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Our preliminary assessment of the command and control structures supporting the ‘No Kings’ color revolution operation by the Democratic Party has been propped up through dark money networks that continue to finance radical left-wing NGOs engaged in what appears to be a sustained, low-grade color revolution during the day and riots at night. These NGOs, operating with logistical sophistication, have aimed to undermine societal cohesion and erode public trust in the Trump administration.

On Saturday, a coordinated series of demonstrations unfolded across major metropolitan areas, including New York, Denver, Chicago, Houston, Seattle, Portland, and Los Angeles. The protests—supported by a network of nearly 200 entities, many of which include ideologically aligned and far-left NGOs—appear to follow a highly structured mobilization effort reminiscent of prior failed “Tesla Takedown” operations observed earlier this year.

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“Imagine if your job is to write jokes that are funnier than what Democrats are already doing in real life,” Dillon said with a smile.

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Following California Democrat Senator Alex Padilla’s unhinged meltdown where he aggressively confronted DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Democrats all apparently received a firmware update with a fresh talking point.

Padilla lurched unannounced toward Noem, ranting and raving about mass deportations, before security quickly intervened.

Padilla’s behaviour was so insane that even CNN denounced it, praising the security officials who confronted him and took him down.

Truest thing you know.

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NPR CEO Katherine Maher has repeatedly claimed, in the face of avalanches of evidence, that she has never witnessed any bias at NPR. That’s beyond ridiculous. You can find it, day after day, hour on the hour. This week’s Los Angeles rioting provided plenty of exhibits.

On the June 11 “Morning Edition,” Los Angeles-based co-host A Martinez told listeners, “We want to get a sense of how the community around Los Angeles is feeling about the decision to mobilize the military against civilians.” Notice how there’s no mention here of responding to violence or unrest by “civilians.”

The NPR host turned to Los Angeles Times columnist Gustavo Arellano, and these two Latino journalists engaged in a riotous defense of the protests against immigration enforcement. Arellano began by claiming, “People feel like Trump doesn’t see them as Americans, that he sees us as prisoners, basically.”

Newsbusters.

eftist professor Maura Finkelstein, conservative professor Amy Wax, and the New York Times’ double standard on academic freedom: In the last two years the paper has run four major articles, two on Finkelstein’s controversy and ultimate firing, and two on Wax’s controversy and ultimate suspension.

While these articles contain some nuanced arguments, the headlines and subheads make clear which side the Times is taking — this radical anti-Israel professor deserves academic freedom, while the conservative professor may need to be fired.

The most recent entry was Sarah Viren’s June 8 cover story for the New York Times Magazine, complete with a flattering photo shoot inside: “A Professor Was Fired for Her Politics. Is That the Future of Academia? — Maura Finkelstein is one of many scholars discovering that the traditional protections of academic freedom are no longer holding.” Viren cited a Change.org petition demanding Finkelstein be fired for “dangerous pro-Hamas rhetoric” and “blatant classroom bias against Jewish students,” and the professor’s post “ISRAEL DOES NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO DEFEND ITS OCCUPATION.”

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The Left have always been great haters.

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The conflict surrounding the Trump Administration’s deportation of illegal aliens is driven by a complex web of NGOs and astroturf activist groups, but Democrat politicians continue to play a considerable role in fomenting civil unrest. State leaders were a key element of the BLM riots in 2020, providing a governmental green light for the mobs by exempting them from covid mandates. City officials ensured that rioters and looters were released without charges, cycling them back out onto the streets to wreak havoc day after day. Other Democrat leaders hobbled local law enforcement and prevented them from intervening in the riots.

The pattern seems to be repeating, with Democrats doubling down on their defense of illegal immigration and interfering in ICE operations. The law, once again, is only important to progressives when it works in their favor. When it doesn’t, they ignore it.

This week multiple Democrat governors defended their sanctuary state policies in a hearing on illegal immigration on Capitol Hill. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, and New York Governor Kathy Hochul testified at the hearing, asserting that the immigration issue was being overblown by the Trump Administration and diminishing concerns over violent migrant crimes.

Tim Walz argued that Trump was using the DHS as his personal “gestapo” and Kathy Hochul called deportations an “assault on American values”.

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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.

Time to leave.

The Telegraph (UK).

The BBC has been forced to apologise following claims by its Arabic service that Jews spit on Christians in a “holiday ritual”.

Claims were made in a video released by the corporation alongside an article titled “Sukkot: Spitting and Assault on Christians and Harassment of Muslims on the Jewish Holiday”.

In the video, released in October 2023, a caption claimed observant Jews celebrated their religious holiday, Sukkot, in Israel by spitting on Christians.

After the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (Camera) complained to the corporation, it was quickly corrected to say: “Some observant Jews consider spitting on Christians a holiday ritual.”

However, it took 19 months for a formal response to be issued.

The Times (UK).

Breakthrough drugs for Alzheimer’s will be refused for use on the NHS this week, denying the treatments to about 70,000 patients in England.

Lecanemab, made by Eisai, and donanemab, made by Eli Lilly, are the first drugs proven to slow the underlying cause of dementia, clearing toxic amyloid protein from the brain and delaying cognitive decline.

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

Well, it’s coming….

UPDATE: After 77 years and another £29bn, NHS chiefs fear public losing patience

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The threat of Iran attempting to blockade the highly strategic Strait of Hormuz has re-emerged amid the conflict that has now erupted between it and Israel. Over the years, the Iranians have amassed an arsenal of cruise and ballistic missiles, and kamikaze drones, as well as a slew of maritime capabilities like naval mines, well-suited to the task of shutting down the narrow waterway that links the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman. At the same time, there are questions about the extent to which Israeli strikes may have hampered Iran’s ability to follow through on such a threat, or even whether the regime in Tehran would want to take such a drastic step that would have global ramifications.

 

Judge won’t order release of pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil (Politico)

Extremist’s Advice for ‘No Kings’ Protests: ‘Shoot a Couple, the Rest Will Go Home ‘ (Wall Street Journal)  I suspect that would work.

‘Shoot a couple, the rest will go home’: Far-right groups are sharing scary messages ahead of ‘No Kings’ protests (Rhian Lubin/The Independent)  ‘Scary’ to lawbreakers, perhaps; peaceful citizens need not worry.

Kennedy’s New Vaccine Advisers Helped Lawyers Raise Doubts About Their Safety (New York Times)  Does this surprise anyone except the NYT?

When a radical performance artist has command of an army (The Economist)  They ought to tell the truth and call their magazine The Politician.

The “Delicate, Beautiful, Tiny” Fascism of Kristi Noem (Inae Oh/Mother Jones)

Trump’s financial disclosures reveal tens of millions in income from guitars, bibles and watches with his name on them (NBC News)  People want his stuff–unlike that of NBCNews.

Trump brought in $57 million from crypto venture, millions from sneakers and bibles (Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy/USA Today)  Ah, the New Narrative.

Trump Shifts Deportation Focus, Pausing Raids on Farms, Hotels and Eateries (New York Times)

Tucker Carlson Blasts Trump for Being ‘Complicit’ in Israel’s Attack on Iran (Catherine Bouris/The Daily Beast)

PBS News Hour Turns to Leftists to Explain Trump’s ‘Alarming’ L.A. Troop Deployment  As they always do.

Can Trump Prevent A Massive Middle East War? (Akbar Shahid Ahmed/HuffPost)  Why would he want to? Muslim nations have been shouting for decades that they want war. It only takes one side to have a war.

Trump Relishes Troops in American Streets While Shunning Conflict Overseas (Peter Baker/New York Times)  Yet another Narrative Media innuendo smear.

Trump’s Parade of Horribles (Matt Labash/Slack Tide)

Demonstrators Are Trying to Make Sure ICE Agents Can’t Sleep (Anna Merlan/Mother Jones)

The world sees America for what it is (Philip Bump/Washington Post) And the world sees Philip Bump for what he is–an anti-American, Trump-deranged Leftist hater.

Capehart Dons Tinfoil Hat, Says LA Response Part of a Plan To Suspend Elections

The Trump/Musk fight is why we say “No Kings” (Lisa Needham/Public Notice)  Tell it to Obama. Tell it to Biden.

House Republicans Probe China-Based Billionaire Allegedly Bankrolling Anti-ICE Riots 

Scoop: Every Senate Dem demands Trump withdrawal military from Los Angeles (Stephen Neukam/Axios)  And he’s ignoring every damned one of them.

Federal prosecutors now charging immigrants who don’t submit fingerprints under dormant 1940s law (Hassan Ali Kanu/Politico)  ‘Dormant’ means ‘Democrats never enforced it.’

The Autocrat’s Parade (Ann Telnaes/Open Windows)  No, the Autocrats’ Parade has PRIDE all over it.

The ‘No Kings’ mass mobilization debunks Trump’s biggest myth (MSNBC)

Live Updates: Protests Against Trump Policies Kick Off Across the Country (New York Times)  The WELL-ORCHESTRATED protests.

Senate Dems demand hearing on Trump’s response to Los Angeles protests (Hailey Fuchs/Politico)  Who isn’t hearing them?

“FCC Complaint Filed”: X Users Slam CBS For Acting As PR Megaphone For ‘No Kings’ Color Revolution

Eight chaotic days shake Trump’s grip on the presidency (Zachary Basu/Axios) The farce is strong in this one.

Trump Admin Hands Migrant Medicaid Data to Deportation Goons (Liam Archacki/The Daily Beast)

The Polls Are In. Trump Is Not Winning in Los Angeles. (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)  And if you believe that one, she’ll tell you another one.

Raskin takes swipe at Trump over price of military parade, GOP megabill (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)  At least we get a  parade out of it. What do we get out of Democrat spending on the underclass? Look at L.A. and find out.

America Is Finally Getting A Fascist Dictator Parade, Courtesy Of Donald Trump (S.V. Date/HuffPost)

Why Trump loves a man (or 7,000 of them) in uniform. (David E. Sanger/New York Times)

NBC Portrays Army Parade as a ‘North Korea and Russia’ Like Spectacle  Without the commie symbolism–unlike the PRIDE parades.

‘Trump Is A King!’ Say People Freely Protesting In A Free Country

Joe Rogan Sums Up LA Riots With One Profound Word  “Astroturf”

The Judiciary Will Become Virtually Powerless in Protecting Your Rights if the Current Budget Bill Becomes Law (Clint Bolick/The UnPopulist)  For people who love to hate on ‘conspiracy theories’, proglodytes sure embrace those that push the Narrative.

US experts fear all vaccines at risk as Trump officials target mRNA jabs (Melody Schreiber/The Guardian)  Wring those hands! Wring those hands!

Ancient miasma theory may help explain Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine moves (Rob Stein/NPR)  Another Narrative Media tool searching for a straw man to pummel.

The Liberal Media’s Trump Authoritarian Fantasy

LA Councilwoman Asks Police Chief How To Obstruct ICE; Law Enforcement Left Baffled

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Friday 13 June may prove to be a turning point in the history of the Middle East, with significant repercussions for global history. For the first time since the Islamists under Ruhollah Khomeini took power in Tehran—from whence they have exported Islamist doctrine, revolution, and terrorism around the world—a Western power, Israel, has attacked the Ayatollahs’ regime on their home turf and shaken it to the core. Israeli fighter-bombers continue to pound strategic sites, targeting Iran’s military and scientific elite with virtual impunity, humiliating the regime and instilling hope in the country’s urban masses, who despise and fear their theocratic masters. At the same time, Israel is completing the process of dismantling Iran’s proxy “ring of fire”—Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthi rebels, and the Assad regime in Syria—that has harassed Israel for decades. The continuing Israeli aerial assault is steadily demolishing Iran’s nuclear weapons project, installation after installation. Over the coming weeks, Israel may well devastate the country’s oil industry, which is the economic mainstay of the regime. Regime change in Tehran is definitely in the air—and the fact that they have significantly reinforced the police and security presence in Iran’s towns and cities is a clear indication that the regime fears for its life.

As long as Islam exists, ‘jihadis’ will be a problem. It’s been that way for 1400 years, and there is no indication that it will change. Whether our Ruling Class will continue prating how ‘peaceful’ Muslims are while ignoring the mass murder, or whether they will wake up and decide to do something about it, is an exercise left for the reader. 

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Stunts are what the Dramacrats do best.

The cliché that politics is show business for ugly people obviously had Democrats in mind.

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‘Dormant’ means ‘Democrats ignored it’.

Federal law enforcement officials are using a long-dormant law to detain immigrants and charge them with willfully failing to register with the government.

Under the Alien Registration Act, passed in 1940 because of fears about immigrants’ loyalty to the United States, almost all noncitizens must register with the government and submit fingerprints, reports Politico on Saturday.

The law has remained on the books since that time, but has remained dormant until President Donald Trump issued orders to enforce the law. As a result, since April, people have been arrested in Louisiana; Arizona; Montana; Alabama; Texas; and Washington, D.C., and charged with willful “failure to register” under the federal registration law.

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Israel bombed key Iranian gas fields and oil refineries, which Tehran uses to generate over $50 billion a year—hundreds of millions of which it uses to fund terror groups—in a fresh wave of airstrikes that destroyed more than “150 targets and over 400 separate assets,” according to the Israel Defense Forces and Iranian media.

Israeli warplanes targeted Tehran’s lucrative “oil refineries and energy infrastructure” on Saturday afternoon, signaling that the Jewish state is expanding the scope of its historic military campaign beyond Iran’s nuclear sites and military installations, the New York Times reported, citing Iranian state-controlled media.

Explosions could be heard at the South Pars gas field in Iran’s Bushehr province and at the Asalouieh refinery along the Persian Gulf, according to Iran’s state press, which claimed Israel used “micro aerial vehicles” to target the sites. Areas of South Pars caught fire, leading Iran to dispatch emergency services.

Israel reportedly warned Iran days ago that any strike on civilians, such as those on Friday in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, would prompt the Jewish state to target Tehran’s oil infrastructure. Israel made good on that promise on Saturday, showing that it is willing to expand military operations beyond Tehran’s nuclear sites.

I guess it’s back to herding goats for the mullah.

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Seven months after a stinging loss to President Donald Trump, who used podcast appearances and internet virality in his campaign to his advantage, Democrats are still working on a digital strategy to regain political power.

Throughout the campaign, Trump was able to score a number of major podcast interviews on shows such as “The Joe Rogan Experience,” Theo Von’s “This Past Weekend,” and Logan Paul’s “ImPAULsive.”

“Speaking With American Men” (SAM) is the name of a new plan formulated by Ilyse Hogue, an abortion activist who thinks Democrats can regain lost ground with young men by pursuing a similar strategy.

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Both the victims and the alleged perp are Democrats.

Hortman was Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2019-2025 and on Monday cast the lone DFL vote to end undocumented adult immigrants’ eligibility for MinnesotaCare. Hoffman voted against the repeal. The bill passed by a narrow 68-65 vote during an emotional session. Sen. Bonnie Westlin, DFL-Plymouth, said the passage of the bill represented “a shameful day in this body.”

UPDATE: Former appointee of Tim Walz sought in deadly shootings of Minnesota lawmaker and her husband, had ‘No Kings’ flyers in car: sources (New York Post)

Boelter, 57, was appointed by Walz in 2019 to serve a four-year stint on the Governor’s Workforce Development Board, documents show.

Democrats are becoming more and more like the Mafia every day.

UPDATE: ‘No Kings’ Terror? Fake Cop Assassinates Minnesota Democrat Who Blocked Health Care for Illegals

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Yet Another Corrupt Democrat Politician.

The New York Times, the Narative Paper of Record.

Iran’s senior leaders had been planning for more than a week for an Israeli attack should nuclear talks with the United States fail. But they made one enormous miscalculation.

They never expected Israel to strike before another round of talks that had been scheduled for this coming Sunday in Oman, officials close to Iran’s leadership said on Friday. They dismissed reports that an attack was imminent as Israeli propaganda meant to pressure Iran to make concessions on its nuclear program in those talks.

Perhaps because of that complacency, precautions that had been planned were ignored, the officials said.

It’s pretty obvious that Iran had no intention of working toward peace, but rather (a) making nuclear weapons and (b) using those weapons on Israel.

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

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Fembot journalism with Initial Anecdote.

Nevertheless, it has some Inconvenient Truths to relate.

Race-based government policies predictably and inevitably produce inter-ethnic animosity, resentment, friction, and conflict. When laws are based on ethnicity or descent, people develop an unhealthy obsession with skin colour, blood lines, and other ancestry-based features—their own and those of their neighbours. This obsession is alive and well in Canada today. Canada’s race-based laws and privileges have been implemented with the good intention of helping the disadvantaged, but this discrimination based on ancestry nonetheless damages harmony, unity, and friendship within society. Today in Canada, legislators, law enforcement, university admissions and awards departments, and school boards carve the people of this country into ethnic categories, and mete out different privileges to each, supposedly to advance “social justice.”

This divisive and destructive conception of “social justice” is fiercely protected, to the point of silencing alternative views in the public square.

ZMan:

One of the unique and strange aspects of this age is how our rulers operate from narratives rather than reality. The managers, in their committees and work teams, come up with a scenario that leads to a desired result. It just needs approval by management to set it going. Once a narrative is accepted, the decision makers set it in motion and then they just assume it will work out exactly as expected.

Note that they do not monitor it, assuming that they will have to adjust as reality fails to comport with the narrative. They just assume it will go as expected. In fact, they will often act as if it played out according to the narrative, before events have reached anything resembling a conclusion. It as if once the narrative is accepted, it then displaces actual reality in the shared mindscape.

One of the best examples of this was back in the Obama years when they passed a big spending bill to fix the economy. They passed a trillion-dollar stimulus bill and sold it as something like the Civilian Conservation Corp in the FDR years. The White House prepared marketing material for the foretold “summer of recovery” that they were sure would be the result of the spending bill.

In May they had warehouses full of signs and posters to distribute to publicity stunts around the country to showcase the millions of Americans coming together to restore the country after the Bush years. By June it was clear the summer of recovery was not happening, but they went ahead with the celebrations anyway. The joke at time was that the only people stimulated by the bill were the sign makers.

The funny part about that is it took until July for the White House to realize that reality was something different from their reality. At that point, the summer of recovery stuff celebrations stopped. That is when the other thing you see with these narratives happened, which is the memory hole. After the narrative collapse phase of the story, the whole thing is then erased from their shared mindscape.

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The release last fall, after 44 years, of the Beach Boys’ abandoned masterpiece Smile is a milestone of American popular culture. Rolling Stone has called it “the most famous unfinished album in rock & roll history.” But Smile is also something much bigger. It is the pinnacle artistic achievement of a lost civilization, the middle-class, baby-boom, sun-soaked, clean-cut, work-hard-play-hard, bungalow-and-car culture of post-war Southern California. It was a paradise for the common man, one that produced legions of loyal and productive citizens, developed the modern aerospace industry, helped the West win the Cold War, and exported an attractive and fundamentally decent (if often vapid) vision of American life to every corner of the globe.

Before The Sixties screwed everything up.

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Try searching your full name online right now and see what surfaces. Within a few clicks, you’re likely seeing your home address, phone number, age, and even details about family members.

If that’s what a simple search turns up, just imagine what malicious actors can find when their business relies on exploiting your personal data. If there was a big red delete button, you’d set a new record for how fast you could smash it!

The problem is there isn’t one, unless you know where to look…

My favorite method is to track down people publishing my information online and kill them in horrible ways as an example and warning to others. But, then, I’m retired and have a lot of time on my hands. KEYWORDS: #ganching #somethinglingeringwithboilingoilinit

The Foundry.

California has long prided itself on being a symbol of progressive governance, a supposed beacon of tolerance, opportunity, and inclusivity. But behind the glittering curtain of Hollywood dreams and Silicon Valley innovation lies a troubling reality—a self-inflicted crisis stemming from policies that defy economic logic and common sense. As California grapples with an unprecedented immigration surge, ballooning homelessness, and mass exodus of residents and businesses, the question arises: Should the federal government intervene?

The answer is unequivocally no. In fact, the federal government—particularly under President Donald Trump—should stand back and allow California to confront the consequences of its own ideological delusions.

Between July 2021 and July 2022, approximately 400,000 residents left California. The state, once a magnet for dreamers, is now hemorrhaging taxpayers and employers. Major corporations such as Tesla, Oracle, and Chevron have relocated to more business-friendly states like Texas and Florida. The exodus is not coincidental—it is a direct reaction to California’s punitive tax structure, suffocating regulations, and increasingly chaotic public order.

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According to a new French survey, a substantial majority of citizens are of the opinion that Islam does not belong in France.

I feel compelled to note that the percentage is much higher than Marine Le Pen’s share of the vote in any presidential election. Not even the combined total of votes received by Éric Zemmour and Marine Le Pen comes close.

So the good citizens of France, despite their opinions on Islam, continue to vote for the same old parties that flood the country with millions of Muslims. Hard left, center-left, center-right — it doesn’t matter; whoever gets their vote, the result is the same: more immigrants and more Islam. More gang-rapes, more murders of priests, nuns, and Jews, more violent crime of every sort. The obliteration of traditional French culture.

What sort of cognitive dissonance is at work here? Or is it just plain stupidity?

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If not, it’s working on it.

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If you thought that the leftist delusions of grandeur had finally hit their peak you are about to be unpleasantly surprised. There are no limits to the insanity that progressives will embrace in their pursuit of power, and they continue to adhere to the fantasy that they are the “good guys” despite the fact that most of the world has been telling them for the past several years that their ideology is repugnant.

The events in Los Angeles are just the beginning and the path this situation will take is relatively predictable. There is a large enough percentage of the US population (around 25% to 30%) that is inexorably rooted in the ideologies of Marxism and multiculturalism. Many of them might not even understand what they’re supporting, but they’ll still do what they’re told by their gatekeepers.

For decades now the progressives have treated America like an experiment in social engineering; the US has been their personal multicultural playground. What has them enraged today is the fact that they are hitting a wall of opposition. They aren’t used to being told “No” and the only way they know how to respond is by lashing out.

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Missing your tax return check and living near Philadelphia? We might have an idea of what’s gone wrong…

That’s because two former employees of the U.S. Postal Service in Philadelphia have been indicted for their roles in a scheme involving the theft of over $80 million in U.S. Treasury checks, the Department of Justice announced Wednesday.

According to federal prosecutors, Tauheed Tucker, 23, and Saahir Irby, 27, both previously employed as mail processing clerks at the USPS Philadelphia Processing and Distribution Center, are accused of stealing thousands of envelopes containing Treasury checks, according to NBC Philadelphia.

‘Tauheed’? ‘Saahir’? I guess we know what ethnic identity they espouse. I always have to laugh at black people adopting Arabic or otherwise Muslim-adjacent names, as if that were more ‘authentically’ African in some sense, given the prominent place Arabs and other Muslims played in the African slave trade. They might with equal logic name themselves after Jefferson Davis or John C. Calhoun.

I guess the Postal Orifice doesn’t do criminal background checks on potential employees. (That would destroy their ‘diversity’.) Scott Adams used to tell the story of why he quit mailing his cartoons to his publisher via the Postal Orifice: People in the local post office would invariably steal them during transit.

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An aggressive pro-palestinian activist attacked Sweden Democrat MP Jessica Stegrud as she leaving Parliament on Wednesday. The woman activist, wearing a keffiyeh and sunglasses, tried taking Stegrud’s phone, hitting the MP in the process, pushed her, and got right up in her face, threatening her by screaming, “I’m going to take down your f***ing … your whole f***ing d**n family, you f***ing disgusting freak.”

The protester was part of a group that for the past few days had demonstrated against Israel right outside Riksdagen, the Swedish parliament, including by glorifying terrorist groups and chanting hate against Jews.

“Completely unprovoked,” Jessica Stegrud posted on X. “Attacked as an elected official, outside my own workplace. … this has to end”

The Foundry.

The government spent decades trying to make fathers unnecessary. The failure of that experiment put society on the long-term path to collapse.

Father’s Day is Sunday. It’s much less popular than Mother’s Day for a sad reason. Fewer fathers are involved in their children’s lives. That’s caused by two main factors, the first being children born to single moms. In 2022, almost 40% of births were to unmarried women, according to the Centers for Disease Control. The second reason is the prevalence of divorce.

Statistically, children raised without a father face a bleak future. Homes led by a single mother are more than four times as likely to live in poverty compared to married couples. Poverty is associated with a host of problems, including lower academic achievement. Children without fathers around are more likely to go to prison. They’re less likely to attend college. Children without dads are more likely to act out and have substance abuse problems. Tragically, teenage girls without a father present are seven times more likely to become pregnant. And thus, the cycle repeats itself.

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Come to Britain! Get free stuff!

House votes to claw back $1.1 billion from public media (NPR)

Newsom slams Padilla removal: ‘Trump and his shock troops are out of control’ (Alex Gangitano/The Hill)  No, entitled Democrat politicians are out of control, and have been for decades.

Fighting Trump in Congress Like Fighting ‘Nazis in Northern Africa,’ Dem Rep Says

Newsom Calls Trump a ‘Stone Cold Liar’ Over National Guard  Democrats always accuse you of doing what they are doing – or plan to do.

From Fort Bragg to L.A., Trump enlists the military in a slow-motion coup (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)  Will Bunch loses his shit. (No worries – he’s got plenty left.)

FBI busts alleged LA riot leader who was filmed helping to distribute ‘Bionic Shield’ face masks to protesters (Jennie Taer/New York Post)

‘Political Theater!’ Kristi Noem Blames Senator Padilla for Getting Himself Manhandled By Agents in Stunning Fox News Interview (Joe DePaolo/Mediaite)  Whose turn is it to be the victim?

Tensions explode on House floor over Padilla incident (Andrew Solender/Axios)

CNN Security Analyst Defends Kristi Noem and Agents Who Shoved Senator Out of Presser (Joe DePaolo/Mediaite)

Judge Slams Trump Admin in California National Guard Case (Jacob Knutson/Democracy Docket)

Sen. Padilla Pushed to Ground, Handcuffed for Demanding DHS Not Lie (Inae Oh/Mother Jones)

Trump, Who Has Likened Himself to a King, Bristles at ‘No Kings’ Protests (Chris Cameron/New York Times)

Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla forcibly removed after trying to question DHS Secretary Noem (Steve Benen/MSNBC)

Judge sharply questions Trump’s Guard deployment to Los Angeles (Politico)

Donald Trump’s Dictator Cosplay (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker)

Lawmakers outraged over Padilla’s forcible removal from Noem press conference (Caitlin Yilek/CBS News)

White House looks to freeze more agency funds — and expand executive power (Politico)

Democrats slam military parade as Trump’s multimillion-dollar ‘birthday party’ (Stacey Dec/Reuters)

Scoop: House Dem breaks with party on McIver and Padilla incidents (Andrew Solender/Axios)

RINO Alert! Murkowski: Video of Padilla Being Removed from Presser ‘Shocking at Every Level’

Trump Tax Bill Would Help the Richest, Hurt the Poorest, CBO Says (Jarrell Dillard/Bloomberg)  Same old whine.

Sen. Alex Padilla disputes Trump administration’s account of incident that led to federal agents handcuffing him (Nnamdi Egwuonwu/NBC News)  Of course he does.

Justice Department Files Lawsuit to Stop New York’s Unlawful “Protect Our Courts Act” from Obstructing Immigration Enforcement (US Department of Justice)

Democrat Judge Rules Against Trump Over Use Of National Guard In California Riots

Trump exceeded powers by sending National Guard, Marines to L.A., judge rules (Bob Egelko/San Francisco Chronicle)

Noem Says National Guard Occupation Is Meant To ‘Liberate’ LA From Its Mayor And Governor (Nicole Lafond/Talking Points Memo)

Judge rules Trump’s Guard deployment in Los Angeles is illegal (Kyle Cheney/Politico)

Judge orders Trump to return National Guard to California’s control (Avery Lotz/Axios)

Harvard, Trump admin clash over court protection for foreign students (Politico)

CNN Leads Anti-ICE Discussion With Organizer Of ‘Resistance School’

Trump keeps control of California National Guard for now after appeals court blocks order (Dan Mangan/CNBC)

Trump plans broader use of National Guard in immigration enforcement (Washington Post)

Trump administration can keep control of California National Guard troops for now, appeals court rules (NBC News)

Trump can keep National Guard deployed to Los Angeles for now, appeals court rules (Reuters)

Trump’s Big Bill Would Be More Regressive Than Any Major Law in Decades (New York Times)

US senator forcefully removed from DHS event in LA, triggering Democratic outcry on Capitol Hill (CNN)

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Erythritol may impair cellular functions essential to maintaining brain blood vessel health, according to researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder. Findings suggest that erythritol increases oxidative stress, disrupts nitric oxide signaling, raises vasoconstrictive peptide production, and diminishes clot-dissolving capacity in human brain microvascular endothelial cells.

Erythritol has become a fixture in the ingredient lists of protein bars, low-calorie beverages, and diabetic-friendly baked goods. Its appeal lies in its sweetness-to-calorie ratio, roughly 60–80% as sweet as sucrose with a tiny fraction of the energy yield, and its negligible effect on blood glucose. Erythritol is also synthesized endogenously from glucose and fructose via the pentose phosphate pathway, leaving baseline levels subject to both dietary and metabolic influences.

Concerns about erythritol’s safety have escalated following epidemiological studies linking higher plasma concentrations with increased cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events. Positive associations between circulating erythritol and incidence of heart attack and stroke have been observed in U.S. and European cohorts, independent of known cardiometabolic risk factors. A causal mechanism for the link has remained elusive.

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French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau has decided to dissolve the anti-fascist organisation La Jeune Garde, founded by far-left MP Raphaël Arnault, due to its repeated and explicit calls for political violence.

The threat had been looming for several weeks, and the minister’s decision was made public on Thursday, June 12th, after approval by the Council of Ministers the previous day.

The La Jeune Garde was founded in 2018 in Lyon. It claims to fight the “far right” in public spaces and openly promotes violence. It sees itself as a “tool of popular self-defence against the far right”. In June 2024, eight members of the group were charged with assaulting a 15-year-old on the Paris metro after a pro-Gaza event led by Franco-Palestinian activist Rima Hassan.

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‘Camare’ Hogg discovers that Democrats have no respect for democracy or elections.

Couldn’t happen to a more appropriate guy.

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Using what?

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The program office has emphasized that USS Ford was a first-in-class hull, with the inherent issues that come with a first-of-a-kind vessel, and that the teething problems with her new technology were being worked out for the follow-on carriers. But in its annual assessment of defense procurement programs, GAO reports that the Navy expects significant additional delays to future hulls in the series.

Continued issues with the weapons elevators aboard second-in-class CVN 79 could put the planned July 2025 delivery date for the vessel at risk, the program office reported. And the delivery date for CVN 80, the third Ford-class, has been pushed back to May 2030 – more than two years later than the Navy expected.

The problem, according to GAO, is in the availability of materials and skilled labor. HII Newport News has “persistent shipyard workforce issues” that the program office is trying to fix by revising schedules and creating incentives for workers, GAO said.

Buy them from Hyundai, which has excellent shipyards.

The Times (UK).

A lack of funding will force police to deprioritise crimes such as shoplifting and mobile phone theft and there will be fewer officers patrolling parks and attending schools, ministers have been told.
Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, announced an extra £2.1 billion for policing over the next three years, a real-terms increase of 1.7 per cent each year between 2026 and 2029.
However, the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) said the funding would leave a £1.2 billion shortfall and would not be enough to maintain the workforce, let alone cover the extra costs to meet the government’s priorities of halving violence against women and knife crime and recruiting 13,000 extra neighbourhood police officers.

Britain, the New California.

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Israel has launched an attack against Iran, a senior IDF official told The War Zone. The nature and extent of the attack is not yet known.

“The attack has just begun in Iran,” said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss operational details. “We are in an emergency situation all over the country.”

The official confirms earlier reporting by Axios that “the Israeli Air Force conducted a strike in Iran on Thursday, according to two sources with knowledge of the operation. It’s not yet clear what Israel is targeting, but explosions were reported in Tehran.”

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“A senior defense official on Friday morning said that there is an increasing possibility that the Iranian high command, including Iran’s military chief and Iran’s senior nuclear scientists, have been killed in the preemptive strike.”

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Airstrikes are taking place in Tehran and across Iranian territory, targeting Iran’s nuclear infrastructure. According to Israeli intelligence, Iran has reached the capacity to produce 15 nuclear bombs, including enriched uranium warheads and delivery systems capable of reaching Israel. This, according to Israeli assessment, marks the point of no return, necessitating immediate military action.”

“If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first.” — Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin, Portion 72, verse 1.

ICE Kidnappings Stoke Fear and Outrage Across Los Angeles (David Dayen/American Prospect)  ‘Kidnappings’? They are criminals–in this country illegally–and they are being arrested for it. Don’t be a crimial, and you won’t be arrested (usually).

From a ‘day of love’ to ‘if they spit, we will hit’: Trump’s about-face on violence against police (Natasha Korecki/NBC News)

Judge rules Mahmoud Khalil can’t be deported or detained for foreign policy reasons cited by Trump administration (Joe Walsh/CBS News)

Trump’s DOJ makes its most sweeping demand for election data yet (NPR)

Hegseth says troops in LA are lawful. He just can’t explain why. (Politico)  Sure he can. You just aren’t listening.

Fulbright Board Members Resign, Citing Political Interference by WH  Great news. That clears out the Crustian Deep State agents and allows a new broom to sweep clean.

Fulbright board resigns over alleged Trump administration interference (Mariana Alfaro/Washington Post)

Dozens Of Journalists Targeted, Shot, Detained While Covering LA Protests, Press Org Says (Nina Golgowski/HuffPost)  And there was much rejoicing.

US launches AUKUS review to ensure it meets Donald Trump’s ‘America First’ agenda (ABC)  They seem surprised by this.

MSNBC Lies: ‘There Is No Violent Mob In Los Angeles’

Where are the people the Trump administration has deported? (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)  Not Here. That’s all that matters.

RFK Jr. includes vaccine misinformation spreaders among newly announced ACIP members (The Hill)  “Misinformation” is anything that disagrees with the Narrative.

Incensed House Democrats plan ICE funding war (Andrew Solender/Axios)  Of course they do.

‘Incredibly petty’: Sen. Rand Paul says he was ‘uninvited’ to White House picnic over breaks with Trump (NBC News)  What did he expect? Hugs and kisses?

Sen. Paul Slams ‘Petty’ WH for Disinviting Him From Picnic  Speaking of ‘petty’….

Trump’s EPA announces major rollbacks to power plant pollution limits (Oliver Milman/The Guardian)

CDC purges career officials from oversight of vaccine committee (Alexander Tin/CBS News)  Get rid of the Branch Covidians.

Kennedy’s new CDC panel includes members who have criticized vaccines and spread misinformation (Mike Stobbe/Associated Press)  “Misinformation” is anything that disagrees with the Narrative.

MSNBC’s Ari Melber: L.A. Riots Less Challenging Than Oscars Security

Trump Has No China Trade Strategy (Wall Street Journal)  That they can understand,  anyway.

‘Embarrassing’: Trump ‘booed mercilessly’ by Kennedy Center at ‘Les Miserables’ opening (Carl Gibson/Alternet.org)  Not embarrassing–you can’t embarrass Trump–but entirely expected.

Suggesting More Troops in More Cities, Trump Bends Military’s Role (Luke Broadwater/New York Times)

ICE, federal partners assaulted during largest worksite enforcement operation in Nebraska under Trump administration (ICE)

She served the American people for 35 years. Now her retirement income is on the line (Andrea Hsu/NPR)  In other words, she never had a real job in her life; she’s been receiving a government paycheck since she graduated from high school.

The real reason Trump is suddenly ordering immigration raids (Nicole Narea/Vox)  More Narrative Media mind-reading.

Trump is frustrated by his own success on immigration (Eric Levitz/Vox)  Attempt to calculate the probability of anybody writing for Vox having a clue about how Trump feels.

Shattered Science: The Research Lost as Trump Targets NIH Funding (ProPublica)  Because, as we all know, if the Federal government–and the Federal taxpayer–won’t pay for scientific research, NO SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH WILL EVER GET DONE.

This Is Not a Drill — American democracy is on the line right now (Paul Krugman)  No, it’s not. Paul Krugman loses his shit. (Dont worry–he’s got plenty left.)

Republicans are trying to sell a bizarre fantasy on the economy (Paul Waldman/Public Notice)  Dramacrat Projection: Leftists always accuse you of doing what they want to do–or have done.

Democratic Lawmakers Are Taking Out Liability Insurance As Trump Ramps Up Legal Threats (NOTUS)  What do they know that you don’t know?

No Kings: Stand Against Trump’s Un-American Birthday Bash (Jeffrey C. Isaac/The Bulwark)  Where were these guys when Obama and Biden were in office?

New Leftist Talking Point: Don’t Believe Riot Videos, It’s The Algorithms!  Who are you going to believe–me or your lyin’ eyes?

Let’s Be Clear: The Rioting In LA Is By The Cops, Not The Protestors (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)  Come and get yer Narrative, right here.

Meyers Claims GOP Would Have Snitched On Tea Party In 1700s  The bizarre fantasy world these people live in.

Lawfare Daily: McCarthyism and Its Echoes in Modern Politics with Clay Risen (Lawfare)  An aptly named site.

“He’s lost it”: Inside Newsom’s attack on Trump’s mental fitness (Alex Thompson/Axios)  Dramacrats always accuse you of what they’re doing.

Inside a Courthouse, Chaos and Tears as Trump Accelerates Deportations (Luis Ferré-Sadurní/New York Times)  After all, they’ve gotten away with it for so long…. (Jerk those tears! Jerk those tears!) Have you ever noticed that Democrats always side with the criminals?

PBS Finds ‘Festival-like’ Atmosphere In L.A. With ‘Some Looting’ But Mostly ‘Non-Violent’  Mostly peaceful, with a side of looting. That’s all right, then.

Presidential Criminal Immunity: A Rule-of-Law Threat Beyond the Oval Office (Aziz Huq/Lawfare)  An aptly named site.

‘Catastrophic’: Rural public media stations brace for GOP cuts (Aaron Pellish/Politico)  Sometimes, democracy works.

Trump is ‘not all there,’ Newsom says amid Los Angeles fight (Ben Johansen/Politico)  Funny, I missed where Newsom got his MD.

First Thing: Families arrested in LA Ice raids held with little food or water, lawyers say (Clea Skopeliti/The Guardian)  Lawyers say! That proves it!

Trump’s Big Bill Would Let Him Expand His L.A. Immigration Crackdown ‘Everywhere’ (Rolling Stone)  I like it already.

A Walmart Heiress Breaks Ranks and Joins the Anti-Trump Movement (Sarah Nassauer/Wall Street Journal)  “Breaks ranks”? What “ranks”? She’s just another billionaire Democrat. How is this news?

BREAKING: FBI Arrests Riot Supplier, Charges Conspiracy (Ed Morrissey/HotAir)

FBI Arrests Suspected NGO Face-Shield Foot Soldier In L.A. Riots

LA’s Mayor Bass on Morning Joe: ‘There Isn’t Anything Happening Here’  More Democrat lies.

‘It’s a winner for him’: Dems work to turn LA debate from immigration to Trump’s executive powers (Politico)

Protests Turn Violent. Democrats Blame Trump. Rinse Repeat

Newsom Says It’s His Duty To Represent The Illegal Immigrants Who Elected Him  (Babylon Bee)

Democratic senator forcibly removed from DHS press conference (Stephen Neukam/Axios)

NBC: There’s a ‘Far Left Online Ecosystem’ Pushing Protests Toward Violence (John Sexton/HotAir)

California, coalition of states sue Trump over move to revoke EV mandate (Sharon Udasin/The Hill)

Hegseth Mum on Obeying Court Orders on Marines  Shocking, that he wouldn’t let them look at his cards in the middle of the game. Doesn’t he know who they are?

Ex-congressman Billy Long confirmed as commissioner of the IRS, an agency he once sought to abolish (Fatima Hussein/Associated Press)  Sounds to me like the perfect choice,

LA Riots Hand Republicans Script For Midterms  Yes they do….

California Sen. Alex Padilla handcuffed at Noem news conference in LA (Melanie Mason/Politico)

California Sen. Alex Padilla forcefully removed from Noem’s press conference by security (Associated Press)

Here’s where anti-Trump protests are expected on Thursday (Associated Press)  All spontanaous, of course.

Sen. Alex Padilla is forcibly removed from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s news conference (NBC News)

Alex Padilla confrontation shocks senators (Politico)  People have been excusing and overlooking Democrat politicians’ bad behavior for so long that they think they have the right to be assholes with impunity. Well, bunkie, there’s a new sheriff in town.

Video: Sen. Alex Padilla forcibly removed from Kristi Noem news conference (NBC Los Angeles)

Democrats’ fears of Trump administration violence erupt after Padilla incident (Andrew Solender/Axios)  YOU MEAN WE CAN’T GET AWAY WITH IT ANY MORE?

House Republicans vote to claw back $9.4 billion in funding for foreign aid, NPR and PBS (NBC News)

MAGA warns Trump of “massive schism” over Israeli strikes on Iran (Tal Axelrod/Axios)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

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According to Kamala Harris, the Los Angeles riots are “overwhelmingly peaceful” and nothing more than “part of the Trump administration’s cruel, calculated agenda to spread panic and division.”

But as one Homeland Security official commented, “These rioters in Los Angeles are fighting to keep rapists, murderers, and other violent criminals loose on Los Angeles streets.”

President Donald Trump and his administration are not listening to Democrats who continue to downplay the violence. The Department of Homeland Security has released the names and photos of the “worst of the worst” illegal alien criminals arrested during the LA riots. All criminal information is from the DHS unless otherwise noted.

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It will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world – that CO2, the life of plants, was considered for a time to be a deadly poison. –Harvard Emeritus Professor Richard Lindzen

When the story of the great turn-of-the-millennium climate science fraud comes to be written by future historians, the central role of the RCP8.5 ‘business as usual’ model scenario as adopted by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will be obvious to all. This ‘pathway’ has polluted climate model predictions for years with its wild and improbable claims of carbon dioxide emissions and soaring temperatures. A huge number of science papers incorporating the pathway are published by obvious Net Zero activists, and their ‘scientists say’ climate psychosis-inducing fairy tales are sped on their way by blinkered journalists in the mainstream press. The science writer Roger Pielke Jr. notes that RCP8.5 has been “falsified” – most knew it was fake, historians are likely to conclude, but the Net Zero addiction was too strong for it to be given up.

By “falsified”, Dr Pielke explains in a recent Substack article, he means that the pathway’s emissions trajectory is already well out of step with reality. To prove his point he offers up the 2021 evidence contained in Burgess et al. highlighted in the graph below.

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Well, I guess  we now know who’s responsible for any war.

If I were Trump, I’d send a message to Netanyahu: “I’ll hold your coat.”

The Register.

The function of archival storage is to keep data for the long term – decades and beyond – reliably and affordably. Currently, the main medium for this is LTO tape and it is slow, has a limited life, and not enough capacity considering the implications of ever-increasing image and video resolution and AI-infused data generation. However, there is as yet no viable tape replacement technology at scale, only possibilities, with optical storage more practical and nearer to productization than DNA or other molecular storage.

The Foundry.

The current unrest in Los Angeles and other major U.S. cities should serve as a wake-up call to the American public. When law enforcement finally starts doing its job under the leadership of President Donald Trump and border czar Tom Homan, chaos erupts. But not because of law enforcement. It’s because illegal aliens, who have been emboldened for years, are finally being held accountable.

Let’s be crystal clear. The term “illegal immigrant” is not a slur. It is a legal classification. Entering the United States without following proper legal channels is a crime. It is a willful violation of America’s immigration laws. Every person who crosses our border illegally has committed a federal offense. That makes them criminals by definition.

It doesn’t stop there. Illegal immigration is a gateway crime. It fuels a dangerous pipeline of drug smuggling, human trafficking, child exploitation, and cartel-driven violence. Coyotes, or human smugglers, charge thousands of dollars per migrant, many of whom never make it to their destination alive. The U.S. has no reliable data on how many illegal aliens have been kidnapped, forced into labor or sex trafficking, or used as drug mules by the cartels. But anyone who doubts this is happening is simply refusing to face reality.

And now, those same migrants are walking our streets in broad daylight. The images coming out of Los Angeles and places like Atlanta and Seattle are horrifying. Mobs are looting, fighting police, and openly defying the rule of law. These are not peaceful demonstrators. These are agitators who don’t even understand, let alone respect, the country they are trying to claim as their own. They are here illegally but act like they are entitled to special treatment.

And yet, they are protected by people like Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

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The alarming warnings about mass migration are no longer limited to right-wing circles. A former French prefect responsible for equal opportunities, who comes from the Left, is alarmed by the massive influx of migrants from Afghanistan, which he believes threatens Europe and France in particular.

Didier Leschi is currently head of the French Office for Immigration and Integration (OFII). He proudly declares his past as a communist activist, but this does not prevent him from making a clear assessment of the critical situation of immigration in Europe today.

He believes that the Left has betrayed its original commitment to serving the disadvantaged. He has made many enemies within his own camp by publishing two essays in quick succession that break with the prevailing tone on the issue of immigration: Misère(s) de l’islam de France (The Misery of Islam in France), published in 2017, followed by Ce Grand Dérangement. L’immigration en face (The Great Disruption. Facing Immigration), published in 2020.