DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

The New Neo.

That’s the headline of this piece by Matt Margolis at PJ Media. My first thought on reading the title was: well, join the club. If that’s her goal, she’s got plenty of company on the right – or the former right.

There’s a history to this sort of thing, although the details vary. We’re all familiar with erstwhile conservatives Bill Kristol, and the Cheneys. They didn’t just leave the fold, they decided to turn on it and unite with their former opponents on the left and far left. Two more recent examples are Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson, pundits who at least for a while seemed to be solidly on the right and now are in flagrant “tear it down, ha-ha-ha” mode, and although they haven’t joined with the far left they are certainly helping it along by being every bit as awful as the left always claims the right is.

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Minnesota is now facing one of the largest documented government service fraud scandals in United States history. Under Gov. Tim Walz’s evidently unwatchful eye, federal prosecutors have estimated that approximately $1 billion in taxpayer funds have been siphoned from multiple state- and federally funded social service programs over the last five years.

As of this writing, 87 individuals have been charged in connection with the scheme, with 61 convictions already secured and more charges continuing to be filed against these fraudsters. The bulk of the fraud scheme centers around two government programs.

The first target was the Minneapolis-based not-for-profit Feeding Our Future, which distributed federal child nutrition funds during the COVID-19 pandemic. Beginning in April 2020, the organization’s founder and executive director allegedly oversaw an elaborate fraud operation that involved over 250 fake meal sites throughout Minnesota, siphoning over $250 million in taxpayer funds.

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Josep Borrell’s latest outburst as former High Representative—accusing the United States of wanting “a white Europe divided into nations”—has triggered a political shockwave that reveals far more than he intended.

Rather than describing an external threat, his message exposes how, for years, a substantial part of the EU’s governing elite has stopped viewing Europe as a constellation of distinct peoples with their own identities and has instead reimagined it as a post-national, multicultural space managed technocratically from Brussels. The mere fact that Borrell frames the historical existence of European nations as something negative illustrates just how far the institutional narrative has drifted from the continent it purports to represent.

The former EU foreign policy chief (a role now held by Kaja Kallas) posted on X words that leave little room for doubt: “Vance already made clear in Munich his disdain for Europe, now elevated by Trump to the level of a National Security Strategy. It is a political declaration of war against the EU. He wants a white Europe divided into nations, subjected to his demands, and voting for whoever he wants.”

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economy. To pay for it, heirs, high performers, and savers are being drafted into service. The end of the eco-socialist nightmare will be convulsive and chaotic.

Last Friday, the federal cabinet agreed to introduce a new EV subsidy. Roughly three billion euros are set to flow into this bloodless market segment over the coming years—a drop in the bucket compared to the vast sums used to artificially keep the green patronage complex alive. But it is a signal.

The decision joins a long list of political misfires in recent months—a list unlikely to end with subsidized industrial electricity, heat pumps, or refinancing packages for wind turbines. The state simply has too much money at its disposal to be forced to abandon its wasteful, destructive project.

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Note that the fat ugly black chick in the Build Large Mansions t-shirt has the trigger discipline of a five-year-old.

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The European Union must expand legal migration channels and intensify pressure on the criminal networks behind illegal border crossings, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday at a global migration conference in Brussels.

Sure, ship in more of the people who have already trashed their own native countries. What could go wrong?

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Elite universities are training their students to be good Democrat apparatchicks, i.e. corrupt grifters. This ought to come as a surprise to nobody.

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The litany of reasons California is broken is well documented. The highest cost of living and the highest taxes. The highest percentages of homeless people and people living in poverty. Unaffordable homes and unaffordable rent. High crime and failing schools. A hostile business climate and record migration out of state as people and businesses flee.

But not often enough are we reminded of the countless small things that have gone wrong. Small things that add up to a big problem: a state legislature that is out of touch with the people it represents; a state legislature that, for all practical purposes, holds its constituents in contempt; a state legislature that is doing everything in its power to make life difficult.

Just a few days ago, the latest in this long train of abuses arrived. No more plastic bags. Although 2026 is still a few weeks away, this grocery store has already converted to paper only—heavy, fragile paper bags with handles that tear off under the slightest stress. Everything was double-bagged just to lower the probability of catastrophic failure of the handles.

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On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump promised to end federal taxes on tips and overtime. Democrats dismissed it as an election-year ploy to win votes, but Trump delivered on that promise when he signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on July 4, which eliminated taxes on tips and overtime for service and hospitality workers.

However, blue-state Democrats like New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis are, in the words of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, “deliberately blocking their own residents” from accessing the “historic benefits” promised under the law.

“President Trump’s tax cuts bill is the most pro-worker, pro-family legislation in a generation,” Bessent said. “It puts more money directly into the pockets of hardworking Americans through No Tax on Tips for dedicated service industry staff, No Tax on Overtime for linemen and factory workers, and a new tax deduction for seniors who depend on Social Security.”

Democrats are Friends of the Working Class when it comes to passing out free stuff in exchange for votes, but not so much when it means less money for them to pass out or financial independence for ‘working families’.

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Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee, was sharply rebuked Thursday for calling the ambush-style shootings that killed one National Guardsman and critically injured another in Washington, D.C., on the night before Thanksgiving an “unfortunate situation.”

Thompson was questioning Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on worldwide threats to the United States. The hearing aired live on Newsmax and on the Newsmax2 free online streaming platform.

“Madam Secretary, you and the gentleman from NCTC [Joseph Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center] referenced the unfortunate accident that occurred with the National Guardsman being killed,” Thompson said when beginning a line of questioning.

The whitest ‘black man’ you’ll ever see.

Financial Times, a Voice of the Crust.

(The Financial Times is the British analog of the Wall Street Journal—if the Wall Street Journal were run by the staff of Mother Jones.)

It is early October and Srinivasan is hosting what he’s called the Network State Conference, an event targeting “those interested in founding, funding and finding new communities”.

For years, the entrepreneur has preached to clubby tech gatherings that they should gather their online comrades and set up a physical homeland — a network state, be that a city or a country — by joining together to buy land. He has hailed this as the “ultimate exit” by Silicon Valley from “failing” US institutions and democracy.

But what was a fringe concept a matter of years ago is now attracting more interest as scrappy start-up chief executives and aggrieved billionaires contemplate the allure of tech-friendly havens unbound by legacy rules and regulation. While some are aspirational, reliant on their founders securing hard-to-come-by special economic zone status, there are now about 120 “start-up societies” in the works, according to an open-source database shared by Srinivasan. A few have received hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital from funds backed by the likes of investors Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen, OpenAI founder Sam Altman and Brian Armstrong, Coinbase chief executive.

The basic problem is that there is no space on earth left that is not subject to an existing government, and governments are run by politicians, and politicians live to meddle. There is no escaping that fatal fact. The best you can do is pick a country that is less bad than the alternatives. Nomad Capitalist has an entire business model based on this painful truth.

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When Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced The Line on January 10, 2021, he promised a radical reimagining of urban life. “We need to transform the concept of a conventional city into that of a futuristic one.”

Tucked into the upper corner of the kingdom’s Tabuk province, the city would run like a ruler through the Neom region, housing nine million people, the population of Austria, within just 34 square kilometers, all powered by renewable energy. It imagines a world where every need sits within a five-minute walk, yet one can cross the entire city in twenty minutes. But even in a country wealthy enough to seed rain clouds and bankroll vast infrastructure, reality is colliding with ambition. The city that promised to “deliver new wonders for the world” is struggling to deliver its own foundation.

By 2030, only 2.4 kilometers of the 170-kilometer project will be completed, with the rest delayed as the government prioritizes energy infrastructure and scrambles for funding. The project’s leadership has been reshuffled, with the head of the sovereign wealth fund, The Public Investment Fund, now steering the effort amid deepening financial uncertainty. This is unsurprising. The Line was imagined as an engineering object, an architectural marvel, rather than a city that must grow from real human demand. The economic foundation beneath that vision is equally unstable. Saudi Arabia’s fiscal fortunes depend on oil, a commodity that swung from over $110 a barrel in 2012 to $42 in 2020 and now hovers near $70. The financial bedrock for this trillion-dollar city is, like the desert beneath it, shifting.

The Guardian, a Voice of the Crust.

For all motorists, but perhaps the Ferrari-collecting rocker Rod Stewart in particular, it will be music to the ears: researchers have developed a road surface that heals when it cracks, preventing potholes without a need for human intervention.

The international team devised a self-healing bitumen that mends cracks as they form by fusing the asphalt back together. In laboratory tests, pieces of the material repaired small fractures within an hour of them first appearing.

“When you close the cracks you prevent potholes forming in the future and extend the lifespan of the road,” said Dr Jose Norambuena-Contreras, a researcher on the project at Swansea University. “We can extend the surface lifespan by 30%.”

The Guardian, a Voice of the Crust.

own an easy-to-miss turnoff on the A48 just outside Chepstow on the Welsh border, the gentle rumble of trucks, cranes and people at work mixes with birdsong in what is an otherwise peaceful rural setting. It is a crisp and sunny winter morning when I visit and, at first glance, the site appears to be little more than prefab containers and a car park. Yet, behind the scenes a group of men and women with expertise in diving, marine biology, technology, finance, construction and manufacturing are building something extraordinary. They have come together with a single mission statement: to make humans aquatic.

Their project is called Deep (not The Deep) and the site was chosen after a global search for the perfect location to build and test underwater accommodation, which the project founders say will enable them to establish a “permanent human presence” under the sea from 2027.

So far, so crazy sounding. Yet Deep is funded by a single anonymous private investor with deep pockets who wants to put hundreds of millions of pounds (if not more) into a project that will “increase understanding of the ocean and its critical role for humanity”, according to a Deep spokesperson. Its leadership team remains tight-lipped not only about the amount (they will only say it is substantially more than the £100m being invested into the Deep campus near Chepstow), but also about the investor’s identity. Whoever is behind it, the size of the investment means that an ambitious-sounding idea appears to be swiftly becoming a reality.

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This must make Tucker feel pretty good. I know it would me.

As my dad (WWII Air Corps) used to say, “When you’re getting flak, you know you’re over the target”l

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A University of California, Santa Barbara employee — allegedly disguised in a mask — helped inflame a hostile mob of anti-Israel demonstrators against a Jewish student leader, according to a federal lawsuit filed Thursday.

The complaint, which was obtained by the New York Post, accuses the university of repeatedly ignoring the student’s pleas for protection as the harassment escalated.

The suit was brought by 23-year-old Tessa Veksler, a Manhattan resident who recently graduated with degrees in political science and communications.

Veksler said she became the target of a sustained antisemitic campaign after publicly condemning the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terror attack that killed more than 1,200 Israelis.

According to the lawsuit, tensions peaked in February 2024 when Veksler — then serving as the school’s student body president — approached a large group of masked anti-Israel protesters in an effort to diffuse tensions.

“And she believed she was making progress until a UCSB representative — defendant Doe 1, and also wearing a mask — joined the meeting and began harassing Tessa and purposefully inciting the crowd’s antisemitic animus toward Tessa,” the filing stated.

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members of the alliance to drastically step up joint defense efforts, in order to face down a coming conflict with Russia that could be “on the scale of war our grandparents and great-grandparents endured.”

It in the “keynote speech” he chastized those alliance partners who don’t feel the urgency of the ‘Russian threat’ to Europe. “We are Russia’s next target. I fear that too many are quietly complacent,” he said. “Too many don’t feel the urgency. And too many believe that time is on our side. It is not. The time for action is now.”

“Conflict is at our door. Russia has brought war back to Europe. And we must be prepared,” he added while warning of the next world war.

Yup.

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Attorney General Pam Bondi and Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon announced Tuesday that the Justice Department will no longer have “disparate impact” regulations.

“For decades, the Justice Department has used disparate-impact liability to undermine the constitutional principle that all Americans must be treated equally under the law,” Bondi said in a statement.

“No longer. This Department of Justice is eliminating its regulations that for far too long required recipients of federal funding to make decisions based on race.”

All part of The Death Of Woke.

Oh—and I want twelve inches of belt armor instead of a roof.

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Democrat meme and congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is running for the US Senate in the deep red state of Texas, and Republicans are cheering. Notorious for providing some of the worst political takes of the past year, Crockett is widely considered to be the embodiment of leftist DEI – A low intelligence person artificially elevated into law and politics because of her minority status. Her presence on the national stage has produced endless comedy gold, but it’s about to get better.

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Rips the mask off of colorism in the “brown world”.

Those who think that the U.S. is uniquely “racist” need to educate themselves.

The number of people around the world who prefer light skin color to dark skin color include Indians (watch the video), American Negroes (look up the “brown bag and ruler test“), south Asia, east Asia, and (for all I know) in Africa. I doubt that Obama would have been elected President had he not been half white.

Unfortunately it’s almost impossible to get any objective information on this issue because of These Degenerate Times. This video is a case in point—at one part the podcaster makes the explicit assertion that “Varna does not equal color”, which is flat BS. Varna absolutely means “color”; it is, in fact, the literal Sanskrit word for “color” (look it up on Wictionary if you doubt it). So you have The Usual Suspects clinging to the notion that “colorism” is a Product of Western Colonialism and Racism, whereas in truth in started long before “white” people left Europe. (Whenever I’m asked for my “ethnicity” on a Form, I always specify “pink”.)

“Whiteness” is only a problem in the minds of white liberals and non-white people who need a boogeyman on which to blame all of the world’s problems, the way dimwits blame Capitalism for everything even though, as I have explained at great length elsewhere, There Is No Such Thing as Capitalism.

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I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.” – William F. Buckley, Jr.

For a glimpse into the timelessness of Bill Buckley’s almost 64-year-old observation, consider the different worlds inhabited by the credentialed and elite class of Americans versus working-class Americans. One tends to be more isolated from the effects of their pet policies and causes, while the other lives with the consequences of those policies every day. It’s essentially the difference between theoretical solutions to luxury problems and reality, and at the moment reality is sending the cloistered elite so far out of their minds that their last functioning brain cell just filed for unemployment.

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Jury selection begins on Thursday in the trial of a Wisconsin state judge charged with helping a migrant appearing in her courtroom evade an immigration arrest in a case stemming from President Donald Trump’s initiative to prosecute individuals accused of resisting his immigration enforcement policies.

Hannah Dugan, an elected judge on the Milwaukee County Circuit Court, is facing federal criminal charges brought by Trump’s Justice Department of concealing a person from arrest and obstructing federal proceedings. Dugan has pleaded not guilty.

Milwaukee-based U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman, overseeing the trial, is set to begin the process of selecting a jury on Thursday, with opening statements due to begin on Monday.

The case reflects tensions surrounding Trump’s immigration enforcement policies, including the presence of federal agents in courthouses. It also reflects the Justice Department’s efforts to criminally prosecute individuals it accuses of unlawfully impeding immigration enforcement.

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A Minnesota State University student has sparked outrage and a federal investigation after posting a video on TikTok in which he explicitly threatened to shoot Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

“ICE, I actually heard you guys pulled up to Owatonna, the big O, and you pulled up when I was not there? Y’all so p–s-ass s–t, boy. You’re gonna get popped next time I see you,” the student, identified by the New York Post as Hasan Mohamed, said in the clip, which was later deleted. “Bring the whole cavalry. Yeah, boy, you guys are scared.”

I second that emotion.

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The esoteric programming language Velato uses music as its source code. The first note of a composition establishes a “command root” note, and the intervals that follow specify instructions. The command root can be changed between statements, and the notes that make up a chord can be interpreted in a specified order, so there’s some latitude to help a composition sound “musical.”

I am not making this up.

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There are two kinds of antisemites in the world: Those that hate Jews and know it, and those that promote the hatred of Jews and don’t. I learned about both on one tragic October day in 1983. And on another tragic October day 40 years later.

Strictly speaking, this is not ‘anti-semitism’—after all, the Arabs are Semites, too—but more accurately Judenhasse, ‘Jew-hatred’.

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Greenpeace appears to think European courts have pre-eminence over US courts, even for events which happened in the USA.

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On Monday, December 8th, the European Union took a decisive step in the reconfiguration of its migration policy by approving a package of measures that tightens border control, speeds up returns, and allows the externalization of asylum application processing.

The agreement, backed by the interior ministers of the 27 member states, confirms the political shift the bloc has been experiencing in recent years and which responds, to a large extent, to the rise of patriotic and conservative parties and the progressive decline of traditional forces.

The new provisions, which include the creation of processing and return centers outside European territory and the expansion of the list of ‘safe countries,’ represent one of the biggest reworkings of the asylum system since the so-called migration crisis of 2015. The European Commissioner for Migration, Magnus Brunner, acknowledged after the meeting that Europe is at “a turning point” and that the current system “cannot continue tolerating abuses or unsustainable pressure.” Brussels thus admits, for the first time with this level of clarity, that the current framework is overwhelmed and that the priority is to regain control.

It’s Hard To Be a Trumpist  In addtion to RINOs, there appear also to be TINOs.

How the Supreme Court is using Trump to grab more power for itself (Ian Millhiser/Vox)

Jared Kushner, the President’s Son-in-Law, Is Part of Paramount’s Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery (Lauren Hirsch/New York Times)  So what?

Boasberg escalates contempt inquiry over Alien Enemies Act deportations (Kyle Cheney/Politico)

Trump Ban on Wind Energy Projects Ruled Illegal by US Judge (Bloomberg)

MAGA Pushes Racist Cinnabon Worker’s Fundraiser Past $100,000 (J.D. Wolf/MeidasTouch News) MAGA is the New Nigger.

Court Reform: Breaking the Corrupt Rule of the Six GOPers Is Everything (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)

Federal judge throws out Trump order blocking development of wind energy (Associated Press)

Trump, 79, Jolts Awake After Nodding Off at Roundtable (Erkki Forster/The Daily Beast)

A Trump Doctrine of Contradictions (Wall Street Journal)

The POLITICO Trump interview (Politico)

Trump’s trade wounds force White House into action (Courtenay Brown/Axios)  Wounds!

‘I Worry People Are Going to Get Hurt in the Short Term’ (Declan Harty/Politico)

We asked activists from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said (Danielle Renwick/The Guardian)

Looks Like the Supreme Court Will Continue to Overturn the 20th Century (New York Times)  I like that idea.

Fact check: Trump denies saying something he said on camera five days ago (Daniel Dale/CNN)

There is a real chance of a US-Venezuela war — so why does it feel fake? (Joshua Keating/Vox)  Perhaps because it is fake.

Vulnerable Republicans sweat amid GOP divisions on health care (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)  They hope.

In Warner Fight, a Hollywood Plot That Makes Trump the Star (Damian Paletta/Wall Street Journal)

At will? Whose will? — Removing independent agency heads is part of a broader assault on a nonpartisan government (Don Moynihan/Can We Still Govern?)  In the Executive branch, the President’s will. You might read the Constitution. Just a suggestion. (The only ‘nonpartisan government’ is government by the Deep State.)

Democrats Want Probe of Trump Officials and Immigration Deals (Fola Akinnibi/Bloomberg)  Of coufrse they do.

Trump doesn’t rule out troops in Venezuela, says President Nicolás Maduro’s ‘days are numbered’ (Megan Lebowitz/NBC News)

After NIH grant cuts, breast cancer research at Harvard slowed, and lab workers left (Martha Bebinger/NPR)  Because, as we all know,  breast cancer research is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government—and the Federal taxpayer.

Trump Reversing “Humphrey’s Executor” Is NOT Priced In

Supreme Court Struggles With How to Insulate the Federal Reserve From Politics (Adam Liptak/New York Times)

7 takeaways from POLITICO’s interview with President Trump (Megan Messerly/Politico)  Getcher Narrative right here.

The Movement: Warning signs emerge for MAGA populism over ObamaCare (Emily Brooks/The Hill)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

As Pope Leo’s MAGA criticism builds, Trump suggests he’d meet Catholic leader (Seb Starcevic/Politico)

Capitol agenda: What Trump told POLITICO about health care (Calen Razor/Politico)

How Jared Kushner became Trump’s indispensable second peace envoy (Washington Post)

Cheryl Hines ‘Surprised’ Friends Dropped Her Over RFK’s MAGA Conversion (Tom Latchem/The Daily Beast)  Trump Cooties.

‘Dishonors the decades-long bipartisan commitment’: Democrats slam Trump for his European takedown (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico)  I.e. Republicans are no longer rolling over.

America Has Become a Digital Narco-State (Paul Krugman)  Krugman has become a clone of Keith Olbermann.

Supreme Court Poised to Vastly Expand Presidential Power, Again (Kim Wehle/The Bulwark)

US civic health rating downgraded after year of ‘restrictive’ Trump actions (Maya Yang/The Guardian)

Justice Department faces call for internal probe into legal opinion on Venezuelan boat strikes (Scott MacFarlane/CBS News)

Advocacy groups sue Trump administration seeking release of legal memo justifying boat strikes (Courtney Kube/NBC News)

GOP lawmakers wary of Trump escalating beyond boat strikes in Venezuela (Washington Post)

Defense Bill Requires Trump Spy Agencies To Declassify COVID-19 Origins Intel, Chinese Obstruction Just the Trump Spy Agencies, mind you.

Trump Accidentally Sabotages Case for Bombings in New Interview Fiasco (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit.

New Illinois Law Limits Courthouse ICE Arrests God forbid ICE should get hold of an illegal immigrant with a criminal record—that would kill the whole Narrative.

DHS Nabs N.J. Twins in Plot to Shoot ICE Agents ‘on Sight’

Senate Democrats introduce bill to block Trump from putting face on dollar coin (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)

Life Inside the Undocumented Underground (Hunter Walker/Talking Points Memo)

Greene: ‘I feel very sorry’ for Trump (Sarah Fortinsky/The Hill)

The Inevitable, Trumpian Betrayal of Ukraine (The Contrarian)

Clinton-Appointed Federal Judge Tosses Trump’s Order Halting Wind Energy Projects

Trump will again test ‘blame Democrats’ message on the economy — this time at a casino (Alex Gangitano/Politico)

NewsBusters.

I’m not sure I’d ever bet against Elon Musk.

NewsBusters.

Although that’s not always a guarantee.

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In a brazen push to normalise the unthinkable, radical abortion activists are now targeting America’s youngest minds with a colorful children’s book that glorifies killing the unborn as some kind of heroic “superpower.”

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The New York Times has invented a new genre of reporting — covering big stories showing Democrats in a bad light years after the events that matter.

At the tail end of 2025, The Times has freshly broken the news that the Biden administration flooded the country with illegal immigrants, partly for ideological and partisan reasons, partly out of sheer incompetence.

Who knew?

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They call their newsletter “Politico Pro,” but it can sound more like “Politico Promo.” Take reporter Andrew Howard with his embarrassingly unskeptical pitch for funds on Monday, “Anti-Trump former Republicans have a multimillion-dollar plan to save House Democrats.”

When you hear the name “Lincoln Project” you should check your pocket to make sure the contents of your wallet are still intact. A co-founder of the Lincoln Project, Steve Schmidt, is back at the political money trough searching for funds using the name of the Save America Movement (SAM). And all they say they need is about $100 million.

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Highlighting exactly why Barack Obama, Joe Biden and James Clyburn needed to deploy a 2021 Machiavellian strategy to get her moved onto the Supreme Court, Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson (KBJ) argues for the supreme power of the DC bureaucracy that must not be challenged by the President of the United States (Executive Branch).

In the case of Trump v Slaughter, the removal of the FTC Chair, Justice KBJ argues that presidential authority must be kept in check by the unelected “professionals and experts” who make up the bureaucracy underneath him. The “No Kings” argument is entirely ridiculous given the plenary power of the executive and the constitutional authority of the office.

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The Virtue Signalling Advantage of an electric car ‘trumps’ the angst of Trump Cooties Derangement Syndrome.

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$2.90 per gallon on average as of Monday, according to data from GasBuddy, a company that tracks gas prices.

My wife filled up yesterday at $2.17.

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President Donald Trump’s approval rating edged up to 41% in the past week as Republicans warmed to his handling of the cost of living, a sign the administration’s new focus on affordability might be supporting his popularity, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.

The six-day poll, which closed on Monday, showed approval of the president rising from 38% late last month, which was the lowest since Trump returned to the White House in January. Trump started his second term with a 47% rating.

Republicans performed poorly in a handful of state elections in November as Democrats hammered the Trump administration over persistently high inflation. But in recent weeks Trump has engaged more forcefully on the topic, scaling back some of his tariff increases and pledging to combat high food prices.

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You couldn’t make this stuff up if you tried…

The 2026 World Cup has been the talk of the sports – and political – world lately. The United States, Mexico, and Canada will host it, and last week, the presidents of all three countries attended and participated in the draw to determine which teams would play in which groups.

In the United States, Seattle is one of the host cities, and one of the matches in that city will take place on June 26.

Before the draw, local organizers there determined that the theme for that particular night would be LGBT-etc “Pride Night” to coincide with June being “Pride Month.” Why? Because Seattle’s going to Seattle and insert propaganda into sports, no matter how much it alienates people.

So now that everything’s finalized and settled, we know who will be paying in that particular match: Egypt and Iran. No, I’m serious.

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Illinois sanctuary policies have allowed more than 1,700 criminal illegal aliens to slip back onto the streets since President Trump took office on January 20, and the Department of Homeland Security is now calling out state officials for putting politics ahead of public safety. Among those released are individuals charged with or convicted of homicide, sexual assault, and kidnapping—crimes that should have kept them locked up and handed over to federal immigration authorities.

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New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is using his last months in office to release dozens of inmates convicted of homicide — and says many more are coming, according to NJ 101.5.

Since December 2024, Murphy has granted clemency to 283 offenders, including 31 people convicted of murder, felony murder, or aggravated manslaughter, according to NJ 101.5. Some had been serving life sentences or faced decades before being eligible for parole. All will now walk free with five years of supervision.

The governor fast-tracked the releases after creating a new Clemency Advisory Board. In November alone, he freed 23 convicted killers. Murphy has defended the move by highlighting a few cases involving women he says were victims of abuse and “received excessive sentences.”

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Western Civ is choking itself to death with lawfare in the name of “democracy.” If you think just a little bit past the sale, you will realize that few will say what they mean by “democracy,” including the most ardent “democracy” cultists. What it supposedly means is legal outcomes that the political left wants, not what the law, or the truth, or justice requires.

On the surface, the left pretends to want outcomes that favor their roster of designated victim groups: women, dark-skinned people, and sexual outliers, the familiar cast of characters with its tiresome scripts.

Newsbusters.

Under Democrat Governor JB Pritzker, Illinois has refused to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), resulting in the release into the state of nearly 1,800 criminal illegal aliens since President Donald Trump took office, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reported Monday.

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The head of a Louisiana diocese has become the fourth Roman Catholic bishop to allow illegal migrants fearing deportation to skip their weekly obligation to attend Mass.

Bishop Michael Duca of the Diocese of Baton Rouge granted a dispensation from Sunday and holy day Mass attendance for immigrants who are “rightfully afraid” to go to church because of immigration enforcement concerns.

He said the climate of “fear and anxiety” has made attendance “untenable” for some faithful.

During the persecutions in the fourth century, priests would sneak into prison in order to give communion to imprisoned Christians. I think that the modern Roman church has lost rack. Presumably their parishioners also get a plenary indulgence for having broken the law to get here.

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Well, I’ve always thought so.