DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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Conservative states across the US have taken action in recent months to begin the arduous process of removing the stain of the woke movement from America’s streets and public buildings. For the last decade, the far-left ideological crusade has left its mark everywhere while using “marginalized” identity groups as a moral shield.

Though they claim to be acting as a civil rights movement, the reality is that “Pride” and LGBT activist groups are entirely political. The pride flag is a political, ideological and some would argue religious symbol of cultural dominance planted across the country as a means to claim ownership.

The State of Idaho is no longer tolerating this insurgency. On Tuesday, Mayor Lauren McLean was forced to remove the Progress Pride flag from display in Downtown Boise after Governor Brad Little signed HB 561. The bill, brought by Rep. Ted Hill, R-Eagle, limits local governments to flying only the American flag, state flags, official military flags, recognized tribal flags, and the official flag of an Idaho university or college.

The response from Democrats has been dramatic, to say the least, with a somber proclamation of “Transgender Day” to mourn the loss of the pride flag. Idaho also recently passed one of the strictest laws in the nation against transgenders using incorrect bathrooms and public facilities.

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Texas Congressman Keith Self has dropped a bombshell on the growing reality of Sharia-adherent communities taking root inside the United States. Far from some future hypothetical, these enclaves are here, now, and operating openly in his own district.

Self laid it out plainly: “Sharia is alive, well, and operating in Plano, Texas. Right now, as I speak, there is an existing Sharia-adherent enclave run by the East Plano Islamic Center in my congressional district. It’s been functioning for 12 years right in our midst. This is not a hypothetical or future threat. It is here, now and operational.”

He continued: “It is a parallel society, a de facto Sharia enclave operating in defiance of full assimilation into American law situated immediately adjacent to the very law enforcement facilities meant to protect our communities.”

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California is a cash machine. The state collects some of the country’s highest income, business, and fuel taxes, and now spends more than $300 billion per year. And yet, everywhere you look, California seems to be falling apart.

The roads are crumbling. Mismanaged wildfires have turned neighborhoods into ash. Drug addiction and homelessness have metastasized, turning parts of Los Angeles and San Francisco into no-go zones. And the cost-of-living crisis is pricing middle-class taxpayers out of basic necessities like groceries and gas, even as the state spends billions on welfare programs that never seem to lift anyone out of poverty.

Californians are beginning to ask: Where is all this money going? On paper, it funds hospitals, universities, schools, prisons, infrastructure, and other public services. But beneath the surface, something else is happening that California Governor Gavin Newsom does not want you to see: massive, systematic, brazen fraud.

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The arrest of dozens of IRGC-linked money changers in the United Arab Emirates is one of the most serious blows yet to Tehran’s sanctions-evasion network, laying bare how heavily the Islamic Republic has depended on Dubai as an economic lifeline.

Sources familiar with the matter told Iran International that UAE authorities detained dozens of money changers tied to financial entities linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, shut down associated companies and closed their offices. The crackdown follows days of mounting regional tensions and comes after other measures targeting Iranian nationals, including visa revocations and tighter travel restrictions through Dubai.

For years, Dubai has served as Iran’s main offshore financial artery, where oil proceeds, petrochemical revenues and rial conversions were turned into dollars, dirhams and euros beyond the reach of the country’s battered domestic banking system.

“This is going to be a real problem for Tehran because Dubai was an economic lung for the Iranian regime,” Jason Brodsky of United Against Nuclear Iran told Iran International.

“That is economic pressure and diplomatic isolation in a way that the UAE is able to employ against the Iranian regime, and it will have a very considerable impact.”

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The Feeding Our Future fraud is the largest pandemic-relief theft in American history – $250 million stolen, mostly by Somali immigrants who fabricated meal counts and pocketed federal child nutrition funds.

The prosecutions have dragged on for years.

Now that sentences are finally coming down, a troubling pattern is emerging: the punishments don’t seem to fit the crime.

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A crowded crop of Democratic candidates has liberal Californians worried it could lead to the deep blue state ending up with two Republicans running for governor.

California has a jungle primary system, where the top two vote getters advance to a general election and several polls have shown Democrats could split the vote among themselves, vaulting two Republicans to the top.

The state has not elected a Republican to the governor’s mansion since Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2006.

“We know there’s this risk ahead, a 15% chance of calamity,” Paul Mitchell, a leading Democratic data strategist in the state, told Politico.

“It’s not a 15% chance of stubbing your toe, it’s a 15% chance of losing the governorship, losing the down-ballot races,” he said.

Democrats are concerned two Republicans at the top of the ticket could depress turnout, wiping out the gains they hoped to make after voting to redraw the state’s congressional maps to give their party additional seats.

Judge orders Trump to halt $400 million White House ballroom project, for now (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)

Judge Blocks Trump Ballroom Pending Congressional OK

Trump Blasts Order Halting White House Ballroom

BREAKING: Trump will sign sweeping order attacking mail-in voting (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)

NPR and PBS Win Injunction Against Trump Order to End Funding (Daniel Seiden/Bloomberg)

Trump signs order directing creation of a national voter list, a move sure to face legal challenges (Associated Press)

Dems Struggle to Criticize Trump’s No Tax On OT

A New Era of International Gangsterism (Peter Juul/Liberal Currents)

Trump’s gas prices problem (Cameron Peters/Vox)

Birthright Citizenship Shouldn’t Be Up for Debate (Michael Waldman/Brennan Center …)  Freedom of speech? What’s that?

Trump interview: I am strongly considering pulling out of Nato (Connor Stringer/Telegraph)

Appeals Court Stops V.O.A. Journalists From Quickly Returning (Minho Kim/New York Times)

CNN Poll: Trump’s approval rating on the economy hits a new low (Jennifer Agiesta/CNN)  Among the people polled by CNN. (Rasmussen: Trump Approval Steady at 51 Percent)

Trump Eyes NATO Exit Over Iran Rift

Astroturf and selective outrage: The real story behind ‘No Kings’ (Jay Rogers/The Hill)

The Costs of a Political Science-Free Foreign Policy (Daniel W. Drezner/Drezner’s World)

Trump’s mixed messages on Iran perplex his own team (Axios)  What, you didn’t know that writers for Axios could read minds?

Inside the Bizarre Feedback Loop Between DHS and MAGA Influencers (Josh Kovensky/Talking Points Memo)

Inside the Bizarre Feedback Loop Between DHS and MAGA Influencers (Josh Kovensky/Talking Points Memo)

Trump Motorcade Met With Middle Fingers on Way to Supreme Court (J.D. Wolf/MeidasTouch News)  Leftist class.

Spain hits back at Trump in escalating row over euthanasia (Milena Wälde/Politico)

Trump’s Antifa Terror (Julia Ioffe/Puck)

Trump’s Fateful Choice (The Atlantic)

Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Now Plans to Gut, but Not Close, Consumer Protection Agency (Stacy Cowley/New York Times)  I would like to dance in its intestines.

“Casualty Cover-Up”: The Pentagon Is Hiding U.S. Losses Under Trump in the Middle East (Nick Turse/The Intercept)

Obama Judge Orders Trump Admin To Restore Legal Status Of 985,000 Migrants Who Used CBP One App

Trump Presidential Library To Feature Solemn ‘Reflecting Pool’ Of Liberal Tears (Babylon Bee)

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Not just that, but according to the Financial Times, the Alberta separatists have met with Trump officials a few times over the past year.

This could prove amusing.

Quillette.

Tariq Ramadan is either a predatory manipulator who belongs behind bars or a calm voice of reason victimised by a prejudiced ruling class. It really depends on whom you ask. Last week, the Paris Criminal Court sentenced Ramadan to eighteen years in prison for raping three women between 2009 and 2016. This ought to have settled the question about one of Europe’s most divisive thinkers. In fact, Ramadan’s punishment will only fortify the views of the two opposing camps.

Ramadan’s background is well known in France and his native Switzerland but less so elsewhere. His maternal grandfather, Hassan al-Banna, founded the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in 1928. In the late 1940s, al-Banna’s daughter Waffa married a Brotherhood activist named Said Ramadan. After al-Banna’s assassination in 1949, Said became one of the organisation’s leading figures. Expelled from Egypt in 1954 during president Gamal Abdel Nasser’s crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood, the couple moved to Syria and then Pakistan before eventually settling in Switzerland, where Tariq was born in 1962.

According to his defenders, Ramadan rejected the illiberal fanaticism of his father and grandfather and grew up to be an urbane and moderate academic, enculturated by Western norms but with a heritage that provided him with the legitimacy to speak to and on behalf of radical Muslim communities. Western liberal elites were entranced by this paradoxical figure, and they embraced him as a figure who could explain East to West and vice-versa. This was especially true in France, where he enjoyed his highest profile, frequently appearing in debates and on talk shows.

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Leftist politicians in Providence, Rhode Island, are erasing the memory of an innocent victim to shield their failed policies on crime and immigration.

The nearly completed mural honoring Iryna Zarutska—the 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee brutally murdered on a North Carolina light rail train by a repeat offender—is being removed after pressure from Democrat leaders who called it divisive.

Conservative commentator Benny Johnson broke the story, posting: “Iryna Zarustka mural in Providence, RI, is being removed following protest of it by Mayor Brett Smiley.

UPDATE: City’s Demand to Remove Iryna Zarutska Mural Speaks Volumes About the Left’s ‘Values’

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This past Sunday was Palm Sunday, the start of Holy Week for Christians around the world, a period that should be meaningful and joyous, but that was not the case in Nigeria, as dozens of Christians were reported to have been killed by gunmen, including in Gari Ya Waye community Angwan Rukuba, served by Nigeria’s Catholic Archdiocese of Jos. The targeting of Christians in Nigeria is not new or rare, prompting President Trump to threaten military action last November, unless their government did more to protect the community, but still the latest attacks were ignored Monday by the network newscasts.

The New York Times did report on the 12 deaths and multiple injuries in the mostly Christian city of Jos, while downplaying reports of a Christian genocide in Nigeria, which it’s more than ABC’s World News Tonight, The CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, PBS News Hour and Special Report With Bret Baier could manage on Monday, which was not one word about the killings combined. After all it was a busy news night. ABC’s David Muir had to tell his viewers about the return of Celine Dion.

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In a blistering exclusive interview with The Telegraph, President Trump has declared he is “strongly considering” pulling the United States out of NATO, branding the 77-year-old alliance a “paper tiger” after European allies – including the UK under Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer – refused to join America’s military campaign against Iran or help reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

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A federal judge has ordered California to pay more than $4.52 million in attorneys’ fees to a coalition of parents and teachers who successfully challenged the state’s anti-parent public school policies on student gender transitions.

U.S. District Judge Roger T. Benitez issued the fee award on March 30 in the long-running case, citing the plaintiffs’ prevailing status after winning summary judgment and a class-wide injunction last year.

The ruling came as the underlying dispute continues in the federal appeals court.

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The recent news that one in eight children are now reported by their parents as being disabled ought to prompt an immediate national inquiry into what on earth is causing a large proportion of the population to sicken.

Not hard to tell: The government will give you money if you say you’re disabled.

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A new report from researchers at the University of New South Wales in Australia, published in Carcinogenesis, finds that nicotine-based e-cigarettes are likely to cause lung and oral cancers, a finding that may alarm the millions of young people, from high school through college, and into the professional world, who use them heavily.

Researchers examined human studies, animal experiments, and lab tests. Together, they found signs that vaping can damage DNA, cause inflammation and oxidative stress, and expose users to harmful chemicals considered drivers of cancer. Some rodent studies also found lung tumors after vape exposure.

“Nicotine-based e-cigarettes are likely to be carcinogenic to humans who use them, causing an indeterminate burden of oral cancer and lung cancer,” the researchers wrote in the report.

Most attempts to adjust one’s mood through recreational chemicals appear to be a bad idea.

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Remember when blues state Democrats tried to enforce sweeping pandemic mandates for years after it became clear that covid was not the “mass killer” that the supposed experts claimed it would be? Remember when they called for people to be jailed for publicly speaking about scientific facts that contradicted the narrative? Remember when they called for people’s children to be taken away if they refused to vaccinate?

Remember how millions of people left blue states in response to the far-left madness? Well, Democrats are now pretending that none of that ever happened, but they can’t hide the continuing consequences of their draconian policies.

The historic population shift that escalated during the pandemic era is still well underway, though the causes are now more economic than political. We recently covered New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s sad attempt to beg wealthy NY taxpayers to stop leaving her state. However, New York is only one of multiple blue regions being crushed by an ongoing wealth exodus.

New data from states like Massachusetts indicate that Democrat efforts to institute state level “wealth taxes” are driving out business owners and corporations, and these residents are taking billions in tax revenues with them.

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Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee, was murdered in Charlotte last summer. She was minding her own business, seated on a public transit train, when a deranged felon abruptly attacked her from behind, without warning, allegedly stabbing her to death. The vicious assault was captured in surveillance footage that went viral and sparked outrage, especially after it was revealed that the suspect had been arrested on at least 14 previous occasions.

“Magistrate Judge Teresa Stokes freed [the suspect ] in January, around seven months before police say he went on to slaughter Iryna Zarutska on August 22,” the Daily Mail reported in 2025. “Stokes allowed [the accused killer], who is homeless and has a litany of previous offenses, to walk free on a ‘written promise’ that he would return for his next court appearance.”

The case became a national flashpoint, exemplifying what critics call a broken criminal justice system in “progressive” jurisdictions, where criminals are coddled, and innocent people such as Zarutska are endangered. A project to honor Zarutska’s life through art has now been declared “controversial” by activists and politicians on the Left, as murals in her memory are getting defaced by vandals and denounced by elected officials. In New York City, one such mural was targeted by someone who spray-painted the words “please vandalize this” over the murder victim’s face. The New York Post describes the mural as “loathed by local lefties for its ‘tough-on-crime’ message.”

Newsbusters.

The Washington Free Beacon’s Alana Goodman wrote Tuesday that far-left Michigan senatorial candidate — Democrat Abdul El-Sayed — threatened the Beacon with legal action after the conservative news outlet published a recording of El-Sayed saying he wouldn’t comment on the death of murderous Iranian Ayatollah Khamenei because “a lot of people in Dearborn…are sad” and thus would hurt his electoral prospects.

Earth to Brian Stelter, Oliver Darcy, Scott Nover, Brian Steinberg, and the rest of the so-called media reporting class: Where are you on this act of media intimidation?

Missing in action….

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In the span of nine months, nine top-level scientists in the United States have died or vanished without a trace.

Seven of them were connected to the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) or the institutions it directly funds.

AFRL develops and transitions the most sensitive aerospace technologies in the United States’ defense arsenal.

Don’t call them ‘conspiracy theories’—call them ‘spoiler alerts’.

How to Smuggle a Million Barrels of Oil

How the U.S. Navy Clears Live Sea Mines in the Straight of Hormuz  Too bad the LCS is a worthless piece of shit.

SOMEONE’S DAUGHTER-gate [What happened with Sarah Stock and why does it matter?]  hoe_math at his best.

Why Anti-Blackness Runs Deep in Morocco  Note the assumption that African = black. (WHY THE KHOISAN LOOK ASIAN.(Are They Related?))

Why CPAC Was a Total Disaster  The old Brett Cooper makes a brief re-appearance.

Cancer Proteins Are a New Weapon Against Alzheimer’s  Nick Norwitz.

Muji – The Brand That Designed “Nothing”

Trump Orders War Crimes. Then What? (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)

Anonymous Artists Mock Trump With Giant Gold Toilet By Lincoln Memorial (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)

Trump approval just hit the 30s. Can his numbers get any lower? (Nate Silver/Silver Bulletin)  In the Narrative Media, you can count on it.

Raskin rips Patel over reported plan to release decade-old Swalwell files (Max Rego/The Hill)  My, what a surprise.

America Is Abandoning Morality (W.J. Hennigan/New York Times) Proglodyte morality, that is.

States Plow Ahead With A.I. Regulation, Defying Trump (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)

Newsom Blames Trump for High Gas Prices. But California Created Its Own Energy Nightmare.

Trump’s Tax Cut Delivers at Least $65 Billion Windfall to Corporations (Caitlin Reilly/Bloomberg)  Ponder the people who characterize being allowed to keep more of your own money as a ‘windfall’.

In Supreme Court Justices’ Histories, a Story of Immigration in America (New York Times)  The Narrative Media persists in refusing to distinguish immigration from illegal immigration.

Trump Secretly Admits Humiliating Defeat on Major War Aim (Ewan Palmer/The Daily Beast) Must not be much of a secret if the high-schoolers at The Daily Beast know about it.

Trump says Strait of Hormuz is the world’s problem: ‘Go get your own oil!’ (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico) Sounds good to me.

Colbert: ‘Yes We Can’ Stop Fascism With Defecating Trump Balloon

Congress is a bastion of Republican bigotry (Mark Jacob/Stop the Presses)

Behind the scenes and in front of cameras, Hegseth serving as top cheerleader for military power in Iran war (CNN)

The Nonsense Case Against Birthright Citizenship (Mother Jones)

Trump’s Rage Erupts Over War Failures as Pope’s Harsh Rebuke Hits Hard (New Republic)

Federal judge orders halt to White House ballroom construction (ABC News)

Judge orders Trump administration to halt White House ballroom construction unless Congress OKs it (Michael Kunzelman/Associated Press)

Judge Rules Trump Unlawfully Revoked Status of Migrants Who Used Entry App (Zach Montague/New York Times)

Judge halts construction on Trump’s White House ballroom (Washington Post)

Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Halts White House Ballroom Construction (Zach Montague/New York Times)

Here’s how U.S. residents feel about Trump’s signature on American cash (Herb Scribner/Axios) Well, at least the ones chosen by Axios.

Federal judge temporarily blocks further demolition of the White House for Trump’s ballroom (NBC News)

Judge Orders Construction Stopped on Trump’s White House Ballroom (Zach Montague/New York Times)

Trump is flailing in Iran. Every word he says adds to the muddle (Ted Widmer/The Guardian)

Trump Rages After Judge Blocks White House Ballroom Construction (Ryan Bort/Rolling Stone)

The People Trump Pardoned Are on a Crime Spree (New York Times)

President Trump Tells EU Leaders to “Go Get Your Own Oil” from Gulf – In Interim, Welcome King Charles

Obama Judge Halts Trump Effort to End Parole for Hundreds of Thousands

Judge Finds Cutting Taxpayer Funding From NPR and PBS Violates First Amendment

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Zohran Mamdani is clearly aiming to convince the world that he isn’t anti-Semitic in the most lefty-coded theater-kid way possible. It didn’t quite go as he planned.

The New York mayor attended what The New York Times called a “hip” Passover Seder on Monday.

The event was also attended by former CNN host Don Lemon, who is in a bit of legal trouble at the moment, and a whole host of other characters, including a drag-queen rabbi who phoned in from Jerusalem and George Floyd’s brother, who spoke about “racism,” according to the Times.

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The Trump administration is organizing an international summit focused on countering the left-wing movement antifa and other groups, three sources familiar with the matter said, an effort that reflects changes in the U.S. government’s counterterrorism priorities over the past year.

The conference, tentatively planned for June or July, will convene officials from various nations to discuss strategies for addressing antifa and encourage intelligence sharing, said the sources, who requested anonymity as they were not authorized to speak to the media.

President Donald Trump has described antifa as a significant threat to the U.S.

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Florence Bergeaud-Blackler is a French anthropologist who specializes in scholarly research on Islam. She is the author of Les Sens du halal : une norme dans un marché mondial (The senses of halal : a standard in a global market) and Le Marché halal : ou l’invention d’une tradition (The Halal Market : or the invention of a tradition). Her most recent book is Le Frérisme et Ses Reseaux, l’Enquête (The Brotherhood and its Networks : An Investigation). Her work has earned the enmity of Muslims, to the point that she has to live under police protection.

Rémi Brague is a French historian and professor of philosophy at the Sorbonne. He is one of the world’s pre-eminent experts on Sharia law and the history of Islam.

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The FBI said on Monday that an attack on the largest Jewish temple in Michigan earlier this month was an “act of terrorism” inspired by Hezbollah.

Ayman Ghazali, a 41-year-old man who was born in Lebanon and became a U.S. citizen in 2016, killed himself during the March 12 attack, when he crashed his truck into the Temple of Israel synagogue before opening fire on security guards and causing an explosion using fireworks, said Jennifer Runyan, the special agent in charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Detroit field office.

No one else died during the attack on the synagogue where children were attending preschool.

“Oh Muslim, Oh Servant of Allah, there is a Jew hiding behind me. Come and kill him.” — hadith, Sahih al-Bukhari

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It’s certainly a problem for him and for people who think like  him.

A British Liberal Democrat MP has openly admitted what the political class really fears about Elon Musk’s X: it lets ordinary Britons speak freely about the disaster of mass immigration.

In a clip that exploded across the platform on Monday, Cheltenham MP Max Wilkinson described X as a “massive problem” precisely because it gives critics of unchecked migration a voice.

“It’s a really easy [way] to get some content out about how you think immigration is too high, or immigration is the big thing that’s tearing the country apart… X is now making sure that you can have your voice heard in a really easy way that you couldn’t in the past,” he complained.

This is not some fringe rant. Wilkinson, the Lib Dems’ Home Office spokesperson, simply said the quiet part out loud. While the establishment lectures the public about “tolerance” and “diversity,” it seethes at the idea that native Brits can now push back online without gatekeepers filtering their concerns.

The backlash was instant and brutal. Toby Young of the Free Speech Union fired back: “Labour MP Max Wilkinson says the quiet part out loud: He doesn’t like X because it enables people who think immigration is too high to have their voices heard.”

Telegraph journalist Allison Pearson was even sharper: “God forbid people should be able to say on X that immigration is far too high. Or that it is causing problems for our way of life. Lib Dem MP Max Wilkinson thinks those opinions should be silenced. How dare he!”

This admission lands at the perfect moment to expose the broader pattern of suppressio

Newsbusters.

On Monday’s Morning Joe, the MS NOW program’s co-host Jonathan Lemire claimed the Israeli military killed the Iranian Parliament Speaker, who had emerged as the apparent key negotiator and possible new leader in Iran according to the White House.

Around 10 minutes after his statement, host Joe Scarborough asked Lemire to clarify his comments, to which he clarified the report of the Speaker’s death may be untrue and shifted his tone to mention that the Parliament Speaker may have no power anyway, a flip from his original smug comments on negotiations.

A focus of the premier liberal morning talk program was on how a war with Iran would end through negotiations. David Ignatius, a columnist at The Washington Post, discussed many diplomatic options, but called the president “overoptimistic.”

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There will be no Charlie Kirk highway in his home state of Arizona. The reason: politics.

Exactly whose politics is to blame has become a point of debate.

Kirk, the conservative leader known for his campus debates, was assassinated last year during an event at Utah Valley University. Republicans in Arizona, where Kirk’s Turning Point USA organization is based, passed legislation attempting to add Kirk’s name to Loop 202, a highway circling through the sprawling Phoenix area.

Democrat Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed it on Friday.

In a veto message to state lawmakers, Hobbs denounced political violence but suggested that Republicans had inappropriately injected politics into a decision rightly left to a state board that names historic highways.

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We get the government we choose to elect, hence the government we deserve. Voting for ever-higher punitive taxes on the rich is arguably a form of civic suicide. Consider that a wealthy New Yorker can get a raise of almost 40% just by moving.

That’s right. If moving eliminates a 14.8% top state and local tax rate, our top-tier taxpayer gets a 36% raise, not a 14.8% raise, by leaving. It’s doubtful if any of our city and state leaders have done this math, but it’s shocking.

Mamdani wants to take the top rate up another 2%, if not by the state then by the city, which would mean that our rich neighbor can get a 42% raise.

Daily Mail (UK).

A Wall Street titan is weighing an exodus from New York as fears grow over rising taxes under the city’s new left-wing mayor.

Apollo Global Management, one of the biggest private capital firms in the world, is planning a second US headquarters in the South – with most future hiring set to happen outside Manhattan.

The $900 billion firm is considering cities in a variety of Sunbelt states – including Austin, Nashville, or somewhere in South Florida.

The move puts Apollo among a growing list of finance heavyweights drifting away from New York, long seen as the global capital of money.

Florida has already attracted major players such as Citadel and Elliott Management, while Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan are establishing a strong presence in Texas.

Partners and managing directors were recently surveyed on what their location preference would be, according to people familiar with the situation.

The company announced plans to relocate just as New York City’s mayor Zohran Mamdani pushed to hike up taxes on major corporations.

‘We’ve shared with our teams across Apollo and Athene that we plan to establish a second headquarters in either Texas or south Florida, alongside NYC,’ Apollo told the Financial Times.

And there was much rejoicing…. Except for the Narrative Media, of course.

Dozens Arrested for Failing to Disperse After ‘No Kings’ Rally in Los Angeles

“Worse Than the 1970s” ??? Donald Trump, it seems, has managed to outdo his first term’s mismanagement … (Ryan C. Smith/Liberal Currents)

Trump officials cite white supremacists in bid to end birthright citizenship (Justin Jouvenal/Washington Post)

MAGA Was Supposed to Be Antiwar. Nope. (Kristen Soltis Anderson/New York Times)  MaGA is the New Nigger.

They’ve Been Accused of Running a ‘Covert’ Operation in Greenland. It’s No Secret. (New York Times)

Pete Hegseth Just Revealed the Real Roots of His Sadism and Rage (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit.

Spain closes airspace to US planes involved in Iran war, defence minister says (Reuters)

The left LOVES kings — the ones with (D) after their name (New York Post)

When ICE Blows Through Rural America (Emma Janssen/American Prospect)

The FCC chair is openly cheering the weakening of the press (Tom Jones/Poynter)

The Great Republican DHS Funding Rake-Stepping Fest (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)

Trump’s Iran war is holding him hostage (Sidney Blumenthal/The Guardian)  Is Sid Vicious still alive?

This Is How Trump Is Already Threatening the Midterms (David Gilbert/Wired)

New Evidence Corroborates Claims of Trump Sex Accuser, 13 (Cameron Adams/The Daily Beast)

Trump’s America and the Axis of Autocracy (Paul Krugman)  The vacuum speaks.

Pete Hegseth Believes in the Lethality Fairy (Paul Krugman  Paul Krugman spends too much time breathing his own exhaust.

The Trump-voting pastor Democrats think could cost them a chance at a Nebraska Senate seat (Andrew Kaczynski/CNN)

First Draft: Are These Trump’s Worst Poll Numbers… Ever? (Andrew Perez/Zeteo)

Major Airports Return to Normal as TSA Workers Get Paid

ICE Agent’s Heroic Act Saves Toddler at Airport, Counters Dems’ Dire Predictions

‘Battle of the titans’: Trump’s distorted reality on Iran war runs into a brick wall (David Smith/The Guardian)

NY Times Relays Anti-Trump Conspiracy Kookery (and 44 Photos) From ‘No Kings’ Rallies

This weekend, women in Handmaid’s Tale garb marched alongside protesters who want Trump to stop bombing the theocratic regime of Iran ?

The Trump Administration Comes for State Voter Rolls (Eric Columbus/Lawfare)

President Trump’s Approval Sinks to 33% in New UMass Poll (Jared Sharpe/UMass Amherst)

What ‘deadline’? — The “deadline” for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz or face destruction … (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

What Are Your Obligations When Your Country Is the Villain? (Aaron Regunberg/The Nation)  Move.

Most say Trump administration has not done enough to ‘Make America Healthy Again’: Survey (Tara Suter/The Hill)

Trump says White House ballroom plans include ‘massive’ underground military complex (Megan Lebowitz/NBC News)  Ah, ah, ah, ah, yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains….l

‘I Think That MAGA Is Dying’: Inside the Youth Movement at CPAC (Nathan Taylor Pemberton/New York Times)  They hope, they hope, they hope,,,.

Republicans Flirt With Kicking Americans Off Health Care to Fund Iran War (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone)  In proglodyte dreams.

MAGA’s latest campaign of cruelty targets immigrant kids’ education (Svante Myrick/The Hill) MAGA is the New Nigger.

US military building ‘massive complex’ beneath White House ballroom project: Trump (Agence France-Presse) Ah, ah, ah, ah, yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains….

John C. Write.

All, or nearly all, the classical logical fallacies are fallacies because they are perfectly reliable social methods of weighing evidence in real life in cases where logic does not necessitate an answer.

Ad hominem: It is normal and reasonable to take the character of the witness into account when weighing the believability of his testimony — it merely does not necessarily prove he is lying here and now, even though he lies frequently.

Ad Antiquitatem: It is normal and reasonable to pay more respect to a belief that has stood the test of time, and been found worthy by several generations to pass from father to son. This does not prove an older belief is true, but it may shift the burden of proof.

Ad populum: It is normal and reasonable to take into account whether a belief has been pondered and accepted by a large number of people, rather than being a fringe belief, believed by a few. Two heads are better than one. This does not prove the popular belief is true, but it means the unpopular belief must overcome a greater burden of skepticism: for one must not only explain the question at hand, but also explain why this wisdom is confined to so few.

Ad Verecundiam: It is normal and reasonable to defer to expert opinion on a topic, if the experts have spent more time, effort, or resources studying the issue, particularly if one is in no position to compare this with what is commonly known. Again, it does not prove the expert is correct, but it may shift the burden of proof.

And so on.

For example, stereotypes are stereotypes for a reason. They reflect the learned experience of a lot of people.

For another example, clichés are clichés for a reason. They reflect the learned experience of a lot of people.

This all relates to the cliché that correlation does not imply causation. That’s perfectly true—BUT there is no causation without correlation, and when you don’t know what the causation chain is, and you need to make a decision, correlation is all you’ve got and it‘s better than nothing.

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One of Marion Barry’s first acts as mayor was to kill the zoning plan his predecessor had put in motion. The first mayor of Washington DC under home rule, Walter Washington oversaw the plans for the city’s subway system (The Metro). He fiercely insisted that the zoning around most stops be adjusted to bring about a mix of residential, retail and office space to use the Metro to help establish distinct neighborhoods. Barry correctly inferred that this kind of renewal would bring more middle-class and upper middle class residents back to DC and those people were not his base.

The large developers also hated the plan because it restricted construction of (then lucrative) office space along K St. Barry got campaign cash from that sector and a promise that low income housing would be built in the city’s poorest ward as soon as “suitable sites became available.” Barry then announced that he had shaken down The Man on behalf of the the disadvantage black underclass in his first days in office.

Oddly enough, those “suitable sites” never became available. DC remained heavily poor and over 2/3 black for the remainder of Barry’s first 12 year stretch as mayor. But now those “suitable sites” have indeed become available but not for pubic housing.

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Went to the No Kings assemblies in my town and the next nearby town on Saturday. Mental illness as far as the eye could see. Old folks, too, as far as the eye could see, predominately of the female persuasion: the devouring grandmothers. The Democratic Party has marshalled mental illness as its premier campaign strategy, and lately it is winning bigly around the country as mental illness becomes the go-to cope option for the ragged remnants of Boomerdom.

They believe things that are patently insane, for instance, the latest proposal by Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) that illegal immigrants deserve reparations on account of being “traumatized” by U.S. immigration enforcement actions.

If it feels like the Democratic Party is at war with our country you are not hallucinating.

It is every bit as much a jihad as the Death to America crowd in Iran has explicitly pushed since 1979.

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“I confronted a No Kings protestor on the lack of diversity at the protest, she told me she’s here because black people can’t be,” Podcaster Nate Friedman explains, introducing video of an interview he conducted at Saturday’s “No King’s Day” protest in New York.

“It seems like there’s a lack of diversity here today, that it’s mostly people like you and I,” Friedman tells a White female protestor at the event, prompting her to claim that Black people – and only Black people – would be arrested at the rally:

“It is not safe for them and they don’t need to participate,” the White protestor added, claiming that “We need to walk in their name.”

It’s also a racist scheme to require voters to show identification, the woman, who says she “voted Democrat in the womb, claimed.

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The Washington Post first reported that Patel was considering releasing files to the public after reopening the investigation of California congressman Eric Swalwell’s relationship with a Chinese honeypot named Fang Fang.

I guess dating a Chinese spy isn’t technically against the law, as long as there’s no proof he divulged any secret information to the commie spy.

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How strong is a missile defense network if the hardest part is not the interception, but the refill? That question has moved to the center of defense planning as analysts examine the strain placed on some of the Pentagon’s most specialized munitions. The issue is not whether the United States can launch strikes or defend key sites in the short term. It is whether the country can keep doing both while preserving enough high-end inventory for other theaters, especially when the most capable interceptors and long-range missiles are also the slowest to replace.

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Slavery was a universal feature of every society until Christians decided to stop in in the 18oos.

The reparations effort is being led by Ghana, which is, of course, setting itself up as one of the chief beneficiaries of the U.N. resolution.

“We are demanding compensation—and let us be clear, African leaders are not asking for money for themselves,” Ghana’s foreign minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa said to the BBC. “We want justice for the victims and causes to be supported, educational and endowment funds, skills training funds.”

Ah, so Africa’s politicians aren’t trying to enrich themselves personally. That would be brazen and crass. No, they are merely attempting to loot other countries to pay off their constituents. How noble. How heroic.

That’s ultimately what this reparations push is about. It’s an attempt by several African countries to use globalist institutions and the façade of international law to essentially receive a permanent stipend from self-loathing Western suckers, I mean nations. It’s also a tool whereby other antagonists of the West can score some historical points against their rivals while ignoring their own modern crimes and tyranny.

The American Mind.

Every couple of years, another hit piece surfaces to explain why the Right supposedly hates women and why women on the Right hate themselves. The Left has trafficked in condescending explanations for the alleged paradox of the right-wing female for quite a long time. The latest in this tired genre, “The Young Women Leaving the New Right” in New York Magazine, is more of the same, dressed up for the digital age.

We are supposed to believe that conservative women are “Pick Mes,” seeking to gain male validation by belittling other women. They are afraid of their right-wing husbands, are too dumb to form their own opinions about politics, have “internalized misogyny,” lack dignity, and so on.

Not even the element of poaching a few disgruntled former conservatives and mining them for embarrassing tidbits is a remotely new tactic. There have always been some willing to take the liberal media up on the chance to open their kimono in exchange for the opportunity to fire a shot at their intra-right nemeses.

However, the sources interviewed by the “journalist” Sam Adler-Bell, who also co-hosts a podcast dissecting the Right in much the same way as visitors view monkeys in a zoo, don’t bolster his case. Much of the “evidence” on the charge of misogyny is a series of anonymously told personal stories that amount to one-sided gossip, with the true nature of the described interactions impossible to discern.

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Had the common-sense provisions of the Expatriation Act of 1907 or even the milder Nationality Act of 1940 been in force today, we wouldn’t have the farce of cartel and terrorist leaders who still hold our citizenship, active traitors with citizenship, “refugees” who spend most of their time back home or a Somali senator linked to fraud who is still voting in Minnesota elections.

The Warren Court’s deliberate misreading of the Fourteenth Amendment’s awkward attempt to define all black people as citizens, “all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power… are declared to be citizens,” somehow trumped the clear language of Article I, Section 8, Clause 4 that Congress has the power “to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization”.

In a series of bad decisions, Supreme Court rulings argued that serving in a foreign military, desertion, marrying foreigners, and voting abroad did not merit denaturalization.

Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu is a birthright American Citizen, as is Prince Constantine Achilleas of Greece.

As is

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Prominent Democrats such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, and Rep. Ro Khanna of California have embraced initiatives to increase taxes on the wealthiest Americans, Axios reported.

But moderates in the Democratic Party have argued such taxes are anti-business, legally unfeasible, and too often pitched as addressing wealth inequality rather than using the revenue to expand benefits.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has repeatedly pushed back on wealth tax proposals in his state.

Progressives, including Khanna, have called on Newsom to support legislation for a one-time tax on Californians who earn more than $1 billion. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., a possible 2028 rival to Newsom, was in Los Angeles on Saturday to express support for the tax.

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As Chicago and other blue cities move toward reparations for African Americans, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D, Wa.) wants reparations for illegal immigrants for the trauma caused by immigration enforcement.

At the same time, various Democrats are making clear that they want to entirely defund and eliminate Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

So, after the Biden Administration allowed in millions over an open border, Democrats would eliminate ICE and some like Jayapal would pay illegal immigrants reparations.

Everything she actually cares about.

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Mexico is home to 68 officially recognized Indigenous languages, spoken by nearly 7 million people, including Mayan and Náhuatl. Yet, despite their historical significance, many of these languages are in decline. Urbanization, globalization, and the dominance of Spanish and English are slowly but surely pushing them to the brink.

To preserve Mexico’s rich linguistic heritage, Mexican authorities have kick-started an initiative to offer Indigenous language classes, and, in some cases, fully bilingual curriculums.

In Yucatán, efforts to teach the Maya language in schools are gaining momentum as 35,000 students from 75 municipalities now have the option to study Yucatec-Maya, beginning as early as grade school.

I am reminded of a Richard Pryor video I once saw in which he was telling about a visit he made to Africa. Once there, someone asked him, “What language do you speak at home?” Pryor answered, “English.” The African that he was talking to said, “Yes, of course, everyone speaks English, but what language do you speak at home?” And Pryor was stunned.

Naval News.

Super-sized hovercraft provide a rare and specialized capability that only a handful of navies can afford. China is the only nation investing in these massive platforms, pursuing series production of the Zubr-class vessels for amphibious assault operations. These offer key operational advantages and may signal a growing level of preparedness for a potential invasion of Taiwan.

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More than you ever wanted to know about Taiwan, its geography, its place in the international order, and (oh, look) the chip business.

Thousands rally across Utah in ‘No Kings’ protests against Trump (Samantha Moilanen/Salt Lake Tribune)

500 groups with $3B in revenues are behind the #NoKings protests and communist call for ‘revolution’ (Asra Nomani/Fox News)

Date announced for national strike aimed at crippling Trump: ‘No work, no school’ (Raw Story)

No Kings protests draw crowds, with record number taking place across U.S. (Washington Post)

No Kings Protests Held Across the U.S.: Photos and Videos (New York Times)

No Kings rallies across Wisconsin draw thousands (Wisconsin Examiner)

A month into Iran, the GOP’s political reality sinks in (Politico)  The Narrarive Media’s ceaseless drumbeat of talking up Iran as a ‘problem’ for Republicans, a bid to get Republicans to panic, proceeds apace.

‘No Kings’ protests turn violent in Portland, LA and Dallas — as rally near Mar-a-Lago takes bizarre turn (David Spector/New York Post)  It’s ironic that people who can’t tell the difference between a man and an woman think that they are the arbiters of what distinguishes a President from a King.

The larger stakes of Trump’s redesign of Washington, DC (Vox)  Used to be, Democrats could depend on Republicans to play by the Democrat playbook for 90% of the time, which allowed them to focus on the remaining 10%. Trump threw that old playbook out, and Democrats have been playing catch-up ever since.

Invoking faith in wartime, Pete Hegseth breaks norms and worries critics (Michelle Boorstein/Washington Post)Used to be, Democrats could depend on Republicans to play by the Democrat playbook for 90% of the time, which allowed them to focus on the remaining 10%. Trump threw that old playbook out, and Democrats have been playing catch-up ever since. Hegseth learned at the feet of the Master.

Red flare for Trump: ‘No Kings’ rallies a show of political force (Susan Page/USA Today)  No, just an attempt to substitute noise for effective action. The Left depends on virtue-signaling and noisy crowds to give the impression that their support among the population is greater than it actually is. ‘They may have won all the battles/But we had all the good songs!’ (No Kings protests across the world: in pictures (Pejman Faratin/The Guardian))

5 Takeaways From the ‘No Kings’ Rallies as the Midterms Heat Up (Tim Balk/New York Times)  Come and get your Narrative, hot off the press!