DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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Three of America’s largest banks filed 7,474 Labor Condition Applications for foreign workers. Public records expose the playbook: file at scale, pay the legal minimum, and lock workers in with green card sponsorship.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

The Telegraph (UK).s

A gunman who identified as a woman killed two people and injured three others at a high school hockey match in Rhode Island on Monday.

The 56-year-old, thought to have been the father of one of the hockey players, shot a woman and her child in the stands at the Dennis M. Lynch Arena before turning the gun on himself.

Tina Goncalves, the Pawtucket police chief, told a press conference on Monday night that the gunman used the name Roberta Esposito.

“We have identified the person, the suspect, by a birth name. The birth name was Robert Dorgan,” said Ms Goncalves. “We have also learned that the person does go by the name of Roberta and also uses the last name of Esposito.”

‘Trans’ people are crazy. Crazy people are dangerous. Avoid crazy people.

Tim Pool covers it.

The Telegraph (UK).

I know the feeling.

The Price of the Epstein Frenzy

The Trump Administration Is Now a Threat to Our Lives, and Not Just from Street Executions

After Melting Down over Vance, Sunday Shows OMIT Rubio’s Munich Speech

The key to defeating Trump? Mass non-cooperation (The Guardian)

Vanity Fair: ‘Epstein’s Ghost’ Haunts Trump’s Every Move, Despite a Lack of Evidence  The ‘ghost’ in question is that of the dead Epstein horse that the Narrative Media keep hoping they can beat into life.

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You’d think they’d figure this out and do something about is. But no. Busness As Usual, until Arlington disappears in nuclear fire and the finger-pointing starts.

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A few presidencies ago, Washington politicians used boundless political and intellectual chicanery to drag America into a ruinous war. Thousands of Americans died and scores of thousands of Iraqis perished due to the official myth of Saddam Hussein as the twentieth hijacker.

Last November, Axios published new damning information on the role of Saudi government officials in bankrolling the 9/11 attacks on New York City and the Pentagon. Private lawsuits against the Saudi regime “unearthed evidence showing one Saudi official—who acknowledges aiding two men who became hijackers—made a drawing of a plane and a mathematical formula that allegedly could have been used to fly into the World Trade Center.” That was only the latest stunning revelation in a coverup that will celebrate its twenty-fifth birthday this year.

In 2002 and early 2003, the W. Bush administration rushed to exploit 9/11 to justify invading Iraq. But there was a problem with that con job. A 2002 FBI memo stated that there was “incontrovertible evidence that there is support for these [9/11 hijacker] terrorists within the Saudi Government.” A joint House-Senate congressional investigation found extensive evidence that the Saudi government, not Saddam Hussein, propelled the hijackers. The Bush administration succeeded in suppressing the key twenty-eight pages of that congressional report on the Saudi role on 9/11.

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The chaos caused by millions of illegal immigrants flooding across the southwest border under the Biden administration left scars on this border town.

?The constant high-speed chases, buzzing helicopters, screaming emergency sirens, hurried school lockdowns, torn barbed-wire fences, and decomposing bodies on ranches and along the Rio Grande all took their toll on Texas towns near the Mexican border.

?The border crisis drained resources and changed the lifestyle of Brackettville, a little town with two traffic light intersections in Kinney County. Residents of the county and beyond said the madness stopped almost overnight after President Donald Trump took office.?

The Other McCain.

The headline probably seems like common sense to anyone who knows anything about St. Louis. If you’re from Missouri or the part of western Illinois near St. Louis, you probably don’t need any warnings, because the city is notorious dangerous, and folks in the immediate vicinity know to avoid it. “Well, Stacy, how dangerous is St. Louis?” you ask.

IT’S WORSE THAN BALTIMORE!

This is a Third World category of danger found in very few places in the United States. In 2023, only two cities — New Orleans, with a homicide rate of 46 per 100,000 residents, and Memphis, at 41 per 100,000 residents — exceeded the rate in St. Louis which, at 38 homicides per 100,000 residents, was worse than either Baltimore or Washington, D.C., which tied for fourth place that year. My friend Dana Pico likes to joke about “Killadelphia,” but the homicide rate there was just 26 per 100,000. And there were twice as many homicides per capita in St. Louis than in either Cleveland or Detroit. That’s pretty doggone bad.

Did I mention that the population of St. Louis has seen a drastic decline in recent decades? There are currently fewer than 300,000 residents in the city, down more than 50% since 1970, but not all of the lost population was murdered. Most of them escaped to the suburbs, or left the area entirely, as rampant crime turned St. Louis into a nightmare of violence and thievery. Did I mention that St. Louis is a stronghold of the Democratic Party? The city is part of Missouri’s 1st Congressional District, which is rated D+29 in the Cook Partisan Voting Index and was formerly represented by “Squad” member Cori Bush, before she lost the 2024 Democratic primary to Wesley Bell. (Who to blame? The Jews!)

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There are growing calls in France for violent left-wing activists to be classified as terrorists following the death of 23-year-old Quentin, who died from his injuries caused by a brutal attack in Lyon on Thursday.

The political world in France and beyond has been left horrified by this act of violence. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said the “far left” was “clearly” behind the attack and pointed to the possible involvement of the ‘antifascist’ La Jeune Garde group, founded by leftist MP Raphaël Arnault.

The Antiplanner.

One argument against rail transit is that rail vehicles cost a lot more than buses, even when adjusting for numbers of seats and vehicle lifespans. The transit industry is trying to fix that — by spending more on buses. As shown in the table below, table 24 of the American Public Transportation Association’s vehicle database says that an intercity bus costs less than $300,000, but in 2023 and 2024 transit agencies spent an average of more than $1.1 million for 40-foot buses to use for bus rapid transit.

Politicians (especially Democrat politicians) love to spend money (your money, not their own money).

And … they love having juicy contracts to pass out among … friends, let us say.

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The image is difficult to reconcile with a consolidated democracy: a Christian pastor handcuffed in the centre of Bristol after answering a question about Muhammad during a public preaching. Yet that is exactly what happened to Dia Moodley.

Quillette.

When news of the tragedy was first reported to Canadians on the afternoon of 10 February, it appeared to include a striking anomaly: The killer, we were told, was a “woman.” There are scattered examples of female killers in the annals of Canadian crime. But this would be the first time in the recorded history of Canada and its colonial antecedents—going back more than 400 years, to the early seventeenth century—that a woman had gone on this kind of murderous rampage.

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It soon became clear, however, that Van Rootselaar wasn’t a woman. He was an eighteen-year-old man—a gun-obsessed, middle-school dropout whose many mental-health afflictions happened to include gender dysphoria. The mass murderer called himself a woman. But that doesn’t mean he was, or that the rest of us have to live in the imaginary universe he (literally) built for himself.

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Aluminum foil is made by rolling sheets of 98.5 percent pure aluminum metal between pairs of polished, lubricated steel rollers.

Successive passes through the rollers squeeze the foil thinner.

Household aluminum foil is so thin (0.0005 of an inch) that the rollers can’t handle it without tearing it.

The final rolling is therefore done on a sandwich of two sheets, face to face.

The outer surfaces emerge with a finish as smooth as the rollers, while the two face-to-face inner surfaces emerge with a matte finish.

The two sheets are then separated.

Hence, a shiny side and a duller side.

When you use the foil, it makes no difference which side is up, down or sideways.

I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

Never say we don’t have useful stuff here.

Joel 1: 1-5:

1 The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.

2 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?

3 Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

4 That which the palmerworm [politicians] hath left hath the locust [welfare cheats] eaten; and that which the locust [welfare cheats] hath left hath the cankerworm [race hustlers] eaten; and that which the cankerworm  [race hustlers] hath left hath the caterpiller [fraudsters and scammers] eaten.

5 Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

From the Telegraph (UK):

Police officer sacked for striking violent suspect as he resisted arrest

Headteacher left in wheelchair after attack by special needs student

Small-boat migrants awarded £210k after border agents seized their phones  (Note: These are illegal immigrants.”Confiscating mobiles and SIM cards was a breach of human rights, High Court judges ruled”)

Democracy ‘denied to 15 million’ if elections delayed again

The Birmingham ward where a convicted terrorist is running for office

The Telegraph (UK).

Or get you institutionalized for Obsexxive Compulsive Disorder. (Why take a chance?)

The Telegraph (UK).

An imam sexually abused young girls and then threatened them with black magic if they spoke out, a court heard.

Abdul Halim Khan, 54, abused victims as young as 12 after persuading them to meet him in isolated places between 2004 and 2015.

Khan told his victims they would be possessed by a jinn, a supernatural spirit in Islam, Snaresbrook Crown Court in east London was told.

He also threatened them with “black magic” if they told friends or family what he had done.

The imam was finally arrested after his youngest victim reported him to a teacher at her school in 2017.

Although not stated in the story, it’s pretty clear that the girls were themselves Muslim.

The Telegraph (UK).

Vladimir Putin is moving nuclear missiles to the border of the European Union, Belarus’s exiled opposition leader has warned.

In an interview with The Telegraph, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya said Belarus was helping Russia to escalate its war in Ukraine and told Europe to pay “more attention to what is happening” in the territory.

She said Alexander Lukashenko, Putin’s ally and strongman in Belarus, was facilitating the Russian leader’s aggression in Ukraine by allowing him to intensify Russia’s military presence in the country.

“We see how on Belarusian territory, Mr Lukashenko’s regime intensifies the presence of Russia. They are about to deploy nuclear weapons [to Belarus], Russian missiles,” Ms Tsikhanouskaya said.

Thank you, Barack Hussein Obama. Your ‘red lines’ in Syria that were crossed with impunity by Russia led to the invasion of Ukraine under Sleepy Joe Biden, with the results that we see now.

Oh, and by the way: Poland considers building nuclear weapons (The Telegraph [UK]). Only Britain and France, in the E.U., have nuclear weapons, and God alone know whether they are actually operable.

The Telegraph (UK).

The Trump administration is in talks to accept a man who burnt a Koran as a refugee from Britain.

Not from Turkey. Not from Pakistan. Not from Saudi Arabia. Not from Iran. Not from Egypt. From Britain.

State department officials are preparing to help Hamit Coskun flee the UK if he loses a “blasphemy case” this week.

Would the prosecute someone who burned the Bible for ‘blasphemy’? Of course not. (In Britain!).

The potential intervention is likely to escalate transatlantic tensions over free speech, which critics have claimed is being eroded under Sir Keir Starmer’s Government.

‘Eroded’? ‘Eroded‘? How about ‘trashed’?

Mr Coskun sought asylum in the UK from his home country of Turkey, saying Islamic terrorists had destroyed his family’s life. He told The Telegraph that, if he did lose his case, he may be forced “to flee” and seek protection in the US.

“For me, as the victim of Islamic terrorism, I cannot remain silent. I may be forced to flee the UK and move to the USA, where President Trump has stood for free speech and against Islamic extremism,” he said.

“If I have to do so, then, to me, the UK will have effectively fallen to Islamism and the speech codes that it wishes to impose on the non-Muslim world.”

Successfully, it would appear. Words fail me….

The War Zone.

Looking like a scene in a sci-fi movie, and in what is clearly a unique mission, dubbed Operation Windlord, USAF C-17s have been tasked with transporting a micro nuclear reactor. The U.S. military’s role is to transport the elements of the Ward250 reactor, made by Valar Atomics, from March Air Reserve Base in Southern California to Hill Air Force Base in Utah. Once on the ground in Utah, it will be moved to Utah San Rafael Energy Lab (USREL) in Orangeville for extensive testing. Beyond its direct utility, this operation may very well serve as a glimpse of what’s to come as the Department of Defense looks to integrate micro nuclear reactors into the power grids of critical installations.

A total of three C-17s will bring the components of the Ward250, eight modules in total, to Utah. This is said to be the first time a nuclear reactor has been moved via Globemaster III. The delivery of the Ward250 to USREL is part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Nuclear Reactor Pilot Program, established in response to President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14301 last year.

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Senator Saddam claims that Virginia is in the middle of an ‘Islamophobia’ crisis. The second Muslim selected for the state senate, after Ghazala Hashmi, who is now acting as Virginia’s Lt. Governor, the Bangladeshi immigrant, from a country where non-Muslims are being murdered in the streets, has made complaining about ‘Islamophobia’ in his new home his signature issue.

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A federal court in Pakistan on February 3rd granted custody of a 13-year-old Christian girl, Maria Shahbaz, to a Muslim man who had kidnapped her, converted her to Islam, and ‘married’ her.

Judges rejected the birth certificate Maria’s parents provided, which proved her age. Furthermore, the judges disregarded earlier judicial findings that the marriage was illegal, Safdar Chaudhry, chairperson of rights group Raah-e-Nijaat Ministry, told Christian Daily International–Morning Star News.

Such cases follow a recurring pattern. Every year in Pakistan, an estimated 1,000 girls and young women from religious minorities (many of whom are Christians) face abduction, rape, forced marriage to their much older abductors, coerced conversion to Islam, and various other forms of abuse. Victims are as young as seven and include girls with disabilities. Families often never see their loved ones again because the police rarely act and the courts frequently fail victims. Survivors endure shame, PTSD, and social stigma in Pakistan’s honor-based culture.

Trump Is Having to Work Harder Than Ever to Keep GOP in Line (Wall Street Journal)

Trump vows voter ID requirements for the midterms, ‘whether approved by Congress or not’ (Kyla Guilfoil/NBC News)

At least half a dozen top Trump administration officials appear in the Jeffrey Epstein files (Dareh Gregorian/NBC News)

Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. (Reuters)  I didn’t know that there were so many Democrat judges.

Why MAGA Wants You to Think Slavery Wasn’t That Bad (Thomas Chatterton Williams/The Atlantic)  Were it not for slavery, Michelle Obama would be squatting beside a mud hut in West Africa grinding up corn meal for dinner.

Newsom Tells Europe “Trump Is Temporary,” Doubles Down On Failing Green Agenda

PBS Compares Minnesota Protestors To Civil Rights Movement, Underground Railroad

Trump is clowning his evangelical base (Stephen Robinson/Public Notice)

Bondi’s Incompetence Is the Latest Insult for Epstein’s Victims (Ross Douthat/New York Times)

‘BAD BREATH!’ WashPost Editorial Board Spews Hot Air on Trump Tariffs Ruining Valentine’s Day

Trump Lashes Out as Epstein Files Fallout Grows and the Department of Homeland Security Shuts Down (Aaron Parnas/The Parnas Perspective)

Pam Bondi’s ‘Cage Match’ and Trump’s Fraying Coalition (New York Times)

Fragmenting Latino vote now a wildcard in elections (Russell Contreras/Axios)  Apparently not every Brown Person hates Trump.

The Democratic governor building a playbook to resist ICE (Astead Herndon/Vox)

‘The court can conceive of no circumstance’: Judge bars ‘warrantless’ immigration enforcement raids at churches to protect ‘religious freedom’ (Colin Kalmbacher/Law & Crime)

Trump tells soldiers to vote GOP in campaign-style rally at Fort Bragg (Isaac Arnsdorf/Washington Post)

How ICE Failed to Justify the Shooting of Julio Sosa-Celis in Minneapolis (New York Times)

President Trump’s Claim of an “Irrefutable” Argument Supporting His Right to Unilaterally Impose Voter ID and Election Rules May Be Based on Insane Claim … (Rick Hasen/Election Law Blog)

Inside the Debacle That Led to the Closure of El Paso’s Airspace (New York Times)

Media Has Short Memory: Biden DOJ Targeted Trump

Rubio calls on Europe to join Trump’s new world order (Felicia Schwartz/Politico)

‘South Texas will never be red again’: Home builders warn GOP over Trump’s immigration raids (Politico)  Uh, guys? They never were.

MAGA Architect Plotted With Epstein Against Pope Francis (Annabella Rosciglione/The Daily Beast)  The Narrative Media desperate effort to somehow handcuff Trump to Bannon is exceeded only by their absurd efforts to handcuff Trump to Epstein.

Trump insider Tom Barrack kept in regular contact with Jeffrey Epstein for years, files show (Daniel Ruetenik/CBS News)  Epstein cooties!

5 of the most-botched deportations of Trump 2.0 (Brittany Gibson/Axios)  It’s so hard to get good help these days.

‘Buried at the Trump Golf Course’: Explosive FBI interview unearthed in Epstein files (Alexander Willis/Raw Story)  Epstein cooties!

Broken bones, burning eyes: How Trump’s DHS deploys ‘less lethal’ weapons on protesters (NBC News)  Protesters WHO ARE INTERFERING WiTH LAW ENFORCEMENT. Just because you’re a ‘protester’ doesn’t mean you can do anything you want.

Trump officials condemned Don Lemon. He’s bigger than ever after arrest. (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)  He’ll have plenty of time to work out in prison.

The SAVE Act and the Myth of a Voter Fraud Crisis (The Rational League)  Proglodytes always name their mobs for what they DON’T do….

The vacuum speaks: Who Is Paying the Trump Tariffs? (Paul Krugman) Not Paul Krugman, apparently.

Trump’s Relentless Self-Promotion Fosters an American Cult of Personality (Peter Baker/New York Times)  What a short memory! Go back and look how Obama was treated, simpleton.

This Is What Destroying the Vaccine Market Looks Like (Jonathan Cohn/The Bulwark)  Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?

Trump claims victory on affordability as public anxieties persist (Washington Post) Two things that are not incompatible.

Fetterman Reveals His Parents Are Trump Supporters, Refuses To Call MAGA Voters ‘Nazis’

“I never want to see a child ever run away from our own government ever again” (Jason Sattler/THE FARCE)  Talk to the Narrative Media, then. They’re doing all the fear-mongering.

What Do Monica Lewinsky, Maggie Thatcher, Elvis, Cher, Bill Cosby, & The Pope Have In Common?  Surprise! They all appear in the Epstein files!

The backlash against Trump is showing up in hard data, not just polls (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)  Well, what passes for ‘hard data’ for Narritive Media….

Obama derides social media ‘clown show’ in first comments since Trump’s racist video post (Alexandra Marquez/NBC News)

Republican Party of Eau Claire County headquarters vandalized (Kim Leadholm/WEAU-TV)  Notice how you never hear of a Democrat party headquarters being vandalized…?

Leftists Install Unauthorized Sirens Across LA To Warn Illegals Of ICE Raids

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The “ultra-left” in France was behind the fatal beating of a French youth aligned with the far right, the justice minister said on Sunday, after the killing inflamed political tension in the country ahead of elections.

Justice Minister Gerald Darmanin also accused hard-left politicians, including from the France Unbowed (LFI) party, the largest left-wing faction in parliament, of fuelling violence with their language.

The victim, Quentin Deranque, aged 23, had been hospitalised and placed into a coma on Thursday after being attacked in the southeastern city of Lyon. The office of the Lyon prosecutor on Saturday told AFP Deranque had died of his wounds.

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Alberta separatists are ramping up a petition drive to trigger an independence referendum, while President Donald Trump’s administration and allies draw scrutiny for contacts with the movement, but recent polling shows most Albertans still oppose leaving Canada.

The Alberta Prosperity Project, a separatist-aligned group, aims to collect by May 2 about 177,000 signatures, or 10% of Alberta’s registered voters — the threshold to launch a citizen-led referendum on separation.

Organizers and supporters told Reuters they want an independent Alberta, not U.S. statehood, even as some expressed admiration for Trump.

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One of Gaza’s last functioning large hospitals condemned the move by an international organization to pull out of operations over concerns about armed men, claiming on Sunday that the hospital had installed civil police for security.

Of course they did. That’s standard operating procedure for Muslim terrorists. Schools, hospitals, mosques, any building that might trigger hand-wringing from Woke white people are fair game.

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The Spanish government has asked the European Commission to help facilitate the redistribution of migrants arriving in the Canary Islands to other parts of Europe as part of a broader package of measures aimed at easing the demands placed on the archipelago.

Apparently the Spanish government has about the same opinion of the intelligence of the EU government that we do.

Jonathan Turley.

This month, the anniversary of the California Gold Rush came and passed with little mention … for good reason. When James W. Marshall found gold at Sutter’s Mill, millions traveled great distances to seek their fortune in the “Golden State.”

Now, 178 years later, California has engineered an inverse Gold Rush, virtually chasing wealth from the state. Rather than covered wagons going West, there is a line of U-Hauls going anywhere other than California.

From boondoggle projects to reparations, California politicians continue to rack up new spending projects despite a soaring deficit and shrinking tax base.

Rather than exercise a modicum of fiscal restraint, Democrats are pushing through a tax that takes five percent of the wealth of any billionaires left in the state.

Blue states forget that they’re not countries. Their people can vote with their feet—and will.

Motto of the Special Warfare Operator: Be polite to everyone you meet, but have a plan to kill them.

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Dating and relationships in the US have changed dramatically in the past decade.   Once heralded as a vast clearing house for unlimited hook ups and endless partner options, online dating apps have all but imploded compared the their peak from 2016-2021.  High traffic apps like Bumble have lost 90% of their market value.  Tinder has lost 40% of its users since 2022.  Match Group apps have lost around 50% of their engagement since 2019.

The word on the street is, the apps are cancer and no one serious about dating actually uses them.  Why?  Female hypergamy is the clear culprit; the fantasy that the grass is always greener on another man’s lawn.  Data from match apps indicates that the average woman will only “swipe right” on 6% of all men in any given dating pool.  Meanwhile, the average man will swipe right on around 60% of women.

This means that the majority of American women suffer from delusions of grandeur and refuse to settle for men that are equal to them in terms of looks and career.  The end result is an increasingly desperate mob of mid-level women all fighting each other for access to the top 5% of men – Men who might sleep with such women, but also men who have no reason to settle down with them.

Too many options for women result in no options at all.

Gee, sounds like something I would say.

Newsbusters.

Before the Department of Homeland Security shutdown at midnight on Saturday as a result of Democrats demanding certain ICE reforms, ABC’s World News Tonight host David Muir and chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce declined to inform their viewers that ICE will be largely immune from the shutdown.

 

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Has Europe really embarked on a nuclear reset, rethinking its US-led deterrent architecture? For the first time since the Cold War, major European capitals are openly debating the need for an independent nuclear deterrent – an emerging theme on clear display this week at the Munich Security Conference.

We’ve reported before that the turning point came in March, when Washington temporarily halted battlefield intelligence sharing with Ukraine – a move that forced allies to confront the prospect that Washington may no longer serve as a dependable security guarantor, also as ratcheting Trump rhetoric increasingly highlights Europe needing to shoulder its own defense burden.

France’s Macron and Germany’s Merz held “confidential talks” on European nuclear deterrence, the German chancellor has confirmed. Still, he tried to downplay the full implications in his Friday remarks: “We Germans are adhering to our legal obligations. We consider this strictly within the context of our nuclear sharing within NATO and we will not allow zones of differing security to emerge in Europe,” Merz said.

Trump is turning out to be the most significant President since Franklin Roosevelt. What’s he going to accomplish in the next three years?

Actually, what I heard growing up in Indiana was ‘born in a barn’, but the priciple remains.

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Among the consolations of youth is the certainty with which one holds beliefs about the world. There is comfort in the conviction that one’s moral bearings are firmly set, that one’s understanding of complex questions is not only sincere but also correct. The world appears legible; right and wrong seem sharply drawn; doubt and nuance are dismissed as weakness or evasion.

Althought an affection for the Aggregation Fallacy persists in certain quarters, even unto old age (yeah, I’m looking at you, ‘economists’…).

There is rarely a single moment when these certainties collapse. They loosen instead through the slow accumulation of experience. Over time, one discovers that life resists easy judgments. Circumstances complicate principles. Good intentions collide with unintended consequences. Our friends betray us. The world proves denser, more conflicted, and less amenable to neat and tidy conclusions than youthful confidence would suggest.

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Yet much of our public culture now moves in precisely the opposite direction. It rewards juvenile certainty while punishing hesitation, qualification, or good-faith disagreements. Confidence is applauded regardless of depth; slogans substitute for argument; restraint is recast as moral failure.

A more elegant description of the Democrat party I’ve never enc0untered.

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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi’s name no longer appears on the official list of speakers for the UN Human Rights Council’s opening session on February 23. His removal resulted from a petition by a Canadian civil society organisation, which asked Swiss authorities to investigate him for suspected crimes against humanity.

The UN Human Rights Council will meet on February 23, at which, according to preliminary plans, the Iranian Foreign Minister was scheduled to speak. The international organisation has not yet confirmed that he has been officially banned from speaking—the final list is under constant review. If his name does not appear on the final list, he will not speak at the Council’s meetings.

The removal came after the Canadian civil society organisation Dignity Initiative collected more than 100,000 signatures demanding that the minister be disinvited and called on the Swiss authorities to investigate allegations of crimes against humanity.

In its letter, Dignity emphasised that the minister does not represent the Iranian people, but rather the oppressive regime to which he belongs. According to the organisation, allowing him to participate in the Human Rights Council is tantamount to giving representatives of regimes that have committed some of history’s greatest atrocities a legitimate platform in an international forum.

Of course, historically the U.N. hasn’t hesitated to put nations notorious for their violation of human rights on the Human Rights Council, as demonstrated by their official web site. Like most Woke organizations, the U.N. prioritizes Diversity and Inclusion over Actually Doing What They’re Supposed to Be Doing.

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Marco Rubio appears for an interview with John Micklethwait of Bloomberg News. The interview was pre-scheduled as a follow up to the rather historic speech in Munich at the security conference. Within the interview {video and transcript below} Rubio expands on the baseline of the speech, the ‘why‘ is the U.S-EU alliance important.

Well worth your time.

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Political operatives Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna have never mentioned the name Katheryn Ruemmler despite her name appearing thousands of times in emails within the Epstein files. Yet both Massie and Khanna went out of their way to publicly claim they forced the DOJ to release the names of four men they accused of being sex traffickers and pedophiles.

Massie was very proud of his efforts to discover the names and force the DOJ to unredact them. As Massie proclaimed, continuously: if President Trump and the DOJ did not publicly unredact the names, it would be proof that President Trump and the DOJ were protecting pedophiles and sex traffickers.

After holding their joint press conference, Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna then went to the House of Representatives to proclaim (1) Salvatore Nuara, (2) Zurab Mikeladze, (3) Leonid Leonov and (4) Nicola Caputo were sexual deviants, pedophiles and much worse. They were horrible men who had abused underage girls.

…. Except, there was a problem. A BIG PROBLEM.

Salvatore Nuara, Zurab Mikeladze, Leonid Leonov and Nicola Caputo had absolutely nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein or anything even remotely associated with Jeffrey Epstein.

The names Salvatore Nuara, Zurab Mikeladze, Leonid Leonov and Nicola Caputo were in the Epstein files because they were random pictures of men, random passport pictures, used in a photo lineup during questioning of one of Epstein’s victims.

This is the sort of shit one might expect of Ro Kanna, a Democrat, but one might hope that Massies, nominally a Republican, would avoid it.

I must confess that prior to this I had no firm opinions about Massie; the only think I knew about him was that Trump apparently dislikes him (a status that Massie shares with a large portion of the populatin). However, in light of this news, I suspect that (once again) Trump Is Right.

Apparently I’m not alone: AG Pam Bondi Releases List of Names Appearing in Epstein Files to Complete Demands of Thomas Massie

The Foundry.

There is a growing sense of frustration coursing through American politics, and it is no longer confined to one party or ideology.

That frustration has real roots.

Major institutions badly damaged their credibility during the COVID-19 pandemic, the excesses of the Black Lives Matter movement, and years of breathless coverage of Russiagate. At the same time, artificial intelligence looms over the labor market with few clear answers about what comes next. Add to that a political class that often appears shamelessly corrupt, and the result is a public that feels misled, ignored, and exposed.

But frustration does not remain static. In the United States today, it is mutating into something darker: nihilism.

“ISMS! Get your isms here! You can’t be a pundit without an ism!”

The Foundry.

Transgender orthodoxy is in retreat in medicine, the courts, and even business—as the LGBTQ mafia bleeds allies in corporate America.

The Human Rights Campaign has long employed mafia-like tactics to pressure companies to toe the line on gender ideology, but a growing chorus of critics, assisted by President Donald Trump’s second administration, has led companies to reconsider their alliances with the organization.

About three-quarters of all Fortune 500 companies (377) disclosed their business practices to HRC in 2025, so the LGBTQ activist group could rate them on its Corporate Equality Index. This year, however, only 131 companies are working with HRC—a 65% drop.

This represents a massive hit to the transgender industrial complex, but conservatives shouldn’t rest on their laurels. In the very press release where HRC admits its massive losses, it touts its abiding impact: the companies still working with HRC employ over 22 million Americans.

This is a free segment from Glenn Greenwald’s System Update, made available on Substack.

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A new Trump-aligned nonprofit is launching to fill a gap in enforcement of the president’s election integrity executive order.

Nicole Kelly, senior counsel at Lex Politica, the law firm that represents Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and other Republicans, is the president of a new 501(c)4 called Save Election Day to lead the fight in battleground states to implement the initiatives identified by President Donald Trump’s executive order last March.

“President Trump’s executive order that came out last March that really sparked the initial idea here because this organization was founded for one single purpose,” Kelly told The Daily Signal, “which we believe is existential to the future of the United States democracy, which is to lead the fight in the states to implement the key initiatives that were identified and outlined by President Trump.”

Save Election Day is particularly aimed at implementing several policies nationwide: one single Election Day; requirements of photo ID to vote; elimination or reduction of mail-in balloting and early voting periods; elimination of post-Election Day ballot receipt periods; and bans on noncitizen voting.

Republicans are now rifling through the Democrat toolbox and stealing all the good stuff.

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The British countryside is “too white.” At least that is, according to Defra—the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, as reported earlier this month in these pages. Following a report in 2019, National Landscapes—a charity mostly funded by Defra—has been launching outreach programs aimed at encouraging ethnic minorities to break the stranglehold of “white communities,” “white spaces,” and “white environments.”

The initiatives focus on ‘people,’ ‘pubs,’ and ‘pets’—the three P’s of rural racism, surely? In terms of people, regrettably, the British countryside appears to cater to “white English culture”—which obviously has to change. Pubs traditionally involve drinking, which is unwelcoming to some communities. And pets—specifically dogs, are encouraged to be kept on a tighter leash, because Muslims do not like them. It’s worth pinching yourself and realising that this is not April 1st; this is real, and taxpayer money has been spent to reach these conclusions.

Neither is this Mother Nature’s first rodeo in terms of racism allegations. Only last year, it was reported that the British countryside was “overwhelmingly white” and was in need of more halal food. A year prior, rural England found itself a “racist colonial” white space, according to wildlife charities.

Britain is full of white people, and there’s a reason for that.

Britain is undergoing the most extensive invasion of foreigners since Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, and there’s a reason for that, too.

Ponder the result of that last invasion, and see the future.

Read it. And watch the video.

This is a critically worded speech that is very important to listen to with great deliberation. Within his remarks Rubio is telling Europe that we want to remain allied in our interests, but we are no longer going to allow the system of “globalism” to destroy our uniquely American life.

The United States is separating from the madness; this is not up for debate. The only question is whether Europe is too far gone, or whether they will join us.

Rubio continues to impress. I still favor Vance for 2028, but if he’s not available Rubio will certainly do.

Ponder the quality of possible Republican candidates with the bare bench (except for random piles of poop) of the Democrats.

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The Super Bowl has long mirrored consumer culture. This year, that mirror reflected a shift away from electric vehicle hype and toward something more grounded. After years of promotion, EVs failed to justify their place on the biggest stage in advertising.

The Foundry.

In November, a “WarRoom” clip exposed two Sharia courts in Texas, operating for years and handling hundreds of cases.

While legal if both parties agree, Muslim women often face strong pressure to use Sharia courts over county courts. Under strict Sharia, women inherit less, divorce is difficult, and testimony counts for less. Refusal can lead to honor-based abuse—shaming, threats, beatings, or rarely, “honor killings.”

Texas sees hundreds of unreported cases annually. For many women, signing is survival, not consent. On Nov. 19, Gov. Greg Abbott called for investigations. Three months later, and there have been no charges. Arbitrations continue quietly, and no woman has spoken out.

Fear keeps these stories hidden.

On Nov. 18, Abbott became the first governor to label the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Muslim Brotherhood as foreign terrorist groups.

The move blocks them from buying land, state funds, or public contracts. Cy-Fair ISD cut ties, nonprofits halted grants, and CAIR sued for defamation. On Jan. 28, Abbott asked Attorney General Ken Paxton to revoke their nonprofit status. The groups are still active, and while the crackdown is real, it has mostly been symbolic so far.

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In the days since the 2026 Super Bowl football game, I have seen several articles about players on the winning team having to pay California more in state income taxes than the bonuses the players received for winning the game. All because the players were in the state for ten or more days. Thus, according to California law, players owe California a proportion of their entire annual pay.

So?

This California visitor’s income tax is not new.

This California visitor’s income tax is not limited to highly paid athletes.

This California visitor’s income tax is a feature of California government stupidity.

And has been for a long time.

Although I grew up mostly in Southern California, in 2000 I moved to New York State for a job. Beginning in about 2010, a part of my job became supervising a couple of company offices in California. This required me to physically visit those offices a few times per year.

I kept careful track of how many days I spent in California for those visits. If those days accumulated to ten or more in a calendar year (which my employer would know, since travel was booked through the company’s travel program), I would owe California income taxes based on a proportion of my total annual income. And, because of its connections to California, my employer was obligated to track that information and to report it to the state. So, I made sure to keep my cumulative visits to the company’s California offices to fewer than ten days in a calendar year. Although I found the first half of December a beneficial time to travel for business, I sometimes skipped visits to the California offices lest I incur taxation by the state of California.

Democrats never saw a pocket that they didn’t want to pick.

The Foundry.

It’s hard to wrap your head around the massive news President Donald Trump and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced Thursday.

Trump and Zeldin estimated that the EPA will save taxpayers over $1.3 trillion by eliminating the 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding, which served as the bedrock for a host of greenhouse gas emissions standards for vehicles in model years 2012 to 2027.

The Clean Air Act of 1970 directed the EPA to regulate “any air pollutant” that could “endanger public health or welfare.”

In 2006, Massachusetts and 11 other states sued the agency, demanding that it regulate greenhouse gas emissions on the theory that the emissions contribute to climate change and therefore endanger public health. The Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that the EPA must consider “whether greenhouse gas emissions contribute to climate change,” and the Obama administration issued the Endangerment Finding in 2009.

BBC, a Voice of the Crust.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was killed using a poison developed from a dart frog toxin, the UK and European allies have said.

Two years on from the death of Navalny at a Siberian penal colony, Britain and its allies have blamed the Kremlin following analysis of material samples found on his body.

There is no innocent explanation for the toxin, called epibatidine, being found in samples taken from Navalny’s body, the UK Foreign Office said.

There are more poisons in heaven and on earth than are dreamed of in your philosophy, Horatio. So watch your back.