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The Bouches-du-Rhône juvenile court sentenced two men to long prison terms for the rape of an 18-year-old woman near the SNCF train station in Aix-en-Provence in December 2021.

“It’s a brutal rape par excellence,” said the victim’s lawyer, Maud Bertrand, to Le Figaro.

The court handed Mohamed Annabi, a 29-year-old Algerian, a 17-year sentence that includes a two-thirds security period, a permanent ban from French territory, and registration in the FIJAIS (automated judicial file for perpetrators of sexual or violent offenses). His accomplice, Amen-Allah Handiri, a 20-year-old Tunisian who was 17 at the time of the crime, received 15 years.

The attack took place on one December night in 2021. Around 3 a.m., the victim, referred to as Anissa, left the Shakespeare Club on Place Ramus. Walking home alone, she was approached by the two men, then aged 17 and 25, who spoke to her in Arabic. Sensing their pursuit, Anissa called her boyfriend in an attempt to scare them off. “Stop, I don’t know you!” her boyfriend shouted through the phone, before hearing crying and then silence.

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Utah Department of Public Safety official Beau Mason and FBI Special Agent in Charge Robert Bohls briefed reporters with new details on the political assassination of TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk and the ongoing manhunt for the suspect who remains at large. Separate from the press conference, the Wall Street Journal confirmed (following an initial report by Steven Crowder) that the “older-model .30 caliber hunting rifle” used in the assassination contained “ammunition engraved with expressions of transgender and antifascist ideology inside the rifle.” Additional details about the weapon will be provided at the end of this note.

The FBI also has “good video footage of this individual,” and the bureau has “tracked his movements,” FBI agent Bohls told reporters.

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In the immediate aftermath of conservative influencer and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was fatally shot in the neck at Utah Valley University, MSNBC’s Katy Tur disgustingly took to her eponymous show and smeared him for his politics. She was also joined by vile former Republican strategist Matthew Dowd, who also attacked Kirk while his life was dangling by a thread.

While playing video of the panicked crowd scattering after the shot was fired, Tur diabolically described Kirk as “a divisive figure, polarizing, lightning rod. Whatever term you want to use.”

She then seemingly asked MSNBC political Allen Smith “why” someone would want Kirk dead. “One of MAGA’s most prominent voices online. He hosts a near-daily podcast. He opines on almost everything. He’s been very closely aligned with the President since his initial run for office in 2015-2015,” he said.

My brother-in-law, who uses X (as I do not) sent me an entire page of leftoid tweets saying things like “Do Matt Walsh next!” and “Do Trump next!” and “Keep up the good work!”. Which only goes to show that the political violence in America these days comes from the Left, not from the Right.

Perhaps this will be the “9/11” event that convinces the Right to quit playing by the rules while the Left ignores them and does whatever it likes. We’ll see. But I think it will get very ugly very soon.

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Of course, if she had been, she would have run away as fast as she could.

UPDATE: Elon Musk Commits $1 Million To Murals Of Iryna Zarutska Nationwide, Turning Public Spaces Into Culture War Battlegrounds

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Communist Cuba’s national power grid collapsed for the fourth time in less than a year, the state run power company said Wednesday.

“There has been a total disconnection of the Electric System, SEN, which may be associated with an unexpected outage of the (thermal power plant) CTE Guiteras,” the National Electric Union said.

The grid operator said that causes are being investigated and that the restoration process has already begun.

Ah, yes, the gracious life in the Worker’s Paradise….

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Repealing the Jones Act would be an obvious first start.

Imagine Detroit reborn: small, modular nuclear reactors power a humming, cutting-edge shipbuilding industry along with a range of factories connected by air, sea, and land, as advanced drones ferry cargo between them. This revived manufacturing hub employs someone from nearly every extended family, and the abundant clean energy fueling it in turn underpins high-quality education, healthcare, and public transport services for residents. Detroit leads the reindustrialization of the U.S. economy, amplifying manufacturing independence, resilience, and national security.

This future is within reach; the raw material exists to support many more maritime boomtowns, combining new logistics modes with living well on America’s ocean coasts and the Great Lakes and rivers irrigating the Midwest. Executing a strategy to achieve this potential starts with identifying which aspects of business as usual must evolve.

Moving cargo on the water is by far the most efficient means of transportation and accounts for 80 percent of global trade. But the United States can’t use its abundant coastlines and rivers to reinvigorate domestic supply chains—or, if necessary, to sustain a wartime economy—largely because it makes and crews so few commercial ships. Last year, the United States delivered zero, while China delivered over 900. This deficit poses a massive and growing risk to national competitiveness and security.

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If they are Union members, I wouldn’t hire them either.

Wall Street Journal.

American high-school seniors’ scores on major math and reading tests fell to their lowest levels on record, according to results released Tuesday by the U.S. Education Department.

Twelfth-graders’ average math score was the worst since the current test began in 2005, and reading was below any point since that assessment started in 1992. The share of 12th-graders who were proficient slid by 2 percentage points between 2019 and 2024—to 35% in reading and 22% in math.

There also were drops in the proportion of students who were able to reach at least a basic level of performance, a tier below proficiency.

The results are from tests that are part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, administered to tens of thousands of students in early 2024.

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What will Germany look like in 2050? The outspoken deputy head of the German police union (DPolG), Manuel Ostermann, published an excerpt from his book on X about what he sees as the perils of mass immigration. His post described Arab clans dominating big cities in 2050, Sharia law, child marriage, grooming gangs, and a host of other ills. Now, the European Union has censored his post from being seen across the entire continent in a major escalation against a public official, one who is considered one of the leading voices of tens of thousands of German police officers, and a voice frequently appearing in major German news outlets, including Welt and Bild.

Jean Raspail, call your office….

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Woe to the British, particularly the British who are actually British and are today being forced by their ruling class to be unwilling cattle subject to the unrestrained exploitation, looting, and raping of the Third World barbarians their betters imported. There’s a lot of raping going on, and the real problem seems to be that normal British people don’t want their daughters raped. But their rulers do; it’s reasonable to assume that you want the foreseeable consequences of your actions. Recently, when one girl pulled a knife on some scumbag who was trying to molest her, someone got arrested. You’re not going to be surprised to find that it was the girl who was defending herself and her sister.

Britain is now a classic anarcho-tyranny, where the catspaws of the ruling class are free to pillage and abuse while the full weight of the once legitimate government comes down on those who would protest or resist.

Raise the flag of your own country?

That’s a hate crime but fly high the pride and Palestinian banners.

CNBC, a Voice of the Crust.

A new push by states to tax the real estate of the wealthy has sparked a backlash among brokers and potential buyers, who say the taxes punish the most important local spenders.

Politicians don’t give a shit, as long as they get more of Other People’s Money to spend on buying the votes of the Underclass.

From tax hikes on pricey second homes in Rhode Island and Montana to Cape Cod’s proposed transfer tax on homes over $2 million and the L.A. mansion tax, state and local governments see a revenue gold mine in the pricey properties of the wealthy.

Democrats never see a dollar without hatching some scheme using the power of the State to steal it.

“It’s a smack in the face to people who just spend money here,” said Donna Krueger-Simmons, sales agent with Mott & Chace Sotheby’s International in Watch Hill, Rhode Island.

And deliberately so. Democrats think that if you have more money than they do, you must have stolen it from someone like them.

The tax hikes are being driven by tighter state budgets and populist anger over housing costs. States are looking to offset budget cuts expected from the new tax and spending bill in Washington. At the same time, the housing market has become a tale of two buyers, with the middle class and younger families struggling to afford homes while the luxury housing market thrives from wealthy all-cash buyers.

I guess they don’t teach the fable about the Golden Goose in school any more.

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France and Spain have overtaken Germany as the top destinations for asylum seekers in the EU, new figures show.

By June 2025, France had received 78,000 asylum applications, Spain 77,000, and Germany 70,000—ending Germany’s long run as the main destination in Europe.

Venezuela is now the leading country of origin for asylum seekers, with nearly 49,000 requests—up by almost a third from last year. Martin Wagner from the International Centre for Migration Policy Development linked the surge to the Trump administration’s tougher immigration rules in the United States, prompting more Venezuelans to look to Europe instead.

Because Venezuelans can enter the EU without a visa and stay for 90 days, many apply for asylum only after arriving in Europe, Wagner noted.

The invasion proceeds apace.

New York Post.

Dem leaders, media silent after release of horrific video showing Ukrainian refugee’s slaughter on bus.

UPDATE: GoFundMe pulls horrific fundraisers for ex-con Decarlos Brown Jr. accused of murdering Ukrainian refugee on train (Emily Crane/New York Post)

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More L.A. dystopia. California is establishing a reputation as the place where crooks congregate (and vote for more crooks).

Time to leave.

The Guardian, a Voice of the Woke.

The degeneration of British culture proceeds apace.

And just like that, it’s over for the Dems in the 2026 midterms. Maybe even the 2028 general election. Maybe this is even the final nail in their creaky, splintering, mentally ill, Marxist coffin.

Right now, they’re trying to ignore it, the way they tried to pretend Hunter Biden’s laptop didn’t exist back in 2020. They were successful enough that time to push their vote machine over the finish line in Biden/Harris’s favor, but that won’t happen this time. This story, this image, is already out there.

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But then, the video emerged. It’s chilling and terrifying, the horror that every urban female (and plenty of males) fears. The still image of the moment the madman’s knife begins its descent is the most damning optic I’ve seen in years, and it will now become the face of the modern Democrat party.

ALSO: HERE WE GO AGAIN: Legacy Media is SILENT on Brutal Murder of Ukrainian Refugee in North Carolina

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The FBI is investigating a suspected Chinese cyber campaign in which hackers impersonated Rep. John Moolenaar, R-Mich., the chair of the House committee on U.S.-China competition, in emails sent to trade groups, law firms, and government agencies ahead of high-stakes trade talks with Beijing.

“We will not be intimidated,” Moolenaar wrote in a statement to The Wall Street Journal.

The emails, which appeared to come from a nongovernment address, sought input on draft sanctions legislation and contained malware linked to APT41, a hacking group believed to work with China’s Ministry of State Security, sources told the Journal.

Moral: Don’t use e-mail for official stuff.

Winston Churchill:

I declare to you, from the bottom of my heart, that no Socialist system can be established without a political police. Many of those who are advocating Socialism or voting Socialist today will be horrified at this idea. That is because they are short-sighted, that is because they do not see where their theories are leading them. No Socialist Government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance. And this would nip opinion in the bud; it would stop criticism as it reared its head, and it would gather all the power to the supreme party and the party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of Civil servants, no longer servants and on longer civil. And where would the ordinary simple folk—the common people, as they like to call them in America – where would they be, once this mighty organism had got them in its grip?

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Just in case.

Notice how well these rules work for Real Life even if you aren’t in prison.

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Having lived in Australia for the past three years, I sense that this country is the least advanced down the road towards the multicultural dystopia confronting much of Europe.

That is not to say there is room for complacency: Australia has its own canaries in the coal mine, echoing trends observable across the Western world. Yet relative prosperity, firm immigration policies, a distinct welfare regime (mandatory health insurance, means tested pensions), a robust federal system, and above all a unique electoral framework of three-year cycles and compulsory voting all help, willy-nilly, to keep politicians on a short leash and broadly tethered to the popular will.

The greatest safeguard against social fracture and disintegration in Australia, however, is not institutional design but rather watching Britain implode in real time. Many Australians, still bound by ties of kinship and tradition to the old country, see in the United Kingdom both a cautionary tale and an anti-role model: a once-settled, relatively harmonious state busily teaching the world how to dismantle itself through the enthusiastic embrace of liberal dogma.

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The chief difference between the First World and the Turd World is tribalism.

This is an excellent presentation with Matthew Syed.

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Six years after California legalized marijuana, the bodies keep piling up. Earlier this year, six men were murdered in the Mojave desert. Four of the Latino men had been burned after being shot with rifles. In 2020, seven people were killed at an illegal pot operation in Riverside County.

Violence like this was supposed to disappear after legalization. Legalization advocates argued that making the drug trade legal would end the grip of the cartels. Instead the legal market has failed and the cartels are taking over sizable parts of California and the rest of the country.

California’s legal drug revenues have fallen consistently as have those in other legal drug states including Colorado whose model helped sell the idea that drug money would fix everything.

Despite falling revenues, Colorado legislators brag about $282 million in drug revenue. That number may sound high, but it’s a drop in the bucket considering the money that the state and cities like Denver are spending on homelessness, drug overdoses and law enforcement.

Newsbusters.

On Friday morning’s The National Report on Newsmax, reporter Jason Mattera presented a piece highlighting evidence that the mass shooter in Minneapolis chose to target a school in part because it was a gun-free zone, citing the Crime Prevention Research Center’s Dr. John Lott.

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If the Narrative Media are looking for fascism, let them check the other side of the pond.

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News broke yesterday that a jet carrying European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen had to land using paper charts after its GPS navigation systems were apparently jammed by Russia. Traveling to Plovdiv in Bulgaria, VDL’s jet apparently circled for an hour before the pilot took the decision to do things the old-fashioned way and consult the map.

Such an incident targeting a head of not-quite-a-state is shocking to say the least, but serves as a neat metaphor for relations between Russia and Europe in recent years (decades?): European liberal internationalists assume old norms apply -> Russia disagrees and demonstrates that it views violence as a legitimate tool of national policy -> Europeans left stunned.

Some will remember the images of German diplomats guffawing at the United Nations in 2018 as Donald Trump admonished Germany for placing itself at the mercy of Russia for its energy supplies. Fast-forward to 2022 and suddenly Trump’s speech wasn’t so funny, and anyone who cares to bring up a chart of German industrial production can see the fruits of the lack of imagination of Germany’s leaders. Germany’s factories are now struggling to replace lost production for civilian applications with new production for military applications. But how to do this without cheap energy?

So, yes, violence is back as a tool of national policy. Russia is unapologetic about this. So is Israel. So is the United States if you consider the decisiveness of using B-21 bombers to drop bunker busters on Iranian nuclear facilities. Hamas and the Houthis are certainly unapologetic and China has also been stepping up the frequency and scale of ‘rehearsals’ for the invasion of Taiwan while the Chinese navy and coast guard have had semi-regular clashes with the Philippines over territories that China claims as its own through the ten-dash line. Those Chinese territorial claims are not supported by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, but that is really part of the point.

The Chattering Class in the U.S. is spending its time running around in circles and jumping up and down about the supposed ‘authoritarianism’ of Donald Trump, in the meanwhile ignoring the actual authoritarian regimes in Russian and China. This will not end well.

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American left-wing heroes are proving to be a creepy bunch.

So what do some of the most renowned “resistance” left-wing heroes have in common other than shared hatred of conservative America?

They are either criminals, pathological liars, or self-described performance-art victims.

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As an older millennial, my high school and college summers were defined largely by the jobs I held. Not many of today’s teens can say the same.

Once a rite of passage, teen jobs are now endangered. Just 35% of 16- to 19-year-olds worked last summer, down from 54% in 2000.

It’s a big deal.

My only purpose in working as a teen was to earn as much money as possible. But I now realize the experience and life lessons those jobs provided were far more valuable.

Low-wage, entry-level jobs provide the perfect opportunity for young people to learn the importance of key skills: showing up on time, getting along with co-workers, demonstrating respect and kindness toward customers who may lack both, and staying on task even when it is difficult or boring.

Learning these skills early has long-run benefits. Multiple studies link part-time work during high school to higher future wages and occupational status, and more consistent employment.

My first job as a teenager was six years in the Navy. Nothing compares when it comes to “showing up on time, getting along with co-workers, demonstrating respect and kindness toward customers who may lack both, and staying on task even when it is difficult or boring.”, I can assure you.

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Left-wing climate extremists targeted Barcelona’s Sagrada Família Basilica on Sunday, August 31, dousing parts of the building with red-colored powder in a protest against government inaction on wildfires. The group is venting its anger on the city’s major landmark, hoping to pressure authorities into taking action—but the backlash was immediate.

Radicals “Futuro Vegetal” shared photos and videos of the stunt on social media under the slogan “We act.” They claimed that the action aimed to highlight governmental responsibility for fires that devastated parts of Spain this summer.

This is why we can’t ever have nice stuffl.

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Outlets including the Associated Press and ProPublica accused Heather Honey of being an “election denier” for the doubts she has cast over the 2020 election outcome.

However, Honey’s supporters pointed to the fact that she has the receipts to back up her skepticism—including evidence that Pennsylvania, a hotbed for vote fraud by many accounts, finished with 121,240 more votes than voters.

“Receipts” is apparently the trendy slang term these days for documentary evidence.

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Financial markets have transformed; today, trading and speculation have merged into performance art. The “Meme Market” culture now permeates mainstream finance. There was once a time when CEOs reigned as icons leading powerful companies, but today, some executives who once managed companies now lead cults.

For example, Palantir, driven by “Palantarians,” rallied more than 100% this year. Its fans call CEO Alex Karp “Daddy?Karp.” Simultaneously, they ignore fundamentals, such as a 520x P/E ratio, a 12.9 PEG ratio, and a 108x price-to-sales. Yes, the company can certainly grow into some of that overvaluation, but most likely not all of it..

Another group remains unyielding to Michael Saylor, who heads up the one flailing company of MicroStrategy, which has been rebranded to just “Strategy,” to signify its new course of converting the company into a leveraged play on bitcoin. He regularly encourages his base with memes to further promote his leverage strategy. His followers congregate on Reddit and X under tags like “Irresponsibly?Long?$MSTR,” which tells you these investors have also disregarded fundamentals, like a 210x price-to-sales ratio, in favor of a “story.”

These are not investment conversations; they are fandom rituals.

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Tax-paying Americans have endured years of negative economic and social impacts from the illegal alien invasion facilitated under the Biden-Harris regime, which ultimately served their progressive billionaire friends, dark-money-funded far-left NGOs, and mega-globalist corporations.

No sane American voted for this invasion, yet Democrats allowed it to happen anyway – and many Americans have all suffered from the fallout, including one consequence still affecting tens of millions of working-class folks today: a housing affordability crisis fueled by the influx of millions of illegal third-worlders.

Adding millions of illegal third-worlders to the country through a manufactured invasion helped drive up the cost of housing and reduced affordability relative to wages in areas of heavy settlement, think of sanctuary states and sanctuary metro areas. Fiscally, illegals are a net drain – they create more in costs than they pay in taxes, such as soaking up government funds for public housing.

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There’s a useful and overlooked skill: Accepting a certain degree of hassle and nonsense when reality demands it.

This is not an enjoyable skill, which makes it overlooked. But you realize how useful it can be once you spot someone who lacks it. They struggle to get through the day, upset by the smallest hassle. I was once on a flight with a CEO – he let everyone know that’s what he was – who lost his mind after we had to change gates twice. I wondered: How did he make it this far in life without the ability to deal with petty annoyances outside of his control? The most likely answer is: In denial over what he thinks he’s in control of, and demanding unrealistic precision from subordinates who compensate by hiding bad news.

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We are merely the products of our parents’ choices.

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An epidemic of juvenile violent crimes endures. Why? The law presumes juveniles are intellectually and psychologically too immature to appreciate the wrongfulness of their violent ways and deserve leniency. But to borrow from Mr. Bumble in “Oliver Twist,” “If the law supposes that, the law is a ass—a idiot.”

Violent juveniles have what Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. characterized as the “bad man’s view of the law.” The justice elaborated, “If you want to know the law and nothing else, you must look at it as a bad man, who cares only for the material consequences which such knowledge enables him to predict.” From the bad man’s vantage point, the law is reduced to “prophecies of what courts will do in fact.”

Violent, recidivist juveniles are a crime wave unto themselves. Their recidivism is fueled by law enforcement indulgence: pretrial diversion, rehabilitation fantasies, probation or reform school. They know how to game the system. They migrate to jurisdictions notorious for leniency. Word of mouth among juveniles travels at warp speed. Adult gangs recruit juveniles to do their dirty work, knowing that law enforcement will look the other way or concoct excuses for juvenile crime.

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The bad news keeps coming for the Democratic Party. The New York Times reported Wednesday that the party “faces a voter registration crisis.” Among the 30 states and Washington, D.C., that register voters by party, Democrats dropped 2.1 million registered voters between 2020 and 2024. Republicans added 2.4 million.

Nevada contributed its share to that 4.5 million voter swing. In January 2020, Nevada Democrats had an 83,000-voter lead in registration. Earlier this year, Nevada Republicans briefly obtained a voter registration edge, although Democrats currently have a small lead.

“In Nevada, which releases particularly detailed data, Republicans added nearly twice as many voters under 35 to the rolls as Democrats did last year, state records show,” the Times reported.

These shifting political realities have led to months of introspection among Democrat power brokers. One of their conclusions is that liberals have neglected men, who are struggling badly. That is obviously true. Young men are increasingly disconnected, lonely, and more likely to engage in a variety of destructive behaviors.

Even if their motives are transparently political, things are so bad that even some liberals now want to help men.

Put women in camps. How will we get them there, you as? Not hard to tell: Put a big sign in from that says “SPA” and they’ll pay to get in.

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Tens of thousands of Australians took to the streets on Sunday, August 31, to protest against mass immigration, joining ‘March for Australia’ rallies in major cities.

The blowback spreads apace.

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n a case reminiscent of the underground prison break of Sinaloa cartel boss “El Chapo” Guzmán, a high-profile Chinese national code-named Chino — who prosecutors say trained Hispanic drug traffickers to operate on U.S. soil, and who has been described as one of the main suppliers of fentanyl and a financial architect for both the Sinaloa and Jalisco Nueva Generación cartels — has suspiciously escaped Mexican custody through a hole in a wall while under house arrest. According to President Claudia Sheinbaum, he had been on the verge of extradition to the United States.

Indictment documents identify him as Zhi Dong Zhang, born in Beijing in 1987, and describe “Chino” as approximately five feet seven inches tall, weighing 175 pounds. He bridged the Chinese and Mexican wings of cartel fentanyl networks — and, significantly, is alleged to have served as a rare operative between Mexico’s two largest rival trafficking groups, the Sinaloa and Jalisco Nueva Generación cartels.

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I’m not being hyperbolic. Everywhere you go, everything you do, every service you pay for—it feels like customer service simply no longer exists. And even worse, most places you go actually make you feel like an asshole for daring to be a customer in the first place. I catch myself constantly asking, “Why am I putting up with this shit?” right before looking down at the Cheez-Doodles or baseball cap I’ve somehow convinced myself I can’t live without.

Because here’s the ugly truth: service is dead. The only thing still alive is the endless, humiliating upsell and self-service. The drugstore, the bank, the dentist—it doesn’t matter. On a given day I interact with supposedly “best-in-class” businesses, and nearly every time I walk away feeling bent over a barrel. And this is when I’m choosing the premium option. The premium experience is still garbage.

Which is why, when I think about the future, I don’t see the next big opportunity as another buzzy app or sleek new product. It’s customer service. Full stop. Any company, in any industry, that actually treats its customers like human beings will have me throwing money at their doorstep. Charge me a premium, I don’t care. Just don’t interrogate me for my phone number every time I buy a bar of soap. Don’t act like handing you a credit card is some bizarre ritual you’ve never seen before. Pretend, at the very least, that you want my business.

Newsbusters.

This week, Axios ran a fascinating piece about the supposed “redefinition” of Americanism under President Donald Trump. Titled “Inside Trump’s American identity project,” Axios posited that “President Trump is wielding government power to enforce a more rigid, exclusionary definition of what it means to be American.” What would this new definition entail? “In MAGA’s telling, America is the heir to ancient European civilizations, built on a Judeo-Christian foundation of white identity, meritocracy, traditional gender roles and the nuclear family,” says Axios. “These tenets are cast as universal truths — and mantras such as ‘America is an idea’ or ‘diversity is our strength’ are dismissed as liberal fictions.”

First off, America is heir to ancient European civilizations — particularly with reference to private property, the common law system, traditions of free speech and freedom of religion, among others. Second, America is built on a Judeo-Christian foundation. Third, America is built on the meritocracy, which argues that the best and most productive ought to succeed in a free system. America is built on traditional gender roles and the nuclear family, as is every successful society in history. While America is an idea — or a set of ideas — those ideas must be reified in institutions and human behavior. And the notion that any nation can be built on a completely specious phrase like “diversity is our strength” is counterintuitive at best.

So, what is Axios attempting to do? Axios is attempting to link actual traditional definitions of Americanism with white supremacy. Never mind that all the ideas Axios cites as “traditional” fundamentally reject ethnic identitarianism: equality before law, for example, presumes racial indifference; Judeo-Christian religion rejects racial classification; the meritocracy is definitionally opposed to racial preferences; and traditional gender roles and the nuclear family are institutions held in common by people of all races. The goal is simple: a forced choice between “racism” and a left-wing definition of Americanism that bears zero weight.

Wokeness pretty much boils down to “White people bad, males bad, white males especially bad and responsible for all that’s wrong in the world.” They depend on white people hating themselves for this trick to work, and it’s getting to the point that white people are fed up.

The Daily Mail (UK).

Wealthy Cape Cod residents are scrambling over proposals for a ‘Taylor Swift tax’-style duty on their pearly coastal mansions.

The measure is designed to help locals who say the housing market in the millionaire’s playground, where homes have an average value of $755,000, is pushing them out.

The proposal is looking to tack on a two percent surcharge on luxury homes that sell for more than $2million, which would generate up to $56million a year.

The millions earned by the Massachusetts peninsula would be used for affordable housing.

Taxachusetts lives up to its name. Time to leave.

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Baltimore has become ground zero for many failures of the Democratic Party. The so-called progressive utopia pitched by Democrats over the years has proven to be a massive lie, leaving behind a crime-ridden, deindustrialized city plagued by drugs, murder, and a collapsing population now at 100-year lows.

The latest failure to emerge from Baltimore, however, isn’t tied to the failed social-justice agenda of leftists in City Hall. In fact, cracks are quickly forming in the residential real estate market.

Bloomberg reports that Baltimore is emerging as the first major crack in the hard-money lender residential real estate market bubble. This was fueled by years of overinflated appraisals, overextended loans, and now lenders slamming on the brakes.

Unlike traditional mortgages, private mortgage lenders are non-bank companies or investors that provide real estate loans, often outside of the traditional mortgage system (think big banks, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac). These companies are typically referred to as hard-money lenders because they lend based on the value or income potential of the property, rather than the borrower’s credit history.

Erick Erickson.

Everything has a political angle now. The left gets worked up by a jeans ad. The right gets worked up by Cracker Barrel removing both the cracker and the barrel from their logo. Red and blue, colors on the light spectrum and in nature, are now political. A 23-year-old transgender gunman killing children is political. The prayers offered are maligned as useless. It is all political.

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Public health officials have a long way to go before they regain the public’s trust, and a regrettable Thursday segment on CNN’s The Source showed just how little some in the industry and in the media care. Amid some weak questioning from host Kaitlan Collins, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who recently resigned as the CDC’s Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, trumpeted his use of the term “pregnant people” and his pronouns.

Collins teed up a clip from the day’s White House press briefing, “Dr. Daskalakis, you were specifically referenced today, during the White House press briefing. I’m not sure if you saw this, but I want—I want everyone to listen to what the press secretary had to say today.”

In the clip, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt declared, “One of those individuals wrote in his departure statement that he identifies pregnant women as pregnant people. So that’s not someone who we want in this administration, anyway.”

Collins then simply put the ball on the tee, “I want to give you the chance to respond to that.”

CNN, like all of the Wokerati, know that it is through redefining terms that the Left has successfully dominated discussions of public (and private) policy. Their objective is to eliminate ThoughtCrime, and the way you do that is by giving people no tool with which to express their divergence from the Narrative.

New York Post.

The mother of transgender Minneapolis mass shooter Robin Westman is not cooperating with police in the investigation, authorities announced on Thursday.

Mary Grace Westman, who worked at Annunciation Catholic School, which was targeted by the deranged 23-year-old gunman Wednesday morning, has not contacted police — nor responded to their attempts to reach her, Minneapolis police announced at a press conference Thursday.

“We have not been successful in talking to the shooter’s mother,” Police Chief Brian O’Hara said.

The Telegraph (UK).

Dozens of people tried to swarm the Bell Hotel, which houses migrants, on Thursday evening as police formed a line to prevent them getting closer to the building.

Chants of “send them back” and “go home” could be heard, whilst flares were set off. One demonstrator told The Telegraph: “It’s all kicking off. We are so angry. We won’t stop.”

The hotel became the focus for anti-immigration protests after the alleged sexual assault of a 14-year-old schoolgirl by an Ethiopian asylum seeker living there.

At Epping St John’s, a primary school nearby, locals called for the migrants to be removed and the hotel to be closed to them.

Lindsey Thompson, 58, questioned how children will cope when local schools reopen next week.

She told The Telegraph: “We have no choice. This is children’s safety. It’s really scary. It’s a terrifying time.

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As reported in the news feed over the last few days, the Swiss city of Lausanne has experienced several nights of riots, in which mischievous youngsters blocked the streets with burning containers and rubbish while throwing debris and shooting off fireworks at the police.

The sequence of events is similar to those we’ve become accustomed to in France over the past fifteen or twenty years: a “youth” was killed while fleeing from police, and his co-ethnics responded by rioting and burning stuff.

Early reports failed to mention the ethnicity of the unfortunate tyke. The only indication I could find was the visible melanin content of some of the boisterous rioters seen in photographs of the festivities.

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The prime directive of Western medicine, its golden rule, is expressed by the Latin maxim primum non nocere – first, do no harm. Unfortunately, the Covid era taught us that from the patient’s point of view, a better motto for our times might be caveat emptor – let the buyer beware.

Every medical student is taught that, first and foremost, they should not cause harm to their patients, and every doctor is familiar with this maxim. It is echoed in the Hippocratic Oath, and it forms the basis for the four pillars of medical ethics: autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice.

This rule, and the core tenets of medical ethics that it underpins, were all abandoned during the Covid era. They were replaced with a brutal, inhumane, and unethical martial-law-as-public-health approach to medicine. The results were unconstitutional lockdowns, prolonged school closures, suppression of early treatment, mandated vaccinations, and silencing of dissenting views. These abuses were justified by constant propaganda and lies from public health authorities, the medical establishment, the mainstream media, and medical professional associations.

The Telegraph (UK).

A transgender gunman who killed two children after opening fire during a Catholic school church service scrawled “Jew gas” and “for the children” on weapons used in the attack.

Robin Westman, formerly known as Robert, fired dozens of rounds of bullets through the stained glass windows of Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where children from the adjacent school were attending a start-of-term Mass.

Westman applied to change his name to Robin by deed poll in documents seen by The Telegraph. In the deed poll request, his parents justified the name change by saying Westman “identifies as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification.”

The request was granted by Dakota County in January 2020.