Read it.

parties amid rising antisemitic threats, according to the head of Greater Manchester Police.

Chief Constable Sir Stephen Watson revealed that such requests have become more frequent following recent terror attacks and growing hostility toward Jewish communities. He said fears had intensified after the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7th and a series of antisemitic incidents in the UK.

Watson also confirmed police were investigating reports of people celebrating the recent Bondi Beach mass shooting in Australia, which left 15 people dead (not including one of the attackers).

Read it.

The U.S. government is encouraging white men to report instances of workplace discrimination—part of the Trump administration’s broader effort to scale back DEI initiatives across the country.

Andrea Lucas—acting chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)—posted on X this week asking

“Are you a white male who’s experienced discrimination at work based on your race or sex?”

She added that those affected “may have a claim to recover money under federal civil rights laws.”

Read it.

It was less than three years ago — early 2023 — that I was writing about the then-universal government and industry line that electric vehicles (EVs) would soon be taking over the American car market. In April 2022 the Biden Administration had adopted aggressive vehicle mileage standards intended to be achievable only through rapid transition to EVs. Our “climate leader” states, California and New York, had then adopted regulations in August and September 2022, respectively, mandating a phase-out of sales of combustion vehicles, to culminate in 2035, after which only EVs would be allowed. In a post in January 2023, I linked to the websites of Ford and GM, where they both touted their grand plans for rapid conversion of their companies to the manufacture of mostly or entirely EVs. At that time, Ford was claiming that it would “lead America’s shift to EVs,” and would achieve 50% of its sales in that category by 2030. GM bragged about its “path to an all-electric future” by 2035.

Curtis Yarvin: “The test of any legacy system is always whether, if it did not exist, anyone would invent it.”

Read it.

Curtis Yarvin is an American political thinker, essayist, and software engineer known for his concept of the ‘Cathedral,’ his description of the modern West’s informal nexus of media, academia, and bureaucracy. Writing under the name Mencius Moldbug in the 2000s, he became one of the formative voices of the neoreactionary or postliberal movement. Combining historical erudition with irony and intellectual independence, Yarvin argues that Western democracy has ossified into a managerial order and that genuine renewal requires a return to first principles of authority and legitimacy.

Here is the dirty secret of campus race politics: it isn’t actually about race. No one cares about ‘black conservatives.’ There is nothing ‘historic’ about Clarence Thomas or Condoleezza Rice.

The point of ‘affirmative action’ is that it oversamples ideology. Race communism (communism, but with the workers and peasants replaced by people of color) is the central ideology of the Cathedral, and always has been. The word ‘progressive’ has been used in the same way for a century, from the Old Left to the New Left. Say ‘racial progressivism,’ and a progressive might even agree.

The real purpose of the admissions officers is to maintain ideological and political hegemony. This is hardly hard—most peoples’ instinct is normally to support the powers that be. But it’s always best to keep power in shape.

Without the ability to stack the political deck by using race as a proxy, the commissars will just have to select even harder for more hardcore communism itself. Here we see, for instance, sexual minorities taking the front seat over racial minorities.

The Foundry.

California and Rhode Island judges won our October and November “Dishonorable Conduct Award” for their judicial misbehavior.

The December award winner, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, is a super legislator who identifies as a federal judge. In a ruling in July, Talwani, a Biden appointee in Massachusetts—call us shocked—tried to override Congress’ constitutional authority over the federal purse and force taxpayers to subsidize Planned Parenthood.

Some judges who have tried to use injunctions to change the law were ultimately reversed by the Supreme Court. Talwani was so out of line, even the very liberal U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit caught it first. In a Dec. 8 order, it administratively stayed her injunction.

The Foundry.

DHS has added the names, photos, and criminal backgrounds of an additional 5,000 illegal aliens to the searchable platform, bringing the number of listed criminals to 15,000.

“This new update represents just a small sample of the total number of arrests we’ve made—70% of [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] arrests are of criminal illegal aliens that have been charged or convicted of a crime in the United States,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said.

The website is searchable by state and city, providing Americans with the knowledge of “which dangerous criminal illegal aliens the Trump administration has removed from their communities,” McLaughlin said.

The New Neo.

Susie Wiles is supposed to be a savvy and hyper-knowledgeable political advisor. And yet she gave an interview to Vanity Fair and apparently thought the periodical would treat her – fairly? What planet does she live on?:

The Telegraph (UK).

The man believed to be behind the mass shooting at Brown University has been found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility, authorities said.

Claudio Neves Valente, 48, a Portuguese national who attended Brown 25 years ago, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Providence police chief Oscar Perez said on Thursday evening.

The shooter, who was found at a storage unit along with two guns, is believed to have acted alone.

“Tonight, our Providence neighbours can finally breathe a little bit easier,” Mayor Brett Smiley told reporters.

Investigators believe Valente is responsible for both the shooting at Brown, in which two students were killed, and the murder of Nuno FG Loureiro, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) science professor.

The Telegraph (UK).

The Government has finally unveiled its long-overdue plan for tackling violence against women and girls (VAWG), which seeks to address misogyny and abuse by “disrupting dangerous attitudes and stopping harmful behaviours escalating”.

Getting rid of Muslim immigrants ought to be the first step.

Proposed measures include sending experts into schools to tutor children on “healthy and respectful relationships”, as part of an effort to integrate the strategy into every aspect of school life.

How Orwellian.

Announcing the plans on Thursday, safeguarding minister, Jess Phillips, warned of a “national emergency” over gender-based violence, adding the Government’s aim was to be “so ambitious that we change culture”.

However, key aspects of the document – which only sketches a broad outline of the Government’s plans – have been called into question by critics. In particular, they warn that the proposals risk demonising an entire generation of boys and young men as inherently problematic, or “toxic”.

Some have accused the Government of not sufficiently acknowledging the disproportionate numbers of misogynistic offences committed by migrants and non-British nationals, too.

Carl Benjamin has a good analysis here.

The Telegraph (UK).’

Britain spent £72m of taxpayers’ money refurbishing a Royal Navy warship before selling it to Brazil at a knockdown price.

Labour axed HMS Bulwark in November last year, in the middle of a major upgrade programme, alongside sister ship HMS Albion.

While the fate of Albion is unclear, Bulwark has been sold to Brazil, reportedly for about £20m in a fire sale, and is expected to head to the South American country next year.

Critics branded the deal “a spectacular failure” that would leave taxpayers “absolutely outraged”, and suggested it was a sign of more widespread failings in Britain’s military spending plans.

Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to increase defence spending from 2.3 per cent of GDP to 2.6 per cent by 2027 as part of a race to rearm ahead of possible conflict with Russia.

Looser pledges have also been made to hit 3 per cent in the early 2030s and 3.5 per cent by 2035.

Trump administration plans to break up largest federal climate research center (NBC News)

Mexico Asks UN to Step In Amid US-Venezuela Standoff  Good luck with that.

The Year America Went (Kinda) Socialist (Scott Lincicome/The Dispatch)  “State corporatism” is what Democrats do, not Trump. Another example of libtard projection.

For Hegseth, There Is One Boat Strike He Doesn’t Want the Public to See (David E. Sanger/New York Times)

Dems Freeze Coast Guard Nominee Over Hate-Symbol Clash

44 Chained Outside S.F. Immigration Court Arrested

Trump’s war on Europe (Martin Wolf/Financial Times)

The Trump Family Business Empire Is Growing. We Mapped Out 268 Pieces of It. (Wall Street Journal)  An effort they did not put into mapping the Biden Crime Family.

The revealing pointlessness of Trump’s primetime speech (Zack Beauchamp/Vox)  Dude, he wasn’t talking to you.

ICE voodoo doll discovered in New Orleans as immigration crackdown continues (WVUE-TV)  Find a person who checks their horoscope every day in the papar, and I’ll bet you’ve found a liberal Democrat. Find a person who identifies as “wiccan”, and I’ll bet you’ve found a liberal Democrat. Find a person who believes in the healing power of “crystals”, and I’ll bet you’ve found a liberal Democat. Yet these people claim to be superior because they have “science” on their side.

The lasting impact of Trump’s federal surge on one D.C. neighborhood (Washington Post)  Jerk those tears! Jerk those tears!

Threats Against Judges Could Lead to a Judicial System Crisis (New York Times) There already is a judicial system crisis with judges putting ideology ahead of the law.

‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women (New York Times)  Getting pretty desperate in their ‘coverage’, it seems.

Fast, harsh, alone: Trump beams into prime time with uncertain results (Isaac Arnsdorf/Washington Post)  Getting pretty desperate in their ‘coverage’, it seems.

The Bravofication of American government (Christian Paz/Vox)

Trump Pressed Georgia Speaker to Overturn State’s Election Vote in 2020 Call (New York Times)  Boy, that’s news.

Trump gets bored issuing real pardons, tries a fake one (Liz Dye/Public Notice)

Fact-Checking Trump’s Prime-Time Address on the Economy (Linda Qiu/New York Times)  Come gitcher Narrative, right here.

This Is What Presidential Panic Looks Like (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)  Perhaps if we repeat this lie enough times, people will believe it.

Breaking precedent, networks interrupt prime time for Trump political diatribe (Popular Information)  What precedent? The President is always accommodated when he wants’ to make a prime-time speech. What rock have these people been living under?

The Americans Who Saw All This Coming–but Were Ignored and Maligned (Toby Buckle/New Republic)

She’s Married to the Architect of Trump’s Darkest Policies. She Wants America to Love Her. It’s Not Going Well. (Tess Owen/Slate)

Why a single word disappearing from the FCC’s website matters for press freedom (Tom Jones/Poynter)

Trump’s ‘Bah! Humbug!’ address suggests he is feeling the chill of opinion polls (David Smith/The Guardian)

Ill. Mayor Confronts Border Chief Bovino Amid Operation

US Judge Plans To Block Hundreds Of Trump Admin Layoffs

Trump administration prepares sweeping crackdown on leftist networks (Washington Post)

Watch Rep. Sarah McBride’s Powerful Statement on Republicans’ Anti-Trans Obsession (Parker Molloy/The Present Age)

Trump’s Bad Economy Is Even Worse Than It Looks (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)

Federal Judge Won’t Block White House Ballroom Construction

Whoopi Claims ‘Warrior Dividends’ Are Bribe to Follow Illegal Orders

One of Trump’s grudges now threatens America’s weather forecasts (Marianne-Lavelle/Vox)  Because, as everybody knows, weather forecasts are TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government—and the Federal taxpayer.

Judge dismisses complaint against Miami land transfer for Trump’s presidential library (Kate Payne/Associated Press)

“It’s a disgrace”: Dems rage over “Trump-Kennedy Center” renaming (Andrew Solender/Axios)  Ah, ah, ah, ah, yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains….

Read it.

A Minnesota lawmaker alleged on Dec. 17 that a man awaiting trial on federal charges that he laundered $1.1 million in taxpayer dollars and his wife continue to collect payments from other government programs, a state lawmaker said Dec. 17.

That’s concerning, state Rep. Kristin Robbins told the fraud-fighting committee that she chairs.

“This is just one example of how potential fraudulent activity is being allowed to continue in Minnesota,” she said during a hearing at the state Capitol in St. Paul, Minnesota. Later, she alleged on social media that the state government “continued to pay a fraudster who was indicted.”

Read it.

I thought Global Warming We’re All Gonna Die had gotten rid of all the Arctic ice.

Read it.

People die. Serves them right for voting for shitheads.

Read it.

These would make a great addition to the sourthern Border Wall. Weed out the weak and stupid and make sure only the truly deserving get across the border.

Read it.

A new study highlights the outsized role of foreigners in serious crimes in Spain, which has seen worrying growth in rapes, attempted murders, and other serious crimes in just the last five to six years. The CEU-CEFAS Demographic Observatory report, titled “Demography of Crime in Spain,” examines the evolution of crime across various demographic groups and geographical areas in the country, and the researchers are warning about “imported crime” due to mass immigration.

Import Turd World people into your country, get Turd World behavior as a result.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.  Spanish tax dollars at work.

Read it.

This is the centennial year for the Scopes “monkey trial” in Dayton, Tennessee, 1925’s “trial of the century”. In the dock was John Scopes, a substitute high school teacher who was accused of violating the state’s recently passed Butler Act, which prohibited any state school from teaching any theory of the origin of man that contradicted the account in Genesis. Scopes’ conviction was later overturned by the Tennessee Supreme Court on a technicality.

By any objective measure, the Scopes trial should arouse no greater attention in 2025 than Dayton’s 1925 Strawberry Festival. It set no legal precedent, led to no repeal of the Butler Act, and everyone involved just got on with their lives. Yet here we are, still talking about it a hundred years later, in commemorative conferences, in high profile commentaries, on podcasts, and even a documentary (full disclosure, produced by me).

Interest in the Scopes trial has been kept alive by a prevailing narrative that has built up over the last century: of two titans of 1920s America, William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow, squaring off in an epic courtroom confrontation of science versus religion [still a big talking point with the Left], evolution versus creation [an argument as dead as Hitler and Mussolini], academic freedom versus state control of education [which proglodytes have been inverting for the last fifty years].

We have known for some time that little of this narrative is true. The Scopes trial was a put-up job, instigated by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Dayton town luminaries who wanted to bring commerce and publicity to their small town and its sluggish economy. The “epic confrontation” was more performative than substantive, with drama provided by the defense’s claim that evolutionism and Darwinism were crystalline scientific truths, and that any contrary claims, particularly when the doubts were religiously-motivated, posed a threat to civilization itself. Ever since 1925, scientists generally have bought into the Scopes defense’s narrative. But just how strong was their case?

The Scopes trial is kept alive by the same spirit that keeps alive the lynching of Emmet Till, the Ku Klux Klan, the 1619 Project, “reparations”, and all of the other decomposing relics of the past that proglodytes depend on in order to keep their troops in line and de-humanize those who don’t accept the Narrative. It’s why they jump to call everybody they dislike Nazis and Fascists. It’s the Hunt for Heretics and Sinners that keeps their creaking wagon train in motion.

Newsbusters.

On Sunday PBS acted like the good liberal news channel it is by whitewashing the obvious Islamic roots behind the massacre of Jews at an outdoor Hannukah party at Bondi Beach in Australia. Instead the discussion clung to wholly unrelated incidents in America, like the decade-old Charlottesville march, ignoring the even more virulent anti-Semitism constantly on display at pro-Hamas marches in Australia and America alike for over two years running.

Read it.

One-Party-Rule Maryland Democrats Ignore Power Bill Crisis, Push Ahead With Slavery Reparations Study
Instead of addressing the state’s mounting crises, from fiscal mess, soaring power bills, and exodus of residents to violent crime and illegal aliens, unhinged Democrats in Annapolis spent their time on Tuesday overriding Gov. Wes Moore’s veto of Senate Bill 587, creating a reparations commission to study how Maryland should address slavery and racial discrimination.

What better way to spend precious time as the year winds down? Many thought the entire reparations and wealth-redistribution grift was over. Apparently, not in Maryland.

Read it.

Nearly seven in every 10 Canadians are identifying the cost of living in their area as a major issue, according to a newly released survey.

An Abacus Data poll found that 67 percent of the 1,500 people surveyed earlier this month said the cost of living in their area is the worst they can ever remember it being. Another 21 percent say the cost of living is bad where they live, although they can recall periods when it was even more challenging.

Only 11 percent say the cost of living is not bad, the survey said.

Vote for socialists, that’s what you get. Time to leave.

Read it.

Santa Claus is alive and psychotic on the Left Coast.

Read it.

As farmers storm Brussels, discontent is growing in France, where roadblocks are multiplying. The authorities fear congestion on the roads as Christmas approaches.

Since the beginning of December, protests by farmers have been increasing in response to health measures imposed to stem the epidemic of Contagious Nodular Dermatitis. Roadblocks and demonstrations aim to prevent the slaughter of infected herds but, above all, to alert public opinion to the endless crisis affecting the primary sector in France and in Europe.

Final negotiations on the implementation of the free trade agreement with Mercosur are adding to the anger of farmers, who feel that they are constantly being sacrificed and ignored by the authorities.

Read it.

market entered Germany on skilled-worker visas, according to a report by Bild.

German authorities last week detained the five suspects over plans to carry out an attack on a Christmas market in the Dingolfing area. Investigators believe the group intended to ram a truck into a crowd.

The three visa holders are Moroccan nationals identified as Bilal T., Mounir A., and Adil H. German media report they arrived in the country on November 14, entering on the final day of their 90-day visas. All three were employed at a car dealership in Wallersdorf.

Read it.

One by one, they are singing, the men who used to do dirty deeds for the late Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez and his successor, Nicolas Maduro. Nobody knows what’s going to happen, whether the United States will attack, and whether Maduro will fall. But these Venezuelans sniff change in the air. As more countries exit Venezuela’s orbit, more allegations are likely to emerge.

Two of the men are in prison here in the U.S.: Hugo “El Pollo” Carvajal, the former spy mastermind, and Cliver Alcala Cordones, a former general, both of whom have written letters to President Donald Trump airing bales of dirty laundry regarding narcotrafficking to the U.S. A third is a top official who has defected and is cooperating with the U.S. government, to whom I spoke a couple of months ago.

Over in Bolivia, where change has already begun, information regarding that government’s involvement with narco-terrorism may soon see the light of day as well. The new president, Rodrigo Paz Pereira, elected earlier this year and sworn into office last month, had his predecessor, Luis Arce, arrested on Wednesday. Many members of Arce’s government may follow him into the clink, and they may soon start “cooperating” by airing dirty laundry as well.

Read it.

A large Syrian family from Stuttgart has cost the German state of Baden-Württemberg more than €500,000 in imprisonment and repatriation expenses, according to a response from the state Justice Ministry to a parliamentary inquiry by the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD).

Authorities investigated around 20 family members in connection with approximately 160 criminal offences, the ministry said. In October, 17 members of the family left Germany in what officials described as a “controlled departure.” The costs associated with their exit—including flights, subsidies, and document fees—amounted to €45,228.57.

The ministry said allowing the individuals to remain in Germany would have resulted in significantly higher costs, adding that their departure was considered both the “most economic solution” and the only way to end their stay. According to public broadcaster SWR, the family members held either refugee status or subsidiary protection.

Much higher costs were incurred through earlier prison sentences. Based on a daily incarceration cost of €180, the imprisonment of five family members resulted in expenses of €478,228, according to the ministry’s figures.

UPDATE: 38 Arrivals a Day: Germany Continues Bringing Afghans to the Country

Read it.

The state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt has approved a renewed corona emergency for the seventh consecutive year, allowing the regional government to continue drawing on a special pandemic fund in 2026, despite the COVID-19 crisis having largely subsided.

The decision, passed on December 16th, follows approval earlier this month by the cabinet led by Minister-President Reiner Haseloff of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Under the renewed emergency declaration, the state plans to spend up to €790 million next year, including on hospital renovations and digitalisation projects.

Saxony-Anhalt has declared a corona emergency every year since 2020. All other German federal states ended comparable emergency measures by no later than 2024. The corona special fund was initially set at around €2 billion, more than half of which had been spent by October 2025. Hundreds of millions of euros more are earmarked for 2026, with repayments scheduled to begin in 2029 in annual instalments of €100 million.

And the hunt for the storied German Totalitarianism Gene continues.

Read it.

Notwithstanding the current Republican control of Congress and the Presidency, these are perilous times. The next time Democrats take power, things could get very bad, very fast.

Nonetheless, long term, I am fairly serene. In the long run, in America, freedom wins. There has been 250 years of ups and downs, but the Declaration and the First Amendment continually unites us and defines us. The First Amendment ensures America will be great. The Second Amendment ensures that the First Amendment will endure.

I am not serene about the fate of Europe. They have neither the First, nor the Second Amendment. They used to be united by centuries of blood and soil national pride and loyalty. Not today. They imported a population with no loyalty to the land. Worse, they imported a population that holds ancient European culture in contempt. Europe has no history of assimilation, and no assimilation has taken place in the last 50 years. Immigration without assimilation is invasion. When you see the last 50 years of European history, you can’t help but conclude that things will not end well.

Read it.

A small French town finds itself in an unprecedented situation: its mayor and the entire municipal council have resigned in protest because they refuse to celebrate the marriage of one of the town’s inhabitants, who has been ordered to leave French territory. The law requires them to proceed with performing the wedding of this individual—who is present in the country in violation of French law. Faced with an increase in this type of absurd situation, members of parliament are attempting to change the legislative framework, so far without success.

The Telegraph (UK).

Disney had the right to “resurrect” Peter Cushing in a Star Wars film, judges have ruled.

Don’t mess with The Mouse. He has way more money than you do.

The actor, who played imperial commander Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope in 1977, died in 1994, but the character was recreated in the spin-off using special effects.

The executors of Cushing’s estate agreed to his likeness being recreated for the 2016 film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story in a deal with Lunac Heavy Industries.

But in 2019 Tyburn Film Productions initiated legal proceedings against Lucasfilm, the studio behind the original Star Wars saga, and ?fellow Disney ?subsidiary Lunak, alleging “unjust enrichment” from the use of Cushing’s image in Rogue One without its consent.

Read it.

City, the joyous festivities are a key link in the chain of worldwide celebrations of the year to come.

No more.

New Year’s has been canceled in Paris. The New Year’s Eve concert was pre-recorded with actors pretending to be the audience. The fireworks will appear on TV. And there will be no one to count the countdown because the Champs-Élysées has become France’s latest ‘no-go’zone’.

Ten years ago, Mayor Anne Hidalgo of Paris had threatened to sue FOX News for correctly reporting that there were ‘no-go-zones’ in Paris. “The image of Paris has been prejudiced, and the honour of Paris has been prejudiced,” she fumed.

Now, Mayor Hidalgo decided that even with the 6,000 police officers that had been deployed to secure the Paris event last year, the Champs-Élysées could not be protected against Islam.

The Foundry.

A father and son duo opened fire on a crowd of mostly Jewish victims on Dec. 14. They were at a large Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach in Australia; 15 people were killed and dozens more were wounded in an antisemitic terrorist attack.

Using a legally owned bolt-action shotgun and bolt-action rifle, the gunmen fired more than 80 rounds during a roughly 11-minute reign of terror before police fatally shot the father and critically injured the son.

This horrific attack should be a wake-up call for the Australian government, especially after failing to heed years of warnings about the well-documented rise of antisemitism in the country.

Instead, it has taken it as a green light for a grotesque social experiment in national disarmament. It’s precisely the wrong lesson for Australia to learn—or, in this case, to relearn.

Like Europe, Australia doesn’t need more gun contol, they need more Muslim control.

Victor Davis Hanson.

A lot of officials in the Trump Cabinet are under a lot of criticism, as we’d expect, from the Left. But one has, I think, both got more criticism and more unfair criticism than any other Cabinet member. And that’s Pete Hegseth, the secretary of war—the newly renamed Department of Defense.

Let’s just review a little bit of his record because it does not justify the level of invective that the Left, and even some people on the Right in Congress and the Republican Party, have unfairly attacked him.

Watch it.

Dead cow and spuds are the basis of all true civilization.

Bondi: Vanity Fair Attempt to Divide Trump Team Will Fail

Susie Wiles calls out Bondi, Vance and Trump in Vanity Fair (Associated Press)

Takeaways From Susie Wiles’s Candid Interviews Describing Trump World (Peter Baker/New York Times)  She was a fool to accept that interview request. Only a person with the brain of a carrot would know what would happen.

Desperately Seeking Susie (Politico)

White House scrambles to address Susie Wiles’ explosive Vanity Fair interviews (Matt Dixon/NBC News)

Vanity Fair Goes to the White House: Trump 2.0 Edition (Vanity Fair)

Susie Wiles Gets in Trouble for Saying What Everyone Knows (Jonathan Chait/The Atlantic)

Takeaways: Susie Wiles pulls back the curtain on the Trump administration in revealing interviews (Bill Barrow/Associated Press)

As DOJ Sues More States For Voter Rolls, Federal ‘Power Grab’ Comes into Focus (Jim Saksa/Democracy Docket)

BRAIN ROT: Ana Navarro Says Boat Strikes a ‘Distraction’ from Trump’s Take on Reiner Murders

Patel Confirms Biden DOJ Ignored FBI Caution on Trump Raid

Mick Foley Severs Ties with WWE Over Trump Support (Dylan Gwinn/Breitbart)

Flag linked to Christian nationalism, Jan. 6 hung at Education Dept. (Zachary Schermele/USA Today)

States sue Trump administration again over billions in withheld electric vehicle charging funds (Alexa St. John/Associated Press)

Trump’s Inferno of Hate Is Intensifying (Peter Wehner/The Atlantic)

Pulitzer Board Seeks Trump’s Tax, Medical Records in Lawsuit  How is that any of their business?

Judge Disinclined to Immediately Halt Trump Ballroom Project

Donald Trump May Be About to Pick the Least Important Fed Chair in Decades (Jason Furman/New York Times)

‘You don’t have to do it alone’: how US cities are helping each other resist ICE (Whitney Bauck/The Guardian)

Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado (Joey Garrison/USA Today)

I was Donald Trump’s lawyer. Jack Smith should be celebrated, not vilified. (John Dowd/MS NOW)

Unprecedented errors are eroding the credibility of Trump’s Justice Department (Sarah N. Lynch/Reuters)

Inside the Trump Administration’s Man-Made Hunger Crisis (ProPublica)

The Republican Party Is Fracturing Over Trump’s Labor Agenda (Jade Lozada/NOTUS)

The Man Who Rules the Country Presides Over Nothing (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)

The Summer of Starvation: Amid Trump’s Foreign Aid Cuts, a Mother Struggles to Keep Her Sons Alive (ProPublica)

2025 was a political disaster for MAGA (Justin Glawe/Public Notice)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Who loves Trump? Apparently fewer people than ever (Aaron Blake/CNN)

Republicans are quiet quitting on Trump (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)

Trump is previewing his 2026 agenda in an address to the nation as his popularity wanes (Josh Boak/Associated Press)

Trump administration to dismantle key climate research center (Ruby Mellen/Washington Post)

This is Europe’s secret weapon against Trump: it could burst his AI bubble (Johnny Ryan/The Guardian)

Why Are Democrats So Afraid to Even Mention the Source of Trump’s Political Power? (Dahlia Lithwick/Slate)

How Benny Johnson Went From BuzzFeed Plagiarist to MAGA’s Chief Content Creator (Anna Merlan/Mother Jones)

Americans are more dissatisfied with Trump’s handling of the economy than ever, poll shows (Matt Loffman/PBS NewsHour)

Why Aren’t Dems Going After Trump’s Tariffs? (The Bulwark)

The EU’s problem isn’t Belgium — it’s Trump (Politico)

December 16, 2025 — While President Donald J. Trump was gloating over the horrific murders … (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters …)

Appeals court clears way for Trump to keep National Guard on DC streets (Politico)

Faneuil Hall immigrant oath ceremonies were canceled due to ‘hateful’ Trump policies, Boston mayor says (Claire Thornton/The Boston Globe)

Gavin Newsom Singles Out CZ, Ross Ulbricht, Arthur Hayes As Trump’s “Criminal Cronies”

How the Trump Administration Is Quietly Resegregating the American Workforce (Madiba K. Dennie/Balls and Strikes)

Trump Administration Aims to Strip More Foreign-Born Americans of Citizenship (Hamed Aleaziz/New York Times)

Read it.

White House border czar Tom Homan says the Trump administration is investigating Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., for alleged immigration fraud, reviving long-standing claims about how the progressive lawmaker became a U.S. citizen.

Homan made the remarks last week on Newsmax’s “Rob Schmitt Tonight,” saying he had recently been advised by a fraud investigator to examine Omar’s immigration history.

“You know, there was immigration fraud involved,” Homan said. “The statute of limitation became an issue in the last four years when this was first brought up.

“Who was president? Who ran [the Department of Justice]?”

I’d be surprised if that’s the only fraud in which she’s been involved.

Read it.

The office of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis responded Wednesday to the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ lawsuit claiming that DeSantis violated federal law when he designated CAIR a foreign terrorist organization last week.

“We don’t negotiate with terrorists,” DeSantis’ communications director, Alex Lanfranconi, told The Daily Signal in a statement Wednesday.

The governor designated CAIR, which bills itself as the largest Muslim civil rights organization in the country, a foreign terrorist organization alongside the Muslim Brotherhood. President Donald Trump established a process for designating chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood foreign terrorist organizations in November.

DeSantis’ executive order notes that members of the Islamic Association for Palestine, an organization affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood and created to support Hamas in the U.S., founded CAIR in 1994.

It notes that CAIR was an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror financing case in 2009 and claims that CAIR associates “have been convicted of providing, and conspiring to provide, material support to designated terrorist organizations.” Convictions trace back to the 2009 Holy Land Foundation case.

People need to get it through their heads that Muslims have a religious obligation to subdue the entire population of the planet under Islam. Read the fucking Koran and Hadiths. You can get them on Amazon. It’s all laid out, like Hitler and Mein Kampf.

Read it.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis erupted on Wednesday while testifying before a special Georgia Senate committee scrutinizing her prosecution of President Donald Trump.

Judge Scott McAfee agreed to toss the racketeering case in November after the prosecutor who inherited Willis’ beleaguered effort pushed him to take it off “life support.” During her testimony, Willis accused members of the Georgia Senate Special Committee on Investigations of “trying to intimidate [her] for five years” and said “threats” against her had made it impossible to live in her own home during that time.

Read it.

I believe the folk phrase “bend over and grease up” is applicable.

Read it.

In a sign of just how fast the demographic situation is developing in Austria, Vienna has hit a major new milestone, marking the first time that more than half the first-grade population do not understand German.

The news highlights just how dramatic the demographic crisis facing Europe is, which has seen falling educational standards across the continent, in large part due to mass immigration.

“For the first time, more than half of the first-graders in Vienna’s public elementary schools do not understand German,” the Vienna People’s Party reported on Friday.

The data shows that 50.9 percent of first-graders, or 10,931 students, must be classified as special needs students in the current school year.

This already comes after reports from last year that over 75 percent of students in Vienna’s middle school system do not speak German at home, choosing another foreign language instead.

Read it.

Former President Joe Biden’s planned monument to his presidency is becoming a brutal reality check on his legacy.

In September, the Biden camp announced plans to build his presidential library in Delaware – assembling a team of former aides, friends, and political allies to oversee the project, which is supposed to include a museum and archive.

Read it.

South African police have raided a U.S. refugee processing center in the country, briefly detaining U.S. staff who have been handling applications from white Afrikaner refugees.

The Hill reported that the raid is expected to heighten tensions between the two nations, as the Trump administration has repeatedly raised concerns about the treatment of South Africa’s white minority.

The State Department confirmed that the office had been searched. The South African Embassy in Washington did not immediately comment.

The South African ruling class realize that their country will fall apart—as Zimbabwe did—without white people to do the work.

Read it.

America’s four largest public sector unions spent more of their members’ dues on politics and activism than they did on the traditional “representational activities” for which unions exist (such as bargaining for higher wages and better benefits), according to a new report.

The National Education Association; the Service Employees Industrial Union; the American Federation of Teachers; and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees spent a combined $649 million on political and ideological agendas, and only a combined $642 million on “representational activities,” according to a report from the Commonwealth Foundation.

“Every month, union members unwittingly fund progressive causes,” David Osborne, the foundation’s senior director of labor policy and the report’s author, told The Daily Signal. “Their dues, the money expected to benefit their working conditions, negotiations, and benefits, is instead used to fund a progressive political machine.”

Read it.

Berlin police are investigating a serious violent assault after five men attacked a 52-year-old German citizen near the Lichtenberg S-Bahn station in the early hours of Sunday morning. According to police, the incident began shortly after 1:40 a.m. following a verbal dispute between two groups at a snack stand.

During the altercation, one member of the five-man group allegedly struck a 43-year-old. When a 52-year-old companion intervened, the attackers reportedly turned on him. Police said the group repeatedly punched and kicked the victim, continuing the assault even after he fell to the ground. Witness accounts indicate the attackers stomped on his head and upper body while he was lying defenseless.

The victim sustained serious injuries, briefly lost consciousness, and was transported to hospital for treatment. The suspects initially fled the scene but were arrested a short time later in a nearby bar after police reviewed surveillance footage.

Read it.

Last week a young Italian woman was raped by three culture-enrichers from Gambia outside a Metro station in Rome.

Read it.

Europe is suffering from a lack of governance. There are governments, and they govern, but they do not exercise governance. They are administrators, not political and legislative leaders.

The continent is facing serious long-term problems—and I am not even going to mention the Ukraine war—that cannot be addressed properly unless the art of governance is restored. For that to happen, Europe needs governments that are ideologically homogenous enough and parliamentarily strong enough to lead their nations.

That is not the case today. Before we go on a depressing Tour de Malaise through Europe’s capitals, let me point to the complex policy problem that has caused the decline from governance to mere government administration.

Read it.

A fresh surge of migrants crossing the English Channel has been reported, with hundreds attempting the journey toward the UK this morning. People smuggling gangs exploited a brief weather window of less than 12 hours to launch dinghies along a 60-mile stretch of the French coast, from Dunkirk down to Wissant near Boulogne.

At least 400 people were sighted attempting to cross the Channel, with several boats already reaching British waters. The arrivals follow 74 individuals who landed in Dover aboard the Border Force vessel Typhoon last night. Authorities confirmed that the latest crossings included 15 women and one child. French officials also reported that a pregnant woman and a three-year-old child were hospitalized in Calais after suffering hypothermia, their boat having been forced to turn back with around 50 passengers on board.

Maritime security sources condemned the actions of criminal smuggling networks, describing the operations as “reckless” and profit-driven, with little concern for the safety of the migrants.

Read it.

Alice Cordier is one of the most prominent young voices of the new European counter-feminist movement. As the leader of Collectif Némésis in France, she has become known for denouncing the blindness of mainstream feminism toward the consequences of mass immigration on women’s safety and civil liberties. Her activism confronts both the political establishment and the dominant cultural narratives, placing her at the center of France’s heated debates on identity, security, and women’s rights.

Under her leadership, Collectif Némésis has staged high-impact public actions, often facing hostility from far-left groups and resistance from institutional actors. Cordier and her colleagues argue that the protection of European women cannot be separated from broader questions of borders, national identity, and social cohesion. Their efforts have earned them both enthusiastic support and intense opposition, making Némésis one of the most controversial feminist initiatives in contemporary France.

At MCC Brussels’ ‘Battle for the Soul of Europe’ gathering, where thinkers, politicians, and activists from across the continent met to discuss Europe’s future, Cordier brought a stark message: Europe is undergoing a civilizational shift, and young women must take a leading role in confronting the cultural and security challenges posed by uncontrolled immigration. She spoke with europeanconservative.com‘s Javier Villamor about the situation facing women in France.

Sarah Hoyt.

Today I ran across an idiot on Twitter talking about how Elon Musk could eliminate homelessness by giving his money to all the homeless.

And then the movie Dan had on was about how this woman wanted to make enough money to eliminate homelessness in LA.

Guys? Seriously?

How many millions do cities like LA and San Francisco plow into homelessness? How much money have cities like Denver spent on the homeless.

What have they got for it? That’s right. more homelessness. Which is absolutely logic.

You get more of what you pay for.

But if I must explain the mechanism, it is this: when you create “homeless services”, like free health care, and shelter and clothing (well, Denver was doing all of that at one point) you will attract more homeless.