DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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Hezbollah on Sunday threatened further aggression in its war on Israel, leaving U.S. officials scrambling to contain the fallout of a weekend strike on the Jewish state that saw the Iran-backed terror group fire hundreds of missiles and drones.

At least one Israeli was killed over the weekend when Hezbollah bombarded the country with advanced missiles and suicide drones as payback for the assassination last month of senior commander Fuad Shukr. Israel successfully fended off the strike, which was focused on civilian centers and military facilities, including those near Tel Aviv. It preemptively destroyed Hezbollah rocket launchers aimed at Tel Aviv and set to fire Sunday morning, limiting damage.

Hezbollah threatened further escalation, with its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, saying Sunday that “if the result” of the current strike “is not enough, then we retain the right to respond another time.” Israel also said it is prepared for further action and will not back down from the threats posed by Iran’s terror proxies. “This is not the end of the story,” Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanuyahu warned over the weekend after his military blasted more than 40 Hezbollah-controlled sites across Lebanon.

“If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first.” — Babylonian Talmud

• Strong and invincible
• Poor pitiful victim

You don’t know which one you’ll get until you open the box.

Donald Trump Accused of New Federal Crime as He Cozies Up to RFK Jr. (Newsweek)

Brownstein: Why RFK Jr.’s endorsement could be a problem for Trump (CNN)

Ignore my brother Bobby, Max Kennedy says (L.A. Times)

What polling shows about Americans’ views of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Associated Press)

GOP strategist cautions Trump on joining forces with RFK Jr: ‘He’s kind of a looney tune’ (Filip Timotija/The Hill)

Dave Grohl and Foo Fighters Slam Trump for Using Hit Song at Rally (Lily Mae Lazarus/The Daily Beast)

A Manufactured Fight over Incumbency Hides Trump’s Fascism (emptywheel)

Foo Fighters Say Trump Didn’t Have Permission to Use ‘My Hero’ at Arizona Rally (Daniel Kreps/Rolling Stone)  He doesn’t need it, as long as he pays the proper ASCAP/BMI royalties.

Trump allies try to energize him as he struggles to adapt to Harris (Washington Post)

How Tim Walz’s dumb taco joke broke MAGA brains (Anthony L. Fisher/MSNBC)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Audience signs and chants at the DNC were all about America. At the RNC, it was the Trump show. (Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert/Business …)

Rutgers Prof Who Said She Hoped Trump Shooting Would “Inspire Others” Will Teach This Fall

Trump event at wall Obama built highlights an unkept promise (Washington Post)

Trump aides alarmed he’s ‘just golfing all day and stewing’ as election slips away: WaPo (Tom Boggioni/Raw Story)  They just make this shit up.

Be Careful What Trump’s Lawyers Wish For, Superseding Indictment Edition (emptywheel)

Why Were Justice Dept. Officials Scared to Talk to This Book’s Author? (David Greenberg/New York Times)

Cotton: Republicans at DNC Had ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’

The reality of Kamala Harris’ plan to tax unrealized capital gains (Axios)

Kamala Harris Golf Tax and Unrealized Gains? What You Really Need to Know (Kiplinger)

Silicon Valley is losing it over a tax plan some say will kill startups (San Francisco Standard)

Kamala Harris Tax Plans: What Could Happen (Newsweek)

It Hasn’t Worked Once, So Why Would A Politician Go All-In On Price Controls Now?  Because it gets the votes of stupid people (Democrat natural base).

Gat Summer: 22 Shot, 6 Dead In Chicago During First 3 Days Of DNC

For Tim Walz, a Pattern of Prevarications Stretches Back Almost Two Decades

Harris’s DNC was a master class in coalition building (E.J. Dionne Jr/Washington Post)  Too bad she’s just a sock puppet who had nothing to do with it.

Why Would Harris Duck a Press Corps That Asks Questions Like These?

How Democrats Make Republicans: RFK Should Be A Wake Up Call For The Party

Dems Scramble To Walk Back Harris’ Price Control Scheme

PBS Confesses: Dems Now Say ‘Reproductive Rights,’ Not ‘Abortion’ – And So Do We

U Of Tampa RA Training Includes Scenario Of Student Feeling “Threatened” By Conservative Roommate With MAGA Flag

RFK Jr.: ’16 Months of Censorship’ Led to Suspending Race

How I’ve been convincing Christians they don’t have to vote Republican (MSNBC)

FALSE! MSNBC Commentator Tara Setmayer Claims Republicans Don’t Chant ‘USA’??

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Leftists in the U.K. and Europe are doubling down on censorship, calling for the arrest of X owner Elon Musk and the cancellation of the X social media platform to silence opposing views, former White House and Pentagon official Douglas MacKinnon warned Sunday.

Off-Guardian.

Now in this third article in the series, I want to link this back to what we started out discussing. How our closed and controlled Social Media services are now processing every post with an LLM.
My point today is not to prove linkages and corruption of the narrative being fed to the masses via Social Media. Such an investigation could be the subject of an entire book in itself.
Rather today, I would like to plant a seed.
Many reading this will already be in agreement with my belief we are entered into and age of Fascism 2.0. But if you are not yet aware, if you haven’t yet recognised the pervasive and consistent propaganda, my hope is you will start to notice.
My hope is that you will start to see our newspapers only carry the stories which support narratives furthering the globalist desire to fix policy-driven markets. Never the stories that contradict them. And Social Media (less so X now) similarly down regulate posts when they are critical of the policies sought. But for good measure, let me give two examples of recent news suppression matching this pattern.

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When The Heritage Foundation released its comprehensive report on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, headlines tended to focus on the cost to the U.S. That’s not surprising: At an eye-popping $18 trillion, it’s almost 10 times the projected 2024 budget deficit.

Arguably, however, the commission’s most infuriating conclusion was this: The global pandemic was “totally preventable,” in the words of Commissioner Dr. Robert Redfield, an experienced virologist who headed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during the outbreak.

Had the Chinese government been more transparent and cooperative at the outset of the pandemic, millions of lives and trillions of dollars could have been spared. The pandemic’s “proximal origin,” the commission found, was the Chinese government’s “aggressive opposition to honesty, transparency, and accountability” along with its “systemic cover up.”

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Researchers have discovered a “spatial grammar” in DNA that redefines the role of transcription factors in gene regulation, influencing our understanding of genetic variations and disease.

A recently uncovered code within DNA, referred to as “spatial grammar,” may unlock the secret to how gene activity is encoded in the human genome.

This breakthrough finding, identified by researchers at Washington State University and the University of California, San Diego and published in Nature, revealed a long-postulated hidden spatial grammar embedded in DNA. The research could reshape scientists’ understanding of gene regulation and how genetic variations may influence gene expression in development or disease.

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A man has been arrested in France after a synagogue there was set ablaze early Saturday morning, in at least the second French synagogue arson in recent months.

And police in Germany said they had taken into custody a 26-year-old Syrian man in connection a stabbing rampage at a music festival that left three dead.

The terror group ISIS claimed responsibility for the Solingen, Germany, rampage, saying on Telegram that the attack aimed “to avenge Muslims in Palestine.” German police said they could not immediately verify the claim but were investigating it.

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If the new punk rock is to be politically correct, then it’s not punk rock. The woke activist invasion of popular media since 2015 continues to ignore the reality that they are not “rebels”, they are villains, and their delusions are becoming more embarrassing for them with each passing year.

Woke tropes have become poison for any brand seeking a wider audience or greater profits, to the point that activist media projects must now be funded by governments and NGOs through DEI initiatives just to pay developer salaries. The goal? To saturate the market with multicultural ideology and LGBT propaganda until the public was forced to accept it and consume it as “normal.” The agenda has failed.

Every new woke product seems to bomb harder than the last these days and that’s a good sign for the future. Video game players, a market which now dwarfs movies and TV streaming, are rejecting woke material en masse. Case in point: Dustborn.

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My colleague Tony Kinnett captured a rather revealing declaration at the anti-Israel protests in Chicago ahead of the Democratic National Convention this past week. A protester shouted, “Reproductive justice means Palestinian liberation.”

This leftist gobbledygook is nonsensical on its face (abortion isn’t exactly legal under Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, and legal protections on abortion in the U.S. will have no impact on civilians in Gaza), but it reveals a nihilism at the root of much leftist protesting. The protests aren’t really about the omni-cause of climate alarmism, LGBTQ+ demands, abortion, Palestine, or whatever the college kids are into these days. Instead, they represent a challenge to authority, an attempt to “stick it to the man,” regardless of the consequences.

These protests echo a culture that has lost faith in itself and is committing suicide.

Gothamist.

Lithium-ion batteries are increasingly exploding inside garbage trucks, endangering New York City’s sanitation workers.

The long, rectangular batteries used in e-bikes have become a fiery threat to New York City homes, and have led to as many as 626 blazes and 26 deaths since 2022, according to the FDNY. These batteries are found in everything from power tools to vapes to laptops, and are now so ubiquitous that sanitation workers say they’re also finding their way into trash streams.

The number of sanitation department collection truck fires that were either caused or likely caused by discarded lithium-ion batteries increased from just 1 in 2017 to 28 in 2023, according to the agency. And so far this year, there have already been 23 such fires through the beginning of August, though no injuries have been reported.

New York City is effectively a Turd World country.

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Boy, those vaccines sure do work!

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The book begins, “In 2021, inflation emerged from a multi-decade hibernation.” Well, inflation had not really been in hibernation, but rather was continuing at a rate which had become considered acceptable. It was worry about inflation that had been hibernating. People found themselves caught up in the runaway inflation of 2021-2023, a wake-up call. As the book explores at length, that explosive inflation had been unexpected by the central banks, including the Federal Reserve, making their forecasts and assurances look particularly bad and proving once again that their knowledge of the future is as poor as everybody else’s.

The dollar has lost two-thirds of its purchasing power since I was in college in the mid-1970s.  When Franklin Roosevelt stole everybody’s gold in 1933, it was worth $20 an ounce. Look at the price today. That tells you everything you need to know about inflation

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Oh, ya think?

NPR.

A 26-year-old Syrian asylum-seeker turned himself into police, saying he was responsible for the Solingen knife attack that left three dead and eight wounded at a festival marking the city’s 650th anniversary, German authorities announced early Sunday.

Duesseldorf police said in a joint statement with the prosecutor’s office that the man “stated that he was responsible for the attack.”

UPDATE: Islamic State claims responsibility in German festival attack as second suspect arrested (Fox)

UPDATE: German stabbing suspect is 26-year-old Syrian man who admitted to the crime (Reuters)

UPDATE: Syrian man confesses to stabbing to death 3 people at German festival, police say (CNN)

Associated Press.

Hezbollah launched hundreds of rockets and drones at Israel early on Sunday, as Israel’s military said it struck Lebanon with around 100 jets to thwart a bigger attack, in one of the biggest clashes in more than 10 months of border warfare.

Missiles were visible curling up through the dawn sky, dark vapour trails behind them, as an air raid siren sounded in Israel and a distant blast lit the horizon, while smoke rose over houses in Khiam in southern Lebanon.

The extent of damage was not immediately clear and Hezbollah indicated it was not planning further strikes yet, while Israel’s Foreign Minister said the country did not seek a full-scale war.

UPDATE: Israel attacks targets in Lebanon to thwart Hezbollah’s prepared strikes: IDF (Fox)

UPDATE: Iran’s Guard leader reiterated pledge of ‘revenge’ against Israel shortly before planned Hezbollah attack (Times of Israel)

UPDATE: Israel says it launched ‘preemptive’ strikes on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon (CNN)

ABC: ‘Moderate’ Kamala Sounded Like Reagan With ‘Morning in America’ DNC Speech

“A Flawed Idea”: CNBC’s Joe Kernen Destroys Elizabeth Warren On Live TV Over Price-Gouging Policy

How protests outside the DNC defied expectations, staying mostly calm (Washington Post) “Mostly”

Gaslighting AP Touts Chicago’s Mostly ‘Peaceful’ DNC Riots; Social Media Says Otherwise

Kamala Harris Gets Off to a Strong Start (Peggy Noonan/Wall Street Journal)  RINO alert!!

World Bank halts paid advertising on X after CBS News finds its promoted ads under racist content (CBS News)

Hyping Harris: Late Night Comedy’s DNC Coverage Goes Soft

Can Harris’s ‘opportunity economy’ win back ‘Bidenomics’ doubters? (Nicholas Sargen/The Hill)

Kamala Harris Offers a ‘New Way Forward’ of Platitudes (Wall Street Journal)

What Kamala Harris Doesn’t Get About Food Costs (Scott Lincicome/The Atlantic)

Kamala Harris Understood the Assignment (Jonathan Chait/New York Magazine)

Stewart Hearts Harris: ‘Doesn’t Faintly Resemble The Caricature’

AFL, Texas, Idaho, and a Coalition of 14 State Attorneys General File Urgent Lawsuit and Request for Emergency Relief to Block New Biden-Harris Executive Amnesty … (America First Legal)

16 State AGs Sue Biden Admin Over Amnesty for 1M Illegals

Rand Paul Asks Why TSA Is Using Terror Watch List To Spy On Americans “Based On Their Political Views”

Backstabbing Behind the Scenes at the Democratic Convention

Gus Walz Sobbing With Pride Is the Most Important TV Moment of the Year (Kevin Fallon/The Daily Beast)

Ann Coulter Roast Goes Viral as Internet Gets Revenge for Gus Walz (Dan Ladden-Hall/The Daily Beast)

In Chicago, Dems redefined what it means to be American, then claimed it (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)

The Democrats’ 2024 campaign: it’s lies all the way down

Morning Joe: ‘Patriotism Fully Reclaimed’ As DNC ‘Flags Got Bigger’

What Kamala Harris Was Really Saying in Her Convention Speech (Jeff Greenfield/Politico)  In casse the word salad confused you, the Narrative Media is there to explain it all.

Who Is ‘Destroying Democracy in Darkness?’

Yes, Kamala’s Price Controls Lead to Socialism

CNBC’s Joe Kernen Shreds Elizabeth Warren’s ‘Fallacious,’ ‘Misleading’ Economic Illiteracy

Harris Crushes Trump by 22% in Convention Speech Ratings (Josh Fiallo/The Daily Beast)  Harris leads Trump in the Narrative Media demographic.

Disaffected Republicans and former Trump officials spoke at the DNC. Fox News didn’t air a second of any of their speeches. (Matt Gertz/Media Matters for America)  Why would they?

There’s a reason Adam Kinzinger defended Democrats’ patriotism (Philip Bump/Washington Post)  Yeah–he’s a slimy little weasel.

RFK Jr. Shreds Democrats for Abandoning Democracy

Politico Aids Post-Convention Kamala Push By Floating ‘Movement’ Label

Theater of the Absurd: The Worst Media Outbursts from the DNC

Kamala’s Harsh Takedown of Trump Points the Way to a Post-MAGA America (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Uh, yeah, just keep thinking that.

PBS Hails DNC’s ‘Patriotism’ Versus RNC’s ‘Weighted Blanket’

Harris, Walz lean into erasing medical debt (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill)  Buy those votes! Buy those votes!

Democratic convention energy, Harris hot streak making Republicans nervous (Al Weaver/The Hill)  Just like Nuremberg in ’34.

Former Republican FBI director James Comey backs Harris for president (Savannah Kuchar/USA Today)  The apparatchiks are forming solid ranks.

Kamala Explains 93% Of Staff Quit Because They Couldn’t Handle The Joy  Babylon Bee.

Fox Cuts Off Ranting Trump Then Mocks: ‘He’s Still Talking!’ (William Vaillancourt/The Daily Beast)

Trump’s spectacle is no match for Harris’s substance (Michael Starr Hopkins/The Hill)

Wait, Did Trump Just Admit He Lost the 2020 Election? (Sean Craig/The Daily Beast)

Trump Is Going to Lose. (Probably.) (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)  We hope we hope we hope….

‘That’s Margaret Thatcher, Dude!’ CNN Analyst Elliot Williams Goes Gaga For Kamala

Trump Golf Club Hosts Fundraiser for Jan. 6 Defendants

DNC unveils billboards dubbing Trump, Vance, RFK Jr. ‘weird as hell’ (Elizabeth Crisp/The Hill)

Is Trump OK? Unhinged reaction to rise of Harris worries supporters (Chris McGreal/The Guardian)

Trump Is Behind Not Because the Press Is Hyping Kamala but Because He’s Unpopular (Mark Antonio Wright/National Review)  NR finally joins the cucks.

Democrats once strove to ‘go high’ against Trump. Not anymore. (Hannah Knowles/Washington Post)  When?

Claim: A Trump Victory Would Set the Planet On Fire

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A federal court ruled last week that an Ohio school district violated the First Amendment rights of a Christian teacher, which experts are hailing as a victory for free speech and religious liberty.

Hired as a full-time English teacher at the end of the 2021 academic school year, Vivian Geraghty had resigned from her position in 2022 after being told to use a student’s “preferred pronouns.” The argument she gave in her lawsuit was that the use of pronouns that didn’t reflect the child’s biological sex “would force her to embrace the concept of gender identity against her religious belief that God created two unchanging sexes, male and female.”

According to district court Judge Pamela Barker, the Jackson Local School District “compelled Geraghty to use the students’ preferred names and pronouns.” In doing so, it forced the teacher “to utter what was not in her mind about a question of political and religious significance.”

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Western nations, led by the US and ones across Europe, with the most modern warship fleets, seem absolutely powerless to stop Iran-backed Houthi rebels from launching missile and drone strikes on merchant vessels in the southern Red Sea and Gulf of Oman (maybe because it’s an election year in the US).

The US and EU have launched numerous military operations committed to ensuring freedom of navigation and maritime security in the highly contested region but have failed repeatedly.

The latest failure by the West comes earlier this week after a missile attack bombarded Greek-flagged oil tanker MV Sounion about 77 nautical miles west of the Yemeni port of Hodeidah, forcing at least one EU warship to rescue the crew of the Suezmax tanker—the largest type of oil tanker capable of transiting the Suez Canal.

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A major manhunt is underway after a Friday night mass stabbing attack killed three people and wounded eight more at a “Festival of Diversity” in Germany. Living up to the event’s billing, witnesses to the bloodshed in the western German city of Solingen say the attacker was Arab in appearance — a detail every major US news outlet is omitting from its coverage as our report is written.

“This evening we are all in shock, horror and great sadness in Solingen. We all wanted to celebrate our city’s anniversary together and now we have dead and injured people to mourn,” said Solingen Mayor Tim-Oliver Kurzbach. “I pray for all those who are still fighting for their lives.” While the festival was indeed being held on the occasion of the city’s 650th anniversary, rather than emphasizing German heritage and history, the organizers were apparently determined to put “diversity” front and center.

Well, that’s what ‘diversity’ gets you.

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A pro-life activist who was arrested for quietly praying outside of an abortion clinic has been paid approximately $17,000 USD from the West Midlands Police in Birmingham, England, according to Fox News.

After the arrest she filed a claim accusing the police of false imprisonment, assault and wrongful arrest. She was detained for allegedly violating a Public Space Protection Order, the police said at the time.

The women, UK March for Life Director Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, said: “Clearly, I’m delighted to have this, but there’s almost a bit of déjà vu. While I’m saying I’m delighted, I feel vindicated.”

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Several years ago, Texas had a brilliant idea: take the millions of illegal immigrant that were flooding its territory as a result of policies adopted in faraway places like DC, and bus them to places like New York and DC, other so-called sanctuary cities and, best of all, Martha’s Vineyard where those who run New York and DC tend to go on vacation. The result was an immediate revulsion by the false virtue-signaling NIMBY crowd, which cried foul at having to suffer the consequences of its actions.

Turns out Texas’ idea was so good it is now being adopted across the Atlantic, where another illegal alien invasion has been taking place for the past decade, slowly replacing the indigenous population with millions of immigrants from northern Africa and the middle east.

Now, one European country has decided it also has had enough: Hungary suggested that it might – like Texas – start transporting migrants who show up at its border straight to Brussels, unless it can resolve a dispute with the European Union on penalties for its asylum policies, Bloomberg reported.

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A dearth of qualified civilian mariners could put 17 U.S. Navy support ships out of commission, U.S. Naval Institute News reported Thursday.

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More signs of utopia unfolding in the liberal run wasteland of San Francisco…

A thief who ransacked an FBI truck in San Francisco and made away with thousands of dollars of equipment turned around and traded it all for a $20 bag of methamphetamine, according to a report by the NY Post.

The truck that was raided contained flash-bang grenades, a tear gas launcher, surveillance equipment and bulletproof vests. The perpetrator, 29 year old Gregory Acosta-Alvarez, was arrested after being caught on multiple surveillance cameras.

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How did American voters get so dumb? Thank a public school.

New York Times.

A federal court in Louisiana has dealt a serious blow to the Biden administration’s effort to protect communities heavily affected by toxic industrial pollution.

The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana ruled on Wednesday that the Environmental Protection Agency is barred from using the federal civil rights law to prevent Louisiana from granting permits for numerous polluting facilities in minority and low-income communities.

Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act allows the E.P.A. to investigate whether state programs that receive federal money are discriminating on the basis of race, color or national origin.

But the judge’s ruling effectively means that the federal government is limited to taking action against specific agency decisions that are intentionally discriminatory. The E.P.A. cannot, however, consider cumulative or “disparate” environmental harms. That means the state cannot be held liable for actions like allowing several chemical plants, refineries and other industrial operations in minority communities.

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Does that surprise anybody? Anybody?

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Anti-Israel protesters defaced a pro-life pregnancy resource center in Chicago late Thursday night after the close of the Democratic National Convention.

Vandals painted “Fake clinic” and “The real dead babies are in Gaza” in red spray paint on the entrance to the center, and put cement in the locks so employees couldn’t get into the building and see clients, Mary FioRito, an Aid for Women volunteer and advisory board member, told The Daily Signal.

The attack, which took place the final night of the Democratic convention in Chicago, comes after Planned Parenthood offered free abortions and vasectomies to attendees outside the stadium. At least 25 unborn babies were reportedly killed in the mobile abortion truck.

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Expecting parents would be allowed to claim “conceived children” as dependents on their state income taxes under a proposed law in Ohio.

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A woman who faced eviction from her New York co-op over her three emotional support parrots has been awarded $165,000 in damages and $585,000 for her apartment.

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Five Secret Service officials from the Pittsburgh Field Office have been placed on administrative leave as a result of the agency’s investigation into the security failures that led to the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.

“Yeah, guys, taks some vacation time until this whole thing blows over.”

Newsbusters.

Censorship-obsessed Google seems to be buying off California news outlets with a bombshell deal to fund and influence the state’s journalism enterprise in the middle of an election year.

California was reportedly considering a bill to force Big Tech platforms to pay certain media outlets for the right to share news, and a second bill to tax digital ads. But California Democrats, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, are declaring victory after getting Google to commit to a $250 million bargain with the state.

Some groups are criticizing the deal, which will provide hundreds of millions of dollars from Google, taxpayers and possibly other sources to shape the future of journalism, according to National Review. And if Google’s and California’s sordid records are any indication, that future is undoubtedly marked by another radical lurch leftward.

ScienceAlert.

No surprises here. When ‘gender’ is a social construct that you can pick from an extensive menu and nobody thinks that genes determine anything, in a world where ‘mysogyny’ is ‘terrorism’, who needs the Y chromosome?

EcoNews.

Renewable sources are expanding across the country, but there is a ‘silent enemy’ that is eating away at some of this progress, and that is nuclear energy. Experts have believed for years that they can make it clean and safe, which we simply call a pipe dream. Recently, a prestigious media outlet such as The Guardian collected the opinions of several experts under the reflection ‘The dream is dead’. What has happened so that optimism has turned into global pessimism? A discovery about reactors has left everyone in shock.

The sky is falling. The world is about to end. Film at 11.

Al Jezeera.

Police in Germany are searching for an unknown suspect behind a mass stabbing at a festival in the western city of Solingen in which three people were killed.

Eight people were injured, five of them seriously, police said on Saturday as thousands had gathered at a central square for celebrations to mark Solingen’s 650th anniversary. The dead included one woman and two men.

Who could have done such a thing? That’s a real head-scratcher.

The Daily Beast.

Curb Your Enthusiasm star Cheryl Hines took more heat for her husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decisions on Friday, after Kennedy bowed out of the presidential race and endorsed Donald Trump.

But her husband feels very differently about the former president, who he endorsed Trump as he blamed the media for his inability to gain traction in White House race.

Exclusive: The Chicks to sing National Anthem at the DNC on Thursday (CNN)  Flyover Country seems to be the theme for this cycle’s Democrat convention.

Exclusive: Outraged Kennedy Volunteers Beg Him Not to Quit For ‘Backroom Deal’ With Trump (Diana Falzone/Mediaite)  When dealing with the Narrative Media, one needs to remember that they don’t report what’s true, they report what they wish were true.

Case in point: Democrats Give Harris Nearly Unanimous Positive Ratings (Megan Brenan/Gallup)

Report Challenges Harris’ Assertion Higher Food Prices Equal Corporate Greed

Most GOP-devastating statistic in Bill Clinton’s DNC speech confirmed by fact checker (Brad Reed/Raw Story)  Sure, I believe that.

NBC Drools Over ‘Supercharged’ DNC With Strong ‘Midwest Dad Energy’, ‘Star Power’

5 Massive Lies at the Democratic National Convention

Harris Had Record of Pushing Left-Wing Positions on Biggest Legal Issues as California AG

PBS’s DNC Coverage Goes Full Feminist: US on the ‘Cusp’ of a Female President (Again)  It’s more important to have a woman than somebody who’s competent.

22 Shootings, 6 Homicide Deaths in Chicago During DNC  How appropriate.

Land Acknowledgments Are Democratic Party’s New Pledge of Allegiance

Pro-Palestinian Delegates Stage DNC Protest, Demand Speaking Slot

Texas Delegate Robbed at Gunpoint While Attending DNC  How appropriate.

ADL Leader Slams DNC: ‘I Could Not Have Imagined a Time Jews Would Have To Meet in Secret Locations in Chicago’

CNN: ‘It’s a Vibes Election!’ No Need for Kamala to Publish Policy

Thanks, Biden-Harris: Map Shows Worst Housing Affordability In America

WATCH: ‘Joy! Joy! Joy! Joy!’ Chants DNC Speaker Who Said ‘Diamond Merchant’ Jews Have the ‘Blood of Innocent Babies’ on Their Hands

3 Things Kamala Harris Left Out of Her DNC Speech

Kinzinger in DNC speech says GOP is “no longer conservative” (Andrew Solender/Axios)  As if Kinzinger would know.

‘NEEDS CONTEXT’: CNN’s Daniel Dale Weasels Out of Kamala Fact-Check

Kamala Harris Gave the Best Acceptance Speech I’ve Ever Seen (Jonathan Chait/New York Magazine)

PBS’s Capehart on Horrors of ‘USA’ Chants at GOP Rallies: ‘It Felt Menacing’  I can see that.

FLASHBACK: Paul Krugman Bootlicked Biden for ‘Creating the Best Job Market In a Generation’

From Vasectomy Vans To Hotties For Harris, The DNC Was Truly A Freak Show (Gage Klipper/The Daily Caller)

Is That–Is That–Optimism We Feel? (William Kristol/The Bulwark)

A 10-Year-Old Pointed a Finger Gun. The Principal Kicked Him Out of His Tennessee School for a Year. (Aliyya Swaby/ProPublica)

Kamala-Jitsu: Democrats Turn Trump Into the Incumbent (The Bulwark)  No, the election will do that.

Trump Hosting Fundraiser For Domestic Terrorists Who Assaulted Cops On Jan. 6 (S.V. Date/HuffPost)

Trump says he’s refusing intel briefings so he won’t be accused of leaks (April Rubin/Axios)

WATCH: Biden Cabinet Official Cluelessly Blasts Biden Admin 818K Jobs Revision as Trump Lies on ABC

With Harris, Democrats try a new tack to take down Trump: Making fun of him (Peter Nicholas/NBC News)  It’s all about Trump.

Kamala Harris has put Trump in a box, and he’s struggling to break out (Dan Balz/Washington Post)  Sure, I believe that.

Kamala Harris Turns the Page on the Trump Era (Dan Pfeiffer/The Message Box)

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The number of people illegally crossing the English Channel to the UK hit a record high in the first half of 2024, official figures published on Thursday August 22nd show.

The news follows publication of data showing how the Home Office in the final phase of the most recent Conservative Party government accepted record numbers of asylum applications.

A total of 13,489 migrants who arrived on small boats was recorded in the first six months of 2024—an 18% jump in the year-on-year figures—just prior to the election of a Labour government. In comparison, from January to June 2023, 11,433 migrants made the journey.

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In Spain, the region of Catalonia leads the country disproportionally in anti-jihadist operations and arrests, El Debate reports.

Catalonia, and Barcelona in particular, has become Spain’s security risk hotspot. Stemming recent rising crime levels was a major point in the regional election held in May.

Police sources last month told The Objective that the region continues to be one of the principal places in Spain where radicalization and subsequent recruitment into terror cells takes place.

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The German traffic light coalition is considering paying “financial travel support” to asylum seekers set to be deported to Afghanistan, Bild reports. Critics question why the country would reward foreigners with no residency rights to do what they are supposed to do anyway—leave the country.

Providing rejected migrants with ‘start-up money’ for food and housing is intended to encourage them to leave, but also to help avoid legal challenges, Germany’s interior ministry said. Failed asylum seekers have in the past challenged deportation orders on grounds of being returned to abject poverty.

Programs already exist in different German states to assist rejected asylum seekers who return to their home countries voluntarily. Amounts can range from a few hundred to “several thousand euros,” Bild says—amounts that are still small compared to the cost of having the migrants remain in Germany.

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The number of illegal immigrants deported from Spain has dropped to a new low as the Canary Islands struggle to deal with a growing migration crisis.

According to Interior Ministry figures, reported by El Debate, of the more than 29,000 illegal migrants who have arrived in the islands so far this year, only 3% have been sent back.

On top of this, the ministry estimates that by the end of the year, the total arrivals could reach between 45,000 and 50,000.

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The FBI shouldn’t be weaponized to pick winners and losers, which is exactly what it has done by targeting pro-lifers and failing to investigate pro-abortion vandals, former FBI agent Steve Friend says.

“What we’re seeing is a politically captured agency that is not only interested in the results,” Friend told The Daily Signal. “They want to get overwhelming results, so they’re putting their fingers and entire arms on the scale.”

FBI whistleblower Friend joined “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss his experience in the FBI, why he left in 2022, and the weaponization of the bureau against those with religious or political ideologies deemed to be a “threat.”

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In 2014, Vice President Joe Biden was dispatched to Guatemala by President Barack Obama to implore Latin American countries and their citizens to stop smuggling unaccompanied children into the United States.

“These smugglers routinely engage in physical and sexual abuse and extortion of these innocent, young women and men, by and large,” Biden said in a speech in Guatemala City.

Three months into his own presidency, in March 2021, Biden sent his vice president, Kamala Harris, to Guatemala to convey a similar message: “Do not come.”

Ten years on from Biden’s address in Guatemala City, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General is out with a report that the Biden-Harris administration has lost track of approximately 300,000 migrant children.