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According to a recent report commissioned by trade association GCSP, offenses and aggression in German shopping centers are on the rise, with 75% of perpetrators identified as having a migration background. The GCSP warns that this trend is creating a sense of lack of safety among staff and customers, compounded by inconsistent law enforcement.

Last Saturday in Stuttgart, a 37-year-old Romanian man caught shoplifting attempted to punch a store detective and resisted arrest even after police arrived.

Such incidents are typical across Germany: the GCSP survey, covering 1,105 retail properties including 248 shopping centers, 99 retail parks, and 758 large-scale stores, documented 18,276 cases in 2024—a 32% increase over 2023. Knives or tools were involved in 2,905 cases, drug use in 1,389, and 235 people were injured. Repeat offenders remain high at 35%.

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Kyiv is keen to speed up EU accession talks and is preparing to bring top European leaders together to show force against those blocking the move. But the case of these opponents is growing stronger as more and more reports emerge about possible corruption within Volodymyr Zelensky’s administration.

Justice Minister German Galushchenko was suspended from his post on Wednesday morning amid a corruption investigation into the country’s energy sector. This was just two days after anti-corruption agencies announced their probe into a “large-scale” corruption scheme in the country’s energy sector, which is said to have taken place while Galushchenko was energy minister. The investigation is linked to money laundering of as much as $100 million (€86.4 million) through an office in Kyiv.

Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said the suspension followed an “extraordinary session of the government.” Galushchenko welcomed the decision on social media, saying “suspension during the investigation is a civilised and correct scenario” and that “I will defend myself in the legal sphere and prove my position.”

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Agents from the security services of Austria, Germany, and the UK thwarted an operation by Hamas mujahideen that was planning to target Jewish institutions in Europe.

The Foundry.

President Donald Trump has threatened to punish New York City for electing the Democrat mayoral candidate, socialist Muslim Zohran Mamdani.

Though the action a president can legally take against a city is limited, Trump can use the Foreign Agents Registration Act to prevent foreign influence wielded by Mamdani in New York City, according to Nicole Kelly, senior counsel at Lex Politica, the law firm that represents Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and other key Republicans.

“Zohran Mamdani’s election is the foreign influence story we’ve been sounding the alarm on for years, playing out in real time,” Kelly told The Daily Signal. “His election could be the open door for foreign actors to shape our politics from the inside.”

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It’s an outcome that survival and preparedness experts have been predicting for years: The engineered decline of US cities into lawlessness supported by progressive political relativism, leading to an exodus of conservatives (and anyone else with a brain) to rural America.

The formation of separate conservative communities is a natural response to the political divisiveness of far-left controlled urban centers, as well as the disturbing revelations of pandemic lockdown hysteria in blue cities and states. However, when dealing with any progressive movement it’s important to remember that communists and their ideological cousins don’t like it when the people they are trying to control walk away and start their own thing.

This is not allowed. You’re supposed to stick around and act as their punching bag.

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Progressives are trumpeting a report that consumers’ financial data may be less secure following Trump administration efforts to shrink the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

But in their eagerness to attack Trump, attention is refocusing on a massive scandal that plagued the “consumer watchdog” agency under Joe Biden– one that left over 250,000 people’s data exposed.

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For 28 years, the Democrats have controlled both houses of the state legislature, and apart from Schwarzenegger’s interlude from 2004 to 2010, there’s been a Democrat governor since 1999.

Nothing seems likely to change; this month, California’s voters approved a redistricting plan that is expected to reduce the number of Republican U.S. Congressmen to four out of 52. Democratic dominance in California’s cities and counties is equally absolute.

And yet they’re not accountable.

Democrats in California have perfected the art of persuasion with an electorate that for over two generations has been indoctrinated in public schools by teachers who themselves have been indoctrinated to hate capitalism, resent wealth, rebuke “whiteness,” and celebrate hedonism. All Democrat candidates have to say is “protect abortion,” “fight racism,” “climate emergency,” or “stop the Nazis,” and voter reaction is Pavlovian. Peak conditioning was achieved in the special election of 2025, when all they had to say was “stick it to Trump,” who they have turned into the biggest boogeyman since Hitler (someone who, just to be clear, really was a boogeyman).

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Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are facing severe backlash after releasing cherry-picked emails involving Jeffrey Epstein that mention President Donald Trump — despite no evidence of wrongdoing.

The release has been blasted by the White House and Republican lawmakers as a “fake narrative” aimed at smearing the president.

The emails, dated years before Trump’s presidency, show Epstein bragging in private exchanges about Trump allegedly telling Ghislaine Maxwell to stop recruiting young women from Mar-a-Lago’s spa.

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Chicago has experienced a dramatic double-digit decline in violent crime since the launch of the Department of Homeland Security’s “Operation Midway Blitz,” a federal crackdown ordered by President Donald Trump targeting illegal aliens protected by Illinois’ sanctuary policies.

According to new DHS data, shootings are down 35% — the lowest in four years — robberies are down 41%, and carjackings are down 48% since the operation began in September.

Homicides have dropped 16%, while transit crime is down 20%, marking what the agency called “a historic win in the fight against violent criminal illegal alien crime.”

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For more than half a century, Delaware stood as America’s corporate capital, renowned for its business-friendly laws, respected Chancery Court, and consistent legal rulings. But in recent years, leftist activist lawmakers and politicized judges have undermined that very foundation, sparking an exodus of major companies seeking stability and fairness to more welcoming states like Texas and Nevada.

On Wednesday morning, Coinbase joined the growing exodus, announcing on its website and in a Wall Street Journal op-ed by Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal that it is moving its state of incorporation from Delaware to Texas.

“For decades, Delaware was known for predictable court outcomes, respect for the judgment of corporate boards, and speedy resolutions,” Grewal wrote in the op-ed.

However, he pointed out that recent inconsistent Chancery Court rulings and reliance on ad hoc legislative fixes do not create a sustainable business environment.”

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The Biden-era sanctuary state policies in California foisted on the state and Americans by Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom have once again collided with federal law — this time on America’s highways.

The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has admitted to illegally issuing 17,000 commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) to foreign nationals who were not legally eligible to hold them, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Tuesday.

“After weeks of claiming they did nothing wrong, Gavin Newsom and California have been caught red-handed,” Duffy wrote in a statement. “Now that we’ve exposed their lies, 17,000 illegally issued trucking licenses are being revoked.

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Update (1120ET): Ukrainian President Zelenskiy confirmed the dismissal of two key ministers and deployed personal sanctions on his former business partner as the corruption scandal in the country’s energy sector widens.

“It is absolutely unacceptable that, amid all this, there are also some schemes in the energy sector,” Zelenskiy posted on X.

Justice Minister German Galushchenko was suspended from his post earlier on Wednesday amid the probe, but more officials are falling…

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Viennese teachers are reporting growing challenges with students from immigrant backgrounds who are increasingly unwilling to learn German or adapt to local values, according to teachers’ union representative Thomas Krebs of the Christian Trade Unionists Group (FCG).

Accept Turn World migrants, wind up with Turd World problems.

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The US War Department has begun sending conventional ground forces to Panama for training in jungle warfare for the first time in more than two decades, ABC News reported on Monday.

News of the training in Panama comes amid a major US military buildup in the Caribbean and a push toward a potential war with Venezuela, a country with vast jungles. A US military official told ABC that the training in Panama is not intended to prepare troops for a potential mission in Venezuela, but President Trump has reportedly been reviewing options for attacking the country.

While the US hasn’t sent enough forces to the Caribbean for a full-scale invasion of Venezuela, US military planners reportedly do believe it has a sufficient force to seize strategic ports and airfields in Venezuela.

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A sprawling U.S. investigative report has placed a Richmond, B.C., couple already identified in a high-profile Chinese-diaspora repression case at the center of an even more explosive national-security controversy south of the border: they are linked to a web of shell companies that own a trailer park beside Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri — home to the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber and launch point for the June 2025 strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

The same couple are named in B.C. court filings and appear in video evidence from a saga outside Vancouver journalist Bingchen Gao’s home, where activists aligned with Miles Guo — a New York–based tycoon with reported Chinese intelligence ties — staged repeated demonstrations in a siege-like campaign.

Taken together, the property records unearthed by the Daily Caller News Foundation, along with court and corporate documents reviewed by The Bureau to verify the American reporting, outline a cross-border pattern of potential Chinese state activity, echoing past cases of high-profile actors using Vancouver as a base for operations into the United States.

*sigh* ACTVITIES CANNOT BE SUSPICIOUS! People are suspicious; activities are suspect.

The world is going to the dogs….

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President Donald Trump issued a proclamation on Nov. 7 announcing “Anti-Communism Week,” which will commemorate the approximately 100 million victims who lost their lives to communist political systems over the years.

“This week, our Nation observes Anti-Communism Week, a solemn remembrance of the devastation caused by one of history’s most destructive ideologies,” the proclamation, issued on the National Day for the Victims of Communism, reads.

The order highlights the “devastation” of communist rule in countries around the world since its inception in Russia in 1917 by Vladimir Lenin following the Bolshevik Revolution. The collectivist ideology stems from “The Communist Manifesto,” written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848.

The best way to ensure that you can work from home regularly is to start your own business.

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TeleSURtv reporter André Vieira captured video showing dozens of what he described as “indigenous people” breaking through barriers and storming the UN’s annual global climate summit in Belém, Brazil. The summit brings together globalist world leaders, left-wing climate activists, and “trust-the-science” researchers to discuss climate pledges that they aim to transform into enforceable actions.

“Indigenous people occupied the #COP30 on the night of this Tuesday to demand that negotiators place them at the center of the debates,” Vieira wrote on X, adding, “Nearly 3,000 indigenous people are in Belém to participate in the activities over the coming days.”

Vieira’s X post also featured a video of indigenous people storming COP30, the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

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Academics and cybersecurity professionals warn that a wave of fake scientific research created with artificial intelligence (AI) is quietly slipping past plagiarism checks and into the scholarly record. This phenomenon puts the future credibility of scientific research at risk by amplifying the long-running industry of “paper-mill” fraud, experts say.

Academic paper mills—fake organizations that profit from falsified studies and authorship—have plagued scholars for years and AI is now acting as a force multiplier.

Some experts believe structural changes are needed, not just better plagiarism checkers, to solve the problem.

The scope of the problem is staggering, with more than 10,000 research papers retracted globally in 2023, according to Nature Portfolio.

Newsbusters.

Nothing was sacred to ABC’s The View if it could be abused to make an attack on some element of the Trump administration, including Veterans Day. During Tuesday’s episode, the liberal ladies sought to commemorate the holiday with their thanks and stories of their veteran family members; but moderator Whoopi Goldberg brought things down when she took a swipe at War Secretary Pete Hegseth to seemingly accuse him, an Army combat veteran, of not caring about those who came home from war.

“So, Joy is out today, hopefully she will be back tomorrow, and it is also Veterans Day today and we want to start by thanking every veteran in this country who has served in our armed forces,” Goldberg announced at the top of the show.

Goldberg chimed in again later in the segment to note how there were times that America didn’t treat veterans well and that America was trying to do a better job. She then invoked Hegseth’s name to scold him as if he wasn’t interested in treating veterans well or didn’t care about them.

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Recently Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that New York was joining 14 other states in a “nonpartisan initiative” (though all 15 states have Democratic governors) called the Governors Public Health Alliance, a “coordinating hub for governors and their public health leaders and a unified, cross-state liaison with the global health community. The Alliance also provides a platform for governors to exchange best practices, align policies, and coordinate on issues like vaccine access, emergency response and health security.”

Bear in mind that Hochul is only Governor of New York because Andrew Cuomo stepped on his own dick during the Pandemic Panic.

Despite claiming the GPHA is “nonpartisan,” Hochul’s press release is anything but: “From undermining vaccine access and abortion rights to slashing billions in Medicaid funding from those in need, the federal government is wreaking havoc on public health and the institutions we rely on.” 

Hochul’s announcement also states: “This new Alliance builds on New York’s ongoing work to protect access to public health and scientific information amidst ongoing attacks from the federal government.”

Finally, the press release burnishes GPHA’s credentials by stating: “The Alliance is advised by leading public health experts, including former CDC Director Dr. Mandy Cohen,” as well as others.

All these platitudes of partisanship and self-promotion are par-for-the-course for a governor seeking reelection. However, for New York in general, and Hochul in particular, they are the height of hypocrisy.

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I guess they’re 90% progressive and less than 10% Jewish.

Trump’s new plan for Obamacare leaves Americans to fend for themselves (Miranda Yaver/MSNBC)  As they did from the beginning of the world down to 1933.

Deployment of West Virginia National Guard members in nation’s capital can continue, judge rules (John Raby/Associated Press)

Trump’s 2020 alternate-elector pardons seek to derail remaining criminal cases (Kaelan Deese/Washington Examiner)  Of course they do.

Trump Tries to Seize ‘Affordability’ Message (Erica L. Green/New York Times)

Trump’s meatpacking probe meets with MAGA skepticism (Ja’han Jones/MSNBC)  There’s that MAGA guy again. (MAGA is the New Nigger.)

Trump Pardon Lets Convicted Child Sex Predator Walk Free (Leigh Kimmins/The Daily Beast)  The swine!

Groups Sue to Reverse Trump’s Cuts to Energy Projects in Democratic States (Zach Montague/New York Times)

JD Vance now leads the GOP. And he wants the party to welcome Hitler lovers. (Jason Sattler/THE FARCE) Pretty appropriate name.

Trump’s sweeping 2020 election pardon raises alarms ahead of the midterms (Politico)

Serial Felon Freed by Trump Back Behind Bars (Vic Verbalaitis/The Daily Beast)

Trump Pardons the Husband of a Republican Congressional Ally (Kenneth P. Vogel/New York Times)

For Trump, Nothing Was Off Limits During the Shutdown (Luke Broadwater/New York Times)

Politico Highlights How Trump ‘Gloats’ in Reaction to BBC Resignations Over ‘Mistakes’

Trump Defends Plan to Bring in Hundreds of Thousands of Chinese Students: ‘I Know What MAGA Wants Better Than Anybody Else’ (Charlie Nash/Mediaite)

CBS News Trumpwashes BBC Scandal That ABC and NBC Nightlies OMITTED

Trump dismisses financial concerns of air traffic controllers working without pay for more than 40 days (Zoë Richards/NBC News)

Why Trump Declared War on Immigrants  Richard Hanania loses his shit.

Trump has promised peace for Gaza. Private documents paint a grim picture. (Politico)  There will be no peace so long as Gaza is full of Muslim terrorirsts—and children being trained to grow up as Muslim terrorists.

Trump’s Rage at Shutdown Boils Over in Rant That Should Wake Up Dems (New Republic)

Exclusive: ‘She was the best man for the job’: Hegseth’s policies are pushing qualified women out of the military (CNN)

Trump Is Said to Propose Opening California Coast to Oil Drilling (New York Times)

Trump administration declares CFPB funding illegal (Michael Stratford/Politico)

The Foundry.

A watchdog group alleges that Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, filed inconsistent financial disclosure statements regarding investments, which potentially violated House rules and federal law if the unreported assets exceed $1,000 in value.

The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust filed a complaint with the Office of Congressional Conduct seeking an investigation into Crockett for failing to fully disclose financial investments in two dozen companies.

“Generally, a lot of members of Congress are trading and holding assets that could be considered a conflict of interest,” Kendra Arnold, executive director of FACT, told The Daily Signal. “When we see members of Congress not taking financial disclosure seriously, we do see other ethics problems.”

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More migrants have crossed the Channel illegally during Shabana Mahmood’s short tenure as home secretary than under any other home secretary since 2022—despite Labour’s promises to crack down on border crossings.

Mahmood has overseen 10,000 crossings in just 66 days, outdoing her Labour predecessor, Yvette Cooper, by just over a week.

The last time this record was beaten (in an impressive 43 days!) was when Conservative Suella Braverman was home secretary in 2022, which is ironic given all of her (questionable) talk about the importance of getting a grip on mass—legal and illegal—migration.

The Mail described Mahmood’s effort as “grim,” noting that under her watch, 2,000 migrants crossed the Channel from France—a safe country—in just four days. Over the same period, deportations of foreign criminals have been minimal, despite ministers proving late last month that they could remove more migrants if they really wanted to.

A government source also told the paper that the record was “unfortunate,” which is somewhat of an understatement.

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They all feel entitled to a luxury condo in Miami, of course.

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A Utah judge on Monday rejected a new congressional map drawn by Republican lawmakers, adopting an alternate proposal creating a Democrat-leaning district ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

Republicans hold all four of Utah’s U.S. House seats and had advanced a map poised to protect them.

Judge Dianna Gibson ruled just before a midnight deadline that the Legislature’s new map “unduly favors Republicans and disfavors Democrats.”

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A violent, bloody brawl broke out outside the Turning Point USA finale event Monday night at the University of California, Berkeley, where protesters, clad in black masks and keffiyehs, swarmed the hall’s entrance, chanting “No Trump, No KKK, No fascist USA” and screaming obscenities at attendees, calling them “fascists.”

The chaos erupted on Bancroft Way ahead of the conservative group’s event at Zellerbach Hall, headlined by comedian Rob Schneider and Christian author Frank Turek, and held exactly two months after Turning Point founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated while speaking at a Utah college campus, reports Berkeleyside.

Mikey McCoy, who had served as Kirk’s chief of staff, accused the protesters of being antifa, an anti-fascist movement with no official leaders.

It doesn’t need a leader. Plagues never do. What it needs is anti-biotic. And the Right is unwilling to do what it takes.

UPDATE: ‘Where Is Trump?’ – Will The President Take Action After TPUSA Christians Attacked On Berkeley Campus  He’ll want to. He may even try. But this is California, the Master Nest for left-wing vermin.

The Foundry.

One year since President Donald Trump swept the swing states in the 2024 election, Democrats are starting to find their footing again. New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old self-identified socialist, appears to have breathed new life into the party.

One of the biggest questions for national Democrats in the last few months has been whether they will endorse Mamdani.

Young, highly critical of the Israeli government, and enthusiastic about government intervention such as city-run grocery stores and rent freezes, he won over 50% of the vote in America’s largest city.

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A suicide bombing outside district court buildings in the Pakistani capital Islamabad killed at least 12 people and wounded 27 on Tuesday, November 11th. People fled in panic in an area housing several government offices.

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There was no immediate claim of responsibility, with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif pinning the blame on “terrorist proxies backed by Pakistan’s longtime foe India” —without providing any evidence. Sharif also accused the Pakistani Taliban militant group and separatists from the country’s Balochistan region, both of whom have carried out attacks, mostly targeting the security forces.

Islamabad has largely been spared major militant violence in recent years, with the last suicide attack occurring in December 2022.

“There was an attack in Wana as well last night,” Naqvi said. “Three people died in that attack. The attacker involved in that attack is an Afghan. Afghanistan is directly involved in that attack.”

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Argentinian President Javier Milei said he would “warmly welcome” New Yorkers escaping the “communist” rule of incoming Mayor Zohran Mamdani , during a speech at a Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) event in Florida last week.

Milei warned that New York risks repeating Argentina’s past economic failures under socialist policies. “If things get tough, they’ll always be welcome in our land if they seek to prosper,” he said.

Mamdani, a Muslim Democratic Socialist, recently won New York’s mayoral election after pledging to freeze rents, raise taxes on the “wealthy” and make public transport and childcare free. Critics say his plans are unrealistic without state approval.

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A new right-wing political party in Belgium called TRUMP has been launched, taking its name from current U.S. President Donald Trump, whom its founder calls “the ultimate symbol of populism.”

TRUMP is short for Tous Réunis pour l’Union des Mouvements Populistes (All United for the Union of Populist Movements). The group follows earlier francophone movements, including the now-dissolved Chez Nous and the former Belgian Front National.

The party is led by Salvatore Nicotra, a former chairman of the Belgian Front National. Speaking to Brussels outlet BRUZZ, he said Donald Trump represents the values the new party wants to promote.

Unlike Vlaams Belang, Belgium’s largest right-wing nationalist party, which seeks independence for the Dutch-speaking Flanders region, Nicotra says TRUMP supports a unified Belgian state. He describes the platform as “right-wing populist with a social focus.”

TRUMP plans to run in Belgium’s 2029 federal and European elections and may also field candidates at regional and local level. The official launch is scheduled for 30 November.

The announcement comes as Prime Minister Bart De Wever’s five-party coalition struggles to finalise the national budget. De Wever is pushing for €10 billion in spending cuts and has asked King Philippe for more time—until Christmas—to strike a deal.

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On Monday, November 10th, the home of Hungary’s honorary consul was attacked in Frankfurt-Preungesheim under cover of darkness, damaging the façade of her house and her husband’s vehicle.

Nicola Beer is the vice president of the European Investment Bank and an FDP politician. According to reports, several people

• broke into the residential area,

• sprayed purple paint on the façade of the house,

• slashed the tyres of the couple’s car,

• broke the car’s windows,

• emptied the contents of a fire extinguisher inside the vehicle.

The perpetrators are unknown at this time and the national security service has launched an investigation.

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It is a snapshot of cultural collapse: A young German woman with pink hair in clergyman’s robes, facing four men, bestowing her approval on their bizarre sexual arrangement, the details of which we are blessedly unaware. The pro-LGBT pastor is now under fire for blessing the ‘marriage’ of four men who showed up at a pop-up wedding fair at Berlin’s St. Paul the Apostle Church recently. Lena Müller, the 33-year-old clergyperson in question, posted a photo of the ceremony to Instagram.

According to the Times, Müller said that the relationship “consisted of two Latvians, a Thai citizen and a fourth man who she believed was Spanish.” This group of men, which I regret to inform you is referred to as a ‘polycule,’ was pronounced a “marriage in the eyes of God,” according to Müller. The wedding fair was “part of a programme offering free blessing for couples who wish to avoid ‘lengthy formalities,’” which in this case would probably include a Constitutional Court case and new legislation.

“Four young men said ‘yes’ to each other, celebrated love with us and placed themselves under G*d’s colourful blessing … What an honour, that these four asked for a blessing with so much trust,” Müller wrote in her Instagram post, which she has since deleted. I can’t help but suspect that upon arriving at the fair, the polyamorous polycule swiftly identified her as the likeliest pink-haired purveyor of the moral approval they sought.

Quillette.

The priorities of Britain’s extremism researchers, and even those of the country’s state apparatus, do not reflect the fact that Islamism presents the greatest terror threat to the UK. Islamism is a religio-political movement that aims to reestablish a theocratic Caliphate in the modern world—a single polity encompassing all of the world’s Muslims, within which Sharia Law would be followed in all matters, and non-Muslims would be reduced to (at best) second-class citizens. This ideology began with the founding of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in 1928, and it now exists in multiple variants and offshoots worldwide. Al-Qaeda, Islamic State, Boko Haram, Hamas, the Taliban, and the Shi’ite regime ruling the Islamic Republic of Iran are all overtly Islamist entities, while the governments of Turkey and Qatar might diplomatically be described as influenced by or sympathetic to Islamism.

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For decades, the U.S. government has worked relentlessly to smooth out the business cycle — determined to prevent recessions at almost any cost.

Through massive fiscal spending, easy credit, and sweeping guarantees, Washington props up the economy whenever trouble looms. This interventionist reflex has turned downturns — once a natural part of capitalism’s rhythm — into rare, almost extinct events.

Behind that stability, however, lies a staggering financial risk. The federal government now carries over $130 trillion in contingent liabilities — future promises and guarantees that don’t appear on the official balance sheet.

Communism has that effect on people. Think of it as evolution in action.

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World War III is already underway, but most people don’t recognize it because they’re conditioned to expect war to look like traditional physical violence with bombs, guns, and battlefield confrontations.

This bias stems from centuries of warfare taking a particular form, similar to how people once couldn’t conceive of light without fire until electricity was invented.

Epoch Times.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as SNAP, unexpectedly took center stage in debates over the federal government shutdown.

As funding for the program, formerly known as Food Stamps, ran out in October, Congress, President Donald Trump, and the federal courts have wrestled with what to do about feeding millions of Americans who depend on this benefit each month.

SNAP has grown in size and cost since its inception in 1964, as have many other social welfare programs.

Here’s a closer look at the program, what it costs, the participation rates in different states, and how it has come to top $100 billion per year.

Associated Press, a Voice of the Crust.

This combination photo of eight senators is Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., top row from left, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., and bottom row from left, Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H. (AP Photo)

Interesting. Both Senators from New Hampshire, both Senators from Nevada, the “Independent” from Maine, Uncle Fester from PA, and Hillary’s VP pick. Plus old Dem warhorse Dick Durbin.

UPDATE: Chuck Todd Laments Dems ‘Snatch Defeat from the Jaws of Victory’

UPDATE: Democrats rebel after 8 senators cut a deal to end the shutdown without ACA funds (NBC News)

UPDATE: Buttigieg Rips Senate Dems Who Broke Ranks on Shutdown

UPDATE: Newsom Blasts Senate Dems for ‘Betrayal’ in Shutdown Deal

UPDATE: Scoop: Schumer privately fought to extend government shutdown (Axios)

UPDATE: Why These Vichy Dems and Their Spineless Boss Need to Go Now (David Rothkopf/The Daily Beast)

UPDATE: Angry Democrats call on Schumer to resign after eight vote to end shutdown (Chris Stein/The Guardian)

UPDATE: Senate Ends Filibuster; Democrats Immediately Form Circular Firing Squad (Babylon Bee)

MSNBC Lets Dem Guest Call DHS ‘Domestic Terrorism Organization’

Donald Trump booed as the 1st sitting US president at a regular-season NFL game since Carter in 1978 (Howard Fendrich/Associated Press)

Trump Booed at NFL Game After Demanding Stadium Is Named In His Honor (Julia Ornedo/The Daily Beast)

Reagan-Appointed Federal Judge Resigns to Speak Freely Against Trump (Amelia Benavides-Colón/NOTUS)

Trump pardons top allies who aided bid to subvert the 2020 election (Kyle Cheney/Politico)

Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani, others involved in efforts to overturn 2020 election, pardon attorney says (Karina Tsui/CNN) Hey, if Biden can do it….

Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani, other key figures allegedly involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election (Peter Charalambous/ABC News)

Trump Pardons Rudy Giuliani, Others Involved In Bid To Challenge 2020 Election

Trump Pardons Giuliani and Others Involved in Effort to Overturn 2020 Election (New York Times)

F.B.I. Director Is Said to Have Made a Pledge to Head of MI5, Then Broken It (Adam Goldman/New York Times) “Said”? Must have heard it through the grapevine….

Court Rules Trump Must Release $4B in Food Aid  Using what for money? There is no current appropriation because of Democrat bullheadedness. Is he just supposed to shit the money? What ever happened to all the complaints that only Congress can appropriate money? Since when do the courts get to decide this?

Marjorie Taylor Greene flees Trump’s sinking ship (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)  … But a Dem sees what he wants to see, and disregards the rest…. (ICE Has Received More Than 200,000 Job Applications: DHS)

Home Depot Can’t Ignore Its ICE Problem Forever (Beth Kowitt/Bloomberg)  Time to start hiring Americans.

Trump turned the military on U.S. cities. I will continue to hold him accountable. (Sen. Dick Durbin/MSNBC)  Yeah, we can see him tremble in his boots….

Now We Know Trump’s Kryptonite — Perhaps it took the second coming of Donald Trump for empathy … (E. J. Dionne Jr/New York Times)  Molehill? Can’t you see the mountain there?

The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack. With these resignations, it has given in (Jane Martinson/The Guardian)  Translation: It lied about Trump and got caught. Unlike Democrats, British civil servants resign when they get caught.

Trump Threatens to Sue the BBC for $1 Billion After Jan. 6 Documentary (Michael D. Shear/New York Times)

Laura Loomer’s Endless Payback (Antonia Hitchens/New Yorker)

Jeffrey Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell plans to seek commutation from Trump, whistleblower says (NBC News)  Which she is perfectly entitled to do. How nefarious!

BBC: Received Legal Threat From Trump Over Speech Doctoring

BBC News says it received legal threat from Trump over speech edit (Sam Tabahriti/Reuters)

BBC Chairman Apologizes for Error in Edit of Trump Speech (Max Colchester/Wall Street Journal)

Lions WR Points to Trump, Does His Dance After TD

Gallup Poll: DHS Sees Sharp Rise in Public Approval

Fla. AG: Probing JPMorgan Chase Debanking Trump Media

Far-right party named ‘TRUMP’ launches in Belgium (Ketrin Jochecová/Politico)

The Foundry.

Is America about to be hit with a Mamdani-style socialist tidal wave?

That’s what more than a few Americans are thinking as the dust settles on the unnerving election of socialist Democrat Zohran Mamdani in New York City.

Make no mistake, his faction of the Democratic Party absolutely has momentum after the win. So right now, much of the national political discourse is focused on the “meaning of Mamdani.”

I grew up in California, the Bay Area, and got used to “fringy” leftists in local government. But to see an American city as massive and iconic as New York fall under the sway of a man fond of quoting Karl Marx is certainly a significant event. How did this happen? Will his playbook truly be replicated elsewhere? Is this style of politics truly the future of the Democratic Party?

To answer those questions we have to first diagnose how Mamdani pulled off this victory.

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Dutch media reported on Monday morning on the appearance of “a Gazan who cheered on the October 7th attacks in Israel” at a pro-Palestine sit-in at Amsterdam Central Station. De Telegraaf notes that while Mohaned al-Khatib, the Gazan in question, “describes himself as a journalist … in his comments, however, he openly reveals himself to be a Hamas supporter. He is pictured arm in arm with then-Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh.”

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Around 40 pro-Palestinian activists stormed the main building of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) on Friday, November 7th, setting off fireworks from the roof and displaying a banner.

The activists occupied the building for about two hours before leaving, after the university threatened them with trespassing charges. Police then secured the entrances. According to authorities, around 500 people joined the broader demonstration across Munich with 100 police officers deployed. No further incidents were reported.

Bavaria’s Commissioner for Jewish Life and the Fight against Antisemitism, Ludwig Spaenle, condemned the protest, stating that while criticism of the Israeli government is legitimate, defaming German academic institutions is unacceptable. He described the activists’ claims about TUM’s alleged involvement in Gaza’s suffering as “vile slander” and “completely unfounded.”

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write a book, I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose”.

Two minutes later there is a photo of a BLM activist holding up an “I can’t breathe” sign.

Such unintentional irony pervades a documentary which claims that what George Orwell really wanted to warn about in ‘1984’ were the dangers of free speech and political dissent.

Not Communism.

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was behind the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the Capitol Complex. Things were too pat. Narratives were set and eagerly parroted by the media within hours. Buses filled with non-MAGA people were reported and verified by congressional reps. And there were “bombs” found at the Democratic National Committee and later at a club near the RNC. Impeachment talk was openly discussed.

Suddenly, questioning the obviously hinky 2020 election was a criminal act against democracy. Trump must go to jail, the left said. And then they went about trying to make that happen. A Hollywood producer soon was under contract to produce Congress’s January 6, The Movie! where no exculpatory information was allowed.

The word “insurrection” became quickly affixed to all news stories, though no one knew what really happened. President Donald Trump’s slow response in urging people to go home was seen as an admission of something nefarious. And his words spoken at the Ellipse were clipped, taken out of context, and all exculpatory words he spoke were mysteriously left out of the discussion.

And the fix is still in. On Sunday, two executives at the BBC resigned in disgrace after the popular British news program Panorama was caught making egregious edits in Trump’s speech to make him sound like he was encouraging a run on the Capitol Building.

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Just like they waited until either Joe Biden had bumbled in the June 2024 debate or he was out of office to admit he wasn’t in charge of his faculties, the “Big Three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC awoke Monday morning by telling viewers it was Democrats who had a “whole strategy” to “drive the country into a shutdown,” but lost out when eight defectors “back[ed] away from what they’ve been demanding” on ObamaCare subsidies.

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A reportedly transgender high school history teacher in Virginia is on leave after posting an image to his Instagram of a “rainbow gun” pointed at a person’s head and the demand “PUT THE PRONOUNS BACK IN THE EMAIL.”

The image, posted on X by Libs of TikTok, depicts an arm holding a pistol (both colored as a rainbow) held at the back of a man’s head, with the “pronoun” demand written directly above.

According to WSET, Sabrina Morris (pictured) teaches at George Washington High School in the Danville Public Schools (Virginia) district. A district spokesperson said local police are involved in the matter, and that Morris “will not be present on school grounds while this matter is under investigation.”