Read it.

Democrats are claiming the Texas state legislature is attempting to “rig the midterm elections” despite an analysis demonstrating that Democrat-led states disenfranchise Republican voters on a massive scale through gerrymandering.

Across the nation, prominent (and ambitious) Democrat governors like Gavin Newsom (CA), J.B. Pritzker (IL), and Kathy Hochul (NY) are making political hay by claiming Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is committing an “insurrection” and disenfranchising Democrat voters in his heavily red state through his plan for a rare mid-decade redistricting that would net Republicans more seats.

Despite the performative pearl-clutching, the numbers show all three of those Democrat governors — and many more — benefit from aggressive gerrymandering and redistricting practices.

Government is why we can never have nice things.

Read it.

Police in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia have been called to asylum seeker shelters almost forty times a day on average—more than 1,000 times every month—this year, according to new figures released by the state’s government.

The data—provided in response to a parliamentary question from the right-wing Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party—show that there were 15,825 police deployments to such facilities in 2024.

In the first half of 2025, police were called 6,797 times, averaging more than 1,100 incidents per month.

UPDATE: Germany Keeps Enticing Migrants with Welfare Benefits

UPDATE: Germany Dragged to Court for Halting Refugee Intake

Power Line.

Last month This past California Federal District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong issued a temporary restraining order more or less preventing ICE from operating in California’s Central District — the covering the seven counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura. The counties’ population of nearly 20 million people is the largest of any federal judicial district in the country. I wrote about Judge Frimpong’s crimping of ICE in posts that are accessible here.

“Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong” sure says “American” to me…

Heather Mac Donald takes up the case and the mysteries of Judge Frimpong herself in the City Journal column “Using a Double Standard on Race to Handicap ICE.” Subhead: “A federal judge ruled that agents impermissibly used race in questioning suspected illegal aliens—but she’s hardly color-blind in her own courtroom.” As one would expect from Ms. Mac Donald, it is an excellent column.

Mac Donald links to what she calls the government’s “emergency appeal” to the Supreme Court. The linked document is actually styled an application for a stay. The procedural background is addressed at pages 8-14. The government discusses the Ninth Circuit’s disposition of its request for relief, but it’s not clear to me that the Ninth Circuit even had appellate jurisdiction over Judge Frimpong’s temporary restraining order.

Read it.

Finland’s celebrated education system is failing its brightest students, contributing to the country’s slipping performance in global rankings, according to a leading education expert.

Kirsi Tirri, Professor of Education at the University of Helsinki, told Helsinki Times that Finland’s emphasis on equality in schools has come at the expense of high-achieving students, who are not receiving the tailored support they need to thrive.

Tirri stressed that true equality in education does not mean treating all students the same but rather adapting teaching to individual needs, whether a student struggles or excels.

Quillette.

Since the Israel–Hamas war broke out in 2023, Gaza’s humanitarian crisis has become a focal point of international debate and widespread misinformation. Harrowing images of emaciated children and distressed families circulate daily, intensifying claims that Gaza is nearing famine. Meanwhile, Israeli and UN data indicate large aid convoys entering the territory. This contradiction (plentiful supplies on paper, yet ongoing hunger on the ground) has caused confusion over what is true and who bears responsibility for the deteriorating conditions in the Strip. Amid the chaos of war, what we know and don’t know has often been obscured by propaganda. Distinguishing fact from fiction is crucial to understanding Gaza’s aid crisis and holding the correct parties accountable.

Read it.

A Moroccan culture-enricher in the Italian city of Foggia stabbed his former main squeeze (also a Moroccan) to death, despite being subject to a restraining order.

The politically correct term “femicide” serves to distract from the fact that the incident is more about cultural enrichment than gender politics, and that women are much more likely to be murdered by a husband or boyfriend if that significant other happens to be a Muslim.

Read it.

All run by Democrats. All except Detroit are ‘black-led’; Detroit (out of desperation, perhaps) more recently elected a white mayor after the city had been run into the ground by black politicians for the last fifty years.

The Foundry.

Conservative groups loudly condemned a Massachusetts police agency for citing the Southern Poverty Law Center in attacking the parental rights group Moms for Liberty in a law enforcement training.

Moms for Liberty called for a retraction, suggesting that the police agency actually went further than the SPLC in attacking the parental rights nonprofit.

The SPLC, which gained its reputation by suing Ku Klux Klan groups into bankruptcy in the 1980s, added Moms for Liberty to a “hate map” alongside Klan chapters in 2023. It branded the parental rights nonprofit an “anti-government extremist group,” but stopped short of calling it a “hate group.” Even so, the Massachusetts Municipal Police Training Committee included Moms for Liberty in a report on “Freedom and Hate: Speech, Crimes & Groups,” suggesting the organization is a “hate group.”

“The fact that the discredited SPLC listed Moms for Liberty as an ‘anti-government extremist group’ is bad enough,” Tina Descovich, CEO and co-founder of the parental rights group, told The Daily Signal in a statement Monday. “But to have the Massachusetts Municipal Police Training Committee echo this false claim and add to it that we’re a ‘Hate Group’ is beyond outrageous.”

“They need to immediately issue a public apology for incorrectly targeting moms and dads that advocate for parental rights,” Descovich added.

Read it.

Easing and tightening decisions move all assets from bonds to private equity. Their role is supposed to be to control inflation, provide price stability, and ensure normal market functions. However, there is little evidence of any success in achieving their goals. The era of central bank dominance has been characterised by boom-and-bust cycles, financial crises, policy incentives to increase government spending and debt, and persistent inflation. Recently developed economies’ central banks have taken an increasingly interventionist role.

The creation and proliferation of central banks over the past century promised greater financial stability. Nevertheless, as history and current events continually show, central banks have not prevented financial crises. The frequency and severity of these crises have fluctuated but have not declined since central banks became the leading figure in financial market regulation and monetary interventions. Instead, central banking has introduced new fragilities and changed the nature, but not the recurrence, of financial turmoil.

Read it.

Of course they are.

This is the first invasion in history in which the government of the existing inhabitants is greeting the invaders with welfare checks.

UPDATE: 1.3 Million Foreign Nationals Now Claiming UK Benefits

The New York Times, paper of record for the Wokerati.

Lauren Southern is not a ‘TradWife’, any more than Ashley St. Clair. She is a promiscuous grifter who has been riding the ‘TradWife’ meme for profit ever since she hit puberty. She is a ‘right-wing influencer’ only in the eyes of people like Michelle Goldberg, who wouldn’t know ‘right-wing’ if it bit her on the foot. Which I hope it does.

Brett Cooper is legitimately a TradWife. Look her up on YouTube.

Amy Dangerfield will legitimately be a TradWife, once she settles down, which I hope she does soon. Look her up on YouTube as well.

San Francisco Chronicle, a Voice of the Crust.

Find a ‘city’ that isn’t ‘black led’. Go on; I’ll wait.

The distinction to be made here is that Trump is ‘targeting’ Democrat-‘led’ cities, because Democrat politicians (an amazing number of which just happen to be black-‘led’) aren’t doing their jobs.

The first job of elected officials is to ensure that their constituents are safe. The first job of ‘black-led cities’ appears to be ignoring crime and wasting taxpayer money (when it isn’t just stolen).

I read somewhere recently (can’t remember where) that there are no Blue States, merely Blue Cities. That sounds about right.

Read it.

Pakistan’s Army Chief, General Asim Munir, has been on a tour of the United States over several days, which included attendance at a farewell function for the chief of the US Central Command, Gen. Michael Kurilla. The trip is said to be Gen. Munir’s second visit in less than two months.

While in Tampa (where CENTCOM’s HQ base is located), Gen. Munir also spoke at a private event for the Pakistani diaspora in America. His words there have set off outrage and condemnation from India on Monday, including fresh nuclear sabre-rattling.

“We are a nuclear power. If we go down, we’ll take half the world with us,” Munir reportedly had stated. What has heightened the anger in New Delhi is that this is the first time a top Pakistani official has issued an apparent nuclear threat from US soil.

The Telegraph (UK).

Shoplifters are raiding pharmacies while police do nothing, chemists have said.

There has been an 88 per cent increase in the theft of drugs and other medical supplies from pharmacies in the past year, according to the National Pharmacy Association (NPA).

Pharmacy owners have been left “shocked” by the lack of help from police and resorted to putting up photos of burglars in their shop windows, wearing body cameras and hiring security guards at their own expense to deter thieves.

The NPA said almost nine in 10 of its members had suffered an increase in shoplifting and three in four pharmacies said the police response was insufficient.

The Californication of Britain proceeds apace.

The Times (UK).

More than 50,000 migrants have crossed the Channel in small boats since Sir Keir Starmer took office, official figures are expected to confirm on Tuesday.

The most recent Home Office figures showed that 49,797 people had arrived by small boat since Labour won the general election in July last year.

That total is expected to rise after a further 430 migrants made the journey from France on Monday.

Starmer came into power pledging to “smash the gangs” behind the Channel crossings. However, analysis shows that the number of people who arrived in the UK via small boats in the first half of this year was 48 per cent higher than in the same period last year.

Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, suggested that migrants housed in hotels could instead be held in “camps” to take them out of local communities.

Badenoch said people “don’t feel safe” as she visited Epping in Essex, where protesters have gathered in recent weeks near a hotel housing asylum seekers.

The term ‘feckless’ comes immediately to mind.

Why are they letting France do this to them? They’re no longer part of the E.U. They don’t have to put up with this shit.

Read it.

De gustibus non est disputandum.

Read it.

As the group of amateur archaeologists sifted through tiles, animal teeth and pottery fragments buried within an ancient Roman pit in eastern England, one of them encountered something unusual last June.

It was a cast bronze object, hollow in the middle, flat along 12 faces, about the size of a clenched fist. Only one of the diggers — all members of Norton Disney village’s archaeology society — recognized the discovery: It was a Roman dodecahedron, likely to have been placed there 1,700 years earlier.

“You’re looking at a very strange and bizarre object,” Richard Parker, secretary of the Norton Disney History and Archaeology Group, said in a telephone interview.

At first glimpse, the dodecahedron looks more like a sci-fi illustration than it does an ancient Roman relic. Each of its pentagon-shaped faces is punctuated by a hole, varying in size, and each of its 20 corners is accented by a semi-spherical knob.

D12. Ask me a hard one. As Gary Gygax once famously said, “No pirate ever role-played as a marketing consultant.”

Vance Tries to Convince Americans That Trump Wants ‘Full Transparency’ in Epstein Case (Peter Wade/Rolling Stone)

Rep. Comer: Clintons Must Testify on Epstein Saga After Subpoena

GOP Lawmakers Left Washington to Escape the Epstein Issue. It Followed Them Home. (Riley Rogerson/NOTUS)

Read it.

The things around us have become plainer. In 1923, or 1823, the fashion was for intricate and richly ornamented architecture, furniture, clothes, dishware, or whatever else. In 2023, fashionable objects are plain and minimalist, if not outright utilitarian. Steve Jobs believed that every object should look as much like a featureless white sphere as possible, and the rest of us follow in his footsteps.

…

When I ask people why this is, they usually tell me it’s because people can no longer afford ornamentation as a result of improved technology. This seems backwards—everywhere else, improved technology makes nice things cheap and plentiful. Why would this be the opposite for ornamentation? I’m often told it’s because of the Baumol effect—that when technology improves productivity in some fields, the cost rises in other fields where productivity remains relatively lower, such as live music performances. Because ornamentation must be handmade, improved technology does not improve productivity in this sector, and so prices rise and rise until it is unaffordable.

This is hot nonsense. Technology obviously improves the productivity of making and installing ornamentation. There is no law of nature which requires everything beautiful must be made by a seventy-year-old master craftsman peering through spectacles as he works with hammer and chisel. Men have used mass-production technology to make better and cheaper ornamentation since the first day of the Industrial Revolution—literally. James Watt, whose improved steam engine marks the Industrial Revolution’s beginning in 1776, was good friends with Josiah Wedgwood,1 an entrepreneur who used improved production techniques and advanced tooling to mass-manufacture decorative vases and tableware, including machine-made copies of ancient Greek and Roman works. Wedgwood sold to both middle-class consumers and the Queen of England.

The New York Times, paper of record for the Wokerati.

On a recent sunny Sunday, residents of San Francisco’s Noe Valley gathered to celebrate the opening of a toilet. But not just any toilet. This was the nation’s most infamous public toilet.

In 2022 my colleague Heather Knight, then at The San Francisco Chronicle, noticed the projected price tag on the commode: $1.7 million, which Assemblyman Matt Haney had secured from the state. This was business as usual in San Francisco. Other public toilets had cost about the same. Local officials were planning a celebration. But Knight’s article set off a furor. Gov. Gavin Newsom clawed back the money. The party was canceled. Haney denounced the project he had made possible: “The cost is insane. The process is insane. The amount of time it takes is insane.” He wanted answers.

Phil Ginsburg, the general manager of San Francisco’s Recreation and Parks Department, responded with a letter that is a masterpiece of coiled bureaucratic fury. He told Haney that the department had been “pleasantly surprised” by the “unexpected allocation” of $1.7 million for the Noe bathroom. “Until now,” Ginsburg wrote, “we have not received any questions from you on the estimate.”

But Ginsburg was happy to walk Haney through the numbers and describe how Haney, as a former member of San Francisco’s powerful Board of Supervisors and a current member of the State Legislature, bore responsibility for them. “As you will see, the process is indeed long and expensive,” he noted. “It is also the result of many years of political choices and exacerbated by skyrocketing costs.”

Politicians waste money and then are shocked, shocked that money is being wasted.

Read it.

I usually see little point in commenting on the monthly jobs reports—unless something truly remarkable or outrageous happens.

Well, recently it did.

To say the numbers were disappointing would be a massive understatement. The whole thing was a statistical catastrophe—one that exposed just how broken the government’s data machine really is.

It started with the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reporting just 73,000 jobs added in July—well below the 110,000 to 140,000 range economists were expecting. Meager, to say the least.

But the real bombshell came buried in the revisions.

Back in May, the government had claimed 147,000 jobs were created. June’s number was reported at 144,000.

Turns out the actual figures were 19,000 for May and just 14,000 for June.

In other words, the BLS had “miscalculated” job creation by a staggering 258,000 positions—in just two months.

Needless to say, Trump was livid. This wasn’t just a bad print—it struck directly at the credibility of the system he’s now in charge of.

Larry Correia brings the heat.

Internet Zoology Time: You have all heard my Three Cooters Theory of Internet Discourse, but I need to add a corollary. THE REVERSE COOTER.

The Three Cooters Theory is that most of the time when the media starts going off about how conservatives/republicans/MAGA is outraged about something which only racists/morons/misogynists would be outraged about, and there’s hundreds of articles about this outrage, when you delve into it the actual outrage can be traced back to three guys named Cooter complaining on twitter. Then the left runs with this, acts like 3 Cooters=3million people they don’t like, and turns into a huge story so they can once again go HA HA LOOK AT THE DUMMIES.

Last time I delved into this we came up with dozens of examples of manufactured outrage.

Read it.

Long-standing rivals Armenia and Azerbaijan separately published the document that could form the basis for peace between the two countries. The initiative, announced on Monday, August 11th, follows meetings between the respective national leaders, including a trilateral meeting with U.S. president Donald Trump, credited with brokering the peace deal, on August 8th.

Formally agreed to back in March, Articles 1 to 17 of the agreement aim to resolve any remaining border disputes peacefully, resorting to peaceful third-party dispute resolution where this can’t be reached by the two states. Following the meeting with Trump, it appears that an agreement has been reached on a proposed transit connection of Azerbaijan to its Nakhchivan exclave through Armenian territory.

Critics of the new treaty note that it lacks specific details regarding how the process will be implemented, which would likely involve the withdrawal of mutual complaints in international courts and competing territorial claims.

Another reason to give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize–which, of course, will never happen in a world where Obama got it just for being the Magic Negro.

Power Line.

Minnesota is home to the largest Somali community in the United States. What do Minnesota’s Somali citizens think of us? We know amazingly little about the community, probably because we are afraid to ask the relevant questions. We know they are mostly Muslim — we can see the hijabs, we are familiar with the many local controversies to which their faith has given rise over the past 35 years — but are they loyal residents or citizens of the United States? In the conflict between the United States and Muslim terrorists, for example, whose side are they on?

Acting United States Attorney Joe Thompson observed at the sentencing of Abdiaziz Farah last week for his food fraud crime spree that Farah treated us as “suckers.” That is certainly true, but it expresses the problem in almost reassuringly familiar terms. I wonder if the problem doesn’t run deeper than that.

For years I was told by federal law enforcement authorities that their biggest concern was represented in an ongoing investigation of foreign support for terrorism. Some Somali Minnesotans supported the terrorist group al-Shabaab with their money. Some supported it with their sons. The investigation consumed the local FBI office for a matter of years and resulted in a string of guilty pleas involving local Somali men supporting al-Shabaab. Investigators believed at least 21 Somali men have left Minnesota to join al-Shabaab. In 2011 two “Minnesota women” were convicted of providing material support to the group after a 10-day trial before Judge Michael Davis.

Read it.

Andrew Beck has made a cogent case for why the U.S., like other countries, requires cultural and moral cohesion to protect its nationhood and act with a unified will on behalf of the common good. Beck correctly notes that the U.S. started out as a country with a well-defined collective identity. If we look back at America’s beginnings, we discover John Jay in Federalist2 defining this original American identity in a memorable observation:

Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people—a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by their joint counsels, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence.

At the time this was written, the newly formed American nation-state was composed overwhelmingly of Northern European Protestants; its legal institutions were largely British. Its shared culture was shaped by, among other things, reading and revering the King James Bible. Among the professional class, the Bible’s authority was supplemented by that of Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England, Shakespeare’s tragedies, and (to some extent) classical texts like Plutarch’s Lives.

Read it.

Finnish prosecutors have charged the captain and two senior officers of an oil tanker suspected of belonging to Russia’s “shadow fleet” with sabotage over the cutting of five Baltic Sea cables last December.

The Cook Islands-registered Eagle S allegedly dragged its anchor for around 90 kilometres in the Gulf of Finland, damaging a submarine power cable and four telecommunications lines linking Finland and Estonia. Prosecutors say the incident caused at least €60 million ($70 million) in repair costs and posed a “serious risk” to the country’s energy supply and communications.

The three defendants, barred from leaving Finland, face charges of aggravated criminal mischief and aggravated interference with communications. Authorities have not disclosed their nationalities, but many crew members were reportedly Indian and Georgian. The officers deny the charges and claim Finland lacks jurisdiction as the cables were cut outside its territorial waters. Prosecutors argue jurisdiction applies due to the scale of the threat.

Read it.

Shades of Atlas Shrugged.

Over a million residents across central Maryland, particularly in the Baltimore metro, were warned moments ago by the local utility that a substation failure linked to a major power plant could trigger widespread blackouts this afternoon. The alert comes barely a week after President Trump handed Maryland Governor Wes Moore and the Democratic Party in Annapolis a political lifeline to prevent power blackouts, underscoring the fragility of the state’s power grid under the weight of failed Democrat-driven green energy policies.

Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE) has asked all 1.3 million of its electric customers in central Maryland “to conserve electricity to reduce the potential for widespread outages this afternoon and evening, due to a power plant experiencing an unplanned disconnection from the BGE electric system.”

Time to leave.

Read it.

Taxachusetts lives up to its name.

When Elizabeth Warren pushed her own wealth tax, I noted that the high starting income or wealth levels would likely be lowered with time if Congress were ever allowed to cross this constitutional Rubicon.

As taxes ALWAYS do. Income taxes were originally a trivial percentage for the income of only very rich people. Now it takes between a quarter and a have of the income of everyone with an income above the poverty level. Government always wants to spend more of your money, and they are very proficient at coming up with a fine-sounding excuse for picking your pocket. As Wm. F. Buckley once famously said, “Liberals are people who feel entirely justified reaching into your shower and adjusting the temperature of the water.”  (Read the new Buckly biography. It’s an adventure.)

Read it.

America’s Democratic Mayors Association (DMA) says President Donald Trump is not justified in ordering federal management of the Washington, D.C., police department.

Of course they do. But they won’t perform the basic function of government of ensuring that people can live in peace. They talk a good fight but take no action.

UPDATE Protesters Gather Near White House as Trump Unveils D.C. Plans (Karoun Demirjian/New York Times) “What do we want?” “Crime!” “When do we want it?” “Now!”

UPDATE: DC Mayor Warns Trump’s Crime Fighting Measures Will Unfairly Impact Criminals (Babylon Bee)

UPDATE: Trump Vows To Drastically Reduce The Number Of Criminals In Washington By Sending Congress Home (Babylon Bee)

Newsbusters.

Audie Cornish must have the keenest hearing in the liberal media.

Sure, many liberals claim to hear supposedly racist Republican dog whistles. But Cornish can detect a dog whistle before it’s even pronounced! Call it a double-secret dog whistle on probation!

Remember: If you hear the dog-whistle, then you’re the dog.

Read it.

COVID-19 levels are rising in the United States, with the highest numbers occurring along the West Coast, according to new data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

COVID recognizes its rightful prey: Blue State hand-wringers.

Read it.

Snake Pliskin, call your office.

UPDATE: NYC offices add armed guards, dogs and new turnstiles after 2 Midtown shootings

Bloomberg, a Voice of the Crust.

Good luck with that.

UPDATE: Newsom Offers Trump Deal on Redistricting Fight  In order to offer a deal, you have to have something to offer. Is Newsom going to make Democrats quit gerrymandering California to exclude Republicans from the California state government. Sure, he may SAY he will, but he won’t, really, nor will any Democrat. They don’t give up power any more than Lucy will allow Charlie Brown to kick the football.

Matthew Yglesias.

No, it’s not. Proportional representation would be unconstitutional in the U.S., because it requires people to vote for a ‘party list’, and the party in question then determines who gets seats and who does not. This is historically seen as corruption in the U.S., and the reason why we now have a series of primary elections to choose party candidates. The constitution knows nothing of parties, and requires individual candidates running for office. (Indeed, read the Federalist papers and what they have to say about political parties, which the Founders termed ‘faction’–and that was not meant as a compliment.)

Proportional representation is what has ensured a multitude of splinter parties in most European countries, as a result of which most European countries have fragile ruling coalitions that break if you breathe on them hard, which in turn puts power firmly in the hands of their equivalent of the Deep State. (Proportional representation is what allowed the Nazis to form a government in Germany in 1933, with results as we saw them.) The problem of a multitude of splinter parties has debilitated even Britain, which has the same ‘first past the post’ system that the U.S. uses (although the individual states often have rules about run-off elections to ensure that the winning candidate has some sort of majority of the votrs cast, if not the total votes available).

Democrats, being ‘democrats’, would love a proportional system, even though it would destroy them.

Read it.

Don’t Mess With Musk.

Read it.

A Chinese navy vessel collided with one from its own coast guard while chasing a Philippine patrol boat in the South China Sea.

The crew of the Philippine patrol boat filmed the moment the smaller Chinese coast guard ship and the larger navy vessel collided head-on, with a large bang being heard as the ships make impact.

The Philippine coast guard said the collision happened near the Scarborough Shoal, a disputed collection of reefs and rocks in prime fishing grounds where their vessels had been deployed to help Filipino fishermen. China seized control of the shoal in the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone in 2012.

The crash is the latest in a series of confrontations in the South China Sea, one of the most important shipping routes for global trade. Several countries lay claim to parts of the waterway, but China claims nearly all of it despite a 2016 UN tribunal challenging their claim.

Read it.

uthorities have uncovered a well-organized Syrian smuggling network responsible for illegally moving up to 480 migrants daily into the European Union via the Balkan route.

The network, active for several years, is believed to have generated profits nearing €10 million. Migrants reportedly paid between €2,500 and €4,500 each, depending on the route and risk involved.

The investigation, coordinated by prosecutors in Weiden with support from the Munich Federal Police Criminal Investigation Department, Europol, Eurojust, and law enforcement in the Netherlands and Bosnia-Herzegovina, led to the arrest of five suspects on August 7th.

Authorities seized mobile phones, vehicles used for transporting migrants, and small amounts of drugs.

UPDATE: Deportation Dud: Labour Plan Misses 98% of Channel Migrants

Take it from an Irishman, this is God’s own truth.

Read it.

Moroccan feminist and LGBT rights activist Ibtissam Lachgar has been arrested on charges of blasphemy after posting a photo of herself online wearing a T-shirt with the slogan “Allah is a lesbian.”

The public prosecutor’s office in Rabat stated that Lachgar spread “insulting statements against God” and insulted Islam, prompting an investigation and her subsequent detention.

Lachgar’s post, made at the end of July, criticized Islam as “fascist and misogynistic,” sparking widespread backlash on social media.

She reported receiving thousands of rape threats, death threats, and calls for stoning. Some users even called for her arrest, with one commenting that she “has decided to go to jail.”

Power Line.

As I have said many times, I think the Russia Collusion Hoax is by far the worst political scandal in American history. However, as I wrote here, I also think it is far from clear that any of the perpetrators of that hoax will be, or should be, criminally prosecuted.

That’s the way the Deep State works: Nobody gets fired, nobody goes to jail.

The Foundry.

For all of their pious pontificating about the nobility of illegal immigrants as people who simply came here in search of a better life for themselves and their families, Democrats and others on the Left in and out of Congress actually have a much more patronizing view in unguarded moments.

While out of one side of their mouths, the Left lionizes illegals as latter-day huddled masses yearning to breathe free, these same leftists speak of the migrants in ways that are condescending or at best utilitarian, even as they fight to block President Donald Trump from deporting them back to their countries of origin.

Most of these liberals, in unscripted moments, appear to be less concerned about the well-being of the millions of illegals the Biden administration allowed to pour into our country unvetted and more concerned about their food supply, even though none of them looks like he or she has ever skipped a meal.

Read it.

Marxist-Leninist nominee for mayor of New York City, it’s tough to pick the ugliest.

His “end goal” involves “seizing the means of production.” Government confiscation of industry is textbook Communism. Since 1917, this policy has spread misery from Moscow to East Berlin, Pyongyang, Havana, Managua, and Caracas.

New York State Assemblyman Matt Slatertold Fox News that Mamdani “referred to his colleagues” in Albany as his ‘comrades.’” This is an almost comically stereotypical indication that Mamdani is a full-throated Communist, not merely the Leninist-lite “democratic socialist” whom he claims to be.

Mamdani’s hateful statements about the New York Police Department in 2020 have aged even worse than Robert Redford.

Read it.

China has developed a breakthrough material, CHSN01 (China high-strength low-temperature steel No 1), capable of withstanding extreme cold and massive magnetic forces, and deployed it this year in the world’s first fusion nuclear power generation reactor, according to SCMP.

The steel puts China at the forefront of materials science and could have applications beyond fusion.

The ultra-strong cryogenic steel meets the demands of superconducting magnets operating near absolute zero and in magnetic fields of up to 20 Tesla. It can endure stresses of 1,300MPa and has superior fatigue resistance to traditional alloys. “In addition to its applications in superconductivity, this steel can also be used in other related areas,” said Zhao Zhongxian, a top Chinese physicist.

Read it.

“Homelessness Minister”?

UPDATE: In Lieu Of Dystopian Sci-Fi Movie, American Just Watching News From England (Babylon Bee)

Read it.

Tyranny is a process of acclimation. Governments test the public to see what they will quietly tolerate; leaders then turn “temporary” restrictions into permanent laws as people are conditioned to accept the new normal. Sometimes the public fights back and officials are forced to retreat. However, the tests never end and the bureaucracy continues to press year after year until it gets what it wants.

Many commentators have noticed that the Canadian government has been expediting this authoritarian process in recent years to the point that the intentions of elitist politicians can no longer be misunderstood. The mask is fully off and the country is becoming a draconian cesspool. From censorship laws, to gun bans, to carbon taxes and even legislation that turns Christian worship into “hate speech”, Canada is almost every bit as cooked as their commonwealth cousins in Britain.

Read it.

A Texas judge has temporarily blocked Beto O’Rourke’s shady fundraising campaign to bankroll “runaway Democrats”—the group of state legislators who fled Texas to stall redistricting efforts.

On Friday, Tarrant County District Judge Megan Fahey issued a temporary injunction against O’Rourke and his group, Powered by People, barring them from raising funds or covering expenses for the Democrats while a lawsuit from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton moves forward.

The order came just hours after Paxton sued O’Rourke and Powered by People, accusing them of misleading donors by falsely advertising the campaign as a political effort rather than a slush fund for personal expenses.

In her ruling, Fahey said the court found “imminent harm” that could cause the state to be irreparably injured, meeting the threshold for such an order.

Oh, I don’t know–seems like fewer Democrat politicians is a feature, not a bug.

Newsbusters.

Pretty ironic, complaining about Trump ‘fascism’ and then fleeing to the Land of Trudeau.

Half of GOP Would Still Vote for Trump If Implicated in Epstein Crimes (Jack Revell/The Daily Beast)

Trump’s Vile Take on Teenager’s Rape Goes Viral as Epstein Woes Deepen (Will Neal/The Daily Beast)

Who Is the Heir to the MAGA Movement? Trump Keeps His Options Open (Wall Street Journal)

Trump suggests “MAGA” stock listing for mortgage giants Fannie, Freddie (Ben Berkowitz/Axios)