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$521 billion. That’s the estimate the federal government itself put forward of annual fraud levels. That’s enough money to rebuild every crumbling bridge and school in the country—all squandered due to government incompetence.

In fiscal year 2024, just 16 agencies reported improper payment estimates that totaled $162 billion—money lost to error, fraud, overpayments, or ineligible claims. That’s part of a staggering $2.8 trillion lost since 2003.

And that’s just what’s been reported. Fraud-heavy programs like Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and housing subsidies likely push the total higher.

This isn’t a mere accounting error; it’s a heist on taxpayers, stealing cash that could’ve stayed in your wallet.

Don’t settle for anything less.

New Atlas.

According to Eureka, the Bengal MC pushes the envelope further by introducing a fast-attack ship with heavy payload, high speed, and a range of 1,000 nautical miles (1,150 miles, 1,852 km) that has a modular construction, which allows it to be reconfigured to meet specific mission requirements. This means it can not only be used as an autonomous attack vessel, it can also act as a troop transport, landing support craft, electronic warfare platform, drone mothership, minelayer, or minehunter. In addition, it has facilities for a crew if the mission requires one.

This is made possible by its hull, which is configured to make it a Surface Effect Ship (SES), which travels on a cushion of air by combining the attributes of a hovercraft and a catamaran by trapping pressurized air beneath the hull. This reduces friction with the water and enables high speed.

The Register (UK).

Called Zyrex, the robot is being designed by RIC Robotics of Torrance, California. The company expects to have a working prototype in early 2026, and said it will mark “a significant leap forward in the evolution of robotic construction.”

The 20-foot high general-purpose construction robot is, we’re told, designed to have cognitive capabilities – which will be novel for that industry – and ultimately be fully autonomous in carrying out complex and delicate tasks across commercial and industrial job sites.

It is unlikely to be able to wolf whistle at passers by and does not require copious amount of tea… like Brit builders.

It will be equipped with LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) plus visual sensors powered by VLA (Vision-Language-Action) AI models, to allow it to be deployed in dynamic job site environments, with human monitoring.

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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson came under fire from local Jewish leaders after he wore a keffiyeh, or a traditional Palestinian headscarf, to a public event this week.

The Chicago chapter of the Council on American–Islamic Relations posted a picture of Johnson with its executive director, Ahmed Rehab, at an event to mark Arab Heritage Month. In it, Johnson, who was elected in 2023, is wearing a black-and-white keffiyeh.

“Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (appropriately) commemorated Arab Heritage Month this week. Arab Heritage should be honored and celebrated,” Rabbi Ari Hart of Skokie Valley Agudath Jacob Synagogue wrote on Facebook. “But would it not be possible [to] commemorate Arab Heritage without wearing the symbol that millions of Jews around the world saw worn to celebrate the murder, rape and kidnapping of October 7th?”

‘Arab Heritage Month’? What’s next, KKK Heritage Month?

Last Tuesday a group of mujahideen acting as proxies for Lashkar-e-Taiba massacred at least 27 people and wounded a number of others at the Pahalgam resort in the Indian portion of Kashmir. Pahalgam is just to the east of Srinagar, and is only about 35 miles (55 km) from the Line of Control that separates the Pakistani and Indian portions of Kashmir.

Urdu and Hindi are closely related languages, and Pakistanis are not ethnically distinct from Indian Hindus. Therefore the victims of the terrorists had to be given a religious test to make sure they were valid targets for the jihad. If they couldn’t prove they were Muslims, they were shot.

The modus operandi of the terrorists in Pahalgam is similar the one used by Al-Shabab in the Westgate Shopping Mall massacre in Nairobi in September of 2013. Victims at Pahalgam were reportedly required to recite the “kalma” if they wanted their lives to be spared. The kalmasare a set of six attestations of the Islamic faith; a shortened version of the Second Kalma is commonly called the Shahada (La illaha ila Allah, wa Muhammadun rasul Allah), and is probably the recitation demanded by the terrorists in Pahalgam.

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When Muslim terrorists began their latest massacre in Kashmir, they first checked IDs and asked their victims to recite the ‘Kalmas’ one of several Islamic recitations used by Indian Muslims, beginning with, “There is no god but Allah and Mohammed is his messenger.”

Those who could not recite the Islamic doctrine were killed.

“Are you Muslim? If yes, then recite the Kalma,” victims were told by the Jihadis.

“He asked my husband’s name and religion. Then he shot him,” one female survivor testified.

Describing the massacre of 26 innocent people, including an American citizen, in a Kashmir meadow as terrorism is misleading. The targets were not selected because they were government officials. They were not screened for their politics. The location was not a strategic target. The only thing that the victims had in common was that they were non-Muslims.

This is not terrorism. It’s genocide.

Well, no, it’s not. They weren’t killed because of their ethnicity–that’s what ‘genocide’ means–but because of their religion.

It is, however, jihad. You can look it up.

Imagine how peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.

Washington Free Beacon.

As India mourns the dozens of tourists murdered in Kashmir this week by jihadists and Prime Minister Narendra Modi vows to pursue them and their backers “to the ends of the earth,” India and Pakistan are at daggers drawn. New Delhi has already closed the land border and suspended a key water-sharing agreement, and the two nuclear-armed militaries are preparing for war.

Any nuclear showdown is concerning, and in this case, the strategic stakes for the United States are high. India is the only Asian country that could conceivably counterbalance China, and the more it focuses on Pakistan, the less it can thwart Beijing. Pakistan is now at the forefront of a partnership that will bedevil Americans in the years to come—the unhappy marriage between radical Islam and communism.

In many respects, these two movements are strange bedfellows. China’s Communist Party is hostile to any religious entity that it does not control and it is bulldozing—in some cases, literally—its country’s Islamic heritage. Radical Islamists are equally determined to extinguish non-Islamic beliefs, and in many cases, the people who hold them. Nonetheless, across much of Asia, an increasing number of countries are welcoming both.

The Foundry.

America’s two highest-profile socialists once had real Marxist street cred. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., was a young barista who steamed her way into public service. Bernie Sanders is a U.S. senator from Vermont with a vaudeville-grade Brooklyn accent. Endearingly rumpled, he appeared to embody the phrase “living paycheck to paycheck.”

These two joined forces early. Their Grandpa-and-Granddaughter-of-Government-Overreach shtick was almost touching in an old-timey way—much like flipping through faded photos of Truman-era coal miners, sipping soup from lunch-pail Thermoses.

They’ve come a long way, baby!

Victor Davis Hanson.

I think you’re all aware—you who are religious or maybe secular—you’re all aware of a force in the universe that what comes around goes around.

Or in classical mythology and Greek and Roman studies, there was the goddess Nemesis that pays back hubris or arrogance. I think in Eastern philosophy and religion the term is “karma.” And in the New Testament it is: ”Do unto others as you would like them to do unto you.”

But there is something innate to the human condition that you should not go in one direction in excess because there’s a force in the universe that corrects us and brings us back to the middle, what we call in classical terms the golden mean. Nothing too much. Know yourself.

Karma can be a bitch.

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A new study by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley School of Public Health and other major universities has put a damper on the claim that obstetrician-gynecologists (OB-GYNs) are systematically fleeing pro-life states or ones with more liberal abortion laws.

To the contrary, the cohort study measured data collected from Jan. 1, 2018, to Sept. 30, 2024. It concluded that the number of OB-GYNs in pro-life states actually increased at a faster rate than in pro-abortion states in the wake of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022) decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. That case overturned 1973’s Roe v. Wade and returned the issue of abortion regulation to the purview of individual states and to Congress.

Based on data from more than 60,000 OB-GYNs, the report, released Monday, determined that the number of the women’s heath doctors actually increased by 8.3% in states where abortion was banned compared with 7.7% in states where abortion was protected after the Dobbs decision.

Overall, the study held that as of 2024, “the number of OB-GYNs did not significantly change across policy environments [states with varying abortion laws].”

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Numerous prominent Democrats are blindly rallying to the defense of a Wisconsin judge arrested Friday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for allegedly helping an illegal immigrant avoid arrest.

FBI personnel arrested Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan of Milwaukee on Friday morning after she allegedly helped an illegal immigrant accused of violent crimes slip away from federal immigration authorities on April 18. Numerous congressional Democrats quickly put out statements rallying around Dugan on Friday, just one week after Democrat Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen and other Democrats flew to El Salvador to conduct a welfare check on the deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a suspected MS-13 gang member.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents showed up to Dugan’s courthouse on April 18 to apprehend Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, an illegal immigrant accused of domestic abuse who was scheduled for a hearing with the judge that day, according to the unsealed complaint. As Flores-Ruiz’s alleged victims sat in the courtroom, Dugan allegedly became visibly angry and took Flores-Ruiz into her chambers, instructing him to leave the building from a private exit after learning that ICE personnel were on the premises.

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A Judeo-Christian law firm will finally get its day in court after Michigan’s Democrat attorney general targeted it when launching a “Hate Crimes Unit” in 2019.

Attorney General Dana Nessel and then-Michigan Department of Civil Rights Executive Director Agustin Arbulu announced the Hate Crimes Unit in 2019, which would “fight against hate crimes and the many hate groups … in our state.” The announcement referenced the work of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which brands mainstream conservative and Christian groups “hate groups,” putting them on a map with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan.

The law firm American Freedom Law Center, which the SPLC brands an “anti-Muslim hate group” for its claims that traditional Islam supports jihad, filed a lawsuit challenging what the law firm called the state’s “Orwellian” violation of its First Amendment rights, and after initial proceedings, the case has been delayed since 2021.

Newsbusters.

An official at the World Health Organization (WHO) brazenly admitted to being behind worldwide censorship during the COVID-19 pandemic, but that’s not his most disturbing confession.

WHO Team Lead for Digital Channels Andy Pattison explained during an April 15 interview with the Planet Classroom Podcast the role his globalist organization took in pushing major social media platforms to censor users. Pattison discussed how the WHO worked with Big Tech on so-called misinformation prior to COVID-19. He addressed these companies’ efforts to “make their misinformation and disinformation policies a little bit stronger,” adding, “we were advising them on how best to do that.”

Disinformation policies on Big Tech platforms did in fact get “a little bit stronger” during the pandemic. In fact, MRC Free Speech’s exclusive database CensorTrack, shows that MRC researchers have found more censorship related to COVID-19 than any other specific issue. The 1,319 examples included seven examples of platforms censoring U.S. senators and 11 examples of platforms censoring members of Congress. Big Tech even censored at least 45 doctors or medical researchers. The MRC found 569 accounts that Big Tech platforms deleted and hundreds more that these platforms locked.

The Times (UK).

The amount of capital gains tax paid to the Treasury over the past year dropped by more than £1 billion as fears grow of an exodus of wealth from Britain.

According to data from HM Revenue & Customs, capital gains tax (CGT) receipts fell to £13 billion in the 12 months to March 2025, down 10 per cent from £14.5 billion in the same period last year.

Analysts said that the fall in CGT income could reflect a trend of high-net-worth individuals leaving the UK after the non-dom regime was scrapped by Jeremy Hunt, the former Conservative chancellor, in the March 2024 budget. Others said that wealthy people may have paused sales of assets to avoid being hit by higher taxes.

Gee, imagine that.

The Times (UK).

THIS is why you don’t sit with your back to a door or an open room.

Elon Musk leaves legacy of self-destruction at DOGE (Zachary Basu/Axios)

Why 72% of American Jews disapprove of Trump (Jason Sattler/THE FARCE)

Trump and His Billionaires Are Giving the Rich a Bad Name (Jill Lawrence/The Bulwark)

We Visited Rumeysa Ozturk in Detention. What We Saw Was a Warning to Us All. (New York Times)

The Coming Economic Nightmare (David Frum/The Atlantic)

Lisa Murkowski reveals the ugly nature of Trump’s rule (Stephen Robinson/Public Notice)

Kimmel Rewrites History, Ignores Lloyd Austin’s AWOL Scandal In Failed Dunk On Hegseth

Worker Rights Threatened at the Department of Labor (Julie Su/American Prospect)  ‘Workers’ at the DOL? That’s news.

Brainwashed Democrats Continue To See Imminent Inflation-pocalypse; But UMich Sentiment Improved Intra-Month

Trump says he’s negotiated 200 trade deals — but won’t say with whom (Seb Starcevic/Politico)

Law students organize to give Trump-caving firms a recruitment problem (Adam Klasfeld/All Rise News)

The Untold Story Of How Ed Martin Ghostwrote Online Attacks Against a Judge–And Still Became A Top Trump Prosecutor (Talking Points Memo)

Trump’s War on Immigrants Has Become an Attack on Us All (Matt Ford/New Republic)

The Smithsonian PURGE: Trump Team Removes Artifacts of Black Resistance (April Ryan/BlackPressUSA)

EU’s Sword Over Musk’s X: Politico Warns of Impending Censorship

Gavin Newsom rips Trump, RFK. Jr. over suicide hotline cuts (Rachel Bluth/Politico)  Since when are suicide hotlines the job of the Fedeeral government?

Trump Just Did the Most Corrupt Thing Any President Has Ever Done (Michael Tomasky/New Republic) Worse than ‘Ten percent for the Big Guy’?

Trump Is Suddenly Bleeding Independents. A Brutal New Poll Shows Why. (Greg Sargent/New Republic)

Trump Budget to Take Ax to ‘Radical’ Safety Net Programs (New York Times)  None of which are the business of the Federal government.

Trump Makes Alarming Confession on Wrongly Deported Immigrant (Malcolm Ferguson/New Republic)

5 Jewish senators accuse Trump of using antisemitism as ‘guise’ to attack universities

Deborah Lipstadt says Trump’s campus antisemitism crackdown has ‘gone way too far’

Federal Judge Travels Back In Time To Overturn Trump’s Birth (Babylon Bee)

Ukraine has exposed Trump’s true identity: as a vandal, an autocrat, a gangster and a fool (Jonathan Freedland/The Guardian)

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Power Line.

It would be easy to miss today’s good news, which comes via the Trump Department of Justice. The headline of the Jewish Chronicle spells it out: “US scraps UNRWA’S legal immunity in major reversal of Biden-era policy.” Subhead: “The decision could see the UN agency, which has been accused of employing Hamas operatives, hit with significant claims from the relatives of terror victims.”

And about time.

New York Post.

On the most recent episode of “IMO with Michelle Obama & Craig Robinson,” the podcast she co-hosts with her brother, she shed light on her much-publicized absences from both President Jimmy Carter’s Jan. 9 funeral and President Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration.

The former first lady played hooky because she’s taking some me time, baby!

When it came to Trump’s swearing-in, she admitted she had sartorially sabotaged herself. Michelle — a three-time Vogue cover model and darling of the fashion world who could have any designer clothing on demand — claimed she just couldn’t find the right outfit.

UK Independent.

Immigration authorities raided a former New Mexico judge’s home, where they accused him of harboring an alleged Tren de Aragua gang member, and took him into custody.

Former Dona Ana County Magistrate Judge Joel Cano, 67, and his wife, Nancy Cano, 68, were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcementx Thursday after a tipster claimed that undocumented migrants associated with the Venezuelan gang were staying at their home. The couple has been charged with tampering with evidence, jail records show.

The investigation began in January 2025 after ICE received an anonymous tip that “an illegal alien from Venezuela and a suspected member of a criminal gang, was residing with other illegal aliens in the United States” at the judge’s home in Las Cruces and was in possession of firearms, according to court filings.

UPDATE: New Mexico Supreme Court says Judge Joel Cano can never hold office in the state again

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Procter & Gamble and other prominent corporations fund a “racial justice” group whose leader, a former Obama White House official, lashed out this week at what he called “white mediocrity” and urged a “woke” army of black youth “to wage war with whiteness.”

David Johns, who led President Barack Obama’s White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans, made the remarks at an event Tuesday to promote a boycott against Target for rolling back its DEI programs.

Johns is the executive director of the National Black Justice Coalition, a black LGBT group that aims to fight “anti-Blackness.” The nonprofit lists companies like Airbnb, Sephora, Sony, and Procter & Gamble as sponsors. Procter & Gamble, which sells household brands like Gillette and Charmin, contributed $515,000 to the National Black Justice Coalition in 2023, around one-fourth of the nonprofit’s budget, according to tax records. The Department of Health and Human Services under President Biden awarded the National Black Justice Coalition a $1.2 million contract through 2026 as part of the government’s “Let’s Stop HIV Together” campaign. It is unclear if HHS is still funding the coalition, but Johns said last month his organization was “proud to be a grantee” of the HIV program.

Speaking at the anti-Target event, Johns endorsed the boycott and railed against President Donald Trump as a “fascist trying to rob us of our wealth.” He also urged black consumers to shop at black-owned businesses as part of a movement to “reclaim … African ways of being.”

“We don’t need nothing from white people. We don’t need nothing from white people,” said Johns. “They can’t even make potato salad.”

Nothing stopping him from going back home to Africa, where he wouldn’t have to put up with white people.

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The U.S. State Department issued a warning on Thursday to foreign nationals who plan to obtain U.S. citizenship for their children through “birth tourism.”

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The State Department says that an entire industry has evolved around birth tourism to help pregnant women from other countries come to the country to obtain U.S. citizenship for their children by giving birth on U.S. soil.

According to the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), birth tourism results in 33,000 births by women on tourist visas every year, and “hundreds of thousands more are born to mothers who are illegal aliens or present on temporary visas.” According to CIS, birth tourism in the United States is practiced by people from around the world, especially citizens of China, Taiwan, Korea, Nigeria, Turkey, Russia, Brazil, and Mexico.

Politico, a Voice of the Crust.

How are ‘firefighter health and safety programs’ the responsibility of the Federal government? And Federal taxpayers?

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Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was charged April 25 with two felonies for her role in helping an undocumented immigrant avoid arrest after he appeared in her courtroom.

According to a 13-page complaint, Dugan, 65, is accused of obstruction a U.S. agency and concealing an individual to prevent an arrest.

Specifically, the complaint says Dugan assisted Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, a Mexican immigrant, avoid being arrested by federal immigration officials at the Milwaukee County Courthouse after he appeared in her courtroom for a pre-trial conference on April 18. Flores-Ruiz is facing three misdemeanor battery counts.

Two federal agents eventually chased Flores-Ruiz down outside the courthouse and apprehended him at the intersection of West State Street and 10th Street downtown, according to the complaint.

Democrat justice.

Victor Davis Hanson.

Since 2021, the Left has waged a veritable war against the American legal system in a variety of ways.

One serial target of Democrats and the Left has been the Supreme Court.

In 2020, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., spoke to an angry throng of pro-abortion protesters assembled at the very doors of the court chambers.

He threatened two of the justices, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch, by name. Schumer yelled to the volatile crowd that the justices’ views would make them “reap the whirlwind,” and the two would not know what “hit” them.

In the ensuing months, protesters mobbed some of the conservative justices’ homes—likely committing felonies. The sympathetic Biden Justice Department chose not to follow the law, and so did nothing—although eventually a would-be assassin turned up.

Former President Joe Biden himself bragged that he would try to ignore the Supreme Court ruling banning his arbitrary cancellation of billions of dollars in student loans. Indeed, he boasted, “The Supreme Court blocked it, but that didn’t stop me.”

In response, no one on the Left ever complained about endangering the “rule of law” or Biden as “a dictator.”

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Berlin Senator Cansel Kiziltepe, of the Social Democratic Party  (SPD), decided to attack Elon Musk on X, comparing his Tesla cars to “Nazi cars,” creating a massive backlash in the neighboring state of Brandenburg, home to Europe’s only Tesla car factory. The post is particularly odd, given her role as state minister for labor.

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No one knows when slavery started, but it seems to have been a part of human civilization from the start. There is evidence of slavery in the earliest civilizations along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Mesopotamia, the Nile in Egypt, the Indus Valley in India, and China’s Yangtze River Valley. This suggests slavery was integral to the establishment of large-scale settlements.

Slavery was the norm in the world until European Protestants decided it was immoral and began to ban it. Until the Protestant nations of Europe rose to power, slavery was tolerated by Christians. The Catholic Church opposed the treatment of African slaves in the New World but was not opposed to slavery. It was the Protestants who went the next step and demanded the end of slavery.

Of course, slavery was not what modern people imagine. Slaves often had rights and there were rules for how slaves must be treated. The very first law codes were created to deal with the treatment of slaves. This makes sense since if there are a lot of slaves, there is the risk of a slave revolt, so keeping the slave classes happy was always going to be a primary consideration for society.

When the only sources of power were wind, water, and muscles (and muscles, human and animal, were the only source of portable power), the benefits of having human ‘livestock’ were impossible to resist. It was only advances in technology that made the majority of people take the abolition of slavery seriously.

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Will this law review article “promote DEI values”? Does it cite scholars from “underrepresented groups”? Will it have “any foreseeable impact in enhancing diversity, equity, and inclusion”? And why did one team of editors solicit “only white, male authors”?

Those are some of the questions that editors at the Harvard Law Review asked in internal documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The documents, which span more than four years and have not been previously reported, include article evaluations, training materials, and data on the race and gender of journal authors. They reveal a pattern of pervasive race discrimination at the nation’s top law journal and threaten to plunge Harvard, already at war with the federal government, into even deeper crisis.

The law review states on its website that it considers race only in the context of an applicant’s personal statement. But according to dozens of documents obtained by the Free Beacon—including lists of every new policy adopted by the law review since 2021—race plays a far larger role in the selection of both editors and articles than the journal has publicly acknowledged.

Just over half of journal members, for example, are admitted solely based on academic performance. The rest are chosen by a “holistic review committee” that has made the inclusion of “underrepresented groups”—defined to include race, gender identity, and sexual orientation—its “first priority,” according to resolution passed in 2021.

Tim Graham.

The New York Times recently published a hissy fit about the White House allowing reporters into the Briefing Room who didn’t vote for Kamala Harris. Here was the amazing protest sentence: “Longtime White House reporters say the result has been an erosion of their independence.”

The presence of a reporter who didn’t vote Democrat doesn’t “erode” the anti-Trump animus (“independence”) of liberal activist journalists. It might balance it, suggesting journalism and liberalism are not exactly the same thing.

This spurred a trend. Politico’s Ian Ward profiled these invaders under the headline “Meet the 8 MAGA Outlets Disrupting the White House Briefing Room.” It carried the usual labeling about “the divide between the MAGA-friendly media and their more mainstream counterparts.” The extreme hatred of Trump is “more mainstream.”

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Since December, when the former Al-Qaeda affiliate, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), toppled the government of Bashar al-Assad, Syria has witnessed a chilling wave of mysterious kidnappings of young women, predominantly from the Alawite community.

Evidence continues to emerge that these women, primarily from the Alawite religious sect, have been abducted and taken to live as sex slaves in Idlib governorate, the traditional HTS stronghold, by armed factions affiliated with the new Syrian government.

Shockingly, the mass kidnapping and enslavement of Alawite women now being carried out by HTS-affiliated factions mirrors the enslavement of the thousands of Yezidi women by ISIS during the 2014 genocide in Sinjar, Iraq.

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Having worn out the use of ‘Hitler’ over the last decade, the liberal media is searching for its next sensationalist descriptor for an otherwise innocuous “injustice” deserving of unlimited taxpayer dollars.

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Violence is always the go-to tool for the Left.

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U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly blocked part of President Donald Trump’s executive order on election integrity.

Kollar-Kotelly, who was appointed to the District Court for the District of Columbia by President Bill Clinton in 1997, has a history of left-leaning decisions on free speech, transgender policy, terrorist detention, and more recently, the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.

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The Trump administration is firing back at The New York Times after the paper published a 3,000-word “sob story” about a criminal illegal alien recently deported back to Jamaica.

“Why does The New York Times continue to peddle sob stories about criminal illegal aliens and ignore their victims?” asked Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security.

The Trump administration deported Nascimento Blair, a convicted kidnapper, back to his home country of Jamaica in February.

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Federal regulations imposed by the Biden administration reached costs of $2.16 trillion in 2024, generating a “hidden regulatory tax” of more than $16,000 on U.S. households, according to a study released Thursday by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI).

CEI’s study, titled “Ten Thousand Commandments,” said the $16,016 in regulatory costs consumes 16% of income and 21% of household expenses.

The report found that then-President Joe Biden reversed “even modest liberalizations” of regulation from President Donald Trump’s first administration. Biden “changed the Office of Management and Budget’s mission away from oversight and toward the promotion of the administration’s regulatory initiatives,” the report said.

The perfect Democrat tax: It harms ordinary people without any benefit to the government.

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Columbia University warned student radicals that they could face disciplinary actions—and possibly arrest—if they move forward with their plans to launch anti-Israel encampments.

“We have been made aware of possible plans to establish encampments on Columbia’s campuses. We want to clearly communicate that camping and encampments on Columbia’s campuses are prohibited by University Policy,” Columbia’s public safety department announced in a university-wide email Wednesday evening.

“Participants will be instructed to disperse,” the email continued. “Individuals who refuse to disperse will be identified and sanctions, including potential removal from campus and possible arrest, may be applied.”

The American Mind.

Why are young college-educated women trending left-wing?

Many like Charlie Kirk blame universities for indoctrinating young women. But the problem is deeper. Parents and young women have swallowed a feminist vision of the heroic feminine that elevates the university while leaving tradition and family behind.

“What defines” the New Woman, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead wrote in her 2003 book Why There Are No Good Men Left, “is not her relationship to marriage, but the remarkable path she follows from cradle to career.” She is single for longer than she used to be. She may not want children. She is independent, confident, increasingly irreligious, and must stand on her own. Advanced education and professional achievement are keys to the new view of womanhood.

Marriage, motherhood, and religion used to be the most important markers for women. Parents beamed when daughters married. Fathers hoped daughters would earn an M.R.S. degree. Wedding pictures were mounted above fireplaces. No more.

ZMan has some fun.

One of the things that comes with writing for a public audience in the digital age is the editor without portfolio. This is the person who roams the internet looking for spelling errors, punctuation mistakes, and grammar issues. There are many of these people, as the comment section of every internet post has at least one comment about a typo or alleged improper word choice. They are like the samurai without a master in feudal Japan, except they wield the blue pencil instead of a sword.

Soon, of course, they will be replaced by AI. It will not be long before the browsers simply rewrite your text in the period between when you hit submit and the text commits to the website. The robots will patrol the internet like the grammar ronin of this age but do so with a speed that the grammar ronin cannot match. Imagine a terminator sent back to seventeenth-century Japan to battle Miyamoto Musashi. By the looks of it, the days of the grammar ronin are numbered.

At least it seems that way if you assume there is only one way to construct a sentence or that the rules of grammar are iron laws of grammar. That is often how the grammar ronin look at language and writing. The rules of grammar are not merely guides to facilitate clarity but laws that must be ruthlessly enforced. Even if the grammar rule no longer works for a modern audience, the grammar ronin insist that it must be followed lest chaos be unleashed on humanity.

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A surprising number of federal bureaucrats who work in Washington, D.C., plan to oppose President Donald Trump from within the government—a deep state taking shape in his second term.

D.C.-based bureaucrats are split along partisan lines, with Republicans planning to support the president and Democrats planning to oppose him, according to an RMG Research survey commissioned by the Napolitan Institute to coincide with Trump’s first 100 days in office. A whopping 75% of bureaucrats who voted for Vice President Kamala Harris in November say they would disobey a lawful Trump order if they consider it bad policy.

In a refreshing change from Trump’s first term, Republicans in the government largely plan to support the president, the survey finds. This means the Trump 47 deep state phenomenon falls along partisan lines, as opposed to the Trump 45 deep state, in which many Republicans joined Democrats.

While this partisan divide reflects the polarization in the electorate, it still seems remarkable that people who work for the government plan to undermine the president from within his own administration.

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Not only must Poland refuse mass migration due to the societal costs, but the country also simply cannot afford it. Due to this reality, there can be no compromise over mass immigration, says Polish professor and lawyer Witold Modzelewski, who works at the University of Warsaw.

In a conversation on the FMC27NEWS YouTube channel, Prof. Witold Modzelewski said he can provide a conservative estimate of how much each migrant costs Poland per day, which he said is 150 Polish zlotys (PLN), or €35 per day.

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Political fractures on the Palestinian side have become more and more public as the Gaza war persists. On Wednesday Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas issued a strong declaration demanding that Hamas release all remaining Israeli captives in order to prevent Israel from using “an excuse” to continue destroying Palestinian homes and waging war in the Gaza Strip.

In the unexpected statement, Abbas went so far as to call Hamas militants “sons of dogs”. He said while chairing a Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Central Council meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, “You sons of dogs, hand over what you have and get us out of this. Don’t give Israel an excuse. Don’t give them an excuse.”

Considering that the “Palestinian Authority” pays money to the families of those who murder Jews, this is obviously merely a pissing contest between two groups of Muslim terrorists, not some sort of awakening to morality and decency on anybody’s part.

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“Guns are the number one killer of young people,” Whitmer said alongside a group of mostly older female activists. “Let it sink in. It’s not car accidents. It’s not cancer. It’s guns. In 2022, 2,526 children and teens died by a firearm.”

A report from Johns Hopkins University stated guns were the leading cause of death for those aged 1 to 17 in 2022, followed by motor vehicle crashes, cancer, poisoning and suffocation.

No, guns are not the CAUSE of death; guns are the INSTRUMENTS of death. Guns don’t just wander around by themselves looking for victims, any more than cars do.

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“Derecognized”? More appropriate would be ‘expelled everybody involved’.s

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Sen. John Fetterman (D., Pa.) says the Trump administration should drop nuclear negotiations with Iran and finish off the country’s nuclear facilities with a military strike.

“Waste that s—t,” the Pennsylvania Democrat told the Washington Free Beacon in an interview on Wednesday. “You’re never going to be able to negotiate with that kind of regime that has been destabilizing the region for decades already, and now we have an incredible window, I believe, to do that, to strike and destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities.”

Sense from a Democrat is like charity from a banker: unexpected but delightful when it happens.

Fetterman dismissed the foreign policy experts who warn that striking Iran would lead to the outbreak of a regional war. “And remember, all of these so-called experts were all wrong,” he said. “You know, they’ve been saying for years and years Hezbollah was the ultimate badass that kept Israel in check, and we can’t move on anything beyond that.”

As it turned out, Fetterman said, the Iranian proxy group “couldn’t fight for s—t. And Hamas, literally, are just a bunch of tunnel rats with junkie rockets in the back of a Toyota truck. And now the Houthis have been effectively neutered as well. So what’s left? You have Iran, and they have a nuclear facility, and it’s clearly only for weapons.”

What he said….

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The U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) was created to help advance clean-energy infrastructure and technologies that allegedly had the potential to be adequate energy resources but struggled to secure private investment. With discussions underway about staffing and budget changes, defenders of the climate-centric status quo in energy policy rushed to preserve it, claiming LPO is essential for energy dominance and manufacturing growth.

In reality, LPO is a taxpayer-backed ATM for unreliable energy technologies and infrastructure that can’t compete without federal funding.

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

The headline tells you everything you need to know about the slanted article that follows. ‘Was created’. By whom? How? Apparently Juliette Chung has no idea. How about “The 19 Richest U.S. Households Created $1 Trillion of Wealth Last Year”. Such a headline, far more reflective of the facts, would never occur to this sprig of the Woke establishment.