Babylon Bee.

No. You never have enough swords.

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Armed with guns and machetes, members of the Islamist ‘Allied Democratic Forces’ raided a church in the Democratic Republic of Congo during a nighttime Mass on Sunday and killed more than 40 Christians.

More than 100 people in the northeastern city of Komanda were taking part in the Catholic service at the time of the attack, celebrating the parish’s 25th anniversary. Nine children were among those killed, and others—aged between 12 and 14—were taken hostage.

Bodies were also found in burnt houses nearby.

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In the following video, an unidentified Islamic zealot in Germany warns his audience that they’d better not piss off Muslims, or bad things just might happen. That’s not a threat, of course; it’s simply a caveat.

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Youngsters in the French city of Limoges have gone a renewed rampage, blockading a highway and ambushing the police. This report, as is usually the case, makes no mention of ethnicity. However, anyone who thinks there was no cultural enrichment involved in the violence is living in a state of denial.

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Gee, I wonder how that happened.

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Efforts by high-ranking officials in the CIA, FBI, Department of Justice (DOJ), and State Department to portray President Donald Trump as having colluded with Russia were the culmination of years of bias and politicization under the Obama administration.

The weaponization of the intelligence community and other government agencies created an environment that allowed for obstruction in the investigation into Hillary Clinton and the relentless pursuit of a manufactured collusion narrative against Trump.

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After years of pumping out propaganda and trying to kill independent media outlets such as yours truly, liberal ‘watchdog’ Media Matters is reportedly on the verge of bankruptcy.

Founded by Democratic operative David Brock (formerly in a long-term relationship with DC restauranteer James Alefantis), the Soros-backed pit bull that made a name for itself smearing conservatives and colluding with corporate censors, is reportedly on the brink of collapse as it buckles under legal bills, government investigations, internal drama, and a mass donor retreat, the NY Times reports.

The Sunday Times (UK)

Litter pickers can often be found in the park of a Sunday morning. But those gathered on east London’s Hackney Marshes this weekened were more energetic than most.

Around 60 enthusiasts armed with gloves, pickers and bin bags are competing to represent the UK in the world cup of SpoGomi, a Japanese-inspired litter-picking sport.

Despite Japan’s reputation for pristine streets, the British are the reigning champions. Defence of their title and plane tickets to the final in Tokyo were at stake.

I’ll bet you didn’t know that there was a “Litter-Picking World Cup”.

What’s next: A lip-gloss world cup?

I guess everybody needs a hobby.

The Times (UK)

ne woman holds the future of two churches in her hands as the only person who has a vote in both the election of the next Archbishop of Canterbury and of the next Archbishop of Wales. And by the end of the week, she could end up as Britain’s first female archbishop herself.

In the Welsh equivalent of a papal conclave, about 40 people will lock themselves away for up to three days from Tuesday to elect the next Archbishop of Wales. Their choice will serve as head of the Church in Wales, the Anglican sister of the Church of England.

One of the voters will be the Right Rev Mary Stallard, 58, the Bishop of Llandaff. She was also named in May as one of the 17 people who will serve on the Crown Nominations Commission, the confidential body that will choose a successor to the Right Rev Justin Welby as Archbishop of Canterbury. She is one of five representatives from non-English Anglican churches with a vote.

Women do love their cosplay.

The Times (UK)

A wave of anti-migrant protests and counter-protests took place at hotels around the country at the weekend amid fears that Britain could face another summer of disorder.

About 1,000 demonstrators and counter-protesters faced off outside the Bell Hotel, in Epping, where an Ethiopian migrant had been living when he was charged with sexually assaulting a schoolgirl.

Anti-migrant demonstrations were held at hotels in Wolverhampton, east London, Norwich, Leeds, Portsmouth, Bournemouth, Southampton and Nottinghamshire.

And Britain descends into anarchy. Time for a new civil war.

Trump Floats Prosecuting Oprah as Latest Epstein Distraction Tactic (Catherine Bouris/The Daily Beast)

Is The Epstein Affair A Watershed Moment?

Dershowitz to Newsmax: Maxwell’s ‘Whole Truth’ on Epstein Will Disappoint

GOP Sen. Refuses to Admit Bush, Not Obama, Was President During Epstein’s Plea Deal (Peter Wade/Rolling Stone)

Speaker Johnson says all ‘credible’ Epstein files should be released: Full interview (NBC News)

Mullin: Epstein Prosecuted by Bush, Trump; Silence Under Obama, Biden

Some Republicans aren’t backing down from Epstein transparency push (Avery Lotz/Axios)

Johnson says Ghislaine Maxwell deserves life sentence over Epstein crimes, rejects potential pardon (Danielle Wallace/Fox News)

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One, an executive order by President Trump, issued shortly after he assumed office, is to dismantle the Department of Education. Outright closing of the department is only possible by an act of Congress. However, the president is moving to accomplish the same objective administratively by closing down offices and major staff elimination. The U.S. Supreme Court recently upheld the president’s authority to do this.

The second front is advancement of parental choice in education. Give parents the power and authority to educate their children as they choose and send their children to a school that reflects their values.

One need not look further than the so-called Nation’s Report Card, the biannual test results administered by the National Assessment of Educational Progress, to see the problem.

Public education was once a great deal, especially for the poor and immigrants (who tended to be poor). Back in the Good Old Days when communities actually had standards and teachers reflected those standards in their teaching and discipline, everybody was happy with it except the Crust, who would much rather their children not mix with the offspring of Dirt People.

Since the Marxist Long March Through the Institutions, however, public schools have devoted their time to attempting to destroy community standards of which the union-infused alphabet-soup-loving proglodyte teachers disapprove, trying (and often succeeding) to send little Woke clones of themselves out into the world to wreak havoc.

As a result, more and more parents have been voting with their feet, searching out alternatives and trying to wrest control of the educational institutions using their tax money to persuade their children to hate their parents.

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A little-noticed provision in the “Big Beautiful Bill” forces blue states and cities to make a tough choice: Comply with federal immigration law or lose federal money for criminal justice aid.

And we all know how much Democrats love to use “federal money” to aid criminals avoid justice.

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What the researchers from Japan, China, Canada, and the US found is that a particular family of these TEs, called MER11, can strongly influence gene expression and act like “genetic switches” — without actually changing the underlying DNA.

“Our genome was sequenced long ago, but the function of many of its parts remain unknown,” study coauthor Fumitaka Inoue from Kyoto University said in a statement about the work.

MER11 sequences are what’s known as long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons. Spookily, these are believed to have originated from an endogenous retrovirus (ERV) that infected a simian ancestor tens of millions of years ago, hijacking the DNA of the cells it invaded to produce copies of its genetic makeup that have never gone away, but have largely remained inert. Per the researchers, at least eight percent of the human genome comes from these retroviruses.

That, plus all the other TEs littering our genome, makes for a lot of puzzling clutter for human scientists to sift through. The authors argue that the current methods for classifying and annotating TEs are inaccurate, leading to DNA sequences being overlooked as genetic junk. This inspired them to test their own classification system.

UPDATE: Your DNA Is Full of Ancient Viruses – And They’re Running the Show

Bloomberg, a Voice of the Crust.

Tesla Inc. has a plan to fend off cheaper competition from China with a $25,000 electric car. But first it has to overhaul a 100-year-old manufacturing process pioneered by Henry Ford.

The company is moving to what it calls an “unboxed” approach, which is more like building Legos than a traditional production line. Instead of a large, rectangular car moving along a linear conveyer belt, parts are assembled simultaneously in dedicated areas and then all put together at the end. Tesla says the change could reduce manufacturing footprints by more than 40%, allowing the carmaker to build future plants far faster and at less expense.

Changing a linear tree and branch model for a decentralized bush and swarm model. It might even work.

Of course, anybody who actually thinks that Tesla will ever put out a car that can be bought for $25,000 (Foolish Mortal) is smoking and not sharing.

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Apparently Keynes’ problem was that he wasn’t enough of a Marxist. Who knew?

Trigger warning; The author is a proglodyte who mistakes Industrialism for Capitalism and spends a lot of his time beating the Usual Straw Men.

New York magazine, so much a Voice of the Crust that I am amazed at so hypergamy-realistic anti-FemiNazi article survived to be published.

When we decided we wanted to be equal to men, we got on men’s time. We worked when they worked, retired when they retired, had to squeeze pregnancy, children, menopause somewhere impossibly in the margins. I have a friend, in her late 20s, who wears a mood ring; these days it is often red, flickering in the air like a siren when she explains her predicament to me. She has raised her fair share of same-age boyfriends. She has put her head down, worked laboriously alongside them, too. At last she is beginning to reap the dividends, earning the income to finally enjoy herself. But it is now, exactly at this precipice of freedom and pleasure, that a time problem comes closing in. If she would like to have children before 35, she must begin her next profession, motherhood, rather soon, compromising inevitably her original one. The same-age partner, equally unsettled in his career, will take only the minimum time off, she guesses, or else pay some cost which will come back to bite her. Everything unfailingly does. If she freezes her eggs to buy time, the decision and its logistics will burden her singly — and perhaps it will not work. Overlay the years a woman is supposed to establish herself in her career and her fertility window and it’s a perfect, miserable circle. By midlife women report feeling invisible, undervalued; it is a telling cliché, that after all this, some husbands leave for a younger girl. So when is her time, exactly? For leisure, ease, liberty? There is no brand of feminism which achieved female rest. If women’s problem in the ’50s was a paralyzing malaise, now it is that they are too active, too capable, never permitted a vacation they didn’t plan. It’s not that our efforts to have it all were fated for failure. They simply weren’t imaginative enough.

The Guardian, the paper of record for UK Wokery.

Notice that the article starts off with fulminations about an anti-white racist Person of Color not getting a New York street named after him, to which he obviously (in the Left Brain) had an indefensible right.

My street address obsession began when I learned for the first time that most households in the world don’t have street addresses. Addresses, the Universal Postal Union argues, are one of the cheapest ways to lift people out of poverty, facilitating access to credit, voting rights and worldwide markets. But this is not just a problem in the developing world. I learned that even parts of the rural US don’t have street addresses.

West Virginia has tackled a decades-long project to name and number its streets. Until 1991, few people outside of West Virginia’s small cities had any street address at all. Then the state caught Verizon inflating its rates and, as part of an unusual settlement, the company agreed to pay $15m (£12.4m) to, quite literally, put West Virginians on the map.For generations, people had navigated West Virginia in creative ways. Directions are delivered in paragraphs. Look for the white church, the stone church, the brick church, the old elementary school, the old post office, the old sewing factory, the wide turn, the big mural, the tattoo parlour, the drive-in restaurant, the dumpster painted like a cow, the pickup truck in the middle of the field. But, of course, if you live here, you probably don’t need directions; along the dirt lanes that wind through valleys and dry riverbeds, everyone knows everyone else anyway.

Note the upside-down machinations of the Left Brain: Because rural people don’t have street addresses, as has bene the case since Adam and Eve left the Garden, they are thereby ‘stripped of their rights”. One might almost say (and I’m sure some Left Brain people have said) that people living  in poverty, which is the natural state of mankind, are thereby “stripped of their wealth”. You really can’t make this shit up.

It really started with Rousseau: “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.” No, man is not born free; man in born weak and helpless and in bondage to his parents,  his family, his community, and his political unit. If he achieves freedom, it is by dint of hard work, much luck, stubborn determination, and almost always a hard fight.

Rousseau started the whole proglodyte Make It Up And Pretend That It’s True method of thinking. Who are you going to believe, my principles or your lying reality?

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The death toll from an attack on a Catholic church in eastern Congo by Islamic State-backed rebels has risen to 34, according to a civil society leader.

“The bodies of the victims are still at the scene of the tragedy, and volunteers are preparing how to bury them in a mass grave that we are preparing in a compound of the Catholic church,” Dieudonne Duranthabo, a civil society coordinator in Komanda, in the Ituri province, told The Associated Press.

At least five other people were killed in an earlier attack on the nearby village of Machongani, from where a search is ongoing.

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Last week it was Moroccans who were prominently featured in the cultural enrichment of Italy. This week finds Nigeria in the forefront of the news on the vibrant diversity of Modern Multicultural Italy.

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Not to mention places in the First World where the electrical grid is, shall we say, in the hands of government employees and therefore, shall we say, less that completely reliable.

I love Texas but it’s electricity supply is afflicted with Bureaucrat Disease as much as any place whatsoever.

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Trump withheld $6B of Department of Education funding starting on July 1. Squishes on both sides of the aisle screamed bloody murder, so eventually Trump relented and disbursed $1.3B for summer programs. How did kids survive the summer in the past without government money?

At the risk of sounding like an old fogey, I’ll tell you how. During summer my mom had my brother and me busy hoeing the garden, watering the trees and the lawn, picking and canning cherries and peaches, sweeping the garage floor, and mowing the lawn. When I was old enough to mow without supervision, she had me mowing neighbors’ lawns for pay. By the time I was done with all my chores, I was glad to have time to read a book, play in our dirt pile, or ride my bike. And I learned quickly not to say that I was bored because my mom immediately had a task for me to do.

Between 7th and 8th grades, I worked for my uncle in his boot and tack shop. When I was in high school, I worked a summer for a neighbor’s paving company, filling cracks on roads and runways with hot asphalt – the worst job I ever had. Another summer I helped my dad scrape and paint a neighbor’s wooden corral. And I helped my dad fix the fence on my grandpa’s ranch many summers.

I can’t say I enjoyed most of the tasks at home or the jobs I got away from home. But I learned a lot of skills from them, and I learned to work. Looking back, I’m glad that my parents made me do them and do them well. They taught me skills much better than any government program could. And they taught me to be a contributing member of the family at an early age.

Too bad that Trump disbursed the $1.3B for summer and youth programs.

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A visitor to a French museum bit into a fresh banana worth millions of dollars taped to a wall last week, exhibitors said on Friday, in the latest such consumption of the conceptual artwork.

Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan — whose provocative creation entitled “Comedian” was bought for $6.2 million in New York last year — said he was disappointed the person did not also eat the skin and the tape.

After the hungry visitor struck on Saturday last week, “security staff rapidly and calmly intervened,” the Pompidou-Metz museum in eastern France said.

Saw that coming.

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Milwaukee is the latest in a long list of US cities facing a rapid retail exodus in minority neighborhoods and once again the blame is being placed on the companies in question rather than the behavior of the residents as they protests the rising tide of “food deserts”.

At the beginning of July, city officials mounted a public outcry after Cincinnati-based Kroger Co. announced the decision to close at least five Pick ‘n Save supermarket locations, including one in Milwaukee’s Metcalfe Park neighborhood.

The city was also notified by Walgreens that they will be closing at least seven locations over the next two years and CVS will be closing some locations as well. Activists argue that the closures center around “black and brown neighborhoods” and that these areas “deserve access” to nearby grocery outlets.

Except when they do have ‘access to groceries’, they don’t buy them; they shoplift them. That’s why the companies are closing the stores. If the companies could do business there without crippling losses, they’d be happy to keep the stores open. s

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One of the clearest and most recent tests of the Overton Window’s positioning, what society currently deems acceptable, came last week with two major ad campaigns from Nike and American Eagle. Unlike the backlash faced by Bud Light or Jaguar for pushing controversial leftist propaganda, these two brands steered away from woke landmines and promoted either a pro-family theme or actress Sydney Sweeney.

To begin the week, Nike posted a pro-family ad featuring pro-golfer Scottie Scheffler’s win at the 2025 British Open at Royal Portrush on Sunday. Nike’s marketing department released a highly unusual ad … not the usual left-wing politics or ‘body positivity’ nonsense, but a pro-family sports ad celebrating fatherhood and family.

Based Americans, not infected with the Marxist woke mind virus, cheered online, with many demanding more pro-family ads and less “woke BS” ads

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‘Sargon of Akkad’ has some great fun with this Wokery litmus test.

I suggest that Sidney Sweeney (a Nice Irish Girl) is a form of fascism that we can all get behind … so to speak.

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According to the following report, the Italian city of Padua is now overrun with illegal mosques.

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In my previous post I reported on an American tourist who had his throat slit by Moroccan youngsters in Milan. The following report from Spain is an update on last week’s incident in Torre Pacheco in Spain: three suspects, all of them Moroccans, have been arrested for their part in a violent attack on a native Spaniard.

Boy, those Moroccans really get around.

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An American tourist on a trip to Milan got to experience the joys of European diversity first-hand: while on a train, he was set upon, “stabbed”, and robbed by several young whippersnappers from Morocco. I put “stabbed” in quote marks, because the reports say he was “stabbed in the neck”, which really means that his throat was slit, the time-honored Islamic practice for dealing with infidels. Fortunately for the victim, the “youths” were in a hurry and must have missed his carotid artery, otherwise he might have bled out.

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A few days ago in Munich, citizens formed a human chain around a synagogue to protect it from pro-Hamas demonstrators nearby who were chanting “Death to the IDF”.

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Less than 400 additional electric vehicle (EV) public charging ports have been installed in the United States following billions of dollars of allocated funding under the Biden administration for building charging infrastructure, said a July 22 report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) of 2021, signed into law by then-President Joe Biden, appropriated $7.5 billion in funding for two programs—the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program (NEVI) and the Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Discretionary Grant Program (CFI). The funds were aimed at supporting the development of public EV charging infrastructure.

However, only 384 charging ports had been built nationwide under the NEVI and CFI programs as of April 2025, the report said.

Trump’s MAGA allies zero in on Ghislaine Maxwell as Epstein furor persists (Jonathan Edwards/Washington Post)

Judge dismisses lawsuits against Trump’s dismantling of USAID (Kaelan Deese/Washington Examiner)

Democrats Get Lowest Rating From Voters in 35 Years, WSJ Poll Finds (Aaron Zitner/Wall Street Journal)

FCC Chairman: President Trump is fundamentally reshaping the media landscape (CNBC)

Fetterman Thanks Trump Team for Infrastructure Wins

Trump notches winning streak in Supreme Court emergency docket deluge (The Hill)

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New data shows that 40 percent of all suspects identified in school violence in 2024 were not German citizens, with Syrians at the top of the charts.

In total, there were 4,254 foreign suspects and 7,309 suspects with German citizenship, the German government announced in response to a parliamentary inquiry from Alternative for Germany (AfD) MP Martin Hess.

Of the 11,558 suspects in total, 1,236 had Syrian passports, representing one in ten violent incidents, according to the data, which was provided to Welt newspaper.

In second place were Afghans, who represented 3.6 percent of all suspects.

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I would hesitate to call any Muslim-run city as “modern”.

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Or, since it was Obama doing it, the “making up”.

New York Post.

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) is taking aim at socialist Big Apple mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani – with aerial ads urging fed-up New Yorkers to flee to Florida.

“Hate Socialism? Us too! Move 2 FL,” read the banners the Sunshine State senator will fly over New York beaches this weekend.

In a statement, Scott described the ad campaign as a “friendly reminder” to New Yorkers that “in addition to our world class beaches, Florida is the state where you can escape socialism.”

Hivekit.

Futurama must have been amazing. No – not the TV series, but the model city it is named after, built for the 1939 New York’s World’s Fair by Norman Bel Geddes. It showed a bold vision for the future: thousands of tiny cars moving on wide highways – all without the need for a human driver. This future wasn’t too far away either – 1960 was the year envisioned for full self-driving cars by its creator.

77 years later, in 2016 Tesla announced “Full Self-Driving Hardware on All Teslas”. This was exciting. Chilling in the back of your car, watching a movie while being chauffeured to your destination sounded like a dream.

Today, in 2024, full self-driving is still mostly a dream. Outside of a few pilot projects in restricted areas, it is no more available than it was in 1939. And there are good reasons for that. For one, traffic is much more messy, chaotic, and unpredictable than it looks on the surface. And then, government regulators and legislators move at a snail’s pace when compared to technologists.

Gizmodo, a Voice of the Crust.

Tea, an app that lets women “rate” and “review” the men in their lives, has been on a hot streak lately, having shot to the top of the App Store and enjoyed several recent write-ups in major media outlets. Unfortunately, the app has now disclosed a data breach involving self-submitted user images. One report cites claims that some of the data has been shared on 4chan, the incel-ridden internet backwater best known for helping to spawn the QAnon conspiracy theory.

404 Media first reported on the data breach, writing that users from 4chan “claim to have discovered an exposed [Tea] database hosted on Google’s mobile app development platform, Firebase.” The notorious site’s resident trolls bragged that they were parsing personal data and selfies from the app’s internal databases.

404 attempted to verify the claims made on the site. “While reporting this story, a URL the 4chan user posted included a voluminous list of specific attachments associated with the Tea app,” the outlet wrote. While the files were initially viewable, the page now gives an error and 404 says that it “verified that Tea does contain the same storage bucket URL that 4chan claims was related to the exposure.” Gizmodo has not been able to independently verify this reporting.

Gizmodo is one of the supposedly-tech-oriented pubs that pivoted to Wokery during the COVID panic because the money was better and they get to signal their virtue by promoting the Narrative. The ritualistic phrases ‘incel-ridden internet backwater’, ‘QAnon’, and ‘conspiracy theory’ are characteristic.

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In today’s world, allergies are nearly unavoidable. For instance, a report from Stanford Medicine suggests that nearly 40 percent of the human population (over three billion people) suffers from at least one allergic condition, making allergies one of the most widespread health issues globally.

The situation is even worrisome in the US, where over 50 percent of all kids suffer from this problem. However, surprisingly, there’s one group in America that seems almost immune to allergies, the Amish. Compared to the earlier 50 percent figure, only seven percent of Amish kids have developed any allergic condition.

Moreover, “generally, across the country, about 8 to 10 percent of kids have asthma. In the Amish kids, it’s probably 1 to 2 percent. A few of them do have allergies, but at much, much lower rates compared to the general population,” Carole Ober, an expert on human genetics from the University of Chicago, told The Washington Post.

These numbers are so incredible that scientists are now digging deep into Amish barns and homes to understand how these children are being protected. They believe that their findings could lead to treatments that prevent allergies altogether.

I thought it was the beards but what do I know?

The Telegraph (UK).

The airline and the Guardia Civil denied that the decision to remove the children and their monitors had any connection to the reported singing of songs in Hebrew, as a parent of one of the children affected claimed.

The Telegraph (UK).

Robot bricklayers are set to be trialled on British construction sites amid warnings of a major labour shortage in the house building industry.

The machines, developed by Dutch company Monumental, use two mechanical arms that dispense mortar and lay bricks at a similar pace to a human.

That is equivalent to roughly 500 bricks per robot in a typical eight-hour shift, but they can be programmed to work around the clock if required – albeit under human supervision.

It represents one potential solution to help ease a chronic shortage of brickies in Britain’s construction industry, with experts warning that at least 25,000 more are needed to meet the Government’s house-building plans.

And eventually coming to America, presumably.

Illegal immigrants, call your coyote.

The Telegraph (UK).

The man credited with reinventing traditional Irish dance notified the court of a “material change in circumstances” – he was moving back to Ireland to run in their presidential elections.

It raises the prospect of the man who once held the Guinness World Record for tap dancing 35 times per second facing off against McGregor.

McGregor, 37, who recently lost a civil case accusing him of rape, declared his intention to run for president in March this year at the White House, where he gained the tacit endorsement of Donald Trump.

So, whom would you pick: The fighter or the dancer? (Mike Tyson or Michael Jackson?)

The Times (UK).

A British woman held as a hostage by Hamas in a “tiny cage” in tunnels beneath Gaza for 471 days has spoken about the horrors she endured.

Emily Damari, 29, was kidnapped by the Palestinian group from her kibbutz during the October 7, 2023 massacre. Militants shot two of her fingers, which had to be amputated, and fragments of another bullet lodged in her leg. Damari was taken to Gaza, where she was held in Hamas’s tunnels before she was released along with 32 other hostages in a short-lived ceasefire deal in January.

Damari said she was held with up to six hostages in a “tiny cage” measuring only two metres by two metres. Her fellow hostages included her best friends Gali and Ziv Berman, who are twin brothers. The 27-year-old twins are among the 50 hostages yet to be released, 20 of whom are still thought to be alive.

This is what every keffiah-sporting proglodyte virtue-signaler you see on TV is supporting. Shooting them down like the dogs they are would be a public service.

UPDATE: ‘Intimidation campaign’ by supporters of pro-Gaza MP leaves town in terror (The Telegraph [UK]) Fascists on the hoof.

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The Feral Historian does a deep dive on constraints due to people, technology, living space, frontiers and walls.

His discussion of the role of military service in a modern society (under the guise of a discussion of STAR TREK) is fascinating. One of the historical functions (not purposes; be sure to appreciate the distinction between those two concepts) is to absorb the excess young male population of the Underclass (who would otherwise cause trouble–sound familiar?) and the prospective heirs of the Overclass (who would otherwise lead revolts–sound familiar?) and (through training and service) turn them into folks invested in the current state of their culture. Just think about that for a bit.

Tim Pool brings the heat.

And there you have it. Democrats and other proglodytes are aborting their babies rather than raising them. So their cencus numbers go down, and they lose Congressional seats to Red states. So they want to bring in a shitload of illegal immigrants from the Turd World who will eventually morph into loyal left wing voters supporting the Party of Free Stuff, and in the interim the incoming tide will lift the boats of the Democrat Congressional delegations.

Don’t think they’re doing this in pursuit of the bleeding hearts. It’s about power. For Democrats, it’s always about power.And it’s always very carefully calculated.

The Paris Review.

By Isabelle Rea March 22, 2024 ON THINGS

What can’t be contained? Not much. We are given the resources, mental or physical, to contain our emotions and our belongings. Failing to do so often registers as weakness.

The smallest container you can buy at the Container Store is a rectangular crystal-clear plastic box available in orange, purple, and green. It can contain one AA or two AAA batteries, half a handful of Tic Tacs, or a folded-up tissue. The largest container you can buy at the Container Store is a four-tiered metal shelving unit. It can contain other containers.

Containers mediate us and our stuff. They create boundaries and allow our items to exist multiple feet above the ground. Most spaces are divided by containers. These containers might then be divided by additional containers. Containers form a scaffold, or an architecture. They make walls scalable and underbeds reachable. They allow you to put something down and know where it is the next time you want to pick it up.

Whenever I enter a Container Store, some shop assistant always comes up and asks what I’m looking for. I invariably reply, “I’m looking for the thing I don’t know I need until I see it.” They always laugh and nod.