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Fury as UK's Two-Tier Justice System Refuses to Bring Charges Against Vickrum Digwa's Brother, Who Lied to Police and Thereby Prevented Needed Medical Aid to the Victim
Fury over decision not to bring charges against brother of Henry Nowak's killer after he helped him lie to police about murdered student being racist
By MARTIN ROBINSON, CHIEF REPORTER
The decision not to charge the brother of Henry Nowak's killer after he falsely accused him of racism and being the aggressor was today branded 'incredible'.
A leading lawyer believes Gurpreet Digwa should have been prosecuted for perverting the course of justice at the very least.
Marcus Johnstone, of PCD Solicitors, said evidence at the trial of Henry's killer Vickrum Digwa also suggested his brother may have committed perjury, assisted an offender and obstructed police.
But the Daily Mail can reveal that Hampshire Police did not ask the Crown Prosecution Service to consider any case whatsoever against Gurpreet over Henry's murder.
Gurpreet Digwa watched as police handcuffed fatally injured Henry, who had been stabbed six times with an eight-inch Sikh ceremonial sword on December 3, 2025.
Gurpreet had told police 'we've been racially attacked by a white person' before officers wrongly arrested Henry as he lay dying, 999 audio revealed.
He said: 'We are restraining him now because he has attacked my brother and taken his turban off and he was recording some "s*** on his phone.'
But claims Henry had launched a racist attack were later revealed to be a 'wicked lie'.
Marcus Johnstone told the Daily Mail: 'There is no doubt Gurpreet Digwa has likely committed one or more criminal offences in assisting his brother to cover up Henry Nowak's murder.
'The judge referred to Vickrum Digwa and his mother both perverting the course of justice. It seems incredible his brother was not also charged.
'This reflects extremely badly on the police.'
It comes as Vickrum Digwa's jail term is set to be reconsidered under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme, amid claims the case shows 'two-tier' justice.
An online petition is calling for Gurpreet to be reinvestigated.
Although never charged, he was at the centre of the case that saw his younger brother convicted of murder.
Gurpreet had called 999, falsely claiming Henry had racially abused him and his brother.
'We've just been attacked racially by some white person,' he said.
Gurpreet, himself, 'may just have been accepting that which [Digwa] told him', judge William Mousley KC later said, but he added that he was 'sure' Mr Nowak never said or did anything racist.
Gurpreet had also insisted to the 999 operator there were 'no weapons' involved - despite both brothers carrying Sikh ceremonial knives.
'I don't know what weapons they would be, he said.
He added: 'The guy has fallen over because he looks like he's drunk'.
After Henry died, both brothers were arrested.
Two-Tier Kier was too busy propagandizing a decade-old murder to comment on the current news:
Keir Starmer
It has been ten years since our friend and colleague Jo Cox was murdered by a far-right terrorist.
She was a dedicated mother, a fierce campaigner and a deeply committed Member of Parliament. Her conviction that we have more in common than that which divides us lives on beyond her death.
We all wish Jo was still here with us today, and we will continue to honour her legacy by standing by her message of hope and unity in the face of hatred and division.
“We are sleepwalking into an absolute crisis in the UK.”@PatrickChristys warns that rising tensions in parts of the country could erupt if another major incident occurs, arguing that politicians are failing to grasp the scale of the risk.
Meanwhile, Kier Starmer is doing what leftwing tyrants always do, claimping down on dissident speech.
Now I actually believe social media should be banned for young people -- it's melting adult brains (especially leftwing women's) so it is undoubtedly too dangerous a drug for children -- but of course Starmer is banning it because he's angry at Musk for allowing videos of his tyrannical abuses and incompetence to be viewed by an increasingly-furious public.
🚨 BREAKING: It has been revealed that the public consultation data Keir Starmer is using to promote his social media ban did NOT have an ‘against’ option pic.twitter.com/rKuRoT5JiX
Starmer does not want to shut down X to protect your children. He wants to shut it down to protect himself and @elonmusk is the only reason he cannot.
Child safety. AI images. Misinformation. All lies.
They cannot control X. That is the only reason it needs to be shut down. Here is the unit they use to control everything else.
The UK government has a secret unit called RICU. It sits inside the Home Office. It employs psychologists, marketing experts and former intelligence officers.
Its job is to control what you think after a terror attack or migrant attack happens.
Sweden Passes Law Requiring "Good Behavior" by Migrants Or Else Face Deportation
—Disinformation Expert Ace
"Good behavior" requires more than merely not breaking the law.
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@visegrad24
🇸🇪 Sweden has passed a "good behavior" law allowing migrants to be deported over non-criminal conduct such as tax debts or extremist links.
This will allow the Swedish government the power to revoke residence permits and deport legal immigrants without a specific criminal charge.
Now, grounds for deportation from Sweden may simply be based on the migrant's non-criminal misconduct, such as benefit fraud, links to extremist organizations, illegal work, unpaid debts, and tax evasion.
I mean, almost all of those are criminal behavior. Some might not be felony criminal behavior, and one -- "links to extremist organizations" -- isn't itself a criminal offense but it's a huge, huge flag suggesting very serious criminal offenses indeed.
Well, at least it's something.
Such cases will be evaluated by the Swedish Migration Agency.
This bill was pushed through by the Prime Minister's right-wing minority government, heavily supported by the nationalist Sweden Democrats party.
Propaganda organization Reuters needs you to know that "human rights organizations" object to this law and says it offends "equality under the law."
Sweden's parliament passed a law on Monday allowing authorities to revoke immigrants' residency permits based on bad behaviour, such as having unpaid debts, doing undeclared work or links to extremist organisations.
The law, which covers pending permits but also retroactively already granted permits, is part of a wider tightening of immigration rules by the right-wing government and its support party, the nationalist Sweden Democrats, ahead of a parliamentary election in September.
The law has been criticised by the opposition and human rights advocacy groups as arbitrary because decisions would be taken on behaviour that has not been deemed criminal.
"The good behaviour law leaves people in uncertainty about what actions or expressions can be used against them," Stockholm-based group Civil Rights Defenders said in a statement.
"It undermines the rule of law and the principle of equality before the law."
No, it doesn't. They are not citizens. They do not have a right to be in the country, only the government's leave to be in the country
That leave can be withdrawn.
The government, which won the 2022 election on a promise to reduce immigration and crack down on crime, has said that people who misbehave or commit crimes are not welcome.
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"Anyone who doesn't make the effort to do the right thing shouldn't be able to count on staying," Minister of Migration Johan Forssell said when he proposed the bill in March.
Every civilized country will have a law like this in five years. Those who don't have it will already be de-civilized.
Not uncivilized, but de-civilized, taken from a state a civilization to a state of barbarism.
Update to SPLC Loves Nazis stories: The "white supremacist" organization that the SPLC was so desperate to keep alive was on the verge of disbanding -- and only persisted due to the SPLC's financial contributions:
The "National Alliance" group had collapsed from 1,400 members to 20 members in 2013. It was effectively dead and disbanding.
Then the SPLC came in and started funding it and trying to keep it alive. They wrote many articles, trying to hype up the group as a threat. https://t.co/oWXqDQtu8i
The SPLC built a narrative that doesn’t match reality.
In the 1920s, the KKK had roughly 4 million members in a nation of 129 million. Its members included judges, police chiefs, politicians, and other influential figures.
Today, America has 350+ million people. KKK membership…
Top SPLC Official Funnelled a Million in Donor Money to Her Neo-Nazi Boytoy and Your Guess as To Her General Appearance and Body Type Is Dead-On Accurate
SPLC boss funneled $1.2 million to lover in neo-Nazi group -- pair even had joint bank account
A top Southern Poverty Law Center official is accused of helping funnel $1.2 million in donor money to an informant in the National Alliance white supremacist group -- who was also allegedly her lover.
The Department of Justice filed a superseding indictment against the SPLC accusing it of funneling donor cash to hate groups they were then telling donors they were fighting.
One figure, referred to as "Employee-2" in the indictment, is described as a "person who would become Director of the SPLC's Intelligence Project."
It also describes how "Employee-2" wrote an article based on material stolen from National Alliance headquarters in 2014 and then paid off an informant to take the blame for the robbery.
Based on the details in the June 2 superseding indictment, "Employee-2" is believed to be Heidi Beirich, a 58-year-old fascism expert who was the director of intelligence at the Alabama-based anti-extremism nonprofit between 2012 and 2019.
All unmarried leftwing white women -- every single one of them -- are "fascism experts" and "disinformation experts." They get assigned their credentials by their gynecologists.
The indictment alleges Beirich was very close to the informant known only as "F-9" who "infiltrated the neo-Nazi organization National Alliance."
"[Beirich] was also in a romantic relationship with F-9. During this relationship, [Beirich] and F-9 shared a house and two bank accounts," the indictment alleges.
"Between 2015 and 2021, approximately $140,000 in donors' money flowed from the SPLC operating account ... and was ultimately deposited into the joint bank accounts held by F-9 and [Beirich].
"This amounted to approximately 66% of all money ever deposited into their joint bank accounts. [Beirich] then used donors' money to pay the couple's personal living expenses."
The indictment also claims that while getting paid by the SPLC, the unnamed informant was also raising money for the National Alliance and helping to "carry out its extremist activities."
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Beirich and SPLC did not respond to requests for comment from The Post.
"I knew it was that fat, ugly hog Heidi Beirich," National Alliance chairman William White Williams, 78, told The Post from his home in east Tennessee. He also confirmed the details of the indictment match what happened to the group.
"I think some of those cluckers wanted to get out of the movement and they went to the SPLC for help. But instead of helping them, [the SPLC] said, 'Why don't you stay in and get paid?'" he added of the informants.
FBI Disrupts Planned Terrorist Attack on White House During Last Weekend's UFC Event, Involving Drone Explosives and Snipers Positioned to Shoot People as They Fled in a Panic
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Before getting to that: I wasn't aware of how awesome this event was.
But we're not allowed to have nice things in America any longer, because the left is eagerly importing third world terrorists and inflaming homeground retards to mount paramilitary attacks on the normies.
Feds reveal details of alleged plot to attack White House UFC event with explosive drones
Washington -- The FBI said Tuesday that it disrupted an attempt to attack Sunday's UFC America 250 event at the White House. Court records detail an alleged plot to use small drones carrying explosives and then snipers to target senior government officials and wealthy attendees.
A law enforcement source told CBS News that five people are in custody so far. At least one suspect, 19-year-old Tycen Proper, was arrested in the Southern District of Ohio on Monday and faces four charges, including attempted murder of a federal officer and conspiracy to commit an offense against the U.S., according to court filings.
He has been ordered to remain in custody pending a detention hearing Wednesday, according to court records.
Proper was interviewed by federal investigators on Thursday and admitted to planning, with others, a coordinated attack against the U.S. government during the UFC fight on Sunday, according to an affidavit submitted by an FBI agent.
The White House hosted the event on Sunday -- President Trump's 80th birthday -- as part of the celebrations of the nation's 250th anniversary. Thousands turned out to watch the fights on the White House South Lawn, where Mr. Trump sat in the front row.
Proper told investigators that he began communicating with others via a TikTok group called "Vanguard of the Old" in March, who all said they wanted to protect the U.S. and believed the nation was headed in the wrong direction, according to the affidavit.
Communications among the group members continued on the encrypted messaging app Signal, where the FBI said they planned the attack for the UFC fight.
According to the affidavit, Proper described a plan in which members of the group would leave their homes on Friday or Saturday to meet up in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and travel to Washington, where they would stage a "demonstration" on the north side of the White House.
While the demonstration was taking place, the group would "fly small, unmanned aircraft (i.e. drones) laden with unspecified explosive devices which would detonate over the north side of the UFC arena," according to the filing.
When the drones exploded, the group then planned to force attendees of the UFC event and "high value targets" to evacuate to the south, the affidavit said. Proper told investigators that the plan was for group members to "act as snipers and additional shooters," shooting fight attendees and the "high value targets" as they fled from the explosions.
The affidavit said the "high value targets" were "wealthy people" and politicians. Proper allegedly told investigators the goal of the attack was to "jumpstart" a revolution in the U.S.
The FBI and local law enforcement officials executed a search warrant at the home of Proper's parents, where he lives, on Thursday. Investigators said they found a "large quantity" of ammunition and tactical clothing.
Investigators spoke with Proper's father and grandmother, who said he spent most of his time online talking to others, according to the filing.
This Ultimate Winner spent all of his time online?
No way.
Proper's family also became concerned with statements he had made in recent months, including "sympathetic comments about Adolf Hitler" and antisemitic content posted on his social media, according to the affidavit.
I'm sure the media will claim "he's right wing" but this crap is more prevalent on the left now.
And by "on the left," I mean among Tucker Carlson's and Candace Owens' and Megyn Kelly's audiences.
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An FBI review of Proper's phone messages with alleged co-conspirators revealed his desire to target lawmakers for taking money from AIPAC, a pro-Israel lobbying group, including Sens. Jim Justice and Shelley Moore Capito, and Reps. Carol Miller and Riley Moore, who are all from West Virginia, the affidavit said.
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The investigation into Proper began last Wednesday, when his mother contacted local law enforcement because of concerns about his recent behavior, which included firearms purchases and online communications, according to the FBI.
Proper's father told police the 19-year-old had been planning "recons" with people he met online and had been planning to meet up with them over the weekend, the affidavit states. Proper's father also said his son had recently obtained camping gear, food, ballistic plates, a new shotgun, rifle, ammunition, magazines and plate carriers, the FBI said. Agents alleged Proper spent roughly $3,000 of graduation money to buy the equipment.
A FBI agent also spoke with Proper's mother on Thursday, who said he had begun communicating online with a group of people who expressed "ultra-religious and anti-government sentiments," including grievances about government corruption, the handling of files from the federal case involving convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and data centers.
This sounds like what the government used to call "aspirational" plans to commit a terror attack, rather than a truly advanced, likely terror attack. I doubt this loser could actually convert a drone into a bomb-carrying weapon and I don't see drones on his list of purchases.
Nevertheless, this nihilistic, apocalyptic Nazi/Communist/Islamofascist urge to loser incel hyperviolence is out there, and being whipped up by the left and the left's "rightwing" allies.
As Jonathan Turley pointed out: All the terrorists are going to be salivating to attack us on July 4th, our country's 250th anniversary.
The Morning Rant: MLB's Hatred Of Traditional America Continues Apace!
—CBD
Hatred of religion is a hallmark of the progressive mindset that has engulfed Major League Baseball. Well, not all religions...just the ones that Americans prefer. Islam is conspicuously absent from the mockery and marginalizing that MLB prefers as its corporate ethos. Remember the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence? Yeah...the vile drag group that revels in insulting Christianity, in part by dressing as outrageous nuns? No hint of them dressing as an imam, or Mohamed? I wonder why! But MLB loves them!
Maybe the marketing wonks in the front offices think that there is a vast untapped market for professional baseball among America's homosexuals. How else does one explain the fixation on all things gay? Or maybe there is an equally vast but closeted contingent of gay players who secretly demand recognition but are too enamored of their endorsements to come out of the closet?
Or maybe Occam's Razor applies here, and MLB and the teams are simply overwhelmingly leftist, and they just love sticking a thumb in the eye of traditional America, no matter that it is traditional America who buys their tickets and jerseys and bobble-heads.
Late last week, the San Francisco Giants hosted their "Pride Night," with the team wearing hats with a rainbow-colored Giants logo.
Several Giants pitchers, in a statement of their faith, wrote Bible verse designations on their hats. One, starting pitcher Landen Roupp, addressed his reasoning after the game, saying that the verse is about representing "God's covenant."
Good for them. There was no criticism of the ridiculous "Pride Night" nonsense...they were merely expressing their faith, and for that they deserve respect.
Hilariously and predictably, MLB has lashed out! Never mind that a "Pride Night" is an overtly political statement, and making the players wear those horrid and insulting logos is imposing MLB's political and social stance on the players, making the league's warning explicitly hypocritical.
Per The Athletic, an MLB official has now "warned" those players against violating the rules and writing on their cap.
"The writing on the cap violates our rules, and consistent with normal practice, we have warned the players about future violations," said Pat Courtney, MLB's chief communications officer, in a statement.
That's a lie. Pat Courtney is a liar. "Normal Practice" allows writing on caps unless it seems to attack the sacred cow of MLB... homosexuality. Too bad MLB wasn't equally strict with the amazingly offensive demonstrations with respect to dead fentanyl addict George Floyd! Apparently political stances are perfectly okay if they are in line with the leftist principles embraced by MLB, but beyond the pale when they support Christianity
Baseball is busily taking a national sport that printed money and turning it into a regional sport with a fair number of struggling franchises. If they think that embracing progressive politics that are antithetical to traditional American culture will save baseball's fortunes...they are wrong.
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Good morning kids. Once again we'll focus in on tyranny both at home and abroad but perhaps not in the places we expect, or sadly in places we are not necessarily surprised if not disgusted by. And away we go...
Newly obtained memos show that the US Department of Justice (DOJ), under former [so-called quote-unquote]
president Joe Biden, targeted parents at school board meetings despite warnings from FBI officials and a sheriffs association.
Just the News reports that the conservative nonprofit America First Legal (AFL) acquired the documents as part of its ongoing lawsuit related to an October 4, 2021 memorandum from former Attorney General Merrick Garland that targeted concerned parents at school board meetings.
The Garland memorandum was released despite “some concern” by FBI Deputy Assistant Director Jay Greenberg. Additionally, the National Sheriffs’ Association stated that their sheriffs had “not heard any concerns about threats to local school boards.”
These are parents that spoke up about transsexualism and the homosexual perversion as well as other anti-AMerican propaganda in the curriculum being forced on their children. Ironically, had it not been for the lockdown where parents could see in real-time how their kids were being brainwashed and abused, perhaps they might not have known what the hell was going on in the schools that their tax dollars fund. So for the crime against humanity of them raising their voices in protest, they were to be targeted for termination. I have reported in the very recent past about efforts in California for the state to forcibly remove children from their parents if the latter refuse to allow their children to have sex change mutilations.
Besides parents, the Biden/Obama Junta also targeted Christians for termination, specifically but not exclusively those who dared hold prayer vigils outside of abortion abattoirs along with those who defied the lockdowns by holding religious services seemingly away from prying eyes. And we all know the fate that befell those who dared showed up to the Capitol on January 6th 2021 to legally and peacefully protest the stolen national election. Hundreds were hounded, persecuted and even imprisoned while having their lives destroyed, and in the cases of Ashli Babbitt and Roseanne Boyland taken and martyred
At least that’s what the Department of Justice’s superseding indictment against the SPLC alleges. The organization secretly paid informants to engage in the active promotion and funding of racist groups while denouncing and “fighting” the very same groups in public. The SPLC purportedly created fictitious entities to hide funding from their donors.
The SPLC, for instance, is accused of bankrolling the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally, paying a leader nearly $300,000 to post racist messages, organize and even transport people to the infamous Charlottesville protest, where one person was killed.
In another instance, a pair of white supremacists who approached the SPLC about leaving the Klan were encouraged to stay in the group and recruit new members. Given salaries, the two men were allegedly reimbursed for the costs of their activities, including those “incurred for cross-burning events, to include the wood and fuel used.”
In the end, I’m not sure what the legal jeopardy there is in engaging in this brand of duplicitous activity, but it is without a doubt corrupt, fraudulent, immoral and bad for the country.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, (R-SD,) said Monday that Senate Republicans are moving forward with plans to renew a key federal surveillance authority as a stand-alone measure, despite President Donald Trump’s insistence that it be tied to election legislation.
Thune told reporters the Senate is working to revive Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which expired over the weekend after Congress failed to extend it before a deadline.
“We will try and move 702 as soon as we feel like we have the votes to do it,” Thune said.
The Senate majority leader said lawmakers are counting votes and intend to bring the measure to the floor once sufficient support exists.
Yes, completely unsurprising but again not exactly shocking. The duplicitousness of the GOP is even more disgusting than the naked tyranny and lust for absolute power of the Democrat/Left. Yes, let's give the latter the wherewithal to use and abuse an already corrupt intelligence and law enforcement apparatus that is supposed to defend our freedoms and security the legal cover and legitimacy to target ordinary citizens and groups as if they were threats to national security. Democrats in office as bitter experience has shown us will do exactly this and get away with it because the agencies in question are embedded with fellow travelers who seek the transmogrification of America as founded into yet another failed socialist state where they are in absolute charge, forever. Naturally, as President Trump has done, or attempted to do in fits and starts, is go after the people and groups that are the real threats to America as founded and we the people of We The People. For that of course he is literally Hitler that must be stopped by any and every means necessary. The Deep State under Brennan, Comey and Clapper have failed along with Malig-Nancy Pelosi in several failed Shampeachments. Of Course Hack Hakeem and the aforementioned will try yet again if we lose control of Congress in the midterms. GOD FORBID.
Meh, with Republicans like Thune, we're screwed no matter what. The GOP has got be utterly demolished and a party that actually represents us and that recognizes the threat of Anti-American leftism/socialism and ISLAM and is willing to go to the mattresses to defeat them must rise from the ashes of the GOP if America is to reach 300, let alone 251...
A Secret UK Gov Unit Has Been Planting Lies About Terrorism in the Media
'You can see their fingerprints all over the statements released by the families of victims"
Considering the preternatural anti-Western bent of the media as it is, this seems like gilding the lily. Like a Deep blue shithole thinking they might need to steal an election after winning them outright for generations...
Have a great day,
ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
Victor Davis Hanson: California shows what happens when one party gains total control: soaring costs, shrinking opportunity, and a government that no longer serves its citizens. Is California Reaching Critical Mass?
“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and I are leading a clear policy that determines that the IDF will remain in the security zones in Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza, without any time limit, to protect the border and Israeli communities from there against jihadist elements,” Katz said in his statement on Monday. Israel Refuses to Leave Lebanon Despite Reported Inclusion in U.S.-Iran Deal
“The Iranian Resistance, which for nearly five decades has sought freedom and peace, and has, through 133 revelations in the past 35 years, acted as the most important barrier in preventing the ruling theocracy from acquiring the bomb, welcomes any understanding to end the war and the suffering of the Iranian people,” Rajavi said in a statement. Iranian Dissident Group Welcomes Steps to End War, Says Peace Is ‘Poison’ to Regime Survival
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Section 702 allows U.S. intelligence agencies to collect communications involving foreign targets located outside the United States without obtaining traditional warrants. Advocates of the authority argue it is an important national security tool. Thune pointed to previous comments from a senior Democrat from New Mexico in support of the surveillance program. Thune Signals Senate Will Pursue Stand-Alone FISA Renewal Despite Trump’s Demands
David Harsanyi: The new indictment confirms it was worse than we thought. The SPLC’s Real Scam
La Reconquista remains a fringe movement, but its activists dream of reclaiming the American Southwest through demographics, politics, and cultural power. The La Reconquista Reclamation Project Part I
Several pro-immigration activists and unions have sued against Trump’s restrictions on commercial driver licenses (CDL) for foreigners, court records show. The Trump administration has also detained hundreds of illegal migrant commercial drivers and implemented stricter vetting on visas for such drivers, according to the Department of Homeland Security and State Department. Immigrant Advocacy Blob Tries Fighting Trump’s Crackdown On Foreign Truckers
The suspension could delay plans for Indian investors aiming to buy permanent residency in the U.S. via the EB-5 program. The situation highlights the growing demand for investor visas among Indian nationals. Earlier this year, via the Visa Bulletin, the State Department announced that “sufficient demand and increased number use” for EB-5 from India could result in the program’s automatic suspension. Ongoing and unfinalized applications will likely have to wait until Fiscal Year 2027 (FY27). State Department Pauses Investor Visas for Indians.
Homan said, “The bottom line is, we say a criminal is those who have a criminal conviction or pending criminal charges, which means we found them in the jail cell, locked in a jail cell, which means they’re probably not a choir boy, right?” Homan: Around 64% of ICE Apprehensions Are Criminals, ‘That’s a Good Number’, Was About 70% (Border-jumping means its 100%- jjs)
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
Los Angeles officials are dismissing the move as political theater. However, the missing tens of millions, unverifiable housing sites, and documented conflicts of interest are not partisan talking points; they are governance failures with real human consequences. HUD Suspends Federal Homeless Funding to Los Angeles in Wake of Fraud Allegations
The Wall Street Journal reports that Anthropic is engaged in intensive discussions with the Trump administration to resolve export controls imposed on its flagship AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5. The company has sent top technical experts to Washington for weekend meetings aimed at reaching an agreement that would restore access to the powerful AI systems. Anthropic Sends Team to Washington in Bid to Lift AI Export Ban
FBI agents searched the offices of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative on June 11 and conducted interviews with members of the organization across the state, according to reports. Some agents reportedly served subpoenas or sought to seize electronic devices during the operation. FBI Raids Soros-Connected Ohio Voter Mobilization Group in Fraud Investigation
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
According to (Journalist Adam Housley)Housley, the investigation has multiple components, including matters connected to California’s Napa Valley. He said the inquiry was initially handled by agents from the FBI’s Sacramento field office before later being transferred to the bureau’s San Francisco office. Newsom Blames Trump for Federal Probe Despite Reports Biden Opened Investigation
The city should take a wrecking ball to that project which stiffs the little guy. But the Obama center knows that will never happen, so they do what they do, and too bad about the little guy. Obama fails to pay the help
POLITICS
Both Republicans and Democrats are focused on winning control of both Congress and the presidency over the next two years. But with only months to go before the congressional midterms, Democrats have a marginal lead in the race to control Congress, and no big presidential favorite has emerged for either party, the latest I&I/TIPP Poll shows. Does Either Party Have An Edge In 2026 Midterms And 2028 Presidential Election? I&I/TIPP Poll
Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp made a surprise announcement Monday just one day before the GOP gubernatorial runoff by weighing in on the race to succeed him after largely remaining on the sidelines throughout the campaign. His decision to endorse Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones came the day after President Donald Trump backed Republican Georgia Rep. Mike Collins in the GOP primary for Senate, who is competing with a candidate backed by the governor. Georgia GOP Chaos Erupts Just Days Before Primary Runoff
The aircraft went down at approximately 11:20 a.m. local time during a flight tied to an Air Force radar modernization program. Video footage from the scene showed debris scattered across a burned section of desert near the runway as emergency crews responded to the crash site. Report: Eight Killed After B-52 Bomber Crashes During Test Flight at Edwards Air Force Base
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
Data from APHIS indicates that the majority of confirmed (New World screwworm) cases have been found in livestock in Texas, with the first case being reported on June 3 in Zavala County. However, one case of the flesh-eating parasite has also been found in a dog in Lea County, New Mexico. Flesh-Eating Parasite Spreads Through Texas As Officials Fight Infestation
If you are one of those people, I have some great news. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Department of Agriculture Secretary (USDA) Brooke Rollins announced Monday that those remaining dogs — there are about 475 — will be removed from the facility and placed with a no-kill shelter, where they'll be prepared for adoption and the opportunity for a much brighter future. Kennedy and Rollins Make Huge Announcement About Ridglan Farms and Animal Testing
The San Francisco Giants held their annual Pride Night last week to honor the LGBTQ+ community. The celebration included 10 gay couples renewing their wedding vows and a drag queen standing along the first base line. Four Christian ballplayers on the Giants chose to make a statement about their faith. While all the other players wore a “Pride” hat (a Giants hat with a rainbow patch attached), one pitcher, Sam Hentges, wore his regular Giants cap without the rainbow. Giants’ Pride hat controversy: Tolerance does not apply to Christians
Normally, nobody should cheer when a Wisconsin business loses its stock. Jobs, rent, suppliers, and familiar faces that sit behind every taproom door. But Minoqua Brewing Company owner Kirk Bangstad has spent years turning beer into a vessel for political contempt, and now the state says the rules caught up with him. Minocqua Brewing Learned That the Rules Apply to Left-Wing Loudmouths Too
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The Flynn Effect is a long-observed but unexplained finding in psychology that mean IQ even in developed nations has been rising by around 3 points per decade.
"What I am seeing in my classroom is no longer a hunch," Jagt writes. "There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing, and the academy is responding to it with improvisation and exhaustion rather than the structural overhaul it requires."
Note that this hasn't put a pause on graduations; more degrees are being handed out than ever before.
It's just putting a pause on learing.
Yeah, I went there.
More flagrantly detrimental to learning, plenty more use the tech to generate entire essays and solve math problems - or, in a word, cheat. That many universities have partnered with tech companies to provide students with access to their shiny AI models has only served to rubber stamp and accelerate the tech's adoption in the classroom, marooning individual instructors to figure out how to work around AI on their own.
It seems the author went there too.
It appears the Flynn Effect faltered in the early 2000s. Before I get too smug about that, it seems to have dropped off in Australia by the 1980s.
Interestingly, the group most in favour of this supremely idiotic move are those aged 35-49; with both younger and older adults more strongly opposed. Though no age group expressed more than tepid support.
A "ban" strongly favoured by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei right up until the minute he got what he asked for.
Access to Mythos was always restricted by Anthropic itself. Access to Fable is still open to any US citizen on US soil with a Claude account. (I had access for a couple of days.)
Update: Thanks to reader Defenestratus for prompting me to actually read the whiny self-serving glurge that Anthropic put out discussing the situation. Both models are now unavailable globally.
NPUs are largely useless for desktop systems, and with no integrated graphics, users will be required to purchase dedicated graphics cards, which are far more capable for AI computation than any NPU.
It is immensely amusing to watch the angry, jealous, envious jabberers criticize Elon Musk for having the temerity to create a vibrant and successful space exploration company that he mostly funds with good old cash flow from another vibrant, successful business...StarLink! Who knew that there was a demand for fast and stable internet services in the ex-urbs and rural America? And it won't break the bank either!
Deep in their cold hearts and their tiny little brains they know that they could never have created something like SpaceX or StarlInk or Tesla, and instead of being impressed, they get angry and want to tear him down. His answer to them, as was his answer when they tried to blackmail him into changing Twitter/X is clear.
Another thing that is interesting is that even after the ridiculous EV subsidies have been canceled, his car company seems to be doing okay, unlike many of the others that are imploding. I am no fan of EVs for anything other than performance cars, but if he can make a go of it without sucking on the government teat, it has nothing to do with me. In fact: Good for him!
A man is driving down the road and his car breaks down near a monastery. He goes to the monastery, knocks on the door, and says, "My car broke down. Do you think I could stay the night?"
The monks graciously accept him, feed him dinner, and even fix his car. As the man tries to fall asleep, he hears a strange sound. A sound unlike anything he's ever heard before. The Sirens that nearly seduced Odysseus into crashing his ship comes to his mind. He doesn't sleep that night.
He tosses and turns trying to figure out what could possibly be making such a seductive sound. The next morning, he asks the monks what the sound was, but they say, "We can't tell you. You're not a monk." Distraught, the man is forced to leave.
Years later, after never being able to forget that sound, the man goes back to the monastery and pleads for the answer again. The monks reply, "We can't tell you. You're not a monk."
The man says, "If the only way I can find out what is making that beautiful sound is to become a monk, then please, make me a monk."
The monks reply, "You must travel the earth and tell us how many blades of grass there are and the exact number of grains of sand. When you find these answers, you will have become a monk."
The man sets about his task. After years of searching he returns as a gray-haired old man and knocks on the door of the monastery. A monk answers. He is taken before a gathering of all the monks.
"In my quest to find what makes that beautiful sound, I travelled the earth and have found what you asked for: By design, the world is in a state of perpetual change. Only God knows what you ask. All a man can know is himself, and only then if he is honest and reflective and willing to strip away self deception."
The monks replied, "Congratulations. You have become a monk. We shall now show you the way to the mystery of the sacred sound." The monks lead the man to a wooden door, where the head monk says, "The sound is beyond that door." The monks give him the key, and he opens the door. Behind the wooden door is another door made of stone. The man is given the key to the stone door and he opens it, only to find a door made of ruby. And so it went that he needed keys to doors of emerald, pearl and gold.
Finally, they come to a door made of diamonds. The sound has become very clear and definite. The monks say, "This is the last key to the last door." The man is apprehensive to no end. His life's wish is behind that door! With trembling hands, he unlocks the door, turns the knob, and slowly pushes the door open. Falling to his knees, he is utterly amazed to discover the source of that haunting and seductive sound…
But, of course, I can't tell you what it is because you're not a monk.
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This was me all day. I don't know what the problem was. I never woke up.
A weird-looking goblin-dog was returned by a family because their own dog, a chihauhau, rejected it. But he's got a forever home now.
Men rescue a kangaroo from a reservoir and the roo shakes their hands afterwards. Kind of. I think he's actually getting ready to punch them and the guy just grabs his paw so he doesn't.
Today, the BBC claims it has identified EL. He's a 23-year-old Russian diplomat with close ties to the Kremlin.
The handler EL, who directed Lavrynovych, offered Russian citizenship in return for other attacks and glorified President Vladimir Putin, messages the BBC has uncovered show.
We have identified evidence suggesting that EL is a young Russian diplomat, schooled in information warfare by spies and propagandists, who is close to the highest levels of power in Moscow. His name is Evgeny Lyukshin. He is 23 and the son of a senior official...
Lyukshin allegedly set up a fake far-right group called Direct Action which was completely fabricated.
The group sought to appear as an organic British creation. But we found that Direct Action was created online by Russian operatives to cause division among ordinary people in the UK.
Messages sent in the group bore a Moscow timestamp, used Cyrillic letters, and placed pound signs at the end of numbers, rather than at the start - as in Russian...
But Lyukshin was plaing both sides. Before he invented Direct Action he also created an extremist Muslim group called Takbir Foundation.
The foundation sought to recruit Muslims to spray-paint "sacred graffiti" in the UK. But its real goal was obvious: to inflame the far right with this vandalism. Telegram accounts that pretended to be those of devout Muslims later switched seamlessly to an aggressive anti-Islam agenda with Direct Action.
So this is the same "election rigging" effort Russia deployed in America in 2016, spending a couple hundred thousand in ads to both inflame the right against the left and to inflame the left against the right, by spending money to stoke anti-white rage, for example.
The American media always, always forgets to mention that part when "reporting" on the Russian "interference" in the 2016 election.
Based on my belief that Ukranian models were targeting him based on something personal like an argument over payment or failure to comply with blackmail demands, I falsely concluded that Keir Starmer must have been a patron of rent-boys, and thus a homosexual.
I apologize for that false claim and withdraw it completely.
It was an absurd conclusion to come to and I'm ashamed to have made it.
Gavin Newsom: Trump Is Investigating Me and My Wife Because He's Corrupt and Not Because I Shovel Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars of Taxpayer's Money to My Wife For Her "Businesses"
Newly released IRS filings reveal that First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom and her production company, Girls Club LLC, have collectively received more than $3.7 million over the past decade from The Representation Project--the nonprofit she founded in 2011 to combat gender stereotypes through films and advocacy.
According to a detailed Daily Mail investigation published today, Siebel Newsom draws an annual salary of $150,000 as Chief Creative Officer, while Girls Club LLC receives another $150,000 yearly for licensing her documentaries Miss Representation and The Mask You Live In, for which the LLC holds the copyrights.
In the fiscal year ending March 2024, the organization reported roughly $1.7 million in gross receipts, with executive compensation--including payments to Siebel Newsom, her LLC, Executive Director Caroline Heldman ($150,000), and CFO Debra Garber ($131,942)--totaling $581,942, a figure critics call disproportionately high for a charity of its size.
Over 13 years, these combined payouts represent up to one-third of the nonprofit's annual revenue in some periods. Neither the Newsoms nor The Representation Project responded to requests for comment.
This development intensifies long-standing scrutiny of financial flows tied to the Newsom family, including behested payments--donations solicited by Governor Gavin Newsom to third-party organizations, often nonprofits or causes aligned with administration priorities. Such payments, while legal, must be disclosed under California's Political Reform Act to guard against pay-to-play arrangements.
And now the man diverting millions to his wife's grifter organization says he's being investigated for no reason at all you guys:
Gavin Newsom
@GavinNewsom
Today, my wife & I joined Donald Trump's hit list. He has directed his Department of Justice to investigate us. They have not found a crime - they are simply trying to find one.
He isn't coming after me because of mean tweets, but because I am considering running for President.
He hates that I consistently call him out. He is simply the most corrupt President in American history.
We have nothing to hide.
Mr. President, come after me. I am not going anywhere.
Townhall's Cameron Arcand reports that there are multiple investigations, that they started in California, not Washington, D.C., stemming from whistleblower complaints, and that they have to do with Jennifer Siebel Newsom's taxes and with Newsom's former chief of staff, Dana Williamson. According to multiple years of tax returns reviewed by RedState, Gavin and Jennifer Newsom file taxes jointly, so if the investigation has to do with taxes, it has to do with both of them.
Today, my wife & I joined Donald Trump’s hit list. He has directed his Department of Justice to investigate us. They have not found a crime - they are simply trying to find one.
He isn't coming after me because of mean tweets, but because I am considering running for President.… pic.twitter.com/tVYk3WUvO8
Maybe they're investigating you because your finances don't add up? Or because your wife's LLC received the deed to a $9.1 million home a week before the LLC was even created - while you still had your Fair Oaks home? How was that LLC capitalized? https://t.co/8GNvkFHnuspic.twitter.com/SIIN1tinv1
Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner appeared to cruelly mock a teen's suicide attempt in a newly resurfaced Reddit post.
The May 2012 Reddit thread begins with a photo of a teenage girl hanging out of an upper-story window, with a young man gripping her arms in an apparent attempt to save her, screenshots of the post showed.
"A girl at my old highschool [sic] tried jumping from a window because her cousin died the day before," the post's caption read. These students saved her. I have hope."
An account belonging to the Nazi-tattoo sporting Maine Senate candidate wasn't sympathetic.
"Someone clearly isn't trying hard enough," a commenter using the name P-Hustle -- Platner's screen name on the platform -- wrote in response.
Some might say that this is just "edgy" Reddit "humor."
I'd respond that many of us have been harassed, censored, debanked, or even fired for similar edgy humor, so why does the National Socialist Shrimpdick get a pass?
In another newly-unearthed Reddit post, Platner -- who had an account on the messaging app Kik which featured a half-naked photo of himself -- joked about expressing his gratitude for porn stars in military fashion.
"Thank you for your cervix," he posted in 2021 in response to a user who said that adult entertainers should be thanked for their service like veterans.
Good Heavens, he really is made of Reddit "jokes" and sexual battery, isn't he?
Yeah I know the allegations so far are about non-sexual battery committed against women, but I imagine the sexual assault allegations are being held until (I think) July 13th, when it will no longer be legal to replace him in the race.
Relatedly: The Democrats' electoral lead looks like it's experiencing shrinkage.
Sen. Mitch McConnell was admitted to the hospital on Sunday, according to a spokesperson.
"Senator McConnell was admitted to the hospital this morning. He is receiving excellent care," the spokesperson said.
ABC News has inquired about McConnell's condition and diagnosis but his team has not yet provided more information.
This is the latest in a string of medical incidents that the 84-year-old senator has faced in recent years.
So this is a possible problem. As you probably know, the governor of Kentucky is a Democrat, and would be able to appoint a Democrat replacement for this guy who should have retired 12 years ago. The Republican legislature passed a law that says the governor can only pick a replacement from a list submitted by the party of the incapacitated senator, but the governor says that goes against the state's constitution and hints that he will ignore that and appoint a Democrat.
The Kentucky state Legislature passed legislation on Thursday that would change how vacancies in the U.S. Senate are filled, over the objections of Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear.
The Republican-sponsored bill, which would require a special election to choose a senator in the case of an open seat in the unexpired term, passed with bipartisan support as the Legislature nears the end of its session. It passed both chambers with veto-proof majorities.
It's a significant change from how the process currently works. A majority of states -- including Kentucky -- pick successors in vacant Senate seats by gubernatorial appointment. But there are some notable restrictions in the commonwealth: The governor must choose a nominee from a list of three names the outgoing senator's party submits. Beshear would have to choose a Republican, should either Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell or Sen. Rand Paul's seats become vacant.
McConnell last month announced he will not run for another term as GOP conference leader later this year. But he has vowed to serve out the rest of his term, which runs through 2027. Last year, the 82-year-old faced questions about his future after bouts of freezing in public, although Kentucky Republicans who sponsored the bill have insisted that it was not prompted by McConnell's health.
But with the change, Kentucky Republicans now have a backup plan in case there is an opening for the longtime senator's seat before his term expires.
Beshear has not hidden his disdain for the current arrangement. When the appointment rule was passed in 2021, he said it "improperly and unconstitutionally restricts the governor's power." He has also not explicitly committed to following it; when asked over the summer whether he would abide by the law should there be a vacancy, he refused to "speculate about something that hasn't happened and isn't going to happen."
I'm not sure how to read the Kentucky Constitution on this point. I fear Bashear might in fact be right:
The last part of that:
Vacancies in all offices for the State at large, or for districts larger than a county, shall be filled by appointment of the Governor; all other appointments shall be made as may be prescribed by law.
I think "offices for the State at large" would include Senators, who are of course elected by the state at large, and that would be an office filled by the governor, as opposed to other offices, which will be filled as "prescribed by law."
It's very basic law that a statute cannot modify a constitution, only a constituional amendment can. (Unless you're a Democrat pushing the constitution to the left/towards DEI, in which case practically anything can override the constitution.)
He may be right that the legislature has no power to overrule the constitution if the constitution does indeed give this power to the governor alone.
Thanks, Mitch! Give yourself a raise and take the rest of the week off, buddy.
Biden DOJ targeted parents at school board meetings despite FBI, sheriffs' objections, memos show
AFL said it acquired the documents as part of its ongoing lawsuit related to former Attorney General Merrick Garland's October 4, 2021 memorandum that targeted concerned parents at school board meetings during the COVID pandemic.
By Nicholas Ballasy
Former President Joe Biden's Justice Department used federal law enforcement to target parents at school board meetings as potential threats "despite warnings from FBI officials and the National Sheriffs' Association," according to America First Legal's analysis of new government documents it obtained.
AFL, a conservative legal nonprofit, said it acquired the documents as part of its ongoing lawsuit related to former Attorney General Merrick Garland's October 4, 2021 memorandum that targeted concerned parents at school board meetings during the COVID pandemic.
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Some inside DOJ also fretted the strategy would boomerang, and create a political headache for elections,
"I don't think it's possible to state how strongly I object to this. It will completely and totally nuke our election threats efforts, and will damage the reputation of the Public Integrity Section into the bargain," one top DOJ official wrote in an email. "It's like they've affirmatively trying to make this thing not work and look political."
"If they do this, they might as well rename the damn thing the Anti-MAGA Task Force," an official wrote.
The National Sheriffs' Association also shared concerns like those of the FBI, the memos show...
The Sheriffs were not aware of any "threats to school officials." That's because it was all invented, yet another hoax Moral Panic created by the left to justify endless warfare against its many, many, many enemies.
The FBI enforced the memo, AFL noted, establishing a new threat tag, "EDUOFFICIALS."
Bitter Old Has-Beens Stage Counter-Event to WH UFC Show
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The left is very angry that Trump "desecrated" the White House by staging a sporting event there. They say the White House lawn is sacred, and only for wholesome events like lurid transgender perverts exposing their fake breasts to children.
The usual old crowd of Bitter Clingers staged a counter-concert, featuring an array of stars who made up a virtual Who's Who of Who's That?
Jane Fonda Decries First Amendment Violations at Star-Studded Event: "It's Being Allowed by Cowardly Corporations"
"Right now, the government and its cronies [are] routinely violating its First Amendment to silence artists," she said at Rise Up, Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment in New York.
Jane Fonda gave a passionate speech defending the First Amendment on Sunday night at the star-studded Rise Up, Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment.
The event, held at The Town Hall in New York, was organized by the Committee for the First Amendment, a group that originally formed in 1947 during the McCarthy era but was recently revived by Fonda.
The very patriotic event featured dementia patient Robert DeNiro declaring that loving America is like loving the spouse who beats you -- in other words, he hates the country.
Robert De Niro: “I hate to say it, but loving our country is starting to sound like an abused spouse saying they love their abuser. I can’t love a country that’s led by a racist, misogynist, xenophobic tyrant.” pic.twitter.com/TeLglm9DCe
Shew! I just saw a bunch of literal fascists getting ready to take down the country, BUT LUCKILY, Bette Midler and her super powerful squad stopped them at the gate... lol pic.twitter.com/mUS7thCTVj
Daily Mail: A Former "Counter-Terrorism" Propagagnda Unit Headed by an MI-6 Spy Has Been Redirected to Run Nonstop Psyops Against the British Public to Convince Them to Accept Terrorism and Third-World Hyperviolence as Normal and Perfectly British
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I think we already knew this, but social media is blowing up about it, so maybe we didn't. Or maybe it was alleged but now we have more information.
REVEALED: How shadowy unit of government 'thought police' set up by ex-MI6 agent is trying to keep a lid on Britain's simmering racial tensions
While the streets of Belfast were ablaze with anti-immigration protests last week, behind the scenes a group of spies, spinners and soldiers were deploying the 'dark arts' to try to defuse tensions.
The name of the secretive Government propaganda unit trying to manipulate events makes it sound like an innocuous back-office operation -- the Research, Information and Communications Unit, or RICU.
But the dull moniker is part of the deliberate camouflage of an outfit which uses deception and skulduggery to try to manage the 'challenges' of multiculturalism.
Its techniques range from planting stories in the media, using undercover operatives to lay flowers at the scene of terrorist attacks and even, in one case, sending a pop group to sing anti-extremist songs in Muslim schools.
But as the article states later, the RICU unit is very one-sided, focusing laser-like on the traditional elements of the British public for their "far-right" anger at murder and terrorism.
The 22-strong unit was established in 2007 by the late Charles Farr, a former MI6 officer, as part of the Prevent counter-terrorism strategy.
Modelled on the Information Research Department (IRD), a propaganda unit established by the Attlee government in 1948 to blacken the names of communists and other political opponents, RICU operates out of the Home Office's Westminster headquarters.
While its original purpose was to monitor and challenge the spread of Al Qaeda propaganda and to vet the language used by public officials when describing terrorism, its tentacles now stretch far across Whitehall -- to the extent that critics say it risks strangling free speech.
When the mobs took to the streets of Northern Ireland last week following the stabbing of Stephen Ogilvie, allegedly by Hadi Alodid, a 30-year-old Sudanese asylum-seeker, RICU swung into action to advise the police in the province on how to 'control the narrative'.
A source said: 'They are working with the Police Service of Northern Ireland's C3 intelligence unit to identify those posting the online 'calls to protest' in Belfast and other areas, as well as giving strategic messages to the police to ensure that the protesters were portrayed as unsympathetic thugs, rather than activists, and effecting behavioural change.'
The source said that the unit had also been advising the police in Southampton following the horrific murder of Henry Nowak by Vickrum Digwa -- who falsely claimed he had been racially abused and had acted in self-defence -- saying: 'RICU made sure that the liaison team dealing with the family were well briefed.'
It has also been claimed that the unit intervenes to write statements by the families of victims of potentially racially linked incidents to stop them from inflaming tensions further with their remarks.
The source said: 'You can see their fingerprints all over the statements released by the families of victims in these volatile situations -- they usually have a similar tone.'
However, RICU is regarded by many Whitehall insiders to be 'out of control', after last year putting its name to a Home Office recommendation that the police should record more 'non-crime hate incidents' -- the controversial, sub-criminal measures used to inhibit people from making reference to matters of race, religion, sexual orientation or disability.
Ministers finally bowed to pressure by scrapping the measures, telling the police to stop recording everyday rows and online spats.
The unit also claimed that the prevalence of sexual grooming gangs in Pakistani communities was being exploited by the far-Right to stir up hatred against Muslim communities.
It has a long history of 'covertly engineering', in the words of one expert, 'the thoughts of people' at times of crisis, being quick to spring into action after terrorist incidents such as the London Bridge attacks in 2017. Eight people died when a van was driven into pedestrians on London Bridge and the three occupants ran to a nearby market and began stabbing people.
In the immediate aftermath of the atrocity, RICU's undercover operatives handed out flowers in the area, with the aim of perpetuating an atmosphere of 'grief' rather than anti-Muslim 'anger'.
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RICU frequently uses social media in this way to infiltrate online conversations in 'target communities'.
However, according to Sir William Shawcross, who published a review of Prevent in 2023, the unit seems more keen to target the far-Right than extreme Islamists.
Sir William wrote: 'The bar for what RICU includes on Islamism looks to be relatively high, whereas the bar for what is included on the extreme Right-wing is comparably low.'
By way of illustrating his point, in 2023 the unit identified viewing habits which it believed indicate that someone could be susceptible to far-Right views. These included Michael Portillo's Great British Railway Journeys, The Thick Of It and Yes Minister, all on the BBC. Works by Shakespeare, Chaucer and Milton were described as 'key texts' of interest to 'white nationalists/supremacists'.
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Security expert Professor Anthony Glees responded: 'The unit that produced this report is called RICU.
'It's based in the Home Office but it's in that kind of shadowy area between what the Home Office does and what the security service MI5 ought to be doing. Or what the special branch used to do before it was turned into the counter-terrorist police force.'
Obviously the US has something like this too, or at least did. I think -- I can't recall the name so I can't search for it-- the DOJ had some kind of "anti-bias unit" that rushed in to tell families of victims of terrorist or racial violence that they must call for peace and that the death must not be used to inflame passions.
That sounds fine except this group obviously stands down and permits black radicals to inflame passions about alleged "racist" cop-killings and "nooses hanging from garage doors." We never see these radicals reciting government agitprop to "turn down the heat" and "remain calm."
In fact, it's obvious that when a Muslim or black radical group wants to inflame passions against the majority, the entire media and government apparatus turns into a machine to inflame passions further and encourage and justify rioting and arson.
I can't help but notice that the US form of this "Don't be angry, just accept it" Regime propaganda operation chooses to inflame passions when those passions might -- beyond the direct provocation of riots and arson -- help galavanize minority voters to vote Democratic. The Regime ops only seek to "turn down the temperature" when passions threaten to cause voters to turn against the Democrat/Socialist Regime.
Also obviously: This unit is working hand-in-glove with UK censors working to censor Americans, and that's all made possible by US CIA operatives working with those foreign censors to do what they themselves are forbidden by law to do, which is to censor the American public themselves.
That's not a real tweet. It's a parody tweet mimicking Norm's actual tweet saying that what really worries him is if ISIS detonate a nuke and kills 50 million people -- can you imagine the anti-Muslim backlash?
THE MORNING RANT: Hampton Prescott Returns to Discuss the Importance of Architecture for Urban Renewal
—Buck Throckmorton
In a post a couple of months ago I invited Hampton Prescott to contribute his thoughts about a subject that is important to me – “municipal conservatism.” Like me, Mr. Prescott understands the importance of conservatives working to not only gather votes in urban areas, but also working to make urban areas inhabitable again. Rudy Giuliani proved it can be done. Doing so will also have spillover benefits, including the construction of more housing, thus reducing overall housing costs by increasing supply.
As frustrating as the decline of urban areas is, we cannot simply wish their problems away, or completely walk away from them. They exist, even in red states. I appreciate conservatives who want to address the problem.
I am traveling right now, so I invited Mr. Prescott to provide a follow-up piece, this time focusing on the importance of architecture in the livability of cities. He kindly obliged. Read the whole thing, but here is a quote that captures the importance of the topic: ”Classical architecture isn’t nostalgia—it’s proven urban technology refined over the centuries. It restores dignity and desirability while delivering economic, social, and cultural returns.”
In an age of sterile glass boxes, “Tetris Chic” monstrosities, and sprawling suburban monotony, many cities feel like they’ve lost their soul. New construction often worsens the problem: out-of-scale, soulless structures that prioritize short-term cost-cutting over enduring appeal.
As I’ve noted before, the poor quality of contemporary architecture is an underrated driver of why urban spaces feel downtrodden. Lately, there’s growing lament in the discourse about the sterile, lifeless designs of restaurants, hotels, theme parks, and streetscapes. People crave vibrancy and a sense of being alive in a world where their senses are being dulled by overexposure to screens. This theory is further supported by studies consistently showing public preference for traditional/classical designs (often 70-84% in polls).
A return to classical principles—proportion, hierarchy, human scale, ornamentation, and just plain grandeur—offers more than aesthetic redemption. It provides a practical pathway to urban renewal and a massive arbitrage opportunity for developers who recognize the shift in tastes.
Postwar planning and modernist dogma treated cities as machines for efficiency rather than places for human flourishing. Tom Wolfe’s “From Bauhaus to our House” documents this superbly. Vast redevelopment schemes razed historic fabric for high-rises and highways, eroding the fine-grained, walkable streets and dignified buildings that once fostered community and pride. The result was predictable: ugly environments signal low value, deterring investment, accelerating blight, and inviting more utilitarian “solutions.”
Classical and traditional architecture counters this cycle. Timeless forms—properly proportioned columns, balanced facades, rhythmic streetscapes, and human-scaled detailing—create places people want to linger in, invest in, and maintain across generations. Historic districts with classical or traditional character consistently show higher desirability, better upkeep, stronger property values, and greater resilience. This is illustrated by the Polo Bar in New York—the hardest reservation in town—and classic hotels like The Breakers in Palm Beach, which command $2,000+ a night. These lifestyle assets benefit tremendously - from a financial as well as a cultural perspective - from spaces that uplift rather than demoralize.
To expand upon this point, restoring or emulating classical elements sparks broader renewal—increased foot traffic, tourism, private reinvestment, and community stewardship. Poor architecture fails Jane Jacobs’ “eyes on the street” test and erodes sense of place; context-ignoring modernist insertions often accelerate blight, even if it yielded its developer a healthy promote (though the end of QE has made this a much less frequent occurrence).
The Real Estate industry, writ large, is desperately looking for a new business model after the interest rate shock of 2022. While the major allocators are tying their capital up in data centers, traditional developers are generally at a loss for next steps considering today’s landscape—rising costs, regulatory complexity, shifting demographics, hybrid work, and pent-up demand for authentic places. These headwinds indicate an opportunity for a new approach that strongly favors classical strategies benefitting from the following:
1. Premium Pricing & Resilience: Traditionally inspired buildings often deliver higher rents, sales prices, occupancy rates, and tenant retention. Buyers and residents pay for craftsmanship and timelessness that resist obsolescence. In volatile markets, these assets hold value far better than the ubiquitous “Tetris Chic” designs.
2. Incentives & Leverage: Historic tax credits, downtown revitalization grants, and area-wide programs reduce risk. Bundling rehab with sympathetic new classical infill can pencil out financially while unlocking public support and faster approvals (time is money, and as any developer can tell you, NIMBY resistance can quickly kill the profitability on a project.)
3. Demographic Tailwinds: Growing preference for walkable, family-friendly, high-quality environments (neither sterile high-density nor car-dependent sprawl) aligns perfectly with classical urbanism. The massive popularity of Seaside in 30A illustrates this and the late, great Robert AM Stern’s designs in New York routinely achieving the highest per square foot sales in the market makes this hard to ignore.
4. Long-Term Economics: Upfront investment in high quality, aesthetically pleasing construction will often yield lower maintenance, superior durability, and elevated market perception—improving ROI.
5. First-Mover Advantage: Momentum is building—from cultural discourse to policy shifts to select developer projects. Those who move now will benefit from immense pricing power in their developments.
The growing family office sector, guided by smart incentives and conviction rather than overly-risk averse bureaucratic investment committees, can move faster and more effectively. These capital sources seem to be primely suited to capture this opportunity. In addition to the long-term compounding opportunities outlined above, being responsible for popular, new landmarks can serve as a massive halo effect (much needed in a world where economic populism is firmly on the rise).
Classical architecture isn’t nostalgia—it’s proven urban technology refined over millennia. It restores dignity and desirability while delivering economic, social, and cultural returns. In an era skeptical of failed modernist experiments, the timing is exceptional. Developers who deliver beauty aligned with human nature will reap substantial arbitrage as markets reward places worth caring about.
Build ugly and feed decline. Build beautifully and compound value for generations. The data, anecdotes, history, and shifting preferences all point the same direction.
The US and Iran have reached a peace deal to end their three-and-a-half-month-old war, President Trump announced Sunday evening.
The Strait of Hormuz, which carries 20% of the world’s oil, is set to reopen on Friday when a deal is signed in Switzerland, officials said.
“The Deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran is now complete,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“Congratulations to all! I hereby fully authorize the toll free opening of the Strait of Hormuz, and, simultaneously herewith, authorize the immediate removal of the United States Naval blockade. Ships of the World, start your engines. Let the oil flow!” The signing will launch a 60-day negotiating process to determine the fate of Iran’s nuclear program and the extent of sanctions relief, according to officials.. . The agreement has not been seen publicly, but the White House on Friday described to reporters five points that are in the deal:
--Iran will destroy its highly enriched uranium
--Tehran will pledge never to obtain a nuclear weapon
--Economic relief will come after those first two steps are completed
--The Strait of Hormuz will be open immediately upon signing
--Iran must stop funding terrorist groups including Hezbollah
A senior administration official said the economic relief would be released “around physical milestones, it’s built around action and it’s built around verification.”
Brent crude, the international benchmark, fell by around four percent to below $84 a barrel, the lowest price since March 5. West Texas Intermediate, the U.S. benchmark, fell by nearly five percent to below $81 a barrel.
“With the opening of the Strait upon the signing of the Deal on Friday, for purposes of mine removal, oil will flow on both ends again for the Region, and the World!” President Trump said Sunday evening.
Stock futures tied to U.S. equities market climbed on the news.
The Iranian state-controlled Mehr News Agency is trumpeting the deal as a complete victory for the Islamic Republic. It involves concession after concession from the U.S., and nothing whatsoever in the other direction. Mehr states the 14 provisions of the Memorandum of Understanding in this way: According to the source, the draft includes the following provisions:
1. Permanent and immediate end to war on all fronts, including Lebanon.
2. US commitment to non-interference in Iran’s internal affairs and respect for the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran... 11. Release of $24 billion in Iran’s blocked funds during the 60-day final negotiation period, with half of that amount to be made available to Iran before negotiations begin. . .
. . . If this is even close to true, it’s the most breathtaking betrayal in American history (after Trump’s promises to the Iranian people), a new lease on life for the Islamic Republic, likely ensuring it remains in power for decades to come, and the most humiliating and unnecessary defeat in American history. Trump’s legacy will be surrender and the empowerment of America’s enemies, to an extent even worse than anything Barack Obama or Old Joe Biden did.
If you read all the points while understanding the nature of the Mullahs and the nature of ISLAM, this is merely strategic retreat in the 1500-year Islamic crusade for world domination. They know that all they have to do is wait out the next two years for Trump to exit the White House and that at best a Democrat will be elected and at worst, even if it's Vance or whomever, there will be a groundswell of opposition should that administration want to once again attack Iran once they inevitably resume their drive for nuclear weapons as well as continue to foment terrorism in the region and around the world, because gentle reader this is exactly what they are going to do.
Elsewhere, congratulations to Elon Musk for becoming the first nrillionaire in history. naturally the Democrat Left are beside themselves dropping venom and doing everything they can to denigrate this accomplishment. whatever one thinks of Musk personally or otherwise, his achievement is a shining example of the American dream as well as the work ethic that made this nation great and has been the engine of progress that took us from out of the caves to landing on the moon and building the freest most prosperous society in human history.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know by now that with SpaceX’s Initial Public Offering (IPO), Elon Musk has become the world’s first trillionaire. The implications of this for all of us and our grandchildren are many and far-reaching. Of course, the left has found a way to narrow it all down to one simple idea: “His money is our money, or it should be.”
Envy is the lifeblood of leftist politics, and Musk is merely their latest, biggest, and most convenient target. But it’s worth being reminded that to the left, you are no different than Elon Musk. Let me explain. The left is miserable when you’re happy. It feels entitled to be the only source of your happiness, but it has no desire to make you happy. Rather, it simply wants to control how happy it will allow you to be.
Make no mistake about it, Tehran is going to test the limits of this thing. That's what Iran does. But the framework is there, and the verification mechanisms matter... Obviously, there's still work ahead. And there’s reason to be skeptical of Iran because this is a regime with a long history of buying time while running out the clock. But, we aren’t sending them plane-loads of cash in the dark of night, or giving them a path to nuclear weapons, as Barack Obama did. Trump Announces Peace Deal with Iran Is Complete
Obama said, “It is doubtful that any agreement that arises is going to be significantly different or a significant improvement from the deal that we had in the first place. And had worked for, for a long stretch of time, before we, the United States, pulled out of it. Obama on Iran: We Can’t ‘Bully Our Way or Bomb Our Way to Solutions’
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
The post garnered over 10,000 likes in less than 12 hours, sparking widespread outrage and calls for legal action. A number of AI-generated copycat posts were also shared. Under Texas law, desecrating a grave is a serious offense, and even creating realistic images of such acts could potentially lead to criminal charges or civil claims for emotional distress. Instagram Influencer Posts Image of Himself Urinating on Austin Metcalf’s Grave.
Victor Davis Hanson: ...Their pushback might be summed up as: “We are no longer going to allow you to destroy ancient traditions that ensured our prosperity, security and liberty, and which were handed down to us by generations far better than your own.” The most self-destructive pillars of lefty lunacy finally begin to fall
“Acting as self-appointed anti-ICE vigilantes, Lauren Morrow, her co-defendant Joma and others took it upon themselves to obstruct immigration proceedings.” Utah Clerks Charged in Alleged ICE Evasion Plot
FirstNet (also known as the Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network) is scheduled to sunset in 2027 under the 2012 law that created it. The House bill would reauthorize the network and the FirstNet Authority that oversees it, while also increasing NTIA oversight of the authority. Senate Needs To Reauthorize FirstNet, America’s Public Safety Network For First Responders
Roger Kimball: Britain’s leaders celebrate multiculturalism even as the ideology reshaping the nation grows increasingly hostile to the civilization that welcomed it. The Face of Modern Britain: Jihad’s Triumph
Envy is the lifeblood of leftist politics, and Musk is merely their latest, biggest, and most convenient target. But it’s worth being reminded that to the left, you are no different than Elon Musk. Let me explain. The left is miserable when you’re happy. It feels entitled to be the only source of your happiness, but it has no desire to make you happy. Rather, it simply wants to control how happy it will allow you to be. Elon Musk and the Politics of Envy
Rather than worrying about whether the USMCA will last past 2036, America’s businesses need to focus on whether they will. Reforming North American Trade
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
In fact, every study in the past two decades that attempted to replicate earlier work has consistently found that about half the papers published in the scientific literature in the soft sciences (psychology, social sciences, biology, medicine, pharmaceuticals) could not be confirmed. Only half of all social science can be replicated
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
In a press release, the outgoing DNI stated that biolabs researching dangerous pathogens in Ukraine have been “at risk of compromise” due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war.
In a letter sent to Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon said the department would investigate whether the city’s practices comply with state law and constitutional protections. DOJ Investigates Philadelphia Over Concealed Carry Permit Practices
Gun Owners of America responded to the arrest of Cleveland Cavaliers’ James Harden by noting “Texas allows constitutional carry” and opining the government’s role is not in “micromanaging” our lives. GOA Stands by James Harden: ‘Texas Allows Constitutional Carry’
On June 4, Brady United sent a letter to Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman, demanding he investigate Turner’s Outdoorsman over the fact that 22.48% of guns recovered at crime scenes are traced back to the chain’s stores. Turner’s Outdoorsman is a chain of stores that sells, among other products, firearms. Gun-Control Organization Uses Questionable Data To Single Out Major Firearms Outlet
Decades of research have shown that political conservatives report better mental health and greater happiness than their counterparts on the left. A new study published in the journal Political Behavior takes that finding a step further, finding that “mental illness is emerging as its own political identity and is most heavily aligned with leftist political ideology and causes,” and that it clusters heavily among younger, far-left Americans. A New Study Just Confirmed the Left's Worst-Kept Secret
Pratt had previously sued Bass’ Los Angeles Department of Water and Power in a separate suit. The New York Post reported Pratt has not officially joined Kenneth Bass’ lawsuit yet, making it unclear if they will be joining their lawsuits in court, combining the two, or if Pratt was referring to a sort of joint public campaign to expose Karen Bass that will also include the two lawsuits. Spencer Pratt Says He and Mayor Bass’ Brother Are Suing Karen Bass
The 84-year-old senator entered the hospital Sunday morning and is “receiving excellent care,” a spokesperson for McConnell confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation. He has faced a series of health issues in recent years. 84-Year-Old Sen Mitch McConnell Hospitalized
Having been nominated by the President, Clayton will need to be confirmed by the Senate. Resistance from Senate Republicans is believed to have killed Trump’s previous attempt to install Bill Pulte, Director of U.S. Federal Housing, as DNI. The change at ODNI is the second replacement nomination made by the President this month. Earlier in June, he announced his decision to nominate Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche for Attorney General. Blanche was appointed as interim head of the Department of Justice following the departure of Pam Bondi. Trump Switches Director of National Intelligence Nomination to Jay Clayton.
The nation is currently grappling with a worsening healthcare worker shortage. Non-metro areas of the U.S. are projected to face a 39% staffing shortage of primary care physicians by 2038, according to the Bureau of Health Workforce. US Careening Toward Healthcare Crisis Amid Deportations And Shortages
Messier 64 is characterized by its bizarre internal motion. The gas in the outer regions of this spiral galaxy is rotating in the opposite direction from the gas and stars in its inner regions. A galaxy as seen by Hubble and Webb
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
The freak out started on Friday morning, shortly after Musk’s SpaceX began trading at $150 a share, a figure above its listing price of $135. According to Fox Business, “Combined with his holdings in electric vehicle maker Tesla, as well as other investments and assets, Musk’s net worth is now estimated at about $1.1 trillion.” Leftist Freak Out Over Elon Musk’s Trillionaire Status Embodies Their Hatred For Success
The architecture of recent American embassies lacks beauty and dignity. Ambassadors of Ugliness
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Update to Gavin Newsom Under Investigation story: This investigation was begun under Senor Dementia:
Adam Housley
@adamhousley
As I have reported several times and now acknowledged by the Governor of California... Gavin and his wife are under federal investigation... what he failed to tell you... This began during the Biden Admin. Kind of a big detail.
Days before the woman was stabbed in the neck by a taxpayer-supported Cultural Enrichment Officer, in the same general area, another taxpayer-supported Cultural Enrichment Officer attacked a boy and bloodied his head with a brick. What is the UK Regime's plan for protecting the citizens from the savage criminals they've foisted on the populace? They offer NONE. They do, however, have a plan for protecting the savage criminals from the citizens: The citizens must STAY CALM and not get angry and not share videos of citizens being attacked by savage criminals.
The public keeps saying "protect us from the foreign savages you have imported against our wishes and over our objections" and the UK branch of The Regime keeps proposing plans to protect the foreign savages from the public. Soclose to what the public is demanding, just, you know, the complete opposite. Just a thought: Maybe you wouldn't have to worry about the public attacking the savage criminals if you actually introduced a plan to protect the public from the savage criminals. Maybe they wouldn't feel as if it was necessary for them to protect the public through self-help.
Podcast: Sefton and CBD bounce around from Maine and its pet Nazi, to the cracks in the Democrat messaging, to the failure of California and its effect on the 2028 election, sea drones rescuing Apache crews, and more!
NEW: Five FBI employees were fired today over the infamous Richmond Catholic memo on "radical traditionalist Catholics," FBI source confirms to @realDailyWire.
Oof. Reviewers do not like Scary Movie 6. The criticism I keep hearing is that the movie mistakes a reference for an actual joke. The movie (they say) keeps Key Jangling a reference to another movie (or some other pop culture ephemera) and you expect there to be a joke but nope, the Key Jangle was the joke. Other reviewers say that the promise that "no lines will be uncrossed" is a fake-out, and that the movie is bland and inoffensively corporate.
