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Rogue climate activists in Northern California are launching balloons filled with sulfur dioxide into the upper atmosphere in an effort to manipulate the Earth’s temperature. In exchange, the climate startup behind the operation sells “cooling credits” priced at $30 for a subscription or $5 to offset 1 ton of carbon dioxide. The startup’s unregulated operations are causing a major stir and have drawn the attention of EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin.

“Make Sunsets is a startup that is geoengineering by injecting sulfur dioxide into the sky and then selling “cooling credits.” This company is polluting the air we breathe. I’ve instructed my team that we need to quickly get to the bottom of this and take immediate action,” Zeldin wrote on X.

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China’s full-size, land-based aircraft carrier test facility, a key part of the country’s path toward establishing a carrier fleet and associated air wings, is being modified once again, and this time in a massive way. The extensive reworking and expansion of the unique facility suggests that the aircraft carrier mockup is now intended to represent a layout similar to the U.S. Navy’s Ford class. This likely coincides with the configuration of China’s next, more advanced, homegrown carrier design.

A satellite photo of the land-based aircraft carrier mockup in Wuhan, taken on April 6, shows the changes that have taken place, including a much greater overall flight-deck width, and the island superstructure redesigned and moved further aft, as on the Ford class. So significant is the extra width, meanwhile, that the edges of the deck now extend out to or even over the adjacent road.

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One of the primary platforms of Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign was the strict control of foreign elements entering into the United States. American voters overwhelmingly supported closed borders as well as the deportation of illegal migrants and disruptive migrant elements including those that received visas and green cards under the Biden Administration. The political left, not surprisingly, has refused to accept that this is the majority view of the population as they continue to interfere with the migrant clean-up using whatever methods are at their disposal.

The question of constitutional legality has come up often. The very same people who, only a few years ago, were trying to silence any and all dissent on the Covid mandates and vaccines are suddenly concerned with the free speech rights of people who are not American citizens or those that obtained green card status through convenient circumstances (marriage as a fast track for citizenship).

New York Post.

Women’s fencer Stephanie Turner will be stepping back from fencing “for a while” after she was placed on a 12-month probation by USA Fencing for refusing to compete against a transgender athlete last month, a report said.

Turner, 31, was disqualified from USA Fencing’s Cherry Blossom Open when she took a knee rather than fence Redmond Sullivan, a 20-year-old who was born biologically male.

The drama that followed the decision, which made national headlines, “has disrupted my training, it has disrupted my interactions when I go out in public, and it will certainly disrupt my competition because I won’t be competing in the United States anytime soon,” she told Fox News.

The Hill, a Voice of the Crust.

A federal judge ruled Monday that two fathers cannot wear pink wristbands with two X’s — the symbol for female chromosomes — drawn on them in opposition to a transgender high school athlete on one of their daughters’ rival soccer teams.

Kyle Fellers and Anthony Foote sued administrators at Bow High School in south-central New Hampshire last year after they were banned from school property for wearing the wristbands to a match against Plymouth Regional High School, whose girls team includes a transgender player, 16-year-old Parker Tirrell. They asked a federal district court to allow them to silently wear the wristbands and display signs objecting to trans athletes in girls sports at school events.

Officials temporarily barred both men from school grounds for distributing and refusing to remove the wristbands during the Sept. 17 game between Bow and Plymouth Regional. Foote also placed a poster that read “Protect Women’s Sports for Female Athletes” on his Jeep and held the sign up in the parking lot after the game ended.

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French authorities are investigating a wave of violent attacks targeting prison staff across the country, with cars torched and threats escalating outside prison walls. On Wednesday, three vehicles were set on fire in Tarascon, including one belonging to a prison guard. In a separate incident, a guard’s car was burned outside his home near Aix-en-Provence.

The attacks follow similar incidents since Sunday, including gunfire at a prison entrance and graffiti with the acronym “DDPF”—a group claiming to defend prisoners’ rights. A video shared on Telegram, later deleted, showed a guard and a burning car, fueling alarm.

Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin blamed drug networks, saying, “Clearly people are trying to destabilise the state by intimidating it.”

Union officials warned that the violence is spreading beyond prison walls. “Threats and intimidation inside prisons are part of the daily grind,” said Wilfried Fonck of UFAP UNSA. “But that this is now happening outside is worrying.”

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The media got very excited when the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion was firebombed because they were hoping it was going to be somebody with the ‘wrong’ politics, but instead the perpetrator, Cody Balmer, was a self-proclaimed “socialist” who claimed that he did it to tell Gov. Josh Shapiro that he “will not take part in his plans for what he wants to do to the Palestinian people.”

A socialist who indulges in violence. My, what a surprise.

Now Balmer seems like a nutjob, but had he been a nutjob with the wrong politics, we’d never stop hearing about it, but now he’s likely to get a whole lot less attention because he did it for the ‘right reasons’.

And there’s a pattern to this stuff.

There is indeed.

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In the Swiss resort of Interlaken, Muslim women visiting from the Middle East are increasingly using surgical masks to circumvent Switzerland’s face-covering ban, in effect since January 2025. While traditional coverings such as the niqab are prohibited, hygiene masks are not considered a violation.

Emad Boutrous, who runs an Arabic-speaking travel agency, told SRF the masks are “a good compromise” for many visitors. Most are aware of the ban, he says, and for those who are not, he recommends purchasing a mask from a nearby pharmacy.

Local authorities appear unbothered. Interlaken’s liberal mayor, Philippe Ritschard, noted, “People are inventive,” and suggested the police should take a lenient approach.

Police spokesperson Sarah Wahlen confirmed they have little room for manoeuvre: “We don’t know if someone is genuinely ill,” she said.

Despite the legal restrictions, tourism officials report no complaints, and strong booking numbers from the Arab world remain unaffected.

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In just about a month, three NATO states arrested or imposed some form of civiliter mortuus on the biggest political threats to their respective regimes.

Romania forbade Georgescu, who won last year’s presidential election, from participating in May’s re-run; Turkey, with Istanbul’s mayor; Macron’s France, with Le Pen.

In Poland, the Europhile regime of Prime Minister Tusk forces—for the first time since the dark days of communism—the opposition into exile and subjugates newspapers and TV stations through a series of brazen police raids; in Germany, the nation’s largest party, the AfD, is under the confirmed, official surveillance of the intelligence services while its legislation remains under consideration by the authorities, even after they lost the recent federal election and their popularity continues to implode; in Italy, a deputy prime minister nearly got arrested for upholding—rather than breaking—the law of the land.

In Hungary, Serbia, and Slovakia, protests—obviously sold by the mainstream media as spontaneous and innocent—erupted almost simultaneously: the targets are, of course, all governments known to be opposed to—and loathed by—the Brussels mandarinate.

Fico, in Slovakia, nearly died at the hands of a terrorist hostile to the Prime Minister’s Ukraine policy.

Axios, a Voice of the Crust.

Democrats are rushing to organize trips to El Salvador as President Trump refuses to comply with a Supreme Court order to facilitate the return of a Maryland resident who was erroneously deported to the country.

Why it matters: It’s not just about one deportee, or even immigration policy, lawmakers say. “This is about a president of the United States defying the Supreme Court and wanting to be a king,” said Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.).

It’s not about any deportees, or ‘immigration policy’; they’re just the pretext. It’s about trying to make themselves look good, Trump look bad, and frustrating the results of a democratic election, for which ‘Democrats’ have never had much use.

Garcia and Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) are trying to secure GOP authorization to lead a congressional delegation to visit deportees at El Salvador’s Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT), Axios first reported Tuesday.

Thereby giving it some sort of ‘official’ coloration, to offset the undeniable authority Trump has as President.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) is leaving Wednesday to travel to the Central American country. Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) is also planning a trip, as Axios first reported.

Let’s all jump aboard the bandwagon, shall we? Virtue-signaling is not just for the proglodyte-in-the-closet.

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Newsom announced on April 4 he would ask trade partners to exempt California-made products from any retaliatory tariffs and seek to develop new “strategic trade relationships,” doubling down on his approach Wednesday after Trump issued a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs while leaving in place the 10% baseline and increasing tariffs on China.

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Four Syrian suspects were arrested in the German city of Hamburg and reportedly charged with attempted grievous bodily harm resulting in death, earlier this week. The suspected perpetrators, aged 16 to 20, entered an eighth-floor apartment while wielding machetes and attacked a group of young Iraqis there.

While it remains unclear whether the deceased—an Iraqi national—was pushed from the height or fell while escaping, it adds to a long list of problems associated with the high-rise complex on Soltauer Ring. Police are still trying to establish a motive for the attack, describing the three other Iraqi survivors as “uninjured.”

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Men who claim to be “transgender” should not be legally defined as women, the UK’s Supreme Court has ruled.

In a landmark ruling on whether sex-based protections should only apply to natural-born women, top judge Lord Hodge said that the terms “woman” and “sex” in existing equality legislation refer to biological sex, not self-defined gender identity.

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The European Union is preparing to provide €10 million in funding for a scientific research project aimed at highlighting the contribution of the Quran and the Muslim religion to European civilisation. The influence of the Muslim Brotherhood is evident behind this undertaking.

The objective of this programme, entitled ‘The European Qur’an,’ the idea of which was launched six years ago and which is due to last until 2026, is to “challenge traditional perceptions of the Qur’anic text and well-established ideas about European religious and cultural identities” through travelling exhibitions, conferences, and book publications. The starting point of the project’s initiators is that the influence of Islam on European culture is greatly underestimated. “Our project is built on the conviction that the Qur’an has played an important role in the formation of medieval and early modern European religious diversity and identity and continues to do so,” reads the website homepage. The project aims to cover a chronological span of seven hundred years, from 1150 to 1850, from the Iberian Peninsula to Hungary.

All of this could be part of a field of scientific research (almost) like any other, if a clearly militant design were not at work in the background, as revealed by an investigation conducted by the French conservative newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche: several academics involved in the process are notoriously close to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Read Robert Spencer’s The Critical Qur’an: Explained from Key Islamic Commentaries and Contemporary Historical Research.

Tyler Cowen.

With a Trump-induced decline of American alliances n the works, is Chinese global ascendancy going to result? It would seem so. Matt Yglesias tweeted that “America may be cooked and it’s gonna be the Chinese century.” Thomas Friedman recently wrote a column suggesting that the future is to be found in China, not America.

Thomas Friedman has never met a Communist regime he didn’t prefer to that of the U.S. Makes you wonder why he hasn’t left yet.

In the realm of technology, China’s advances are impressive. BYD has the best and cheapest electric vehicles, the CCP is pulling out all stops to attain high-quality chips and lithography capabilities. Chinese AI, in the form of DeepSeek and Manus, has shocked many Westerners with its inventiveness.

Being able to exploit technology stolen from other countries doesn’t constitute ‘impressive advances’.

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Protesters disrupted a town hall meeting held by one of President Trump’s closest allies in Congress, prompting police to physically remove them and taser one.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican congresswoman from Georgia, attracted a crowd of more than 150 supporters to a community centre in suburban Atlanta while demonstrators rallied outside. A small group of protesters managed to enter the event, and at least three people were arrested including two who were tasered after they scuffled with police.

Greene, one of Trump’s most loyal and vocal allies, repeatedly said “bye” to people being escorted from the room and praised officers for their response.

“This is a town hall; this is not a political rally; this is not a protest,” Greene said.

Police said they had arrested a 40-year-old Atlanta man, a 45-year-old man from Dallas, Georgia, and a 28-year-old woman on charges including obstructing police and violating a city ordinance forbidding vulgar language in a public place.

Violence is always the first resort of Dramacrats.

Quillette.

Few creatures are as deadly as the mosquito. These small insects are responsible for transmitting malaria, dengue fever, Zika virus, and other diseases that collectively kill over a million people every year. While insecticides have long been the main tool for controlling mosquito populations, they have significant drawbacks: They can harm other insects, contribute to environmental damage, and are becoming increasingly ineffective as mosquitoes develop resistance.

But what if we could turn the tables on these pests and make their favourite food—human blood—a lethal weapon against them?

A groundbreaking recent study shows that mosquitoes can be poisoned by the blood of people taking a specific medication. The drug, nitisinone, is already approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for treating certain rare genetic disorders, and researchers have now found that it is also highly effective at killing malaria-carrying mosquitoes.

Reminds me of the famous Superbowl hot-sauce commercial.

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Several universities and higher education associations filed a lawsuit Monday against the Department of Energy (DOE) over a new policy capping indirect research funding cost rates at 15%.

The DOE announced April 11 it would limit support for indirect costs, or money that is used for administrative and other non-research related expenses, to 15% for all research funding. The Association of American Universities (AAU), American Council on Education (ACE) and schools such as Cornell, Brown and the University of Michigan claim in the suit that the department’s decision is “flagrantly unlawful” and “will devastate scientific research,” according to the lawsuit.

“[I]f DOE’s policy is allowed to stand, it will devastate scientific research at America’s universities and badly undermine our Nation’s enviable status as a global leader in scientific research and innovation,” the lawsuit argues.

Apparently universities have a Constitutional right to receive and waste Federal taxpayer dollars. Who knew?

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First they came for Mahmoud Khalil, and I said nothing because I thought it was a damn good idea. He is a citizen of Syria who came to America to get a college degree. After graduating he stayed in America to be a leader in a group dedicated to supporting Hamas by disrupting normal activities at Columbia University, threatening and harassing Jewish students. Hamas is an organization that deliberately seeks out and murders as many Jewish babies, infants, and toddlers as it can. They came to deport him. Not imprison him; not kill him. They came to give him a free plane ride back to his home country. For reasons unknown, Democrats are outraged.

Then they came for Kilmar Garcia (a.k.a. “Maryland Man”), and again I said nothing because it was a damn good idea. Mr. Garcia is a citizen of El Salvador who entered the USA illegally. He is also a member of a criminal gang known as MS-13. MS-13 murders people for fun and profit. An earlier attempt to deport Mr. Garcia was delayed by an immigration judge who was concerned that Mr. Garcia would be in danger if returned to El Salvador. This is due to rival gang enemies who wished him harm. They deported him anyway, perhaps by a paperwork mistake. Democrats are outraged again, for reasons unknown.

Next they came for others with MS-13 tattoos. Democrats are convinced that Trump is moving so fast to deport foreign gang members that innocent people must be getting swept up and deported by mistake. Democrats are particularly concerned for innocent people who happen to have tattoos that are gang-related. Apparently, Democrats have never spoken to anyone who knows anything about gang tattoos—you need permission to get a gang tattoo. It is a badge of honor that must be earned. If someone has an unauthorized gang tattoo, the gang will kill them. MS-13 has no American citizens as members. Wannabe members must earn membership by committing violent crimes. Deporting all MS-13 members appears to me to be a no-brainer. Again, for reasons unknown, Democrats are outraged.

Next they came for Tren de Aragua gang members. There is no dispute that they (1) entered the USA illegally, and (2) make their living by committing crimes. Democrats insist we slow things down to give each member a court hearing of some sort. Democrats are silent as to what evidence such people could possibly present at such a hearing that should prevent their deportation. Again, I am silent and my silence means approval.

This format, of course, echoes the “Als sie kamen” rhetoric of Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller about Nazi Germany, which proglodytes have perennially repurposed to complain about anybody anywhere holding them responsible for anything.

UPDATE: Jennifer Rubin tries this trick, as expected – Free Kilmar  One of the oldest ploys in the proglodyte ploybook is taking the moral high ground and dragging it into the mud, hoping that people will be fooled. The error here, which they think with enough handwaving you won’t notice, is that socialists, trade unionists, an Jews aren’t ipso facto criminals–although a lot of them seem to turn out eventually to be criminals–but illegal immigrants, jihadist, and drug cartel thugs /murderers are ipso facto criminals. As Scott Adams never tires of saying, analogies can illustrate your point but cannot prove it. Analogies can’t prove anything, because they deal with a different situation, however much it might be similar, and however much you might wish it did.

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A federal judge in Puerto Rico issued a scathing order last week accusing Democratic prosecutors on the island of plagiarizing nearly their entire 241-page complaint that blamed oil companies for causing global warming.

In the order Wednesday, district court judge Aida Delgado-Colon outlined how David Efron, the lead attorney representing Puerto Rico’s capital city San Juan, appears to have plagiarized a similar but separate complaint that 16 Puerto Rican municipalities filed a year earlier. A side-by-side comparison of the two complaints shows large blocks of text are copied word-for-word.

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Following the release of his new book, The Dark Sides of Migration, Swiss forensic psychiatrist Frank Urbaniok has called for European asylum policy to finally take migrant crime statistics into account, claiming that certain migrant groups are “disproportionately criminal” due to cultural factors.

Much like black people in the U.S.

Urbaniok, one of Switzerland’s most prominent forensic experts with over three decades of experience analyzing violent offenders, suggests that cultural influences from countries such as Afghanistan, Morocco, and Tunisia contribute significantly to higher crime rates among migrants from these regions.

“Afghans are reported more than five times, Moroccans more than eight times, and Tunisians more than nine times more often than Swiss nationals for serious violent crimes,” Urbaniok stated in an interview with Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung, citing his analysis of crime data from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

“The disproportionate crime rate has a lot to do with cultural influences. It is about how violence is dealt with, the image of women, or the role of the rule of law in these countries. I have been dealing with criminals for 33 years and have seen thousands of cases at close range. That’s why I know how strong and relevant these imprints can be. Sometimes, they persist for generations,” he said.

The New York Times, a Voice of the Crust.

David [“Camera”] Hogg, a young liberal activist and now a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, is leading an effort to unseat the party’s older lawmakers in primaries.

Good news for Republicans. The younger (and more unhinged) Dramacrat politicians become, the more people will vote for the adults in the room.

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A criminal referral against New York Attorney General Letitia James has been filed with the DOJ, alleging that James had “falsified records” to get home loans for a Virginia property that she claimed was her “principal residence” in 2023 – while she was serving as a New York state prosecutor.

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Harvard Law School published a blog post from one of the students facing criminal charges for assaulting an Israeli classmate. The post, from former Harvard Law Review editor Ibrahim Bharmal, features Bharmal’s praise for something called the “Crimmigration Clinic,” a law school course in which students work on federal immigration cases. He does not mention that he is facing criminal charges connected to the assault, which was captured on video.

In the post, titled, “Crimmigration lawyering: Advocating for immigrants caught in two unjust systems,” Bharmal touts the “close-knit immigrant and Muslim community” he grew up in in Southern California, indicating that it taught him “that our legal systems and institutions do not distribute justice evenly.” He also wrote of his “future” as an attorney, saying, “I know who I want to advocate for. I know the kind of law I want to practice. And I know, without a doubt, that this clarity will be the foundation of a long, committed career in service to immigrants and the fight for justice.”

Bharmal’s criminal case could also impact that future. Along with Harvard divinity school graduate student Elom-Tettey Tamaklo, Bharmal was charged last May with misdemeanor assault in connection with his behavior at a “die-in” protest that took place shortly after Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack. Bharmal and Tettey-Tamaklo were captured on camera accosting an Israeli business school student, surrounding him and making it difficult for him to walk freely as keffiyeh-clad onlookers shouted, “SHAME!”

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A 44-year-old man with extremist jihadist ties was sentenced to 30 months in prison by the Bruges court on Monday, April 14th, for preparing a terrorist attack and participating in the activities of the Islamic State (IS).

The man was scouting the area where the popular rock band Rammstein would perform. He was reportedly also searching the internet for “the most lethal firearm possible” and other weapons. Police recovered conversations between the man and his acquaintances discussing a “perfect moment” to attack—referring to the Rammstein concert in Ostend, where an estimated 50,000 fans would be present.

Overwhelming amounts of evidence tied the man to the Islamic State. He had contact with at least 16 other jihadists, saved over 100,000 extremist images, and declared his connection to the terrorist group in his personal messages by saying, “I want to fight for the Islamic State, my brother.”

The court system judged the man as low risk, meaning he gets to keep his job and support from his family, and is mandated to get psychological help from a professional. “He has a weak self-image and takes his cues from people with extreme views,” the verdict states. “He is impressionable and lacks introspective skills.”

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In an attempt to blunt the Trump administration’s culling of the federal workforce, a group of Democrats in Congress is proposing to protect federal workers despite facing a Republican majority and a recent court ruling in favor of the president.

In other words, they want to protect the Deep State/Democrat bureaucracy from the effects of democracy. You can’t make this shit up.

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A new report from our group, the Network Contagion Research Institute, provides answers. Our research, based on nationally representative surveys and analyses of online activity, demonstrates the existence of online subcultures that support the murder of public figures like Trump and Musk. This “assassination culture,” incubated on social media, has migrated from the margins of public life into the mainstream.

We found that nearly one-third of Americans surveyed—and around half of those identifying as left-of-center—believe that the murder of certain public figures is at least somewhat justified. The figures are startling: 38 percent of respondents, and 55 percent of those left of center, said assassinating President Trump would be at least somewhat justified; 31 percent of respondents, and 48 percent of those left of center, said the same about Musk. Forty percent of respondents, and 58 percent of those left of center, deem it at least somewhat acceptable to “destroy a Tesla dealership” in protest.

Our report also discovered an online “assassination culture,” found in predominantly left-leaning digital spaces, such as Bluesky and Reddit. This subculture justifies and glorifies political violence. Some of these networks’ users wield the name “Luigi” or use the Luigi video game character as coded endorsements of Brian Thompson’s alleged assassin, Luigi Mangione. These users cloak explicit calls for violence in stylized memes. Many believe that political murder and sabotage are acceptable forms of protest.

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Scientists at King’s College in London announced they have managed to grow a human tooth, the BBC reported.

While it might be a long time before lab-grown teeth can be put in a person’s mouth, researchers told the BBC it will assist with their work. While sharks and elephants have the ability to grow new teeth, humans have only one set from adulthood, the scientists found in a study, according to the Independent.

Lab-grown teeth could be a better alternative than implants, which can cause unforeseen problems and require invasive surgery, the researchers said to the BBC.

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In yet another incredulous case, the British justice system has decided in its infinite wisdom that a Somali criminal will be allowed to stay in the UK because returning him to his home country would cause him too much “stress”.

The Telegraph reports that a judge in the upper immigration tribunal ruled that the asylum seeker would suffer “stress” if deported to his homeland, which would worsen his mental health, thereby breaching article three of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which protects against persecution and inhumane treatment.

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Non-citizens voting illegally are a major portion of the Dramacrat ‘base’. That’s why they want an open border.

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ICE officials detained a Columbia University graduate student who led a coalition of anti-Israel groups and endorsed the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack.

Mohsen Mahdawi had his green card revoked by the Trump administration and was taken into custody on Monday in Burlington, Vt., where he was scheduled to take a citizenship test. Mahdawi’s attorney told the Intercept that Mahdawi was detained for his “Palestinian identity” and that he had come “to this country hoping to be free to speak about the atrocities he has witnessed.”

But Mahdawi, a graduate philosophy student in Columbia’s School of General Studies, has also said he “can empathize” with Hamas over the terrorist group’s Oct. 7 slaughter and has publicly called for the destruction of Israel. Last year, he honored a commander in the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, a U.S.-designated terror group that participated in the attack alongside Hamas.

It’s about time that the government took Muslim terrorists–and their supporters–seriously.

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The Department of Justice has charged a self-identified “queer scientist” in the firebombings of a Tesla dealership and the Republican Party headquarters in Albuquerque.

Jamison Wagner, 40, is accused of setting fire to multiple cars at a Tesla dealership on February 9 and vandalizing the facility with graffiti, including the words “Die Elon,” according to a federal complaint. Wagner struck again the following month, prosecutors allege, setting fire to the Republican Party office in Albuquerque and painting the phrase “ICE=KKK” on the building.

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My, what a surprise.

The granddaughter of Hillary Clinton’s mentor was officially charged with felony vandalism and trespassing after she “ransacked” the Stanford University president’s office as part of an anti-Israel demonstration last year.

Santa Clara District Attorney Jeff Rosen on Thursday announced the charges against Zoe Edelman, the granddaughter of Children’s Defense Fund founder Marian Wright Edelman, whom Hillary Clinton has called her “hero and mentor.” Eleven other suspects were also charged in the case.

Edelman was arrested after the office takeover last June, but the case has been in limbo for months while prosecutors decided whether to bring forth charges. Felony vandalism and conspiracy to trespass both carry potential jail sentences in California.

Newsbusters.

Having been roundly condemned in the days leading up to its premiere and an excerpt flirting with far-left, pro-murder psychopath Taylor Lorenz, CNN correspondent Donie O’Sullivan’s Whole Story episode aired Sunday on “a new kind of American extremism” declaring “violence in the country today is mostly from right-wing extremism” with “simply no equivalent on the left.”

Unsurprisingly, it was pants-on-fire false as O’Sullivan chose to ignore both assassination attempts on now-President Trump, arson attacks on pro-life groups, the Family Research Council shooting, the rampant anti-Semitism inside college campuses, and the 2017 attempted murder of congressional Republicans by a man who was both a Bernie Sanders supporter and MSNBC viewer.

O’Sullivan instead created a strawman fixating like a crazy ex on January 6 defendants, far right figures with vile views who made a point of threatening O’Sullivan’s life, and a designer of 3D-printed guns. Oh, and the now-viral sit-down smiling and giggling with Lorenz about her support for Luigi Mangione, the alleged killer of United HealthCare CEO Brian Thompson.

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Illinois has suspended a minority-only scholarship after the Department of Justice threatened to sue the state, the department said Friday. The department’s move, which came in the wake of a Washington Free Beacon report on the program, is the latest example of how the Trump administration’s legal saber-rattling has deterred the use of racial preferences.

The program, which gave minorities financial aid to complete a master’s or doctoral degree, was run by the Illinois Board of Higher Education and included some of the top universities in the state, including Northwestern University and the University of Chicago. Experts told the Free Beacon that the scholarship was patently illegal and could jeopardize the federal funding of every participating school. That is the verdict the Department of Justice reached when it launched its own probe, concluding that the program “unconstitutionally discriminated on the basis of race in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.”

The department threatened to sue Illinois if it did not suspend the initiative. The state complied, telling the department it would halt all activities related to the program until the Illinois General Assembly had an opportunity to review the matter. Six universities, including Northwestern and the University of Chicago, also said that they had ended their participation in the scholarship, which required schools to “verify” that applicants met the racial criteria.

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In the name of “equity,” many competitive colleges had stopped using entrance exams in their application process.

Now, the pendulum has swung: Realizing that standardized tests actually do help school officials evaluate applications, administrators at Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Brown, MIT, and more have reinstated use of the SAT and ACT.

This is a good course correction and a welcome return to a time when student merit and effort mattered.

I’d love to have admissions just depend on scores, as with A-levels in Britain. That would eliminate all subjective Wokery.

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The ongoing crisis between France and Algeria has taken a new turn with the request made by Algiers for 12 members of the French embassy staff to leave Algiers within 48 hours.

While the minister for foreign affairs Jean-Noël Barrot was in Algiers on April, 6th, to try to maintain dialogue with the Algerian government in the context of a serious diplomatic crisis, Algeria on Sunday, April 13th, announced its intention to expel 12 people employed by the ministry of the interior from Algeria within 48 hours.

This is a retaliatory measure by the Algerian authorities following the indictment in France on Friday, April 11th, of three men suspected of being agents of the Algerian government and of having intervened just a year ago on French soil to kidnap a certain Amir DZ.

These are serious charges and testify to the casualness and sense of impunity with which the Algerian government behaves in France, even when dealing with its own affairs.

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Unidentified attackers have killed nearly 50 people in Nigeria’s Plateau state in further conflict in a religiously mixed region. The night-time attack hit the villages of Zike and Kimakpa in the Bassa local government area—known for intercommunal conflict and deadly land disputes—on Sunday, April 13th.

Two weeks earlier, armed men struck multiple villages in the Bokkos area, also in the state, killing 48. The attack occurred some 25 km away from the Plateau state capital, Jos. Last week, army troops recovered the headless corpse of a 16-year Fulani herder in the Bassa area, whose cattle were also stolen.

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Christian persecution in Nigeria is widespread, often initiated by predominantly Muslim Fulani herders—with the Western media seemingly reluctant to talk about the perpetrators.

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One week after an event was held in support of Marine Le Pen, who is the target of legal attacks aimed at preventing her from standing in the 2027 French presidential elections, a rally organised in Paris against the ideas of the Rassemblement National (RN)—a failure, even by the organisers’ own admission.

The American Mind.

Professor James Hankins has written a sincere but largely misguided piece advocating for what amounts to a national guest worker program with a delayed pathway to citizenship. He proposes, with appropriate modesty, that “The advantages of this [immigration] proposal may not seem obvious at first sight to Republicans.” Let me, with all due humility, suggest that the alleged advantages are not obvious because they are not there. While Hankins’s program has a slightly different taste, it is basically the same old amnesty wine in a new bottle.

His core problem is viewing immigration policy as one issue among many in which any proposed solution should ultimately be subject to a popularity contest. In reality, immigration is an existential issue, and the way we approach it defines what kind of community we will be.

The first question to add in re immigration is: What sort of people add value to the country and the people already here?

Rich people add value by spending and investing.

Successful businesspeople add value by starting and running successful business, providing jobs and tax revenue.

Intelligent people add value by solving problems and making lives better for everybody.

Criminals don’t add value (and every illegal immigrant is ipso facto a criminal)–they subtract value by increasing the natural proglodyte propensity for ignoring laws they don’t like and diluting the common shared culture that makes a society work.

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Democrats–best politicians money can buy.

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Millionaire cosplay socialist Bernie Sanders took his ‘Fight Oligarchy’ tour to Coachella festival over the weekend, perfectly epitomising how fake and contrived the entire thing is.

The tickets for this thing cost several hundreds of dollars a piece. It’s a glamping weekend for trendy comfortable wannabe influencer 20 somethings who have no idea what everyday Americans are going through.

The perfect venue for Democrats like Sanders and his side kick AOC to reel off lists of alarmist ’causes’ they’re making dollars from.

Lifehacker.

Most of us have a love-hate relationship with our cars. We love our vehicles because they represent freedom (and economic necessity, if you rely on one to get to work or do your grocery shopping), but we hate how much they cost—and the fact that you never actually stop paying for them. It costs an average of $1,452 every year just to keep your vehicle running, and the overall cost of owning a car is a whopping $6,684 annually.

As crucial as vehicle maintenance is in terms of making sure your car is reliable, people tend to skip an awful lot of it. If all you do every year is the basics—changing the oil and engine filters in a standard tune-up—you’re skipping a bunch of maintenance that only seems less important. Here are the vehicle maintenance steps you should definitely not skip.

This advice is aimed at women, since men typically do this stuff automatically.

Fun fact: Jeff Somers is a highly-regarded (by me, at least) speculative fiction author and noted connoisseur of whiskies.

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Unfortunately, we have a problem with the military. They don’t seem to think they answer to civilian leadership anymore.

The most recent example of that problem is Space Force Colonel Susan Meyers, who was just relieved of her command of the 821st Space Base Group at Pituffik Space Base in Greenland. Why was she relieved? Because she, in her official capacity as commander of this unit, disavowed the words of the Vice President of the United States.

Vice President JD Vance made remarks regarding Greenland getting the shaft from Denmark and leaving it vulnerable, and Meyers decided that she just had to counter those comments.

Now, she’s been relieved of command.

Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield was also removed from her position as the US representative to NATO’s military committee, which followed a series of actions, including her refusal to put up photos of President Donald Trump or Vance in the chain of command. It might not be the worst act of insubordination ever, but it’s still insubordination.

Let’s also not forget good old General Milley, who famously and publicly said, following Trump’s first term, that if he’d been ordered to attack China, he’d have given the Chinese a phone call to let them know what was coming, first.

Cat Rotator’s Quarterly.

It takes an academic to do it, but it can be done. I filled my Buzzword Bingo card twice in the abstract alone.

Before people start looking to see if the blog has been hacked, allow me to back up a little bit. Many years ago, I found a book on my parents’ shelves entitled “The Bog People” by someone named Glob. He was one of the first archaeologists/anthropologists to write about the bodies found in bogs in Northern Europe. He also led the first professional excavation of the tanned remains of humans that turned up when people were digging peat and other things in swampy areas. The book had flaws, and leaned a little too much on Tacitus and other written sources, but someone had to start somewhere. It remains the foundational text on the topic. The idea stuck, and I’ve actually gotten to see four of the sets of remains. They are fascinating, if rather disconcerting, somewhat like Ötzi (the body from the ice).

I‘m revisiting the topic for various reasons, and working my way through a set of academic papers about wetland sacrifices and bog bodies and so on. Some are quite useful, some rather thought provoking (why do so many of the water sacrifices in Denmark also have lots of small, pale stones on or near the offerings?). And then there’s the one about posthuman theories of othering bodies, and bringing different theoretical frameworks about non-human nature, animal-human transferrences, and so on to the archaeology and anthropology of wetland sacrifices. Once I waded into the paper (pun fully intended), there were no surprises, just long words for concepts I already knew, written in a very dull, jargon-laced way. Gee, people back then decided that some humans weren’t fully people, and so could be abused and sacrificed. Or they could be included in burials against their will, as servants/slaves for the dead (and probably as ways to propitiate the dead and hurry them to the ancestors, in some cases). And sometimes animals stood in for humans as ritual offerings, but a few times it might have been the reverse. Cultures viewed outsiders and people with obvious differences as being inferior, perhaps. Gee.