Links - 25th July 2026 (2 - Migrants: US [including TPS])

Families Belong Together | Facebook - "BREAKING: The Supreme Court dealt a devastating blow to 1.3 million people who built their lives in the United States through Temporary Protected Status (TPS).  This is a human tragedy. We share the anger and grief of every TPS holder, every family member, every community watching this unfold in real time. Our hearts break for the irreparable damage this will do to our people. 💔 We are calling on every member of Congress to immediately pass a permanent pathway to citizenship for TPS holders. These are our neighbors, our coworkers, our family. We belong together."
Left wingers mock Conservatives as stupid and poorly educated, but they don't know what "temporary" means

Michael Smith | Facebook - "After having the chance to finish reading the opinions of yesterday's SCOTUS case releases, it struck me how conformant the left wing justices of the Court are with the orthodox globalist left in their desire for America to be blamed for, or at least be expected to remedy, negative conditions and consequences around the world that we did not facilitate or create. From the blood libel of Elon Musk and DOGE by the clownish multimillionaire Ro Khanna (Musk killed 14 million children with cuts to USAID) to Sonia Sotomayor writing in her dissent that "The consequences of today’s decision are predictable, more people will die. More people will attempt to cross the border illegally, and some will make it while others will not", proves the Blame America First crowd identified by Ambassador Jean Kirkpatrick is still alive and well nearly a half century after she called them out. Ironically, while the American left and certain libertarian and corporate entities are allied in issuing de facto invitations for illegal immigration, the nation of America has clear prohibitions and punishments for illegal border crossings that the overwhelming majority of American citizens support.  It would seem to indicate a failure in Sotomayor's reasoning capacity when she ignores the fact that the promise of a de facto open border will draw more crossers as opposed to one that is demonstratable closed. There is no need to discuss the theory of that because President Trump proved it in practice. Not our monkeys, not our circus."

Kurt Andersen on X - "What a hellishly cruel and stupid mess SCOTUS has enabled. Most or the 1.3M legally resident people they’re letting Trump deport have lived here 15+ years. Average age 42. They’re parents to 273,000 U.S. citizen kids. 30% have mortgages."
Doctor-Baron 17cShyteposter, DDS on X - "If ending a group's Temporary Protected Status really leads to this kind of mess, it sounds like we should just end TPS altogether. Or if you're arguing that "Temporary" doesn't mean temporary, then the whole program was illegitimate from the start. In that case, end it tomorrow."

Elizabeth Warren on X - "Our Haitian community in Massachusetts is part of us. Donald Trump — backed by his hand-picked Supreme Court — is trying to rip them from the communities they belong in. It is deeply and morally wrong. I will keep fighting for our Haitian community."
Wilfred Reilly on X - "These sort of "ethnic cleansing...part of us forever" takes are genuinely bizarre. There WAS no Haitian community in Mass. maybe 20 years ago. The argument surely cannot be "Once an ~unwanted foreigner claiming refugee status arrives, you can never make him leave!" Can it?"

Suzie rizzio on X - "Imagine being Amy Coney Barrett and being the mother of two adopted children from Haiti and having to explain to them why she voted to terminate Temporary Protected Status for roughly 330,000 Haitian Nationals living and working in the United States."
Left wing logic - you need to let your personal feelings and situation decide your professional judgment (at least, when that pushes the left wing agenda), or you're a bad person

Meme - The Other 98%: "Amy Coney barrett is the perfect case study in selective compassion: rescue two Haitian kids for the family photo, then help send 353,000 other Haitians back into the danger she rescued them from."
Joe Hockhausen: "It is her job to interpret and uphold the law. She's doing what is required of her position regardless of how she may feel personally. That's the dference between her and activist judges"
When left wingers proclaim that left wingers cannot be trusted to do their jobs properly. But of course, Trump is racist for suggesting a Mexican judge could have a conflict of interest where a wall with Mexico is concerned, even though left wingers at the highest levels openly proclaim that conflicts of interest are a good thing (see: Sotomayor's "wise Latina woman")
Left wing logic - the law must be interpreted to maximize good feelz. Of course there were lots of vicious and/or irrational comments

Jessica Vaughan on X - "A large share of Haitians (and Cubans & Venezuelans) who were allowed in under Biden did not come from their home countries but from 3rd countries like Chile, Brazil and Spain, where they had residency & work permits. So they can return there if they don't want to go home."
Bill Melugin on X - "100% correct. When I was at the Del Rio, TX Haitian bridge camp in 2021, many of the Haitians told me they had been living in Chile & Brazil for years before coming to the US illegally for economic (not safety) reasons. The Haitians were dumping & tearing up their Chilean documents at the river’s edge hide this fact from the US so it wouldn’t hurt their fraudulent asylum claims.  The idea that all these Haitians came directly from Haiti after an earthquake or assassination is false. Many of them were living happily and safely for years in South America until Biden’s open border policies became too attractive to pass up. Others also flew into the US via Biden’s CHNV mass parole program which was supposed to be for only 2 year humanitarian parole grants. Of course, most never left."

U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on X - ""Revoking the legal status of hundreds of thousands of people residing in our country creates a moral crisis when returning to their country of origin is not a safe or reasonable option. If we are truly to affirm the God-given dignity of every human person, we as a nation cannot turn a blind eye to such an injustice and the impossible choices it will create for families and communities." - Bishop Brendan J. Cahill, chairman of the USCCB Committee on Migration.  This week, the Trump Administration ultimately prevailed in a court challenge to its decision to end temporary protected status (TPS) for Haiti and Syria."
Wesley Todd (Sensible Moderate) on X - "The injustice... ...of sending Haitians to live in Haiti... ...a country that isn't safe... ...because Haitians are so dangerous... ...so Haitians have to live...here???"
Left wing logic: the whole third world has a right to live in the first world, and if you disagree, you're a bigot
Time for right wing anti-Semites to blame the Jews

Greg Siskind on X - "In one day, the Supreme Court decimated our asylum and humanitarian protection programs. We began building these protections in collaboration with our allies as a direct response to our failure to offer protection to the millions of victims of Nazi persecution. One day in the future Americans will be asking the question again about why we failed to have a system to protect people from persecution and danger."
Tim Timbo on X - "Living among your own people with no major wars or anything else going on is the same as being a Jew during the holocaust. Wild statement to make."
Daniel Friedman on X - "Jewish liberals need to update their priors. Antisemitism in the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia is surging because the West is importing it.    You can have Jewish safety or you can have open borders, but you can’t have both. The Haitians would be thrilled if they were kicking you out."

Earned Citizenship | The White House - ""We have to deal with the 11 million individuals who are here illegally. We all agree that these men and women should have to earn their way to citizenship. But for comprehensive immigration reform to work, it must be clear from the outset that there is a pathway to citizenship. We’ve got to lay out a path — a process that includes passing a background check, paying taxes, paying a penalty, learning English, and then going to the back of the line, behind all the folks who are trying to come here legally. That's only fair" President Barack Obama, January 29, 2013"
Damn far right extremist! Xenophobia and racism have no place in the US!

Greg Price on X - "Michelle Obama: "Dreamers aren't Americans too. They are America. They are the beating heart of this country. They are us and we are them..." A "dreamer" was just arrested for plotting a terrorist attack at the White House UFC fight."
Rothmus 🏴 on X - "When you feel no ownership over something and no real bond to it, giving it away costs you nothing.   In politics, it can even be rewarded.  That’s why the Democratic Party often behaves less like an American party and more like a coalition of foreigners that treats the United States as conquered territory to be divided.   They’re distributing its resources, identity, and future to people who never built it, exactly as raiders parcel out the spoils.  The most striking part is how little resistance was required.   No foreign army had to invade.  They simply opened the gates from within, flooded the borders, and reframed any defense of the historic nation as illegitimate.   Now the rest of us are told to accept the consequences as inevitable."

Meme - "IF DEMOCRATS TRULY BELIEVE THE USA IS SUCH A RACIST & OPPRESSIVE NATION,
THEN WHY AREN'T THEY WARNING IMMIGRANTS NOT TO COME HERE?"

Border Enforcement Does Affect American Workers’ Wallets - WSJ - "The consensus in Washington held for years that immigration enforcement didn’t impact the wallets of ordinary Americans. Wages, housing costs and job competition were all shaped by larger forces. Border policy was a legal and a cultural question. Its economics were more or less neutral.  As a deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury and later deputy undersecretary of labor in the George W. Bush administration, I worked on, among other things, immigration policy. Concerns about wage pressure were often acknowledged, then set aside as statistically insignificant. The academic literature gave little reason to do otherwise. But now the data has become much clearer and the old consensus harder to defend.  As a free-market economist, I believe in the power of human capital to drive growth. Immigration, done right, makes America more productive, dynamic and prosperous. But free markets work best when they operate within rules.  In recent years, those rules haven’t been consistently enforced. The result is a market distortion that holds down wages for those Americans most exposed to labor competition from unauthorized workers, increases demand for housing without a corresponding increase in supply and undermines the legal immigration system that serves everyone’s interests. Enforcement isn’t antimarket. Correcting distortions is what markets require. As enforcement has intensified, labor supply in immigrant-intensive sectors has tightened. In fiscal 2025, southwest border apprehensions fell to their lowest level since 1970, an 84% decline from the prior year, and the Brookings Institution estimates that between 210,000 and 405,000 people left voluntarily.  Bureau of Labor Statistics data show a corresponding tightening in labor markets. In April 2026, the construction job openings rate stood at 3%, and accommodation and food services recorded a 4.5% openings rate. At the same time, quits in accommodation and food services were 4%, more than double the national quit rate of 1.9%.  The Federal Reserve’s Beige Book describes a labor market characterized by difficulty filling positions, with the June 2026 national summary emphasizing a “low-hire, low-fire” environment. The August 2025 Beige Book also noted that “half of the Districts . . . reported a reduction in the availability of immigrant labor.”  For much of the 2010s, pay in lower-skill occupations lagged behind while professional salaries pulled away. As immigration enforcement has increased, that gap has narrowed. Take construction, which relies heavily on immigrant labor. Wages in the sector grew at roughly 2.5% annually between 2010 and 2017. Now BLS data shows construction wages growing at 3.1% through the first quarter of 2026—above the sector’s pre-enforcement baseline, even as broader private-sector wage growth cooled to 3.4%.  Housing is more complicated, which advocates of immigration enforcement should acknowledge. A 2024 study by Troup Howard, Mengqi Wang and Dayin Zhang found that heightened enforcement reduced residential construction workforces in affected counties, resulting in fewer homes built and higher prices.  But demand is shifting too. A recent Federal Reserve working paper finds that unauthorized immigration accounted for roughly 30% of house-price growth and 20% of rent growth in the average metro area between 2021 and 2024. As that demand eases, so should price pressure. Zillow reports national mortgage costs at their best level since August 2022, with affordability expected to improve in 49 of the 50 largest metros by year’s end... For years, many economists treated enforcement as economically irrelevant and dismissed concerns about wage competition. Harvard economist George Borjas was a notable exception. His research documents the mechanism directly: Immigration redistributes income from workers who compete with immigrants to the employers who hire them, with those at the bottom of the skill distribution bearing the largest losses. Increasing the number of workers in lower-skill labor markets puts downward pressure on wages. That dynamic coexisted with a long-term decline in labor-force participation among less-educated men, including a Brookings analysis showing a 4.4-point decline among prime-age men without a college degree between 2000 and 2015.  Working-class Americans in high-immigration labor markets were told for years that the downward pressure they noticed in their paychecks wasn’t happening. The evidence is now moving in their direction, even if it doesn’t settle every question."
Weird. Left wingers kept telling us that deporting illegal immigrants didn't improve anyone's life

Logan Hall on X - "“We shouldn’t be scapegoating immigrants for Americans’ financial troubles.” Actually that’s exactly what we should be doing."

Protestors, ICE clash at Albuquerque DHS facility - "Using a megaphone, Nutig and organizer Brian McQuaid led chants including “Be like Renee and Get in the way”"
Comment (elsewhere): "Get in the way?  I thought you guys kept saying she was just driving home from dropping off her kid?"

End Wokeness on X - "Velshi: "I feel deep unease to celebrate America's 250th anniversary" Ali Velshi became a citizen in 2015"
He needs to be protected from the debilitating effects of America. The US needs to denaturalise and deport him to protect him

Meme - "LIBERALS SAY, "IF CONFISCATING ALL GUNS SAVES JUST ONE LIFE, IT WILL BE WORTH IT." WELL THEN IF DEPORTING ALL ILLEGAL ALIENS SAVES JUST ONE LIFE, WOULDN'T THAT BE WORTH IT?"

Meme - Flurk: "IMMIGRANTS WORK THE JOBS AMERICANS DON'T WANT."
*Man in red hat comes to edit words*
"IMMIGRANTS WORK THE WAGES JOBS AMERICANS DON'T WANT."

Meme - January 6th: *January 6th protesters calmly walking through Congress, respecting the lines*
Triggered Feminist: "INSURRECTION!"
ICE FACILITY: *ICE rioters attacking officers*
Un-Triggered Feminist: "DEMOCRACY"

Blue Lives Matter on X - "“We were instructed, quietly, to label newly arrived ILLEGALS as ‘long-term disabled’—even for headaches or back pain—so they’d get Social Security for LIFE.” “Once they’re classified, that’s it—they’re set for LIFE. That’s exactly how they defrauded the system.” American taxpayers are under attack... so is the very foundation of our nation."
From Jill Noble

Army veteran in custody after launching incendiary attack at NYC federal building - "A U.S. Army veteran with anti-ICE and anti-government views was in custody after lighting fireworks and setting a fire outside a New York City federal building on Monday morning before he was tackled and taken into custody, authorities said.   The suspect, Andrew Arrabaca, 43, arrived at the employee entrance to 26 Federal Plaza around 8:30 a.m. and lit a large firework inside a canister before firing five to seven pellets from an airsoft rifle at the building, authorities said. He then pulled out a bucket and dumped a liquid that ignited a fire, authorities said. He was subdued by federal agents and police officers moments later.   "Mr. Arrabaca came armed with bad intentions," said James Barnacle Jr., the assistant director in charge of the FBI's New York City Field Office. He noted that the building "has long been a target of extremists, of terrorists. And today the extremism was brought here."... Arrabaca shouted anti-ICE and anti-government statements during his arrest, authorities said. During an interview with investigators, he allegedly said he was targeting the building and that "he was okay if he hurt or killed people going in and out of the building, whether they were federal employees or civilians."  "Obviously, he is an anti-American, anti-government extremist," Barnacle said. "We know that from what he said."  One of the people injured was an immigrant who was at the building for a hearing. Barnacle said, which he described as "ironic, given Arrabaca's alleged hatred for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). "
Time to jail the "far right" for being violent

Sarah on X - "Whenever an ICE agent kills an illegal its immediate outrage by Democrats and we must abolish ICE. But when an Illegal kills an American citizen, which is almost every day, the Democrats are silent."

Rep. Pramila Jayapal on X - "I came to this country from India at 16 with nothing in my pockets. Now, I am proud to be a U.S. citizen and Member of Congress. This 4th of July, we celebrate America – a country that has always been and will always be a land of immigrants."
Project for Immigration Reform on X - "Jayapal attended a private international school in Jakarta where tuition today is $39,000 a year. The whole “arrived here with nothing in my pocket” narrative is a silly lie."

Libs of TikTok on X - "BREAKING: Minneapolis daycare owner featured in Nick Shirley’s video Fahima Egeh Mahamud, PLEADS GUILTY to over $4 million fraud scheme"
Ian Miller on X - "It’s funny, because I vividly remember when the Nick Shirley video came out that CNN called a few daycare owners who told them there was no fraud, and they pretty much declared it case closed. Wonder how they got that one wrong"

Leading Report on X - "Some Somali individuals have reportedly warned that if Somalis are deported from the U.S., “other Africans will leave with us in solidarity.”"

Disclose.tv on X - "JUST IN - Mexico's government to file criminal complaints in U.S. over Mexican citizens who died in immigration custody ⁠or while being targeted for detention — Reuters"
Wade Miller on X - "Turns out that Mexico believes that those illegally in our country are under the political jurisdiction of Mexico. Cc: SCOTUS"

Michael Knowles on X - "If your family settled Jamestown in 1607, you’re an invader with no claim to this stolen land. If your Chinese mom pops you out in Guam tomorrow, America is your birthright."

Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez on X - "I am the proud daughter of Guatemalan immigrants.

I am a proud “anchor baby.”

AND I AM AN AMERICAN!"
Libs of TikTok on X - "“I am a proud Guatemalan before I'm an American." - Anchor baby Rep Delia Ramirez. The perfect case for why birthright citizenship is a disaster"

Why do North and South American countries offer citizenship based on unrestricted Jus Soli (right of soil)? - "Cynical answer? It's to justify the suppression of native peoples by immigrant cultures and their largely European ruling classes. If they establish a right to residence based on ancestry, then they're giving native people rights senior to their own. And what self-respecting colonialist would ever do such a thing? Instead, you establish rights that favour your own interests at the expense of others'. And now that the native peoples are outnumbered by the immigrants and their descendants, you can further suppress native interests based on majority rule."
Ironic. Left wingers should be condemning birthright citizenship

Champions of the Ice on X - "The Amish didn't steal literally billions of dollars from programs meant to help autistic children like my daughter. The Amish don't commit murder at six times the rate of my people. In fact their homicide rate is functionally zero. The Amish do nothing but benefit the people they peacefully live alongside.  The Amish are worthy of being called Americans. Your pet savages are not."

Mark Mendlovitz on X - "One of the main reasons big corporations support amnesty is not just for cheap labor. They know amnesty recipients would be here to stay, remaining  or becoming customers for their products. It's so much easier to grow corporate profits by adding customers than fighting for market share."

Varad Mehta on X - "Watching MSNBC and it's clear not one of its hosts or talking heads will ever acknowledge that the immigration backlash was caused by Joe Biden's open borders policies."
Shipwreckedcrew on X - "And the laws being enforced were almost all passed by Congress in the 1990s and signed by Bill Clinton, when the Democrats said they were acting on behalf of workers losing jobs to illegal aliens, and the evil party was the businesses who exploited that illegal labor in order to suppress wages.  Now all these illegal aliens who do the same thing are suddenly the darlings of the progressives."
Left wingers still claim there were no open borders when the Biden administration literally demolished barriers so illegal immigrants could flood the country

Miatta Fahnbulleh's Political Career

Christian on X

Four men are in custody. £44 million is missing. And the woman who oversaw it all just got promoted to Energy Secretary. This is not politics. This is not incompetence. This is institutional decay wearing a ministerial red box. Miatta Fahnbulleh has failed upward through every level of British public life, leaving wreckage at each step, and now she holds your energy security in her hands while the Serious Fraud Office investigates the last scheme she touched. Stop calling it governance. Start seeing it for what it is: a protection racket where the connected destroy, confess, and climb. THE ARRESTS April 2026. The Serious Fraud Office raided offices across England. Four arrests. Three companies Warmfront, JJ Crump, South Coast Insulation Services accused of stealing £44 million from the ECO4 scheme. Falsified claims. Ghost installations. Vulnerable families left with damaged homes while contractors pocketed taxpayer cash. Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown called it what it was: a "charlatan's charter." Fahnbulleh didn't inherit this mess. She owned it. As Energy Consumer Minister, she was responsible for oversight. She admitted to Parliament it was "systemic failure" her own words after 30,000 homes had already been botched. After thousands of fraudulent claims had already been processed. After the damage was done. She promised monitoring. She promised repair. She promised Ofgem would contact victims. Then the SFO moved in. In any functioning society, a minister whose scheme triggered a £44 million fraud investigation would be finished. In Britain 2026, she gets promoted. THE PEDIGREE To understand how we got here, follow the bloodline. Miatta Fahnbulleh was born in Monrovia, Liberia, in 1979. Her father, Henry Boimah Fahnbulleh Jr., served as Foreign Minister to Samuel Doe the military dictator who seized power in a 1980 coup, executed the sitting president, and presided over mass killings and torture. Dad wasn't a prisoner. He was the regime's top diplomat for three years. Her brother? Named Gamal after Gamal Abdel Nasser, the Egyptian revolutionary who overthrew a monarchy and nationalized industries. Her grandfather? Convicted of treason in 1968 for plotting to overthrow the Liberian government. The pattern is not subtle. This is a family that serves regimes, plots revolutions, and names its children after insurrectionists. When the Doe regime turned on them in 1986, they fled to England and claimed asylum. The British state saved them. Forty years later, the daughter of a dictator's minister controls Britain's energy supply. She attended Beechwood Sacred Heart School fee-paying, Catholic, elite. Then Oxford. Then LSE. The socialist who demands wealth taxes enjoyed private education while prescribing comprehensive schooling for your children. But the credentials aren't the point. The ideology is. She calls herself a "heterodox economist." This is not modesty. It is a warning. She explicitly rejects free market economics. She embraces state intervention, public ownership, and radical redistribution. In 2019, she wrote in Foreign Affairs that Britain should hit Net Zero by 2034 eleven years to decarbonize an entire economy funded by "wealth taxes and extra borrowing." The Spectator was kind. They called it "posturing." It was delusion. As CEO of the New Economics Foundation described by critics as "far Left" and "anti-growth" she proposed a "rising block tariff" that would punish larger families and people with bigger homes. Industry sources called it "a truly, truly dreadful idea." Claire Coutinho, Shadow Energy Secretary, said Fahnbulleh had "drunk even more of the green lobby Kool-Aid than Ed Miliband." This is the woman now setting your energy bills. THE PATTERN Everywhere Fahnbulleh goes, systems collapse. The Constituency Ghost. Elected MP for Peckham in July 2024. Failed to open a constituency office for over a year. No surgeries. No face-to-face access. She blamed her £39,560 IPSA budget and "security prerequisites." Every other MP manages these constraints. She was too busy being a minister. Too busy plotting. The people of Peckham were an afterthought. The Winter Fuel Betrayal. September 2024. She voted to end universal winter fuel payments for pensioners. Previously, all elderly households received £200–£300 for energy bills. The new policy restricted payments to those on Pension Credit anyone earning over £218.15 per week was cut off. She voted for this in Peckham. One of London's most deprived areas. Sixty-four thousand elderly people in fuel poverty, represented by an MP who called the cut "tough" while drawing her ministerial salary. The Company. FAHNBULLEH LIMITED. Company number 07906000. Dissolved. She was director of a private company that vanished into the registry with no transparency, no explanation, no accountability. Just another shell in the portfolio of a woman who demands public ownership while obscuring her own financial interests. The Hypocrisy. January 2026. Nigel Farage raised concerns about illegal working in Turkish barbershops businesses that were literally being raided by immigration enforcement. Fahnbulleh accused him of "dog-whistle racism." The facts didn't matter. The optics did. This is her method: cry racism, ignore reality, advance the career. THE BLADE May 12, 2025. The day she showed her truest self. Fahnbulleh resigned from the government. Not over policy. Not over principle. She resigned to trigger a leadership crisis. She stood before cameras and demanded Starmer set a timetable for an "orderly transition." She said Labour had not governed with the "vision, pace and ambition that our mandate for change demands of us." She criticized the Prime Minister for "decisions that have eroded public trust." The statement was devastating because it was public. Calculated. Premeditated. Politico reported she "kick-started the rebellion that eventually brought him down." She fired the starting gun on Starmer's collapse. Then came the rehabilitation. Six weeks later, Andy Burnham her ally, her patron appointed her Housing Minister. July 2026, she was promoted to Energy Secretary. The woman who destroyed the last leader was rewarded with one of the great offices of state. This is not loyalty. This is not conviction. This is careerism so naked it should be indecent. THE NETWORK She is not alone. She is the product of a machine. The New Economics Foundation is part of the Fabian ecosystem. She contributed to Fabian Society publications, co-writing "The economic alternative" with Alfie Stirling in 2019. It called for transforming institutions to deliver a Green New Deal. It demanded state intervention in markets. The Fabian method is "permeation" inserting socialist ideas into every institution until they become the unquestioned default. She is the permeation made flesh. She is also the protégé of Ed Miliband. She served as his economics adviser during his failed leadership. Described as the "brains" behind his agenda. Now she serves under him again two failures propping each other up while the country pays the price. Guido Fawkes compiled her actual policy demands: wealth taxes, mass nationalisation of land/transport/energy, extending national insurance to investment income, caps on interest rates. This is not regulation. This is confiscation. The Scottish Tories know it. In July 2026, they wrote demanding she scrap the windfall tax and ditch Net Zero 2034, calling it "strategically mad." Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce demanded a "fresh approach" and approval for Jackdaw and Rosebank oil projects. She refused. She will always refuse. Because she does not serve the national interest. She serves an ideology. THE CONVERGENCE Now the threads meet. The daughter of a dictator's minister whose brother is named after a revolutionary, whose grandfather was convicted of treason now controls Britain's energy security. The "heterodox economist" who rejects markets now sets market policy. The minister who admitted "systemic failure" while 30,000 families lived with botched insulation now oversees the entire sector. The woman whose scheme triggered a £44 million SFO investigation now holds the red box. The MP who voted to strip winter fuel from pensioners in one of London's poorest constituencies now decides your winter heating costs. The traitor who triggered Starmer's downfall now sits in Cabinet. This is not coincidence. This is design. The British state is being captured by a network of ideologues who failed upward through institutional decay, who mistake their credentials for competence and their connections for mandate. THE QUESTION The father served a dictator who executed his predecessor. The daughter serves an ideology that would dismantle the economy that rescued her. Both are dangerous. Both leave wreckage. The SFO investigation is ongoing. The £44 million is gone. The botched insulation remains in 30,000 homes. The pensioners still shiver. And Miatta Fahnbulleh dissolved company director, constituency ghost, heterodox zealot, regicide now controls your energy security. The question is not who she is. The question is: how much more does she have to destroy before the system stops rewarding her?

 

Links - 25th July 2026 (1 - Zohran Mamdani)

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani on X - "It might be hot outside but the rent is freezing."
The Rational Animal 🤔 on X - "Yes, your rent is frozen. So is the landlord's budget to fix your heat, your leaks, and your broken freezer. But don't worry, when nothing works, at least the number on your lease stays the same. You can admire it while you eat out.  And the rent won't rise, true. Neither will any new buildings, because no one builds apartments he's forbidden to price. So enjoy the same aging unit for the next thirty years, paying yesterday's rent for tomorrow's ruins.  Freezing a price doesn't freeze reality. It freezes the supply, halts the repairs, and ends the building, while the line of people waiting for an apartment grows longer every year.  But feel the warmth of collectivism: everyone equal, shivering together in identical crumbling units, sharing the broken elevator and the dead freezer as one community.  The number stays the same. That was the promise, and that is all you'll get."

Meme - Ariele @PositivistWitchL "One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results"
kae making music!! @kaesepi: "EVERYONE DESERVES GOOD PEOPLE AS THEIR ELECTED OFFICIALS"
*Zohran Mamdani freezing rent*

Meme - Sean Fitzgerald (Actual Justice Warrior) @IamSean90: "Talking to a leftist about rent control is pointless. Point out that every study shows it decreases supply & quality of units due to owners not being able to afford basic maintenance, & they'll respond to this basic reality with. Um we passed another law making that illegal"
evan loves wort: "Landlords are required by law to provide those things"

Spencer Pratt on X - "The communist frames everything as victim vs oppressor, and they've cast tenants as victims, and housing providers as oppressors. Tenants can steal your property or trash it, costing the landlord hundreds of thousands of dollars, but commie government blocks them from recouping the costs, so apartments fall into disrepair and they'll just leave units empty instead of taking further risk by renting them out to unscrupulous tenants, which creates a phantom housing supply shortage.    I know it's tempting to demonize landlords when it's hard to pay your rent, but this idea that they're just greedy scoundrels is insane. Government is making it  impossible to provide housing. Rent freezes sound nice, but like all other commie "solutions" there are downstream consequences to the "free stuff" promises, and it puts society in a death spiral.   The problem is...for every 1 landlord, there's 30-100 tenants. So as far as voting blocs go, landlords are hopelessly outnumbered, they will always lose out, and their needs get crushed. Everyone loses.   Months ago, I wrote about the phantom housing crisis that these insane policies has created."

Libs of TikTok on X - "BREAKING: Mamdani vows to protect illegal alien Haitians and Syrians following SCOTUS ruling “To have people have their freedom put into Jeopardy by the actions of a Supreme Court and a federal administration… it’s something that we will not ever accept.”"
Hon. Vickie Paladino on X - "We are in the first stages of secession.  Mamdani considers New York an independent city-state, with it's own foreign policy, immigration policy, and economic policy. He does not recognize the legitimacy of the federal government or even the United States as a nation to any extent beyond that which his party can directly control or benefit from financially.  He does not talk about himself as an American, nor does he speak of New York as a component of the United States. Quite the opposite, in fact.   And aside from his official portraits, he is never voluntarily photographed with or around an American flag. And he is WAY too conscious of optics for that to be anything other than deliberate.  He (and the DSA with him) will use the power of this city to wage a soft civil war against the nation itself.  It is LONG PAST TIME for an appropriately severe reaction from the federal government. The Constitution is not a suicide pact. This is not politics, this is the enemy."

Open Source Intel on X - "NYC City Hall: NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani urges the U.S. to embrace Islamic values of immigration"
The Notorious S.E.B. on X - "The Saudis literally machine gun Ethiopian and Eritrean refugees at the border with Yemen. In Libya under both Ghaddafi and Haftar the government uses would be migrants to the EU as slave labor. Afghan refugees in Iran have no legal rights and were conscripted and sent to Syria"

Olivia Reingold on X - "Tuesday: ask Mamdani's comms team—why does Rama Duwaji appear to have a Spotify account with songs about greedy Jews and how “Israel gon’ die bitch”? Any comment? Wednesday: the account is totally shut down, made private"

Yehuda Teitelbaum on X - "Zohran Mamdani just endorsed Darializa Avila Chevalier for Congress. On October 8th, 2023, while Jews were still being slaughtered, raped, kidnapped, and hunted across southern Israel, she attended the "All Out For Palestine" rally in NYC. Some clips:"
Guy Benson on X - "“Who is the terrorist? The United States of America!” This is Mamdani’s endorsed candidate for Congress, as the October 2023 Hamas massacre that killed dozens of American citizens was still unfolding. Understand what is happening here. There is no chance he’s not aware of this. He knows. He supports it. He literally endorses it. Mamdani himself was arrested protesting at Chuck Schumer’s house just days after 10/7, preemptively opposing the Jewish state’s response to the slaughter through disorderly conduct outside a prominent Jew’s home. This is who he is."

Miranda Devine on X - "Mamdani victim Thomas Diana is not a fat cat landlord. He's a construction worker from Queens who toiled hard all his life and planned to retire on the proceeds of a run down 8-unit building that he fixed up himself at night over years. He always took care of his tenants and now he's being taken for a ride by a 9-year squatter, NYC is treating him like the bad guy. I told his story last week: https://nypost.com/2026/05/27/opi"

WestHarlm on X - "The worst kind of socialists are fake socialists. Mamdani is a fake socialist. Socialism for thee, but not for me. Our former mayor Adams lost his political career after accepting a free upgrade on a flight to Turkey. Our new mayor was in a luxury box at the World Cup today. He also paid $1k for a Knicks ticket last week. The cheapest seat available to normal people from the time Mamdani bought his ticket, to the start of the game was $4k on the secondary market. Mamdani's ticket was sold directly by the Knicks organization to him at a special rate reserved for 'friends of the Knicks.' The mayor purchasing that ticket was illegal...and that is not debatable. Further investigation is needed to determine whether the Mamdani received preferential treatment at today's soccer match. Given that Governor Hochul was seated next to him, it is difficult to imagine they didn't receive discounted tickets not available to the general public."

Joseph Hernandez on X - "Looks like the alleged misconduct of Mayor @ZohranKMamdani ’s hand-picked schools chancellor has gotten so bad it now troubles even Mamdani himself. The current DOE Chancellor stands accused of deliberately splitting payments to dodge the $25,000 competitive-bidding threshold, the exact kind of contract games a watchdog exists to catch. A Manhattan attorney has already told the press it could rise to the level of criminal charges. So who’s reportedly being floated to clean it up? Meisha Ross Porter, the former chancellor who left the DOE to run the Bronx Community Foundation, a nonprofit that, under her leadership, failed to distribute most of the money it raised and spent more on consultants and overhead than on actual charitable giving. Her own board fired her in 2024. A chancellor under a contracting cloud, replaced by an executive fired for failing to manage donated dollars. In a city of 8 million people, why can’t Mamdani find one honest, common-sense chancellor? Here’s my reminder to everyone involved at Tweed: come January 1, 2027, the State Comptroller’s office will audit the NYC Department of Education top to bottom. And in New York, fraud carries a 5-year statute of limitations. To anyone who treated taxpayer dollars like their own piggy bank, don’t go far. The abuse of New York’s taxpayers ends the day I’m sworn in."

Sam E. Antar on X - "Zohran Mamdani loves talking about AIPAC, “dark money,” and “monsters” while invoking antisemitic tropes. Fine. Let’s talk about his dark money funding. My investigation traced a charitable-to-political conversion pipeline involving organizations funded through George Soros’s tax-exempt network. Tax-deductible charitable dollars flowed through nonprofits and ultimately reached organizations that became politically active. 🔥Eight of those organizations went on to endorse Mamdani. Full investigation with evidence traced to sources documents signed by the parties involved: 🔗"

I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 on X - "Thousands of Muslims shut down NYC streets with blood-drenched donkeys, men beating their chests, and public displays honoring martyrdom. This is Father’s Day in NYC. Very Western and progressive, right?"
Hon. Vickie Paladino on X - "Imagine if we had an evangelical Christian mayor, and almost every week after his election public parks and city streets were taken over for massive Jesus revivals, complete with crowds of worshippers, giant crosses, and Christian prayers and revival music blared from loudspeakers, with the mayor himself even attending some of these takeovers personally. Imagine the absolute meltdown the press would be in. Imagine the dire lectures about the separation of church and state we’d all be enduring from Democrat politicians and civil rights groups. Imagine the boiling outrage from the average New York City liberal. Frankly I doubt it could happen more than once or twice before the injunctions were handed down and the mayor was sued personally by the ACLU. Not to mention the leftist militants that would mobilize to disrupt the events. Yet none of that is happening to the Muslims. Very odd, isn’t it?"

🇺🇸 Jason Curtis Anderson on X - "Zohran his whole life: “Israel is evil”
Zohran campaigning: “why do you keep asking me about Israel? My interests are to serve the City of New York. These questions are racist.”
Zohran as Mayor: “AIPAC are monsters.”"
Of course there're still terrorism supporters who criticise him for supporting "Zionists", or even of being one himself

Yehuda Teitelbaum on X - "Mamdani playbook:
Step 1: Constantly talk about a conflict 5,000 miles away and endorse candidates whose entire political identity revolves around that one issue.
Step 2: Say something totally unhinged about Israel for the 1000th time.
Step 3: When reporters ask you to explain your comment, suddenly insist that you're "too focused on NYC" to answer.""

Yehuda Teitelbaum on X - "🚨 In the midst of doubling down on his insane AIPAC rant earlier this week, Zohran Mamdani cited Hamas operative Ahmed Wishah as an innocent Al Jazeera "journalist" killed by Israel. We're talking about a man praised as a mujahid by Palestinian accounts, who posted photos of himself with weapons, and who was identified by Israel as a Hamas operative involved in sniper attacks. How much does this man hate Jews? Enough to stand in front of cameras and lie through his teeth. The craziest part is that unless the @nypost happens to pick this up, most New Yorkers will never hear about it. Absolutely disgraceful."
And if the New York Post picks it up, left wingers will just dismiss it

Ryan James Girdusky on X - "A fundamental problem for NYC is that nearly a third of the working-population works either for the govt. or a govt. supported non-profit and another quarter lives on welfare. Pensioners add 350k more to the rolls. So you need new income streams to maintain the city’s bloated budget. Urban planners and politicians target car owners because in NYC, it’s a minority population with no political capital. Mamdani is exploring another way to squeeze the minority of people in the city who generate wealth and jobs to sustain the millions living off the government. Completely unsustainable."

Dr. Maalouf ‏ on X - "Zohran Mamdani now holds the lowest approval rating and the highest unfavorable rating of any recent New York mayor at this point in their term."
Sam E. Antar on X - "Mamdani will find a way to blame Israel, AIPAC, and the Jews for his low rating."

Magdi Jacobs on X - "I don't really believe that Mamdani deserves the benefit of the doubt on antisemitism anymore, but, for the sake of argument, let's give it to him. Let's say he is naïve. This rhetoric is dangerous. It objectively sounds like it could be from the early 1930s. He needs to stop. The phrase "AIPAC" is, linguistically, politically, and socially being used as a substitute for "International Jewish Power." You don't have to defend or like the organization to acknowledge this linguistic use. The idea that Jews are involved in a shadowy effort to turn other members of society (gentiles) against one another is present in the Protocols of Zion. Protocol No. 3 describes a deliberate strategy of using "the hands of the left and the right"--liberal and conservative forces--as instruments to be played against each other, with Jewish power holding the strings of both. In Mein Kampf, Hitler claims that Jews infiltrate labor movements and capitalist institutions simultaneously, specifically to keep workers and owners at each other's throats. Hitler argues that the the unity of the German people is the one thing Jews are seeking to prevent. Joseph Goebbels--Hitler's Minister of Propaganda--repeatedly employed the trope of Jews turning other members of society against one another. Here Mamdani--knowingly or not--is employing a template: [shadowy they] keep [the people] divided so [the people] never unite against [them]. This is dangerous rhetoric, whether he means it or not. If he truly is naïve, I suggest he take the concerns of Jews more seriously. Personally, it's hard for me to believe he is naïve. He is a very smart, educated man. I think he does know what he's doing. We'll see if he keeps doing it."

Conor Friedersdorf on X - "Do his pretty words lower prices for anyone? Do they increase housing supply? Reduce homelessness? Make the subways safer? Why are fans of charismatic politicians, across the ideological spectrum, such easy marks?"
Daniel Friedman on X - "As someone who despises Zohran, the truth is, he doesn’t actually have to do anything to succeed. The New York City government is a vast bureaucracy that will function without his involvement. All he has to do is let it. He has done nothing for six months but make YouTube videos and post pictures of himself on Instagram. He has been focused for half of his mayoralty so far on boosting DSA congressional candidates. His supporters absolutely, unabashedly believe that he has taxed the rich, cut the rent, and made New York affordable. Even the ones who are living here, whose rent and grocery bills have not gone down believe he has done these things. This guy doesn’t need policy wins. He can take over the Democratic Party with YouTube videos. Gavin Newsom has presided over debacle after debacle as governor of California, and he’s still the Democratic frontrunner because he looks good on television. Nothing matters except vibes."

Sam E. Antar on X - "For a Knicks parade, Mamdani can find 10,000 NYPD officers and call it “appropriate.” But when New Yorkers want public July 4 / America 250 celebrations, suddenly it’s “staffing shortages” and “resource constraints.” Apparently the NYPD is oppressive until there’s a trophy involved. Then it’s crowd management."

Zohran Mamdani, Slumlord - WSJ - "New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani last month issued a housing plan that calls for building more—what else?—public housing. So it’s startling to hear even some progressive elected officials complain about the appalling conditions at the city’s existing housing projects. New York Attorney General Letitia James, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso and New York City Council member Crystal Hudson on Monday issued a press release condemning a months-long natural gas outage at a New York City Housing Authority (Nycha) complex in Brooklyn. This “is unacceptable. Without gas service, a simple but essential home-cooked meal becomes much more difficult,” they aver. Tenants “deserve to live in dignity with basic necessities like working stoves and ovens.”  Yes, they do. Perhaps the Democratic leaders could file a complaint with the city about this slumlord. Oh wait—the city is the slumlord. And a months-long gas outage isn’t unusual in Nycha building. Tenants regularly endure leaky pipes, mold, rodent infestations and furnace breakdowns. Perhaps Mr. Mamdani considers this “the warmth of collectivism.” Nycha says it needs $78 billion to bring every apartment up to standard. That’s $439,275 per unit, which is about as much as the cost of a home in most parts of America, and it’s the bill that adds up when the city delays maintenance so it can spend money instead on union pensions and more social welfare. While Nycha apartments fall deeper into disrepair, Mr. Mamdani last month proposed that the agency finance new housing projects across the city. Just what the city doesn’t need.  His plan would require construction workers on these projects to be paid at least $40 an hour in wages and benefits. Such wage mandates are why it cost Nycha $1,973 per apartment to install LED lights, as we wrote several years ago—and why the agency’s backlog of repairs is taller than the Empire State building. Mr. Mamdani hilariously proposes in his housing plan an “economic mobility program” to train Nycha tenants to “launch home-based childcare businesses,” which would be subsidized by the city. The program would guide tenants through “health and safety compliance.” Will the filthy apartments without heat pass city inspection?  Mr. Reynoso and other Democrats running for Congress have made Nycha a campaign issue. Most have called for more federal funding, though Washington already covers two-thirds of Nycha’s operating budget. Rep. Adriano Espaillat wants the feds to divert money from immigration enforcement to Nycha. Meantime, his Mamdani-backed primary opponent, Darializa Avila Chevalier, has endorsed legislation by Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that would spend hundreds of billions of dollars to eliminate CO2 emissions from public housing. New York City has found a cheaper way to do that: Neglect buildings, and voila, gas emissions gone."
Left wingers were complaining about this article without addressing the argument, naturally
Left wingers keep condemning landlords and calling for more public housing, ignoring the fact that public housing often has a very poor record - sometimes worse than the "slumlords" they want to guillotine
Left wingers demand the government build more things, but also high wages and lots of regulation, because they think everything can be paid for by "taxing the 'rich'" and they want unlimited social spending

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani on X - "Happy Venezuelan Independence Day to everyone celebrating across New York City.  Today, we honor Venezuela's long struggle for self-determination, the generations of people who have carried that history with them to our city, and Venezuelans around the world who are still reckoning with the tragic aftermath of this devastating earthquake.  Our hearts are with our Venezuelan brothers and sisters during this moment of celebration and struggle.   ¡Feliz Día de la Independencia! 🇻🇪"
Common Sense Extremists on X - "Notice he has a more positive Independence Day message for a foreign country than for the one that took him in and gave him citizenship?"

Libby Emmons on X - "How can Mamdani possibly think a nation that welcomed him at 7-years-old, granted him citizenship at 28, and elected him mayor of the greatest city we have is racist and anti-immigrant? He didn't buck the odds, he just took advantage of the vast opportunity America offers."
Auron MacIntyre on X - "He doesn't care about the logic, it's an exuse for stealing your stuff and taking your country You don't try to convince foreign invaders, you expel them or you lose We don't understand the nature of the fight but he does Mamdani is declaring a simple truth : Vae Victis"

Fox News on X - "JUST IN: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani used America’s 250th anniversary to sharply criticize the country, accusing the U.S. of allowing children to go hungry while billionaires and “oligarchs” gain more power.  He said America’s wealth was built by working people with “calloused, dirt-streaked hands" while accusing the country of allowing the wealth built by workers to be concentrated in “the soft hands of a precious few.”"

Adam Milstein on X - "Even Mamdani’s Independence Day comments insinuate that he hates everything about America. The main premise of his comments were that everything in America can change. Someone get this man out of office. What a joke."
Naturally, he trots out the tired line that when left wingers hate their countries, they are being patriotic because dissent is patriotic. Of course, this only applies to left wing critics of right wing governments

Jews Fight Back 🇺🇸🇮🇱 on X - "America turned 250 and the First Lady of New York City bounced to Spain for an “Islamic wellness retreat.” The disrespect is the point."

City Journal on X - "REPORTER: "Recent reporting shows the international commissioner, Ana María Archila, was trying to meet with Iran's ambassador."
MAMDANI: "That meeting did not take place, will not take place, & I did not know about it until there was a press inquiry.""
David Marcus on X - "So the mayor’s international commissioner tried to set up a meeting with the ambassador of a nation we are at war with, without telling him, and she hasn’t been fired? Or, like, arrested?"

Av Michal אביגיל מיכל on X - "Holy shit. Mamdani’s wife’s Muslim lady retreat refers to Spain as Al Andalus and Sicily as the emirate of Sicily lol. And she calls the one tiny Jewish state that just wants to be left alone a “colonizer” 😂 be so for real"

The Italian American Civil Rights League on X - "Zohran Mamdani wants to ERASE Italian Americans. First, he denied our permit for Unity Day 2026. Now, he is excluding Little Italy as a recognized location all together on the map. Italian Americans BUILT NEW YORK CITY. Not third world Ugandans, We stand AGAINST COMMUNISTS!"

Trisha Posner on X - "There’s been plenty of chatter on X about how Mayor Mamdani’s “immigrant neighborhoods” map conveniently omitted Italian and Irish enclaves. Guess who else got erased? The 10-12% of New Yorkers who are Jewish. Yet somehow “Little Egypt” and “Little Palestine” made the cut.  Sorry, @NYCMayor you won’t get rid of us that easily. Jews built this city too."

Links - 24th July 2026 (2 - Mark Carney)

Barbara Bal on X - "🤯 The Canadian government isn’t even sitting down with the Americans to talk CUSMA:  “There’s been a three-and-a-half month lag, I would say, between dialogue between the two countries, dating back to sort of the end of October.” - MP @jamiljivani  (after his trip to Washington)    @USAmbCanada  Pete Hoeskstra was even more direct (in his recent interview with Jasmin Laine):   “… there have been no ‘substantive’ talks with Canada since October.” @JasminLaine_    Why purposely neglect our most critical trade deal with the country we share the largest border in the world?  This isn’t incompetence. This is by design.  “I believe the progress that we have made in the partnership sets us up well for the new world order.” - PM Mark Carney (in Beijing)  And his wife Diana Fox Carney at the Liberal convention:  “Canada… is helping shape a new world order.”  They’re not even hiding it anymore.  This government is actively trying to build a “new world order” that sidelines our closest ally and biggest trading partner.  This is actually insane."

cbcwatcher on X - ""It’s highly unlikely Mark Carney will follow the same political fate as Britain’s Keir Starmer because, unlike Starmer, Carney is safely ensconced in the Media Protection Program by the major media outlets he finances.  In the U.K., much of the media are self-sustaining, financially independent. They have been hammering Starmer’s terrible governance.  Also, Carney has the luxury of having control over the federal courts and the Senate that Justin Trudeau loaded up with loyal Liberals.""

Chris Warkentin on X - "Last week I was asking a journalist (who works for a major Canadian media outlet) about this.    This journalist agreed that Media in Canada had largely quit covering any opposing viewpoints to the government.   This journalist speculated that it happed during Covid.  They had become stenographers for the government, believing that they had a moral duty to get the “government’s” information out…..and they never quit.   Maybe that’s true.  Maybe it’s as simple as that (as horrifying as that is)….but I suspect it’s even worse.  There are vested interests that don’t want the Liberals to ever lose power.  In an free and democratic society the media has a responsibility to question the government and hold them accountable.   Canadians deserve no less."

Carney's Mideast policy is completely detached from reality - "On May 7, Prime Minister Mark Carney picked up the phone and called Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.  As Carney suggested in an X post, accompanied by a photo of him looking at a telephone sitting on a desk, he expressed all manner of criticism of Israel and its conduct, while positively gushing over various unspecified measures taken by the Palestinian Authority... Abbas is in the 21st year of a four-year term as president. He has had more than ample opportunity to implement all manner of reforms.  By any measure, the Palestinian Authority (PA) is repressive, particularly when it comes to gender and LGBT rights, issues that have long formed the cornerstone of Liberal foreign policy.  In the readout, Carney lauds measures that “strengthen accountability, governance and democratic institutions.” Exactly what he is referring to is very unclear. Abbas has not implemented any meaningful democratic reforms since his last phone call with Carney in July 2025; nor, frankly, since he was elected in 2005... “The Palestinian Authority continues to advance elements of a UN‑supported reform agenda focused on social protection, education-sector adjustments and improvements to transparency and service delivery.”  The PCO also referenced steps the PA has taken to “establish a new social welfare system” and develop “new education materials.” Asked to provide particulars regarding the “UN-supported agenda,” the PCO refused to provide further information and suggested contacting the United Nations. At best, this is a peculiar response. Any such “agenda” would, presumably, be available upon request, as a matter of institutional accountability.  Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs was unaware of any such “UN-supported agenda” when asked about the Canadian government’s response.  Even so, any reforms that have been implemented by the PA have been perfunctory, at best. Its new welfare system has been criticized by the United States and Israel for continuing to pay the families of terrorists — a program referred to as “pay for slay.” Palestinians who attack Israelis are rewarded with a lifetime salary. If they are killed or imprisoned, their families are the beneficiaries of PA largesse. Israel and many western countries regard this as a reward for terrorism.  Regarding the PA school curriculum, which is extremely antisemitic and anti-Israel, the European Parliament has condemned the PA for continuing to use such textbooks. The Carney-Abbas phone call was picked up by the PA-controlled WAFA news agency, which published a lengthy, glowing report of the exchange...  Since becoming prime minister, Carney has been diligent in lacerating Israel for all manner of real and imagined transgressions, while scrupulously and uncritically praising Abbas. He has not spoken to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once since he was elected. There has been almost no direct contact between Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar and Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand. And the icy relations are apparent.  Such conduct is consistent with Carney’s approach to Israel in general. Think what you want of his policy intuition and management, but directly antagonizing, or refusing to meet with, world leaders — be it U.S. President Donald Trump or Netanyahu — is not a brilliant strategy.  Carney also recently reached out to the president of Lebanon, which he used as another opportunity to condemn Israel and what he termed its “illegal invasion” of southern Lebanon.  Again, it’s difficult to overstate how ignorant and biased this comment is. Illegal invasion? Carney is referring, of course, to Israel entering Lebanon to do what the Lebanese army has failed to do: disarm Hezbollah.  He is silent about the fact that on Oct. 8, 2023, Hezbollah began attacking civilians in northern Israel with rockets and missiles. It then broke a ceasefire when it resumed its attacks at the start of the war with Iran.  Carney makes no mention of Hezbollah’s de facto occupation and destruction of southern Lebanon, which has been decried by Lebanon’s leadership repeatedly and vehemently.  Nor does he seem to think it significant that Hezbollah has built a web of tunnels for the sole purpose of attacking Israel.  In light of his conduct, a charitable assumption is that Carney is unaware of the November 2024 agreement between Israel and Lebanon, in which Lebanon accepted responsibility for disarming Hezbollah.  Perhaps a rebuke of the Lebanese government — or Iran’s proxy, Hezbollah — might have been more appropriate. But that’s not how Carney rolls.  What his fumbling efforts at diplomacy make clear is that he truly sees himself as a transformative figure who is leading the move towards the creation of a “new world order,” a rather grand proclamation he has made repeatedly in recent months.   Upon attending the European Political Community Summit in Armenia recently, Carney posted a frenetic video collage of him working rooms and shaking hands, boasting that this was the first time a non-European country has participated in the event. The mere fact of his presence, he suggests, is somehow significant — groundbreaking, even.   Carney is openly obsessed with the notion of Canada being more European than North American. He suggests that our values and ways are more aligned with the United Kingdom and continental Europe than the United States and Mexico.   Geography, however, is immutable. And no matter how visionary the prime minister may be, he cannot alter that fixed reality. Being part of an enormous, contiguous land mass will always be a defining feature of Canadian trade and foreign policy. Willing it otherwise is a vainglorious indulgence. Carney has demonstrated consistently that he has less than no understanding of the geopolitical realities — not just in North America, but also in the Middle East. The truth is that there is not a single country in the Middle East that gives a toss about what Canada says, thinks or does. His key allies in the region seem to be the Palestinian Authority and Qatar. Canadian values, eh?  We used to have a reputation for being honourable and straight as an arrow. But not any longer. And for good reason: we appear to be detached from reality."

CarneyWatch.ca — Tracking Mark Carney's Broken Promises & Flip-Flops
This is pretty comprehensive, with sections on fiscal discipline/fiscal sustainability, Brookfield, the "sovereign wealth fund" (i.e. sovereign debt fund), China's human rights violations, broken promises (with exact quotes), policy reversals (with dates), conflict of interest, coverups and floor crossings. "All claims are sourced from publicly available statements, parliamentary records, and credible Canadian media."

The easy fixes Carney isn't doing | National Post - "Repealing the industrial carbon tax... it will slow down the economy just enough to equal $1,730 in lost income per employed Canadian by 2030... businesses are indeed citing it as something that is scaring away investment.  Just this week, Cenovus Energy CEO Jon McKenzie told a conference outside Montreal that no other oil-producing nation maintains a similar tax, so rather than its intended purpose of incentivizing decarbonization, it “incents industry to invest outside of Canada.”  “We have created a set of national policies and regulations that make resource development and investment in Canada uncompetitive with the rest of the world,” he said.
Repealing the tanker ban
Right now, it is illegal to sail an oil tanker into the one stretch of Canadian coastline where it would be most profitable to establish an oil export port... The Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline, cancelled in 2016, had been planned to end in Kitimat, B.C.  If Northern Gateway had been built on schedule, it would currently be exporting 525,000 barrels of oil per day. Which, at today’s elevated oil prices, is about $44 million worth.  All the while, the tanker ban has very specifically been cited as the reason no other company has stepped up to build a pipeline to the Northwest Coast...
Streamlining regulatory approvals
Whether they refer to it as “red tape” or “uncertainty,” there is relatively universal accord among the business world that getting something approved in Canada is exponentially more difficult than in other jurisdictions, most notably the U.S.  When TD Bank drafted up a policy paper last October on Canada’s worst “barriers” to investment, they ranked “regulatory reform” right alongside high taxes.  For years, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce has listed “regulatory reform” as one of its chief policy goals. “Canada’s regulatory environment has become a collection of complicated, overlapping and inefficient sets of rules that permeate nearly every aspect of how business is conducted,” reads their most recent position statement.  “Cutting red tape” is a pretty broad term. But a 2023 memo by the Business Council of Canada outlined some of the easier fixes to what it called Canada’s “slow and burdensome” approvals process.  One of the easiest was “expedite processes for brownfield sites.” If a mine or nuclear plant wants to expand its existing operations, it actually faces more red tape as a “brownfield site” than if it was starting an entirely new project on a “greenfield site.”  Another, which has become particularly relevant in recent months, was to “clarify the requirements for Indigenous consent of projects.”  In B.C. in particular right now, business investment has been thrown into a holding pattern by uncertainty over DRIPA, a provincial law that effectively prioritizes Aboriginal rights over all other regulatory processes. A just-released survey by the Business Council of B.C. found that 74 per cent of their members were cutting back investment because of it.  But so far, the Carney government’s only real progress on the issue of regulatory reform was last year’s passage of the Building Canada Act. The bill very specifically did not solve the underlying issue of overregulation.  Rather, it simply established a means by which select “major projects” could be declared exempt from federal regulations. Everyone else, meanwhile, must continue to face the machinations of the existing regime.
Canadian tax policy is still lagging...
In a 2025 KPMG poll of Canadians business leaders, in fact, they ranked “comprehensive tax review” just behind “removing trade barriers” in terms of the policy actions most likely to spur new business...  in terms of the top marginal tax rate on personal income, Canadians are one of the most-taxed on Earth at 53.5 per cent, with OECD data showing that only Japan, Denmark, France and Austria are higher.  As to what taxes to reform, a 2025 report by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business provided a few examples that would at least get Canada’s tax burden in line with that of the U.S. Among them, lower corporate taxes and payroll taxes."
Meanwhile, many left wingers are denouncing him as a "conservative", because they won't rest until the country has been destroyed
Clearly, private companies not building pipelines shows that it's unprofitable, and the free market has spoken and there's nothing the government can or should do

cbcwatcher on X - "Carney is asked over and over about transnational repression
Answer to the Globe - "vigilance" but it is before the courts
Answer to National Post - Snark Carney brushes off an "not for quotation" quote
Answer to CTV - It would be a breach of my security clearance...
With all the babble and word salad of classic Carney answers... @markjcarney"
G.M. Forbes on X - "Wait. So the Liberals have spent the last 2+ years hammering Poilievre over security clearance. Poilievre says if he got it he wouldn't be allowed to talk about issues. Liberals claimed he's lying. Now Carney invokes his security clearance as why he can't answer a question? 😂"
Meme - G.M. Forbes @gmforbes35: "To all the Liberal twats commenting here claiming Carney did not invoke his security clearance as a reason he can't answer even basic questions on Indian interference, even Trudeau PMO member and staunch Liberal Supriya roasted him."
Supriya Dwivedi @supriyadwivedi: "Imaoo I was wondering how long it would take before the CPC picked up on this (and they're right to do so, PMMC singlehandedly blew apart the argument for Poilievre needing to get his clearance when he used his own to make an excuse as to why he can't answer basic questions)"
Rick Perkins @RickPerkinsCPC: "Carney claims his security clearance keeps him from answering questions on India's political interference. Hmm guess Pierre was right about it."

Sean Speer on X - "Canada’s future isn’t European
This week, Prime Minister Carney announced that he’ll soon travel to Europe to attend a major continental summit as its first ever non-European attendee. The trip is occurring against a backdrop of growing discussion about Canada reorienting its trade and security relations towards Europe or even considering some form of formal integration with the European Union.  Notwithstanding our ongoing challenges with the Trump administration, the notion that Canada’s future rests with Europe is flawed to say the least.  Start with the sociology. Canada isn’t a European country that drifted west. It’s a North American country built, in large part, by people who self-selected out of Europe. They exited rigid class structures, slower growth, and limited opportunity in search of something more dynamic and meritocratic. They were in short North American egalitarians.  It’s not a big surprise, then, that over time, Canada has converged far more with the United States than with Europe in its economic structure, labour markets, and entrepreneurial culture. The results are visible in the data: Canada’s per capita income is materially closer to the United States than to the European Union average—and higher than most major European economies. Why would we want to go back?  The second problem is economic. Europe’s model of high taxes, heavy regulation, and expansive welfare states has come with trade-offs in growth, investment, and innovation. Over the past two decades, Europe has lagged the U.S. in productivity and technological leadership. There’s a reason the world’s leading technology firms are overwhelmingly American.  The same pattern is emerging in artificial intelligence: frontier firms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind are setting the pace, while Europe has largely positioned itself as a regulatory player—writing rules for technologies it doesn’t lead.  Two things can be true at once. President Trump has been belligerent and counterproductive in his approach to Canada. Canadians are right to be angry. But we cannot let emotion cause us to lose who we are. The answer to a difficult American partner isn’t to abandon the North American economic model that has underpinned Canada’s own prosperity.  Put bluntly: Canada’s long-term interests lie in growth, openness, and integration, not in retreating toward a slower-growing, more statist European model that’s already failing to deliver wealth and opportunity for its citizens."

Sean Speer on X - "The paradox of Carney’s technocratic politics  Prime Minister Carney’s newly announced Canada Strong Fund is more than just another policy initiative. It may be the clearest expression yet of his governing philosophy.  The proposed sovereign wealth fund builds on a growing roster of new quasi-independent public bodies, including the Build Canada Homes agency, the Defence Investment Agency, and the Major Project Office. Together, they point to a distinct model of governance: move key government decision-making out of ordinary politics and into specialized institutions staffed by experts, financiers, and appointed managers.  At one level, the appeal is obvious. Democratic politics can be messy, short-term, and suboptimal. The insights of Public Choice economists like James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock are everywhere around us. Why then not create professionally managed bodies insulated from partisan pressures and task them with deploying public capital to catalyse private investment?  The problem is that Carney’s technocratic model has a far less impressive record than he assumes.  For one thing, these agencies are rarely as independent as advertised. Governments create them, appoint their leadership, define their mandates, and inevitably lean on them when political priorities arise.   As the Quebec Inc. model has consistently demonstrated, the result is often the worst of both worlds: less direct accountability combined with continuing political influence.  Second, such institutions concentrate risk in ways markets generally avoid. A decentralized economy spreads decisions across thousands of investors, entrepreneurs, and firms. Some fail, some succeed, and the system learns through competition.  By contrast, government-led investment bodies centralize judgments about sectors, firms, technologies, and priorities. Governments can end up heavily backing the wrong battery technology, overpaying to subsidize politically fashionable sectors, or steering capital toward projects that looked promising in Ottawa boardrooms but cannot compete commercially. When private investors make bad bets, losses are dispersed. When the state makes them at scale, taxpayers are stuck with the downside.  Third, there’s a democratic deficit here that shouldn’t be dismissed. Handing discretionary authority over billions of dollars of public funds to unelected officials sits uneasily with a system built on ministerial responsibility and parliamentary accountability. Canadians don’t vote for sovereign wealth fund managers.  But there’s also a simpler problem: time.  Even on its own terms, the Canada Strong Fund is unlikely to matter anytime soon. It will require legislation, governance structures, executive appointments, staffing, program design, and operating capacity. Optimistically, we’re looking at many months. More realistically, years.  Yet as the fiscal update showed, Canada’s growth challenge is immediate. GDP growth is set to be barely 1 percent this year and less than 2 percent annually in the coming years. There are policy tools available right now—tax reform, regulatory streamlining, and faster project approvals—that could begin improving conditions far sooner.  This is the paradox of technocratic politics. In trying to bypass ordinary democratic politics, it often ends up bypassing the fastest and most effective tools government already has."

Ethics report is calling on Carney to sell his assets. It won’t happen - "Lots of ink has been spilled this past year about the quandary of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s sprawling past business dealings, significant investments and his many potential conflicts of interest, and a parliamentary committee unveiled some possible solutions this week.  Yet, most of these solutions are very unlikely to see the light of day.  The House standing committee on access to information, privacy and ethics unveiled its review of the Conflict of Interest Act on Thursday. It contains 20 recommendations to further strengthen the law, many of which are specifically tailored to deal with Carney’s minefield of potential conflicts given his role in setting policy and regulation that will affect businesses and markets in which he could have an interest.  The chair of the committee, Conservative MP John Brassard, said most members agreed there should be more stringent rules for the position of prime minister compared to other MPs, “because individuals with greater decision-making authority should be held and must be held to higher standards.” The recommendations were supported by the Conservative and Bloc Québécois MPs, which for the moment form a majority of members on the committee. The Liberal members co-signed a dissenting report, which essentially rejects the committee’s recommendations...  The committee is calling on the government to amend the Conflict of Interest Act to require anyone who holds the position of prime minister of Canada to sell all assets he or she controls within 60 days of assuming office... The report says that the law should be amended to ensure that “the prime minister, as a reporting public office holder, is fully divested from their controlled assets through sale, since placement in a blind trust does not constitute true divestment.”  The clerk of the Privy Council, Michael Sabia, one of two senior aides managing Carney’s extensive conflict-of-interest screen of over 100 corporate entities, told the committee he himself decided to sell his Brookfield shares to “better manage” the prime minister’s screen...  Government House Leader Steven MacKinnon has also vowed to change House of Commons committee composition to reflect the new Liberal majority, which Conservatives say will ensure less oversight of government operations and potential ethical concerns.  “I’ll remind everybody that these committees with a majority of membership held by the opposition, including the chair, were the ones that exposed the ArriveCAN situation. We are the ones that exposed the Winnipeg labs situation,” said ethics chair John Brassard, referring to the scandal of runaway spending on a traveller’s digital app and Chinese spying at a national research institute that had been kept from the public.  “Without a majority on those committees, it will limit and handcuff the ability to expose corruption, to expose cronyism, to expose the type of scandals that we’ve seen in the past.”"

More than one in 10 Canadians below the poverty line as incomes slip: StatCan : r/PersonalFinanceCanada - "Meanwhile PM said in Parliament: "affordability is the best it's been in a decade""

The Carney rule: If you find a dollar, spend it - "I always head to the summary table that, in numbers only, shows: what the past document planned, what the economy has done to the plan, what measures were taken between the past document and now and, finally, what the current document does. It’s a good logical way to go about the problem: past plan, effects of events, intervening measures taken, this plan. When you see where the big numbers are you can then dive into the oleaginous muck and try to find out what’s going on... Over the past couple of decades this crucial table has drifted toward the rear of the document, even into the appendices. This year it’s Table 1 and it’s in the second introductory chapter, the “Economic and Fiscal Overview” (on p. 48, if you’re following along). Good for the government! — though it could have dispensed with the first introductory chapter, “Canada Strong for All,” which is pure PowerPoint puffery.  There are only two numbered chapters in what looks like it’s trying to be a Three Musketeers update. Chapter 1 is titled “Building Canada: All for Canada,” while Chapter 2 is “Benefitting Canadians: A Canada for All.” Get it? All for Canada and Canada for all! I wonder if there was discussion among the editors about whether reference to Alexandre Dumas’ 1844 classic buddies adventure was too male-centric. We do still get little boxes scattered throughout the update — “gender and diversity impacts spotlights,” they’re called — that detail the identity-politics implications of various update measures. Justin Trudeau haunts us still. You can’t help but think that if Mark Carney had not come along to save the Liberal party, we’d now be rid of such performative nonsense. Trudeau’s influence is not just thematic, however. Judging from Table 1, it seems Carney’s fiscal rule is exactly the same as his predecessor’s: if you find a dollar, spend it.  Before update day Carney teased in interviews that good news was coming. The good news is in line two of Table 1: “Economic and fiscal developments since Budget 2025.” The developments have been very good: In the current fiscal year and the three that follow, the government has $42.6 billion more to play with than forecast in the budget delivered just five months ago. If it wanted to, it could bank that windfall and reduce its cumulative deficit over the next few years by the entire $42.6 billion. Of course, it’s a Liberal government and has a left wing so saving the whole $42.6 billion really wasn’t on. So how much did they decide to spend? $41.5 billion. Correct: they devoted $1.1 billion (2.6 per cent of it) to deficit reduction but put the rest into initiatives... it seems space-time works differently around Ottawa. The government books another $4.9 billion of “update measures” into last fiscal year, even though the update occurred  this week, almost a month after last fiscal year ended. You and I can’t go back in time, but it seems the people spending our federal tax dollars can.  If they hadn’t done this, then instead of falling from a forecast $65.4 billion to $65.3 billion, this year’s deficit would have risen to $70.3 billion. Missing even its own bloated deficit target would have been a very bad look for the government and seriously darkened update coverage. But a twitch in time saved bad headlines."
Of course, left wingers are still hailing him as a genius. They're still taken in by all the "Canada Strong" marketing fluff

University founded in memory of dead white men now rejecting white men - "Every prime minister eventually settles on a favourite catchphrase, and it’s looking like Mark Carney’s is turning out to be “dangerous and divided.” Political influencer Ryan Gerritsen assembled a compilation of 15 separate speeches in which Carney used either the terms “divided and dangerous” or “dangerous and divided.” He’s also used it in a number of written statements. As one example, his good luck message to Team Canada at the Winter Olympics said they provided hope to a “more divided and uncertain world.”"

Oregon Is Pumping Children Full of Hormones (Trans)

Clearly, even if 100% of children in Oregon are trans, there is no over-diagnosis problem, because it can never be over-diagnosed, only under.

Oregon Is Pumping Children Full of Hormones - WSJ

The state pushes teens toward ‘transgender-related diagnoses’ and dangerous treatments.

 

If you live in Oregon and your child is confused about her sex, the state is ready to medicate her and perhaps even put her under the knife. The Beaver State has become a national leader in providing life-altering hormones to minors.

According to a new study published in Research Connections, at age 17, roughly 1 in every 240 girls and 1 in every 630 boys in Oregon received cross-sex hormones for “gender dysphoria” between 2016 and 2023. These figures are triple and double the national average for girls and boys, respectively. For younger children the disparity is even greater: Cross-sex hormone use in the study was four to five times the national rate among 14- and 15-year-olds, and puberty-blocker use was more than five times the national rate at age 14.

Oregon classifies hormones and surgery as “medically necessary” treatments for gender dysphoria, which the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders defines as a mismatch between one’s sex and one’s subjective perception of “gender,” accompanied by distress or difficulty functioning.

According to the study, teens in Oregon are being diagnosed with gender dysphoria at alarming rates: 1.51% of girls and 0.46% of boys received a “transgender-related diagnosis,” almost always gender dysphoria, between 2016 and 2023. The figure for both sexes is 0.98%—10 times the prevalence of Type 2 diabetes in this age group and only slightly lower than the share of teens who described themselves as transgender on state surveys in those years (1.18%). In Oregon, calling oneself transgender is a fast track to medical diagnosis, drugs and in some cases even surgery. About 1 in 4 diagnosed minors in Oregon received such interventions, the study finds.

“Gender transition” involves the disruption of an adolescent’s natural hormone production and regulation. The goal is to mimic the appearance of the opposite sex or attain a sexually ambiguous appearance, all at the expense of the body’s healthy functioning. The known and suspected harms of these interventions include infertility, sexual dysfunction, cognitive impairment, cardiovascular disease, bone health problems and cancer.

Health authorities in several European countries have banned or restricted access to hormonal interventions for minors following rigorous evidence reviews. In Oregon the trend has been one of reckless acceleration. The apparent ease with which distressed Oregon teens go from transgender identification to diagnosis and dangerous medical intervention is no accident. It flows from deliberate choices made by state health authorities a decade ago.

Oregon is the only U.S. state that has formally adopted the medical recommendations, called standards of care, of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, or WPATH. That 2014 decision has spillover effects for commercial insurance. In 2023, Oregon updated its Medicaid policies to incorporate WPATH’s eighth and latest Standards of Care, known as SOC-8.

WPATH has been in critics’ cross hairs for years, but in 2024 controversy reached a crescendo as internal WPATH communications obtained by the Alabama attorney general while defending a lawsuit against the state’s limits on so-called gender-affirming care for minors revealed evidence of medical scandal.

These documents showed that when developing SOC-8, WPATH commissioned evidence reviews, but it suppressed them after finding “little or no evidence about children and adolescents.” It then claimed that a systematic review of evidence was “not possible.” WPATH also initially recommended age minimums for nearly all “gender transition” procedures, enlisted almost exclusively authors with financial or other conflicts of interest, and sprinkled “medical necessity” statements to guarantee insurance coverage for procedures despite acknowledging privately in an email that “all of us are painfully aware that there are many gaps in research to back up our recommendations.” Last month the Federal Trade Commission sued WPATH, alleging consumer fraud via unfair or deceptive practices. (WPATH called the lawsuit “baseless,” disputed the FTC’s jurisdiction, and said its activities are protected under the First Amendment.)

In Oregon, where WPATH’s influence has been institutionalized, thousands of teens have already been exposed to life-altering drugs and surgery. Authorities likely believed they were responding to demand, but the numbers suggest they were creating it. Some objecting parents faced child-welfare investigations.

When the state first approved Medicaid coverage for “gender transition” procedures in 2015, officials projected that only about 175 people—adults and minors combined—would use the services each year, with costs not exceeding $200,000. In the first year alone, costs exceeded $720,000. By 2024, the figure had risen to more than $12.3 million—over 60 times the original projection. The number of Oregonians receiving covered procedures was roughly 10 times the anticipated number in 2015 and 80 times by 2023.

Among minors, transgender-related diagnoses in Oregon rose threefold between 2017 and 2023, according to a Manhattan Institute insurance database analysis. Hormone prescriptions soared, and surgery became more common. In 2019 alone, 33 minors had double mastectomies and two had hysterectomies, according to data from the Oregon Health Authority’s All Payer All Claims Reporting Program.

Oregon has slightly more than 1% of America’s teens, but between 2019 and 2023 its clinics accounted for at least 7% of all “gender” mastectomies on teen girls. During those years 26 minors had “bottom surgery”—23 hysterectomies and three castrations.

Videos from WPATH conferences, also obtained through the Alabama lawsuit, revealed that clinicians at the Oregon Health and Science University’s Transgender Health Program were pushing the field to extremes, denouncing medical gatekeeping, offering young patients “nonbinary” body configurations with no parallel in nature, and basing medical decisions on “embodiment goals,” regardless of medical history or mental health. (WPATH, which wasn’t a party to the Alabama suit, issued a statement defending the quality of SOC-8 “and the process through which it was developed.”)

Public-record requests, meantime, revealed that Oregon health authorities have known for years about the lack of evidence for these interventions. In 2012, a state-commissioned evidence review found “very poor evidence of the benefit” from puberty blockers. After regulators added “transition” procedures with no age minimums to state Medicaid benefits, a follow-up report co-authored by unnamed gender clinicians at OHSU affirmed the policy despite acknowledging the “paucity of data.”

Oregon’s extreme liberal culture, one-party politics and activist-captured medical and child-welfare systems illustrate the “gender affirmation” model taken toward its logical conclusion.