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A newly identified cellular system monitors subtle variations in genetic coding, hinting at a hidden level of control over how genes are expressed.

Human DNA stores instructions for life in sequences built from just four nucleotides. Those instructions are read in three-letter groups called codons, and each codon tells the cell which amino acid to add when building a protein. Since several codons can specify the same amino acid, these alternative spellings were once thought to be mostly interchangeable.

That view has changed. Scientists now know that some of these synonymous codons help messenger RNA, or mRNA, remain stable and get translated efficiently, while others do not. In effect, two genetic sequences can encode the same protein but still behave differently inside a cell. mRNAs rich in non-optimal codons are translated less efficiently and are often broken down more quickly, but the mechanism human cells use to detect this difference has been unclear.

Researchers at Kyoto University and RIKEN, led by Osamu Takeuchi and Takuhiro Ito, set out to solve that puzzle. Their work points to a protein called DHX29 as a key part of the system cells use to read this hidden layer of genetic information.

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Apparently, if you run a computer game that uses a virtual currency in the EU, the EUBigBrother wants that game to have the same ‘consumer rights’ protections that they require of Real Money in the Real World.

God help you if you have slaves in the game….

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Women and minorities hardest hit.

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Humans tend to put our own intelligence on a pedestal. Our brains can do math, employ logic, explore abstractions and think critically. But we can’t claim a monopoly on thought. Among a variety of nonhuman species known to display intelligent behavior, birds have been shown time and again to have advanced cognitive abilities. Ravens plan (opens a new tab) for the future, crows count and use tools (opens a new tab), cockatoos open and pillage (opens a new tab) booby-trapped garbage cans, and chickadees keep track (opens a new tab) of tens of thousands of seeds cached across a landscape. Notably, birds achieve such feats with brains that look completely different from ours: They’re smaller and lack the highly organized structures that scientists associate with mammalian intelligence.

“A bird with a 10-gram brain is doing pretty much the same as a chimp with a 400-gram brain,” said Onur Güntürkün (opens a new tab), who studies brain structures at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany. “How is it possible?”

How is it possible that an iPhone has more computing power than the Apollo Lunar Lander? Yeah, that’s a head-scratcher.

Researchers have long debated about the relationship between avian and mammalian intelligences. One possibility is that intelligence in vertebrates — animals with backbones, including mammals and birds — evolved once. In that case, both groups would have inherited the complex neural pathways that support cognition from a common ancestor: a lizardlike creature that lived 320 million years ago, when Earth’s continents were squished into one landmass. The other possibility is that the kinds of neural circuits that support vertebrate intelligence evolved independently in birds and mammals.

The third possibility is that we still don’t have an adequate definition of “intelligence”. Look at Congress.

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After a years-long legal battle, the Supreme Court vindicated a Colorado Christian baker hounded by a “Civil Rights Commission” for the sin of refusing to craft a custom cake to celebrate a same-sex wedding. A woman by the name of Kristen Clarke found that ruling “devastating.”

Clarke, who would go on to lead the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division under President Joe Biden, arguably grew to embody the weaponization of civil rights law against conservatives. Yet on Wednesday, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People hailed Clarke as a “civil rights giant” in announcing her new position as NAACP general counsel.

NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson said Clarke’s “record of fearless advocacy, leadership, and deep commitment to justice makes her the ideal general counsel to help chart our path forward.”

What, exactly, would shake the NAACP’s faith in Clarke’s “commitment to justice”? Would the NAACP reconsider if, hypothetically, Clarke had weaponized civil rights law against pro-life protesters, or worked closely with an anti-Christian smear factory, or twisted civil rights law to enforce transgender orthodoxy? Would this storied civil rights institution reconsider hiring her if, let’s say, she sliced open her husband’s hand in 2006 and then lied to cover it up in her Senate confirmation hearings?

Exclusive: Trump’s approval hits new 36% low as fuel prices surge amid Iran war, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds (Jason Lange/Reuters) Sure,  I believe that. (EXCLUSIVE: Critical Swing State Poll Shows Trump Retains High Support Among Base)(Heartland Polling: Iran War Is Unpopular, But Not Hurting Trump)

NPR’s Mueller Tribute Includes Replay of ‘Impeach Trump’ Commercial. But that trick never works.

US Troops Are Being Told to ‘Get Ready’ to Invade Iran (Prem Thakker/Zeteo)

How Jack Smith connected the dots between GOP lawmakers, Trump aides in 2020 election probe (Politico)  Mostly by making it up.

Trump appeared to have business motive for keeping classified documents, Jack Smith finds (Carol Leonnig/MS NOW)  Oh, gee, how did that happen….,

Raskin says he has “damning” memo on Trump classified docs case (Andrew Solender/Axios)

Collusion between judges and Jack Smith?

Trump administration’s $1B deal to stop offshore wind shows an evolution in its anti-wind strategy (Jennifer McDermott/Associated Press)

Trump Picks ‘Alpha Male’ Influencer to Be Tourism Envoy (Chris Cameron/New York Times)

Trump breaks military recruitment vows as he arrests and deports veterans (Travis Gettys/Raw Story)

Terrorists Give Up After Three Hours In TSA Line (Babylon Bee)

Airport Wait Times Eliminated After TSA Checkpoints Taken Over By Chick-Fil-A (Babylon Bee)

Kari Lake’s dismantling of VOA is a full-blown fiasco (Liz Dye/Public Notice) Blown by heavy breathing in the Narrative Media.

Trump Loses the Home Front (William A. Galston/Wall Street Journal)  Or so they would have you believe.

Trump Throws Stephen Miller Under the Bus in Surprise Show of Panic (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit.

Pentagon has no plan to stop Trump sons profiting from defense contracts: Warren, Blumenthal (Garrett Downs/CNBC)  Perhaps because they aren’t doing anything illegal.

Amanpour Spews on PBS: ‘White Supremacy in Donald Trump’s White House’

A Dunning-Kruger War, Courtesy of the Dunning-Kruger President (Paul Waldman/The Cross Section)  Reported by a Gell-Mann Narrative Media.

Trump’s ‘absurdly incoherent’ Iran pleas leave allies befuddled (Politico)  Politico thinks that everybody is as stupid as they are.

‘Trump is Sending Masked ICE Agents to Murder US Citizens,’ Dem Seeking Md. House Seat Claims  Find. Give us a lit.

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The very serious nation of Canada is going to get to the bottom of this incident.

No, not the Air Canada plane crashing into a truck on the La Guardia airport runway in New York earlier this week. We’re talking about the REAL incident.

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This might be Gavin’s strongest endorsement yet!

Locking down the violent criminal demographic.

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In a lawsuit against the Trump administration, immigration advocates insist that an asylum case should take “years” to conclude and want “at least a year” to prepare while applicants remain in the United States.

The lawyers claim that the administration is unfairly singling out their clients, Somali asylum-seekers, in a “Somali Fast-Track Policy,” giving them a compressed timeline of just four months or less to prepare for hearings—a timeline they argue is “essentially impossible.”

Meanwhile, immigration enforcement advocates argue that extending the process enables abuses by asylum-seekers.

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A German court has sentenced four men to imprisonment for their involvement in a network that stored weapons to be used in attacks in Europe—under the direction of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. The verdict was delivered in Berlin on Wednesday, March 25th.

The men, aged between 36 and 58, were convicted of membership in a foreign terrorist organisation and received prison sentences ranging from four to six years. According to presiding judge Doris Husch, the group had been involved in building and maintaining weapons depots as part of preparations for possible attacks targeting Jewish and Israeli sites across Europe.

The defendants were partially identified as Abdelhamid Al A. and Ibrahim El R., both born in Lebanon, Egyptian national Mohammed B., and Dutch national Nazih R.

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A wave of suspected antisemitic attacks across Europe has prompted fresh security measures, with Belgium deploying armed soldiers after a synagogue explosion in Liège.

Belgian authorities said troops would be stationed at Jewish sites in major cities following the March 9th explosion, which MP Sam van Rooy described as “the predictable outcome of importing antisemitism from the Islamic world.”

Interior Minister Bernard Quintin on Tuesday said it was better to assume further attacks are coming than to wait for them to happen.

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As most Americans are now well aware, national retail theft has seen a significant spike since 2021, with total shoplifting incidents increasing by roughly 53% between 2021 and 2024 based on industry data. This has led to sweeping policy changes to retail businesses, specifically in urban locations, and long aisles of locked glass cases are only the beginning.

In the case of Walgreens, the company has closed a significant number of locations in high crime areas since 2024 as part of a broader plan to shutter underperforming stores nationwide. The company announced in October 2024 that it would close approximately 1,200 stores across the U.S. over three years (through 2027), with about 500 targeted for fiscal year 2025.

This decision is not unique. Hundreds of larger retailers are also shutting down stores in risky neighborhoods, and critics argue that these closures are directly targeting areas in predominantly black and minority neighborhoods. They complain that this trend is leading to “food deserts” where minorities do not have easy access to convenient shopping.

The problem, of course, is that these are the areas with the worst crime rates. Furthermore, to keep said stores open in such places also puts employee safety at risk and makes the companies vulnerable to liability.

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he two-year anniversary of the catastrophic collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge at the Port of Baltimore is on Thursday.

Gubernatorial candidate Ed Hale criticized Democrats in the one-party-ruled state for their inability to properly manage the reconstruction of the Key Bridge, which is critical to the port and local economy and regional supply chains across the Mid-Atlantic region.

Hale described the Democrats as exhibiting a “failure of leadership” and cited “unacceptable delays” in rebuilding one of Maryland’s major freight networks, which links to broader regional supply chains.

“Two years. And what do the people of this community have to show for it?” Hale asked reporters earlier.

He said, “As a Maryland developer, I know what it takes to move projects forward. These delays are unacceptable, and Maryland families and businesses are paying the price every single day.”

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The Trump administration’s housing department launched an investigation into the Washington State Housing Finance Commission for allegedly violating the Fair Housing Act via its race-based housing finance program, according to a March 24 press release.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Office for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO) notified the commission of the investigation into the state’s Covenant Homeownership Program.

Launched in 2024, the program offers down payment and closing cost assistance to homeowners, which, according to its website, seeks to rectify “state-sanctioned racial discrimination in housing.” Applicants for the program must have a household income at or below 120 percent of the area median income, and be a first-time homebuyer who had family living in the state before April 1968. Also, those relatives must have been black, Hispanic, Native American/Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, Korean, or Asian Indian.

Persons of European, Japanese, Arab, or Jewish ancestry do not appear to qualify, said the HUD statement.

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ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel has a Hollywood elitist problem. In his Tuesday monologue, Kimmel discussed the news that Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin has become the new Secretary of Homeland Security, but according to Kimmel, Mullin is not qualified for the job because in his pre-congressional life, he was a plumber.

Kimmel began with what has become common for the late night comedians: a jab at Mullin’s name, “Trump’s got a whole new generation of thinkers lined up, including his newly confirmed secretary of Homeland Security, Markwayne ‘Chuck Mike Bruce Dave’ Melon—Mullin. Maybe melon’s better. He’s the now former senator of Oklahoma. Before he was elected to the Senate, Markwayne Mullin was a low-level MMA fighter and a plumber.”

What was Kimmel before he became a late-night propagandist? Oh, that’s right: a comedian. Nevcr did anything constructive, Never did anything challenging. Never got elected to anything. Pretty much a drone.

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The district attorney in Philadelphia threatened to arrest Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers patrolling the city’s international airport.

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner issued the warning Tuesday at Philadelphia International Airport, where ICE agents have been deployed to assist amid Transportation Security Administration staffing shortages tied to the ongoing Department of Homeland Security shutdown.

“This is how it works,” Krasner said at a press conference. “You commit crimes within the jurisdiction that is the city and county of Philadelphia, I prosecute you.”

Good luck with that. The FBI is going to have a fun time packing the Supremacy Clause up your pooper.

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Liberal academic @Musa_alGharbi’s observations when he moved to Manhattan:

“One of the first things that stood out to me is that there’s a racialized caste system here that everyone takes for granted. You have disposable servants who will clean your house, watch your kids, walk your dogs, deliver food to you… mostly minorities and immigrants and disproportionately women… And this is basically taken for granted in New York, that this is the way society operates. And yet… this is not how things are in many other parts of the country. Most other places, the person buying a pair of shoes and the person selling them are likely to be the same race — white — and the gaps between the buyer and the seller are likely to be much smaller. Even the most sexist or bigoted rich white person in many other contexts wouldn’t be able to exploit women and minorities the same way as the typical liberal professional in a city like Seattle or New York; the infrastructure simply isn’t there. It’s these progressive bastions associated with the knowledge economy that have these well-oiled machines for casually exploiting the vulnerable, desperate and disadvantaged. And it’s largely Democratic-voting professionals who take advantage of them.

A few months after I arrived at Columbia, Trump won. I expected this to happen, but for most people, that was not the expectation. So here at Columbia, the day after Trump won, a lot of the students claimed to be so traumatized that they couldn’t do tests or homework. They needed time off. Now there are two things striking about that to me. First, these are students at an Ivy League school, overwhelmingly people from wealthy backgrounds — and even if they don’t come from wealth, they’re likely to be well-positioned… [but these] students seemed to view themselves as somehow uniquely vulnerable to Trump and his regime, as being especially threatened or victimized. And so they demanded all of these accommodations for themselves. Meanwhile, there was this whole other constellation of people [mostly minorities and immigrants] around them who seemed to be literally invisible to them. The people doing all the work on the campus… these ignored laborers — the people with the most at stake in this election — [were not] saying they needed time off because they were too traumatized. They showed up to work the next day and did their jobs. They weren’t making a scene, sobbing as they scrubbed rich kids’ mess out of the toilets. The juxtaposition was sobering…

When I left campus, walking around the Upper West Side, or other affluent parts of Manhattan, similar scenes were playing out. Nor was New York City unique in this regard. Other knowledge economy hubs had similar scenes playing out. And the same drama that was playing out in Columbia was unfolding at colleges and universities across the country. This is precisely what I found so troubling, so difficult to shake off: It wasn’t about my own school. It was about this broader disjuncture between knowledge-economy elites, their narratives about the world, and the realities on the ground.”

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The hilarity in California continues.

Because nothing says “let’s stop judging people based on skin color” like scrapping a political debate because of the candidates’ races.

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In the Year of our Lord 2026, wokies still think mocking Christianity is edgy.

However, even in the “not very religious” country of Belgium, would they destroy a statue of Mohammad?

Let’s see what these “journalists” have to say.

Of course they wouldn’t. They’re not suicidal.

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Why would the United States send one of its least stealthy combat aircraft into airspace that should punish slow, low-flying jets? The answer says less about the A-10 Thunderbolt II than about the condition of the defenses below it. The aircraft’s appearance around the Strait of Hormuz points to a basic airpower rule: a platform built for close-range attack only works when the enemy’s radar and missile network has already been broken down enough to make the sky tolerably safe.

A fork makes quite a versatile interrogation device. It’s also useful for cheesecake.

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Prepper Disk is a plug-and-play offline survival computer that gives you instant access to thousands of critical resources – without internet, subscriptions, or technical setup.

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Researchers from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) along with international collaborators have brought us one step closer to harnessing the sun’s energy to convert carbon dioxide into liquid fuel and other valuable chemicals. In a recent publication in Nature Catalysis, the researchers debut a self-contained carbon-carbon (C2) producing system that combines the catalytic power of copper with perovskite, a material used in photovoltaic solar panels. This advance builds on over 20 years of research and brings the scientific community one step closer to replicating the productivity of a green leaf in nature.

This work is part of a larger initiative, the Liquid Sunlight Alliance (LiSA), which is a Fuels from Sunlight Energy Innovation Hub funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. Led by Caltech in close partnership with Berkeley Lab, LiSA brings together more than 100 scientists from national lab partners at SLAC and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and university partners at UC Irvine, UC San Diego, and the University of Oregon. Researchers involved in this multi-institutional collaboration have made advances in developing our understanding of and the tools needed to develop liquid fuels generated from sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water. (Learn more about the LiSA collaboration in this roundup, “Five Ways LiSA is Advancing Solar Fuels.”)

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While keyboards dominate modern classrooms, a new study in Frontiers in Psychology suggests handwriting may be irreplaceable when it comes to learning. Researchers found that writing by hand activates far more extensive and interconnected brain networks compared to typing, particularly in regions linked to memory and sensory processing. These findings provide new evidence that handwriting engages the brain in unique ways, raising concerns about the growing reliance on digital tools for education.

As digital tools replace traditional handwriting in classrooms, concerns have arisen about how this shift might impact learning. Typing on a keyboard is often preferred because it enables children to express themselves more quickly and with less physical strain. However, prior research has shown that handwriting is linked to better memory retention, letter recognition, and overall learning outcomes. The fine motor movements involved in handwriting seem to stimulate the brain differently than typing, but the exact neurological mechanisms behind this difference remained unclear.

To investigate, the researchers focused on brain connectivity, which describes how different brain regions work together to accomplish a task. By comparing brain activity during handwriting and typing, the team hoped to uncover whether the physical act of handwriting promotes more extensive brain communication patterns—patterns thought to support learning and memory formation.

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In just about a month, three NATO states arrested or imposed some form of civiliter mortuus on the biggest political threats to their respective regimes. Romania forbade Georgescu, who won last year’s presidential election, from participating in May’s re-run; Turkey, with Istanbul’s mayor; Macron’s France, with Le Pen. In Poland, the Europhile regime of Prime Minister Tusk forces—for the first time since the dark days of communism—the opposition into exile and subjugates newspapers and TV stations through a series of brazen police raids; in Germany, the nation’s largest party, the AfD, is under the confirmed, official surveillance of the intelligence services while its legislation remains under consideration by the authorities, even after they lost the recent federal election and their popularity continues to implode; in Italy, a deputy prime minister nearly got arrested for upholding—rather than breaking—the law of the land. In Hungary, Serbia, and Slovakia, protests—obviously sold by the mainstream media as spontaneous and innocent—erupted almost simultaneously: the targets are, of course, all governments known to be opposed to—and loathed by—the Brussels mandarinate. Fico, in Slovakia, nearly died at the hands of a terrorist hostile to the Prime Minister’s Ukraine policy.

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The argument came in response to a claim filed by Amanda Luci, who alleged NYPD officers failed to protect her from a mob of young men and boys who attacked her in Crown Heights in 2025.

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n a landmark clash between 15th-century religious tradition and 21st-century equality mandates, the Spanish government has initiated the formal revocation of the Holy Week of Sagunto’s National Tourist Intereststatus.

The move, announced jointly by the Ministries of Tourism and Equality, comes as a direct response to a defiant vote by the Brotherhood of the Immaculate Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

The brotherhood, which has operated with male-only statutes since the late Middle Ages, recently rejected a proposal to allow women into its governing body by a margin of 267 to 114 and limits participation in the Holy Week of Sagunto to males.

The Spanish Socialist government argues that the exclusion of women violates the 2007 Equality Law and the “citizen participation” requirements necessary for state-recognized tourist festivals.

While the Institute of Women asserts that such exclusions are “not tradition but discrimination,” the brotherhood and its supporters view the government’s intervention as an ideological overreach into the autonomous life of a private religious entity.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

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Apparently “dangerous climate lies” like claims there is no climate emergency should not be allowed to go unchallenged in TV programmes.

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The National Trust’s director-general has declared that Britain’s countryside remains unwelcoming to ethnic minorities, blaming everything from clothing choices to ignorance of basic rural etiquette.

This isn’t some fringe activist rant — it’s official policy from the charity tasked with protecting the nation’s heritage, straight out of the same DEI playbook that’s already consumed government agencies.

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Well, they don’t call it ‘Taxachusetts’ for no reason.

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Last year the Trump administration designated Mexico’s Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) as a terrorist group allowing the military to carry out strikes against it and its leadership, but the massive drug cartel across the border understands the weaknesses of our system all too well.

That’s why its new leader has American citizenship.

Law enforcement, intelligence agencies and the military will have to jump through all sorts of legal hoops to spy on, target or take out Juan Carlos Valencia Gonzalez, who has a $5 million bounty on his head, but the best protection in the world because he was born in California.

The new cartel leader’s drug dealing Mexican parents had a baby in America. That child became a Mexican citizen who runs a Mexican drug cartel that the government has designated as being at war with the United States, and yet we can’t simply remove his citizenship.

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The sputtering Castro-ist regime in Cuba has managed to stick to its communist roots. It’s doing this by ensuring that while everyone is “equal,” foreign stooges and social influencers willing to spread propaganda for the regime are treated more equally than others.

That’s a time-honored, socialist tradition.

Over the weekend a junket of various activists and assorted clowns traveled to Cuba and partied it up while the locals starved and lingered in darkness.

“Hundreds of tone-deaf lefty radicals flocked into Havana this weekend to meet with Communist Party officials—staying in luxury hotels and traveling in air-conditioned buses—as the rest of the island grapples with a worsening economic crisis that’s starved it of electricity, food, water and medicine,” the New York Post reported Friday.

They were part of the so-called Nuestra America Convoy that went to Cuba, according to the Post, “under the guise of handing out 20 tons of humanitarian aid to protest the United States oil blockade on Cuba.”

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‘Diversity is our strength.’ One hears this, or myriad variants of the same idea, unrelentingly. Certainly I work in an Australian university where the extent of higher-ups pushing this notion does indeed qualify as unrelenting, even matching totalitarian state levels of propaganda. But even outside the hallowed halls of impartial, politically balanced academia (did I write that with a straight face?) the mantra or cliché that diversity somehow delivers a stronger balance sheet or a more cohesive society or just better outcomes is pervasive in today’s democracies that have committed themselves to multiculturalism and to the various neo-Marxist versions of feminism. Sure, those spouting these ‘diversity is a panacea’ nostrums never cash out the claim. They never tell us precisely how ‘diversity’ is making society better or wealthier or more unified. We are all just supposed to take it on faith, as it were.

We’re just to believe the bureaucratic, political and various professional bodies’ elites who push this line, and believe it simply because they are the ones telling us it’s so.

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Ahead of next week’s three-year anniversary of Anheuser-Busch’s most epic marketing ad blunder ever, the Bud Light backlash remains intact and should serve as a case study for generations in how far-left wokeism in corporate America can destroy decades of brand-building overnight.

What began as a viral TikTok promotion featuring Dylan Mulvaney, a man pretending to be a woman, has since become one of the clearest examples of self-inflicted brand suicide in recent consumer history. The latest beer trends from Goldman suggest the brand has yet to fully recover nearly three years later.

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Newly released CIA documents reveal that the Biden regime identified “motherhood,” and “homemaking” as indicators of so-called “white racially and ethnically motivated violent extremism” (REMVE).

The Trump administration recently retracted an October 2021 intelligence assessment, titled “Women Advancing White Racially and Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremist Radicalization and Recruitment” that branded average women as domestic terrorists.

The Biden CIA invented the term “white REMVEs” to describe people they claimed “incite, facilitate or conduct violence because they believe their perception of an idealized white European ethnic identity is under attack from people who embody and support multiculturalism and globalism.”

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Tuesday’s Morning Joe led with lies about the SAVE America Act, as host Joe Scarborough insisted the legislation required everyone, including his co-host, and wife, Mika Brzezinski to present their original birth certificate from their hospital of birth in order to register to vote.

That’s false. In the legislation, voters would need a passport or birth certificate to register. One can find ways to buy birth certificates from their local government offices. For example, a simple internet search for birth certificates in a person’s county will bring up links, like this from Fairfax, VA, and give options to obtaining a copy of a birth certificate.

The topic came up in an opening discussion on the SAVE ACT. Scarborough referenced Brzezinski not knowing where she was born since her mother, apparently, did not remember.

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California’s top-two primary system allows the two highest vote-getters to advance, regardless of party, and Republicans Steve Hilton and Sheriff Chad Bianco have emerged as the top contenders in the race. Unless one of the Democrat candidates break out, the two Republicans could face each other in the final runoff in November.

Hilton, 56, is a conservative commentator who formerly served as a political advisor in Great Britain. Bianco, 58, is a “law and order” sheriff and coroner of Riverside County.

Polls have consistently showed the two Republicans leading the pack.

The Trump Administration Turns a Blind Eye to White-Collar Crime (Marie Gottschalk/Bloomberg)

Democrats launch new inquiry into Corey Lewandowski (NBC News)

Conservation groups sue to block Trump efforts to ‘hastily gut’ the Kennedy Center (NBC News)

Bill Kristol: Trump Is in Way over His Head (The Bulwark)

The Crazy Bill for ICE Barbie’s Cowboy Cosplay Is Revealed (Tom Latchem/The Daily Beast)

ICE Agents Are Now Patrolling U.S. Airports. Here’s What to Know. (Gabe Castro-Root/New York Times)  Come get your Narrative, right here.

Voice of America journalists allege Trump wants to make outlet a propaganda source (David Bauder/Associated Press)  VOA was established to be a propaganda source, one in favor of America and against Communism. The problem with VOA is that it morphed under the Deep State into a vehicle for promoting Wokeness.

ICE heads to the airport (Cameron Peters/Vox)

Jason Stanley on Fascism (Michael Podhorzer/Weekend Reading)

ICE Agents Deployed To Nation’s Swamped Airports To Stand Around And Do Nothing (Barry Petchesky/Defector)

Margaret Brennan Warns of U.S. War Crimes, Tries to Drive Wedge with NATO Leader

Watson v RNC: The Supreme Court’s Conspiracy-Brained Justices Are Ready to Limit Mail-In Voting (Madiba K. Dennie/Balls and Strikes)

Folks, We’ve Got Yet Another Right-Wing Media Payola Scandal (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)  Will Sommer loses his shit.

Trump casts a mail ballot again in Florida even as he calls the method ‘cheating’ (Jane C. Timm/NBC News)  When cheating is allowed, non-cheaters are at a disadvantage. There is no inconsistency here.

Trump, Who Calls Mail-in Voting ‘Cheating,’ Just Voted by Mail (Erica L. Green/New York Times) See above comment.

Trump casts Florida mail ballot as he pushes Congress to severely limit that voting option (Bill Barrow/Associated Press)  See above comment.

When Trump Wants Something Done, He Dispatches ICE to Do It (Hamed Aleaziz/New York Times)  So what?

Trump’s suspiciously timed announcements on Iran (Aaron Blake/CNN)  Suspiciously!

The ugly history behind Trump’s birthright citizenship case in the Supreme Court (Ian Millhiser/Vox)  Ugly, of course, because it’s contrary to the Narrative.

Mark Jacob on how the press ignores the biggest Trump story (Public Notice) More Proglodyte Projection.

Airports on ICE — Federal immigration agents popped up around the country on Monday to do seemingly nothing. (Marisa Kabas/The Handbasket)  Except, perhaps, to yank the chains of the hand-wringers in the Narrative Media.

Trump in His Elvis-in-Vegas Era (The Bulwark)  The best of American high-school journalism.

The unraveling of the war in Iran (Popular Information)

PrinceHarming: 20 Short Quotes About Jared Kushner (Greg Olear/PREVAIL)

US’s new ‘brand ambassador’: A Hooters-loving, ‘Alpha Male’ Trump nominee (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico)

Trump’s Threat to Iran Crosses a Line, Rights Experts Say (New York Times)  Really? And what might a ‘rights expert’ have in the way of qualifications?

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A viral video has revealed that CVS is locking up darker makeup shades behind security devices while lighter ones sit open — because stores secure what thieves steal most, and the data backs it up.

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A modern aircraft carrier can shrug off layers of aerial threats and still remain exposed to one of naval warfare’s oldest killing mechanisms. That mismatch matters because the danger does not come from dramatic new physics. It comes from the stubborn effectiveness of underwater blast effects, the limits of sonar in cluttered seas, and the growing appeal of low-cost undersea weapons that can force far more expensive ships to operate differently. For a carrier strike group built around radar, escorts, and long-range air defense, the hardest problem may still arrive from below the waterline.

The torpedo’s lethality is rooted in how it attacks a ship’s structure rather than its armor. A heavyweight torpedo detonating under the keel creates a gas bubble that rapidly expands and collapses, lifting the hull and then dropping it with violent force. That shock can break the keel, the load-bearing spine of the ship. The concept is old, but the threat is not obsolete. Modern torpedoes combine acoustic homing, wake tracking, and in some cases wire guidance, allowing them to keep updating their run after launch. Wake-homing in particular is uncomfortable for defenders because a ship’s wake is difficult to disguise, especially for a very large vessel moving at speed.

The carrier’s own design compounds the problem. As one U.S. Naval Institute analysis argued, ships without sonar, such as aircraft carriers, face a punishing reaction-time problem even before maneuver limits are considered. Carriers rely heavily on escorts, helicopters, patrol aircraft, and wider anti-submarine networks for warning and protection. That layered approach remains formidable in open water, but it is less comfortable in littoral zones where background noise, bottom reflections, traffic density, and shallow depth all degrade acoustic performance. In exactly the waters where carriers may be asked to influence access and sea control, torpedo detection can become more ambiguous and engagement windows much shorter.

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When Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich appeared on “60 Minutes” in 2023, he warned that humanity was on an unsustainable path and that “the next few decades will be the end of the kind of civilization we’re used to.” He explicitly linked overpopulation and consumption to climate disruption, claiming it was already killing people.

Ehrlich recently died at 93, and the media offered respectful tributes to his 1968 bestseller “The Population Bomb,” yet almost no outlet asked the glaring question: why should anyone trust predictions from a man whose most famous forecasts were spectacularly wrong? In fact, all of his doom predictions were wrong—similar to the climate doom predictions of today.

Ehrlich predicted mass starvation would kill hundreds of millions in the 1970s and 1980s, that England would cease to exist by 2000, and that the U.S. would face widespread famine. None of that happened. Instead, the population doubled to 8 billion.

Prosperity soared. The Green Revolution—powered by better seeds, fossil-fuel-derived fertilizers, and fossil-fuel-enabled agriculture—fed billions more people than Ehrlich believed possible.

This same pattern of failed apocalyptic forecasts now dominates mainstream climate information. For decades, prominent voices have warned of entire nations underwater, no snow in the U.K., mass extinctions by 2010, and permanent global famine with timelines that have quietly slipped while humanity has thrived.

The Foundry.

Mobile billboards are being deployed Tuesday morning at the three Washington, D.C.-area airports amid the Department of Homeland Security shutdown that has led to long security lines at airports across the nation.

“You’re waiting in line because millions skipped it. Tell Chuck Schumer: Fund DHS,” the billboard reads, referring to the millions of illegal aliens that Customs and Border Protection reports entered the United States during the Biden administration. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is the Senate Minority Leader.

The billboard includes a number and a QR code to call Schumer’s office.

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These pleas are offensive, intellectually degrading and founded on exaggerations, fables and lies. But as 2024 Sierra Club Changemaker of the Year Bruce Hamilton has admitted, “It’s what works. It’s what builds the Sierra Club.” And keeps funds flowing to countless Climate Crisis, Inc. corporations.

The Other McCain.

Most people — even people who follow politics closely — never figured out that the Great Feminist Boom of 2014-2017 was not a coincidence. All the institutions of academia and media did not suddenly decide to the embrace and promote #feminist brand by accident. No, that cultural moment was organized to support the Right Side of History™ crusade to make Hillary Clinton America’s First Female President.

Having examined the reasons for the failure of her 2008 presidential bid, Team Hillary recognized that being identified as a feminist was a net negative for her and, in war-gaming her 2016 campaign — a process that began as soon was Obama got reelected in 2012 — they saw the importance of creating an “Astroturf” project to make it seem as if feminism was a mainstream grassroots movement. Young women who were targeted by this effort were generally too naïve to comprehend the cynical partisan calculatIons behind it, and sincerely believed that they were part of a spontaneous emergence of feminist consciousness, a belief that was much more flattering to their egos than to recognize they were pawns of a multimillion-dollar P.R. operation in service to the selfish political ambitions of one very wealthy and powerful woman.

All of which is to say that only a fool would have thought it was a coincidence when, in September 2015, Guardian columnist Lindy West “encouraged other women to share positive abortion experiences online using the hashtag #ShoutYourAbortion in order to ‘denounce the stigma surrounding abortion.’” Nor was any intelligent person surprised when, a few months later in May 2016, Lindy West published Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman, which was universally praised in the liberal media and immediately became a bestseller. The TV rights to Shrill were then bought by Hulu, which turned it into a 22-episode series.

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By many measures, California is the center of the Democratic Party’s political universe. The most populous U.S. state, it is home to both the party’s last presidential nominee, Kamala Harris, and possibly its future one, Gov. Gavin Newsom.

But thanks to the state’s quirky electoral system and a crowded field of candidates, Democrats are suddenly facing an unlikely but unpleasant possibility: getting locked out of the general election this fall to succeed Newsom, who is not permitted to run for a third term.

Under California law, the top two finishers in the June 2 open primary contest will advance to November’s election, regardless of party.

Polls show the two leading Republican candidates, former British government aide and Fox News host Steve Hilton and Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, are closely bunched with three Democrats: U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell, former U.S. Representative Katie Porter and billionaire activist Tom Steyer.

The New Neo.

Today Trump announced a moratorium on attacking Iran’s energy infrastructure while talks he described as “very good” are supposedly going on. Meanwhile, the Iranian leaders – although “leaders” is a fungible thing in Iran these days – say he’s full of it and that no such talks are occurring, much less “very good” ones.

So, what’s going on? If you expect a definitive answer here, you’re surely not going to get one. But I don’t think you’re going to get one anywhere right now. We’re all speculating, and I think that’s the point.

We do know that Trump likes to keep people guessing as he bobs and weaves and wheels and deals. We know he said what he needs from Iran is unconditional surrender. But we don’t know exactly what that means in a case where we don’t know who’s in charge or if any one person (or even small group of people) is in charge. We don’t even know if he really is negotiating, or with whom such talks might be, or exactly for what. Nor do we know, if the subject is indeed for unconditional surrender, if such talks are with someone or some group with the will to actually surrender or the ability to do so even if the will is there.

Clear as mud. And I believe that is Trump’s intent.

Indeed it is.

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A comprehensive study reveals that approximately 90% of academic publication in the social sciences can be identified as taking a left-wing stance.

Conducted by James Manzi of the University of Oxford and published in the journal Theory and Society, the research analyzed 599, 194 English-language articles published between 1960 and 2024. Working across 367 journals and eleven disciplines—including economics, sociology, political science, psychology, criminology, and gender studies—some 180, 311 articles were deemed directly relevant to contemporary political or social debates.

The analysis was conducted multiple times using different AI models, alternative classification methods, and various databases.

“Social sciences” aren’t science. Science can make predictions that are right every time. Don’t be fooled by areas of study that think they are ‘science’ because the use a lot of math.