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There have been only a handful of ages of new materials in the history of humankind—ceramics, steel and plastics come to mind—and we are now on the cusp of the next one: composites.

When we talk of composites, we’re speaking about such things as the carbon-fiber ones in wind turbines, race cars and the Boeing 787. Such materials have the advantage of being far lighter than the metal parts they typically replace, while being just as strong, and requiring fewer resources to make.

Materials scientists have had limited success making composites affordable and accessible for decades, or possibly millennia—technically, they were invented by the Mesopotamians. The labor-intensive nature of their manufacturing has made them expensive, which has limited their application to a handful of areas where their advantages outweigh their costs, such as the aerospace industry.

Now, thanks to new manufacturing techniques that can churn out composite parts quickly and cheaply, all of that is changing, and the results could be both profound and exciting.

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The French-Italian border at Menton has once again become the main entry point for illegal immigration into metropolitan France. Local authorities have recorded around 10,400 interceptions since the beginning of the year, with 200-300 people sent back each week. Although the figures do not reach the crisis levels at the end of 2023, attempted crossings have increased by 30% in recent weeks. The summer season could push interceptions to around 15,000 by the end of the year, a number similar to 2024.

The state’s response includes strengthening the gendarmerie, border police, customs, and soldiers from Operation Sentinelle.

Migrants often use express trains from Ventimiglia or steep routes monitored by drones and police patrols. Among those detained, citizens of Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco stand out, with 10% being unaccompanied minors. Although radicalized profiles are a minority, their presence highlights additional security risks that the authorities cannot ignore.

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If the Supreme Court wants to correct one of the worst decisions of the progressive era, one that violated basic separation of powers principles and vitiated the constitutional authority of the president as head of the executive branch, it will finally overturn Humphrey’s Executor v. U.S. after 90 years of poisoning the government well.

If you’ve never heard of the case, don’t be embarrassed. Most people, aside from government wonks and constitutional nerds, haven’t. However, it’s finally being brought to the fore because of President Donald Trump’s firing of government officials at so-called independent agencies, and it’s about time.

The Supreme Court just issued a temporary stay of lower court orders in Trump v. Slaughter that told Trump he couldn’t fire Rebecca Slaughter, a commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission. This followed other recent cases in which the justices stayed lower court decisions banning Trump from firing officials such as Gwynne Wilcox and Cathy Harris from the National Labor Relations Board and the Merit Systems Protection Board, respectively.

All of these government officials sued, claiming Trump lacked the authority to fire them. They relied on Humphrey’s Executor, which appears to be on life support. So, what was that case all about and why is it still important today?

The Harvard Crimson, a Voice of the Younger Crust.

Harvard School of Public Health Dean Andrea A. Baccarelli received at least $150,000 to testify against Tylenol’s manufacturer in 2023 — two years before he published research used by the Trump administration to link the drug to autism, a connection experts say is tenuous at best.

Baccarelli served as an expert witness on behalf of parents and guardians of children suing Johnson & Johnson, the manufacturer of Tylenol at the time. U.S. District Court Judge Denise L. Cote dismissed the case last year due to a lack of scientific evidence, throwing out Baccarelli’s testimony in the process.

“He cherry-picked and misrepresented study results and refused to acknowledge the role of genetics in the etiology” of autism spectrum disorder or ADHD, Cote wrote in her decision, which the plaintiffs have since appealed.

Baccarelli, who was a professor at Columbia University’s public health school at the time, declined to comment on his involvement in the case.

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Fifteen of the European Union’s 27 member states—around 55%—have now publicly recognised the imaginary state of Palestine. So has the United Kingdom. These European leaders are openly rewarding the Islamist terrorists of Hamas for their genocidal war against Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East and the only Jewish state on earth.

No wonder Hamas hailed the recent wave of recognitions as a “victory” for its “just cause.” That cause is not the West’s dreamed-of two-state-solution; Hamas supports no such thing. Its avowed cause is a jihad to wipe the Israeli state off the map altogether and drive the Jews into the Mediterranean—the real meaning of the “From the river to the sea” chant so beloved by the Islamo-left in the West.

The only ‘justice’ Hamas seeks for Israelis is the sort of summary executions it handed down on October 7th, the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust that the Islamist death cult has vowed to repeat “again and again” if it survives the war in Gaza.

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In 1965 Teddy Kennedy and the Democrats passed legislation that moved America from being of predominantly European ancestry, toward being a nation that looked more like the rest of the planet (other than Europe at that time), meaning predominantly non-white and non-Christian.

The fact of the legislation having changed American demographics and thereby culture is not in question today, but Democrats say “we were just unaware what would happen”. Ignorance is always possible (especially with Democrats), but it was certainly willful ignorance if so, Customs and Immigration Services knew what was going to happen.

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Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel got his job back with ABC but forgive me if I don’t care too much about his underwhelming, delayed apology to keep himself on air or his defense of “free speech.”

Kimmel was briefly suspended by ABC, which is owned by Disney, after he made a comment that Charlie Kirk was assassinated by somebody who was “MAGA.”

Some called this comment a “joke,” but it certainly didn’t seem like it. Though, in fairness, I can’t recall the last time Kimmel—an alleged comedian—actually said something funny. That was probably reason enough to pull the late-night comic with a laughably small audience for network television off the air.

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Andy Ngo, a longtime independent reporter on antifa domestic terrorist cells, has unearthed an anarchist blog calling for the targeting of ICE facilities.

The blog’s call to violence came one day after President Donald Trump signed an executive order designating antifa a domestic terrorist organization, and it was dated one day before Wednesday’s assassin killed one ICE detainee, wounded two others, and took his own life.

“An Antifa blog site is issuing a call for further attacks on @ICEgov facilities across the country,” Ngo, who says he is “next” to be targeted for assassination, wrote on X.

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(€68.13 million) to groups that are allegedly tied to terrorism or extremist violence, a new report has claimed.

It comes shortly after sources told journalists that the FBI is investigating leftist groups for possible ties to the killing of Charlie Kirk. The Washington-based Capital Research Center (CRC) that produced this report is also looking into whether Alex Soros, who was handed his father’s multi-billion dollar empire in 2023, will “build on his father’s legacy” or “tear it down.”

The CRC paper states that the evidence behind its claim is “stark” and says it should “form the justification for various accountability actions,” possibly including the revoking of the Open Society Foundations’ tax-exempt status.

Perhaps most significantly, it points to the awarding by Open Society of “at least” $23.27 million (€19.82 million) to seven groups that “directly assist domestic terrorism and criminality on U.S. soil.”

The Foundry.

Where do young people learn that it’s OK to kill over political differences? Look no further than what they’re taught in school.

There, college professors routinely assign books by leaders of radical groups that murdered people to advance their political goals. These blood-drenched terrorists are presented as positive role models, and their violence is romanticized as advancing justice.

The Foundry.

Jimmy Kimmel’s return to the nation’s airwaves is proof of just how unseriously left-wing violence is taken by the liberal media.

If Johnny Carson had gone on air after the murder of John F. Kennedy and said, “We hit some new lows this weekend with the Democrat gang trying to characterize this kid who killed President Kennedy as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” what would his network have done?

Kimmel is a hater and a purveyor of disinformation, but he’s able to get away with saying that about “the MAGA gang” because his bosses approve of the lie.

Indeed, liberals have spent the days since Charlie Kirk’s murder insisting that the real danger to free speech comes not from left-wing killers’ bullets but from Republican officials.

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Another day, another act of left-wing violence. Another act of left-wing violence, another media cover-up for their left-wing terrorist foot soldiers.

In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the corporate media put an enormous amount of effort into a psy-op to make Americans believe the assassin was actually a Trump supporter.

While they did that, three more acts of left-wing violence took place: An attempted firebombing of a Fox News van, a shooting at an ABC News affiliate after Jimmy Kimmel’s well-deserved suspension, and, most recently, a shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Dallas, Texas.

That is all just in a two-week timeframe, and does not take into account school shootings, other attacks on ICE, assassinations or assassination attempts, and other instances of left-wing violence Americans have seen increase dramatically for the past several years.

The media are running the same playbook for the ICE attack.

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The Netherlands is the second most densely populated country in Europe, and with surging mass immigration, has been experiencing a raging housing crisis for years.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten has written Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy, a book she claims will empower us and give us hope. The problem is that every word coming from the union boss’s mouth is nonfactual lefty claptrap.

You don’t need to buy the book to understand what I mean. In an interview with a sycophant at The Progressive, a far-left magazine that covers politics and culture, Weingarten claims that “the undermining of public education is an intentional strategy of the right; they favor school privatization.”

Why should a teacher care whether schooling is public or private? A bit of a political agenda, perhaps?

Newsbusters.

This past Tuesday night, as many Jimmy Kimmel supporters and detractors watched his return to the helm of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, they saw his monologue, and if they hung around past the first break, they saw the first skit.

That skit featured actor Robert De Niro, who was playing the role of FCC Chairman Brendan Carr. Carr has been accused of threatening ABC/Disney to dump Kimmel’s show, or face consequences. Kimmel ripped Carr in the first segment, quoting Texas Republican Ted Cruz who accused Carr of acting like a mob boss. So who better to play the role of a mob boss than De Niro, who has appeared in numerous mob-type movies. But there is something that I bet almost all of those watching Tuesday night’s show didn’t know.

Back in October of 2016, De Niro made a video to get out the vote, which included him calling then candidate Donald Trump, stupid, a dog, a pig, a bull-sh&t artist, you get the picture. But it didn’t stop there, De Niro added that he’d “like to punch Trump in the face.”

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California is one pen stroke away from enacting a controversial bill that would impose fines of up to $1 million on major social media platforms that fail to censor content deemed in violation of state civil rights laws.

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Monday on his eponymous YouTube show, former CNN host Don Lemon went into the ugly, vile depths of political rhetoric with a torrent of hatred toward the Charlie Kirk memorial service, quoting from his own book published last year to call it “white nationalism wrapped in religious nationalism” imbued with false, “performative” Christianity, and a tribute to Americans of the past who glorified slavery.

All to celebrate a man Lemon deemed an unrepentant racist who said “racist shit” and created “a movement claiming divine permission to rule” with “domination” and deny “their sexual diverse children’s right to exist.”

Lemon even predicted his hateful, vile comments spanning some 79 minutes would draw blowback, but nonetheless argued he had a special right as a black man given America’s past to call out those as false Christ followers while arguing Erika Kirk was seemingly the only person there channeling Jesus.

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How is this guy still alive?

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One year after its war with Israel, Iran’s terror proxy Hezbollah is clinging to its finances even as pressure mounts to dismantle its militia and choke off its funding networks.

The killing of longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli strike on September 27th last year dealt a heavy blow to the group’s leadership. Yet under his successor Naim Qassem, Hezbollah has so far kept its command structure intact—thanks largely to continued cash infusions from Iran.

U.S. envoy Tom Barrack revealed the terror organisation has been raking in “$60 million a month” since a November ceasefire. Fighters themselves admit the money is still flowing: AFP spoke to several Hezbollah members who confirmed the group has not missed a single payment.

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The NYT’s coverage of the Gates Foundation’s severing ties with the Arabella network (read report) may signal to other leftist billionaire donors and dark-money groups that some of the largest backers of the permanent protest-industrial complex against President Trump are quietly reassessing their ties as a White House enforcement period nears. After all, no billionaire or their prized nonprofits want to be slapped with RICO charges or providing “material support” to domestic terrorists by funding rogue NGOs subverting the nation.

When an anchor donor like the Gates Foundation withdraws so abruptly, others often follow suit. Another reason may be that the Arabella network funneled at least $114.8 million (as per a Peter Schweizer & Seamus Bruner report) to “No Kings” protest organizers and affiliates that smeared Trump and his supporters as “fascists” while normalizing hate rhetoric and even assassination culture within the Democratic Party.

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Apparently Mississippi is richer than the UK. Who knew?

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Mexican intelligence services warned Ukraine earlier this summer that Mexican volunteers had joined the International Legion not out of solidarity, but to acquire advanced combat drone training for the benefit of drug cartels back home, according to a July report by the French outlet Intelligence Online.

Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU), together with military intelligence, has launched investigations into several Spanish-speaking units of the Legion to identify alleged cartel members from Mexico and Colombia. These individuals reportedly used private security companies in Latin America to reach the front, including at least three former members of the Colombian FARC, who infiltrated with Panamanian and Venezuelan papers.

According to a report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) report, cartel-linked fighters were especially focused on learning the latest tactics for using FPV (first-person view) drones in combat. “We welcomed them in good faith, but we realized Ukraine had become the epicenter of global FPV tactics. Some only come here to learn how to kill with a $400 drone, then take that knowledge elsewhere,” an SBU officer said.

I suggest we leave the Ukrainians to face the Russians by themselves.

Ryan Routh Convicted at Trump Assassination Attempt Trial

Suspect in ABC Station Shooting ‘Politically Motivated,’ Left Note Warning Trump Officials ‘They’re Next’ (Kamden Mulder/National Review)

Defense Department Delays Cleanup of ‘Forever Chemicals’ Nationwide (Hiroko Tabuchi/New York Times)  Perhaps they have more important things to do than to chase after the latest progressive fetish.

Peter Strzok, the FBI agent who sent anti-Trump texts, loses First Amendment case over his firing (Politico)

Legacy media’s destructive addiction to describing Trump’s ‘winning’ (Margaret Sullivan/American Crisis)  Where? I haven’t seen any.

Statue of Trump and Epstein holding hands placed on National Mall (Joe Heim/Washington Post) “he work is the latest installation in Washington by an anonymous group of artists critical of the president.” No shit. (Statue of Trump and Epstein holding hands removed from National Mall (Washington Post))

Trump’s Tylenol Directive Could Actually Increase Autism Rates, Researchers Warn (David Cox/Wired)  WIRED used to be a tech magazine, but like most such orgs it’s now just a Voice of the Crust that indulges in politics.

Democratic lawmakers demand answers from TV station owners over pulling Jimmy Kimmel’s show (Daniel Arkin/NBC News)  That “Democrat lawmakers” think this is any of their business reflects who the REAL fascists are in America.

Statue of Trump and Epstein holding hands appears on National Mall (Rebecca Falconer/Axios)

76 percent of Americans say Trump does not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize (Scott Clement/Washington Post)  And, of the Narrative Media have anything to say about it (and they surely will), they’ll keep thinking that. You are what you read even more than what you eat.

On Covid and Autism, Trump Strays From the Science (Tyler Pager/New York Times)  The Science™ being, of course, what the Narrative says it is.

Trump’s UN Address Was a Tragedy of Shakespearian Proportions (David Rothkopf/The Daily Beast)  Drama Queen Alert!

With bizarre remarks at the U.N., Trump embarrasses himself and the United States (Steve Benen/MSNBC)

Calif., Brazil Ink Climate Deal as Newsom Jabs Trump

After mechanical challenges, UN says Trump’s team to blame for nonworking escalator and teleprompter (Edith M. Lederer/Associated Press)  Of course they do.

“Own goal”: How Gabbard damaged the Trump admin’s probe into ex-spy chief (Marc Caputo/Axios)

The Trump Murder Policy (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice) Noah Berlatsky loses his shit.

The Pentagon, the Press and the Fight to Control National Security Coverage (David E. Sanger/New York Times)  Prior to the Wokening, journalists did this automatically. CNN started the rot during the Bush administration.

Trump Loses It Over Jimmy Kimmel’s Return In Unhinged New Rant, Then Threatens ABC (Ed Mazza/HuffPost)  Ed Mazza loses his shit.

“His Audience Was Really Trump”: How New FBI Lead Used His Missouri AG Role to Wage a Culture War (Jeremy Kohler/ProPublica)  Just like a Democrat!

Dem’s Victory Sets the Stage for Trump’s Epstein Files Nightmare (Janna Brancolini/The Daily Beast)  They hope, they hope, they hope.

‘Nativist hysteria’: Trump’s $100K H-1B visa fee (Washington Post)

The Five Most Likely Motives Behind Trump’s Flip-Flop On Ukraine  Ah, ah,  ah, ah, yankin’ their chain, yankin’ their chain….

Trump’s Angry, Unhinged Tirades at U.N. Rattle Experts: “Really Crazy” (New Republic)

Trump’s U.N. speech was mortifying for America (Zeeshan Aleem/MSNBC)  The Narrative Media must have gone on a hiring spree to find all these guys with Muslim names.

No President Should Have This Kind of Power (New York Times)  Except they didn’t care when Democrat Presidents had this power. Now that they are hoist with their own rope, they come whining along.

The World’s Brittlest Ego Meets the Globe’s Biggest Stage (Andrew Egger/The Bulwark)  If it weren’t for Trump, the Kristol Krew would have nothing to write about.

The Race Back to America for a Plane Full of H-1B Workers (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)

After Trump targets H-1B visas, can India lure back skilled workers? (Washington Post)  ? Apparently not.

Trump’s Slumlord Administration Is Gutting the Fair Housing Act (Elie Mystal/The Nation)  Scraaaaaaape that barrel….

FACT FOCUS: Trump repeats false claim at UN that he has ended 7 wars (Associated Press)

Congressman Says He Doesn’t Trust the FBI to Objectively Investigate Dallas ICE Office Killings (Emily Kennard/NOTUS)  Because he’s a black Democrat, ,of course.

London Mayor Khan Calls Trump Racist, Islamophobic  You know, as they do….

Fawning MAGA Senator Pushes Trump to Seek Illegal Third Term (Leigh Kimmins/The Daily Beast)  Wonder what the weather is like on their planet? (There’s that MAGA guy agin; this time he’s a Senator.)(Oh, it’s Lindsey Graham. Wide definition of MAGA these guys have. Next they’ll be calling Bill Clinton a conservative.)

Donald Trump’s attempts to expand presidential power push courts into uncharted territory (Kyle Cheney/Politico)  Although it wasn’t when the Presidents were Democrats….

The Foundry.

The assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk has brought many Americans together as they commemorate him, but it has also revealed the country’s political divisions.

In the past two weeks, vandals and other offenders have allegedly targeted Kirk memorials and TV stations involved in the suspension of late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel’s show.

Newsbusters.

In other words, they lied.

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For every terror attack by a transgender leftist or Antifa militant that you hear about in the news, there’s many attacks that you don’t hear about. The establishment media has been very careful to obscure these incidents with ambiguous reporting, denials and outright lies.

For example, Nicholas Roske, the man who attempted to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2022, identifies as transgender. This fact has been quickly buried by the media, just as the man’s political affiliations were ignored at the time of his arrest. Though, Wikipedia was very quick to change Roske’s gender and refer to him as “her” on their Brett Kavanaugh assassination plot page.

At the time, the media complained that the event could lead to legal actions removing protesters from outside the homes of judges (leftist groups were attempting to intimidate the Supreme Court over their decision to overturn Roe v Wade). They also focused more on the abortion decision, insinuating that it was the Supreme Court’s fault if members faced assassination threats. Democrats stalled on passing a bill that provided more security for SC Justices; the Kavanaugh incident finally forced them to take action.

There have been numerous leftist and Antifa related terror incidents over the past several years, most of them barely mentioned by mainstream journalists and few of them categorized as political terrorism by organizations like the ADL. Whenever an attack involving any suspect who is remotely right wing occurs, the news is flooded with coverage.

In the case of alleged Charlie Kirk shooter, Tyler Robinson, the media continues to deny that the gay leftist is associated with leftist causes. Even going so far as to misinform the public and attempt to tie the man to MAGA, despite his family and friends admitting he is a leftist.

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Former FBI Director James Comey is expected to be indicted in the Eastern District of Virginia in the coming days, MSNBC reported Wednesday, citing three sources.

“The full extent of the charges being prepared against Comey is unclear, but the sources believe that at least one element of the indictment–if it goes forward–will accuse him of lying to Congress during his testimony on September 30, 2020 about whether he authorized a leak of information,” an MSNBC reporter wrote on X.

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The state of California has projected an image of economic superiority for many years that is simply a facade. Much of the state’s GDP (the go-to stat used by Governor Gavin Newsom to deflect any criticism of fiscal mismanagement) is based on a large proportion of federal funding, state welfare spending and a handful of large corporations that are now leaving for greener pastures in red states.

The corporate exodus has been taking place for at least a decade, but it accelerated during the pandemic lockdowns and has not abated since. It would appear that Newsom has finally recognized that his economic position is tenuous at best. His latest “charm offensive” is designed to entice oil companies to stay in the Golden State, with legislation to increase domestic oil production in California through new drilling permits and rehabilitating a defunct offshore pipeline.

The bill will allow for 2000 new oil permits a year over the next 10 years.

Newsbusters.

The Daily Show’s only use for Christianity seems to be using it against conservatives, and the latest installment in this ignoble tradition took place on Tuesday as host-of-the-week Jordan Klepper welcomed Sirius XM host, comedian, and occasional cable news talking head John Fugelsang to the Comedy Central program to discuss his new book on the matter.

Klepper simply asked, “So why write this book?”

Fugelsang replied that, “I wrote this book because I got tired of seeing my parents’ faith used as a cloaking device for meanness and bigotry and superiority. Jesus’s movement was about humility. It was about service to others. It was about uplifting the marginalized, not about total right-wing domination of the school board.”

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shooter with a rifle opened fire from a nearby roof onto a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement location in Dallas on Wednesday, killing a detainee and wounding another two critically before taking his own life, authorities said.

“This morning, a deranged gunman attacked a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Dallas field office from a nearby rooftop,” the Department of Homeland Security wrote on X. “The shooter fired indiscriminately at the ICE building, as well as at a van in the sallyport where the victims were shot. Three detainees were shot.

More indiscriminate violence from the Left.

ATQUE: Sniper Attack Kills Two At ICE Facility – Shooter Dead On Roof

ATQUE: 3 people shot at immigration detention facility in Dallas and the shooter is dead, official says (Associated Press)

ATQUE: Live Updates: One Dead and Two Wounded in Dallas ICE Facility Shooting (New York Times)

ATQUE: 1 dead, 2 others hospitalized after shooting at Dallas ICE facility, police say (CNN)

ATQUE: 2 dead after shooting at ICE facility, ICE spokesperson said (NBC News)

Politico, a Voice of the Crust.

Republican leaders on Capitol Hill were already looking at a messy political battle over the looming expiration of billions of dollars in Obamacare subsidies. Then the anti-abortion advocates showed up.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? Politico was sure surprised.

With a possible government shutdown less than a week away, Democrats’ big ask is that Republicans agree to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies, which were expanded by Congress in 2021 and are set to sunset at the end of the year.

A nibble here, a nibble there, and all of a sudden the Democrats have won and the Republicans have lost. This has been going on all of my life. Republicans always believe that THIS TIME Lucy will actually hold the football.

Insurance premiums are likely to skyrocket this fall without an extension, and some Republicans are open to cutting a deal, mindful that a failure to act could have dire consequences in the midterms.

And the reason that insurance premiums at skyrocketing is that Obamacare mandates minimum care according to the Democrat virtue-signaling political agenda (such as contraception coverage for Catholic nuns) rather than what people actually need–and, more to the point, what people actually want.

Sine (far too many) Republicans are open to cutting a deal because they put winning in the midterms before what’s best for the country. These guys are the Deep State in a Clever Plastic Disguise.

But now prominent anti-abortion groups are wading into the debate, pounding the halls of Congress to make their case that the enhanced tax credits for ACA insurance premiums function as an indirect subsidy for services designed to end pregnancies.

Which they obviously are. Nibble, nibble, nibble….

The argument could make conservative Republicans who already loathed the policy dig in further against greenlighting an extension.

God, I should hope so.

It’s setting the stage for a major internal GOP power struggle that could pit hard-liners against moderates in more competitive districts, while also complicating the ability of Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune to allow a bipartisan deal to go through.

And it’s exactly this sort of shit that make people think that Congress sucks and will never do anything but suck. Hard to say they’re mistaken when all the evidence points that way. Want to know why Trump is President? Here you go.

Bloomberg.

Funny how it’s always the ‘journalists’ of the Narrative Media who can recognize these ‘pages’ from these ‘authoritarian playbooks’. Typically playbooks are restricted to the teams they play for.

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

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blockade of Gaza said Wednesday that some of their boats were attacked by drones overnight while sailing south of Greece.

The Global Sumud Flotilla said it was attacked during the night by “unidentified drones and communications jamming.” It said that “at least 13 explosions” were heard on and around several flotilla boats, while drones or aircraft dropped “unidentified objects” on at least 10 boats.

No casualties were reported but there was damage to the vessels and “widespread obstruction in communications,” it added.

Nobody ever said that virtue-signaling would be easy….

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The Scandinavian model is often misrepresented as a humane and efficient form of socialism. In reality, it is a distinctly coercive and oligarchic form of statism.

Which is why Democrats really love it.

While the system preserves the formal legality of civilized concepts like human rights, justice, and private property, in practice, it operates on a Marxist-fascist foundation: it systematically violates the individual through taxation, regulation, and bureaucratic entrapment—leaving only a small, politically-connected class permitted to engage in a narrow, state-sanctioned form of commerce.

Which is why Democrats really love it.

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refugee—is sitting in her seat on the Charlotte, North Carolina, light rail, engrossed in her phone as she is riding home after work. A black male, Decarlos Brown, sits behind her and he suddenly stands up and quickly stabs her with a large pocketknife.

A few minutes later, she is dead, having bled out in the rail car, another young black male trying to comfort her and stop the bleeding with his shirt. Her killer mutters something about getting “the white girl” and steps off the train at the next stop, only to be quickly arrested.

There are numerous angles to this story, and they cut across nearly every debated social issue in this country from race to lenient judges to safety on public transportation.

ATQUE: N.C. Passes ‘Iryna’s Law’ After Refugee’s Stabbing Death

Newsbusters.

Along comes the hard-left Guardian US to save the day with an article by Adrienne Matei entitled “From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why strongmen rely on women at home.”

It’s a l-o-n-g and rambling piece, but one thing can be said in its favor: it doesn’t lack a sense of humor.

Thus, a “cultural historian” is quoted as saying:

“There’s been a reluctance to name this moment as fascism.”

Right! So much reluctance that Googling “Trump fascism” yields only 20.4 million results in 0.33 seconds.

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The process of gaslighting is not limited to abusive personal relationships, it can also happen between groups of people within the same society. For the past decade at least, the progressive movement and the Democrats have consistently abused the American public to the verge of rebellion, then, they pull back just enough to defuse tensions.

They did it with the BLM and Antifa riots, dealing out around $2 billion in property damage in cities across the US, injuring thousands of police officers and killing dozens of innocent bystanders.  Conservatives and moderates stood back, for the most part, until the Kyle Rittenhouse incident in August of 2020.  When leftists sought to prosecute the young man for defending himself from a mob that was trying to murder him – When they falsely labeled him a “racist” and a “terrorist”, the line was crossed.

Politico, a Voice of the Crust.

House centrists are discussing the outlines of a possible compromise to extend Affordable Care Act insurance subsidies in hopes of jump-starting stalled talks over the soon-to-expire tax credits that have also emerged as a key fault line in the brewing government shutdown battle.

The bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus has privately broached whether an income cap should be imposed on who can benefit from the subsidies. Several Republicans in the group have floated a $200,000 cap, according to three people granted anonymity to describe the talks.

More than 20 million Americans currently benefit from the enhanced subsidies, which were enacted by Democrats under President Joe Biden in 2021. Some Republicans are now open to extending them, though many are pushing for new curbs to bring down the cost. The income cap is a bare minimum demand for many Republicans.

Democrats, meanwhile, are pushing for a permanent extension as part of government funding talks ahead of the Sept. 30 shutdown deadline. Some centrist Democrats have been willing to discuss concessions, though they are wary of publicly supporting any new limitations at this point.

Apparently subsidized compulsory government-directed health insurance is now ‘centrist’. The attempts by the Narrative Media to drag the Overton Window hard left sometimes has comical effect.

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And rapidly turning it into North Korea With Celebrities.

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Krugman is an ivory tower economist who would not see inflation if it jumped up and spit grapefruit juice in his eye.

Krugman ignores home prices as if they don’t matter. Not only were home prices going out of sight, they accelerated after after the Fed’s QE madness extended during covid.

Home prices are not in the CPI. Nor are property taxes. Nor is homeowners insurance. So yeah, strip all of that out as if only consumer inflation matters and you get jackass policy from the Fed coupled with jackass comments from clueless economists.

Krugman never addressed any of Bessent’s key points such as ” This harmful cycle concentrated national wealth among those who already owned assets. Within the corporate sector, large firms thrived by locking in cheap debt, while smaller firms reliant on floating-rate loans were squeezed as rates rose. “

How can anyone deny that? Nor can anyone realistically deny the Fed’s alphabet soup of tactics to bail out corporations at taxpayer expense.

Does Krugman deny inept Fed policy created a housing mess of high prices and people trapped in their homes?

He cleverly does not say. Instead, he posts asinine charts of purported inflation and also inflation expectations.

Krugman is not bright enough to know the Fed’s own studies (and common sense) show inflation expectations are irrelevant.

And that about covers it.

Newsbusters.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) just announced a seismic censorship shift, revealing that tech giant Google has renounced government collaboration and rampant censorship, much of which was exposed and condemned by the Media Research Center.

n a letter to U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jordan on Tuesday, Google’s parent company Alphabet owned up to its infamous history of censoring disfavored speech, and even promised that YouTube would ease up on censoring political content. The tech giant also shockingly revealed that it had censored COVID-19-related content that did not violate the platform’s policies at the behest of the Biden administration.

“Tax Cattle”: coined by the YouTube giant hoe_math, whose channel I heartily recommend.

Watch it.

Carl Benjamin (“Sargon of Akkad”) explains how YouTube helped enforce the Overton Window.

Instead of ‘conspiracy theories’, we ought to speak of ‘spoiler alerts’.

ATQUE: Google Says Users Removed Over COVID-19 Views Can Rejoin YouTube

Read it.

In today’s financial system, what many people take for granted as foundational truths are actually deeply flawed assumptions or outright deceptions.

Below is a breakdown of commonly misunderstood financial concepts—reframed to reflect a more accurate interpretation of how the system really works.

I consider his analysis to be spot-on.

Read it.

Our reporter went on patrol with police in Jackson, Mississippi, which has a homicide rate 15 times the national average.

Perhaps not unrelated to the fact that it’s 81.8 African-American….

Read it.

Britain’s Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey, on the final day of the party conference in Bournemouth on Tuesday (September 23), attacked far right opponent, Reform Party leader Nigel Farage, for wanting Britain to follow in U.S. President Donal Trump’s footsteps.

READ MORE: https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/nigel-farage-gun-laws-ed-davey-dunblane-uk-hqn8z736v

“Don’t let Trump’s America become Farage’s Britain,” Davey told the party faithful adding that Farage wanted to destroy the National Health Service, roll back gun laws, buy fossil fuel from Russia and introduce fracking.

Davey warned about “dark forces” in British politics, saying: “Imagine living in the Trump-inspired country Farage wants us to become. Where there’s no NHS, so patients are hit with crippling insurance bills. Or denied healthcare altogether.”

On the contrary, I’d say: Don’t let Ed Davey’s Britain become Gavin Newsom’s America.