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Half a century after the book “Why Johnny Can’t Read” sounded an alarm about the rise of illiteracy in the U.S., it has only gotten worse: A quarter of all young adults, many of them high school graduates, are now functionally illiterate. Unable to read more than basic, short sentences, their prospects in today’s information economy are bleak.

This crisis gave rise to a movement that embraced the science of reading and produced a surprising success story in the Deep South, a region dogged by the highest rates of childhood illiteracy in the nation. State leaders and education reformers in Mississippi and Louisiana led a remarkable improvement in elementary reading scores that now rank among the highest in the nation.

The turnaround was a long slog, requiring a heavy hand from the state to win buy-in for a wholesale transformation of curricula, teaching methods, accountability, and more. Former state education chief Carey Wright called it the “Mississippi Marathon.” One of the biggest questions in public education now is whether the southern surge can spread nationwide, turning millions of struggling students into proficient readers with a brighter future.

But such a top-down approach is running into resistance, particularly in blue states like New York and Illinois, where strong teachers’ unions have fought to preserve local control over schools. And nowhere is the political battle over who runs the classroom more pronounced than in Massachusetts, which has long boasted the nation’s best public schools.

The Left i.e. Democrat i.e. unionized teachers don’t see their jobs as teaching things like literacy and mat so much as indoctrinating the kids that go to government schools with Woke ideology. I say we ought to let them stew in their own bile.

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Rep. Eric Swalwell has primarily been living in Washington, D.C. for years, and now that he’s running for governor of California, he’s hit a snag over residency.

According to reports, Swalwell is renting a single room in a home in the eastern Bay Area that’s occupied by a family of three to claim residency in the state. Public records show it’s a three-bedroom, 1,350-square-foot home owned by Nicolas and Kristina Mrzywka. It is unlikely that Swalwell has ever truly lived there. And now, one of his Democratic primary rivals is calling him out on it.

“The alleged discovery of Swalwell’s Livermore rental came from the congressman’s top Democratic opponent, billionaire Tom Steyer,” reports the New York Post. “Steyer says Swalwell appears to ‘live in California on paper only’ as the governor race heats up, ‘making him unlikely to meet the basic residency requirements to run for Governor.’”

And Democrats are cheaters every age….

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The Washington State Senate has voted to approve a new tax on residents who make more than $1 million per year.

Gov. Bob Ferguson, a Democrat, has vowed to sign the bill.

The bill, approved Wednesday by the Democrat-led Senate, will impose a 9.9% tax on state residents who earn over $1 million annually.

Supporters say the tax would affect only a small share of taxpayers — roughly 0.5% of high-income residents — while generating billions annually for programs including education, healthcare, housing, and tax credits for working families, as well as eliminating sales taxes on personal care items such as shampoo.

I predict that when this tax goes into effect, there will be no more ‘millionaires’ in Washington state to be affected.

I predic that they will spend vast sums of money on Woke vote-buying projects in anticipation of revenues that will not arrive.

I predent that eliminating sales taxes in anticipation of the revenues (that will not arrive) will leave the state budget full of holes that, since they can’t conceive of reducing spending, will have to be filled with more taxes on non-‘millionares’.

These people are Just Plain Stupid.

Time to leave. (I’m looking at you, Bill Gates.)

The Telegraph (UK).

Police responded to reports of an active shooter at 12.19pm on Thursday, in what the FBI described as a “targeted act of violence against the Jewish community”.

No-one was seriously injured in the attack, authorities confirmed. One security guard was hit by the car hospitalised after being knocked unconscious by the gunman’s vehicle, police said.

The suspect was found dead in the vehicle at the scene. Mr Bouchard said he could not comment on how the gunman had died.

Two sources told CNN that he had been shot dead by security staff at the synagogue.

The Telegraph (UK).

Second refuelling aircraft lands safely after suspected mid-air collision near Jordanian border.

The downing of the aircraft at around 7pm GMT on Thursday near Turaibil along the Iraqi-Jordanian border is “under investigation”, the US Central Command (Centcom) said. It insisted the loss was “not due to hostile fire or friendly fire”.

I like the fact that The Telegraph adheres to traditional journalistic practice of putting the facts first in order of importance rather than the feminist version that starts with a tear-jerking ‘human interest’ anecdote before going on to not-so-subtly pushing a Narrative.

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The U.S. Navy is not yet ready to escort oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, but it will happen. This is the synopsis provided by U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright in an interview with CNBC. The development comes as Iran continues to pummel international shipping in and around the critical channel, which the new Iranian supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, vows to keep closed.

“It’ll happen relatively soon, but it can’t happen now,” Wright said, of the planned naval escort mission. “We’re simply not ready. All of our military assets right now are focused on destroying Iran’s offensive capabilities and the manufacturing industry that supplies their offensive capabilities.” Wright added that the Navy should be able to escort tankers through the strait by the end of this month.

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KC-135 Stratotanker that was taking part in Operation Epic Fury has crashed in Iraq, U.S. Central Command announced.

“U.S. Central Command is aware of the loss of a U.S. KC-135 refueling aircraft,” the command stated Thursday afternoon in a media release. “The incident occurred in friendly airspace during Operation Epic Fury, and rescue efforts are ongoing. Two aircraft were involved in the incident. One of the aircraft went down in western Iraq, and the second landed safely.”

“This was not due to hostile fire or friendly fire,” the CENTCOM statement added. “More information will be made available as the situation develops. We ask for continued patience to gather additional details and provide clarity for the families of service members.”

I’m wondering how much this may be due to the different methods used by the Navy and Air Force in airborne refueling operations.

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The U.S. Navy has conducted at least one new round of live-fire tests of its prototype electromagnetic railgun at the White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) in New Mexico. The service had shelved its railgun effort in the early 2020s, at least publicly, after work that had shown promise ran into technical hurdles. A railgun is now set to be a key feature on the future Trump class “battleships.”

A brief mention of the new railgun testing is included in a document highlighting achievements by the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division (NSWC PHD) in 2025. NSWC PHD, which is part of Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), primarily operates from Port Hueneme in California, but it also maintains a detachment at White Sands. The U.S. Army manages the WSMR, which other branches of the U.S. military also use for a wide variety of research and development and test and evaluation activities.

The “WSD [White Sands Detachment] tested a railgun to collect critical information about high-velocity firing during a three-day campaign at White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) in New Mexico,” the year-in-review document says. “The testing in February [2025] was a joint effort between WSD and NSWC Dahlgren Division in Virginia and conducted for Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA)’s Joint Hypersonics Transition Office.”

The present situation of using million-dollar missiles to try to take out thousand-dollar drones puts this, and directed-energy weapons, back on the front burner.

Perhaps we actually need a state of constant war to ensure that our military services can periodically rid themselves of the creeping rot of bureaucracy and political fashion that seem to grow like black mold during periods of peace.

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ESysman of the Yacht Report lays it out for you.

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A Republican won a deep-blue Northern Virginia county-level seat in a major upset Tuesday after revelations that her Democratic opponent made racist social media posts more than 10 years ago.

Republican Jeannie LaCroix, 64, won a special election for a Prince William County Board of Supervisors seat, defeating Democrat nominee Muhammed Sufiyan Casim, 36, a Muslim Pakistani immigrant, who in the 2010s made a series of online posts containing racist, misogynist, and antisemitic content, Potomac Local News reported.

Casim, who was in his 20s when he posted the content, apologized for the posts in an interview with the Prince William Times—saying he had used the N-word “foolishly” and suggested he had copied the behavior of “kids” of “brown ethnicity” at the time.

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explosion at the U.S. embassy in Oslo was the result of “an order from a [foreign] government entity.”

Police prosecutor Christian Hatlo said Wednesday “this is quite natural given the target … and the security situation the world is in today.”

It also makes sense given that three brothers of Iraqi origin have been arrested on suspicion of what is being described as the “terrorist bombing.” The men, whose identities have not been publicised, were reportedly not previously known to police. But Hatlo said investigators were not ruling out links to “criminal networks.”

New York Post.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

Newsbusters.

Only a handful of right-leaning stories slipped through Google News’s iron grip on information domination. While the tech giant pushed 314 left-leaning stories, its gatekeepers only permitted 11 right-leaning articles to make the occasional appearance in the platform’s morning editions last month.

MRC uncovered that just 2% of Google News’s top morning stories in February came from sources rated right-leaning by media ratings firm AllSides. Google’s leftist bias is only further underscored by the fact that it completely shut out right-leaning outlets for over half the month.

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“Enough is enough.” With those words, Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt) launched a push to impose a 5% annual wealth tax on America’s billionaires. With Rep. Ro Khanna (D., Cal.), the legislation, “Make Billionaires Pay Their Fair Share Act,” echoes the growing “eat-the-rich” mantra on the left — seeking to replicate a disastrous push in California that has led to an exodus from that state and an estimated loss of $2 trillion in taxable assets.

It is also flagrantly unconstitutional.

Under the plan, Congress would target 938 billionaires to tap them for $4.4 trillion. That money would then be redistributed as a $3,000 direct payment to every man, woman, and child in a household making $150,000 or less – $12,000 for a family of four.

The timing of the move is telling. Not only is it calculated before the midterm elections, in which the Democrats hope to retake power, but it follows the push by California Democrats and unions to impose a similar wealth tax in that state.

Khanna, who represents Silicon Valley, has supported the state law, which includes a ruinous provision for startup entrepreneurs. The law would not only be retroactive to try to trap wealthy taxpayers who have fled the state, but also base wealth calculations on the voting shares of corporate executives. Often, with start-ups, entrepreneurs hold greater voting shares than actual ownership. However, just in case they need more incentive to leave the state, they will be taxed as if their voting shares represented actual wealth.

The practical problem is that the wealthy, like their wealth, are mobile. As a result, many are fleeing California. So now Khanna is joining with the nation’s leading Democratic Socialists to ensure there is nowhere to hide in the United States. For billionaires in California, they could be double-tapped for ten percent of their wealth.

It has long been the dream of the far left. Years ago, Sen. Elizabeth Warren delighted Democratic voters in her run for the presidency by telling the rich she was coming after “your Rembrandts, your stock portfolio, your diamonds and your yachts.” In one debate, she dramatically rubbed her hands together after saying she would take some of the wealth of fellow candidate John Delaney, a self-made millionaire.

Democrats never see a pocket without the urge to pick it.

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A group linked to a late-night street takeover forced its way into a luxury downtown Los Angeles apartment tower early Sunday, fighting with staff and leaving shattered glass and overturned furniture behind, according to police and video of the incident, according to the NY Post.

The disturbance happened around 3 a.m. at the Circa LA Apartments on South Figueroa Street, the Los Angeles Police Department said.

Authorities told KTLA that a crowd involved in a nearby street takeover moved toward the upscale high-rise and began vandalizing the property.

Time to leave.

The War Zone.

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Yet another rich guy is fleeing their Democrat-controlled state over a new wealth tax. Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, a huge liberal himself, announced that he’s moving from Washington state to Miami, Florida – hours after state lawmakers advanced a tax bill targeting residents earning over $1 million per year.

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Connecticut lawmakers are concerned about child abuse. Good, that issue should be a priority for parents and policymakers alike. But stripping rights away from all parents in the hope that the state will do a better job raising children is wishful thinking.

State lawmakers are considering a proposal that would severely constrict the state’s homeschool law. Currently, Connecticut parents have strong homeschool provisions that protect a family’s right to choose how to educate their children.

The sign-up process is straightforward, and while state officials require parents to teach certain subjects, parents do not have the same burdensome regulations as their neighbors in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, and Pennsylvania.

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I can’t help but wonder as James Talarico says God’s “gender identity” is “nonbinary,” as 106 Democrats oppose the Trump administration’s commonsense limits on Medicaid funding for sex-rejecting procedures, and as 104 Democrats co-sponsor a “Transgender Bill of Rights.” All this happens while Americans increasingly want to prevent men who identify as women from entering women’s bathrooms, women’s prisons, and women’s sports.

I’m far from the only one wondering whether the entire party has gone off its rocker. Luckily, the conservative-leaning Manhattan Institute decided to find out.

The Manhattan Institute conducted three national surveys, between Feb. 6 and 15, of registered Democrats and those who voted for Kamala Harris in 2024. The group interviewed 2,998 Democrats or Harris voters. The margins of error range from plus or minus 2.3% for general Democrats, to plus or minus 3.4% for a black Democrat sample, to plus or minus 5.0% for a Hispanic Democrat sample.

Why Voters Might Finally Blame Trump for Rising Costs (New York Times) They hope, they hope, they hope….

The White House isn’t panicking about oil prices. That may change in a few weeks. (Politico)  They hope, they hope, they hope….

The contracting mess Noem’s leaving behind at DHS (Brittany Gibson/Axios)

3/11/26?? AM: … Dragged by President Donald Trump into another war in the Middle East … (Punchbowl News)

The Trump DOJ is giving guns back to felons, including one alleged fake elector (Jaclyn Diaz/NPR)

Democrats ask what happened to millions earmarked for Trump’s library (Washington Post)  As if it were any of their business.

Bondi Moves to Military Housing Amid Threats From Cartels, Critics

Behind the Curtain: America’s big lie (Axios)  Well, nobody would know better than Axios about Big Lies.

Trump Is the Anti-Trump ??? There is an alternate universe in which Donald Trump is the popular … (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)

Iran Sleeper Cells ‘Activated’; Threaten To “Eliminate” Trump

How Trump’s War on Iran Is Hastening the Coming MAGA Crack-Up (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit.

Meyers, Wallace Claim Iran War Is ‘A Stab In The Back’ To MAGA  As if they had any clue.

Iran war flummoxes some Trump media allies (Jared Gans/The Hill)  Not to mention most of the Narrative Media.

Trump’s Delusions Come at Americans’ Expense (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

The Obvious Is Taking Its Revenge on Trump (Franklin Foer/The Atlantic)  More accurately, the oblivious, in the form of the hand-wringers in the Narrative Media.

The media is structurally pro-Trump (Elias Isquith/The Necessary Fictions)  An obvious looney.

FURIOUS SPIN: OK, Trump Tariffs Didn’t Cause Inflation Doom We Forecast, but Iran War!

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Yamaha Motor Corp. is moving its U.S. headquarters to Georgia, joining the exodus of companies out of the Golden State to more business-friendly climates.

After 47 years in California, the company best known for its motorcycles, motorboats and outboard motors, is relocating its headquarters to Kennesaw, Georgia and selling its California assets, Yamaha announced in a press release. The move will ultimately affect approximately 250 employees by the time it is completed in 2028.

“This initiative is positioned as one of the Company’s key measures aimed at improving asset efficiency and enhancing profitability in the United States,” the company explains.

“After many years of great partnership, we are honored and proud to welcome Yamaha’s American headquarters to the No. 1 state for business,” Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said in a statement Tuesday.

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And I would encourage them to do so.

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intervention by the UK Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood. Authorities cited the risk of serious public disorder due to the scale of the protest and multiple counter-protests in the context of the ongoing conflict in Iran.

The ban, effective from March 11th to April 11th, was requested by Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley.

Al-Quds Day rallies, held annually on the last Friday of Ramadan, have long been promoting antisemitism and division. Jewish groups and politicians across parties supported the ban after recent violence in Iran, including the suppression of mass protests.

Courts Minister Sarah Sackman called the event “thoroughly anti-British,” while Reform UK’s deputy leader Richard Tice stated “These hate marches have been filled with antisemitism & divisive incitement since October 7th. That makes them a breach.”

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In 2024, nearly half of all defendants convicted of robbery in Germany did not hold German citizenship. According to a federal government response to an AfD inquiry obtained by Junge Freiheit, 704 out of 1,456 convicted robbers were foreign nationals. This overrepresentation is significant, considering that foreigners made up only 14.1% of Germany’s total population that year.

The trend extends across various violent offenses. Specifically, 45.6% of those convicted of aggravated robbery and 47.8% of those found guilty of predatory theft were non-Germans. Furthermore, 44.4% of convictions for robbery resulting in death involved foreign nationals. Other categories, such as extortionate robbery and general extortion, also showed high foreign involvement, both standing at 35.3%.

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After nearly 24 hours of verbal debate, the turning down of nearly all Republican amendments by the majority Democrats, and the denial of press passes to local journalists, not in the Legacy Propaganda Media, the blatantly unconstitutional “Millionaires Tax” passed on a 51-46 vote. A couple of Democrats voted NO, but not enough to make any difference. For over 40 years, the Democrats have been salivating over an Income Tax, and now they have it. At 9.9%, this will make Washington the highest-taxed state in America.

The Washington State Constitution forbids a graduated income tax, stating that all taxes must be equal on equivalent classes of citizens, which their tax is obviously not. State Democrats have stated for the record that the initial 1-million-dollar “exemption” written into the law can be changed at any time with a simple majority vote, and that they intend to do so as soon as they can, making certain that all citizens will be subject to the tax in a few years. What’s really evil is that they attached an “Emergency” provision to the bill, forbidding any Citizen Initiatives from the public to overturn the bill. This is especially rich, given that the tax doesn’t take effect until 2029! Emergency?

Washington Democrats have packed the State Supreme Court with hard-leftists, whom they know will, in defiance of the Constitution, find a way to approve the income tax. We expect lawsuits to be filed as soon as the useless Republicans can get their act together. Individuals and businesses all over the state have already telegraphed that they will be initiating moves away from Washington if the tax passes. Washington businesses already pay a Business and Occupation tax, which is a “gross-receipts” tax, and now they will have to pay an income tax too. The bill has no provisions for reducing other state taxes, like the 10% sales tax, with the passage of the income tax.

Just today, Howard Schultz, the founder of Starbucks, announced his move to Florida. Tech executives implored the legislature not to pass the income tax, so we expect a flood of tech companies out of the state. Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Meta all have big offices in the Seattle area, which are now at risk.

Rounding out the Left Coast as a socialist hell-hole.

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It is instructive and amusing, in a macabre sort of way, to observe the ideological contortions of Progressives who lionize a brutal theocratic dictator while demonizing a peaceful Christian leader as a “hater”. The following essay from Norway provides an analysis of this dystopian political trend.

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Several Labour-run local councils in the UK have issued guidance to schools regarding Muslim students’ religious sensitivities in classroom activities, including art, music, and dance.

The advice warns that children’s drawings could be considered blasphemous under certain interpretations of Islamic law, and that music and dance lessons might also conflict with some Islamic teachings.

Entitled Sharing the Journey, the guidelines note that Islamic culture has a long artistic heritage, emphasizing geometry, calligraphy, and patterned design. It warns that three-dimensional depictions of humans—including religious figures such as Jesus or the Prophet Mohammed—may be seen as idolatrous by some Muslims.

Welcome to Londonistan. Be careful not to step in the Diversity.

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Yesterday we pointed out that contrary to conventional wisdom of a full Gulf blockade, more ships are now transiting the Strait of Hormuz…

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Science is characterized by collaboration and cooperation, but also by uncertainty, competition, and inequality. While there has always been some concern that these pressures may compel some to defect from the scientific research ethos—i.e., fail to make genuine contributions to the production of knowledge or to the training of an expert workforce—the focus has largely been on the actions of lone individuals. Recently, however, reports of coordinated scientific fraud activities have increased. Some suggest that the ease of communication provided by the internet and open-access publishing have created the conditions for the emergence of entities—paper mills (i.e., sellers of mass-produced low quality and fabricated research), brokers (i.e., conduits between producers and publishers of fraudulent research), predatory journals, who do not conduct any quality controls on submissions—that facilitate systematic scientific fraud. Here, we demonstrate through case studies that i) individuals have cooperated to publish papers that were eventually retracted in a number of journals, ii) brokers have enabled publication in targeted journals at scale, and iii), within a field of science, not all subfields are equally targeted for scientific fraud. Our results reveal some of the strategies that enable the entities promoting scientific fraud to evade interventions. Our final analysis suggests that this ability to evade interventions is enabling the number of fraudulent publications to grow at a rate far outpacing that of legitimate science.

Not the Bee.

Gee, I wonder why….

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

You can’t make this stuff up.

The Telegraph (UK).

In case you don’e know it, this “Mahmoud” person is the British Home Secretary.

The Metropolitan Police has asked Shabana Mahmood to ban a “hate” march linked to Iran amid fears of serious public disorder.

The Home Secretary is understood to be considering a request by Scotland Yard that the annual Al-Quds march and rally planned in London for Sunday should be banned.

Sir Mark Rowley, the Met Commissioner, is said to have assessed that the risk of serious disorder had reached the threshold that justified such action.

The Telegraph (UK).

Three cargo ships have been hit in the Strait of Hormuz, a British security agency has said.

United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO), which monitors shipping risks, received reports of an attack about 11 nautical miles north of Oman on Wednesday morning.

One vessel caught fire after being struck by a projectile, forcing the crew to evacuate. It was unclear whether it was hit by a missile or a drone.

A second ship, a bulk carrier, was struck by a projectile 50 miles north-west of Dubai, UKMTO said, adding that the crew was safe.

A third freighter was also reported damaged near Dubai.

The Times (UK).

Lower earners are bearing the brunt of frozen savings tax thresholds, sparking fears that the chancellor’s next raid will disproportionately affect poorer households.

The number of basic-rate taxpayers being taxed on their savings interest has risen 131 per cent since 2022 to a predicted 1.42 million in 2025-26, according to Paragon Bank. The number of higher-rate payers affected has risen 128 per cent to 883,000 while an extra 479,000 top earners paid additional-rate tax on their interest — a rise of 76 per cent.

And it is about to get worse because the rates of tax paid on that interest is set to go up from April 2027 under plans in Rachel Reeves’s November budget.

The Times (UK).

Labour MPs have called on Sir Keir Starmer to adopt new Australian-style extremism laws which would see a crackdown on protest groups without labelling them terrorists.

An amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill would give the home secretary the power to designate organisations as “extreme criminal protest groups” if they aimed to cause “sabotage, criminal damage, obstruction of critical national infrastructure, or serious public order offences”.

The amendment passed the House of Lords on Monday by 200 votes to 162, meaning MPs will be given a vote on it in the coming weeks.

The Times (UK).

Exactly 45 minutes after the government published its definition of “anti-Muslim hostility” came the first attempt by a politician to weaponise it against speech he dislikes. Iqbal Mohamed, the pro-Gaza independent MP for Dewsbury & Batley, asked the communities secretary Steve Reed how the new definition would be applied to the “escalating hostility” of what MPs said about Muslims in parliament and “what sanctions” would be enforced against those who transgress.

Did Reed repeat the assurances he’d just given that the definition would have no effect on free speech? Did he slap down this naked attempt at censorship? No. He said Mohamed was “right to point to the huge concern we should all share about the unacceptable level of hostility and abuse directed at Muslims”.

As a Muslim myself, I think I am qualified to agree that abuse — hate speech — and discrimination against us are unacceptable. But as a former chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), I also know these things are already illegal.

Welcome to Londonistan. Be careful not to step in the Diversity.

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Spain’s Socialist government has announced the expansion of free healthcare to illegal migrants.

Migration minister Elma Saiz confirmed that the new measure will, for the first time, guarantee medical care to foreign nationals residing in Spain without legal status.

The decree also covers Spanish citizens returning from abroad, temporary visitors, and their accompanying family members. Approved by royal decree, the plan bypasses parliament, where Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s coalition lacks a majority.

The government had already introduced a separate initiative in January to grant residency and work permits to around 500,000 illegal migrants.

Which makes the term ‘illegal immigrant’ meaningless.

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In recent weeks, Tokyo confirmed plans to deploy advanced surface-to-air missile systems on Yonaguni Island, Japan’s westernmost inhabited territory and only about 70 miles from Taiwan. The deployment is part of a broader effort to strengthen defenses along Japan’s southwestern island chain, territory that sits directly along the fault line of the emerging Indo-Pacific balance of power.

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Fani Willis, the disgraced Fulton County, Georgia DA who couldn’t keep her clam in her pants while prosecuting Donald Trump, was just dealt a serious blow this week after a judge denied her attempt to intervene in litigation over the reimbursement of legal fees stemming from her now-dismissed Georgia election case against Trump and several co-defendants.

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The progressive left operates on the assumption that generational indoctrination is cumulative – That is to say, they think through time and indoctrination they will eventually lay claim to the minds of 100% of the population. Each new generation is supposed to be more “woke” than the last. However, this is not how society or individual psychology works.

Movements of “progress” crash in flames all the time, often because they turn out to be regressive rather than progressive. And once the smoke clears and the social experiment is dead, the public will usually go back to what worked best in the past.

Leftists thought they had the future in the bag with Gen Z. After all, this is the generation hit hardest with woke propaganda. No other generation has been so overwhelmed with LGBT brainwashing, anti-white racism and multiculturalism, socialist Utopian fantasy, moral relativism and anti-masculinity.

Young women have been convinced that abandoning femininity, rejecting their biological destiny and competing with men is “true freedom.” Third-wave feminism teaches women that their ultimate goal in life is to achieve power by any means necessary. It’s a dangerous delusion that relies on men to remain completely and utterly passive.

Since Senaca Falls in 1848, feminism has been trying to turn girls into defective men, boys into defective women, and our culture into a compost heap.

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If approved at Exxon’s May 27 shareholder meeting, the company would be governed by Texas law on issues such as bylaws, director duties, and shareholder rights. Exxon noted that most of its senior leadership and about a third of its global workforce are already based in Texas.

Exxon’s evolution from its Standard Oil days has left it incorporated in New Jersey since the 1880s, and its attempt to move is yet another example of corporate America abandoning states run by left-wing politicians pushing a failed green agenda and other destructive progressive policies in favor of red states governed by common sense.

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Most people don’t appreciate that calcium is a metal.

Truly, we live in miraculous times.

Unfortunately, our current regulatory state may prevent our using this knowledge to our benefit.

Government, once again, is why we can’t have good things.

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The IRS already has your W-2s, your 1099s, your brokerage statements. It knows the tax rules. For most Americans, the government could calculate their tax bill, send them a pre-filled return, and let them approve or dispute the result. This is how it works in the UK, Japan, Germany, and dozens of other countries. The reason it doesn’t work that way here is that Intuit and H&R Block have spent decades and hundreds of millions of dollars ensuring it doesn’t. Their business model depends on tax filing being a problem Americans need help solving. So they lobby against pre-filled returns, against Direct File, against anything that would make their products unnecessary. They have succeeded. Americans collectively spend around 6 billion hours per year on tax compliance. TurboTax is a solution to a problem that shouldn’t exist.

The IRS already offers a partial service: If you fill out all of the forms except for the computation of tax and just leave that section of the return blank, they will figure out how much tax they think you owe and send you a bill. At the very least, this is a way to postpone when you have to pay and ensures they won’t be second-guessing your own computation.

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In humans, prolonged contraction of the ciliary and medial rectus muscles during close reading may result in eye strain. On the other hand, eye strain is not likely to occur if the ciliary and medial rectus muscles do not contract during close reading.

The Near-Eye Display (NED)[1] augmented reality smart glasses (AR glasses) sit approximately 2 cm in front of the eye and project computer generated images/information (CGIs) directly onto the retina, thus providing a passive way for the eyes to acquire information.

ScienceAlert.

Most people know only two things about the appendix: You don’t need it – and if it bursts, you need surgery fast.

That basic story traces back at least to Charles Darwin, the English naturalist who developed the theory of natural selection. In The Descent of Man, he described the appendix as a vestige: a leftover from plant-eating ancestors with larger digestive organs.

For more than a century, that interpretation shaped both textbook and casual medical wisdom.

But the evolutionary story of the appendix turns out to be much more complicated.