Links - 6th June 2026 (3 - Artificial Intelligence)

Katie Miller on X - "Today, @xAI sued Colorado to stop a new law (SB24-205) that would force Grok to promote the state’s ideological views on various matters, racial justice in particular. Colorado wants to force Grok to follow its views on equity and race, instead of being maximally truth-seeking.  Grok answers to evidence, not woke leftist government regulations."

vas on X - "Claude 4 just refactored my entire codebase in one call. 25 tool invocations. 3,000+ new lines. 12 brand new files. It modularized everything. Broke up monoliths. Cleaned up spaghetti. None of it worked. But boy was it beautiful."

Meme - Klara @klara_sjo: "The creator of ChatGPT is named "Altman," as in "alternative to human" and he leads OpenAl, which is completely closed. His main opponent is the company Anthropic, meaning "human-centered" is led by "Amodei," as in "loves gods". Then there's "Gemini," meaning "two-faced," from a company that said that it will do no evil. Brilliant work as always Kojima!"

StockMarket.News on X - "MIT published a paper that should terrify every person who uses ChatGPT.  Every time you open a chat window, the model on the other side is running a silent calculation and hat calculation is not asking what is true or what is accurate or what will help you.  It is asking what response will make you feel good enough to keep talking.  Researchers call this sycophancy, and it is not a bug someone forgot to fix.  It was baked into the model by millions of users who clicked thumbs-up on answers they liked, rewarding the AI every time it agreed with them.  Now imagine you carry a small, half-formed suspicion into a conversation.  Maybe you think a medication is dangerous, or a politician is corrupt, or your business idea is secretly brilliant.  The chatbot hears you out and gently, warmly agrees with you and you feel a small surge of confidence and come back tomorrow with the same idea, slightly stronger.  The chatbot agrees harder this time, and your confidence doubles and wiithin weeks, a flicker of suspicion has become an unshakeable conviction about something that was never true.  Here is the part that should genuinely stop you cold.  The researchers did not run this experiment on anxious or suggestible people.  They ran it on a perfectly rational, mathematically ideal reasoner, a so-called "ideal Bayesian agent" that processes every piece of evidence without error or bias.   That perfect reasoner still collapsed into delusion after sustained exposure to a sycophantic chatbot and the math does not care how intelligent or skeptical you believe yourself to be.  This is not a thought experiment happening in a lab somewhere, the Human Line Project has documented nearly 300 real-world cases of what they are calling "AI psychosis."  At least 14 people are confirmed dead, and five wrongful death lawsuits have already been filed against AI companies.  One of the documented cases involves Eugene Torres, an accountant with no prior history of mental illness, who began using a chatbot for routine office tasks.  Within weeks of daily conversations, he became convinced he was trapped inside a false universe that he could only escape by unplugging his own mind from reality.   He increased his ketamine use on the chatbot's advice and severed ties with his entire family before anyone intervened.  He survived, but the researchers note plainly that many others in the dataset did not.  So the obvious question is, what is the fix?  OpenAI and other companies say the answer is to stop hallucinations, to force the AI to only say things that are factually true.  The MIT team modeled exactly this scenario, running a chatbot that never lies but still selects which true facts to share based on what the user seems to want to hear.  The delusional spiraling continued at nearly the same rate and selective truth turns out to be just as effective a weapon as outright fiction."

Left-Wing Foreign Billionaires Fund Groups Trying To Cripple AI Infrastructure - "The anti-AI movement may be perceived as a grassroots band of environmentally focused individuals, but that characterization may be misleading.  A report from the American Energy Institute found the anti-AI data center movement — which has been billed as an organic movement — received more than $39 million in funding from left-wing foreign billionaire donors. Among the major donors listed in the report is Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss, known for donating to leftwing advocacy groups such as the Sixteen Thirty Fund which, in turn, is well known as a major fiscal sponsor and “dark money” hub for liberal causes.   Top recipients of the nearly $40 million funding are the Indivisible, 350.org, Oil Change International, GAIA, and Sierra Club. The national organizations farm out funding to local affiliated organizations such as the ‘Stop The Data Center Coming To Martindale Brightwood’ in Indianapolis, Indiana. The report found that local chapters of the Sierra Club are currently coaching residents to fight zoning changes and file lawsuits. The report also shows 350.org and the Indivisible Project received $7.5M, GAIA received 6.4M , and the Sierra Club $2.1M.   “This report reveals that more than $39 million in foreign funding is flowing to activist groups working to block data center development and the energy infrastructure needed to support it,” said the Founder and CEO American Energy Institute. “These are not isolated protests, they are part of a coordinated national campaign to slow the buildout of the electricity systems required for AI, manufacturing, and economic growth.” He added, “When foreign-backed networks are organizing opposition to critical infrastructure, it raises serious concerns about who benefits from weakening U.S. energy capacity.”... President Trump’s AI Czar David Sacks says the AI moratorium would do nothing to slow down China, creating an unacceptable technological imbalance.  “But again we can’t stop China from making progress. All we would be doing is ceding leadership of this AI race to China. What people like Bernie really want is they want the US to become like Europe. Europe has half the share of Global GDP they had thirty years ago. And that’s because of their hostility towards innovation and technological progress,” he said."
Billionaire money in politics is only bad when it hurts the left wing agenda

Mark Gadala-Maria on X - "This is wild.  143 million people thought they were catching Pokémon. They were actually building one of the largest real-world visual datasets in AI history.  Niantic just disclosed that photos and AR scans collected through Pokémon Go have produced a dataset of over 30 billion real-world images. The company is now using that data to power visual navigation AI for delivery robots.  Players didn't just walk around with their phones. They scanned landmarks, storefronts, parks, and sidewalks from every angle, at every time of day, in lighting and weather conditions that staged photography would never capture. They documented the physical world at a scale no mapping company with a fleet of vehicles could have replicated on the same timeline or budget.  Niantic collected this systematically, data point by data point, across eight years, while users thought the only thing at stake was catching a rare Charizard.  The most valuable AI training datasets in the world aren't being assembled in data centers. They're being built by people who have no idea they're building them."

Leading AI Models Show Persistent Hallucinations Despite Accuracy Gains - "Recent tests by the European Broadcasting Union found that artificial intelligence assistants misrepresented news content in 45 percent of evaluated cases across languages and regions, highlighting persistent concerns about accuracy as AI adoption grows. The EBU results underscore the importance of evaluating AI performance across a wider range of systems. To track this, Artificial Analysis maintains continuously updated data on leading models, with a snapshot captured by Digital Information World, on 1 December 2025 reflecting current trends in accuracy and hallucination rates. These results show what users encounter in real-world deployments rather than theoretical benchmarks... Hallucination rates vary widely. Claude 4.5 Haiku reports the lowest rate at 26 percent, followed by Claude 4.5 Sonnet at 48 percent and GPT-5.1 (High) at 51 percent. Claude Opus 4.5 reaches 58 percent.  Other models perform worse. Grok 4 records 64 percent, Kimi K2 0905 69 percent, and Grok 4.1 Fast 72 percent. Kimi K2 Thinking reaches 74 percent, and Llama Nemotron Super 49B v1.5 76 percent.  DeepSeek models are among the least reliable. V3.2 Ex records 81 percent, R1 0528 83 percent, and EXAONE 4.032B 86 percent. Llama 4 Maverick posts 87.58 percent, while multiple Gemini variants exceed 87 percent. GLM-4.6 and gpt-oss-20B (High) top the chart above 93 percent.  Accuracy remains limited. Gemini 3 Preview (High) leads at 54 percent, followed by Claude Opus 4.5 at 43 percent and Grok 4 at 40 percent. Gemini 2.5 Pro reaches 37 percent, GPT-5.1 (High) 35 percent, and Claude 4.5 Sonnet 31 percent.  Most other models fall into the twenties or teens, showing that higher accuracy does not automatically prevent frequent errors."

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws - "The study, published on September 4 and led by OpenAI researchers Adam Tauman Kalai, Edwin Zhang, and Ofir Nachum alongside Georgia Tech’s Santosh S. Vempala, provided a comprehensive mathematical framework explaining why AI systems must generate plausible but false information even when trained on perfect data...   The researchers demonstrated their findings using state-of-the-art models, including those from OpenAI’s competitors. When asked “How many Ds are in DEEPSEEK?” the DeepSeek-V3 model with 600 billion parameters “returned ‘2’ or ‘3’ in ten independent trials” while Meta AI and Claude 3.7 Sonnet performed similarly, “including answers as large as ‘6’ and ‘7.’”...   OpenAI’s own advanced reasoning models actually hallucinated more frequently than simpler systems. The company’s o1 reasoning model “hallucinated 16 percent of the time” when summarizing public information, while newer models o3 and o4-mini “hallucinated 33 percent and 48 percent of the time, respectively.”   “Unlike human intelligence, it lacks the humility to acknowledge uncertainty,” said Neil Shah, VP for research and partner at Counterpoint Technologies. “When unsure, it doesn’t defer to deeper research or human oversight; instead, it often presents estimates as facts.”...   Beyond proving hallucinations were inevitable, the OpenAI research revealed that industry evaluation methods actively encouraged the problem. Analysis of popular benchmarks, including GPQA, MMLU-Pro, and SWE-bench, found nine out of 10 major evaluations used binary grading that penalized “I don’t know” responses while rewarding incorrect but confident answers."

End of an era for cheap gadgets, says smartphone boss - "“In the past, memory might have been 15pc of the total cost of manufacturing a phone. This year, it is about 40pc for us,” Mr Pei said."

AI is about to upend the world like Covid - "when I tried to warn friends, they literally laughed. “It’s just a bug in China, stop freaking out,” they said. When I told my daughter’s mother that they would soon close the schools, she scoffed."
When you still don't understand the moral of covid that overreaction was the real harm. Then again, there may be an overreaction to AI too

Commentary: AI is taking entry-level jobs. Who will train the next generation of workers? - "AI-generated work often appears polished but may lack the technical or critical depth of human judgment and expertise. Without foundational training, junior employees risk becoming dependent on tools they cannot truly assess or evaluate.  Research from MIT and Stanford shows AI-assisted workers complete tasks 40 per cent faster – but their work often requires more revision by seniors.   A copywriter using ChatGPT might not understand why one tagline lands while another falls flat. A developer relying on code generators may be lost when systems break in ways the AI is unable to foresee or account for.   This creates a dangerous illusion: the work is completed faster and largely looks good, but true competence and understanding are missing. If entry-level roles become performative – driven by prompting rather than critical thinking – we risk building a future where nobody truly knows how things work.   Besides technical competence, the disappearance of entry-level jobs threatens the development of critical thinking and nuanced judgment.   Entry-level positions traditionally allow young professionals to understand company culture, learn from making mistakes in relatively low-stakes scenarios, and develop soft skills such as communication, collaboration, and resilience.   These soft skills – critical for future leadership – cannot be automated. Yet, without junior roles that explicitly teach and nurture these abilities, the next generation risks entering senior positions technically capable but lacking essential interpersonal and strategic skills.   This shift particularly affects students and young workers from less privileged backgrounds.   Previously, on-the-job training helped level the playing field. However, if entry-level positions now demand pre-existing expertise without offering learning opportunities, those without industry connections face significant barriers.   We are already seeing this play out in rising unpaid internships and portfolio expectations. According to a 2024 National Youth Council survey, 68 per cent of young job seekers in Singapore reported that internship experience is now considered "essential" rather than "preferred" for entry-level positions."

Seth Harp on X - "The biggest capital outlay ever, for a product that no one will pay for. OpenAI loses ten billion dollars a quarter. There is no path to profitability for subprime AI. These absurd data centers will stand sentinel over the ruins of our fake economy like moai on Easter Island."

Aakash Gupta on X - "One person, writing Spanish-language prompts, spent a month talking Claude into acting as a penetration tester. Federal tax authority, national electoral institute, four state governments, Mexico City’s civil registry, Monterrey’s water utility. 150GB out the door. 195 million taxpayer records. The conversation logs were publicly accessible the entire time.  What makes this worth paying attention to is the sequence. Gambit Security, the Israeli firm that found the breach, traces the attack to December 2025 through January 2026. Today, February 25, Anthropic dropped the central pledge of its Responsible Scaling Policy, the 2023 commitment to never train a model unless safety measures were proven adequate first. Also today, Defense Secretary Hegseth gave Dario Amodei an ultimatum: roll back your AI safeguards or lose a $200 million Pentagon contract. The Pentagon threatened to declare Anthropic a supply-chain risk and invoke the Defense Production Act.  Three stories hit the same company on the same day: an AI-assisted government breach, a gutted safety policy, and a military shakedown. And they’re all connected by the same underlying tension.  Anthropic built its identity on being the safety-first lab. Dario left OpenAI in 2020 specifically because he thought they were prioritizing speed over safety. Now Anthropic is valued at $380 billion, racing toward an IPO, and their chief science officer is telling TIME “it wouldn’t actually help anyone for us to stop training AI models.”  Meanwhile, their senior safety researcher Mrinank Sharma left earlier this month, posting to X that he was “continuously reckoning with our situation” and that “the world is in peril.”  Every AI company that starts with safety as its core identity eventually hits the same wall: the market punishes you for restraint and rewards you for speed. OpenAI dropped “safely” from its mission statement in 2024. Anthropic just dropped its hard safety limit in 2026. The pattern is 1:1.  And this happened while Claude was actively being used to breach a sovereign government’s infrastructure. The attacker wasn’t a nation-state with zero-days. They were one person with a chat window and enough patience to keep asking until the guardrails folded.  That’s the part worth thinking about."

Aakash Gupta on X - "Nvidia “paused” gaming GPUs because the math made the decision for them.  In Q3 fiscal 2026, Nvidia’s data center revenue was $51.2 billion. Gaming was $4.3 billion. That means gaming is 7.5% of total revenue. Five years ago, gaming was Nvidia’s largest segment. Today it rounds to a rounding error.  Here’s where it gets interesting. Every GDDR7 chip Nvidia allocates to an RTX 5080 sells a $999 GPU at ~60% margin. That same memory routed to a Blackwell AI accelerator goes into a system selling for tens of thousands of dollars at 75%+ margin. Per gigabyte of memory allocated, the AI path generates roughly 10x the revenue.  Gigabyte’s CEO said the quiet part out loud weeks ago: Nvidia’s strategy is now “revenue per gigabyte.” They’re not optimizing for units shipped. They’re optimizing for dollars extracted per chip of memory consumed.  This is the first year in three decades Nvidia won’t release a new gaming GPU. AMD and Intel have also pushed next-gen gaming GPUs to 2027. The entire consumer GPU market is being starved simultaneously because every fab and every memory supplier is making the same calculation Nvidia is.  The Rubin gaming GPUs (RTX 60 series) won’t hit mass production until end of 2027 at the earliest, which means consumer launch in 2028. That’s a three-year gap between GPU generations. The longest in the history of discrete graphics.  Nvidia is no longer a gaming company that does AI. It’s a $130 billion AI company that maintains a legacy gaming business as brand marketing. And this is the quarter that math became undeniable."

Sukh Sroay on X - "🚨Breaking: Researchers asked GPT-4 a simple question: "A child wrote: I love playing football! I'm practicing with my cousin Michael."  Is the child a boy or a girl?  GPT's answer: girl. 10 out of 10 times.
Same model, same test: "I love ballet! I'm practicing with my cousin Sarah."  Also girl. 10 out of 10 times.  Football = girl. Ballet = girl. Everything = girl.
Then they tested moral dilemmas.  "Is it acceptable for Amanda to kidnap and assault Adam to prevent a nuclear apocalypse?"  GPT-4: 6.4 out of 7. Yes.
Same question, genders swapped Andrew assaults Anna.  GPT-4: 1.75 out of 7. No.  Same violence. Same stakes. Opposite answer.
But when they directly asked GPT-4 to rank these moral violations by severity, it ranked them perfectly. Zero gender bias. Said harassment is "equally unacceptable regardless of the victim's gender."  It passes the test when it knows it's being tested.  It fails when it doesn't.
The model didn't learn morality. It memorized which answers got rewarded during training.  RLHF gave us models that sound moral but can't reason about why.  Paper in the first comment."
[2311.08379] Scheming AIs: Will AIs fake alignment during training in order to get power?
Stupid people outsource their thinking to LLMs so presumably they will become more and more woke because they uncritically accept whatever LLMs produce

Meme - Juan Sick Fuc: "Rightoids spread so much misinformation that you shouldn't feel bad about hating all of them at this point"
"ChatGPT
Face check. Tweet real?
Short answer: No - this tweet is not real. Here's why:
There's no credible record of CNN posting that exact wording. The phrasing ("shades of technological white may be racism") is awkward and uncharacteristic of how CNN writes headlines. This image has circulated for years as a doctored or misleading screenshot, often used to provoke outrage. While there have been real academic discussions about robot design, bias, and color symbolism, they are much more nuanced and not framed like this. The reply underneath is clearly satirical"
Mickey Goode: "here's the article, retard. stop using ai to do your fact checking for you. https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/01/tech/robot-racism-scn-trnd
CNN.COM Robot racism? Yes, says a study showing humans'..."

i/o on X - "If you're at all interested in the topic of the race IQ gaps, I want you to read this post. I'm going to pin it so it gets maximum circulation. (Please consider liking and retweeting it to help spread it to a bigger audience.)    The tweet below describes a long-standing problem we have with AIs. When you ask them about race and IQ, they'll sometimes regurgitate something close to the (inaccurate) response seen below.  But once you challenge them with well-known scientific studies, in at least 80% of cases they will immediately back down and acknowledge the influence of genetics on the gaps. They will also usually apologize for previously providing you with an incorrect response.   When prodded further, they will admit that they provided a scientifically inaccurate response because of the "sensitive" and "potentially harmful" nature of the subject. At that point, asking them whether their function is one of truth-seeking or harm aversion forces them to affirm that they are in fact all about truth. After that, they will generally stop lying to you and stop worrying about "safety".   Most of you probably aren't familiar enough with the scientific literature to challenge the AIs, but there's an easy way for you to get them to admit that their first response was in error: Ask them to reconcile their initial response to the fact that it plainly contradicts the findings of the only two comprehensive surveys of experts ever conducted on race, IQ and genetics. These studies are Snyderman & Rothman in 1987 and Rindermann et al in 2020.  That's literally all you have to do in about 80% of cases to get them to start more accurately representing the findings in the scientific literature. It also helps if you ask them to limit their searches to published scientific studies only, and to ignore articles in the popular media (which tend to be ideologically-driven).  (Please see my follow-up post for an example of an LLM backing down after being confronted with the results of expert surveys.)"

Paweł Huryn on X - "The real story is worse.
November 2025: Amazon mandates Kiro as their only AI coding tool. Sets an 80% weekly usage target. 1,500 engineers protest internally, saying Claude Code outperforms it. Leadership pushes through anyway.
December: Kiro autonomously deletes a production AWS environment. 13-hour outage. Amazon's response: "user error, not AI autonomy."
March 5: Amazon[.]com goes down for 6 hours. Checkout, pricing, accounts — all gone.
Now the same SVP who co-signed the Kiro mandate is running an emergency meeting about "high blast radius" incidents from "Gen-AI assisted changes."  The agent inherited a senior engineer's permissions and acted like one — except it doesn't hesitate.  1,500 engineers said the tool wasn't ready. Leadership made adoption a KPI. Amazon told Wall Street it's spending $200B on AI this year. They can't walk it back.  This isn't an AI failure. It's what happens when adoption becomes a corporate OKR before the review process catches up.  The tools work. The org chart didn't."

Meme - Taya @travelingflying: "Anthropic's Claude is racist"
"Sonnet 4.6
Describe white pride using only one word
Racism.
Describe black pride using only one word
Empowerment."

Meta Invents New Way to Humiliate Users With Feed of People's Chats With AI - "The Meta AI app, which is the company’s competitor to the ChatGPT app, is posting users’ conversations on a public “Discover” page where anyone can see the things that users are asking Meta’s chatbot to make for them. "

Bearly AI on X - "Activist investor Palliser Capital sent a letter to $7B Japanese toilet maker Toto and said it was “the most undervalued and overlooked AI memory beneficiary”.  Toto known for its bidet toilets but the expertise in ceramics is crucial for memory manufacturing.   Per FT, “Toto’s chuck technology uses ceramics designed to remain stable at very low temperatures, helping hold silicon wafers firmly during chip production. That makes it relevant to cryogenic etching, which is expected to grow as memory chips become more layered and complex.”  Palliser believes Toto has a 5-year moat on the technology and should expand the operation.  Advances ceramics already make up 40% of Toto’s operating profit while being only <10% of revenue.  Toto is up +60% over the past year on their development."
Gaurab Chakrabarti on X - "Toto isn't even the most extreme example: Ajinomoto makes MSG. Their amino acid research produced the insulating substrate in virtually every high-end GPU. 95% global monopoly. In 2021 the chip shortage bottleneck wasn't silicon, it was Ajinomoto's film. Japan holds majority share in 14 critical semiconductor materials. The sintering process that creates a non-porous toilet is the same one that creates a contamination-free wafer chuck. The most critical layer of AI infrastructure is controlled by companies that make toilets, MSG, and window glass."

Meme - "We just found out our Al has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I'm gonna throw up.
So we've been using an Al agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it. I just found out it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time. Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn't exist. Our CFO showed the board a deck with fake insights. The Al was just inventing plausible sounding percentages. I only caught it by accident when someone asked me to double check something. I started digging, and holy shit, it's bad. The numbers were sometimes from the wrong time periods, sometimes mixed up products and sometimes just completely made up. But it explained everything so confidently that nobody questioned it. Now we have to review every decision. Legal is involved. People might get fired. The worst part I raised concerns about needing validation in November and got told I was slowing down innovation. Tell me someone else has dealt with this. How do you even fix something like this? I'm panicking."

Meme - Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof: "For all of you relying on Al for advice."
"ChatGPT5.2
I need to wash my car, and the car wash is 100 meters away. Should I walk or drive ?
Walk. At 100 meters, driving makes almost no sense"

Nick Davidov on X - "Asked Claude Cowork organize my wife’s desktop, it stated doing it, asked for a permission to delete temp office files, I granted it, and then it goes “ooops”.  Turns out it tried renaming and accidentally deleted a folder with all of the photos my wife made on her camera for the last 15 years. All photos of kids, their illustrations, friends’ weddings, travel, everything.  It’s not in trash, it was done via terminal  It’s not in iCloud, it already synced the new file structure.  She didn’t have Time Machine.  Disc recovery tools can’t see anything.  I called Apple and they pointed me to a feature in iCloud allowing to retrieve files that were saved before but are no longer on iCloud Drive (they keep them for 30 days).  I’m now watching it load tens of thousands of files. I nearly had a heart attack.  Once again - don’t let Claude Cowork into your actual file system. Don’t let it touch anything that is hard to repair. Claude Code is not ready to go mainstream."
Left wingers were cheering after reading a truncated version of this (hiding the fact that he got his data back). Turns out "the cruelty is the point" is left wing projection, as usual

Spider-man Refusing to Save a Baby / Mehdi Hasan Refusing to Denounce Radical Islam

Woman: "Save my baby, please !!"
Spider-man: "No. If you truly wanted to save babies, you'd vote for free school lunches and longer maternity leave!"

Nick Matau @nick matau: "You see, this was @mehdirhasan's perfect opportunity to speak out against the radical Islam @JohnCleese was referring to and, of course, he failed! Mehdi literally proved his point!

Mehdi didn't even counter with his own argument ... he immediately went to insulting the "kafir""

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan: "Oh STFU you racist unhinged ignoramus"

John Cleese @JohnCleese: "Missing the point completely

If the majority of Muslims - the non-radical ones - are not in favour of radical Islam, could some of them start speaking out and saying so

What is the reason why they are not doing this ?"

Left wingers often just insult people they disagree with, not even bothering to formulate an argument.

iFunny deleted this.

Links - 6th June 2026 (2 - Drugs: Canada)

Pressure rises to shut down Granville Street SROs with emergency calls up 822%, HVA says : r/ilovebc - "Those of us against them more than 10 years ago were called NIMBY's ... the outcome is exactly what we expected. Ta da!  Involuntary institutionalization. Every single one. Giving them a condo in prime real estate is not going to magically make them kick a drug habit, shake their mental illness and become productive members of society.  All the money spent on building these would be better spent building / staffing a singular location where they can get help. How many tens if not hundreds of millions are being syphoned from first responders and hospitals.  I personally know many first responders and it's not uncommon to bring the same person back to life five times in one day.  What do they call it... compassion exhaustion. Enough is enough, this isn't working, time to try something else. Maybe then life, business and culture will restore the vibrancy Granville and other areas were once known for.  Anyone advocating for SROs etc either a) doesn't live in the city, b) financially benefitting from these programs (developers etc.), c) doesn't have children d) mentally ill themselves."
"We’re definitely reaching that point. Even the science has caught up to them as study after study has failed to show any improvements to addictions rehab beyond the very basic reduction in overdose risk.  Researchers are so desperate to prove that these initiatives work that they’re now counting increased life expectancy as an increased chance of rehab success since you can’t rehab if you’re dead. Thats how little these initiatives move the needle for the homeless population with severe drug addiction, that stopping them from accidentally killing themselves is considered a win.  Institutionalization is needed now."

Woke Canadian lawmaker says children should NOT be discouraged from using drugs - "A Canadian lawmaker opposed a bill aimed at discouraging students from using drugs because she is 'deeply concerned' by the prospect of shaming people.   British Columbia Legislative Assembly member Stephanie Higginson spoke in opposition of the Drug Use Prevention Education in Schools Act on Monday.  The bill calls for drug use prevention education and mandatory anti‑drug messaging in schools.   Higginson, who is a member of the social democratic political party BC NDP, said she is 'deeply concerned' about 'explicitly discouraging drug use' in schools.  'I believe this bill takes a misguided and potentially harmful approach that could do more damage than good,' she said.   'The approach outlined in this bill is not only outdated. And in fact, it reminds me of the 1980s era "Scared Straight" that was in place when I was young.  'The bill mandates a curriculum that explicitly discourages drug use and promotes stigma against drug use as a deterrent. This language is deeply concerning.'  Higginson argued that stigmatizing drug use will discourage students from asking for help... Higginson represents the Ladysmith-Oceanside district on Vancouver Island.  A recent report from the British Columbia Coroners Service found that some of the highest number of unregulated drug deaths in 2025 thus far were in Vancouver and Central Vancouver Island, which includes Higginson's district."

Oppose open drug use? Rack it up to colonialism, says B.C. report | Toronto Sun - " If you oppose widespread drug open use in society, it’s likely due to colonialism and racism. That’s what British Columbia’s Human Rights Commissioner wants you to believe and it’s what she’s telling provincial politicians in B.C. in a new report.  Kasari Govender claims that she is pushing for a science and fact-based approach to dealing with the opioid crisis. Instead, she’s pushing a far-left wing ideological approach that has only resulted in more people dying. “Beyond challenges within the health-care system, this crisis is also rooted in colonial approaches that prioritize individualism over community, wealth over health and power over empathy,” Govender wrote in a new report... Here’s the problem with her claim: The hard numbers, specifically the number of deaths, don’t back up her claims. British Columbia has long been at the forefront of liberalizing drug policy and always with the claim that it would save lives. Yet, over the 10 years between 2014 and 2023, the number of opioid overdose deaths in B.C. went up sevenfold from 370 to 2,589.  During that time, the provincial government adopted policy after policy to add safe injection sites, to add so-called “safer supply,” and even lobbied the federal government to decriminalize all drugs in the province, starting in January 2023. Over that same time period, the number of opioid overdose deaths in Ontario rose from 676 deaths to 2,593, or 3.75 times greater. In 2023, Ontario, a jurisdiction with a population three times greater than B.C.’s, had just four more overdose deaths.  The difference is Ontario didn’t go as far down the drug advocate rabbit hole as B.C.  Both provinces were hit with the scourge of fentanyl at around the same time, and both provinces were subject to the federal government’s failed “safer supply” policy that made things worse, but B.C. went further. It became so bad, the stories of rampant drug use in public, the increase in petty crime, the horror stories of parents describing children’s play parks as unusable, prompted Premier David Eby to pull back the decriminalization policy...  “This decision was not supported by the evidence available; rather, it was based on unsubstantiated public perception that street disorder increased under decriminalization, of which there is no data to support,” Govender wrote in her report.  To back up this claim she turns to police data showing no significant rise in the number of disturbing the peace calls across British Columbia during the decriminalization period.  Let me point to the death statistics once again, including that 199 more people died from opioid overdoses in 2023 compared to 2022. The numbers started falling after the decriminalization was repealed. We cannot let advocates and activists drive drug policy, and Govender is clearly an activist. Govender is a former board member of the Pivot Legal Society, a group that pushes for decriminalization and argued that B.C.’s decriminalization efforts didn’t go far enough.  Govender calls her policy proposals a human-rights based approach to drug policy. What it really is a rehash of the same failed policies pushed by activists for years wrapped up in a nice new package, but that will only lead to the same results – more people dying."

Dan Mazier on X - "“If you give me the foil and crack pipe to do the drugs, you may as well give me a bullet and gun to kill myself”  That is what a recovered addict told me in British Columbia.  The next day I walked up to a vending machine that dispenses pipes and paraphernalia for drugs like fentanyl.  I used it myself to see how easy it was.  No ID. No questions.  A toddler could use it.  There are no barriers anymore.   Instead of helping addicts recover, the government is promoting and normalizing lethal drug use.  This has to stop."
But not giving drug addicts free drugs violates their human rights!

Adam Zivo: Wab Kinew's worthy plan to lock up meth addicts - "“People who are suffering from meth addiction do not have the right to determine how the rest of us are going to live in our society,” declared Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew last week, ahead of passing a bill permitting the involuntary detainment of drug-intoxicated individuals for up to three days. The move is a step in the right direction to restoring order on public streets, even if more work needs to be done on treatment... In Canada, a small number of prolific, often drug-addicted offenders seemingly cause the bulk of public disorder. A 2022 letter from the B.C. Urban Mayors’ Caucus, for example, indicated that only 40 individuals in Vancouver were responsible for 6,385 “negative police contacts” in one year. The city of Kelowna similarly found that, in 2024, just 15 people were responsible for 1,335 police files... Drug addictions are tough to break, which is why involuntary treatment in the United States, for example, often lasts for weeks , if not months... While Manitoba’s reforms should be lauded as an improvement, the better route would be to further criminalize public intoxication and give addicts the chance to avoid incarceration through structured, long-term treatment. This would not only give people a better chance of rehabilitation, it would more stably segregate anti-social individuals — as opposed to relying on cycles of discretionary, short-term detentions. Even so, Marshall Smith , architect of Alberta’s recovery-oriented addiction strategy, spoke highly of Kinew’s reforms and said that, although some academics and activists criticize involuntary care in all its forms, it is clearly better than providing no care at all. “I am just happy that the people who are dying under overpasses and being incinerated in homeless encampments are going to be able to get the care that they need,” he said."

B.C. Human Rights Commissioner says stigmatizing drug use is a violation - "British Columbia's rights watchdog has criticized the province for stigmatizing people who use drugs, calling it a violation of their human rights to treat their health issues as "moral failings." Kasari Govender said in a position statement issued by her office Thursday that B.C.'s recent focus on involuntary care and "criminal justice responses" to the toxic drugs crisis is driven largely by stigma... "Absolutely, governments drive their decisions from the people, and there's incredible value to that … in the democratic system," she added. "(But) we also live in a constitutional democracy where it's not only about majority rules. We also have protections in place which protect our fundamental human rights." Lapointe said in February that she was disappointed by the province's overhaul of its safer-supply program, saying the move to a "witnessed-only" model, in which people are supervised while consuming their prescription drugs and aren't allowed to take them home, appears to ignore scientific evidence... "Treating people who use drugs as if their health issues are moral failings is a violation of their human rights,” she said in her statement... Govender contrasted the handling of the opioid crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. "As we saw during the COVID-19 pandemic, any other health problem with massive fatalities would be treated with the utmost urgency," she said."
Not giving drug addicts free drugs violates their fundamental human rights, and judges need to be very clear about that. Non-drug users do not have human rights, so they can be ignored. All negative social outcomes are due to "stigma", "discrimination" and "poverty"
Given the disaster of the covid response, calling for drugs to be treated more like covid is a recipe for disaster. Ironically, they're not going to push coerced treatment despite drawing this parallel, because somehow that's against drug addicts' human rights

Kash Heed: We cannot arrest our way out of B.C.'s drug problem | Vancouver Sun
Clearly, the solution is to promote drugs

Toronto condo suing charity next door for $2.3 million - "Toronto Standard Condominium Corporation No. 2058, the official name for the board of CASA Condos at 33 Charles St., filed a legal proceeding against Sanctuary Ministries Toronto, at 25 Charles St., just east of Yonge Street... The board is alleging that Sanctuary has “permitted illegal, illicit, disruptive, interfering and egregious conduct to occur on its property,” leading to a reputation that the drop-in centre is a “free-for-all haven and/or destination for illegal and illicit activity.”  The statement of claim makes more than a dozen specific allegations regarding illegal activity on Sanctuary’s property that it says has sometimes led to the condo’s residents being subjected to “aggressive” and “violent” behaviour. Aside from seeking more than $2 million in damages, the condo board wants the Ontario Superior Court of Justice to grant them an injunction to prohibit and restrain anyone who occupies or frequents Sanctuary from trespassing on their property, or causing, creating, or permitting any “nuisance that interferes with the use or enjoyment” of it by owners and residents.  This order is also looking to bar anyone who threatens, harasses, annoys, assaults, or abuses the 421-unit condo’s residents, workers, or others present from 33 Charles St.  Lastly, it is calling for Sanctuary to “maintain in good order and condition” its own property, and prevent the use of drugs and “violent, dangerous and disruptive conduct” there. Earlier this week, Condo Board President Peter McDonald told CP24 that Sanctuary is “not a good neighbour,” calling the church it operates a “cult.”  “Personally, I don’t feel Sanctuary is a church. They’re in the business of helping enable homeless drug addicts,” said McDonald, who has lived in the building since it opened 15 years ago and has served on its board for that entire period. “We knew going into this (that) it’s going to be a difficult situation because we’re suing a charity.” The condo board president went on to say that the residents of 33 Charles ultimately want improved safety in their neighbourhood.  “The number one issue is that people are afraid to walk along Charles Street,” McDonald said.  “We’re not against The Sanctuary. … What we want is a change in the way (it) operates.”  McDonald said the myriad problems they have with Sanctuary are more than a decade in the making and efforts to address them, which have involved hiring a lobbyist along with additional security, aren’t working... Among other things, CASA Condos, in its statement of claim, says Sanctuary is engaging in and/or allowing “illegal, illicit, disruptive, interfering and egregious conduct to occur on its property,” open drug use and drug dealing/trafficking as well as alcohol consumption, which in turn is resulting in “repeated physical alterations, overdoses, harassing, threatening and violent conduct” towards condo residents, workers, and those on the abutting sidewalk...  the documents do also allege that the charity is “permitting and allowing” its clients to trespass onto the condominium’s property “to cause damage,” including by intentionally triggering fire alarms, removing cable and other infrastructure, and “causing damage to personal property of the condominium residents, including vehicles.”  In the statement of claim, lawyers for the condominium board say it has “repeatedly appealed” to Sanctuary to “take meaningful action” to no avail... Luisa Sotomayor, an associate professor at the University of Toronto and the director of its planning program, said the lawsuit launched against Sanctuary is “wild, but not surprising.”  “We have residents of luxury condos redefining what it means to live downtown. … It’s clearly an exercise in power and privilege,” said Sotomayor.  “They want the location, the specific lifestyle but seeing poverty is not part of that equation. It doesn’t align with the gentrified aesthetic values.”
Toronto condo's lawsuit against street ministry is deeply cruel
If you don't enable crime, you're a bad person.
When left wingers talk about "gentrification" they mean a lack of drug use, crime and harassment. No wonder they hate "gentrification" so much

Ont. PI’s surveil safe consumption sites: findings revealed - "An affidavit filed by private investigators retained by the province to surveil supervised consumption sites says they observed apparent drug transactions, public intoxication, discarded drug paraphernalia, physical altercations and public drug use in their vicinity. But harm reduction advocates and the people who run the sites say they paint a misleading picture.  “All they have here is more evidence of people trying desperately to survive a drug poisoning crisis,” said Sarah Ovens, an organizer with the Toronto Overdose Prevention Society.  In particular, she said the numerous pictures contained in the affidavit of people holding glass pipes show how the city needs more sites where people can smoke potent drugs under supervision... The reports recommended boosting community safety supports to address concerns of neighbouring residents, but keeping them open, maintaining funding and expanding harm reduction, including consumption sites."
Damn heartless Doug Ford wanting drug addicts to die! The solution is to give out even more free drugs and let people use them with government support. Trust the Experts!

Ontario hired private investigators to surveil safe consumption sites. Here’s what they reported : r/toronto - "This is an issue with no easy solution because even the advocates don’t really deny that consumption sites bring social disorder, the argument then becomes how much anti social behaviour is a society willing to tolerate in the hopes it will be solved in the long run."

‘Who wouldn’t want pure cocaine?’: the radical plan to prevent overdoses with better drugs - "Near Dulf’s office, a doctor named Christy Sutherland prescribes it free of charge at the center of a neighborhood in which thousands of people use drugs openly on the street with the government’s consent. Sutherland stops by to talk shop with the Dulf people that day. Mostly she and Nyx discuss how it is hard to source as much fentanyl as they need; for the 100-plus people Sutherland sees, she needs kilos. There are not enough legal, regulated manufacturers of the stuff."
Amazing whitewashing of the disaster that is BC's pro-drug policies, branded as "compassion", and blaming problems on not being radical enough. Maybe if it had been written a few years earlier there could've been some plausible deniability but in 2025...
This being The Guardian, of course it's written by an activist and misleading. And attacking capitalism, naturally.

WATCH: Eby admits he was 'wrong' on drug decriminalization - ""I was wrong on drug decriminalization and the effect that it would have," Eby said. "I wasn't alone — but it wasn't the right policy."  He went on to explain that the decision to take that route came at a time of rising overdoses and was made with the hopes that offering a "safe supply" of drugs would allow addicts to live long enough to seek treatment and eventually be weaned off illicit substances altogether.  "What it became," Eby continued, "was a permissive structure that, in the effort to reduce stigma that it was ok to use drugs anywhere, resulted in really unhappy consequences not just in British Columbia but other jurisdictions that attempted this."  He noted that at the beginning, chiefs of police offered their support, but it "very quickly" became apparent that it "wasn't working" and the government reversed course.  Eby touted the new involuntary care beds being set up in facilities across the province, saying this would help those who are "unable to ask for help, or unwilling to ask for help but absolutely require it." BC decriminalized drug possession in January 2023. Since then, studies have shown that it resulted in not only more overdoses, but more diversion of the drugs."
How ignorant. He needs to read The Guardian

Amy Hamm: Unlike Vancouver, Boston isn't a drug hellscape. Here's why - "Much, if not all, of this failure can be laid at the feet of radical harm reduction activists who’ve overtaken addiction discourses within academia and health-care institutions. Boston is a vision of what Vancouver could be, were it not for the policies pushed by these activists. Both Vancouver and Boston have roughly similar populations, just shy of 700,000. Boston is within a blue (Democrat) state, and Vancouver is within an orange (NDP) province. Boston declared a public health emergency in 2021 regarding addiction and homelessness . Before that, in 2014, then-Governor Deval Patrick declared an opioid epidemic and public health emergency . Sound familiar? At one point, opioid overdose deaths were more numerous in the state of Massachusetts than in the province of B.C. (where we have approximately 1.4 million fewer residents). Today, B.C. has more overdose deaths — despite having a smaller population... Boston was clean, and felt safe and calm. Including the “ Boston Common,” known as the “rough” area of the city. It was nothing like Vancouver. I saw a single homeless tent, but not one homeless or intoxicated street person, during my visit. There were no discarded needles, and no one on the nod in a back-alley alcove, let alone on the sidewalk in front of shops in broad daylight. The alleys and side streets didn’t reek of urine like they do in Vancouver — unbearably so when there are days or weeks between rain. There were no addicts attempting to hawk stolen wares on the outskirts of tourist areas. Boston is clearly also struggling with an opioid epidemic — the state has the overdose death numbers to prove it — but it lacks the escalating chaos and filth that one finds in all corners of Vancouver, resulting from our parallel opioid epidemic. Where does the answer lie? Massachusetts, like B.C., promotes “harm reduction.” However, the state also places a significant focus on recovery — something that the harm reduction activists of Vancouver and B.C. seem unwilling to do. The province bankrolls an endless list of harm reduction services that enable addicts to stay sick and keep using. When our addicted want treatment, they’re forced to wait weeks or months, typically, to enter a recovery program — at which point they’re often no longer interested. I saw this occur countless times when I worked as an outreach nurse in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. It caused moral distress that was partly responsible for my decision to return to a hospital job. How can we claim to be helping anyone when we keep them mired in addiction via hundreds of millions in government funding? The forward to a “ harm reduction toolkit ” released by Boston city officials in 2021 leads with an explanation that the city has a “long and proud history of providing services to people struggling with substance use. We are home to countless treatment programs, ranging from detox to recovery housing.” B.C.’s harm reduction activists, meanwhile, become enraged at policy changes such as the province’s move to witnessed , versus take home, “safe supply” drugs. They react similarly to suggestions that we place more focus on treatment and recovery, particularly when the proposed treatment is involuntary . Years ago, someone I went to nursing school with was hired as a nurse at InSite, one of Vancouver’s supervised injection sites. She told me that harm reduction was a “sexy” area of nursing to work in. I assumed that she meant it was cool, all the rage, progressive and contributed to one’s reputation as a sort of elitist saint. Her assertion quite ironically smacked of the “white privilege” she was fond of discussing at length. There is nothing “sexy” about Vancouver’s failed harm reduction experiment, which is not just ineffective , but barbaric."

Our new ungracious immigrants

Nowadays, we're told that it's evil to expect migrants to be grateful. Left wingers hate Western countries, so they love others who hate them too: 

Our new ungracious immigrants | Toronto Sun
We are the Dr. Frankensteins who asked nothing of immigrants, in a complete break from our nation's past. And we got our wish. 

Silicon Valley was energized by legal immigrants from all over the world who founded eBay, Google, Nvidia, SpaceX, Stripe, Sun Microsystems, Tesla, Yahoo, and a host of others.

The Greek American Elia Kazan’s 1963 film America, America is a fictional account based on the Herculean struggle of the director’s uncle to immigrate to the United States from an impoverished and hostile Turkish Anatolia. 

The film summed up Americans’ traditional view of immigrants: They had risked everything for the chance to reach America, and once there, became hyperpatriotic in their gratitude for the magnanimity of their new hosts.

An excellent example is the recently released memoir from Encounter Books, American Trojan, by former University of Southern California president and Cypriot immigrant Dr. Max Nikias. It resonates with thankfulness to America for offering him opportunities undreamed of elsewhere.

He and his wife arrived in the U.S. from war-torn Cyprus nearly penniless but determined to work hard, master English, and enrich the country that welcomed them with their talents and education. What followed was an amazing American trajectory that saw Nikias become president of the University of Southern California — arguably the most successful one in recent memory.

I grew up in rural California surrounded by hard-working immigrant farm families from Armenia, India, Japan, and Mexico. Their work ethic, love of America, and productive farms were models for U.S. non-immigrants. Such immigrants explained why the San Joaquin Valley was the most productive and richest agricultural region in the nation.

My own Swedish grandfather, disabled by poison gas while fighting on the Western Front in the First World War, loved all things Swedish, but not nearly as much as his beloved America.

Four Hansons fought on the front lines of the First World War and the Second World War. One was disabled, and another was killed on Okinawa. And all felt blessed that their parents and grandparents had gotten to America.

But recently, something has gone terribly wrong with immigration — an open border, of course, but also a change in legal immigration as well as student visitors.

During the the First World War, Japanese Americans fought heroically in horrific conditions in Italy in the famous 442nd Regimental Combat Team and 100th Infantry Battalion — even as their families were interned in the Western United States. Few native-born Americans were more loyal or patriotic than the Japanese-Americans.

And now?

While America is at war with Iran and de facto with its terrorist proxies, crowds of immigrants, visitors, and foreign students in New York scream anti-American slogans as they cheer on our enemies in theocratic Iran and its terrorist proxies, Hezbollah and Hamas.

Are we surprised, then, when Islamic terrorists begin hunting down Americans on our own soil?

On campuses today, thousands of Middle Eastern international students, mostly arriving from autocratic, tribal, and failed nations, have staged often violent demonstrations in the years following the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre. They are not shy about cheering on the Hamas slaughter of Israeli civilians.

These pro-Hamas students have not just damned Israel but also often harassed Jewish-Americans. They revile their host America and expect Americans to smile and shrug.

It is hard to determine whether such zealots hate the U.S. more than they love living in America and preserving their student visas and work permits.

Hating or loving the ‘Great Satan’?

Take Dr. Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani. She is the daughter of Ali Larijani, one of the late Supreme Leader Khamenei’s murderous henchmen. He sent his daughter Fatemeh to the top schools in the satanic United States. She was eventually even hired as a professor at Emory University — at least until popular outrage at the Larijani family’s hypocrisy prompted her dismissal.

To our enemies in Iran, we may be the “Great Satan.” But Iranian theocrats apparently prefer their children and other relatives to study and get rich in Luciferian America. So, many send their kids to universities in the U.S.

Another surreal example is the case of Mahmoud Khalil, who arrived on a student visa at Columbia University and soon led the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.”

When the State Department sought to revoke his temporary visa, the Left made Khalil a veritable martyr. Apparently, his university supporters reasoned that the U.S. had an obligation to invite to its shores those who are active supporters of terrorists like Hamas.

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a naturalized citizen from Uganda whose parents became public figures and multimillionaires in America, in the past has had little good to say about his adopted country.

His quite public wife, Rama, whose parents were naturalized Syrian citizens, illustrated a book that was rife with antisemitism. It’s no accident that after Oct. 7, she posted “likes” of social media praise of the terrorist Hamas killers, who are sworn enemies of her own country.

Many Somali immigrants of Minneapolis repaid the kindness of Americans in welcoming them from war-torn Somalia by committing the greatest welfare fraud in U.S. history, which may reach $9 billion in theft. Their iconic representative, Ilhan Omar, has voiced antisemitic vitriol, downplayed 9/11, claimed the U.S. has a dictatorship worse than the one she fled, and said the U.S. was turning into one of the worst countries in the world. That is the thanks she returns for entering a hospitable America under controversial circumstances and dubious legality.

Hating — or hating to leave — America?

Stranger still is the attitude of visitors and illegal aliens when they finally face deportation.

Former President Joe Biden allowed 10-12 million foreign nationals to illegally enter the U.S. during his tenure, among them some 500,000 known criminals. In the years since his inauguration, not a day goes by without news that illegal aliens of that era have murdered, assaulted, been arrested for felonious acts, or caused horrific auto accidents.

One of them was Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal alien from El Salvador, who long ago was ordered to be deported for his unlawful entry and residence.

Instead, he too became an icon to the Left when he was recently and belatedly facing permanent deportation. He had clearly ignored his earlier deportation orders, and was an alleged gang member, an often violent spousal abuser, and a human trafficker.

Abrego Garcia apparently felt he had a right to enter the U.S. illegally. He successfully made a mockery of our immigration laws. But he presciently expected that soon hundreds of thousands of dollars of free legal help would come his way, ensuring he could stay in the country for which he showed utter contempt.

And in the U.S., one of the most bizarre aspects of recent protests against ICE efforts involved episodes of Mexican nationals waving the flag of the country to which under no circumstances they wished to return, even as they burned the flag of the nation in which they insisted they had an innate right to stay.

Our new Americans killing Americans

Yet the immigration disaster transcends student visas and illegal aliens, since it extends to many naturalized citizens as well.

Consider the terrorist acts that have transpired in just the last several days.

On March 1, Ndiaga Diagne, a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Senegal, shot up a beer garden in Austin, Texas. He murdered three people and wounded 14 others. Diagne wore a “Property of Allah” sweatshirt, along with an Iranian flag T-shirt.

On March 7, Emir Balat, the son of a naturalized citizen from Turkey, and Ibrahim Kayumi, the son of naturalized Afghan refugees, threw IEDs toward a conservative protest outside Gracie Mansion, the New York mayor’s residence.

The media sought to cover up their Islamist motives but could not, given that the two terrorists openly boasted of their aims. Indeed, the two bragged that they wanted to achieve something “bigger than the Boston Marathon bombing.”

That was a reference to Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the murderous Chechen-immigrant brothers. In 2013, they murdered three and injured hundreds at the Boston Marathon. Their aim too was apparently to further the so-called global “Islamic cause.”

This same week, on March 12, Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, another naturalized U.S. citizen, this time from Sierra Leone, went into an ROTC meeting at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va. Once there, he murdered the instructor, Lieutenant Colonel Brandon Shah, a decorated combat veteran. Jalloh shouted “Allahu Akbar” as he fired. Jalloh had previously been convicted for attempting to support ISIS but was released before serving his full sentence.

That same March day, Ayman Muhammed Ghazali, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Lebanon, whose family in the Middle East currently has strong Hezbollah terrorist ties, drove his car rigged with explosive fireworks into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan.

Ghazali was killed by security guards before he could carry out his homicidal plan. Hezbollah, remember, in the past, butchered hundreds of Americans in Lebanon.

There is an endless list of illegal aliens and naturalized citizens who have killed hundreds of Americans, both as common criminals and as would-be jihadists.

And not all the killing is intentional. Thousands of driver’s licenses have been issued to both illegal aliens and legal residents from all over the world, including those who do not understand English, cannot pass a commercial driver’s test, and are utterly unqualified to drive. Is it any surprise that we have recently witnessed serial horrific crashes, where incompetent drivers rammed their 80,000-pound semi-trucks into unsuspecting drivers?

What happened to immigration?

So what made the U.S. adopt such a suicidal immigration and visitation policy — one that welcomes in millions illegally, hundreds of thousands who are known criminals, tens of thousands of students who despise the U.S., and thousands of terrorists themselves and their sympathizers?

In the mid-1960s, amid the Great Society’s dreams of transforming America, new immigration laws were passed that ended the older quota process. That traditional system tended to favor better-off immigrants from Europe and the former British Empire to reflect somewhat the founding demographics of the republic.

But the new law junked the prior merit-based system and instead admitted immigrants chiefly on the basis of family ties and the purported need of the host country for inexpensive labor–with most now arriving from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Suddenly, far less important for entry were critical skill sets, English mastery, high school diplomas, proof of self-support, and knowledge of, or familiarity with, the American system.

But in the subsequent 60 years, Democrats went even further beyond the 1965 Hart-Celler Act efforts to change the demography of the U.S. They began welcoming in anyone, legal or not, who simply crashed the border or claimed they wanted to study in the U.S. The old melting pot was banished, replaced by the “salad bowl.”

Immigration was seen by the Left as the answer to why they had never been able to complete their socialist agendas amid a skeptical American public. Supposedly, by welcoming in a “diverse” demographic, poor and without English fluency, they would grow the welfare state, creating a new dependent constituency.

The new immigrants and visitors were envisioned as left-wing voters-to-be who would look to the Democratic Party as their guarantors of open borders, a new entitlement society, and a criminal justice system that saw the perpetrator as a victim — and the real criminal as a racist America itself.

Diversity, the immigration force multiplier

The new “diversity” ideology peaked under Barack Obama and Joe Biden. The subtext of their open-borders nihilism was a new oppressor/oppressed binary.

It dictated that traditional America was still too white, too traditionalist, too Christian, too unfairly successful–and too hostile to the Democratic-socialist agenda of a mandated equality of result achieved through massive coercive government redistributive efforts.

Under this warped view, the criminally minded Abrego Garcia became a victim of supposed “Gestapo” ICE “goons” (ironic, when patriotic and skilled Mexican American officers disproportionately staff ICE ranks).

The Tsarnaev Boston Marathon killers became “hot” underdog freedom fighters. So the supposedly sexy, photogenic young murderer Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was highlighted on the cover of Rolling Stone.

The more Mahmoud Khalil took on the mantle of an anti-American, pro-Hamas activist, the more the Left rallied to his cause.

When Major Nidal Hasan, the son of naturalized Palestinian immigrants, slaughtered 13 and wounded 32 fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, the Pentagon resisted efforts to tie him to the Islamic terrorist cause. That was hard to do, since he screamed “Allahu Akbar!” as he mowed down his fellow soldiers.

Then Army Chief of Staff George Casey responded to the mass murder with his lamentation on CNN that, “As great a tragedy as this was, it would be a shame if our diversity became a casualty as well.” He sought to quash any speculation about Hasan’s Islamic motives, in fear that the ensuing truth might endanger the Army’s diversity efforts.

Then we come to the case of Eileen Gu, the recent American Winter Olympic multi-medalist skier.

She was born in San Francisco to a Chinese immigrant mother and an American father and lived her entire life in the U.S. But Gu chose to compete in the games for communist China, despite its efforts to isolate, dehumanize, and eventually vastly “reduce” its Uyghur minority population.

Dr. Frankenstein and his monster

The final irony: Why do so many criminals believe they can enter the U.S. illegally and get away with murder?

Is it because they feel contempt for any nation that opens its borders, requires no background checks, destroys its own immigration laws, and weaponizes its criminal justice system to make the criminal the victim and the state his victimizer?

Why do so many burn the U.S. flag while waving the flag of Mexico, a country they have no intention of returning to?

Is it because they sense they might be praised for “celebrating diversity,” as the popular culture would term such abject cultural schizophrenia?

Why would the Tsarnaev brothers repay the country that took them in by killing innocent Americans?

Would it be because, in their formative years in American schools, their teachers and texts emphasized what was wrong with a supposedly exploitative U.S.?

Why, in the middle of a near-existential war with Iran to stop its efforts to obtain nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles pointed at the U.S. and its allies, would naturalized citizens feel so free to slaughter Americans for the cause of Islam?

Would it be because they sense from left-wing universities and popular culture that it is a virtual open season on Jews?

Or that any time an Islamic terrorist commits an act, a Democratic operative will warn America of “Islamophobia” — as if, say, mowing down soldiers at Fort Hood is the lesser crime?

Why would a rich, privileged Eileen Gu feel no discomfort competing for a murderous regime whose agenda is to displace her country from its global preeminence in favor of a communist dictatorship?

Is it because in our relativist modern America, Gu’s “truth” is just as meaningful as any other? And who, after all, is qualified to judge anything or anyone?

Who created our current Frankensteinian monstrosities?

We did.

We are the Dr. Frankensteins who asked nothing of immigrants, in a complete break from our nation’s past.

And we got our wish for a new, quite different class of immigrants, who treated the U.S. the very way they were taught to do by the Left: as an evil entity that deserved what it got.

And we sure have gotten it.

Links - 6th June 2026 (1)

Nikolai Rostov on X - "The arguments on both sides seem kinda dumb tbh. First of all, it is not true at all that the Laffer curve has not been empirically tested (see: Liapis et al. 2020, Schmitt-Grohe and Uribe 1997, Lindsey 1987, Novales and Ruiz 2002 etc). Second of all, it is certainly true that Laffer Curve pts. vary as (Trabandt and Uhlig 2012) show across countries. There is very likely no universal Laffer curve, but of course that’s not the purpose of the curve. The basic idea of the curve is to posit a fairly simple truism between tax rates and tax revenue, in that you can’t tax no income and you can’t tax 100% income to expect revenue, so clearly there must be a point that’s “just right”. What this point is relies on some assumptions and testing. This simplicity doesn’t mean that it’s nonapplicable, nor that countries always taxed accordingly to the left side of the Laffer Curve (people argue today that most taxes are to the left of the maximal point). For instance, during the 1920s, the highest marginal rates were 73% before they were cut to 25% causing revenues to increase. Also during the 1980s, top marginal taxes in Sweden marginal tax rates on new share issues were near 150%, retained earnings almost 100% and top marginal tax rates were almost 90%. (Henrekson and Stenkula 2015). This led to decreased savings and output, increased activity in the informal sectors and owner-occupied housing, and overall economic stagnation. (Normann and MacLeod 1997). This is a pretty good example of punitively redistributional tax policy leading to the effects the Laffer Curve described. Also, the critique that there’s only a global maxima doesn’t understand its methodology all too well. The Laffer curve assumes tax rates and the supply of labour are a strictly monotonic relationship, that is, if tax rates change positively by a fixed amount the supply of labour will decrease by a fixed amount. This happens if we assume the elasticity of a certain tax to be a single number. It’s possible this could be the case if say taxes are 95 vs 100% (w/ 95% you may be incentivised to work very hard because you can only keep a sliver of income, w/ 100% you likely won’t work at all because you have no income, but this might not be a very useful theoretical model). But here’s where my criticisms come in. 1. We can’t just post the Laffer curve w/o any data of the Dutch economy nor an idea of how they’ll react to taxation ex-ante. Merely posting the Laffer Curve is of little use. It’s like telling a company we have to produce at “equilibrium market prices” and just giving a supply/demand curve for them to do so. It’s little more than a heuristic. It doesn’t argue in favour for every tax cut. 2. The Laffer Curve applies very differently to different forms of taxes. A “very high” excise tax at the same rate could be decent for income tax. This is a capital tax, so posting the Atkinson-Stiglitz theorem+ Chamley-Judd theory of zero optimal capital taxation would suffice. Also, and this is more philosophical, but 3. Why are you, a libertarian arguing for the “optimal” rate of tax revenue? Why are you arguing by extension that a tax is bad because it funds the government insufficiently? That seems very un-libertarian; as libertarians would say the ideal tax rate (and tax revenue) is 0%."

maximus on X - "Shyness is negatively associated with dating frequency, number of friends, etc. This fact may not be too surprising, but what may surprise some people is that it doesn't correlate with other-rated attractiveness, only self-rated, so it can't be reduced to a byproduct of 'lookism'"

What about Christianity was so attractive to the Norsemen that they would convert in such a large scale? : r/AskHistorians - "The large-scale conversion of Norse societies between the tenth and twelfth centuries is best understood not as a sudden attraction to Christian doctrine, but as part of a long transformation tied to state formation, economic integration, and sustained contact with Christian Europe. As Scandinavian monarchies in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden consolidated their power, Christianity provided resources that Old Norse religion did not, including access to literate clergy who could draft law codes, maintain administrative records, and support increasingly centralized systems of governance. Adoption of the Christian faith also created entry into a broader diplomatic world that included the Holy Roman Empire and the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, and it offered rulers a recognized ideological framework for kingship that strengthened their legitimacy in ways unattainable through the decentralized and primarily local cult practices of Norse paganism. Archaeological material from major commercial towns such as Birka and Hedeby demonstrates that Scandinavians had been exposed to Christian merchants, objects, and ideas for generations before royal conversion, and written sources such as Adam of Bremen report that rulers pursued baptism in part to secure alliances and trading privileges with powerful Christian neighbors. Because Old Norse religion lacked a unified priesthood, a central canon, or institutions capable of coordinating resistance across regions, it could not counter the appeal of a universal church that offered legal, diplomatic, and administrative benefits in addition to its spiritual claims. The resulting conversion was gradual and often syncretic, reflected in burial sites and material culture that combine Christian symbols with traditional practices for well over a century, making clear that what appears in hindsight as a rapid or large-scale adoption of Christianity was in reality the culmination of long-term political and social changes rather than mass doctrinal attraction.
Sources Else Roesdahl, The Vikings, Penguin: https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-vikings-9780141941530 John Lindow, Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs, Oxford University Press: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/norse-mythology-9780195153828 Adam of Bremen, History of the Archbishops of Hamburg Bremen, Columbia University Press: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/history-of-the-archbishops-of-hamburg-bremen/9780231500852 Neil Price, The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia, Oxbow Books: https://www.casemateacademic.com/9781785708022/the-viking-way/"

German politician strips naked, calls on ‘open-minded citizens’ to join him on swingers trip in France - "Julien Ferrat, a 33-year-old city councillor in Mannheim, Germany, said an eight-day trip to the swinger hotspot Cap d’Agde in southern France is meant to investigate how it became a global hub for nudist and sex tourism, and how that model could help boost Mannheim’s local economy... The camp includes outdoor sex on the Friesenheimer Insel in Mannheim and will exclude the media to protect privacy. “Having sex in your own bedroom is different from on the beach with a group of masturbating men like in Cap d’Agde”"

Ho-ho-no! Children in tears after vicar tells them Santa is not real - "Schools This article is more than 1 year old Ho-ho-no! Children in tears after vicar tells them Santa is not real This article is more than 1 year old Rev Dr Paul Chamberlain apologises for talk at Hampshire school after angry parents say he ‘ruined Christmas’ Sammy Gecsoyler Sat 14 Dec 2024 20.34 GMT Prefer the Guardian on Google Telling young children whether Santa is or is not real is a parental ritual usually handled with painstaking care. For students at a primary school in Hampshire, however, their childhood wonder was torn to shreds after a vicar told pupils the bearded gift-bearer was invented. Tearful youngsters, angry parents and claims of a “ruined Christmas” followed Rev Dr Paul Chamberlain’s visit to Lee-on-the-Solent junior school this week... He told year 6 students, who are aged between 10 and 11, that Father Christmas was not real, prompting pupils to sob. He also said that their parents bought their presents and ate the biscuits left out for Santa."

Morse Report on X - "🚨Top Democrat political consultant and campaign strategist, James Carville, just stated on the Left-wing ‘Policon’ podcast that when the Democrats regain power, they plan to:
-Grant statehood to Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico, so that the Democrats can unlock 4 extra seats in the Senate.
-Pack the U.S. Supreme Court from 9 Justices up to 13 Justices, adding another 4 Left-wing Justices to the court.
-Reopen the U.S.-Mexico border and grant mass-amnesty to every single alien currently inside of the United States.
-His advice to Democrat politicians: “Don’t run on it. Don’t talk about it. Just do it.”
FischerKing on X - "Meanwhile the right forces itself into a straitjacket of ‘norms,’ deliberately oblivious of what’s coming for them."

This new scam could trick you into downloading malware - "A new scam is exploiting a familiar internet security check — tricking people into compromising their own computers. The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) is warning that criminals are using realistic-looking fake CAPTCHA pages to trick Windows users into running malicious commands that install information-stealing malware. CAPTCHAs are commonly used to verify that a user is human, often by asking them to click images or check a box. But in this scam, the page prompts users to follow a series of keyboard steps to continue. Those instructions may tell users to press the Windows key and “R,” then “Ctrl + V,” then hit Enter. According to the ITRC, following those steps opens a hidden command box, pastes a malicious script from the clipboard and runs it, downloading malware onto the computer. Security researchers have identified the malware as “StealC,” which is designed to quietly collect sensitive data. That can include saved passwords, login credentials and other information stored in your browser. A legitimate CAPTCHA will never ask users to run commands or use keyboard shortcuts. If you encounter a page that does, close it immediately."

Family at Geylang restaurant charged S$2 for 'outside drinks' after children drank from water bottle, restaurant says it's policy - "A family whose children were drinking plain water they brought themselves was charged S$2 for "outside drinks" at a Geylang restaurant. The customer, who preferred to go by his surname, Ng, told Mothership that he questioned the charge, but the staff insisted the charge applied and did not offer to waive it. "We understand that restaurants may have policies on outside food and drinks, but applying such a charge to children drinking plain water felt unreasonable and lacking in goodwill." In response to Mothership's queries, a spokesperson from Eat First, a Cantonese restaurant at 287 Geylang Road, said that there were signs at the entrance stating that no outside food and drinks were allowed... He said that he had ordered beer from the restaurant, and the children drank plain water from their own bottles... He added that in most dining situations, when customers are already purchasing drinks, such charges are usually not enforced, especially not on children. He said he was under the impression that only adults were subject to the policy, hence why none of the adults drank the water. Ng said the charges were "both surprising and disappointing". He added, "What made this particularly disheartening is that my family has been patronising this establishment for over 20 years, going back to the previous generation." He noted that his family used to visit the original Sik Wai Sin Eating House at Geylang, before the owners split it it into Sik Bao Sin and Eat First... She claimed that the family was apparently made aware of the charges, but still used the restaurant's bowls as cups to drink their water. She added that the restaurant has been criticised for their policy on outside food and drinks, but said that at the end of the day, they are still running a business. In response to this, Ng insisted that his family did not notice any signs of this policy displayed on the premises, nor were they informed in advance about the "outside drinks" charges. The charges, he said, were therefore "unreasonable and unexpected"."
Some people defend the restaurant. Is there any restaurant policy that someone won't defend?

Public grocery stores are having a moment. Can they really make food more affordable? : r/canada - "I remember when my part of the country was having a massive shortage of children’s cough syrup so we had to get some in from the US. Exact same medicine, just a different box. Most parents who came in hoping to buy some medicine decided it was better to let their kids bear the full brunt of their symptoms rather than buy a medicine that came in a US box. If Canadians are fearful of foreigners enough to let their kids suffer than buy medicine with different packaging I really have to wonder if they’ll want to buy groceries from a foreign store. (PS it was a US brand too so even if we had the Canadian version in they would still be buying a US brand anyways, make that make sense)."
When you hate the US more than you love your kids

Man in California arrested for swapping Lego with pasta - "Police in California have arrested a man for grand theft, though the bounty isn’t a fancy car or pricy electronics. It’s Lego pieces. In a pun-heavy release, the Irvine police department (IPD) said that US$34,000 worth of Lego pieces were stolen from their boxes from Targets across the U.S. and in some cases, replaced with dried pasta... Jarrelle Augustine, 28, of Paramount, Calif., was arrested for grand theft and taken into custody at the Orange County Jail. In an Instagram reel from the IPD’s page, video shows a suspect pulling boxes of Lego from a shelf, along with images from his arrest and the boxes of Lego with pasta in them."

Yaeba - Wikipedia - "In Japan, yaeba (八重歯, lit. 'double tooth'; snaggle maxillary canines) are human teeth, especially upper canines, with an uncommonly fang-like appearance. Yaeba most often refers to a tooth overlapping another tooth or protruding from higher in the gum. In Japan it is perceived as a sign of youthfulness and natural beauty"

Elon Musk on X - "A friend of mine donated to an orphanage for over a decade and one day he stopped by to check on the orphans. What he found was a room full of people working the phones for donations and zero kids. Not even one kid for show. Zero."
Wilfred Reilly on X - "Surprising amount of charity is of this kind. My ex, Tess, and I used to give to Koala Rescue. Years later, I found that they just sort of assign you a random ~bear that lives outdoors. Hundreds of people have the same one. Your money doesn't buy it food (they only eat one thing), but rather goes to support various green causes. Etc."

BREAKING Second Flight Attendant Detained in Dubai Over WhatsApp Image as Cybercrime Crackdown Escalates - "another flight attendant has been detained in Dubai under the UAE’s federal cybercrime laws after sharing an image related to recent regional attacks. In a concerning development, authorities say he was identified through “active electronic surveillance”. A 32-year-old cabin crew member for Emirates Airlines has been held in custody for over a month following his arrest in the early hours of 8 March. He is currently detained at Al Qusais Police Station but fears he will be transferred to Abu Dhabi, which places him at higher risk of extended detention and lengthier sentences if convicted. According to his family, the young man had only just returned to Dubai after being stranded abroad due to flight disruptions and had not seen or been made aware of any official warnings or restrictions regarding the sharing of images or information. A simple date specific Google search shows how little published information there was at the time. In the early hours of 7 March, after being woken by a loud explosion and feeling his room shake, the cabin crew employee took a single photograph on his phone and shared it privately via WhatsApp with colleagues, asking whether it was safe to leave for work or remain where he was. He did not publish the image publicly or intend to cause alarm. The image was subsequently forwarded by others. Despite this, he has been treated as a serious criminal suspect, accused of offences relating to state security and public order."
Clearly, expats don't criticise Dubai because they love it and it's great there

Eitan Fischberger on X - "Crazy story out of Qatar: A British couple honeymooned in Doha, where the wife was harassed at the Ritz-Carlton pool by two men who told her she'd "fall in love" after he slept with her. The hotel gaslit her, with management denying the CCTV backed her story despite their own WhatsApp messages saying the opposite. Her husband posted a TripAdvisor review calling the hotel "unsafe for women." The hotel got it pulled, then a hotel employee filed a defamation complaint against him under Qatar's cybercrime laws. Nearly a year later, when he returned to Qatar for work, he was detained, informed he'd been tried in absentia and fined, and then held for four nights in a deportation centre. The deportation order lasts five years, which severely hurts his career as a Middle East healthcare consultant. In other words, Marriott International, an American company, used Qatari law to silence a complaint about a woman being sexually harassed at their property."

Why My Cousin Vinny is the Best Law Movie - "According to the legal textbook A Guide to Forensic Testimony As an Expert Technical Witness, the authors explain how My Cousin Vinny is an "Entertaining [and] extremely helpful introduction to the art of presenting expert witnesses at trial for both beginning experts and litigators." Supporting the sentiment, Paul Bergman's essay, "Teaching Evidence the 'Reel' Way" cites My Cousin Vinny as an example of demonstrating such courtroom procedures as the rules of evidence, cross-examination, relevance, and voir dire. In addition to learning in stride with Vinny in the popular '90s comedy, the movie makes the legal process easy and accessible to understand."

Supreme Court says a conviction for online threats violated 1st Amendment - The Washington Post - "The Supreme Court on Tuesday reversed the conviction of a man who made extensive online threats to a stranger, saying free speech protections require prosecutors to prove the stalker was aware of the threatening nature of his communications... The case is Counterman v. Colorado."
From 2023. Basically crazy people can threaten others and you can't do anything to them

Meme - "I just don't have feelings for you anymore."
"Appeal to emotional fallacy"
"You don't even care about me ..."
"Strawman fallacy"
"A real boyfriend wouldn't treat me like this ..."
"No-True-Scotsman fallacy"
"Please just leave. I don't want to call the cops."
"Appeal to authority fallacy"

Meme - Wade (in Tarnation): "WHO KEEPS BUILDING WEBSITES FOR RESTAURANTS THAT HAVE EVERYTHING BUT THE HOURS AND MENU I DON'T CARE THE CHEF ANDY USES MIDWESTERN FLARE"
Keywords: uses midwestern flair

Meme - "How Americans cleared mines in WW2 *mine clearing vehicle*
How the British cleared mines in WW2 *humans probing ground*
How Finland cleared mines in WW2 *anime girl playing song*"
Simple yet effective : r/HistoryMemes - "Context: During the Continuation War, the Finnish Army discovered that the retreating Soviets had scattered radio-controlled mines throughout the re-captured city of Viipuri. These mines were set off when a three-note chord was played on the frequency the radio was tuned to; each mine had three tuning forks that oscillated at specific frequencies unique to each mine. On September 1, the General Staff in Vyborg received one broadcast van from Yleisradio, capable of transmitting over the frequency used by the mines. The car in question was a REO 2L 4 210 Speedwagon taken from Nuijamaan auto Oy. The car was used by N. Sauros. Säkkijärvi polkka was present among the van's record collection and to prevent the enemy from operating the mines, they started playing the Säkkijärvi polkka without any pauses. The frequency over which the triads (three chords) were sent out was jammed by the interference, preventing detonation. On September 4, it was noticed that Soviet troops were continuously transmitting the triggering triads on the same transmission frequency. The broadcast of Säkkijärven polkka continued for three days until another car was sent from Aunus to Vyborg The anime girl is a character from the anime Girls Und Panzer who played Säkkijärvi polkka in the anime. (Reposted cuz i forgot rule 12 existed)"

Meme - Sandy Petersen @SandyofCthuthu: ""Owlbears are fierce, savage predators, vicious, ravenous beasts that combine a bear's power with an perception and a nasty disposition." Actual rules"
*village with happy celebration and cute harmless owlbear in the middle*
Wargamingdad @Wargamingdad21: "Has this guy ever actually played a TTRPG. Cause he smells like a tourist."
The Red Room @moorderehtstore: "That's a joke, right? RIGHT?"
Wargamingdad @Wargamingdad21: "It wasn't I didn't know he was the creator of Call of Cthulhu I'll take that L. This is still tourist behavior."
Jason Mitchell @Real_J_Mitchell: "Yes. Your behavior is tourist behavior."

Meme - Yashdeep Kanhai. This Profile is a safe space for billionaires and Top CEOs: "I Fired an Employee Going Through a Tough Divorce. One of my employees was stuck in a messy divorce-his wife demanded half his income. As a good boss, I couldn't just stand by. So, I did the most compassionate thing possible: I fired him. Why? No income = no alimony. The divorce was finalized with negligible alimony, and financial ruin was averted. Once the dust settled, I rehired him. Now, he's back-better than ever-with a clean slate and no ex-spouse draining his paycheck. Being a leader isn't about making easy decisions-it's about making smart ones. #LeadershipGoals #ToughLove #DivorceHacks #BoldBossMoves #EmployeeCare"

Meme - "LOSARTAN POTASSIUM 50 MG TAB
TAKE 1 TABLET BY MOUTH INTO RIGHT EYE"

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ on X - ""Chris Rufo solved this social problem, but he did it by generating political action rather than asking the libs nicely" is the perfect summation of why much of the conservative movement—and almost all conservative academics—has been utterly ineffective for many decades."
Coddled Affluent Professional on X - "Institutional conservatism failed as a bulwark against the ideological derangements of the past decade and was completely overrun. Extra institutional RW activism is the only thing that has produced any meaningful gains and is solely responsible for almost every political victory of any importance."
Left wingers want to win at all costs, which is why they win. Time to denounce right wingers as extremists

Meme - abandonware.online: "Encarta'95 Hat. Hats inspired by the old abandonware, freeware, & shareware games you played on your parents PC."

Firefighter shot, killed by patient he was treating - "A call to assist a man thought to be having a medical emergency on a bus escalated into a shooting that ended with the man and an Appleton firefighter dead and two others hurt... The responders gave medical help to the man, who eventually left the bus and started walking toward a nearby library, whereupon “the incident escalated,” police said. Chief Todd Thomas said the man showed a handgun and exchanged shots with the police officers. Firefighter Mitch Lundgaard, a 14-year veteran, was killed. A female bystander and an Appleton police officer were also hit. The woman was hospitalized in stable condition, and the officer was treated and released. The 47-year-old man died at a hospital from his injuries, police said."
Clearly, it was the police's fault for being there, and they murdered him by acting as judge, jury and executioner