Syrian refugees can return to Syria now that the war is over. And indeed large numbers of them do. Among those who stayed in the Middle East. But almost none of those from Europe. The reason for this is that we in Europe pay them very large amounts of money to finance them staying in Europe. If we simply financed them returning home to Syria instead, they would do that. If our politicians weren't so utterly useless, this would be an immediately obvious policy. Let's help them return home, instead of paying them large amounts of money to get them to stay here.

Lots of debates about this bar but I’m just glad people are finally waking up to the dangers posed to the lesbian community by asymptomatic long covid.

Amazing snippet from the WSJ article about flock

Dogs are being tortured on Los Angeles’s Skid Row, the nation’s most dystopian homeless encampment. A chihuahua’s eyes were glued shut; a deaf pit bull was burned all over her body; a dead dog was hung from a shopping cart with its entrails spilling out, reports the Los Angeles Times. A Labrador’s legs were broken, probably with a sledgehammer or other blunt object; his paws were mangled and bloody. His injuries were so severe that he had to be euthanized. Skid Row dogs are starved, denied water, covered with open sores, missing their fur, and beaten—all courtesy of our homeless “neighbors,” as Los Angeles City Councilman and DSA member Hugo Soto-Martinez calls the housing-resistant, drug-addicted vagrants who come from around the U.S. to enjoy the local drug bacchanal. With any other human population, the national animal rights groups would be out in force demanding that dogs be removed from an environment of such sadistic threat. But the traditional humane organizations seem to take their cue from homeless advocates and from the city in placing the alleged rights of vagrants—in this case, to their “support animals”--above those of wholly innocent creatures. Thus is another component of civilized society sacrificed to the lethal ideology of progressive politics. latimes.com/california/story…

The left spent 10 years treating Assad as a wholesome anti-imperialist chungus and now they're counting the million people he killed (with the aid of Russia and Hezbollah) as "deaths indirectly caused by the US."

"TikTokification [...] has turned it into what all progressive causes ultimately are: a fashion statement. [...] Ed Sheeran’s target audience – thirtysomething wine girlies – have scrolled on to something else."

I have not wanted to freak everyone out about this in the past, but the demonstrated catastrophic risks are now simply too numerous to remain quiet any longer. Look at the 20th century, and you will see a common thread running through the holocaust, nuclear war, and even the COVID lab leak: electricity. Those using it did so without the alignment infrastructure required to ensure that the immense leverage it provided them could not be directed at these despicable ends. I call upon our business and government leaders to immediately impose the controls we should have had from the beginning.

Clansay case is weird. If she committed this same exact crime against another family, would it be seen the same? Would PPD be an argument to a non guilty verdict? In Canada, infantacide laws only apply to one's own child, which is odd because it ignores the rights of victim.

DSA leader Gustavo Gordillo entered this interview believing he was a new Socialist Star and Political Kingmaker, even having a say in the next US President. Instead, he embarrassed The DSA, and sent journalists digging into his life story that turned out to be an entirely fabricated story. Here is each lie from the interview. He told Martha his family fled Peru because of American imperialism and the imposition of capitalism. They left during the Shining Path years. Maoist communist guerrillas. His grandfather Manuel Gordillo was already a doctor in the US in and became a Citizen in 1964. Gustavo was born a US citizen. They did not flee American imperialism. They fled communist violence and came to the America, because his grandpa had already made it very comfortably here. He says his parents had to work at Wendy's and cleaned houses. He leaves out the rest. Dad founded Draftpros, a telecom engineering firm doing tens of millions a year. His parents own a $3.1M house in Boca and another $3M place in Weston. They bought Gustavo a Bed Stuy row house through an LLC for under $1M in 2019. Now worth about $1.5M after they renovated it for another $1M plus for him. This same LLC paid his $2600/month Lower East Side rent before that. The key thing he presents himself as is a Union Electrician even using the Handle @unionGustavo. This same Union said they terminated him from the apprenticeship in March for prolonged absence from work and classes. He was never even a journeyman and did it just to take some pics in a hard hat and gain a new line for his personality as a "Socialist Union Electrician". Very cool among the comrades to have a working class backstory right now, bonus points for made up persecution. On Fox he said an immigrant run bodega deserves to go out of business to one of Zohran's government run grocery stores if they can't handle competing with a store using the treasury to offset their costs. He also said landlords have no constitutional right to double-digit returns. Same guy living in the house dad bought under an LLC for him, which is a great way to doge NYC taxes as well. He made up a very cleverly crafted Immigrant struggle story, that was believed by all his Comrades and even The New York Times caught on to none of it, when they gave him a glowing profile piece. Like Zohran, who claimed he was "someone from the third world", leaving out the part that his family lived in Uganda for 5 years of his life with armed security in a gated complex with mansion, staff, and a private pool. They both grew up cushioned from the real world and never had to contribute to it. It's ok to grow up rich, but it's wrong to make up a lie, and fake victimhood complex. They push the same “America bad” politics, with no gratitude for the country that gave them a more comfortable life than most Americans will ever have, including the people who actually built and maintain it, which they have never been and never will be a part of, no matter how much they play dress up.

The X Safety team conducted an investigation into suspected Chinese inauthentic accounts involved in influence operations: We identified a bot farm of approximately 200,000 accounts. Within this farm, we found 200 accounts posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy. These posts contained claims that AI data centers are driving up household electricity prices and straining the grid. Others included AI-generated cartoons that depicted data-center operators enriching themselves at the public's expense. We remain committed to maintaining an open and authentic platform where people debate topics of public interest. We take seriously any attempts to undermine the integrity of the global town square and suspend accounts that violate our Authenticity policy.

X has now confirmed a Chinese bot farm of 200K fake accounts intentionally trying to manipulate public opinion against data centers. People might want to consider how common this has become and how it is manipulating multiple policy discussions on social media.

I would say BDD is dumb but this is intentional. Keeps his base growing and attention flowing. It's all for money and attention. Too many left and right activists online so this nonsense

"Johnson is one of the most powerful people in the Canadian government, and the public knows very little about her. Beyond hiring a longtime Democratic operative who worked on campaigns opposing Trump to advise him on dealings with the United States" ca.news.yahoo.com/lilley-why…

As a nurse, I’ve been around thousands of psychotic people and none of them would have had the mental capacity to carry out one murder like this, much less 3. Think about what happened in those final moments. Lindsay Clancy calmly wrapped her rubber exercise band around 8 month old Callan’s chubby neck as her two other children looked on. As she pulled the band tighter and tighter, he couldn’t understand what was happening. For about 15 seconds, the pain was localized to his neck as his airway was crushed and his skin painfully pinched. 15 seconds later, his little lungs felt intense burning due to the build up of carbon dioxide. As he gasped for air and struggled to escape, the blood trapped in his skull started pounding, causing excruciating pressure and his eyes began to bulge. She continued to squeeze while he endured unimaginable pain and terror until he finally lost consciousness after 3 tortured minutes. Once he finally stopped fighting, his mother kept the pressure on his neck for 2-3 more minutes until she thought she’d finished the job. One body down in 6 minutes. Little Dawson, 3, must’ve sensed what was about to happen to him because he ran to his father’s office, likely seeking a safe space. That’s where Lindsay caught him and wrapped an exercise band around his neck. A three year old is stronger than an infant and she’d have had to use much greater force to subdue him even though the timeline would have remained similar. Three minutes of horrific pain and terror until a loss of consciousness then 3 more minutes of pressure to finish the job. Two kids down in 12 minutes. It would have been even more difficult to with her only daughter, Cora, 5. The little girl would have witnessed one, if not both of her brothers, being systematically strangled by her mother. But fight as she might, she was no match for her mother. Lindsey Clancy caught her, held her down, and began the killing ritual. As the band went around her neck and the life was squeezed out of her over the next 6 minutes, she’d wondered why her mommy was hurting her. Imagine the pain, the confusion, the horror the little one endured in her final moments. It took Lindsay 18 minutes to kill all three of her children. Death by strangulation isn’t a fast or painless death, as she well knew since she was an RN. It is an up close and personal killing and she’d have witnessed every moment of pain and terror in their helpless eyes as the life faded from their bodies. She CHOSE how her children would die. Notice how she didn’t try to hang herself because she knew what a horrific death that would be. She tried to give herself the easy death she denied her children. Whatever her mental state, she is a cold blooded killer who wiped out her family with less mercy than a serial killer. Lindsay Clancy is a monster who deserves to die exactly as her children did- afraid and in pain. God can have mercy on her soul because I certainly won’t.

People like @BernieSanders are the people that 100 years ago fought against municipal electrification.

We asked nearly 20 Democrats who are seen as potential presidential contenders whether they support Bernie Sanders' call for AI CEOs to "stop building machines that humans cannot control." None embraced Sanders' proposal. But tellingly, almost no one criticized his neo-Luddite position, either. w/ @AlexThomp axios.com/2026/08/23/2028-de…

>be Grace Ryan >born into multimillion dollar family >go to $35k/year private school >go to $70k/year NYU >live in rent-stabilized luxury Brooklyn building >do $50 Pilates classes >mid >blame men for everything >summer at family lake house >wear $400 Ralph Lauren sweater >pose next to $115k Hummer >join the DSA >become full blown Democratic Socialist >get nicknamed “Lulu Lenin” >lecture people about wealth inequality >people point out you are literally the wealthy elite >respond “have y’all never heard of noblesse oblige?” >use an aristocratic philosophy to defend being a socialist >somehow not understand why everyone is laughing >DSA might have accidentally created the funniest retarded person in New York

RT @Vermeullarmine: Easy to make fun of this (and it’s funny), but as Donoso Cortes observed, revolutions are only ever instigated by disaf…