DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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A Sunday yoga class at Minneapolis CorePower Yoga studio turned into an unscripted protest earlier this month, as a group of enraged customers berated front-desk staff for not condemning federal immigration enforcement, prompting the Denver-based chain to ban one regular and agree to post anti-ICE signage in its studios.

The Foundry.

Because of Democrat demands to prevent a government shutdown, House Republicans are accusing Senate Democrats of protecting illegal immigrants who vote in American elections.

Democrats are threatening to vote against legislation to fund the Department of Homeland Security, which could force a partial shutdown of the federal government this Friday. Democrats have made several demands to keep the government open, including a measure to prohibit immigration enforcement operations near polling locations.

“If illegal aliens aren’t voting as Democrats claim, why would [Senate Minority Leader] Schumer and [House Minority Leader Hakeem] Jeffries be afraid of immigration enforcement near polling locations?” Rep. Mark Harris, R-N.C., told The Daily Signal. “I think the answer is pretty obvious to Americans.”

In a statement shared with The Daily Signal, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., added that those demands are being proposed by people “that don’t want any apprehensions of illegals.”

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It should not come as a surprise to see the Senator who lost her 2010 primary, then refused to leave congress and ran as a write in candidate; then supported changing the state voting system to a ranked choice structure; who then lost again in 2022 but ultimately won because Democrats all listed her as their second choice in the new structure; come out against anything that would lead to stronger voting requirements.

The New Neo.

You’ve probably read Narrative Media stories {like this one: Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months (Rory Carroll/The Guardian)] about the Irish guy whose been in the U.S. 20 years ‘as a lawful resident’ and has been in ICE custody for five months. Here’s the truth.

Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin confirmed Tuesday that ICE agents arrested Culleton in early September.

“He entered the United States in 2009 under the visa waiver program, which allows you to stay in the U.S. for 90 days without a visa,” McLaughlin told Newsweek in a statement. “He failed to depart the U.S.. He received full due process and was issued a final order of removal by an immigration judge on September 10, 2025. He was offered the chance to instantly be removed to Ireland but chose to stay in ICE custody, in fact he took affirmative steps to remain in detention.”

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One of the hottest commodities in the military, or even for civilian contractors, is having a vehicle down range when you are deployed in the Middle East. Anyone who is someone has their own Ford F-150, especially those in leadership, as a work vehicle for driving around a military base. If you were deployed in Afghanistan, you were lucky if you had a truck to share to get from your dorm to work; if not, you were stuck either walking for 20 minutes in your battle rattle gear with your weapon or riding a packed school bus with your fellow service men and women.

While everyone would have preferred their own vehicle, like back in the US, it would have cost too much. Even still, the United States spent nearly $10 billion on vehicles and aircraft in Afghanistan between 2010-2020, which does not even cover the cost of fuel, parts, maintenance, or even the shipping of the vehicles. Therefore, it was generally accepted that dragging your feet through the desert or sweating your butt off on the bus ride was a logical part of the “suck” in deployments. Yet, then, on the American Forces Network news, you would see an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) caravan consisting of hundreds of Toyota trucks parading through the deserts. These vehicles were not the stereotypical filthy beat-up trucks but shiny new Toyota pick-up trucks and SUVs, particularly the Toyota Hilux. Violent non-state actors (VNSA), such as ISIS, were capable of acquiring Westernized vehicles through various means of raising funds and global logistical networks. The Toyota Hilux was particularly preferred due to its performance and looks.

Perplexity says:

Toyota has never sold the Hilux new in the United States since the 1990s, when it shifted focus to the Tacoma midsize pickup, which fills a similar role but is tailored for U.S. regulations and preferences. The main barriers include the 25% “Chicken Tax” tariff on imported light trucks, which makes it uneconomical, plus differences in safety standards, emissions rules, and Toyota’s strategy to produce the Tacoma locally.

As always, the government is the reason we can’t have nice things.

Rating Site Sues Trump Admin Over Probe of Alleged Suppression of Conservative Media

Judge Halts Order Requiring WH to Unfreeze Tunnel Funding

Chloe Kim, Eileen Gu speak out after President Trump calls Olympian ‘a loser’ (The Athletic)

Armenian PM Pashinyan Says Trump Deserves Nobel Peace Prize

Legality of Trump’s $400M in private funding for White House ballroom at issue (Washington Post)

Jasmine Crockett’s vulgar 6-word message for Trump in Epstein probe (Elizabeth Elkind/Fox News)

“Uptick in Abductions”: ICE Ramps Up Targeting of Minneapolis Legal Observers (Ryan Devereaux/The Intercept)

Feds Have Charged 158 Anti-ICE Agitators With Federal Crimes In Minnesota

Leftists Lose It As Pro-ICE Ad Plays During Super Bowl

Pete Hegseth’s Attack on Harvard (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)

Trump’s Vile Obama Video Follows the White House’s Official White Nationalist Line (Berny Belvedere/The UnPopulist)

Republicans ask Supreme Court to block states from counting legally cast mail ballots (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)

MS NOW: ‘Paramilitary’ ICE ‘Buying Off’ Police to Help Steal Elections

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According to everyone from Sen. Patty Murray to the International Press Institute, breaking into a church and interrupting a religious service is “First Amendment activity”. But if preventing other people from praying is “First Amendment activity” then what is the church service itself?

First Amendment activity entails expressing your opinion, your belief or your religious practice, but the moment your actions interfere with and prevent someone else from engaging in their expression or activity while they are within their space, it’s an assault on their rights.

The Left has normalized attacking churches and synagogues, like Adas Torah in Los Angeles, ‘occupying’ campuses and public buildings, even vandalizing them and assaulting employees and worshipers, while describing this vandalism and thuggery as “First Amendment activity”.

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A federal judge ruled against California’s prohibition on federal law enforcement wearing masks, a mandate aimed at Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents.

U.S. District Judge Christina Snyder, appointed by President Bill Clinton, ruled the state law discriminates against federal law enforcement, as it allowed state police to wear masks to conceal their identities while preventing federal law enforcement from doing the same.

However, she rejected the Trump administration’s argument that the ICE agents needed to wear masks to be protected from doxing, in a 30-page opinion Monday.

“The Act treats federal law enforcement officers differently than similarly situated state law enforcement officers,” Snyder concluded.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the No Secret Police Act in September 2025, only referencing federal, city, and county law enforcement, but not including state law enforcement.

The Foundry.

The Census Bureau recently released updated population figures through June 2025. The country grew slightly, but that growth wasn’t equally distributed. Many red states, like South Carolina, Idaho, and Texas, grew significantly. In just one year, each of those states saw their population increase by more than 1%.

Blue states aren’t keeping up. California, Illinois, and New York now have fewer people than in 2020. In contrast, Florida’s population is up around 9%.

There’s an obvious and important takeaway here. Blue states implemented leftist ideas. They have high taxes and regulations that strangle construction. They have failing schools that teach students to hate America. They force female athletes to compete against boys.

The results have been so intolerable that millions of people have moved out. It’s yet another example of people fleeing socialism.

There’s a less obvious but just as important takeaway. After the decennial census, states gain or lose congressional seats based on population. Those adjustments change the Electoral College. States receive electoral votes based on how many House and Senate members they have.

The forecast from the American Redistricting Project shows Democrats losing nine seats in reliable blue states. Two swing states, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, would each lose a seat. Those 11 seats would go to states that Trump won in 2024. A different projection from Jonathan Cervas at Carnegie Mellon University has solid red and lean red states gaining 13 seats.

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The decision by the Spanish government to grant legal status to more than half a million illegal immigrants has triggered an immediate reaction in Brussels and reopened a deeper debate on sovereignty, security, and the coherence of European migration policy.

Although presented in Madrid as an administrative measure aimed at economic growth and social cohesion, the initiative has been met with “serious reservations” by the European Commission, according to EU sources, who warn of potential frictions with the Union’s common framework and with the spirit that currently guides the bloc’s migration policy.

The decree announced at the end of January by Pedro Sánchez’s executive will allow the regularisation of foreigners who entered Spain before December 31, 2025, and who can prove a minimum stay of five months or a prior asylum application. Beneficiaries will receive a one-year residence permit and authorisation to work in any sector.

From the EU’s perspective, the main problem is not only the scale but the automatic effect this decision has on the Union as a whole. Spain is part of the Schengen Area, which means that regularised immigrants will be able to move freely across Europe for up to 90 days in any 180 days. In Brussels, there is concern that this mobility could facilitate de facto residence in other member states without authorisation, putting further strain on already overburdened asylum and control systems.

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Latvia has taken a firm stand against the European Union’s new Migration and Asylum Pact, openly rejecting both the relocation of migrants and the financial penalties foreseen under the scheme.

Speaking during the annual foreign policy debate in the Latvian parliament on January 29th, Foreign Minister Baiba Braže made it clear that Riga will not comply with the forced migration policies imposed from Brussels.

“When it comes to migration, which has been the subject of much discussion, I think the government’s position is absolutely clear: no to illegal migration. We have strengthened border protection,” Braže said, stressing that Latvia will neither accept new migrants nor pay for them. Under the new pact, member states must either take in migrants from other countries or contribute around €20,000 per rejected migrant. For Latvia, both options are unacceptable.

The Antiplanner.

Twenty-seven percent of Portland-area offices remain vacant, according to commercial real estate firm Colliers. That’s a slight decline from the previous year, but vacancies in downtown Portland are 34 percent and rising. Nationally, downtown office vacancies are only 19 percent.

“Portland’s prolonged commitment to remote work, ongoing concerns around tenant safety, and high tax rates compared to nearby locales hamper the downtown office market and cloud occupancy projections,” says Colliers. Problems with homelessness and drug use are supposedly declining, but that hasn’t stopped restaurants from recently closing.

My friends who still live in Portland say it is still a great place to live as long as you avoid downtown and a few other areas. However, TriMet, Portland’s transit agency, hitched its future to downtown by using it as a hub for most of its bus and light-rail routes. Light-rail ridership is currently running about 58 percent of pre-pandemic numbers, while bus is doing better (but still less than the national average) at 75 percent.

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Representative Ilhan Omar is one of the most sanctimonious corrupt Democrats in congress, and she’s loud and proud about it because she understands how to engage in financial fraud safely. Just do what everyone else is doing but do it bigger, that way there’s no way her peers can approach it.

Someone in DC gave House Oversight Chairman James Comer the familiar tap on the shoulder and told him they don’t investigate their own Uniparty tribe. So, Comer drops his planned review of Omar’s corruption and shifts it to the ethics team.

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Guardian author Alex Clark wants the world to “move beyond” GDP as a measure of wellbeing. The experiment should start with The Guardian.

The Foundry.

Agitators opposing Immigration and Customs Enforcement made quite a ruckus when they invaded a Minnesota church in the middle of a service last month, but they weren’t the first to disrupt Americans during worship.

The Justice Department has charged nine people in connection with the interruption of a service at Cities Church in St. Paul last month, notably including former CNN host Don Lemon. According to the indictment, the agitators coopted the service, chanting activist slogans and preventing worshippers from leaving the church building.

The agitators said they targeted Cities Church because one of the church’s pastors works with ICE. Now, they face charges under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (which also protects houses of worship) and the Ku Klux Klan Act (which criminalizes attempts to interfere with Americans’ constitutional rights).

The Cities Church invasion drew nationwide attention, yet this did not represent the first time agitators disrupted a church service.

The Foundry.

After multiple recent deadly car crashes across the United States involving illegal aliens, Florida has changed its driver test policy to require all prospective drivers to take the test in English.

“All driver license knowledge and skills testing will be conducted in English” for both non-commercial and commercial driver’s licenses, according to the new policy.

The state “remains committed to ensuring safe roadways for all Floridians and visitors by promoting clear communication, understanding of traffic laws, and responsible driving behavior,” according to the the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.

Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy responded to Florida’s new policy Monday, calling it “common sense.”

Well, it used to be common sense. Nowadays you have to talk the Transgressives into it.

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This is a short rant.

I’m annoyed when you have to press one for English and two for Spanish when you call someplace. The default should be that you get an English message but have to press a button if you need Spanish. (Actually the default should be that a human answers the phone in English, but we’re long passed that point.)

But at the Super Bowl halftime show, you couldn’t even press one for English. You had to listen to Bad Bunny in Spanish. No choice. So I am told, I didn’t watch it. Could not have been forced to watch it.

When the NFL starts doing a classical halftime, then I’ll tune it. Think how grand it would be to listen to the Triumphal March from Verdi’s Aïda, Handel’s “La Réjouissance,” or Chaikovskii’s 1812 Overture at the Super Bowl instead.

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Hear, hear….

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People are posting all over on X about how they themselves or their 20 something offspring are filling out hundreds of resumes, with no responses as the usual result. What gives? Several memes crop up, which explain in detail what crystal clear realities are causing these results. The following reality detailed below explains how H1B visa workers are those who are preferred by companies.

The New Neo.

Now the Fifth Circuit has said it’s not a requirement to send them back to the community while waiting deportation. The decision was 2-1.

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Basically, the idea is that the government has the authority to do this under statute, even if many previous governments declined to do it. The dissenting judge noted that, “some of the people detained are ‘the spouses, mothers, fathers, and grandparents of American citizens.’” For a substantial portion of that group, that would almost certainly be because their American-citizen children and grandchildren were born here after the parents or grandparents had entered illegally. If Congress wants to exempt the older generations and grandfather (literally) them in to citizenship or amnesty, all Congress has to do is pass a law to that effect.

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A good education is said to be the best investment, and New York City‘s top private schools hope people keep adhering to that adage as tuition surges to new highs.

The annual cost of attendance at eight of the city’s most elite schools will eclipse the $70,000 mark for the 2026-27 academic year, charging more than even the country’s best colleges, according to a new analysis published by Bloomberg.

All this to get the same Grievance Studies non-education indoctrination they could get at PS 527 for free.

I guess it’s the prospect of their kids rubbing shoulders with less-Woke and less-affluent people that impels this expenditure.

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Thousands of protesters demonstrated across Australia on Monday against Israeli President Isaac Herzog, who traveled to the country at the invitation of Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese following the Bondi massacre.

Upon arrival, Herzog visited the site of the antisemitic terror attack in Sydney, where 15 people were killed while attending a Hanukkah event in December. There, he laid a wreath and met with the family members of the victims of the attack.

“Standing here at Bondi – an iconic symbol of Australian life, now scarred by the December 14th massacre – I embrace our Australian Jewish sisters and brothers still reeling from this trauma,” wrote Herzog in a post on X. “My visit to Australia, to all of you, is one of solidarity, strength, and sincere friendship from the State of Israel and the people of Israel.”

I am disheartened to see that Australia has changed from almost-as-good-as-America to almost-as-bad-as-Canada.

The Verge, purportedly a technical publication, actually a Voice of the Crust.

How thousands of 3D-printed whistles are derailing ICE.

Only the Left celebrates conspiracy to impede law enforcement and the degeneration of their own culture.

The Times (UK).

No white male need apply.

The War Zone.

God knows that the train wreck of an LCS needs all the help it can get.

Plato Understood Why Masking Would Turn ICE Agents Into Devils (Paul Rosenzweig/The UnPopulist)

The Aftermath of Feeding America’s Credibility Into the Woodchipper (Jeremy Konyndyk/New York Times)  Too late—that happened under Obama. Trump is trying to glue the pieces back together, with mixed results.

Crypto revolt exposes fragility of Trump’s coalition (Zachary Basu/Axios)

A Raid in a Small Town Brings Trump’s Deportations to Deep-Red Idaho (New York Times)  Illegal immigrants can be anywhere. The focus is not kjust on Blue staes.

The blowback to Trump’s racist video reveals his weakness (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)  Geez, that was so fifteen minutes ago….

New York GOP’s midterm problem: No money, no bench — and Trump (Emily Ngo/Politico)

1 big thing: Trump’s crypto revolt (Axios)

Libertarians Tried to Warn You About Trump (Katherine Mangu-Ward/New York Times)  And nobody listened BECAUSE NOBODY LISTENS TO LIBERTARIANS nor do the have any reason to. Libertarians, like Marxists, live in their own little world that doesn’t resemble the real world in any significant respect.

Democrats Flip-Flop On ICE Agents And Body Cameras  Be careful what you wish for….

Irish man detained by ICE for 5 months  I guess it would be disingenuous to point out that foreigners don’t have the same rights that American citizens do. The guy has been in America for 20 years; if he’s not a citizen by now, that’s a deliberate choice. I suspect that if he told them “Hey, I want to go back to Ireland”, they’d hand him a plane ticket and wish him good luck.

Ice Kid Prisons  More tendentious twists from the Usual Suspects.

Bad Bunny’s Halftime Show: Less Political Than Expected But More Meaningful | Zing Tsjeng (Times News UK) The point is that it ought not to be political at all. It’s a sports event; intruding politics into it is just another Woke virtue-signal.

They’ve Always Known He is A Racist… (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

Why Trump Voters Are Torn Over Minneapolis (New York Times)  More proglodyte wishful thinking. Trump voters aren’t torn over Minneapolis; they just wish that the AWFULs in the city would quit trying to impede law enforcement.

How Trump is rigging immigration courts against Somali migrants (Judd Legum/Popular Information)

Trump, Extreme Wealth Concentration, and Our Societal Crisis (John Ripton/Common Dreams)  The Left really hates the fact that people who actually produce value are not having their earnings confiscated (as much) and given to the (Democtat dependent) underclass.

NY Times Columnist Says Vance’s Mother Should Have Sold Him To Feed Her Addiction  Democrats have never gotten over ®epublicans freeing their slaves.

NPR TV Critic Snipes at Trump’s Super Bowl Ads, Plus One Based on Helping ‘White People’  If Trump doesn’t help white people, who will?

Two judges on the Fifth Circuit gave Trump exactly what he wants to enact mass detentions (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)

Trump has a plan to steal the midterms. It will probably fail. (Eric Levitz/Vox)  Proglodyte Projection: The Left always accuses their hate-objects of doing they they are planning to do.

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German police have uncovered a large-scale fraud network that enabled migrants to obtain language certificates and naturalization documents without meeting the required standards.

Authorities in Nuremberg said several suspects organised German-speaking deputies to sit language and naturalization tests on behalf of applicants who were unable to pass the exams themselves. The forged certificates were sold for between €2,500 and €6,000 and later used to secure residence permits or German citizenship.

The main suspect is a 39-year-old Iraqi national. During searches in Nuremberg and Hamm, police seized forged residence permits, falsified language tests, data carriers, cash and small quantities of narcotics.

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Until regulators and policymakers confront the reality that these projects are wiping out key predators in the natural food chain, it is dishonest to market this form of power as environmentally benign.

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Federal prosecutors in Massachusetts have announced charges in a major welfare fraud case tied to a local restaurant, alleging more than $1 million in stolen government benefits were funneled through a multi-state scheme involving stolen identities and SNAP fraud.

Authorities say the lead defendant, Raul Fernandez Vicioso, operated El Primo Restaurant and worked with three co-defendants to obtain SNAP benefits using the identities of more than 100 victims, according to Newsmax crime correspondent Jason Mattera on Monday’s “Wake Up America.”

Investigators allege the group collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in EBT funds between 2023 and 2025, using the cards to purchase bulk food from wholesalers and stock the restaurant at taxpayer expense.

Prosecutors say the fraud extended beyond SNAP, with the same group accused of filing bogus COVID-era unemployment claims in multiple states, netting more than $700,000 in additional funds. Federal officials say the case highlights ongoing vulnerabilities in benefit programs and the need for tougher enforcement when state officials fail to act.

The defendants now face multiple federal charges, including fraud and conspiracy.

Ponder why you never see these massive fraud cases in Red states. The nature of the Democrat party as a criminal enterprise is becoming painfully clear.

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HAVING JUST SUFFERED another 300 newsroom layoffs, the closure of sections and bureaus, the exodus of many of its most venerable journalists, and the “moral infirmity” — in the words of a former editor — of transforming its editorial page into a Trumpist mouthpiece, The Washington Post is a dead newspaper walking.

It is far from alone in the graveyard.

In the US, most newspaper chains are controlled by hedge funds milking them dry, or by billionaires — The Post’s Jeff Bezos or the Los Angeles Times’ Patrick Soon-Shiong — harpooning their souls.

Tyler Cowen.

To be clear, I am not blaming Singapore on this one. But it is striking to me how much Americans do not talk about Singapore any more. They are much, much more likely to talk about Europe or England, for instance. I see several reasons for this.

I would point out that Singapore is a small place with a homogeneous culture, something that can rarely be said about most major countries, in the West and the East. Switzerland used to be the poster child for this sort of thing, but, well, Europe….

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Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is openly pushing training sessions to arm agitators with tactics to obstruct ICE operations and dox agents, escalating the left’s war on border security.

For which she ought to be arrested and prosecuted.

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The Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, has appeared at a summit along with autocratic and undemocratic leaders from Georgia and Burundi to talk about protecting citizens and democracy. Fascinating. It is very revealing.

tirades against alleged techno-oligarchs. However, the evidence shows that beneath the supposedly “noble” goal of protecting minors, there is an agenda that includes the introduction of digital identities, biometric control for all, and prior censorship accompanied by state surveillance.

It is obvious to everyone that the objective is to silence independent media.

If the digital control law had been implemented in 2018, the corruption scandals surrounding the Socialist government would never have come to light. Koldo García, accused of embezzlement, would still be a member of the board of public train company Renfe today; Jose Luis Ábalos, under investigation for various corruption scandals, would still be minister; Salazar, investigated for sexual assault, would be an exemplary socialist; Venezuela’s dictatorship’s Delcy Rodriguez would be a VIP nighttime visitor; and the Socialist party’s number two, Santos Cerdán, would still be “Super Santos.” For Sánchez, all those cases were “disinformation” and “fake news” from the “far right”; do not forget it.

Seems to be a trend among socialists these days.

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After having lived in California the past four years, I can attest to the near-insanity of progressive politics in this state, yet California’s very progressive governor, Gavin Newsom, is considered a front-runner for the Democratic Party’s nomination for president in 2028.

Given how the Trump administration has helped to tank the economy through its tariffs, inflation, and outright regime uncertainty, there is a real possibility that Newsom can make California governance a reality for the entire country.

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Australia’s right-wing One Nation party (ONP) is experiencing one of its most dramatic surges in decades, as it reaches an unprecedented 27% in the latest Newspoll.

The Australian reports that the Coalition has fallen to just 18%, split between 15% for the Liberals and 3% for the Nationals, marking its worst result to date. Labor edges higher to 33%, while the Greens remain steady at 12%.

The collapse in Liberal support has triggered a wave of internal panic. Party leader Sussan Ley has recorded just 23% approval—the lowest for any major party leader in 23 years. Senior figures warn that the Coalition is on the brink of “electoral annihilation” unless it changes course.

The Antiplanner.

California’s high-speed rail project has become increasingly embarrassing for the state. Originally, a 494-mile line connecting the state’s two most populated urban areas, LA and San Francisco, was supposed to cost $40 billion. Now the state is spending $40 billion on a 171-mile line from Bakersfield to Merced, the state’s ninth and 82nd largest urban areas, while the full Anaheim-to-San Francisco project is expected to cost as much as $135 billion and to open at least 20 years late.

Now, the state has come up with a way to minimize this embarrassment: censorship. Under a proposed new law, the state inspector general could withhold from the public any high-speed rail records that would “reveal weaknesses” in its program. Although similar language was part of the state’s proposed budget submitted to the legislature by the governor’s office, Governor Gavin Newsom denied knowing anything about it a a press conference last week.

They just have to hide it long enough for Newsom to get the Democrat Presidential nomination.

Gates of Vienna.

This post started out as an examination of a phenomenon that is not at all controversial in the little niche of cyberspace that I inhabit: the essentially religious nature of the extremely violent rhetoric that currently dominates our political culture. The frothing homicidal madness is more prominent on the Left than on the Right, but both sides of the political spectrum are prone to it. It’s all but impossible to read about political issues without encountering at every step the fervent wish that one’s opponents should die for their opinions, preferably painfully.

I say “read”, but I assume the same is true of videos. I tend to avoid them if I can, partially due to my hearing difficulties, but it seems unlikely that video discussions are any less likely to descend into frothing madness.

Quillette.

The Trump administration’s US$700 million Regenerative Pilot Program, announced in late 2025, is one of the most significant federal investments in sustainable farming practices in recent history. It was greeted with widespread, almost reflexive approval by everyone from environmental groups and farm organisations to public-health advocates. But few people paused to ask what exactly “regenerative” and “sustainability” mean.

Beneath the agreeable language of soil restoration and ecological harmony lies a modern “sustainable agriculture” movement that rejects some of the technologies responsible for the greatest environmental and humanitarian advances in the history of food production. What began as a legitimate critique of soil erosion, chemical misuse, and monoculture farming has hardened into something closer to ideology, often characterised by suspicion of modern science and hostility to innovation.

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New York City would smell worse than it does if it weren’t so cold. And if it weren’t so cold.

After urging New Yorkers to abandon their individualism for his “warmth of collectivism”, 16 homeless people are dead because of Mamdani’s progressive policy of letting them stay out in the cold, instead of escorting them to homeless shelters, but the survivors of his Gulag Games did get a consolation prize in the form of red capes with ‘Mayor Mamdani’ emblazoned on them that are thinner than his resume. But the same cold killing the homeless is also keeping the trash that has been piling up since Jan 24 from rotting so it doesn’t smell as bad as his policies.

The city hasn’t had trash pickup for a third of Mamdani’s term. It’s also had a homeless death against every other day he’s been in office. Zohran Mamdani did promise to transform New York City, but few expected him to make it a frozen wasteland full of corpses and trash in one month.

Daily Record (UK).

No one should ever be faced with such a decision, but for the rescuers trying to save a cave explorer, it was a matter of life and death.

John Jones suffered what has been described as the most horrific death imaginable when he became trapped upside down in a tiny, confined cave for over 24 hours.

The rescue team was confronted with a difficult decision: attempt to save his life, knowing it would cause him immense pain.

Brandon Kowallis was the last person to see the young man before his tragic end after becoming stuck upside down inside a cave. The details of that night continue to haunt him.

Think of it as evolution in action.

Dealing with terminally stupid people is often occasion for people to demonstrate laudable heroism, but you really have to wonder about some of them.

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There was outrage in Westminster, when a leading politician admitted he was “shocked” that he had been lied to by another, but less leading, politician who had once been a quite leading politician before having been forced to quit over questions of honesty a few times.

That politicians lie is a well-known constant, treated almost like a law of physics—comparable to the fixed speed of light in a vacuum.

“My father was a toolmaker”, said the leading politician (the one who had not been forced to quit over questions of honesty a couple of times). “And he told me of the satisfaction he enjoyed when working with a set of tools he worked hard to complete, and in his memory, I like to believe that I also work with complete tools who give me satisfaction.”

“Having a good tool in your hands can be a satisfying experience, and I like handling well-made tools as a pastime. But enough about me. I am shocked, shocked to my core that I was lied to by a man who had been previously a leading politician, and to whom I called on to be so again but in a specific capacity, rather like a well-turned tool. But he turned out to be a bad tool, a very bad tool indeed.”

Apparently British politicians aren’t the tools they’re made out to be. I must confess I didn’t know that.

Judge tells ICE to free man arrested in Chinatown sweep, warns of unconstitutional arrests (Gothamist)

Impressed By Their Setting Up Checkpoints To Demand Papers, Trump Hires Protesters To Join Border Patrol (Babylon Bee)

Virginia Democrat gives profanity-laced response to Cruz’s criticism of the state’s redistricting push (Rachel Wolf/Fox News)

Green Day Frontman Calls on ICE Agents to Quit Their Jobs  You can’t make this shit up.

Green Day frontman calls out ICE ahead of Super Bowl: ‘Quit that s-tty job you have’ (Ryan Mancini/The Hill)

Reaction to Trump’s Racist Post Shows He Is Not Always Immune to Politics (Erica L. Green/New York Times)

Trump Rages at Bad Bunny–and Accidentally Exposes a Big MAGA Weakness (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit.

As goes the Washington Post: US democracy takes another hit under Trump (The Guardian)

Massie on Trump’s rhetoric: ‘He’s gone too far’ (David Cohen/Politico)

The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US (Bryan Armen Graham/The Guardian)  And Voices of the Crust are SO UPSET….

Why Trump’s Attack on Refugees Could Hurt Grandma (Jonathan Cohn/The Bulwark)  If grandma is illegal, although that’s the quiet part they don’t say out loud.

Trump Using A ‘Softer Touch’ With ICE In Minnesota? Residents Say Don’t Be Fooled. (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)  Although they have a long history of being fools.

Wes Moore suggests race may be why he was not invited to gov dinner with Trump (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico)  Only if Democrat is a ‘race’.

Trump rips Olympic skier over remarks about representing US (Sophia Vento/The Hill)

Raskin: Voter ID Law Violates The 19th Amendment In Denying The Vote To Women  Clutching at straws or another Democrat Big Lie? We report, you decide.

Democrats sound alarm about possible voter intimidation in midterms (Jacob Wendler/Politico) “Cheese it, the cope!”

Election officials are “very concerned” about Trump voting push, says David Becker (CBS News)  I’ll bet they are.

Trump lashes out at American Olympian who expressed negative view of US politics (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico) And rightly so. If you don’t like it, move somewhere else. I’ve heard that Ukraine needs more people.

Trump says it’s ‘terrible’ Bill Belichick wasn’t elected to the Hall of Fame on the first ballot (Allan Smith/NBC News)  This belongs in a newcast?

U.S. Olympic athletes in Italy are speaking out about the political situation at home (Kevin Baxter/Los Angeles Times)  And so ought to be barred from any future Olympic representation of the U.S. Only fools pick ‘representatives’ who are going to trash-talk them.

SAVE America Act becomes catch-all for Trump’s election demands: Here’s what’s actually in it (Avery Lotz/Axios)  According to the Narrative, that is.

Trump plans to keep Democratic governors out of traditionally bipartisan meeting (Mariana Alfaro/Washington Post)  Because Democrats are not and never have been ‘bipartisan’—they define ‘bipartisan as ‘Republicans roll over’.

Trump Shreds Olympic Skier Hess Over Comments About Repping the US  And rightly so.

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Hey, that’s what Democrats are all about.

No wonder California is a Turd World shithole.

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Steven Crowder covers a topic that the Narrative Media don’t want you to know anything about.

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The unrest in Minneapolis has died down, and the Trump administration is pulling 700 immigration enforcement officers out of the area. But all of the national media scrutiny has obsessed over Team Trump. It has rarely acted to “hold government accountable” when the governing comes from Democrats, like Gov. Tim Walz or Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.

NPR was eagerly touting its new NPR/PBS Marist Poll to underline the effectiveness of their advocacy: 65% of Americans, up from 54% in June of 2025, think the actions of [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] have “gone too far” in enforcing immigration laws, and 62% say the actions of ICE are making Americans “somewhat less safe, or much less safe.”

The New Republic underlined what NPR and PBS were cooking: “Brutal New Poll Wrecks Trump’s Main Claim on ICE.”

Now ask yourself this question: Did PBS and NPR ever ask the public for their evaluation of ICE under President Joe Biden, when there was a mass importation of illegal aliens? Pollsters may have asked about their approval of Biden on the immigration issue. But this polling is specific and suggestive, intended to punish ICE deportation efforts.

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White House officials have used “terrorist-grade sanctions” to target officials from the International Criminal Court (ICC) and UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, freezing assets and disrupting war crimes investigations,Reuters reported on 6 February.

According to interviews the news agency conducted with U.S. and UN officials and sanctioned individuals, Washington is seeking to penalize the ICC over investigations into US and Israeli war crimes.

The effort to target the UN and ICC came in response to requests from at least two US tech companies involved in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

As you can tell by the writing, this article is by a Voice of the Crust. There is and was no ‘genocide’ in Gaza, because Muslims are not a ‘genos’. There were no ‘U.S. and Israeli war crimes’ (a) because Hamas is not a ‘lawful combatant’ under the Geneva Accords, but rather a terrorist group, (b) Hamas started the game with their targeted attacks against Jews (an actual ‘genos’) on October 7th, and (c) the use by Hamas of the population of Gaza as hostages and ‘human shields’ makes Hamas, not the U.S. or Israel, the actual malefactors. That’s not the Narrative, of course, in which the U.N. is deeply invested: Every terrorist act by Muslims is justified and legimate, every attempt to suppress terrorism is a ‘war crime’ or a ‘crime against humanity’.

New York magazine, a Voice of the Crust.

Since the mid-20th century, each generation has had their own version of what is now known as an e-girl. Think back to the British punks, in tartan and T-shirts destroyed by safety pins. In the ’80s, they were called goths, loved the Cure, and dressed in all black, with black hair, and intentionally pale skin. In the 2000s, it was the angsty, pop-punk emo girls who listened to My Chemical Romance and took Facebook photos like this. And now, it’s the age of the e-girl, who stamps  black hearts on her cheekbones, listens to K-pop, and dresses like she’s auditioning for a reboot of The Craft.

The prototypical e-girl is really more of an idea — an aesthetic rather than a person. As the antecedent “e” would imply, the e-girl is also “very online” — maybe she’s a gamer, a cosplayer, or spends a lot of time on TikTok. Tumblr, the dinosaur medium used by emo-girls of yore (2010s), also makes up a big part of the e-girl online diet. The style is heavily influenced by Asian culture, specifically anime and K-pop. YouTuber Jenna Marbles called it a mix between “Harajuku, emo, and Igari makeup, the hangover makeup in Japan.” Think Harley Quinn with rudimentary film-editing skills.

Being mocked by New York magazine is like being called ugly by a frog.

Not mentioned, perhaps because it is obvious, is that these chicks are the very model of a stylish A.W.F.U.L. Democrat.