New York Post.

And there you have the modern world.

ATQUE: Watch this Cubs fan smack a young whippersnapper for not standing during the national anthem (Not the Bee)

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The worst thing to ever happen to the reputation of black culture in America was the introduction of police body cameras to highlight the behavior of African Americans to the world. Frequent travelers will note that foreign discussions no longer include curious questions about racism in America. With black Americans putting themselves on full cultural display, the world now understands the connection between black culture and antisocial behavior.

Black Lies Matter.

The Times (UK).

The security services have advised vulnerable MPs to set up safe rooms in their homes in case of attacks amid growing concern for politicians’ safety.

Individuals at high risk, including MPs, local councillors and foreign dissidents, recently received updated guidance from the National Protective Security Authority (NPSA), an arm of MI5, suggesting they set up a “safer area” where they can take shelter if their homes are targeted by “hostile actors”.

The room could be a dedicated space or somewhere within a normal room. It may need to be equipped with fog machines and bulletproof walls to delay intruders, the guidance states. Timed indoor lights should be installed, says the advice, to provide the illusion that an empty house is occupied and bushes outside the property should be cut back to remove hiding places.

Britain was a safe place back before Labor started importing the Turd World.

Not the Bee.

I wasn’t sure the UK would convict her, honestly, given the state of the country.

That’s the mom of Vikrum Digwa, one of the many friends and family members who aided and abetted Vikrum after he stabbed a young Englishman and then told police HE was the victim of a hate crime.

One of the major reasons for the disintegration of Western civilization is importing tons of people from Turd World tribal societies and pretending that they will act the same way that First World people do.

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According to a leaked internal report, the company recorded around 2,200 cases of sabotage targeting railway infrastructure during the first six months of 2026, a 7% increase compared with the same period last year.

The incidents include arson, vandalism, and theft that causes significant damage to railway infrastructure and disrupts train services, costing taxpayers increasing amounts to repair each year.

The latest incident occurred in the early hours of Tuesday, July 14, when an electrical distribution box connected to railway signalling and safety systems caught fire in Neu Wulmstorf, Lower Saxony. Around 200 train services were cancelled, passengers were transferred to replacement buses, and normal operations only gradually resumed later that evening.

Witnesses and emergency responders reported two separate fires: one at the distribution box, which damaged critical signalling cables, and another around 50 metres away at equipment controlling a level crossing.

Tim Pool;

Here’s the scary reality. When law enforcement becomes AI bureaucracy, you will never get an arresting officer that is going to care, because it is not the job of the arresting officer to review evidence.

Not the Bee.

Remember how the Charlottesville riot, organized in large part by the far-left SPLC, was used by the Left to paint every Republican as a neo-Nazi for a decade?

Remember how they took a statue of Robert E. Lee from Charlottesville and melted it down as a humiliation ritual?

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The freezer case used to be one of the few places in a grocery store where you could trust the label. You bought ice cream, and you got ice cream. That era is over.

For years, if you suggested that the products we buy today are inferior to the versions from twenty or thirty years ago, you were dismissed with a “Hello, Boomer” or told that “memories are always better.” But as someone who values evidence, I’m here to tell you that this isn’t nostalgia. It’s a documented, technical retreat. Store-bought ice cream hasn’t just “changed”; it has been systematically reformulated by multinational food conglomerates using regulatory arbitrage and formulation science to determine how much cream they can remove from “ice cream” before we notice.

This is the story of the dairy frog, boiled by ever poorer ice creams.

About a mile from my house is a Braum’s. I buy their frozen yogurt. I have a machine to make my own ice cream.

The Telegraph (UK).

Japan is looking to solve its succession crisis caused by a lack of male heirs by widening the pool of eligible princes, yet still refusing to allow women to ascend to the throne.

A new bill, passed on Friday, would allow the imperial family to adopt male descendants of former royal branches that lost their status after the Second World War.

It would also allow female royals to retain their imperial status after marrying commoners.

And just how did this situation arise?

The reforms would partly reverse the post-war restructuring of Japan’s monarchy, under which 11 cadet branches were stripped of their titles in 1947 as part of the Allied occupation.

There are dozens of Japanese noble families now in existence who trace their descent to the Minamoto, the Seiwa Genji, who are descended in the male line from Tenno Seiwa (850-881)—as were all three of the historical lines of Shõgun (Minamoto, Ashikaga, and Tokugawa). Prior to American meddling after WWII, there were explicitly four lines of sesh? shinn?ke whose only job was to provide a male heir to the Emperor if necessary. Restoring that facility is what the current legislation is intended to do.

Not the Bee.

Not only did this dude throw a Molotov cocktail at a guy in a wheelchair — he threw the guy to the ground and back into the flames when he escaped.

Oklahoma City Police arrested the Molotov cocktail thrower almost immediately on July 2, as this happened right outside their station.

I suspect that this guy wasn’t a Republican.

Robb Report.

The model’s BMW-sourced mill has been depowered to meet European emissions standards.

Government is the reason we can’t ever have nice things.

Government is the reason we can’t ever have nice things.

Government is the reason we can’t ever have nice things.

What I tell you three times is true. — The Bellman, Hunting of the Snark, Lewis Carroll

Richard Vigilante

Here is a paradox, perhaps.

Information Theory tells us that only surprise counts as information. If the receiver can infallibly predict the next signal from the sender, that predictable signal adds no information.

If I transmit “Mr.”, none of the letters in the group “i, s, t, e, r” count as information. We trust that those letters come next.

Trust is reduced uncertainty about future behavior. But trust is generated largely by past behavior.

When we trust a bridge, we expect it to continue standing. When we trust a bank, we expect it to honor withdrawals as it has done in the past. When we trust a person, we expect him or her to behave tomorrow roughly as they behaved yesterday.

We are trusting in the past. We are trusting in reputation.

Reputation is accumulated evidence from the past about future behavior.

Even if, as is usually the case, our trust is in an expert rather than our own experience, we trust because other persons or institutions have affirmed the expert’s reputation—his history of being right or wrong.

Now here’s a wrinkle.

Suppose we have strong reason to trust an expert within a particular field. Then one day we encounter him discoursing on dozens of subjects far outside his area of expertise. Every proposition sounds plausible. Better still, many of them are entirely new to us.

He is providing enormous amounts of information. Do we believe him?

If he offers a thousand plausible assertions, do we accept them?

This is the AI problem.

Full disclosure: Rich is a friend and was a classmate at Yale. He has worked with George Gilder and written for National Review.

James Lileks, recently divorced, not by his choice:

They’re going to Rome soon and wanted some recommendations, and when I went home I dived into the archives to get some routes and points of interest, and was reminded again of last summer’s wonderful trip, and had the familiar reaction: divorce sours a thousand photos. But I knew I’d done a good job arranging that family vacation, and everyone had a marvelous time, and if it was the last, well, that wasn’t my doing. I didn’t decide to haul out the bolt cutter. Found a photo of me and my daughter toasting my new retired future in a Trastevere restaurant. No poison there. We’ll be happy in Rome some day again.

Wife was a lawyer married to a journalist. (Income imbalance.) Only one child. (Declining birth rate.) When she retired, she decided to end the marriage. (Status imbalance.) He’s coping as well as he can (beta male simp) but the bitterness occasionally breaks through. (Reality does that.)

Conventional wisdom is that over 50% of marriages in the U.S. end in divorce. 69% of divorces in the U.S. are initiated by the wife.

Divorced men have about 2.4 times the suicide rate of married men. Divorced men are 8 times more likely to die of suicide than divorced women.

In the U.S., suicide deaths are much higher among men than women: in 2022, the age-adjusted suicide rate was 23.0 per 100,000 for males and 5.9 per 100,000 for females, so the male rate was about 3 to 4 times higher.

Thank you, feminism.

Not the Bee.

What does it say when the country you lead has less freedom than Turkey?

Perhaps they ought to have given him an engraved dagger instead.

I thank God every day that I don’t live in Britain.

Read it.

When Kruschev predicted that “Your grandchildren will grow up under Commujnism”, he didn’t know the half of it.

Read it.

The author discusses these objects in terms of erosion control but most of my crowd think of their presence of beaches as being tank traps and impediments to landing craft.

Not the Bee.

Import a bunch of third-world military-age male migrants, they said.

It’ll be fine, they said.

New York Post.

Hollywood just lost another star.

Dennis Quaid is making his Los Angeles exit official, putting his Brentwood Hills home up for sale for $5.2 million, taking a loss on it after slamming the area for going “downhill.”

Quaid is selling his five-bed, six-bath abode, which stretches more than 4,000 square feet, as celebrities flee California due to a variety of reasons ranging from poor wildfire management to liberal policies.

His home’s listing describes it as a “pristine, completely remodeled, two-story warm Contemporary done with great taste and quality at the end of a quiet, flat cul-de-sac street in a desirable Brentwood Hills location.”

The Telegraph (UK).

Eight men have been arrested in the UK as part of an international investigation into the organised drugging and raping of women by their partners.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) said it was working alongside Europol and the FBI as part of an investigation into an internet forum in which members shared graphic videos of the sexual abuse of unconscious women.

Investigators said they had identified more than 270 people linked to the forum but did not know the true scale of the offending, and that other forums – which were unknown to law enforcement – were operating.

Read it.

Municipal councils across England are once again clashing with the country’s own national flags. Increasingly, displays of both the Union Flag (“Union Jack”) and England’s Saint George’s Cross are being treated as problematic.

In Cambridge, the leader of Cambridgeshire County Council, Lucy Nethsingha, said people should be able to display flags in support of the England team, but only “in a safe, inclusive way and with permission.”

Local coucils in England are very big on “with permission”.

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In addition to making you look like a goober.

Humans have been tattooing themselves for thousands of years, for spiritual, cultural, or personal reasons.

Long before we were covering ourselves in ironic stick’n’pokes, butterfly tramp stamps, or full blackout tattoos, humans were marking their bodies with permanent ink.

But while history can tell us much about the culture of tattooing, we still don’t know much about how the practice affects our health.

Introducing tattoo pigment into the skin triggers an immune response, and that ink obviously sticks around – though it doesn’t always stay put.

Research shows that particles of tattoo ink can enter the lymphatic system and build up in the lymph nodes.

Lymph nodes are key hubs of our bodies’ immune activity. Full of white blood cells, lymph fluid is filtered through them to clean out any debris it’s collected on the way around your body. That includes misbehaving cells (i.e. cancer), bacteria, viruses, and foreign substances such as tattoo ink.

Rapper MGK recently found this out the hard way by rushing a massive blackwork piece that covers much of his torso, including the area of the lymph nodes around his armpits and shoulders. He says the process turned his surrounding skin yellow and made him “really sick.”

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Unbelievable.

asylum seeker accused of causing the death of a 14-year-old girl in a fatal traffic collision before leaving the scene without offering help.

The tragic incident took place six years ago near the village of Marken in the western Netherlands.

The defendant, Jamal T., who lives in Germany but was born in Iraq, was allegedly distracted while looking for directions on one of his co-passengers’ mobile phone.

The prosecutor’s office is seeking two weeks’ imprisonment for careless driving, arguing that the defendant was not paying sufficient attention to the road and could have avoided the collision, and is requesting a further six weeks in prison for failing to stop and provide assistance after the impact.

Read it.

And rightly so.

Two police officers are facing gross misconduct investigations following the death of 18-year-old Henry Nowak, who was handcuffed and arrested while suffering a fatal stab wound, according to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).

The IOPC said evidence suggests the officers who first arrived at the scene may have failed to recognise that Nowak required urgent medical assistance. Therefore the investigation will examine the decision to arrest and handcuff him rather than provide immediate first aid, as well as the actions of control room staff handling emergency calls.

The watchdog also said one officer may have breached professional standards relating to authority, respect, and courtesy after allegedly dismissing Nowak’s claim that he had been stabbed. This is a euphemistic way of describing what happened: the officer in question when told by Nowak he had been stabbed replied “I don’t think you have, mate.”

The investigation follows formal complaints from Nowak’s family, who questioned differences between how Henry was treated by officers and how Digwa was treated after his arrest.

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An African migrant was arrested on suspicion of stabbing and killing a 19-year-old man in the French city of Fréjus during the weekend of June 27–28th.

The suspect, from Guinea in West Africa, was scheduled to face a deportation ruling on the day of his alleged offence, in which a young man was killed with a knife blow to the neck. Rescue workers struggled in vain to help the deceased.

Three other young men were hospitalized during the knife attack, which occurred shortly after the Guinean alleged perpetrator filed an appeal against his French deportation order (or OQTF), which the local administrative court was scheduled to examine.

Not for the first time, a violent crime was committed—allegedly—by someone already subject to a French deportation order. Indeed, France appears to struggle with deporting migrants who have been ordered to leave the country.

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Good luck with that.

The family of Louis, the 17-year-old boy beaten to death at a construction site in Narbonne, France, have spoken publicly about the impact of the attack, with his aunt describing the footage of the incident as “unspeakable.”

Marie-Julie Marteau, Louis’ aunt, told BFMTV on Monday, June 29, that she had watched videos of the assault and said the family had been left deeply traumatized. She said Louis’ mother had been “in a state of total shock” since the teenager’s death.

Marteau described the video as extremely distressing and said the family struggled to understand the level of violence shown in the footage.

She added that those responsible appeared to show no remorse during the assault. “They are laughing, they beat him, they leave him no way out,” she said, describing the footage as showing the attack being recorded alongside “snickering and selfies.”

Babylon Bee.

Hey, guy, make up your minds….;

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Wedding speeches are one of those traditions that everyone has a complicated relationship with. The father of the bride gets teary, the best man tells a story that makes the groom’s mother visibly uncomfortable, and the groom stands up and says something impossibly sweet that makes half the room reach for their napkins.

What it is not supposed to do is empty the entire room. On the Unfiltered Bride podcast, UK-based wedding planners Georgina and Beth have built a reputation for telling the stories that most people in the industry keep firmly under wraps. This particular wedding-speech story was one that was simply too juicy not to share with their avid listeners.

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Everything was running exactly as a wedding should. Then, the groom stood up…Before properly getting into his speech, he mentioned, almost as an aside, that there were some envelopes being passed around the room, and he would ask everyone to open them. The guests, assuming nothing, obliged. Inside each envelope were photographs. Of the bride. With the best man.

The groom put down the microphone, looked out at the room, said he would be leaving now, and walked out. His entire family, who had clearly been briefed in advance, stood up and walked out with him. Georgina, retelling this with barely contained delight, noted that the timing was not accidental.

The groom and his family waited until after the food had been eaten, and the bride’s family had paid for everything, before making their exit. The bride was left at her own wedding reception with the photographs on every table, the best man presumably somewhere in the room, and a bill that had already been settled. Karma is a cruel mistress. And so was the bride.

I’m curious as to how the groom obtained these presemably compromising photographs. Arguably the groom has perhaps not exactly dodged a bullet but certainly made it bounce off like superman. Certainly the best man is very very lucky that we live in a degenerate modern age, or he would be in a shallow grave out in the desert, perhaps accompanied by the ex-bride.

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Shall I end this life a pauper? If AI can do all work at human level or better, what stops corporations replacing us all with AI? This is the permanent underclass meme. The idea is: within a few years, all white collar work will be automated by AI, at which point there is no social mobility. The main way people cope is, they tell themselves: if I work hard, accumulate capital, maybe join one of the big AI labs, I might secure my place in the future.

I want to argue this is a fantastically short-sighted view: if there is a permanent underclass, you won’t escape it by owning property, or shares in Anthropic or OpenAI, or guns, or anything else. And neither will the billionaires. You, me, Sam Altman, Dario, everyone who is made of flesh and blood, will be disempowered and replaced by machines.

The rest of this post elaborates the argument. First I explain how most workers will be replaced (if it’s not obvious), then how the “permanent overclass” will be disempowered, and finally how the government will be disempowered.

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A child under the age of 12 has become the first person in that age group to be euthanised in the Netherlands since the country extended its euthanasia laws two years ago.

Dutch Health Minister Sophie Hermans revealed the case in a letter to parliament, stating that the child died at the end of last year. No details about the child’s age, gender, or medical condition have been disclosed.

New York Post.

Mere millionaires in California are now eyeing the exits over fears that a billionaire tax could be tweaked to target smaller fortunes, a tax advisor to the mega-rich revealed.

Ah, people who learn from history: A rare breed.

The proposed 5% wealth tax on billionaires was just cleared for the November ballot this week — but California’s millionaires were already spooked about the ramifications of the controversial proposed levy, said David Lesperance, a tax advisor to high-net-worth families.

You don’t wait until the tiger is at your door before you escape out the back.

Now the tax guru told The Post that it isn’t just billionaires hatching plans to potentially exit California over the controversial proposal, backed by SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West and lefty pols like Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

The income tax was introduced as ‘a little tax targeting the rich’ and now soaks up about a quarter of everyone’s income. Statists—and all socialists are statists—never lose their appetites for spending other people’s money.

New York Post.

A woman caught on video emptying a public trash can on the street then stealing it during New York City’s Knicks championship parade was a director at JPMorgan Chase who was fired Tuesday over the incident, The Post has learned.

Angie Báez, 40, was promoted to Executive Director of Community and Industry Engagement for Card and Connected Commerce at JPMorgan Chase more than a year ago, according to her LinkedIn profile.

She previously served as Executive Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at New York-based review website The Infatuation, which Chase acquired as part of its broader push into lifestyle and experiential content.

She was, shall we say, a Woman of Weight.

ATQUE: Tim Pool’s take

Watch it.

I read this book when it first came out in 1973, and thought it intresting fiction but somewhat far-fetched; typical dystopian literature.

Look at the news, and you realize that it represents Biblical-level prophecy.

Enoch Powell is sitting somewhere shouting “I TOLD YOU SO!”

Read it.

I’ve been in Berkeley for the last 2 weeks. I haven’t really been back here for a while, and it’s worse than you can believe. This is a cult of atheistic hedonists needing AI doom to be true to justify their life choices. Or acceleration. Or something. They need to make impact. I mean, narcissism of small differences to an extent, but I stopped long before these people did. If San Francisco was nuked tomorrow, the world would feel a weight off their shoulders. ??

This isn’t technology, this is a mind virus. New York wants a couple basis points so they can maintain their lifestyle, Los Angeles wants a bit of your attention so they can feel famous, SF wants to come for your inner life and pimp you out and mediate every interaction and there’s not even a so.

Read iut.

To tell the truth. it doesn’t take much to cosplay an economst; just look at Pual Krugman, the Man Who Is Always Wrong.

She dismisses the counterarguments — that Net Zero is unaffordable, that the UK cannot act alone, that transition costs will raise the cost of living — as “bad arguments” and dispenses with each in a few sentences, without engaging with the substantial body of academic work that supports them. The audience at Westminster Central Hall was not in a position to push back. Parliament, the media and the public should be. The UK has no shortage of genuine economic expertise. It is past time to insist that it be brought to bear.

Baby mamas have a lot to answer for … but they won’t.

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Spain’s mass migrant amnesty has attracted almost 900,000 applications, exposing a far larger illegal immigration population than the government previously admitted.

According to the latest figures, the total has already far surpassed the government’s original estimate of around 500,000 beneficiaries and even exceeds higher internal projections of 750,000, despite the application window remaining open until June 30. Around 360,000 applications have already been formally accepted for processing.

The last time Spain carried out a major migrant amnesty was in 2005 under the Socialist government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. That program received just over 691,000 applications and granted approximately 576,000 residence permits. The current scheme has already attracted more applications than that record, even though the deadline has not yet passed.

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As riots triggered by migrant attacks convulse the UK, the debate over immigration in Europe is reaching a fever pitch. The same question is asked, time and again: If nobody voted for this, why does it keep on happening? In the past two years, migrant violence has been recorded—and in some cases triggered violent public backlash—in Germany (a toddler and man stabbed to death by an Afghan); Belfast (a man stabbed in the street by a Sudanese refugee); France (a deadly stabbing by an Algerian in Mulhouse); as well as Poland, Sweden, and Spain, among others.

By contrast, the steep rise in anti-Christian hate crimes, meticulously tracked by the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians in Europe, has gone largely unreported. In May alone, OIDAC Europe reported 37 hate crimes targeting “Christian places of worship, religious symbols, religious spaces, Christian institutions, and Christian individuals,” including:

• 13 arson-related attacks (the highest in 2026 thus far)
• 10 cases of vandalism
• 3 cases of deliberate “desecration”
• 3 cases of physical violence
• 3 thefts of religious objects
• 3 cases of “vandalism and violence”
• 1 case of incitement
• 1 case of disruption of worship

Abby Zinman, a Typical Modern Woke Female writer for Buzzfeed (Voice of the Wokerati) illustrates why we have a population deficit and why men aren’t asking women out any more. (“Where are all the good men?” “Back in your twenties where you left them.”)

I’d say read it for entertainment, but it is far from entertaining. It is, however, informative, in a gotta-shake-your-head kind of way.

The self-absorption and entitlement are strong in this one.

And, of course, the men involved are SOLELY to blame. (Girl, if all the men you date have problems, maybe they aren’t the problem.)

Read it.

In Chapter 10 (“Why the Worst Get on Top”) of The Road to Serfdom, F. A. Hayek argued that centralized political authority tends to elevate the worst people in society. Goons and demagogues do not rise to the top in totalitarian systems by accident. The logic of totalitarianism selects for thuggish leaders.

A less dramatic, but equally perverse, logic governs American academia.

The incentive structure of the modern American university encourages relatively unsuccessful scholars, those who fail to establish fruitful research programs early in their careers, to pursue administrative positions, where they wield authority over more successful colleagues, who actually generate educational value. As a result, the American university is disproportionately governed by relative academic failures.

An effective scholar enjoys benefits impossible to find elsewhere in today’s workforce: freedom to follow ideas wherever they might lead and a considerable amount of free time to do it. Those who succeed aren’t inclined to leave the laboratory or library for administration.

Though administrative salaries tend to be higher, the rest of an administrator’s work-life is poorer in every other respect, involving endless committee meetings, paperwork, budgetary knife fights, student and parent grievance adjudication, and the difficult business of cultivating donors. Intellectual freedom and scholarly prestige are nowhere in evidence.

The Telegraph (UK).

Kenyan who expected security work says he was handed a rifle without training and learned to shoot by watching others

New York Post.

A Cornell University student who applied for a summer internship with a Jewish-owned NYC startup rejected the opportunity with a hateful message: ‘Not interested in working for a Jew,” the shocked CEO posted on X.

Austin Franco put his antisemitism on full display when he passed up an interview with VryfID because its co-founders Gabe and Aiden Einhorn are proudly Jewish.

Franco, 19, delivered the message to both brothers via job board site Handshake after applying for a summer role at the company, which pairs renters with landlords and verifies their identities to prevent fraud.

The concept of freedom of association has been so expunged from American life that this will shock a lot of even un-Woke people.

The Foundry.

Children of married parents with high education levels are more likely to be healthy and succeed in school and life than their peers. Children from these families are also more likely to live above the poverty line and benefit from extracurricular activities such as music lessons, sports, and summer camp. These activities offer students prized background knowledge.

Students from families with lower education levels must rely more on schools to provide information. Poor reading and math scores nationwide do not give confidence that schools in low-income areas are bridging the gap. Many schools have reduced time spent on history, science, geography, literature, and civics in favor of generic reading strategies, so-called social-emotional learning, and “gender” studies. Schools often cut the very subjects that help students.

Differences in background knowledge have enormous implications for teaching reading. Two students can read the same paragraph and perform differently on the test, not because one is more intelligent, but because he knows the topic better.

For decades, researcher and former professor E.D. Hirsch argued that literacy is connected to content and vocabulary. Hirsch has argued that “broad general knowledge” is essential for reading comprehension because students need prior knowledge to understand what they read.

Likewise, professor of cognitive psychology Daniel T. Willingham, who researches reading comprehension, has also found that background information is important for students to understand text.

The New Neo. Especially, watch the videos.

Enoch Powerll was the first Woke cancellee.

The Telegraph (UK).

Gazans are preparing for public protests against Hamas in what is being touted as a grassroots “revolution” against the terror group.

Good luck with that.

The movement, which appears to have been started by Gazans in exile, is calling for surviving residents in the enclave to gather en masse.

Wonder how many will die?

The New Neo.

Astounding facts can be found here about the demographic transformation of Western Europe. An excerpt:

Between 2010 and today, in only 16 years, the number of foreign-born residents in Europe rocketed from 40million to more than 64million. In other words, Europe’s ruling class added 24million foreign-born residents in only 16 years, with nearly three-quarters coming from radically different cultures and nations.

It’s that last bit that’s of great import: “from radically different cultures and nations.” Not just “radically different,” either, but a significant number of the newcomers are also uninterested in assimilating to their new cultural surroundings and in some instances they hate them and actively wish to change them.

The US does – or used to do – somewshat better at assimilation, but Europe historically has been much less interested in that process. Perhaps that’s because European nations are more based on a shared physical (genetic) and historical heritage and less based on shared principles (or at least overtly stated shared principles rather than subtly understood ones), whereas the US has always been composed mostly of people “from away” who have come because they are interested in liberty and opportunity.

The advent of the welfare state, both in Europe and in the US, has diluted that motive.

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The maximum was life or 99 years. The crime was a heinous one. And the carrying of the knife to a school track meet, plus witnesses saying Anthony kept his hand in his bag (apparently at the ready with the knife) during basically a verbal spat, indicates the murder was not a sudden “heat of the moment” thing. Premeditation can involve a short time; it doesn’t have to be hours or days. Also, a knife plunged that deeply into the chest would almost certainly be known to be a mortal blow, so it would be very difficult for Anthony to successfully claim that he didn’t mean to kill Metcalf.

Therefore there was a very good argument that Anthony should have gotten life. The death penalty is not allowed if a perpetrator is under 18 and without other special circumstances, and since Anthony was 17 at the time of the murder and the requisite special circumstances were not present, life in prison was the maximum allowed.

Why did Anthony not get a life sentence? The jury didn’t deliberate long, and I don’t think they explained their sentencing decision; at least, I haven’t found an explanation. But I think – as I wrote earlier – it was his youth. Also his baby face. He will have a long time in prison to think about what he did, especially if he ends up serving most of it. But even if he only serves half of it (the minimum, because he would be eligible for parole then), when he gets out he would be around 34 because he’s 19 now. That will have to do.

No, it won’t. He was raised to be a thug and that training was effective. He is a thug from a thug culture and won’t find any better culture in prison—prison is just a finishing school for thugs like him. The fact that his family are profiting from his situation and not even pretending that the money they are raising will be used for anything having to do with him illustrates it sufficiently well.

After the hearing, Anthony’s mother, Kala, and his brother blasted the killer’s conviction and sentence as “racist and biased” to cheering supporters who chanted “free Karmelo.”

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By all appearances, the Anthonys look like a typical family. Karmelo has several siblings and the family’s social media showed a comfortable life like vacations, a lavish home and expensive cars, per Distractify. Three years before the incident, they had relocated to North Texas. “Three years ago, my family moved to North Texas, searching for a better life,” Kayla said in a press interview after Karmelo’s arrest, she described their family as loving and said they had provided their children with opportunities to succeed.

Black people in the U.S. have been leeching off of White Guilt so long that it’s the foundation of everything they do.

The Register.

The process for producing triple-layer drug-delivery particles and materials for tissue regeneration could get easier, thanks to a new advance in creating the electrospray nozzles used to make them. A team of MIT researchers has now used a 3D resin printer to output tiny electrospray nozzles without the expensive cleanrooms they normally require.

A team led by MIT principal research scientist Dr. Luis Fernando Velásquez-García detailed its work developing tiny arrays of triaxial electrospray emitters in a recent paper. Before jumping into what they actually did, it might be worth explaining exactly what we’re talking about and why it’s such a potential breakthrough.

Electrospraying is a process that relies on tiny nozzles – we’re talking fractions of a millimeter, here – that are subjected to an electric field to atomize liquids into droplets smaller than what can be achieved through purely physical methods. Electrospraying can be done with lots of different liquid materials, and has a variety of uses, from ionizing liquids for mass spectrometry, to space propulsion.

Such cutting-edge applications traditionally require expensive equipment, and electrospray nozzles have classically been no different.