New Federal Employees Must Now Write Essays Praising Trump’s Policies (Kate Plummer/Newsweek) Oh, the lies these people tell…. Tell me, how does this differ from the Diversity Statements that the Wokerati were requiring from candidates?

Man Who Tried To Lawlessly Do Congress’ Job For It Criticizes ‘Pork-Filled’ Bill (Nicole Lafond/Talking Points Memo)  Speak, O minion of the Deep State.

Trump Rescinds Biden Policy Requiring Hospitals to Provide Emergency Abortions (Sheryl Gay Stolberg/New York Times)  Of course, the NYT think’s that’s a bad thing.

Donald Trump and the art of the Oval Office confrontation (Washington Post)

Musk Keeps on Dissing Trump in Flurry of New Posts (Josephine Harvey/The Daily Beast)

Will courts let TACO steal tariff power from Congress? (Liz Dye/Public Notice)

Internal Docs Raise Questions About Trump IRS Pick Billy Long’s ‘No-Show Jobs’ And ‘Strange’ Schedule Inside A Powerful Agency (Hunter Walker/Talking Points Memo)

Trump Rages at Worsening Budget Bill Fiasco as Musk Admits It’s a Scam (New Republic)

An Immigrant Was Accused of Threatening Trump. Prosecutors Say He Was Framed. (New York Times)

The fascinating backstory behind a bizarre State Department Substack post (Zack Beauchamp/Vox)

Trump’s Bedminster Golf Club Flagged For 18 Health Violations In Latest Inspection–Earned Lowest Grade In County (Zach Everson/Forbes)  SCRAAAAAAPE that barrell….

Trump Job Cuts Hobble NOAA Team That Reopens Ports After Hurricanes (Valerie Volcovici/Reuters)  Because, as we all know, reopening ports after hurricanes is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government – and the Federal taxpayer. (Why aren’t the states doing this? They’re their ports.)

The White House’s disingenuous claim about CBO’s political leanings (Glenn Kessler/Washington Post)

Kimmel Echoes Rumor From Disgraced Author About Why Trump Is Going After Harvard

CNN Attempts to Link Antisemitic Colorado Terror Attack To Trump Cutbacks  Instead of Muslim terrorism where it belongs.

Publicly announced cancellations (New York Times)  Every time they announce a cancellation, my wallet sighs with relief.

US immigration officers ordered to arrest more people even without warrants (The Guardian)  It’s called ‘probable cause’.

What’s next for the Iowan who shouted ‘people will die’ at Joni Ernst over Medicaid cuts (Stephen Gruber-Miller/Des Moines Register)  No doubt she’ll get invited on all the late-night talk shows and a book deal. The Crust take care of their own.

Laura Loomer’s White House access erases the line between the fringe and mainstream (Steve Benen/MSNBC)  That happened when they let Hunter Biden in .

Trump Defeats Democrats’ Lawsuit Over Election Commission Independence

Right-wing media solidify around “able-bodied” myth as Senate GOP weighs Medicaid cuts (John Knefel/Media Matters for America)

‘Big Balls’ Is Officially a Full-Time Government Employee (Makena Kelly/Wired)

Trump administration takes hundreds of migrant children out of their homes, into government custody (Priscilla Alvarez/CNN)  Sure, I believe that.

Dismissed by DEI: Trump’s Purge Made Black Women With Stable Federal Jobs an “Easy Target” (J. David McSwane/ProPublica)  Because, as we all know, giving black women stable jobs is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government – and the Federal taxpayer.

Trump’s Tariffs Are a Step Toward Unbridled Presidential Power (Michael W. McConnell/New York Times)  Unbridled!

CBO: Nearly 11 million people will be uninsured if GOP megabill becomes law (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill)  Because, as we all know, insuring people is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government – and the Federal taxpayer.

PBS Host Claims She Prepared For US Visit ‘As If I Was Going to North Korea’

What Happened When the FBI Asked for Dirt on Docs Treating Trans Kids: ‘F-ck Off Nazi Dickheads’ (Rolling Stone)

House Oversight Democrat seeks information from Trump on Elon Musk’s alleged drug use (Melissa Quinn/CBS News)  But not Hunter Biden’s.

A Gross and Brazen ‘DOGE Check’ Scam (The Bulwark)

Trump Budget Eliminates Funding for Crucial Global Vaccination Programs (Apoorva Mandavilli/New York Times)  Because, as we all know, global vaccination programs are TOTALLY the responsibility of the U.S. government – and the U.S. taxpayer.

‘Saying Trump is dangerous is not enough’: Bernie Sanders on Biden, billionaires – and why the Democrats failed (Zoe Williams/The Guardian)

ABC News: Musk Killed 300,000 Kids, Knows How Trump Stole Election

Joni Ernst’s “we’re all going to die” pushes MAGA’s toxic Christian compassion on us all (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)  Amanda Marcotte loses her shit.

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campaigners warn that they have returned in all but name after a man who set fire to a copy of the Quran outside the Turkish consulate in London was convicted on Monday of a racially aggravated public order offence.

Hamit Coskun—a Turkish political refugee—shouted “f**k Islam” and “Islam is religion of terrorism” as he held the burning book aloft in February and, after being found guilty at Westminster Magistrates Court of the offence, was fined £240 (€285) with a statutory surcharge of £96 (€114).

Free speech campaigners have been especially critical of the Crown Prosecution Service’s initial charge, accusing Coskun of acting with “intent to cause against the religious institution of Islam harassment, alarm or distress”—as though Islam itself were a person.

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Language tests conducted among elementary school children in the German state of Bavaria have produced shocking results, with one in three children unable to speak German well enough to attend classes.

The situation is especially dire in the city of Augsburg, where two-thirds of first-graders lack the necessary German language skills to understand what is being taught.

The problem also exists in the second and third grade, where many children are unable to read properly.

The tests are part of a new programme launched by the state, which makes it compulsory for all kindergarten children to be tested before they enroll in school.

Children found to lack the necessary language skills have to take part in German language lessons.

The results are part of a wider problem in Germany: the massive scale of immigration combined with a lack of integration has resulted in a growing number of children unable to follow classes.

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With immigration laws once again being enforced, ICE agents have become prime targets of the left—harassed, doxed, and threatened simply for upholding the law.

At a recent press conference, Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons laid bare the growing danger his agents face—not from violent criminals, but from radical activists hell-bent on exposing and intimidating them into silence.

The tense exchange began when reporters questioned why some agents had been wearing masks during recent operations.

Speaking of Nazis….

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Too late.

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Give her credit: Chief executive Katherine Maher is not afraid to look ridiculous on her quest to save National Public Radio from the federal chopping block. On Thursday’s edition of the Wall Street Journal’s podcast, hosted by Ryan Knutson and Jessica Mendoza, Maher claimed “we are consistently found to be centrist in reporting….we are a nonpartisan news organization.”

Maher was on to talk about NPR filing a lawsuit, alongside three Colorado-based stations, challenging the Trump administration’s executive order to cut funding for NPR out of the federal budget.

First, Maher falsely labeled Trump’s executive order a violation of the First Amendment.

Katherine Maher: ….And what I mean by that is the executive order very clearly engages in what is called viewpoint discrimination, which is to say that the president has stated that NPR and PBS should not receive federal funding because he disagrees with our programming and our editorial choices, in terms of the story selection that we cover or the way that we cover the news….

But no outlet has a First Amendment right to the public treasury, and Mendoza quoted a Trump spokesperson saying such.

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CNN star correspondent Alex Marquardt announced on Monday that he was leaving the network, just months after his misleading reporting on Navy veteran Zachary Young triggered a $5 million defamation payout.

Fuck around and find out.

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Sure, I believe that.

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The U.S. Army has reached its fiscal year 2025 recruitment goal of 61,000 active-duty enlistments—four months ahead of schedule—marking what officials call a pivotal moment in military readiness and national morale.

No more sharing showers with transgender freaks? No more GirlBoss commanders? Damn that Trump!

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In a plot that reads like a Tom Clancy novel crossed with a dystopian agribusiness nightmare, two Chinese nationals, Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, have been slapped with federal charges for allegedly smuggling a biological ticking time bomb into the U.S.

The weapon? Fusarium graminearum, a fungus dubbed a “potential agroterrorism weapon” by scientific literature, capable of wreaking havoc on America’s wheat, barley, maize, and rice crops while poisoning humans and livestock with its toxic byproducts.

The stage? Detroit Metropolitan Airport, where Liu’s clumsy attempt to sneak the pathogen past Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers unraveled faster than a cheap yuan store sweater.

Francis Fukuyama.

We are reproducing below excerpts from a lecture given by Leo Strauss in 1941 at the New School for Social Research on “German Nihilism.” Strauss, a German Jew, was at that time a refugee from Hitler’s Europe; he would go on to become one of the most important teachers and interpreters of philosophy at, among other places, the University of Chicago.

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So: Now guess how much ‘migrants’ in the U.S. are getting.

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Trump is doing the jobs that Democrats won’t do.

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The world’s a screaming match—doctors, economists, influencers, all clawing for their slice of truth. Nobody’s listening, and nobody’s seeing the whole damn picture. We have more information than ever, but we’re dumber where it counts, stuck in a loop of shouting past each other. This isn’t just politics or algorithm nonsense; it’s the cult of specialization—our worship of experts who know everything about nothing. Doctors pushing Covid shots didn’t see the fraud. Economists missed the heist. Engineers built surveillance without blinking. Each turned their screw, blind to the machine they were feeding—a Moral Assembly Line where systemic evil thrives. The system’s not broken; it’s built to break us, and we’re all complicit until we start connecting the dots. As I explored in The Illusion of Expertise, we’ve confused credentials with wisdom, compliance with intelligence. Now we see the deadly consequences: we’re not failing because of bad experts—we’re failing because specialization itself has become the operating system of institutional evil.

Newsbusters.

The Trump administration sent its rescission package to Capitol Hill today, asking Congress to claw back $9.4 billion in approved spending, including $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. A rescission occurs when a president proposes to cancel previously appropriated funds, but only with the approval of Congress. Essentially, it’s a way to undo a spending decision already made through the appropriations process.

Russ Vought, head of Trump’s Office of Management and Budget, told Will Cain on Fox this afternoon that “We have chosen what we think are the easiest [cuts]…some of the worst examples you can come up with.” In an official statement, Vought said “These funds would be used to subsidize a public media system that is politically biased and an unnecessary expense to the taxpayer.” House Republicans are promising to take it up next week.

While the evidence of “public” broadcasting tilt is overwhelming, the liberal broadcasters will rely on the vaguely positive sound of their mission to win over enough moderate Republicans to keep their money (as usual). Kate Riley, CEO of the lobbying group America’s Public Television Stations, stated: “We urge Congress to reject the destructive recissions of public broadcasting funding, respect the clear will of the American people and the long history of bipartisan support for our work, and continue the federal government’s investment in local public television stations’ essential missions of public safety, education and community connections.”

UPDATE: CBS Evening News: How Dare Pete Hegseth Rename the USNS Harvey Milk, DURING PRIDE MONTH???

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Some might argue that they’ve been doing that for over a decade. (neooowwwww….)

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to review the names of vessels honoring prominent civil rights leaders, including Harvey Milk, who was one of the country’s first openly gay elected officials and a Navy veteran.

News of Mr. Hegseth’s decision, reported earlier by Military.com, comes just days into Pride Month, which celebrates the contributions of luminaries in the L.G.B.T.Q. community.

Instead, Mr. Hegseth’s order was intended as a rebuke of Pride Month, keeping with the Trump administration’s drive to expunge diversity, equity and inclusion efforts across the federal government, according to a senior defense official familiar with the decision.

In principle I don’t have a problem with it. Harvy Milk’s only claim to fame is that he was the first homosexual politician in a significant office to own up to it; he never had any connection with the Navy or national defense, and the ship was named after him only to pander to the LBGTQRSTUVWXYZ+ crowd.

From a practical standpoint, I don’t like it. It sets a bad precedent when the government starts renaming ships after a change of administration. Where would it stop? It smacks of Stalin’s trick of erasing people from photographs. If a Republican administration starts doing this sort of thing, what’s to prevent a future Democrat administration from renaming the destroyer USS John McCain the USS Greta Thunberg? I don’t think that’s a road we want to start down.

Babylon Bee.

Sounda fair.

Daily Record (UK).

A horrifying incident on the Byford Dolphin oil rig on November 5 1983 resulted in the instant death of five workers, with a sixth narrowly escaping but left with life-altering injuries. The crew were carrying out routine maintenance work at the time, according to a YouTube video that has now garnered over 5 million views.

The video explains how the men met their tragic end while working on the oil rig situated in the North Sea near Norway after an abrupt pressure change wreaked havoc on their bodies. Roy Lucas, 38, Edwin Coward, 36, Truls Hellevik, 34 and Bjorn Giaever, 29, William Crammond, 33, and Martin Saunders, 30 were all on duty on the rig at the time of the catastrophe.

You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred.

Daily Record (UK).

Think of it as evolution in action.

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Muslim? Yes. Terrorists? No.

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In what The Sun newspaper called a ‘day of shame,’ the known number making ‘small boat’ crossing into Britain on a single day exceeded all previous records. Despite repeated promises to ‘smash the gangs,’ the official last day before the British summer begins saw 19 confirmed small boat arrivals bring 1,194 illegal migrants ashore.

This record day of migrant crossings puts the total 42% higher than where it stood in 2024, meaning crossings are at the highest rate with the largest total number of arrivals, predominantly young men, at any point since the crisis began in 2019. At one point the number of migrant vessels in the English Channel overwhelmed marine rescue services, who in turn called on local fishing boats for help.

While French police were again criticised for allowing the small boats to enter French shallow coastal waters and commence their dangerous voyages, the Labour government of Keir Starmer is under increasing pressure to find a solution.

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The demand for O–negative blood — the universal donor type — often exceeds supply and donations have a limited shelf life. Looking to address the issue are a group of Japanese scientists led by Hiromi Sakai at Nara Medical University. They’ve developed a new type of artificial blood that can be used in patients of any blood type.

The artificial blood is created by extracting hemoglobin — a protein containing iron that facilitates the transportation of oxygen in red blood cells — from expired donor blood. It is then encased in a protective shell to create stable, virus-free artificial red blood cells. As these artificial cells have no blood type, there is no need for compatibility testing. The synthetic blood can reportedly be stored for up to two years at room temperature and five years under refrigeration. That is a significant improvement over donated red blood cells, which can only be stored under refrigeration for a maximum of 42 days.

‘STAGGERING’ HYPOCRISY: Stephanopoulos Whines About Trump Crypto After Ignoring Entirety of Biden Crime Family Dealings

Trump Amplifies Outlandish Robot Biden Conspiracy Theory (Zolan Kanno-Youngs/New York Times)

Trump shares unfounded conspiracy theory claiming Biden was ‘executed’ in 2020 (Raquel Coronell Uribe/NBC News)

Amanpour on PBS: Harvard a Victim of Trump McCarthyism, Watch My Speech and Learn!

Trump tariffs cut off recovery in private equity dealmaking (Financial Times)

Murphy launches ambitious anti-Trump PAC as 2028 rumors swirl (Holly Otterbein/Politico)

.Kennedy’s autism crusade ignores history, including his own family’s (Joseph Choi/The Hill)

Trump Arrest of Immigrant Triggers Shock and Regret in Small MAGA Town (New Republic)  What, exactly, is a ‘MAGA town’? Other than a fantasy straw-man on the part of the New Republic.

Trump and his crew are nuts (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

ICE Barbie’s List of ‘Sanctuary’ Cities Yanked After Furious Backlash (Janna Brancolini/The Daily Beast)

Tesla Takedown takes down Musk (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)  ‘Fiercely independent coverage’? Try ‘voice of the Crust’.

Trump always chickens out on foreign policy too (Gideon Rachman/Financial Times)

The unaccountable fist of an unaccountable president (Philip Bump/Washington Post)  Philip Bump loses his shit.

The Trump administration has shut down more than 100 climate studies (James Temple/MIT Technology Review)  Because, as we all know, climate studies are TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government – and the Federal taxpayer.

Hating New York (Paul Krugman). Hatimg Trump.

Key US weather monitoring offices understaffed as hurricane season starts (Oliver Milman/The Guardian) Because, as we all know, weather monitoring services are TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government  – and the Federal taxpayer.

Lisa Murkowski Isn’t Using ‘Nice Words’ About Life Under Trump (Catie Edmondson/New York Times)  Murkowski is a nototious RINO. Of course she doesn’t like ‘life under Trump’.

Fact Check: Trump and G.O.P.’s False Claims on Bill’s Medicaid Cuts and Deficit Hikes (New York Times)  ‘Fact checks’ do to facts what ‘body checks’ do to bodies.

DOGE vowed to make government more ‘efficient’ — but it’s doing the opposite (Hannah Natanson/Washington Post)  And if you believe that one, she’ll tell you another one.

Chutzpah! MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart Questions Trump’s ‘Mental Acuity’

Trumpworld Is Getting Tired of Laura Loomer. They Hope the President Is Too (Jake Lahut/Wired)  As if anybody writing for WIRED knows (or gives) a shit what is going on in ‘Trumpworld’.

The war on poor kids (Judd Legum/Popular Information)  Because, as we all know, poor kids are TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government – and the Federal taxpayer. Too bad they don’t have parents, or other relatives.

Trump’s Truth posts mix wild conspiracies with market-moving policies (Avery Lotz/Axios)

Don’t Buy the Nostalgia Trump Is Selling (William Kristol/The Bulwark)

Elon Musk’s Real Drug Problem Is Much Worse Than You Think (Jeet Heer/The Nation)

The Secret Police Are Here — Trump is losing on policy and the law. But he’s winning on power. (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)  Demcorat Projection: Democrats accusing others of what they themselves are doing – or want to do.

For ‘Pride Month,’ PBS Cues Up Leftist RAGE at Trump’s ‘Horrific’ Anti-Trans Actions

Trump puts U.S. Steel cart before the horse (Dan Primack/Axios)

Meet Josh Divine, the Trump Judicial Nominee Who Argued Christians Are “Obligated Ethically to Impose Their Beliefs On Others” (Jay Willis/Balls and Strikes)  As Democrats have been doing for decades. Sauce for the goose….

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I guess they’re just white supremacists who want to destroy the planet.

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As it does.

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“I want to come to America. I want to see a country where the poor people are fat.”

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The new US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, has challenged France to match its advocacy for a Palestinian state by creating a new one on French soil. He suggested that France “carve off a piece of the Côte d’Azur,” also known as the French Riviera, for the establishment of such a state. This proposal has prompted an angry response from Paris.

How very Trumpian.

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In February, President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning transgender athletes (men pretending to be women) from participation in publicly funded women’s sporting events. “We will not allow men to beat up, injure and cheat our women and our girls. From now on, women’s sports will be only for women,” Trump said at the signing ceremony, standing at a podium flanked by female athletes. “With this executive order, the war on women’s sports is over.”

The shift in public sentiment by the end of 2024 was palpable. The western world was being force fed a steady diet of trans propaganda that bordered on worship. The public could not go anywhere without being inundated with LGBT flags and imagery. For a minority that represents less than 1% of the global population, the level of funding and political power behind them has been astonishing.

The proclamation that trans people were a special and privileged class and their feelings had to be protected at all costs was simply too much. The campaigns to control American speech, indoctrinate American children in public schools and insert men into women’s spaces inspired widespread anger.

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A month after the Trump administration began investigating the Harvard Law Review over allegations of race discrimination, the journal published a “factsheet” purporting to set the record straight.

Referencing “recent news reports” that led to the investigation, the factsheet, published May 27, claimed that the Washington Free Beacon had “mischaracterized” the admissions process for student editors, half of whom are selected by a “holistic review committee” that in 2021 made the inclusion of “underrepresented groups” its “first priority.”

That language came from a so-called transition resolution passed by journal editors. The factsheet claimed that such resolutions are “not binding” and proceeded to quote from what it claimed were the current guidelines for editor selection, noting that they “closely follow” the guidance set forth in the Supreme Court’s decision banning affirmative action.

NavyMatters.

China is cranking out high end warships at an impressive rate … at least compared to our anemic shipbuilding effort. That means they’re cranking out serious, high level firepower in various forms. We, on the other hand, seem hell bent on ditching our high end firepower in favor of ever less lethal unmanned toys. The latest idea I came across is Naval News website speculating about cancelling the Constellation program and replacing it with small, unmanned vessels

With a price tag approaching $1.1 billion to $1.2 billion dollars each for the USS Constellation (FFG-62) frigate, Naval News asked RAND and CSIS if the Medium Unmanned Surface Vessel (MUSV) and the DARPA No Manning Required Ship (NOMARS) can replace the troubled FFG-62 frigate program.

… can MUSVs and NOMARS substitute for the FFG-62 frigates in terms of missions, roles, weapons coverage, and functionalities?[1]

As repeatedly documented on this blog, the Constellation is a poor excuse for a WARship but it is still worlds better than any unmanned asset.

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Yeah,  that seems to be a pretty firm hint.

Think of it as evolution in action.

The Antiplanner.

Portland, Oregon is suffering from the “worst housing crisis outlook” in the country, according to a study published last week by LendingTree.com. The study compared housing prices with household incomes and current vacancy rates to conclude that Portland and three other cities in the Northwest — Boise, Spokane, and Salt Lake — are four of the five worst housing markets out of the top 100 metro areas.

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A nonprofit organization bankrolled by numerous Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-linked entities advocated for a New York law that authorizes the state to charge energy companies billions for their roles in climate change.

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Tulsa, Oklahoma’s first Black mayor, Monroe Nichols, unveiled a $105 million reparations package on Sunday, The New York Times reported.

The package, Road to Repair, was formed to address economic disparities among the city’s Black residents stemming from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

“On this first Tulsa Race Massacre Day of Observance, I am pleased to announce that my office has been collaborating with our legal department on the establishment of the Greenwood Trust,” Nichols said in a speech Sunday. “This private, charitable Trust will raise and facilitate the investment of $105 million in private funds along our Road to Repair for restoration and righteousness.”

Time to leave.

Newsbusters.

Watch videos of BLM and AntiFa riots and say with a straight face that white people have no reason to fear.

New York Post.

The Colorado demonstration firebombed by a lunatic “terrorist” Sunday was a peaceful “humanitarian” walk to raise support for the hostages still held captive by Hamas — and was never meant to have any political implications, members of the attacked group told The Post.

“This was a humanitarian walk. This was not a protest,” said Rachel Amaru, a member of the Boulder Run For Their Lives chapter. “I’m distraught.”

Amaru’s group was holding its weekly walk for the hostages in Boulder just after 1 p.m., when a man started hurling Molotov cocktails into the crowd — injuring eight victims between 52 and 88 years old. At least one was left in critical condition with serious burn wounds.

UPDATE: Egyptian National Who Was In US Illegally Set Multiple People On Fire At Boulder Pro-Israeli March

UPDATE: Suspect in Boulder terror attack determined to be Egyptian man in US illegally: FBI (Fox News)

UPDATE: CNN Abuses Boulder Coverage, Vents Deranged Hatred of FBI’s Patel, Bongino

The Times (UK).

In October, Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, announced that from April 2026 inherited agricultural assets worth more than £1 million would be liable to inheritance tax at 20 per cent — half the usual rate.

The changes, according to FBUK, could result in the loss of 208,000 jobs. Parts of Cornwall and Aberdeenshire are expected to be the worst affected, alongside Yorkshire, northern and eastern England, the Midlands and Northern Ireland. The industries expected to bear the brunt of the changes are construction, manufacturing, ­accommodation, hospitality and the motor industry, as well as agriculture and horticulture.

The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money. Jacking up taxes when the economy is in the toilet is a key indicator that things are on the downhill slide. Britain is bound and determined to shoot itself in the foot – with a grenade launcher.

The Times (UK).

hree mothers stand on the sun-drenched sand dunes of Gravelines beach, Dunkirk, showing their toddlers the strait directly below — a sweep of grey-green ocean separating France from the UK — which they plan to cross in the coming days
The Arab women were among thousands of migrants brought to the shoreline by smugglers on Saturday morning from the makeshift camps of Loon Plage, also known as the “jungle” of northern France. About 18 boats then crossed to the UK, carrying nearly 1,200 people — the most migrants recorded in a single day this year.
The mothers — like hundreds of others at the beach — did not board but said that they would try again next week. The French maritime prefecture said it had rescued another 184 migrants at sea on the same day and returned them to France.

Feminist ‘journalism’ – start with a tear-jerking anecdote and then try to make it serve as data to support the partisan point you intended to push all along.

On Saturday 1,200 migrants crossed from France in small boats — the most recorded making the trip in a single day this year.

This is what uncontrolled immigration looks like. This is what Democrats want to inflict on the U.S.

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Russia is using a new Chinese laser system to shoot down Ukrainian drones, according to pro-Russian Telegram channels. The system seen in a video posted to Telegram on Thursday appears to be at least extremely similar to a system Beijing has apparently already provided to Iran, which you can read more about here.

The video, posted on the Military Information Telegram channel, opens with scenes of troops inside a vehicle, flicking switches and looking at heavily pixelated screens. The next scene shows the system rising out of the vehicle and then being rotated by a soldier in the vehicle using a joystick. It then cuts to small fiery holes being burned into a metal plate. A subsequent view shows the plate with four holes burned through it, apparently created by the laser.

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The FBI is investigating an attack in Boulder, Colorado, Sunday after a suspect reportedly threw at least one incendiary device at a crowd of people who expressed solidarity with the Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.

“We are aware of and fully investigating a targeted terror attack in Boulder, Colorado,” FBI Director Kash Patel posted on X Sunday. “Our agents and local law enforcement are on the scene already, and we will share updates as more information becomes available.”

Boulder Police Chief Steve Redfearn confirmed that an assailant appeared to set people on fire at around 1:26 p.m. mountain time. He declined to identify it as a terror attack, however.

Victor Davis Hanson.

More recently, when Cyril Ramaphosa came to the White House, the president of South Africa, did you see the word “ambush”? It was in every mainstream paper, every left-wing website, every radio—NPR, PBS, CBS, MSNBC. It’s like the Democratic operatives issue a Pravda-like order and then these mindless people just say, “Okay, today’s talking points are…”

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In a rare but resounding act of judicial sanity, the Supreme Court of the United States has delivered an 8-0 ruling that reins in one of the most abused weapons in the bureaucratic arsenal: environmental obstructionism. The case, Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, stemmed from a challenge to a planned railway in Utah, a project that environmentalists attempted to kneecap through endless litigation under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). In a time when green tape has been weaponized to stall or cancel everything from pipelines to housing, this decision marks a turning point—and it’s worth celebrating.

 

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Five years after the death of George Floyd, the political Left is increasingly embracing violence as legitimate action, aided and abetted by soft-on-crime forces funded by billionaire George Soros.

Floyd’s death sparked numerous deaths and other violence, including massive property damage to predominantly black neighborhoods and businesses. The Minneapolis–Saint Paul riots alone saw two people killed, 604 people arrested, and up to $2 billion in property damage.

Five years later, and we’re already seeing signs of another “Summer of Love.”

Well, after all, it’s Trump’s fault for being Hitler.

Trump’s Birthday Military Parade Will Do $16M in Damages to D.C. Streets (Jack Revell/The Daily Beast) How much damage does an AntiFa riot do, not just to the streets, but to cars, buildings, and people? How about a BLM riot?

Impersonator breached Chief of Staff Susie Wiles’s phone, Trump says (Vivian Ho/Washington Post)

Donald Trump vs. His Own Judges (Wall Street Journal)

Inside the split between MAGA and the Federalist Society (Politico)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Federal agent’s tattoo stokes fear (Eunki Seonwoo/The Martha’s Vineyard Times)

SHOCKER: Ex-Trump Aide Dares to Trash NPR’s Leftist Bias…ON NPR!

Trump’s deals with law firms are like deals ‘made with a gun to the head,’ lawyers say (Carrie Johnson/NPR)  Hey, you progressives provided the gun … and the ammunition.

Unease at F.B.I. Intensifies as Patel Ousts Top Officials (Adam Goldman/New York Times)  ‘A new broom sweeps clean.’

Will America’s National Parks Survive Trump? (Ted Kerasote/New York Times)

Gabbard Wants Fox Hosts to Feed Trump Top Secret Intel: ‘Doesn’t Read’ (Emell Derra Adolphus/The Daily Beast)

Why Trump is really going after Harvard – If the US’s oldest university bends the knee … (David Smith/The Guardian) Nobody who writes for the Guardian has a clue why Trump does what he does, so this will be the latest proglodyte mind-reading straw man.

RFK Jr. May Have Just Ruined Our Best Weapon Against Bird Flu (Jonathan Cohn/The Bulwark)  Poorly tested medications, censorship, and lockdowns?

MAGA’s world tour exports Trumpism beyond U.S. borders (Tal Axelrod/Axios)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

How to Dismantle a Democracy, One Job Posting at a Time (Adam Bonica/On Data and Democracy)

Musk and DOGE are a metaphor for early months of Trump’s administration (Dan Balz/Washington Post)

Trump Shares Unhinged Conspiracy Theory That Biden Is a Robot Clone (Catherine Bouris/The Daily Beast) As unhinged as the conspiracy theories peddled daily by the aptly-name Daily Beast? A high bar.

Trump Spreads Bizarre Conspiracy Theory That Biden Was Executed and Replaced by a Robot Clone (Peter Wade/Rolling Stone) As bizarre as the conspiracy theories peddled daily by Rolling Stone? That would be a feat.

Elon Musk’s Reign of Terror Is Only Just Beginning (Alex Shephard/New Republic)

International Man.

France just announced new tax hikes. Italy is raising capital gain taxes from 26% to 42%. The UK got rid of their “non-dom” rules essentially destroying tax incentives, and across the rest of Europe it’s plain wealth taxes.

Norway showed us how this will transpire. The muppets in power there raised wealth taxes to bring an additional $146 million in yearly tax revenue. Instead, individuals worth $54 billion left the country, leading to a loss of $594 million in yearly wealth tax revenue. A net decrease of $448 million.

Spain just recorded 1,000 fewer high-net-worth taxpayers. It was the first negative millionaire migration for the country since they imposed a wealth tax.

Thousands of millionaires are leaving while (coincidentally) tax pressure is at all-time highs.

Democracy is a joke. Who for example voted for higher taxes? Nobody of course, but the peasants will get them anyway.

In the UK, it’s the same story. Millionaires and billionaires are escaping as fast as they can.

Read it.

Harvard might be a mere pipe dream for most American college-hunting brainiacs, but for “so many Chinese communist officials” it rates as their top “party school,” The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.

Not only has Chinese President Xi Jinping’s own daughter been a student at Harvard, but a former vice president and Xi’s top negotiator with the first Trump administration studied there as leaders in China see Harvard education as a path to Chinese Communist Party positions.

And it is not a new thing.

The Crust takes care of its own … and their children.

UPDATE: Harvard Has Trained So Many Chinese Communist Officials, They Call It Their ‘Party School’ (Chun Han Wong/Wall Street Journal)