The Foundry.

The minority leader of the Colorado House of Representatives warned that a bill making its way in the Colorado Senate represents a “huge violation of parental rights.”

The state Senate will hear testimony about House Bill 1312, which would remove kids from parents’ custody for behaviors like “misgendering” and “deadnaming,” on Wednesday. The bill passed the state House earlier this month 36-20, with nine members absent, in a largely party-line vote.

“As parents, we have the God-given right to raise our children in the way that we see fit,” House Minority Leader Rose Pugliese, a Republican, told The Daily Signal in an interview Friday. “We all take issue with the notion that if you don’t subscribe to a certain ideology, that that could affect your parental rights or even custody of our children.”

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

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For only $27, you can buy a ‘Tax the Rich’ t-shirt and help an elderly progressive millionaire fly around the country to campaign against the oligarchy from the luxury of a private jet.

Sen. Bernie Sanders has been touring the country on his ‘Fighting Oligarchy Tour’ in which the elderly senator and assorted socialist sidekicks like AOC hold rallies in liberal areas to denounce big business…while doing some pretty big business.

Earlier this year, Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is 83 years old, filed to run for reelection in 2030 to be able to take office at the age of 89, and hold it until he is well in his mid 90s. Aspiring to spend nearly half a century in the halls of Congress would seem like evidence of oligarchy.

Reuters, a Voice of the Crust.

A U.S. Navy sailor suffered minor injuries when an F-18 fighter jet and its tow tractor fell overboard from an aircraft carrier in the Red Sea, the U.S. military said on Monday.

In a statement, the Navy said that all personnel were accounted for. The carrier, the Harry Truman, is aiding strikes against the Iran-backed Houthi group in Yemen.

*sigh*

UPDATE: US Navy loses $60 million jet at sea after it fell overboard from aircraft carrier (CNN)

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Can you say ‘oligarch’? I’m sure you can….

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Unlike, say, Democrat Senators.

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Prosecutors in Minnesota’s largest county are now required to take a criminal defendant’s race into account when negotiating plea deals, following a new directive from Hennepin county attorney Mary Moriarty (D.).

“While racial identity and age are not appropriate grounds for departures [from the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines], proposed resolutions should consider the person charged as a whole person, including their racial identity and age,” Moriarty’s directive reads, according to Minneapolis outlet KARE11. “While these factors should not be controlling, they should be part of the overall analysis.”

“Prosecutors should be identifying and addressing racial disparities at decision points, as appropriate,” Moriarty added, arguing that such disparities cause “distrust” and harm “community safety.”

The Free Press.

Just out of the goodness of their hearts, of course.

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An informal headcount indicated that 10,150 known arrivals had crossed the English Channel by lunchtime of Monday, April 28th. While the official figure will take a day or two to appear, total crossings last year did not reach the same number until May.

Despite this and a promise to ‘smash the gangs’, Labour denies that border control under its government has broken down. The frequent arrival of small boats in the county of Kent is simply the result of good weather and calm seas (permitting 71 people on five ribbed dinghies to arrive this morning).

Fearing for its electoral prospects this week, the government proposes to bring in tighter rules on legal migration, specifically aimed at overseas students who extend their visas by switching to low-paid and semi-skilled jobs in the care sector upon graduation. One Labour MP called this ‘business as usual,’ and denied it was an effort to head off Reform UK at the ballot box.

Indecisive-sounding plans to run a ‘one in, one out’ scheme with France have also sparked indifference and derision. In contrast, last week Reform’s Farage announced a comprehensive plan to restructure Britain’s failing immigration system.

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This weekend, Europe witnessed massive demonstrations against mass immigration in Ireland, England, Germany, and Poland. From Dublin to Dover and Warsaw, thousands of people — particularly in small towns and working-class areas—raised their voices peacefully to demand respect for their traditions, their security, and their national identity.

In Dublin, over 10,000 people marched through the city’s main thoroughfares, carrying national flags and banners with slogans such as “Irish Lives Matter,” “Ireland is Full,” and “Coolock Says No.” The protest, partly organized to commemorate the spirit of the 1916 Easter Rising, took place under heavy police presence.

In Dover, hundreds of motorcyclists gathered under the slogan “Stop the Boats” to protest against the massive illegal immigration affecting the south coast of the United Kingdom. Meanwhile, in Belfast, Dortmund and in Polish cities such as Warsaw and Katowice similar rallies took place, reflecting a growing civic resistance to the migration policies imposed by Brussels and Berlin.

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Gaza’s ministry of health is misrepresenting the Palestinian casualties sustained since Israel retaliated against the Hamas-led October 7th pogrom.

A new report from a think tank has highlighted inconsistencies between hospital records and statistics issued by the Hamas-controlled health authority. While claims from Gaza that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have deliberately targeted women and children are widespread, the report shows that the IDF has generally managed to avoid disproportionately harming non-combatants, despite the Islamist terror group hiding among civilian populations.

Writing for the Henry Jackson Society, Professors Lewi Stone and Gregory Rose use Gaza hospital records and lists of the deceased to show that, since the start of the conflict, women and children have accounted for 51% of deaths overall—not the more widely (and uncritically) quoted figure. In the past year, the civilian casualty rate has dropped to below that figure. This follows a trend set during the battle for Khan Younis in early 2024, where, although women and children comprised 75% of the local population, they accounted for 34% of deaths.

Of the 11,224 killed since October 2024, 76.3% (8,565) were male. Of these, 58% were fighting-age men. The authors state:

The reduced proportion of women and children casualties indicates increased Israeli avoidance of Gazan civilian harm since Oct 7 2023. This data shows the opposite picture to what one would expect from the narrative of Hamas and its allies, who alleged indiscriminate killing.

This report should challenge those in the European media who seem to embrace Hamas propaganda uncritically.

ZMan really doesn’t like Conservatism Inc.

One of the tricks played upon the American people since the middle of the last century has been to take unreasonable ideas and cloak them in reasonableness so that reasonable people will embrace them. The main tool for doing this has been the people we call conservatives. One of their main tasks is to take the radical ideas of the people they claim to oppose, make these ideas sound reasonable and then offer up a plan to implement these ideas in a reasonable way.

A great example of this is civil rights. Conservatives eventually came to defend and promote the cause on the grounds that it was always a conservative value, as equality before the law is a first principle of conservatism. You see, civil rights were about applying the existing law to all people. Specifically, it was about granting equality before the law to black people in the South, where those bad whites have been willfully excluding black people from the constitutional order.

Of course, the civil right agenda was vastly more radical and utopian. That is made clear in the Brown decision, which declares all discrimination is assumed to be immoral and unconstitutional by default. Therefore, anyone seeking to exercise their freedom of association must first get permission from the court. Further, it says that diversity is the highest goal, so all public policy must bend towards it. Three generations of social destruction have been the result of this new moral order.

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• This largest-known study of the abortion pill is based on analysis of data from an all-payer insurance claims database that includes 865,727 prescribed mifepristone abortions from 2017 to 2023.
• 10.93 percent of women experience sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or another serious adverse event within 45 days following a mifepristone abortion.
• The real-world rate of serious adverse events following mifepristone abortions is at least 22 times as high as the summary figure of “less than 0.5 percent” in clinical trials reported on the drug label.
• The FDA should immediately reinstate its earlier, stronger patient safety protocols to ensure physician responsibility for women who take mifepristone under their care, as well as mandate full reporting of its side effects.
• The FDA should further investigate the harm mifepristone causes to women and, based on objective safety criteria, reconsider its approval altogether.

The Foundry.

Once in a blue moon, you run across a statistic or record that is mind-boggling. Some are amazing, like Alex Ovechkin’s 895 goals or Serena Williams’ 23 Grand Slam singles titles. But others are disturbing, like the fact that in Washington, D.C., between 2018 and 2022, only 1.7% of people arrested for carrying a pistol without a license were sentenced to prison.

This dismal record comes from the District of Columbia Sentencing Commission, which analyzed arrest and sentencing trends in the District’s Superior Court for carrying a pistol without a license.

Before unpacking how and why only 97 of the 5,558 adult arrests that contained at least one charge for carrying a firearm without a license ended up in prison, let’s step back and look at the bigger picture in the nation’s capital—the astronomical homicide rate—and connect the dots between that rate and guns.

According to the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, firearms are used in approximately 77% of all homicides in Washington, D.C. Knives come in a distant second place at 14%.

You can check out any time you want, but you can never leave.

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“The effort to be more inclusive has gone too far: it has increasingly been used to silence and exclude those who hold different opinions,” the founder and CEO of Meta said in January of this year regarding the censorship prevailing on social media platforms. The Facebook owner also admitted, “Governments and traditional media have been pushing for more and more censorship. A lot of this is clearly done for political reasons.”

Mark Zuckerberg’s volte-face is clearly linked to the election of pro-freedom Donald Trump as president. Previously, Facebook censorship was defended with the argument that Meta is a private company and, according to its own rules, restricts whatever it wants on its platforms. Meta also used to claim that there were no political interests influencing this process. These arguments, of course, were completely nullified by Zuckerberg’s admissions. Incidentally, judicial practice previously considered it a “public statement” if someone expressed their opinion on Facebook—not in a private message—or made a defamatory statement about someone, or damaged someone’s reputation.

What was truly novel about the billionaire tech guru’s statements, however, was the bluntness with which he spoke about the interventions of the globalist elite.

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Father Federico Suaya is an Argentine priest and missionary, as well as a lawyer trained at the University of Buenos Aires. He holds two doctoral degrees—one in theology and the other in philosophy. He is the co-founder, alongside Father Dr. Javier Olivera, of the Order of Saint Elias, a missionary order established in 2015 to bring the Catholic faith to regions where the Church’s presence is minimal or non-existent. Fr. Federico has led missions in places such as India, as well as in remote regions like the Himalayas and isolated parts of Africa.

Currently, Father Federico is leading the PaX Project to rescue Christian slaves in Pakistan.

Another reminder that Islam is an oppressive totalitarian ideology masquerading as a religion with which no co-existence is possible.

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The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), headed by Elon Musk, the eclectic entrepreneur, has revealed what most of us suspected: our huge deficits are a function of government-led grift.

Billions of dollars of quasi-criminal spending are being uncovered.

This explains why, in best case scenarios, as taxpayers, we are paying ever more for ever less; in the worst, we are paying ever more to feed a beast intent on destroying our civilisation.

“One of the biggest scams we have uncovered, which is really crazy, is that the government can give money to a so-called non-profit with very few controls”, Elon Musk explains in an interview with Ted Cruz, the Texas senator, adding “and there is no audit subsequently of that non-for-profit”.

The managers of these then “gives themselves extremely lavish…. insane salaries, and expense everything to the non-for-profit”.

The Antiplanner.

Transit’s fiscal cliff is the responsibility of transit agencies, advises the Chicago Tribune, and transit riders, taxpayers, and legislators should not be panicked into giving the agencies huge amounts of money to make up for this supposed crisis. Noting that Metra (Chicago’s commuter-rail agency) is paying its lobbyist more than $4.6 million to get more funding from the state, the Tribune suggests that money would have been better spent operating trains.

Quillette.

On 19 March, it was announced that the ten-campus University of California (UC) system would no longer require academic job applicants to supply so-called “diversity statements”—documents testifying to one’s embrace of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) as guiding professional values. The move made national news, both because of the size of the UC system, and because UC’s original adoption of diversity statements in the late 2010s had been instrumental in establishing a wider trend throughout academia.

That trend has been in decline since 2023, a policy reversal that is now accelerating thanks to the Trump administration’s strenuous opposition to DEI. In a parallel development, numerous corporations have been abandoning the DEI campaigns that they ramped up with much fanfare following the murder of George Floyd and the heyday of the Black Lives Matter movement in late 2020 and 2021.

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Yet more work for an activist Democrat judge.

Washington Free Beacon.

Harvard University quietly trained members of a Chinese “paramilitary organization” on two occasions after the U.S. government sanctioned the group for its role in the Uyghur genocide. The Ivy League institution could face “a big legal problem” as a result, according to one foreign policy expert.

In 2019, Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health partnered with Beijing’s National Health Security Administration (NHSA) to launch an annual health financing course, training government staffers from across China. Harvard originally noted in a blog post that officials with the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) participated in the inaugural training, but that language was scrubbed following a Washington Free Beacon inquiry.

The Trump administration sanctioned the XPCC in 2020 “in connection with serious rights abuses against ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region,” describing it as a “paramilitary organization … that is subordinate to the Chinese Communist Party.” But Harvard continued to train its members, once in 2023 and again in 2024. On those occasions, the Ivy League university didn’t include their participation on its webpages.

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Russian as well as independent regional media sources have revealed that a high-ranking CIA official’s son was killed while fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine last year.

The news and story of the young man’s death is highly unusual, given his mother is a US intelligence information warfare and ‘disinfo’ expert: the CIA’s Deputy Director for Digital Innovation Juliane Gallina Gloss.

The New York Post among other US media outlets described the CIA official’s son, a longtime global traveler and activist, as having been ‘radicalized’ against the US and its foreign policy.

Michael Alexander Gloss, 21, died on April 4, 2024 – based on a family obituary posted by a funeral home in Fairfax, Virginia – but on Friday investigative outlet IStories reported that Russian authorities only informed his family of his death in October. His official obituary only related that he was “tragically killed in Eastern Europe.”

IStories apparently had access to his phone records, given that it published a live recording of Gloss informing his parents that he traveled to Russia, along with many photos including showing life in a Russian barracks with fellow soldier friends who appear to be foreign fighters.

Juliane Gallina Gloss has been the CIA’s deputy director for digital innovation since being appointed in February 2024, and is a career CIA and US Naval intelligence officer.

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The scandal over the alleged corruption of the founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos would be just an anecdote were it not another example of what has happened recently with many international institutions. The Financial Times reveals that the WEF founder faces accusations of manipulating the organization’s analysis to gain favour with governments.

For years, many of us have watched with sadness as an important forum like Davos shifted from being a centre for debate and confrontation of ideas in defence of free enterprise to becoming a loudspeaker for the most interventionist ideas, the most damaging statism, and a whitewasher of authoritarian governments, spreading the destructive ideas of inflationism, socialism, and wokeism— which, in reality, are all the same.

Davos went from being a forum for debate to a congregation for repeating interventionist dogmas and whitewashing a single, extractive mindset; those who defended economic freedom, attractive taxes, and control over public spending were gradually ostracised. We have heard enthusiastic applause for those demanding more taxes and greater assaults on job creators, and one-sided debates in which all participants repeated clichés and words like “resilience” and “sustainability” as Trojan horses for predatory statism, where the idea of creating value and wealth was repudiated.

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New York Times bestselling author Peter Schweizer is once again speaking out against China’s sinister role in fueling America’s deadly fentanyl crisis, as President Donald Trump seeks to punish the communist regime for its involvement.

The Times (UK).

Two protesters have been arrested after disrupting the London Marathon by throwing red powder paint in front of the elite runners.

At 1035am the two activists jumped over the barriers at Tower Bridge, wearing T-shirts that read “Youth Demand: Arming Israel”.

Youth Demand describes itself as a “new youth resistance campaign fighting for an end to genocide”.

The pair of protesters, who were arrested by City of London police, were named as Willow Holland, 18, from Bristol, and Cristy North, a live-in carer from Nottingham.

Women. Of course. Of course it doesn’t occur to them that they are doing their cause more harm than good by being so irrationally irritating.

The Other McCain.

There is a lot left unsaid in the New York Times article which, it should be obvious, is primarily intended to obscure the fact that (a) the crash was caused by pilot error and (b) the pilot was female.

Do not accuse me of saying something I’m not saying, i.e., that this particular crash happened because the pilot was female, or that there is no such thing as a qualified female pilot. Every day, hundreds of successful flights are made by female pilots, including military pilots. Furthermore, if you were to research aircraft crashes in which pilot error was chiefly to blame, no doubt the overwhelming majority of those pilots are male. Perhaps it would be possible to show from such statistics (which I haven’t even bothered to Google, much less to analyze) that female pilots are more prone to catastrophic errors than are male pilots, but the fact remains that most female pilots are never involved in crashes, so that the deadly error committed by Rebecca Lobach does cannot be said to reflect badly on female pilots in general. However . . .

All of these caveats, necessary to prevent anyone from misconstruing my argument, do not detract from the issue of public policy involved here, namely the implementation of official quotas under the aegis of “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” (DEI). We are more than a half-century into this kind of experimental social engineering, and the same thing is true today as it was when the Supreme Court handed down the Bakke decision in 1978 — every attempt to implement what used to be called “affirmative action,” but has since been rebranded as “diversity” or DEI, led to discriminatory quotas, which are unconstitutional.

Three U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, swiftly deported from Louisiana (Washington Poop)

Judge says US citizen, 2, may have been deported without ‘meaningful process’ (BBC)

Trump officials deport two-year-old US citizen and mother of one-year-old girl (The Guardian)

ICE deports immigrant mother of an infant and 3 children who are US citizens, lawyers say (AP) Lawyers say! That proves it!

New York Times Retcons Star Wars Spinoff Into Anti-Trump Resistance Tale

From Book Bans to Canceled Lectures, the Naval Academy Is Bending to Trump (John Ismay/New York Times)

Can Trump Really Deport 10 Million People? A Conversation with Dara Lind (Shikha Dalmia/The UnPopulist)

The horrors are not aberrations. This is the Trump administration’s plan. (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)

100 days in and the public feels Trump’s presidency is proceeding mostly as expected (AP-NORC)

Mexico to Ban Noem Ad From Public Airwaves

“Bloodbath”: Panic Ensues After Trump Admin Takes Wrecking Ball To DOJ’s Woke Civil Rights Division

Trump-aligned club for the ultra rich launches in Washington (Dasha Burns/Politico)

Trump’s Cosplay Cabinet (Ashley Parker/The Atlantic)

Trump won these independent voters. Now some are souring on his second term. (Hannah Knowles/Washington Post)

How a Trump administration crackdown on foreign students unraveled (Politico)

Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff says Trump’s ‘chaos and uncertainty’ hurts the economy (Jeff Amy/Associated Press)  What a surprise.

Trump’s nominee for NASA administrator was once arrested, accused of passing bad checks to casinos (Karen Freifeld/Reuters)  Accused@ That proves it!

Democrats seize on a new issue to use against the GOP: Social Security (Naftali Bendavid/Washington Post)

CNN Poll: Trump’s approval at 100 days lower than any president in at least seven decades (CNN)  Certainly in a CNN poll.

Trump’s first 100 days: America First president is overturning the world order (Reuters)  And about time, too.

Trump has lowest 100-day approval rating in 80 years: POLL (ABC NEWS) Certainly in an ABC poll.

Republicans in the toughest swing districts become hard to find for people angry about Trump (Associated Press) People who are Democrats and Left activists swarming Republican ‘town hall’ gatherings.

FLASHBACK: Fawning 100-Day Coverage of New (Democratic) Presidents

Tyrants like Trump always fall – and we can already predict how he will be dethroned (Simon Tisdall/The Guardian)

Federal work shaped a Black middle class. Now it’s destabilized by Trump’s job cuts (NPR)  Apparently it is the obligation of the Federal government (and the Federal taxpayer) to provide ‘middle class’ work to black people. No wonder they all vote Democrat.

These GOP Lawmakers Could Sink Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful’ Tax Bill (Olivia Beavers/Wall Street Journal)  Democfats can’t succeed without Republican turncoats.

An unpopular president continues to push radical changes on the country (Dan Balz/Washington Post)

Trump’s first 100 days: Steamrolling government, strong-arming allies, igniting trade wars (Associated Press)

Trump golf club to host speaker who claims bleach can cure cancer and Covid (Ed Pilkington/The Guardian)  And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Liberals Loathe Arrival of ‘MAGA Media’ Inside the White House  After all, MAGA is the New Nigger.

Leftists Lose Their Sh*t Because Of What Trump Was Wearing…

One Hundred Days of Ineptitude (David Remnick/New Yorker)

The world has a verdict on 100 days of Trump 2.0: Wow, what a loser (Andrew O’Hehir/Salon)  Like being called ugly by a frog.

American Panopticon — The Trump administration is pooling data on Americans. Experts fear what comes next. (The Atlantic)  Cockroaches fear the light.

RFK Jr.’s Wish Is Coming True: Everybody’s Getting Measles (Catherine Bouris/The Daily Beast)

MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace Calls Arrest of Wisconsin Judge a ‘Distraction’ by Trump

Pollster Frank Luntz Shocked that Trump Voters Continue to Support Trump on Tariffs

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Hint: Pretty high.

This is why it’s a bad idea to allow Turd World nations to develop nuclear weapons.

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An article headlined “Missteps, Equipment Problems and a Common but Risky Practice Led to a Fatal Crash,” which is about January’s devastating crash at Reagan National Airport, is a textbook example of mainstream media malpractice.

An honest headline would have read, “Helicopter Pilot Ignored Multiple Safety Warnings Before Fatal Crash.”

The liberal paper of record spent roughly a thousand words dancing around the obvious truth: a helicopter pilot directly caused this tragedy by ignoring multiple explicit warnings.

But that wouldn’t fit their preferred story about “systemic failures,” would it?

Whenever a woman accomplishes something, it’s always “Aren’t women great? They’re just as great as men!”  Whenever a woman screws something up, it’s “Well, it could have happened to anybody.”

Newsbusters.

The Regime Media are in the midst of rolling out a new immigration victimhood narrative, after embarrassing themselves and losing further standing over their absurd white knighting of the deported confirmed MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego Garcia. But if the Sunday Shows are any indication this new narrative- a hoax, actually: “Deported Citizen Babies”, is facing a similar result.

On NBC’s Meet the Press, Secretary of State Marco Rubio dismantled the premise of citizen children being rounded up, and chastised the media’s use of language echoing the infamous Elián González raid of 1999.

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There’s a lesson here, which is that the left and their media don’t care about these kids (or their parents) unless they can be deployed and paraded about as victims and supplicants.

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Canada has one of the most protectionist economies among developed nations. It particularly targets American farmers, media, and manufacturers. That may be why Donald Trump launched his counterattack on trade offenders with a 25% tariff on many imports from Canada and Mexico, and 10% on Canadian energy.

Unhelpfully, Trump claimed authority to do so under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act because of an “extraordinary threat” posed by “unchecked drug trafficking.” The White House failed to explain how this applied to Canada. And, while his goals are entirely correct, his April 2 “Liberation Day” global strike, imposing 10% baseline tariffs on almost all nations, and so-called reciprocal tariffs on friends and foes alike, roiled markets and aligned the world against us. That’s why Trump rapidly retreated, suspending reciprocal tariffs, except for China.

Clever countries are waging trade war on us. Despite this, America has the world’s strongest economy. Except where there are national security considerations that mandate pulling our punches, the U.S. can win every time – if we play chess, not Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots. When it comes to using tariffs as a weapon, Trump should focus on two or three targets at a time, take them down, and then move on to the next. I nominate China, the European Union (see here) and Canada.

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“Operation Tidal Wave,” four days of Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids working with Florida’s local law enforcement in a “first of its kind” arrangement, have netted nearly 800 illegals for arrest.

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Canada will elect a new government on Monday, with former central banker Mark Carney’s liberal party vying to extend their hold on power against Pierre Poilievere’s conservatives. The first results are expected to come in just after 7 p.m. ET after voting hours end in the four Atlantic provinces, with the majority of results expected to be released at 9:30 p.m. when voting ends in most of the country, including in seat-rich Ontario and Quebec.

In January, it seemed Poilievere was a lock over the center-left Liberals, who had been in power for a decade under the leadership of unpopular PM Justin Trudeau. Conservatives had a double-digit lead in polls amid public outcry over Trudeau, inflation, and steep housing costs – leading Trudeau to bow out for a Liberal party leadership contest that saw Carney take pole position.

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I.e. ‘should parents kill potential children would be at high risk of becoming fat’?

Parents who opt to use Orchid get an extensive analysis of their embryos’ risk analysis for a variety of health conditions, including (but not limited to) autism, severe obesity, Alzheimer’s, inflammatory bowel disease, schizophrenia, diabetes, and breast cancer.

In a 2024 video, Orchid founder Noor Siddiqui compares the screening of two of her 16 embryos. Embryo 2 and Embryo 3, Siddiqui notes, are both “chromosomally normal.” But Embryo 3 has an elevated risk for breast cancer. Embryo 2, she adds, has an elevated risk for celiac disease.

Left unknown is whether either Embryo 2 or Embryo 3 will get a chance to grow up.

Welcome to our brave new world.

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Set aside that MacGregor is actually a Scottish name … Hey, if Sean Connery can be a Scot, anybody can be a Scot.

A massive anti-immigration protest unfolded in the city streets of the Dublin City Centre on Saturday as public concerns surrounding mass migration backfired.

The Irish Alliance is one of the groups behind the demonstration and shared footage of UFC legend Conor McGregor at the Parnell Square site ahead of the protest.

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Local media outlets said several thousand people turned out for the anti-immigration protest, while X videos show anti-immigration protesters were significantly higher…

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Postmodern feminism has reached a dead end. Since Judith Butler led feminists to their demise, diluting what it means to be a woman and making it so even any man can be one, feminism has been mired in constant contradiction. This has all unfolded in an era of singular thought and cancellation, where the few feminists who remained loyal to late-20th-century ideas and critiqued queer theories have been excluded from the debate or even branded as misogynists. Thus, traditional feminism, possessed by the demons of the woke Left, has been left with only one outlet—hatred of men.

The first step in this process began years ago with the relentless propaganda pushing the construction of so-called new masculinities. Wokism is a theory entirely detached from reality and human nature, so the only way to enforce it is by constructing a new reality. In terms of masculinity, this construction has been a persistent effort—a steadily tended ideological seed now bearing its poisoned fruit.

To build this new masculine reality, they pitted new ‘masculinities’ against traditional masculinity, labelling the latter as patriarchal, violent, misogynistic, and backward. But their aim wasn’t to critique potential inequalities between men and women; it was to attack the very core of what defines a man and his most intimate traits. By making the exception the rule, wokists conclude that all men are potential rapists; that the traditional family is little more than a nest of violent vipers; and that the white, middle-class man is behind all the world’s ills. It’s as if they’ve forgotten Henry Kissinger’s quip: “Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternising with the enemy.”

Qillette.

A liberal society depends on its procedures as well as its institutions. Foremost among these is the error-correction mechanism of scientific method and critical inquiry. In his important book The Constitution of Knowledge, Jonathan Rauch identifies current threats to the pursuit of reliable knowledge. He argues that “politicising an academic discipline like sociology or literary criticism, or spreading propaganda to discredit and drown out fact-based journalism” is as damaging as, in the hard sciences, banning the teaching of evolution or denying the efficacy of vaccines.

This article recounts a case of bogus and politicised scholarship—propaganda—in the social sciences. A research article claiming to provide computational linguistic proof of bias in America’s premier newspaper of record is vitiated by ignorance of syntax yet the editors of the academic journal that published it decline to withdraw it.

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Newsom wrote to California Energy Commission (CEC) Vice Chair Siva Gunda on Monday to urge that Gunda and the CEC “redouble” their efforts to keep fuel refiners in the state on the heels of Valero’s announcement that it will be taking at least one of its California refineries offline by April 2026. In the letter, Newsom attempts to characterize the state’s dwindling refining presence as part of a wider national trend, but analysts have warned for years that California’s hostile regulatory environment is what is truly driving the fossil fuel industry’s retreat from the state.

“I write to direct you to redouble the State’s efforts to work closely with refiners on short- and long-term planning, including through high-level, immediate engagement, to help ensure that Californians continue to have access to a safe, affordable and reliable supply of transportation fuels, and that refiners continue to see the value in serving the California market, even as demand for fossil fuels continues its gradual decline over the coming decades,” the letter states. “Further, I am directing you, as my Administration’s lead representative on this issue, to reinforce the State’s openness to a collaborative relationship and our firm belief that Californians can be protected from price spikes and refiners can profitably operate in California — a market where demand for gasoline will still exist for years to come.”

Newsbusters.

Every once in a while, an MSNBC host briefly messes up and upsets a famous Democrat. It happened on Friday in Rome during an otherwise typical softball pitch. Former Secretary of State John Kerry is used to interviews like Jen Psaki going out for an ice cream bar with him. After a gushfest over the late Pope Francis on the “climate crisis,” anchor Chris Jansing noted under Obama and Kerry, Putin invaded Ukraine and took Crimea.

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Wisconsin Circuit Judge Monica Isham is threatening to refuse to hold court because of the arrest of Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan.

“Guidance requested or I Refuse to Hold Court,” an email she sent after Dugan’s arrest to all Wisconsin state judges says. WRN exclusively obtained the email from a recipient on April 26.

“I have no intention of allowing anyone to be taken out of my courtroom by ICE and sent to a concentration camp, especially without due process, as BOTH of the constitutions we swore to support requires. Should I start raising bail money?” Isham wrote.

She hasn’t threatened to hold her breath yet, but that may be on the agenda.

Politico, a Voice of the Crust.

New data out of Yale’s Youth Poll broke the internet last week when it revealed a partisan split within Gen Z. Given a generic Democrat vs. Republican ballot for 2026, respondents ages 18-21 supported Republicans by nearly 12 points, while those ages 22-29 backed Democrats by about 6 points.

It was a stunning gap that undermined the longstanding notion of younger voters always trending more liberal. On the contrary, today’s youngest eligible voters are more conservative than their older counterparts: According to the poll, they are less likely to support transgender athletes participating in sports, less likely to support sending aid to Ukraine and more likely to approve of President Donald Trump. Fifty-one percent of younger Gen Zers view him favorably, compared to 46 percent of older Gen Z.

That split might seem surprising, but it’s only the latest example of an emerging dynamic I’ve noticed developing over the last few years: It’s increasingly clear that there are actually two different Gen Z’s, each with a particular political worldview.

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One of the unintended—but providential—side effects of America’s anti-woke wave isn’t just that companies are walking away from LGBT extremism, but that entertainment is. In a market pivot that’s gone somewhat under the radar, key Hollywood players seem to be quietly turning away from the wokeism that’s financially punished the industry for years. Families in this country want more wholesome options—and, in a surprising twist, producers seem much more willing to provide them.

The sex, violence, profanity, gay and trans themes, and other vices that have characterized modern entertainment have started to give way to more decent and uncontroversial fare. And audiences are eating it up. While other movies continue to tank at the box office, PG-rated films made up a whopping third of ticket sales in the U.S. in 2024, the highest percentage, Axios points out, since 1995. A quarter of those profits went to animated films, four of which topped the charts as last year’s highest-grossing movies.

Even industry titans like Disney—who, not so long ago, bragged about intentionally “queering” content to indoctrinate kids—have taken some modest steps back from their personal pride parades, reining in recent projects and internal goals. Although the signs of impending doom were all around them (the Mouse House lost a jaw-dropping 700,000 streaming subscribers in the last three months of 2024), very little about CEO Bob Iger’s social agenda changed. After Donald Trump’s landslide election in November, however, alarm bells finally went off.

The New Neo.

Our British visitor “David Clayton” is highly offended and downright outraged by Judge Dugan’s arrest:

The FBI arresting a judge.

I am not surprised but probably not for the same reasons as you Neo. Your country and its constitution is being dragged into the mire by a liar who frightens his supporters into tolerating anything.

And you cheer him on. Doesn’t any of this excessive executive power worry you? The endless EO’s, the thoroughly cowed Congress and the imperilled judiciary.

Your entire constitution was written to prevent one man rule but one man is ruling.

Is there anything Trump will do that you won’t tolerate?

And here I thought that, to the David Claytons of the world (because he is hardly alone in his sentiments), no one is above the law. Apparently, however, judges are above the law, and can make up their own law and/or defy the actual law in order to assist a criminal illegal alien if they happen to feel so disposed.

Good to know.

The Times (UK).

Anna Hall’s Channel 4 documentary blew the lid off a national scandal in 2004. Her latest film, Groomed, shows children are still being failed

his is a film I hoped I’d never have to make,” Anna Hall says of her new documentary, Groomed: A National Scandal, which airs on Channel 4 on Wednesday. “I didn’t want to do this again because I knew what I was going to put myself and everyone else through … it takes an emotional toll.”

When Hall exposed what is now known as gang grooming in her first film, Edge of the City, in 2004, she never imagined she would be revisiting the subject 21 years later.

Groomed is not a look back at a moment of shame in Britain’s history, but a victim-first account of how a scandal that affected thousands of young girls throughout the 1990s and 2000s is still unfolding today. The safeguarding minister, Jess Phillips, appeared to suggest this month that regional inquiries into the gangs promised in January by the government might not now go ahead, forcing the home secretary, Yvette Cooper, to insist days later that they would.

Trump news at a glance: Battle with judiciary escalates as FBI arrests county judge  Trump news: Not what he’s done, but who’s ‘resisting’ him.

Trump Just Did the Most Corrupt Thing Any President Has Ever Done (The New Republic)

Exclusive: Adam Kinzinger slams Trump’s crypto ventures as corruption risk (Crypto.News)

Donald and Melania Trump’s foray into crypto may be the biggest financial scandal in presidential history—and it’s happening in plain sight (Air Mail)

This is the most corrupt thing a US president has ever done (Daily Kos)

CBS Bemoans Trump Crackdown on Disparate Impact, Another DEI Boondoggle (Newsbusters)

Trump keeps contradicting himself on tariffs, making a fragile world economy nervous (Josh Boak/Associated Press)

Ossoff ‘strongly’ backs Trump impeachment but says Democrats need to flip House first (Greg Bluestein/Atlanta Journal …)

‘Vaguely Threatening’: Federal Prosecutor Queries Leading Medical Journal (Teddy Rosenbluth/New York Times)

19 States Sue Trump Over Push to End Diversity Programs in Public Schools

DOGE slashes disability and aging services (Politico)  Since when are ‘disability and aging services’ the responsibility of the Federal government? Or the Federal taxpayer?

Trump DOJ Ordered ICE to Invade Homes Without Search Warrant (Malcolm Ferguson/New Republic)

Trump’s Attorney General Warns Arrested Judge Is Just the Beginning (Edith Olmsted/New Republic)

Susan Rice knocks ‘dumb as a rock’ Hegseth (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)

US judge blocks Trump from ending union bargaining for many federal workers (Daniel Wiessner/Reuters)

The ‘Never Surrender’ President Retreats (Molly Ball/Wall Street Journal)

Some see Trump weaponizing government in targeting of judge and Democratic fundraising site (Nicholas Riccardi/Associated Press)

Canadians bombarded with rightwing content on Musk’s X ahead of election (Financial Times)

Trump Has Now Deported Multiple U.S. Citizen Children With Cancer (Charisma Madarang/Rolling Stone)

Donald Trump slammed for ‘disrespect’ at Pope’s funeral as he attends with wife Melania

Bill Kristol, Comedian? Imagines Trump Plotting 2028 Coup To Remain In Power

RFK Jr. isn’t staying in his lane. Trump is thrilled. (Politico) Yeah, right, Politico knows when Trump is thrilled….

Vatican Caves and Gives Trump Front-Row Seat for Pope’s Funeral (Tom Sykes/The Daily Beast)

Video casts doubt on Ed Martin’s apology for praising Nazi sympathizer (Washington Post)

Four Perspectives on Trump’s Weak Poll Numbers (Nate Cohn/New York Times)

How Trump Plays Into Putin’s Hands, From Ukraine to Slashing U.S. Institutions (Peter Baker/New York Times)

MAGA maximalism: Trump’s base loves Wisconsin judge arrest (Tal Axelrod/Axios)

Trump Pardons Executive Whose Family Sought to Publicize Ashley Biden’s Diary (New York Times)

Today’s major stories must be seen in the context of President Donald Trump’s dramatic losses … (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters …)

US to miss out on billions as Trump’s policies deter overseas tourists (Adam Gabbatt/The Guardian)

Brooks Hails Arrested Judge’s ‘Heroic’ ‘Civil Disobedience’

Website For MAGA-Friendly Businesses Backfires As People Use It For Boycotts (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)

“We Need An Uprising”: Democratic Rep. Calls On People To “Threaten” Congress And “Take To The Streets”

ABC Hypes Arrest Of ICE-Defying Judge As ‘Major Escalation’ From Trump

The Arrest Of A Milwaukee Judge: A Troubling Assault On The Judiciary (Andrew Weissmann/Behind The Headlines)  All together now: NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW>

Donald Trump is double ‘disgrace’ at Pope’s funeral as viewers blast president

Why the New NYT Poll is Very Bad News for Trump (Dan Pfeiffer/The Message Box)  Only if he takes it seriously, which he won’t, and rightly so from so corrupted a source.

Trump’s Vicious Sewing Circle (Maureen Dowd/New York Times)  More vicious than Maureen Dowd? Impossible.

Trump Is Breaking the Rule That Every Barroom Brawler Knows (Noah Shachtman/New York Times)  Yeah, sure, a writer for the NYT knows what barroom brawlers know. I believe that. (In a barroom brawl, I’d bet on Trump.)

As Trump destroys the economy, GOP and Wall Street execs stay mum (Catherine Rampell/Washington Post)

Trump accused of Pope Francis funeral faux pas after ‘breaking dress code’ then leaving early (Jane Dalton/The Independent)  He’s a head of state. He can do whatever the fuck he wants.

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“This is not normal.” Those words from Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., are undeniably true after the arrest of Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan. However, the reason it is not normal is far more debatable. Dugan is accused of becoming a lawbreaker in seeking to obstruct an effort to arrest a man wanted by federal authorities. If true, that is manifestly not “normal.”

As soon as the news of the arrest was reported, Democrats declared another constitutional crisis. Klobuchar added that the arrest “is a drastic move threatening the rule of law” and a “grave step and undermines our system of checks and balances.”

That is a curious claim unless Klobuchar believes that the officers are lying. If not, Klobuchar is suggesting that a judge should be allowed (or at least not held accountable) for actively shielding a wanted person and facilitating their evasion of law enforcement.

What is Not Normal is not arresting a judge; what is Not Normal is a judge thinking it okay to break the law.

Say it with me now: NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW.

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Funny how there are no headlines of ‘Hindu terrorism’.

Hindus have been dealing with Muslim atrocities for longer than the U.S. has been in existence.

I suspect that they know something we don’t.