DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

New York Post.

Billionaire Sergey Brin has broken his silence on California’s proposed billionaire tax — invoking his Soviet upbringing as new details surface on a tense showdown with Gov. Gavin Newsom and his Trump-loving ‘gut influencer’ girlfriend.

Brin, the Google co-founder with an estimated net worth of $270 billion, discussed his family history under socialism in an extraordinary rebuke of the billionaire tax, which qualified for the November ballot after organizers submitted 1.6 million signatures.

“I fled socialism with my family in 1979 and know the devastating, oppressive society it created in the Soviet Union,” Brin told the New York Times in a statement.

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For years, Democratic politicians and their allies in the legacy media have spread the damnable Charlottesville Hoax: the propaganda myth that President Trump praised bigots who rioted in 2017 in the Virginia town.

Of course, the opposite is true, as Trump actually said: “I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and white nationalists because they should be condemned totally.”

Now, we learn that the entire hoax of Trump and Charlottesville is, itself, built upon another grand lie. The media and people like Joe Biden have continually pushed the narrative that some big, organic gathering of hateful Americans descended upon Charlottesville and represented some larger threat to the republic itself. But it now turns out that the “Unite the Right” rally was organized and financed by the highly partisan, left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center.

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Of all the things we’ve seen or heard since Saturday’s assassination attempt, this might be the most disturbing.

Tennessee’s Andy Ogles was one of the guests at the WHCD on Saturday and during the assassination attempt, he recounts hearing the most disgusting remark from one of the “journalists” present.

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Wild story right here.

Last year, Abdul Saleh — an employee at Sal’s Deli & Grocery in the East Village — went on local news to sound the alarm. He told ABC 7 that violence in bodegas was rampant, that “always something happens and no one really cares,” and that when people get shot, robbed, or worse, the cops show up three or four hours later.

Now we have this.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

A pair of incidents took place outside of Jewish sites in the Toronto area over the weekend, adding to a series of attacks that have left the city’s Jewish community unnerved.

During Shabbat services on Saturday, a man tried to force his way into the Sephardic Kehilah Centre, in the suburb of Vaughan. After the man was turned away by security, he reportedly encountered a father and son on their way to the synagogue and punched the father in the face. The father was left with no serious injuries.

The following day, photos circulated after a rock was hurled and broke the window of Aleph Bet Judaica, a shop on the heavily Jewish Bathurst Street corridor. Police did not confirm which business was hit, but confirmed that a rock was thrown at a business near Bathurst Street and Regina Avenue, and that the Hate Crime Unit “was consulted and is aware.”

No suspects have been identified in either incident.

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We have a major problem.

Half the country read the manifesto written by the shooter, saw his friends and family admit that it sounds like him, and read the shooter’s own anti-Trump, leftwing posts on Bluesky.

The other half of the country – the half that listens to the fake news – is told we don’t have any motive and we shouldn’t jump to conclusions.

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There’s a passage in Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs that gets quoted less than the famous ones. Jobs talked about how great companies die, and his theory was that the rot has nothing to do with competition or markets or innovation cycles. The rot starts when the salespeople end up running the company.

He named names. He pointed at IBM under John Akers. He pointed at Microsoft under Ballmer. He even pointed at the Sculley era of his own Apple as the cautionary tale. The phrase Jobs kept circling back to was that the people running these companies eventually “have no conception of a good product versus a bad product.” They can’t tell the difference. They can run a supply chain better than anyone alive, but they couldn’t tell you whether the radius on a button looks right.

That’s not a small criticism. That’s the founder of Apple, on the record, naming the disease and warning the company against catching it.

Then, in 2011, Apple promoted its head of operations to CEO.

I’m not saying Cook was a bad pick at the time. He was the right person to keep the trains running while everyone caught their breath after losing Steve. But fifteen years later it’s worth asking the question Steve himself would have asked. What kind of products are we shipping now?

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Babylon Bee.

In a the wake of yet another failed assassination attempt against President Trump, leading Democrats across the nation announced they would observe the long-standing tradition of a five-minute pause in calling Trump “literally Hitler”.

ScienceDaily.

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral population in Africa. By analyzing genetic data from diverse modern African groups—especially the highly distinct Nama people—and comparing it with fossil evidence, researchers found that early humans likely evolved from multiple intermingling populations over hundreds of thousands of years. Rather than a clean split, these groups stayed connected, exchanging genes even after beginning to diverge around 120,000–135,000 years ago.

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Hey, we never said it would be easy….

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has halted payments to more than 400 hospices in Los Angeles and across California, with the estimated fraud being greater than $600 million, according to the anti-fraud task force led by Vice President JD Vance.

Sheila Clark, CEO of the California Hospice and Palliative Care Association, is questioning how these alleged instances of fraud have slipped through the cracks.

“How do you put a hospice in a burrito stand in California? How do you put a hospice in a tire store? That all had to be vetted through licensure, certification, and accreditation,” Clark said during a House of Representatives hearing on April 21.

VA Viper (a Friend of the Blog)

This essentially reproduces a dish much enjoyed at the restaurant Da Gemma in Amalfi in April 2002. In Hazan’s recipe I have substituted fettuccine for spaghetti and added the beef extract to give a slightly meatier flavor. In fact, the extract can be omitted to yield an entirely vegetarian dish. An interesting discussion of the historical origins of Genovese sauce (La Genovese) is found in Naples at Table by Arthur Schwarz (1998).

I guess it’s time for dinner….

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ICE has arrested an illegal alien child sex predator in Abigail Spanberger’s Virginia. Authorities there tried to protect him by declining an ICE detainer last year and releasing him back into the community.

The suspect, Roni Mendez-Escobar, a Guatemalan national, faced charges including multiple felony counts of possession of obscene material and child pornography with intent to distribute.

remain free despite the detainer – exactly the outcome sanctuary policies are designed to produce.

This isn’t an isolated failure. It’s the predictable result of Virginia Democrats turning the state into a magnet for criminal illegal aliens while American families bear the cost. Spanberger ran as a “moderate,” yet her administration’s moves to limit cooperation with ICE have repeatedly put Virginia children and residents at risk.

Just weeks ago, ICE urged Spanberger not to release another criminal illegal alien from Guatemala, Misael Lopez Gomez, who allegedly bludgeoned his own three-month-old daughter to death with blunt force trauma in Fairfax.

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I’m willing to ask the hard question: How badly do modern women stink if men are turning to AI?

At least an AI won’t divorce you after 10 to 20 years of marriage and take your kids and half your stuff.

This is CNN.

I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning….

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Fox is reporting that the would-be assassin at last night’s correspondents’ dinner in Washington DC was politically motivated and wrote anti-Trump and anti-Christian screeds online before the shootings.

Note the conjunction: ‘anti-Trump’ and ‘anti-Christian’. Wonder how much those two circles overlap….

ATQUE: Key question: How did armed man get so close to Trump WHCD event?

The Other McCain.

Democrats are crazy and evil, but also utterly incompetent.

Notice something missing in that Associated Press story? “Assassination.” You could say, “an apparent assassination attempt,” or use the phrase “would-be assassin,” but the AP goes out of its way to avoid saying the obvious: THIS GUY WANTED TO KILL TRUMP.

Furthermore, despite cramming the story full of all kinds of irrelevancies — quotes from this or that politician in attendance — the AP doesn’t include important details about the suspect’s background: First, that Cole Allen donated to Kamala Harris’s campaign, and second, that there was a campaign sign for a Democratic candidate for a state judge position in the front lawn of Allen’s home in California. In other words, evidence clearly suggests the shooter is a Democrat with a political motive, but the Associated Press didn’t think that merited inclusion in the story.

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A divided federal appeals court on April 24 allowed Texas to enforce a state law that permits the arrest and prosecution of individuals thought to have unlawfully crossed the U.S.-Mexico border.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit voted 10–7 to undo a 2024 injunction that had prevented enforcement of the law known as Senate Bill 4. Initially, the former Biden administration had challenged the statute, but the second Trump administration dropped the challenge in March 2025.

SB 4, which Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, signed in December 2023, would make it a state-level crime to illegally enter or re-enter Texas from a foreign country, give state judges authority to order that violators leave the United States, and allow prison sentences ?of up to 20 years for those refusing to comply.

The Fifth Circuit did not address the merits of the case because it found that the groups challenging the law—Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center and American Gateways—lacked legal standing to do so.

Hey, I’ve got an idea! Let’s kick the can down the road!

The groups had argued that SB 4 was preempted—or superseded—by the federal Immigration and Nationality Act.

Which is obviously is—but its enforcement relies on an Administration that actually enforces laws and all that other right-wing picky shit.

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A deranged mother is rushing to the defense of her 14-year-old son after he was filmed slamming a 15-year-old girl to the concrete and stomping on her head in East Harlem — all because she refused to give him her phone number.

The horrifying attack, captured on video and shared widely online, has left the victim hospitalized with a concussion. Yet instead of demanding accountability, the boy’s mother is painting her son as a victim of bullying.

The assault unfolded around 3:30 p.m. Monday at the corner of East 107th Street and Third Avenue, right after classes let out at East Harlem Scholars Academy Charter School, which both teens attend.

“Scholars Academy”. Only in New York.

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Tell the truth: Who hasn’t wanted to do that?

Yes, that truck is so high, and the Lambo is so low that the lady couldn’t even see it down there.

Back to the parking lot party: That’s a three-ton raised Chevy Silverado versus a $325,000 Lamborghini Huracan. And I don’t think I have to tell you who won.

 

The Telegraph (UK).

Royal Mail has launched an investigation into allegations that a postman boasted he had “dumped” Reform UK leaflets in a dustbin.

The postal service said it would look into claims that one of its employees attempted to sabotage a door-to-door delivery of the party’s local election campaign literature.

Lawyers acting for Reform UK wrote to Alistair Cochrane, the chief executive of Royal Mail, to raise the “suspected serious incident of apparent deliberate misconduct”.

It doesn’t take a conspiracy. All government employees know which side their bread is buttered on.

The Telegraph (UK).

Donald Trump was rushed off stage after a shots were fired at the White House correspondents’ dinner.

The US president was appearing as guest of honour at the annual journalism gala in Washington, DC on Saturday before shouts of “down, stay down,” were heard.

Security officials quickly stormed Mr Trump’s table and evacuated him from the event, which was taking place at the Washington Hilton hotel.

Mr Trump was not hurt during the incident, and later posted on social media that a gunman had been arrested and that he wanted the dinner to resume.

Well, if the Narrative Media and the Leftist Fringe keep calling him Hitler, people are going to try to kill him.

UPDATE: White House Correspondents’ Dinner gunman identified as California teacher after shocking shooting  My, what a surprise.

UPDATE: Here’s what we know about the California teacher charged with trying to shoot up the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

UPDATE: Man With Shotgun Fired at Secret Service, Officer OK

The Other McCain.

But you knew that….

Very seldom do I use the same headline twice in one week, but seldom does an idea as monstrously bad as Samuel Monyn’s attract my attention. To summarize as succinctly as possible, Moyn’s argument is this: “Old people have too much stuff. We should kill them and steal their stuff.”

Have I exaggerated for the sake of brevity? Perhaps so, but the subtext of Moyn’s book-length argument (Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It) is pretty clear — everything wrong in America is because of old people, and therefore we should adopt policies to inflict harm on these elderly enemies. If you’re 65 or older, you are analogous to a Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994 and Professor Moyn is Radio Hutu. This is simply hate propaganda, demonizing the elderly, and nothing good will come of it. Both Ed Morrissey and Matt Taibbi have taken stabs at explaining what’s wrong with Moyn’s idea, as expressed in the professor’s New York Times op-ed.

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A series of violent incidents involving young people has raised concerns across Belgium, with experts warning that youth crime is becoming more frequent and, in some cases, more severe.

Recent cases have included assaults, stabbings and arson attacks involving teenagers. In one incident in Brussels, a 14-year-old girl was chased and assaulted by a group of youths, while other reports describe a teenager being set on fire with a Molotov cocktail, and a separate stabbing involving minors. Some attacks have been filmed and shared on social media, further amplifying concerns.

Statistics suggest a broader upward trend. Figures from juvenile courts show a steady increase in offences committed by minors over the past decade. Cases of assault and battery involving young suspects have risen significantly, with thousands more incidents recorded in recent years compared to earlier periods.

ATQUE: Sexual Exploitation of Minors in France: A 43% Uptick in Four Years

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Fourteen years ago, the Southern Poverty Law Center named me a hate group of one. The honor wasn’t mine alone, I shared it with a sign outside a bar and a brand of gun oil.

What was behind the SPLC’s sloppy hate group designation of one man, a bar sign and other random items was its obsession with manufacturing a constant rise in ‘hate groups.’

Year after year, the SPLC would issue reports claiming that hate groups were increasing in number, and then fundraise off the urgent threat that they had invented.

I caught them doing it time and time again.

The New Neo.

Why was the lower court in Virginia so quick to rule the referendum unconstitutional? This wasn’t the referendum’s first rodeo through the Virginia court system; it had been ruled unconstitutional in a lower court before.

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One consequence of a hard-fought, very close election is blame-gaming.

Take the case of Virginia’s extreme gerrymander referendum, which passed by the narrowest of margins on Tuesday, 88,218, out of over 3 million votes cast. “Yes” forces outspent “no” campaigns by at least 4:1. Turnout in mostly rural areas again trailed that in urban and suburban jurisdictions. And, again, two-thirds of the mail-in voters opted for it. Democrats continue to dominate mail ballot harvesting, the least safe and lowest-integrity method of voting, while heavily subsidizing the failing US Postal Service to keep their dubious and untrustworthy voting scheme alive.

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The Southern Poverty Law Center, which makes its money by exaggerating “hate” to scare donors and by comparing conservatives to the Ku Klux Klan, was itself funding Klan members—and now major Democrats are beclowning themselves by defending it.

Like a dog returns to its vomit, so Democrats return to the ridiculous claim that the SPLC is some sort of noble civil rights group and that to attack it is to attack America’s soul.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., claimed that the Justice Department’s indictment against the SPLC is “turning what America’s all about inside out.”

He noted that “in 1983, the Ku Klux Klan tried to burn down the Southern Poverty Law Center for daring to oppose its hatred.”

“More than four decades later, the Trump administration is trying to do the same thing in the courtroom,” Schumer said.

That’s a powerful line, but is it true?

Schumer didn’t address the specific charges in the indictment—six counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud, and one count of conspiracy to conceal money laundering. Nor did he address the allegations that the SPLC didn’t just pay $3 million to a set of “informants” in white nationalist and neo-Nazi groups, but actually directed racist social media posts and helped bring more people to the white nationalist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville in 2017, paying the very same extremists it highlighted on its website.

ATQUE: Manufacturing Hate

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These guys never learn. Go look up Prohibition, you silly cunts.

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I am shocked, shocked I tell you, to discover that Loudoun County schools, the district which had a dad arrested for speaking out about his daughter being raped by a trans student, and the school district which has doubled and tripled down on woke, would have done something like this.

They hired a “trans woman” (aka a man) to be a substitute teacher in their schools, and it turns out the man was making threats against schools online the whole time.

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Don’t worry, Virginians. You may feel like you’re being gerrymandered out of representation in United States Congress, but the Dems headed to DC to represent your little town really get you.

This is a real thing a real elected official in Virginia said.

He understands rural America in 2026 because he watched Andy Griffith and The Waltons when he was a kid.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

appear in the state’s June primaries. In all, there are 32 candidates listed, of whom 10 are considered serious contenders.

Among those who are not: the far-right activist Don J. Grundmann, who is not affiliated with any party and has previously described a group he was affiliated with as a “totally peaceful racist group.” Grundman used his entry in the guide to promote a series of anti-Israel conspiracy theories and antisemitic rhetoric.

His entry claimed that Israel had been behind the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk; purposefully killed U.S. soldiers during an attack on the U.S.S. Liberty in 1967; orchestrated the 9/11 attacks and planned to “suitcase nuke” the United States.

“Israel, the REAL terrorists, created and funds Hamas via Qatar,” Grundmann wrote. “Countless war crimes by lsrael/ Netanyahu. No further funding for Israel. They call Palestinians AND Christians AND America ‘Amalek;—their sworn forever enemy.”

There is no hate like proglodyte hate.

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I’m sure she does.

Babylon Bee.

Despite videos of masked Patriot Front members shouting seemingly unscripted mantras like “we sure don’t like black people, eh fellas?”, new reports suggest that such videos may have actually been staged by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

“This is completely unexpected. It just seemed so real,” said local man Matthew Porter. “Everything pointed to these people being very genuine, terrifying white supremacists. All of the crisp, dance-like choreography they had, the camera always posted to capture certain shots… it all seemed so grassroots and natural. I am in total shock that any of this could have been somehow orchestrated by outside forces.”

Even the FBI was reportedly left dumbfounded by the revelation, as the agents who had posed as Patriot Front members were convinced that the other members were real. “I remember when we set up the first meeting, and in comes this guy Dave who asks if ‘anyone here wants to do a racism’. I can’t believe it was all fake,” said Agent Mark O’Hara. “If you can fake something as real-seeming as the Patriot Front, I don’t even know what to believe.”

The Telegraph (UK).

Greggs will serve food and drink from behind theft-proof counters to combat shoplifting.

The high-street bakery chain has reportedly scrapped self-service displays in new “fortress stores” across the UK.

The pilot scheme, according to The Sun, has been rolled out to cut thefts and combat violence against staff.

The Telegraph (UK).

Pubs in a seaside town are refusing to serve councillors on a climate change committee who voted to impose charges at a formerly free public car park.

At the start of April, a fee of £1.60 an hour was introduced by Labour-led Swale borough council for spaces at Park Road in Queenborough, Kent, despite petitions opposing the move.

Now pubs in the town, on the Isle of Sheppey, have put up signs announcing that they have barred nine councillors who voted in favour of the charges in November and one who abstained.

If I had a shop, I’d post a sign “Dogs and Democrats Not Allowed”.

The Telegraph (UK).

Britain’s leading Jewish private school will remain open after raising enough money to stave off closure following Labour’s VAT raid.

Governors at Immanuel College, in Bushey, Hertfordshire, said last week that “significant and sustained” financial pressures meant that the school would be forced to shut in August.

The £29,700-a-year secondary school blamed several factors, including Rachel Reeves’s employers’ National Insurance increase and her decision to add 20 per cent VAT to private school fees from January 2025.

Socialists want everybody to go to a government school (under their control. of course).

The Telegraph (UK).

Sir Keir Starmer was a pioneer of “groundbreaking” legal claims that paved the way for the witch hunt against British troops in Iraq, according to his Attorney General’s own testimony.

No surprise here. Socialists are always on the side against their country.

The Times (UK).

And socialists are robbers every age.

Donald Trump should be stripped of his Scottish golf courses for launching an “illegal” war with Iran, the Green Party leader has urged.

Zack Polanski, the party’s English and Welsh leader who was campaigning in Scotland on Friday, called on the UK government to sanction the US president.

But Sarah Malone, executive vice-president of Trump International Scotland, described Polanski as an “imbecile”.

Concur.

The War Zone.

A day after President Donald Trump ordered U.S. forces to destroy Iranian ships laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Friday said efforts to prevent mining are already underway.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC) “has a variety of smaller Boston Whaler-size boats,” Air Force Gen. Dan Caine told reporters, including from The War Zone, during a Friday morning media briefing. “We have forces up there deterring and preventing them from continuing to [lay mines], and will continue to do so pursuant to the orders of the Secretary and the President.”

Sarah Hoyt.

In a short story a few years ago, my husband coined the term Feffers as a short hand for all the sad mouths who yell “Fix Earth First” every time anyone tries to escape the crab bucket this our native rock.

It is the perfect term, since without the first F it’s a pejorative anyway. And heaven knows, I start using it, in a tone like a spitting cat, when I’m following some cool event or development on X and find myself mired in comment after comment of “We could eliminate poverty” (Spoiler: Poverty always wins wars on poverty.) Or “We have so many problems here on Earth” or similar stupidity.

They are wrong. No, I can’t absolutely prove it for the reason that sociological experiments are really hard to run on an entire society. This could be solved by having a portal that allows us to observe parallel worlds that took alternate paths, but younger son refuses to invent the technology. Out of contrarianess I’m sure.

However we have a similar thing, called history.

Babylon Bee.

Sounds like a good move.

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Leave it to Canada to always be so very … Canada.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Two teenagers were arrested this week for an alleged plot to drive through a Houston synagogue and “kill as many Jews as possible,” according to local authorities.

Angelina Han Hicks, 18, of Lexington, North Carolina, was arrested at her home on Wednesday and charged with conspiring with two other individuals to commit an attack on Congregation Beth Israel, the oldest Jewish house of worship in Texas, according to the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office. She is being held in the Davidson County jail under a $10 million bond.

In Houston, a 16-year-old boy was also arrested in relation to “a threat directed towards certain Jewish institutions in our area.” It was unclear whether the second arrest was connected to Hicks, but the judge who ordered Hicks detained said she should be prevented from communicating with unnamed co-conspirators.

“At this time, there is no other known credible threat,” the Houston Police Department said in a statement.

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