Links - 27th September 2025 (2 - UK Grooming Gangs)

Jonatan Pallesen on X - "This is madness. Look at how much it took for the British authorities to save this girl from the Pakistani rape gangs.   She went to the police, gave a six hour report, and provided DNA evidence. Still nothing. Just back to  being raped five times a day. Even after the perpetrators were convicted, there has been complete failure. The rapists were out again after less than four years, threatening the victims, who receive no protection.
Having a system that is not able to protect 12-year-old-girls from being raped is very bad.  Having mass immigration of child-rape loving Pakistanis is very bad.  And having both at the same time is even worse"
Muh Soggy Knees on X - "kind of ironic how all libshits, radfems, any sort of feminists, who like bringing up every so often the Junko Furuto case from nearly 40 years ago, are uniquely silent about it. They like calling japanese the nation of rapists and misogynists and turn a blind eye on it."

The grooming gangs scandal is still going on – the abusers are using any means possible - "A national, institutional failure to act has enabled the idea to develop that the “whole Asian community is branded with the same accusation,” says Moore. “If you speak to the British Pakistani community, a good proportion actually want to have an inquiry…I’ve always said it’s been a minority of predominantly Pakistani British men targeting predominantly white girls. Now you have people entering the debate who are maybe less aware of the complexities.”"

Michael Gove: Whitehall officials tried to suppress grooming gangs scandal details - "Lord Gove has claimed that Whitehall officials tried to suppress details of the grooming gangs scandal.  The former Tory Cabinet minister said he overruled government and council officials who were seeking to block the publication of information about a victim in Rotherham.  As the then education secretary, he said he had rejected the attempted legal action on the basis that it was better to tell “the truth”. Lord Gove also warned that the proposed structure of a new national inquiry into the scandal might limit its ability to scrutinise the failings of police and government at a national level. His comments, made on GB News, come days after the publication of a report by Baroness Casey, which found that police and councils avoided pursuing child sex grooming gangs for fear of being seen as racist.  Even though there was evidence that a disproportionate number of Asian men had been responsible in such cases, their role was covered up by successive governments and authorities over concerns about raising community tensions, the review concluded."

This must end the grooming gangs cover-up for good - "For decades, officials and politicians have systematically turned a blind eye to the horrific grooming gangs operating across Britain. It is therefore welcome that after months of pressure, Sir Keir Starmer has felt forced to announce a national inquiry into the full extent of the scandal. It is also long overdue.  A culture of cover-ups and dismissive attitudes have concealed the true scale of offending from the public, extending from local council officials and police officers fearful of accusations of racism to national politicians like Lucy Powell, who in May felt able to call references to the scandal a “dog whistle”.  Even in January, when Elon Musk and others brought renewed focus to the issue on social media, Sir Keir Starmer’s first instinct was to kick the issue into the long grass, commissioning a fresh review from Baroness Louise Casey and resisting calls for a full national inquiry.  It is hard not to suspect – as Sir Trevor Phillips, former chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, has claimed – that Sir Keir’s reluctance was “political”, motivated by the extreme discomfort that a full inquiry will bring to the Labour party.  Some of the highest profile scandals took place under the view of Labour councils, amid Pakistani-heritage communities seen as reliable Labour voters, and it is likely that any full inquiry will bring to light yet more damning evidence of the party’s effective complicity."

Rotherham ‘grooming victim’ was told ‘white girls are for rape’ - "A woman said she was told that being rape “is what white girls were for” when she was attacked as a teenager in Rotherham, a jury has heard.  The alleged victim was about 14 years old when she was raped by Sageer Hussain, who was about the same age as her, and two other men, Sheffield Crown Court heard... Mr Ajaib, who was about 18 at the time, allegedly raped her in an alleyway.  “She told him she didn’t want to do it,” Mr Bailey said, adding: “He was a lot bigger than her and she felt overpowered. She realised she had no choice.”  Mr Bailey said this girl was forced into sexual intercourse on “about five or six occasions”, as she was “in fear of being hurt if she didn’t do it”. The prosecutor said Mr Makhmood, who was 18 or 19 at the time, raped the same girl in an old graveyard in Rotherham as she fought against him.  Mr Bailey said that he called her a “slag” and a “dirty b----” before spitting at her and laughing."
It's only a despicable hate crime if "minorities" are targeted

Grooming gangs: Former Rochdale MP says he was 'warned' by party figures not to mention ethnicity - 'They were concerned about votes' - "Former Labour MP Simon Danczuk has told GB News he was "warned off" by party figures from raising the issue of ethnicity in grooming gangs, due to concerns about "votes"... "I was the MP from 2010 to 2017 in Rochdale. The Rochdale grooming scandal broke as a story in 2012, and I quickly came out saying that ethnicity and religion were a key factor in the abuse.  "The perpetrators had a very low opinion of the victims because they were Christian, because they were white, because they were working class, and they used that as an opportunity to to groom them and to rape them." Recalling how he was "warned" off by Labour figures, Danczuk explained: "I was warned off by a couple of significant members of the Labour Party. I was told not to mention the ethnicity or the religion of the perpetrators, but I ignored that and continued to do so.  "The most senior figure at the time was Tony Lloyd, who was chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party, and I wrote to the National Inquiry in 2017 saying that he'd warned me off it and he was concerned about votes."  Noting the "clear" reasoning for their warning to Danczuk, he added: "They thought it would upset the voting of Pakistani communities and they didn't want to lose the vote, it was quite clear about that.  "The good news now is because of what's gone on since 2010, 2012, is that everybody is quite clear, abusing children is totally unacceptable." Discussing one of the issues raised in the Baroness Casey report, Jacob Rees-Mogg suggested that any abuse carried out by "illegal asylum seekers and illegal immigrants" have much less sanction against them...  "cover-ups" by "people in authority" has "emboldened" abusers to carry out their crimes. Danczuk said: "That's right, and because a number of people in authority, the police and in social services have deliberately ignored or covered up the abuse by these particular perpetrators, I think they feel emboldened.  "They feel emboldened and continue to commit these types of crimes, there's no doubt about that.""

We're all 'extremists' now - "The horrific atrocities in Southport and the horrors of the rape gangs are going to be used to justify a sharp clamp down on free speech and free expression.  That’s the conclusion you’d draw were you to read a bombshell new document from the Home Office... The report, commissioned by Labour Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, after the unrest last summer, throws full light on how those at the very heart of the state really think.  Just like in the aftermath of the immigration protests last summer, when Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper rushed to curb free speech, the shocking document from the Home Office pulls back the curtain to reveal the instinctive impulse of the state bureaucracy.  While some of the report’s recommendations have since been rejected by ministers, it is essential reading because it shows us all what the woke bureaucrats at the epicentre of power think —and what they think is horrifying and Orwellian in equal measure.  Some of what I’m about to write is, frankly, outrageous, something that would look more at home in North Korea than modern Britain. According to the leaked document, public claims of ‘two-tier policing’ —the idea that police treat some groups in British society more favourably than others—are “an extreme right-wing narrative”.  That’s right.  If you happened to ask why the police were so soft on anti-Semitic extremists and Islamist sympathisers marching through the streets of London but so tough on British people who protested about mass immigration then you are a “right-wing extremist”.  What about discussing the rape gangs —the most horrific scandal in our entire national history, which has also been revealed in multiple independent reports? Well, according to woke bureaucrats in the Home Office, that’s “far-right” too.  Right-wing extremists, they tell us, “frequently exploit” the rape of young white girls by organised Pakistani Muslim gangs —which the report actually describes as “alleged group-based sexual abuse” (!)—to promote “anti-Muslim sentiment”.  Remember, this document wasn’t written years or decades ago —it was written by civil servants just a few months ago, after many investigations into the rape gangs... what matters more to woke state bureaucrats —as I’ve written before—is not protecting thousands of young white British girls from being raped and assaulted by organised anti-White Pakistani Muslim gangs but, instead, protecting minority groups from any perceived ‘emotional harm', in this case “Islamophobia”.  Unbelievable. And that’s not all.  Much like we saw in the aftermath of the immigration protests last summer, the report demands an increase in the recording of the deeply Orwellian “non-crime hate incidents”, whereby citizens have black marks put on their record merely for voicing or expressing alternative views and based on how others perceive those views, including what they might say or write in the privacy of their own homes.  Worryingly, the report demands that a code of conduct that was introduced by the previous Tory government, which orders police to only record these totalitarian non-crime hate incidents if there is a “serious risk of harm”, is removed.  In other words, woke bureaucrats at the heart of the British state want to make it even easier to chill if not stamp out free speech in modern Britain, leaving everybody fearful of what they say in case somebody else perceives it to be in any way “offensive”. The leaked report also makes clear that people who run the British state ultimately want to bring in a number of other deeply authoritarian measures.  They want to give longer prison sentences to anybody convicted of violating similarly vague and authoritarian ‘hate laws’, which are used to try and control the national conversation and stigmatise views that challenge the Officially Approved Narrative.  They want to brand what they call the ‘spreading of misinformation’ as another example of ‘extremism’ when, in reality, as we’ve seen in recent months, what the elite class defines as ‘misinformation’ often ends up being entirely correct information.  It just so happens to be information the elite class don’t want to confront. Like all those people who wondered after the Southport atrocities whether they might have something to do with Islamist ideology, mass immigration, and importing countless young men from high conflict societies who are more prone to violence.  At the time, they were criticised by Keir Starmer for sharing ‘misinformation’, and by his deputy Angela Rayner for sharing ‘fake news’ and ‘conspiracy theories’. But what many of them were saying, many of whom would now be severely punished by the state under these new draconian recommendations, was entirely correct.  Would the state, for example, have punished Nigel Farage who was widely criticised at the time for spreading ‘conspiracy theories’ when what he suggested —that the truth was being withheld from the British people—also turned out to be entirely correct?  And, much like Keir Starmer after Southport, state bureaucrats also want to adopt a much broader and even more vague definition of “extremism”, one that will clearly be used to silence and stigmatise entirely legitimate but also alternative views. Extremists, the report argues, should not be defined by specific ideologies, such as Islamism or the far right, but rather “behaviours and activity of concern”.  What state bureaucrats want to do —and this is crucial— is move to what they call “a more harms-based approach”, based on the idea “that extremist ideologies alone do not always result in violence or harm”.  Read between the lines.  What it means is that the guiding priority here is to ensure that minorities do not experience emotional “harm” and so entirely non-violent views and ideas will be severely curtailed in order to protect minorities from this “harm”.  This is Woke 101 —an ideology that will always sacrifice free speech, free expression, and our right to debate key issues in our society on the altar of protecting what it views as sacred minority groups from experiencing any “harm”.  It is fundamentally illiberal and poses a major threat to our way of life. It’s all part of an attempt among the elite class to redefine “extremism” —to make it so broad and vague that it encompasses alternative but entirely legitimate views which happen to challenge the Officially Approved Narrative among this class.  Critical of mass uncontrolled immigration?  Sceptical of the visibly failing state policy of multiculturalism?  Wondering if Islam really is compatible with the West, including its strong emphasis on free speech, individual rights, legal independence, and rights for sexual minorities?  Want to talk about the industrial-scale rape of white girls by Pakistani Muslim gangs?  Want to discuss the growing pile of evidence which makes clear that the state policy of mass, uncontrolled immigration is making us poorer, not richer?  Well, congratulations.  Welcome to the club.  Because now, in the eyes of the state, you’re a right-wing extremist now."
The Prevent definition of concerns over cultural cohesion as "far right extremism" ties in to this

James Esses on X - "Here is Emily Maitlis making an accusation that the only reason a person would focus their time and attention on tackling Pakistani grooming gangs is because they are “racist”. The establishment media in the UK are a national disgrace."
Weird that we are told it doesn't matter that in the US, blacks kill each other infinitely more than the police kill them (usually for justified reasons), and only the latter is wrong because the state is supposed to protect people, but the UK establishment covering up and even enabling Pakistani grooming gangs is not a problem and if you are concerned about it, you are racist

Nicholas Lissack on X - "The Channel 4 documentary ‘Groomed: A National Scandal’ is horrifying—but essential viewing. Instead of pushing Adolescence into classrooms, Keir Starmer’s government should be showing this. At least it’s based in reality. We need a national inquiry now more than ever."

Anna McGovern on X - "Keir Starmer refused to appear in Channel 4’s documentary Groomed – yet pushed for schools to show Netflix’s Adolescence, a FICTIONAL drama. Labour has serious questions to answer, and Starmer’s silence says it all. The public deserves the truth."

Josh Howie on X - "One of the least examined aspects of the Muslim rape gangs is the complicity of family members and communities. Looks like Channel 4 have done a journalism."

kwilliam on X - "“I’m angry with the girls” says dad of Rotherham child rapists"
He blamed social services and said he didn't see it as rape
Mirror of video (with subtitles)

Meme - Emil Kirkegaard @KirkegaardEmil: "Would the normal American reader of NYTimes know about Rotherham rapes? Probably not. There were 5 articles about this from before this week, mostly from 2014. On the other hand, there were 700+ articles about Emmett Till, a Black teen who was killed 69 years ago."
i/o @eyeslasho: "Rotherham victims: 1,400
Emmett Till: 1
Rotherham: 10-15 years ago
Emmett Till: 69 years ago
NYT Rotherham articles: 5 before this week
NYT Emmett Till articles: 700
Rotherham reaction: Coverup
Emmett Till reaction: National monument created to commemorate
THE KEY:
Rotherham: White victims/non-white perps
Emmett Till: Non-white victim/white perps"

Dane on X - "250,000 WHITE British girls have been raped in the last 25 years, OVER 90% by Muslims - Lord Pearson in the House of Lords. The numbers are staggering, an absolutely Satanic presence overshadows all of the West, fueled by literal demons."

UK politics: Yvette Cooper says victims and survivors panel being set up after child abuse inquiry recommendations – as it happened - "The shadow home secretary Chris Philp has reiterated calls for a national inquiry, adding it is “not far-right to stand up for victims of mass rape”,  Philp was met with shouts of “shame” from the Labour benches"
If you don't want white girls to be groomed and raped, that is "far right" nowadays

Kelvin MacKenzie on X - "Remarkable that Rupert Lowe has raised over £500K in no time at all to launch a private inquiry into Pakistani rape gangs. I presume Labour refuses such an inquiry for fear of upsetting Muslims and leading to more Islamic candidates standing against them. Starmer will take the knee but not the tough decisions."

Adam Wren on X - "In response to the conservatives rightfully questioning the horrific job that Labour is doing on their ‘inquiry’ she stands up and says “as someone with Muslim family please stop vilifying the muslims” and asks for the gov to crack down on free speech, are you fucking kidding me"
Connor Tomlinson on X - ""Yes, children were raped, tortured, and murdered while their abusers shouted racial slurs and verses from the Quran at them. But have you considered that I am offended?""
Jailing Muslims who have committed crimes is Islamophobic

Andrew Neil on X - "Labour has shelved what limited inquiries it was prepared to mount into the industrial scale child abuse by Pakistani-heritage rape gangs over several decades. It is fitting that this shameful surrender was made by vacuous ministerial show pony Jess Phillips, who announced it as Parliament was heading for Easter recess and the media’s eyes were on Trump tariffs. A good day to bury bad news if ever there was one.  Why this abject abandoning of a Labour government’s responsibilities? Simple. Pure party self-interest.  First, any investigation would merely confirm that Labour local authorities looked the other way for years and failed to prevent the most heinous abuse. Phillips admitted the change of course was in response to local authority lobbying.  Second, it is too toxic for Labour. Any investigation would confirm that the evil perpetrators in the rape/grooming gangs were overwhelmingly Muslims of Asian origin, a vital part of Labour’s electoral base with which it is already in trouble for not being sufficiently robust over Gaza.  So best draw a veil over it all, even at the expense of vulnerable, abused young women never getting proper justice or closure.  Unforgivable."

Meme - Basil the Great @Basil_TGMD: "Labour have sold our girls for votes. It's that simple."
"Labour 'dropped grooming gangs inquiries to avoid offending Pakistanis'. Sir Trevor Phillips says Government's response to scandal is 'utterly shameful' and 'obviously political'"

Labour ‘dropped grooming gangs inquiries to avoid offending Pakistanis’ - "Sir Trevor, the former chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, said Labour’s response to the grooming gangs scandal was “utterly shameful” because it was “so obviously political” to avoid offending a particular demographic of voters.  The broadcaster, who previously stood to be a Labour candidate for London mayor, said the move risked providing an “open goal” to Right-wing critics of the party’s policies on immigration.  His comments came after the Government dropped a commitment to provide £5 million to support up to five initial inquiries modelled on the previous judge-led one into grooming gangs in Telford. Jess Phillips, a Home Office minister, announced that “following feedback” the Government would adopt a “flexible approach” where the money would be available for local councils to use as they wished to support grooming gang work... “I think part of the problem is that the centre-Left has put all sorts of barriers around what it can talk about, what it may speak out about.  “In the same way as we have this problem here, in the United States, the Democrats have had almost nothing to say about, for example, immigration, had nothing very much to say about some of the barriers on freedom of speech on campuses and so on, because they’re embarrassed by it.  “And it has presented an absolute open goal to people like Trump and JD Vance [the US vice-president]. That’s the problem.”"

Basil the Great on X - "Why is anyone surprised Labour have cancelled the few grooming gang inquiries they planned to do. This was Jess Phillips attitude to the mass molestation of women in Cologne by migrant men, she compared it to an average night out in Birmingham. This government are evil."

Meme - "At least @jessphillips kept her word here."
Jess Phillips: "Next time any government minister tells you that violence against women and girls is a priority for them. Don't believe them. It isn't they literally don't give a toss."

Thread by @elonmusk on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "In the UK, serious crimes such as rape require the Crown Prosecution Service's approval for the police to charge suspects.  Who was the head of the CPS when rape gangs were allowed to exploit young girls without facing justice?  Keir Starmer, 2008 -2013 Who is the boss of Jess Phillips right now? Keir Stamer.  The real reason she's refusing to investigate the rape gangs is that it would obviously lead to the blaming of Keir Stamer (head of the CPS at the time)."

Ex-Labour chairman 'told me not to raise grooming gang ethnicity to keep votes' - "The former chairman of Labour’s parliamentary party warned that drawing attention to the ethnicity of grooming gangs could harm the party’s electoral chances, the ex-MP for Rochdale has claimed.  Simon Danczuk, who represented the town from 2010 to 2017, said he was “threatened” by Tony Lloyd, who was campaigning to be the Greater Manchester police and crime commissioner at the time... he was told by two Labour MPs – Mr Lloyd and Jim Dobbin, the MP for the neighbouring seat of Heywood and Middleton – not to link the scandal to the perpetrators’ ethnicity... “The current MP for Rochdale, Tony Lloyd, who then represented Manchester Central, made attempts within Parliament to disassociate the grooming scandal from the Asian Muslim community – that is a matter of public record. He also said privately to me that the links should not be highlighted.  “When Tony became Greater Manchester police commissioner and I continued to raise the poor performance of the local police (and calling for the resignation of the Chief Constable, in an article for the Mail on Sunday) with regard to grooming and publicly called into question Tony’s performance, he phoned and threatened me.   “He said that if I ever repeated such comments he would ‘bounce me from Rochdale to Westminster’. My wife at the time was present when I took the call."

Teenage rape victim told 'that is what white girls were for', jury hears : r/gbnews - "You can’t commit hate crime if you’re a minority. Don’t you know this country has two tier laws now?"

Charlie Kirk Assassination: Calling Everyone Nazis / George Floyd as a Hero

Teacher in classroom pointing to blackboard: "They're all Nazis"
TV presenter: "They're all Nazis"
Rock concert musician on stage: "They're all Nazis"
Man with rifle with glowing red eyes: "They're all Nazis"

Not My President: "Their hero is Charlie Kirk. Our hero is George Floyd. We are not the same."
"This is such a self own lol"

Weird. I thought no one treated George Floyd as a hero.

Links - 27th September 2025 (1 - Donald Trump)

Trump Executive Order Targets Foreign Funding in Higher Ed - "The Trump administration is curbing foreign influence on campus. In an April 23 executive order, the White House directed Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to require universities to report the source and purpose of non-domestic gifts, subjecting those that fail to comply to potential audits and investigations. The order, which comes after years of university noncompliance with federal law, will bring foreign funding out of the shadows.   The directive is a full-circle moment for the president. In Donald Trump’s first term, his administration found that several elite universities had collectively failed to report more than $6.5 billion in foreign funding from adversaries including China and Qatar. But even after those bombshell findings, schools continued to underreport non-domestic funding. Last year, after filing more than 100 public records requests and comparing the information with universities’ disclosures, I found that universities had failed to report at least $1 billion in foreign funding during the Biden administration. And that’s likely the tip of the iceberg: my review covered only 70 mostly public institutions.  The new executive order empowers the White House to hold these noncompliant universities accountable... First, the executive branch should restore the foreign-gift database, discontinued in the Biden administration’s final months, to enhance public awareness of universities’ funding. Congress should pass the DETERRENT Act, which lowers universities’ foreign-funding reporting threshold to $50,000 and creates a penalty structure for those that fail to comply. The bill has already passed the House, and the president would almost certainly sign it.  Finally, states should pass their own foreign-funds disclosure laws. Federal enforcement often varies with the president’s partisan affiliation. States shouldn’t rely on the political whims of the executive branch to ensure that their universities are free of malign foreign influence. State lawmakers can take matters into their own hands and pass straightforward legislation to protect their students from non-domestic actors."
If Trump wants transparency, transparency must be bad

Thread by @SwipeWright on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "🚨BREAKING: A new report from @ncri_io uncovers a MASSIVE surge in foreign funding to universities under Biden, and a potential pipeline of foreign cash and public funds directly promoting radicalization and terrorism on U.S. campuses. 🧵
President Donald Trump has launched an aggressive campaign against the nation’s top universities, accusing them of failing to uphold civil rights, protect women’s sports, defend free speech, and prevent the spread of antisemitism. Now, with the NCRI report's new findings, Trump’s fight has entered a critical new phase: a confrontation over universities’ opaque financial ties that may be compromising their ideological independence and enabling radical, anti-American movements. In April, Trump signed an EO forcing universities to disclose their foreign funding, including the source, amount, and purpose of any foreign gift exceeding $250,000.  What they found was shocking. From 2021 to 2024 alone (during Joe Biden's term), American universities pulled in $28.96 billion in foreign gifts—more than double the amount received during Trump’s first term ($13.72 billion) and exceeding all foreign money received over the previous 40 years combined(!). Even more alarming, yet perhaps unsurprising, the institutions that received the most foreign funding shared tremendous overlap with those engulfed in antisemitism scandals...  This raises a serious question: Could foreign governments be using donations to quietly push anti-American and antisemitic ideas on campus, hiding behind the language of social justice?  The circumstantial evidence keeps growing. But what we need is hard proof. That proof just arrived in a new intelligence report titled “Foreign Terror Pipelines in the Academy: The Case Study of SFSU and Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi,” published by NCRI and shared with me.  The discoveries are shocking and disturbing.
San Francisco State University (SFSU), a publicly funded institution with about 22,000 students, had long faced accusations of antisemitism. Lawsuits in 2017 had already forced the university into settlements over the treatment of Jewish students. But instead of cleaning things up, SFSU’s Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies (AMED) program, run by Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi, got even worse—turning into what NCRI describes as a radicalization pipeline linked to designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs). Since 2020, AMED used public money to host “open classrooms” and webinars featuring convicted terrorists and affiliates of groups like Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)—all designated FTOs under U.S. law... These were not academic discussions, but events that praised and celebrated individuals whose life work centered on violence against civilians. University-sponsored events normalized their actions and glorified their “resistance” narratives to a captive audience of students. Terrorist operatives were platformed through official university communications channels like SFSU’s Facebook and YouTube accounts. Taxpayer money was literally being used to push terrorist propaganda, all under the misleading cover of academic freedom. These weren’t lapses of judgement rooted in ignorance. It was a deliberate strategy to use the prestige of a public university to legitimize and promote violent extremist ideologies.  This was not "free speech." It was the weaponization of academia. Trump’s aggressive approach—particularly his emphasis on transparency and accountability—is not only justified but necessary. Without strong oversight and enforcement, our universities risk becoming fully captured, promoting ideologies that oppose to our values or interests. Transparency alone won't cut it. Universities that platform terrorists must face consequences—loss of federal funding or nonprofit status, or criminal prosecution under anti-terror statutes.  The time for warnings is over. It’s time for accountability."
Conflict of interest is only a problem if it hurts the left wing agenda

Meme - Lori Love @thereallorilove: "Propaganda vs. Reality"
"The Vatican asked Pope Francis funeral attendees to wear all black. Trump wore a blue suit"
*zoomed in photo showing only Trump in blue* *fuller photo showing many people in blue*
Some of the cope is that others wore dark blue, unlike him

Redditors defending the Catholic Church has been funny to see : r/Jordan_Peterson_Memes - "No one was offended when Kathy Hochul mocked The Eucharist with a Dorito or  when a bunch of trans mocked The Last Supper at the olympics.  They also don't take issue with Conclave or  any number of celebrities and comedians who have mocked The Pope.  They're only pretending to be offended because it's Trump."

Eric Daugherty on X - "🚨 BREAKING: President Donald Trump is about to take major action against ACTBLUE, the Democrats' fundraising arm - POLITICO  THIS. IS. HUGE.  Trump is set to sign a memorandum targeting foreign contributions in American elections.  AG Pam Bondi is reportedly to be involved in the crackdown on ActBlue.  ActBlue is reportedly BRACING for this action."
Matt Van Swol on X - "Maybe now someone can explain why donations were made, in my name, to Act Blue candidates in KANSAS...  ...when I've never been to Kansas."

Meme - Blue haired mohawk woman with septum piercing and horn rimmed glasses to man in MAGA hat: "YOU VOTED FOR TRUMP BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT EDUCATED LIKE I AM" *Phd of Gender Study*
Man: "WHATEVER, I'M JUST HERE TO REPOSSESS YOUR CAR"
Shocked woman: *Overdue student loan debt*

Meme - NPC: "Make love not war!"
Trump: "I agree, let's end the war."
NPC: "Well I can't agree with Trump. Win the war no matter the cost!"
NPC: "Women's rights!"
Trump: "Yes, deport rapists and get men out of women's sports."
NPC: "Shit! Forget women. Rapist and trans rights are more important!"
NPC: "Big government is the enemy!"
Trump: "Let's slash the government."
NPC: "Elon Musk is a NAZI!!!"

ALX 🇺🇸 on X - "JD Vance says that the largest steel producer in America, Nucor Steel, stopped work in its West Virginia plant for years because of Biden’s Green New Deal regulations. 101 days later, U.S. manufacturing is being brought back."
Idiots. They're supposed to learn to code and hollow out the economy!

Laura Loomer on X - "WATCH:  Radical left protesters were just caught on camera by @LoomerUnleashed  @TheCharlesDowns  being bussed into D.C. for the anti-Trump MAY DAY protests today.   A “protester” from CASA, a Marxist and pro-illegal alien group that advocates for blacks and Hispanics was seen exiting the bus, and he became enraged at @LoomerUnleashed  after we exposed CASA Protesters being bused into DC.   The anti-Trump protester told Downs, "N*gga. I’ll bust your mother f**kin shit man. Say it to my face Homeboy. I will crack your head upside your mother****** head. That’s what I want to do.” 😳😳😳  Where does the left find such nice people to attend their anti-Trump protests?"

Meme - Congressman Shri Thanedar @RepShriThanedar: "Donald Trump arrives in Michigan today to celebrate his first 100 days in office.   Here's how I'll be greeting him."
Chef Andrew Gruel @ChefGruel: "This guy owned a pharmaceutical testing lab. In 2010 he went bankrupt, locked the doors and left all the puppies and monkeys he was testing inside to die."
"Rep. Shri demands Congress Impeach Trump"

Meme - MAGA Voice @MAGAVoice: "Trump just posted this. It should be in the Hall of Fame. This is literally Trump at his best"
Donald J. Trump: "Merry Christmas to all, including to the wonderful soldiers of China, who are lovingly, but illegally, operating the Panama Canal (where we lost 38,000 people in its building 110 years ago), always making certain that the United States puts in Billions of Dollars in "repair" money, but will have absolutely nothing to say about "anything." Also, to Governor Justin Trudeau of Canada, whose Citizens' Taxes are far too high, but if Canada was to become our Sist State, their Taxes would be cut by more than 60%, their businesses would immediately double in size, and they would be militarily protected like no other Country anywhere in the World. Likewise, to the people of Greenland, which is needed by the United States for National Security purposes and, who want the U.S. to be there, and we will!... Merry Christmas to the Radical Left Lunatics, who are constantly trying to obstruct our Court System and our Elections, and are always going after the Great Citizens and Patriots of the United States but, in particular, their Political Opponent, ME. They know that their only chance of survival is getting pardons from a 'man who has absolutely no idea what he is doing, Also, to the 37 most violent criminals, who killed, raped, and plundered like virtually no one before them, but were just given, incredibly, a pardon by Sleepy Joe Biden. I refuse to wish a Merry Christmas to those lucky "souls" but, instead, will say, GO TO HELL! We had the Greatest Election in the History of our Country, a bright light is now shining over the U.S.A. and, in 26 days, we will, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. MERRY CHRISTMAS!"

Buzz Patterson on X - "I’m going to try one last time.   The Qatar B-747 was built in the US by Boeing. They are offering a newer 747 to replace one of the two current AF-1s that have been flying for 40 years. Which are tired and need to be replaced. The wing based at Andrews has also purchased aircraft from other countries in the past which are currently flying our VP and senior government officials. This is NOT new.  Qatar is offering the jet to the US military, not Donald Trump. The DOD contractor is based in the US, in fact my dad (a retired Air Force general) used to work for them. They are, not unironically, also working to upgrade the FAA technology as we speak. You know, Newark and elsewhere. They will get the aircraft and perform all of the security and the installation of the systems that AF-1 requires to safely move our president around the world. Not the Qatari’s. And you and I will pay for that but not the $400 million the 747 would normally cost. I could tell you exactly what is required to modify the AF-1 for safe flight but that is Top Secret and I’d have to kill you.  This AF-1 will serve the sitting president, whether they be Republican or Democrat until Boeing gets their shit together to complete the new, upcoming improved 747s that started under Obama, was renegotiated under Trump, and was completely ignored by the Biden administration. It’s looking like 2029 to 2030 for delivery at the soonest.   I love X but sometimes the “sky is falling” conspiracy crap grows tiresome. A little knowledge goes a long way. Having flown on the current AF-1s 100 hundred times, I have intimate knowledge.   Now, come at me about “chemtrails.” 🤣"

Bill Ackman on X - "Why is not OK for the DoD to accept a $400 million plane from Qatar, but it is ok for our elite universities to accept billions from Qatar? How is one proper and the other not? Just asking."

Meme - Nicholas... @captgouda...: "The Trump administration is announcing price caps on medication. This is the worst policy decision that any administration has ever done. It is the moral equi... Note that the effect of the "most-favored nation" laws would be to prevent the entirety of Africa from getting any medicine. They simply will no sell it there."
9mmSMG @9mm_smg: "So, according to him, Africa will no longer be able to afford medicine, and they'll all die in exchange for cheaper drug prices in the US.   Is it the responsibility of the average American to subsidize an entire continent by paying high prices? There are already many Americans who can't afford their medication and sometimes have to choose between heating their home and taking their medication.  The USA shouldn't be financially responsible for the world, directly or indirectly. We have plenty of poor Americans to help."

Dash Dobrofsky on X - "If you voted “uncommitted” in Michigan instead of voting for Biden, you’re a Trump supporting terrorist."
David Neiwert on X - "This is straight up an Islamophobic dogwhistle. I don’t agree with the uncommitted voters, but you should take this down. Or maybe you’re unaware that Muslims have endured 23 years of being labeled terrorists simply for being Muslims."
The best way to defeat a left winger is to use left wing logic against him

Libs of TikTok on X - "BREAKING: The Senate just unanimously passed Trump's "No Tax on Tips" Act with a vote of 100-0 PROMISES MADE PROMISES KEPT 🇺🇸"
I saw left wingers crowing when the House bill came out and didn't have this provision. But of course they've moved on to the next nonsense in their gish gallop

Bill Maher blasts Democrats for messing up so bad, Trump 'cool now' - "Maher and Smith slammed Democrats for leaning so far to the left, allowing Trump to be re-elected. “The man was impeached twice. He was convicted on 34 felony counts, and the American people still said he’s closer to normal than what we see on the left,” Smith remarked... “Because something that pertains when you talk about the transgender community, for example, you talk about the issues that pertain to less than 1% of the population, the Democratic Party came across as if that was a priority more so than the other issues.”"

Bill Maher offers praise for Trump after White House dinner - "“Just as a politician, just understand that [you should] always lean in to being more who you are. The people are not savvy about issues but they smell a phony a mile away and that kind of s***, nobody else does it.”... Trump’s authenticity and dominance appeared to matter more than facts or policy, which Trump has largely managed to shrug off."

Meme - "The liberals are melting down. Trump hasn't even been inaugurated yet."
Lillian Marie @libertine-lily.bsky.social: "KILL DONALD TRUMP. KILL HIS VP, VANCE. KILL HIS CABINET PICKS. That is the only way to save the United States of America. That is the only way to save this nation. I lose if I stand by quietly. There is no victory condition for me if I stay quiet. I support the assassination of Trump."
DOGE - Department of Government Effe...: "If Secret Service doesn't investigate her then we should investigate Secret Service."
Trump inciting violence again! Time to jail the "far right" to keep people safe

Meme - "Why didn't Democrats call for gun bans when Trump was shot?"

Brian Allen on X - "BREAKING: A post on Harvard’s Sidechat app; where users must verify with a .edu email, is going viral after calling to blacklist Trump supporters on campus.  “Don’t let them into clubs. Don’t be friends with them. Don’t date them. Bring back real social consequences for politically affiliating with a fascist.”  It’s anonymous, but it reflects a growing student backlash, not just to Trump’s policies, but to the idea that fascism can wear a suit and still get a seat at the table.  The culture war just met the campus wall. And students are done playing nice."
Clearly, McCarthyism is good when it pushes the left wing agenda. The left really hasn't learnt anything

Charlie Kirk on X - "Let me get this straight:  Democrats tried to put Trump in prison for 700 years, take his business empire from him, impeach him twice, take him off the ballot, and censor him on all social media - all the while they were sitting on info that Trump was on the Epstein list?   This is total and complete nonsense."

Meme - Julie B(rooklyn) BAB... @JMeanypants: "Trump signed an executive order to make English the official language. He's a racist POS. I would love everyone to tell him fuck you in every language BUT English. ll start. Va te faire foutre - French to honor my great grandfather."
Ironically, the official language of France is French. Not to mention all the black and brown countries with official languages

Meme - Chris Freiman @cafreiman: "*Bernie Sanders* Pro tariffs
Pro drug price controls
Endorses greedflation theory
Thinks consumers have too many choices
Rich
Says immigrants take American jobs
President of the United States
(Photo unrelated)"

Unpacking claims Trump admin cut fines of Wells Fargo executives in return for donation to inauguration | Snopes.com - "Claims of corruption within U.S. President Donald Trump's administration and the banking industry spread on social media in late April and early May 2025. The allegations stated that in return for donating $1 million to the inauguration of Trump and Vice President JD Vance, those involved in a high-profile banking scandal received greatly reduced fines...   Claims about the fine reduction and alleged corruption spread widely on social media through multiple posts on Facebook (archived, archived, archived), X (archived) and Threads (archived). The spread appeared to have originated with a post from Robert Reich, former U.S Secretary of Labor and well-known Democrat... the lobbying group Electronic Payments Coalition donated $1 million to the Trump-Vance inauguration... The coalition's website lists Wells Fargo as one of its members...   However, though both elements of the claim were true, no evidence definitively asserts that the EPC's donation to the inauguration was the reason the OCC lessened the fines for Julian and McLinko."
Even for left wingers, this is a huge logical leap
Left wingers keep reading and sharing fake news memes, so they believe tons of misinformation. Of course, those like Robert Reich who keep spreading lies never have anything happen to them

Having made the case for violence, American moral crusaders deliver it - "In a September 2022 speech in Philadelphia, President Joe Biden insisted: “We must be stronger, more determined and more committed to saving American democracy than MAGA Republicans are to destroying American democracy.” On July 26, after assuming the role of Democratic standard-bearer, Kamala Harris called Trump “an existential threat to our democracy and our most fundamental freedoms.” The day after the latest assassination attempt, 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton castigated the press for its alleged lack of a “consistent narrative” about “Donald Trump, his demagoguery, his danger to our country and the world.”... In truth, the Manichean language of modern American politics almost seems crafted to drive mentally unbalanced people to find meaning in pursuing the violent defeat of forces they’ve been told will destroy everything they value. Such individuals take up righteous missions in the sordid business of politics... A May data review from the Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. Army’s West Point military academy even found that threats against public officials have steadily risen for the past 10 years. The number of people arrested for making threats in breach of federal law has almost doubled in the past six years from the previous four. Public figures like Trump are by no means the only victims. In July, an elderly Michigan man erecting a Trump sign was run over by a politically motivated attacker who took his own life the next day. Arsonists have targeted campaign offices, political signs and politicians like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.), but also the offices of conservative organizations in Minnesota, an Ohio church that hosted a drag event and even police cars and campus buildings at the University of California, Berkeley. People have killed each other in political disputes... Elections should never be seen as so high stakes that they justify violence. If Americans truly believe that Trump, Harris or anybody else would endanger the country upon winning the presidency, then the real problem is that government wields too much power. Election outcomes are unpredictable, so the offices to be won shouldn’t pose so much peril. Once control of government is less important, maybe we’ll learn to live alongside each other again."
Time to imprison all MAGAs for inciting violence

Links - 26th September 2025 (2 - Antifa)

Meme - "Behold the doxxing campaign on X by @AnonCommieStan"
@Stone_toss follower count: *growing*
"Won't this just make him more popular & get the doxxer suspended?"
"Popular? Suspended?"

Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 on X - "An Antifa far-left blog in Chicago has posted a call for comrades to carry out attacks ("autonomous actions") on April 7 against "zionist entities and infrastructure." Antifa use anarchist blogs to publish calls to violence and claims of responsibility for attacks. The blogs are often connected to groups ("collectives") that also print extremist texts they use to recruit and radicalize others."

ANDY NGO REPORTS: Everything you need to know about the 61 Antifa-linked ‘Stop Cop City’ suspects indicted on RICO charges - "Flock Safety’s business motto is: “To solve crime, you need evidence.” The Atlanta-based “all-in-one” security technology company boasts major police departments as clients for its license plate-reading camera technology.   On Tuesday, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr alleged in a 109-page domestic terror and felony RICO indictment that one of the 61 suspects used his employment at the security company to provide sensitive security information to his violent co-conspirators."

Meme - Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo: "A large liberal newspaper in Aachen, Germany ran a story about an Antifa protest against the AfD Party, which is polling second nationally. Their headline read, "Aachen protests against right-wing hate." Their photo of the march banner from the event stated, "Kill AfD voters."   @aachenerzeitung changed the feature photo without an editor's note once they noticed the banner and the intentions of Antifa.
Background: Tens of thousands of Germans have been protesting for the AfD to be banned after some AfD leaders discussed deporting illegal aliens, alien criminals, and foreign residents who have not integrated through perpetual reliance on welfare."
It's only "hate" if it hurts the left

Meme - "The Mass Psychology of Fascism (German: Die Massenpsychologie des Faschismus) is a 1933 book by the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, in which the author explores how fascists come into power, and explains their rise as a symptom of sexual repression. As an adult Reich wrote extensively, in his diary, about his sexual precocity. He maintained that his first sexual experience was at the age of four when he tried to have sex with the family maid (with whom he shared a bed), that he would regularly watch the farm animals have sex, that he used a whip handle sexually on the horses while masturbating, and that he had almost daily sexual intercourse from the age of 11 with another of the servants. He wrote of regular visits to brothels, the first when he was 15, and said he was visiting them daily from the age of around 17. He also developed sexual fantasies about his mother, writing when he was 22 that he masturbated while thinking about her." Naturally, all this has been wiped from Wikipedia Why are anti-fascists like this?

Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 on X - "Two days before elections in the Netherlands, a leader of a right-wing party (MP @thierrybaudet) was assaulted with a bottle. The Netherlands has a history of political violence. In 2002, a gay right-wing politician was assassinated by a leftist activist."
Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 on X - "Update: An Antifa cell has claimed responsibility for the attack in the city of Groningen where an assailant pretending to be a fan smashed a bottle on the head of a right-wing Dutch lawmaker ahead of elections."

Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 on X - "Breaking: An America or Canadian militant Antifa activist who attended the London Palestine protest called @BillboardChris a fascist for opposing transitioning children. The Antifa man tries to rally Muslim women to his cause but they tell him they disagree with him too."

DAVID MARCUS: Free speech advocates should boycott Marriott after they canceled Andy Ngo's event under Antifa threats - "journalist Andy Ngo was slated to appear in Virginia at the Richmond Commonwealth Club, but after left wing Antifa thugs posted about the event, demanding that followers call and complain at the venue until they caved. The venue canceled it, citing safety concerns, leaving the Common Sense Society, which was hosting Ngo, scrambling.  They found a room at the inn, the Richmond Westin, owned by Marriott to be exact, but no sooner did Antifa goons resume their online smears and calling campaign than the hotel folded like a beach chair to the cackling demands to silence Ngo...   Put simply, if this can happen to Ngo, then no journalist who crosses the ridiculous lines drawn in the sand by censorious progressives is safe from this kind of persecution.  And who exactly were the cowards at Marriott caving to here? An organization, and yes it is very much an organization, hell-bent on destroying the government of the United States.  This is the same Antifa that set fire to federal buildings in Portland, that traded gunfire with police at a proposed training facility in Atlanta, that poured gasoline on the George Floyd riots causing billions of dollars in damage, and the same Antifa that regularly threatens the lives of Ngo and others who dare question and cover them."

Opinion | The Truth About Today’s Anarchists - The New York Times - "While talking heads on television routinely described it as a spontaneous eruption of anger at racial injustice, it was strategically planned, facilitated and advertised on social media by anarchists who believed that their actions advanced the cause of racial justice. In some cities, they were a fringe element, quickly expelled by peaceful organizers. But in Washington, Portland and Seattle they have attracted a “cultlike energy,” Mr. Quinn told me. Don’t take just Mr. Quinn’s word for it. Take the word of the anarchists themselves, who lay out the strategy in Crimethinc, an anarchist publication: Black-clad figures break windows, set fires, vandalize police cars, then melt back into the crowd of peaceful protesters. When the police respond by brutalizing innocent demonstrators with tear gas, rubber bullets and rough arrests, the public’s disdain for law enforcement grows. It’s Asymmetric Warfare 101. Editors’ Picks When He Missed a Beyoncé Concert, the Hive Went to Work Writers, Actors and Others Struggle to Pay the Rent as Strikes Continue Manet and Degas: A Masterful Pas de Deux at the Met  An anarchist podcast called “The Ex-Worker” explains that while some anarchists believe in pacifist civil disobedience inspired by Mohandas Gandhi, others advocate using crimes like arson and shoplifting to wear down the capitalist system... If that is not enough to convince you that there’s a method to the madness, check out the new report by Rutgers researchers that documents the “systematic, online mobilization of violence that was planned, coordinated (in real time) and celebrated by explicitly violent anarcho-socialist networks that rode on the coattails of peaceful protest,” according to its co-author Pamela Paresky. She said some anarchist social media accounts had grown 300-fold since May, to hundreds of thousands of followers... “As a Black woman who has been working on this for 30 years, to have young white activists who have just discovered that Black lives matter yelling at me that I’m not doing enough for Black people — it’s kind of ironic, is what it is,” Ms. Hardesty told me... Black people get shot for doing ordinary law-abiding things. They don’t have the luxury of anarchy, he told me.  That’s the thing about “insurrectionary anarchists.” They make fickle allies. If they help you get into power, they will try to oust you the following day, since power is what they are against. Many of them don’t even vote. They are experts at unraveling an old order but considerably less skilled at building a new one. That’s why, even after more than 100 days of protest in Portland, activists do not agree on a set of common policy goals...  it’s not really about George Floyd or Black lives, but insurrection for insurrection’s sake."

Anti-Antifa Images | ADL
If you're against anarchists destroying society, you're a dangerous extremist

Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 on Twitter - "A suspect has been arrested in Oakland, Calif. over the robbery & murder of radical leftist baker Jennifer Angel. Ishmael Jenkins Burch allegedly dragged her to her death in his getaway car. Angel's estate has repeatedly stated they don't want her killer to be imprisoned, in line with her far-left beliefs of abolishing the law. #Antifa #BLM"

Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 on Twitter - "Miami #Antifa @MIAAntifaNews announced a direct action today outside courthouse to celebrate Trump’s indictment. They say they’re prepared for police & armed opposition. One of their members was convicted last year for planning massacre of Trump supporters."

UN Deletes Pro-Antifa Tweet After Massive Public Backlash

Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 on Twitter - "For years, the German Antifa operated a cell named "Hammerbande," or Hammer Gang. They infamously beat victims with hammers, crowbars & bats. After years of prosecution, three were finally convicted despite the objection of leftist politicians & activists."

VIDEO: Antifa Overturn Car With Disabled Badge in France - "Black-clad rioters, reported as “anti-fascists” or Antifa, were caught on film overturning a car with with a disabled badge as protests sparked by the death of George Floyd in the custody of Minneapolis police now reach Paris and other parts of Europe."

Meme - We Live In A Society: "Oh no guys a "general" of ANTIFA who supports child grooming is projecting in my comments, is also a cop apparently and making veiled threats. Me so scared. More proof that ANTIFA are just the modern day brown shirts ushering in the new world order while unironically thinking their rebels" Damon Arial: "Nobody wants to see me in drag, well, except for you. You do realize that Tom Hanks got his Screen Actor's Guild card for being a character in drag on the show Bosom Buddies, right? I'm not a performer, I'm a General in Antifa, and I do undercover work for my work as a private detective. Some call us Nazi hunters, but we call ourselves Americans. I think you want to do the things you accuse others of. That is why, this page/you will FAFO, and next thing you know, sitting in jail or prison. Toodles Keyboard Predator"

Michael Tracey on Twitter - "Declare yourself "anti-fascist" and suddenly all things become justifiable, because the greater evil is always "fascism." The Trump era has been a goldmine for self-aggrandizing narcissists who use this binary as an excuse to rationalize insane behavior"

BREAKING: Antifa mob shows up at Republican Senator Josh Hawley's DC home, harasses wife and baby

‘Let’s kill people’—Secret recordings of California Antifa group leaked by infiltrator - "A Trump supporter has infiltrated an Antifa group in Sonoma County, California, and released recordings of an online meeting between the far-left militants who had discussed killing cops and doxing targeted individuals. ABC7's investigative team has been uncovering the group's potential connection to recent acts of vandalism, including an incident last week at the former residence of Derek Chauvin defense witness ex-Santa Rosa police Officer Barry Brodd. Brodd testified as an expert on use-of-force practice in the contentious George Floyd trial, defending the former Minneapolis police officer's actions. Four days after the witness delivered testimony, masked figures in black hurled a severed pig's head and pig blood at the house where Brodd used to live in West Santa Rosa... Antifa sympathizers have since berated ABC7 News reporter Dan Noyes online for the journalist's report Thursday. Many tried to downplay the violent Antifa movement as "just as idea" and ABC7's work as conspiratorial."

Antifa Group Demands More Government COVID Regulations At Anti-Mandate Protest - "  The group condemned “far right groups”, which they appeared to consider all those in opposition to vaccine mandates. “We are not gonna let people who wanna undermine important public health measures who keep people in our community alive,” a woman shouted into a megaphone. “Far right figures have been mobilizing all across the country, peddling conspiracy theories and lies that the vaccine is unsafe and that lockdowns are a communist plot to destroy freedom”"
Antifa is communist after all. Ironic.

EXCLUSIVE: Conservative activists in Portland announce intention to sue city, mayor and left-wing district attorney in tort claim | The Post Millennial - "the parties' decisions resulted in "violence, trauma, mental and physical damages for the women, caused by the protesters, despite event organizers moving the event to another location to avoid the threatened violence." The Aug. 22, 2021, event, titled "Summer of Love: Patriots Spreading Love not Hate," devolved into a mass brawl after Antifa militants traveled 10 miles from their downtown direct action to confront attendees of the right-wing event in northeast Portland. A van driven by Antifa was overturned by right-wing rally attendees in a viral video at the time.  Later on in the day, Antifa engaged in a shoot out with a man who was unrelated to any protest. The man surrendered to police and was arrested but police are still seeking information about the Antifa shooter... A press release issued by the Portland Police Bureau leading up to the event stated that law enforcement officers would not be intervening to protect residents of the city or rally participants from the riotous activities that were then assumed to take place... Jen Loh, the president of Latinos United for America, announced the tort claim notice in a press release: "The people of Oregon will no longer tolerate politically based law enforcement and prosecution, nor the selective protection of 1st Amendment rights. This lawsuit is being brought in the hopes of being a catalyst of that change.""

MSNBC’s Williams Touts Lincoln Project Ad Comparing WWII Soldiers to Antifa

Antifa Attacks Elderly, Children at Million MAGA March in Washington DC - "Counter rioters attacked pro-Trump supporters at the Million MAGA March in Washington DC on Saturday, with very few members of the mainstream media covering the violence in the United States."

Meme - "There's no point in fighting fascism, if you're not fighting monogamy."

Antifa Members Flying Around the Country to Engage in Rioting: Barr - "“I’ve talked to every police chief in every city where there has been major violence and they all have identified Antifa as the ramrod for the violence”... “We see some of the purchases they are making before the riots of weapons to use in those riots,” he added. “So, we are following them.”  Crossing state lines to engage in rioting is illegal and a federal offense... Some of those arrested during unrest self-identify as members of the network, Barr noted, while others refuse to provide their identity. Antifa members have been arrested or identified as suspects in Washington, Portland, and Green Bay, Wisconsin, among other cities... Of the 175 people arrested in Kenosha, Wisconsin, for crimes during riots since Aug. 24, 102 had addresses from outside the city, police officials said. Those arrested came from 44 different cities."

Mike Schmidt on X - "Hate and discrimination have no place in our communities. Our dedicated bias crimes investigator will help our office hold perpetrators accountable and advocate for the needs of those who have been victims of hate crimes."
Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 on X -  "Why did your DA office give a no-prison sweetheart deal to a pedophile Antifa member (Blake Hampe) who stabbed a black conservative man during a Portland riot?"

Meme - "I KNOW ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY
WHICH IS WHY I COVER MY FACE BEFORE VANDALIZING PUBLIC PROPERTY"

Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 on X - "BREAKING: A Portland Antifa blog has posted a claim of responsibility for the arson attack at the home of moderate Portland mayoral candidate @CommissionerRG . The fire destroyed a brand-new car belonging to Rene Gonzalez's parents. The statement references "Tortuguita," the alias for the Atlanta gunman killed by police who is now a martyr figure for the terrorist "Stop Cop City" movement. (61, including an @splcenter  staffer, have been indicted on RICO, terrorism, or money laundering charges brought by @Georgia_AG .) The statement calls for more violent attacks. https://archive.is/c0bAX  The act of political violence against Gonzalez on Jan. 12 was celebrated by Antifa and far-left extremists.  @PortlandPolice  have not provided new information about their investigation."

Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 on X - ""Wonder how the shrapnel feels" I looked into Benjamin M. Dayton, the man at the center of a law enforcement alert in Tennessee after he told his family he was thinking about blowing up Trump supporters by rigging his vehicle with IEDs. He's an antifa activist."

Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 on X - "Breaking: Horrific scenes of Antifa violence at @UW as masked Antifa militants jumped @choeshow’s security, bloodying him & then chasing after the Korean-American journalist. Antifa repeatedly target people of color who don’t support their violence."

Richard Hanania on X - "Frat bros at University of Washington in Seattle challenge antifa to a push-up contest. Something is happening. There is more on the ground spontaneous resistance to these protests than all others in recent years put together. They’re inspiring a disgust reflex in normal people."
Scott G on X - "We’re used to scenes where these Antifa types have a numbers advantage, surrounding and harassing people, often women. But they quickly go from intimidating to pathetic looking when at a numbers disadvantage. LARPing in their Black Bloc outfits with umbrellas as normies surround and mock them. What a treat."
Swann Marcus on X - "The fact that the far left looks so dorky when normal people without masks show up and just make fun of them is destroying their movement Proud Boy morons can't destroy antifa because they validate the LARP by fighting them. Frat boy mockery is infinitely more effective"
Damn toxic masculinity!

Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 on X - "In 2021, I investigated and found out that Portland Antifa member Jarrid Huber was behind this ISIS-style video. The video summarizes why Antifa commit acts of wanton violence & it is relevant again. The goal is to escalate until the status quo breaks."

Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 on X - "“ACAB” Antifa are furious after LAPD didn’t save their comrades as Jewish men attacked them after the group tried storming the Adas Torah Synagogue in a Jewish neighborhood of L.A. The far-left’s comrades bailed, leaving some behind to be confronted."

Meme - "Soon"
Antifa dog on leash with 3 syringes and rainbow wig: "When can we burn things again?"
Democratic Party holding leash: "patience"

Visegrád 24 on X - "The French Antifa leader Raphaël Arnault, classified as S (a threat to the French state by the security services) has been elected Member of Parliament. He defeated the National Rally candidate 55%-45% in the second round. 🇫🇷"
Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 on X - "Raphaël Arnault, the spokesperson for an Antifa group (Jeune Garde/Young Guard) whose members are under investigation for the beating of a Jewish 15-year-old boy, was elected to the French parliament as a member of the far-left La France insoumise party."
Clearly, we need to elect the Far Left, or the Far Right will win power and Jews will be in danger

ThePublica on X - "HAPPENING NOW Antifa have swarmed a Christian worship event in Portland, Oregon, and are attacking participants and pepper spraying the event's security guards. Jesus March is a non-political public worship, but Antifa have deemed it a "Nazi" gathering. 📷: @hunnybadgermom"

Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 on X - "Rose City Antifa member Shane Burley is testifying for the defense at the trial of violent Portland Antifa leader Alissa Azar in Oregon City, Ore. Burley was previously recorded in undercover footage providing secret training to Rose City Antifa, an organization the defense denies exists.    In 2020, I contacted editors at @NBCNewsTHINK  about the undisclosed conflict of interest after they ran an essay by Burley defending Antifa. He did not disclose his membership in one of the cells to readers."
Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 on X - "How does #Antifa launder their extremism into the mainstream? Through leftist activist journalists. @OPB's @roliereports gave a glowing profile of Shane Burley. Burley was a secret trainer for violent extremist group, Rose City Antifa. He was captured on camera by Project Veritas"

Thread by @MrAndyNgo on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Breaking: Dallas Antifa member Meghan Grant was convicted at trial in Tarrant County, Texas today over her role in a violent attack outside a children's drag event in Fort Worth, Texas on April 23, 2023.  Grant, who is trans nonbinary and a member of the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club cell, went to the attack apparently ready to kill. She was found armed with a Smith & Wesson 9 mm handgun with a mounted Crimson Trace red dot sight.  After a three-day trial, the jury convicted her of interfering with public duties and resisting arrest. She was given a suspended 180-day jail sentence (no actual incarceration), plus one year probation.  Grant's legal woes are not over, however. The victims of the Antifa attack are also suing her civilly. In December 2023, a judge rejected her appeal, arguing that the court was right to decide that the case had legal grounds to proceed. Violent Dallas Antifa member and new convict Meghan Grant (b. June 13, 1985) is using the account @AFAmother on X. AFA = Antifascist Action, the dog whistle that Antifa members use with one another.  Grant, a trans nonbinary violent extremist, says she plans to appeal her conviction and is asking for money. She is promoting her cause with a misleading photo of herself."

Charlie Kirk Assassination: JoJoFromJerz's Empathy / Will Stancil walking it back / Blaming Trump

Jo @JoJoFromJerz: "“People losing jobs for their words. Teachers suspended. Workers punished. Politicians calling for lifetime bans, licenses revoked, livelihoods destroyed. Not for violence. For speech. This is how it begins.”"
Gad Saad @GadSaad: "Thank you @JoJoFromJerz for your empathy. We don't want to live in a society where grade 1 teachers, nurses, physicians, and social workers cannot openly and freely celebrate the assassination of a young father with two young children. We need to be empathetic toward their callous degeneracy. A society wherein we cannot dance on the grave of those with whom we disagree is literally Hitler."

The Middle-earth Mixer @MiddleearthMixr: "Will Stancil walking it back on blue sky"
Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social: "Okay I'm gonna say it: I don't think the available evidence suggests this guy is a groyper, and if anything, he appears to be more left-leaning.

And frankly the fact this entire site is convinced he's a groyper is a pretty revealing demonstration of the alternate reality bubble that happens online"

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social: "Is there any actual evidence that Robinson was a groyper, because he just sounds like a guy who dislikes MAGA in the handful of statements we've heard reported"

Naturally, many other left-wingers still continued (and are almost surely still continuing) their cope

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT: "Pay attention. Something dark might be coming.

The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent."

Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok: "Are you fucking kidding me @ChrisMurphyCT ?! Your party has been CELEBRATING Charlie’s ass*ssinat*on and PRAISING the leftist shooter. Don’t you dare blame the political violence and division on Trump and Republicans. This attempt to rewrite reality is DISGUSTING"

Links - 26th September 2025 (1)

‘Superman’ Review: James Gunn’s Reboot Is A Painfully Mediocre, Super Generic Mess Of A Movie - "There are so many characters in this movie we never get a chance to care about any of them... The movie falls into so many superhero genre traps it almost plays like accidental parody. Everything is chaos, but also too neat and tidy. There’s a major calamity that threatens to end the world in the third act, but of course, as with all conflicts of this type, we know the world will not end, so there’s very little tension or suspense. It’s a foregone conclusion that Superman will stop Lex and save the day, and even if that’s always going to be the case with Superman, making the stakes so impossibly huge ultimately makes them feel like no stakes at all. Smaller, more intimate and personal conflicts always work better for this very reason.  The structure of the plot falls into a narrative trap we see in all sorts of movies. Events happen and then other events happen. The movie moves from one event to the next not because there are consequences, but because that’s what Gunn needs to have happen to get from point A to point B. When a story progresses because characters make choices that lead to consequences that lead to conflict that lead to more choices that lead to more consequences, we end up caring about the characters and what they do a lot more. We become invested.  (Matt Stone and Trey Parker note that the most important thing you can do in script-writing is avoid “and then” between beats. What should happen instead, between every single beat, is either the word ‘therefore’ or ‘but’. In Superman, every beat is connected by “and then” resulting in very little sense of causality or consequence whatsoever).   Meanwhile, events constantly transpire that feel forced and unrealistic. When the Daily Planet crew finds real dirt on Lex, they publish the damning article from Mister Terrific’s flying saucer as they escape a collapsing Metropolis. The news breaks everywhere almost instantly, despite world events like the total destruction of Metropolis and the outbreak of a new war also taking place at the exact same time. Perhaps I’m overly familiar with how news cycles work, but you only publish a story like this during the destruction of one of the largest cities in the country if you want to bury it, not if you want the truth out there. And perhaps I’m too familiar with the power of oligarchs, but I don’t see a news article leading to the downfall of Lex Luthor. I just see him spinning it as fake news, lawyering up and getting out of jail free, with his army of monkeys working overtime to change public perception.   Of course, you might think this means that Superman is just an example of poptimism the way the Man Of Steel always has been. But Gunn not only overcorrects when it comes to redirecting the dark and gritty Synderverse, he can’t seem to settle on a tone. If this is an upbeat Superman movie, why does it feel so grim and cynical still?  If anything, the optimism of Corenswet’s Clark Kent feels wedged into the plot in spite of itself... I loved Guardians of the Galaxy, but where constant snark and Gunn’s sense of humor work so well with Star-Lord and his crew, it feels wildly out-of-place in a Superman movie. Tonally, this movie is all over the place. The fact that you never really get to care about any of these characters the way you did for Rocket or Groot or Gamora or Drax doesn’t help matters.  None of this feels like Superman. Superman never feels special. You could replace him with any number of other superheroes in this movie and it would work about the same. Whatever attempts to make this “alien” a stand-in for immigrants ultimately fall flat, a political message inserted without any conviction whatsoever. There is little in the way of conviction here at all.   Indeed, the only thing Gunn seems committed to in Superman is the oversaturated aesthetic... There are too many dizzying, wide-angle shots. The CGI is aggressive and overused. Some scenes, like a fight that takes place in an antiproton river in the pocket universe, feel almost more like a cartoon than live-action, and not in a good way."

James Gunn's Superman misunderstands the true nature of the character - "James Gunn’s Superman shies away from the character’s incredible strength. This is a Superman who loses his first fight at the start of the movie and regularly struggles to defeat even minor enemies. (Some sci-fi nonsense like a “proton river” shouldn’t be a problem for the Man of Steel.) Gunn gets around this by making Superman fight a clone of himself, but his clever loophole undercuts one of the character’s most fundamental traits.  However, the director’s approach to another core component of Superman’s identity is even more frustrating. Superman is also an alien, and this is where things can sometimes get tricky. In the Superman mythos, being “alien” doesn’t just mean coming from another planet. It means being fundamentally different from human beings — and most importantly, superior to them.  Superman is trapped between two worlds, represented by his two sets of parental figures: Jor-El and Lara (his dead Kryptonian parents who sent him to Earth), and Martha and Johnathan Kent (two Kansas farmers who adopted him and taught him to be human). He is both the last son of Krypton, a world that doesn’t exist anymore; and the adopted son of Earth, a world that will always, by its nature, be alien to him. This is the core of Superman’s identity, but it plays out differently depending on who’s telling the story.  This duality is central to Gunn’s Superman, but the director makes a surprising choice. He reveals that Kal-El’s parents actually intended for their son to not only protect the Earth, but also subjugate humanity. In the end, Gunn’s hero rejects his alien parents and embraces his adopted human ones in what feels like an outright denial of Kal-El’s status as an alien.   Superman himself vocalizes this narrative choice when he confronts Lex Luthor, saying, “That is where you've always been wrong about me, Lex. I am as human as anyone.” Compare that to All-Star Superman, where a dying Superman has a dream-like conversation with his father Jor-El. As Superman laments that he left one labor unfinished, his father answers, “Your work is done. You have shown them the face of the man of tomorrow. You have given them an ideal to aspire to, embodied their highest aspirations. They will race, and stumble, and fall, and crawl, and curse… and finally… they will join you in the sun, Kal-El.”  This is perhaps the best and most accurate description of the meaning of Superman ever put to words. And it’s significant that Grant Morrison, who wrote All-Star Superman, entrusts this message to Jor-El, not to Jonathan Kent. Morrison understands that Superman’s status as a symbol of strength, goodness, and hope is inextricably tied to his nature as an alien. Morrison sees his hero as a god capable of inspiring us all, while Gunn chooses to pull Superman down from Mount Olympus and bring him to our level. It makes the character more relatable, but at what cost?"

Meme - "They can be a great people if they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way"
"Watch for the light, listen, and learn."
"Any father can only hope that he is one day humbled by the feats of his son."
"You will give the people of Earth an ideal to strive towards"
"Form a harem"
"You got it, Pops!"

Hose reel cabinets at Bukit Batok HDB block were padlocked to prevent vandalism: Jurong-Clementi Town Council - "Jurong-Clementi Town Council clarified on Thursday (Nov 14) that hose reel cabinets at Block 210A, Bukit Batok Street 21, where a fire erupted on Nov 1, were padlocked due to previous cases of vandalism. The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) issued a warning to the town council after its officers were unable to use the fire hose reels when the fire broke out at the block... After breaking one of the padlocks, the SCDF officers found that there was no water supply for the hose reel inside the cabinet. Three casualties were taken to Singapore General Hospital for burn injuries and smoke inhalation due to the fire."
Better to have a white elephant than vandalism

Muslim man on SIA flight served prosciutto, asks if it's pork, allegedly told it's not & ends up eating it - "While on a Singapore Airlines flight to New York, a Muslim business-class passenger was served an unfamiliar dish.  The dish was labelled "Grilled Mediterranean Salad with Prosciutto".  Unsure what "prosciutto" was, he asked the cabin crew about its contents, and whether it was bacon.  They apparently told him that it was not, and safe to eat. Assured, he began eating.  But he soon felt uneasy due to the "unfamiliar" taste and texture. The man, a Singapore Permanent Resident (PR) who gave his name as Jey, said that he finally decided to look up the meaning of "prosciutto".  He then learnt that it was indeed pork.  "I was in complete shock," Jey said, adding that he has been a practising Muslim for over three decades... He has since filed another complaint with the U.S. Department of Transportation. Jey clarified that prior to his flight, he had selected the Muslim meal for his refreshment.  For his lunch meal service, he selected the "Book the Cook" option, with a nasi briyani main.  It came with the prosciutto dish as a fixed appetiser, he said.  While he did not select the Muslim meal for this meal service, he highlighted that there was no pork label on the dish."
What an idiot. But of course it's the airline's fault.
Online, some Muslims suggested just not serving pork on airlines. Of course.
Maybe this is why in Malaysia the government always says that Muslims are easily confused.

Hertfordshire news: Council accused of showing 'complete lack of respect' as war graves neglected in favour of encouraging diversity - "Veterans have accused a local council of showing a "complete lack of respect" towards their fallen comrades after they opted to leave the "overgrown" memorials in order to encourage "wildlife and biodiversity"."

Meme - The Bugle Daily: "If Hollywood is going to keep pushing Cynthia Erivo, I already have the perfect role for her! Dhalsim, in the upcoming Street Fighter movie!"

How judges took control of Britain - "Trust in Britain’s legal system is at a low ebb. Two thirds of the public believe that the criminal justice system has become politicised, and that judges make some decisions in line with their personal views rather than the law, according to a survey by pollsters Merlin Strategy. The constant flow of boats across the Channel, meanwhile, appears increasingly to be fuelled by a judicial system which actively works to undermine attempts to remove those arriving from Britain.  It is perhaps a measure of the heat of public feeling that Sir Keir Starmer – former director of public prosecutions, Left-wing human rights lawyer – became, briefly, the public face of revolt against the courts. When Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch raised the case of the Palestinian family granted the right to live in the UK even after applying for a scheme designed for Ukrainians, Sir Keir Starmer agreed that the decision was “wrong”, adding that “it should be Parliament that makes the rules on immigration; it should be the Government who make the policy”.  This is an uncontroversial statement of the United Kingdom’s constitutional settlement, or at least it should be. To Lady Chief Justice Sue Carr, however, it looked like a challenge. She said that “both the question and the answer were unacceptable”, and that it was “for the Government visibly to respect and protect the independence of the judiciary”. Had Sir Keir been in the mood for a real row, he might have answered in turn that it was for the judiciary to visibly respect and protect the sovereignty of Parliament, and the executive authority of the Government. And if he had really wanted to set the cat among the pigeons, he could have answered with a question: who, actually, is running the country? That Britain has a welfare problem is well-established. This year, spending on the personal independence payment (PIP) alone is set to cost £29bn, up £13bn in five years since the pandemic. Attempts to cut it, however, came unstuck in spectacular fashion, with a major row between Sir Keir Starmer and his backbenchers.  The strangest part of this is that a great deal of the increase was never intended by the government in the first place. In fact, the introduction of PIP was supposed to cut the number claiming benefits by 600,000, saving £2.5bn. Instead, caseloads and spending soared. Some of this was poor policy design. But some was the result of judicial decisions.  In 2016, in the case of MH vs the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, a panel of judges decided that “psychological distress” should be considered when deciding whether applicants should receive additional payments to help with mobility, opening up these funds to a large number of applicants with mental health issues. The government, surprised, introduced regulations to undo this decision, clarifying that its policy was not to make these awards. This resulted in another round of legal action, and in 2017 the High Court ruled that these regulations were also unlawful as they discriminated against the disabled in breach of the convention on human rights, and had not been sufficiently consulted on. The government backed down, and set about backdating claims. A rough estimate for the end result could today be in the region of £1.4bn of spending per year. This is far from the only case, however, where human rights claims have shredded common sense. The same convention which underlay the PIP decision has made our immigration system all but impossible to enforce. Supposedly “exceptional” human rights claims now account for around 30 per cent of deportation cases, triggering Home Secretary Yvette Cooper’s plans to crack down on their use. Beyond the Gazan applicants to the Ukraine scheme, one striking example concerned a Nigerian woman who joined a terrorist group banned in Nigeria, but not proscribed in the UK. The judge decided that the woman had joined the organisation specifically “in order to create a claim for asylum”. However, as this had in turn created “a well-founded fear of persecution”, asylum was granted.  It was a maddening outcome. It was also in line with a long-running strand of asylum law. In 1996, the European Court of Human Rights held in the case of Chahal vs the United Kingdom that Mr Chahal – “a leading Sikh militant suspected of involvement in acts of terrorism” – could not be deported from Britain as this would give rise to a “real risk” of torture or inhuman treatment in violation of his human rights.  In combination with a 2010 Supreme Court decision in the case of HJ and HT vs the Home Secretary – where the court held that persecution which was avoidable with “discretion” was still a bar to deportation – this has given rise to an absurd cottage industry. As one legal figure put it, the goal for many asylum applicants as a result is to “bootstrap” refugee status by deliberately creating a danger to themselves through protest. Travel through London and you will frequently find protests outside the embassies of less than perfectly democratic regimes where would-be asylum seekers try to get themselves to prominent positions where they can claim to have drawn the attention of embassy staff, or have photos taken waving banners to post online and create synthetic risk.  The original sin, here, is the way Britain chose to handle the incorporation of human rights into British law. Labour, in 1998, could have proceeded in two ways. It could have stated that the government would identify potential clashes with human rights law, and resolve them. Instead, it effectively chose to hand the entire matter off to the judiciary, creating a duty on every judge to apply the rules of the European Convention on Human Rights, and in effect embedding political values into the legal system."
Separation of powers means that judges have unlimited power

The Mamas & The Papas' banana protest on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' - "The Ed Sullivan Show apparently rarely resorted to relying on playback during its performances but had to every so often due to technical issues. In 1967, when The Mamas & The Papas were due to perform, the band were informed they would have to lip-synch their hit ‘California Dreamin”.  This didn’t go down well with the band, who decided that instead of delivering a serious performance at the request of the producers, they would poke fun at the entire idea. In protest, therefore, vocalist Michelle Phillips took a banana on stage and proceeded to chow down during the whole set. At the end of the song, she began to sing into the banana instead of her microphone."

Another Western nation is embracing a sinister crackdown on free speech - "It seems Australia’s headlong rush into nanny-state authoritarianism continues unabated.  Following on from its vaunted under-16s social media restriction legislation last year, the Labor government led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is extending the ban to YouTube under the guise of “protecting children”... How the legislation is drafted amounts to the creation of a backdoor to controlling the internet, and gives sweeping powers to an unelected bureaucrat – the e-Safety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant – to decide what is “reasonable” for platforms to collect and enforce.  Inman Grant is the last person to whom any extra power should be given. A US House Judiciary Committee report in June accused her of coordinating with major advertisers and national governments through the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) to “silence American speech”, particularly targeting Right-of-centre viewpoints, suggestions that Grant has denied. In a speech given to the World Economic Forum in 2022, Inman Grant asserted: “We’re going to have to think about a recalibration of a whole range of human rights that are playing out online, from freedom of speech to the freedom […] to be free from online violence.” Challenged about this afterwards, American-born Inman Grant responded dismissively by stating that “the First Amendment doesn’t apply in Australia.”  Last year, she tried to institute a worldwide ban of video footage of the terrible stabbing attack on Assyrian Christian Bishop Mari Emmanuel while he was giving a sermon to his congregation in a suburban Sydney church, only backing down after an international outcry.  Just a couple of weeks ago, Inman Grant had a significant loss in Australia’s Administrative Review Tribunal, when Canadian man Chris Elston (more commonly known as “Billboard Chris”) successfully stopped her from censoring him on X. Her attempts to impose a $782,500 fine on X for alleged “cyber abuse” were also thrown out. In handing down its decision, the Tribunal delivered a subtle rebuke to Inman Grant, declaring: “The role of the Tribunal is not to assess the merits of what the applicant posted, or to agree or disagree with the views he expressed.”  Now, on her recommendation, the Albanese government wants to ban YouTube for kids under 16. This is despite Communications Minister Anika Wells saying back in 2022 that it was a great way to keep her kids entertained.  To enforce this ban, the supposed “voluntary” digital ID will not be so voluntary after all. Australians will be asked to upload personal documents, submit facial scans, and hand over sensitive data to unaccountable third parties to prove their age.  Thanks to the UK Online Safety Act, we are getting a working demonstration of how, hidden behind the concerns for children’s welfare, there is in fact what could be described as a politicised attempt to radically extend government control over platforms which shape social discourse. The Online Safety Act, designed to supposedly “protect kids from porn by asking them to prove their age”, has been used to censor political discussion by British adults. As noted by the Spectator, the Act “is not being used to shut down Pornhub or xHamster for adolescents, but to silence discussion – or even basic news – about those topics most awkward for the British government: Pakistani rape gangs, illegal immigration, protests about asylum hotels.”  Seemingly that is how politicians and bureaucrats view social media – as a place to propagate their politics and manipulate voters.  They know that most people under the age of 35 get their information and views not from traditional media, but from social media. Navigating these sites is a matter of parental choice – and parents should not be outsourcing their responsibilities to the government. As it is, the word “parent” isn’t even mentioned once in the Australian social media ban legislation. If the government really was interested in doing something positive to address social media addiction, it would look at tackling the algorithms, which are often designed to get kids addicted. We have no idea how these algorithms work, what content they promote, or how they are impacting young people.  This ban is less about online safety for kids and more about online safety for the political and bureaucratic class. An unacceptable dystopia awaits Australia in December."

Brad Bradford✌️ on X - "Public pools closed in 35+ degree heat - because it was “too hot”? Only in Toronto. Families showed up to cool down and were turned away. No warning. No plan. Just locked gates."

Louisiana mom sells breast milk to bodybuilders for one specific reason - "she advertized her breast milk on Facebook for 70 cents an ounce, and that's when this story takes a bizarre twist as bodybuilders starting hitting her up on the platform as the commodity is rich in protein... "I charge a higher rate for a bodybuilder because their grown adults and it's a lifestyle choice they're choosing to explore.  "Breast milk isn't a necessity to them; it's a tool they use to up their protein intake.""

Today’s virtue-signalling composers have no idea what ‘political music’ really is - "I don’t want to suggest such composers are insincere. It’s just that there is no risk involved; they can be sure their views will be endorsed by all good, right-thinking people. Their only worry is whether they’ll be nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.  Compare their situation with that of Shostakovich. His worry was whether he would actually survive, when so many around him did not. His entire creative life was passed under the boot of Soviet communism, where to stray from the officially approved tone of heroic optimism or casting a critical eye on the Soviet Union could mean years in a penal colony, or worse."

Jessica Ellis on X - "Sometimes I think about how my husband told me once there was a girl in high school who would invite him to sit in her car at lunch and put on music that she’d joke was good make out music and he thought she just really enjoyed music."

A middle-class revolt has rattled Macron and brought France to the boiling point - "the exasperation of the French has been steadily growing as they watch the disintegration of their country: rising crime, rising food costs, rising energy prices, rising immigration. Rising everything, except living standards.  Boiling point is approaching. This anger began simmering in a social media meme earlier this year: “It’s Nicolas Who Pays”.  The fictional Nicolas is a 30-something in full-time employment who pays exorbitant taxes in order to prop up the rest of the country: Baby Boomers lapping it up on their generous pensions, slackers who prefer benefits to work and migrants milking France’s generous health care. This anger is about to be transferred from social media to the street. A call to bring France to a standstill on September 10 has been gaining momentum in recent weeks.  Called “Bloquons tout” [Block everything], the appeal was launched on TikTok on July 14 – France’s National Day – by a citizens’ collective that advocates for a “sovereign France”. It wants a day of “disobedience, boycott, and solidarity”."

Olympic Basketball & The Grateful Dead - "In 1992, the iconic Grateful Dead music band helped sponsor Lithuania’s national basketball team, a talented but financially-strapped squad that went on to win bronze at the Barcelona Olympics. Their story was a magical tale of tie-dyes, basketball glory, and the birth of a new nation... Independent but broke, Lithuania emerged from the fallen heap of the communist empire with no money to support a national basketball team. The 1992 Olympics in Barcelona were looming and players were desperate to make the trip... In an historic sports moment, the Lithuanian darlings accepted their bronze medals wearing the Grateful Dead tie-dyes. The shirts became the hottest must have souvenirs at the Barcelona Games."

Britain losing sight of Christian past, says atheist historian who mocked believers - "Britain is losing sight of Christian history, according to an atheist historian who once mocked believers for worshipping “dead people”.  Prof Alice Roberts, an academic, television presenter and author, told BBC History Magazine that Christianity is a “compelling and important part of our culture” and warned that, in an increasingly secular society, “we risk losing part of Christian history”.  The 52-year-old, a “confirmed atheist” who is professor of public engagement in science at the University of Birmingham and a patron of Humanists UK, made the comments ahead of the publication of her new book about the collapse of the Roman Empire and the rise of Christianity in the West... She added that there was still a tendency to “obscure” Christianity’s early history and instead treat it as if it appeared “fully formed”, and that claims of the religion’s “radical uniqueness” are “often overstated”.  According to the latest available polling by YouGov, almost half of British people (49 per cent) now hold a negative view of the Church of England... The latest findings of the 2021 census show that Christians now account for less than half of England and Wales’ population for the first time in census history... The census data also show that every major religion except for Christianity increased over the 10-year period."

Federal government's spending review is 'flawed' and too narrow: report - "The federal government’s “comprehensive spending review” is too narrow and won’t save enough tax dollars to put Ottawa back on solid footing, a new report will conclude. The report, to be released Thursday by the C.D. Howe Institute, says the Carney government’s spending review will only include about one-third of all federal program spending and is expected to save no more than $22 billion by 2028-29. The think tank says that’s less than half the $50 billion in savings that are needed to return federal government coffers to “a fair and prudent path” that would see Ottawa’s debt-to-GDP ratio stop climbing... “You need some time to evaluate those programs,” said Lester, a former federal government economist, during an interview. “It’s a big job.” Lester recommends expanding the review to cover the missing two-thirds of program spending, imposing a multi-year cap on operating costs to deliver immediate restraint, and then assessing programs through a value-for-money lens. He also calls for transparent goals and clear communication to build public consensus around the various options. The government’s spending review follows years of hefty deficits that have left Ottawa and future generations with mountains of debt. National Post reported last month on an earlier C.D. Howe report that forecasted that the Carney government is poised to post a massive deficit of more than $92 billion during this fiscal year, almost double what was forecast just a few months ago by a non-partisan officer of Parliament... If this fiscal year’s deficit turns out to be as hefty as projected, it would be the second-largest deficit in Canadian history, topped only by the $327.7 billion shortfall from the pandemic year of 2020-21... the federal government’s fiscal situation is unclear because there hasn’t been a budget in well over a year. The government took the highly unusual step this year of waiting until the fall to release its annual budget, more than half-way through the fiscal year."