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Only 1% of the American population identifies as vegan (a person who refrains from using or consuming any animal products), and around 3% of the population identifies as vegetarian. It is therefore a little confusing as to why American political and social discourse is hijacked by vegan issues so often.

Leftist activists have adopted the age-old mantra that the “squeaky wheel gets the oil”; but imagine a wheel that never gets enough oil? Imagine a movement specifically designed to keep society constantly on egg shells, trying to figure out different ways to satisfy that squeaky wheel so it will finally shut up?

One eventually has to ask the obvious question: Why don’t we simply throw that insufferable wheel in the garbage?

A perfect example of why Americans need to start aggressively discriminating against veganism as a movement has popped up in Oregon. A new initiative called the PEACE Act (IP28) has enough backing to make it on the state ballot in November. The initiative originally gained support as a way to “end animal cruelty”, but the details of the proposed law turned out to be a vegan’s version of Orwell.

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An Eritrean rapist avoided deportation from Sweden because he is “integrated” there, and the rape he committed was described by a court as “brief” and “without threats or blows,” according to a court.

The offender, a care worker in his 30s, was sentenced to four years imprisonment for raping an 82-year-old woman. His victim—who previously received home care services from the now convicted criminal—suffers from impaired memory, but was able to recall her ordeal on the night of November 3rd, 2025, Samnytt reports.

The victim’s son contacted the police alleging an incident had taken place. After various convoluted attempts at an alibi contradicted by DNA evidence, the Eritrean was convicted.

Slowly cutting their own throats….

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Official figures show that 710 migrants crossed the English Channel on eleven ‘small boats’ on Monday, June 15th.

With the single largest number to make the crossing in a single day this year, it’s clear that government actions are having little to no effect. For instance, to date the ‘one-in, one-out’ deportations to France policy shows no signs of acting as a deterrent.

Instead the main brake on illegal activity comes from inclement weather. This, including recent high winds at sea, meant six days with no crossings. Yet as conditions improved, Monday saw illegal ‘small boat’ migrants—what Reform UK leader Nigel Farage calls fighting-age men who have thrown away their travel documents—rock up on England’s shores in the largest daily total of the year so far.

Slowly cutting their own throats….

The Telegraph (UK).

Londoners have said they feel increasingly unsafe in the city, in a blow to Sir Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London.

In a London School of Economics survey, 2,022 adults were asked whether living in the capital had become more or less safe generally. Some 54 per cent of respondents, made up of 61 per cent of women and 46 per cent of men, said they felt less safe than previously.

Only 22 per cent of men and 13 per cent of women said they felt London was safer.

We used to laugh at London for having someone named “Sadiq Khan” as Lord Mayer—and then Mamdani became mayor of New York….

Not the Bee.

I’m going to keep this brief.

Last night, there were two events happening to celebrate America. One was a cage match sponsored by Trump at the White House.

The other was a “Rise Up, Sing Out” event against “fascism” headlined by Jane Fonda, YouTuber Ms. Rachel, Julia Roberts, Robert De Niro, and Bette Midler. It was specifically scheduled to counter-program Trump’s UFC event.

You don’t need to know all the details. You only need the visuals, so here we go.

“They may have won all the battles/But we had all the good songs!” — Tom Lerer

The Telegraph (UK).

A multi-millionaire who bought a £13.5m home on Sandbanks, the exclusive peninsula in Poole Harbour, Dorset, has knocked it down to build an eco-mansion.

Tom Glanfield paid the record price for any property on Sandbanks in 2023. It became known as “the most expensive bungalow in the world” at £4,640 per square foot – a valuation equivalent to luxury homes in central Hong Kong or Monaco.

Seeing the potential of the substantial harbourside plot, he sought planning permission to demolish the run-down Edwardian bungalow, which had been in the same family’s ownership for 117 years.

However, the property sat within a conservation area and had been nominated to be added to the local heritage list.

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole council refused Mr Glanfield’s initial application to demolish it and put a new five-bedroom home in its place.

Government ruins everything it touches. The British local council planning offices are even worse than NIMBY zoning authorities in the U.S., and almost as bad as fascist Home Owner Associations. Run away! Run away!

The Telegraph (UK).

White jobseekers are being shut out of taxpayer-funded employment schemes.

A range of employment support programmes offered by local authorities to benefit claimants are open only to ethnic minorities, The Telegraph can reveal.

Critics have described the schemes, which are funded by the taxpayer through multi-billion-pound grants to local government, as an example of “two-tier” Britain.

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Carl Benjamin (Sargon of Akkad) explains why these people are doing deranged things.

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In George Orwell’s 1984, Great Britain was just a province of Oceania named “Airstrip One” as a none-too-subtle nod to the U.K.’s role as host to the heavy bombers of U.S. Eighth Air Force during World War II.

Four decades past the real 1984, and there’s still no Oceania. But Britain looks more and more like Airstrip One as Parliament considers a bill opening up everyone’s smartphone to government supervision — and jail time for tech execs who don’t submit.

You had to figure this was probably coming, right?

Right.

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The era of unchecked “activism” that masks itself as science while practicing inhumane sabotage is reaching its end. We are witnessing the slow, painful process of reality catching up to the Greenpeace propaganda. And frankly, it’s about time.

Quillette.

In February 2022, Tyler Cowen made a prediction that sounded premature to many people: wokeism had peaked. At the time, this seemed far from obvious. The elite institutions most associated with wokeness as a kind of new moral politics—universities, media organisations, nonprofits, foundations, publishing houses, museums, professional associations, and large corporations—still seemed firmly under its grip. DEI bureaucracies were still expanding. “Cancellations” still carried real social and professional force. Corporate America still spoke the language of “equity” with missionary confidence.

In Cowen’s original 2022 formulation, he suggested that the movement would survive as a subculture: educated, affluent, disproportionately white, and institutionally influential. But no longer commanding the country’s morality. The pendulum, he thought, had begun to swing. School-board revolts, growing impatience with cancellations, the backlash to progressive overreach and lawlessness in cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles, and the sheer unattractiveness of the movement’s cultural style all suggested that wokeism had passed its high-water mark.

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After nearly eleven years in the making, the EU’s flagship asylum and migration management legislation, commonly called the Migration Pact, entered into force on June 12th. Implementing the law is now mandatory for all EU countries (except for some provisions in the case of Denmark, which has a broader opt-out from common EU home affairs legislation).

The main objective of the Pact was to introduce a single, harmonized asylum procedure that would ensure that refugees get the exact same treatment, regardless of which member state they apply to for asylum, as well as to make both entry and return procedures more streamlined. The EU Commission is celebrating this milestone as something that will finally solve all of Europe’s migration woes and put the decade-old conflict about border control and illegal entries to rest.

But that’s just wishful thinking, as national conservative parties across Europe have never accepted the Pact and will keep on fighting against its implementation for the foreseeable future. Their criticism targets not only the so-called solidarity mechanism and its mandatory migrant relocation quotas but also the fact that the Pact fails to strengthen external borders and prevent illegal entries in any meaningful way; in fact, it forces member states to allow more migrants in.

Cutting their own throats, slowly.

ATQUE: ‘The Suicide Of Europe’: Historic EU Migration Pact Goes Into Force Today As Fracture-Lines Grow

The Telegraph (UK).

A Green councillor who compared gender-critical authors to Holocaust deniers has been forced to study the Equality Act.

Helen Elliott-Boult, a Green councillor for Stroud district council (SDC), justified the cancellation of an event featuring two authors critical of transgender ideology, set to take place at Stroud Brewery in the Cotswolds.

The event was cancelled because of fears for “the safety of members of our trans community”.

Council officers have mandated that Ms Elliott-Boult attend training, reinforcing that gender-critical views are protected by law in the UK.

I guess some views are more equal than others.

The Times (UK).

Police officers were given anti-racism training featuring clips of Nigel Farage and an image of white people in chains and black people holding guns, The Times can reveal.

Training material seen by The Times shows the mandatory session, delivered to officers and staff at North Yorkshire police, was linked to the Police Race Action Plan and asked officers to reflect on “what anti-racism means” to them personally and professionally.

A serving officer who attended said trainers showed an image reversing the racial roles of slavery and asked officers to imagine how they would feel if they had been taught that version of history at school.

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There is a reason pepole are leaving such places rather than moving to such places.

The U-Haul was later found, but it was completely empty. After the fundraiser hit its target amount, a thank-you update was added.

Maybe they could open a lemonade stand….

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If you’ve got children who live in a Democrat-run city, have them set up a lemonade stand so they can learn a valuable lesson just like these Boston kids did!

In Boston, there’s nothing a future business owner needs to learn more than how to give away all their money when a “teen” with a gun approaches the register.

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On Wednesday, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp announced a firearms manufacturer will leave the state of Virginia over new “anti-gun legislation” and relocate to Georgia, bringing a $22 million investment and employing hundreds of residents.

“Georgia attracts job creators from all over the country and world because we work with them, not against them,” Kemp said. “Our state’s pro-business approach, skilled workforce, and enduring support for constitutional freedoms make us an ideal home for manufacturers like Rideout Arsenal, and we look forward to their success here in the No. 1 state for business.”

Rideout Arsenal, the firearms designer and manufacturer launching the new facility, has announced it will be opening its doors in the south Georgia town of Thomasville.

“Today we welcome Rideout Arsenal to Thomasville. This includes new highly skilled jobs, new partnerships, new careers, and new momentum for our community,” Thomasville Mayor Scott Chastain said. “Most importantly, we welcome the Rideout family to our community.”

The new facility will be located within the Plantation Oak Industrial Park, with additional buildings planned throughout the next several years.

The company’s founders said the decision to locate in Georgia was made partly as a response to recent legislation in Virginia that could affect the business.

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The Environmental Working Group (EWG) and media outlets are trying to scare people away from demonstrably safe and nutritious conventional food products.

Headlines about harmful pesticides in conventional foods are lying to you in order to create fear.

It is wildly irresponsible of supposed “journalists” to continue to platform this long-standing coordinated campaign by the EWG to erode science literacy and harm public health.

ATQUE: Organic foods are not healthier or pesticide free

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Accountability! What a strange occurrence.

Ever since the sixties, ‘protestors’, ‘demostrators’, and ‘activists’ have been getting away with rioting, property damage, assault, and things for which ordinary citizens would to go jail. Perhaps the worm has turned. Perhaps.

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The country is moving toward a better energy future: lower prices, more production, more reliability and less punishment for the people who keep America moving. But these six states are choosing a different path.

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There is an interesting controversy brewing in California after four California university professors threatened a political candidate, Richard Lucas, for criticizing them for their roles in the “Billionaire Tax” and sent him a “cease and desist” letter.

David Gamage from the University of Missouri, Brian Galle and Emmanuel Saez from UC Berkeley, and Darien Shanske from UC Davis claimed that the public criticism violated anti-doxxing laws by sharing contact information. They are clearly wrong. One of the aggrieved professors, Brian Galle, teaches at Berkeley Law School called Lucas “a clown,” but insisted that sharing public information is unlawful.

Attorney Catha Worthman sent the letter, but has reportedly refused to respond to inquiries after attorneys for the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) pushed back on her legal claims and those of her clients.

Good luck with that.

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Just this year, at least seven states identified noncitizens on their voter registration lists. This comes as Congress continues to debate the SAVE America Act, a bill which would require proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections.

Several states obtained the names of noncitizens by cross-referencing the voter registration list with the federal database known as the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE. SAVE is maintained by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

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The latest figures released by England’s Department for Education offer a glimpse into the country’s future, revealing how the British are slowly becoming a minority in their own country.

According to the data for the 2025–2026 school year, the proportion of pupils identified as white British has fallen below 60% for the first time, while the share of pupils from minority ethnic backgrounds has reached a record high of nearly 39%.

These developments are presented by British commentator Matt Goodwin on his Substack as evidence of accelerating demographic and cultural change within England. He argues that the trends visible in schools today provide a preview of the country’s future population and social landscape, being based not on British traditions and the English language but dominated by immigration.

The statistics suggest that England’s classrooms are changing at a pace that would have been unthinkable only a decade ago. During the 2015–2016 school year, white British pupils accounted for 70% of all schoolchildren. Now, that figure has fallen to 59.7%.

You can’t make this stuff up.

We told you yesterday about a Pride display at a Washington public high school that featured actual vials of testosterone for trans-identifying females.

Yeah, turns out testosterone is a Schedule III controlled substance, so, uhh, it’s not some sort of overreaction for the sheriff to come in like this.

‘It’s Happening Again’: Trump Reacts as Raman Overtakes Pratt in LA Mayoral Race

Lammy says he told JD Vance his Nowak comments were ‘wrong’ (Joshua Nevett/BBC)

‘Checked Out’ RFK Jr. Missing as Agency Spirals (Wiktoria Gucia/The Daily Beast)

House Democrats Plan to Investigate Trump

Maine Dems plot response if Nebraska GOP tweaks Electoral College votes (Holly Otterbein/Axios)

President Denies He Pledged Not to Start New Wars (Katie Rogers/New York Times) Innuendo: Trump is going to start more wars.

Democrats eyeing investigations, and perhaps prosecutions, of Trump officials (Mike Lillis/The Hill)

Trump drags feet on drone deal with Ukraine, mystifying experts (Ellen Mitchell/The Hill)

Congress thought it had a spy-powers deal. Then Trump came in. (Politico)  innuendo: Trump is screwing things up again.

Deep in Rural Virginia, a MAGA Pro-Gun Push Takes an Unnerving Turn (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Pam Bondi was the worst AG in history. Until now. (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)  Worse than Merrick Garland? Worse than Erich Holder? I don’t think so.

Trump-Hating Pink Frets ‘State of the World,’ ‘Trans Siblings’ Losing ‘Rights’at Tony Awards

How the Drive to Find a Conspiracy Against Trump Rocked the Justice Dept. (Devlin Barrett/New York Times)  Innuendo: There is no conspiracy against Trump. Perish the thought. (There doesn’t need to be a conspiracy when everybody already knows what they need to do.

Former Biden J6 Prosecutor’s ActBlue-Funded Firm Sues To Stop Trump’s UFC White House Event

It’s Johnson’s Gavel But Trump’s House (Reese Gorman/NOTUS)  Innuendo: This is illegitimate in some vaguely sinister way.

Knicks fans warn Trump to expect hostile reception at NBA Finals game (Dan Diamond/Washington Post)

On campaign promises about foreign wars, Trump rewrites recent history (Steve Benen/MS NOW)  Innuendo: Trump is a weasel.

The Trump administration’s multiple investigations of the 2020 election may have more to do with 2026 (Votebeat)  Nothing to see here … move along … move along….

Court blocks Trump’s $100K visa fee (Kyle Cheney/Politico  We want that cheap foreign labor!

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On Monday, the Supreme Court vacated a lower court ruling that upheld Biden Energy Department regulations that would outlaw gas stoves and water heaters in Americans’ homes and require homeowners with these to either renovate their homes or switch to electric appliances.

In American Gas Association, et al. V. Dept. Of Energy, et al, the District of Columbia’s district court upheld the Biden Administration’s regulations banning the use of non-condensing appliances, effectively eliminating gas furnaces and water heaters from the marketplace.

In response, the American Gas Association, American Public Gas Association and National Propane Gas Association asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the decision. In their petition to the high court for a writ of certiorari, they stressed the consequences of allowing the lower court’s decision to stand.

The Foundry.

More nonprofits are urging the software company Benevity—which hundreds of companies use to allow employees to donate their time and money to charities—to stop systematically blacklisting conservative nonprofits.

Twelve organizations first sent a letter to Benevity in October following the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. The new letter, sent Monday and exclusively provided first to the Daily Signal, will feature three new signatories: Turning Point USA, PragerU, and Focus on the Family.

“Charitable giving programs should empower generosity, not enforce political conformity,” Douglas Napier, executive chairman and CEO of 1792 Exchange, which helped organize the letter, told the Daily Signal in a statement Friday.?????????????????????????????????????????????????? “Benevity must immediately end its use of Southern Poverty Law Center’s defamatory ‘Hate List’ and ‘Hate Map’ to block mainstream charitable organizations like Turning Point USA and Focus on the Family.”

“1792 Exchange’s research found that hundreds of major corporations rely on Benevity’s platform, making this a critical moment for corporate leadership to reject ideological gatekeeping,” Napier added. “Benevity must completely remove any use of the SPLC filter, adopt a viewpoint-neutral process, and restore full access to the organizations it has unjustly excluded.”

“For far too long, major corporations have been relying on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s nefarious ‘Hate List’ to decide what organizations and charities their employees may give to as part of their corporate giving programs,” Paul Batura, vice president of communications at Focus on the Family, told the Daily Signal. “These entities have been relying on a distorted definition of ‘goodness.’”

“In fact, citing and sourcing the SPLC is the equivalent of a company promising clean water drawing their water from a polluted or toxic aquifer,” Batura added. “It’s our privilege to join the 1792 Exchange’s growing coalition in urging companies to stop making decisions and recommendations based on information from the SPLC.”

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Aspects of the 15-minute city are praiseworthy. I yield to no one in my embrace of the pedestrian city. I have long believed that walking as the best of all possible modes.

I also believe that cities should be freed from the business regulations that make it difficult to start small shops and cosy cafes in residential neighbourhoods. An exciting mixed-use neighbourhood can be one of the best gifts of urban entrepreneurship. In the US, we regulate the entrepreneurship of the poor far more than we regular the entrepreneurship of the rich. The rich innovate in cyberspace, which is largely a regulation free zone. The poor innovate on the ground, in real things, and local government rules micromanage the physical.

But the basic concept of a 15-minute city is not really a city at all. It’s an enclave — a ghetto – a subdivision. All cities should be archipelagos of neighbourhoods, but these neighbourhoods must be connected. Cities should be machines for connecting humans – rich and poor, black and white, young and old. Otherwise, they fail in their most basic mission and they fail to be places of opportunity.

Obama-Appointed Judge With Deep Democrat Ties Overturns Trump Immigration Rules Quelle surprise.

Trump’s cognitive impairment endangers us all (Justin Glawe/Public Notice)  Assuming what you’re supposed to prove is a classic Narrative Media trick.

Capehart Says Trump And Republicans Are Why Platner Shouldn’t Drop Out

New GOP Resistance Emerges for Trump in Congress  The RINOs you have always with you.

Watch: Leftists Are Crying Over Trump’s Beautifully Restored Reflecting Pool

Trump cries ‘steal’ over slow California vote count, but anti-fraud system works, say experts (Roque Planas/The Guardian)  Experts say! That proves it!

Obama-Appointed Judge Orders Trump Admin To Restart Processing Asylum Claims

Fact-checking Trump’s interview with NBC News’ ‘Meet the Press’ (Jane C. Timm/NBC News)

The Five’s Tarlov Defends Platner’s ‘Platform’, Says Won’t Be Lectured By Party Of Trump

‘I’ve Had Enough!’ Trump Storms Out of Meet the Press Interview in Wild Fashion — Explodes On NBC’s Kristen Welker After She Hits Him With Fact Checks (Joe DePaolo/Mediaite)

The MAHA moms who helped elect Trump are out of patience (Cheyenne Haslett/Politico)  The mind-readers at Politico are hard at work crafting the Narrative.

Watch Trump walk off the set during Meet the Press  Trump won’t put up with the usual Narrative Media bullshit.

President Trump Walks Out of Combative NBC Interview with Kirsten Welker

President Trump Meet the Press Interview – Full Video and Transcript

‘I’ve Had Enough, Thank You Darling’: Trump Walks Out On NBC Interview

Lawsuit Aims to Stop U.F.C. Fights at White House on Trump’s Birthday (Zach Montague/New York Times)

Trump cuts off interview with Welker: ‘I’ve had enough’ (Max Rego/The Hill)

5 key moments from Trump’s cut-short “Meet the Press” interview (Andrew Pantazi/Axios)  Building the Narrative one moment at a time.

Trump walks out of ‘Meet the Press’ interview when challenged over false claims (Isaac Arnsdorf/Washington Post)  They have to put ‘false’ in the headline so you’ll know what the Narrative is.

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The Bank of England has now admitted the quiet part out loud. Historical figures including Winston Churchill were removed from future banknotes after researchers told officials they were “elitist and divisive.”

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A violent Antifa protest erupted outside the Turning Point Women’s Leadership Summit in San Antonio, Texas on Saturday. After protesters attempted, but failed, to storm into the event through a police blockade, the violence escalated.

One man, who had been pepper-sprayed for storming police, was seen washing his eyes with water from a plastic bottle. He immediately threw the bottle at a nearby police officer and ran. The protester was caught. Though he resisted arrest, he was thrown to the ground and taken away.

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On March 25th, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution describing the transatlantic slave trade and the enslavement of Africans as “the gravest crime against humanity.” The text was adopted by 123 votes to 3, with 52 states abstaining, including France, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom, and most European countries. The United States, Israel, and Argentina voted against.

The symbolic significance of this resolution is considerable. No one would dispute that the transatlantic slave trade constitutes one of the greatest tragedies in human history. For several centuries, millions of Africans were deported to the Americas under appalling conditions, reduced to the status of commodities, and integrated into an economic system based on their dehumanisation. The memory of this crime deserves to be acknowledged and passed on.

But it is precisely because the history of slavery is too grave to be exploited that we must question the ideological assumptions underlying this resolution. For the controversial nature of the text does not lie in its condemnation of the transatlantic slave trade but in what it omits.

G. K. Chesterton:

Puritanism was not a mere code of cruel regulations, though some of its
regulations were more cruel than any that have disgraced Europe. Nor was
Puritanism a mere nightmare, an evil shadow of eastern gloom and
fatalism, though this element did enter it, and was as it were the
symptom and punishment of its essential error. Something much nobler
(even if almost equally mistaken) was the original energy in the Puritan
creed.

I should roughly define the first spirit in Puritanism thus. It was a
refusal to contemplate God or goodness with anything lighter or milder
than the most fierce concentration of the intellect. A Puritan meant
originally a man whose mind had no holidays. To use his own favourite
phrase, he would let no living thing come between him and his God; an
attitude which involved eternal torture for him and a cruel contempt for
all the living things. It was better to worship in a barn than in a
cathedral for the specific and specified reason that the cathedral was
beautiful. Physical beauty was a false and sensual symbol coming in
between the intellect and the object of its intellectual worship. The
human brain ought to be at every instant a consuming fire which burns
through all conventional images until they were as transparent as glass.

This analysis makes clear the applicability of the term New Puritan to the modern proglodyte, as well as explain why New England is its homeland.

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Nathaniel Wetter Taylor, the protester who allegedly pepper-sprayed two special police officers outside of the Heritage Foundation last year, delivered his own opening statement before a jury Thursday, attacking Heritage as “fascist” and claiming that the officers violated his rights.

Appearing in the D.C. Superior Court, Taylor told the jury that his actions were a “simple case of freedom of speech and protecting yourself.”

Taylor held a solo protest at the Heritage Foundation on June 11, 2025. He walked up to the Heritage Foundation’s front doors holding a sign and a recording smartphone.

When two special police officers, who are licensed to protect and make arrests on Heritage property, attempted to remove Taylor from the property, he pepper-sprayed one of them in the eyes and the other in the mouth, according to security video footage of the incident.

He was later arrested and charged with two misdemeanor counts of assaulting a police officer.

Chris Rock: How Not to Get Your Ass Kicked by the Police.

The Telegraph (UK).

Scotland Yard has been captured by the “woke mind virus” and no longer treats citizens equally under the law, a veteran police officer has claimed.

Rick Prior, the former chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation, said the force had prioritised equalising outcomes among different ethnic groups over ensuring equality of opportunity for more than a decade.

He said this had led to a loss of skills in the force and had affected the policing of London’s streets.

He also claimed the force had rejected his suggestions that officers should be banned from wearing political symbols, such as rainbow lanyards representing the LGBT community, after he was invited to draw up new guidelines on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) last summer.

The Conversation, a Voice of the Crust.

While the White House’s fight with elite universities such as Columbia and Harvard has recently dominated the headlines, the feud overshadows the broader and more far-reaching assault on K-12 public education by the Trump administration and many states.

‘Public’ eduction means eduction paid for by taxpayer dollars. Any obstruction to shoveling more and more taxpayer dollars to ‘public’ education is, therefore, and ‘assault on public education’. Especially any effort to reform or improve ‘public education’ that involves doing something other than the way we’ve always done it is part of that ‘assault’.

The immediate reference to a book entitled How Government Built America clues you into the inherent statism of these professional bureaucrats.

“All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.” — Benito Mussolini

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Common sense (and scientific truth) are on the comeback trail.

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Everybody knew that, of course, but it’s good that they admit it. Now perhaps something can be done to correct the situation.

Texas Tribune, a Voice of the Crust.

One question that is never even asked, much less answered, is why people who are in this country (not to mention this state) illegally ought to get a break in college tuition that is intended for actual legal resients?

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Amnesty International’s reaction to the murder of Henry Nowak has prompted outrage, with the organization having nothing to say about the atrocious and inhumane actions of the police during the incident, but sharply condemning the “political commentary” in the wake of Nowak’s death.

“At a time when hate crimes are rising, and violence and fear are becoming a daily reality for people of colour and migrants, calls for ‘cold, hard rage’ are completely reckless. Henry Nowak’s murder is an awful tragedy and his family have said “we do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension”. The very least politicians can do is respect that,” wrote Amnesty International.

Not everyone is happy about Amnesty International’s remarks on the case, which has up until now, said nothing about the manner in which the police handcuffed a dying Nowak as he bled out from eight stab wounds.

Apparently some hate is more equal than others.

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We’re still trying to settle on a name for the new “Rust Belt” for blue states, where high taxes, de-growth climate policies, permitting paralysis, and an obsession with woke governance have sparked a historic outflow of people, businesses, and capital to red states.

The old Rust Belt was hollowed out by decades of deindustrialization. This new version in blue states is being hollowed out by self-inflicted progressive policy failures after policy failures after policy failures.

The latest, and one of the most abrupt examples, is South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics shifting its U.S. headquarters from lefty-controlled New Jersey to red-state Texas, which is governed by common sense.

Time to leave.

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Because of their allegiance to alphabet ideology, liberal jurisdictions are about as sex offender-friendly as is possible in the First World.

Scott Wiener, the utterly degenerate California State Senator Scott Wiener, who is likely to replace former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, often complains that LGBTQ+ people are “disproportionately” put on sex offender lists, and wants to water them down.

It is in this context that you have to understand how twisted the world has become in places like Northern Virginia, which is one of the most sex-offender-friendly places in the United States, at least if you are transgender. Better yet, a transgender illegal alien. Then you can walk around a high school feeling young girls up and have the school officials allow it.

 

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First, consider the trail of unintended consequences that follows environmental policy like a shadow. The case of Wild Justice, the activist group co-founded by Chris Packham, provides a perfect, if gruesome, example. Their (fortunately, mostly failed) legal campaigns have not only tightened corvid shooting licenses across the countryside—making it nearly impossible for land managers to control burgeoning populations of crows and magpies—but have directly led to a spike in horrific animal welfare incidents. In 2019, following Wild Justice’s legal challenge that forced Natural England to revoke general licences for shooting carrion crows, farmers across the country reported lambs having their eyes pecked out by emboldened corvids. The policy, born of a simplistic urban notion that all wild birds are equally sacred, ignored the real-world consequence: a slow, agonising death for livestock that no court in London will ever have to witness. This is the hallmark of ideology untethered from practical land management.

Which brings us to the uncomfortable truth about these environmental pressure groups: they are not scientific bodies nor serious land managers, but a religious cult dressed in waterproofs made from oil—the very fossil fuel they claim to despise yet don without a flicker of hypocrisy. They operate on faith, not data. Their central dogma is that nature left entirely alone is a pure, static Eden—a belief that would collapse instantly if any of them had to spend a winter feeding stock on a marginal moor. They have outlier high priests who survive by conjuring audiences through triggering (Packham, George Monbiot), holy texts (rewilding manifestos and ‘peer review’ nonsense heralding from redbrick universities), and a concept of original sin (human intervention).

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The Foundry.

What are California values? Are they sprawling homeless encampments, public intoxication and drug use, and naked people walking through the streets? Are they rising crime rates, small businesses closing, families being driven out of their communities, and parents who cannot safely take their children to a park?

Those were the questions the Daily Signal’s senior national security and legal analyst Mehek Cooke raised during ABC News’ coverage of California’s primary elections Tuesday night.

The answers are already visible on the streets, she noted. The Daily Signal recently sent reporters into Skid Row, a Los Angeles neighborhood known for having one of the highest homeless populations in the United States. Residents described a city in crisis and demanded accountability from Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. One military veteran who spent 26 years in Skid Row told the Daily Signal, “The whole city of LA is now Skid Row.” Another resident called the city’s homelessness spending scandal the “biggest rip-off in history.”

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In a shock to absolutely no one, Minnesota continues to be a national embarrassment.

While the feds have done their diligence and charged 39 of the activists who stormed Cities Church in St. Paul back in January, including Don Lemon who did us all a favor and recorded his crimes, the City of St. Paul has declined to do anything to the rioters.

They won’t even call them rioters.

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A violent assault in Lublin, Poland, has sparked widespread political outrage after a Zimbabwean immigrant who seriously injured a 40-year-old Polish man was released by police and now faces only a minor bodily harm charge, with no deportation proceedings.

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Yes, failing NPR had a whole division of reporters dedicated to reporting climate hysteria. It would have been fine if they’d stuck to conservation and science instead of the anti-human cult thinking that says we’re all gonna die if we don’t stop the farting cows.