The Telegraph (UK).

Two decades ago, Al Gore’s movie An Inconvenient Truth thrust climate change into the spotlight. With dramatic imagery and dire warnings, it transformed a niche concern into a front-page crisis, influencing rich country leaders and elite jet-setters, and inspiring a generation of activists.

Twenty years affords distance to reflect not just on the film’s impact, but also its accuracy. Many of Gore’s most alarming predictions have failed to materialise, while the policy response it helped inspire has proved extraordinarily flawed.

The documentary’s core narrative was that climate change was driving worsening disasters, such as floods, droughts, storms and wildfires.

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The fight over “buffer zone” legislation in New York City entered a new phase on Wednesday, weeks after Mayor Zohran Mamdani vetoed a bill allowing police to limit protests around “educational facilities.”

Mamdani and other detractors of the initial, highly contested bill said that it would chill free speech, particularly affecting pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses. Its proponents said they would try to flip enough members of the City Council to override Mamdani’s veto.

Now, they may have reached a compromise: On Wednesday, City Council Speaker Julie Menin announced a revised version of the bill that excludes colleges and universities from the educational facilities subject to protest limits.

In an interview, Council Member Eric Dinowitz, who introduced the legislation Mamdani vetoed, said the new bill’s language was “slightly tweaked” so it could get “more broad support” from city lawmakers.

“There were some members who were uncomfortable with the ‘educational facility’ piece, so we targeted it towards early childhood centers, pre-K and K-to-12 schools,” Dinowitz said about the new version, called the Schools Safe Access bill.

Newsbusters.

After calling for an armed “rebellion” against President Trump earlier in the week, ABC News co-host Sunny Hostin boasted about Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) plan to have black college athletes boycott their scholarships to southern schools.

So southern schools will have to stock their teams with white players? Yeah, that will really advance the Democrat agenda.

I haven’t seen any indication that black players are eager to throw away the only hope they’ve got of getting rich just to play Stepin Fetchit for Democrats.

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Schools in the north of England are teaching pupils that black people cannot be racist towards white people.

According to materials adopted by a group of Sheffield schools, led by Notre Dame High School, teenagers are explicitly told: “Black people can be racially prejudiced towards a white person which is wrong and totally unacceptable. However, this is not racism. Racism is racial prejudice plus power. In the UK, white people hold the cultural power.”

Uh, no, racism doesn’t need ‘power’ to be racist. Apparently the British have given up speaking English.

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Sometimes evil isn’t just banal. It’s direct, open, and unrepentant.

That was the case on Monday afternoon as three “credentialed” journalists showed up to cover the Luigi Mangione trial in New York and revealed that they were happy he allegedly shot and killed UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson.

The self-described “Mangionistas”—and dedicated fans of democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani—were unrepentant in their embrace of assassinations as a reasonable form of political action.

They not only reveled in Thompson’s death, they also took shots at his family too.

“F— Brian Thompson,” said a woman who the New York Daily News identified as Ashley Rojas based on the press credentials dangling from her neck. “That’s all I want to say. F— Brian Thompson. F— his mom.”

Lena Weissbrot, who appeared to be dressed up as a cross between Beetlejuice and Luigi, but the one from the Mario Bros., said that Thompson’s son was better off with his father dead.

“His children are better off without him. They need to learn to not be like their dad. And enjoy the blood money, kids,” she said.

ATQUE: Mamdani Won’t Revoke Mangione Fans’ Press Passes

The Telegraph (UK).

Grieving families will be forced to pay Labour’s new “mansion tax” under plans to target inheritances.

The Chancellor announced at her Budget last year that homes worth more than £2m would pay an annual “high value council tax surcharge” of up to £7,500.

In consultation documents published on Tuesday, the Treasury said homeowners on incomes of less than £35,000 would be able to defer the levy until they died or sold their home.

Leftists do love taking people’s money….

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Israeli forces have intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla, a fleet of over 50 so-called ‘selfie yachts’ claiming to carry humanitarian aid and hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists.

The interception occurred in broad daylight in international waters, approximately 250 nautical miles off the coast of Cyprus.

According to reports, around 40 vessels were seized and hundreds of activists, engaged in a self-styled attempt to break the maritime blockade of Gaza, were detained, with plans to deport them from the Israeli port of Ashdod.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the naval operation for neutralizing a malicious plan, while Israel’s foreign ministry dismissed the mission as a deliberate provocation meant to obstruct U.S. president Donald Trump’s peace plan, claiming the flotilla carried no actual aid.

The raid appears to have angered some of Israel’s international critics. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdo?an condemned the interception as piracy, and Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin called it absolutely unacceptable.

Notably, Dr. Margaret Connolly, sister of Ireland’s President Catherine Connolly, is among those detained, further provoking the Irish government, which itself faces widespread allegations of antisemitism.

Flotilla organizers maintain their mission is a legal, non-violent effort to deliver essential food, baby formula, and medical supplies to Gaza’s displaced population, rejecting Israeli assertions that the territory is adequately supplied.

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Protests are spreading across the Netherlands over a law forcing municipalities to accept quotas of asylum seekers.

Prime Minister Rob Jetten has responded by condemning “intimidation, violence, and vandalism” during the demonstrations, but his remarks drew criticism for failing to address why many residents are protesting in the first place.

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For years, the European Union has presented itself as a global defender of privacy and personal data rights. But a joint investigation by media outlets in the UK, Germany, and Greece claims that Europol, the EU police agency based in The Hague, operated parallel systems for storing and analysing data for years. Those systems allegedly contained huge amounts of personal information, including data on citizens with no criminal record or proven connection to criminal activity.

The issue highlights a growing tension inside the EU itself: the push for stronger preventive security based on mass data collection, alongside repeated promises to protect fundamental rights and personal privacy.

At the centre of the investigation is a system known as the Computer Forensic Network (CFN). Created in 2012, it was designed to process large amounts of digital material linked to criminal investigations. Its original role was relatively limited: storing and filtering information before transferring it into Europol’s official systems.

But the November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris changed the situation dramatically.

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“I believe they’re just seeking a public humiliation ritual for the girls,” 12-time NCAA All-American female athlete Riley Gaines said Monday after California high school girls were forced to share the podium and first-place with a biological male at a track and field competition Saturday.

Biological male AB Hernandez finished ahead of all girl athletes in the high jump, long jump and triple jump – just as he did last weekend at another California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) track and field competition for high school girls.

This time, however, a newly-revived rule placed both the top girl and top biological male (transgender) athletes side-by-side on the podium to receive first-place awards.

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Illegal immigration detected at the European Union’s external borders fell by 40% between January and April 2026. On the West African route, which connects with the Canary Islands, the decline reached 78%.

On paper, the figure appears to point to a significant shift after years of growing migratory pressure, but Frontex data only measures irregular crossings detected at specific border points. It does not measure the total immigration to Europe.

The distinction is more important than it may seem. Frontex counts interceptions or detected crossings. The agency itself notes that the same person may appear multiple times in different records and that the figures only concern external borders and specific routes. The decline therefore indicates that fewer entries are being detected on those corridors, not that Europe is receiving fewer foreign arrivals overall.

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The Israeli military began intercepting several boats on Monday morning that are part of a flotilla attempting to break the Gaza blockade.

More than 50 vessels departed from the port in Marmaris last week in what the organizers of the Global Sumud Flotilla described as the final leg of their journey to Gaza’s shores.

The organization’s livestream showed activists aboard several vessels putting on life jackets and raising their hands before a boat carrying troops approached. Israeli troops wearing tactical gear boarded the ship, and the livestream abruptly ended. Many of the ships are currently off the coast of Cyprus.

An hour prior to the interception, Israel’s Foreign Ministry called activists to “change course and turn back immediately.”

“Once again, a provocation for the sake of provocation: another so-called “humanitarian aid flotilla” with no humanitarian aid,” the Foreign Ministry posted on X. The Israeli military declined to comment on the ongoing operation.

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A French intellectual, who goes by Brivael Le Pogam on X, has written a tightly focused and brief explanation of it worthy of Eric Hoffer, putting his finger on the thinking of French philospher-historian Michel Foucault, French philosopher Jacques Derrida, and French philospher-literary critic Gilles Deleuze, the first of whom claimed there was no such thing as truth, just power relationships, the second of whom claimed truth was malleable, and the third of whom made the really weird claim that seeds were greater than fully developed trees because becoming was more important than being, poor romantic devil.

Married to guilt-tripping academics of the U.S., he explains how wokery was the result.

His tweet is in French, but Grok translate kicks in on my site, so I will post the translation below the tweet.

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Last month, firsthand testimony from a former Han Chinese police officer who supervised Uyghur labor transfers in Xinjiang described how the system works. Workers are taken to cotton fields under armed escort. Identity cards are confiscated to prevent escape. Those who refuse state-mandated assignments are sent to short-term detention facilities where, in the officer’s words, they are “intentionally subjected to hardship and suffering” until they comply.

The same coercion architecture underpins the labor that sustains Chinese crystalline silicon solar manufacturers, which continue to seek access to the U.S. market.

Five years after the United States moved to specifically ban Uyghur forced labor, it remains the largest system of state-imposed forced labor in the world – and it is larger than ever. Our research found that China recorded more than 3 million labor transfers of Uyghurs and other ethnic groups in 2025. This was the highest figure on record and a year-on-year increase, despite the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA), which was meant to curb the practice. China’s silicon solar industry, which has lobbied for years to preserve its access to the U.S. market, remains an active participant in it.

People lose track of the fact that a Communist country is a Communist country, and acts like a Communist country whenever they think they can get away with it.

New York Post.

Incline Village on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe has seen an influx of ultra-wealthy Californians fleeing the state’s proposed billionaires tax.

Silicon Valley billionaires like Google co-founder Sergey Brin, SpaceX investor Steve Jurvetson, and Naveen Rao, with Unconventional AI, have recently moved to the Nevada bordertown on the north shore of Lake Tahoe ahead of a proposed “billionaire tax” in the state.

“Our primary market is Californians seeking tax refuge in Nevada and people buying second homes,” Cole Mizak, a top luxury real estate broker in the area told The Post.

The Third Bit, a Voice of the Fringe.

The Left just bubbles with ideas for scary-sounding tags for the people that do Politically Incorrect things: “black market”, “windfall profits”, “profiteering”, “price gouging”, etc. This is the latest proglodyte buzz-word. (Not to be confused with “technofeudalism”, which was created by another hive.)

Notice that you don’t see anybody jumping up and down about “technosocialism” or “technocommunism” or even “technoprogressivism”. Think about why that is.

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According to Stonewall News, the Seattle LGBTQ Commission has recommended that the city declare a civil emergency.

The reason?

There are too many LGBTQ people in Seattle — specifically LGBTQ people from Texas.

And the Great Sort continues apace.

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One of the saddest thing about the Obama and Biden Administrations is how they renormalized bias. By the end of the George W. Bush Administration discrimination on the basis of race, of bigotry was on life support. No, it wasn’t entirely gone, but it was fading away. For most people the important question was not “what color are you?” It was “can you do the job? It was glorious. When I dealt with a co-worker I did not wonder whether they got their position because of the color of their skin. They got it because they could perform.

For Obama and Biden, that was a bug, not a feature. Both were grifters, race-hustlers. If bias faded away, they lost their grift. They began stoking the fires of discrimination and disparagement; dividing us not by the content of our character, but by the color of our skin. I saw it growing during the first years of the Obama Administration. Unprincipled people – especially at government contractors – began using accusations of bias as a means of clotheslining career rivals.

Were you in competition for a position or promotion with one of them? Anonymous complaints would be made against you on the ethics hotline accusing you of racism. It did not matter if the accusation was baseless or distorted. The accused went through an inquisition. Even if you knew who was doing it, you could not confront the individual. That would be retaliation.

By the middle of the Biden Administration, as far as the government went, race was the marker by which people were assigned jobs. It did not matter how incompetent someone was. What mattered was how they filled the grievance matrix. One only has to look at Biden’s choices for Vice-President and Supreme Court Justices to realize how pervasive – and pernicious – the grievance matrix had become.

Checking multiple boxes on the grievance matrix was also a marvelous shield against consequences. No one dared investigate or accuse those with the right national origin, religion, and skin color of criminality or even incompetence. If you did, the accusations were treated a proof of systemic racism against the accused. Instead, in the new race-based justice system the accuser would be investigated for thought-crime, declared a bigot.

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First of all, you know, good luck with the law of banning masks. Federal law always trumps state and local law. And while threats are up over 8,000%, masks is a non-starter, so good luck enforcing that.

Second thing is, you talk about New York. You know, I met with Governor Hochul a couple months ago, and I told her about what happened in Minnesota, that, you know, we were able to draw some resources out of Minnesota because the local jails cooperated with us.

And I told her the same thing, because I knew this legislation was coming. I said, Look, you end cooperation in the jails, we’re going to have to send more agents to do the job, because now rather than one agent arresting one bad guy in the jail, which is safer for the agent, safer for the alien, safer for the community, of course, you’re going to release him. Now we got to send a whole team, six or seven agents, to go find him. So it’s going to re- it’s going to result more agents in the community.

Totally briefed on the whole thing, but she decided to go ahead and do it anyways. Well, I made a statement that we’re going to send more agents to New York. We have to as a response to this to go arrest those public safety threats.

I also told her there’s going to be two things you [she] may not like.

Number one, in addition to more agents in your communities, that’s going to mean, one, that when we find the bad guy, and we usually do, they may be with others, that weren’t a criminal target, but they’re in the country illegally. Well, guess what? We’re going to arrest them, too. We’re not going to turn a blind eye to illegal immigration, which means there’ll be more collateral arrests because of your decision to force us in the community.

And, second of all, part of her legislation prevents ICE from leasing beds, from sheriffs across the state, which we use a lot of those beds.

The Foundry.

An Environmental Protection Agency lawyer and union leader has signed a dissent letter opposing President Donald Trump’s policy at the agency and has posted on social media attacking EPA Director Lee Zeldin, but appears to still be employed there.

This activity raises questions as to whether she might be a “deep state” actor, working to undermine Trump’s policies from within the administration.

Nicole Cantello serves as president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 704, the EPA’s labor union. A verified LinkedIn profile lists her as an attorney at the EPA.

New York Post.

On Monday, the New York Times allowed a top columnist to stain its pages with obviously fake stories of Israelis using dog rape to abuse Palestinian prisoners.

That same day, masked Islamists marched through Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn, assaulting Jewish kids.

Jewish liberals, ask yourselves: Where are your friends?

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The Left Coast has gone to shit—literally.

The Foundry.

A controversial Virginia prosecutor apologized to the mother of a daughter slain by an illegal immigrant but still defended his county’s sanctuary policy during a contentious House hearing Thursday.

“I am deeply sorry for your loss, I say that not only as a prosecutor but as a parent of a daughter,” Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano said to Cheryl Minter, mother of Stephanie Minter, during a hearing of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement.

“I’m sorry for what you are having to endure and I promise that my office is doing everything we can to prosecute the man responsible,” Descano added.

Fairfax County law enforcement refused to honor an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer for Abdul Jalloh, who was released and allegedly killed Stephanie Minter at a local bus stop in February.

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This week the Democrat mayor of Arcadia, CA pled guilty to charges of acting as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China. Prosecutors alleged that from 2020–2022 (pre-mayor but continuing into her time in office), she and an associate operated a website promoting pro-China propaganda at the direction of PRC officials, without registering as a foreign agent.

She faces at up to 10 years in prison for the crime, and it raises questions about how many more US mayors are on the payroll of foreign governments. But this scandal, like most scandals surrounding Democrats, will probably be erased from public discussion and forgotten within days. It’s a tale that keeps repeating over the last decade and the lack of scrutiny (or pattern recognition) is leading to devastating consequences for the US as a whole.

The common reaction among many conservatives when they come across such news is to dismiss it as predictable. “The idiots living in that city got exactly what they voted for…” is the often heard retort. The implication being that it’s “not our problem” and that leftists should be allowed to rot in the hellholes they created for themselves. But the truth is, it is a problem, for the entire country.

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

Jews are under assault in Mayor Madman’s New York City. Would you have the temerity to wear a mezuzah around your neck or a kipot on your head in public? Would you have the gall to gather for services at a local congregation? The New York Post reports “An anti-Israel mob clashed with counter-protesters near a Brooklyn synagogue on Monday night — less than a week after a similar demonstration rocked Manhattan.”

The current Post headline refers to last week’s mob that materialized outside a Manhattan synagogue. The Post reported that story in “Hateful anti-Israel mob descends on historic NYC synagogue, clashes with cops in rowdy protest.” How rowdy can you get?

Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon is on the case. Today the Post also reports “Rowdy anti-Israel NYC protesters could be hit with federal charges, DOJ threatens.”

The Post headlines refer to the animus on display as “anti-Israel.” That is nasty, but the animus goes beyond the Jewish state to the Jewish people. In tune with the mayor, the New York mobs are wildly anti-Semitic.

The Daily Signal’s Jarrett Stepman compiles X posts depicting this past Monday’s mob in an excellent round-up/review: “The Intifada Comes to Brooklyn Under New York’s Socialist Mayor.” A mob grows in Brooklyn.

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It is no secret that the recent local election results were catastrophic for the Labour Party. Of course, this comes as no big surprise. Labour’s policies are bankrupting the country. Yields on UK government bonds show that the market has lost trust in Britain. More or less everything is impoverished, broken or dysfunctional. Britain has become a bloated welfare state whose main purpose is to act as a safe haven for illegal migrants. Labour – a party of misguided, progressive activists – has no strategy whatsoever other than to force some kind of cultural warfare on its ethnic British population.

I wouldn’t call it financial incompetence. It goes way beyond that; it is almost as if they are doing it on purpose. In the May local elections, traditional Labour footholds were obliterated. In places like Sunderland, Labour supporters flocked to Reform in more or less their entirety. It will be generations before they would trust again a Labour government; a Labour government that has shown it despises the white working-class voter labelling quarter of a million white rape victims as ‘racists’.

True to fashion, the three key electoral strongholds of the gay Left to be found in Oxford, Cambridge and Camden continued to vote Labour and in particular the Green Party – a party that has nothing at all to say about the environment, but instead bizarrely courts simultaneously the gay and the Muslim vote.

The Foundry.

Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice launched a federal civil rights investigation into Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano over allegations that his office gave preferential treatment to illegal immigrants accused of serious crimes.

This Thursday, mere days after that announcement, Descano—who has received more than $650,000 from Soros-backed PACs and affiliated groups—is scheduled to testify before Congress at a House Judiciary Committee hearing examining the dangerous consequences of sanctuary policies in Fairfax County, Virginia.

Indeed, Descano is a key player contributing to the increasingly dangerous environment in Fairfax County. In February, police arrested Abdul Jalloh, an illegal immigrant from Sierra Leone, and charged him with the fatal stabbing of Stephanie Minter, a 41-year-old mother, at a bus stop in Fairfax County. Jalloh had previously been arrested more than 30 times, only to be released back onto the streets. In more than a dozen of his arrests, Descano’s office entered “nolle prosequi,” a legal term meaning it chose not to pursue the charges.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

An elected Supreme Court justice in Pennsylvania announced Monday night that he has left the Democratic Party and registered as an independent, citing concerns about antisemitism.

In a statement, David Wecht, who is Jewish and served as Pennsylvania’s Democratic Party chair from 1998 to 2001, said he believed antisemitism has moved from the fringe of the Democratic Party to the mainstream.

“Nazi tattoos, jihadist chants, intimidation and attacks at synagogues, and other hateful anti-Jewish invective and actions are minimized, ignored, and even coddled,” he wrote. “Acquiescence to Jew-hatred is now disturbingly common among activists, leaders and even many elected officials in the Democratic Party.”

Wecht wrote that he had long understood that antisemitism “always festered on the fringe” of the right, a fact that hit home in 2018 when a far-right shooter killed 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh where he and his wife were married in 1998.

“In the years that have followed, that same hatred has grown on the left,” he said in his statement. “It is the duty of all good people to fight this virus, and to do so before it is too late.”

Wakey, wakey….

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Things are popping off in the Netherlands.

The building used to be the town hall of Loosdrecht. Locals have spent weeks telling the government that they do not want it to be converted into a housing center for more illegal aliens.

ATQUE: “We Don’t Feel Safe Anymore”: Dutch Women March Against Migrant Centre

The Foundry.

Agitators shouted “fascist” and obscenities over the weekend outside a Portland, Oregon hotel where they believed FBI Director Kash Patel was staying, according to Fox 12 Oregon and several posts on social media. Patel was reportedly attending a friend’s funeral.

The agitators gathered outside the Sentinel Hotel in downtown Portland. Some of the videos were posted on social media on Saturday; others were posted on Sunday.

Leftists are never happy unless they are  peeing in somebody else’s soup.

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A newly elected Green Party councillor in the UK has sparked controversy after sharing footage of himself driving a Lamborghini shortly after winning his local election seat—drawing accusations of hypocrisy given his party’s policies on reducing car use and taxing drivers.

Mohammad Baghdadi Khan, who won the Halliwell ward in Bolton, Greater Manchester, posted a video showing him at the wheel of a Lamborghini Huracán Spyder, a high-performance sports car worth up to £270,000 (€311,000). The clip, which also included footage of his election win, was reportedly filmed at a wedding in 2023 where a convoy of luxury vehicles was used.

In addition to the Lamborghini footage, Khan also shared clips of himself driving a Mercedes with personalised number plates, a vehicle he reportedly used during his election campaign. During that campaign, he pledged to stand up for the people and support “greener spaces” while also backing higher taxes on the wealthy.

Rules are for thee but not for me.

Quillette.

If the treatment of gender dysphoric youth were treated like any other medical topic, there would be little controversy about how patients should be cared for. Two years ago, Dr Hilary Cass, a former president of Britain’s Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, released an exhaustive report that examined the most reliable peer-reviewed research from around the world. She concluded that the laissez-faire policy of reflexively “affirming” gender-distressed minors, which has been ideologically fashionable since the mid-2010s, isn’t supported by science. She debunked the myth that puberty blockers are harmless drugs that merely hit the “pause” button on a child’s development; as well as the morbid propaganda claim that speedy “affirmation” is necessary to prevent gender-distressed individuals from committing suicide.

In the weeks that followed the report’s release, transgender activists—along with their allies in journalism, psychotherapy, and medicine—howled in outrage, insisting that Dr Cass’s analysis must somehow be flawed. For many in this camp, questioning the wisdom of medicalised gender transition is not only inherently pseudoscientific, but also indicative of transphobic bigotry.

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

Because, as we all know, refugees wherever found are TOTALLY the responsibility of the U.S. government—and the U.S. taxpayer.

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Think of it as evolution in action.

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It’s time to dismantle one of the most degraded sectors in American higher education: schools of education. The colleges responsible for training and certifying the majority of our nation’s teachers have become factories for mediocrity and indoctrination—the embodiment of what Allan Bloom termed “the closing of the American mind.” States have both the authority and obligation to replace these monolithic institutions by promoting better teacher-prep pathways that are already proving their worth across the nation.

As recent graduates of Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education, we believe that teachers must be more than competent technicians—they must deliberately form American citizens.

Today, however, schools of education are the chief culprits in the growing disquiet among pundits and everyday Americans about the value of the traditional four-year college experience. Graduates with bachelor’s degrees in education are among the lowest earners of any college major. Even more alarmingly, recent research shows their degrees aren’t worth what they paid and are often financed with loans.

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New organized labor reforms signed into law by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis last week require a majority of members to be present for teachers union certification or recertification votes, increase fines for illegal strikes, and establish merit-based pay for educators.

In Idaho, after July 1, teachers unions will be prohibited from collecting dues directly from members’ paychecks, using paid time off for union activities, or recruiting new members during school hours.

A similar law in Arizona, which also bans teacher strikes and prohibits organized labor members from using any school property—even email addresses—for union activities, will be decided on by voters in the November election.

The Foundry.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is already having success in redistributing wealth, right out of his city.

It seems the socialist mayor’s creepy video celebrating Tax Day and directly calling out billionaire CEO Ken Griffin as a target for a new pied-à-terre tax may have backfired.

While the slickly produced video—where he gleefully spoke about taxing the “rich”—may have been good short-term politics, it could ultimately create a financial doom cascade for a New York City already facing a “historic” budget crisis.

According to a report in the New York Post, Griffin and other “billionaire bigwigs” are earnestly considering leaving the city, or at the very least looking to make future investments elsewhere.

“The splashy one-two punch of Citadel CEO Ken Griffin and Apollo Global Management honcho Marc Rowan pledging to expand outside New York City has been coupled with a silent wave of businesses ‘quiet quitting’ the city over its hostile environment,” according to the Post.

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A prominent X account recently posted her insane $9,000 bill for a hospitalization from a year prior. Then, as always happens, someone on the internet announced with great confidence that this is what happens when healthcare is left to the free market. As if the most regulated industry in America actually functions in a free market.

Nowhere in America is a free market, except maybe schoolkids trading baseball cards.

The Foundry.

Not only was the SPLC allegedly boosting members of the hate groups it says it exists to oppose while demonizing mainstream conservatives, but it also reportedly settled a racial discrimination lawsuit as recently as 2024.

Michael Edison Hayden, who worked as a senior investigative reporter at the SPLC’s Intelligence Project, wrote a tell-all article on Substack last month.

Hayden faulted the SPLC for not attacking conservatives enough; for harassing members of the SPLC’s union; for responding poorly to the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and its aftermath; and for engaging in racial discrimination against him.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

As anti-LGBTQ legislation proliferated across the United States in late 2024, leaders at two Jewish nonprofits began discussing the mounting crisis for LGBTQ Americans who no longer felt safe in their home states but lacked the financial means to leave.

Having more queer people around = ‘safe’? News to me.

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Germany’s labour minister has been accused of denying reality after insisting “nobody immigrates into our social welfare system” despite government data showing foreigners are heavily overrepresented among welfare claimants.

The controversy erupted during a government question session on Wednesday, May 6th, when right-wing AfD MP René Springer asked why the government was not cutting spending “where it is obvious: immigration into our social systems” as Germany struggles with rising welfare costs and mounting budget pressure.

Labour Minister Bärbel Bas dismissed the claim outright, arguing instead that immigration was helping to address labour shortages.

Invasion and replacement proceeds apace.

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The UK government’s efforts to stop the boats met with reality on May 8th, as the total number of small-boat arrivals since 2018 officially surpassed the 200,000 mark.

A group of 70 migrants, intercepted by the Border Force vessel Ranger after launching from Dunkirk at dawn, brought the cumulative total to 200,013.

The news serves as a secondary blow to the prime minister, who is already reeling from a disastrous set of local election results overnight.

While the Home Office points to a 35% drop in year-to-date crossings compared to 2025, maritime experts warn that the reprieve is largely due to unseasonably poor weather rather than policy success.

Invasion and replacement is on course.

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Color me surprised.

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The “reasonable” party, the party of empathy, has struck again.

Even their most reasonable politicians, like former Army Vet Wes Moore, who is now the governor of Maryland and seen as a rising star among Dems, are totally captured by the most insane ideas of the party.

I would let his 12-year-old son ‘change gender’ too. He deserves to have his genes subtracted from the gene pool.

Natural Selection works every time.

Babylon Bee.

You think the illegal immigrants were bad? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet! Wait ’til we send in the clowns socialists!

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Man, I would’ve never guessed that a guy who crashed a car, tried to steal a bunch of cars, and then was shot dead after trying to steal another car was an illegal alien from Mexico.

Yeah, that would have totally escaped me….

Quillette.

The claim that Jews are imperialist “colonisers” isn’t new. It emerged from the Victorian-era antisemitism of an influential English journalist and matured in the early Soviet Union, long before the modern state of Israel was founded. As Paul Johnson (1928–2023), the great historian, observed:

The Soviet campaign against the Jews, after 1967 a permanent feature of the system, was itself conducted under the code-name of anti-Zionism, which became a cover for every variety of anti-Semitism. [The] Leninist theory of imperialism, like Marx’s theory of capitalism, had its roots in anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.

As Johnson showed, the claim that Jews are “imperialists” predated Vladimir Lenin, leader of Soviet Russia from 1917 until his death in 1924. Johnson traces the source of this claim to the English writer and journalist J.A. Hobson, who travelled to South Africa to cover the Boer War in 1899. Hobson, as Johnson relates, regarded Jews as “almost devoid of social morality,” and possessing “a superior calculating intellect” that allows them “to take advantage of every weakness, folly and vice of the society in which he lives.”

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Homeowner Jane invites the homeless James to live with her. “I’d hate to be homeless,” she tells herself. James starts to exploit and abuse her. She accepts it. “I would not exploit and abuse someone unless something truly terrible had happened to me,” she thinks. This is what Gad Saad would call “suicidal empathy.” In his book of the same name, the Canadian commentator rails against “the orgiastic misfiring of one of our most noble virtues, empathy.”

There is merit to Saad’s critique. He is correct that empathy is problematic when people exaggerate the similarities between individuals. In all likelihood, James is not exploiting and abusing Jane because he has been maddened by trauma. He is, fundamentally, a less conscientious person.

Saad is clear—and rightly so—that he has no inherent objection to empathy. He objects to empathy, and all other emotions, when they are not regulated by rationality. The extent to which we empathise with other people must be framed by a rational understanding of those people and their circumstances.