DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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Traditionally, prefabricated construction has meant large fixed factories churning out modules or panels that get shipped to building sites. The siren song is industrial-esque economies of scale in an industry that’s long evaded affordability and efficiency. But those centralized models, made infamous by companies like Katerra, General Modular Homes, and Skender, have faced challenges due to large up-front capex requirements and the hefty cost of shipping fabricated products to construction sites.

The emerging microfactory model flips that script. Instead of shipping bulky housing components from a distant plant, why not ship the factoryitself to the project? In other words, take a compact, automated production unit (often the size of a shipping container) and set it up right next to the jobsite. The factory becomes a portable product, and the building components are made where they’ll be used—a true inversion of the old “fixed factory, shipped goods” paradigm.

By making factories shippable and goods more locally produced, microfactories aim to capture the benefits of off-site fabrication (automation, efficiency, indoor conditions) without the drawbacks of centralized production.

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Seattle’s socialist-in-chief is no longer laughing about chasing away businesses and wealthy residents. But the attitude adjustment may be too little, too late.

Just a few weeks ago, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson infamously giggled when asked if she was concerned about wealthy residents fleeing Seattle because of her policies.

“I think the claims that millionaires are going to leave our state are, like, super overblown. And if—the ones that leave, like, bye,” Wilson said to applause at Seattle University.

As I wrote at the time, this flippant attitude toward a potential wealth exodus was remarkably foolish.

Businesses and the “rich” were already leaving Seattle, but hitting the accelerator on leftist policies is causing a full-blown economic meltdown. The result will be a loss of hundreds of millions—likely even billions—of dollars in future tax revenue.

And it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that a political program based on taxing the rich doesn’t even begin to work if there are few rich to tax. But here we are. Reality is setting in.

Now for the consequences.

FA, FO.

New Scientist.

We have known of magnets for millennia. Today, they are at the heart of a raft of modern technologies, from electric generators and smartphones to loudspeakers and hospital scanners. And yet for 100 years, we have been missing something about them. We always assumed there were only two types. It was Šmejkal’s art-inspired insights that finally gave the lie to that in 2022.

Fast-forward to today, and we know that what Šmejkal called “altermagnets” aren’t just an idea. We have discovered real examples and are working out how to make this new kind of material in practical and useful ways. There is even a possibility that these magnets could help us build a completely new kind of computer. “Altermagnets could actually have all the functionalities of current devices, but much faster, with less energy consumption, and smaller,” says Šmejkal.

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Ask yourself why all American universities follow a German model rather than a British model for how they operate.

In fact, a university structured on the British model would invariably fail accreditation in the U.S.

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The Western world lives under the rule of law and holds sacred the institutions that enforce them. We believe in contracts, in due process, and in a system of justice that is fair, at least in theory. But what happens when that system frays? What happens when there is a growing class that is above the law?

The unsettling answer is that an older, more brutal set of rules re-emerges. It’s a system of power that has governed humanity for nearly all of its history called tribalism.

Of course, tribalism is still thriving in the non-Western world. We see its effects in what we might call corruption, in political systems where votes are merely a show, and in societies where power, not law, is the final arbiter. From a Western perspective, we tend to disdain these systems as a moral failing. We don’t see a rational, time-tested system of power operating according to its own logic; we see a deviation from our own sacred ideals. This misunderstanding is a luxury, because when we mistake a power play for a moral lapse, we are left trying to appeal to a non-existent conscience, playing a game we don’t even know has begun. And in the emerging conflicts of the 21st century, those who don’t understand the rules of the tribe will be the first to fall.

Astral Codex Ten.

The mid-20th century was the golden age of nurture. Psychoanalysis, behaviorism, and the spirit of the ‘60s convinced most experts that parents, peers, and propaganda were the most important causes of adult personality.

Starting in the 1970s, the pendulum swung the other way. Twin studies shocked the world by demonstrating that most behavioral traits – including socially relevant traits like IQ – were substantially genetic. Typical estimates for adult IQ found it was about 60% genetic, 40% unpredictable, and barely related at all to parenting or family environment.

By the early 2000s, genetic science reached a point where scientists could start pinpointing the particular genes behind any given trait. Early candidate gene studies, which hoped to find single genes with substantial contributions to IQ, depression, or crime, mostly failed. They were replaced with genome wide association studies, which accepted that most interesting traits were polygenic – controlled by hundreds or thousands of genes – and trawled the whole genome searching for variants that might explain 0.1% or even 0.01% of the pie. The goal shifted toward polygenic scores – algorithms that accepted thousands of genes as input and spit out predictions of IQ, heart disease risk, or some other outcome of interest.

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Every March and November, Americans dread the notification in their inbox or on the news to “Remember to change your clocks!” Most of us rely on the adage “Fall back in fall—spring forward in spring” to sort out the confusion of which way the clock is moving. But you’d be hard pressed to find anyone who gets excited about the biannual shift.

However, many Americans do love the later hours of sunlight daylight saving time affords. With equal fervor, others, particularly older people, dislike the thought of getting up in the dark that accompanies it.

It is this lack of consensus, as well as significant pushback from health experts, that has stalled the “Sunshine Protection Act” (H.R. 139) in the House Energy and Commerce Committee since the beginning of 2025. The broader effort to pass similar versions of the bill has been ongoing since 2018.

Now, it looks as if the sun will rise again on an amendment to make DST permanent for all states, and without much notice.

The House Committee on Energy and Commerce late Tuesday night announced a markup meeting for Thursday, May 21 at 10 a.m. On the agenda was a proposal to fold the language of the Sunshine Protection Act into the Motor Vehicle Modernization Act (H.R.7389).

This latest attempt would mandate permanent daylight saving time in all states that don’t self-exempt before its effective date, and it would prevent self-exemption after its effective date.

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A Brussels court has granted Mohamed Bakkali, a convicted terrorist involved in the murderous 2015 Paris attacks, temporary release from prison.

According to the Belgian outlet La Libre, Bakkali is permitted six periods of leave from his cell of up to 36 hours each in duration. The judiciary justified a decision, citing his good behaviour. While the public prosecutor’s office strongly opposed these furloughs, it was reportedly denied the opportunity to appeal.

Bakkali, who helped plan the Paris atrocity and arranged accommodation for the perpetrators, was sentenced to 30 years in prison in 2022. He also received a 25-year sentence for a foiled separate railway attack.

After conviction in France, he was transferred to Belgium, his country of citizenship.

The Belgian justice system allows inmates to apply for temporary release after serving just one-third of their sentence, significantly earlier than the two-thirds requirement in France. Expected to be permanently released in 2040, Bakkali has already received five previous furloughs since last July.

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The deportation of Syrian citizens from Germany has been virtually paralyzed despite the political announcements made by Berlin in recent months. A key reason is that Damascus has stopped issuing replacement travel documents for Syrian nationals facing deportation.

According to recently published information, since the end of January no German federal state has received the type of documentation required to carry out forced returns of individuals lacking valid passports or complete identity documents.These replacement documents are an essential requirement in deportation procedures. Without them, authorities may face serious legal and operational difficulties in carrying out returns even when a final deportation order exists.

German federal authorities have not officially confirmed the blockage, although they have not denied it either.

The issue currently affects around 11,000 Syrian citizens who are under an immediate legal obligation to leave Germany, according to data from the German Federal Police.

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The Supreme Court determined that a U.S.-based company—Havana Docks—can recover damages from four major cruise lines that used its docks previously confiscated by the Cuban government.

Havana Docks, a U.S. company, built docks in Havana’s port before the Cuban Revolution. The Castro regime revoked the company’s legal right to the docks, and the company later sued cruise lines that used the docks, claiming they were liable for trafficking in confiscated property. The cruise lines argued that the company’s legal right to the docks would have expired by then, regardless of confiscation.

In an 8-1 ruling issued on Thursday, Justice Clarence Thomas found that Havana Docks “did not have to prove that the cruise lines interfered with a property interest that would have existed in the counterfactual scenario in which the Cuban government did not confiscate it.”

“The cruise lines’ use of the docks is sufficient to establish that they used ‘property which was confiscated by the Cuban Government,’” Thomas wrote.

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The former leader of a Minnesota nonprofit who was convicted for her role at the center of a staggering $250 million fraud case that helped ignite a federal immigration crackdown should spend 50 years in prison, prosecutors argued in a court filing.

Aimee Bock, who ran the organization Feeding our Future, which claimed it helped provide millions of meals to children in need during the pandemic, is set to be sentenced Thursday in federal court in Minneapolis.

“Feeding Our Future operated like a cash pipeline, open to anyone willing to submit fraudulent claims and pay kickbacks,” prosecutors said in the Monday filing. “The ripple effects of her actions are profound, immeasurable, and will have lasting consequences for both Minnesota and the nation.”

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Belgian coastal police are urging urgent reinforcements as authorities struggle to contain a growing wave of UK-bound small boat crossings, which officials say are becoming increasingly dangerous and harder to intercept.

Police chiefs told a parliamentary committee that after several years of relative calm, Belgium’s coastline has seen a sharp rise in human trafficking activity, with smuggling networks shifting operations away from France due to tighter enforcement measures. As a result, departure points have increasingly moved toward Belgian coastal areas used for Channel crossings.

Local forces warn that the situation has become significantly more volatile. Officers report growing aggression during interventions, with some smuggling groups reportedly accompanied by individuals described by police as “violent ex-soldiers” from countries including Iraq and Afghanistan. Authorities say these individuals are being used to protect boats at launch sites and deter police from approaching.

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For decades, scientists believed ancient humans avoided dense rainforests, treating them as nearly impossible environments for early survival. But a groundbreaking discovery in West Africa is rewriting that story. Researchers uncovered evidence that humans were living deep within rainforest environments in present-day Côte d’Ivoire around 150,000 years ago — far earlier than anyone thought possible.

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Scientists have discovered that the human body undergoes a dramatic internal transformation during extended fasting, with major changes appearing only after about three days without food. In a seven-day water-only fasting study, researchers tracked thousands of proteins in the blood and found widespread shifts affecting organs throughout the body — including the brain. While the body quickly switches from burning glucose to fat, the most intriguing biological changes linked to potential health benefits didn’t emerge until later in the fast.

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A new study suggests humans became overwhelmingly right-handed because of two major evolutionary shifts: walking on two legs and developing much larger brains. Researchers found that as human ancestors evolved, their right-hand preference steadily intensified — transforming a mild tendency into one of humanity’s most distinctive traits.

When you’re right, you’re right.

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Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have created a remarkable new material that works like a “rechargeable solar battery,” storing sunlight inside tiny molecules and releasing it later as heat — even long after the sun goes down. Inspired by reversible changes found in DNA and photochromic sunglasses, the system captures solar energy without relying on bulky batteries or the electrical grid. The molecule can hold energy for years and packs more energy per kilogram than lithium-ion batteries.

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Analyzing carefully the living habits of past Mediterranean agrarian societies one eventually comes to the realization that the continuous, unbroken and uninterrupted eight hour sleep schedule didn’t exist and is in fact, a totally modern invention and a consequence of the rigid 9-5 work schedule.

Without artificial lighting the movements of the Sun dictated the beginning and end of the day. Life was lived in accordance and balance with Nature and sleep was no exception. An unbroken eight hours of sleep did not always fit with the cycles of the sky above and sleep was therefore rhythmically polyphasic.

In the Summertime this manifested as the siesta. The midday sun making work or activities outdoors impossible, people stopped work, spent time with their families, ate their main meal of the day and then napped. Refreshed and energized, work resumed in the cool hours of the afternoon and the day went on late into the night. Come time for the second sleep, eight hours weren’t needed and a late night paired naturally and effortlessly with an early rise the following morning.

In the Wintertime this manifested as a sort of backwards and opposite siesta, a short wakeful period in the middle of the night between two sleeps. This makes perfect sense when you realize the duality and opposition of Summer’s long days and short nights with Winter’s short days and long nights. People went to sleep with the sun, woke in the middle of the night to stoke the fire and do chores for the following day before again going back to sleep and waking near or at sunrise.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

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Residents of a quiet East Sussex town have been left with no choice but to patrol their own streets after the leftist Labour government dumped hundreds of unvetted male migrants into a former army camp on their doorstep.

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Politicians in Britain are complaining about “ideological nonsense” being instilled into young children, following new reports on the teaching of racism in schools.

An “anti-racism” lesson plan devised by a group of schools in Sheffield is being used to ‘teach’ teenagers that while white people can be racist towards black people, racial prejudice the other way around does not count as racism, which is defined as “racial prejudice plus power.”

Quillette.

Nicholas Kristof’s 11 May New York Times column (“The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians”) and its accompanying video demonstrate the halo effect that protects many non-governmental organisations from the scrutiny they deserve. In addition to the testimony provided by security prisoners (suspected or convicted terrorists) released from Israeli prisons, Kristof’s essay relies upon quotes from unverifiable NGO reports or statements, and from a United Nations committee that recycles the accusations those statements and reports contain.

The NGO at the centre of Kristof’s essay calls itself the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med or EMHRM), which Kristof blandly describes as “often critical of Israel.” Registered in Switzerland in 2015, this Palestinian NGO has a mailing address in Geneva and an unknown number of staffers paid with funds from undisclosed donors. The publication of a 69-page Euro-Med report on 12 April was the source of Kristof’s accusation that Israel “employs systematic sexual violence” that is “widely practiced as part of an organized state policy.” The report was accompanied by an extensive public-relations campaign, which included promotion in Turkish-government-controlled news platform TRT, Qatar-linked propaganda platform Middle East Eye, and many other outlets that routinely promote invented or tendentious stories about Israel.

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Earlier this month, Reform UK, Nigel Farage’s latest political incarnation, proposed one of the sharpest political ideas of modern times: to site new migrant detention centres in areas that vote heavily for the Green Party, which famously advocates for a “world without borders”. Likely locations include the historic Green Party stronghold of Brighton, but after last week’s local election success the list could easily extend to newly-won councils in Norwich, Hastings, as well as the London boroughs of Hackney, Lewisham and Waltham Forest. This is nothing short of a masterstroke in political simplicity: holding people to the professed beliefs they routinely foist on others.

The genius of such a policy lies in its symmetry. For years we have been told that opposing mass, uncontrolled migration is “racist”, “far-right” and “morally bankrupt”. Those who preach this gospel however, have customarily done so from the safety of low-crime, high-property-value postcodes, where the practical consequences of their ideology are someone else’s problem. Reform’s proposal flips the script. It says: you voted for it, you lecture the rest of us about it, you obviously believe in it – now live with it on your own doorstep.

Far from mere politicking, the idea demands the bare minimum of political integrity – for politicians and voters alike. Democracy works best when the electorate understands that their choices have consequences. ‘Virtue-signalling’ meanwhile, that favoured indoor sport of the metropolitan Left, is designed specifically to reward the signaller while costing him precisely nothing. A rainbow flag on a social media profile, a ‘refugees welcome’ hashtag, or a solemn dinner-party declaration that Britain is a “nation of immigrants”, rarely come with the danger that such views will be tested in court.

The Telegraph (UK).

Two decades ago, Al Gore’s movie An Inconvenient Truth thrust climate change into the spotlight. With dramatic imagery and dire warnings, it transformed a niche concern into a front-page crisis, influencing rich country leaders and elite jet-setters, and inspiring a generation of activists.

Twenty years affords distance to reflect not just on the film’s impact, but also its accuracy. Many of Gore’s most alarming predictions have failed to materialise, while the policy response it helped inspire has proved extraordinarily flawed.

The documentary’s core narrative was that climate change was driving worsening disasters, such as floods, droughts, storms and wildfires.

The Telegraph (UK).

Three one-penny pieces and a farthing from 1882 among discovery on Lord Nelson’s flagship from Battle of Trafalgar

The Telegraph (UK).

Two Romanians who attacked a British-based Iranian journalist on a London street were “smiling” and “laughing” after stabbing him, a court has heard.

Pouria Zeraati was left bleeding in the street after being attacked by proxies of the Iranian regime in Wimbledon, south-west London, on March 29, 2024, prosecutors told Woolwich Crown Court.

Romanian nationals Nandito Badea, 21, and 25-year-old George Stana have both pleaded not guilty to charges of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and wounding.

The War Zone.

We now know the building goes six floors underground and will have “the greatest drone empire you’ve ever seen that’s going to protect Washington” on its roof.

Ein feste burg is unser Trump….

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The fight over “buffer zone” legislation in New York City entered a new phase on Wednesday, weeks after Mayor Zohran Mamdani vetoed a bill allowing police to limit protests around “educational facilities.”

Mamdani and other detractors of the initial, highly contested bill said that it would chill free speech, particularly affecting pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses. Its proponents said they would try to flip enough members of the City Council to override Mamdani’s veto.

Now, they may have reached a compromise: On Wednesday, City Council Speaker Julie Menin announced a revised version of the bill that excludes colleges and universities from the educational facilities subject to protest limits.

In an interview, Council Member Eric Dinowitz, who introduced the legislation Mamdani vetoed, said the new bill’s language was “slightly tweaked” so it could get “more broad support” from city lawmakers.

“There were some members who were uncomfortable with the ‘educational facility’ piece, so we targeted it towards early childhood centers, pre-K and K-to-12 schools,” Dinowitz said about the new version, called the Schools Safe Access bill.

Newsbusters.

After calling for an armed “rebellion” against President Trump earlier in the week, ABC News co-host Sunny Hostin boasted about Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) plan to have black college athletes boycott their scholarships to southern schools.

So southern schools will have to stock their teams with white players? Yeah, that will really advance the Democrat agenda.

I haven’t seen any indication that black players are eager to throw away the only hope they’ve got of getting rich just to play Stepin Fetchit for Democrats.

The Foundry.

This past December, whistleblowers came to me, and they started warning about what they believed to be massive Medicaid home health care fraud here in the state of Ohio. They weren’t just talking about a few bad claims. They were actually describing what they believed to be a systemic fraud pipeline right here in Columbus.

These whistleblowers told me providers were being pressured to rubber stamp home health care paperwork, and for people who actually didn’t medically need it. They said individuals would come into their office, ask for home health care services. Some appeared to be actually coached on what to say to get those services, with somebody many times who didn’t even speak English, so you had a translator in the office, and they were pushing aggressively for paperwork to be approved.

But these providers did the right thing. They conducted physical exams, they evaluated the person that was pushing for home health care services, and when the person didn’t qualify, they flat out denied them. They refused to rubber stamp Medicaid paperwork, which was the right thing to do.

Newsbusters.

It’s only May, and Google is already hard at work interfering in the 2026 midterm elections and doing clean-up for Democrats embroiled in fraud accusations.

Google News completely ignored multiple fraud scandals plaguing Democratic Party politics in its top 20 morning stories in April, hiding important information from voters as the midterm elections ramp up. From the infamous Southern Poverty Law Center indictment to the FBI raids on largely Somali-run day-care centers in Minnesota to a Democrat congresswoman found to have taken $5 million from taxpayers, mum was the word from Google.

There was no lack of stories on each of the scandals, but Google News shut them all down, including those published by some of Google’s favorite left-leaning outlets. Even still, these left-leaning sources dominated Google News while right-leaning outlets were once again denied visibility.

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Reality bites. Sometimes it bites woke billionaires.

The Foundry.

Cubans are no different from anyone else on this earth; God has endowed them with rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of property. For the past 67 years, a pitiless regime, run mostly by one family, has deprived them of these rights, and when they have raised their voices, the regime’s henchmen have thrown them into dungeons and left them there for years.

Terror always works. Stalin died of natural causes, as did Mao. It took an invading army made up of some 50 countries, led by the U.S. and Britain, to dislodge Adolf Hitler. There’s not much an unarmed population can do when those with a monopoly on violence are sufficiently unfeeling to repress their compatriots.

But now there is a glimmer of hope. For the past several months, and thanks to the actions of the Trump Administration, Cubans, in the seventh decade of their misery, do seem to be getting closer and closer to enjoying the rights that God endowed them with (or, if you prefer, nature). The planets do seem to be aligning such that enough of the regime’s enforcers will start refusing to repress their own people.

ATQUE:‘Justice Has No Expiration Date’: Raúl Castro Faces US Indictments

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For decades South Africa has operated as the breadbasket for half of the African continent, and the vast majority of that food was grown by white farmers (Boers and Afrikaners). In other words, the very survival of Africans has long been dependent on the hard labor of the white people they are taught to despise.

South Africa has around 142 race-based laws which largely discriminate against white citizens, especially when property, business and government office is involved. The Expropriation Act of 2024 allows the socialist government to confiscate any land of their choosing to “redress past discriminatory laws or practices” (land owned by white citizens). This is part of a project to “fulfill land reform goals” (transfer wealth and farming operations to black citizens).

The problem is, when land is seized or forced into sale to black owners, farming production reportedly collapses. That is to say, once the white farmers are gone, crop yields fail and the black owners often resell the land and leave. In other cases, the new owners allow the land to languish, using the homes for living but never cultivating the surrounding property.

Think of it as evolution in action.

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Schools in the north of England are teaching pupils that black people cannot be racist towards white people.

According to materials adopted by a group of Sheffield schools, led by Notre Dame High School, teenagers are explicitly told: “Black people can be racially prejudiced towards a white person which is wrong and totally unacceptable. However, this is not racism. Racism is racial prejudice plus power. In the UK, white people hold the cultural power.”

Uh, no, racism doesn’t need ‘power’ to be racist. Apparently the British have given up speaking English.

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The French minister for education, Édouard Geffray, has made headlines following a sensational statement: putting an end to decades of laxity in this area, he has announced that spelling, grammar, and syntax will henceforth be fully taken into account when marking papers for the final-year exams, the Brevet and the Baccalaureate, taken by all young French people aged 15–18—effective June 2026. While we may welcome this U-turn, which puts a proper command of the language back at the heart of learning, the measure is not straightforward to implement and has sparked waves of outrage among pupils, their teachers, and their parents.

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I’m sorry I have to clarify that, yes, this is the Democrat candidate for Texas’ 35th Congressional District.

ATQUE: Dem Candidate Calls for ‘Prison’ and ‘Castration’ for Zionists

Perhaps it’s time for conservatives to call for prison and hysterectomies for AWFULs.

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The political left often betrays their true agenda in the legislation they choose to oppose. The SAVE Act, for example, would require proof of citizenship to vote in US elections; a law which the majority of countries around the world enforce. It’s widely supported by around 80% of the public, yet, Democrats stubbornly refuse to pass it.

Why? Because they know there are illegal immigrants voting in their favor, and they know that mail-in ballot fraud exists and often benefits them.

By extension, Democrats aggressively attempted to block Trump Administration efforts to ensure that illegal immigrants could not receive healthcare subsidies. Their argument was that “no illegals actually access those subsidies”. Of course, if this was true, then it should not matter if Trump adds such restrictions – According to Dems, nothing would change.

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Sometimes evil isn’t just banal. It’s direct, open, and unrepentant.

That was the case on Monday afternoon as three “credentialed” journalists showed up to cover the Luigi Mangione trial in New York and revealed that they were happy he allegedly shot and killed UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson.

The self-described “Mangionistas”—and dedicated fans of democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani—were unrepentant in their embrace of assassinations as a reasonable form of political action.

They not only reveled in Thompson’s death, they also took shots at his family too.

“F— Brian Thompson,” said a woman who the New York Daily News identified as Ashley Rojas based on the press credentials dangling from her neck. “That’s all I want to say. F— Brian Thompson. F— his mom.”

Lena Weissbrot, who appeared to be dressed up as a cross between Beetlejuice and Luigi, but the one from the Mario Bros., said that Thompson’s son was better off with his father dead.

“His children are better off without him. They need to learn to not be like their dad. And enjoy the blood money, kids,” she said.

ATQUE: Mamdani Won’t Revoke Mangione Fans’ Press Passes

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It has been just over a month since the Rassemblement National (RN) took office for the first time in a whole host of town halls across France. The Left is crying foul and expressing concern at the prospect of sweeping cuts to funding for community organisations and culture. But this is precisely why Jordan Bardella’s party has been entrusted with the reins of so many towns: to put an end to the shameless squandering of public money that has long ceased to benefit French citizens.

Since the last local elections, the towns now under RN administration have become political showcases under close scrutiny. The new RN mayors have swiftly implemented symbolic and concrete measures designed to mark a break with the former ruling parties. For their supporters, these measures respond to a demand for local engagement, a sense of local identity, and firmness in municipal management. For the Left and community organisations, these measures are a cause for concern.

Among the first decisions highlighted in several municipalities led by the RN is the reallocation of municipal grants. According to Valeurs actuelles, several mayors have chosen to scrap or reduce funding for certain associations deemed to be activist or overly politicised. Instead, they claim to want to prioritise local organisations focused on neighbourhood activities, popular traditions, or direct services to the public.

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Adam Carolla’s house burned down during the Palisades fire. He, like everyone else there, can’t get a permit to rebuild. And he accurately predicted that.

Will the a** wipes intended recipients get the message? Would it be a winning message if Adam Carolla were running for office?

Blunt messaging seems to work for L.A. mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt (whose house burned down too) and it has worked for President Trump.

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Democrats have been using foul rhetoric for so long that no one notices. When a Republican descends to anywhere near that level it stands out, leaving no pearl unclutched.

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Two people who hated Jews killed another guy who hates Jews. What a world.

Life is not a Story. Sometimes there are no Good Guys.

The Telegraph (UK).

Grieving families will be forced to pay Labour’s new “mansion tax” under plans to target inheritances.

The Chancellor announced at her Budget last year that homes worth more than £2m would pay an annual “high value council tax surcharge” of up to £7,500.

In consultation documents published on Tuesday, the Treasury said homeowners on incomes of less than £35,000 would be able to defer the levy until they died or sold their home.

Leftists do love taking people’s money….

The New Neo.

After spending a decade calling Trump a coarse and vulgar misogynist, bigot, and Nazi, it’s somewhat ironic that Democrats are about to nominate a truly coarse and vulgar misogynist, bigot, and Nazi – in Maine. Also a self-described Communist, although that hardly rates much controversy these days.

I wonder what the Democrat voters of Maine will decide to do.

They’ll vote for him, of course, Whatever else one might say about Democrats, they never forget which side they’re on.

(Unlike certainl RINOs I could name….)

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When the expensive car in which you invested your money turns out to be a lemon and you still sing the praises of that car, we call that cognitiive dissonance. The persistence of anti-Semitism is like that. Throughout history, there has been an enormous investment in promoting Jew hatred. Yet wherever it has has taken hold, the haters were defeated and destroyed. Yet Jew hatred endures.

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It is one of the strangest puzzles in human evolution. About 90% of people across every human culture favour their right hand – with no other primate species showing a population-level preference on this scale. Despite decades of research into the brains, genes and development behind handedness, why humans ended up so overwhelmingly right-handed has remained an evolutionary enigma.

Now, new research led by the University of Oxford, published in PLOS Biology, suggests the answer comes down to two defining features of human evolution – walking on two legs, and the dramatic expansion of the human brain.

The study, by Dr Thomas A. Püschel and Rachel M. Hurwitz at Oxford’s School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, with Professor Chris Venditti at the University of Reading, brought together data on 2,025 individuals across 41 species of monkeys and apes. Using Bayesian modelling that accounts for evolutionary relationships between species, the team tested the major existing hypotheses for why handedness evolved: including tool use, diet, habitat, body mass, social organisation, brain size and locomotion.

I suspect that the Hokey-Pokey had something to do with it.

Steve Graham.

It’s hard to figure out what is happening regarding the nation’s response to the tragedy in San Diego. Several Muslims were killed at a mosque by a couple of deranged kids in their teens, and the cops are claiming there is evidence it was related to pro-white racism. The killers showed up in a BMW (dog whistle?), and they had a gas can with an SS sticker on it.

Not sure why anyone would associate the SS with responsible motoring, but kids have always loved stickers.

People don’t seem all that upset. Why? Is it because Americans are fed up with living at the point of Muslim guns every day, always waiting for the next act of Islamist terror?

Islam is the only major religion that actively promotes the murder of outsiders, calling it a means of obtaining eternity in a gross, trashy version of heaven in which men get to cavort, drunk, with pretty boys and virgin girls. It also tells adherents that jihadis who die trying to murder outsiders can then intercede for 70 of their family members. The world is full of Muslim moms who love it when their sons commit atrocities against Jews and Christians, because they hope to make it to paradise based on their sons’ actions.

Islam is the main reason it takes 45 minutes to get to an airline gate on a good day. I remember when it took 5. And it is telling that news stories about the shooting say the Muslims used the mosque to worship “peacefully.”

When was the last time you saw a story about a church shooting that said the intended victims were worshiping “peacefully”? You don’t have to say that about Christians and Jews. It’s assumed. In the case of Muslims, journalists think it merits special mention. Wonder why that is.