providers would administer Medicaid to millions of people across the state. Then, last year, the state reopened the bidding process for the multibillion-dollar contract—and senior career staffers hijacked it to insert a question related to transgender children into the bidding process, internal documents reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show.

The Foundry.

Socialism is popular!

A Pew study reports that more than a third of American adults view it positively.

How is this possible?

Little has brought more misery—first in the Soviet Union, then in China, Cuba, Nicaragua, now Venezuela …

One reason young people support socialism is because their social media feeds show videos made by popular but economically illiterate people.

TikTok star Madeline Pendleton has 1.6 million subscribers. My new video shows her telling them: “Socialism is working better than capitalism 93% of the time!”

Where does she get 93%?

From a study published in 1986 by self-described Marxists in the Journal of Health Services.

The authors conveniently ignore the United States and other wealthy countries and compare socialist economies to “capitalist” countries like Uganda, Rwanda, and Somalia, some of which were at war.

UK Daily Mail.

Left-wing managers of a Paris theatre occupied by hundreds of homeless African migrants are set to abandon the building because of sex-related violence.

They say the crisis at the Gaîté Lyrique – one of the French capital’s most historic arts venues – is now ‘so explosive’ that retreat by this Friday is their only option.

Some 200 mainly young men moved in last December when the management gave them free tickets to a ‘Refugees Welcome in France’ conference.

Get Woke, Go Broke.

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Apparently there is some sort of Right To Receive Money From The Taxpayers of which were were ignorant. Who knew?

Ron Brownstein struggled with the idea that blue states could be on the wrong end of federal civil rights issues on Friday’s CNN This Morning as he claimed that the Trump Administration is trying to use “the power of the federal purse to rescind rights.”

Host Jessica Dean began by reading from Brownstein’s recent article on the subject, where he laid out what his definition of “rights” is, “Trump has threatened to cut off federal funds for states, cities, hospitals, and universities unless they adopt a wide range of conservative social policies, such as banning transgender girls from competing in high school sports and ending diversity programs in education and employment. Since most red states have already adopted these policies, the principal effect of Trump’s orders is to attempt to impose these ideas on Democratic-controlled states that have already considered them at the state level, and virtually without exception, spurned them.”

Covid prophet who predicted pandemic SEVEN YEARS before it spread reveals the terrifying next ‘big one’… and when it could hit (UK Daily Mail)

The next pandemic: COVID-19 showed us how we can fight the next global outbreak (UC Davis Health)

Lab Notes: Are we on the brink of another pandemic? (ABC News)

US Health Secretary Kennedy calls for end to deadly Texas measles outbreak (Reuters)

As Texas measles outbreak grows, here’s what to know about the disease, vaccines and response (NBC News)

As the Texas outbreak grows, how contagious is measles, really? (NPR)

Death of child from measles is an ominous sign (Washington Poop)

“Bat Lady” Research Team In Wuhan ‘Find’ COVID-Like Virus That Can Infect Humans

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If you think that regimes trying to control their people through suppressing expression the government doesn’t like only happens in “those” parts of the world, think again. From the U.K. and Canada to Australia, the powers that be are steadily promoting their agenda by censoring and punishing contrary views. And the censors are heading our way.

The rise of pervasive Wokeism has resulted in socialists being more willing to say the quiet part out loud.

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How a “scientific consensus” that “climate change is mostly human-caused” was forced by:
1) Shutting down funding for scientific research into natural causes.
2) Punishing scientists who continued this research anyway.

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Fifteen years hence, we now know much more. None of the scary scenarios originally predicted have actually come to pass, or at a minimum they were greatly exaggerated. Ten-year deadlines to “do something” about the “climate crisis” have come and gone… a few times. Even the IPCC (which only allows alarmist-leaning scientists to participate) has admitted it is unlikely we will experience significant changes in severe weather by the year 2100 that can be tied to increasing CO2.

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Ludwig von Mises called the universities of his day “nurseries of socialism” because of the inevitable socialist bias of all government-funded universities. He also said that there is always a remnant of students, however, that does not buy into the endless drumbeat about the alleged wonders of socialism and the “imperfections” of free-market capitalism. It is this remnant that the Mises Institute devotes so much effort to educating and inspiring in the Misesian/Rothbardian tradition.

The vast majority of today’s American universities have become incubators of socialism to a far greater extent than anything Mises experienced. They have produced generations of students who are well versed in all the left-wing platitudes about just about everything even if they lack the most elementary critical thinking skills. (So-called “critical theory,” invented by Marxist law professors, is not about critical thinking but criticizing the critics of socialism and all the institutions of Western civilization). The unique incentive systems in American universities have made this possible.

Almost all universities are either government funded state universities, or private nonprofit sector universities that receive significant amounts of government subsidies, making them de facto state universities. (Remember: He who takes the king’s shilling becomes the king’s man). As such, they have no real customers in a business sense. Students do not think of themselves as customers in the sense that they are customers of say, Starbucks or a pizza joint. They rarely pay the tuition bills for one thing; mom and dad or the taxpayers do, or the banks that extend to them student loans. Parents may pay the tuition bills but it is the children who receive the primary benefits of higher education, if such benefits even exist. Thus, consumer pressure that leads to consumer sovereignty is very weak.

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Jessica Tarlov is the token Democrat talking head often appearing on the Fox News program The Five surrounded by four more level-headed center-right and conservative commentators including Jesse Watters, Greg Gutfeld, Judge Jeanine Pirro, and often Dana Perino. It’s a thankless job but someone must do it. Typically, when Tarlov is unavailable, Harold Ford, Jr., a calmer and much saner thinker, takes the Democrat seat at the table.

Tarlov, the other day, made the point that even Republicans in red districts were not happy with Elon Musk and the DOGE effort to root out waste, fraud, and corruption in various government departments and agencies, and were raising their voices to object to the way that DOGE is going about its work. This seemed to be a Democrat talking point because other leftist commentators were aping this same story on CNN, MSNBC, CBS, etc. (not that identical, unified messaging has ever <cough, choke> been spewed on these networks).

There’s just one problem with the claim. According to The Washington Free Beacon:

Red-District DOGE Protests, Cited As Proof of Broad Musk ‘Backlash,’ Were Organized By Left-Wing Groups

Huh. Go figure. Who woulda thunk?

Newsbusters.

It takes a lot of chutzpah for a suspected sister-wife who may or may not have married her brother-husband to flee a Sharia society that would’ve stoned her for running her mouth to force that same authoritarianism on the people she claims to represent.

Squad member Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) believes Americans are stupid and blames our First Amendment right to free speech for allowing citizens to re-elect President Donald Trump. In an interview with her fellow terrorist sympathizer, Mehdi Hasan, Congresswoman Kaboom implied only their ilk are capable of “intellectual debate,” and should apparently be the gatekeepers of common sense.

Only someone who suffers a level of woefully unearned arrogance would have enough confidence to tell that to an ousted MSNBC host who recently stated “Make American Planes Crash Again” in a social media post, and then called Americans “Islamophobic” for reacting poorly to it.

But that’s an unsurprising attitude coming from a congresswoman who downplays the 9/11 terrorist attacks and seems to be an in-house mouthpiece for our nation’s enemies.

The American Mind.

To prevent national security failures and mitigate them when they occur, the U.S. has built a national security state unlike anything humanity has ever seen. The U.S. government has a network of security intelligence and operations agencies that spans the world, working through a web of domestic and foreign governmental, nonprofit, and corporate institutions.

We outsiders think this network runs through the CIA. Yet as we are learning, thanks to Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), that is only partly true. In 2023, while the Intelligence Community, including the CIA, was appropriated $71.7 billion dollars, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), an “independent” but supposedly State Department-guided agency, received about $40 billion. While USAID has the word “International” in its name, it has spent a lot of money not only spreading atheism in Nepal but also on woke dogma and censorship at home.

As true Communist believers can now barely be found outside of U.S. educational institutions, USAID and their web of partners have moved on to new missions. The most important of these is “countering threats to democracy,” especially “countering domestic extremism.” To those ends, every U.S. agency has been weaponized, and law has served as a shield for official excess as much as it has been used as a weapon against genuine bad actors outside of government.

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BP’s green pivot has backfired spectacularly, hammering profits and leaving the company vulnerable to a hedge fund siege, writes Jonathan Leake in the Telegraph.

Get Woke, go broke. A universal truth.