Links - 29th March 2026 (2 - California)

Ben Shapiro on X - "You want to know why nobody cares about the Left-wing media's latest oppo dump? The answer is obvious: people care about the quality of their lives. And life is getting worse under Democratic governance.  Here's just a quick story.  We're in LA this week. So we decided to go out with some friends, a husband and wife. Nice area of the city, well lit, not too late at night.   We finish dinner at around 10:30 and head back to our car. Since my wife and I have 24/7 security, we're safe. Not so for our friends. They get to their car...  And as soon as they do, a Hyundai without plates speeds up and stops. Three young black guys jump out of the car (suspect description relevant because they're still at large!) and rush up to my friend, yank him out of his car, and grab his watch, phone and wallet. They then sprint around the car and grab his wife, start trying to pull off her jewelry. She screams and kicks, and presumably losing time, they take off in top gear down the street.  As stated, they're still at large. It took about 15 minutes for the cops to arrive. Not their fault -- LA is wildly understaffed, and the LAPD has been treated horribly by the city government, such that officers have been targeted for simply doing their jobs. I know and am friends with many of them. My friend and his wife weren't armed up, either, because it's nearly impossible to carry a gun in LA legally, and also because if you shoot a criminal in LA, there's a solid shot YOU end up in jail.  Now, here's the thing. My friend and his wife have lived in LA for decades. In the last several years, they've been assaulted more than once on the street. Zero arrests. Zero prosecutions.  This is just one of the reasons we left LA, where I had lived my entire life. And it's getting worse, not better.  This is why people increasingly don't give a shit about the media's latest horror story about Trump Saying Bad Things™. The same people who maintain that street crime is no big deal, or a reflection of institutional racism, or that inflation is hunky dory, or that biggest issue in American life is whether or not Billy has the right to be called Susan...these are not serious people. But people's lives are serious business. And bad governance means worse lives for people."
Elon Musk on X - "A common story. So many people I know have been assaulted on the street or had their homes or cars robbed. Out of dozens of stories, there was not one where the criminals were sent to prison. Not one. Zero. Enough is enough."
Shelley G on X - "As a resident of Los Angeles, I can confirm that this is the experience with me and my friends. The crime is OUT of control. I see looting/stealing, openly, nearly every time I go out. Some stores have barren shelves because they're looted so often and not restocked in time."

Lee Fang on X - "Mayor London Breed redirected tens of millions of dollars from the SF police dept to a program called the "Dream Keeper Initiative" for Black city residents. The program splurged on politically connected nonprofits, luxury vacations, legally dubious zero interest loans"
Kurt Nimphius' Hair on X - "Alternative post: "Millions of dollars from SF police department was stolen by the mayor and non-profits""
Nick Oliver on X - "There’s likely similar stuff happening all over the federal bureaucracy. The current admin spent $42B not connecting a single home to the internet and $5B to build 7 EV chargers."
Celeste GENERALSTRIKE Holms on X - "There's now an entire ecosystem of money laundering operations using govt money to a laundry list of dubious entities whose only reason to exist is to not solve problems that would end their existence."
SkunkBear Consulting on X - "DEI programs are Democratic payoff schemes. Graft /patronage/ corruption at every school/ city/ state/ county / federal gov’t, then add in all the DEI budgets that corporations pay as a extortion tax. It’s been cut back some in corporate america but still present at substantial costs. CEO’s would love to fire all of these productivity killing race baiters but risk managers put on the breaks on. They are mortified at thought of bad press and the racism lawsuits given 75 percent of DEI admin are black women. Look at ehat they’ve been able to do with X ad revenue from their threats to IBM/ Apple etc …  If the federal government eliminated all theseDEI  jobs, they could pay a decent part of the interest on the national debt. Not just with the elimination of salaries and benefits, but with the enhanced productivity of all government staff. They don’t have to sit through these crazy meetings."

Shaun Maguire on X - "Chevron is moving its HQ from California to Texas Over the last 5 years there are 80+ businesses that have moved from CA to TX, including:
- Tesla
- SpaceX
- Charles Schwab
- Chevron
- HPE
- Oracle
CA’s progressive policies are a cancer for progress"

BAY AREA STATE OF MIND on X - "Thieves just looted Walgreens in San Francisco 😳"
Rafael A. Mangual on X - "Here’s what few people want to acknowledge: These perps clearly aren’t broke. They’re not stealing food to eat, or bare essentials. They’re also not “non-violent,” because it’s very clear they would absolutely use force to carry out this crime if someone intervened."

BAY AREA STATE OF MIND on X - "Bay Area Rap Legend Mistah Fab just dropped a song exposing the corrupt politicians destroying Oakland California"
Lee Fang on X - "Oakland is so dysfunctional rappers are now focusing on the blight of tent cities and slow police response times. The only people who defend the status quo are the NGO activists and far left reporters"

Palm Springs OKs $5.9 Million in Reparations for Black, Latino Families Whose Homes the City Burned - "In a historic move, the Palm Springs City Council voted unanimously Thursday night to approve a settlement offer for the surviving former residents and descendants of a Black and Latino neighborhood that the city burned to the ground 60 years ago to make way for commercial development.  The settlement includes $5.9 million in direct cash payments to an estimated 1,200 people. It also includes a commitment from the city to explore naming a community park and to establish a cultural healing center and a public monument to honor the legacy of the former residents.   The City Council also added resolution to the settlement create a day of remembrance to honor the Section 14 survivors and descendants, a call that was made by several public commenters...   The City Council also approved $21 million in housing and economic development programs to address the city’s past discrimination against its Black and Latino residents. That includes $10 million for a first-time homebuyer assistance program and $10 million to establish a community land trust. Both programs will prioritize doing outreach to families that formerly lived in the Section 14 community."
As usual, the term "survivor" has been debased into meaninglessness

cold 🥑 on X - "i thought "sf is dangerous" was fake before i went, paranoid techbros being weird about homelessness. but there's streets where >50% of people in public are homeless and actively on drugs. hard to write about without seeming cruel but i've never seen anything like it in america"

After A $100 Billion Surplus, California Now Faces A $73 Billion Budget Deficit - "Both estimates stand in sharp contrast to the state’s $100 billion surplus from two years earlier.  The deficit is the consequence of the state’s unwise and unsustainable choice of enormously expanding spending while its tax base declined. In the four years since February 2020, which was just before COVID restrictions were adopted across the country, California has lost more than 410,000 jobs. In that same four-year period, the rest of the country has added more than 7.3 million jobs. California’s job loss largely reflects the state’s population loss of 472,000 since 2020. But there are also fewer opportunities for those who are still here, as the state’s 5.3 percent unemployment rate is the nation’s highest...   To put this increase in perspective, Florida’s per capita spending increased 22 percent over this same period. After adjusting for inflation, Florida increased state spending by only 2.5 percent. Florida is an interesting comparison, because it is one of the country’s fastest-growing states, having added more than 1 million people since 2018. A growing population puts more pressure on state budgets because of the additional capital spending on infrastructure that is required to support a rapidly increasing population. Thirty one percent versus 2.5 percent higher spending per capita speaks volumes about which state is fiscally responsible and efficient and which one isn’t.   California received more bad fiscal news last week when its auditors completed their review of California’s 2021–22 finances. And yes, if you are wondering, the audit is nearly a year late. The federal government requires state audits to be published no later than March 31 after the previous fiscal year, but California hasn’t respected this deadline for several years. California state controller Malia Cohen is hoping for improved reporting by 2025, though others in Sacramento say California may not be compliant until 2032, due to a delayed implementation of new financial reporting software. The software was supposed to have been installed and debugged by now, but we seem to live in a state that has absolutely no expectations to respect a deadline. Unless of course it is a deadline that a taxpayer faces."

Gavin Newsom's 10-year plan to end San Francisco homelessness hits 20-year mark - "California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, commands a Golden State that has turned into a deep blue "Sapphire State."  As Newsom took over following the 2003 San Francisco mayoral election, the then-mayor-elect said that December he intended to "aggressively" make ending homelessness in his city his administration's top priority.  The plan involved a 10-year strategy to end chronic homelessness with "tens of millions" of federal dollars in funding to create 550 "supportive housing" units for the troubled homeless, SFGate reported at the time...  the growing homeless population has become a central issue in California's political debate... "Instead of focusing on bashing red states or hitting the late-night talk show circuit while foolishly eyeing a promotion to the White House, Gov. Newsom should pay attention to the actual job he was elected to do and work with Republicans to find real solutions for the Golden State"... During Newsom's successful 2017 run for governor, the California Democrat pledged that he would "lead the effort to develop the 3.5 million new housing units we need by 2025 because our solutions must be as bold as the problem is big.""
Clearly, the problem is they didn't spend enough.
The cope will be that it was so successful that tons of homeless people from all over the US move to California, and this proves that it's a good program.

America on X - "California is spending $2.6 billion per year on healthcare for illegal aliens."
Elon Musk on X - "This will scale to enormous numbers, as California passed a bill providing free healthcare for illegals that just took effect last year. Essentially, anyone on Earth can come to California for free healthcare. Earth has 8 billion people, but California has 40 million people. There are not enough doctors to take care of everyone, even with infinite funding."

Shaun Maguire on X - "I have a friend that offered to build a major infra project for LA County at a breakeven cost. They were told by a local mayor they'd need to hire a specific environmental consultant. That consultant said they'd need to pay them $20M for an EIA. The project never happened"
Clearly, we need even more "protection" for "the environment"

Libs of TikTok on X - "BREAKING: California is spending $9.5 BILLION on healthcare for illegal immigrants—while facing a $30 BILLION deficit."

Ana Kasparian on X - "Gavin Newsom has overseen endless drug overdose deaths on our streets, completely mishandled devastating wildfires in CA, provided cover for his scum donors from utility company PG&E after their faulty/aging equipment sparked fires and robbed Californians of their homes.  Yet all these “progressives” didn’t get remotely as riled up as they are now that he agrees with 80% of the country on banning trans women in sports."

Charlie Kirk on X - "Politico has not one, not two, but FIVE reporters covering the fallout of Gavin Newsom’s comments about men in women’s sports during my interview with him. Lori Lightfoot says he’s “disgusting.” Sacramento is in an uproar. Democrats all over the country say that this issue is a litmus test for the party going forward.  Democrats simply cannot handle taking an L in the culture war."

Meme - Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok: "Gavin Newsom claimed "not one person ever in my office has ever used the word Latinx."  Problem is he literally did himself.  All Democrats do is lie."
"Children in Poverty: 31% Latinx"
"#COVID19 disproportionately impacts the Latinx community."

Charlie Kirk on X - "After telling me that no one in his office ever used the term Latinx, CNN put together a brutal compilation of Gov. Gavin Newsom personally and repeatedly using the phrase. If he'll lie like this, directly to my face, on camera..."

Wall Street Apes on X - "American is getting a ticket in Los Angeles, California for walking his dog to close to the water on the beach. He shows there are literally people doing drugs within eyesight and the cops dont care. They ticket him for walking his dog instead of them This is Democrat leadership"

Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 on X - "Oakland, CA, Mayor Sheng Thao cries and says, “I’m not going down like that,” as she faces almost 100 years in jail for alleged corruption, fraud and money laundering. She blames the “radical right wing forces” for her turmoil. Crime has skyrocketed in Oakland under Sheng Thao."

Alec Stapp on X - "This is one of those stories that could only happen in California:
1. Mayor of Los Angeles issues an executive directive making it fast & easy to build 100% affordable housing.
2. She doesn’t include any new public money in the order, so it’s supposed to just be a fake messaging thing.
3. But there normal process to build housing in CA is so terrible, new policies that make it easy to build can be profitable (even for affordable housing).
4. So private developers start building a ton of new housing using this streamlined process.
5. Faced with a surprising pro-housing supply policy success, the mayor immediately started amending the directive to be more burdensome and revert to the status quo.
The end"
Damn greedy developers and landlords keeping housing expensive!

“Historic Laundromat” In SF’s Mission District Razed For Housing

Unwanted Housing: Localism and Politics of Housing Development - "We examine pervasive opposition to building market-rate housing and relate it to localism: a perspective that grants moral authority to incumbent residents. We argue that localism has become prevalent in housing planning in the United States and that its seeming equality—allowing all communities the right to define themselves—conceals profound imbalances that favor the affluent. We use survey data from California to measure localism, using opposition to state land use preemption as a proxy. We find that localism is concentrated among white, affluent homeowners. This suggests that localist beliefs are less prevalent in the population than they are in planning practice...  
In 2018, a developer broke ground on a 249-unit apartment building in downtown Santa Monica, CA. The project would rise on a vacant piece of land across from a rail station, on the site of a former Fred Segal department store. A strong case could be made, at this time, that Santa Monica needed more housing... The developer had proposed the project in 2013. In the following years, the city held multiple hearings, and the developer had to complete a 750-page Environmental Impact Report (EIR). The city approved the project only after both sides signed a 167-page development agreement, which laid out the terms under which the housing could be built.  Those terms included the following: in exchange for the right to build, the developers would pay $240,000 to the city’s bus system, $900,000 to its water infrastructure fund, $1.1 million to its early childhood development programs, $1.6 million into its transportation fund, and $1.7 million into its parks and recreation fund. They would make additional payments to the city’s historic preservation programs. The developers would limit the number of peak period vehicle trips from the building, and pay the city a fee for every trip exceeding those limits. The building would be LEED platinum. The developer would favor local residents in all hiring decisions during construction. The property would include a community meeting space open to all city residents, and provide more parking spaces than zoning would normally demand. Perhaps most dramatically, the developer would acquire and entitle an entirely separate parcel of land, at a cost of about $40 million, and donate that land to an affordable housing developer, who would use it to build sixty-four units of subsidized housing. Thus just one cost of developing a piece of land in downtown Santa Monica was buying, entitling, and giving away another piece of land. All the conditions above fell under the broad category known as “mitigation.” This example is admittedly extreme. But it is not unique. In 2015, a developer proposed a 300-unit apartment building near a rail station in downtown Berkeley, CA. The city’s conditions for approval included the following. The developer would pay $1 million into Berkeley’s arts programs, $10 million into its affordable housing programs, and an estimated $15 to $20 million to reconstruct and operate a financially troubled movie theater on the site (Raguso 2020). In 2020 the developers abandoned the project, saying they could not function as a “never ending piggy bank” for the city. By the time the project died, its administrative record ran to over 10,000 pages. Berkeley’s median home value was $862,000, its median rent was over $1,500, and—like Santa Monica— it had nearly twice as many jobs as housing units."...
These anecdotes highlight a phenomenon that often swims beneath planning’s surface: in many parts of the United States, new housing has become a locally unwanted land use, or LULU. The planning process treats housing, which at least in the abstract is a source of opportunity, as a source of trouble instead. New housing is not considered a benefit in itself, but a burden for which existing residents deserve compensation and developers must make amends. Neighbors often worry that new housing will exacerbate congestion, undermine affordability, erase community character, and erode open space. They push these concerns into the planning process, and planners and elected officials respond, either by restricting development or allowing it only after multiple mitigations."

Francesco™️ on X - "Look at me. I’m a Malibu Liberal.   I believe in climate justice. Can you believe I actually said those words?! I’ve posted those words. I’ve whispered them into quartz. I ate kelp-based protein and offset my flights to Tulum through an app made by annoying Stanford kids. I composted at scale. I did all of the things.   Our home was solar-powered, LEED-certified, AND tastefully non-invasive—except for the footprint, which was enormous. But it was *intentional*. And even though it cost a fortune, I STILL did all of the things. We marched. We meditated. I once cried over a Greta Thunberg speech in my Range Rover outside Nobu. But nature doesn’t care about ANY of that. It just burns—helped along, of course, by decades of political incompetence.  And when it burned, the city sent not one, not two, but THREE lesbian fire chiefs with not a single hose between them. Look, DEI is important, I get that. But not when the hillside’s ON FIRE. The mayor showed up three days later from Africa, only to take a selfie and mispronounce “Malibu.” And I’m all for representation, but that [REDACTED].   We lost EVERYTHING! And when we tried to rebuild, we met the final boss: Democrat bureaucracy. Six months for a soil report. A year for coastal variances. Our rebuild “disrespected the ridgeline.” Whatever that means. I met with the Architectural Review Board while on mushrooms and I still don’t know if that meeting was real.  Our contractor was approved, then unapproved, then deported. We got a violation for sandbagging our own driveway. We’ve spent $120,000 just to *not* live in our house. I asked a councilwoman for help. She sent me back a workbook titled ‘Rethinking Home’ and a notice from the county asking us not to disturb owl mating zones while our lives are literally ash.
So fuck it. Fuck the permits. Fuck the endangered sand beetle. Fuck the Architectural Review Board. Fuck the Democrats. Where is my MAGA hat.
[True Story]"

Middle Eastern Children’s Alliance: Alleged PFLP Ties Uncovered | National Review - "The Middle Eastern Children’s Alliance (MECA), a California nonprofit that designs K–12 curriculum material, has fiscal and personnel ties to U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organizations, according to a new report by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI). “Our investigation of MECA has yielded evidence suggesting it holds fiscal and personnel ties to US designated foreign terrorist organizations, chiefly the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), alongside a host of extremist anti-government actors based in the United States”... MECA states on its website that it has sent more than $31 million in aid to children in “Palestine,” Iraq, and Lebanon since 1988. The nonprofit further purports to provide financial and professional assistance to community organizations in the West Bank and Gaza, fund university scholarships for Palestinians, and develop educational programs about the Middle East. MECA states that its “founding advisors” include Noam Chomsky, Angela Davis, Edward Said, and Maxine Waters.  The supposedly humanitarian organization has expressed its support for violence against Israel. The day after October 7, MECA declared its support on social media for the attack: “We are witnessing the people of Gaza rising up to respond to decades of Israeli settler colonial violence. The US [government] bears responsibility for its political, economic & military support of this brutal apartheid regime. Join us to stand in solidarity with Palestine.”...   A media advisory released by MECA in 2011 listed Leena Al-Arian as its communications coordinator. Al-Arian is the daughter of Sami Al-Arian, a Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist who was sentenced to 57 months in prison for “conspiring to violate a federal law that prohibits making or receiving contributions of funds, goods or services to, or for the benefit of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).”...   In addition to personnel ties, MECA has awarded funds to Gaza-based charities Afaq Jadeeda and Never Stop Dreaming — organizations that the NCRI report says are “connected to the PFLP’s military and political wings.” Both Afaq Jadeeda and Never Stop Dreaming have collaborated with the Union of Palestinian Women Committees, which has staff and organizational links to the PFLP...   In a social media post in 2023, Afaq Jadeeda eulogized PFLP General Central Committee member Mansour Thabet, whom it identified as a founder of the organization. That same year, Afaq Jadeeda similarly eulogized a slain PFLP militant and recognized him as the son of one of the organization’s board members.  In 2016, Afaq Jadeeda shared footage from its “Intifada Camp,” during which young children wearing keffiyehs in a theatrical show broke through a paper Star of David and performed a dance that involved shooting motions. In 2017, Afaq Jadeeda shared images on social media of its programming that showed young children pointing toy guns at the Israeli flag and at other children; in some images, kids waved the Palestinian flag, wore keffiyehs, and held signs that said “Freedom for Palestinian prisoners.” The children also appear to mimic prisoners held in Israeli custody, wearing large white blindfolds and holding their arms above their heads... MECA’s 2022 Form 990 states that it awarded a grant to the Union of Agricultural Work Committee (UAWC). The Dutch government stopped €8 million in funding to the UAWC and initiated an external investigation into the organization’s PFLP ties; the minister of development stated that the government funds were used to pay the salaries of two senior UAWC employees who were arrested for the murder of a 17-year-old Israeli in August 2019, according to an announcement by NGO Monitor...   The NCRI report is not the first to identify ties between MECA and terrorism. A special report titled “Marching Toward Violence: The Domestic Anti-Israeli Protest Movement” by the Capital Research Center, published in 2024, designated MECA a “pro-terrorism” group and cited its endorsement of the October 7 attack.   MECA develops the “Teach Palestine Project” curriculum material for grades K–12. Although MECA does not disclose how many schools have adopted its materials, it has said that there has been a huge demand since the attack on Israel: “Since October 7, the Teach Palestine Project (TPP) has been flooded with requests from educators asking for support teaching about what’s happening in Gaza and throughout Palestine,” a MECA website states, adding that “on January 20, almost 100 teachers and teacher leaders from throughout California and beyond attended TPP’s in-person conference in Oakland, California.”"

(British) Colonialism Being Evil / Turkey as Greek Land

Pith Helmet Guy (British Imperialist Officer): "Hey, there
nice Africa
would be a shame if somebody did anything to it ...
... like build hospitals, roads, cities, railroads, a written language, your entire infrastructure ...
hope you like clothes, savage.
God, it feels good being evil."

Ictinus ®️ @ictinus_x: "🇬🇷🏛️Every excavation in Turkey digs up the same merciless verdict: Greek land, occupied by invaders."
Fascinating History @Fascinate_Hist: "Head of Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, unearthed at an archaeological dig in the ancient city of Aizanoi, Türkiye."

Links - 29th March 2026 (1 - Zohran Mamdani [including Oct 7-supporting Wife])

Meme - New York Times: "Mayor Zohran Mamdani sought to create a wall between his leadership of New York City and the private views of his wife, Rama Duwaji, after being asked about her social media activity surrounding the Hamas-led attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
Mamdami Says His Wife's Views on Gaza Are No One's Business"

Thread by @daniela__127 on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "If we want to talk about the social media history of people’s wives, especially how they reacted to Oct 7th, we’re going to have to talk about Zohran Mamdani’s wife 🧵
A few days ago, the NYT ran a smear article on Dan Goldman’s wife’s social media activity post-Oct 7th. Disgruntled Goldman constituents tried to pathologize the normal and common Jewish trauma reaction. The same constituents would likely shrug off Zohran Mamdani’s wife’s cheering of the actual genocidal actions of Hamas, a terrorist organization, and her support of the protests in NYC backed those actions. To his credit, Zohran Mamdani the politician has denounced the Oct 7th attacks. Similarly, Dan Goldman has also explained that his wife does not speak for him.  So I guess the two have that in common. The real question is, Will the NYT run the same breathless smear article about Zohran Mamdani and his wife’s social media activity? Or is this type of “journalism” reserved for only those the NYT “reporters” ideologically disagree with? Let’s wait and see!"

Thread by @InnaVernikov on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - ".@nytimes did an entire exposé on the posts and likes of @RepDanGoldman’s wife, forcing Goldman to answer questions about his wife’s social media activity.  Our First Lady, Rama Duwaji, who shares a home and a life with our esteemed mayor, literally SUPPORTED HAMAS the day after the October 7 massacre.  Will the “paper of record” ask @ZohranKMamdani a single question on this? THEY WON’T. I’ll bet my life’s savings on it.  Instead, @nytimes headlines on Duwaji, conveniently focus on her (btw horrendous) fashion style.  jewishinsider.com/2026/03/zohran… Here she is. Supporting the narrative that indiscriminate rape & slaughter of innocent women and children is “breaking the walls of apartheid and military occupation.”"

Joel M. Petlin on X - "What's infuriating about this story is not the fact that Mayor Mamdani's wife supports the Oct 7th massacre. We obviously knew they both do.  What's infuriating is that the NY Times revealed that Congressman Dan Goldman's wife supports Israel, and he was forced to publicly distance from her.  We've reached the moral low point where supporting terrorists doesn't disqualify Democrats, but supporting Israel does."

Mamdani Defends Wife Amid Criticism of Her Support for Palestinian Cause - The New York Times - "The mayor said his wife’s views should not be subject to broad public scrutiny... Public officials have faced questions over the political activities or other actions of a spouse or partner, most recently earlier this week. The Times reported that Corinne Levy Goldman, the wife of Representative Daniel Goldman of New York, liked or reposted social media posts from several right-wing accounts that some saw as hateful or insensitive toward Palestinians and Black people."
U.S. Supreme Court justice Alito blames wife for flying flag associated with Trump election deniers - "U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has rejected calls to step aside from cases involving former president Donald Trump and Jan. 6 defendants, saying his wife hoisted controversial flags that flew above two homes.  "My wife is fond of flying flags. I am not," Alito wrote Wednesday.  In letters to Congress, Alito said his wife, Martha-Ann, was responsible for flying both an upside-down flag over their home in 2021 as well as an "Appeal to Heaven" flag at their New Jersey beach house last year. Both flags were prominent at the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol... Alito explained to the New York Times, which first broke the story about the upside-down flag, that his wife put it up after a heated dispute with anti-Trump neighbours.   "As soon as I saw it, I asked my wife to take it down, but for several days, she refused"... Alito also noted that the beach property is in his wife's name."

Olivia Reingold on X - "Guys that post was just the tip of the iceberg, I found 70+ radical anti-Israel posts liked by Rama Duwaji, wife of Zohran Mamdani. One calls October 7 a "mass rape hoax.""
Stephen L. Miller on X - "One of the posts was from a go-pro attached live stream that showed Hamas attackers shooting dogs outside of houses after breaking down fences. The NY Times omits this."
Maria Danzilo on X - "Reminder: The NYT made this fair game.    The posts she liked are awful and dehumanizing, minimizing and dismissing the atrocities committed against everyone that day : women, children, entire families.   There is even one she liked which showed poor defenseless dogs being shot by Hamas terrorists.   It’s time to stop pretending."

daniela on X - "The NYT was forced to report on Mamdani’s wife’s social media history and it’s honestly so embarrassing for the NYT that it probably would have been better if they hadn’t reported at all"
Rachel Moiselle on X - "The level of brazen dishonesty here really irks me.   To frame liking posts that celebrated a massacre of Jews as ‘care for Palestinians’ is such a grotesque and purposeful misrepresentation of the situation at hand.   You can make the case that the spouses of politicians shouldn’t be under such scrutiny, and this case is one I would agree with. But to wilfully lie about the contents of the posts in question - framing them as virtuous as opposed to morally abhorrent - is so despicably dishonest."
Frankly, this is an honest admission of what "pro-Palestine" or "pro-Palestinian" speech really means

The Persian Jewess on X - "Zohran Mamdani’s wife created Goebbels-inspired graphics of Jews for books that accuse Jews of being cockroaches and parasites. But remember, she’s a private person, so you’re not allowed to criticize all the awful despicable things she does."

Zohran Mamdani’s Wife Provided Illustration for Essay by Author Who Called Oct 7 ‘Spectacular’ and Attacked ‘Jewish Supremacist Vampires' - "Rama Duwaji, the first lady of New York City, provided a featured illustration for an essay by an author who called Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, attack "spectacular," has frequently decried what she describes as "Jewish supremacist vampires," and said Jewish Israelis are "rootless soulless ghouls."  Duwaji, wife of Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D., N.Y.), provided a drawing for "A Trail of Soap," an essay in the collection Every Moment is a Life compiled by Susan Abulhawa. The essay, published last month in Everything Is Political—an offshoot of self-described "environmental & social justice nonprofit organization" Slow Factory—details a Gazan woman's attempt to find a bathroom in the territory. Abulhawa, an author and anti-Israel activist, has a long history of supporting terror and demonizing Jews. Just days after Oct. 7, she wrote an op-ed in Electronic Intifada in which she called the massacres "a spectacular moment that shocked the world" and insinuated that Israel allowed the attack to happen...   Abulhawa has spent the years since Oct. 7 offering thinly veiled attacks against Israelis, "Zionists," and "Jewish supremacists" on social media.  She wrote in one December post on X that Israelis are "rootless, soulless ghouls" and in September called Israel a "cultureless, rootless human aberration in the form of a manufactured 'nation,'" adding that "we live in the time of jewish supremacist demons."... Abulhawa described a pro-Israel commentator as a "lying Jewish supremacist cockroach" and bemoaned "Dual loyalty zionists." Abulhawa described Israelis as "demonic parasite[s]" in a November post in which she said "Israel must be dismantled if humanity is going to have any chance at a moral future" and in another post said "we will have our revenge someday" against the "sons of satan." "Jewish supremacists establishing yet more mechanisms and tentacles to control the minds of your children," she warned in October 2025. When the Embassy of Israel condemned Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi for declaring "I am against Judaism," Abulhawa responded that "No one has the right to judge how Palestinians feel or what they say about their colonizers and tormentors." "The whole world is Zionist occupied," she said in February in another post in which she called believers in Jewish self-determination "parasites." There have also been posts about "Jewish supremacist vampires," "Jewish supremacist ghoul[s]," and "rabid demon[s]" in recent months... In other posts, Abulhawa made clear she was not just talking about Israel.  "Wherever they are, they will drag their respective countries into war and financial ruin for their own benefit," she wrote in January, just a month before the Duwaji collaboration. "They have a singular loyalty to Jewish supremacy. The ADL and various tentacles of Pax Judaica will swallow us all whole."...   Slow Factory has received mainstream acceptance even as it pushes support for terrorism. The nonprofit partnered with Columbia University on educational programming in the past, the Free Beacon reported, and has worked with companies like Adidas and Gucci.  Abulhawa has similarly found a warm reception within academia. She organizes the Palestine Writes Literature Festival, which in 2023 was held at the University of Pennsylvania. That event drew scrutiny for featuring openly anti-Semitic speakers like former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters—who claims Jews manipulate U.S. foreign policy and dressed up as a Nazi during a concert in Germany—and Marc Lamont Hill, who was fired from his job at CNN for advocating Israel's destruction."
Of course, everyone knows she really meant "Zionist supremacists", so she's definitely not anti-Semitic
Clearly, this means nothing. But if Jordan Peterson is seen in a photo with a random stranger with an "Islamophboic" t-shirt, he deserves to lose his job and he is "Islamophopbic" too

Eyal Yakoby on X - "BREAKING: It’s been revealed that Zohran Mamdani’s wife has a long history of openly glorying terrorism, including convicted plane hijackers. She also used the n-word frequently on her old account. We warned you consistently about who the Mamdanis actually are."

Mamdani in a bind as snowball-thrower arrested for assaulting police - "A 27-year-old man has been arrested in New York for allegedly assaulting a police officer with a snowball in an incident that has put Zohran Mamdani, the city’s mayor, at odds with his own police force.  After a record-breaking winter storm, which saw around 20 inches of snow blanket the city, a large group gathered in a park in downtown Manhattan for a snowball fight on Monday.  Videos soon circulated on social media showing police officers being hit with snowballs, which, according to the New York Police Department (NYPD), caused injuries to their heads, necks and faces."
Of course, to left wingers, injuring the police with snowballs is harmless, but Ilhan Omar being squirted with apple cider vinegar is a horrific hate crime

Meme - Tali Goldsheft @TaliGoldsheft: "So are "cruel" budget cuts to libraries suddenly no longer cruel when they come from you, @ZohranKMamdani?"
Zohran Kwame Mamdani: "In one breath, Mayor Adams tells NYers that such cruel budget cuts to libraries, sanitation, and parks are necessary fiscal measures. And in another, he offers to restore funding to some of those very cuts in exchange for shielding the NYPD from accountability. Ridiculous."
Brigid Bergin @brigidbergin: ""Mamdani’s preliminary budget proposal, which he introduced earlier this week, includes a $29 million cut to the city’s three major library systems." by @lizkimtweets    Taking page from Adams, Mayor Mamdani proposes NYC library cuts"

Mamdani Watch on X - "🟢 Some parts of Zohran Mamdani’s budget:
• $5.6M for Office of Racial equity
• $4.6M for Commission on Racial Equity
• $835K on the Commission of Gender Equity
• $260K on Dept. of Education Chief Diversity Officer
• $301K for 3 FDNY Civilian Chief Diversity Inclusion Cops"
Jason Curtis Anderson on X - "NYC employs 364,000 government employees, of which only 31% of are white. What is the point of the office of racial equity? To reduce that number to zero?"

Fox News on X - "BREAKING DOWN THE BUDGET: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s new $127B proposal is officially here, and the trade-offs are staggering. While the administration pours millions into new "Racial Equity" commissions and six-figure diversity bureaucrats, they’ve pulled the plug on hiring 5,000 new NYPD officers."

Wall Street Apes on X - "This is why Zohran Mamdani needs to raise property taxes on New York City residents. Here’s what’s included in his new $127 billion dollar spending proposal
- $5.6 million for Office of Racial Equity
- $4.6 million for Commission on Racial Equity
- $835,000 for Commission on Gender Equity
- $260,000 for Department of Education Chief Diversity Officer
- $301,000 for 3 FDNY Civilian Chief Diversity Inclusion Officers
- $118,000 for FDNY Chief Diversity Inclusion Officer
This is “The Warmth of collectivism”"

Eyal Yakoby on X - "BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani just booted out a drone manufacturer in NYC due to its ties with Israel. Tons of jobs and money just vanished from NYC."

Hon. Renee Collymore,57thAD on X - "The majority of NYCHA tenants are black people & Mayor Mamdani is banning NYCHA tenants from speaking at his Rent Ripoff Hearing against bad landlords. This is racist attack on black voices."
Maud Maron on X - "lol. Month two and he is being called “racist.” The radical left reaps what it sows.   The truth is the Mayor is the landlord of NYCHA and does not want to hear from his own tenants. He wants to wag his socialist finger at “bad” landlords without having a real policy discussion about what his proposed tax hikes, and his “I hate white people” advisor Cea Weaver’s vacancy decontrol laws, do to many landlords that can’t charge enough to cover the rising expenses they incur to own, maintain, and improve their properties while paying increasing taxes.  The people who voted for him are in for a rough ride. The rest of us get to say “I told you so” but there’s no joy in it. Our city has the revenue and resources to flourish. What we are missing is a competent political class capable of managing the budget, and grappling with the genuine trade-offs of any policy decision.   We need a competitive two party system to offer a robust debate on the ideas and policies that shape our city. The slow, and now fast, drift to socialist fear mongering and shitty policies is going to continue to be very bad for our economy and our quality of life. No surprises here."

Powerful NYC teachers union endorses Zohran Mamdani despite radical take on mayoral control of schools
Mamdani Threatens to Raid NYC Employee Pension Reserves – Transit Supervisors Organization Local 106

Councilwoman Vickie Paladino on X - "An Indianapolis DSA city council member agreed that it’s the duty of US socialists to make sure the United States is ‘defeated’. His profile picture is himself with Zohran Mamdani. Where, exactly does our mayor stand here? Does he agree that the US should be defeated here?"

Eyal Yakoby on X - "BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani reverses on a campaign promise to expand housing vouchers, saying that it is too costly. As has always been obvious, all of Zohran’s promises were never going to happen. You were duped."

Mark D. Levine on X - "NYC has put out call for emergency snow shovelers. Will help remove snow/ice citywide from bus stops, crosswalks, fire hydrants etc. Pay starts at $19.14/hr. To sign up, go to any DSNY garage tomorrow 8am-1pm with ID & two small photos. Details and application form:"
Ryan Saavedra on X - "There is so much to hit here  Mamdani campaigned on raising NYC's minimum wage to $30 an hour (an economic disaster) but now is offering manual laborers only $19 an hour to dig NYC out of major snow storms as it's about to get pummeled again  Then there is the fact that they have to give 2 forms of photo ID and their social security card TO SHOVEL snow, but no ID needed to vote"

New York Post on X - "Mamdani admin. fails to attract any shovelers for hours at NYC site"
Jean on X - "The problem is two-fold:
1. No one really wants to work for a communist;
2. Communists really don’t want to work."

Thread by @LevineJonathan on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "NEW from me.  On Oct 9, 2023 — two days after Hamas' Oct 7 massacre in Israel — the Muslim Democratic Club of New York put out a statement blaming Israel for the attack, saying they stood "in solidarity with the besieged Palestinian people"  Today, the founders of this group occupy top posts in City Hall under NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani
The Muslim Democratic Club of New York was founded by Ali Najmi, Faiza Ali, Aliya Latif and Linda Sarsour.  As of today:
Faiza Ali — Commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs
Aliya Latif — Executive Director of the Mayor's Office of Faith-Based Partnerships
Ali Najmi — leading the mayor's Advisory Committee on the Judiciary
All of these individuals view Linda Sarsour as a mentor.  Aliya Latif has described Sarsour as her "right hand," "sister," and "seeker-mother" in posts on X. Faiza Ali spent years working at the Council on American Islamic Relations.  During Ali's time with CAIR, she was a vocal supporter of the proposed "Ground Zero Mosque" two blocks from the site of the former World Trade Center. Ali dismissed critics of the project as un-American and said opposition to building a mosque so close to the location of the Sept. 11 attacks "reveal[ed] a new wave of anti-Muslim sentiment." She also represented CAIR at a 2010 press conference promoting the project."
Mamdani Hires Three Founders of Muslim Group that Blamed Oct. 7 on 'Israeli Apartheid Regime'

(((Jeremy Posner))) on X - "I have been saying for a while that the DSA built their brand on telling everyone how much better they could do if they had to govern, and that being in a position of having to govern has the potential to destroy their brand for years to come."
How ignorant. Doesn't he know that Zohran has nothing to do with the DSA despite being a member and that being part of a group only tars you (or vice versa) if that pushes the left wing agenda?!

Pro-America | Politics & Markets on X - "Mamdani went from "tax the rich" to "let's raid the retirement funds of the normies" in about six weeks. Welcome to socialism New York City. Hope you enjoy the ride."

Geiger Capital on X - ">Runs entire campaign on freezing the rent
>Immediately raises NYC property taxes forcing landlords to raise the rent"
Time to blame the "rich"

Eyal Yakoby on X "Mahmoud Khalil last year: “We are fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization.” Tonight, is invited to the NYC Mayor’s mansion to eat with Zohran Mamdani. Wake up—do you not see what’s happening?"

Bernard Stanford ✡︎ on X - "There are two positions from which one can approach the Mahmoud Khalil situation. One is the civil liberties perspective, being concerned in a content-neutral way about free speech and due process. But Mamdani is the other—supportive of Khalil *because* of his particular views. And they are TERRIBLE views.  Khalil was a student leader of an organization, the Columbia University Apartheid Divest, that unabashedly cheerleads and embraces Hamas' most violent acts. They referred to October 7th as a "heroic struggle." They published "A Tribute to Yahya Shinwar." They support "liberation by any means necessary, including armed resistance."  October 7th was when Hamas, led by Shinwar, entered Israel and murdered as many unarmed civilians as they could find, face-to-face, with small arms.  Khalil himself supports "armed resistance" and justifies or downplays Palestinian violence. He has forcefully defended calls to "Globalize the Intifada," and minimized that the Second Intifada was itself largely a campaign of suicide bombings against Israeli civilians. Offering the most milquetoast denunciation of killing civilians in an interview, he immediately pivoted to justifying 10/7. After all, Palestinians, in his words, need not be "perfect victims."  But we have many reasons to believe Mamdani shares all these views. As a longtime activist who has accused Israel of being responsible for NYPD police violence, as himself a defender of the "Globalize the Intifada" phrase. As the husband of a woman who liked posts celebrating 10/7 on social media as it was happening.   And now Mamdani hosts Khalil, not simply to defend his rights but to affirm, casually, the "genocide" slander again the Jewish State—it is simply deplorable, and unacceptable for the Mayor of New York."

Simone Rodan-Benzaquen on X - "The post is disgraceful and yet so entirely unsurprising.  Mamdani describes Khalil as a victim of “cruelty” who was punished merely for exercising his First Amendment rights while protesting what he calls the “ongoing genocide in Palestine.”  What Mamdani does not mention is who Mahmoud Khalil actually is — and what he has actually said.  Khalil has publicly defended “armed resistance,” saying: “We’ve tried armed resistance, which is legitimate under international law, but Israel calls it terrorism.”  He justified the October 7 attack as something that “had to happen” to “break the cycle,” even suggesting it was tied to the prospect of a Saudi-Israel normalization deal.  This is the man Mamdani chose to honor at Gracie Mansion.  And he did so while repeating the blood libel that Israel is committing an “ongoing genocide.”  Think about that for a moment.  The mayor of New York — home to the largest Jewish population outside Israel — is hosting a man who rationalizes the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, while accusing the Jewish state of genocide.  None of this should surprise anyone who has followed Mamdani’s political trajectory.  He emerged from the SJP ecosystem and the activist networks that helped normalize slogans like “globalize the intifada” on American campuses.  And the ideological environment around him has already shown sympathy for the atrocities of October 7 —  his own wife had liked social media posts celebrating the attacks and denying the sexual violence committed that day.  So no, this post is not shocking.  What is shocking is that someone who speaks this language now represents power in New York City."

New York Post on X - "Mamdani claims he was defending free speech by hosting divisive Mahmoud Khalil at Gracie Mansion"
Councilwoman Vickie Paladino on X - "Such an interesting thing to say.  So let’s recap. When hosting a Hamas-supporting foreigner on a revoked visa, it’s all about the first amendment.  When an elected city council member speaks out against radical Islam and its impact on our country, the first amendment doesn’t apply and it’s an ethics committee investigation and a charge of harassment for Islamophobia.  That’s how things go in New York under this administration."
Jim Walden on X - "Can someone tell me how the media isn’t covering the hypocrisy here?    For the first time, the City Council wants to censure or expel a duly elected Council Member for private speech, which was directed only to people who chose to follow her on her personal social media account?    But, Khalil’s hateful and violent speech, which made New York Jews feel unsafe—and clearly impacted hate crimes—well, that is A-Ok?    What happened to the press defending the First Amendment? Help me understand!  Mr. Mayor, @NYCMayor , urge City Council to drop this bogus charge against Council Member Paladino—based on the same principles you said you were advancing by dining with Khalil in the aftermath of the terrorist attack!"
Free speech is only for pushing the left wing agenda

Izengabe on X - "There was a HUGE spike in hate crimes committed against Jews during Zohran Mamdani's 1st month in office. So to hide the spike in antisemitic crime Mamdani had the NYPD change the way it counts hate crimes to lower the reported number & make comparisons to previous years harder."

Wall Street Mav on X - "🚨NYC Mayor socialist Zohran Mamdani has proposed lowering the exemption on the death tax (estate tax) from $7.1 million down to only $750,000.   He would also increase the death tax from 16% to 50%.  No other jurisdiction in the USA confiscates wealth at death from people with that small of an estate. Anyone with any equity in a home in NYC would likely exceed the $750,000 and have to pay the death tax.  There is a federal estate tax (death) for estate wealth that exceeds $15 million (individuals). However, you can deduct other state and city estate taxes before paying the federal estate tax. So effectively, Mamdani is preventing the federal govt from taxing estates, NYC and NY State are taking it all first.  Follow: @WallStreetMav"

Links - 28th March 2026 (2 - General Wokeness)

Laura Dodsworth on X - "Hannah Spencer seems to think that the familiar ‘coming together’ rituals after terror attacks are entirely organic. In reality, the bunches of flowers and solidarity graffiti at the terrorist sites, multi-faith vigils and 'don't look back in anger’ messaging is actually pre-planned by disaster planners and PR pros. It is a highly sophisticated exercise in "controlled spontaneity”. Some mutual support after disasters is natural. But when town halls are draped in banners with superficial slogans and love hearts just hours after terror attacks and #LoveWins hashtags are released on Twitter like homing pigeons, it is not natural — it is fair to ask how much is spontaneous and how much is managed. The entirely natural raw grief and anger are suppressed and drowned out, replaced by curated optimism and forgiveness. Why? Staged displays of positive emotion and resilience are intended to facilitate recovery and to prevent civil unrest. But they do so by pulling the wool over your eyes and pulling at your heartstrings — in essence, you are being manipulated. As one psychologist involved in advising the government told me in an interview for ‘A State of Fear’: “You could call psychology ‘mind control’. That’s what we do… clearly we try and go about it in a positive way, but it has been used nefariously in the past. Psychology has been used for wicked ends.”"

TheLawOfAverages on X - ""Who Actually Discriminates in Criminal Sentencing?" Out now! White Democrats & Black Americans punish Whites more harshly. Late 2025 study: “Black Americans and white Democrats punish white perpetrators more than Black ones, whereas white Republicans show no net racial bias.“"
Proof that White Republicans are racist!

Liam Out Loud on X - "Once you understand the psychology of the modern leftists, the last decade makes a lot more sense. The endless outrage, hypersensitivity, and rejection of rational debate was nothing more than a crisis of self-worth masked as a moral crusade. What I mean by leftist:
- Socialists
- Collectivists
- LGBTQ activists
- Climate cultists
What unites all of them isn't just ideology but psychology. Inferiority, low self-esteem, powerlessness, guilt, self-hatred, and depressive tendencies. Many leftists "ally" themselves with groups perceived as weak or inferior, not out of compassion, but because they unconsciously project their own sense of weakness onto these groups. They hate strength, success, and rationality, which is why they direct so much venom at America, Western civilization, white men, and science itself. The same flaws they denounce in the west are excused or ignored in socialist regimes or tribal cultures. The real issue is envy and resentment. If no problems existed, they must invent them, because victimhood is their identity."

glorious-spoon | Words and Cupcakes - "the weirdest thing about a lot of the common criticisms of millennials i see is that they all seem to boil down to:
you are soft. you believe the world should be kind. you expect people to treat you fairly. you think your needs are important, that you deserve to be listened to, that you shouldn’t be hungry and frightened and in pain.
and people are seriously SO OFFENDED by this. like, how dare you. how dare you believe the world might be a good place, how dare you believe you should be treated well just for existing. life is pain, princess, anyone who tells you different is selling something, now wipe that smile off your face, shut your mouth and go suffer like i did. and it’s just like… i have a kid. if she grows up expecting better treatment than i experienced as a young woman, i’m doing my job. i know the world isn’t perfect, but random cruelty isn’t something we should just shrug our shoulders and accept, and it’s so fucking weird how angry people get at youngsters who refuse to do just that."
Left wingers have no idea how the real world works and think belief can manifest reality

Wall Street Apes on X - "Democrat Rep Maxine Dexter says putting “White milk” in schools is “White supremacy” “Ask the science-based regiments, not — whole milk white supremacy dog whistling” She says RFK Jr wanting White Milk in schools is racist This is the Democrat Party"

Thread by @FLEXjss on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "It is estimated that over 4,000 organized crimes groups with ties to over 70 foreign countries and comprised of tens of thousands of criminals are operating in Canada. Yet the left is oddly focused on small groups of white guys working out, because of their political beliefs.
Fun Facts:
"White Nationalists" are not stealing your car from your driveway while you sleep.
"White Nationalists" are not kicking in your front door & terrorizing your family while they rob you.
"White Nationalists" are not trafficking humans, cocaine and fentanyl.
"White Nationalists" are not laundering or extorting money.
"White Nationalists" are not committing fraud or cybercrime.
It's a massive distraction.
You are welcome."

Terrence K Williams | Facebook - "“I am a hell of a lot smarter than most of you.” — Joe Biden — That’s what President Joe Biden said while speaking at Rev. Jesse Jackson’s funeral in Chicago—a church full of Black people honoring a civil rights icon. Now imagine the reaction if Donald Trump had said those exact same words at a memorial service. The media and the left would be screaming from the rooftops, calling him arrogant, racist, you name it. But Democrats get a pass? They’re the real racists—look at Gavin Newsom just a couple weeks ago, telling a Black crowd in Atlanta that he’s “just like them” because he got a low SAT score and “can’t read” due to dyslexia. The hypocrisy is unreal."

Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives on X - "🔥🚨BREAKING: It has been verified that Jesse Jackson’s son asked attendees not to “bring your politics” into the funeral, yet every single Democrat who spoke ignored his wishes and turned his father’s funeral into a political rally."
JezebellePNW on X - "Jesse Jackson’s son literally said ‘No politics—just honor Dad, keep it classy.’ Obama, Biden, Kamala? They heard that and hit the gas—turned the pulpit into a Trump-bashing circus, dragging the funeral through the mud like it was their personal debate stage. Family wishes? Trampled. Grieving son? Slapped silly in front of the world. Now @BarackObama @MichelleObama tone deaf, self-absorbed, bipolar style, posting misty-eyed ‘hope’ clips and Michelle’s serving ‘unity’ realness? Honey, that’s not redemption—that’s straight arrogance. You curb-stomped the legacy mid-eulogy for cheap applause, then strutted back like saints. Disrespect so bold the casket’s still giving side-eye forever."

snuppydogg on X - "A humanities professor recently told me that she considered dog breeds to be "eugenics-adjacent" - not the breeding itself, but the idea that offspring inherit their parents' traits"

Nottingham victim may still be alive ‘had police been more robust’ - "The Nottingham triple killer carried out an earlier violent attack after being released by mental health professionals who had considered the “over-representation” of young black men in custody, a public inquiry has been told. Valdo Calocane was in the grip of psychosis when he tried to batter down a neighbour’s front door, frightening her so much that she jumped out of a first-floor window and badly injured her back. Mental health professionals had been “leaning towards” sectioning Calocane, who had been arrested for criminal damage earlier that day for attacking another neighbour’s door. However, he was released after “the team of professionals considered the research evidence that shows over-representation of young black males in detention”, the inquiry was told. Three years later Calocane fatally stabbed Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber, university students aged 19, and Ian Coates, 65. The paranoid schizophrenic, now 34, had a history of serious violence and was well known to police and mental health services, having been sectioned four times. He was discharged in late 2022 despite refusing to take his medication and not engaging properly with staff... Calocane’s first mental health episode was in May 2020 when he tried to kick down a neighbour’s door. He was arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and underwent a mental health assessment in which he said he had heard his mother screaming and believed she was being raped... One doctor had been “leaning towards” sectioning Calocane because it was his first presentation of psychosis and there was a lack of information on his risk. However, the team released him after considering the research about black men in detention and when another professional said it could be dealt with in the community. Langdale detailed how, just 40 minutes after his release, Calocane began trying to kick down another neighbour’s door. “[The victim] was alone in the flat. She was so frightened she jumped out of the first-floor window, causing serious damage to her spine,” Langdale said. Police did not charge Calocane despite the serious nature of his victim’s injuries. The inquiry was told that Nottinghamshire police recorded it as a “crime not detected” after Calocane’s psychiatrist informed them he did not have “capacity” to be considered responsible. Langdale questioned why police simply accepted the doctor’s view as the “final say in the matter”. A different police officer recorded that Calocane was “too ill” to be charged over the first incident involving criminal damage. Calocane was, however, sectioned — the first of four mental health detentions before the fatal stabbings. Community workers at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust were warned to go to his property in pairs and identify exits because he was so dangerous, and a doctor warned he might kill someone... The killer rang his brother telling him to take his family out of the country, before stabbing Coates who was on his way to work. He then used a van to mow down another three people who suffered serious injuries but survived."
If you don't want people to be murdered, you're racist

Will Tanner on X - "Many will mock the British for this, and rightly so, but it's important to remember that essentially this has been allowed to happen in every American city for decades Why did Memphis and St. Louis go from gems of the South to uninhabitable? Why'd Detroit go from the wealthiest city in America, the Paris of the Midwest, to a deserted hellscape? Why'd Chicago become jokingly called "Chiraq"? Essentially this story on repeat, because stopping crime means accepting that there will be huge disparate impacts, and acting based on that knowledge"

Why anti-racism kills | The Spectator - "When the triple killer Valdo Calocane was allowed to walk free from medical custody in 2020, it appears to have partly been because he was black. One doctor had leaned towards sectioning Calocane, who had just attempted to break into his neighbour’s house during a psychotic episode. Had this sound medical judgement prevailed, Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber, both students aged 19, as well as Ian Coates, a 65-year-old caretaker, might still be alive. Unfortunately, Calocane’s insanity was matched by the foolishness of those charged with his care. An inquiry into the killings heard on Monday that he was discharged after a ‘team of professionals considered the research evidence that shows over-representation of young black males in detention.’ On a separate occasion, according to a previous independent report into Calocane’s care, he was similarly spared being forced to take long-lasting anti-psychotic medication because he didn’t like needles and NHS staff ‘felt a pressure to avoid restrictive practice because of his ethnicity.’... This grotesque moral calculus cannot solely be placed at the door of individual doctors. It is an institutional failure. An investigation found that a clinical team attending to Calocane was influenced by the draft Mental Health Bill in 2022, which called for a reduction in forcing medication on patients, highlighting the disproportionate use of such measures ‘for black people’. Little thought seems to have gone into the possibility that pursuing more proportionate statistics can come at an intolerable price. Nor is this sort of thinking isolated to the NHS. The Southport killer Axel Rudakubana’s headteacher was told to remove the word ‘sinister’ from his education plan after mental health workers accused her of racially profiling ‘a black boy with a knife’. Similarly, a chance to apprehend Salman Abedi before he detonated a rucksack bomb in the Manchester Arena, killing 22 people, may have been missed because a security guard declined to approach him for fear of being branded racist. The same fear across countless institutions enabled the grooming gangs to prey on vulnerable English girls for decades with near impunity. This is the human toll of anti-racism, by which I mean the privileging of certain groups over others in the erroneous belief this will reduce uncomfortable disparities. There is nothing in Calocane’s case which suggests racism against him factored into his crimes. Indeed, there’s mounting evidence he was enabled by a series of overcompensations in the other direction, rooted in the bigotry of low expectations; holding minorities to different standards to everyone else. The result of this has been condescending for law-abiding minorities and a health hazard for the public, who have been taking part in a social experiment they did not consent to – an experiment that encourages doctors and the police to act as sociologists. It has made those in vital frontline professions have to consider contested shibboleths around identity and race when it comes to life-and-death decisions that are better made by removing as much noise as possible. Calocane’s doctors should have been focused solely on whether he was a threat to himself or the public. Yet the spectre of racism has muddied the waters. The Macpherson report into the murder of Stephen Lawrence lent this ideology its institutional authority. Among its 70 recommendations to rid society of the scourge of ‘institutional racism’ were two that were particularly insidious. It urged the police to redefine a ‘racist incident’ as ‘any incident which is perceived to be racist by the victim or any other person’, a hopelessly subjective definition that Macpherson suggested should include non-crimes. And the report outlined measures to ensure the judiciary, civil service and NHS, among other bodies, instituted a similar sea change to combat the presence – at once ill-defined and ubiquitous – of institutional racism. Such an all-encompassing brief naturally lends itself to excess. One consequence of this has been the recalibration of what our institutions are trained to fear. Fastidious attention to racism, real and imagined, now takes precedence over genuine threats to the most vulnerable people in society. We are long overdue for a Macpherson-style reset which puts our institutions on notice that there is no excuse, no matter how lofty, for this dereliction of their duty."
Once again, wokeness kills

‘Anti-racist’ dogma is getting people killed - "Then there was the torture and murder of 10-year-old Woking schoolgirl, Sara Sharif, by her father and stepmother in 2023. According to a subsequent safeguarding review, neighbours didn’t report “concerns about what they heard” in the Sharif household because, they too, “feared being branded racist”... Then, of course, we come to surely the most notorious example of all: the child-rape gangs. In 2017, Sarah Champion, the Labour MP for Rotherham, said: “People are more afraid to be called a racist than they are afraid to be wrong about calling out child abuse.” Little has changed. As Baroness Louise Casey wrote in her report last year: “Instead of examining whether there is disproportionality in ethnicity or cultural factors at play in certain types of offending, we found many examples of organisations avoiding the topic altogether for fear of appearing racist.” On and on it goes. Before we judge anyone, though, we need to consider something extremely uncomfortable. Which is that such a fear, however cowardly it may seem, is also perfectly rational. These days, the mere accusation of racism can end a career – particularly in the public sector. Indeed, the repercussions for being thought racist, even when individuals are patently not, can be more severe than the repercussions for proven incompetence. Ultimately, therefore, the real blame lies not with individuals who have failed to act. It lies with the so-called “anti-racist” dogma that’s been drummed into them all their working lives. The dogma that has convinced them that there are no sins greater than “stereotyping”, or “racial profiling”, or “over-representation”. The dogma that has left them so frightened of losing their jobs, they don’t actually do their jobs... Back in 2001 an inquiry was held into the murder of Victoria Climbié, the eight-year-old Ivorian girl who was tortured and murdered in London by her great-aunt and her great-aunt’s partner. In his opening speech, the counsel for the inquiry, Neil Garnham QC (as he was then styled), said: “Fear of being accused of racism can stop people acting when otherwise they would.” Those words were uttered a full quarter of a century ago – and we still haven’t learned a thing."

Meme - Lachlan Phillips exo/acc: "This guy externalising his suicidal nihilism. Grace Tame externalising her abuse. Leftism, particularly the rainbow-islamist alliance is a largely pathological condition, not a political position. We are subjected to living within the psychological projections of the deeply mentally unwell."
Drew Pavlou @DrewPavlou: "The climate activist who defaced the Churchill statue in London has repeatedly requested euthanasia in the Netherlands"
"Climate activist Olax wants to die. 'Everything is useless by definition'. Olax Outis no longer wants to live, but his requests for euthanasia have been rejected repeatedly. His death wish doesn't stop him from a turbulent life as a climate activist."
This is also why left wingers are so pro-euthanasia

Meme - Andrew Follett @AndrewCFollett: "I'm old enough to remember when calling conservatives "evolution deniers" was THE Lib thing. Even when said conservative literally taught evolution...(like myself). I'd like to go back to 2011 me and inform him that evolutionary theory would as conservative and racist."
"Brett: "Let me just say, I am an evolutionary biologist. I'm very interested in how language actually changes..."
Brooklyn: "A eugenicist."
Brett: "Say again?"
Brooklyn: "A eugenicist. That's what you mean as evolution..."
Brett: "No, no, no..."
Brooklyn: "Those are the same thing."
Brett: "No, it's not the same thing."
Brooklyn: "They are the same. They are the same. I've seen the research; they are the same. 'You will not argue that here, you're not about to try to wiggle out of that. Eugenics. That's the common (muffled) for eugenicist.""
I love how according to these black people, evolutionary biology is transphobic and anti-black and if people are claiming it;s transphobic, that's proof of transphobia

Santa Clara University student fired from internship after exposing pornographic essay assignment - "Naomi wrote this op-ed for the Wall Street Journal about how Santa Clara University (founded by Catholic Jesuits in 1851) required therapy students to read bondage porn, watch clothed individuals enact bondage fetishes, and write autobiographies of their "sexual history." She wanted an exemption from the assignments, but she says they were required for graduation... So ... a professor is asking students to talk explicitly about the details of their sex lives, including their "sexual past" as children/teenagers and their "sexual aspirations" for the future... It took a ton of effort for this one student to get a singular exception so she didn't have to complete a pornographic assignment that forces students to detail the most intimate components of their lives. The university's responses so far have been mostly of deflection. Now she's been fired from her internship for daring to express her concerns."

Legal win for son tricked into moving to Africa by parents - "A teenager who was tricked into going to boarding school in Africa has won a significant legal victory against his own parents. The 14-year-old boy, who cannot be identified, was taken from London to Ghana in March 2024 after being told a relative was ill. In fact, his parents wanted to get him out of London as they feared he was being drawn into criminal activity. Unhappy and homesick in Ghana, the boy found lawyers and brought a case against his parents to the High Court in London, which ruled against him in February. On Thursday, he won a Court of Appeal bid, so the case will be reheard."

Meme - whatever: "Woke liberal college girl sent me a DM calling me old and ugly. And she wants me to have a horrible day! Pretty malevolent if you ask me! She studies psychology at UW. A future psychologist/therapist folks! These are the "empathy" people. These are the people that are going to give you therapy! Pillars of goodness, empathy, and virtue! This is what the universities are pumping out. As far as having a horrible day, oblige her!"
blanguita blancagrade: "you're disgusting- just want you to know how ugly you are inside and out from a normal person. you're such a loser!"
"Why don't you come on the show and you can state your actual criticisms and disagreements?"
"aw hell nah. u old and super creepy i just wanted u to have a horrible day! blocking immediately"

Meme - trash jones @jzux: "so it turns out the "woke mind virus" was empathy for human life"
Kangmin Lee @kangminlee: "You said this about Charlie Kirk."
trash jones @jzux: "to put it as bluntly as possibly can, i'm glad he's dead. i think the world is a better place without him. but the way it went down is indicative of a problem that's so much bigger than him, it's tough to wrap my head around"

Keith Woods on X - "The Warrior Gene Explained
The MAOA gene produces an enzyme that breaks down brain chemicals like serotonin and dopamine, which regulate mood and impulse control. If someone has a rare version of the gene called the 2R allele, they have unusually high levels of these chemicals and weaker impulse control. The amygdala, responsible for reacting to threats, becomes overactive, while the prefrontal cortex, more responsible for rational thought, has less input. People like this tend to display explosive, violent behaviour, hence this variant being dubbed "the warrior gene." For an example of how signficant this is: a study found that 50% of African-American men who carry the allele had been involved in a shooting or stabbing, compared to 7% who didn't carry it (still a huge number.) But what's really interesting is the massive racial differences in the spread of the gene. About 5.2% of African-American men carry the "the warrior gene," compared to 0.1% of White men. So African-Americans are 52 times more likely to carry a gene with an extremely strong connection to violent, impulsive behaviour. And given the signficant White admixture in the African-American population, this is likely even higher among other African populations."

Meme - "The Only Chart You Need To Understand European Politics In 2026
Venn diagram: Jihadis, Commies, Fashies
Commie and Jihadi: WEST BAD
Jihadi and Fashie: FEMINISM AND QUEER RIGHTS BAD
Commie and Fashie: LIBERALISM BAD
Commie, Jihadi and Fashie: JEW BAD"

Flying a Union Jack flag is branded a 'tool of hate' in Government's leaked 'social cohesion' strategy - "Flying English, Scottish and Union Jack flags has been branded 'tools of hate' in a leaked draft of the Government's new social cohesion strategy. A leaked draft of the proposals suggests national symbols were sometimes used last summer to 'exclude or intimidate'. It warned that the 'extreme right has tried to turn symbols of pride into tools of hate'... ministers will unveil the finalised plans, titled Protecting What Matters, in a cross-Government drive... At the time, the Prime Minister backed the public's right to fly St George's flags but the leaked Government documents appear to link it to rising tensions over immigration and protests by the far-Right... The proposals also suggest a 'special representative' role will be introduced to 'champion efforts across the UK to tackle hostility and hatred directed at Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim'."

Meme - Emma Trimble @Emma_A_Webb: "But this was fine. *people waving Palestine and Islamic State flags*"
Daily Mail @dailymail: "Flying a Union Jack flag is branded 'tool of hate in Government's leaked 'social cohesion' strategy"
We're still told that left wingers don't hate their countries

Thread by @jonkay on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "This is hilarious. The faculty association at @usask (@USaskFaculty) subjected its members to a mandatory eye-glazing struggle session about their settler-colonial original sin; and this prof was able to (mercifully) get out of the last 90 minutes by live tweeting the idiocy he witnessed This is my favourite part about this garbage: You’re expected to have so many mind blowing epiphanies about your internalized racismness or whatever that you need a notebook so you can write them all down"
On Michael Plaxton

Meme - The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole: "Most Hispanic, Black, and Asian women think "white people invented slavery." Most Liberal Millennials think the same."
""White people invented slavery." Percent that chose "True" by Race and Sex
Percent that chose "True" by Political Orientation
Skeptic Research Center Team"

Meme - Skeptic Research Center Team @SkepResCenter: "Those with the highest levels of formal education hold blatantly false beliefs about race issues in America. Nearly a third of Americans with graduate degrees believe white people invented slavery, 3 in 4 believe white people are the richest group in America, and over half are unaware that qualified Asian applicants are regularly rejected from colleges and universities."
"False Beliefs About Race Among Those with Graduate Degrees
"White Americans have the highest household income of any racial group in the US." - 75%
"White people invented slavery." - 31%
"American colleges and universities regularty reject qualified Asian applicants." - 54%"
Weird. We're told that reality has a liberal bias, and left wingers claim that what educated people believe is objectively correct and society needs to follow that path. Of course, here graduate education is a proxy for left wing indoctrination, which explains why they believe all the left wing misinformation

Thomas Pierre 🇨🇭 on X - "If the world had an islamophobia problem, we would be protecting mosques… not synagogues and Christmas markets."

Peter Lloyd on X - "“British Muslims are scared,” says Sadiq Khan - after FOUR Jewish communities had their voluntary ambulance services torched 🇬🇧"
Gad Saad on X - "Indeed. Whenever Jews are attacked (typically by Muslims), it is important to redouble our efforts to fight against Islamophobia."

Harman Singh Kapoor on X - "I am a Sikh, and my faith matters to me. Being pressured to sell halal meat and remove non-halal signs is not just a business issue for me, it is about my religious beliefs and my right to practice them freely. No one should be forced to compromise their faith to satisfy intimidation or pressure. I respect everyone’s right to follow their religion, and I expect the same respect in return as I don’t go and intimidate places who are selling Halal I will not bow down when it comes to my beliefs. Freedom of religion must apply to everyone. If they want to have a holy war for this then let it be 🙏🏻"
Some minorities are more equal than others. I wouldn't hold my breath for a hate crime investigation
Time to arrest Harman Singh Kapoor for calling for holy war! This is clearly not just Islamophobia but anti-Muslim hatred

Harman Singh Kapoor on X - "Fucking inbreds pelted my restaurant with eggs because I'm not selling fucking halal. Hate crime at its peak in London."

Wall Street Apes on X - "‘Sikh restaurant owner persists with sign despite daily harassment from locals’ The store owner proudly declares his Indian restaurant does not serve Halal to stand against the Islamic invasion"

Tracking Hate against Sikhs on X - "I have my differences with this man @kingkapoor72, but he has every right to refuse to sell halal. If you want halal, go to any other establishment that serves it. Halal is bajjar kurehat in Sikhi."
Harman Singh Kapoor on X - "Inbreds attacking me again because I refuse to sell Halal"

Melanie Bennet on X - "While the U.S. is busy addressing Islamic terrorism, Canada is busy covering it up. The Trump administration has that is is "sanctioning four illicit charities that directly fund Hamas militants." Meanwhile, the Canada Revenue Agency is busy meeting with academics and lobby groups upset that Muslim charities that were found to be funding terror groups like Hamas are having their status revoked. Of course, they're claiming this is because of systemic Islamophobia within the CRAs anti-terror financing department."

Gothamist on X - "'We are enough': After Islamophobic attacks, Mamdani comforts NYC's Muslim community"
Corey Walker 🇺🇸 on X - "So after 3 high-profile terrorist attacks in the US, we are lectured about Islamophobia? This insanity happens all the time in Europe after terrorist attacks, and now it's happening here."

Dei Civitas on X - "Violent, invading Moslems march on the streets of Canadian cities, screaming slogans of death to Jews, Iranians, and Americans, and shouting "Alahu Akbar". What does the Canadian secret service do? It publishes a woke ad which warns Canadians against "Islamophobia". Notice that they specifically call it "hatred". That's because the Canadian regime has just passed a law which can put you behind bars for life if you utter speech and think thoughts which don't align with the government's ideology. Instead of protecting Canada from Chinese election interference, Chinese police stations on Canadian soil, Indian and Khalistani assassins operating at will in Canadian territory, 11 treasonous MPs sitting with impunity in Parliament, and Chinese fentanyl labs proliferating in Canada, the CSIS decides to collect data on who is "hateful' and "Islamophobic". I guess they're making the lists for who gets put into the cattle cars and shipped to the gulags."

Azat on X - ""My brother was killed with 17 stab wounds, and then his head was cut off. Nothing can ever make that right again" French teacher Samuel Paty was murdered by an Islamist. Some people continue to defame his reputation. His sister is fighting back"
Daniel Bordman on X - "I remember going to the Islamic protest against France in Toronto right after this happened. The average opinion of the 1000 or so Muslims that day:
- it is Islamophobia to link Islam to the murder of Samuel Paty
- it’s a lie that he was killed by Muslims
- it’s a good thing that he was killed because anyone who insults Islam should be beheaded."

Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 on X - "Can anyone remember the last time a Jew or a Christian stabbed, beheaded, shot, bombed, burned, blew himself up, or ran people down in a car or truck while yelling “Christ is King” or “God is great”?"
Naturally, lots of idiots started ranting about The Crusades

They Lied To Us About Having It All, And It's Costing Us Our Children

They Lied To Us About Having It All, And It's Costing Us Our Children
The women who followed every rule, hit every milestone, and built every résumé are now the ones crying in fertility clinic parking lots, and it's time someone said why. 

I was in elementary school the first time I heard it. "Girls can do anything." The poster in my school hallway showed a little girl, fists on hips, staring down the world like it owed her something. "Girl power!" "The future is female." The messaging was everywhere—in my classroom, on merchandise, in the TV shows that told us we were destined for boardrooms, not bassinets.

Love and family? Those were for women who gave up. Who settled. Who betrayed the sisterhood.

I believed it. We all did.

I grew up in the nineties, came of age in the aughts, and hit my twenties during the golden age of the girl boss. Sheryl Sandberg told us to "lean in." Beyoncé sang about running the world. Every magazine cover, every TV show, every commencement speech hammered the same point: your career is your identity. Your womb can wait. Marriage is a trap. Babies are a detour.

So we did what we were told.

We climbed. We hustled. We put off dating "seriously" because who has time for that when there are careers to chase? We dated the wrong men because the right ones wanted families, and families, we were assured, could come later. After the corner office. After the book deal. After we'd become someone.

As I shared in my article last week for Evie, I was twenty-six when I fell in love with a divorced father of three. He was kind, steady, and clear: no more kids. I told myself it was fine. I didn't need to be a mother. I could be the cool stepmom. The career woman who chose differently. I could still be significant. I was very influenced by the modern feminist messaging.

Years passed. Perspectives changed. We realized we were in different life chapters and my fiancé was worried I'd resent him in the future for not giving me children of my own. The relationship ended. Now I'm in my thirties, single, and suddenly, terrifyingly aware that the future I'd dreamed of as a girl might not show up.

Last week the internet lost its mind over Brad Wilcox's piece in Compact. The sociologist laid out the data with the cold precision of a coroner: women who reach thirty without starting a family have roughly a fifty-two percent chance of ever having children. Not great odds. Not the odds we were sold.

The outrage was immediate. "How dare he?" "Misogyny!" "Stop telling women when to have babies!"

But here's the thing no one wants to say out loud: the people sounding the alarm aren't the villains. The villains are the ones who spent decades lying to us.

They lied when they said fertility is a light switch you can flip at thirty-five. They lied when they told us egg freezing was a reasonable Plan B instead of an expensive, low-success Hail Mary. They lied when they painted motherhood as the thing that would limit us instead of the thing that would give us purpose deeper than any title or expensive handbag.

France just did something radical. They're sending letters to every twenty-nine-year-old in the country, men and women, reminding them that biology doesn't negotiate. That the window is real. That "later" has a terrifying habit of becoming "never."

The French are being called fascists for it. I call it mercy, because I've seen what happens when we don't get the memo.

I have a friend who turned forty and decided to freeze her eggs "just in case." At the clinic, the nurse looked at her with something between pity and exhaustion. "Hunny, you should've done this years ago." My friend cried in the parking lot. She'd believed the magazines. The Instagram influencers. The celebrities who announced their first pregnancy at forty-two like it was no big deal. She thought she had time.

Another friend was one of the best editors in Hollywood. By thirty-five she'd won awards, had the big office, the assistant, the recognition. She also had the creeping realization that the life she actually wanted—a husband, kids, Sunday dinners—was slipping away. She started dating men she didn't even like, just to try to make it happen. At thirty-nine, her two-year relationship imploded. She called me in tears. "I put my career first because that's what we were supposed to do. Now yeah, I'm at the top of my game, but I've lost the only thing I actually wanted."

A third friend is in her thirties, married, and has been trying to get pregnant for two years. Every failed round, every negative test, every well-meaning "have you tried relaxing?" from people who don't understand. She said to me, voice cracking, "They lied to us. They told us it would be easy. Why did they lie?"

I hear versions of this story constantly. In DMs. In coffee shops. In the group chats where millennial women gather to compare notes on the lives we were promised versus the ones we're living. The successful ones who cry in their luxury apartments. The now-older ones who froze their eggs and have a slimmer shot at a live birth. The ones who say, "I don't regret my career, but I regret believing it was the only thing that mattered."

And here's the part that makes me uncomfortable to say: I'm in that camp too.

I may still get to be a mother one day. But I'm also a realist. The choices I made—the years I spent telling myself I didn't want children of my own, I'll just be the best stepmom, chasing the wrong kind of significance—might mean that prayer goes unanswered. And that grief is real. It's not theoretical. It's the empty nursery I walk past in my mind every single day.

For years I've spoken out against the female victimhood mentality. I still do. Believing you're doomed because you're a woman is the fastest way to become exactly what you say you are. But if we're going to talk about victims, let's be honest: a generation of women were victims of the most successful propaganda campaign in modern history. We are victims of "girl boss" feminism.

We were told that traditional womanhood was oppression. That wanting a husband and babies was basic. That prioritizing love over status was weak. That our bodies were inconveniences to be managed, not miracles to be celebrated.

And now we're shocked that so many of us are alone, childless, and devastated.

This isn't about shaming women who chose differently. Some women genuinely don't want children, and that's their business. Women having choice was the supposed goal of women's liberation after all. This is about the millions who did want them—who still do—and were never told the truth about what it would cost to wait.

The data is brutal. Fertility declines sharply after thirty. Miscarriage rates climb. The chance of abnormalities skyrockets. Yes, there are miracles. Yes, science can do incredible things. But miracles aren't a business model. And "you can have it all" was never a promise. It was a sales pitch.

I'm tired of watching my friends mourn the children they'll never hold. I'm tired of the gaslighting that says pointing this out is "anti-woman." Telling women the biological reality of their own bodies isn't misogyny. It's the opposite. It's love. It's the kind of love our mothers and grandmothers used to give before we decided feelings mattered more than facts and self, status, money, and power mattered more than nurturing others.

We owe the next generation better. We owe them the truth that career is wonderful but it will never love you back. That status is fleeting but loving your children is eternal. That the most significant thing most of us will ever do isn't closing a deal or becoming famous—it's raising human beings who know they are loved.

We owe them the warning we never got: the window is real. The clock is ticking. And no amount of girl-boss mantras can stop it.

If France can send letters, we can at least start telling the truth in our culture. In our schools. In our families. In the conversations with our younger sisters and nieces and the girls scrolling TikTok and Instagram thinking they have forever.

Because they don't. And neither did we.

It's not too late to change the story. But it is late. Later than we were ever told. And the women waking up in their thirties and forties with empty arms and full résumés deserve to hear, finally, what no one had the courage to say when it still could have made a difference: We were manipulated and lied to.

And the cost could be our children.