DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

The New Neo.

The left says the right is to blame for Arday’s death. But exposing the truth doesn’t kill someone. The left that rewarded his lies set him up for exposure, and if he killed himself (it’s not official, but it’s fairly clear that he almost certainly did), then it’s the tragic outcome of that plus his own actions.

Exactly so. Whatever happens, it’s never the fault of the Magic Negro.

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North Carolina’s Democrat Gov. Josh Stein vetoed a bill that requires the state to cross-check voter registration rolls with death records.

An obvious attempt to disfranchise a major component of the Democrat base.

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Gee, I wonder why?

The Antiplanner.

Most subsidized housing projects are rentals, but a developer called Alberta Alive Condiminiums, the townhouses squeeze three bedrooms and two-and-one-half baths into 1,400 square feet. To keep the footprint small in land-poor Portland, each townhouse occupies three floors.

CDP plans to sell each townhouse for $299,000. But it is spending more than $6 million building eight such townhouses, or $754,000 apiece. Thus, taxpayers are providing a $455,000 subsidy to each buyer. Buyers will be restricted from reselling the properties for more than they paid for them plus inflation, thus denying them one of the benefits of homeownership that most others enjoy. The land the condos are on will be owned by a “community land trust” that will charge the homeowners HOA fees for land management.

Socialism by any other name is just as unpleasant.

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involving Texas residents, Republican state Rep. Brian Harrison is calling for the Texas Legislature to enter a special session to address the threat of Sharia law.

Last week, Harrison posted an interview on WBAP with radio host Matt Locke to discuss why he is calling for a special session “to deal with the threat of Sharia law.”

During the interview, Harrison told Locke that he believes the threat is growing. He pointed to what he described as two functioning Sharia tribunals in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

According to Harrison, elected officials in Texas have repeatedly stated that Sharia law is banned in the state, but he said that is “completely false.”

“Texans have been told that their government has been handling this problem, when they objectively have not been,” Harrison told the Daily Signal.

The problem, as always, is in the cities, where the Blue Plague tends to concentrate.

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Does Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., secretly want Republicans to lose the midterm elections?

Rather than pass the SAVE America Act and other key legislation, the majority “leader” adjourned the Senate for a 36-day break. SAVE’s absence makes Capitol Hill even steeper to climb, if Republicans hope to maintain control after November.

Thune’s less-than-flaccid “leadership” rivals his lassitude. His work ethic lags that of a Skid Row panhandler. It takes real energy to rattle a tin cup all day long. Too bad Thune lacks such stamina.

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LBJ bared his belly to show us his gallbladder scar.

Too much information.

AOC has bared hers to show us her quest to freeze her eggs in order to preserve her chances to have children. Also too much information. But certainly more interesting information, considering that this is a practice – purposely delaying conception and using medically-assisted means in an effort to get pregnant later at the “right” time – that has become more common.

The Left never ceases to try to force reality to fit their fantasies. From hormonal birth control to in-vitro fertilization, the push to turn women into fake men is never-ending.

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Talk Radio host Vince Coglianese said today that “non-DSA Democrats” support the same things that “Democratic Socialists” do, but they just won’t admit it.

Note the word “support.” I don’t know what most non-DSA Democrats believe. But I have noticed for years that almost all Democrats who run as moderates vote for every single far-leftist measure proposed in Congress.

During Trump’s first term and when Biden was president, the only rebels who stopped the far left’s plans to eliminate voting security and/or to make DC a state, for example, were Sinema (who ended up leaving the party and then leaving the Senate) and Manchin (who was from a deep red state).

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For a movement that talks incessantly about diversity, the Democratic Socialists of America has an awkward problem of its own: it is remarkably white.

According to an internal survey obtained by City & State New York, 60% of respondents in the New York City chapter of the DSA identified as white. Some 63% of the chapter’s 15,600 members completed the optional survey, so this was hardly a small sample.

These results are difficult to square with the organization’s own rhetoric.

In official NYC-DSA materials, the organization has repeatedly spoken of building and organizing a “multiracial working class.”

But if nearly three out of every five respondents to its own membership survey identify as white, just how representative of that multiracial working class is the DSA itself?

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On July 30, up to 80,000 people crossed illegally from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. They swam or climbed the fence separating the North African country from a territory Spain has claimed since the 15th century. Most were young men. Most were Moroccans, but hundreds came from sub-Saharan Africa.

As many as 100 people died attempting the swim. Many migrants were expelled, but thousands hid in the hills around the town. Some migrants attempted to rob local businesses or homes, vandalized property, or caused disturbances. Local authorities report that several girls, some under 14, were raped in areas where migrants were detained or congregated.

Two weeks later, thousands of illegal migrants remain in Ceuta. Some of them are demanding to be taken to mainland Spain. The immediate crisis is waning but could repeat at any time.

What happens now? For the Daily Signal, immigration expert Simon Hankinson spoke to Spanish expert Juan A. Soto, founder of Fortius Consulting.

The American Mind.

A little over a year ago, General Mills, maker of Trix and Lucky Charms, promised to pull synthetic dyes from all its U.S. cereals and school foods by the summer of 2026, and from its whole retail line by the end of 2027. Kraft Heinz made the same pledge days earlier, while Nestlé USA, Conagra, and Tyson followed with similar commitments.

Nobody forced them. They read the room.

The room had changed because of one man: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Secretary of Health and Human Services has transformed how Americans think and talk about health policy. For years, Washington rightly worried about access to affordable care, especially in troubled federal programs like Medicare and Medicaid. Kennedy took on a bigger task: making Americans healthier.

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Carl Benjamin (Sargon of Akkad) brings us up to date.

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Britain’s descent into Turd World status is paved with wasteful spending of taxpayer money.

Truer than you know.

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Britain seems determined to become a Turd World country.

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In the face for more White House threats against Iran, including Scott Bessent’s latest unprecedented ‘economic isolation’ plan for the Islamic Republic, it remains clear that the Iranians aren’t backing down.

Instead, they are issuing some heightened threats and bluster of their own. The country’s military in a surprise move announced Sunday that it was offering a bounty equivalent to $30,000 for killing or capturing US soldiers.

Ever wonder why every majority-Muslim country is a Turd World country? Well, wonder no longer.

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

Axios, a Voice of the Crust.

So what? The Department of Justice is not an ‘independent agency’ (whatever that means). The Attorney General works for the President. Nobody complained about Merrrick Garland failing to ‘pledge independence’ from Joe Biden. Nobody complained that Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch failed to ‘pledge independence’ from Barack Obama.

This is nonsense. (They actually pay people to write this shit.)

The Antiplanner.

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority says that 70 percent of bus riders don’t pay fares, costing the agency at least $50 million a year. Before about 2016, the agency told drivers to tell boarding passengers, “Hello, the fare of $X.XX.” But in 2017, it abandoned this policy because fare disputes led to too many assaults on drivers.

D.C. is full of Democrats i.e. criminals. This ought to come as no surprise.

Now the agency is in financial trouble, and it also recognizes that allowing passengers to evade fares simply encourages more serious transit crimes. So it once again has asked drivers to make fare announcements. But the transit union is objecting, saying this is likely to lead to an increase in driver assaults. As an example, they posted the above video of a masked passenger beating on a bus driver, though the reason for the attack was the driver saying the passenger could not have an alcoholic beverage, not that he had to pay a fare.

Betcha he was a Person of Color, too. Betcha.

Part of the problem is that agencies like Washington Metro have no incentive to reign in costs and every incentive to spend more to keep union workers, contractors, and bureaucrats happy. Transit agencies have convinced the public, or at least politicians, that profits are unimportant, so hardly anyone other than the Antiplanner bothers to calculate how much money agencies like WMATA lose.

Sound like Democrats to me. Perhaps you have been following, as I have, the YouTube videos from Europeans who were over here for the World Cup. Uniformly, they express amazement that Americans are the horrible people portrayed in movies and headlines.

Well, they’re half-right. Americans who live outside of big Democrat-ruled behavioral sinks aren’t what they expected to be, but if they spend any time in the Blue Cites (even in Red States there are Blue Cities) they would have found conditions as they were expecting.

Culture is king.

New York Post.

Thanks to “criminal-justice reform,” you can rack up almost 150 arrests in this town and still get to walk when caught again.

Meet career crook Shaquan Seth, cut loose last week after five, count ’em five, shoplifting busts in Queens — less than six days after he got out of Rikers after a five-month stint for previous thievery — because New York law forbids cash bail for offenses like Seth’s.

No matter that he was no sooner back on the streets than he was eagerly reoffending, nor that he stole $600 worth of fancy candles, when the no-bail believers insist such theft is mostly out of need, like Jean Valjean.

No matter that he threatened to shoot a young female clerk who was brave enough to try stopping him.

He was put right back on the street.

So you’ll be reading about Shaquan Seth again in these pages; we hope it’s not because he’s made good on his promise to shoot someone.

Fox News.

California voters are set to decide whether to slap a new tax on the state’s billionaires as IRS data show thousands of taxpayers, and billions of dollars in income, are already flowing out of the Golden State.

The outflow is adding fuel to the debate over California’s proposed billionaire tax, with Mark Cuban warning Saturday the measure could drive not only wealthy residents but investment and startups out of the state.

Cuban’s warning came amid a heated back-and-forth with Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna, who has defended the proposed tax. The billionaire investor threatened to steer future investments away from California if the measure moves forward.

The clash comes as California is already experiencing significant taxpayer outflows, according to the latest IRS data compiled from federal tax returns.

The Telegraph (UK).

Think of it as evolution in action.

The Foundry.

The battle to end DEI in higher education is one that can only be won through attrition against a stubborn enemy that won’t back away from the ideology that created it.

One might think that the Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard Supreme Court decision that prohibited racial discrimination in college admissions would have put an end to the issue. It didn’t. At least some of America’s top schools unsurprisingly appear to be doing their best to dance around the courts and the law.

For those who’ve paid attention to how higher education has behaved in recent decades, it was clear that many schools would find ways to cheat the system. It’s all the rage these days for students and administrators, I guess.

That looks to be the case at Duke Law school. The Department of Justice recently accused the school of responding to the Supreme Court decision by creating a stealthier way to discriminate.

The Department of Justice said that following the Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard decision “Duke Law emphasized racial diversity in admissions and engaged in a deliberate effort to preserve race-based outcomes for its incoming classes.”

The school highlighted “DEI” as one of the school’s “most important values” in late 2023 according to internal communications obtained by the DOJ and pledged to “work even harder” to admit “a racially diverse class.”

Dude, I was writing 10-page papers without knowing the name of the book.

In Latin. (Don’t ask for Greek….)

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Five years after the Taliban’s return to power on August 15, 2021, Afghanistan has transformed from a chaotic battlefield into a functioning but deeply authoritarian state. Foreign troops are gone, and fragmented opponents have failed to mount a significant challenge to Kabul’s centralized control. The movement has established a degree of internal security unimaginable under the previous government.

However, this stability rests on systematic exclusion, most notably of women, leaving the nation economically fragile and politically isolated. While the Taliban have proven they can govern without western support, they remain an international pariah managing a historic humanitarian crisis.

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The Prioritizing Patient Access to Care Act strips away the state’s statutory ban on abortions after 24 weeks of pregnancy. Physicians in the state can now perform abortions at any point in the pregnancy, based on their own professional judgment, with no gestational cutoff written into law. The measure also expands legal protections for providers, shielding them from consequences that once accompanied performing procedures deep into the third trimester. Critics have a simple way of describing what changed: abortion in Massachusetts is now legal up until the moment of birth.

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When I was a student, I lived in the Boston area, and that was a different feel, more of what we can find in our Blue American cities today. I have to say that Cambridge was ahead of its time. When I worked on the student janitorial crew, my boss, one of the wisest men in Boston—a dyed-in-the-wool Bruins, Red Sox, and Patriots fan and Vietnam vet—comforted me one day as we sat together on the steps in Radcliffe Yard. Bob said to me, “Donnie, the thing you need to know about this place is that it’s basically an insane asylum where the inmates would never think of leaving.” It is a fact of my life that the best advice I have ever received has not come from professors or academics, and certainly not lawyers, but working people.

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Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered a state investigation into ablution facilities planned for Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, arguing in a letter that the Islamic foot-washing stations amount to unconstitutional religious favoritism at a government-owned facility.

In an Aug. 14 letter to DFW Airport CEO Christopher McLaughlin, Abbott said he had referred both DFW and Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport to the U.S. Department of Transportation for investigation. Houston’s airport installed a wudu washing facility and adjoining prayer room in 2024 stocked with copies of the Quran, prayer rugs, prayer beads and a turbah, according to the letter.

Abbott wrote that the facilities single out one religious group for accommodations not extended to other faiths represented in Texas, and that both the U.S. and Texas constitutions bar government entities from favoring one religion over others.

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America’s largest unions don’t just mobilize workers to fight for better wages and benefits. Many of them operate as hubs of leftist advocacy and engines for the Democrat Party.

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For many generations, government has been a ratchet. It only grows, never shrinks. Trump flipped the switch. He is actually reducing the size of government. The process starts by cutting parts of government doing mostly harm, and very little good. USAID: send food to the starving, cut everything else. Department of Education: keep standardized testing, cut everything else. The EPA: End the War on Carbon, let the marketplace determine the future of electric cars and optimal miles per gallon, and quit moving the goal posts regarding clean air and water standards.

The next stage will be much harder. Don’t just cut bloated, wasteful, and ineffective, replace it with something lean, useful, and effective.

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Across the U.S., private citizens, organizations like Amy Mek’s “RAIR Foundation USA”, city- and county-level boards, and on up to Members of the U.S. Congress, are speaking up and standing up to oppose the establishment of Islamic ‘hubs’ and development enclaves in their neighborhoods. Likewise, at the U.S. Cabinet level, steps are being taken to sanction and curtail the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood.

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There are how things operate in theory and how things operate in practice. A Law is an observation about how things in the natural world and human society operate with repeatable high levels of confidence. A Principle is similar to a Law, but does not rise to the same bar level. However, solidly founded Principles when observed can be written down and codified for reference with high degrees of trust in order to better run our affairs in this world.

I strongly recommend my friend Rick Brookhiser’s book, The Way of the WASP.

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Leftists have for years decried American Thanksgiving, mostly because they assert that the holiday celebrates the arrival of “white” Europeans in North America, which was bad because of the impact that arrival had on the pre-existing population of people in North America. Such leftists also assert that Christopher Columbus should be “canceled” because his exploratory travel from Spain paved the way for the migration of “white” Europeans to North America.

Yet, the family lineage of many of these leftists traces their presence in North America to times much more recent than the 17th century. For example, Ms. Hong’s family arrived in North America (from Korea) only a few decades ago. Why was it wrong for Europeans to come to North America in the 17th century, disrupting the pre-existing local population, yet acceptable or even laudatory, for Ms. Hong’s Korean family to come to North America in the 20th century, and in its own way disrupt the pre-existing local population?

New York Post.

It is for Democrats.

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I suspect that this is AI content, but nevertheless it has some interesting and useful information.

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The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz has forced hundreds of commercial ships onto longer routes around Africa, and Somali pirates are moving quickly to exploit the sudden increase in traffic off the continent’s eastern coast. Oil tankers MT Honour 25, MT Eureka and MT Asana were hijacked in the Gulf of Aden and off Puntland between April and July 2026, the largest attacks by Somali pirates in years. The Iran war has now delivered these groups more targets, spread across thousands of miles of ocean, while diverting naval resources to the Persian Gulf and Red Sea.

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As well they should.

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And here I just thought they bought Kools because, well, it was Kool.

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The invasion proceeds apace.

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Life in blue states is just an episode of SNL now.

My favorite part? When the lawyer pulled the race card. Classic!

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The mayor (again, for a Massachusetts town) has repeatedly said he does not speak English.

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Yes, it’s AI content. That doesn’t make it wrong.

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The Endangerment Finding (EF) is the completely absurd piece of regulatory overreach by which the Obama EPA in December 2009 purported to determine that the trace atmospheric gas carbon dioxide was a “danger to human health and welfare.” That action may have been absurd, but it was by no means benign. CO2 is a principal product of all combustion of fossil fuels. Following on the EF, EPA and other government agencies in the Obama and then Biden Administrations set out to use the EF as the basis to transform our entire energy economy — suppressing drilling, blocking pipelines, forcing closure of power plants, outlawing combustion cars and gas heat and stoves, and much, much more.

In Trump’s first term, EPA never chose to take on the EF; but in Trump’s second term the agency got right to work on the job of rescission, and issued the final rule rescinding the first part of the EF (as to motor vehicle emissions) on February 13, 2026. By February 18, progressive NGOs were already in court (D.C. Circuit) seeking to block the rescission.

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I see Jew hatred as the one unifying force in America today, and it’s growing. I think people are fed up with tolerating every aberration of human behavior and law — the trans movement, multi-culturalism, tattoos. nose rings, pink hair, gay marriage, abortion rights, birthright citizenship — and long to openly display some good old fashioned, widely and historically acceptable form of hate.

The Foundry.

It has never been easier to feel virtuous without making much of an effort.

Put pronouns in an email signature, repost the slogan of the day, or join the online denunciation of someone who used the wrong word. In many circles, such gestures are expected. A person can take part with little at stake and still come away feeling that he has done something morally worthwhile.

The trouble begins when support for fashionable causes is treated as proof of good character.

City Journal.

In June, the president of the United Auto Workers celebrated the victory of one of “the UAW’s own” in a Democratic primary election. Shawn Fain wasn’t talking about a machinist from Flint or an assembly-line worker in Kokomo. He meant Claire Valdez, a program assistant in Columbia University’s visual arts department, who won the primary in New York’s overwhelmingly Democratic Seventh Congressional District with 58 percent of the vote. She will be prohibitively favored to win the seat in November.

Valdez came to politics through her union. She joined UAW Local 2110 as a Columbia employee, served on her unit’s bargaining committee, and in 2022 was elected chair of a unit representing 500 administrative coworkers. Local 2110 holds some 30 contracts covering universities, publishing houses, museums, and law firms, and its Columbia units have included thousands of graduate student workers.

Valdez offers a preview of what the UAW is becoming: a union that puts politics first and is leaning heavily on higher education to sustain its dwindling numbers. The results of this transformation are changing not just unions but higher ed itself.

“Come back with a warrant” certainly works for me.

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In a matter of days, once-pristine beaches in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta have been reduced to open-air dumps and disease-ridden camps occupied by thousands of illegal migrants who refused to leave after the mass invasion from Morocco.

Locals describe feces, urine, garbage, and makeshift shacks covering the sand. Contagious illnesses are spreading. Mass brawls with bladed weapons have broken out.

What was a quiet coastal stretch has become a third-world encampment on European soil.

“It’s not my goddamned planet! Understand, monkey boy?”