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Except for criminals, of course.

Gun control advocates do not just oppose civilian gun ownership; they also argue that guns in the hands of police make people less safe.

In January, a Border Patrol agent in Portland shot and wounded two Venezuelan nationals who belonged to the violent Tren de Aragua gang after they allegedly tried to run agents over with their vehicle. In response, Kris Brown, president of Brady United, tweeted the following:

“We don’t know the details behind the shootings of 2 people by a Border Patrol agent in Portland. But I know one thing for certain: whether in the hands of federal officers or everyday Americans, guns do not make us safer. Yet Trump is reshaping our country based on this lie.”

What were the Border Patrol agents supposed to do when an illegal alien with a criminal record tries to run over an agent? How are unarmed agents supposed to apprehend and detain violent gang members?

Currently on its website, Brady United explains: “Why Police violence is gun violence … As we work to tackle the gun violence epidemic in America, we cannot ignore police violence or its devastating effects.”

The same claim is made repeatedly by other gun control groups.

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When an ICE agent shot and killed Minneapolis resident Renee Good after she allegedly obstructed immigration authorities with her vehicle, disobeyed their commands, and attempted to flee – drawing fatal fire from an officer nearly struck by the vehicle – politicians and pundits decried her death as murder. They called it particularly unjust because she was not acting as a protester but a legal observer.

The legal term is ‘accessory’. It is also a crime.

After federal agents arrested Don Lemon for allegedly disrupting a St. Paul church service in protest of the same Twin Cities immigration enforcement surge Good had opposed. His lawyer defended the former CNN anchor as a journalist, persecuted by the Trump administration for having carried out “constitutionally protected work” in violation of his First Amendment rights. So too did myriad media organizations ranging from the National Association of Black Journalists to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

While Good’s shooting presents a distinct issue, her case and Lemon’s highlight the complex legal issues surrounding those who claim to be chronicling protests. Legal observers and journalists have long worked on the frontlines of civil unrest, the former documenting instances of alleged police misconduct in violation of constitutional rights to peaceably assemble, and the latter chronicling the assemblies. Their efforts have brought transparency and accountability. But what happens when legal observers and journalists act, or are seen by authorities as unlawful protestors rather than the neutral parties they are supposed to be? To what degree do their titles afford them special protections from prosecution in a court of law?

 

NPR, the chief propaganda organ of the Crust.

Call me when the number of U.S. war dead exceeds that of the average trans-perpetrated mass shooting.

Johnathan Turley.

There has been an ongoing struggle between district court judges and the Trump Administration over a variety of policies. In the first year, some district court judges issued nationwide injunctions that were largely rejected by the Supreme Court and appellate courts. These conflicts have continued and the intracourt tensions have increased. That was evident with the recent decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, which delivered a virtual haymaker in reversing Judge Sara Ellis, an Obama nominee.

The panel criticized Ellis for limiting the operation of federal officers in Chicago, saying that she “effectively established the district court as the supervisor of all Executive Branch activity in the city of Chicago.”

Protesters and journalists went to Ellis to restrain “Operation Midway Blitz.” They challenged the conduct of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under the First and Fourth Amendments, specifically raising the use of tear gas and other chemical agents. Judge Ellis issued a preliminary injunction described by the panel as “sweeping”: “It enjoined all law enforcement o?cers in the Northern District of Illinois, as well as federal agencies and the Secretary of the DHS, from using certain crowd control tactics and tools. It also required the defendants to regularly inform the court of its e?orts at implementing the injunction.”

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Seattle, which is home to Amazon and Microsoft, currently employs some 193,000 well-compensated Washingtonians working in the tech sector. One major reason that Seattle emerged as the first big tech hub outside of California is obvious: It is the only West Coast state with no state income tax. Its state constitution forbids an income tax. High wage workers and entrepreneurs seeking a piece of the relatively laid back, outdoors-focused Pacific Northwest lifestyle can move to Washington without taking a state-mandated pay cut.

For the progressive Democrats who dominate state politics in the Pacific Northwest, money in the pockets of anyone other than the government and its political allies is wasted. To grab more of it, legislative Democrats in Washington are pushing through an income tax in the guise of a “millionaire’s tax” that would levy a 9.9% tax on incomes over $1 million. Just yesterday, as the “millionaire’s tax” neared the finish line in the Washington legislature, former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced he and his wife have relocated from Seattle, where they lived for 47 years, to Miami. Florida has neither a state income tax nor a state income tax masquerading as a “millionaire’s tax.”

The constitutionality of the bill rests on progressives’ expectation that the Washington Supreme Court will completely abandon decades of precedent deeming income taxes unconstitutional. The expectation may not be unfounded: Five of nine justices were appointed by Democratic governors. Democrats also voted down an amendment to forbid applying an income tax to lower income levels, signaling the “millionaire’s tax” is likely to become a “thousandaire’s tax” if Democrats get their way.

A Constitution protects rights only when the judiciary agrees. Look at what the U.S. Supreme Court did when draftees challenged conscription for World War I on the grounds that it violated the 13th Amendment, which it obviously does.

What makes this proposed tax truly egregious, however, is its attempt to stop voters from having any say in it. The Democrats’ tax bill includes a necessity clause that precludes a voter referendum that could overturn the new income tax. So long as the majority-progressive-appointed state Supreme Court goes along, progressives will have upended 90 years of constitutionally prohibited income taxes while shielding it from a vote of the people.

Democrats are the most un-democratic group of people in the country.

The Telegraph (UK).

The central principle of democracy is that power is vested in the people and expressed by their elected representatives. We expect that governments will seek to align themselves with the views and opinions of the people, while protecting the views and opinions of minorities. Yet Britain is currently demonstrating a different phenomenon: at times, and under the right circumstances, governments are seeking to align themselves with the views and opinions of minorities while failing to protect the views and opinions of the people.

Take this Labour Government, which at present appears to be in a blind panic. With local elections approaching, Sir Keir Starmer and his colleagues are desperate to win back the approval of Muslim voters they had long taken for granted. The results of this risk going beyond pure politics – shaping Britain and British society for years to come.

This week, the ramifications were plain for all to see: a highly-contentious definition of anti-Muslim hostility being proposed despite vocal opposition from other minority faiths and the majority, and policy on the war in Iran driven by torturous attempts to balance maintaining the special relationship with America and winning over Muslim voters. There was also much agonising about whether to ban a march whose organiser has previously met Iran’s late ayatollah Ali Khamenei to hand him a dossier complaining of anti-Muslim hatred in Britain. The march will go ahead on Sunday as a “static protest”.

The Telegraph (UK).

Volunteers have been left “beyond angry” after flower bulbs they planted were mowed over by a Green Party-led council.

More than 70 volunteers planted almost 30,000 bulbs in St George Park in Bristol on Saturday after raising thousands of pounds to fund the initiative.

But thousands of the bulbs were “shredded” days later when council workers mowed the grass of the park.

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Now that Rohan has been thoroughly pillaged and the hordes of Mordor are approaching Minas Tirith, former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is leaving the shores of Middle Earth.

Ardern rose to fame for her totalitarian lockdown measures during Covid. Her government essentially locked the island nation down for two years. The tourism industry – huge in New Zealand – was devastated. The economy stagnated.

Almost two years into the lockdowns, Ardern finally gave citizens permission to visit their friends and joked about letting them use their friends’ bathrooms.

A 2022 study looked at the mental health effects on New Zealand due to New Zealand’s isolation from the rest of the world combined with these strict policies, “considered amongst the most stringent response to the pandemic globally.”

Like many other places, the closure of schools and businesses led to depression and suicide that killed many more young people than the virus ever would. It delayed learning and social skills for an entire generation and destroyed social cohesion and trust in government.

None of these measures stopped the spread of Covid.

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Here in the United Kingdom, there is a phrase that is increasingly being used among an educated public in periodic attempts to define the very odd form of regime that’s emerged principally since the prime ministerial office of Sir Keir Starmer began: ‘anarcho-tyranny.’ This term denotes a state of affairs in which the government habitually fails to enforce the basic laws against criminals that makes the ordinary members of society feel safe and secure, whilst enforcing increasingly stringent regulations against those ordinary members of society.

In turn, those living in such a society begin to feel that they live under a tyranny, but not a typical tyranny of the citizenry by the state, at least not directly. Rather, it is a tyranny of the ordinary member of society by bad members of that same society, from which the state absolves itself of the duty to protect them. If tyranny is the worst form of government, anarcho-tyranny is arguably the worst form of tyranny.

What, though, has been emerging in the UK—and for some time now—is perhaps something even worse than anarcho-tyranny as defined above. For it is not simply that basic laws against criminals are not enforced while the state imposes strict regulations against society’s ordinary members, but rather that the state goes a step further in actively rewarding those people who either are or should be deemed miscreants.

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Half a century after the book “Why Johnny Can’t Read” sounded an alarm about the rise of illiteracy in the U.S., it has only gotten worse: A quarter of all young adults, many of them high school graduates, are now functionally illiterate. Unable to read more than basic, short sentences, their prospects in today’s information economy are bleak.

This crisis gave rise to a movement that embraced the science of reading and produced a surprising success story in the Deep South, a region dogged by the highest rates of childhood illiteracy in the nation. State leaders and education reformers in Mississippi and Louisiana led a remarkable improvement in elementary reading scores that now rank among the highest in the nation.

The turnaround was a long slog, requiring a heavy hand from the state to win buy-in for a wholesale transformation of curricula, teaching methods, accountability, and more. Former state education chief Carey Wright called it the “Mississippi Marathon.” One of the biggest questions in public education now is whether the southern surge can spread nationwide, turning millions of struggling students into proficient readers with a brighter future.

But such a top-down approach is running into resistance, particularly in blue states like New York and Illinois, where strong teachers’ unions have fought to preserve local control over schools. And nowhere is the political battle over who runs the classroom more pronounced than in Massachusetts, which has long boasted the nation’s best public schools.

The Left i.e. Democrat i.e. unionized teachers don’t see their jobs as teaching things like literacy and mat so much as indoctrinating the kids that go to government schools with Woke ideology. I say we ought to let them stew in their own bile.

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Yamaha Motor Corp. is moving its U.S. headquarters to Georgia, joining the exodus of companies out of the Golden State to more business-friendly climates.

After 47 years in California, the company best known for its motorcycles, motorboats and outboard motors, is relocating its headquarters to Kennesaw, Georgia and selling its California assets, Yamaha announced in a press release. The move will ultimately affect approximately 250 employees by the time it is completed in 2028.

“This initiative is positioned as one of the Company’s key measures aimed at improving asset efficiency and enhancing profitability in the United States,” the company explains.

“After many years of great partnership, we are honored and proud to welcome Yamaha’s American headquarters to the No. 1 state for business,” Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said in a statement Tuesday.

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It is instructive and amusing, in a macabre sort of way, to observe the ideological contortions of Progressives who lionize a brutal theocratic dictator while demonizing a peaceful Christian leader as a “hater”. The following essay from Norway provides an analysis of this dystopian political trend.

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Science is characterized by collaboration and cooperation, but also by uncertainty, competition, and inequality. While there has always been some concern that these pressures may compel some to defect from the scientific research ethos—i.e., fail to make genuine contributions to the production of knowledge or to the training of an expert workforce—the focus has largely been on the actions of lone individuals. Recently, however, reports of coordinated scientific fraud activities have increased. Some suggest that the ease of communication provided by the internet and open-access publishing have created the conditions for the emergence of entities—paper mills (i.e., sellers of mass-produced low quality and fabricated research), brokers (i.e., conduits between producers and publishers of fraudulent research), predatory journals, who do not conduct any quality controls on submissions—that facilitate systematic scientific fraud. Here, we demonstrate through case studies that i) individuals have cooperated to publish papers that were eventually retracted in a number of journals, ii) brokers have enabled publication in targeted journals at scale, and iii), within a field of science, not all subfields are equally targeted for scientific fraud. Our results reveal some of the strategies that enable the entities promoting scientific fraud to evade interventions. Our final analysis suggests that this ability to evade interventions is enabling the number of fraudulent publications to grow at a rate far outpacing that of legitimate science.

The Telegraph (UK).

In case you don’e know it, this “Mahmoud” person is the British Home Secretary.

The Metropolitan Police has asked Shabana Mahmood to ban a “hate” march linked to Iran amid fears of serious public disorder.

The Home Secretary is understood to be considering a request by Scotland Yard that the annual Al-Quds march and rally planned in London for Sunday should be banned.

Sir Mark Rowley, the Met Commissioner, is said to have assessed that the risk of serious disorder had reached the threshold that justified such action.

The Times (UK).

Labour MPs have called on Sir Keir Starmer to adopt new Australian-style extremism laws which would see a crackdown on protest groups without labelling them terrorists.

An amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill would give the home secretary the power to designate organisations as “extreme criminal protest groups” if they aimed to cause “sabotage, criminal damage, obstruction of critical national infrastructure, or serious public order offences”.

The amendment passed the House of Lords on Monday by 200 votes to 162, meaning MPs will be given a vote on it in the coming weeks.

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If approved at Exxon’s May 27 shareholder meeting, the company would be governed by Texas law on issues such as bylaws, director duties, and shareholder rights. Exxon noted that most of its senior leadership and about a third of its global workforce are already based in Texas.

Exxon’s evolution from its Standard Oil days has left it incorporated in New Jersey since the 1880s, and its attempt to move is yet another example of corporate America abandoning states run by left-wing politicians pushing a failed green agenda and other destructive progressive policies in favor of red states governed by common sense.

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If you ride the trains or buses in Chicago with any regularity, you don’t worry about microaggressions.

You worry about being maced, mugged, or shoved onto the tracks—or, in one grotesque recent case, set on fire.

That’s the lived experience of Chicagoans navigating the Chicago Transit Authority and Metra. Not academic theory. Not seminar-room sociology. Reality.

So naturally, when a modest pilot program is introduced allowing the transit agencies to suspend individuals who assault conductors, spit on drivers, punch random riders, or otherwise turn public transportation into a Thunderdome audition, what does the Chicago Tribune decide is the story?

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The trial in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas follows President Donald Trump’s executive order on Sept. 22, 2025, designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization.

The Fort Worth trial completed its second week in what is expected to be a three-week trial.

?Members of Antifa, short for “anti-fascist,” have not faced terrorism-related charges until now, although they have been involved in organized protests across the country that have at times turned violent.

In the landmark case, the government alleges that an Antifa cell launched a coordinated attack against the Prairieland Detention Center housing illegal immigrants outside Dallas on July 4, 2025.

The prosecution claims Benjamin Song ambushed law enforcement at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility outside Dallas, firing 11 shots at police and detention officers, wounding one officer in the neck.

The Antiplanner.

San Francisco remains one the least affordable urban areas in the country, yet after adjusting for inflation its home prices are dropping, according to data released on February 25 by the Federal Housing Finance Agency. It will be a long time before San Francisco Bay Area homes are affordable again, but in the meantime homeowners and homebuyers can’t count on their homes as a stable source of wealth.

That’s because San Francisco is essentially an expensive Turd World shithole.

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Sir Keir Starmer has been sent a letter by Labour MPs calling on the UK to pay reparations to Palestine for “war crimes” they allege British forces committed.

The 18 backbenchers and one Labour peer demand that an apology be made for Britain’s decision to withdraw from Palestine, which led to the creation of Israel.

It is part of a campaign by Britain Owes Palestine, the organisation that submitted a 400-page legal petition to the government in September, in which it claimed there was “incontrovertible evidence” that the UK breached international law when it controlled Palestine under the British Mandate.

No mention of Palestinian reparations for their ‘war crimes’, of course.

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A leaked draft of the UK Government’s new ‘social cohesion’ strategy has sparked outrage by labeling the flying of English, Scottish, and Union Jack flags as potential “tools of hate.”

You can fly a foreign flat—Gay Pride, Palestinian, Pakistani, whatever—without disturbance. It’s only your own country’s flag that apparently is a ‘tool of hate’.

This is the future that the Democrats have in mind for the U.S. They are watching what happens in Britain with notebooks open and pencils ready.

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New York counterterror police said they were investigating on Saturday after a man threw “ignited devices” near far-right protesters demonstrating outside the mayor’s home.

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the devices contained nuts, bolts and screws as well as a fuse — but it was not yet clear if they were functional improvised explosive devices, or hoax imitations.

The FBI New York said in an X post that its Joint Terrorism Task Force was “actively investigating”, along with New York City Police.

Note that ‘far-right protesters’ don’t do this at BLM, AntiFa, or pro-Palestinian demonstrations.

You’d almost get the impression that all of the terrorist violence were coming from the Left….

ATQUE: Two Radicals Arrested After Targeting Anti-Islam NYC Protest With Shrapnel-Packed Devices

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Sigh. It’s all so exhausting. Not all of New York’s wealthiest residents are sounding alarms over Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan to raise taxes on high earners. In fact, a small group of millionaires says the backlash is a bit over the top, according to Bloomberg.

Members of the Patriotic Millionaires — including filmmaker Abigail Disney, granddaughter of Roy O. Disney of The Walt Disney Company — argue the rich can easily afford to contribute more if it helps fund things like schools, transit and child care.

“I’ve gotten tax cut after tax cut after tax cut. And I never needed any of them,” Disney said, backing Mamdani’s proposed 2-percentage-point income-tax surcharge on millionaires. “All these things have fallen out from under the middle class — an education system that works, public transportation, infrastructure, health care.”

First of all, being a millionaire doesn’t mean that you know your ass from a hole in the ground—especially when, like Abigail Disney, you inherited your money and decided to dabble in artsy-fartsy occupations like ‘film-maker’. The number of billionaire Democrats demonstrates rather conclusively that Intelligence and Wisdom are ‘two different rolls’, as my brother the Dungeon Master used to say. (Bill Gates is the poster child for the notion that being clever and a fool is not impossible.)

Secondly, these people, when they argue that they’re happy to pay taxes, are doing a statist shuck-and-jive: After all, if they wanted to ‘pay more taxes’, all they have to do is write a check; I don’t know of a single layer of government that would turn it down. No—they want other people to pay more taxes, taxes that millionaires can usually afford and others maybe not so much. They just want to do the Socialist Two-Step of Spending Other People’s Money.

Thirdly, they are dyed-in-the-wool Democrats: The things that they say have ‘fallen out from under the middle class’ are all government services: ‘an education system that works’ (public, that is)’, ‘public transportation (which goes from where you aren’t to where you don’t want to be), ‘infrastructure’ (public roads, sewers, water, and electricity), ‘health care’ (paid for by the government, for preference). All of these are things that people within my lifetime used to pay for themselves, and could again if taxes weren’t so high. What these Bernies want, is for all of your money to be taxed away, and then returned to you via government subsidies—under their control, and the control of political hacks like themselves. This is the Democrat program, and has been since Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty (which, despite trillions of dollars spent, doesn’t seem to have reduced poverty by a bit).

The next time you hear a ‘millionaire’ bloviate about how they would be glad to pay more taxes, just mosey on up and ask, ‘Well, why don’t you write a check, rather than trying to increase MY taxes along with yours?’ Watch them scuttle like roaches for the cracks and crevices, leaving a spoor of word-salad behind them.

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Just over a year ago, President Trump issued two executive orders banning destructive diversity ideology (a.k.a. “DEI” or “diversity, equity, and inclusion”) from the federal government and its contractors, including colleges and universities. The EOs sought to restore merit as the basis of hiring, advancement, and college admissions.

Both EOs reinforced prior actions by the president as well as by the Supreme Court: In his first term, Trump signed EO 13950, Combatting Race and Sex Stereotypes, which banned divisive concepts based on race and ethnicity, a measure duplicated in many states; and in June of 2023, the Supreme Court decided Students for Fair Admission v. Harvard (“SFFA”), which found that diversity rationales for racial preferences in admissions were themselves discriminatory and therefore unlawful.

Notwithstanding these major legal developments against DEI, colleges and universities, especially in Virginia, are continuing business as usual to promote it, albeit under different names, a move known as rebranding. “To avoid scrutiny,” said one official at the University of Virginia, diversity offices are now called offices for “community and belonging,” while “queer brunch” is now marketed as “cozy brunch.” At George Mason University, the DEI office is now called the Office for Access, Compliance, and Community—same staff, same stuff. They do this even though Trump’s EO explicitly banned rebranding, stating such programs are illegal “under whatever name they appear.”

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Late last year the federal judiciary quietly released a document that almost nobody outside legal circles normally notices: the fourth edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence. Within weeks one section of that manual vanished.

The reason it vanished reveals something deeply troubling about how climate science, academic institutions, and high-stakes litigation have become entangled.

The manual itself is not obscure inside the legal system. Since the early 1990s it has served as the judiciary’s technical guidebook for evaluating scientific claims presented in court. The need for such a guide arose after the Supreme Court’s 1993 decision in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, which placed judges in the position of evaluating whether expert testimony is scientifically reliable before allowing it to reach a jury.

Judges are not physicists or epidemiologists. They are generalists. The manual exists to translate complex scientific disciplines into language courts can use.

Because of that role, the document carries extraordinary weight. Judges cite it. Lawyers study it. It is produced jointly by the Federal Judicial Center—the research arm of the federal courts—and the National Academies of Sciences.

Neutrality is supposed to be its defining feature.

The fourth edition, released on December 31, 2025, contained a new element: a chapter devoted entirely to climate science. That chapter ran roughly ninety pages and attempted to explain the fundamentals of climate research and the emerging field of climate attribution.

Within weeks it became the center of a political and legal storm.

In January 2026 a coalition of 23 state attorneys general sent a letter to the judiciary raising concerns that the chapter presented contested scientific issues as settled fact. Members of Congress soon followed with similar objections.

The concern was not abstract.

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A gathering of conservative Anglican leaders in Nigeria has taken another step toward reorganising the global church—although it stopped short of directly replacing the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Meeting in Abuja this week, the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (GAFCON) abandoned earlier expectations that it would appoint a rival “first among equals” to challenge Canterbury’s traditional role as symbolic head of the worldwide communion.

Instead, the movement announced the creation of a new governing body, the Global Anglican Council, chaired by Rwandan Archbishop Laurent Mbanda.

The move is the latest chapter in a long-running dispute within the Anglican world. For many conservative Anglicans, the dispute began with the Church of England’s progressive turn on issues such as same-sex blessings and the ordination of women. Tensions intensified further with the appointment of Sarah Mullally as Archbishop of Canterbury—the first woman to hold the post and a vocal supporter of same-sex blessings.

Leaders within GAFCON say Canterbury has abandoned biblical teaching and can no longer claim spiritual authority over the global communion.

Tru dat.

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While tens of thousands of protesters were being killed in Iran, many of them authentic feminists, young women demanding equal rights and freedom from the oppressive compulsory ‘hijab’, the Women’s March remained silent. So did the National Organization for Women.

The Women’s March stayed quiet as young women in Iran were gang raped by masked men at gunpoint, much as it had remained quiet during the rapes by Iran’s Hamas allies on Oct 7.

Instead the social media feed for the Women’s March and the National Organization for Women were filled with hysterical attacks on ICE for deporting rapists like Yonis Mohamud, a Somali who had kidnapped and raped a woman in Ohio, Shayan Kahhal, whose record listed sex assaults and the sodomy of a woman, a girl and a boy in Virginia, and Asirullah Khalid-Khan, a rapist from Afghanistan, taken into custody in Austin, Texas.

Considering that under Trump, the ratio of male ICE detainees, who form a larger percentage of violent criminals, rose from 78% to 90%, ICE was actually reducing the gender ratio of women being detained, leaving the Women’s March to protest for male rapists.

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Far too many so-called protesters these days aren’t simply expressing their First Amendment rights, they are using public coercion to harass, intimidate, and physically threaten people into accepting their views.

Several states are taking measures to clamp down on the rise of what one writer calls “civil terrorism,” essentially organized and often violent mayhem practiced by groups like Antifa and other anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement groups.

These are small, but important steps to ensure that America does not descend wholly into mob rule.

The Left has been getting away with it for decades—of course they’re going to continue.

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President Donald Trump has legal authority to indefinitely suspend the admission of foreign nationals who are trying to enter the United States through its refugee resettlement program, a federal appeals court ruled on March 5.

The Telegraph (UK).

Fifteen activists from a group behind stunts targeting the Ritz and the Crown Jewels have been arrested on suspicion of planning a mass shoplifting campaign, police said.

As often happens, ‘activism’ is a Clever Plastic Disguise for robbery. (Kinda like socialism, if you think about it.)

The Metropolitan Police said that members of Take Back Power had been planning a campaign to steal from supermarkets before redistributing the goods.

Ah, yes—’redistributing’.

Activists gathered at the Quaker Meeting House in Westminster on Thursday evening to take part in “non-violent direct action training”, the force said.

They sound like American Democrats of Color.

The Times (UK).

In a corner of the Jungle, the sprawling migrant settlement in northern France, a row of tents sit behind a moat of black mud and plastic waste. This pocket of the camp, known to its inhabitants as Eastern Kurdistan, has become a base for newly arrived Iranians awaiting their turn to be smuggled to Britain.

Makes you wonder why France allows this. I would regard it as an act of war, but that’s me….

Two dozen men and women, all in their twenties, fled the Islamic Republic only ten days ago. Self-proclaimed enemies of the state, they travelled through Turkey and Europe, reaching Dunkirk last night in the back of unmarked vans.

“There are many more on their way,” they say of the route to the Loon-Plage camp, now a primary staging post for small boats attempting to cross the Channel.

ATQUE: Shabana Mahmood to offer failed asylum seekers up to £40,000 to leave UK 

Welcome to Londonistan. Be careful not to step in the diversity.

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Attention DePaul University donors! Do you want to check out how your funding is being put to use? The institution just initiated an obnoxious, new anti-ICE journalism institute in partnership with radical ex-Mayor of Chicago Lori Lightfoot and another Chicago-based left-wing group financed by some of the most notorious leftists in American politics.

The supposedly Catholic DePaul — which sits comfortably on a roughly $1.15 billion endowment — announced that it was launching the cringely-named Institute for Journalism and Racial Justice (IJRJ) during a February 25 campus event, according to student newspaper The DePaulia.

he announcement came following a “community briefing for a new Immigration and Customs Enforcement accountability platform led by” Lightfoot. Who held Lightfoot accountable? The Firearm Industry Trade Association panned Lightfoot’s tenure as Mayor in 2023 as being tainted by some of “the worst criminal and gang violence in memory.” Chicagoans reported a 43 percent crime increase in 2022 above pre-pandemic levels under her administration. But apparently, DePaul sees the former Democrat mayor as its guiding “Lightfoot.”

DePaul is a notoriously radical left-wing institution.

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told lawmakers Wednesday that sanctuary jurisdictions declined to turn over 17,864 illegal immigrants in local police custody to federal immigration authorities in 2025.

Noem provided the figure during a House Judiciary Committee hearing after Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, asked how often Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainers had not been honored last year.

“17,864 detainers were declined,” Noem said.

“Many of those people are out on the street, is that fair to say?” Jordan asked.

“That’s correct,” Noem responded.

The Telegraph (UK).

Labour has told employers not to use the word “competitive” in job adverts because it is too masculine.

I can see why Labour would have a problem with that.

Companies should not use “terms associated with male stereotypes” when writing job adverts, including words such as “competitive” and “ambitious”.

I can see why they would have a problem with that, too.

In new guidance from the Office for Equality and Opportunity, bosses have also been told to use “neutral job titles” to ensure a greater gender balance among applicants.

No, they want men to lose and women to win. That’s not ‘balance’.

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The collapse of Hollywood has been on the radar for some time now, though the industry consistently and vehemently denies they are in decline. The movie industry Titanic is sinking fast and the celebrity rats are abandoning the ship. Some of are even leaving the US for foreign shores. The media claims that the death of Hollywood is a signal that America is “no longer the cool country.”

This was the narrative of Fortune Magazine in a recent article discussing the celebrity exodus from America and it’s effect on the US as a center of “global culture.” The platform argues:

“An odd thing is happening as America, long a beacon worldwide as the defining destination for people in search of a new hope and a new life, is starting to feel like the “old country” that people quietly plan to leave behind. More than that, to be American is downright uncool…”

What? Are they not sticking around in California so that the state can tax their wealth? What a bunch of fascists!

(Hey, guys. don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out….)

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In a rare and controversial move, New York Attorney General Letitia James has ordered a Manhattan hospital to resume offering gender-transition treatment to transgender youth. NYU Langone had discontinued such treatments after funding threats from the Trump administration. It is now caught between the proverbial rock (HHS) and a hard place (NYAG).

Last year, President Donald Trump signed an executive order entitled “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” seeking to restrict gender-transition treatment for people under 19. HHS then threatened hospitals with a cut off of federal Medicaid and Medicare funding for continuing such treatment for children.

Various European countries have also halted certain procedures after countervailing studies suggesting that the risks are too high. England’s National Health Service 2024 report on the subject, known as the Cass Report, found concerning evidence of harm for minors and inconclusive benefits.

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The U.S. has formally notified the UN that it is withdrawing from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

According to the UN, the U.S. will officially be out of the UNFCCC on February 27, 2027. A withdrawal takes effect one year after the UN’s receipt of the notification of withdrawal (which in this case was February 27, 2026) or on a later date specified in the notification.

The Telegraph (UK).

The chief executive of the Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) has been arrested on suspicion of corruption, The Telegraph can reveal.

Mukund Krishna was arrested with two other senior figures by officers from City of London Police.

The arrests followed an investigation into allegations of financial wrongdoing at PFEW, which represents 130,000 rank-and-file officers.

Mr Krishna, a former management consultant, is the first chief executive of the PFEW, and is reported to earn more than £700,000 a year.

On Wednesday, officers carried out a series of raids on premises in Wales, Somerset, London and Surrey to arrest suspects and gather evidence.

Import Turd World people, get Turd World problems.

The Times (UK).

MPs have been urged to address the £100,000 tax trap before they fall victim to it themselves, with their pay expected to reach £110,000 a year by the end of this parliament.

Gee, I wonder whether this could be why so many rich people are bailing out?

Members of parliament earn a basic annual salary of £93,90, which is set to go up to £98,599 from April. The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, which sets their salaries, yesterday said it expects MPs’ basic salary to reach £110,000 by 2029.

For every £2 of income you earn (excluding pension contributions) over £100,000 you lose £1 of the £12,570 tax-free personal income allowance. Once you earn £125,140, you get no personal allowance at all.

It means that those earning between £100,000 and £125,140 face a marginal income tax rate — the amount they will pay on the next £1 they earn — of 60 per cent (62 per cent if you include national insurance).

Britain now is where the U.S. will be in future under the Democrats. Let us learn from their mistakes, shall we?

The Times (UK).

Rachel Reeves has increased taxes to the highest level in postwar history in a move that risks damaging economic growth and disincentivising people from trying to earn more money, the official forecaster has said.

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) said taxes would hit 38 per cent of national income in 2030-31, a postwar record. It said the level of taxation could “distort or constrain economic activity by more than expected”.

The spring forecast highlighted soaring tax revenues after the chancellor’s decisions to increase the employers’ rate of national insurance and freeze income tax thresholds. It said that revenues from the two taxes would rise from £480 billion in 2025-26 to £600 billion in 2030-31.

The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.

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Golden State groomers were dealt a devastating blow on Monday after the Supreme Court sided with parents challenging school policies in California that restrict when educators may disclose changes to a student’s name or pronouns, handing parental rights advocates an early but significant victory in a closely watched culture-war dispute.

In an unsigned ‘shadow docket’ order, the justices restored a lower court’s injunction blocking enforcement of policies that prevent teachers from informing parents when their child socially transitions at school. The Court said the parents are likely to succeed on their claim that the policies violate their First Amendment right to freely exercise their religion.

“The parents who assert a free exercise claim have sincere religious beliefs about sex and gender, and they feel a religious obligation to raise their children in accordance with those beliefs,” the Court wrote. “California’s policies violate those beliefs.”

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A North Dakota judge officially ordered Greenpeace to pay $345 million to the developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline following a nearly yearlong tug-of-war over a Morton County jury’s verdict.

The jury in March 2025 originally ordered Greenpeace to pay Energy Transfer about $667 million, finding the environmental group at fault for harming the company during anti-pipeline protests in North Dakota in 2016 and 2017 and for publishing false statements that harmed the company’s reputation. Greenpeace denies these allegations and says Energy Transfer’s lawsuit is a veiled attempt to punish the environmental group for supporting the demonstrations.

Southwest Judicial District Judge James Gion in October slashed the jury’s award to $345 million, though he didn’t finalize the amount until Friday.

The final judgment also orders Greenpeace to pay 11% interest on the sum, starting from March 19, the date the jury announced its verdict, until the full amount is paid.

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Germany’s Green Party has presented a 24-point plan in the Bundestag aimed at promoting a “diverse Muslim life” across the country, including in schools, prisons, hospitals, and the Bundeswehr.

The motion calls for expanded Islamic religious education, nationwide Islamic pastoral care, and the removal of headscarf bans in public institutions. The Greens argue that Muslim life is an integral part of German society and that structural discrimination and lack of recognition have historically marginalized Muslim communities.

Lamya Kaddor, the Greens’ domestic policy spokeswoman, called for stronger state support and civil society initiatives to ensure “real participation” and counter stigmatization.

I wonder whether they would support such a program for Jews. I suspect not.

The Antiplanner.

The California High-Speed Rail Authority doesn’t expect to complete the rail project before 2040, and it predicts that, when completed, it will have cost $126 billion, according to the agency’s latest business plan. While that’s not really news, what is news is that a close look at the plan reveals that it is as unrealistically optimistic as when the agency projected it would cost $33 billion and be completed by 2020.

My, what a surprise….

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Vienna, once hailed as one of Europe’s safest capitals, is grappling with a wave of violent crimes linked to unchecked migration, alongside a deepening crisis in schools where German is becoming a minority language.

My, what a surprise.

Import Turd World people, get Turd World problems.

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT.) is rolling out yet another exercise in class-warfare fantasy legislation on Monday, this time a proposal to extract a staggering $4.4 trillion from the nation’s roughly 1,000 billionaires through an annual 5 percent annual wealth tax, according to The Washington Post.

Well, he always said he was a socialist, and the cornerstone of socialism is robbery.

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Fairfax County police have charged a Sierra Leonean man, who authorities say illegally entered the U.S. in 2012, with second-degree murder after the fatal stabbing of 41-year-old Stephanie Minter at a bus stop shelter in Virginia’s Hybla Valley area last month.

Police responded at 7:16 p.m. Feb. 23 to reports of an injured woman at the bus stop near Richmond Highway and Arlington Drive, where they found Minter of Fredericksburg suffering from stab wounds to her upper body.

Officers and emergency personnel attempted lifesaving measures, but she was pronounced dead at the scene.

The case has drawn public attention and sharpened debates over criminal justice practices and cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

Investigators identified Abdul Jalloh, 32, through surveillance footage and interviews, noting he was seen with Minter exiting a bus near the attack site shortly before the killing, police said.

On Tuesday, officers located Jalloh after an employee at a local business recognized him and contacted police.

UPDATE: Media Ignore Arrest of 14-Year Illegal Alien with 30 Arrests in Case of Va. Bus Stop Stabbing Murder

The Antiplanner.

BART is proposing to close 15 stations if voters don’t agree in November to a tax increase to support the bloated agency. BART’s 2025 ridership was only 49 percent of 2019, yet its operating costs were at least a third greater and “general administration” (bureaucratic overhead) was more than two-thirds greater.

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Import Turd World people, wind up with Turd World problems.