In first 100 days, Trump tests limits, creates chaos and turns from allies (NPR)

America may be just weeks away from a mighty economic shock (The Economist)

“Frankly, I Never Heard Of You”: A Testy Donald Trump Tussles With Terry Moran During Contentious ABC News Interview Marking POTUS’ First 100 Days (Deadline)

Think Trump’s Unpopular Now? Just Wait. (The New Republic)

CNN Poll: Frustrated Americans want more checks on Trump, have dim views of Democratic opposition (CNN)

7 poll numbers that sum up Trump’s first 100 days (Washington Poop)

Map Shows Donald Trump’s Approval Rating in Each State After 100 Days (Newsweek)

US consumer confidence plummets to Covid-era low as trade war stokes anxiety (Christopher Rugaber/Associated Press)

More give Trump an F than any other grade for first 100 days, poll finds (Domenico Montanaro/NPR)

Trump Circle Anticipates Impeachment If Dems Take House

Let A Million Anti-Trump Flowers Bloom (Brian Beutler/Off Message)

WATCH: Scott Bessent Makes CBS Reporter Look Clueless on Tariff War with China

Trump targets the media in his first 100 days (Axios)  Although less than the media target Trump.

Trump won’t back sharing food-aid costs with states, House Ag chair says (Grace Yarrow/Politico)

Trump fires Doug Emhoff, Biden appointees from Holocaust museum board (Alex Gangitano/The Hill)

Trump Backers Push Back on Pritzker’s Call for ‘Disruption’ to ‘Punish’ Republicans

Trump’s First 100 Days Were Worst for Dow, S&P 500 Since Nixon (Wall Street Journal)

House GOP Votes to Block Dems From Investigating Trump

Dem Rep Who Filed Trump Impeachment Articles Under Fire For Dog, Monkey Abuse In Bankruptcy Scandal

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The Democratic National Committee will consider a challenge to youth activist David Hogg’s election as vice chair, following allegations that the February vote “discriminated against three women of color candidates.”

Kalyn Free, a Native American activist and longtime Democratic Party operative, filed a complaint weeks after her loss to Hogg, arguing she lost a “fatally flawed election that violated the DNC Charter and discriminated against three women of color candidates” and calling for “two new vice chair elections,” Semafor reported.

The DNC notified its members on Monday that it will meet virtually on May 12 to consider Free’s challenge.

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Violent youth crime is on the rise in the nation’s capital, but the Washington, D.C., attorney general’s office is focused on something else: doling out massive contracts to well-connected plaintiffs’ attorneys firms to sue left-wing bugaboos.

Since 2019, the D.C. attorney general’s office has awarded several lucrative contingency fee contracts to Edelson PC to help file consumer fraud lawsuits against prominent corporations—legal efforts that conservative watchdog groups say are designed to achieve left-wing policy wins at a nationwide scale. That includes a contract worth up to $170 million to help the attorney general’s office sue the manufacturers of PFAS chemicals, and a 2023 contract worth up to $55 million to help the district sue Facebook and other social media companies. And there’s one person at the center of many of the cases: former D.C. assistant deputy attorney general Jimmy Rock, a Democratic donor who left his taxpayer-funded post in late 2022 to head up Edelson’s new office in the nation’s capital.

Pursuing left-wing consumer fraud litigation is the sort of work Rock did when he managed the D.C. attorney general’s Public Advocacy Division, where he was the lead attorney in a January 2020 lawsuit against the Trump inaugural committee for allegedly overpaying Trump’s hotels for accommodations during the 2017 inauguration. Rock also represented the D.C. attorney general’s office in a 2018 lawsuit that sought to hold Facebook accountable for allegedly misusing user data during the 2016 elections. That lawsuit is on appeal after a D.C. judge ruled against the district attorney in 2023.

The New Neo.

They are seemingly united in trying to advance the notion that they didn’t notice what was obvious about Biden’s cognitive decline, rather than let you conclude that they lied about it in order to cover it up and to help Democrats and hurt the right. But if that is the case, why should we listen to reporters that stupid, that unobservant, that incurious?

Of course, they weren’t left with many good choices as an excuse for their abominable behavior. It’s “we were stupid!” or they admit “we lied.” Neither story is going to enhance their image, but I think “we’re stupid” might just be a worse message.

Now, I know it’s the case that they’re not literally saying “we’re stupid.” Instead, they’re saying, “we were deceived!” But that’s preposterous because Biden’s decline was so glaringly obvious.

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For sufficiently ass-covering values of ‘cleared’. This report contradicts itself.

An investigation has cleared the Federal Emergency Management Agency of any wrongdoing stemming from accusations that employees of the agency were instructed to deliberately avoid assisting homes of then Trump supporters in hurricane ravaged Florida, Politico reported on Tuesday.

The investigation found “no evidence” the agency’s upper management had told field workers to purposely avoid homes with Trump yard signs thereby denying them federal disaster relief benefits, following the devastation caused by back-to-back Hurricanes Helene and Milton in the fall of 2024.

In November it was reported that Marn’i Washington, a FEMA official, gave a directive both verbally and via a Microsoft Teams chat used by relief workers to pass over homes with signage supporting then candidate Donald Trump. FEMA employees told the Daily Wire that a minimum of 20 homes displaying Trump signs were passed over.

Newsbusters.

CNN might be funnier than the late night comedy shows, albeit unintentionally. During CNN Newsroom’s Saturday pregame show ahead of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, media analyst Sara Fischer claimed that freedom of the press has become increasingly politicized. Her first example was to claim that funding PBS and NPR is an “investment in the free press,” but that has now become “a political issue.”

Host Jessica Dean began the lamentations by declaring, “Everything is politicized these days. That’s kind of the world we live in right now and it was no different. There was a comedian scheduled to perform tonight. Then they canceled that. Now it’s the more, as you’re noting, kind of somber tone.”

Associated Press, a Voice of the Crust.

Damned straight. I had high-school classmates die in Vietnam.

The Vietnam War greatly impacted U.S. society from the passage of the War Powers Resolution that restricts the president’s ability to send troops into extended combat without congressional approval to the cementing of college campuses as centers of student activism.

Millions of U.S. troops fought in Vietnam. For some Americans, the war that effectively ended with the fall of Saigon 50 years ago Wednesday on April 30, 1975, continues to shape their lives.

They include: A woman dedicated to recovering her father’s remains after the Navy plane he piloted disappeared over Vietnam’s Gulf of Tonkin. A Vietnam veteran who was heckled like scores of other troops when he returned home and now assists fellow veterans in rural Alaska. And an anti-war movement stalwart who has spent decades advocating for free speech after her brother was wounded when Ohio National Guard troops fired into a crowd of protesters at Kent State University.

The AP, of course, sees it from a Woke perspective.

The Times (UK)

The British Medical Association seems to be full of Woke doctors.

The British Medical Association has been accused of “destroying trust in medicine” and perpetuating “medical misogyny” after doctors condemned the Supreme Court’s ruling on sex.

The wing of resident doctors passed a motion on Saturday stating the court’s verdict that a woman is defined by biological sex was “scientifically illiterate” and harmful to transgender people.

Other doctors have criticised the stance for denying the biological reality of sex. Dr Louise Irvine, co-chair of the Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender, said: “­It is really worrying for female patients to think that doctors are seriously arguing that sex is not a clear-cut category in healthcare. Doctors have to recognise sex in order to be able to practise medicine properly and safely.

“As a doctor, you need to know sex for accurate diagnoses. Sex matters for NHS service provision and single-sex wards. It is misogynistic to negate or ignore women’s rights. Medical misogyny is a huge problem. The profession has a long, long history of misogyny. Now the BMA is making out that sex is a nebulous concept and category. If doctors don’t understand sex then I don’t think they should be doctors.”

Babylon Bee.

Following massive power grid failures that plunged multiple countries into blackouts, Europe promised its citizens it would get electricity back up as soon as possible so everyone would be able to hear the Muslim call to prayer over the loudspeakers.

Canada’s Mark Carney prepares to take the west’s anti-Trump mantle (Financial Times) Which is, apparently, going to be his main job. Forget governing Canada, let’s concentrate on the important stuff, sticking it to Trump (Oh, and the U.S. too).

Sarah Smith: Trump’s breakneck start is fraught with political risk (BBC)

American Battleground: Resistance and revenge in 100 days of Trump (CNN)

Trump lashes out against “fake polls” as his approval ratings sink (Axios) You can almost hear the rubbing hands.

Trump’s Fury at Bad Polls Boils Over as Allies Rush to Calm Him Down (The New Republic)

More give Trump an F than any other grade for first 100 days, poll finds (NPR)

Trump Teases The Atlantic About ’28 Run  The Narrative Media will believe anything.

Civil rights lawyers leave en masse as Justice Dept. mission shifts (Washington Post)  Good riddance.

Elon Musk’s Doge conflicts of interest worth $2.37bn, Senate report says (Nick Robins-Early/The Guardian)

Trump Floats Improbable Income-Tax Cut Tied to Tariffs (Richard Rubin/Wall Street Journal)

Trump Recasts Mission of Justice Dept.’s Civil Rights Office, Prompting ‘Exodus’ (Devlin Barrett/New York Times) I guess they’re disapppointed that hating white people is no longer on the menu.

Coming for the Judges (The Status Kuo) When they break the law, sure.

Ice seeking out unaccompanied immigrant children to deport or prosecute (The Guardian)

Dem Says ICE Took Florida Mom From Baby, Unlawfully Deported Her To Cuba (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)  Dem says! That proves it!

US Dismisses All Authors of National Climate Assessment

In 100 Days, Trump Has Invented Something New: Clown-Show Fascism (Michael Tomasky/New Republic)

Fact-Checking the Left’s 3 Claims Denouncing the Trump DOJ’s Arrest of Judges

Government Actually Threatens Wikipedia’s Editorial Freedom; Self-Proclaimed Free Speech Warriors Suddenly Have Other Plans (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

CNN Poll: A growing majority says Trump has made the economy worse, with most skeptical of his tariff plans (Ariel Edwards-Levy/CNN) CNN Poll! That proves it!

Republicans tee up federal worker benefit cuts to pay for tax cuts (Erich Wagner/GovExec.com)

Far-right fight groups endorse ‘youth clubs’ targeting US young men and boys (Ben Makuch/The Guardian)  Far right!

Are You Better Off Than You Were 100 Days Ago? (John Avlon/The Bulwark) Yup.

Congress Moving Forward On Unconstitutional Take It Down Act (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

National Climate Assessment Authors Are Dismissed by Trump Administration (New York Times)

Rev. William Barber arrested in Capitol Rotunda after praying against Republican-led budget (Jack Jenkins/RNS)

White evangelicals continue to stand out in their support for Trump (Chip Rotolo/Pew Research Center)  The swine!

I Can’t Believe Anyone Thinks Trump Actually Cares About Antisemitism (Michelle Goldberg/New York Times)  Astonishing, considering the other bullshit she apparently believes.

‘If you’re a fascist, get a Tesla’: Neil Young targets Elon Musk in new song (Aidin Vaziri/San Francisco Chronicle)

ABC News Insists on Pushing Debunked ‘Deported Citizen Babies’ Hoax

At 100 Days, Trump 2.0 Is in Trouble (Wall Street Journal)

Why the MAGA world won’t turn its back on Hegseth (Tal Axelrod/Axios)  Another attempt at mind-reading by a Narrative Media scribbler.

Most Americans oppose Trump 3rd term, taking control of Greenland and Canada: POLL (Steven Sparks/Reuters)  Poll! That proves it!

Secret Deals, Foreign Investments, Presidential Policy Changes: The Rise of Trump’s Crypto Firm (New York Times)  Worse than Ten Percent For The Big Guy?

Exclusive: Most Americans see Trump as “dangerous dictator,” poll says (Russell Contreras/Axios)  Poll! That proves it!

ABC’s bitter history with Donald Trump sidelines superstars David Muir, George Stephanopoulos for primetime sit-down with POTUS

Mark Carney: democracy’s unTrump (Edward Luce/Financial Times)  i.e. a servant of the Deep State, posing as a Champion of Democracy.

Unfit to Be the Ruler of a Free People: The Anti-American Presidency of Donald Trump (Adam Gurri/Liberal Currents)

Trump’s team has disrupted some $430 billion in federal funds, top Democrats say (Lisa Mascaro/Associated Press)  Well, that’s kinda the point….

Most take Trump’s Canada, Greenland and third-term ideas seriously — and oppose them, poll finds (Scott Clement/Washington Post)  Most are stupid, and are made stupider by reading the Narrative Media.

The Longest 100 Days — The clash between Donald Trump’s determination to rule and his inability … (Jonathan Chait/The Atlantic)  Those that can, do. Those that can’t do, teach. Those that can’t teach, opine.

The thermostat comes for Trumpism (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)

Trump’s polling has already collapsed (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)

Congressional watchdog agency will investigate Trump’s hollowing out of CFPB (Tierney Sneed/CNN)

550 US rabbis sign letter condemning Trump’s antisemitism policy (Yonat Shimron/RNS)  There’s no pleasing some people.

Attorneys dispute Trump officials’ claim that deported moms willingly took their U.S. citizen children (NBC News)

Remembering Paul Volcker amid today’s destruction of government (Norman Ornstein/The Contrarian)

Trump vowed to end wars, equalize trade. He’s delivered something else. (Eli Stokols/Politico)

Trump’s federal return-to-office orders are massively backfiring (Gleb Tsipursky/The Hill)

Trump Is More Likely to Get a Third Impeachment Than a Third Term (Jill Lawrence/The Bulwark)  Oh, he will certainly get a third impeachment. You can depend on the Dramacrats for that.

A 100-Day Honeymoon from Hell (William Kristol/The Bulwark)  I can feel it working….

MAGA’s Premiere Conspiracy Theorist Becomes the Target of One (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: Nets Tout 100-Day Doompolls After Pounding ‘Relentlessy Negative’ Trump Coverage

Trump is the Godfather in Reverse (Paul Krugman)  And Krugman is Friedrich Hayek in revrse.

Michelle Obama Ripped for Deportation Hypocrisy

220 lawsuits in 100 days: Trump administration faces unprecedented legal blitz (Peter Charalambous/ABC News)  That’s the busiest Democrats have been since they started spending our money.

Trump Is a Triple Loser in Canada’s Election (Ed Kilgore/New York Magazine)  Gee, I didn’t know he was a candidate.

Trump’s team war-gaming for an impeachment fight (Axios)

Trump Displays Criminal Alien Images On White House Lawn; Guess What MSNBC Does…

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Washington, D.C., mayor Muriel Bowser (D.) lied about a $61,000 trip she took to Qatar, which she said was funded by two different U.S. organizations. The Hamas-harboring Middle Eastern nation actually funded the trip, according to a new report.

Bowser’s office initially claimed her December 2023 trip to the Qatari capital city of Doha was funded by the D.C. Chamber of Commerce before changing its story and saying the U.S. Conference of Mayors paid for the trip. Both claims are false, local station WJLA/ABC7 reported Monday. In reality, Qatar covered $61,930 in travel expenses for Bowser and four staff members, according to a letter from Qatar to the mayor’s office that WJLA obtained through a FOIA request.

The mayor failed to record the trip with the District of Columbia or sign a donation agreement, both of which are required by law, even though Qatar referred to the trip as an “in-kind donation,” according to WJLA. Now, two years after Bowser visited Qatar, her office plans to file a donation agreement, reaching out to Qatari officials in February for “a breakdown of the expenses the Qatari Government paid for.”

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Trump’s ‘dictatorship,’ the French Left has suddenly become hostile to immigration and is advocating ‘national preference’ for French researchers.

The French National Assembly will now be discussing a bill aimed at creating a ‘scientific refugee’ status to facilitate the reception and hiring of American academics who want to leave their institutions in the United States to settle in France. Some U.S. academics are supposedly pursuing European options in order to escape alleged censorship of their work by Donald Trump’s government—what is in reality only a reduction in public funding for research deemed secondary or overly ideologically militant.

Once the enthusiasm of the small French academic world, which loudly proclaimed its willingness to welcome these new ‘political exiles’ with open arms, had died down, mistrust of the new arrivals quickly set in: these researchers will obviously be cutting into the already very tight budgets of their French colleagues. Are they really so welcome?

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On Tuesday, April 29^th, the EU Court of Justice declared Malta’s “golden passport” scheme unlawful, siding with the European Commission in a long-standing legal battle over whether citizenship can be sold to the highest bidder. The European Commission welcomed the ruling. “It’s now for Malta to implement the court’s judgement,” said EU spokesperson Markus Lammert.

“The acquisition of Union citizenship cannot result from a commercial transaction,” the EU’s highest court ruled, concluding that Malta had violated EU law by offering its citizenship to non-Europeans in exchange for pre-defined payments or investments. The binding decision now requires Malta to shut down the program or face significant penalties.

“A member state cannot grant its nationality—and indeed European citizenship—in exchange for predetermined payments or investments, as this essentially amounts to rendering the acquisition of nationality a mere commercial transaction,” the court wrote. It also noted that Malta’s actions “infringe the principle of sincere cooperation and jeopardise the mutual trust between member states concerning the grant of their nationality.”

The legal action, initiated in 2020 and escalated in 2022 when the Commission brought the case to the Court of Justice, has now reached a decisive conclusion. The island nation’s controversial program allowed wealthy individuals—many of them Russians and Chinese—to buy their way into EU citizenship and thereby access all the rights and privileges of the bloc.

Malta had previously defended the scheme, pointing out that “Significant investments were made in key sectors to improve the quality of life for the Maltese and Gozitan people,” the government noted, stating that the program had brought in 1.4 billion euros since its launch in 2015.

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Since the UK Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that the word “woman” in equality legislation really does mean woman, other decisive steps have been made in the national trans debate.

First, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said—albeit unconvincingly—that he was pleased with the ruling. Then, it was announced as a follow-up also to last year’s Cass review that the National Health Service will now test all children who believe they are transgender for neurodevelopmental conditions, including autism and ADHD. Medics will also evaluate each child’s sexual development, including possible same-sex attractions, whereas such individuals were previously misdiagnosed, and at great cost.

But efforts are also underway to undermine what campaigners described as the “incredibly worrying” Supreme Court verdict.

The American Mind.

What is this thing called “merit”? And what role did it play during the recent but hopefully bygone age of elite college dominance, runaway financialization, and the rise of competitive blame-shifting? This is the puzzle proffered by Nicholas Lemann in his 1999 book The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy: Why should competition for slots at a tiny number of selective colleges play a substantial role in how young people come to fill lucrative private sector jobs?

The American meritocracy was created in the mid-20th century by academic administrators such as war gas chemist and sometime Harvard President James Conant not to staff Wall Street but to find the best and the brightest to fill vital government and scientific positions.

We can think about how merit selection can and should work for these few and demanding positions by riffing on the 1943 Warner Brothers propaganda short The Rear Gunner. The small and folksy Burgess Meredith was the star, while the tall, slim, and handsome Ronald Reagan was in a supporting role.

NPR, a Voice of the Deep State.

Because, as we all know, it’s the responsibility of the Federal government–and the Federal taxpayer–to make sure that deaf students get a science career.

The Guardian.

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A new day dawning….

Task & Purpose.

‘Sex neutral’ seems to be the popular euphemism for ‘ignoring that men and women are actually different’.

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My, what a surprise.

Poor people can always be depended on to vote for The Party of Free Stuff.

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The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has reportedly loosened restrictions on audience members displaying flags during the 2025 Eurovision event scheduled to take place in Basel, Switzerland on May 13th.

The Danish Broadcasting Corporation obtained this year’s official policy regarding national and political emblems. The new EBU policy states that “political messages should be avoided,” while noting host country Switzerland’s “high value on freedom of expression.”

This means spectators will apparently be allowed to bring all flags into the St. Jakobshalle arena, including that of Palestine, which was notably banned from the 2024 contest.

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The Iberian nations of Spain and Portugal were thrust into chaos yesterday as a massive power outage swept across the entirety of their territories, leaving tens of millions without electricity.

Major cities, among them tourist destinations of international repute—Madrid, Lisbon, Barcelona, Seville, and Valencia—all ground to a halt. Airports shut down, trains stalled, traffic lights failed, and hospitals scrambled to maintain critical operations on backup generators. The Madrid Open tennis tournament was suspended. Supermarkets had to close to prevent panic buying. Ordinary people were left stranded in elevators and metro tunnels, navigating pitch-black stations with phone torches. Passengers had to leave stranded trains on foot. Authorities reportedly had prior warnings, yet failed to act decisively.

By evening, partial power was finally restored—Spain’s grid operator Red Eléctrica reported meeting 43% of demand—but full recovery could nevertheless take hours, if not days. Meanwhile, Portugal’s operator warned of potential disruptions that might last for up to a week. On Monday evening, Lisbon’s mayor, Carlos Moedas, asked people to stay at home the following day, fearing the city would still be unprepared to return to normal.

This spectacular, wholly unprecedented blackout, described as a “50-year, if not 100-year incident,” exposed a deeper flaw: the catastrophic consequences of left-wing energy policies that have recklessly prioritised renewable energies while dismantling reliable alternatives like coal and nuclear power.

UPDATE: Grid Overload: How Solar Sparked a Continental Power Crisis

Navy Matters.

A F-18 Super Hornet being towed rolled off the deck of the carrier Truman and fell into the Red Sea.[1] No, this is not an April Fool’s post.

I know the Navy has real problems with competency but this is bad even by Navy standards.

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A long way from COVID….

Babylon Bee.

Women across the country have been shocked to learn that mifepristone and misoprostol, pills designed to murder babies in the womb, might not be all that safe.

Humor with a razor’s edge….

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An Applebee’s in Miamisburg, Ohio was closed Saturday after employees discovered the building had been defaced with antisemitic graffiti including a swastika and the messages “F— Jews” and “Jews work here.”

“We’ve seen the statistics, an 893-percent increase in antisemitic incidents in the United States over the past decade according to the ADL,” Cathy Gardner, CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton, told the Dayton Jewish Observer, citing a recent audit of antisemitic incidents by the Anti-Defamation League.

She added that the vandalism came shortly before her federation’s ceremony marking Yom Hashoah, the Jewish Holocaust memorial day that was observed last week.

“To see it here, the day before our Yom Hashoah remembrance, is devastating,” she said. “It exhibits the Jew hatred that we know exists, and that was at the root of the horrors of the Holocaust.”

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Climate alarmists live in a self-righteous bubble where humankind is the scoundrel. Nature is optimal and fragile; anthropogenic change cannot be good, even toward greening, warming, and moistening. Think about that nonpolluting trace gas, carbon dioxide (CO2).

To the Church of Climate, there cannot be any debate against the narrative of alarm–or pushback against forced energy transformation. The opposition is evil against the common good, defined so vaguely as to preclude real human betterment. So psychological explanations emerge.

UPDATE; Trump Administration Finally Pulls the Plug on the Climate Fear Factory

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The fellow on the right giving the Hitlergruß (Sieg Heil) in the above photo is the estimable Karl Lauterbach, the outgoing Social Democrat health minister in the soon-to-be-defunct Traffic Light government in Germany. Readers may recall him as “Klaboosterbach”, the intellectual heavyweight shown in the photo below, whose face was all over TV and the Interwebs during the “pandemic”.

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The Hitlergruß is in the eye of the beholder, of course. A gesture may be characterized as such only if the political opinions of the gesturer are in disfavor. Thus, when Elon Musk does it, he’s making a “Nazi salute”, but when Hillary Clinton does it, she’s just waving to the crowd.

A group of Querdenkers, whose political opinions are very much in disfavor in Germany, got themselves in a heap o’ trouble by raising their right arms. They were accordingly fined for their Hitlergrußen.

I don’t have to tell you that when Klaboosterbach raised his right hand, it was not a Nazi salute, unlike the gesture made by the unfortunate Querdenkers. The issue reached a Kafkaesque level of absurdity, however, when the woman who made the poster comparing the Querdenkers with Herr Lauterbach was also fined for her “crime”.

UPDATE: German Woman Fined €3,500 for Image of Politician With Raised Right Arm

Newsbusters.

They claim to celebrate the First Amendment when they’re boasting about themselves. When AP White House reporters Aamer Madhani and Zeke Miller won an award at the dinner, Miller’s speech sounded like a commercial for AP.

“At the AP’s core is a commitment to accurate, independent, nonpartisan journalism that unflinchingly holds power to account no matter which political party is in office,” Miller claimed. “It safeguards the facts that keep the citizenry well-informed.”

Then it got really syrupy: “Mark Twain said it: ‘There are only two forces that carry light to all corners of the globe. The sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.’ From the White House to the town of Whitehouse, Texas — it’s a real place — Peoria to the Persian Gulf, we at AP remain committed as ever to accurate, independent, nonpartisan journalism, to carrying light the world over.”

And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

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Northwestern University warned its Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) chapter that its constitution, which bars Zionist Jews from joining, violates the school’s new anti-discrimination policy, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.

The constitution for the anti-Israel student group states that “members are expected to be anti-Zionist and identify with Judaism” and requires a faculty adviser to be a “Jewish anti-Zionist or support anti-Zionist philosophies.” According to its mission statement, JVP aims to build an “anti-Zionist Jewish community on campus.”

The group seems committed to that goal, playing a significant role in anti-Israel campus activity with an adviser, Sarah Schulman, who has repeatedly blamed the Jewish state for Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack. But JVP’s constitution doesn’t square with Northwestern’s updated non-discrimination policies, which incorporated the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism. That definition states that “denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor,” is a form of anti-Semitism.

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The British capital has seen more than 30,000 millionaires vanish over the past 10 years.

It has now dropped out of the top 5 cities for millionaires around the world, with New York, the Bay Area, Tokyo, Singapore, and Los Angeles all ranking higher, according to a report commissioned by Henley and Partners, a United Kingdom-based investment migration consultancy.

The firm found that London had lost 11,300 dollar millionaires in just 12 months, including 18 individuals with a net worth of $100 million or more, and two billionaires.

London, which now has 215,700 millionaires, is one of only two cities in the top 50 — the other being the heavily sanctioned capital of Russia, Moscow—that has fewer rich individuals than a decade ago.

Who wants to live under incompetent socialism?

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The Sweden Democrats have called for climate activist groups to be convicted under terrorism laws, arguing that sabotage by eco-extremists is making life miserable for ordinary citizens and must be stopped immediately.

Fed up with repeated disruptions from groups like Restore Wetlands, which have recently blocked rush-hour traffic, interrupted parliamentary debates, and even stormed the Royal Ship Vasa, the Sweden Democrats are calling for harsher measures to arrest the ongoing civil disruption.

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Climate change is an existential threat.

Misinformation is an existential threat.

Inequality is an existential threat.

The next pandemic is an existential threat.

Our democracy is facing an existential threat.

And everyone must be prepared for each of them and prepared to do anything to stop them.

And totally unmentioned in all the handwaving are the true existential threats: Islam, Communism, Progressivism, and anti-white race hatred.

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The establishment media this week is awash in stories about the Trump Administrations “frightening” deportations of at least three young children from the US, even though they are considered “American citizens”. The narrative follows a typical strategy of generating outrage using omission of the facts. The goal is to anger the public by pumping out hysterical headlines, knowing many people won’t investigate further.

The news reports insinuate that Trump has hijacked three American children and shipped them across the border, but they gloss over the fact that the parents of all of the children involved are illegal immigrants. The children’s parents were deported, and of course, the children went with the parents.

“Three U.S. citizens ages four, seven and two were not deported,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said. “Their mothers, who were illegally in this country, were deported. The children went with their mothers.”

“If those children are U.S. citizens, they can come back into the United States if their father or someone here wants to assume them,” he added.

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A Canadian court has ruled that children in the province of Quebec can have more than two parents, CBC News reported.

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The two Harvard University students who faced criminal charges for assaulting an Israeli classmate during an anti-Israel “die-in” protest will take an in-person anger management class and perform 80 hours of community service as part of a pretrial diversion program, court filings reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show.

The two students, Elom Tettey-Tamaklo and Ibrahim Bharmal, sought the program, and a Suffolk County judge approved it during a Monday hearing. Their attorneys requested only 40 hours of community service, but the judge sided with the prosecutor Ursula Knight’s call for 80 hours. Knight also called for the anger management class as well as a statement from Tettey-Tamaklo and Bharmal admitting fault. The judge did not include the latter request in his order.

Anything to prevent Children of the Crust from being punished like Mud People.

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The second Donald Trump administration continues to ferret out racial favoritism in education and the federal workforce, and there is plenty to be found. The administration is now turning to K-12 classrooms and already has a good model to use for its latest order to end race-based quotas in school discipline.

On Wednesday, the White House issued an executive order on discipline, rejecting educators’ use of racial quotas when they mete out suspensions or expulsions among students. Such quotas have generated much discussion since President Barack Obama endorsed their use in 2014.

At the time, the Obama administration informed school personnel nationwide that if more minority students faced suspension or expulsion (called “exclusionary discipline”) than white students in their schools, the administration could open a civil rights investigation—regardless of the egregiousness of the student behavior and the appropriateness of the discipline.

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Why precisely were Anthony Fauci and his cohorts so anxious to blame SARS-CoV-2 on bats and later pangolins in wet markets? It was not just to deflect attention from the possibility that the novel virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan doing gain-of-function research. There was a larger point: to reinforce a very important narrative concerning zoonotic spillovers.

It’s a fancy phrase that speaks to a kind of granular focus that discourages nonspecialists from having an opinion. Leave it to the experts! They know!

Justice Department halts funds for programs for victims of hate crimes, child abuse, school violence and more (Scott Macfarlane/CBS News)  None of which are the business of the Federal government–or the Federal taxpayers.

Donald Trump Is Selling the White House to the Highest Bidder (Steven Rattner/New York Times)

On DOGE, Directives, and DOJ (Anna Bower/Default)

Emerging From a Collective Silence, Universities Organize to Fight Trump (New York Times)

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Sen. Cory Booker host a sit-in on Capitol steps over the GOP budget plan (Alexandra Marquez/NBC News)  Virtue-signaling is so much less work than actually trying to change people’s minds.

PBS Celebrates Artistic Freedom for Cartoonist Who Drew Trump With a Swastika Baton

Trump is softening his tariff talk. But the damage may already be done. (Washington Post)

Scott Bessent SCHOOLS Martha Raddatz on Poll-Driven Narratives

NYT Hack Goes Mask-Off Defending Judge Protecting Illegal Alien: ‘Sometimes Civil Disobedience Is Necessary’  David Brooks keeps drifting Left.

Elite Universities Form Private Collective to Resist Trump Administration (Wall Street Journal)

‘Trump has betrayed Canada’ says Carney  Trump owes no duty to Canada.

Over 500 rabbis sign letter rejecting Trump’s antisemitism agenda

The American democratic republic has died. It was 236 years old (S.F. Chronicle)

Trump’s Tariffs Unite Professional Economists (Phillip W. Magness/Wall Street Journal)

TV News Assaults 2nd Trump Admin With 92% Negative Coverage

Trump Tells Americans What Putin Wants Them to Hear (Bloomberg)

Democratic Senators Question DOJ on Civil Rights Changes  WHERE’S OUR MONEY????

‘I Run the Country and the World’ (The Atlantic)

Wisconsin Gov Orders State Employees to Obstruct ICE (Daniel Greenfield/Frontpage Mag)

The bubble that created Trump is the reason he’s stumbling (Philip Bump/Washington Post)

Trump took the US economy to the brink of a crisis in just 100 days (Stephen Collinson/CNN)

Public sours on Musk’s role, is skeptical that government is cutting waste (Washington Post)

Agriculture isn’t nearing trade war tariffs crisis, ‘it is full blown crisis already’ farmers say (Lori Ann LaRocco/CNBC)

Elon Musk approval low, reflecting opposition to Trump cuts: POLL (Jaclyn S. Wong/ABC News) An ABC poll, sure.

An unprecedented scheme to profit from the presidency (Judd Legum/Popular Information)

Lawyers for Deported U.S. Citizen Kids Say Moms Were ‘Coerced’ Into Taking Them (Lorena O’Neil/Rolling Stone)  Forcing moms to take their kids with them???? The horror!!!!

Trump Readies Orders Targeting Sanctuary Cities, Police Reforms (Kate Sullivan/Bloomberg)

Risk of global economic recession surges on US tariff shockwaves: Reuters poll (Hari Kishan/Reuters)

After Federal Cuts, Food Banks Scrounge and Scrimp (New York Times)  Since when are food banks a Federal responsibility?

Arresting judges is a 5-alarm escalation (Lisa Needham/Public Notice)  All together now: NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW — Joe Biden

MAGA loves a tantrum: How public meltdowns became the preferred method of GOP communication (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)  As opposed to, say, the tantrums that were are the daily staple of Amanda Marcotte and her fellow Deep Staters.

Trump Melts Down Over Plummeting Popularity, Says Pollsters Are ‘Criminals’ (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone)  Well, they’re certainly liars.

Is the U.S. Becoming an Autocracy? (Andrew Marantz/New Yorker)

Congressman Shri Thanedar Introduces Articles of Impeachment Against President Donald J. Trump for High Crimes and Misdemeanors (U.S. Congressman Shri Thanedar)  And so it starts.

Trump’s Agenda Is Still Undecided (David Dayen/American Prospect)

The New Neo.

Here’s an interesting interview with Frank Luntz. Why interesting? Why Luntz? Because he’s emblematic of so many people who sort of get the Trump phenomenon but also fail to get it.

Read it.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has made a groundbreaking decision mandating Poland to officially acknowledge and safeguard same-sex unions, emphasizing the country’s responsibilities as an EU member to uphold “equal rights” for all couples.

Poland’s refusal to recognize same-sex marriages, particularly those performed abroad, was deemed a violation of individual rights, with the court urging the government to enact appropriate legislation.

This is not the first time the ECHR has addressed Poland’s treatment of same-sex couples. In 2023, the court found that Poland’s refusal to recognize same-sex unions violated Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Micha? Wo?, former deputy justice minister under the Law & Justice (PiS government), criticized the ECtHR ruling, saying it is part of a broader effort by European elites to force values onto Poland that conflict with its national identity. He pointed out that, under Poland’s constitution, marriage is defined as a union between a man and a woman.

Draft bills on registered partnerships and civil unions in Poland, released in October last year, propose changes to more than 200 existing laws but face opposition from both PiS and the center-right Polish People’s Party (PLS).

Read it.

After a man was murdered on Friday, April 25th in a mosque in the south of France, the French Left wants to use the case to denounce a climate that has become ‘dangerous’ for Muslims in France, but the minister of the interior refuses to describe the murder as ‘Islamophobic.’

On the early morning of Friday, April 25th, a Malian man named Aboubakar Cissé was stabbed to death praying in a mosque in La Grande Combe, near Alès, in the Gard department in southern France. The murderer entered the mosque early in the morning and filmed himself killing his victim before fleeing. A refugee in Italy, he has since turned himself in to the police in Pistoia, near Florence.

Since the announcement of the murder, there has been intense debate in the French press about the exact motive of the killer, Olivier Hadzovic, a Frenchman of Bosnian origin. The website Fdesouche reveals that the murderer’s father arrived in France in 2001 with his wife and eleven children. He applied for asylum, which was rejected, but he remained in France after an administrative court ruled that his deportation would be “a disproportionate violation of his right to family life.” Olivier was born in 2004, shortly after his parents arrived in France, and was therefore able to obtain French nationality as being born on French soil. According to the local press, the murderer, who is in his twenties, lives on social welfare benefits, receiving RSA (Revenu de Solidarité Active, or active solidarity income), and spends his days playing video games.

Newsbusters.

Over the weekend, Buffalo Police SVU Detective Richard Hy appeared on the popular Unsubscribe Podcast and blew the whistle on Buffalo Public Schools with accusations that officials had destroyed evidence of an attempted abduction at one school, obstructed investigations of child sexual assault, and looked the other way for child abuse until it was too late. But instead of pouring resources into looking into the allegations, Buffalo media chose to make Hy, a long time hate-object of theirs, the target of their reporting.

In the podcast episode titled “Your Kids Are In Danger – SVU Detective Exposes Buffalo School System,” Hy made several allegations against Buffalo Public Schools; sharing several incidents he and his fellow officers had to deal with.