Steve Magness.

ATQUE: Bubble-Wrapped World: How Safety Culture Has Destroyed Our Sense Of Adventure

The Telegraph (UK).

I see that The Telegraph has adopted the American spellling of ‘jail’.

A girl who was raped by two teenage boys has attacked a judge’s decision to spare them jail sentences as being like a “rock straight in my face”.

The victim was 15 years old when she was raped in an underpass near the River Avon in Fordingbridge, Hampshire.

The two defendants, who are now 15, were also convicted of attacking a second victim, who was raped in a field in January 2025 at knifepoint. Another boy, now 14, was also convicted for aiding and abetting the second attack.

The boys filmed the attacks on their phones and later shared some of the footage online.

During sentencing at Southampton Crown Court on Thursday, the judge stressed the “seriousness” of the crimes and said the filming of the assaults had made them even “more serious”.

However, he said he wanted to avoid “criminalising” the “very young boys” and praised their behaviour during the trial.

The Telegraph (UK).

Sergei Krajev, 64, who was described by his family as a “wonderful husband, father, and grandfather”, died following the incident on Battersea Bridge.

Police were called to the scene at 12.33am on Monday. Officers performed emergency first aid on Mr Krajev, who was then taken to hospital by London’s Air Ambulance.

The Transport for London bus driver died on Tuesday. His family are being supported by specialist officers.

Gary Jones, 32, of Twickenham, was arrested at the scene.

The TImes (UK).

ergey Frolovichev, 46, is describing his “bat cave”. It is beneath the garden of his mansion in Hampstead, north London, which he has just spent £15 million — and more than five years — dismantling and rebuilding.

The room, the Anglo-Russian software supremo explains, can be accessed via a staircase from a corner of the living room, concealed by retracting floorboards — with the design inspired by his favourite film, The Dark Knight.

“It [the 2008 Batman film] was amazing, amazing special effects, everything,” says Frolovichev, who made a windfall by developing dating apps with his billionaire business associate, Andrey Andreev.

The Foundry.

This past December, whistleblowers came to me, and they started warning about what they believed to be massive Medicaid home health care fraud here in the state of Ohio. They weren’t just talking about a few bad claims. They were actually describing what they believed to be a systemic fraud pipeline right here in Columbus.

These whistleblowers told me providers were being pressured to rubber stamp home health care paperwork, and for people who actually didn’t medically need it. They said individuals would come into their office, ask for home health care services. Some appeared to be actually coached on what to say to get those services, with somebody many times who didn’t even speak English, so you had a translator in the office, and they were pushing aggressively for paperwork to be approved.

But these providers did the right thing. They conducted physical exams, they evaluated the person that was pushing for home health care services, and when the person didn’t qualify, they flat out denied them. They refused to rubber stamp Medicaid paperwork, which was the right thing to do.

I suspect this guy would not be inclined to pay any attention to Democrat-favored ‘gun control’ laws.

New York Post.

And women wonder why men don’t want to date them any more.

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The United Kingdom is no such thing.

The disingenuous promises of the recent past, such as devolution, multiculturalism, and “gender” (also known as the politics of biology), have disunited the country.

These have created irreparable fissures across our country’s body politic.

The carefully laid mortar, built over centuries between the state’s institutional building blocks, is coming off.

Sad, but there it is. Think of it as evolution in action.

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A Marina del Rey woman has admitted to running a voter registration scheme that allegedly exploited homeless people living on Los Angeles’ Skid Row in exchange for cash, cigarettes, and other small items, according to federal prosecutors.

Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong, 64, known as “Anika,” agreed to plead guilty to a felony charge of paying people to register to vote in federal elections, the Justice Department announced Monday.

Authorities say Armstrong spent years working as a paid petition circulator for California ballot measures before allegedly turning the operation into a voter registration scheme targeting vulnerable homeless individuals.

I’m willing to bet that she isn’t a Republican.

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The surveillance state has found its newest frontier: your car’s dashboard. What used to be a symbol of American freedom and independence is rapidly morphing into a high-tech cage that watches your every move and can override your decisions at will.

In a widely shared post on X, users detailed complaints pouring in about Subaru’s upgraded AI ‘EyeSight’ system now featured on the latest models.

Drivers report the system pouncing on brief glances away from the road – while Biden-era federal mandates prepare to make this level of surveillance mandatory in every new vehicle by 2027.

“Biden” and “fascism” seem made for each other.

The New York Times, Paper of Record of the Crust.

Even the most capable autocrats cannot rule alone.
In Russia, Vladimir V. Putin needs his circle of handpicked oligarchs; in Iran, the Revolutionary Guards and its allies in the business world protect the regime’s power; Viktor Orban transformed Hungary into an “elected autocracy” with the help of a few crucial judges, political enforcers and friendly tycoons. But to actually carry out the dirty work of consolidating and maintaining power, such leaders rely on help from a far greater number of lower- and midlevel people: military officers, secret police and bureaucrats.
Yet until recently, researchers paid little attention to how leaders convince and recruit ground-level workers to go along with their demands. The incentives for elites to stay loyal have been studied extensively, but the rank and file have remained something of a black box. In the absence of real data, researchers have tended to assume that they cooperate because of ideological extremism, fear of persecution or some combination of the two.
New research, drawing on an extraordinary data set from Argentina’s Dirty War in the 1970s and ’80s, suggests a very different explanation. It turns out that the kinds of career pressures familiar to employees everywhere — the desire to revive a stalled career or obtain a minor promotion — can be enough to incentivize lower- and midlevel officials to violate professional obligations, fundamental norms and even basic morality. The people who make those decisions, the research suggests, are neither extremists nor victims. They are often just middling workers looking for a way to get ahead.

Quillette.

Even before war broke out in Iran, the US military was strained. In early March, the Government Accountability Office reported that readiness had diminished over the past two decades. In the recent past, support for Ukraine, the defence of Israel, and air strikes against the Houthis have all depleted critical munitions. The present high-intensity conflict in Iran is only aggravating this already dangerous situation. There is little doubt that the United States, which faces its most consequential military challenge in the Pacific, will need to husband resources more carefully if it is to deter China in the coming years.

Full dress rehearsals for the siege and subjugation of Taiwan have raised the possibility that America may be unprepared for a clash with the world’s strongest authoritarian state. To make matters worse, should a direct confrontation with Beijing be necessary, time may not be on America’s side. In a protracted battle between great powers, as the historian Paul Kennedy put it, “victory has repeatedly gone to the side with the more flourishing industrial base.”

At this precarious historical moment, The American Edge by Seth G. Jones delivers an ominous warning but also a hopeful message. Jones, a scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, wastes no time in laying out the strategic stakes. “The tragedy today,” he writes, “is that the United States is in a wartime environment, but its defence industrial base is operating on a peacetime footing.” To drive home the point, Jones channels the British naval historian Andrew Gordon who believed that policymakers in peacetime needed to act more like rat-catchers (those who effectively cut regulatory corners to win wars) and less like regulators (who tend to be stymied by excessive bureaucracy).

The Telegraph (UK).

An Albanian triple murderer who was granted asylum and citizenship in the UK while he was on the run has been apprehended in the US.

Sokol Hoxha, 50, fled mainland Europe for Britain after killing his 19-year-old wife in 1997 in Belgium and murdering two brothers in Albania in the same year.

He came to Britain using a false identity, fraudulently claiming that he was a Kosovan refugee, which allowed him to claim asylum and ultimately British citizenship.

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Summer is nearly here and a hard-left Los Angeles city councilmember has proposed something that the people have surely been yearning for: banning backyard barbecues.

Yes, really.

Los Angeles City Councilwoman Nithya Raman, who is also running for mayor, introduced a motion on Wednesday to ban backyard barbecues during certain high fire danger days in the city, the California Post reported.

Obviously, some fires are more equal than others.

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And about time, too.

The Telegraph has published a piece so tone-deaf it reads like self-parody. According to the outlet, the “far-right” is no longer the domain of bald men in boots and tattoos. No, it’s now being led by “strikingly telegenic young women” who dare to look good on camera while warning about mass migration, grooming gangs, and cultural replacement.

Make no mistake, the chicks have tattoos more often than not. That’s the world we live in.

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Carl Benjamin (Sargon of Akkad) revisits Enoch Powell’s famous “Rivers of Blood” speech and shows how it was not only prescient but actually understated.

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A teenage stabbing victim bled to death on the street in Southampton after British police arrested and cuffed him rather than his alleged Sikh attacker, after the suspect claimed he’d been racially abused, according to court testimony.

Henry Nowak, 18, a finance student at the University of Southampton, was walking home from a night out in December 2025, chatting with some friends on Snapchat, when he was encountered by Vickrum Digwa, 23. After a brief exchange, Digwa stabbed Nowak with an eight-inch Sikh ceremonial shastar blade, according to court testimony reported by BBC. A post-mortem examination showed Nowak had four stab wounds, BBC reported.

Nowak tried to escape over a fence, but was “aggressively pursued” by Digwa, jurors were told.

However, when Hampshire Constabulary police officers arrived at the scene, they arrested the dying Nowak rather than Digwa after the suspect claimed he’d been “racially abused and attacked by a drunken man,” prosecutor Nicholas Lobbenberg KC said, ITV News reported.

Nowak was handcuffed and police administered first aid before he fell unconscious, according to Lobbenberg. He died a short time later at the scene. “Put simply,” the prosecutor told jurors, “Henry drowned in his own blood, with his lung having been cut by the knife going eight centimeters into him.”

Lobbenberg acknowledged that Sikh males are allowed to carry a knife as part of their religious obligation. Digwa did have a small ceremonial knife called a kirpan in his possession. However, the knife used to stab Nowak was an “extremely large knife” openly displayed over Digwa’s clothing, ITV News reported.

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In 2005, a Hong Kong conglomerate bought Milwaukee for $626 million and poured money into it. In 2017, an American conglomerate bought Craftsman for $900 million and built a factory that couldn’t stamp its own name on a socket.

Same playbook. Opposite results. This is the story of what happened to every tool brand on the shelf.

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He ought to be executed and his family sold into slavery for the benefit of the skater’s family.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

Think of it as evolution in action.

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The Department of Labor keeps careful track of employment and the demographics thereof. Their latest report on men in the labor force is both mysterious and deeply alarming. It turns out that the labor force is missing about 7 million men who would otherwise be working. Close to a third of working-age men have vanished from the labor force.

 

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In July 1998, the Rome Statute created the legal basis for the International Criminal Court (ICC), a body designed to “guarantee lasting respect for and the enforcement of international justice.” The Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) was also created to initiate investigations and seek arrest warrants for anyone charged with crimes within the Court’s jurisdiction. Article 70 of the Statute empowers the Court to prosecute individuals for bribery, intimidation, or corrupt influence, but no one seems to have entertained the possibility that the prosecutor himself might be guilty of one or more of these offences. This oversight looks spectacularly naive in retrospect.

On 28 April, the Wall Street Journal reported allegations that the Qatari government had said it would “look after” ICC prosecutor Karim Khan if he indicted Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister Yoav Gallant. Khan sought arrest warrants for both men on 20 May 2024 and denies receiving any such assurances from Qatar or any other state prior to doing so. Arrest warrants were also sought for Hamas leaders, but not for the Iranian and Qatari officials who financed and armed the group for years. In November 2025, the Guardian reported that Qatar had allegedly hired a private intelligence firm in Britain to discredit a Malaysian ICC staffer who has accused Khan of sexual assault. If substantiated, this conduct could raise questions about the applicability of Article 70. Notably, Khan’s decision to pursue Israeli leaders for war crimes was taken shortly after the emergence of the assault allegations, which he also categorically denies.

Allegations like these highlight the threat that financial incentives and judicial activism can pose to the pursuit of international justice. The notion that international courts are impervious to foreign influence is a delusion that The Hague has nurtured for decades, and it helps to explain why the system has failed to deter the commission of atrocities. This is a problem of institutional design. These courts were forged in debates about competing state interests and their independence from the UN Security Council, which baked power politics and reputational management into their architecture from the outset. A decade ago, these courts were widely depicted as neo-colonial instruments, advancing Western political interests against African states under the guise of human rights. Today, they have overcorrected into postcolonial theory, and like virtually every other liberal institution in the modern West, they have been captured by self-destructive ideologies and hostile foreign interests.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Police in Toronto have arrested a man they say shot at “visibly identifiable members of the Jewish community” on two occasions a week apart.

Ruslan Novruzov, 18, is charged with assault with a weapon and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose in conjunction with the shootings, which took place on April 30 and Thursday, one week later.

In both incidents, people experienced minor injuries, according to the Toronto police. The shooting on Thursday targeted three people standing outside of Congregation Chasidei Bobov, an Orthodox synagogue.

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The Maryland Office of People’s Counsel (OPC), a state agency that represents its utility consumers, filed a complaint before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) regarding PJM Interconnection, LLC’s plans to charge it $2 billion of the $22 billion it spent to upgrade its grid to accommodate increasing demand from data centers. According to the OPC’s press release, this $2 billion bill will cost the state’s consumers an extra $1.6 billion in the next ten years alone — that means an extra $823 million for residential (approx. $345 per customer), $146 million for commercial (approx. $673 per customer), and $629 million for industrial customers (approx. $15,074 per customer).

“Without FERC action, Maryland customers face paying billions for transmission infrastructure that PJM is advancing to benefit data centers,” said Maryland People’s Counsel David S. Lapp. “PJM’s cost allocation rules are broken. Maryland customers have neither caused the need for these billions in new transmission projects nor will they meaningfully benefit from them.”

PJM Interconnection, LLC is the United States’ largest electricity transmission company, and covers 13 states plus Washington, D.C. This includes Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia, covering about 65 million people, or about 20% of the entire U.S. population. Some of these states, including Maryland, host a large number of data centers, so the firm needs to upgrade its infrastructure to meet projected demand from these power-hungry AI systems.

Why not let them provide their own power? Say, small nuclear reactors?

Steve Graham.

Welcome to Dr. Fantasmo’s Dental Fun House

My wife and I went in for dental cleanings, and we learned something that might be very helpful to you. And it’s time-sensitive.

The hippies and trannies have ruined dental floss.

Many people have huge gaps between their teeth, so they can use any kind of floss they want. My teeth are close together, so if I use the wrong floss, it snaps. This is not a rare condition.

In order to fix the problem, our wonderful dental establishment came up with floss made from Teflon. The best-known brand is Glide. It moves in and out of dental gaps much more easily than the old string-and-wax stuff.

I have been buying the Walmart version of this stuff for a long time. I buy it in large quantities so I get the best prices and so I don’t run out fast. I am still working on my last container.

At my cleaning, my hygienist got very angry. She was using some kind of horrible floss that kept snapping, and it felt like she was dragging butcher’s twine between my teeth. She got fed up and started using some kind of little pointy things to get the polishing paste out. I wondered why she was using floss she clearly hated.

I told her I used Teflon floss, and she said it was no longer available.

I was horrified, and when I got home, I did some research. She was right. Since I bought my last shipment of floss, the hippies in a couple of degenerate hippie states banned Teflon floss. Of course, this means it’s banned for everyone else, because companies don’t want to make different floss for different states, and because they don’t want hysterical, hormonal women crying that Oral-B is trying to kill their children.

There are chemicals called PFAS (or something like that) and they are used in the manufacture of Teflon floss. By the time the floss is made, there are only tiny traces of these chemicals in it, and you can probably imagine how much of that will get into your body in a lifetime of flossing. Doesn’t matter. Estrogen is the mind-killer, and you can’t reason with a nose-ringed woman full of SSRI’s.

Incidentally, one of the outfits that got rid of good floss is called Silent Spring, which is named for the 1961 Rachel Carson book that killed millions of little brown people by getting DDT banned because of a greatly exaggerated fear that it might thin bird eggshells. With the use of DDT, the incidence of malaria in Ceylon went from millions per year to 17, and when DDT was withdrawn, numbers shot back up, and there was a tsunami of fatalities as needless deaths resumed.

Malaria is not a joke. You can’t just take a spoonful of quinine and get out of bed, instantly healed, and do jumping jacks. It causes excruciating pain and kills people.

Mosquitoes spread other diseases such as zika and yellow fever. But never mind. Rachel Carson got her chance to virtue-signal.

So what do you do if you want to floss your teeth?

I use a tool called GUM Soft Picks. Using actual dental floss is Too Much Like Work.

The Times (UK).

A magistrate has told a teenage shoplifter that she has never seen offending on such a scale after he avoided a custodial sentence for thefts that totalled £116,000

In other words, no prison time.

The 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, participated in dozens of raids in London shops over the past two years, Highbury Corner youth court was told.

He was captured on CCTV either “directly participating” in taking cosmetic products off the shelves or acting as a lookout. The court was told the boy acted alone and as part of a group on a number of occasions and there was an investigation into other perpetrators.

And still, no prison time.

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It is quite interesting to compare the writing style of Papal Encyclicals from Popes down to Paul VI with those from John Paul II onward. The former are very florid and have a distinctive structure, whereas John Paul II and his successors have written in more direct and bare-bones style. (Well, I thought it was interesting.)

When I was an undergraduate at Yale I had to depend on the Sterling Library’s copies of Actae Apostolicae Sedis, which is the official ‘gazette’ of the Vatican, for contemporary Latin writings. Now, of course, there is the Finnish site Nuntii Lantini (article here) and, if you look for them, a number of people who write in Latin on the Internet. And, of course, Google Translate does its best.

It’s a great time to be alive….

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Believe it or not, this happened at around 6 p.m.on a Tuesday in Cheney, Washington. The child was not injured at all, just to let you know. The lady, a 56-year-old named Wendy A. Clemente, has been charged with first-degree attempted assault, DUI, and first-degree criminal trespass.

I’m guessing, but not sure, that the drunk lady was mad that a kid would be riding a dirt bike in the street. So she started chasing him.

The War Zone.

U.S. Central Command said its new plan to protect commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz kicked off Monday with the safe passage of two U.S.-flagged merchant ships. Dubbed Project Freedom, the operation is designed to “restore freedom of navigation for commercial shipping” through this strategically vital body of water, the command stated on X. Iran closed the Strait after being attacked by the U.S. and Israel on Feb. 28. Meanwhile, Iran says this move will threaten the fragile ceasefire and that it will attack any ships transiting the Strait without permission.

“U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyers are currently operating in the Arabian Gulf after transiting the Strait of Hormuz in support of Project Freedom,” CENTCOM stated in a message posted on X Monday morning. “American forces are actively assisting efforts to restore transit for commercial shipping. As a first step, 2 U.S.-flagged merchant vessels have successfully transited through the Strait of Hormuz and are safely headed on their journey.”

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No good deed goes unpunished.

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Twenty-three innocent bystanders have been killed and 30 wounded in gang-related shootings in Sweden over the past three years, according to new police data highlighting the country’s ongoing struggle with violent crime.

Authorities say the victims were not the intended targets but were instead caught in the crossfire, struck by stray bullets, mistaken for someone else, or linked to individuals involved in criminal networks.

The Nordic country has spent more than a decade trying to contain shootings tied to rival gangs competing over the drug trade and settling scores.

Sweden was once one of the most law-abiding nations on the planet.

Then they started importing Turd World immigrants.

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After Korea’s division in 1945 and the adoption of conflicting ideologies, contact between the two sides ceased, causing the language gap to gradually widen. South Korea adopted the Seoul dialect as its “standard language,” while North Korea declared the Pyongyang dialect to be its “cultural language.”

Over the decades, South and North Korean dialects have evolved in different directions, creating considerable discrepancies. The linguistic challenges defectors face go beyond accent differences, including a complex mixture of words that sound the same but have different meanings, words that sound different but mean the same thing, and South Korea’s rapidly changing slang and foreign loanwords.

These linguistic differences create more than just communication difficulties for defectors — they impact their identity and psychological well-being. This analysis examines specific examples of linguistic differences encountered by defectors and the resulting challenges they face during settlement.

The Telegraph (UK).

More than 600,000 households received more in benefits than the average worker’s salary, the first analysis of its kind has revealed.

The figures show that 625,618 households were each given more than £32,200 in welfare payouts last year – the average annual salary of a British worker after tax – despite the introduction of a benefits cap.

The analysis, by the Conservatives, also revealed that 16,000 of those households received more than £60,000 in welfare payments – almost twice the average annual take-home pay.

The Times (UK).

Former Royal Marines and veterans of the Parachute Regiment have been hired to protect synagogues and Jewish schools as Britain braces for further antisemitic violence.

The deployment of elite ex-troops for security patrols can be revealed for the first time after the stabbing of two Jewish men in a suspected terrorist attack in Golders Green, northwest London, and a recent spate of fire bombings in the surrounding area.

The wave of incidents influenced the government’s decision on Thursday to raise the terrorism threat level from substantial to severe, meaning that another attack is now “highly likely”. MI5 said on its website that there was an “elevated threat to Jewish and Israeli individuals and institutions”.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Two Jewish men were stabbed on the street in a heavily Orthodox neighborhood of London on Wednesday, escalating anxieties amid ongoing incidents targeting local Jews that police say reflect Iranian involvement.

A man was arrested at the scene in Golders Green after being apprehended first by members of the Shomrim, a Jewish security force that operates in parts of London. Hatzola, the Jewish-operated nonprofit emergency service whose ambulances were recently burned in an arson, treated the two victims.

“One male was seen running along Golders Green Road armed with a knife and attempting to stab Jewish members of the public. Shomrim responded immediately and detained the suspect. Police attended and deployed a taser,” Shomrim said in a post to social media.

Both men who were stabbed — one in his 70s and the other in his 30s — are hospitalized in stable condition, according to the Metropolitan Police.

The first duty of government is to keep people safe. Britain has been failing at that for a long time.

ATQUE: Muslim man caught on camera stabbing Jews outside London synagogue

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I’ve been convinced for quite some time that the political polarization of America has passed the point of no return. At this stage there seems to be no political solution to the problem. To be blunt about it: there is no voting our way out of this.

Where political matters are concerned, the hard Left — which seems to occupy a larger and larger portion of the Democrat Party — has all but cornered the market on violent, incendiary rhetoric. If you disagree with them, you should be beaten up and imprisoned. If you oppose the Narrative, you need to be put up against the wall and shot.

Republican responses to the Democrats’ at-your-throat fighting style are generally weak dishwater. The mainstream Right has always been reluctant to play hardball with their progressive adversaries, but at this point regular hardball will no longer suffice. A harder ball is required, one that would lead to a situation that most of us would rather not contemplate. It’s hard to imagine any Republicans being willing to pick up that ball.

As I said above, there is no voting our way out of this.

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A memorial to affordable living.

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Wild story right here.

Last year, Abdul Saleh — an employee at Sal’s Deli & Grocery in the East Village — went on local news to sound the alarm. He told ABC 7 that violence in bodegas was rampant, that “always something happens and no one really cares,” and that when people get shot, robbed, or worse, the cops show up three or four hours later.

Now we have this.

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I’m willing to ask the hard question: How badly do modern women stink if men are turning to AI?

At least an AI won’t divorce you after 10 to 20 years of marriage and take your kids and half your stuff.

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National Post.

Jean Raspail’s The Camp of the Saints (1973) is easily one of the most suppressed books of the 20th century. That’s because it’s a dystopian novel about mass third-world migration, a topic still considered taboo to many. While The Handmaid’s Taleand Nineteen Eighty-Four have become regular headliners of “banned book” campaigns and subjects of novel studies in school curriculums, English translations of Raspail’s magnum opus have been so hard to find that used hard copies sold for prices ranging into the hundreds. Until just last year, that is.

In 2025, the indie heterodox translator-publisher Vauban Books came out with a new, better translation of The Camp of the Saints. Paperbacks were priced at roughly US$25, hardcovers US$40, and, miraculously, they were available on Amazon. All was going well until April 20, when the retailer mysteriously removed physical copies of the book from its American and Canadian storefronts for allegedly violating the company’s “offensive content” policy (though the audiobook remained buyable). Vauban Books raised hell, and a day later, the ability to buy print copies was restored. Amazon attributed the removal to an error.

Yeah, right.

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Europe is pretty much lost to the Turd World invasion.

Washington Examiner.

This week is the anniversary of one of the most resonant speeches made since the end of World War II. It still echoes down the decades, ringingly relevant to Western civilization, perhaps more today than ever.

At a meeting of Conservatives in Birmingham, England, on April 20, 1968, Enoch Powell warned of the peril of allowing mass immigration from alien and incompatible cultures. A scholar of classics, he wound up his peroration saying, “As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding; like the Roman, I seem to see the River Tiber foaming with much blood.”

For this “Rivers of Blood” speech, as news media dubbed it, Conservative leader Edward Heath sacked Powell from his shadow Cabinet. The Times of London echoed Heath in excoriating Powell’s words as “evil,” “disgraceful,” and “racialist.” The Thunderer, as it used to be known, accused him of a “calculated” effort to “inflame hatred between the races.”

Edward Heath was the beginning of the rot that has destroyed the Conservative Party in Britain. Not even Thatcher could save it.

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Britain is now officially pert of the Turd World.

In an emergency, almost anything can serve as a weapon. Table cutlery, napkin holders, condiment containers, chairs, tables, etc.

The Telegraph (UK).

A Morrisons store manager claims he was sacked after tackling a prolific shoplifter.

Sean Egan, 46, said he intervened when a shoplifter became abusive and aggressive while being escorted from his store in Aldridge, near Walsall, in the West Midlands.

At his disciplinary hearing, Mr Egan, who had worked in the store for 29 years, said he had been told he would be dismissed on the grounds of not following the company’s deter-and-not-detain policy.

No good deed goes unpunished.

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Restore Britain is out here doing the Lord’s work, attempting to salvage Western Civilization in the United Kingdom.

Over the weekend, a British “newcomer” went viral after he was recorded tearing down someone’s centuries-old wall just so he could make a path for himself.

Apparently it was too much effort to climb over a four foot high wall.

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Import Turd World people, get Turd World problems.

The Telegraph (UK).

Of course they are.

Record numbers of foreign students are securing student loans amid fears the taxpayer is being defrauded of millions of pounds by fake claims.

The number of foreign students receiving loans of up to £13,000 a year has increased by 60 per cent in the past five years with seven European countries accounting for two-thirds of the 262,000 overseas claimants, official figures show.

That contrasts with a 6 per cent fall in the number of British students receiving loans over the same period from 1.2 million to 1.13 million, a decline of 73,000.

The Telegraph (UK).

On the Belgian coast during two world wars, thousands of British soldiers lost their lives. In Coxyde Military Cemetery, more than 1,500 valiant souls are laid to rest.

Men like Gunner A W Loney, of the Royal Field Artillery, who was 20 when he died at Passchendaele. Next to his grave lies that of a 19-year-old soldier killed in the relentless shelling and sniping around Ypres. These men made the ultimate sacrifice to protect our borders.

Today, standing amid the rows of white gravestones as the spring sunshine lights up the names engraved on them, it is hard not to wonder what they would have made of the invasion that is under way today.

Across the road from the cemetery is an accommodation centre for illegal immigrants. Sooner or later, some will be heading to the UK. Belgium is the new front in Britain’s losing battle against migrants. In recent weeks, more than 20 small boats have left the beaches of West Flanders for the UK.

It is astonishing how utterly spineless the British government is in the face of this French assistance in what is an actual invasion of Britain. In times past this would be seen as causus belli, and Steps Would Be Taken.

Utterly spineless.