DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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Where do the Democrats even find these candidates?

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Yes, failing NPR had a whole division of reporters dedicated to reporting climate hysteria. It would have been fine if they’d stuck to conservation and science instead of the anti-human cult thinking that says we’re all gonna die if we don’t stop the farting cows.

Newsbusters.

Insipid former New York Times economics columnist Paul Krugman is batting a thousand with the level of maniacal things he’s spewed onto the internet within just a 24-hour window.

Krugman released a YouTube video of himself May 31 ironically calling President Donald Trump “mentally ill” before monotonously calling for a “thorough purging of the United States” tantamount to a “de-MAGA-fication” of the populace. He must have had some kind of inkling that what he said was cuckoo-for-Cocoa-Puffs, because he had to assure viewers that he’s “not going over the top by using a word that’s very similar to the ‘de-Nazification’ that we pursued successfully after World War II in Germany.”

Hey Krugman, calling someone “mentally ill” while simultaneously calling for a “purge” of your fellow Americans you disagree with is some insane work. Worthy of note is that Denazification involved prosecuting “war criminals.” Is that what Krugman is saying should happen to his MAGA detractors? It seems like it.

MAGA is the New Nigger. Progs gotta have somebody to hate or they’re not happy.

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As of Tuesday, the World Health Organization has cut its tally of suspected Ebola cases in Congo to 116, down from more than 900 last week, after testing ruled out hundreds of patients whose symptoms turned out to be other illnesses.

Oops. Never mind….

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In November 2024, 47% of Virginia voters cast ballots for Republican congressional candidates. Under the map Virginia Democrats tried to push through, those voters would have ended up with exactly one Republican district out of 11. Going from a 6-5 to a 10-1 split was what Democrats called “restoring fairness.”

To get it done, Democrats bypassed a bipartisan redistricting commission that Virginia voters had specifically created in 2020 to end partisan map-drawing. They drafted the new map behind closed doors. They passed a constitutional amendment on Oct. 31, 2025, even though early voting for the general election had been underway since Sept. 19 – violating the state constitution’s requirement that an intervening election occur between the two legislative votes. They missed the requirement that amendments be posted publicly 90 days before a vote. And they put a ballot question before voters asking whether they wanted to “restore fairness” – language a circuit court judge called “flagrantly misleading.”

Every step of this process required ignoring a rule or deceiving a voter.

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Meet John Elijah Matthews, who I’m sure had nothing to do with the attack.

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New York Democrats unveiled a proposed constitutional amendment Monday that could clear the way for a significant redraw of the state’s congressional map ahead of the 2028 elections, intensifying a growing national battle over redistricting and control of the U.S. House of Representatives.

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” ? Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World 

Newsbusters.

The front page of Tuesday’s New York Times was graced with a profile of James Talarico, the elitist media’s newest hope to finally elect a Democrat in Texas: “Progressive Faith Powers Texas Democrat’s Run — Evangelicals See Threat in Talarico’s Pastor.”

The online headline and subhead was more provocative: “Are Texans Ready for Talarico’s Kind of Christianity? — Jim Rigby, a pastor who rarely uses the word “God,” is a key to understanding the Senate candidate trying to pull off something unusual in Texas.”

As usual, all concerns about mixing religion and politics evaporate once a Democrat seems in striking distance of winning a statewide seat in Texas.

The long profile by Ruth Graham (who covers religion for the paper) and Texas bureau chief J. David Goodman conveniently skipped over most of the theological complications that would render the pastor’s view, and by implication those of Talarico himself, contradictory and absurd.

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One of the two chaps pictured above is a racist. Can you guess which one it is? Yes, you’re right: it’s the white guy.

And how do we know whitey boy is a racist? Why, because woggy boy said so! How else could we possibly know?

UPDATE: Southampton Erupts as Fury Over Henry Nowak Case Grows

UPDATE: Henry Nowak: The Footage We Were Never Meant to See

UPDATE: STUDY: The American News Media Couldn’t Care Less About Murdered Teen Henry Nowak

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I often wonder, not enough to pursue it though, but who pays for all those ugly statues outside big banks, big offices, etc. I thought it was mostly an American thing, but it’s common in Korea too. They’re usually quite abstract and to my eye, quite shabby and ugly. I assume money is being laundered or the artist is well-connected.

Too many people believe that art is what artists say it is, and too few realize that art is what viewers say it is.

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“Fare il frocio col culo degli altri”

The Italian proverb lands with earthy bluntness: it is easy to be generous with someone else’s backside. The costs are never yours. This single observation captures the heart of Gad Saad’s 2026 polemic Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind. What masquerades as boundless kindness is often cheap virtue performed at someone else’s expense, luxury beliefs funded by taxpayers, institutions, or abstract “society,” never by the people waving the placards. The term Suicidal Empathy, therefore, requires a sarcastic interpretation, because the gesture is in reality neither suicidal nor genuinely empathic. It is a signal of virtue, which it self is a concept spoken out of the side of its mouth. This because a central component of virtue is that it bears a cost and that has to be by the one being virtuous. So the loan of someone else’s butthole for sexual gratification is easy virtue in more than one way.

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America’s missile production hinges on a small number of ammonium perchlorate facilities, meaning a single plant accident can bring output to a standstill; a concentration risk that has no real equivalent elsewhere in the defense industrial base. AP production relies on narrow workforce pipelines for specialized energetics handling, layered environmental and explosives permitting, and purpose-built manufacturing equipment. Each of these inputs is hard to duplicate quickly, even with dedicated funding, which is why decades of rhetoric about supply chain expansion have produced so few second sources in practice.

Notice the significance of ‘environmental and explosives permittint’.

Chronicle of Higher Eduction.

Funny how many articles in the CHE moan about how students can’t do this or that, but none mention how much teachers can’t teach.

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In a rigorous blind study, law professors overwhelmingly preferred AI-generated answers to student legal questions over answers written by fellow law professors—and flagged the AI answers as potentially misleading or harmful far less often.

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A new report argues that an independent Cyber Force should be staffed by only commissioned officers and warrant officers to better develop the highly technical skillsets that digital conflict demands.

Published Wednesday by the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, two Washington, D.C. think tanks, the report proposes a blueprint for standing up a Cyber Force, should Congress decide to do so.

Policymakers in the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill have debated for years whether the U.S. military needs an independent Cyber Force. Opponents say it would lead to unnecessary bureaucracy and confusion, but some current and former cyber troops say readiness suffers without a service that prioritizes recruiting, training, and equipping cyber troops above all others.

Naval News.

China is launching submarines at a pace unmatched by any other nation. Its latest design, a distinctive and innovative vessel that dispenses with the traditional sail, marks another step in the evolution of an increasingly capable and technologically advanced submarine force. With little official information available, understanding the purpose and capabilities of this new class depends largely on intelligence gathering and expert analysis.

As Western navies struggle to build more than one or two submarines concurrently, China continues to pump them out at an increasing rate. They have launched around 15-20 in the past five years, including at least 8 new classes.

The latest, a previously unreported and unexpected type, has just been observed in Shanghai. The large, streamlined boat is noteworthy for its futuristic ‘sailless’ design.

Guess which one is the Official Person of Color.

The Telegraph (UK).

When a keyboardist fell ill in the middle of a concert in Australia, it seemed that the performance would have to be abandoned.

That was until a young member of the audience came forward and offered to fill in.

The medical emergency happened during a screening in Sydney of La La Land, in which a live orchestra performed the film’s score as the movie played on a giant screen.

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Step forward, Sterling Nasa – a 21-year-old who plays organ and piano and also teaches bagpipes.

Once on stage, he took the place of the absent keyboardist and showed himself to be more than up to the challenge.

People can surprise you.

The Telegraph (UKO.

The Oxford Union president said Hamas would be “lauded as heroes” and claimed that their actions were “proportional”.

Arwa Elrayess also suggested that it was “quite rich” for people to “act shocked” by the October 7 atrocities, given the harsh treatment of Palestinians by Israel, according to leaked messages.

She made the remarks in a private WhatsApp group of around 100 students who were about to take up places at Oxford to study Politics, Philosophy and Economics.

Ms Elrayess faced calls to resign as president of the prestigious debating society on Tuesday night, and Oxford University was urged to launch an investigation.

It is the latest scandal to engulf the union, coming just months after its previous president was ousted following comments he made that appeared to celebrate the shooting of Charlie Kirk, the Right-wing US influencer.

The Telegraph (UK).

Protesters have thrown bottles, bricks and wheelie bins at riot police in the wake of the murder of Henry Nowak.

Tommy Robinson, Laurence Fox and other far-Right figures led the protests, which started outside Southampton Central police station on Tuesday night.

In videos shared on social media, protesters can be seen chasing, goading and cornering police on a residential street in the St Denys area, near where the murder took place, while projectiles slam into the officers’ helmets.

Mr Nowak’s killing has prompted accusations of “two-tier policing” after body-worn footage showed police handcuffing the 18-year-old while the Sikh killer who stabbed him five times was treated as a victim.

The Foundry.

People talk about the California disaster, but I don’t think we fully appreciate the severity and the manifestations of it. And the best barometer to discover that is how many people are leaving. It’s estimated that somewhere between 400,000 and 500,000 Californians left in ’25, ’26.

Now, the problem with that is they’re not leaving a barren state. They’re not leaving a cold Alaska. They’re leaving the most beautiful state in the country that for years under a bipartisan system of Pat Brown, Ronald Reagan, George Deukmejian, Pete Wilson, and to some extent Arnold Schwarzenegger, it had wonderful governance.

So why are they leaving? Why have 11 to 12 million people, a quarter of the present population, left California?

Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System (Eric Niiler/New York Times  Because, as we all know, climate and ocean research is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government—and the Federal taxpayer.

Russ Vought is doing his part in the Trump administration’s war on scientific progress (Jessica Calarco/MS NOW)  I’ll bet you didn’t know that there was a Trump administration war on scientific probress. (Because, as we all know, scientific progress is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal governmnt—and the Federal taxpayer.)

Melania Named in Bombshell New Epstein Claims (Farrah Tomazin/The Daily Beast)  Because, as we all know, any allegation against a Trump is ipso facto true, and any defense by a Trump is ipso facto fase.

Republicans go all in on toxic masculinity in Texas (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)  Because, as we all know, ‘toxic masculinity’ is what the Narrative Media say it is.

Trump Rages over Fresh Iran Humiliation as GOP Angst Grows: “Screwed” (New Republic) Because, as we all know, Trump rages when the Narrative Media say he rages.

Why young America is trending socialist (Edward Luce/Financial Times)  Becaise. as we all know, Young America is always trending socialist, concerning which a British Voice of the Crust is the eternally reliable judge.

America’s Bipartisan Birthday Commission Is Losing to Trump (Anna Kramer/NOTUS)  Because, as we all know, ‘bipartisan’ is anything that doesn’t agree with Trump.

Trump Appoints Loyalist Bill Pulte as Acting Spy Chief (Bloomberg)  The not-so-subtle innuendo is that he is unqualified except in his loyalty to Trump.

Cartoonish Paul Krugman Compares Trump Border Control to ‘Pogroms, American-Style’  The Man Who Has Never Been Right is an infallible guide.

Trump taps FHFA’s Pulte for acting DNI in latest radical personnel move (Steve Benen/MS NOW)  Because, as we all know, nobody Trump picks could possibly be qualified for anything.

Trump appoints Bill Pulte, unqualified loyalist who targeted his foes, as acting intel chief (Jacob Knutson/Democracy Docket) Because, as we all know, nobody Trump picks could possibly be qualified for anything.

Roger Stone helped Trump choose an unorthodox new intel adviser (Shelby Talcott/Semafor) Because, as we all know, nobody Trump picks could possibly be qualified for anything.

Trump’s Corrupt IRS Shakedown Backfires Badly as GOPers Turn on Him (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent, one of the TDS Five, loses his shit.

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In Nantucket, there is an interesting conflict between churches after the Nantucket Unitarian Universalists (NUU) canceled its traditional celebration. In a letter from the church and the Rev. Erin Splaine of the Second Congregational Meeting House Society, residents were told the traditional reading of the Declaration of Independence would be canceled to better focus on the “on-going process within the congregation to better understand our own whiteness.”

Said ‘whiteness’ appears to be in remission.

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Reading the list of performers who have pulled out of our U.S. 250th birthday party is a joke. These people insist that they thought they were signing up for a non-partisan celebration, but have now decided (without any evidence) that it is a partisan program.

Give me a break.

What’s really going on is that these performers are Lefties, and decided they wanted to stick it to Donald Trump, who initiated the event, by making up false excuses to bow out. They were probably getting flak from those people on the Left who don’t want anything to take place that is remotely connected to Donald Trump. They are all an embarrassment to this country.

What was the event supposed to entail? Here is a partial list of the activities that will take place. Here is another description of the events. There is nothing in these words that suggest partisan influence.

My biggest concern is that Leftist organizations may be determined to wreak havoc on the activities in June and July. They hate this country and would embrace any opportunity to denigrate it, our Founders and our legacy. I don’t know how far they would go in their disruption, but I expect huge crowds will be drawn to the grounds of the White House.

Let’s all hope and pray that people will rely on their patriotic conscience and honor this country for these events. It is a once-in-a-lifetime occasion.

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Pointing to rising crime rates and a crash that killed an 11-year-old boy last December, leaders of the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday asked law enforcement leaders in two major California cities to provide information on sanctuary policies they say shield criminal illegal aliens.

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and two subcommittee chairmen—Republican Reps. Tom McClintock and Darrell Issa of California—signed letters to the police chiefs and sheriffs of San Diego and San Francisco.

“California’s pro-illegal alien policies shield criminals from accountability. In late November 2025, an illegal alien from Mexico hit and killed 11-year-old Aiden Antonio Torres De Paz as the child ‘was playing with another child and chasing his soccer ball at the end of a residential street outside his home,’” says the letter to San Diego County Sheriff Kelly Martinez, quoting a news account.

In December, Hector Amador Balderas, 44, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, reportedly pleaded guilty to felony hit-and-run leading to De Paz’s death in Escondido, California, outside San Diego. Balderas was previously removed from the United States four times, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

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The Center Square—A nonprofit, Ohio-based think tank is demanding that Cleveland end what the organization calls its race-based contracting programs, saying they are “unconstitutional and discriminatory.”

“It has now been more than a year since the city of Cleveland publicly recognized that it must abandon its unconstitutional race-based programs,” David C. Tryon, director of litigation at the Buckeye Institute, wrote in a recent letter to Cleveland. “Failure to end these discriminatory programs leaves the city open to legal action, and The Buckeye Institute stands ready to assist any individual or business denied access to any contracting opportunities based on race.”

Cleveland has several programs that include race requirements for contractors who want to do business with the city, according to the Buckeye Institute.

One of those is the Minority Business Enterprise program, the institute said.

The program certifies companies based on the race of the owners, the institute said.

“Cleveland awards race-certified MBEs a 5% race-based bid discount when evaluating contract bids,” the institute said in a news release.

There’s that White Privilege again.

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When Meta, Google and Apple agree on a “privacy” feature, watch out.

The three companies (along with Mozilla, which is on one of their “ad features in the browser” kicks again) are drawing up a built-in advertising measurement system, called Attribution Level 1, as a standard feature of web browsers. The system is intended to measure the effectiveness of advertising by enabling advertisers to correlate “impressions,” the occasions on which someone saw an ad, with “conversions,” when people bought something.

Don’t look for a section on permissions or consent in that document, by the way. There isn’t one. And nothing about nerd lawyer stuff like “opt out of sale” or “objections to processing” in there, either. The Big Tech companies want a two-track system, where other companies’ ad features are required to do all the privacy regulation hassles, but the browser’s own built-in tracking feature is something that people have to find the right setting for and turn off.

The Register.

Fresh college graduates frozen out of the job market shouldn’t blame AI for their struggles, says the New York Federal Reserve. Instead, get angry at the rise of remote work.

According to the Fed’s analysis, youth unemployment has risen significantly since the coronavirus pandemic, and hasn’t receded in the same way that unemployment numbers for older, more experienced college graduates has in recent years. The analysis notes that the prevalence of remote work has increased since COVID-19, and it believes those two trends have more than just a correlation.

“Our analysis suggests that these trends are related, with remote work making it more difficult for managers to train and mentor new employees,” the Fed said of its data. “Accordingly, companies may be reluctant to hire less-experienced workers in distributed work arrangements.”

Overall, youth unemployment has risen 20 percent since the pandemic, the Fed says, and the report estimates that 64 percent of that rise is attributable directly to remote work, not AI, though the study admits that could be a factor in the future.

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I wonder why this story slipped out of mainstream coverage

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Ah, yes, the “Muslim community”… that apparently includes a Somali Muslim killer who shot another Somali Muslim. No mention of that little tidbit of information, though.

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Tim Pool deos an excellent analysis of the current situation at the New Jersey ICE center, and does a deep dive into how these ‘protests’ are organized and fundedl

CNN, the fluffer of the Narrative Media.

Darializa Avila Chevalier, a democratic socialist congressional candidate endorsed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, deleted a previous Twitter account that included thousands of posts and reposts expressing support for abolishing police, prisons and borders, as well as seizing private property and nationalizing major industries and calling into question Israel’s right to exist.

Avila Chevalier, a 32-year-old investigator at a public defender’s office in New York City and doctoral student, has emerged as one of the most prominent left-wing challengers in the country after Mamdani endorsed her bid to unseat longtime Democratic Rep. Adriano Espaillat in New York’s 13th Congressional District.

But the posts from her since-deleted account from over the last decade have drawn scrutiny amid her high-profile challenge of Espaillat, a five-term incumbent and chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. That primary, scheduled for June 23, has become a closely watched proxy battle between the Democratic Party’s establishment and its ascendant democratic-socialist wing, with Mamdani’s endorsement last week elevating the race’s national profile.

The guilty flee when no man pursueth.

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Today is primary day in California—with high-profile races for governor and Los Angeles mayor—so voters should prioritize candidates with strong records of fiscal discipline.

The Golden State has a history of fiscal irresponsibility that has strained budgets, and Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program, is the clearest example. The program has expanded drastically over time, and changing federal policies signal the gig is up for California when it comes to reliance on federal dollars.

Medi-Cal currently covers approximately 14.5 million Californians—over one-third of the state’s population—and accounts for $222 billion in total annual spending. This makes the program the largest single item in the 2026-2027 governor’s budget by far.

This bloated budget reflects significant structural problems.

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Antifa really proved the allegations false here, eh?

The Intelligent Conservative.

Numbers can lead us astray, so let us consider some anecdotal evidence—my own testimony—which suggests that most lawyers are illiterate, or perhaps that lawyers have to try really hard to become literate or to avoid losing their literacy.

I am a lawyer, one who considers himself literate but increasingly in danger of becoming illiterate the longer I remain in my chosen profession. My hope is that literacy stays with you, that if you “frontload,” as it were, you can build a wide enough base to allow for slack in later years.

In 2013, I made an effort to overcome the time restrictions of my job to read through several canonical texts of Western Civilization. For the most part I undertook a book a week, although, because of scheduling constraints, I read what I took to be the most important or most famous sections of the lengthier books and volumes such as Aquinas’s Summa Theologica, a work that would require years of study to fully appreciate. I found myself, on many Thursday evenings, reading so rapidly to finish the text at hand that I could not enjoy myself or absorb the nuances and complexities established by the author.

I’d say it depends on their undergraduate major.

Maheen:

This is the foundational idea of Stoic philosophy, stated most clearly by the former slave and Stoic teacher Epictetus, who was one of Marcus’s primary influences:

“Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.”

The practice is deceptively simple: before any situation that causes you distress, draw a line. On one side, everything you can directly control — your response, your effort, your attention, your values. On the other, everything you cannot — other people’s opinions, outcomes, the past, the weather, the economy, what happens after you die.

Stoics do not say the second category doesn’t matter. They say that directing your energy toward it is structurally irrational — it cannot change the outcome and it costs you the energy you need for the first category.

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In 1972, Italian singer-songwriter Adriano Celentano released a song that defied linguistic norms, confused listeners, and yet became an international sensation. The song, “Prisencolinensinainciusol,” is an energetic, rhythm-driven track that sounds like English but is, in fact, complete gibberish. This bizarre yet brilliant creation was Celentano’s experiment to showcase the barriers of communication and highlight how language can sometimes be meaningless in music.

If you are curious how English sounds to people who don’t speak English, here’s our chance. (There is, of course, a YouTube video.)

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What is a Beam Spring Keyboard? Before the Model F keyboard was the Beam Spring keyboard, a keyboard that was designed to be like the IBM Selectric electric typewriters but made to work with IBM’s mainframe terminals. Originals regularly sell for over $1,000 to $2,000 but now you can get one in various “normal” modern layouts and various color options for a fraction of that cost. The new beam spring keyboards are also compatible with MX keycaps (see below for details).

Note that this doesn’t tell you what it is, merely what it was used for.

There is, of course, a YouTube video.

If you’re eager to pay over $400 for a keyboard, here’s your chance.

ScienceDaily.

Scientists have developed a solar desalination system that turns seawater into drinking water without creating environmentally damaging brine. Special laser-textured metal panels use sunlight to evaporate water while automatically moving salt deposits away from the working surface, preventing clogging. The process was successfully tested with water from three oceans and can recover nearly all salts as solids. Those leftover materials could even become a source of valuable lithium for batteries.

Sounds pretty good. Let’s see whether it makes it into an actual product.

The Economist, a Voice of the Crust.

“America Inc.” is, of course, one of the Left’s beloved smear-terms that sound as if they ought to mean something but really are just name-calling, like’ price gouging’ or ‘windfall profits’.

.Texas is steadily establishing itself as America Inc’s new centre of gravity. No state receives more business investment or is adding more people to its population. From 2020 to 2025 it created roughly a fifth of all net new jobs in the country. It is only a matter of time before Texas overtakes California as the largest economy in America.

In the early 2020s Texas was luring in remote workers fleeing high taxes, exorbitant house prices and bad policies in America’s coastal metropolises, while benefiting from the Biden administration’s subsidies for green energy and chipmaking facilities. Now the state’s dominance in energy—not just oil and gas, but also renewable power—has made it a major beneficiary of the data-centre boom. Meanwhile, its technology and finance ecosystems have been deepening. This summer it will ring in its first standalone bourse, the Texas Stock Exchange, joining outposts of the New York Stock Exchange (nyse) and Nasdaq already operating in the state. (Donald Trump has called the nyse’s new branch an “unbelievably bad thing” for his hometown of New York, even if his social-media venture was the first business to list on it.) The state’s appeal to yuppies is also growing with every stream of a country song. It seems there is no part of America with which Texas does not want to compete.

Needless to say, The Economist is not a fan; they’ll cover it, but with their noses pinched shut.l

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Researchers in the US have recently demonstrated a new way to detect hidden underground tunnels by transmitting acoustic signals from beneath the target instead of above it.

Led by Mike Kass, PhD, a researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee, the team tested the new technique during a field experiment at the facility’s campus. They were able to identify concealed underground structures that threaten roads, railways, and other critical infrastructure.

Tunnel detection usually relies on signals sent downwards from the surface. Still, for the project, the team flipped the process and transmitted sound upward from below a tunnel to generate a distinctive subharmonic signal.

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The leading explanation for how the Moon was born is that a world the size of Mars called Theia slammed into the young Earth and flung out the debris that became the Moon, and recent research suggests Theia itself never fully left, with two continent-sized blobs buried near our planet’s core possibly being the last remains of the world that struck us.

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s wildfire relief fund, created to help victims of the January 2025 Los Angeles-area fires rebuild their lives, spent millions of dollars on unrelated public safety operations, including crowd-control efforts during anti-deportation demonstrations later that year, according to newly released California Department of Finance records cited by the Washington Examiner on Tuesday.

State financial documents show that $12.8 million from the Los Angeles Wildfire Response and Recovery Fund was used to cover costs associated with deploying California Highway Patrol officers to monitor and police protests against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in downtown Los Angeles during the summer of 2025.

I guess California has a more liberal (yuk, yuk) deminition of ‘wild life’ than most.

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Well, that didn’t take long.

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On the campaign trail, then-candidate Donald Trump called college accreditation a “secret weapon” that he planned to use in his efforts to reform universities.

Since then, the mainstream media, including USA Today and Bloomberg, along with a left-leaning interest group representing faculty, the American Association of University Professors, responded to the president’s commentary, expressing surprise that reform was even needed for the quality-assurance guarantees that postsecondary accreditors provide to universities.

Yet therein lies the problem: College accreditors have decidedly not guaranteed quality and routinely bury colleges in paperwork. Accreditors have foisted ideological conformity on colleges and universities through the accrediting process, becoming gatekeepers over the kinds of courses and ideas allowed in the halls of academic buildings.

A British-style university (degree in three years, focus on classics and mathematics) could not get accredited in the U.S. today.

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Two people died in central Kenya during a protest against a planned U.S. Ebola quarantine facility, a protest organizer and security source told Reuters on Tuesday, as President William Ruto rebuffed criticism it will endanger Kenyans.

Not a problem. Let ’em die, and good riddance.

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Governments are terrible at picking winners and even worse at choosing losers. Net zero and interventionist “Keynesian” policies in Canada and the UK have proven that government intervention has created a worse outcome than anyone would have expected. The result is higher costs, distorted incentives, and weakened productivity growth, with increased dependency on fossil fuels to attend to peak demand, exactly what Austrian economists predicted.

What has been sold as a recipe for prosperity and “green growth” has in practice eroded affordability while failing to deliver stronger, sustainable expansion.

It is not surprising to see that the world’s examples of green interventionism, the UK and Canada, have become economic failures. Years ago, some argued that these policies needed time to prove their success. Now, it is not even debatable that the stagnation and recession in the UK and Canada are self-inflicted.

Net zero in Canada and the UK is not a single policy but an entire regime of targets, regulations, limits, subsidies, and new bureaucratic requirements.