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.”

Quillette.

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.

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We’ve got an update here nearly a decade in the making.

Southwest Airlines fired flight attendant Charlene Carter way back in 2017 because she posted pro-life opinions on her personal social media page.

Yes, on her personal page.

Then, after years of lawsuits, in 2022 a court ordered Southwest to hire her back and pay her over $900,000 in damages.

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The Department of Education opened an investigation into Smith College, probing whether the women’s college discriminated on the basis of sex by admitting men who claim to identify as transgender women.

“Smith College, while still portraying itself as a women’s-only institution, admits natal men who feel like women, and on nothing more than their say-so,” Sarah Parshall Perry, vice president and legal fellow at Defending Education, told The Daily Signal in a Tuesday statement on the investigation. “That renders the gains of second-wave feminists who fought for Title IX mere relics of ancient history.”

“Title IX was a historic achievement for women’s equality in education, but Smith College seems to have forgotten that,” added Perry, who filed the complaint that led the department to open the probe.

“The college’s linguistic gymnastics are jaw-dropping, and as a recipient of federal funding, it must follow federal law—state law to the contrary notwithstanding,” she added. “We look forward to the Department of Education’s resolution of the claims against Smith.”

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Amsterdam is one of Europe’s most permissive cities, where prostitution is celebrated and going to a ‘coffee shop’ regularly involves getting high on cannabis.

It’s hardly surprising, then, that the city’s decision to ban public adverts for meat—alongside fossil fuel products such as petrol cars and airline travel—has been met with a mix of ridicule and outright condemnation.

Green officials say the move is part of their broader climate strategy. But Belgian MEP Barbara Bonte on Monday said that it more closely resembles “what happens when people with zero-point-zero sense of reality and way too much free time get bored.”

No More Meat and Fossil Fuel Ads in Amsterdam Streets
British foreign policy analyst—and former aide to Margaret Thatcher—Nile Gardiner described the ban as “insane,” while Prague politician Ond?ej Kubín pointed to the contradiction: “In Amsterdam, you can buy a joint and choose a prostitute from a window, but the city won’t sell you advertising space for a hamburger because it has a large carbon footprint.”

Writer André Assi Barreto also predicted that “meat will be treated publicly in the future as the cigarette is today.” And Christopher Snowdon, from Britain’s Institute of Economic Affairs, said the move vindicated those who warned that banning cigarette adverts “would lead to cranks banning adverts for anything they dislike.”

Now, activists are already pushing to extend the ban beyond Amsterdam, with some campaigners in Britain urging Labour to adopt similar restrictions nationwide and calling on other cities to follow suit.

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Wait, a second … so he doesn’t want to get rid of shoplifters, but he does want to charge Walgreens with a crime for wanting to flee a city full of shoplifters?

Like most Chicago Aldermen, when in public he is surrounded by an entourage of Thugs of Color.

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Not only will airlines, cruises, and car companies not be able to publicly advertise in Amsterdam anymore, but restaurants in Amsterdam will no longer be able to advertise any dishes that contain meat.

The Telegraph (UK).

Hutchesons’ Grammar School in Glasgow has listed the courts for an undisclosed fee “as part of the school’s wider reinvestment strategy”.

The private school made the decision after the Government introduced a 20 per cent levy on independent school fees in January last year.

Hutchesons’, which counts Anas Sarwar, the Labour leader in Scotland, and Humza Yousaf, the former first minister, among its alumni, sold its B-listed primary education campus earlier this year.

Socialist statism is why we can’t have nice things.

The Telegraph (UK).

The New York Times (NYT) has been sued for alleged discrimination against a white male employee after he was passed over for an editor’s job which went to a multiracial woman.

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) accused the newspaper of breaching civil rights law by discriminating against the unnamed male candidate based on his race or sex, according to the complaint filed in Manhattan federal court.

The unnamed complainant, who has worked at the newspaper since 2014 and says he has “considerable experience with real estate news”, was interviewed for the deputy property editor role, but not advanced to the final round.

I wish Scott Adams had lived to see this day.

ATQUE: The NYT is FREAKING OUT after a white employee told the Trump admin he was denied promotion “because of his race and gender”

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Germany affords itself a state bureaucracy that functions like an artificial labor market placed upstream of the private sector. The flight of hundreds of thousands into the arms of the state corresponds with the shrinking number of self-employed in the country. And policymakers are actively promoting this trend.

Let us begin with a piece of good news: according to a Bertelsmann survey, around 40 percent of Germans aged 15 to 25 can imagine starting a business as their personal life path. That is a surprisingly high figure in a country where young people not infrequently cite, half-jokingly and half-seriously, Hartz IV or the public sector as career goals.

Let us note: the embers of entrepreneurship in Germany are still glowing; economic autonomy and sovereignty still rank highly among the younger generation. However, it is questionable whether this will suffice to ignite, one day, a true founding boom in a country of climate transformation, deeply rooted faith in the state, and an expansive public sector—a boom that could force a turnaround and help erase the long-accumulated sins of climate socialists.

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A federal magistrate judge in Washington, D.C., has come under fire after expressing deep concern – described by multiple outlets as an apology – over the custody conditions of Cole Tomas Allen, the 31-year-old accused of attempting to assassinate President Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner on April 25.

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Two parole reform bills advancing in New York are triggering intense debate, with supporters calling them long-overdue criminal justice reforms and critics warning they could allow violent offenders to leave prison early, according to the NY Post.

One proposal, known as the Elder Parole bill, would allow incarcerated individuals to request parole hearings once they reach age 55 and have served at least 15 years of their sentence. That eligibility would extend to some inmates serving life sentences, and those denied parole could reapply every two years.

The second proposal, Fair and Timely Parole, would change how parole boards evaluate inmates by placing greater focus on whether someone currently poses a risk to public safety instead of heavily weighing the original crime. Backers say the current system often ignores evidence of rehabilitation and keeps people incarcerated long after they have changed.

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Sometimes, I wonder if politicians who consistently make the wrong decisions do so on purpose. After reading the European Commission’s new report (published in April), “Wealth Taxation, Including Net Wealth, Capital and Exit Taxes,” I am once again tempted to suggest willful ignorance.

The report favors a slew of new taxes on Europe’s richest: a tax on capital gains, both realized and unrealized; a broad-based, ‘avoidance proof’ tax on inheritance and gifts; and a tax on capital migration. If matched with heavy taxation on equity-based income, these hate-the-rich taxes would work as a confiscatory machine, vacuuming Europe clean of anything that resembles economic success.

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It is no longer a secret that universities have become one of the arenas where some of today’s fiercest ideological battles are being fought: research and knowledge are being subjected to the dictates of wokeism, in defiance of academic freedom—a glorious European legacy dating back centuries. In France, the phenomenon has reached such proportions that lecturers are forced to organise themselves to fight against what sometimes takes the form of relentless harassment.

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You know what’s ironic?

All the Canadians who didn’t have kids to keep the environment pristine are now importing workers from countries where garbage is dumped directly into rivers.

Import Turd World people, get Turd World problems.

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Historically speaking, crawling to communists for help has never been a good idea; there’s always a catch. By extension, making trade deals with China and the CCP from a position of weakness usually ends with diplomatic concessions instead of mere economic concessions. That is to say, the Chinese are less interested in economic benefits, and more interested in political submission.

Canadians are about to speed run this lesson after Prime Minister Mark Carney’s “new strategic partnership” formed with China early this year. The announcement has been heralded as a pragmatic reset in Canada-China relations after years of tensions, aimed at diversifying Canada’s trade amid U.S. tariffs under Trump. The goals of the deal include increased bilateral trade, agricultural agreements, currency swaps and energy exports.

The problem is, Carney also wants Canada to maintain its relationship with Taiwan, which the CCP views as a violation of their “One China” policy. Not surprisingly, China is already using their newfound economic leverage to pressure Canada to submit to their demands on Taiwan.

The Telegrph (UK).

A University of Cambridge college has been criticised after it failed to suspend students who made death threats against an undergraduate who visited Israel.

The visit, organised by the Pinsker Centre think tank, took Oxbridge student leaders to Israel, where they met Israelis and Palestinians to better understand the Gaza conflict.

But one of the party, Bradley Smart, 21, said he received death threats from fellow students when he returned to Homerton College.

The New Neo.

It’s not true that the Left doesn’t have guiding principles. One of the most influential is “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” America and Israel are the enemy; therefore Hamas and the current Iranian regime are the friends because they share the same enemies. Iran calls the US “The Great Satan” and Israel “The Little Satan.” There really couldn’t be more of a mind-meld between the Left and the Iranian leaders than that. Everything else is secondary or lower.

The left pretends to be for “the people” – but it’s the case only if the people are on the same side of an issue as the left. If the people choose wrongly, screw the people. One example of this is the left’s constant attempts to take down the duly-elected Trump, whether through assassination or impeachment or lies. The people of Israel can be raped and murdered or even blown to bits by a nuclear weapon, and according to the left they had it coming and will have had it coming.

And so the left is able to ignore the brutal Iranian regime’s killing of its own protesters. The left is aware that, were the protesters to win their battle, the Iranian people would almost certainly be grateful to none other than the oppressor Trump and The Great Satan the US, not to mention The Little Satan Israel.

Can’t have that.

Gates of Vienna.

It seemed that everyone was “focusing on workers over billionaires”, oblivious to the fact that tycoons such as George Soros and Neville Roy Singham were funding the events, paying for printed signs and banners, bussing in astroturf protesters, providing lunch for the useful idiots, etc. Mind you, Mr. Singham is a relative pauper in this field, being worth a mere $785 million.

All day yesterday I kept checking the riot news, expecting the tossing of Molotov cocktails and columns of smoke rising over “mostly peaceful” protests. But that didn’t happen. Yes, the crowds of earnest progressives turned out, but it wasn’t a repeat of the Summer of George Floyd. There was no sign of the kinetic excess that one would expect if Antifa or BLM had been mobilized for the occasion.

Sarah Hoyt.

The problem with the left right now — no, I know they have many, but hear me out — is that they don’t acknowledge their shadow. In this sense, they’re not fully adults, and they do the most bizarre things because they think of themselves as “the good people” as though being good were bestowed by assignment at birth. In fact you could say all their other problems come from being unable to acknowledge their shadow.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

A candidate in the United Kingdom’s Green Party is under fire after posting under the social media handle “thereal.anne.frank” that “every single Zionist” should be killed, marking the latest antisemitic scandal to hit the party in a matter of days.

Two other candidates have been charged with spreading hate online in relation to anti-Israel social media posts, while the party’s Jewish leader, Zack Polanski, is fending off allegations of deep-seated antisemitism.

The latest scandal came after the Jewish News revealed that in a series of posts on Threads, Tina Ion, a Green party candidate in Newcastle, referred to “Zionists” as “vermin” and “rats” and posted an image of an industrial shredding machine, which she called a “Zionist juicer.” She also referred to “Jewish Nazis” as “money grubbing thieves” who “have built mountains of money over centuries,” according to the newspaper.

The profile photo for the account, titled “thereal.anne.frank,” featured an image of a young woman wearing a keffiyeh, the traditional Palestinian headscarf. In one post referencing the image, Ion allegedly wrote that it was used “because Ann Frank wearing a keffieh pisses Zionists off.”

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Dozens of ‘pro-Palestinian’ activists travelling on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla disembarked in Crete on Friday, May 1st after being intercepted by Israeli forces near the island.

The group of around 175 activists, according to Israeli estimates, was escorted to shore by Greek coast guards and transported on four buses to a location that was not publicly disclosed. Organisers of the flotilla, however, said the total number of people involved was 211.

Israel’s foreign ministry stated that more than 20 boats were stopped during the operation on Thursday. In a post on X, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said the transfer of activists was carried out “in coordination with the Greek government,” adding that Israel appreciated Greece’s “willingness to receive the flotilla participants.”

Several European governments whose citizens were among those detained have called for their immediate release, arguing that Israel’s actions represent a serious breach of international law.

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Bro, the school system is taking kids on a field trip to a May Day rally which, this year, is essentially an anti-Trump, anti-ICE protest.

She literally said students are going on a field trip to a May Day protest!

You simply cannot parody this!

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Polling shows that more Democrats under 50 have a favorable view of Iran than of Israel.

That comes fresh off the Islamic regime massacring tens of thousands of its own protesters after helping perpetrate the Oct 7 massacre inside Israel. The victims of both sets of atrocities, from the protesters in Tehran to Nova music festival attendees in Israel, were young and liberal.

And yet the young liberals of America have chosen the old theocrats who ordered their deaths.

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You know how the definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results? Someone hasn’t told the liberal women about it yet.

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This deranged bulldyke was triggered by Turning Point students who set up a table on the Kent State campus, so she took scissors to their patriotic balloons while mocking them as “neck gushers,” referring to the way Charlie Kirk was killed in October of last year.

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Why must you do land acknowledgements before school plays and then ban parents from campus if they have something to say about it? And why must you call Child Protective Services over these things?

Real story. Not joking.

Associated Press, a Voice of the Crust.

What did they expect to happen?

Activists on a flotilla of boats seeking to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza said Thursday that Israel forces intercepted the vessels overnight, smashing engines and detaining some of those onboard while they were sailing in international waters near Greece, hundreds of miles (kilometers) from Gaza and Israel.

The Global Sumud Flotilla set sail earlier this month from Barcelona. Organizers have said more than 70 boats and 1,000 people from around the world would be participating, with more vessels joining the original boats as the flotilla sailed east across the Mediterranean.

According to the ships’ tracker published on the activist group’s website, 22 vessels were intercepted in international waters west of the southern Greek island of Crete, while a further 36 were still sailing midday on Thursday.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry said in a post on X that it was taking about 175 activists from more than 20 boats participating in the flotilla to Israel.

“Israel’s actions … mark a dangerous and unprecedented escalation, the abduction of civilians in the middle of the Mediterranean, over 600 miles from Gaza, in full view of the world,” the group said in a press release. The distance is more than 1,000 kilometers from Gaza.

‘Activists’ have this bizarre notion that they an do whatever they want without any consequences. Israel doesn’t play those games. If you say that you are their enemy,  they will believe you, and act accordingly.

“If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first.” — Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin, Portion 72, verse 1.

The Telegraph (UK).

The sale of traditional tumble dryers is to be stamped out in a net-zero drive that will push consumers toward more expensive machines that take longer to dry clothes.

Ed Miliband, the Energy Secretary, is introducing new laws that will phase out the sale of condenser tumble dryers and promote heat-pump alternatives to help cut carbon emissions.

The move, condemned as a “mad” form of “Soviet control” by the Tories and Reform, will align Britain more closely with the European Union which has already implemented similar rules.

The New Neo.

I have no solution. But I’ll have a go at an explanation. The analogy to contagion is a good one, although obviously there are no microbes involved. People come to believe Trump is a Hitler equivalent, tremendously evil and otherwise unstoppable politically, so it follows that he must be killed. The analogy to Hitler is not an idle one because there were indeed many failed attempts on Hitler’s life and most people consider those who tried to do so to be heroes. The fact that Trump bears no resemblance to Hitler is irrelevant, because most people don’t evaluate things for themselves and their sources – their trusted sources – say Trump is tremendously evil, Hitlerian, and out to destroy our country and must be stopped.

Why those sources are trusted is another story. It’s different for different populations. For older people, it’s the news media amplified by social media. For younger people, the source is other online platforms such as TikTok and Twitch (Hasam Piker is a huge Twitch personality, for example). For many of all ages, they live in communities where pretty much everyone thinks this way, whether it be a blue city or just their own family or their own ethnic group. Often a clergyman or church or synagogue group is part of the echo chamber (in which case Trump-hate is not a religious substitute but is considered consistent with their religion as a sort of “just war”), and of course many Democrat politicians and spokespeople, as well as celebrities, artists, authors, and public intellectuals.

The Foundry.

What’s behind the alarming spike in leftist political violence?

In the past two years, President Donald Trump has faced three assassination attempts, with the most recent one arguably coming Saturday night at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Members of his administration have also faced violent threats. Last year saw the assassination of Charlie Kirk, one of Trump’s most prominent supporters, and some on the left have celebrated the assassination of a health care CEO, Brian Thompson.

Just last week, leftist podcaster Hasan Piker suggested in a New York Times interview that Thompson deserved to die because he “was engaging in a tremendous amount of social murder.” Piker argued that “the systematized forms of violence, the structural violence of poverty, the for-profit, paywalled system of health care” justified the assassination.

Also, last year, Virginia elected Jay Jones as attorney general, despite the fact that he previously sent messages fantasizing about shooting Republican former Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates Todd Gilbert. Jones stated at the time that he wished Gilbert’s young children would die in their mother’s arms, and he justified this death wish by saying, “Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy.” Jones later apologized for the texts after they were made public during his campaign for Virginia attorney general.

Meanwhile, Democrats largely looked the other way while riots in the name of the Black Lives Matter movement took over city streets in the summer of 2020, claiming the lives of at least 27. Many of them demonized Supreme Court justices who had voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, even as pro-abortion activists stalked these justices and tried to assassinate Brett Kavanaugh.

The Right is far from perfect, but this torrent of political violence isn’t an accident. It arguably traces back to the Left’s ideological foundation.

The New Neo.

It was early in Trump’s first term that I noticed people talking about killing Trump. These were people I knew and had known for five decades or more. I’d never talked about politics before with these people, and I hadn’t been aware that they’d had any especially deeply-held feelings about politics. But all of a sudden, each of them stated in a casual manner that they wanted Trump killed.

It was the casual manner that got me. Neither knew my political leanings, but it was assumed that I agreed with them – didn’t everyone who didn’t sport a tail, horns, and a swastika tattoo? With the first person I was so stunned I said nothing. But later, with the second person, I challenged him – to no avail.

You’ve probably seen similar public statements from Trump-haters over the years – on TV and on social media, for example. It’s become standard. In the last year I’ve heard it again from two different friends, each of them people I’ve known for many years and who’ve never spoken this way before. Neither have any history of being leftist firebrands and in fact each have long been political moderates.

But not on the topic of Trump, apparently. The first was over the phone, and my long-time friend said that if she ever was given a terminal diagnosis she would try to kill Trump. This seemed only slightly tongue-in-cheek and deeply unfunny. She went on to vent quite a bit on how much she hated him. My response was that I hope she never receives a terminal diagnosis.

While Hillary and Fauci are still above ground, there’s no time for Trump.

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They talk about the need to censor social media to control right-wing violence, while their media openly calls for assassination and violence—which then actually occurs.

Where are the Democrats we knew?

They demand that government take over health care because our private system is too costly, they even cheer when a health insurance company exec is murdered, but they don’t notice or care that government health and welfare programs in California and Minnesota lose billions in theft by predators who deliver no service. No one on the right has murdered a Somali Minnesota-Man millionaire. Nor is right-wing media suggesting such a thing would be understandable or justified.

They talk about “saving our democracy” with aggressive gerrymandering, registration of illegals, mail ballot abuse and preventing simple, fair rules and accountability.

They bemoan the failure of Obama and Biden to institute Wilsonian rule, complete with censorship, outlawing opposition parties, federal prosecution of political enemies, untouchable administrative agency powers…and then decry an “imperial presidency” that is more democratic and far less inclined to rule-bending.

They simultaneously claim that the most recent assassination attempt must have been staged but bemoan its failure. They now try to forget that they paid for the KKK to appear and lied about Trump praising them as “fine people.” They lied about Putin fixing an election, launched bogus impeachments, and…I could go on and on. People under Communist rule pretended to believe the party line, but what kind of loser tries to make himself believe nonsense when he does not have to?

Who are these people?

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A new report from Mississippi State Auditor Shad White has uncovered that illegal aliens in the state received at least $10.5 million in Medicaid benefits between 2023 and 2025.

“If this money had gone to benefit lawful citizens, it could have reduced our taxes, paid our teachers, paid our police officers—frankly, anything would be better than serving as a magnet for illegal immigrants to come to the United States,” White told The Daily Signal.

“Mississippi taxpayers deserve to know the cost of illegal immigrants in our state, even if it makes some folks uncomfortable,” White added. “My team will always tell you how your money in being spent, warts and all.”

You can imagine what it’s like in a Blue state.

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Pope Leo XIV met on Monday with Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally, urging unity to evangelize more effectively.

The papal audience at the Vatican was part of Mullally’s first trip abroad since taking up her position last month as the first woman to serve as the Church of England’s top cleric and the symbolic leader of the Worldwide Anglican Communion.

In an address published by the Vatican, Leo told Mullally and her delegation:

“While our suffering world greatly needs the peace of Christ, the divisions among Christians weaken our capacity to be effective bearers of that peace.”

Leo cited progress between the two churches on “historically divisive issues” but noted that “new problems have arisen in recent decades,” without specifying further.

In the Good Old Day, the Pope would have no patience for this kind of New Age cosplay.

Of course, in the Good Old Days, we had real Popes.

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Dr. Margaret Conolly, sister of Irish president Catherine Connolly, has joined an international flotilla attempting to challenge Israel’s long-standing naval blockade of Gaza, setting sail on Sunday, April 27, as part of the Global Sumud Flotilla.

The mission, which organisers describe as a humanitarian effort to deliver medical aid and open a maritime corridor to Gaza, is expected to face interception by Israeli forces, as with previous attempts over the past two decades.

Dr. Conolly’s participation comes against the backdrop of a sharp shift in Irish politics following the election of her sister, Catherine Connolly, a far-left independent who secured a landslide victory in October 2025. The president has been an outspoken critic of Israel and Western governments over Gaza, repeatedly accusing them of moral failure and aligning herself with pro-Palestinian positions.

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Yes, you read that correctly. The suspect in the most recent assassination attempt thought Trump didn’t really get shot in the ear at the Butler rally in 2024.

“But a man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest….”

New York Post.

Billionaire Sergey Brin has broken his silence on California’s proposed billionaire tax — invoking his Soviet upbringing as new details surface on a tense showdown with Gov. Gavin Newsom and his Trump-loving ‘gut influencer’ girlfriend.

Brin, the Google co-founder with an estimated net worth of $270 billion, discussed his family history under socialism in an extraordinary rebuke of the billionaire tax, which qualified for the November ballot after organizers submitted 1.6 million signatures.

“I fled socialism with my family in 1979 and know the devastating, oppressive society it created in the Soviet Union,” Brin told the New York Times in a statement.

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For years, Democratic politicians and their allies in the legacy media have spread the damnable Charlottesville Hoax: the propaganda myth that President Trump praised bigots who rioted in 2017 in the Virginia town.

Of course, the opposite is true, as Trump actually said: “I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and white nationalists because they should be condemned totally.”

Now, we learn that the entire hoax of Trump and Charlottesville is, itself, built upon another grand lie. The media and people like Joe Biden have continually pushed the narrative that some big, organic gathering of hateful Americans descended upon Charlottesville and represented some larger threat to the republic itself. But it now turns out that the “Unite the Right” rally was organized and financed by the highly partisan, left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center.

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Of all the things we’ve seen or heard since Saturday’s assassination attempt, this might be the most disturbing.

Tennessee’s Andy Ogles was one of the guests at the WHCD on Saturday and during the assassination attempt, he recounts hearing the most disgusting remark from one of the “journalists” present.

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We have a major problem.

Half the country read the manifesto written by the shooter, saw his friends and family admit that it sounds like him, and read the shooter’s own anti-Trump, leftwing posts on Bluesky.

The other half of the country – the half that listens to the fake news – is told we don’t have any motive and we shouldn’t jump to conclusions.

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Fox is reporting that the would-be assassin at last night’s correspondents’ dinner in Washington DC was politically motivated and wrote anti-Trump and anti-Christian screeds online before the shootings.

Note the conjunction: ‘anti-Trump’ and ‘anti-Christian’. Wonder how much those two circles overlap….

ATQUE: Key question: How did armed man get so close to Trump WHCD event?

The Other McCain.

But you knew that….

Very seldom do I use the same headline twice in one week, but seldom does an idea as monstrously bad as Samuel Monyn’s attract my attention. To summarize as succinctly as possible, Moyn’s argument is this: “Old people have too much stuff. We should kill them and steal their stuff.”

Have I exaggerated for the sake of brevity? Perhaps so, but the subtext of Moyn’s book-length argument (Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It) is pretty clear — everything wrong in America is because of old people, and therefore we should adopt policies to inflict harm on these elderly enemies. If you’re 65 or older, you are analogous to a Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994 and Professor Moyn is Radio Hutu. This is simply hate propaganda, demonizing the elderly, and nothing good will come of it. Both Ed Morrissey and Matt Taibbi have taken stabs at explaining what’s wrong with Moyn’s idea, as expressed in the professor’s New York Times op-ed.

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Fourteen years ago, the Southern Poverty Law Center named me a hate group of one. The honor wasn’t mine alone, I shared it with a sign outside a bar and a brand of gun oil.

What was behind the SPLC’s sloppy hate group designation of one man, a bar sign and other random items was its obsession with manufacturing a constant rise in ‘hate groups.’

Year after year, the SPLC would issue reports claiming that hate groups were increasing in number, and then fundraise off the urgent threat that they had invented.

I caught them doing it time and time again.

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One consequence of a hard-fought, very close election is blame-gaming.

Take the case of Virginia’s extreme gerrymander referendum, which passed by the narrowest of margins on Tuesday, 88,218, out of over 3 million votes cast. “Yes” forces outspent “no” campaigns by at least 4:1. Turnout in mostly rural areas again trailed that in urban and suburban jurisdictions. And, again, two-thirds of the mail-in voters opted for it. Democrats continue to dominate mail ballot harvesting, the least safe and lowest-integrity method of voting, while heavily subsidizing the failing US Postal Service to keep their dubious and untrustworthy voting scheme alive.

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These guys never learn. Go look up Prohibition, you silly cunts.

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I am shocked, shocked I tell you, to discover that Loudoun County schools, the district which had a dad arrested for speaking out about his daughter being raped by a trans student, and the school district which has doubled and tripled down on woke, would have done something like this.

They hired a “trans woman” (aka a man) to be a substitute teacher in their schools, and it turns out the man was making threats against schools online the whole time.

Babylon Bee.

Despite videos of masked Patriot Front members shouting seemingly unscripted mantras like “we sure don’t like black people, eh fellas?”, new reports suggest that such videos may have actually been staged by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

“This is completely unexpected. It just seemed so real,” said local man Matthew Porter. “Everything pointed to these people being very genuine, terrifying white supremacists. All of the crisp, dance-like choreography they had, the camera always posted to capture certain shots… it all seemed so grassroots and natural. I am in total shock that any of this could have been somehow orchestrated by outside forces.”

Even the FBI was reportedly left dumbfounded by the revelation, as the agents who had posed as Patriot Front members were convinced that the other members were real. “I remember when we set up the first meeting, and in comes this guy Dave who asks if ‘anyone here wants to do a racism’. I can’t believe it was all fake,” said Agent Mark O’Hara. “If you can fake something as real-seeming as the Patriot Front, I don’t even know what to believe.”