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Crossings from northern France restarted this week after the longest pause of the year, and the first footage to come out of them shows a man wading toward a packed dinghy off Hardelot with a knife raised, shouting “I will kill you.” Press Association video shows him in waist-deep water as a man aboard the boat tries to hit him, with French rescue boats hovering a short distance away, according to the PA’s report.

The man drew his arm back and the knife went into the sea behind him. The PA’s updated report says he then climbed aboard and the dinghy left; its first version said he did not appear to board. He has not been identified, and we could find no word from French or British authorities on whether he was stopped, arrested or reached England. Downing Street said it was not aware of the specific dinghy and that “we are not complacent.”

Note that the ‘French rescue boats’ are doing nothing to stop the invasion of Britain by illegal migrants.

Ordinarily this would be considered an act of war, but it’s obvious that the British government is in on the act.

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Raymond Christian Garcia and Isiah Angelo Garcia, both of Waller, Texas, were sentenced Thursday to at least 15 years in prison each for holding a Minnesota family at gunpoint for more than nine hours to force the transfer of more than $8 million in cryptocurrency, the Justice Department said. Raymond received 180 months and Isiah 186.

Think of how peaceful life would be in America if People of Color had been sent back to Africa when we had the chance.

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Philadelphia has once again been named the poorest major city in the United States, reclaiming an unwanted title after briefly losing last year.

A whopping 20.4% of Philadelphia residents lived below the poverty line in 2025, according to newly released U.S. Census Bureau data, marking the city’s first increase in poverty since 2011.

The figures, first reported by The Philadelphia Inquirer, put Philadelphia ahead of Houston and New York City, which both recorded poverty rates of 17.7%.

The reversal comes after Philadelphia briefly surrendered its unwanted title to Houston in 2024, when its poverty rate dropped to 19.7%, its lowest level since at least 1979.

Houston, one of the Blue pustules on the rosy Red cheek of Texas. Even in Red states, metro areas are run by Blue morons.

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Sometimes you need to wear a costume to get what you want.

Today, this lesson forms the basis of the Democrats’ general election strategy.

In their primaries, many successful Democrat candidates won by appealing to their party’s extreme, America-loathing, socialist wing. It was an authentic approach, for they were making a legitimate appeal to like-minded left-wing extremists. Being and articulating exactly who they are, these radical candidates received what they sought from their fellow travelers – the Democrat Party’s nomination.

Yet, while a necessary step, the nomination was not the ultimate destination. Thus, on the cusp of the general election, these far-left, extremist Democrats in competitive seats resembled the gaggle of restless youths from that Halloween back in the 1970s.

Were these Democrats to wage general election campaigns by remaining true to their radical selves, some citizens may well begrudgingly admire their gumption for admitting they are “21st-century Bolsheviks” and, in some socialist circles, reward them with a vote or two. But the bulk of voters would find these radical Democrats unpalatable. As a result, these extremists would not get the treat they sought – namely, enough votes to win the general election.

Their cynical solution? The Democrats’ “all trick, no treat” political strategy.

The Foundry.

As Americans see chaos and rioting on the streets of Paris, we are not immune to that happening on streets across America.

For decades, France has provided “free” health care, paid family leave, free childcare, free preschool, generous unemployment and housing benefits, and heavily subsidized higher education. This has bred a culture of entitlement and an insatiable desire for the government to do more, while many demand to work less—if at all.

As the government subsidizes these sectors, the price of goods and services rises. More housing aid and blocked building permits cause rents to rise, which precipitates a demand for the government to impose rent control. That diminishes housing supply and the spiral continues. Education subsidies prompt universities to raise tuition; students then take to the streets to protest the “injustice” of unaffordable housing, education, and other services.

France has one of the world’s highest tax burdens, yet they have an enormous public debt. The International Monetary Fund estimates that France’s gross domestic product in 2026 will be a mere 0.4%, compared to 2.3% in the United States.

What France is doing is unsustainable, and if Americans elect candidates who embrace that kind of socialist agenda, it won’t be long before we reap the whirlwind.

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The 2024 Democratic Party Platform celebrated this party’s transgender agenda. Former President Joe Biden, it said, “reversed [President Donald] Trump’s un-American ban on transgender servicemembers,” “has protected transgender Americans’ access to health care and coverage, including medically necessary gender-affirming care,” and “is fighting book bans that censor LGBTQI+ content.”

It also celebrated the Democratic Party’s commitment to killing unborn children—or what they call “reproductive rights”—and forcing American taxpayers to pay for the killing of those children.

“Democrats are fighting back to restore reproductive freedom for every woman in every state,” said their platform.

“We will repeal the Hyde Amendment,” it said.

The Hyde Amendment was initially enacted into law in 1976 and has been renewed every year since then; it marked its 50th anniversary in September. It prohibits federal funding of abortions. If Democrats were to succeed in repealing the Hyde Amendment, every American who pays taxes would be forced to pay for the deliberate killing of innocent human beings.

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America has walked out of the UN climate racket. The rest of the world hasn’t gotten the message.

Next month, some 100,000 politicians, bureaucrats, functionaries, activists and other grifters will descend on Antalya, Turkey (COP folks prefer Türkiye) for COP31, the UN’s annual climate Conference of the Parties. They will fly in, talk endlessly, and enjoy the best hotels, food, beverages, and hospitality Recep Tayyip Erdo?an can offer. Then they’ll fly home having plotted how to pry trillions more out of whatever wealthy nations are still willing to pay.

Even now, after real-world scientific, energy, and economic realities have bashed the UN’s fraudulent science, garbage-in/garbage-out climate models, anti-fossil-fuel activism, and renewable energy fantasies, climate crisis assertions still dominate news cycles, policy, and spending.

Türkiye will serve as a “bridge” between developed and developing countries. Co-host Australia will push global “clean energy acceleration” — the very policies that are crippling its own citizens’ energy reliability, jobs, economy, and living standards.

Curtis Yarvin (Mencius Moldbug)

When you see clips of masked DHS goons hauling off some equally masked anarchist, you may be tempted to cheer. Don’t. Yes, charges will be filed. No, it will not harm the anarchist—it will make his day, his year, and maybe his life. All the money and power in the world will be at his defense. He will not even need to lift a finger to organize his own lawyers, much less pay them. In the end, as with many of the BLM rioters, he will probably be well compensated, with taxpayer funds, for his trouble. Not to mention all the pussy and/or dick s/he will, as a martyr, be entitled to! For the Islamist, this reward is only in heaven. But for the leftist it comes on earth.

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One: there is no risk of a Republican one-party state, because there is no actual Republican party. It is a label, not a party. To the extent that the Republicans are organized, it is only for election theater. There is not even a remote, nascent equivalent of the venerable and gigantic progressive institutions which have been running our country for a century.

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Two: it is not possible to remove the “Democrat judges,” etc, because there is no label sufficient to the purpose. Every time the Republicans attack a disposable label, I want to grind my teeth to powder and spit them out my nose. This is pure grift.

All that happens if you attack “woke,” “communist,” “politically correct,” etc, is that they stop saying these words. Then they label you as a rube who says these words. In biology, this is called “antigenic escape.” If you want to attack a word, take on a “conserved antigen,” like “progressive.” They have a lot of trouble not saying “progressive”—but they would probably manage.

CBS News, a Voice of the Crust.

Masked rioters smashed storefronts and looted goods late Saturday in Frankfurt, Germany amid a protest against the rising cost of living.

The largely peaceful demonstrations were led by a youth initiative called “Gen Z regelt” – roughly translated to “Gen Z’s got this” – rallied in more than 30 cities “for education, health, climate protection and an affordable life,” and against any return of military conscription. Organizers said that tens of thousands participated in the protests across the country, but official figures weren’t immediately available.

Tensions peaked in the evening as some groups of protesters refused to disperse, sparking clashes and violence in major cities including Berlin, Cologne and Hamburg.

Socialism + Unrestricted Immigration = Riots and Crime. You’d think they’d be able to connect the dots.

ATQUE: Looting And Chaos Erupt In Germany As Europe Slides Deeper Into Crisis

ATQUE: A Third Weekend of Protests in France as Youth-led Rallies Sweep Europe

ScienceAlert.

Actually, the next of these ice ages may have already begun about 2,000 years ago, only to be cut short by human-driven climate change, a new study published in the journal Science suggests.

“It was just getting started, everything was normal, the next glaciation was about to happen – and yet it stopped,” says Nicolás Young, a geochemist at Columbia University and the study’s first author.