The Guardian, a Voice of the Crust,

A natalist conference featuring speakers including self-described eugenicists and promoters of race science, apparently including the man behind a previously pseudonymous race-science influencer account, and the founder of a startup offering IQ screening for IVF embryos, will be held at a hotel and conference venue operated by the public University of Texas, Austin.

Details of the conference have emerged as a prominent supporter of pro-natalist positions, the tech billionaire Elon Musk, lays waste US government agencies under the banner of his “Doge” initiative, with the blessing of Donald Trump.

Natalism in its current often rightwing iteration encourages high birth rates, and Musk has been a vocal proponent. He also maintains a large compound home near Austin, where reportedly he plans to house some of his children and two of their mothers.

The implication, of course, is that ‘natalists’, ‘race-science promoters’, and ‘eugenecists’ are part of the Axis Of Evil that all politicaily correct people disdain. Proglodytes have always been disgusted by people having children, from the ‘population crisis’ that was going to bring us to  Malthusian hellscape (before the numbers showed that, actually, the population was stabilizing) to the Wokerati who ‘refuse to bring a child into this world’ in order to Save The Planet.

Proglodytes are congenitally seething with arrogance. They are conviced that, of anything bad happens in the world, it is because of Bad People (other than themselves of course; you know, Other People, Ignorant People), and that if anything good will ever happen it will happen it will depend on the efforts of Good People (like themselves). They forget that the natural world is HUGE and people just don’t count for all that much — we’re just another species, and reality has been dealing with species for billions of years and really doesn’t need our help ,,, but thanks for playing.

(FOLLOW THE SCIENCE! except when it’s race science….)

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The Whitest City in America is losing its pallor.

Portland, Oregon’s rapid economic decline is a well documented phenomenon related directly to Democrat leadership and progressive policy initiatives. The city is perhaps one of the most far-left governments in the entire US and it’s a notorious breeding ground for leftist activist politicians. Portland is considered a “sanctuary city” and Oregon is a sanctuary state. Political opposition to illegal immigrant deportation efforts is extensive. This ideological stand, however, has only exacerbated the region’s economic problems.

One unfortunate consequence of the blue city breakdown is the fast rising homeless population and a large percentage of this population, according to estimates, is made up of refugees and asylum seekers looking for protection from deportation.

Sanctuary cities don’t track illegal migrant populations which means identifying the consequences of a migrant influx is difficult. One danger associated with uncontrolled immigration is the spread of third world diseases that don’t normally pose a serious threat in the US otherwise.

Over the past several years, Portland has dealt with multiple outbreaks of two types of Shigella bacteria, also known as Dysentery, as well as norovirus outbreaks with the same symptoms. In 2024-2025 the metro area is witnessing the largest spread of Shigella so far.

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The majority of our exports to China are raw products like petroleum and soybeans, the two largest categories being exported, while the majority of China’s exports to the United States are manufactured products like computers and other technical equipment.

We send corn and sorghum to China, they ship us back batteries and toys. We sell them coal and ores, they sell us circuit boards and car parts. We ship them tanned hides and meat, and then receive back optical fibers and medical equipment.

Advanced societies buy raw resources from backward societies and sell them back the manufactured goods. We export scrap metal to China, they send us back steel. We send them scrap copper, they ship us back the equipment of which that copper is a component. We export polymers and import the finished ‘Made in China’ plastic products that fill up our stores.

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MSNBC didn’t fire Ayman Mohyeldin, the Hamas-aligned host of a poorly rated weekend show—they just demoted him. The left-wing network announced last week it was canceling Ayman, which aired Saturdays and Sundays at 7 p.m., as part of its ongoing restructuring in the face of financial difficulties. But the controversial host isn’t going anywhere.

“I’m not leaving the network, in fact, quite the opposite,” a defiant Mohyeldin told a handful of viewers over the weekend. “Despite the challenging and fearless ways we have covered stories on this show for more than two years, MSNBC has offered to extend my tenure at the company.” Mohyeldin will cohost a new weekend program, launching in April, alongside two other personalities that have yet to be announced.

“Soon, this show, the name, the format will change, and I will be joined by two new incredible hosts who will be announced soon enough,” Mohyeldin said. “But one thing that won’t change is my promise to you, the viewers, that I won’t stop talking about the difficult stories and challenging topics that others don’t cover.” Mohyeldin acknowledged how “saddened” he was by the firing of his “dear friend, ally, and colleague, the fearless Joy Reid,” but declined to echo star host Rachel Maddow, who accused MSNBC of deliberately suppressing non-white voices.

The demoted host’s comment about “challenging topics that others don’t cover” was presumably in reference to his long history of antagonism toward Israel. Mohyeldin has been the foremost Hamas cheerleader on MSNBC since the departure of fellow anti-Israel activist Mehdi Hasan in 2023. Otherwise his show is relatively standard fare for MSNBC, examining topics such as “how Democrats should resist Trump’s agenda” and how the “GOP’s attack on DEI” has gone too far.

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For a time when millennials were coming of political age, the Harry Potter comparisons were repeated ad nauseum. The eventual response to Harry Potter analogies eventually just became, “read another book” and eventually the comparisons died down.

And that’s what I’m saying now. Pick another event in history besides World War II, please.

It isn’t always Munich in 1938. Not every politician you don’t like is Hitler. Not every aggressive foreign power is the Third Reich. And not every attempt at peace is Neville Chamberlain-like “appeasement.”

And if you are going to go with a World War II history analogy, at least get the facts straight.

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Not tired of winning yet….

Quillette.

Thirty-odd yards ahead of me, a body lay on the sidewalk in a large puddle of blood. I joined a loose throng of locals, mostly adolescent males, walking towards the mishap. A burly black sergeant with a commanding air stood over the corpse of an Asian shopkeeper while several subordinates established a perimeter. It looked like the shopkeeper had been robbed, chased the felon outside, and was shot dead for his efforts. The big cop slowly scanned the young black males who had gathered to watch the unfolding drama. He seemed to pause here and there as if to memorise faces. Then he shook his head and snarled, “If I get my hands on the nigger who did this…”

He left the sentence unfinished, but the way he glowered at the youths in the crowd left no doubt about his intended meaning. We now live in an era when every instance of police brutality fast becomes a cause célèbre on TikTok. But back then, it was understood that cops would mete out street justice to those who committed heinous crimes like the one I’d stumbled upon. In a scene from the contemporaneous Joe Wambaugh series Police Story, a plainclothes detective at a crime scene gets on the police radio and calls for an ambulance. The uncooperative perp he has been questioning asks what the ambulance is for, to which the cop replies, “Because of the leg you broke getting into the squad car.”

Having no appointment to rush to, I studied the arriving auditors of unnatural death as they went about their business, photographing, measuring, dusting, and collecting evidence. The scene was, in its way, as hypnotic as the flashing lights—but it was not what I found unforgettable about that day (I’d seen dead bodies on sidewalks before, and would see them again). Rather, what stays with me even a half-century later is this: I grew up in the Brooklyn of Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing vintage, yet the first time I heard someone call someone else a nigger and really mean it, the word came out of the mouth of a black cop, who spat it at dozens of other young black men.

Alex Tabarrok.

…we started with ChatGPT, but are now seeing a proliferation of industry specific tools. Some people have called these startups “LLM wrappers”; those people are missing the point. The O ring model in economics shows that in a process with interdependent tasks, the overall output or productivity is limited by the least effective component, not just in terms of cost but in the success of the entire system. In a similar vein, we see these new industry specific AI tools as ensuring that individual industries can properly realize the economic impact of LLMs, and that the contextual, data, and workflow integration will prove enduringly valuable.

Examples in this vein include Abridge, Nabla, and DeepScribe, which are rethinking medical and patient care, while Studeo is reshaping how real estate businesses market property. Architects are using SketchPro to instantly render designs with simple text prompts, restaurants are using Slang.ai to take phone reservations, and property managers are unifying customer support with HostAl. Harvey, whose Al legal assistant is used by many Fortune 500 companies, quadrupled revenue in 2024.

ZMan says the quiet part out loud.

Ronald Reagan was famous for saying that “the closest thing to immortality is a government program.” He was not the first person to say it. There are examples of American politicians saying a version of this going back to the 1930’s. There are probably versions of this concept going back to the Kingdom of Ur, because it is the nature of government to create constituencies in favor of its actions and those constituencies always lobby for more of what created them.

You see this with Project Ukraine, which was largely created by a small number of zealots called the neocons in the Obama administration. They overthrew the government of Ukraine, installed an anti-Russian government and just like that there was money and opportunity in Ukraine. By the time Trump came along in 2016, the Ukraine project had a sizable constituency in the Western ruling class, which is why Trump was impeached. He threatened the project.

Since the war broke out in 2022, the power of the Project Ukraine constituency has grown much stronger for monetary and political reasons. Important interests in Western countries are making money from the war, so they support politicians who seek to keep the war going. The politicians are happy to oblige, as the war is a nice distraction from the boring tasks the voters expect from government, tasks that the political class has thoroughly and completely ignored.

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The title of this post is a reference to a Scandinavian sexploitation film from the early 1970s called The Sinful Dwarf. I never saw the flick — that sort of movie doesn’t appeal to me — but back in the day I saw a lurid ad for it in the back pages of the entertainment section of The Washington Post and the name stuck in my memory.

The sins of the Dwarf of Kiev are of a different sort. Mr. Zelensky got himself into hot water on Friday when he chose to get contentious with President Trump and Vice President Vance in the Oval Office. Maybe he forgot that he had come to the capital of the American empire to beg favors for Ukraine, and decided to bite the hand that fed him.

Or maybe he didn’t really make the decision. Maybe the contretemps was set up, prepared in advance, at least in its general outline. Mr. Trump and Mr. Vance may have been waiting for an opportune moment to steer events in a different direction, one that had been decided well in advance.

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A man in his 60s was killed and four other people were wounded in a stabbing attack Monday in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, police said. Israeli authorities said the assailant was killed.

Police said they were treating the stabbing, which took place in a central transit hub, as a militant attack. A security guard and a civilian killed the attacker, who police said was an Arab citizen of Israel who had recently returned to Israel after some time abroad.

The attack took place as regional tensions are high surrounding the fate of the ceasefire in Gaza. The terrorist group Hamas praised the attack but stopped short of claiming responsibility for it.

The problem with allowing Muslims into your country is that you never know when one of them will ‘become radicalized’ and start shooting or stabbing or running over random non-Muslim people.

E.G.: Driver Rams Car Into Crowd in Germany, at Least 1 Dead

E.G.: Another Apparent Car Ramming Attack In Germany Will Only Fuel More AfD Support

E.G.: LIVE: Germany ‘attack’ – two dead after car drives into Mannheim crowd

Jonathan Turley.

Late Saturday, D.C. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled that President Donald Trump violated federal law in firing Hampton Dellinger, head of the Office of Special Counsel. Jackson’s decision is forceful, well-written, and challengeable under existing precedent. Indeed, it may have just set up an appeal that both presidents and professors have long waited for to reinforce presidential powers.

Trump has been doing things that formally Presidents are allowed to do but that most of his predecessors have shied away from because doing so would be inconsistent with ‘how we do things today’. At the very least, it will hammer out (through the courts and otherwise) just what the President can lawfully do.

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How will you ensure access to dental care across the state of Georgia? That’s the sort of question the state’s Department of Community Health asked in 2015 to determine which insurance providers would administer Medicaid to millions of people across the state. Then, last year, the state reopened the bidding process for the multibillion-dollar contract—and senior career staffers hijacked it to insert a question related to transgender children into the bidding process, internal documents reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show.

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It is unsettling to learn that the Chinese regime is capable of operating covert police stations in foreign countries to monitor, harass, and control Chinese citizens living abroad—committing considerable resources to focus on those most critical of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

CCP shadow police operations came to light in June 2021, when nonprofit media group ProPublica revealed Beijing’s Operation Fox Hunt program. Initially thought to be some form of Chinese bounty hunter program, the United States and numerous other countries now see it as a global shadow police force. This program, ostensibly aimed at combating corruption, is now viewed as a front for targeting and coercing dissidents and critics of the CCP to return to China. According to the human rights group Safeguard Defenders, these activities are ongoing in more than 50 countries, including the United States, Canada, and several European nations.

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Is the rest of the world entitled to US money and US security? This is the question that’s never asked when the establishment media rages about Donald Trump’s opposition to continue the status quo in Ukraine. Consider for a moment the situation from the perspective of friends (allies).

Imagine a wealthy man is approached by his friends often for loans which these friends rarely pay back. He obliges out of generosity, but begins to suspect his friends are only interested in his wallet. So, he makes an announcement that he’s trying to get his finances in order and will not be lending any money for the next 90 days.

Do his friends respond with understanding? No. They call the man a criminal and cry endlessly about how their families will starve and the world will fall apart if he doesn’t keep filling their bottomless gullets with cash. They even suggest he is deserving of retribution for daring to ask them to support themselves.

With friends like these, who needs enemies?

REVEALED: The enormous amount of money you now have to earn to be considered middle class (UK Daily Mail)

What does it take to be middle class in 2025? New study explains (The Hill)

This is what it takes to be a middle class earner in Houston in 2025 (CultureMap Houston)

How much you need to earn to be middle class in Columbus and Ohio (NBC4 Columbus)

Michael McCune:

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Welcome to the People’s Republic of the Left Coast, where, in spite of having the highest taxes in the nation, somehow nobody in government seems to have the money to do their actual jobs.

The Wall Street Journal, unfortunately these days a Voice of the Crust.

The U.S. imported $1.2 trillion more in goods in 2024 than it exported, a record annual deficit and a major economic irritant for President Trump. On Feb. 13, the president announced that his administration would evaluate tariffs and other trade barriers imposed on U.S. exports by other nations and match them with “reciprocal” tariffs. The president said last week that 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico would go into effect Tuesday.

This is utter horseshit, and a good indicator of how far reporting in the WSJ has degenerated.

There is no such thing as a ‘trade deficit’, any more than there is a ‘car deficit’ if you buy three cars and only trade in two.

All trade is balanced. Nobody ships good to the U.S. gratis. If the U.S. imports X amount of goods and only exports X-Y goods in return, the difference is in the form of actual money … i.e. pieces of paper (or electronic bits) that are worth no more than what the government says they are. If we are receiving goods and sending bits of paper in return, who is on the short end of that stick?

Wall Street Journal.

In America’s most surprising cutting-edge classes, students pursue hands-on work with wood, metals and machinery, getting a jump on lucrative old-school careers.

School districts around the U.S. are spending tens of millions of dollars to expand and revamp high-school shop classes for the 21st century. They are betting on the future of manual skills overlooked in the digital age, offering vocational-education classes that school officials say give students a broader view of career prospects with or without college.

With higher-education costs soaring and white-collar workers under threat by generative AI, the timing couldn’t be better.

The Washington Poop, a Voice of the Crust, has been invaded by a sane person. Let’s hope he gets out alive.

On the morning of March 10, I intend to take a shower, turn my face up to the spray and burble, “Thank God for the Guardian!” Not because I admire the left-wing politics of the British newspaper, where they seem to long for the days when the Brits’ income tax rate topped 90 percent and Nigel Farage hadn’t been born. No, March 10 will mark precisely one year since the Great Shower Debate ended.

Or at least it ended for me when the Guardian published an article with the immortal headline “High shower pressure can help people save water, study suggests.”

Intrepid researchers at the University of Surrey had placed sensors in 290 showers around campus, recording data for 39 weeks from 86,421 individual shower sessions. “Water consumption,” the study found, sensationally, “was reduced by up to 56% with high water pressure.”

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A recent audit of Oklahoma’s Tulsa Public Schools reported financial mismanagement, noncompliance with state law and district policy, and a lack of transparency by administrators.

State Auditor and Inspector Cindy Byrd said auditors reviewed $37.7 million in Tulsa Public Schools (TPS) expenditures between 2015 and 2023 and found that $29 million was paid to consultants. Byrd said auditors found 1,450 discrepancies in 900 invoices and 90 vendor records.

The report also alleged that TPS may have violated a state law prohibiting the teaching of critical race theory and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in Oklahoma’s public schools.

Where would we be without ‘public’ schools? Probably a lot more educated.

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“Waaaaah! The gravy train is stopping!”

‘Funding’ means somebody getting money for nothing. Go ahead, look it up. (If you get something in return, it’s not funding, it’s investment.)

The Foundry.

Socialism is popular!

A Pew study reports that more than a third of American adults view it positively.

How is this possible?

Little has brought more misery—first in the Soviet Union, then in China, Cuba, Nicaragua, now Venezuela …

One reason young people support socialism is because their social media feeds show videos made by popular but economically illiterate people.

TikTok star Madeline Pendleton has 1.6 million subscribers. My new video shows her telling them: “Socialism is working better than capitalism 93% of the time!”

Where does she get 93%?

From a study published in 1986 by self-described Marxists in the Journal of Health Services.

The authors conveniently ignore the United States and other wealthy countries and compare socialist economies to “capitalist” countries like Uganda, Rwanda, and Somalia, some of which were at war.

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Firefly Aerospace’s “Blue Ghost” lander became the first private spacecraft to successfully land on the Moon after descending from lunar orbit early Sunday morning.

Firefly confirmed on X around 0336 ET that the 6.6-foot-tall lander “stuck the landing” and “became the first commercial company in history to achieve a fully successful Moon landing. This small step on the Moon represents a giant leap in commercial exploration,” adding this “paves the way for future missions to the Moon and Mars.”

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Some things in life are so deeply ingrained in our daily existence that we rarely stop to question them.

They are simply there, operating in the background, so fundamental to our existence that they feel as natural as the air we breathe.

We use them, rely on them, and move through the world assuming they are exactly as they should be.

For example, everyone is familiar with the phrase “Money makes the world go ‘round.”

This is rarely questioned and is rather accepted as self-evident.

Every day, you wake up, pay your bills, go to work, and check your bank account,—believing that you understand the system you operate within.

But have you ever stopped to ask yourself: What is money, really?

Not the textbook definition.

Not the economic theory you learned in school.

But the truth.

ZMan:

In time, Volodymyr Zelensky may be on that list of mercurial figures who somehow ended up on the world stage, only to come to a bad end. The former actor and comedian, who was never all that good at either role, has become both the indispensable man and the clog in the drain of history that must be removed for things to take their proper course. The great struggle now is between those two opposing realities, which helps explain last week.

The neocons turned Zelensky into a folk hero so he could be the point around which Western politicians would rally. Then he became the clearing house for cash that flowed into Ukraine, some of which flowed back out into the pockets of European and American politicians. This only worked if there was a war with Russia, so they worked with Zelensky to make negotiations with Russia impossible, short of the unconditional surrender of the Russians.

For Project Ukraine, Zelensky became the indispensable man. Trump comes to power, and he wants to wrap up Ukraine and move onto other things, but to do that he has to broker a deal between Ukraine and Russia. Of course, Zelensky cannot do this as his very existence rests on this war with Russia being a permanent feature of life. It is why his peace plans always revolve around the West joining the Ukrainians in the fight on the ground.

The blowup on Friday now creates a serious problem for the Europeans. Despite the tough talk from the soy boys and girl bosses, they cannot risk a genuine split with Washington. They think Trump is bluffing about cutting off Ukraine, but once they realize that he is not bluffing, they will confront the same issue Trump has observed. The thing clogging the pipes, preventing things from flowing in the proper direction is Zelensky, which means he will have to go.

The New York Times, a Voice of the Crust.

One cartel leader says he’s trying to figure out how to protect his family in case the American military strikes inside Mexico. Another says he’s already gone into hiding, rarely leaving his home. Two young men who produce fentanyl for the cartel say they have shut down all their drug labs.

A barrage of arrests, drug seizures and lab busts by the Mexican authorities in recent months has struck the behemoth Sinaloa Cartel, according to Mexican officials and interviews with six cartel operatives, forcing at least some of its leaders to scale back on fentanyl production in Sinaloa state, their stronghold.

The cartels have sown terror across Mexico and caused untold damage in the United States. But here in Culiacán, the state capital, the dynamic seems to be shifting, at least for now. Cartel operatives say they’ve had to move labs to other areas of the country or temporarily shut down production.

“You can’t be calm, you can’t even sleep, because you don’t know when they’ll catch you,” said one high-ranking member of the Sinaloa Cartel who, like other cartel operatives, spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of capture.’

Sometimes the system works.

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Not all people who are attracted to government employment are searching for a cushy job with limited work load and even less oversight, but most aren’t working for agencies like the IRS, ATF or USAID because of patriotic duty. In reality, federal bureaucrats act as if they’ve found a cheat code to life. And until the arrival of Elon Musk’s DOGE audits, that assumption was generally true.

As Dan Aykroyd’s character Ray Stantz notes in the movie Ghostbusters:

“Personally, I liked working for the university. They gave us money and facilities. We didn’t have to produce anything. You’ve never been out of college. You don’t know what it’s like out there! I’ve worked in the private sector … they expect results!”

For decades it’s been a running joke that government employees do very little while collecting a generous paycheck. For American taxpayers, however, the joke’s not so funny. DOGE audits have exposed considerable waste and fraud within the system. Apologists in the media argue that most of this information was available to anyone willing to look, but this is a misrepresentation of the bigger problem.

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The best way to understand Trump is also the simplest: he’s a businessman. From that perspective, little of what he’s doing is as inexplicable or surprising as many make it out to be. The inexplicability arises from general ignorance of business. Most Americans have little knowledge or understanding of how private American businesses work, although they generates the majority of the U.S.’s $29 trillion GDP and employ many of them.

Trump is now CEO of the federal government. That enterprise has over $36 trillion in direct liabilities and unfunded liabilities in the hundreds of trillions. Its cost of credit is rising and debt service is taking an ever-expanding share of its revenues. Self evidently, it cannot continue on its present course.

The common element of successful business turnarounds is that they don’t emerge from slow, incremental changes from within the system. Somebody comes in and administers shock therapy. Turnaround artists are never popular. Lots of people are fired, unprofitable operations discarded, finances tightened, business philosophies rethought, and the company’s direction radically reset. Because the company’s situation is dire, this all has to be done quickly, with shareholders howling and creditors pounding at the door.

The Times.

A doctor who worked at the scandal-hit Nottingham University Hospitals Trust fought for the truth — and learnt his daughter’s body was left to decompose.

How about that great government-provided healthcare, eh?

Don’t you wish we had a system like that in the U.S.?

It’s coming….

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U.S. Central Command has posted the first video ever showing the secretive AGM-114R9X variant of the Hellfire missile in action. R9X is an exotic weapon that features an array of pop-out sword-like blades rather than a traditional high-explosive warhead. It is used as an extremely low collateral damage weapon that can target not just a vehicle, but a specific occupant inside by slashing through the car at just the right spot. TWZ was the first to identify this new weapon’s unique effects back in 2017. It has since become something of a gruesome fascination in the public domain, getting nicknames like the “Flying Ginsu” and “Ninja Bomb” due to its very unique capabilities.

We have the technology.

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In the spring of 2021 a young Pakistani woman named Saman Abbas disappeared from the Italian town of Novellara in Italy. The assumption was that she had been “honor-killed” by her parents and male relatives. It wasn’t until months later that her body was found.

Saman’s father and mother fled to Pakistan. Her uncle and two cousins were arrested in various European countries. At first her uncle Danish was identified as the likely killer, but he fingered her mother as the perpetrator.

Saman’s parents were tried and convicted — the mother in absentia, since she was still in Pakistan, although the father had been extradited — and sentenced to life in prison.

Saman’s mother was extradited to Italy last summer. The article below concerns her recent appearance in court for an appeal proceeding.

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Mob rule has always been the Left’s first recourse.

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It’s so secret that it’s in the news!

UK Daily Mail.

Left-wing managers of a Paris theatre occupied by hundreds of homeless African migrants are set to abandon the building because of sex-related violence.

They say the crisis at the Gaîté Lyrique – one of the French capital’s most historic arts venues – is now ‘so explosive’ that retreat by this Friday is their only option.

Some 200 mainly young men moved in last December when the management gave them free tickets to a ‘Refugees Welcome in France’ conference.

Get Woke, Go Broke.

Washington Poop.

A plan SO SECRET that only the Washington Poop knew about it.

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CNN host Jake Tapper is preparing to sell a book he wrote about Joe Biden’s cognitive decline and the “desperate efforts to hide the extent of that deterioration.” Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again comes out in May. That’s 6 months after the election, 11 months after Biden bragged about finally beating Medicare in a debate moderated by Jake Tapper, 15 months after Special Counsel Robert Hur was widely denounced for describing Biden as an “elderly man with a poor memory,” 34 months after the Washington Free Beacon published volume one of “Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week,” and 55 months after Tapper attacked Lara Trump for suggested Biden was experiencing “cognitive decline.”

To most observers who aren’t journalists or professional Democrats, the extent of Biden’s deterioration did not seem like something that was especially well hidden. It was obvious to anyone who watched Biden attempt to speak coherently in public. In August 2023, the Associated Press released a poll that found 69 percent of Democrats thought Biden was too old to “effectively serve” another four years. Nevertheless, most journalists either refused to cover the issue or embarrassed themselves by insisting Biden was sharp as a tack. “I think he’s better than he’s ever been,” MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said of Biden in March 2024. “I’m about to tell you the truth, and F you if you can’t handle the truth. This version of Biden—intellectually, analytically—is the best Biden ever.” Critics of Biden’s decision to run again on account of his age were assailed for promoting misinformation and right-wing conspiracy theories.

Timing is everything, and this is hardly the first time journalists have waited until after a hotly contested presidential election to publish damning information about prominent Democrats. Trump’s election in 2016, for example, didn’t just end Hillary Clinton’s career in politics. It also precipitated the downfall of two Clinton-affiliated Democrats widely regarded as criminal sex pests: Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein.

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Don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.

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Having failed to convince the voting public about the merits of its campaign against fossil fuels, the climate movement is now turning to the courts to enforce its agenda.

And to support this effort, millions of dollars are now flowing through liberal charities and nonprofit groups to pay lawyers to prosecute these cases.

States, cities, and counties—including California, New Jersey, Maine, New York City, Chicago, and Honolulu—have made a variety of damage claims, including that oil companies violated consumer protection laws, deceived the public about their role in climate change, created a public nuisance, and—in a case brought by teenagers in Montana—violated children’s rights to a “clean and healthful environment.”

Democrats always avoid anything approaching democracy if they can.

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Joy Behar, one of the wicked witches on The View was forced to issue an apology and admit she completely made up an accusation against Elon Musk, but then got pissed off that she was told she can’t just make stuff up.

Behar wildly claimed that Musk supported apartheid when he lived in South Africa as a child, and that he still currently has that “mentality.”

“[Musk] kisses [President Donald Trump’s] butt and strokes his tiny ego, a big ego, whatever it is. And he can take a nap while the guy [who] was not born in this country, who was born under apartheid in South Africa, so he has that mentality going on. He was pro-apartheid as I understand it,” Behar said.

Moments later she walked back the comments, noting that she had just simply assumed that Musk supported apartheid and didn’t have any evidence to back up the claim.s

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Stacy Abrams is a founding member of the Yet Another Corrupt Black Female Politician Hall of Fame.

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Apparently there is some sort of Right To Receive Money From The Taxpayers of which were were ignorant. Who knew?

Ron Brownstein struggled with the idea that blue states could be on the wrong end of federal civil rights issues on Friday’s CNN This Morning as he claimed that the Trump Administration is trying to use “the power of the federal purse to rescind rights.”

Host Jessica Dean began by reading from Brownstein’s recent article on the subject, where he laid out what his definition of “rights” is, “Trump has threatened to cut off federal funds for states, cities, hospitals, and universities unless they adopt a wide range of conservative social policies, such as banning transgender girls from competing in high school sports and ending diversity programs in education and employment. Since most red states have already adopted these policies, the principal effect of Trump’s orders is to attempt to impose these ideas on Democratic-controlled states that have already considered them at the state level, and virtually without exception, spurned them.”

Covid prophet who predicted pandemic SEVEN YEARS before it spread reveals the terrifying next ‘big one’… and when it could hit (UK Daily Mail)

The next pandemic: COVID-19 showed us how we can fight the next global outbreak (UC Davis Health)

Lab Notes: Are we on the brink of another pandemic? (ABC News)

US Health Secretary Kennedy calls for end to deadly Texas measles outbreak (Reuters)

As Texas measles outbreak grows, here’s what to know about the disease, vaccines and response (NBC News)

As the Texas outbreak grows, how contagious is measles, really? (NPR)

Death of child from measles is an ominous sign (Washington Poop)

“Bat Lady” Research Team In Wuhan ‘Find’ COVID-Like Virus That Can Infect Humans