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The German city of Bargteheide has scrapped plans to demolish a senior citizens’ residential complex on Nelkenweg after vacating all residents, opting instead to house asylum seekers in the building.

Former residents had been told the building was uninhabitable and were forced to relocate. However, following an inspection, just five units will undergo renovation, while the remainder will be used as-is by the new arrivals.

Newsbusters.

Covering politicians getting themselves performatively arrested these days is not unlike watching an outbreak: first one patient, then another, until the whole town is infected. And as is the case with their outbreak coverage, the media are excessively hyping these performative arrests.

Case in point: ABC World News Tonight as they covered the stunt arrest of New York City Comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander, who attempted to obstruct ICE from arresting an illegal alien that he was escorting to and from immigration court. Here is that report in its entirety:

First off, you’ll note that although Katresky begins his narration of Landers’ arrest with the arm linking, the video shown by ABC omits that. Unless viewers also saw the original video of the arrest, there is the potential for confusion.This is by design. Compare this video featuring the full arrest in its context with what you saw on ABC.

This sleight of hand allows for an easier establishment of a persecution narrative, particularly as ICE prepares to conduct more raids in cities like New York.

Then there is the matter of Padilla. Katersky runs the comparison to Padilla’s Los Angeles crashout, attempting to establish parallels between the two. Padilla showed up to the Senate floor and delivered his emotional remarks. Katersky closes out the report by linking the arrests to an “uptick in ICE arrests in immigration courts.”

It sounds nice, but that’s not what happened. Lander got arrested for obstructing an arrest, and Padilla got busted for trying to crash a press conference in order to ask questions without first identifying himself. Once again, ABC gaslights its public: this time, in order to further fuel anti-ICE sentiment by casting these arrested politicians as Resistance martyrs. Buyer beware.

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As they do.

The Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday fired back at the mainstream media, accusing them of not properly portraying an illegal alien from Mexico who was arrested last week on suspicion of spitting on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.

Newsbusters.

MSNBC’s 11th Hour host, Stephanie Ruhle, kicked off Monday night’s show by saying, “So please remember, the truth matters, but only if you hear it, so let’s get started covering the truth.” A great quote from the leftist propaganda machine that was MSNBC. The joke wrote itself in this instance, because four minutes later Ruhle and her guests spewed biased rhetoric on President Trump and the entire Republican Party.

In a conversation with David Rucker of The Bulwark, Ruhle claimed she didn’t want to call the political violence normalized, and then in the same sentence called it far more prominent and prevalent? Leading to this exchange:

Associated Press, a Voice of the Crust.

The NAACP and an environmental group said Tuesday that they intend to sue Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI over concerns about air pollution generated by a supercomputer facility located near predominantly Black communities in Memphis.

The xAI data center began operating last year, powered in part by pollution-emitting gas turbines, without first applying for a permit. Officials have said an exemption allowed them to operate for up to 364 days without a permit. But Southern Environmental Law Center attorney Patrick Anderson said at a news conference that there is no such exemption for turbines — and that regardless, it has now been more than 364 days.

A 60-day notice of an intent to sue, a prerequisite to filing a lawsuit under the Clean Air Act, was sent to xAI in a letter. The Southern Environmental Law Center is representing the NAACP in its possible legal challenge against xAI and its permit application, now being considered by the Shelby County Health Department.

The fact that the NAACP is involved suggests that it’s less about the environment and more about putting the arm on Musk. This is a page out of the NAACP Race Hustler Playbook: “Nice facility you got there. Be a shame if anything happened to it. We’ll leave you alone of you pay enough money and grovel a bit.’  Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton got rich playing this card.

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Democrats just prefer crooks. They vote for crooks, they elect crooks, and they support crooks when they are shown to be crooks. The Clintons are the poster children for this predilection. The Biden Crime Family just surfed that wave to fame and fortune. Bob Menendez and Rod Blagojevich just had the bad luck to get caught.

The Times (UK).

Rachel Reeves is considering watering down plans to scrap the non-dom tax regime amid concerns about an exodus of wealthy individuals.

Oh noes! The sheep are no just haning around waiting to be fleeced! Who could have predicted tha?!

The chancellor is weighing up reversing her decision to charge inheritance tax on the global assets of non-domiciles: UK residents whose permanent home is abroad.

All of your money belongs to the government, unless they benevolently allow you to keep some.

The new rules are due to take effect in April but there are concerns that it will lead to wealthy people leaving the UK for regimes with lower taxes.

Oh, ya think?

The imposition of inheritance tax is viewed as particularly onerous.

As indeed it is. That money has already been taxed once, and you’re going to tax it again just because you can. “Oh, you died. Well, then, give us half.”

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Israel’s campaign against Iranian ballistic missiles and their launchers appears to be having an effect. On Tuesday, Iran was able to fire 20 ballistic missiles. That is far fewer than in previous days, which had seen around 370 ballistic missiles unleashed at Israel in total, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). A spokesman for the IDF on Tuesday said this campaign has resulted in Iran pushing back its launchers further from Israel. Operation Rising Lion, Israel’s effort to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons and dismantling its military, is now in its fifth day.

“We have delivered significant blows to the Iranian regime, and as such, they have been pushed back into central Iran. They are now focusing their efforts on conducting missile fire from the area of Isfahan,” said Brig Gen. Effie Defrin. The Israeli Air Force (IAF) added that on Tuesday, it “conducted intelligence-based strikes on 12 missile launch sites and storage facilities. These missiles were aimed at Israeli civilians.”

All told, Israel said it has destroyed over 200 ballistic missile launchers, “which is a significant portion of Iran’s arsenal, according to the military,” Times of Israel reporter Emanuel Fabian stated on X. “The strikes on the launchers have disrupted Iran’s attempts to fire more missiles at Israel, but the IDF assesses that Iran still has the capability to launch attacks and cause devastating harm in Israel. “

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Since the Great Migration Crisis of 2015, “asylum seekers” have been pouring into Germany, sucking up welfare benefits and filling up the refugee accommodations — and the prisons. They commit a disproportionate number of violent crimes, and are thus disproportionately represented among inmates of the German prison system.

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On Tuesday, Lander — who, as New York City comptroller, is the highest-ranking Jewish official in the city’s government — was arrested by federal agents at an immigration court in Lower Manhattan after he linked arms with a person that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials were attempting to detain.

Numerous journalists were present at the court at 26 Federal Plaza and witnessed the arrest, including AM New York reporter Dean Moses, who posted a video to X in which Lander, 55, can be heard saying, repeatedly, “Do you have a judicial warrant?”

Performace art for political advantage. I hope they throw the book at him.

American Bar Association sues Trump administration over executive orders targeting law firms (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico)  I’d love to know what argument the make for having standing for such a suit.

ABA sues Trump over series of orders targeting law firms (Rebecca Beitsch/The Hill)

MAGA Whips Up Conspiracy Theories To Muddy An Act Of Right-Wing Violence (Kate Riga/Talking Points Memo)  MAGA is apparently a large movie villain like the Pillsbury Doughboy in GHOSTBUSTERS. Makes you wonder what these guys are smoking.

The Trump Mobile T1 Phone looks both bad and impossible (David Pierce/The Verge)

CNN Finds Trump’s Birthday Suspicious, Upset Speech Was Non-Political

It sure looks like anti-Trump protest fatigue has vanished (Zeeshan Aleem/MSNBC)  I’m sure they like to think that.

White House denies reporting by Guardian on VA benefits: ‘Totally FALSE story’ (Joseph Choi/The Hill)

Judge orders many NIH grants restored, calling cancellation unlawful (Joseph Choi/The Hill)  Because, as we all know, once someone has received money from the Federal government they are ENTITLED to that amount (or more) forever after.

Scoop: U.S. tells allies it won’t join war unless Iran targets Americans (Barak Ravid/Axios)  Kinda shoots the “Trump the Warmonger” meme right square in the ass, doesn’t it? Not that the Narrative Media are going to spend more than a trivial effort reporting it.

Trump Has Reawakened the Resistance (Michelle Goldberg/New York Times)  I’m sure he might even notice.

Trump’s Cuts to N.I.H. Grants Focused on Minority Groups Are Illegal, Judge Rules (Zach Montague/New York Times)  Ah, ‘minority groups, God’s Chosen.

FIFA Club World Cup Ticket Sales TANK After DHS Says Agents Will Be At Stadium (Ryan Grenoble/HuffPost)  A lot of guilty consciences out there.

Former Coast Guard officer charged with threatening to kill President Trump (Scott Macfarlane/CBS News)

Home-goods companies prepare new Trump-linked products (Shelby Talcott/Semafor)  Can’t let Trump get all the merch sales.

Trump Renews Embrace of Putin Amid Ongoing Rift With Allies (New York Times)  Embrace!

Trump’s Trade and Tax Policies Start to Stall U.S. Battery Boom (Rebecca F. Elliott/New York Times)  OH NOES! WHERE WILL WE GET OUR ELECTRIC CAR BATTERIES?

Trump Wants Iran to Give Up Entirely on Nuclear Weapons  As does any same person.

Only Nonviolence Will Beat Trump (New York Times)  Not even that.

Republicans Fight Uphill in Virginia Race That Will Test Anger at Trump (Reid J. Epstein/New York Times)  Because everything is All About Trump. If they didn’t have Trump, the wouldn’t have anything.

Trump ‘Reamed Out’ Hegseth for Flop Birthday Parade: Author (Julia Ornedo/The Daily Beast)  And of course some random ‘author’ talking to the Daily Beast can mind-read Trump perfectly.

White House Eyes Rarely Used Power to Override Congress on Spending (Tony Romm/New York Times)

Playbook: Trump’s moment of truth (Politico)

Trump Mobile Joins the Oval Office Sales Parade (Timothy L. O’Brien/Bloomberg)  Making money is okay (10% for the Big Guy!) unless it’s Trump doing it.

What happened to “states’ rights”? (Stephen Robinson/Public Notice)  Democrats. Starting with Wilson.

Trump is deporting way fewer people than Obama did. Why? (Nicole Narea/Vox)  Because many of them are self-deporting, fearing that Trump will eventually get around to kicking them out; nobody thought that about Obama.

Threat in Your Medicine Cabinet: The FDA’s Gamble on America’s Drugs (ProPublica)

Isolationism is the same as appeasement – and it’s keeping Trump, Netanyahu from transforming the Middle East (Mark Levin/New York Post)

South Africa Built a Medical Research Powerhouse. Trump Cuts Have Demolished It. (Stephanie Nolen/New York Times)  Because, as we all know, medical research in South Africa is TOTALLY the responsibility of the U.S. government–and the U.S. taxpayer.

Trump says he won’t call Gov. Tim Walz after Minnesota shootings: ‘He’s a mess’ (Megan Lebowitz/NBC News)  Not his circus, not his monkeys.

‘It would ‘waste time’: Trump says he won’t call Minnesota Gov. after lawmaker shootings (Sarah D. Wire/USA Today) What’s he gonna say? “Tim, I think you suck.” “Donald, I think you suck.” “Nice talking to you.”

Dems Plot to Stop Trump’s ‘Pocket Rescission’

‘Trump Is America’s Hitler’: The Left’s 10 Most Outrageous Comments About LA Riots

House Republican, Democrat move to limit Trump from entering Iran war (Andrew Solender/Axios)

Anti-ICE Riots Cost Los Angeles Nearly $20 Million  “We’ll show you! We’ll burn our own stuff down! So there!”

The White House Wants to Numb Voters to This (Ronald Brownstein/Bloomberg)  Narrative Media lies?

Trump’s $4 Trillion Plan to Raise Your Energy Bills (Joseph Romm/Rolling Stone)

The violence and incitement are coming from Trump (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Yeah, he personally popped those three Democrats in Minnesota. (Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.)

NAACP Announces President Trump will not be invited to 116th National Convention (NAACP)  Good. Saves him the trouble of refusing to attend the meeting of an explicitly racist group.

MAGA voices spread falsehoods to link Minnesota shooter to Democrats (Avery Lotz/Axios)  I wonder what part of “Appointed by Tim Walz” he doesn’t understand.

Donald Trump Ripped As Vladimir Putin’s PR Guy After G7 Whine (Lee Moran/HuffPost)

Trump tries to smash sports team owners’ tax break (Alex Isenstadt/Axios)  Okay, explain to me why billionaire sports team owners ought to have a special tax break.

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President Donald J. Trump is right. Too many pharmaceuticals are too damn high, especially compared to the flea-market prices that foreign patients pay for the same drugs. Dr. Wayne Winegarden, a senior fellow with the Pacific Research Institute, estimated last month that a 30-day supply of the weight-loss drug Ozempic costs $418.98 in the USA. But it’s a mere $95.30 in the UK—a 77.25% discount. Jardiance, for cardiovascular diseases $256.66 per month here. In Canada: $57.65. That’s roughly 77.5% off.

Trump’s new Most Favored Nation policy aims to bring U.S. drug bills closer to those overseas. Simply put, this initiative demands that these manufacturers sell “all brand products” at their lowest prices among major Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries.

This illusionary bargain would karate chop the revenues of American drug companies. They typically spend $2.9 billion to bring each new drug to market. These firms also try to recoup losses fueled by the countless once-promising potential therapies that die anonymously in their test tubes. Most Favored Nation is like telling Hewlett-Packard that its $1,500 laptops must sell for just $200— the price that MS-13 quotes for such a freshly stolen computer.

ZMan points the way.

Thirty years ago, when Bill Clinton was caught chasing interns around the Oval Office, many assumed it was the end of him. Instead, he not only wriggled free of the scandal, and many other scandals, but he seemed to be stronger for it. The reason is Clinton was an extraordinarily clever man. He was not a smart man, in the sense that he could anticipate and avoid problems. Smart men do not have sex with interns. He was clever like a fox in that he could always find a way to slip out of a trap.

The Clintons, of course, set the tone for post-Cold War politics. They brought to Washington the style of politics that is now normal. They formalized both narrative politics, which relies on abductive reasoning to win debates. They also introduced things like media spin and media jamming where they sought to control the narratives at any given moment by overwhelming the system with their messaging. The Clintons made politics into a guerilla media war.

This sort of politics selects for clever over smart. When everything is done in the moment, there is no patience for deliberative politics. In the current Middle East crisis, for example, the information space is controlled by actors chanting rehearsed lines to the other actors in the media. The mainstream media is a Greek chorus and whoever can get the chorus chanting their chants wins. In such an environment there is no room for well thought out arguments and serious debate.

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It’s all about the Benjamins.

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Solar and renewable energy stocks crashed in premarket trading after Senate Republicans unveiled a draft of a bill that would end wind and solar tax credits by 2028, while providing incentives for other energy sources like nuclear, hydropower, and geothermal (which would extend to 2036).

According to Reuters, the draft tax bill released by Senate Finance Committee Chair Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) proposes an accelerated phaseout of clean energy subsidies established under the Biden-Harris regime’s 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. Specifically, the legislation would significantly dial back solar and wind tax credits to 60% of their original value starting in 2026, with complete elimination by 2028. Under current law, these credits are scheduled to begin phasing out in 2032, meaning the proposal would effectively shorten the incentive window.

An illustration of the fact that ‘green energy’ is merely a scheme to get leech off of the taxpayers pursuant to a political agenda.

Andrew Mellon:

High taxation, even if levied on an economic basis, affects the prosperity of the country because in its ultimate analysis the burden of all taxes rests only in part upon the individual or property taxed. It is largely borne by the ultimate consumer.”

Businesses, whether corporations or personal, don’t pay taxes. They merely collect taxes. Any tax they collect is passed on to the purchaser in the form of higher prices. So any politician who trumpets the notion of ‘sticking it to the rich corporations’ is both a fool and a liar–who he’s really ‘sticking it’ to is the customer, and ultimately the consumer.

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Israel has killed Iran’s newly appointed military chief, Ali Shadmani, in a precision airstrike on a command centre in central Tehran. The IDF said the strike was launched after “a sudden opportunity” presented itself, just four days after Shadmani’s promotion to wartime chief of staff.

Shadmani, a close aide to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, had replaced a predecessor also eliminated by Israel on Friday. He is now the third senior Iranian commander to be taken out in less than a week, following the deaths of Revolutionary Guard chief Hossein Salami and armed forces head Mohammad Bagheri.

The IDF also claims to have killed 10 Iranian nuclear scientists involved in Tehran’s suspected weapons programme.

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An official report warns that asylum seekers and foreign nationals are involved in a “significant proportion” of current police investigations into child sex ‘grooming’ gangs. It was published just as 2,000 ‘small boat’ Channel migrants were recorded as making the illegal crossing into England that week.

Baroness (Louise) Casey’s late-arriving omnibus report into group-based child sexual abuse in select local settings grabbed the headlines as the formal explanation of the Labour government reversing its earlier stance and initiating a national inquiry into grooming gangs, so-called because of the way vulnerable girls are exploited by men posing as their boyfriends.

Casey’s report rightly emphasises the importance of male, predominantly Pakistani heritage networks in the scores of historic cases which go back decades—something the British establishment has long sought to ignore or deny. However, it also highlights a worrying new trend: recent, open cases which appeared to

involve suspects who are non-UK nationals and/or who are claiming asylum in the UK.

Since this observation is based on ongoing cases, the report does not go into specific detail for fear of prejudicing fair trials. It does reflect a demographic shift in this most heinous of crimes. UK home secretary Yvette Cooper responded to this aspect of the report in the House of Commons on Monday, June 16th, to say that

those who groom children or who commit sexual offenses will not be granted asylum in the U.K.

Cooper plans to change the law to exclude anyone with a sex offence conviction from being given refugee status, while pledging to “immediately pursue” abuse suspects who are asylum-seekers.

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Having already stressed the need to “remain extremely vigilant” about Islamist infiltration after reports pointed to Muslim Brotherhood control of (at least) five Brussels municipalities, Belgian politicians are now calling for an official investigation to establish the true scale of the problem.

The liberal Reformist Movement (MR) this week called on the federal government to produce a detailed report on the national influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in order to “protect our democratic values.”

A Europe-wide discussion on Islamist infiltration was started last month following the release of a French government report on the threat posed to “national cohesion” by the Muslim Brotherhood. The Swedish government later announced it was launching an investigation of its own.

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The Columbia River Basin remains a vital artery for America’s energy and agricultural future. To gamble that away on the basis of activist pressure and incomplete science would be not just foolish, but dangerous. For once, a president has drawn a line—and the country will be stronger for it.

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The think tank’s analysis of Reeves’s Spending Review estimates that by the end of financial year 2028–29, the health service will account for half (49 percent) of all day-to-day public services spending, up from 34 percent in 2009–10.

On Wednesday, the chancellor announced a record £29 billion funding injection, which the Treasury said will deliver on the government’s promise to cut waiting lists, improve patient care, and modernise services.

Resolution Foundation Chief Executive Ruth Curtice said in a statement, “Health accounted for 90 per cent of the extra public service spending, continuing a trend that is seeing the British state morph into a National Health State, with half of public service spending set to be on health by the end of the decade.”

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) noted in its initial response to the Spending Review that the funding increase for the NHS was substantial, but questioned whether it will be enough to get the health service back to meeting its 18-week target for hospital waiting times within this Parliament, something which the think tank said was “enormously ambitious.”

The demand for health care, and the funding to pay for it when it is provided by the government, is bottomless. The NHS was a socialist pipe-dream from the beginning, and will eventually destroy British society.

New York magazine, a Voice of the Crust.

On April 4, the Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha posted a video of an obliterated urban landscape. Suddenly, there are bombs: Smoke erupts from the base of the buildings, and two large objects are ejected from the rooftops into the sky. Arms and legs seem to undulate in the air — they appear to be human bodies — before they crash down onto the pyre. “This is scary more than ever,” Abu Toha wrote on Instagram. “In the air strikes, two people flew even above the clouds of death.” In the background, the girl videotaping is crying as she holds the phone. She knows that those two people, perhaps briefly alive in the sky, have died, that Israel is bombing an already annihilated place, and that eventually those bombs may come for them all.

Fembot ‘journalism’: Lead with a tear-jerking anecdote, and then use that as ‘proof’ of your broad political agenda.

That there are no longer words to capture the horrors taking place in the Gaza Strip has long been said and felt, but then a video like Abu Toha’s appears, clarifying how extreme and otherworldly this catastrophe has become. In the 1980s, the American philosopher Edith Wyschogrod recognized that the Holocaust and Hiroshima and other crises in which huge numbers of people had died required a new language. In her 1985 book, Spirit in Ashes, she called them “death events.” These, she wrote, could be large-scale bombing campaigns, forced famines, or deportations. Most important, these manmade events were collective global experiences and involved the shared knowledge that people have made the extinction of mankind possible. In some cases, these events gave rise to something she called the “death world,” which had the “imagined conditions of death, conferring upon their inhabitants the status of the living dead.” Wyschogrod had the Nazi camps in mind; today, the death world we know is Gaza.

The ‘horrors taking place in theGaza strip’ is entirely self-generated, by Gaza Muslims supporting Hamas in its terror campaigns and reaping the whirlwind of their own actions.  In truth, the ‘death world we know’ is the ongoing Muslim terror campaign against Jews and other ‘unbelievers’ that has been in progress since the seventh century.

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Well, the tensions over mass illegal immigration in the US are finally coming to a boil after 4 years of open borders under the Biden Administration and six months of obstruction by Democrat politicians and judges interfering with deportations.

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Think about it for a moment and ask yourself: Why is the rest of the world in our business? Why do they care if we have tighter controls on borders and stricter vetting for immigration? Why don’t foreign governments also complain about Chinese immigration standards, or Saudi Arabia’s standards, or even Australia’s standards? Why does everyone else think they have a say in how America handles immigration?

There are, of course, ideological agendas at play here, but I believe the primary reason for foreign meddling is economic, specifically when it comes to Central America and South America.

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Monday’s CBS Mornings had senior foreign correspondent Debora Patta who was live on the scene of the Iranian missile strike in Tel Aviv. Debora pivoted quickly from the carnage in Israel to clutch her pearls about Iran death tolls and how Israel was killing top military commanders and nuclear scientists.

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According to U.S. Attorney Hertzberg, the charges, and other information presented in court: On January 9, 2025, Forney twice called the office of Texas U.S. Senator Ted Cruz and left voicemails in which he threatened sexual violence against Senator Cruz and the senator’s family. The following day, Forney called the office of Nebraska U.S. Senator Deb Fischer and left a voicemail in which he threatened sexual violence against Senator Fischer as well.

Republicans threatened, the Narratiev Media yawns. Democrats threatened, the Narrative Media goes apeshit.

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“All Americans should be shocked, appalled, and terrified that the Biden Justice Department was taking advice from a hate-filled, morally bankrupt organization like the Southern Poverty Law Center,” Ian Prior, senior counselor at America First Legal, told The Daily Signal in a statement Monday. “The SPLC’s agenda is anti-American to its core, and we must ensure that the SPLC never regains the power that it was so wrongly granted by the woke bureaucrats who ran this country until this past January.”

On Oct. 27, 2023, Robert Moossy Jr., deputy assistant attorney general at the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, sent an email to Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, head of the Civil Rights Division.

His email referenced a “Hate Crimes Symposium” at the National Advocacy Center at the National District Attorneys Association in Columbia, South Carolina on Nov. 7-9, 2023. The Civil Rights Division’s Criminal Section “will hold a hate crimes symposium focusing on the investigation and prosecution of federal hate crimes.”

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Hooray! Repealing the Jones Act is the best thing we can do for profitable international trade.

It will also stick a thumb in the eye of the unions, who are in the pocket of the Democrats.

Next up: Davis-Bacon Act. I hope, I hope, I hope….

Trump has not called Walz following shooting of Minnesota lawmakers (Axios)  He most certainly has–he called him ‘grossly incompetent’ (Trump says he ‘may’ call Walz after Minnesota shootings, calls him ‘grossly incompetent’ (Rachel Scott/ABC News))

Padilla warns about what happens “when cameras are not there” after removal from Noem event (CBS News)  Yeah–Dramacrat posturing ceases when there are no performance popularity points to be gained.

Publicity Hound Padilla Preens On CNN: Noem Should Have Known Who I Was!  ‘Don’t you know who I am???’

MAGA Sen. Mocked for Absurdly Calling Dem Assassin ‘Marxist’ (The Daily Beast)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

DHS Respond After ‘Violent Rioters’ Storm ICE Facility, Assault Law Enforcement Officers

ABC News Dumps on the Army’s Birthday Parade  If a Democrat President had done it, they’d be delirious.

“Caviar, Champagne And Lobster”: MAGA’s Exclusive $500K Private Club Launches – With Bessent, Bondi & RFK Jr. Partying With Tech Billionaires  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Trump orders ICE to step up deportation efforts in Democrat-run cities (Rebecca Falconer/Axios)

Trump Directs ICE to Expand Deportations in Democrat-run Cities

Trump directs ICE to expand deportations in Democratic-run cities, undeterred by protests (Aamer Madhani/Associated Press)

Trump directs ICE to expand deportation efforts in Democratic-run cities (Alex Gangitano/The Hill)

Trump Wants You to Get Used to This (Ruth Ben-Ghiat/New York Times)  As if anybody who writes for the NYT actually knows what Trump wants (as opposed to what they fantasize he must want….).

Trump, Netanyahu and Khamenei – three angry old men who could get us all killed (Simon Tisdall/The Guardian)

As Trump Returns to G7, Rift With Allies Is Even Deeper (New York Times)

Playbook: 10 years of Trump (Politico)

Donald Trump Claims ‘Flop’ Military Parade Was a ‘Tremendous Success’ (Yasmeen Hamadeh/The Daily Beast)  Daily Beast claims tremendously successful parad was a ‘flop’.

Trump accelerates push to reward loyalty in federal workforce (Washington Post)  As Democrats have always done and which Republicans have generally neglected, to their cost.

LA Mayor Bass Says If ICE Raids Persist, There’ll Be ‘Nobody’ Left To Nanny The Kids Or Mow The Lawns  The horror!

Poll: Americans overwhelmingly want Trump to obey court rulings, but MAGA Republicans are split (Dylan Ebs/NBC News)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

The Bureaucrat and the Billionaire: Inside DOGE’s Chaotic Takeover of Social Security (New York Times)  Given the choice, I’ll pick the billionaire … you know, the one that isn’t trying to steal my money and give it to somebody else (with a generous beak-wet for him/herself, of course),.

Trump’s Strategy in Law Firm Cases: Lose, Don’t Appeal, Yet Prevail (Adam Liptak/New York Times)  Learning from Obama.

MAGA political violence claims more victims (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)  Blaming Trump for Democrat violence.

Trump’s parade flopped. No Kings Day was a hit. (Paul Krugman)  Voices of the Narrative are hoping that if they tell a big enough lie often enough it will change reality.

‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans (Aaron Glantz/The Guardian)

‘I’m an American, Bro!’: Latinos Report Raids in Which U.S. Citizenship Is Questioned (Jennifer Medina/New York Times)  So prove it, bro. Break out your ‘Real ID’.

After an ugly week, an ugly bill (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

‘This is the looting of America’: Trump and Co’s extraordinary conflicts of interest in his second term (Ed Pilkington/The Guardian)  Ed Pilkington loses his shit.

Imperial President at Home, Emperor Abroad (Elizabeth N. Saunders/Foreign Affairs)  The farce is strong in this one.

Trump Hasn’t Visited A Single Natural Disaster On His Watch As President (S.V. Date/HuffPost)  Because he isn’t a Dramacrat looking for a tear-jerker of a photo op. He’s focused on actually doing his job.

The Army Was the Only Life She Knew. Trump’s Trans Ban Cast Her Out. (Greg Jaffe/New York Times)  Sorry, the military has no place for men who pretend to be women. There’s a reason for that.

Fact check: Did suspect in Minnesota shootings have close ties to Gov. Tim Walz? No. (Walker Orenstein/Minneapolis Star Tribune)  There are lies, damned lies, and Democrat ‘journalism’.

RFK Jr.’s vaccine moves raise fears ahead of next school year (Lexi Lonas Cochran/The Hill)  Only among Big Pharma.

There’s a bitter clash on the right. It could determine whether Trump takes us to war. (Andrew Prokop/Vox)  Funny how there was no ‘bitter clash’ when Obama took us to war in Afghanistan and Biden took us to war in Ukraine.

Bill Maher to Sean Penn: You’ll Meet Castro but Not Trump?

America Is at a Terrifying Turning Point–and There’s No Going Back (Michael Tomasky/New Republic)

What Did Elon Musk Accomplish at DOGE? (Benjamin Wallace-Wells/New Yorker)  Almost all of the Narrative Media lost their shit, proving that they’re just the propaganda wing of the Democrat party.

New GOP bill would cut off housing funds to sanctuary cities defying Trump DHS (Alex Miller/Fox News)

Trump Sent Them To Hell. Now He’s Erasing Them Altogether. (HuffPost)  Even the Puffington Host can’t find them@ Oh, wait….

Building the American Brownshirts (Hamilton Nolan/How Things Work)  It’s Brown Skins, not Brown Shirts, and the Democrats are doing it. Look at where the street violence (a characteristic of the old brownshirts) is coming from

Trump fires Democratic appointee from Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Politico)  Democrats have been playing hardball for decades. Trump is just stealing their playbook.

Trump: Iran ‘Wants to Talk,’ but ‘They Had 60 Days’  Muslims only want to talk when they’re losing.

Trump Orders ICE Vengeance on ‘No Kings’ Protest Cities (Cameron Adams/The Daily Beast)  You mess with the bull….

Wisconsin dairy farmer sues Trump administration claiming discrimination against white farmers (Scott Bauer/Associated Press)

‘The Age of Trump’ Enters Its Second Decade (Peter Baker/New York Times)

Cops Probe If Captured MAGA Assassin Is Part of ‘Broader Network’ (Leigh Kimmins/The Daily Beast)  And the lies just keep on coming….

Donald Trump Is Hurtling America Into a Catastrophic Middle Eastern War (Jeet Heer/The Nation)  No, Obama hurled America into a catastrophic Middle Eastern war. Trump is doing his best to keep us out of this one.

Donald Trump Is Hurtling America Into a Catastrophic Middle Eastern War (Jeet Heer/The Nation)

Tim Walz Takes Coded Swipe at Trump After MN Murder Suspect’s Arrest: ‘It’s Not About Mean Tweets’ (David Gilmour/Mediaite)  Trying to obscure the undoubted fact that this guy was a Democrat and a Walz supporter.

Judge extends block on Trump’s Harvard international student ban (April Rubin/Axios)

Watchdog Finds Trump Administration Broke Law by Withholding Library Funds (Tony Romm/New York Times)

Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Attended a Bible College Popular Among Christian Nationalists (Kiera Butler/Mother Jones)  And yet he still turned out a Democrat and a Walz supporter. How do you account for that?

Mental health group launches ad campaign against Medicaid cuts (Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech/The Hill)  WE WANT OUR MONEY! GIVE US OUR MONEY!

Sean Duffy to withhold transportation funds from cities with anti-ICE protests (David Edwards/Raw Story)

The Tyrant Test — A leader who uses military force to suppress his political opposition ought to lose the right to govern. (Adam Serwer/The Atlantic)  What about a ruler who uses government law enforcement agencies and public prosecutors to suppress his political opposition? Like Omaba? Like Biden? (Funny how that ‘suppressed opposition’ is all over the Narrative Media….)

‘100 percent’ haven’t shown up to work due to immigration raids, Texas farmer says (The Hill)  That’s what happens when you hire illegals. ODF.

Terminated National Institute of Heath grants must be restored, judge orders (Steph Solis/Axios)

WE SWEAR! NY Times Pinky Promises Trump Inflation Doom Is Just Around the Corner

GOP tax bill could hurt the poorest households more than it helps them (Washington Post)  Because, as we all know, helping the poorest households is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government – and the Federal taxpayer.

CBS Mornings Tries New Negative Narrative After D.C. Military Parade

Mike Lee Draws Outrage for Posts Blaming Assassination on the Far Left (Annie Karni/New York Times)  They can dish it out but they can’t take it.

Trump doubles down on expanding deportations in America’s biggest cities (Alexandra Hutzler/ABC News)

Wages Rise Amid 1 Million Self-Deportations Under Trump

Trump Removes MLK Bust from Oval Office (J.D. Wolf/MeidasTouch News)  The horror!

Project Runway star shot dead while attending anti-Trump rally

In Solidarity With Protestors, Burger King Changes Name To ‘Burger Democratically Elected Leader’

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I am seeing a lot of confusion today about how the Political Violence Blame Game works. As a Professional Internet Zoologist, allow me to help educate you.

The 72 hour rule is still in effect for the Minnesota shooting, but with the facts available so far it’s not looking good for The Narrative. But from what I’ve seen this morning that sure isn’t holding liberal internet morons back from screaming about how “right wingers” have “legitimized political violence”, like violence is such a common right wing cultural thing, while the left are just out there showing kindness.

That’s a great theory, as long as you ignore lefties:

-shooting republican congressmen at a baseball game,

-trying to murder a Supreme Court Justice,

-trying to firebomb a democrat governor,

-shooting Israeli embassy employees,

-assassinating a health insurance CEO (and then the left glorifying that guy into a rock star sex symbol),

-setting Tesla stores on fire and screwing with random people’s cars in general,

-firebombing Jewish senior citizens,

-torching RNC HQs (ironically, googling this one to refresh my memory turned up a bunch of these that I’d not even heard of!).

-“globalizing the intifada”,

-beating up a republican senator,

-shooting a democrat mayor,

-running a republican legislator off the road because they’re upset about healthcare,

-attempting to stab a republican congressional candidate,

-swatting EVERYBODY, up to and including the FBI director(!),

-holding a few HUNDRED riots, with uncountable of acts of violence, arson, and looting. This one lumps in all the fun fire bombings, car flippings, bike lock beatings, and wacky political violence the left has turned into an art form.

-and not one, but two, assassination attempts on Donald Trump.

What’s funny is that listing some of those, I’m reminded it’s amazing how fast they dropped out of the news cycle. Some of these just barely happened, were incredibly violent, yet poof, 24 hours later they’re never mentioned again. You know if a racist white dude hit a bunch of elderly holocaust survivors with a Molotov cocktail that would be the biggest news story of the year and we’d never hear the end of it.

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The British government has launched a nationwide inquiry into child sexual exploitation by grooming gangs, following a landmark report that found authorities failed to act for years due to fears of being called racist.

The report, led by Baroness (Louise) Casey, revealed that many public institutions—including police forces—ignored or downplayed crimes involving gangs of predominantly Pakistani and other Asian-heritage men, despite clear patterns of abuse. Victims were often teenage girls, some as young as 10, who were systematically raped and trafficked.

Britain’s Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said the government would accept all recommendations from the report. These include overhauling rape laws, re-examining more than 800 past cases, and expunging the criminal records of victims wrongly charged with prostitution while their abusers went free.

“This will be the largest effort ever to dismantle the grooming gangs,” Cooper told lawmakers. “Perpetrators who have grown used to the authorities looking the other way must have no place to hide.”

The scandal first came to light in 2011 in the town of Rochdale, but has since spread to other cities in northern England. Many of the victims came from vulnerable backgrounds, including foster care and disability services. Activists have long accused officials of failing to protect them to avoid inflaming ethnic tensions.

Baroness Casey’s report criticized the reliance on “flawed data” and found that some agencies deliberately avoided tracking offenders’ ethnicity. She warned this not only harmed victims but also hurt law-abiding members of minority communities.

Opposition leader Kemi Badenoch accused Prime Minister Keir Starmer of delaying action, calling the announcement “a victory for survivors” after years of political resistance.

The government also pledged to change the law so that convicted sex offenders will no longer be eligible for refugee status.

UPDATE: Grooming Gangs Inquiry Reveals Authorities “Covered Up” Ethnicity

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Betcha he gets primaried next election.

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Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei’s senior officials are reportedly in talks to secure asylum in Russia, as the Islamic Republic reels from Israeli strikes on its nuclear and military infrastructure.

Ali Asghar Hejazi, Khamenei’s deputy chief of staff and longtime security adviser, is negotiating with Russian officials to arrange an evacuation for himself and his family, Iran International reported. A senior Russian official has reportedly assured Hejazi that Moscow will provide a secure exit for him should the situation deteriorate for the regime.

Other top Iranian officials are pursuing similar plans, with some already finalizing exit routes, according to Iran International.

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For months, many, most, if not all economists have been predicting a re-inflation due to the tariffs imposed by the Trump administration. They are not small increases but dramatic increases that shattered a 70-year postwar run of low tariffs. Every bit of economic theory would suggest that the new taxes paid on imports by American businesses and consumers would feed into price increases.

Those price increases keep not happening.

The consumer price index (CPI) and producer price index (PPI) data came out last week. They once again underscored the point. Inflation is not dead but it has hit new lows relative to what we’ve been through for four years. Tariffs seem not to have made any difference at all.

The Guardian, a Voice of the Crust.

I guess “Professor of Fascism” means she teaches people how to do it – I can’t think of any other reason to go to Trudeau’s fascist Canada.

Or maybe she’s just a socialist. If it’s socialism, none dare call it Fascism.

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A man will sacrifice his happiness for his family. A woman will sacrifice her family for her happiness. “Live. Laugh. Love. Divorce husband and take half of his stuff.” Soon to be a major motion picture … NOT.

And people wonder why men aren’t getting married and having kids.

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Over 150 years the concept of the Great American Novel was invented in The Nation magazine. The mission of this proposed literary “American epic” was to capture “the ordinary emotions and manners of American existence.” Today, The Nation is a hodgepodge of woke rants. The magazine no longer believes in the greatness of America. And how can there be a great American novel without a great America?

America, as a recent essay at the magazine mocking the idea of the Great American Novel puts it, is an “absurdity.” The American novels that the magazine and its leftist ilk praise are either outrages or absurdities. The topics under discussion are identity, race and class, that indeed appear to make any notion of a single America singularly absurd.

That now ancient essay calling for a Great American Novel in the aftermath of the Union’s supremacy in the Civil War had assumed that there was to be a unified America, but the Confederacy’s multicultural great-grandchildren reject the Union as anything but a tool for forcing their preferred radical policies on the country.

But if indeed there is no America, if we’re just Yugoslavia with a variety of unhappy warring tribes struggling against oppression, why not break the whole thing up? Without the rationale of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the conviction that America is a grand experiment worth fighting for, why fight for her at all?

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Nick Norwitz was valedictorian at Dartmouth, got a PhD from Oxford and an MD from Harvard.

I think it’s safe to say that he knows more about nutrition than anybody you’ve ever heard of.

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California’s soft-on-crime approach, along with pandemic-era actions, may have contributed to a rise in retail theft from 2014 to 2023, according to a report published by the state Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) on June 12.

In the report, “Retail Theft in California: Looking Back at a Decade of Change,” the LAO found that retail theft in the state rose after a slight decline during the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in an overall increase of 11 percent during the nine-year timeframe.

Time to leave.

The New York Times, the Paper of Record of the Narrative.

Randi Weingarten, head of one of the nation’s most influential teachers unions, and Lee Saunders, the president of a large union of public workers, each pointed to Ken Martin’s leadership.

Trouble in paradise.

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Down syndrome is caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21, which leads to a range of developmental differences. Researchers have long sought strategies to correct this duplication, because current interventions do not address the added genetic material at its source.

Recent work points to a promising approach with CRISPR-based methods.

Ryotaro Hashizume and colleagues from Mie University in Japan report that it is possible to cut away the surplus chromosome in affected cells, which appears to bring their behavior closer to typical function.

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How about that great government-provided health care? Don’t you wish we had a system like that in the U.S.

Democrats do. Not for them, of course, but for all you Dirt People.

Armada Of USAF Tankers Just Deployed East Over Atlantic Spurring Speculation

IAF Destroys Iranian Aerial Tanker 1,400 miles From Israel, Farthest Strike Yet

Israel Escalates To Attacking Iranian Energy Targets After Ballistic Missiles Hit Tel Aviv

Leftist Protesters Attempting “Global March To Gaza” Get Beaten And Arrested In Egypt

Trump vetoed Israeli plan to kill Iran’s supreme leader, US official tells AP (Aamer Madhani/Associated Press)

Over 200 Dead as Israel, Iran Trade Strikes for 3rd Day

‘Strategic Decapitation’: Israel Expands Operations, Targeting Iranian Political Institutions as Netanyahu Taunts ‘Weak’ Regime in Tehran

Iran Launches Fresh Missile Attack On Tel Aviv

Iranian Missile Strikes Leave Fiery Aftermath In Haifa

Rescuers Search Ruins In Israel’s Petah Tikva After Iranian Strike

Israel’s Military Gives Statement Amid Iran Missile Attack

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TRUMP TO PANICAN DOVES: ‘You Can’t Have Peace If Iran Has a Nuclear Weapon’

‘Does your wife love you?’ Proud Boys viciously booed at anti-Trump protest (David McAfee/Raw Story)

Man drives into crowd of protesters at ‘No Kings’ rally in Virginia (Elissa Salamy/WTTG-TV)

‘We’re all people’: Chicago ‘No Kings’ demonstration sees giant crowd march peacefully around Loop (Chicago Tribune)  But some are more people than others.

Trump Says He Decides What ‘America First’ Means (Michael Scherer/The Atlantic)

‘No Kings’ rallies draw big crowds to protest Trump and his policies (Annie Gowen/Washington Post)

Trump Raked in $57.3 Million From Crypto Venture, Per White House Financial Disclosures (Althea Legaspi/Rolling Stone)

Trump Disclosure Shows $57 Million in Earnings From Early Crypto Push (Wall Street Journal)

Tanks, troops and flyovers in D.C. as Trump gets his military parade (Washington Post)

Trump reports over $600 million in income in latest financial disclosure (Washington Post)

Trump’s Military Birthday Parade Was a Gross Failure (Rolling Stone)

Gunman Opens Fire on ‘No Kings’ Protest in Salt Lake City (Jack Revell/The Daily Beast)  But he was mostly peaceful.

No Kings protests: Photos show L.A. police clashing with protesters (San Francisco Chronicle)

Somehow, Leftist Anti-Trump Protesters Cannot Be Identified as Leftist

Cities brace for large crowds at anti-Trump ‘No Kings’ demonstrations across the US (Associated Press)  Which didn’t happen.

“No Kings Day” protests turn out millions, rebuking Trump (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)

Watch: Shots Fired At Utah ‘No Kings’ Protest: Two Wounded, Three In Custody

Millions of Americans Like Trump Better in Theory Than in Practice (David French/New York Times)  Cognitive dissonance on the hoof.

G7 Leaders Meet in Canada Hoping to Avoid Trump Clash

The People Will Continue Rising Against Kings and MAGA’s Reign of Terror (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)  I guess MAGA is a towering fantasy figure like the Michelin Man or the Pillsbury Doughboy from the GHOSTBUSTERS move.

As Trump Celebrates Army’s Founding, His Critics Take to the Streets (David E. Sanger/New York Times)

Minnesota killings spread fear in country riven by violence against politicians (Washington Post)  Never mentioning that these kooks are all leftists.

Democrats convince no one by flagging each and every slight as the ‘end of democracy’ (Monica Harris/New York Post)

Trump Hosts $45 Million Military Parade For Himself Before Underwhelming Crowd (S.V. Date/HuffPost)

Poll: Americans disapprove of Trump’s performance, as Republicans manage splits over spending plans (NBC News)

Trump Has Completely Wrecked America’s Brand (Guy Lawson/Rolling Stone)  Principle doesn’t matter; it’s all about THE BRAND.

Trump’s FAA pick has claimed ‘commercial’ pilot license he doesn’t have (Oriana Pawlyk/Politico)  There is no molehill so small that the Narrative Media can’t pretend is a mountain.

Trump’s FAA Nominee Lied About Having a ‘Commercial’ Pilot License (Peter Wade/Rolling Stone)

‘No Kings’ protesters in Virginia and San Francisco struck by motorists (Cy Neff/The Guardian)  And why not? Leftists do it all the time.

NBC’s Jacob Soboroff reports from the Los Angeles protests as law enforcement fires flash bangs (MSNBC)

Trump vetoed an Israeli plan to kill Iran’s supreme leader, US officials say (Steve Holland/Reuters)  Geez, he’s such a Nazi.

Political Violence Came to Minnesota. It Didn’t Start There. (New York Times) Apparently it’s at least Trump’s fault. He is, after all, the New Hitler.

‘Trump Inc.’: Filings Show Staff Profited From Being in the President’s Orbit (Kenneth P. Vogel/New York Times)  By contrast with Obama’s and Biden’s staff, who are all as poor as church mice both before and after their government service.

U.S. could lose more immigrants than it gains for first time in 50 years (Washington Post)  Sometimes the system works.

Internet Trolls Around the World Are Mocking Trump’s Military Birthday Parade (Peter Wade/Rolling Stone)  Including those in the Narrative Media.

At ‘No Kings,’ millions of Americans show the flag is mightier than the tank (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)  Will Bunch looses his shit.

Trump’s Military Parade Was a Pathetic Event for a Pathetic President (Malcolm Ferguson/New Republic)

How Trump’s Imposition of Massive Tariffs is Repeating the “Ship Money” Abuses of King Charles I (Ilya Somin/Reason)  Apparently Trump is not only the New Hitler, he’s also the New Charles I.

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But I really doubt I had much to do with it. As is his wont, I think Starmer caved to pressure, rather than principle.

If anyone deserves a metaphorical victory lap in this long-overdue climbdown by the UK government over an incredibly ugly case, it’s Mark Steyn, a man who has suffered many undeserved and unpleasant consequences for speaking the truth over the years.

What an absolute disgrace for Britain.

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As the Trump administration faces substantial pushback in the courts, including an unprecedented wave of nationwide injunctions halting its policies, some are claiming that his opponents are tilting the scales of justice by selectively bringing their lawsuits before sympathetic courts in a practice called “forum shopping.” They note that three-quarters of the lower court justices who have blocked Trump policies were appointed by Democrats.

Gaming the federal justice system, however, is harder than it sounds because plaintiffs bring cases before courts rather than judges. Most federal courts have a mix of judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans. The plaintiff’s goal in forum shopping is to launch their suit in a district where they are more likely to draw a sympathetic justice – ideally, this district would also include an appellate court stacked with like-minded judges.