DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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The marriage of Islam and Our Democracy™ was on display in the recent demise of the Platner Senate campaign. Abuse of infidel (non-socialist) women was OK because they have no standing to complain. Similarly, anti-semitism and even a Nazi tattoo were OK with the bulk of Islamo-Communist voters in the party. But rape of one of their own women without proper ownership papers turned out to be haram. The party’s religious/ideological authorities will now appoint a new candidate.

The delightful comedy Tropic Thunder (2998) was accused of non-PC insensitivity for a funny exchange in which one actor tells another that it is OK to play a mentally challenged character so long as the character has some residual or special abilities but “you never go full retard.” Attempting to mix the world’s two least successful economic systems (Islam and Marxism) into a governing strategy is going full retard.

Islam is not an economic success story. Even without a review of history, the tens of millions of Muslims currently seeking refuge in successful, superior countries versus the complete absence of American, Canadian, Latin American, European, Australian or Japanese people clamoring to cross the borders into Islamic countries is irrefutable evidence of that economic reality.

Robert Spencer has observed that the Islamic model of economics has always been heavily dependent on the exploitation of non-Muslims and when the expansion by conquests ceased, stagnation was inevitable. The once near-invincible and opulent Ottoman Empire became a comparatively poor, empty shell (and not because of European aggression as Islamic apologists claim). Qatar has been called a modern slave state funded by infidel petrodollars, a virtual substitute for jiziya. Saudi Arabia is owned and run by maybe 5,000 families. Investment in the growth of an innovative, egalitarian Muslim middle class is not a cultural priority.

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Calls for violence against journalists from the German right-wing news outlets Apollo News and Nius have intensified following attacks on reporters during protests against the Alternative für Deutschland’s (AfD) party congress in Erfurt.

On Wednesday, July 8th, an anonymous post published on the left-wing extremist platform de.indymedia.org urged supporters to take action against journalists from both publications, as well as against the AfD.

The post, attributed to a group calling itself the ‘Kreuzberg Anarchists,’ described the arrival of “right-wing institutions” in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district as a “declaration of war” and called on local activists to make it impossible for them to operate.

The message included the business addresses of Apollo News and Nius, as well as details about the AfD’s planned federal headquarters.

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At the protests against the Alternativ für Deutschland’s (AfD) party conference in Erfurt last weekend, a reporter for Apollo News was chased through the crowd and kicked in the head. He suffered a bloody wound. The next day, representatives of the anti-AfD alliance ‘Widersetzen’ were asked repeatedly if they condemned the attack. Initially they refused. Eventually, one activist replied: “Fascists with a press pass are still fascists.”

This was not any old Antifa gathering. Tens of thousands of people had come to oppose the AfD, with varying degrees of direct and indirect state funding. The German Trade Union Confederation (the DGB) mobilised, alongside a broad network of unions and civil society groups. An official Bundestag response to the event listed more organisations involved in the mobilisation, documenting substantial federal grants to several of them, albeit for other work. For example, MOBIT (Mobile Beratung in Thüringen e.V.)—a prominent German civil society NGO fighting right-wing extremism, racism, and antisemitism—received about €1.1 million across the listed period; NaturFreunde Thüringen more than €2 million across several programmes. The government denies funding Widersetzen’s Erfurt campaign. Nevertheless, the point is not that Berlin paid for a journalist to be kicked in the head; it is that the respectable anti-AfD movement rests on an ecosystem of unions, NGOs, and campaign groups, parts of which are publicly funded.

Political thugs are nothing new. What is new in this case is the social context and justifications of their thuggery. Anti-fascism in Germany has changed from a militant fringe concern into the moral common sense of its educated middle classes. One consequence of this is that the label ‘fascist’ now makes violence less objectionable.

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Britain’s Labour government is under pressure to pause its new prisons’ early release scheme. On Tuesday night, July 7th, Labour MPs in parliament abstained on a vote drafted to prevent the release of child sex offenders—including grooming gang members, paedophiles, and rapists—before the end of their sentences.

Now, the victims’ commissioner for England and Wales and the domestic abuse commissioner have joined forces to call on the government to pause its new early release scheme.

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As Marine Le Pen enters the presidential race, her party is in the eye of the storm. The French press is reporting on the ongoing difficulties faced by Rassemblement National (RN) MPs with banks: despite their status as members of the National Assembly, they have found that banks have no qualms about arbitrarily closing their accounts, for reasons that are not officially stated—that is to say, ideological ones. The phenomenon of banking censorship targeting political opponents of the national Right extends far beyond France’s borders.

According to the public broadcaster France Inter, several RN MPs were dropped by their banks shortly after their election. And these are not minor figures, as they include Jean-Philippe Tanguy, one of the party’s leading figures, and Frank Allisio, a close associate of Marine Le Pen and the RN’s former candidate in the Marseille mayoral elections.

The modus operandi is always the same. A business relationship that has often lasted for years—sometimes more than a decade—and then, one fine day, a terse message with no justification whatsoever. “We no longer see fit to maintain our business relationship,” was the message sent to Thomas Ménagé, MP for the Loiret, who was asked to find another bank. The information is only now being made public, but the termination took place immediately after his election to the National Assembly in 2022.

Under French law, upon becoming MPs, these elected representatives also become ‘PPEs,’ or Politically Exposed Persons, to use banking jargon. According to the Banque de France’s website, such individuals require special attention as they are considered “exposed to higher risks of money laundering.” Banks may therefore choose to rid themselves of these potentially troublesome clients.

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Not only did this dude throw a Molotov cocktail at a guy in a wheelchair — he threw the guy to the ground and back into the flames when he escaped.

Oklahoma City Police arrested the Molotov cocktail thrower almost immediately on July 2, as this happened right outside their station.

I suspect that this guy wasn’t a Republican.

Babylon Bee.

In the wake of the Democratic nominee suspending his Senate campaign, local Nazi Wade Marks expressed regret over getting his Graham Platner tattoo.

Hey, we all make choices that we regret.

Not the Bee.

It’s amazing that Texas Democrats somehow found a new Beto O’Rourke who is somehow worse than Beto in every single way.

James Tala-Freako somehow manages to top himself with a new damning clip every week:

Democrats are talented that way.

Ars Technica.

The satellite from Miami-based City Labs is named BOHR, short for Betavoltaic Orbital High-Reliability, and it launched on a SpaceX rideshare mission Tuesday alongside 80 other payloads. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket released the BOHR satellite into an orbit between 350 and 400 miles (nearly 600 km) in altitude.

NewScientist.

Naval News.

UNICORN integrates various antennas into a single mast to improve stealth. From top to bottom this includes an ES-R antenna, ES-C antenna, WiFi band antenna, LINK-16 antenna, UHF antenna, IFF antenna, U/VHF antenna and TACAN antenna. UNICORN was jointly developed by three Japanese companies: NEC, Sampa Kogyo and Yokohama Rubber. The prime contractor NEC provided hardware integration and Tactical Air Navigation (TACAN) systems. Sampa Kogyo provided antenna technologies and maintenance experience while Yokohama Rubber developed the frequency selective radome. Saab had recently pitched its SLIM integrated mast solution.

During DefExpo 2022, Indian Navy’s Directorate of Electrical Engineering had showcased a project for two phase development of an Indigenous Integrated Mast (IIM) with Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) as the production partner. The current status of the project remains unclear. It is likely that the project will be progressed or merged with the localized adaptation of UNICORN.

Funny, my MBA program didn’t offer that as an option. And don’t get me started on law school….

Modern War Institute.

The United States Army spent the last two decades optimizing sustainment for permissive environments defined by uncontested supply lines, contractor support, and static forward operating bases. As the National Defense Strategy shifts toward strategic competition and multidomain operations, however, this efficiency-driven model has become a liability. In large-scale combat operations, victory will depend less on which force fields the most advanced weapons and more on which can sustain combat power under persistent attack. A lethal maneuver force without a survivable logistical backbone is simply a stationary target waiting to culminate.

Not the Bee.

Remind me: Which side are the fascists?

Naval News.

The French-German Research Institute of Saint-Louis (ISL) has successfully conducted the first outdoor, free-flight test of its domestically designed electromagnetic railgun. The milestone test took place on June 29, 2026, at the institute’s proving ground in Baldersheim, marking a critical transition for the European defense technology from laboratory research to open-range validation.

Robb Report.

The model’s BMW-sourced mill has been depowered to meet European emissions standards.

Government is the reason we can’t ever have nice things.

Government is the reason we can’t ever have nice things.

Government is the reason we can’t ever have nice things.

What I tell you three times is true. — The Bellman, Hunting of the Snark, Lewis Carroll

Richard Vigilante

Here is a paradox, perhaps.

Information Theory tells us that only surprise counts as information. If the receiver can infallibly predict the next signal from the sender, that predictable signal adds no information.

If I transmit “Mr.”, none of the letters in the group “i, s, t, e, r” count as information. We trust that those letters come next.

Trust is reduced uncertainty about future behavior. But trust is generated largely by past behavior.

When we trust a bridge, we expect it to continue standing. When we trust a bank, we expect it to honor withdrawals as it has done in the past. When we trust a person, we expect him or her to behave tomorrow roughly as they behaved yesterday.

We are trusting in the past. We are trusting in reputation.

Reputation is accumulated evidence from the past about future behavior.

Even if, as is usually the case, our trust is in an expert rather than our own experience, we trust because other persons or institutions have affirmed the expert’s reputation—his history of being right or wrong.

Now here’s a wrinkle.

Suppose we have strong reason to trust an expert within a particular field. Then one day we encounter him discoursing on dozens of subjects far outside his area of expertise. Every proposition sounds plausible. Better still, many of them are entirely new to us.

He is providing enormous amounts of information. Do we believe him?

If he offers a thousand plausible assertions, do we accept them?

This is the AI problem.

Full disclosure: Rich is a friend and was a classmate at Yale. He has worked with George Gilder and written for National Review.

New York Post.

Californians will have to pay for two new taxes next year after Gov. Gavin Newsom approved the state budget in June in what the California Taxpayers Association described as “the largest tax increase in state history.”

Newsom and Democratic lawmakers agreed on proposals that would raise health insurance premiums and slap a new charge on software downloads in an effort to make up federal revenue loss from an antagonistic Trump administration, Democrats said.

Because, as we all know, California has an inalienable right to get money from the Federal government—and the Federal taxpayers.

One measure would extend a tax on health care providers to potentially generate roughly $2 billion a year to help fund Medi-Cal.

How can we pay for better health care? I know—we’ll raise taxes on health care providers! What could possibly go wrong? Well, health care providers will (a) raise their prices and (b) join the billionaires fleeing the state. That estimated $2 billion a year, as will all government estimates of future tax revenue, assumes that people will just stand there waiting to be fleeced and take no action to avoid and mitigate the tax. As with all government estimates of future tax revenue, it will turn out to have been grossly inflated.

The Telegraph (UK).

You can talk peace all you want, but if one side wants war, it’s going to be war.

James Lileks, recently divorced, not by his choice:

They’re going to Rome soon and wanted some recommendations, and when I went home I dived into the archives to get some routes and points of interest, and was reminded again of last summer’s wonderful trip, and had the familiar reaction: divorce sours a thousand photos. But I knew I’d done a good job arranging that family vacation, and everyone had a marvelous time, and if it was the last, well, that wasn’t my doing. I didn’t decide to haul out the bolt cutter. Found a photo of me and my daughter toasting my new retired future in a Trastevere restaurant. No poison there. We’ll be happy in Rome some day again.

Wife was a lawyer married to a journalist. (Income imbalance.) Only one child. (Declining birth rate.) When she retired, she decided to end the marriage. (Status imbalance.) He’s coping as well as he can (beta male simp) but the bitterness occasionally breaks through. (Reality does that.)

Conventional wisdom is that over 50% of marriages in the U.S. end in divorce. 69% of divorces in the U.S. are initiated by the wife.

Divorced men have about 2.4 times the suicide rate of married men. Divorced men are 8 times more likely to die of suicide than divorced women.

In the U.S., suicide deaths are much higher among men than women: in 2022, the age-adjusted suicide rate was 23.0 per 100,000 for males and 5.9 per 100,000 for females, so the male rate was about 3 to 4 times higher.

Thank you, feminism.

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I’m sorry, I just never get tired of these.

I’d like to tell then that we’ll trade ten Democrats to Britain for every one of these people they send over.

Over there they can step in all the diversity they can handle.

The Atlantic, a Voice of the Crust.

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.

Underclass people who depended on government schooling are functionally illiterate anyway; once again, Democrats seem to be ahead of the curve here.

Most machine operators during the first years of the industrial revolution were barely literate, but they did good work just the same. Navy sailors on the China Station between the world wars often had Chinese coolie servants who could do their work competently, as illustrated in the famous Steve McQueen movie THE SAND PEBBLES—I doubt that any of them were even literate in Chinese, much less English. Simple operations that depend on a job being demonstrated and then done by rote was, until recently, the default way that working people worked, and still rules in the Turd World. We may be reverting to that, and I doubt that the heavens would fall.

I wouldn’t mind seeing a return to the day when college was only for rich people’s kids and affordable for intelligent non-Crustian kids who were willing to work their way through or get scholarships.

Not the Bee.

What does it say when the country you lead has less freedom than Turkey?

Perhaps they ought to have given him an engraved dagger instead.

I thank God every day that I don’t live in Britain.

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When you shop on Amazon, you inevitably have to sort through a whole lot of sponsored ads and listings for products of dubious quality or from no-name brands with inexplicable names before you find what you’re looking for. Well-known and trusted brands often get buried in the noise, so unless you run a very specific search, there’s effort required to filter out what’s worth considering from what isn’t.

A new browser extension—called Knockoff—aims to handle this decluttering for you. It greys out or hides items from shady and no-name brands, making it easier to find the reputable ones.

We have the technology.

Unfortunately it’s not available (yet) for Safari. ?

Not the Bee.

No jail time, slap on the wrist, $5,000 fine.

Minnesota is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

 Not the Bee.

The Deep State Uniparty struts its stuff.

Task & Purpose.

Those who thought that Trump was letting Iran off the hook need have no fear; Iran seems ready and eager to put themselves back on the hook if that ever happens.

ATQUE: US Conducts New Strikes on Iran After Shipping Attack, Trump Declares Iran MOU ‘Dead’ (Overt Defense)

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Drama requires uncertainty.

But there is a creeping challenge across our film and television dramaturgy; progressive ideology, in which we’re told that certain groups are inherently more oppressed, and thus more moral than others.

This sits uneasily with dramatic storytelling, particularly in mixed-race casts, for a simple reason:

Unlike drama, which requires uncertainty, progressive ideology requires moral certainty based around people’s identities.

We all know the moral totem pole that progressive ideology has constructed, with cis white hetero able bodied men at the bottom, and a trans black disabled woman at the top.

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I once attended a lecture by a brilliant black professor on the power of the Wire, one of the most diverse shows in history at the time. She said that the great achievement of the Wire was that there was a broad range of black characters, so no one character carried the moral weight of representing blackness.

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Chaotic scenes broke out on the streets of Amsterdam and The Hague again over the weekend after Morocco defeated Canada over 5,000 miles away in Texas. Groups of Morocco supporters took to the streets, with reports of fireworks being fired into crowds, reckless driving, and clashes with police.

Despite the disorder, police adopted a restrained approach. Riot squad commander Sander van der Hulle said officers deliberately avoided intervening in some incidents to prevent wider violence.

“If you start enforcing against minor offences, it becomes war,” he told De Telegraaf, adding that police sometimes choose not to intervene in order to stop situations from escalating.

Uh-huh. I wonder how the Dutch would far if they tried that shit in Morocco.

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Watch Muslims take back al-Andalus in real time.

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Germany recorded 751 gang rapes in 2025 and the majority of the offenders were foreigners, according to figures released by the federal government in response to a parliamentary inquiry by the right-wing opposition Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party.

While there was a slight decline from 788 recorded cases in 2024 and 761 in 2023, the fact remains that gang rape was a relatively rare phenomenon in Germany before 2015, the start of the European migration crisis.

Liberal-led Berlin recorded the highest number of cases, with 118 offences, making the capital the country’s principal rape hotspot.

The statistics identified 1,083 suspects in connection with the recorded gang rapes. Of these, 53% were non-German nationals—among them 110 Syrians, 64 Afghans, 46 Iraqis, and 44 Turks. The rest of the perpetrators held German citizenship, but the data doesn’t say whether they are of a migrant background.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

The government also reported that 72% of all suspects had been known to the police.

… who apparently can’t be bothered to do the one thing for which they exist.

“Booty, which includes the wives and daughters of the unbelievers you killed or enslaved, played a significant part in attracting men to Islam.” — JIHAD IN THE KORAN

Yeah, I can see that. Too bad the Germans can’t see that.

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I have a question for Bernie, AOC, the DSA, and all the Ivy League professors who are convinced 21st century America is the optimum time and place for “real” socialism to be tried.

When Marx wrote his rant, industry was in the Age of Machinery. Should the workers take over the Means of Production at that time, they would have little or no trouble keeping the factory running. Any shop foreman had all the technical knowledge needed. We were still in the Age of Machinery in 1918 when Lenin took over the Means of Production. Even in the Age of Machinery, however, socialism can’t innovate. But, change did not come fast in the Age of Machinery. The U.S.S.R. strategy of relying on copying Western innovations was a tolerable strategy. The U.S.S.R. was always behind the West, but the gap was not too big.

After WWII, America began to leave the Age of Machinery and transition into the Age of Computers. The pace of innovation increased, and the gap between the West and the U.S.S.R. increased. Reagan pushed for a huge technological advance in Defense. The U.S.S.R. strained to respond, and collapsed.

Since the collapse of the world’s most advanced socialist country, the pace of change has steadily accelerated. The Age of Machinery exists only in museums. The shop foreman with good mechanical talent still exists, but he is ill equipped to run the factory full of robots. In 21st century America, the most important Means of Production are not factories. Microsoft is a collection of highly trained, and highly rewarded, coders. Apple has its factories overseas. Apple in America is a collection of highly trained, and highly rewarded, engineers forever devoted to designing something better than they designed the year before.

A socialist takeover of Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, Nvidia, or any other of America’s top companies, ends in instant disaster. The common worker couldn’t take over squat. The highly paid elite engineer or programmer is essential and not replaceable. These folks are all very big winners under Capitalism. They will not start saying Comrade to everyone and continue working under socialism.

Marx was convinced factory workers were woefully underpaid. Therefore, a worker revolt would result in higher wages. Essential workers in 21st century America are not underpaid. A worker revolt, today, would do nothing more than piss off the workers.

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Hint: ‘Hostile architecture’ consists of features that make it inconvenient for bums and derelicts to Occupy Your Property (which apparently they have an inalienable right to do).

The author is, of course, an extremely hirstute (but opinionated!) foreigner.

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Yeah, good luck with that….

Alma Boykin.

“Oh no, I never polish it. I’ve watched Antiques Roadshow and I know to leave the patina on. Cleaning it would lower the value.”

The Telegraph (UK).

Pro-Palestine marches are being funded by a complex web of foreign donors and state actors, a report reveals.

The report by the US charity watchdog NGO Monitor found examples of Iranian and American far-Left groups bankrolling anti-Israel groups in the UK, creating an “ecosystem” of disruption.

My, what a surprise.

It also found cryptocurrency was increasingly being used to hide funding sources for organisations accused of anti-Semitism, with gift aid also being used by these organisations.

Well, that’s why it was created.

The Telegraph (UK).

Police have admitted that they do not know what country the Belfast knife attack suspect is from.

Hadi Alodid was charged with the attempted murder of Stephen Ogilvie, 44, who lost an eye and suffered injuries to his back and head in the attack last month.

Footage shared widely on social media at the time showed a knifeman holding down and stabbing his victim, in an attack which triggered violent anti-immigration protests.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) originally said Mr Alodid was from Somalia, before stating that he was Sudanese. However, a month after the attack, the force has said he may be from the neighbouring African country of Chad.

In any case, I think we can presume he’s Muslim, and therefore where he’s ‘from’ is the Dar al-Islam.

The Telegraph (UK).

The long-lost remains of Alfred the Great are buried under a car park, investigators have claimed.

Thank God for parking lots, or we would never find any of this stuff.

The Telegraph (UK).

Donald Trump has declared an end to the ceasefire with Iran.

The US president told reporters he didn’t “want to deal with them any more” after launching overnight strikes on Tehran.

In an angry address at the Nato summit in Ankara, Mr Trump told reporters: “These are evil, sick people,” and described them as scum and a cancer that needs to be cut out.

Apparently The Donald is out of patience.

The US and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on June 17, which paused fighting between the two countries and committed to a 60-day negotiating period to reach a final, lasting peace agreement.

But Iran has continued its attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz – a key global oil artery.

He lasted longer than I thought he would. And, truth to tell, longer than I would have.

The War Zone.

Somali pirate attacks on shipping in the Gulf of Aden region are on the rise, according to the U.N., a naval task force and a joint naval communications operation. The spike comes amid ongoing tensions in the Persian Gulf between the U.S. and Iran, and one regional military task force tells us these Somali Pirate Action Groups (PAGs) may be taking advantage of that situation. Meanwhile, a think tank suggests that the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels of Yemen are aiding these pirates in a form of so-called gray zone conflict.

Regardless, these incidents are posing increased security risks to a commercial shipping industry already roiled by the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran and its ongoing aftermath, which is starting to heat up again after about a week of calm.

The most recent pirate attack took place on Sunday.

Imagine how peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.

The War Zone.

Iran must think that Biden is still President or something. Or they’re incredibly delusional.

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When Kruschev predicted that “Your grandchildren will grow up under Commujnism”, he didn’t know the half of it.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

The U.S. military announced that it had launched strikes against Iran Tuesday evening, marking the latest exchange of blows between the countries amid a fragile ceasefire.

In a post on X, U.S. Central Command announced that American forces had begun launching a “series of powerful strikes against Iran to impose heavy costs for targeting and attacking commercial shipping crewed by innocent civilians in an international waterway.

“The U.S. strikes are in response to Iranian attacks on three commercial vessels that were transiting the Strait of Hormuz,” the post continued. “Iran’s demonstrated aggression was unwarranted, dangerous, and a clear violation of the ceasefire.”

The latest round of violence could further imperil U.S. negotiations over fully reopening the Strait of Hormuz and reviving talks over Iran’s nuclear program.

You mess with the bull, you get the horns every time.

Babylon Bee.

Hey, at least he’s not a communist (that we know of).

Trump threatens America’s World Cup goodwill with one phone call (Herb Scribner/Axios) Trump’s superpower.

The View: White Supremacists on Train Is ‘Defining Image of Modern America’ No matter what happens, it’s Trump’s fault.

‘Excited but Shocked’: U.S. Soccer Fans Struggle With Trump’s FIFA Call (Billy Witz/New York Times) Because, as we all know, Trump is not allowed to use the phone without Narrative Media supervision.

He was Trump’s boyhood friend. Now he’s pushing Trump to declare a ‘national emergency’ and seize control of the midterms (CNN) Funny how Trumps is constantly being castigated for ‘seizing control’ but he never seems to wind up with control.

Trump Passports Debut, Delighting Some and Dismaying Others (Gabe Castro-Root/New York Times)

Trump’s call to Infantino and plot to ‘free’ Balogun that sparked a huge World Cup controversy (The Athletic)  Mostly among the chattering class.

The Joy of the World Cup Just Collided With Trump (Alex Shephard/New Republic)

Key Health Care Panel Is Again Blocked From Meeting (Maggie Astor/New York Times)  Because, as we all know, if a government body doesn’t do something, nothing ever gets done.

Trump’s Intervention in Balogun’s World Cup Suspension Adds to Conflict With Europe (New York Times)  Because, as we all know, without Trump there wouldn’t be any conflict with Europe.

FIFA Is a Cautionary Tale for Trump (David A. Graham/The Atlantic) Funny, it strikes me as a cautionary tale for FIFA.

Inside Trump’s Ideological Fight With the Smithsonian (New York Times)  Because, as we all know, it can’t possibly be the case that the Smithsonian has an ideological fight with America.

MS NOW Calls Trump a ‘Fascist,’ Denies There Are Communist DSA Candidates  If Trump actually were a fascist, they would all be in jail.

This Is What Trump’s Crazed Posts Are Really About: Political Guru (Vic Verbalaitis/The Daily Beast)  Because, as we all know, the mind-readers at the Daily Beast know more about what Trump is thinking than he does.

Trump’s Iran grudge hangs over NATO summit (Axios)  Because, as we all know, Iran is just minding its own business and would be perfectly fine if it weren’t for Trump’s Grudge.

Top Senate Democrats push Trump-affiliated companies for answers about IRS settlement (Jacob Rosen/CBS News

Iranian Strikes on Ships Test Cease-Fire and Threaten Energy Flows in Gulf (New York Times)  There’s that Trump Grudge again.

‘Trump management’: Everyone else has a plan to keep NATO summit on the rails (Politico)

Italy’s Meloni Refuses to Fuel Trump Feud

As NATO Summit Braces For Trump, Ambassador Warns Allies: ‘We’re Not Going Away, Just Doing Less’

Trump and the Fifa debacle (Edward Luce/Financial Times)

Trump’s Chief Design Officer Just Boosted the John Birch Society (Don Moynihan/Can We Still Govern?)

Trump vs. algae is the feud we deserve (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)

Trump’s attacks on Democrats as ‘communists’ only show he’s out of touch (Zeeshan Aleem/MS NOW)  But not as out-of-touch as writers for MS-NOW.

Haddish Claims Red Card Was First Time Trump ‘Defended a Black Person  I guess he’s never seen Trump and Justice Thomas.

The unpatriotic left won’t cheer for Team USA because Trump helped right a World Cup wrong (Isaac Schorr/New York Post)

Trump claims credit for Walmart price cuts, retailer silent on White House role (Scripps News)

Trump’s AG Pick Hit With Massive Revolt of DOJ Veterans (Leigh Kimmins/The Daily Beast)  When you’re getting flak, you know you’re over the target.

Trump’s Vile New Birthright Stance Is So Toxic, Even Fox Admits It (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit.

Trump renews Greenland threats at NATO summit, says U.S. could remove troops from Europe (CNBC)

Trump Administration Guts Efforts to Prevent Gun Violence, Suppressing Reports (Sheryl Gay Stolberg/New York Times)  And those reports had a lot of guts.

Not the Bee.

Geez. what is this country comin to?

No honor among Ebonics, I guess.

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On Monday evening, hundreds of people gathered to protest in front of a residential building in Kraków, Poland’s second-largest city, after it had been revealed that a “community center” in one of the rental apartments had actually been operating as an illegal mosque for some time, without the knowledge of other residents.

The main organizer of the demonstration was right-wing activist Micha? Kostrzy?ski, who led a months-long investigation into the alleged community center and documented his findings online. Kostrzy?ski learned that the space was actually a house of Muslim worship, run without proper authorization by the Al-Fajr Foundation, a self-described “Islamic and cultural foundation based in Kraków, established to serve, support, and empower the Muslim community in Kraków and across Poland.”

While the staff insisted that it was only a “community center” for cultural education and nothing more—the same thing they told residents—Kostrzy?ski found their fundraiser requests from last year, in which they were openly asking for donations for a third “house of prayer,” because the other two in the city were already at full capacity.