DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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donor of humanitarian assistance to Somalia.”

A year earlier, the Biden administration had spent $1.1 billion on Somalia. And the same was true of the year before. U.S. spending on Somalia had shot up from $103 million under a Republican House to $300 million under Pelosi’s Democrats. By 2017, foreign aid to Somalia had passed the half a billion dollar mark, by 2018, it was over $800 million and by 2020, after Rep. Ilhan Omar joined Congress, our spending on Somalia had passed over $1 billion.

Over the last decade, $9.3 billion was spent on Somalia. Over $10 billion since 9/11. While the spending has dropped in the second Trump administration, another $150 million was allocated for 2025. Not only have we provided humanitarian aid for Somalia’s perennial famines, which like most UN declared famines remain dubious, but “Somalia (is) among the most significant recipients of security aid in sub-Saharan Africa” even though other countries are more troubled.

And what did we get? Ilhan Omar and $10 billion in fraud.

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Former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli says a recent state court ruling blocking Democrats’ attempt to advance a gerrymandered redistricting plan is firmly rooted in Virginia law and could ultimately be upheld on appeal.

Following the inauguration of Gov. Abigail Spanberger this month, Democrats are now firmly in control of Virginia government and seeking to add four Democrat seats ahead of this year’s midterm elections.

Speaking with The Daily Signal’s Joe Thomas, Cuccinelli said the judge found the amendment process violated Virginia law on three independent grounds: notice requirements, election timing, and constitutional limits on special legislative sessions.

“The judge ruled on three separate, independent bases that the way the Democrats have gone about advancing their redistricting constitutional amendment violates Virginia law,” Cuccinelli said.

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I have never understood the urge to get tattooed.

It strikes me as a species of narcissism, walking around shouting “Look at me! Look at me! Look at me!” all the time

The military have a technical term for people who attract attention to themselves.

They are called “targets”.

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Carl Benjamin (“Sargon of Akkad”) explains it as clearly as I have ever heard anyone do.

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Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) has introduced the Stop Citizenship Abuse and Misrepresentation (SCAM) Act that would strip citizenship from individuals who commit serious crimes within 10 years of their naturalization.

According to Schmitt, the legislation would expand the grounds for beginning the denaturalization process to include welfare fraud, aggravated felonies and joining a terrorist organization, including gangs and cartels.

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A jury on Friday found a psychologist and a surgeon liable for malpractice after they convinced a 16-year-old girl to lop off her breasts. This marks the first medical malpractice case involving a detransitioner to reach a verdict – and it has huge implications.

Fox Varian, who identified as transgender at the time, was awarded $2 million in damages – which includes $1.6 million for past and future pain and suffering, and $400,000 for future medical expenses. Now 22, Varian identifies as a woman.

The January 30 decision at Westchester County Courthouse in White Plains, New York, found both Dr. Kenneth Einhorn, a psychologist, and Dr. Simon Chin, a surgeon, liable for failing to meet standards of care before performing irreversible surgery on Fox Varian, as they had skipped over important steps while evaluating whether she should move forward with the surgery, and failed to adequately communicate with each other in a “departure from the standard of care.”

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When it comes to the case against former CNN host Don Lemon’s alleged role in a recent takeover of a St. Paul church, the two most serious allegations against him are probably those that state he did not leave when the pastor asked him to and that he obstructed congregants as they tried to leave. However, neither ABC’s nor CBS’s Friday evening or Saturday morning news broadcasts reported on those details. While NBC mentioned the part about Lemon being asked to leave, it joined the other two in not explicitly mentioning the obstruction allegation, even if it showed footage of Lemon by the door.

CBS reporter Matt Gutman was the most vocal against Lemon’s arrest on Evening News, declaring, “Tonight, Don Lemon defiantly addressing reporters after being indicted on that federal civil rights charge.”

After showing video of Lemon at a press conference and from the day of the alleged crime, Gutman didn’t see what the big deal was, “Don Lemon says this act of conventional journalism has landed him in federal court.”

Gutman then profiled co-defendant Georgia Fort, calling her a “Minnesota journalist,” but ignoring her role with the NAACP before playing some clips from Attorney General Pam Bondi and President Trump.

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Turin, Italy saw scenes of extreme violence on Saturday during a demonstration agains the eviction of the illegally occupied Askatasuna anarchist ’social centre’ last December. The centre was shut down and the property seized at the end of last year by DIGOS, the General Investigations and Special Operations Division (DIGOS) of the Italian Police, after the centre’s activists took part in an attack against the headquarters of Italian newspaper La Stampa.

The Saturday protest quickly escalated and for about an hour, between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m., it turned into what the authorities describe as urban guerrilla warfare. Reportedly, at one point a large group of demonstrators pulled out homemade shields, and initiating a clash with the riot police. The violent mob burned garbage cans, and threw stones, fireworks and smoke bombs at the police.

A video shared on social media by Prime Minister Georgia Meloni, Defence Minister Guido Crosetto and former Democratic Party senator Stefano Esposito shows the moment a group of demonstrators surround and brutally attack a police officer, ten against one, kicking and beating him with a hammer. (Viewer discretion advised.)

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And about fargin time, too.

The Israeli Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism said on Sunday it is terminating the humanitarian operations of the international charity Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières, MSF) in Gaza after the organisation failed to provide a list of its Palestinian staff. The ministry noted that the group will cease its work and leave Gaza by February 28th.

In December, the ministry announced it would prevent 37 aid organisations, including MSF, from operating in Gaza from March 1 for failing to provide detailed information about their Palestinian staff. According to the ministry, two MSF employees had links with the terrorist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad. MSF denied the claim. .

In its statement the ministry said MSF had committed in early January that it would share the staff list as required by the Israeli authorities, but then backtracked and did not transfer the lists, annoucing “it does not intend to proceed with the registration process at all, contradicting its previous statements and the binding protocol.”

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The idea of a ‘global village’ was once romantic to many who witnessed the rise of the internet and has remained highly appealing to the liberal-minded generation Z. Study abroad programs, which were once affordable only to the privileged, are now part of many university curricula. My recent encounters as a law teacher in Berlin (Germany) with (aspiring) participants suggested that such programs can harm society by grooming morally arrogant and historically illiterate future leaders—bureaucrats, lawyers, and policymakers with shiny CVs who, despite their travels, remain ensconced within their ideology nurseries.

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Repeated snowfall and freezing rain have coated the open-air insane asylum known as Berlin in a thin sheet of slippery ice since the beginning of January. To spare plants, city environmental laws have long forbidden using salt on pedestrian paths and stairways, and so residents have been falling and injuring themselves at such high rates that emergency rooms have had trouble keeping up:

Feel free to laugh at these fools. I did.

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And, indeed, that’s the whole point of the anti-ICE agitation.

The Foundry.

Conservatives could look at today’s incredibly fractured media environment and wonder why anyone would need to worry about the elite media, considering their trust numbers are in the basement (except among liberals) and their audiences keep eroding.

But just breathe the media air any day, and what we used to call the “dominant media” still dominates in setting the political agenda—in determining what everyone talks about. There was an old maxim that the media can’t tell you what to think, but they’ll tell you what to think about.

This again came to mind when MS NOW host Nicolle Wallace interviewed Oliver Darcy, whose current business is energetically trying to reinforce the ideological rigor of the leftist press. Wallace told Darcy, “I still think that story selection is the most power we have, what you decide to shine a light on, especially now in the second Trump term.”

Right now, that dominant story is the allegedly heroic resistance in Minneapolis to federal attempts to enforce the immigration laws. The daily narrative is that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are murdering innocent protesters in the streets. It’s not just choosing the subject. It’s the tone and tenor of the coverage. When it’s 93% negative against ICE on the evening newscasts, it’s a combination of time and tone intended to transform public opinion.

The New Neo.

On yesterday’s thread about anti-MAGA rage in the health professions, there was some discussion about the leftism of therapists. I’m unaware of any threats by therapists to kill MAGA fans. But then again – unlike nurses and doctors – they’re not in the business of directly tending to their clients’ bodily needs, so they don’t have as much opportunity – or is it temptation?

But I think it might be time to recycle a post I wrote in May of 2023 on the topic of the leftism of therapists, and the fact that many have been refusing to treat people on the right for many years prior to Trump. So the rest of this post is a repeat of that earlier post.

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To ensure that the tissue structures of biological samples are easily recognizable under the electron microscope, they are treated with a staining agent. The standard staining agent for this is uranyl acetate. However, some laboratories are not allowed to use this highly toxic and radioactive substance for safety reasons.

A research team at the Institute of Electron Microscopy and Nanoanalysis (FELMI-ZFE) at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) has now found an environmentally friendly alternative: ordinary espresso.

Images of the samples treated with it were of equally good quality as images of comparative samples, which were prepared with uranyl acetate. The researchers have published their findings in the journal Methods.

You Can Build a Mainvrfame From the Things You Find At Home (Bill Sutton)

Experts Warn Arresting Journalists Could Be Slippery Slope To Arresting Politicians And Other People Who Deserve It (Babylon Bee).

Epstein Files: ‘Disturbing Allegations’ About Trump Surface As More Pages Are Released (Times News [UK])

Nine Phone Settings to Change Before Attending a Protest (LifeHacker)

‘Reminds me of Anne Frank’: Jewish seniors are offering to hide their Haitian caregivers as Trump’s TPS end looms (Jewish Telegraph Agency)

Therapists warn of Trump’s ‘unpredictable’ moves as kingdom crumbles around him (Daily Record [UK])

ICE buys warehouses for mass detention network, rattling locals (Washington Post)

New GOP scheme to rig presidential elections: Missouri sues to exclude undocumented from census (Jen Rice/Democracy Docket)

Trump’s Agents Arrested Don Lemon. Then the Story Got Even Darker. (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit. (“Darker than Don Lemon” is a very low bar.)

UPDATED: CPJ condemns arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort over Minnesota protests coverage (Committee to Protect Journalists)

CNN Boss Confronted by Staff Over MAGA Pundit’s On-Air Behavior (Ewan Palmer/The Daily Beast)

ABC: Good, Pretti Deaths Part of Plot to Steal 2026 Elections and Social Security Numbers

Melania review – First Lady is a preening, scowling void of pure nothingness in this ghastly bit of propaganda (Nick Hilton/The Independent)

Acosta, Lemon Podcasts Lob ‘Fascist’ And ‘Nazi’ Insults After Lemon’s Arrest

GADZOOKS! CNN’s Latest Brain-Dead Take Is Trump ‘Might Regret’ ‘Refocusing’ on Economy

‘It’s All Just Going Down the Toilet’: Police Chiefs Fume at ICE Tactics (Shaila Dewan/New York Times)

Left Melts Down Over Don Lemon’s ‘Outrageous’ Arrest

Judges across the country rebuke ICE for defying court orders (Kyle Cheney/Politico)  I’m sure they do.

Trump Accused In Epstein Files of Forcing Underage Girl To Perform Oral Sex (TMZ.com)  Accused! That proves it!

The Church at the Center of Don Lemon’s Arrest Has Ties to Christian Nationalism (Kiera Butler/Mother Jones)  Ties! That proves it!

Nationwide Strike Urged Against Trump Immigration Policies

The Case Against Don Lemon Is Junk, and Dangerous (Quinta Jurecic/The Atlantic)

With Don Lemon’s Shocking Arrest, Trump Expands His Total War on Free Speech (Zeteo)

The Tiny, Terrified Men of the Trump Administration (Paul Waldman/The Cross Section)

California’s Evidence Bank For ICE Crimes (Brian Beutler/Off Message)

Politico Finally Gives Up on Attempting Epstein-Trump Connection

ICE Is Circling Minnesota Schools, Looking For Children to Take (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)

Trump’s New Method of Humiliation (Mark Leibovich/The Atlantic)

As the American people continue to express their fury over the violence of federal agents … (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters …)

Trump’s polls are tanking. What does his base think? (Vox  His base thinks it’s all lies.

Trump’s Profiteering Hits $4 Billion (David D. Kirkpatrick/New Yorker)  “Profiteering” is the smear-phrase leftists use when you make more money than they think you ought to.

NPR SMEAR: Anti-ICE Lefties Knit Red Hats as ‘Symbol of Resistance to Nazi Occupation’

Autocracy in America ??? A year in, the pattern of democratic backsliding under Trump is undeniable. (Don Moynihan/Can We Still Govern?)

US Judge Declines to Halt Trump’s Minnesota Immigration Agent Surge

Trump’s post-truth agenda beaten back as Americans refuse to accept ICE lies (David Smith/The Guardian)

Bovino Is Said to Have Mocked Prosecutor’s Jewish Faith on Call With Lawyers (New York Times)  Is said! That proves it!

Activist Judge Blocks Key Parts Of Trump EO On Verifying Citizenship To Vote

How steep is Trump’s democratic backsliding? (John Burn-Murdoch/Financial Times)

Minneapolis Residents Wear Their Passports, Desperate to Ward Off ICE (New York Times)

Chicago Mayor Signs ‘ICE on Notice’ Exec. Order

Rise of the Trump Loyalist (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)

Science Alert.

A pregnant woman’s blood sample taken in 1972 was mysteriously missing a surface molecule found on all other known red blood cells at the time.

More than 50 years later, that strange absence finally led researchers from the UK and Israel to describe a new blood group system in humans. The team published a paper on the discovery in 2024.

“It represents a huge achievement, and the culmination of a long team effort, to finally establish this new blood group system and be able to offer the best care to rare, but important, patients,” hematologist Louise Tilley from the UK National Health Service said in September 2024, after nearly 2 decades of personally researching this bloody quirk.

ScienceDaily.

Researchers have found a way to make ordinary aluminum tubes float indefinitely, even when submerged for long periods or punched full of holes. By engineering the metal’s surface to repel water, the tubes trap air inside and refuse to sink, even in rough conditions. The technology could eventually be scaled up into floating platforms, ships, or even wave-powered energy systems.

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Aging rocker Neil Young has encountered perhaps the most boomer of leftist boomer issues, and of course it’s all President Trump’s fault.

He can no longer use his ancient flip phone because orange man bad.

In a rambling post on his website, Young details his epic struggle to ditch Verizon service, convinced that every dollar he spends fuels a “Trump Fascist regime.”

It’s peak boomer leftist TDS paranoia, where everyday consumer choices somehow morph into grand acts of resistance.

Young kicks off his diatribe with the revelation that his flip phone bears the Verizon logo. “Mornin’ folks….It’s a new day….a big day for my Flip phone. I noticed it says VERIZON on it. Of course I can’t use a Verizon phone. Verizon is a supporter of TRUMP with big $!” he writes, as if discovering a hidden swastika etched into the device.

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A plastic pig displayed in the window of a newly opened delicatessen on the Piazza dei Signori in the Italian city of Padua has triggered a local controversy after a senior representative of the city’s Muslim community called for its removal, arguing that it is offensive and inappropriate.

The pig, placed in the window of the deli Mortadella… e Non Solo, is used to advertise the shop’s sandwiches and cured meats, which are primarily made from pork.

According to Il Giornale, Salim El Mauoed, the regional vice president of Padua’s Muslim community, urged both the shop’s owners and local authorities to intervene, describing the display as “in bad taste” and offensive to Muslims who pass through the area.

Then they ought to  pick another route.

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New York’s Manhattan borough president has launched a campaign targeting Newsmax and seeking its ban in the city’s taxicabs.

Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal, a Democrat, announced this week that he is demanding Mayor Zohran Mamdani pull Newsmax from the city’s taxi TV screens.

Newsmax called the move an “act of pure censorship.”

New York City’s taxicabs are privately owned. The City issues licenses — called “medallions” — to cab owners.

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Sabina Khan, a councillor in the Labour-dominated London borough of Tower Hamlets, has been carrying out most of her duties ‘remotely’ from Bangladesh for the past eight months, while continuing to receive her full council allowance, Daily Mail reports.

Khan receives a total of £20,600 a year in allowances. This includes £11,898 as a basic councillor’s allowance and an additional £8,702 linked to her role as Scrutiny Lead for Resources, which involves overseeing council spending. According to the Daily Mail, Khan has spent most of the past eight months in the Bangladeshi city of Sylhet, rarely attending council meetings in person and instead joining remotely, sending a proxy, or missing meetings altogether.

The newspaper reports that Khan is seeking to pursue her ambition of becoming a member of parliament in Bangladesh and has been actively campaigning for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). Videos shared on social media show her speaking at rallies and taking part in campaign events, while she plans to retain her council seat until the local elections in May. Several local government sources have described the situation as “scandalous.” Khan, GB News reported in November last year, in fact failed to win the BNP nomination.

Communities Secretary Steve Reed said it was “shocking” for a councillor to abandon her constituents in order to pursue a political career in another country. Khan has argued that British law does not prohibit political activity abroad and that she has continued to serve her constituents remotely.

The latest controversy further damages the reputation of Tower Hamlets’ leadership, long overshadowed by allegations of corruption and poor governance.

Import Turd World people, get Turd World problems.

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After the House Ethics Committee announced it found over two dozen instances of “serious financial crimes” against Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., announced on Thursday night he will be filing a resolution to expel the congresswoman.

“In November, I filed a resolution to expel [Cherfilus-McCormick] following her indictment by the [Justice Department],” Steube posted on X. “Today’s House Ethics findings detail more than two dozen counts of serious financial crimes. When we return to Washington, I’ll call up a resolution to expel her from Congress.”

The Department of Justice previously charged Cherfilus-McCormick for allegedly stealing over $5 million in COVID-19 disaster relief funds and making illegal campaign contributions. If convicted, she could face upward of 53 years in prison.

Yet Another Corrupt Black Female Politician.

UPDATE: Jeffries says vote to expel Cherfilus-McCormick “going to fail” (Andrew Solender/Axios)

UPDATE: Rep. Steube to Force Vote on Expelling Rep. Cherfilus-McCormick

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You’ve seen the articles: healthcare workers (often nurses) who boast that they won’t treat MaGA supporters or even that they’ll harm or kill them. Another variant is the same claim about not treating, or outright harming, Israelis.

This shouldn’t surprise us, although it probably does. People who work in healthcare are people, after all, and there’s always been a certain number of natural sociopaths drawn to the profession. We’ve always heard of the random nurse or doctor who injects patients with something lethal, although their numbers have mercifully been very low. But they have always existed.

However, what’s going on now seem to be a new phenomenon, and although it continues to involve a small number it’s certainly more people than the group I described above. This time, also, they seem to have little awareness that they will face any negative consequences for publicly stating their willingness to harm or kill patients. They brag about their intent to commit such crimes, and seem to consider it a good way to virtue-signal. When they are suspended or fired, they’re probably very surprised.

If they are young (and by “young” I mean anything under forty) they’ve been steeped in leftist education, for the most part. So some of this is a generational phenomenon. Then there’s widespread TDS and the demonization of anyone supporting Trump, which has increased over the years rather than decreased. I see it myself, nearly constantly. It becomes standard in many circles, and that escalates matters as well, when one’s colleagues and friends and family seem to all agree that MAGA equals Nazi. That thought is reiterated and magnified through the MSM, Democrat and NeverTrump politicians and pundits, and social media.

Healthcare professionals often go into the profession through a desire to do good, and if killing Nazis is good then they’ll do that, too. Nor is their professional training politically neutral, either.

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The Justice Department is joining a lawsuit against the University of California, Los Angeles medical school for alleged race-based admissions that it says violate a Supreme Court ruling.

Last May, student groups sued the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA regarding the continued use of race in admission practices, despite a 2023 Supreme Court ruling that barred universities from using race as a factor in admissions decisions.

Plaintiffs who brought the initial case included Students for Fair Admissions, which previously sued Harvard and the University of North Carolina in cases that were decided by the high court. The other plaintiff is Do No Harm. Both groups represent students denied admission into the UCLA medical school.

“Even after the Supreme Court banned race-balancing, the Geffen School kept discriminating by using illegal DEI preferences in admissions,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said in a public statement Thursday.

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A 25-year-old South Sudanese migrant killed an 18-year-old woman in a fatal subway attack in Hamburg on Thursday evening, after seizing her and pulling her with him into the track bed in front of an incoming train. Both the victim and the perpetrator died at the scene. German police are investigating the case as a suspected homicide.

Oh, ya think?

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A Sudanese asylum seeker has been sentenced to a minimum of 29 years in prison after murdering hotel worker Rhiannon Skye Whyte at Bescot Stadium station in Walsall, England in October 2024.

Deng Chol Majek—an illegal migrant from Somalia who had been in the UK for less than three months—stabbed the 27-year-old mother of a five-year-old son 23 times with a screwdriver. Eleven of the blows struck her head, one piercing her brainstem. Whyte survived for three days in hospital before succumbing to her injuries.

Majek followed Whyte from the Park Inn Hotel, where she worked and he was housed as an asylum seeker, to the station. CCTV footage and witness testimony showed him returning to the hotel in bloodied clothing, then “drinking, smoking and chatting” with friends. After the attack, he threw her phone into a river and left her for dead.

Import Turd World people, get Turd World problems.

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Following the release of immigration figures for 2025, the French Interior Ministry has published crime statistics for the past year. These figures dramatically coincide with the French people’s perception that they are living in an increasingly dangerous and violent country. Furthermore, cross-referencing this data with immigration figures confirms another intuitive observation: foreigners are over-represented in crimes of all kinds.

Apart from burglaries, absolutely all crime indicators rose between 2024 and 2025: 5% on average for physical violence and homicides, and up to 8% for sexual violence. This increase is not new: it is a significant trend, as analyst Marc Vanguard points out. As far as assaults are concerned, there has been a 25% increase since 2017, when Emmanuel Macron came to power. For sexual violence, the increase is as high as 132%.

Import Turd World people, get Turd World problems.

The Foundry.

The leftist media cabal constantly imagines itself as the grand embodiment of democracy and freedom of speech, even as it seeks to put Republicans in jail and hopes to censor them from speaking on social media. It doesn’t live up to its First Amendment boasting.

For example, there’s “CNN International” host Christiane Amanpour, whose leftist ravings are also broadcast on PBS stations. On Jan. 23, Amanpour led off her show with this attack on President Donald Trump: “He says he’s bringing free speech back to America, but one year into Trump 2.0, few presidents have done as much to degrade civil liberties and muzzle the free press. Former Washington Post Executive Editor Marty Baron joins me to discuss how American journalism can survive.”

Oh, the overwrought ardor! How will journalism survive as they seek to destroy Trump 24/7? Any pushback on their destruction campaign will be painted as an attack on freedom of the press.

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NHS staff at Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust have been advised to stop addressing patients as “sir” or “madam” to avoid offending transgender individuals.

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The European Union has issued new guidance affecting asylum decisions in Sweden and across the bloc, particularly concerning applicants with links to terrorist groups such as ISIS.

According to internal directives sent to staff at the Swedish Migration Agency in early January, individuals with affiliations to ISIS in Syria are now considered to potentially have a “well-founded fear of persecution.”

The guidelines, distributed to case officers in early January, mean that individuals with ISIS membership in Syria can potentially be granted asylum. To deny protection, the agency must prove involvement in war crimes, which is considered highly difficult.

The Other McCain.

This post is not going to be one of those “look-what-the-crazy-liberal-said” exercises, as enough such work has already been done on podcaster Jennifer Welch’s most recent outburst. Sure, I’ll quote what Welch said, but my point here is to explain why she said it.

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In my most recent report on Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program, I noted that the U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) leadership is sharply criticizing Canada’s MAID program, which is now linked to organ donation, with one top official calling it a “strange new horror” and a cautionary example for other countries.

Now, even more disturbing revelations about the program are being made, which underscore the correctness of every concern expressed about this program.

Ontario’s chief coroner has released two new reports from the province’s interdisciplinary MAID Death Review Committee, examining same? or next?day provision of MAID and the use of waivers of final consent. The committee’s mandate was to look beyond individual files to the patterns they reveal.

Several of the cases reveal that the process for some included coercion and rushed decisions.

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Vlad has posted an excellent essay about the dialectical methods used in the information war by globalist communists (which may be a redundancy) to manipulate the masses. Below is a lightly edited version of his introduction.

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The following articles concern two separate initiatives by Hamas supporters in Italy, one in Milan and one in Bologna.

The first report describes a planned disruption by pro-Palestinians of next month’s opening ceremony for the Winter Olympics in Milan.

The Foundry.

In recent years, many parents have begun questioning long-standing assumptions about traditional education. Concerns about bureaucracy, one-size-fits-all curricula, and institutional failures have eroded confidence in the public school system for many families.

Some parents are also increasingly wary of ideological instruction in public schools, particularly when it comes to gender ideology and sex education.

While debate over education is healthy in our society, a growing number of families believe the system has become less responsive to individual needs and more influenced by political and administrative pressures.

It is little surprise, then, that parents are looking for alternatives. For many families, homeschooling has moved from the margins to the mainstream.

Michael Sartain: “Hating is free. That’s why broke people do it.”

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This post on X from a former special forces warrant officer indicates that what we see in MN is classic modern insurgency.

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The circular stone-cast tablet was discovered in the late 1800s from the 650 BC King Ashurbanipal ‘s underground library in Nineveh, Iraq.

Data processing, which was long believed to be an Assyrian tablet, mirrored the sky over Mesopotamia in 3300 BC and proved to be much more ancient Sumerian origin.

The tablet is the first astronomical instrument, the “Astrolabe.” It consists of a segmented, disk-shaped star chart with marked units of angle measure inscribed upon the rim.

Unfortunately considerable parts of the planisphere on this tablet are missing (approximately 40%), damage which dates to the sacking of Nineveh. The reverse of the tablet is not inscribed.

Ars Technica.

Minnesota resident Nicole Cleland had her Global Entry and TSA Precheck privileges revoked three days after an incident in which she observed activity by immigration agents, the woman said in a court declaration. An agent told Cleland that he used facial recognition technology to identify her, she wrote in a declaration filed in US District Court for the District of Minnesota.

Cleland, a 56-year-old resident of Richfield and a director at Target Corporation, volunteers with a group that tracks potential Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) vehicles in her neighborhood, according to her declaration. On the morning of January 10, she “observed a white Dodge Ram being driven by what I believed to be federal enforcement agents” and “maneuvered behind the vehicle with the intent of observing the agents’ actions.”

Cleland said that she and another observer in a different car followed the Dodge Ram because of “concern about a local apartment building being raided.” She followed the car for a short time and from a safe distance until “the Dodge Ram stopped in front of the other commuter’s vehicle,” she wrote. Cleland said two other vehicles apparently driven by federal agents stopped in front of the Dodge Ram, and her path forward was blocked.

“An agent exited the vehicle and approached my vehicle,” Cleland wrote. “I remained in my vehicle. The agent addressed me by my name and informed me that they had ‘facial recognition’ and that his body cam was recording. The agent stated that he worked for border patrol. He wore full camouflage fatigues. The agent stated that I was impeding their work. He indicated he was giving me a verbal warning and if I was found to be impeding again, I would be arrested.”

Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. AWFULs think that they can do this sort of thing with no consequences.

She Fucked Around and Found Out.

Huffington Post, a Voicce of the Crust.

Sydney Sweeney’s latest deflection is a bust.

Cosmopolitan dropped its latest issue this week with the “Euphoria” star on the cover, showing her against a pink backdrop and pushing out her breasts while wearing a low-cut top.

“I can’t make everyone love me,” she’s quoted as saying on the cover, despite the cover implying that she’s trying very hard to make some people love something about her.

Despite the booby trap of a cover, however, many social media users on X and Bluesky seemed way more interested in the content of her interview than her physical endowments — especially since Sweeney has a habit of dodging questions about her personal politics amid an extremely political time.

As with every totalitarian ideology, Wokeism cannot allow CrimeThink anyway in society. It’s not enough to Love Big Sister; you have to SAY you Love Big Sister.

The Telegraph (UK).

An Islamic centre is under investigation after hosting an event where Hezbollah phone cases and pro-Iranian regime key rings were sold.

The Islamic Centre of England, a registered charity, held a “community bazaar” which it described as a “vibrant space for cultural interaction, the exchange of knowledge and experiences, and the strengthening of national and religious identity”.

But The Telegraph has obtained a dossier of images showing items on sale at the event, which include phone cases with silhouette photos of Hassan Nasrallah, the former secretary-general of Hezbollah, who was killed by Israel in 2024.

Hezbollah, a terrorist organisation based in southern Lebanon, is proscribed by the UK government meaning it is a criminal offence to display images that seemingly support the group.

Elsewhere at the bazaar were stickers featuring the apparent silhouettes of other Hezbollah commanders, including Qassem Soleimani, the former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force, who was killed in a US air strike in January 2020.

The Telegraph (UK).

The United Nations is on the brink of bankruptcy after Donald Trump cut funding, its secretary-general said.

Antonio Guterres said the organisation was at risk of “imminent financial collapse” and could run out of cash by July.

He blamed unpaid fees and a budget rule that forces the global body to return unspent money, according to a letter seen by Reuters on Friday.

The UN has struggled for cash after the US – its largest contributor – cut voluntary funding to the body’s agencies and refused to make payments to its regular and peacekeeping budgets.

Earlier this month, Washington announced the US would withdraw and cease funding for 31 UN entities, including a climate treaty and body promoting gender equality.

The U.N. has long since degenerated into a vast mechanism for transferring money from U.S. taxpayers to foreign parasites.

This is one of Trump’s main accomplishments.

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What if your car worked like so many apps? You’re driving somewhere important…maybe running a little bit late. A few minutes into the drive, your car pulls over to the side of the road and asks:
“How are you enjoying your drive so far?”
Annoyed by the interruption, and even more behind schedule, you dismiss the prompt and merge back into traffic.
A minute later it does it again.
“Did you know I have a new feature? Tap here to learn more.”
It blocks your speedometer with an overlay tutorial about the turn signal. It highlights the wiper controls and refuses to go away until you demonstrate mastery.
Ridiculous, of course.
And yet, this is how a lot of modern software behaves. Not because it’s broken, but because we’ve normalized an interruption model that would be unacceptable almost anywhere else.
I’ve started to think of this as backseat software: the slow shift from software as a tool you operate to software as a channel that operates on you. Once a product learns it can talk back, it’s remarkably hard to keep it quiet.

The Telegraph (UK).

A man posing as an FBI agent tried to break Luigi Mangione out of prison, police sources have claimed.

Mr Mangione, 27, has been held at the Metropolitan Detention Centre in Brooklyn, New York, since being charged with the murder of Brian Thompson, the healthcare chief executive, in December 2024.

On Thursday, sources told ABC News that Mark Anderson, 36, had been charged with impersonating a federal agent after allegedly showing up at the prison with forged documents ordering Mr Mangione’s release.

Court documents show that Mr Anderson is accused of pretending to be an officer for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and claiming to have paperwork “signed by a judge” authorising the release of an inmate.

The Telegraph (UK).

President Donald Trump has announced an “energy ceasefire”. For one week, Ukraine and Russia will cease attacks on one another’s cities and critical infrastructure.

Details are sparse, beyond Trump’s claims that he asked Putin “not to fire into Kyiv and various towns for a week. And he agreed to do that”. The Kremlin has yet to confirm or deny Trump’s claim. Nor has Ukraine said whether it will refrain from strikes on Russian energy and oil refining infrastructure, which have wreaked considerable damage to the Russian economy.

But in the context of a four-year war without a single day of meaningful truth, such a truce would be a landmark.

If it happens – and more importantly, holds – Trump will at long last be able to point to genuine progress from his hitherto fruitless peace-making efforts.

The Telegraph (UK).

Labour announced plans earlier this month to deny millions of people the vote, leaving some with no say over who controls their local services and council tax for up to seven years.

Elections have been cancelled at 30 councils over claims that a looming reorganisation of local government makes holding ballots expensive, complicated and unnecessary.

The Telegraph has launched a Campaign for Democracy, calling for ministers to be stripped of their legal powers to cancel local elections without a full vote in Parliament.

A remionder that it’s the Left, not the Right, who love to cancel elections—and, considering that Britain is about five years closer to disaster than the U.S., what might happen if Democrats control the national government aftert Trump steps down.