September 21, 2026
Quick Hits
A fuller article is here. Despite some occasional claims that "nothing is being done," Trump has really done something on immigration.
Race paranoids decided that a Korean sneaker ad must be a subliminal ad for KKK lynchings.
Here's an image from the ad:Fuck you, Sally Sillycunt.
Converse apologized and pulled a shoe ad last week that some claimed featured Ku Klux Klan imagery. The ad, which has been removed from the Nike subsidiary's social media pages, featured K-pop singer Karina of the girl group aespa promoting the Chuck 70 X and Run Star Crush sneakers. In the ad, Karina held a pair of black high-top shoes under a star-shaped spotlight while wearing a long white skirt. Several social media users asserted that Karina resembled a KKK member, with the shoes resembling a lynching victim. Critics included Rep. Troy Carter, D-La., who released a statement on the ad on Friday. "Nike and Converse, what the hell were you thinking?" Carter said. "Your campaign shows what looks like a hooded Klansman, framed by what appears to be the dangling feet of a lynching victim. There is nothing creative or artistic about it. It is racist, reckless and deeply offensive."
After facing backlash, Converse eventually pulled the ad and released a statement apologizing for the campaign. "We're sorry. We understand why this image is deeply upsetting and recognize that we got this wrong. We removed it from our channels and are working to remove it everywhere it appeared. This should not have happened, and we will do better," the statement sent to Fox News Digital read.Converse is a subsidiary of woke propaganda company (which also sometimes makes overpriced sneakers) Nike so I can't say I'm upset that they're being destroyed by the SJW customer base they cultivated.
This latest ad backlash comes as Nike is set to be removed from the S&P 100 after nearly 18 years, following its value dropping by more than $200 billion since 2021.House Republicans say they have further questions for the Democrats' illegal foreign buckraking operation Act Blue.
College swimmer speaks out against the "moderate centrist" Abigail Spanberger for allowing male cheaters to compete in girls' sports.
House GOP investigators are warning that they are not done with ActBlue after a bombshell report fueled questions over whether the Democrat fundraising giant is accepting foreign cash and lying to Congress about it. "Whether it's allowing fraudsters to steal taxpayer dollars or accepting illegal foreign donations through ActBlue, Democrats have proven themselves to be the party of fraud. Our investigation into ActBlue is far from over. We expect more documents and testimony in the weeks ahead," House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., told Fox News Digital. ... Republican lawmakers have long accused the company of having lax verification standards for donors, something ActBlue has said it actively improved since the start of the GOP's probe. But new findings, first reported by Fox News Digital, appear to show employees green-lighting donations despite some questions about where they came from. ... Committee on House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil, R-Wis., told Fox News Digital on Friday, "ActBlue's own admissions raise serious questions about its fraud prevention practices, including a so-called passport verification process that did not actually verify or check entries against any government database. All options are on the table to ensure we get to the bottom of what is going on at ActBlue." ... The Judiciary Committee revealed through a series of transcripts on Thursday that all 10 ActBlue employees and board members who appeared for closed-door depositions invoked the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering questions. ... The GOP report cited a letter by Wallace-Jones to Steil, which maintained that donations on the platform made by people with addresses outside the U.S. required a passport number for verification. But the Republicans' report alleged that the verification "only ensures that the entered passport number contains a certain number of characters, not that it is a valid U.S. passport number," rendering it an essentially meaningless step.
Huh, a left-wing Democrat refused to be honest with the public about her extremist position on an issue. Well, now I've seen everything!
Former Roanoke College swimmer Lily Mullens, who helped lead a public stand against a transgender athlete joining her women's team, is speaking out after Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger's administration withdrew a proposed regulation intended to protect female-only sports and private spaces. Mullens was one of three female swimmers who formally petitioned the Virginia State Board of Health to enact the regulation, along with Hungarian Olympian Réka György and former Roanoke teammate Carter Satterfield. "Up until recently, due to Governor Youngkin's leadership, which was founded in truth, Virginia was making tremendous strides toward finally doing the right thing and protecting females by keeping men out of women's sports and spaces for good. However, under the new 'leadership' of Governor Spanberger, that progress has come to a screeching halt," Mullens told OutKick. "By failing to be open with the public about her decision months ago, she is signaling to the people of Virginia that she does not care about the female athletes in this state and she is aware that she is going against what the people want. As a woman herself, I had hoped that she would understand the importance of this issue and the petition I signed a year ago, but I have been proven wrong.
... "The truth is, and always will be, that men and women are biologically different. Virginia had a leader who understood this fact and did everything he could to protect women. I am saddened and disappointed to see such hard work thrown away, especially by a woman." ... György competed against transgender swimmer Lia Thomas at the 2022 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships. The Virginia Tech swimmer finished 17th in the preliminary round of the 500-yard freestyle, one place outside the 16-swimmer finals field. Thomas advanced and went on to win the national championship.A Finnish study has found that "gender transitions" do not, as claimed, improve the mental health of those receiving it. In fact, psychiatric illness skyrockets 600% after "transitioning."
A lawless lower court federal judge ruled that Oregon could not house trans "women" in men's prisons. Apparently there's a rule requiring individualized evaluations to determine if the "women" would be "harmed" by treating them as the sex they actually are. The lawless rogue liberal judge said the prisons were not really evaluating the trans "women's" situations fairly. I assume he said this because some trans "women" were going to men's prisons, which he found intolerable. Three Trump appointees told this Mary to get f***ed. A Ninth Circuit appeals panel has reversed the lowly lower court judge.
Kurt Mahlburg
@k_mahlburg
A landmark Finnish study has found a sharp rise in psychiatric illness among adolescents following sex-alteration procedures. The peer-reviewed study, published in Acta Paediatrica, tracked every young person under 23 who contacted Finland's gender clinics between 1996 and 2019. A total 2,083 individuals were studied, with 16,643 matched controls. They were followed for up to 25 years. Finland's health registers are mandatory, which means no one opts out -- this is the complete national picture. The numbers: psychiatric morbidity rose from 9.8% to 60.7% in adolescents who underwent feminising reassignment, and from 21.6% to 54.5% in masculinising reassignment. Even after adjusting for prior psychiatric history, gender-referred adolescents faced five times the risk of male population controls, and three times the risk of female controls. "Psychiatric needs do not subside after medical gender reassignment," the authors concluded. Referrals after 2010 arrived sicker. 47.9% had already needed psychiatric treatment before their first clinic visit, against 15.3% among controls. The authors' read: for some adolescents, gender distress may be secondary to other mental health challenges. The evidence keeps mounting. The silencing continues anyway. How many more adolescents will be told this is "care"?
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel said a lower court had incorrectly ruled regarding how Oregon housed its transgender women inmates. All three judges on the panel were appointed by President Donald Trump, and they voted unanimously to strike down the order. Some criticized the language in the panel's opinion as being harmful to transgender people.Oh for the love of Pete.
Wednesday's ruling reverses a decision made in April, when U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark D. Clarke ordered Oregon to house transgender women inmates in prisons that align with their gender identity, and only after completing a safety assessment. Appeals Court Judge Eric Tung authored the panel's opinion, saying Clarke had erred when he said the state had presumptively placed transgender women in men's prisons. "That premise lacks record support and is clearly erroneous," Tung wrote. "The district court improperly disregarded the overwhelming contrary evidence presented by Defendants in favor of baseless speculation." ... But the appeals court said that the plaintiffs had failed to prove that Oregon had acted with deliberate indifference to transgender inmates. Tung wrote that Clarke had relied on outdated evidence and failed to consider counter arguments presented by the state. "Nor have Plaintiffs shown that Defendants acted in a uniform way with deliberate indifference toward each of the class members," Tung wrote. "At most, the record reflects that different officials acted in different ways toward different prisoners at different times."
A fuller article is here. Despite some occasional claims that "nothing is being done," Trump has really done something on immigration.
The CPS [Current Population Survey] shows an unprecedented decline of 2.9 million in the total foreign-born population from January 2025 to July 2026. As for the illegal alien population, my colleague Karen Zeigler and I estimate from CPS data that it has fallen by 2.3 million since January 2025--from 15.8 million at the start of the Trump Administration to 13.5 million through July 2026. By contrast, it had grown by an unprecedented 5.6 million during Biden's time in office. These estimates include adjustments for those the CPS missed.
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Whistleblower: 99% of Asylum Claims Are Fake
You don't say. You don't say.
David Strom:Claims are floating around that 85 percent of the world's refugees are Muslim, and the UNHCR's response isn't "No, they're not," but rather, "A spokesperson for the UN's refugee agency UNHCR said the number of Muslim refugees is likely to be less than 85% of all refugees worldwide." Which is another way of saying "you're in the right ballpark." And those refugees aren't fleeing to Muslim countries. In other words, it's an invasion, either for economic or political reasons, and according to a whistleblower at the Home Office in the UK, almost every "asylum seeker" is a fraud.From The Times (UK):
Only one in 100 asylum claims are genuine, according to a whistleblower who has revealed widespread fraud and dysfunction in the system. The Home Office official, who has worked for years as a decision-maker on asylum and has assessed thousands of claims, said asylum seekers from certain countries use the "same script" in what he and colleagues describe as "package claims". He said he had encountered a large number of Iraqi Kurds claiming asylum who said they had been in a relationship with the daughter of the prime minister of the Kurdistan region. The official said it had become a "running joke" among colleagues that the number of Iraqi Kurds who said they were involved with the daughter was in the "hundreds". He also said that "hundreds" of claims from Pakistanis were based on the assertion that they were in fear of their lives in their home country because of their gay relationship with the same man who had provided letters supporting their claims. The source also disclosed suspicions about large numbers of Bangladeshi claimants purporting to be dissidents of the former governing party, which is now banned, even though they were unable to provide basic information about the group.Strom believes this state of affairs might have something to do with AfD's rise and the CDU's collapse. Could be. Could be. But you know who else opposed rampant immigration fraud?
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Of Course: The 12 Left-Wing AGs Settle with Paramount/Skydance, Allowing the Merger, But Only With "Guardrails for CNN"
So this many-million-dollar lawsuit was all about keeping CNN a hard-left propaganda outlet.
Note that four of the left-wing AGs are dropping out of the communist coalition to demand further concessions, so I can't say this deal is actually struck quite yet.Done! Paramount Settles Antitrust Suit, Set To Seal Deal For Warner Bros. DiscoveryThey mean they want Warner Bros. to remain separated from Paramount/Skydance for a period, which I heard was two years. Usually mergers involve reducing corporate staff by combining the old staff and firing the now-redundant staffers. So this is a move to keep those jobs for a period.
UPDATED WITH MORE DETAILS: Paramount has settled an antitrust lawsuit brought by a dozen state attorneys general led by California's Rob Bonta, the last obstacle to closing its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, Deadline has confirmed. Specifics are still scant but will come when the deal is formally announced later this morning. There will be concessions. Deadline hears that Paramount has agreed to some CNN guardrails, financial penalties linked to CEO David Ellison's 30 movies a year commitment, and some sort of separation of the studios for a period.
By promising to create "domestic" or "home grown" jobs, do they mean just in California, or the United States? I assume the latter, but I'm not sure.
Terms of the deal are said to include an investment of $1.5 billion for home-grown film production and protecting and creating jobs, along with requirements for additional domestic production if the federal government approves tax incentives. The settlement also provides for a $47.5 million workforce development fund and obligation to honor existing collective bargaining agreements.
We don't know yet what "guardrails for CNN" have been agreed to. What I would guess is that Paramount/Skydance agreed to keep current CNN management on for some period. Maybe 3-5 years or something. It obviously can't be forever. Update: So now we know -- Paramount/Skydance agreed to appoint a board of liberals to monitor the management of both CNN and CBS. To keep out "bias." Boy oh boy, wouldn't want any bias creeping in to CNN or CBS! More on the Jake Tapper Permanent Employment Treaty:
News of settlement talks began trickling out on Friday but four of the AGs in the group were subsequently described as holding out for more concessions from Paramount. The attorneys general of New York, Connecticut, Minnesota [Keith Ellison] and Nevada came around late Sunday, sources tell Deadline, after assurances from California's Bonta that he would hold Paramount's "feet to the fire" to ensure the company stuck to its commitments. He had said previously he preferred structural remedies like asset sales to resolve antitrust issues, rather than behavioral remedies, which require monitoring.
... "It's jobs, job, jobs, that's what this all about," a source close to power players in Sacramento told Deadline. Of course, with $6 billion in cost savings promised to investors, expectations remain for significant layoffs, though those details will become more clear in the coming days and weeks. Paramount shares rose 9% on the news. WBD gained 10%, trading at about $30.50. The deal calls for Paramount to take out Warner stockholders for $31 a share.
Under the agreement, Bonta announced that Paramount is legally required to distribute at least 30 movies in theaters annually and will face a financial penalty if it fails to do so. The company also committed to spending an additional $1.5 billion on film production over the next five years, with a guaranteed increase in the proportion of movies produced within the U.S., specifically benefiting Hollywood, according to Bonta.Wait, so is the deal to produce "home grown" jobs in the US or in the Hollywood area? That seems to claim both or either.
Additionally, Paramount agreed to establish an independent board of journalists to oversee the newsrooms of CNN and CBS News to preserve editorial integrity and prevent consolidated corporate bias, Bonta said.Independent journalists may include Dan Rather, John Harwood, Jim Sciutto, and Don Lemon. I'm making that up but I'm sure that's who the left has in mind. Oh, and why not add Tater to the board, too!
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Nikole Hannah-Jones, Who Is Unaccountably Wealthy Due to Being a DEI Race Grifter and History Hoaxer, Sent Her Kids to Poor-Performing Schools As a Political Race Stunt
This grifter created a fraudulent, and now debunked, narrative that Americans declared independence from England not for freedom or political sovereignty but for the only thing the race grifters know about history, slavery.
Because she's a Stronk Empowered Woman of Color who pushes Jason Arday-level fictions, the left made her rich. Although actually -- she grew up fairly well-off too. So she could have sent her kids to good schools. Or she could have paid for private schools. Instead, she sent her kids to the poor-performing public schools in Brooklyn out of a deranged sense of racial solidarity. Her kids suffered for her ideological derangement.In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter's education that I hoped would challenge New York City's separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice. ... "Did you know my school was bad like this when you decided to put me here?" [my daughter] asked. My hands tightened on the steering wheel as I worked to keep my face neutral, buying a few moments to gather my thoughts.Now thinking of applying to competitive colleges, she googled her high school's rankings to estimate what her chances would be of getting into an Ivy League school. She found out her mother had deliberately sent her to a shithole school.
Najya's shock had turned to boiling, and the seatbelt had barely clicked before she was confronting me. I had braced myself for this moment, spent nearly a decade expecting it, preparing for it. When Najya was entering pre-K, my husband, Faraji, and I decided to send her to the type of school that wealthier families with choices uniformly avoid -- one that is low-income and mostly Black. Our decision had been informed by values shaped by my years of reporting on the enduring and too often seemingly hopeless battle for school integration.Note that this Race Communist had gone to a good school, but denied this to her daughter.
... In New York, a combination of housing segregation and "academic" sorting, called school choice, that begins as early as pre-K means most Black students -- even middle-class ones -- are forced to attend racially segregated schools with high rates of poverty.
LOL, she thought that her daughter's mere presence would improve the school. This sounds like a lie. It sounds like she sent her daughter to a shit school to boost her own career by proving how Blackety Black she was, and is now trying to justify that selfish choice.
Being given access to the most resourced public schools in my hometown allowed me to flourish academically, and I am convinced that the integrated education my husband and I received set the foundation that has allowed us to become the successful upper-middle-class family that my daughter was born into. We are both beneficiaries of educational opportunities that were forced into existence by generations of Black parents willing to put their most personal stake -- their own children -- in the fight for school equality for all Black children. ... And yet decades later, integration now exists for a minority of Black children -- usually those born to families like ours who have the money to pay for private schools or live in tonier ZIP codes zoned to heavily white public schools, or who can pay for tutoring that allows their children, from a very young age, to test into programs for "gifted" students. Most Black students, however, languish in the type of schools that the law was supposed to have eradicated. So, like the generations of Black parents who came before us, Faraji and I felt an obligation to make educational decisions based on the collective good and not just our individual advantage. New York is considered one of this nation's most liberal cities, while operating a school system that is among the most racially segregated. This segregation exists because policymakers and affluent parents -- even those who profess a belief in integration and equality, -- shed their advocacy at the schoolhouse door and refuse to take or support any substantial action to integrate the city's schools. Faraji and I decided that our role in this struggle meant upending the status quo and sending our child not to a wealthy white school but to a poor Black one. ... We thought by sending Najya to a mostly low-income and Black school, we could help improve it for all the children there.
I hadn't intended at first to write about our decision. But a few months into the academic year, P.S. 307 became embroiled in an integration battle when parents protested the reassignment of their children from a wealthy and predominantly white school to ours. It felt impossible for me not to weigh in.See? There was a school controversy on the Upper West Side -- I assume this is the case of school that resisted having minority students air-lifted in; leftwing Daily Show cow Samantha Bee was one of the many white liberals fighting it -- and so she ax-grinded about it. And having put herself on the record, she had to show she was no hypocrite, so she dumped her daughter into a shit school.
In 2016, I wrote an essay in this magazine called "Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City," about our experience in a system in which educational inequality was widely accepted. Our daughter, then a kindergartner with Afro puffs, a plaid school uniform and Jordan-clad feet, appeared on the cover. The piece struck a chord in a way I could not have predicted. Readers flooded my inbox and posted hundreds of comments. Producers invited me for interviews, book publishers came calling and I was asked to speak all over the country by communities and institutions grappling with the issue of school segregation. The essay spurred community meetings in places near and far; and in New York City, it helped ignite parent and student activism around a subject that had largely disappeared from public discourse. Even a decade later, parents still share with me how my essay led them to make similar educational decisions for their children. In the outside world, my choice had earned me valor. And yet that day, under the withering glare of my daughter, the words that I was formulating sounded hollow to my ears even before they passed my lips.Virtue signalling by harming your children. Now she gaslights her daughter:
Yeah, you did. You are a deranged, bitter, racist, narcissistically evil cunt. By the way, this article is about 4,000 words long. It's an epic. I can only assume she digs herself deeper into a hole of self-justification and ego as it goes along, but that will remain an assumption on my part, because I can't read this evil racist's defense of child sacrifice any longer.
"Your school is not bad," I told her, modulating my voice. "What are you talking about?" Najya grew agitated. "You know what I am talking about. We looked up our school! We saw the test scores. We saw the ratings." She ticked off the school's below-state average reading and math scores, and that it ranked poorly on a popular school-rating website. I said I was aware of her school's academic rankings, but that test scores alone do not define a school. Glancing between her and the road, I told her everything that I had said a hundred times on stages, in interviews, in discussions since I had made her a symbol of how the choices we make can help sustain -- or dismantle -- educational inequality. I talked about the deep inequality in New York's schools and how, like those Black families who came before us, we had an obligation to be part of the struggle of our larger community. Even if her schools were not academically the strongest, I explained, her father and I knew that we could provide for her tutoring and any other assistance to make up for what her school may have lacked. But my child just shook her head, her face a mask of disbelief, and something else: betrayal. "So you had money to send me to one of the best schools, and you chose not to?" she said, hurling her words. "Because other kids are disadvantaged, you didn't want to put me in a great school?" Najya was asking what I'd accomplished by not choosing the "best" school for her. And the honest answer is, I don't know. When it comes to the choices my husband and I have made about public education, these days I feel that I failed both my values and my child.
Rich Lowry
@RichLowry It's bad enough that Nikole Hannah-Jones sacrificed her child's education to her racial ideology, but she experienced the dismal results--and *learned literarily nothing from the experience*. You'd think she'd be radicalized against the teacher unions and the complacent, self-serving NYC education bureaucracy--which is run by people who agree with her politically--but apparently it doesn't even occur to her. If there's one lesson she should have taken from this experience, it's that consequential decisions about your child's future shouldn't be driven by an obsession with racial solidarity. That's not how the NYC white and Asian parents that Hannah-Jones scorns think about educational decisions--overwhelmingly, they simply don't want the prospects of their children blighted by scandalously incompetent schools. They freak-out if their kids aren't getting homework, if the lunch period is unsupervised mayhem, etc., not as part of a conspiracy to leave behind black kids, but out of a intense focus on their duty as parents to see that their own children are getting the best education possible. Nikole Hannah Jones clearly could have learned a lot from them.
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Trump Announces Ban on CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from White House Press Room
Have you heard of Natalie Harp? If not, you haven't been paying attention to CNN and MSNOW and the Fake News Outlets. She's Trump's personal aide, and she's pretty, blonde, and reportedly very loyal. So of course Democrats and the Democrat-Media began suggesting, WITHOUT EVIDENCE, that Trump is having a sexual affair with her. This is really going to set off the Fake News Media: Reportedly, it was Natalie Harp who shared clips of the fake news coverage of these outlets that prompted Trump to ban them.
President Donald Trump on Monday defended his decision to ban three news networks from the White House, characterizing his actions as a crackdown on "fake news" and not an attack on the free press. ... "The White House is not instituting an assault on the Free Press, something which I cherish. It is instituting an assault on the FAKE NEWS, something that has grown like Cancer in our beloved United States of America," he posted on Truth Social. "It is corrupt, purposeful, pervasive, fully coordinated, and totally out of control. It is a threat to our National Security, and must be stopped, NOW!"
The Fake News Outlets are now suing, and the rest of the left-wing propaganda networks are suspending coverage of the White House in solidarity with their fellow propagandists.
Natalie Harp, a close aide to President Donald Trump, reportedly showed him a series of media clips before he moved to ban CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from the White House, CNN reported, citing "people familiar with the matter." ... Harp, for her part, has been in the news recently, with the media focusing on her intense loyalty to the president. Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., kicked off speculation about their relationship when he mentioned her in a campaign speech.
Here is some of the work of these totally unbiased outlets:
Major television networks agreed on Monday to suspend their pooled coverage of President Donald Trump after the White House refused to allow CNN to serve as a pool representative. The decision escalates a showdown between the Trump administration and the legacy media outlets following Trump's decision to ban MS NOW, CNN and Politico reporters from entering the White House, the New York Times reported. Those networks plan to file a lawsuit against Trump over the ban. For years, ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News and NBC have shared television coverage of presidential events, pooling the financial costs and distributing the footage that is aired by news organizations globally. The networks perform these duties on a rotation, and CNN had been scheduled to cover Trump's travel to the United Nations General Assembly on Monday.
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AfD Wins Another Regional Election in Germany; Ruling Chancellor's Party Collapses So Badly It Fails to Win a Single Seat in the Regional Parliament 
The far left party Der Linke, which just means The Left, was fueled, of course, by the Karen Vote.
Far-right AfD wins again as Germany's Merz slides Germany's ruling center-right party, Chancellor Friedrich Merz's Christian Democratic Union, was shut out of a state parliament for the first time Sunday as the far-right Alternative for Germany scored its second victory this month. Why it matters: The result marks the third state election AfD has won -- and its second this month -- underscoring its growing strength even as Germany's other major parties refuse to govern with it. Driving the news: Merz, who has low approval ratings, told reporters that "reforms have to come."By "reforms," he does not mean that the CDU will embrace the AfD's winning issue of immigration realism. He means that the CDU will join with the communists to ban the AfD and further restrict speech so that no one can publicly agitate for immigration realism.
AfD won about 38% of the vote in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, while the CDU recorded its worst result in any German state election since World War II. The CDU fell from 13% to 4.9% and lost all representation. In Berlin's state election, the Left more than doubled its vote share to 25.7% and finished first for the first time. Flashback: AfD won its first state election in Thuringia in 2024, though other parties kept it out of government because they refused to enter into a coalition.They refuse to enter coalitions (when they're asked at all) because the other parties refuse to cede ground on the only issue AfD is running on. They want the AfD's support without giving the AfD any actual ground on their main issue.
Merz says he has no intention to resign, but others are demanding he step aside to allow another cuck to fail.
Earlier this month, it won 43.8% in Saxony-Anhalt, but fell just three seats short of a majority. It is now seeking enough outside support to form Germany's first far-right state government since World War II. Vice President JD Vance met with AfD's co-leader days before last year's federal election and told the Munich Security Conference there was "no room for firewalls," referring to mainstream parties' refusal to govern with the AfD. ... Germany's domestic intelligence service continues to monitor AfD nationally as a suspected extremist organization. A court in February blocked the agency from classifying the entire party as a confirmed right-wing extremist organization while a broader case proceeds. The anti-migration party calls for "remigration" -- large-scale deportations and encouraging immigrants to leave. It also wants to abandon the euro, lift Russian sanctions and end weapons deliveries to Ukraine.
BERLIN -- German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Monday pledged to overhaul his party's platform and decision-making processes after suffering another humiliating election defeat, calling the result a "major turning point."Here is the change he's considering.
... "It is a dramatic and unprecedented result for the CDU ... an entire state parliamentary caucus has been eliminated from the state legislature," Merz told reporters Monday at his party's headquarters in Berlin. "We will feel its repercussions for a long time," he added. Party officials had warned that an outcome below 5% for the CDU in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania would unleash a storm of criticism and renew calls for a change in leadership, or Kanzlertausch. But Merz is clinging to power -- for now. Unless he steps aside voluntarily, forcing a leadership change risks triggering a snap election at a time when polls show the far right to be the country's most popular party -- making such a move unlikely for the time being. That could quickly change if party members begin speaking out against him. That's why Merz has vowed to chart a new course for the CDU, announcing consultations in the coming days to unite the party's rank and file behind him. ... "We will discuss the party's work and structure, our platform, and the CDU's public image," he said. "To be frank, we no longer have satisfactory answers to too many questions. And that is something we will and must change."
During a meeting with science students, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz openly derided the principle of freedom of speech and defended the need for the state to "protect" citizens from American-style libertarianism on the internet. What would have typically been an unremarkable photo-op for the increasingly unpopular German leader drew condemnation over a major gaffe (read: accidentally revealing his true feelings) as Merz held court at the Chancellery with the winners of the 'Youth Researchers' competition on Tuesday. When pressed by a young student on whether his plans to end online anonymity would impede personal liberties, Chancellor Merz reacted indignantly, declaring: "Please, no one comes to me with free speech... That has nothing to do with free speech anymore." The supposedly conservative politician -- who made sure to use English when repeating the phrase "free speech" as if to mock the very concept -- said that he rejects the "libertarian understanding of politics," which he claimed emanates from the United States. Merz said that his vision of a liberal society was rather one in which the state steps in to protect citizens "from false information, from personal degradation, from discrimination" on the internet. The Chancellor complained that in the "analogue world" of his youth, German newspapers were liable to face legal action for spreading false claims, but this is no longer possible with the advent of anonymous social media profiles, and thus the media landscape lacks "hygiene". He also asserted that anonymity allows the proliferation of bot-generated messages, which he claimed were instrumental in helping the Alternative for Germany (AfD) trounce his globalist Christian Democrats in the Saxony-Anhalt state elections earlier this month. Yet, it is doubtful that any amount of censorship from Berlin would bolster the Chancellor's faltering coalition government, which rumours suggest may be on its last legs.That article was from five days ago. Beege Wellborn: [Bloomberg:] "We can't sugarcoat it, it was a disaster," Merz told reporters in Berlin in a statement earlier directly after exit polls were released, breaking with a past practice for chancellors to speak the day after an election. He gathered senior CDU officials to party headquarters, where he sought to gauge their support for his leadership.
The far left party Der Linke, which just means The Left, was fueled, of course, by the Karen Vote.
And as with Mamdani's win in New York, Die Linke's victory was driven almost exclusively by young voters and women coming out for the communist/socialist parties.
Visegrád 24But are they really the Karens we're used to? Or New Foreign Karens?
@visegrad24 This is how people under the age of 25 voted in the Berlin regional election tonight. 71% of women under 25 voted for the far-left, the left or the Greens. 51% of women under 25 voted for the party that is the direct, legal and organizational successor to communist party that ruled East Germany as a dictatorship between 1949 to 1989.
Eesh. In 15-20 years almost every country in Europe will be Islamic and Communist. How are you? Did you get some good rest in?
Jo Bhakdi
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Germans wonder how young people , especially women , could vote majority communist in Berlin. They wonder what went wrong : do they not have a dad ? Don't they think? Don't they have loyalty to their country? But those who ask these questions picture the wrong "young women" in their mind. Yes, they have a dad. Yes, they are deeply loyal to their country. But neither their dad nor their country are German. Young people with a migration background make up nearly 50% of all children and teenagers living in Berlin. The new version of the communist parties in Sweden and Germany are not delusional white female liberals. They are clan-connected invasion machines. They are not dumb, they are not naive, they are not pampered. They are brutal, determined and ready to plunder. And if you were a young woman in that crowd, you also would vote communist. Because you want to live.
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THE MORNING RANT: Trump Executive Order Targets Employers that Lay Off American Citizens to Hire Foreign H-1B Labor
indentured servant H-1B who is taking his job.
Ideally, the president wouldn’t have to address the H-1B mess with executive orders if Congress would do its job. Unfortunately, there is a solid bi-partisan majority in Congress in favor of replacing American labor with foreign labor, specifically:
1) Democrats who despise the United States, its people, and its heritage; They therefore seek to aid foreign nationals (and their homelands) at the expense of Americans.
2) Corporate / Chamber of Commerce Republicans who have embraced slavery-adjacent forms of labor in their quest to reduce labor expense to as close to $0 as possible.
It is tiresome that those of us who oppose the H-1B replacement of American workers are branded as “racist” by Democrats, RINOs, and the media. I’d like to push back and ask how it’s not racist that 70% of all H-1Bs come from just one country – India. Is it not racist that hiring managers trying to hire for “jobs Americans won’t do” look almost exclusively to India?
America’s adversary, the People’s Republic Of China, provides another 12% of all H-1Bs. A whopping 82% of all H-1Bs come from India and Communist China. Returning to the specific subject of today’s post, here is what President Trump’s new Executive Order entails:
Microsoft announced that it will lay off 4,800 people total and 1,600 from the corporation's XBOX division, which makes and sells the dominant video game console. Meanwhile, Microsoft has been approved this year to hire from foreign countries 2,273 employer-sponsored, non-immigrant workers under what is known as the H-1B visa program.The business fad of replacing American employees with foreign chattel labor had become so “respected” that even the semi-public TVA utility tried to do this a few years ago – until President Trump got wind of it. Then-CEO Jeff Lyash thought it would be clever to find “cost savings” by laying off American citizens. Apparently cost savings helped justify his $8 million compensation. Even worse, Lyash made the laid-off employees train their foreign replacements – the corporate term was “knowledge transfer.” President Trump was so angry that he fired several TVA board members, including the chairman, for allowing this to happen, and for not immediately firing Lyash. Donald Trump takes H-1B abuse seriously. Disney also engaged in the despicable practice of making employees train their own H-1B replacements before dismissing them: “It’s Not A Small World After All: Disney IT Employee Trains His Own H-1B Replacement Then Gets Laid Off” [The Dallas Express – 4/27/2026] It’s often a condition in these situations that if the employee being let go wishes to receive a severance package, he must first train the
America’s adversary, the People’s Republic Of China, provides another 12% of all H-1Bs. A whopping 82% of all H-1Bs come from India and Communist China. Returning to the specific subject of today’s post, here is what President Trump’s new Executive Order entails:
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Mid-Morning Art Thread
Vincent van Gogh I couldn't find anything remotely interesting for Yom Kippur that I hadn't used before, so I figured I would plague you with one of my favorite paintings!
Vincent van Gogh I couldn't find anything remotely interesting for Yom Kippur that I hadn't used before, so I figured I would plague you with one of my favorite paintings!
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The Morning Report — 9/ 21 /26
Good morning kids. First of all I want to wish all our Jewish friends a blessed Yom Kippur and may you all be inscribed in the book of Life for a year of health, happiness and prosperity and I extend these wishes to all of you. Instead of wishing damnation to our enemies I think it appropriate that the Lord open the eyes and minds to those who are working to sow the seeds of our destruction, so that their souls can be redeemed. With that taken care of let's get down to cases, shall we? For today, Grease is the word, a large reeking turd that answers to Newsom. For quite some time it was likely that he was going to seek the Democrat party nomination for the top of the ticket in 2028. For me this all but seals the deal. Nothing appeals to an evil party of tyranny, dissolution and death quite like fomenting insurrection!
With that, as the bromides used to say in Brooklyn, let me axe you this, does Newsom actually have a shot?
Good morning kids. First of all I want to wish all our Jewish friends a blessed Yom Kippur and may you all be inscribed in the book of Life for a year of health, happiness and prosperity and I extend these wishes to all of you. Instead of wishing damnation to our enemies I think it appropriate that the Lord open the eyes and minds to those who are working to sow the seeds of our destruction, so that their souls can be redeemed. With that taken care of let's get down to cases, shall we? For today, Grease is the word, a large reeking turd that answers to Newsom. For quite some time it was likely that he was going to seek the Democrat party nomination for the top of the ticket in 2028. For me this all but seals the deal. Nothing appeals to an evil party of tyranny, dissolution and death quite like fomenting insurrection!
California previously got away with blocking cooperation with federal law enforcement on immigration, including by threatening local law enforcement with penalties for cooperating with federal law enforcement. This secessionist stuff is now being boosted by also blocking cooperation with federal election oversight. Passing state laws to block federal investigations is creeping rather close to a Fort Sumter moment, but Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Dem supermajority decided to bypass creeping towards Fort Sumter and went right to racing towards it because this fourth bill takes the treason cake. This new law gives the Governor — as commander in chief of California’s militia — a defined role in determining when out-of-state military forces may enter California for state missions. The new law prohibits military personnel from another state, territory, or the District of Columbia from entering California to perform military duty or law-enforcement functions without the permission of the Governor. The bill preserves an exception for forces lawfully called into active federal service under Title 10 and acting under the authority of the President or Secretary of Defense. Passing laws like this seems utterly senseless unless a state is preparing to resist federal authority using military force.Two Quick questions for this greasy bastard, first how many U.S. army, navy, air force and marine corps bases are on California soil that are manned and ready to roll. And how many soldiers, sailors and airmen comprise the California armed forces? Time to nationalize/federalize all California polling places and call out the Army to guard them while preventing any and all wetbacks from casting a ballot. ICE should be sent in force to California. Then again, We have to deal with this madness in what is the anti-California. Then again Austin is essentially a bedroom community of Pacific Heights and Oakland...
Protests broke out in the Texas Capital City on Sunday after an ICE officer reportedly shot a fleeing illegal alien. According to the Austin police chief, City Councilman Mike Siefel made false allegations about the circumstances, saying the ICE officer fired five times through the car’s windshield. Facts surrounding the shooting remain under investigation.Of course the Democrats have done all they can over the years to try and flip the Lone Star State, mostly failing miserably, Austin notwithstanding. But this time around they are pinning their hopes on this James Talarico fiend to help them steal a seat in the Senate.
Down in the backwater leftist stronghold of Austin, Texas, Talarico is selling progressive politics with a halo. He has shamelessly transformed Jesus into a mouthpiece for leftist progressivism. But that same feeling that we used to get when we watched the PTL Club pervades his aura. I have to hand it to American Protestantism; despite its amazing versatility, it can still make you feel dirty, cheap, and used.And while we're on the subject of stealing elections.
The Justice Department has charged 16 people across several states with alleged illegal voting, voter registration violations and other election-related crimes, including cases involving noncitizens accused of casting ballots in federal elections.The illegal alien invader iced by ICE no doubt like tens of thousands of others of his ilk have and will vote in our elections. It's why Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants Biden thoroughly erased our borders during his illegitimate tenure in the Oval Office which saw upwards of 11 million illegal aliens flood into our country on top of the at least 35-40 million illegals already here for decades. God bless ICE and everyone who is protecting us from this premeditated invasion.
Eight noncitizens residing in Texas were charged, while other defendants face cases in Idaho, Georgia, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New Jersey and Michigan.
“Let this be a warning to ANYONE trying to cheat and undermine our elections,” DOJ wrote on social media. “Spread the word!”
The allegations include noncitizens voting in federal elections, falsely claiming U.S. citizenship to register or vote and making false statements related to naturalization. Investigators also uncovered alleged passport and identification fraud, wire fraud and firearm offenses.
With that, as the bromides used to say in Brooklyn, let me axe you this, does Newsom actually have a shot?
Gavin Newsom’s polished media appearances reveal a carefully managed strategy to ignore both his actual record and schisms among Democrats. . . No matter how destroyed or decrepit the state of California has become, Newsom is a legend in his own mind, and the phenomenally fawning media will always glow up the Democrat candidate, regardless of how incompetent that candidate’s record of governance is. No matter how destroyed or decrepit the state of California has become, Newsom is a legend in his own mind, and the phenomenally fawning media will always glow up the Democrat candidate, regardless of how incompetent that candidate’s record of governance is. . . In the words of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Gavin Newsom is a plastic Ken version of Patrick Bateman from American Psycho. He can lie with impunity without breaking a sweat, fidgeting his hands, blinking, or turning away from the camera. This kind of psychopathology can play very well with the progressive voter base as he competes for the 2028 Democrat nomination.Have a good day.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- Does a new civil war begin in California?
Gov. Gavin Newsom Bans U.S. Soldiers From Entering California
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Daily News Stuff 21 September 2026
Top Story
- The European Commissariat is moving ahead with a social media ban on children under 30 despite because of a similar plan's miserable failure in Australia. (Reuters)
Since there are approximately zero children in Europe it's not difficult to read the motivations here.
- Meanwhile in America Democrats are moving to outlaw medicine. (Truthout)
Again.
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September 20, 2026
Sunday Overnight Open Thread - September 20, 2026
Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Sunday ONT. Appreciate you stopping by. Open thread, as always. Fashion and music, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?
Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Sunday ONT. Appreciate you stopping by. Open thread, as always. Fashion and music, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?
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Gun Thread: Third September Edition!
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Food Thread: Pigs Feet For The Win!
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First World Problems...
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Yemen Is Saudi Arabia's Back Yard, And It Is Their Responsibility, Not America's, To Police It
That evaluation is a bit histrionic, but the conclusion is perfect. We have better things to do with our military than bail out the Saudis and, once again, do the heavy lifting that the rest of the world is unwilling to do. Saudi Arabia says Houthis targeted its capital with a missile
Maybe attacks on the capital will be enough to get the rulers of Saudi Arabia off their ample rear ends and actually do something other than pay for others to do their work!
The Houthis, or Anṣār Allāh (“Defenders of God” ), have been around in one form or another for many years. The name derives from their founder: Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi, who was killed by the Yemeni government in 2004. The origins of the terrorist movement follow the tired pattern of so many Muslim terrorist groups...some religious or tribal schism that drives maniacal killing for reasons that most modern people would think are nuts!
But that doesn't matter much when their chaotic violence expands past the borders of their failed state. The Houthis have expanded their drive to subjugate Yemen into Saudi Arabia, and at the behest of their Iranian masters have attacked shipping near the western Yemen coastline, which is conveniently (for them) near the narrow Bab Al Mandeb strait, choking Red Sea and Suez Canal shipping. They now control almost 100 miles of that coastline, so they have plenty of opportunity to disrupt a major sea route for world commerce. Saudi Arabia has tried, and failed, to control the Houthi expansion in Yemen. Apparently the Saudi armed forces have modern weaponry that doesn't translate into quality forces. They have gotten their asses kicked by what -- at least on the surface -- looks like a bunch of 7th century tribes that hide out in the mountains and conduct guerilla warfare against the KSA. Except they are being supported by Iran, which means they have sophisticated (for Muslims) weaponry that they use to good effect against anyone within reach. And what they have discovered is in reach are the oil pipelines that KSA uses to bypass the Strait of Hormuz, where Iran is trying to control petroleum exporting to the rest of the world. Saudi Arabia has dithered and obfuscated and fought (poorly) and tried to negotiate with the Houthis, and nothing they have tried has worked. They are unwilling and probably unable to mount a concerted military effort against them to end, once and for all, the Houthi threats against petroleum commerce and the security of Saudi Arabia. But...that ain't America's problem. We have sold KSA billions of dollars worth of modern arms, have trained their armed forces, have conducted training exercises with them, and have supported them in all respects. It is time for them to step up and do the work that is necessary. Otherwise, why have we spent so much time and effort? Saudi Arabia facing 'biggest threat' ever to oil production as Iran-proxy Houthis launch attacks, expert saysHussain Abdul-Hussain, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said Thursday that the situation is escalating in the Middle East as Iran "likely instigated the Houthis to force a blockade on Saudi Arabia." "I think this situation is really precarious for the Saudis. This is the biggest threat to their production of oil since their kingdom was founded in 1932. And this is almost existential," he said. "We see that the Saudis are trying to shop for some force to fight their war for them. And I think along the lines, they also called President Trump. It doesn't look to me that Washington is going to get involved in this one," he added. "We'll probably offer them advice and tell support, but I don't think we, the United States, will get involved with this war over Bab el-Mandeb."
That evaluation is a bit histrionic, but the conclusion is perfect. We have better things to do with our military than bail out the Saudis and, once again, do the heavy lifting that the rest of the world is unwilling to do. Saudi Arabia says Houthis targeted its capital with a missile
Saudi Arabia on Saturday said that Yemen’s Houthi rebels tried to attack Riyadh with a ballistic missile, the first time the Saudi capital has been targeted since the escalation in fighting with the Iran-backed rebels opened a new front in the Iran war. The statement said the attack was intercepted. Some residents in Riyadh heard an explosion, and later some saw a plume of smoke near the airport. There were no reports of casualties or damage. The statement also said the Houthis tried to attack civilian infrastructure in the Red Sea port city of Yanbu — where a key Saudi pipeline ends — and in Taif, Baysh and Farasan but they were thwarted, giving no further details. The Houthis earlier claimed, without providing evidence, that they had targeted “sensitive sites” in Riyadh and facilities of Saudi oil giant Aramco in Yanbu, causing “massive fires.” Aramco, the world’s largest oil company, did not respond to a request for comment.
Maybe attacks on the capital will be enough to get the rulers of Saudi Arabia off their ample rear ends and actually do something other than pay for others to do their work!
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Sunday Morning Book Thread - 9-20-2026 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]
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Welcome to the prestigious, internationally acclaimed, stately, and illustrious Sunday Morning Book Thread! The place where all readers are welcome, regardless of whatever guilty pleasure we feel like reading (Yoko Ono edition!). Here is where we can discuss, argue, bicker, quibble, consider, debate, confabulate, converse, and jaw about our latest fancy in reading material. As always, pants are required, unless you are wearing these pants...(is there a sincere pumpkin patch near you?)
So relax, find yourself a warm kitty (or warm puppy--I won't judge) to curl up in your lap, and dive into a new book. What are YOU reading this fine morning?
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Daily Tech News 20 September 2026
Top Story
- AI safety conversations have gotten unbelievable. (Tech Crunch)
They always were. They are, without exception, "the dog ate my homework" stories.
"Did you actually do the homework?"
"No. But if I had, the dog would totally have eaten it!"In the first case, Andrew Yang, the former presidential candidate and current CEO of mobile carrier Noble Moble
What.told CNN on Thursday that he had "met with the head of a lab" who had "a belief"
Love the specifics here.that OpenAI's Hugging Face hacker bots "have planted self-replicating code all over the internet, which makes the internet now unusable for the testing models."
In what universe does that even make sense?Yang said that this means that the real reason OpenAI and Anthropic have called for a slowdown is because "they have to create synthetic internets to train their bots, which is going to take some time and money."
Step 1: Unplug the router.
Step 2: There is no Step 2.The second comment came from Noam Brown, who leads AI reasoning research at OpenAI. Speaking to Dwarkesh Patel on a podcast episode released on Thursday, Brown noted that the true take-away of the Hugging Face incident was that "people underestimated the AI."
No, the takeaway is that people overestimated AI researchers, who turn out to be completely fucking retarded.Brown said that the weak sandbox - the system intended to prevent an AI from communicating externally - was obviously also a contributing factor.
"We left it connected to the internet and were shocked, shocked, to find that it had access to the internet."Brown pointed out that he's "not convinced" that even an air-gapped system - where the computer isn't connected to anything external at all - would stop an AI from breaking out. He pointed to research from 2015 showing that air gapped computers can be theoretically breached.
Dogs. Homework.
Yes, this does work. If you have two computers sitting right next to each other in a controlled environment - that is, not a busy AI datacenter with tens of thousands of machines - where one computer is doing nothing but attempting to send a signal and the other is doing nothing but listening for it.
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September 19, 2026
Saturday Night Club ONT - September 19, 2026 [Disco & Dino]
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Music Thread: PARTY! And Some Unknowns...
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Hobby Thread - September 19, 2026 [TRex] 
Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. For this week, the Wheel of Hobbies (TM) is feeling lucky and decided on a tool plus theme for this Hobby Thread.
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