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Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman is throwing his support behind Alpha School, a private education network that blends artificial intelligence with an unconventional approach to learning, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The school, which already operates in Texas, Florida, and California, plans to open a kindergarten-through-eighth-grade campus in Manhattan this fall.

Alpha’s model is unusual: students complete math, reading, and other fundamentals in just two hours a day using AI-driven software. The rest of the schedule is filled with activities meant to build confidence and practical skills, such as bike rides or drone workshops.

“We do not let anything—political, social issues—come in the way,” said co-founder MacKenzie Price. “We stay very much out of that.”

Price, who has become a prominent critic of traditional education on social media, launched Alpha more than a decade ago. The school employs “guides” rather than certified teachers and charges families between $40,000 and $65,000 annually, depending on location.

A step in the right direction, but of limited utility at $40k-$65k annually.

With MAGA’s help, Europe’s far-right marches into the mainstream (Zachary Basu/Axios)  For Axios, there is no right but the far-right.

Axios, ordinarily a Voice of the Crist. I have no idea how this got published.

Birthing person/inseminated person … Latinx … subverting norms … housing insecurity … a “justice-involved individual,” formerly known as an inmate.

• A blunt memo from Third Way, a center-left think tank run by lifelong Democrats, implores opponents of President Trump to ditch jargon that’s off-putting and even “deeply alienating” to many of the mainstream voters the party needs to win back.

“Whatever your intentions, when you refer to a pregnant woman as a ‘birthing person’ or a felon as a ‘justice-involved individual,’ you are not growing the tent, you’re making it smaller. Matt Bennett, a Third Way co-founder, tells Axios.

• The memo — “Was It Something I Said?” — is addressed “To: All Who Wish to Stop Donald Trump and MAGA.”
• “The aim,” Bennett said, “is to help persuade public-facing allies — mostly elected officials and candidates, but also advocates — to use words their high school classmates use … Just talk like a normal person, for chrissakes.”

Between the lines: The memo acknowledges that “some will take issue with the inclusion of words or phrases we ask Democrats to avoid when talking to the public. And to reiterate, we have used some of these phrases in our own writings in the past.”

• But Third Way says many of the words are “a red flag for a sizable segment of the American public. It is not because they are bigots, but because they fear cancellation, doxing, or trouble with HR if they make a mistake. Or they simply don’t understand what these terms mean and become distrustful of those who use them. So instead, they keep quiet.”

Why the Epstein drama isn’t going away anytime soon (Hailey Fuchs/Politico)  Because the Narrative Media won’t let it go, that’s why.

The New York Times, paper of record for the Deep State.

Through recessions, wars, financial crises and political turmoil, the U.S. economy has maintained its reputation as the safest place in the world for investors to put their money and for entrepreneurs to build their businesses.

That has given the United States a nearly incalculable economic advantage, allowing it to borrow more cheaply, grow more quickly and emerge from downturns more successfully than nearly any of its global peers.

President Trump may be chipping away at that advantage.

This proceeds from the statist assumption that a managed economy is stronger than a free economy, and since a managed economy needs metrics by which it can be managed (“You can’t manage what you don’t measure” my Business School teachers ceaselessly droned), Trump’s actions (which, according to the Narrative, impair that measurement) are striking at the foundations of the managed economy. Orange Man Bad.

A good case can be made, however, (and has been by Milton Friedman, Friedrich von Hayek, and others) that a managed economy is weaker than a free economy because the metrics that it uses for such management are inaccurate and incomplete compared to the totality of the knowledge available on a distributed basis (what the modern world calls “crowd-sourcing”) to the population as a whole. This is the whole basis of the fight between free-market people and managed-market people (communists/socialists, Keynesians, and Modern Monetary Theory people like Paul Krugman).

The Federalist.

That seems a bit too strong. I tend to agree with whoever said “Never attribute to malice what can be explained adequately by incompetence.” True, the cities are being destroyed by Woke policies and those Woke policies, but it appears to be a step too far to conclude that their intentions are to destroy the cities.

In the law there is a distinction between “general intent” and “specific intent”. If I shoot a gun and it wounds you, I definitely had the intent to shoot the gun (“general intent”) but it remains an open question whether I intended to shoot you (“specific intent”). If one cannot prove specific intent, one is left with only negligence for a cause of action.

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The surgery is expected to soon take place in Israel, in which a personalized engineered human spinal cord will be implanted in a paralyzed patient, with the goal of enabling the patient to rise from a wheelchair and walk again. Behind this medical advance stands Prof. Tal Dvir, Head of the Sagol Center for Regenerative Biotechnology, Head of the Nanotechnology Center at Tel Aviv University, and Chief Scientist of the biotech company Matricelf.

A few months ago, Prof. Dvir and his research team at Matricelf received preliminary approval from Israel’s Ministry of Health to begin “compassionate use” trials in eight patients, which means that the first patient in the world to undergo this innovative procedure would be Israeli. Prof. Dvir commented: “This is undoubtedly a matter of national pride. The technology was developed here in Israel, at Tel Aviv University and at Matricelf, and from the very beginning it was clear to us that the first-ever surgery would be performed in Israel, with an Israeli patient.”

The upcoming spinal cord implant surgery marks the next stage in a process that began about three years ago, when Prof. Dvir’s lab at Tel Aviv University succeeded in engineering a personalized three-dimensional human spinal cord in the laboratory. The groundbreaking findings were published in the prestigious journal Advanced Science and demonstrated that mice suffering from chronic paralysis and treated with the engineered implants started walking once again.

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A Moroccan culture-enricher in the town of Albuñol in southern Spain broke a stained-glass window to get into a church and then proceeded to vandalize the sanctuary, beheading sacred statues and damaging crucifixes, pews, etc. When parishioners arrived at the building to stop him, he set fire to the church.

Quillette.

Fascism remains the bogeyman of modern Western political culture. As historian Stanley G. Payne observes, “No major modern political phenomenon has been so thoroughly discredited and obliterated as European fascism was in the 1940s. Yet the f-word was never buried, for it had achieved a demonic status like no other, making it very useful in partisan polemics.” To label someone a fascist is to disqualify them from civil discourse entirely.

Despite its comparable—or in some respects greater—destructiveness, communism is rarely invoked with the same moral urgency. Given that fascism and communism represent the most extreme manifestations of Right and Left respectively, and that both left deep scars on the European continent, it is unsurprising that many politicians and intellectuals retain historical or nostalgic affiliations with one or the other. Such sentiments rarely carry serious implications for contemporary politics. Apologists for communism are unlikely to advocate reopening the gulags, nor do fascist nostalgists intend to implement racial laws against Jews.

The party of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Fratelli d’Italia, is often described as “post-fascist.” Similarly, coverage of Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement Nationale often highlights the fact that among the party’s founders was former Waffen-SS member Pierre Bousquet. Yet how often have you heard that Meloni’s principal rival, the Democratic Party, traces its lineage back to the Italian Communist Party, which was once faithful to Stalin? How frequently is it mentioned that French President Emmanuel Macron has cooperated with Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a man with a Trotskyist past? Mélenchon’s coalition contains a variety of explicitly communist parties, yet this causes no scandal.

CNET.

Losing between 50 to 100 hairs per day is normal, but shedding beyond that can be concerning and stressful. If you’ve tried serums, vitamins and topical solutions but nothing has helped, you’re not alone. Even Gen Z Reddit users have the same concern, wondering what might be contributing to it and how to get rid of hair loss.

How about a prescription gummy for hair loss? Hers, a telehealth company that provides online health care services and products for women, announced the launch of its Biotin-plus-Minoxidil Gummy, the first-of-its-kind prescription gummy formulated to support hair regrowth. Available through forhers.com, this gummy combines prescription-strength minoxidil, the only FDA-approved ingredient for female hair loss, with biotin, a popular vitamin for supporting healthy skin, hair and nails. Minoxidil is clinically proven to regrow thicker, fuller hair in three to six months (based on studies of oral minoxidil up to 2.5 mg per day at various doses).

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The breakthrough happened entirely by chance when Hill and his collaborator, Dr. Brian Wong, a professor of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at the University of California–Irvine, were frustrated with their attempts to reshape cartilage using lasers.

Hill said that they decided to try heating the material using an electric current, but accidentally used a far smaller current than they intended. They expected to see the cartilage bubbling and shaking. However, when Wong touched the cartilage, it wasn’t hot—suggesting another effect was at play.

While Wong is a medical professional, Hill is a physical chemist, and it was their partnership that allowed them to connect the dots.

Low electrical currents change the pH of cartilage, loosening molecular bonds and making tissues more malleable.

“And it’s like, this is electrochemistry,” Wong said. “That’s hydrogen and oxygen being evolved, so the discovery was entirely by accident on cartilage—100 percent by accident.”

ALSO : The Shockingly Simple Vision Breakthrough That Might End LASIK (SciTechDaily)

Ex-Trump Ally Couldn’t Definitively Say He Isn’t in Epstein Files (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)

Pam Bondi tightens grip on Justice Department after Epstein files fallout (CNN)

Newsbusters.

X owner Elon Musk can no longer hide behind predecessor Jack Dorsey and the radical programmers who have remained with the company since its change of ownership. Nearly three years after Musk bought Twitter (now X), the platform still favors liberals over conservatives, boosting voices on the left at the expense of account holders on the right. And this includes the accounts of members of Congress.

The rot is deep and strong. It didn’t get there in a day, and it won’t be gotten rid of in a day.

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Rory Sutherland does what he does best.

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Until a few weeks ago, you were more likely to see a Palestinian, Ukrainian, or LGBT pride flag flying in London than to see any of the UK’s own colours. Now, thanks to a grassroots movement called Operation Raise the Colours, that could be changing.

Union Jacks and St. George’s flags have been cropping up across the country over the last few weeks, being hung on lampposts by groups of patriots. The movement appears to have begun in Birmingham, organised online, before spreading to Norwich, Bradford, Newcastle, Swindon, and even London.

As you might expect, the flags are being swiftly removed by local councils. Birmingham’s Labour-run city council started pulling them down last week, citing health-and-safety concerns. The flags, fixed to lampposts 25 ft in the air, apparently put the lives of motorists and pedestrians “at risk.” This might have been a believable, if idiotic, excuse had the same council not allowed Palestinian flags to fly across the city—which is almost 30% Muslim—unhindered since October 7th, 2023. This is also the same council that, just last week, lit the city’s library up in green and white to celebrate Pakistan’s independence day. Birmingham City Council officials were even caught admitting in leaked emails earlier this year that they were too scared to take down the Palestinian flags without police assistance.

This week, the flashpoint for the flag wars was the East London borough of Tower Hamlets. The local authority, run by the pro-Gaza Aspire Party, has promised to remove any Union Jacks or St. George’s Crosses from council infrastructure “as soon as possible.” Tower Hamlets and its mayor, Lutfur Rahman, are certainly in more of a hurry to remove flags representing this country than they were to take down the many Palestine flags that lined the streets for months following October 7th. The council only (somewhat begrudgingly, it feels) removed these after Jewish residents complained the flags made them feel unsafe.

The Borough of Tower Hamlets is the Mecca of Londonistan. I expect them to make the official language there Urdu any day now.

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Kul wahad. There is (some) justice in New York after all. Now to quash the silly verdict.

Newsbusters, in a target-rich environment.

Just when you thought CNN had run out of things to blame on President Trump, CNN This Morning host sat down with The Atlantic staff writer Faith Hill on her The Assignment podcast to blame the Trump Administration for dating app fatigue.

As a general rule, both liberals and conservatives want their partner to share their values, but right away, Cornish only wanted to focus on one side of the political spectrum’s supposed toxicity. In the podcast clip, she asked Hill, “In what ways have political trends poisoned the dating well?”

Like Cornish, Hill only focused on one side of the relationship, “So, I think that we are in a very tricky political and cultural moment for dating. Just because, you know, men and women are kind of growing further apart in a lot of ways and especially among young people. And you see that young men are moving further to the right. Young women growing more progressive, and I think for a lot of women in particular, it can just sort of feel like, ‘This is not a time where I trust men. I feel respected by men. I don’t necessarily want to go out and meet strangers who are men.’”

Whenever two women talk, it’s All About Them. “No MAGA” is becoming common in “dating profiles” on such apps.

Newsbusters.

There are new details in the horrific story of the illegal immigrant trucker who is accused of killing three people in Florida due to his making an illegal u-turn.

Which was probably not illegal, or was at least customary, in his original Turd World country.

According to new reporting the driver had failed English and road sign tests.

Many Democrat voters would have the same problem.

This is despite those networks’ proclivity to cover awful traffic incidents, even when no one is killed.

And blame Trump, if available, or the nearest Republican, if not.

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And who could blame them?

Politico, a Voice of the Crust.

Democratic voters loathe partisan redistricting, but support California doing it to counter Texas, according to a new national poll on Gavin Newsom’s high-stakes gerrymander.

Democrats are hypocrites every age. The fact that they invented the gerrymander, like the fact that they were responsible for the Jim Crow laws, is conveniently stuffed down the Memory Hole.

The POLITICO-UC Berkeley Citrin Center survey conducted by TrueDot found that 70 percent of Democrats believe gerrymandering is “never acceptable.” But a strong majority of Democratic voters across the country think California Democrats should “fight back” and create more favorable House districts if Texas Republicans do, embracing the exact idea likely to go before California voters.

“The real divide isn’t about whether it’s fair,” said Jon Cohen, founder and CEO of TrueDot. “The real divide is whether to fight fire with fire or hold the line on principle.”

I’m amazed that Democrats, Democrats mind you, have any concern for principle at all.

The results presage a deeply partisan referendum on political power in the Trump era as the redistricting wars unfold. Democratic officials from former President Barack Obama to the party’s congressional leaders have united behind California’s bid to draw a map that imperils a half-dozen House GOP incumbents in next year’s midterm elections, saying they must respond in kind after President Donald Trump pushed Texas to boost Republicans and maintain the House majority.

Despite the fact that what goes on in Texas is none of California’s business, Democrats are all about power, and when their power is threatened, they will do whatever it takes to preserve it.

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Britain has received a record number of asylum applications, official data showed Thursday, as the government faces growing pressure over the housing of thousands of migrants in hotels.

A total of 111,084 people applied for asylum in the UK in the year to June 2025, according to figures released by the Home Office.

That was the highest for any 12 months since current records began in 2001.

The Home Office data showed that 32,059 migrants were staying in hotels at the end of June, an 8% increase on the same month last year, just before Labour Party leader Keir Starmer became prime minister.

Starmer is facing heat over his failure to stop illegal migrants crossing the Channel to England on small boats.

Thursday’s data showed that illegal arrivals soared 27% on the previous year, with 88% of those coming by small boats.

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The Bavarian city of Schweinfurt has disclosed new figures showing that only 28% of children starting first grade this year come from native German families. The numbers became public after an inquiry by AfD city councillor Richard Graupner.

According to the city hall, about 500 children have enrolled in first grade for the 2025/26 school year. Of these, 289—around 58%—were required to take a mandatory pre-course in German before entering school. Another 58 pupils, or about 12%, are repeating the course after their enrollment was postponed due to insufficient language skills.

The share of children without a migration background varies sharply between schools. At the Gartenstadt School, it is just 14%, at the Kerschensteiner School 17%, and at the Albert-Schweitzer School 18%. The Paul-Maar School and the Schillerschule each have 30%, the Körner School 26%, and the Dr.-Pfeiffer School 40%. In several schools, children with a migration background make up more than 80% of the student body. The only exception is the Friedrich-Rückert School, where a slim majority—52%—do not have a migration background.

Children identified with language deficits are required to attend a compulsory pre-course consisting of 240 lessons spread over roughly a year and a half. The program is run jointly by kindergarten specialists and primary school teachers. School entry can be deferred if the deficits persist.

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In Saint-Raphaël, on the French Riviera, the mayor has taken an unusual step: he plans to inaugurate a monument in his town in tribute to the victims of communism. The initiative has sparked outrage from the French Communist Party (PCF), which believes that the time for repentance has not yet come.

The mayor, Frédéric Masquelier, a member of the centre-right Les Républicains party, says he is very proud of his initiative, which is the first in France. With this gesture, he intends to “break a taboo of memory,” namely the responsibility of communist ideology for the deaths of 100 million victims throughout the last century. To date, monuments commemorating the victims of communism are all located in former communist countries.

The Communist Party has made its disapproval known, arguing that this monument has no place, since the only French “victims” of communism were “the Nazis and their collaborators.” The 10,000 French soldiers tortured in communist camps after the defeat at Dien Bien Phu in Indochina, to name but a few, will certainly appreciate being considered “Nazis and collaborators.”

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A future Reform UK election victory would mean an end to fish and chip suppers in Britain, according to the Labour government.

Echoing this, a flagship BBC current affairs programme berated Reform’s opposition to Britain’s current Net Zero policies (without which, Labour alleges the warming coastal waters will drive away UK fish stocks).

Meanwhile, Labour has claimed that the launch of a fast-selling “Reform FC” football shirt with “Farage 10” printed on the back is proof of the hypocrisy of Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, who usually advocates keeping politics out of sport.

If all three of these lines of attack smell of desperation, there’s probably more to follow.

Farage’s own modest proposal, for Reform to have the right to appoint its own representatives to Britain’s unelected second chamber, the House of Lords, in proportion to its parliamentary representation, has been ignored by PM Keir Starmer. Yet as long-time Farage associate Gawain Towler puts it

It is, in essence, a reasonable and apposite request for a party that has transcended fringe status to become a formidable force in British politics.

Labour’s bipolar response to the populist electoral challenge—ignore or make wild allegations—contrasts with the approach of Reform, which has been to publicise its measures to tackle crime and promise to consolidate its approach to illegal migration.

Even amid the summer parliamentary recess, Farage’s policies are continuing to cut through—which should account for the next round of Labour shrieking, but not the decline of fish and chips.

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A German court has said that a Nazi concentration camp memorial has the right to refuse entry to those wearing the Palestinian keffiyeh scarf.

The keffiyeh is not ‘Palestinian’. It is Arab, specifically Bedouin.

The higher administrative court in the eastern state of Thuringia rejected a request from a woman to be allowed entry to the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial while wearing a keffiyeh.

According to local media reports, the woman was turned away when she attempted to attend a commemorative event marking the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation in April while wearing the scarf.

She then petitioned the courts to allow her to return to the memorial for another commemorative event this week while wearing a keffiyeh.

The court found that the memorial was within its rights to deny her entry, pointing to the woman’s declared aim of “sending a political message against what she saw as the (memorial’s) one-sided support for the policies of the Israeli government.”

“It is unquestionable that this would endanger the sense of security of many Jews, especially at this site,” the court said.

The director of the memorial, Jens-Christian Wagner said the keffiyeh was not per se “a forbidden symbol” at the memorial.

“However when it is used together with other symbols… to relativise Nazi crimes, then we would ask people to remove those symbols,” he said.

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A British man has been arrested for saying “we love bacon” while protesting the building of a proposed giant mosque.

The Telegraph reports that the protest occurred at the site of planned super mosque in the Lake District, which is populated by an almost 100% white population.

The report further notes that the 23-year-old man, was not otherwise being disruptive, causing any damage or being in any way violent.

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The Department of Class Solidarity, an emerging left-wing activist group, launched a project to “audit” and track over 1,000 billionaires across the U.S. Their stated goal is not financial transparency, but political warfare: to document billionaire ties to President Trump, and then equip activists with the tools to, in their words, “defeat them.”

The group recently published its first five audits, each featuring a high-profile billionaire with direct or indirect links to the Trump agenda. The names include some of the wealthiest and most influential figures in American business: Elon Musk, Palantir CEO Alex Karp, former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) official Antonio Gracias, Silicon Valley “supervillain” Peter Thiel, and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos.

Each billionaire’s profile is accompanied by a stylized “wanted poster,” underscoring the group’s framing of billionaires as political enemies.

I suggest that these people be careful not to start down that road. Elon Musk could fund a task force out of his pocket change that would make these people disappear, and his agents would be the best professionals money could buy. Never get in a pissing contest with a guy whose net work has three commas in it.

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A new analysis of voter registration data has sparked warning signs among Democratic Party leaders. This is because the party of leftist radicals has effectively alienated working-class voters, pushing all things woke, embracing socialism (with a sprinkle of Marxism), calling for the collapse of capitalism, defending criminal illegal aliens, and the list goes on and on. Working-class Americans are beginning to see that the party of leftist radicals has become nothing more than a puppet for elite progressive donors and dark-money-funded NGOs advancing anti-American values.

“The Democratic Party is hemorrhaging voters long before they even go to the polls,” according to a new report from The New York Times.

Voter registration data from 2020-24 shows broad-based erosion across all 30 states that track party affiliation. Democrats lost a net 4.5 million voters, in what the NYT calls a “deep political hole that could take years to climb out of.”

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A Texas Democratic lawmaker who fled the state earlier this month abruptly hung up on a call with Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Ken Martin and other top party leaders on Wednesday, after she says she was warned that she was committing a felony.

UPDATE: Texas Democrat Quits DNC Call After Felony Warning

Business Wire.

Beyond, Inc. (NYSE:BYON) has issued the following statement from Marcus Lemonis, Executive Chairman of Bed Bath & Beyond:

We will not open or operate retail stores in California.

This decision isn’t about politics — it’s about reality. California has created one of the most overregulated, expensive, and risky environments for businesses in America. It’s a system that makes it harder to employ people, harder to keep doors open, and harder to deliver value to customers.

The result? Higher taxes, higher fees, higher wages that many businesses simply cannot sustain, and endless regulations that strangle growth. Even when the state announces a budget surplus, it’s built on the backs of ordinary citizens who are paying too much and businesses who are squeezed until they break.

At Bed Bath & Beyond, our responsibility is to our customers and our shareholders. We will not participate in a system that undermines both. Instead, we are investing in a California strategy that works: 24–48-hour delivery, and in many cases, same-day service. Californians will continue to get the products they love through BedBathandBeyond.com — but without the inflated costs created by an unsustainable model.

Texas Democrats plot to stall redistricting effort until Epstein files released (Asher Price/Axios)

Judge Denies Justice Department Request to Unseal Epstein Grand Jury Transcripts

Judge denies Justice Department request to unseal Epstein grand jury transcripts (Larry Neumeister/Associated Press)

Judge Refuses To Release Epstein Files, Says DOJ Should Do It Instead Of Legal ‘Diversion’

Texas Dems: Halt Redistricting Until Epstein Files Out

Prince Andrew warned to ‘brace himself’ as bombshell Epstein files to be made public

MAGA isolationists brace for details of Ukraine security guarantees (Tal Axelrod/Axios)

Getting MAGA To Go Left on Israel

Google President Praised MAGA Speech Slamming ‘Climate Extremist Agenda’

MAHA Vs. MAGA: Rift Grows Over Pesticides, Chemicals

MAGA erupts after Israeli official charged in child sex ring flees U.S. (Tal Axelrod/Axios)

The Foundry.

The Democratic Party saw an excessive loss of registered voters across battleground states, blue states, and red states over the course of Joe Biden’s presidency, The New York Times reported Wednesday.

Democrats lost about 2.1 million registered voters between the 2020 and 2024 elections along the 30 states and the District of Columbia where voters register with a party. Republicans gained 2.4 million voters in those states.

The newspaper did the analysis using information compiled by L2, a nonpartisan data firm.

This marks the first time since 2018 that more new voters chose to register as Republicans than Democrats.

The Foundry.

It’s a tale fit for a thriller novel or action movie: planes on the tarmac waiting to take members of a violent gang to a foreign prison, lawyers rushing to the courthouse to stop them, presidential proclamations, and a judge on a mission to impose his own brand of justice. But this drama isn’t made up—it’s very real, and it’s playing out right now in Washington, D.C.

Leading the cast is President Donald Trump, who wants to rid the country of a violent gang. The legal backstory for his actions has three parts.

The first is the Constitution, which the Supreme Court has long held gives the president authority over matters involving international relations that exceeds that permitted in domestic matters.

The second piece is the Alien Enemies Act, enacted in 1798. It authorizes the president to apprehend and remove the natives, citizens, or subjects of a hostile foreign government if that government attempts or threatens an “invasion or predatory incursion” against the U.S.

Third, the Immigration and Nationality Act authorizes the secretary of state to designate as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, or FTOs, groups that engage in terrorist activity and threaten the safety of Americans or the United States.

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People like nothing better than to see an arrogant bureaucrat get cut down to size after screaming the words “Don’t you know who I am?” This is essentially what Rhode Island State Prosecutor and Democrat, Devon Flanigan, did when she faced off with police after allegedly refusing to leave a Newport dining establishment.

The woman, seemingly under the influence, tried to order officers to shut off their body cams as she stood outside the restaurant, stating that she knew their protocols and that they were required to do so by law (there is no such law in Rhode Island). Officers ignored the demand and asked Flanigan to leave the premises, only to be bombarded with arguments and declarations that “she is an AG”.

All together now: “Nobody Is Above The Law1”

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An extended interview with Rory Sutherland, who is one of Britain’s great national treasures and whose insights into life and commerce are among the most original I’ve ever encountered. One of those people who’ll say something and make you sit up and say, “Wow. I never thought about it that way…” It’s not often that I come out of a YouTube podcast with half a dozen book titles that I need to read, but this is one of them.

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A Northern Virginia school district will suspend two boys who complained when a girl, who identifies as a boy, used their locker room at school—and the district will also force the boys to work out a “corrective action plan” with school administrators.

“We will be on guard for any attempts to create a plan of indoctrination into the district’s denial of reality and science,” Victoria Cobb, president of the Family Foundation, told The Daily Signal. The foundation’s legal arm, the Founding Freedoms Law Center, is representing the two boys.

Loudoun County Public Schools investigated three high school boys for “sexual harassment” in violation of Title IX—a federal law prohibiting sex discrimination—after they complained about the girl in their locker room. The girl reportedly used her phone to record the boys complaining about her—a violation of school district policy—but the district investigated the boys, not the girl who recorded them.

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A city council member in Michigan was reportedly seen on video helping to drop what appear to be several absentee ballots into a ballot drop box ahead of an August primary election.

Abu Musa, a city councilman in the city of Hamtramck, Michigan, was reportedly in the passenger seat handing what appear to be ballots to the driver, who then dropped them in the drop box. Various news reports say they were “bundles” of ballots, another says “stacks.”

The video was first reported by Local 4 News in Detroit and later was reported in other Michigan and national news outlets. Local 4 reported that Michigan State Police confirmed the footage.

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Illinois has until Thursday to provide the Justice Department with more voter information about whether it’s complying with federal law on maintaining voter registration lists.

The state, which has had a reputation for voter fraud cases, provided partial information, but only information that is already publicly available.

On Monday, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, a Democrat, took a more hardline stance. He declined to say if the State Board of Elections should provide more information to the Justice Department but accused the Trump administration of hunting for dead voters.

“Well, it’s clear why they’re hunting around for voter data, right? They’re trying to say that in the next election, that there will be fraud because they know they’re going to lose,” Pritzker told reporters, Capitol News Illinois reported. “They are looking, essentially, to say that, well, we found somebody who died who’s still on the rolls, and therefore, there’s fraud, and therefore, these elections are fraudulent and should be overturned.”

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Chaos ensued during the arrest of illegal alien influencer Tatiana Martinez while she was live streaming from her car in Los Angeles. Martinez, known for tracking ICE agents and using her TikTok account to alert protesters to the locations of their arrests, is a Colombian citizen who entered the US in 2022 according to DHS. She was released into the country by the Biden Administration along with millions of other illegals.

According to DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, Martinez was arrested for a previous DUI conviction in Los Angeles. This makes her a prime target for deportation under Donald Trump’s crackdown on migrants.

They’re so accustomed to the kid glove treatment from the Deep State, they’ve grown foolish.  Think of it as evolution in action.

Rep. Comer: Fmr AG Barr Sheds Light on Epstein Suicide

Justice Department Will Release Epstein Files To Capitol Hill, James Comer Says (Arthur Delaney/HuffPost)

Comer: DOJ to Start Sharing Epstein Files with Congress Friday

Dan Bongino Suffers Fresh Embarrassment After Epstein Files Tantrum (William Vaillancourt/The Daily Beast)

Jeffrey Epstein? Forget It

Behind the Curtain: Rising Democratic MAGA movement (Axios)

Dems Consider ‘Blue MAGA’ Approach  Apparently Blue Fascism doesn’t work.

What I saw inside Pam Bondi’s DOJ Faux-MAGA lobbyists trample populism (Roger Alford/UnHerd)

Elise Stefanik Drowned Out by Furious Protesters: ‘Shame!’ (Erkki Forster/The Daily Beast)  Being shouted down by a leftist mob is apparently Our Democracy At Work. Good that we got that settled.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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The number of Islamist-motivated crimes in Germany rose sharply in 2024, reaching over 1,500 cases, according to the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA).

Out of 804 suspects last year, around 22% were under 18 years old, up from less than 8% a decade earlier.

In 2024, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) recorded 1,694 cases of ”politically motivated crime–religious ideology,” 1,397 of which were connected to Islamist motives.

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An elementary school near Vienna advertised a part-time PE teacher role requiring “very well-written and spoken Turkish skills” alongside German and English.

The posting sparked criticism from Austria’s right-wing FPÖ and center-right ÖVP parties.

FPÖ education spokesman Helmut Fiedler stressed that the official language of education in primary schools is German, and that requiring Turkish is therefore unnecessary and could unfairly disadvantage local applicants.

Principal Erwin Rauscher defended the posting, saying it aimed to build bridges to students with different native languages.

Among the two hundred students at the school, twenty different languages are spoken.

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The latest hot clip of former MSNBC host Joy Reid losing her mind came on the podcast The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali. The August 15 episode was titled “How Mediocre White Men and Their Fragility Are Destroying America.”

Joy was wearing a hat with the abbreviation “FDT.” It was especially kooky when the subject was Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center and the Kennedy Center Honors.

If it weren’t for white people, Joy [oxymoron] Reid would be sitting outside of a grass hut in West Africa pounding out millet porridge for supper. That’s gratitude for you.

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Treating Democrats like the criminal gang they so often are.

UPDATE: Police escort Texas Democrats to prevent new redistricting walkout as California moves to retaliate (Associated Press)

UPDATE Fort Worth Rep. Nicole Collier refuses to leave Texas House, protesting state trooper escorts (David Montgomery/KERA News)

UPDATE: Nicole Collier rejects Speaker Dustin Burrows’ pledge to return for Wednesday morning vote on Republican push to redraw state’s electoral map (Joe Sommerlad/The Independent)