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Britain’s “one-in, one-out” migrant deal with France is off to a rocky start, with new figures showing that arrivals continue to vastly outnumber deportations despite government claims of progress.

Under the scheme agreed between Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron, migrants arriving illegally by small boat are to be returned to France in exchange for allowing approved asylum seekers to enter the UK via a legal route.

But while the Home Office confirmed the first family of three—including a small child—arrived in Britain after applying in France, just six people have been deported so far, compared to 1,157 arrivals in the same week.

Ministers insist the deal will deter dangerous Channel crossings. Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy described the pilot programme, running until June next year, as “just the beginning” and promised to increase deportations in the coming months.

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The French-Italian border at Menton has once again become the main entry point for illegal immigration into metropolitan France. Local authorities have recorded around 10,400 interceptions since the beginning of the year, with 200-300 people sent back each week. Although the figures do not reach the crisis levels at the end of 2023, attempted crossings have increased by 30% in recent weeks. The summer season could push interceptions to around 15,000 by the end of the year, a number similar to 2024.

The state’s response includes strengthening the gendarmerie, border police, customs, and soldiers from Operation Sentinelle.

Migrants often use express trains from Ventimiglia or steep routes monitored by drones and police patrols. Among those detained, citizens of Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco stand out, with 10% being unaccompanied minors. Although radicalized profiles are a minority, their presence highlights additional security risks that the authorities cannot ignore.

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If the Supreme Court wants to correct one of the worst decisions of the progressive era, one that violated basic separation of powers principles and vitiated the constitutional authority of the president as head of the executive branch, it will finally overturn Humphrey’s Executor v. U.S. after 90 years of poisoning the government well.

If you’ve never heard of the case, don’t be embarrassed. Most people, aside from government wonks and constitutional nerds, haven’t. However, it’s finally being brought to the fore because of President Donald Trump’s firing of government officials at so-called independent agencies, and it’s about time.

The Supreme Court just issued a temporary stay of lower court orders in Trump v. Slaughter that told Trump he couldn’t fire Rebecca Slaughter, a commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission. This followed other recent cases in which the justices stayed lower court decisions banning Trump from firing officials such as Gwynne Wilcox and Cathy Harris from the National Labor Relations Board and the Merit Systems Protection Board, respectively.

All of these government officials sued, claiming Trump lacked the authority to fire them. They relied on Humphrey’s Executor, which appears to be on life support. So, what was that case all about and why is it still important today?

The Foundry.

Where do young people learn that it’s OK to kill over political differences? Look no further than what they’re taught in school.

There, college professors routinely assign books by leaders of radical groups that murdered people to advance their political goals. These blood-drenched terrorists are presented as positive role models, and their violence is romanticized as advancing justice.

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Mexican intelligence services warned Ukraine earlier this summer that Mexican volunteers had joined the International Legion not out of solidarity, but to acquire advanced combat drone training for the benefit of drug cartels back home, according to a July report by the French outlet Intelligence Online.

Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU), together with military intelligence, has launched investigations into several Spanish-speaking units of the Legion to identify alleged cartel members from Mexico and Colombia. These individuals reportedly used private security companies in Latin America to reach the front, including at least three former members of the Colombian FARC, who infiltrated with Panamanian and Venezuelan papers.

According to a report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) report, cartel-linked fighters were especially focused on learning the latest tactics for using FPV (first-person view) drones in combat. “We welcomed them in good faith, but we realized Ukraine had become the epicenter of global FPV tactics. Some only come here to learn how to kill with a $400 drone, then take that knowledge elsewhere,” an SBU officer said.

I suggest we leave the Ukrainians to face the Russians by themselves.

The Foundry.

The assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk has brought many Americans together as they commemorate him, but it has also revealed the country’s political divisions.

In the past two weeks, vandals and other offenders have allegedly targeted Kirk memorials and TV stations involved in the suspension of late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel’s show.

Politico, a Voice of the Crust.

Republican leaders on Capitol Hill were already looking at a messy political battle over the looming expiration of billions of dollars in Obamacare subsidies. Then the anti-abortion advocates showed up.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? Politico was sure surprised.

With a possible government shutdown less than a week away, Democrats’ big ask is that Republicans agree to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies, which were expanded by Congress in 2021 and are set to sunset at the end of the year.

A nibble here, a nibble there, and all of a sudden the Democrats have won and the Republicans have lost. This has been going on all of my life. Republicans always believe that THIS TIME Lucy will actually hold the football.

Insurance premiums are likely to skyrocket this fall without an extension, and some Republicans are open to cutting a deal, mindful that a failure to act could have dire consequences in the midterms.

And the reason that insurance premiums at skyrocketing is that Obamacare mandates minimum care according to the Democrat virtue-signaling political agenda (such as contraception coverage for Catholic nuns) rather than what people actually need–and, more to the point, what people actually want.

Sine (far too many) Republicans are open to cutting a deal because they put winning in the midterms before what’s best for the country. These guys are the Deep State in a Clever Plastic Disguise.

But now prominent anti-abortion groups are wading into the debate, pounding the halls of Congress to make their case that the enhanced tax credits for ACA insurance premiums function as an indirect subsidy for services designed to end pregnancies.

Which they obviously are. Nibble, nibble, nibble….

The argument could make conservative Republicans who already loathed the policy dig in further against greenlighting an extension.

God, I should hope so.

It’s setting the stage for a major internal GOP power struggle that could pit hard-liners against moderates in more competitive districts, while also complicating the ability of Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune to allow a bipartisan deal to go through.

And it’s exactly this sort of shit that make people think that Congress sucks and will never do anything but suck. Hard to say they’re mistaken when all the evidence points that way. Want to know why Trump is President? Here you go.

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The Scandinavian model is often misrepresented as a humane and efficient form of socialism. In reality, it is a distinctly coercive and oligarchic form of statism.

Which is why Democrats really love it.

While the system preserves the formal legality of civilized concepts like human rights, justice, and private property, in practice, it operates on a Marxist-fascist foundation: it systematically violates the individual through taxation, regulation, and bureaucratic entrapment—leaving only a small, politically-connected class permitted to engage in a narrow, state-sanctioned form of commerce.

Which is why Democrats really love it.

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refugee—is sitting in her seat on the Charlotte, North Carolina, light rail, engrossed in her phone as she is riding home after work. A black male, Decarlos Brown, sits behind her and he suddenly stands up and quickly stabs her with a large pocketknife.

A few minutes later, she is dead, having bled out in the rail car, another young black male trying to comfort her and stop the bleeding with his shirt. Her killer mutters something about getting “the white girl” and steps off the train at the next stop, only to be quickly arrested.

There are numerous angles to this story, and they cut across nearly every debated social issue in this country from race to lenient judges to safety on public transportation.

ATQUE: N.C. Passes ‘Iryna’s Law’ After Refugee’s Stabbing Death

Newsbusters.

Along comes the hard-left Guardian US to save the day with an article by Adrienne Matei entitled “From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why strongmen rely on women at home.”

It’s a l-o-n-g and rambling piece, but one thing can be said in its favor: it doesn’t lack a sense of humor.

Thus, a “cultural historian” is quoted as saying:

“There’s been a reluctance to name this moment as fascism.”

Right! So much reluctance that Googling “Trump fascism” yields only 20.4 million results in 0.33 seconds.

“Tax Cattle”: coined by the YouTube giant hoe_math, whose channel I heartily recommend.

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In today’s financial system, what many people take for granted as foundational truths are actually deeply flawed assumptions or outright deceptions.

Below is a breakdown of commonly misunderstood financial concepts—reframed to reflect a more accurate interpretation of how the system really works.

I consider his analysis to be spot-on.

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Our reporter went on patrol with police in Jackson, Mississippi, which has a homicide rate 15 times the national average.

Perhaps not unrelated to the fact that it’s 81.8 African-American….

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Bell Hotel resident Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, 38, is to be sentenced at Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court after he was found guilty of five charges, including two of sexual assault, following an earlier trial.

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An Ethiopian asylum seeker who provoked nationwide protests when he sexually assaulted a 14-year-old schoolgirl and a woman near a migrant hotel in Essex has been convicted.

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The lawsuits involve computer models with zero predictive capability; conclusory assertions devoid of actual supportive evidence; and refusal to recognize Earth’s tumultuous climate history, powerful natural forces that caused momentous climate changes long before the fossil fuel era, written records and data over the past 200 years showing no unprecedented changes or trends in climate or weather, and an inability to separate natural from alleged human causes.

The Telegraph (UK).

GPs have been told they must stop dismissing patients following the death of a young woman who was turned away 20 times by the NHS.

Jessica Brady died from cancer in 2020, after her concerns were repeatedly brushed off with online consultations and she was not sent for tests.

Andrea and Simon Brady, her parents, have since campaigned successfully for the introduction of new guidance, named Jess’s Rule, in a case highlighted by the Telegraph.

How about that great government-provided health care? Don’t you wish we had a system like that in the U.S.?

No,  I didn’t think so. This is what happens when you put the Post Office in charge of your medical care.

The Times (UK).

Grooming gangs will be able to carry out their crimes with “impunity” if a new definition of Islamophobia is given the go-ahead, the Conservatives have warned.

Writing in The Times, Claire Coutinho, the shadow equalities minister, said that the definition risked intensifying the “culture of censorship” by creating a “special status” for one group over others.

She claimed that Labour was only pressing ahead with the new definition to stave off the threat posed by pro-Gaza candidates at the next election.

The Times (UK).

Teenagers who fail their English and maths GCSEs should not be forced to resit the exams unless they have a “realistic” chance of passing, the Commons education committee has said.

In a report published on Tuesday, the cross-party group of MPs urged the government to introduce three alternative pathways for the thousands of post-16 pupils who do not achieve a grade 4 in these core subjects.

It warned that the policy of mandatory resits was “not serving its purpose”, as more than 80 per cent of pupils who failed at 16 had still not passed by age 19.

It is exactly serving its purpose, which is to ensure that people who have gone through the educational system have actually learned what they were supposed to learn. This reflects the proglodyte ‘participation trophy’ mindset, and demonstrates that Britain is now what Democrats what America to become.

Hormonal contraception was made available to the public in 1960.

Abortion-on-demand was declared a constitutional right in 1974.

Connect the dots … if you can.

Victor Davis Hanson.

I’d like to return, if I could, to the brutal murder of the Ukrainian immigrant, Ms. Iryna Zarutska, who was killed on a light rail, as we saw from the video, in Charlotte, North Carolina.

I think the way to look at this, this was a horrible scab—this incident—but once it was pulled off, we saw a putrid wound underneath. And all of our pathologies that we really have to deal with were apparent and led to her death.

The first thing, of course, is she was blamed—I could not believe it—in some of the videos that she was not situationally aware. That she walked into an area where there was a suspicious-looking individual with a hoodie on—black Americans, that maybe they meant by their analyses that they have, statistically, higher prope

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The report also notes that a threat to kill Morrissey was also made by a deranged leftist on Bluesky prior to the singer’s CityFolk appearance in Ottawa.

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The outpouring of love and support for Charlie Kirk has been touching to see—especially considering that it has transcended the typical conservative ecosystem and burst into popular culture. In sporting events across the country over the past week, from New York City to Texas, Charlie’s life’s work was recognized and memorialized in front of millions of viewers.

However, beneath the surface, a more pernicious sentiment lingers. American leftists have cheered on Charlie’s unconscionable assassination, with a concerning number of them appearing to occupy key roles at American universities. While conservatives have highlighted the often radical and near-unanimously blue political affiliations of professors for some time, the reality is that the rot extends far deeper at these institutions.

The vast majority of university employees have nothing to do with teaching or research—they’re bureaucrats. According to the National Center for Education Statistics in 2023, just over 64% of all university employees are anything but faculty. The college where Charlie Kirk was murdered, Utah Valley University, is a quarter-billion-dollar-a-year enterprise. It is also one of the largest employers in the state, with 6,000 employees on its payroll. Of that number, about one-third teach students.

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In the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk assassination as well as the confirmation that alleged killer Tyler Robinson is a far-left ideologue and gay man living with a transgender partner, the public’s attention has once again turned to the issue of Antifa, an activist network that shares many similar political beliefs with the shooter.

Federal authorities are currently investigating the Discord sever groups used by Robinson in the lead up to the attack to find any potential co-conspirators. Discord has been identified as a common forum used by Antifa for organizing members for specific events while pretending as if their protests are random and “grassroots”.

In the meantime, the corporate media is once again running interference for Antifa, claiming that the group is nothing more than a gaggle of disconnected people without no affiliation other than they “agree to oppose fascists”.

Of course, simply declaring yourself the “good guys” does not necessarily make it so.

ALSO: Netherlands, Hungary Push To Designate Antifa As Terrorist Organization

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An anti-immigration protest involving hundreds of demonstrators turned violent in The Hague on Saturday, September 20th, as right-wing protesters clashed with riot police. Protesters set a car on fire, threw stones and bottles at police officers, and vandalised the office of the center-left D66 political party. The police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the crowd.

Many of the demonstrators were dressed in black, linked to Dutch nationalist and far-right groups. responded with tear gas and water cannons to disperse the crowd.

Sounds like an ordinary BLM/AnitFa riot to me.

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Alternative History books are fascinating. It’s endlessly engrossing to go over the “what ifs” of a different world. We’re all familiar with “what if the Nazis won” and “what if the South won the Civil War.” That’s some dark speculation, for sure. But it set my mind to wandering and dreaming up some other scenarios. Imagine worlds in which:

1. There’s still WWII, but this time Hermann Goring is thin.

2. Correlation DOES equal causation.

3. The car is invented before the wheel.

4. John Lennon writes “Imogene,” a loving tribute to Imogene Coca. The song is sung worldwide at funerals and after tragedies.

5. Ibarra Chocolate does not comply with the Mexican norm.

6. The Big Bopper survives the plane crash.

7. The names of Germany and Austria are reversed.

8. The ukulele has five strings, lending a quaint drone to Hawaiian music.

9. Space aliens visit Earth, but are only advanced in space travel, otherwise totally primitive, without a language.

10. J.K. Rowling’s “Hairy Potter” book series, about a hirsute ceramicist, is a hit with readers worldwide.

11. Gandhi decides to fistfight the British, one by one.

12. Beethoven’s sense of hearing is intact, but he is unable to smell like a normal person.

13. Leonardo da Vinci leaves all his sketch books in a tavern. His books and ideas are stolen by a guy named Milton.

14. The pyramids are made of styrofoam blocks with stone siding. They were built because the pharaoh lost a bar bet.

15. It’s very noisy because all insects have the ability to speak in Esperanto.

16. George Orwell’s “1985” depicts a dystopia which has free Pac-Man machines as its only redeeming feature.

17. The Olympic Games include “Snooker to the Death.”

18. Julius Caesar is only metaphorically stabbed in the back by Brutus, who leaks details of the salad he’s been working on.

19. Andy Griffith’s character in the “Andy Griffith Show” is named Sheriff Andy Griffith.

20. You can’t bet your bottom dollar, because it is forbidden worldwide.

What if Trump actually were the New Hitler, and wore an orange mustache and only ate vegetables?

The New Neo.

In the wake of the Kirk assassination, I’ve been thinking about how the background has been to stir up hatred against the right and especially white people as a group. White people themselves are supposed to hear the message and to feel guilty about their supposed “privilege” and even their very existence, whereas people of other races are encouraged to blame all their woes on white people – not just historically, but now.

So much has happened since the year 2020 that it’s easy to forget the whole “anti-racist” movements which – as with so many projects on the left – had an Orwellian looking-glass sort of title, because it represented the furtherance of racist thought. It looked at people as almost nothing but their races, and all white people were judged harshly because of being white. At the time, I wrote a post titled “White privilege, white guilt: whites as the new Jews.”

And MAGA are the New Niggers.

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The collapse of the German economy continues unabated. The German Engineering Federation (VDMA) now expects a dramatic decline in production this year and lashes out at the federal government.

Socialist managerialism will do that to you.

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Many Americans are simply not aware of how much of the global economy survives by siphoning cash and jobs from the US through immigration (legal and illegal). If they knew, they would probably have demanded that the door on H-1B visas be slammed shut much sooner.

 

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According to the Department of Homeland Security, New York, Illinois, and California appear intent on releasing “thousands of criminal illegal aliens back into American communities.”

DHS said Saturday that Illinois and New York have responded to a DHS request about the issue and told the government they won’t support lawful DHS immigration enforcement.

The department said California did not respond.

A place where you have to buy a license to watch TV.

And people wonder why the place is so messed up….

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani has had a fantastic week. The Democratic Party’s nominee for mayor of New York City, a self-avowed democratic socialist, secured the endorsement of Kathy “the Hack” Hochul, the Empire State’s bland, witless governor.

As colorless as nitrogen, Hochul discovered that Mamdani is her man to occupy Gotham’s City Hall. And it took her only 11 weeks since the Democrat primary to do so. That’s leadership.

Meanwhile, a Marist University survey of 885 likely voters found that Mamdani, a 33-year-old state assemblyman from Queens, enjoys 45% support. Mamdani is the tallest bush in a grove of shrubs. Former Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo, running as an independent, earned 24% in that survey. Guardian Angels founder and Republican hopeful Curtis Sliwa stood at 17%. Finally, incumbent Democrat Mayor Eric Adams, also competing as an independent, brought up the rear at just 9%. (Error margin: plus or minus 4.1%.)

The Telegraph (UK).

French police filmed migrants on their phones but did nothing to stop them leaving the beaches as up to 900 reached the UK on Friday.

After nine days of bad weather stopped any boats crossing, the people-smuggling gangs took advantage of calmer seas to dispatch up to 10 dinghies crammed with hundreds of migrants.

The exodus came as two more Channel migrants – an Eritrean man and an Iranian man – were deported to France on Air France passenger flights on Friday. That brings the total removed under Sir Keir Starmer’s “one in, one out” deal to three this week, although at least five have been pulled off flights after late legal appeals.

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Feminism views women as a kind of defective men, and had nothing to say about the biological interests of actual women.

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The UK faced another surge of migrants crossing the English Channel on Friday, with at least 800 people making the journey in small boats, according to GB News.

This comes after a frustrating week in which only two migrants were returned to France under the government’s repatriation efforts.

After nine days of windy weather had prevented crossings, conditions improved overnight, prompting people smugglers around Calais and Dunkirk to launch multiple small boats into the Channel.

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I know the stories we’re told: that the country stands for opportunity, fairness, and freedom. That it’s the best country in the world. Unfortunately, it’s not true. After travelling to over 100 countries and building a life for my family in Panama, where we enjoy real privacy, entrepreneurial freedom, and control over our future, I’ve seen just how far Canada has fallen.

If you’re still inside the Canadian system trying to build something meaningful, you need to hear this: Canada has declared war on prosperity. It’s no longer a land of opportunity. It’s a bureaucratic machine that punishes productivity, vilifies success, and taxes ambition into extinction.

In this article, we’ll look at what’s happening in Canada, from the capital gains crackdown to wealth destruction policies. I’ll show you where the numbers prove the system is collapsing, why this is about control, not fairness, and most importantly, how you can build your Plan-B before it’s too late.

Canada is what the U.S. would be if there hadn’t been a revolution.

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Spanish police have arrested 19 illegal immigrants on suspicion of abusing, torturing and killing 50 of their fellow passengers on a boat as they crossed the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to the Canary Islands.

Remix News reported on the brutal torture and murders earlier this month, but now, it appears the police have narrowed their investigation to at least 19 suspects.

The Spanish coast guard said they rescued the remaining passengers on the 20-meter boat, which had drifted some 400 kilometers from the coast, on Aug. 24.

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On 12 September, UK child and adolescent psychiatristSami Timimi published “When mental-health diagnoses become brands, the real drivers of our psychic pain are hidden” in the Globe and Mail, a Canadian newspaper.

In his superb article, Sami carefully explains how he arrives at his painful conclusion:

You see there is a truth that we (in the mental-health business) hope no one will notice – we literally don’t know what we are talking about when it comes to mental health.

An obvious problem is that all definitions of psychiatric disorders are subjective. They are not objective facts such as a broken bone is. This means they can be expanded in a myriad of ways to capture a kaleidoscope of distress, alienation, and dissatisfaction, and that psychiatric diagnoses are consumer brands, not medical diseases.

In medicine, a diagnosis is aimed at determining which disease explains a person’s symptoms and signs, which enables effective matching of a treatment to address specific disease processes.

This is not the case in psychiatry. And all psychiatric drugs have nonspecific effects that are not directed against some cause of a disease. Their effects are similar to those of alcohol, narcotics, and other brain-active substances. 

Psychiatry, like astrology or numerology, is a pseudo-science. Actually, you could say that “economics” is equally a pseudo-science. Real Science is characterized by two things: (1) Measurement and (2) The ability to make reliable predictions. Pseud0-sciences use measurement to bolster their claims, but none of them can make reliable predictions.

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Spanish police have launched a murder investigation after survivors reported that dozens of migrants were killed during a deadly Atlantic crossing from Africa, with the alleged perpetrators now housed in reception centers in the Canary Islands.

According to witness testimony, between 20 and 30 young sub-Saharan men aboard a migrant boat carrying 320 people from the West African coast conspired to kill fellow passengers during the 15-day voyage.

Seventy-two migrants were accused of witchcraft, murdered in cold blood, and their bodies thrown overboard before the vessel arrived in the Canary Islands on Aug. 25, according to an OKdiario report.

A total of 248 migrants survived the journey and are now residing on the Spanish archipelago.

Judicial sources said the killings began after disputes over food and water supplies. When theft accusations failed to justify attacks, the suspects turned to witchcraft allegations as grounds to kill. Survivors told police that groups of young men carried out the murders in an attempt to assert control and preserve resources.

The National Police are now working to identify all of the suspects, who are believed to be spread across shelters on the islands.

The Turd World is not sending us their best.

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The White House opened the week by declaring war on the radical left and its dark-money NGO network in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s political assassination. President Trump and senior officials are zeroing in on George Soros’ Open Society Foundations (OSF) empire, which they say has sown years of chaos nationwide, with Trump even hinting at potential RICO charges.

A new report from Capital Research Center (CRC), a think tank tracking foundations, charities, and other nonprofits, has revealed OSF – now run by George’s ultra-leftist, radical son, Alexander – has funneled over $80 million into groups linked to terrorism or extremist violence.

CRC investigative researcher Ryan Mauro published the bombshell report titled “Soros’ Open Society gave $80 million to pro-terror groups,” and this may be the breakthrough in evidence the Trump team needs to prosecute OSF under RICO.

The Times (UK).

Ministers have been urged not to give up on welfare reform and end a system where a new graduate can take home less than someone on sickness benefits.

Pat McFadden, the work and pensions secretary, has said that he wants to focus on helping young people find work and is expected to make a push for better employment support his early priority after taking over the job this month.

A backbench revolt forced Sir Keir Starmer to retreat on an attempt to cut £5 billion from disability benefits, and McFadden said this week that there would be no further action to reform personal independence payments (Pip) for another year.

Ponder a world in which such a headline reflects reality.

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The most recent numbers from The Nation’s Report Card, put out by the National Assessment of Educational Progress, are depressing when it comes to the present state of American education and the future of our nation.

The report, based on test results from 2024 shows a 4% drop since 2019—the last time the assessment was taken—in science scores for eighth grade students, and a 3% decline for high school seniors in both math and reading.

Even more alarmingly, less than one-third of eighth graders scored at or above the NAEP proficiency in science, and more than a third scored below even the most basic knowledge mark. The declines were even more pronounced for lower-performing students.

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Earlier this month a British academic named Michael Rainsborough wrote an insightful essay on the United Kingdom’s descent towards civil war. Once the head of the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, Rainsborough was dismissed from his post for committing a series of “thought crimes.” His final offense came in the form of a co-authored essay entitled, “The British Road to Dirty War,” in which he and former colleague David Betz diagramed “the hollowing out of British democratic institutions” and the dangerous rule of a permanent governing class filled with authoritarian elites.

Which elites will not enjoy what is in store for

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It turns out that Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old assassin of Charlie Kirk, was not simply a leftist radical. He was also living with Lance Twiggs, a man in the process of ‘transitioning’ into a woman. The FBI says the two were romantically involved. It seems likely, then, that Robinson may have slain Charlie Kirk to avenge the honor of his transgender lover.

Both Robinson and Twiggs came from conservative families in Utah. They did not learn gender ideology there. They appear to have been radicalized online, which can be a sinkhole of unfathomable depravity. There is evidence that both young men were also involved in the “furry” world—a sexualized subculture of humans who wear animal costumes.

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All transgenders are not murderers, but it is more than a little disturbing how many killers these days turn out to be trans. The female who massacred children at a Christian school in Nashville two years ago? Trans. The male who shot up a Catholic church in Minneapolis last month, killing two children at prayer? Trans. In Vermont, the trial of a trans person charged with murdering a U.S. Border Control agent in January has begun. Teresa Youngblut is part of the Zizians, a cult of trans people suspected in six serial killings across America.

In the past, the medical profession recognized gender dysphoria as a mental disorder, and recommended treatment. But over the last decade or so, under pressure from activists and their politician allies, transgenderism has become normalized, even valorized. Among the Zoomer generation—the same as Tyler Robinson and his lover—transgender identification has soared.

Power Line.

Minnesota’s feckless Democratic Gov. Tim Walz formally announced today that he’s running for a third term.

The Hill newspaper is out with a story that begins with a Walz quote,

I’ve always tried to do what’s right for Minnesota. And I’ll never stop fighting to protect us from the chaos, corruption, and cruelty coming out of Washington.

“Corruption”? The biggest feature of Walz’s tenure is the $1 billion of fraud verified committed against state government welfare programs. I suppose he could go for $2 billion in another term.

UPDATE: Tim Walz, Unusually Dishonest For a Politician

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In the spring of 1975, the Red Army Faction, more popularly known as the Baader-Meinhof gang, stormed the West German Embassy in Stockholm and murdered two of its staff before setting the building ablaze. In its aftermath, a British tabloid printed a headline whose bluntness masked its profundity: ‘So, Who’s Sick?‘

It was less a headline than a rhetorical diagnosis, reflecting the bewilderment at these seemingly senseless acts of terror. Was it the bourgeois world condemned as corrupt by these self-styled revolutionaries, or was it the revolutionaries themselves, who in their righteous fervour appeared possessed by demons?

The question was never one that admitted an easy answer in that moment, and it remains just as piercing in ours. For when, half a century later, Charlie Kirk was struck down in the midst of civic debate, and when voices on the ‘progressive’ Left respond not with horror but with unholy glee, we are forced once again to confront the same ambiguity.

John Hinderaker.

Murders are following upon each other so rapidly that it is easy to forget them. Conservatives were horrified by the slaughter of Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte train, but the murder of Charlie Kirk came so soon after that some fear Zarutska, and the liberal ethos that led to her death, will be forgotten.

If we go back another week or two, we come to a third horror that briefly dominated the headlines but now is absent from them, except locally: Robin Westman’s attack on Annunciation School in Minneapolis. We are reminded of that crime by the funeral for a ten-year-old victim that was held yesterday.