Quick Hits

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Selfish leftwing race-obsessed, Trump-obsessed woman does the greatest possible favor for kind conservative man: She breaks up with him.

And then cries about it. He was such a good and kind man, she says, but darnit, he voted for Trump three times (and lied that he didn't vote for Trump last time) and he should do whatever she wants because she's a victim of "CSA," which I assume means child s** assault but don't hold me to that. I'm not one of the Alphabet People or People Who Have Turned Their Trauma Into Their Entire Personality so I don't know all the shorthand for all the traumas and mental illnesses these people collect like vintage baseball cards.

Do what I say! I have victim points! I'm cashing them in and and if you don't accept them you're a monster!

You're free now, brother. Now find a nice conservative girl and wife her up. Enough of these mentally-ill flakes.

In more news of deranged people making poor life decisions: Wired magazines, which is 99% about politics and Trump hatred and 1% about technology, reports on Trump deranged Americans who fled to Europe to escape DRUMPF'S AMERIKKKA and wound up not liking it very much.

They Fled Trump's America. Now They Regret It The internet told them Europe was a social paradise. Turns out the trains are awful, the health care isn't free, and people can be really mean.

Also, never go during Arson Season, which now extends every year from July 20th to June 30th.

Also, don't go during Christmas Vehicular Mass Casualty Event season. The cars just come alive and drive themselves!

While researching their new destination on Reddit, TikTok, and Instagram, Annie found Americans eager to explain how enchanting life in the British suburbs could be--all the benefits of a small town, just a short train ride away from one of the biggest cities in the world. The more she read, the sunnier her expectations about the UK's health care system, social culture, and European transportation systems became.

They moved before the end of the year. But the reality of life in the UK was dramatically different to what she'd imagined. "There are huge misconceptions about access to quality health care, standard of living ... the quality of life is significantly lower than in the US," she says, citing the challenges she experienced with the National Health Service's maternity care--having moved while pregnant with her first child--as well as the lack of disposable income in Britain, thanks to lower salaries. "Things in the UK that are considered luxury items are very common" in America, like a dishwasher and dryer, she adds.

Also, it turns out that the prelapsarian paradise of Europe is filled with chauvanists and bigots. Who knew.

Annie says she experienced a high amount of anti-American sentiment straight away. "I found it particularly surprising how people feel so comfortable mocking my accent and culture, even in a workplace environment," she says. "The UK is very much a place of 'it is what it is,' but as Americans we are taught to always improve and strive for better things." Annie and her husband now have an exit plan for summer next year, the earliest their employers would allow them to relocate back home.

Annie is a psuedonym. She wants to remain anonymous because she fears DRUMPF'S FASCIST DEATH SQUADS.

Just kidding -- she wants to remain anonymous because she knows her fellow left-wingers will attack her and cancel her for telling them that Europe isn't better than America.

Like several other Americans WIRED spoke to about their decision to leave and subsequent regret, Annie wanted to remain anonymous because she is concerned about the professional risks of publicly criticizing life abroad. Others cited recent online backlash when other Americans said they missed home, or, in one case, a realization that the political climate of Trump's America was not something they could escape by heading to Europe.

"Josh" also wants to remain anonymous to avoid cancellation by his fellow "anti-fascist" activists. He fears they would attack him if they read him writing that Germany is, get this, xenophobic and bigoted against foreigners.

Again, who knew?

This was a similar reality for Josh, another American immigrant who asked to remain completely anonymous, citing concerns about backlash. He moved to Berlin in 2023, in part anticipating what might happen at the 2024 election, and also because he felt his life had hit standstill post-Covid. He had even lived in Germany before, spoke German, and had friends in Berlin. But his expectations, particularly when it came to his career, didn't align with reality. Advertisement

"Finding work was so hard, and the endless bureaucracy had grown worse since I'd left," he tells WIRED. "I missed the friendlier people, freedom of speech, and ease of daily life" in the US. He adds, "If you aren't born and raised there, and don't look German, you'll never be fully accepted."

Huh! Wow, it turns out that insularity and distrust of outsiders isn't uniquely American after all.

By the way, progressives, why are you moving to Euorpe? If you're against White Supremacy, shouldn't you move to more "indigenous" lands?

Annie was surprised that British people and British trains aren't like what she sees in Agatha Christie movies.

Also, health care is expensive.

"I thought that 'British politeness' existed as it does in movies," Annie says, "but unfortunately, the reality is that present-day British culture is very individualistic, as well as without the sense of charity and helpfulness that many parts of American culture value." She says she had negative experiences with the NHS maternal care, compared to the smooth experience of her private health insurance in the US, and didn't expect it to cost her anything: "I pay huge amounts of taxes and an immigration surcharge to access the NHS services--so no, the health care is not free here." She also expected train travel to be low cost, based on what she'd read about Europe (despite the extortionate train prices and terrible service quality being one of the biggest political conversations in the UK).

Who knew! Also, turns out that she's the cliched American -- she apparently did no research whatsoever into the foreign country she was emigrating too and relied entirely on hearsay from television for her knowledge of the UK.

Emigrants and de-emigrants -- those who moved back -- are attacked by the Nice Kind Open-Minded Reality-Based Community.

They have their Simpleton's View of the World firmly in their pointy-but-empty-heads and they get ragefull if someone who knows things based on actual experience contradicts their fantasies.

A noticeable number of American influencers and anonymous social media users are calling it quits, often sheepishly confessing that life wasn't what they expected--and that they missed their old lives back in the US. On subreddits dedicated to these kinds of discussions, like r/expats, r/GoingToSpain, r/AmericanExpatsUK, r/AmerExit, you can now find a number of stories about difficulties building a new community, trouble finding work, icier cultural norms compared to the open friendliness of America, and sometimes a higher-than-expected European cost of living. Many posts now feature people asking for a new kind of advice: Is it okay for me to miss, or even to want to move, back home?

These posts are usually met with a huge amount of backlash. Commenters are quick to imply that the poster must be right-wing and privileged, in for a nasty shock if they did return home. Ironically, many times, they parrot the right-wing notion that they probably aren't trying hard enough to assimilate into their new country. When one person recently said they badly missed their community of friends in a "blue city in a blue state" and were considering moving back, the majority of top comments agreed the user was "insane."

When Annie posted earlier this summer on Reddit her excitement about going back to the US in 2027, the comments were largely critical, and ones offering functional relocation advice were heavily downvoted. A moderator intervened, saying many people in the forum "believe the USA is evil" and conversely "the UK is paradise," continuing that there was often little room for nuance or empathy for differing experiences. In another from earlier this year, where a user said they were struggling to adjust to life in Spain with a toddler, commenters warned that she may cause psychological damage to her child if she relocated back to the US.

Everyone is afraid to challenge the progressive know-nothing orthodoxy-enforcers:

"What is happening in the US is also happening everywhere now, to the point I'm even a little hesitant in what I say to you, or anywhere online," says Nick, an art director from New York who relocated to Poland in part because of right-wing populism in the US.

Yup. It's so obvious that the real threat of authoritarian thought-control is coming from the right.

On the other hand: There are so many more opportunities for Cultural Enrichment in Europe, especially for attractive young women traveling alone.

A late friend of mine used to sort-of quote Nietzche. Or "quote" him -- I have never been able to track down this quote, so it's a loose paraphrase at best.

But the "quote" he would repeat is, approximately:

"Perhaps, if everywhere you go you find people who disappoint and despise you, maybe the real problem has always been just you."

I don't know the real quote but if you do, I'd like to know it.

Trump Creates $25 Million Fund to Pay Bounties to Whistleblowers Who Alert the Government of Fraud

—Disinformation Expert Ace

If you want to stop foreign pirates, issue letters of marque and reprisal.

This isn't quite that but it's good to incentivize people to report fraud.

President Donald Trump is putting cash behind his crackdown on taxpayer fraud, offering Americans rewards for tips that help bring fraudsters to justice.

Speaking alongside Vice President JD Vance and independent journalist Nick Shirley in the Oval Office, Trump unveiled the Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program and said qualifying tipsters would receive a 1% commission, subject to applicable laws and rules.

A 1% commission. That could be huge.

"If you turn somebody in and you, let's say report, and you find $1 billion, we are giving a commission to that person of 1%," Trump said.

Fox News Digital exclusively reported plans for the program ahead of Tuesday's announcement. A White House official initially described a $25 million initiative administered by the Justice Department, with rewards of up to $30,000 for tips leading to a successful fraud conviction or significant federal enforcement action.

Trump's remarks outlined a different payout structure. He said journalists could also participate, subject to applicable rules and approval from their employers.

Americans can report suspected theft of taxpayer dollars through fraud.gov, Trump said.

I'd like to report Ilhan "Omar" and her entire foreign pirate "family," please.

Hooboy, I'm lookin' for a new home on Easy Street!

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Vance said the initiative grew out of a conversation with Trump about recruiting Americans to help investigators uncover fraud.

"If you want to help us stop it, you get to share in the rewards," Vance said.

Shirley drew national attention in December 2025 after publishing a video questioning whether several Somali-run Minnesota daycare centers were operating as legitimate businesses. His video showed apparently empty facilities and included people who said they had not seen children at the locations.

The White House credited Shirley's reporting with helping spur a surge of FBI and Department of Homeland Security resources into Minnesota, followed by investigations, arrests and new charges.

This is genuinely huge. Trump is offering potentially millions of dollars for a little bit of research and detective work.

Nick Shirley is going to be a rich man. He can't collect a bounty retrospectively, but he knows how to find the fraudsters and will be collecting in the future.

Markwayne Mullin praised Nick Shirely and pointed out that "everyone knew" about the Learing Center but not a single media company reported on it.

He also says the DOJ's fraud task force is moving to seize an entire half-block of Minneapolis which he said was purchased with SNAP fraud.

Gunther Eagleman
@GuntherEagleman

BREAKING: The feds just moved to seize half a city block in Minneapolis, reportedly bought with stolen SNAP money.

Per the White House fraud task force, DOJ's new National Fraud Division filed yesterday to take back property that was fraudulently bought with food stamp dollars meant for hungry Minnesotans.

Then the speaker turned to the press in the room: "None of your outlets reported it. It took one brave kid and a camera."

That learning center was cited hundreds of times, and the legacy media sat on it for years.

Ohio Democrat Gubernatorial Candidate Is a "Liar" Who "Needs Help" Says... Her Mom in Campaign Attack Ad

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Amy Acton is, reportedly, Kamalaesque in her passion for self-medication.

Kentucky Girl @Kentuckygirl1

This is Dr. Amy Acton, the Democrat candidate for Governor.

In 2019, there was a police visit to her home after she and her husband apparently got into a drunken domestic dispute.

According to the police record, after drinking and taking an unknown amount of medication, she allegedly pulled a mirror off the wall, and was about to start driving until her husband talked her out of it.

A medic was dispatched to the scene and advised that Acton be taken to the hospital to get checked out, but she declined.

At the time, she was the director of the Ohio Department of Health.

This is not a person who should be leading anything, except maybe an AA meeting.

I got that from Beege Wellborn, who has a good backgrounder on Amy Acton, including her history of inventing dramatic but false claims of assault that rival Jussie Smollet's.

But why would her own mother call her a liar in a campaign ad? Why would her own mother none-too-subtly imply that she is mentally sick and needs to spend time at a sanitarium rather than the governor's mansion?

Well, it's all odd. Amy Acton says that her step-father raped her at age 12 and that her mother "enabled" it.

Her mother Amy Acton is a fabulist.

A jarring new ad in the Ohio governor's race features Democrat Amy Acton's birth mother denouncing her and calling her a liar -- but Acton says her mom enabled and supported the man who raped her when she was just 12 years old.

Acton's campaign is now accusing her GOP opponent Vivek Ramaswamy of reaching a "despicable low" in the race by dredging up her painful past as a child sex abuse survivor.

In the shocking video, Donna Arthur accused Acton of embellishing her accusations about being sexually abused as a child.

"I love my daughter, but when I saw her lying about her opponent--and it's not easy for a mother to say this -- but Amy has a serious problem. She is a liar. She lies about her past," Arthur said in the stunning video clip.

"She says she grew up living in a tent. None of that is true," Arthur went on. "She's lied her entire life. My daughter needs help, and she can't help you if she needs help herself. People can change, but first they have to tell the truth, and my daughter still isn't doing that."

"Don't vote for people who lie. Don't let her become your governor. If you think she'll make your life better, you're fooling yourself. It will only get worse."

Acton's camp immediately hit out at Ramaswamy -- a tech exec and 2024 presidential candidate -- after the video surfaced online Tuesday, but it was not clear who was sponsoring the spot.

Ramaswamy's campaign didn't immediately comment Tuesday.

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"After he was arrested and Amy and I were removed from their custody, our birth mother stayed married to Amy's rapist until he died," he added.

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Acton currently has a 3.7 percentage point edge over Ramaswamy in the latest RealClearPolitics aggregate of polls -- despite Ohio being deep red since 2016. The state gave President Trump 53% of the vote in 2020 and 55% in 2024.

The Ramaswamy-Acton race has been one of the nation's nastiest this year -- with rampant mudslinging and deeply personal attacks from both sides.

Ramaswamy's allies have sought to paint Acton as unstable and insinuate that she has an issue with alcohol. For her part, Acton has called Ramaswamy a "serial liar" and a "scam artist," refusing to debate him. Her allies have also attacked him over his business affairs.

Rumors had swirled for some time that Ramaswamy's allies were planning to spotlight Arthur, according to lefty Ohio political site The Rooster.

Acton, who helmed the Ohio Department of Health from 2019 through 2020, has been open about her harsh upbringing, making it part of her political origin story.

If Ramaswamey did drop this ad, then it seems likely that he believes he is in fact behind the latest Democrat alcoholic wine-mom, because this is a high-risk move he wouldn't chance if he thought he was ahead.

So, Ohio Morons, vote.

As for the claims of abuse: I obviously don't know if they're true or not. I just read about this five minutes ago.

Her claim that an "armed man" came after her at a campaign event -- which didn't happen -- suggest she might have a histrionic personality disorder and that she might confabulate threats and assaults for attention.

Or she could be a legitimate rape victim who engages in the Democrats' favorite past-time of faking victim status. I don't know.

I do know I would not want to entrust the machinery of the state to this covid Karen who seems to have a substance abuse problem and allegedly poor mental healthy.

Fox News Identifies 54 Marxist/Communist Organizations Funding and Directing the Riots in France

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Many of these are funded by CCP-connected Marxist tech billionaire, Neville Roy Singham and his awful communist wife.

SAN ANTONIO (KTSA News) -- A Fox News Digital investigation has identified 54 organizations involved in or publicly supporting France's October student protests, including communist parties, socialist groups, labor unions, environmental activists and Palestinian-solidarity organizations.

The report alleges that far-left political groups have helped organize and amplify the demonstrations, expanding protests over school conditions into a broader campaign against capitalism, government austerity, policing and military spending.

Among those highlighted is Vijay Prashad, executive director of Tricontinental, a nonprofit funded by American-born Marxist tech investor Neville Roy Singham, who lives in Shanghai. Prashad posted a message on X linking protests in Paris, New Delhi and Buenos Aires, quoting the Clash lyric, "Let fury have the hour, anger can be power."

According to Fox News Digital, 16 of the 54 identified organizations are student or youth groups, while the other 38 include political parties, unions, advocacy organizations and media outlets.

The investigation also identifies an international coalition of 28 communist and socialist youth organizations and groups that is promoting coordinated demonstrations across 12 European countries under the slogan "Fight for Our Future, Not Their Wars!" Organizers are calling for walkouts, rallies, assemblies, blockades and occupations.

The report points to organizations associated with Singham's network, including Tricontinental, CodePink and New York-based BreakThrough News, which published video coverage of the French demonstrations under the headline "ANTI-MACRON PROTESTS ROCK FRANCE."

CodePink co-founder Jodie Evans, Singham's wife, also cited youth demonstrations in France, Spain and India while promoting a planned November campaign in Washington against U.S. military spending.

The actual organizations behind the riots are listed in this "Who's Who of France's Chaos, Inc."

Fortunately nothing like that is going on in the USA.

Evidence is growing that the tyrannical regimes of China, Iran, and Cuba are not only financing protests in American streets, but actively directing them.

The Network Contagion Research Institute, whose work in these areas has been indispensable for years, recently published another groundbreaking study that blows the lid off how this foreign network operates.

The report indicates that an Iranian influence node that takes orders from the Islamic Republic regime, the House of Latin America, conducts what NCRI calls "high-impact domestic U.S. influence operations."

"For nearly two decades," NCRI says, HOLA "has functioned as a primary bridge between the Iranian regime, Latin American socialist governments, and U.S. anti-war coalitions, with its American-based operatives acting as undeclared agents of a foreign government on U.S. soil."

It gets much worse. HOLA, it says, "has now formally merged with Neville Roy Singham's Chinese Communist Party-linked Tricontinental network to form a unified Iran-China operation targeting the United States from the south."

Neville Roy Singham is an American who lives in Shanghai, has close ties to the Chinese Communist Party, and uses the nearly $800 million he made in the 2017 sale of a tech consulting firm to fund communist causes worldwide.

All of this means that "Iran and China have now merged their U.S. influence operations into a single machine," the report says.

This means that many of the protests in America aren't organic, but actually Kabuki street theater perpetrated by a red-green alliance of communist and Islamist groups. Less well known is the involvement of malign foreign interests.

Hillary Clinton recently got into trouble online not for celebrating street mayhem, but for saying that what was wrong was not the protests, but white Christians trying to stop societal and cultural decay.

"People have been protesting, you know, for hundreds of years, that, you know, things were not as they should be, given our ideals and how we should be moving toward them. So I think that's what makes us so special as a country," she said on the liberal confessional stage offered by MS Now's Morning Joe every weekday morning.

"The idea that you could turn the clock back and try to recreate a world that never was, dominated by, you know, let's say it, white men, of a certain persuasion, certain religion, a certain point of view, a certain ideology, is just doing such damage to what we should be aiming for," she averred.

I was cheered, though, to hear Hillary confirm that conservatives have derailed the liberal project, at least temporarily: "We were on the path toward that ... we were on the right trajectory."

Report: Debanking of Conservatives Was Driven by the KKK-Funding Race Grift Organization the SPLC

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Ben Whedon of Just the News:

A recent report from the Office of the Comptroller of Currency (OCC) in the Treasury Department shows that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) was a driving force behind the debanking of conservative groups prior to its indictment.

The SPLC is a left-wing anti-racism advocacy group that has faced scrutiny from conservatives for years over its alleged bias against them and penchant for labeling mainstream political figures on the right as "extremists."

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged the SPLC with allegedly defrauding donors by paying exorbitant sums to members of extremist groups, both to act as informants and to recruit and expand their operations.

The SPLC has denied wrongdoing in the case, and said in a statement that "The charges against the SPLC are provably wrong; they are based on inaccurate facts and a misapplication of law. Our informant program was successful in accomplishing its purposes: Threats and attacks were prevented, criminal activity was stopped, and information was gathered to dismantle the efforts of hate and extremist groups."

The OCC report, released last week, detailed the efforts of financial applications, banks, and other institutions to deny service to conservative organizations, particularly highlighting the SPLC's role. Many of the groups the report documented had been labeled as hate groups by the organization. Driving much of the effort were broad reputational risk policies that the OCC generally swept up many mainstream conservative groups.

"Today's report provides irrefutable evidence that the nation's largest banks have denied, debanked and discriminated against customers and lawful businesses," Comptroller Jonathan Gould said at the time. "Americans should have access to financial services regardless of their beliefs, affiliations, or political views. Fair access to financial services is not a mantra--it is a mandate. The Trump Administration is committed to ending the weaponization of finance against hardworking Americans, once and for all."

Among the top findings of the OCC were that banks largely did not have quantifiable standards for determining the reputational risk of maintaining relationships with specific customers. Those standards, moreover, allegedly came to the detriment of generally right-wing groups. The report also documented damage to specific industries that were affected heavily by debanking.

Report: DNA Proves Ilhan Omar Married Her Gay Brother

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Is that so.

Federal prosecutors are planning to use DNA evidence to try to prove Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) committed immigration fraud, as part of the sprawling investigation into the congresswoman, sources told The Post.

People familiar with the years-long criminal probe said the feds have made use of whistleblowers, government records and now obtained DNA in an effort to substantiate decade-old allegations that Omar -- and possibly members of her family like her father -- defrauded immigration authorities.

One source said the DNA evidence was critical to proving an allegation that Omar married her brother when she wed Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009 because she was trying to help him get a green card -- which never came to fruition.

It's unclear whether the DNA was taken before or after Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) searched the congresswoman's home in Washington, DC, last Monday, when federal agents were seen exiting the bungalow with boxes marked "Seized Property Evidence."

Another source pushed back on initial reports that investigators had gone "dumpster diving" in order to get DNA swabs of Omar, Elmi, who is currently residing in the UK, or family members.

Two more indicated that the execution of the search warrant on Oct. 12, coupled with the DNA and additional evidence, has provided a solid basis to bring charges of conspiracy to commit some form of immigration fraud before a grand jury, stemming from the probe initiated by the Minnesota US Attorney's Office.

Given the case is being pursued as a general conspiracy, the evidence will prove useful even if some of the acts fall outside of the statute of limitations.

"If you argue a conspiracy, you can allege overt acts in furtherance of the conspiracy that are outside the statute of limitations," said Neama Rahmini, a former federal prosecutor.

Meanwhile, James Comer thinks Ilhan "Omar" might have defrauded "investors" in her "winery."

She accepted "investments" in her "winery" -- which I speculate, pretty reasonably, was just an open-secret conduit for illegal political donations -- but the barrels of wine had no wine in them.

Comer continued, "Not only was there a huge discrepancy in the financial disclosure form, there was the winery that was the big base of her $25 million listing on her financial disclosure form." He added, "That winery has, according to the press, been shut down because of fraud. They were apparently selling investors barrels of wine to be aged, but there was nothing in the barrels."

This would explain why the winery suddenly shut down. Omar and Mynett made a killing off a business that either didn't have anything to sell or didn't have as much to sell as it claimed, and then they just shuttered the business and cut their losses, expecting no consequences.

Video at the link.

I don't know if that constitutes fraud. I think that maybe the barrels wine is aged in are an asset in themselves, so maybe they were buying the barrels for aging wine, but never got around to buying the wine.

I mean, I'm 99% sure this business was a fraudulent front for buckraking, but I don't know if empty barrels prove that.

Of course there is more fraud than that:

Comer also referred to Omar's numerous connections to the Somali fraud network in Minnesota, including through earmarking taxpayer money for an alleged substance abuse clinic that was actually a fraud scam run out of a restaurant. Omar's sister Sahra Noor likewise seems to be connected both to the $250 million "Feeding Our Future" scam and a USAID fraud scheme. It's all in the family.

Feminists: Rape Is a Weapon of White Supremacy
Also Feminists: If Our Revolutionary Islamic Brothers Threaten to Rape Women, That's Just "Collateral Damage" In the Cause of Socialist Justice

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood

French left-wing activist Bettina Zourli who describes herself as a journalist, feminist, and pro Palestine activist tells a woman who was threatened with rape while holding her baby during last night's riots that her experience was "collateral damage" in the revolution.

A "professor" of "Gender Sociology". Throw her to the wolves and she can find out first hand. She's perfectly happy to call others trauma acceptable collateral but I suspect if she lived the experience she would be quiet.

Useful idiots are a real thing. Very on brand behavior for those fucking lunatics. Of course she's pro-all those things, and of course she looks like that.

The woman who complains about lawless violence says she's in favor of the Revolution.

"I never thought the Islamo-Leftist leopards would eat my face!"

Any means is justified for the Revolution that will bring about Paradise.

Except there won't be Paradise.

SwordOfSalomon @SwordOfSalomon

Oct 18
Translated from French

🚨📹 IDENTIFICATION: She described the rape threat made by rioters against a mother accompanied by her infant as "collateral damage." In the same video filmed at Place de la République by @brutofficiel
, she calls for revolution and revels in the violence and destruction in Paris.

This woman is named Bettina Zourli. An LFI activist and pro-Palestinian 🇵🇸, she is also a sociology professor at @UnivRennes_2.

The Morning Rant

—CBD

Tip O'Neill famously, and accurately said, "All politics is local." Well...mostly accurate, but it's good enough for government work. State parties are where the heavy lifting is done, and solid ones have tremendous influence over the direction their states -- and the country -- go!

But let us discuss the lousy ones! Yes, there will be some debate, but the Republican Party of New Jersey might be the worst of a sordid and lazy list of pathetic state political organizations. They do nothing...not even fundraising...with any sense of urgency or purpose. And there are multiple avenues for activity, not least of which is the mail-in ballot fiascos during Covid. When solid Republican counties turn in late mail-in ballots that increase the Democrat lead, shouldn't someone ask the obvious questions?

And even granting the cowardice of the NJ Republican Party, how about just trying to get out the vote! That seems to be an easy and well-understood function of a stat party, and one that won't interfere with those prized cocktail party invitations in Trenton.

But they couldn't even do that. Corruptocrat Phil Murphy of Goldman Sachs won by fewer than 85,000 votes, with a pathetic 40% turnout. He was weak, he was ineffective, and he was unappealing: just the sort of candidate who is vulnerable. But the Republican Party Of NJ couldn't be bothered to do the minimum, and the results showed.

I am a registered Republican who has voted in every single general election of my adult life, and I was never contacted by anyone in the party apparatus. That is simply pathetic. And the same thing was true in 2022, and 2024, and 2026!

But now I am supposed to believe that another feckless and weak Democrat is ripe for the taking? Sure...in a state with a modestly-well-functioning party, but not NJ.

Booker rival who 'shoots from the hip' hopes viral debate moment can break GOP's Senate drought

The sad thing is that Justin Murphy makes a lot of sense when he speaks, and his platform is a good one. With the pathetic turnout in NJ, his opponent, Cory Booker (who is a f*cking retard) is absolutely vulnerable. A robust GOTV program would narrow the traditional Democrat advantage in NJ to a manageable gap. But it hasn't happened, and it never will.

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. And if you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow me it would be much appreciated!

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

Sitting old man nude
Anton Azbe

The Morning Report — 10/20 /26

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. Apologies in advance for continuing on from yesterday with thoughts about what's going on in France and by extension Europe and whatever remains of the West and civilization as it had been (or as we had intended it to be) since 1945. Nearly 600 years ago as the black plague ravaged most of Europe the great fire of London, which some historians suspect might have been set by foreign enemies of England has also been cited as a factor in stopping the plague.

In any case whatever parallels or similes to the current situation in Europe the fact remains that they and indeed WE TOO are on a knife edge of succumbing to a new dark age, one that is by our, that is by our fellow citizens in name only, making.

There are two ways of looking at the midterms, now less than three weeks away.

One is as a simple referendum on the issues and politicians of the day. The other involves a far deeper conflict of visions (as Thomas Sowell puts it): socialism versus capitalism, intrusive versus limited government, and the destruction of time-honored institutions and traditions versus their preservation and renewal.

Rarely in American history have the two parties been so far apart or the choice between them so stark. In brief, Islamist-sympathizing socialism is on the ballot against free-market capitalism and American exceptionalism.

The new Islamist-allied socialist Democrat Party is confident, largely because the party holding the White House has increased its share of House seats in a midterm election only three times since 1900. Each of those exceptions arose under unusual circumstances. . .

. . .Are they demonizing the majority of the American people in the manner of Zohran Mamdani’s housing czar, Cea Weaver, who declared that homeownership is “a weapon of white supremacy”? Or like Melat Kiros, who argues that “We were never really going to be able to tackle white supremacy in the way that we need to without reparations”? Could anyone imagine Republican or conservative candidates apologizing for terrorism in the manner of marquee Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, who responded to a cowardly Islamist attack on a synagogue with “Hurt people do hurt people”? In short, treat this midterm election as the deep choice that it is.

That is just a taste, and a very bitter one (like bitter almonds IYKWIMAITYD) from our esteemed friend Prof. Victor Davis Hanson who goes into much more disturbing detail of just what's at stake two weeks from now.

And the equally eloquent and cromulent Glenn H Reynolds goes off on this harridan Elissa Slotkin.

Democrats speak with forked tongue.

On Sunday, former President Barack Obama denounced the Trump administration’s investigation of Rep. Ilhan Omar for immigration fraud as un-American. 

In America, we don’t go after our political opponents, he said.

This from the man who sent his Internal Revenue Service after Tea Party protesters, and whose running mate, after he became president, treated traditional Catholics, COVID-vaccine skeptics and parents who spoke out at school board meetings as potential terrorists.

Not to mention raiding Donald Trump’s home and sending FBI agents to rifle through Melania’s underwear. . .

. . . Biden’s team went after COVID-vaccine skeptics and critics of trans policy. 

Slotkin just wants to scare young people away from being conservatives.

The goal seems to be something like Britain — a society where disagreeing with the government on social media gets you a visit from police, and possibly a jail term, just for stating a contrary opinion.

As The Post’s Karol Markowitz put it, “They told me the US was heading toward fascism and they were right.”

Ironically, Slotkin is an alumna of the Central Intelligence Agency, where the motto “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth will make you free” is carved into the wall. 

It is a core American belief that you don’t learn the truth through censorship and intimidation. 

You learn the truth through free and open debate and competition in the marketplace of ideas.

One would think a CIA alumna would understand, and support, these American principles. Instead she’s talking like a thug.

Well this is the same CIA that somehow hired John Brennan, a Gus Hall-Angela Davis voting communist who not surprisingly became Obama's CIA chief and who no or shockingly few Republicans opposed (or am I misremembering?).

Reynolds continues...

But Slotkin represents the kind of thinking that is bringing America closer to civil disorder, if not outright civil war.

For over two centuries, America managed to engage in a peaceful transfer of power without the outgoing parties having to protect themselves against political prosecutions by the incoming party.

The other way is dangerous. . . the increasing politicization of the justice system and the creation of what were fundamentally political crimes and prosecutions. We warned this practice would destroy faith in both the political and the justice system.  Things have only gotten worse since. Sen. Slotkin’s speech amplifies the problem. Treating political opposition as a crime is wrong. It’s unAmerican. And it’s dangerous.  

Well, that's strong language, especially from someone I respect, but that brings me to someone that I'm not so confident in nor respectful of to say the least who had this to say...

Marsha Blackburn: The Radical Left Wants Tennessee. They’ll Have To Go Through Me.. .Socialism stops at the Tennessee line.

While Blackburn yammers on about voting, the question was and is at what point will voting simply not matter? whether the Democrats do as they've always done by stealing elections or as we see in France and as we saw here in 2020 as well as several other times in our recent past riot and burn cities to the ground, on top of outright assassinating their political enemies?

When what Slotkin and her ilk are hot and horny for fails, then violence is their only option?

And so, Marsha Blackburn and all of us the question is "How many divisions do they and more crucially WE have?!

I'd like to end on a more humorous note as commenter Spamf Roming noted my reference to the classic movie "Casablanca" was totally wrong:

Bogey didn't kiss Elsa at the station. She sent a note and stood him up. He didn't kiss her at the airport, but sent her off with her husband.

On that note I bid you all to, despite the above and all the rest of the news,have a good day.

And please vote early and often!!!

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Victor Davis Hanson: The midterms are a fundamental choice over America’s economic future, national identity, immigration, energy, and Western civilization.
  The Deep Midterms
  
• If Alberta votes Oct. 19 to leave Canada, Washington should be waiting with open arms for the resource-rich province and its conservatives.
  Instead of Making Canada The 51st State, Just Take Alberta

Daily Tech News 20 October 2026

—Pixy Misa

• Anthropic has pledged to give 5% of its shared to a public benefit fund. (CNBC)
  
  By which they mean trying to buy off the communists, who hate them and want them dead.
  
  
  
• Elon Musk meanwhile plans to give a share in SpaceX to every child in America. (CNN)
  
  Some of whom aren't communists or at least could grow out of it.

Monday Night ONT - October 19, 2026 [TRex]

—Open Blogger

Good evening Horde. Welcome to the Monday overnight thread. The bar is open and the refrigerator has been freshly re-stocked with A&W Rootbeer.

Welcome to the Monday night ONT which means vintage overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. Pants are optional. This ONT is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Fauci is fair game.

[Top photo: Uniroyal Tire, Dearborn, Michigan, 1986. The 80-foot-tall fiberglass tire still exists and is located alongside Interstate 94 in Allen Park, Michigan (just outside Dearborn). It was originally built as a Ferris wheel for the 1964-65 New York World's Fair by the United States Rubber Company (later Uniroyal). After the fair, it was disassembled, shipped to Michigan on multiple trucks, and reassembled in 1966 as a static display outside a Uniroyal sales office.]

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The Monday ONT has dialed up the wayback machine with very random results.

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Advance Roofing, Mims, Florida, 1990. I appreciate the space shuttle homage, but no indication that it still exists.

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Beef Burger, Amarillo, Texas, 1976. Located at 3102 Plains Blvd, Amarillo, TX 79102. Looks like the building still exists but the business may have recently closed? The interweb says it was originally an A&W Rootbeer stand before the burger place took over around 1952.

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Benewah Dairy, Spokane, Washington, 1980. Believe it still exists at 321 S. Cedar Street, Spokane, WA 99201. Now it houses an ice cream shop.

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Big Shoe Repair, Bakersfield, California, 2003. Still operates as a shoe repair business at 931 Chester Avenue, Bakersfield, California 93301. The shoe has been hit by wayward cars and repaired several times.

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Brown Derby, Los Angeles, California, 1986. Was at 3377 Wilshire Boulevard but no longer exists. It closed in 1980 and demolished, but parts of the hat dome were purportedly incorporated into the new building (Brown Derby Plaza). Can anyone confirm?

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Coca Cola Bottling, Los Angeles, California, 1977. Still there at 1334 S Central Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90021. The location still operates as a Coca Cola bottling plant. The building itself is famous - it was designed to look like a ship with portholes, railings and curves.

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Green Giant, Blue Earth, Minnesota, 1979. It still exists near I-90 and US-169. The interweb says this was purely a local effort to grab eyeballs. The Jolly Green Giant company was not involved and did not fund it.

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Life Saver Factory, Port Arthur, New York, 1976. The plant closed in 1984 or 1985 and this large scale Pep-O-Mint life saver version was relocated to Gouverneur, New York (the hometown of Life Savers co-founder Edward J. Noble). It was installed on the village green in 1987 and is still there.

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Orange juice stand, Turlock, California, 1977. No evidence this still exists.

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Superman, Massac County Courthouse, Metropolis, Illinois, 1993. It still exists at 517 Market Street (also known as Superman Square). This version in 1993 replaced a smaller previous version that was damaged by vandals (why can't we have nice things?). Metropolis is Superman's hometown.

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The Hogan, San Jacinto, California, 1977. It was originally built in 1936 as an Indian arts and crafts store (modeled after a Navajo hogan). It is at the corner of Main Street and Sheriff Avenue. The building has had different occupants over the years and new stucco and windows have changed its appearance. It is either a nail shop or tattoo studio today.

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Close it up

Orang-Utan Cafe

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Kristin Mae Photography
She says this is the transition between "golden hour"
-- the much-prized hour when the sun is low in the sky --
and "blue hour" -- the brief period of twilight

Baby pygmy hippo is a cutie.

Elephants are majestic and beautiful until they decide, out of nowhere, that they have beef with you, and then they get scary.

Is it possible to have too many dogs in your pickup truck? This guy dances right on the line.

A great horned owl got stuck in a soccer goal's net, because soccer is stupid and kills beautiful animals. These nice people extract him.

Rescuing an orphaned tiny baby rabbit, and the -- sniff -- setting him free when he's grown.

A Halloween dog parade in New York. I don't think this year's dog costumers are bringing their best, but still, you get to see some dogs.

Elephant plays crossing guard for a herd of water buffalo crossing a river.

A.B.H. Always Be Herding. Always Be Herding.

Turtle Rescue Squad is summoned to save another turtle stuck in a grate.

Tourists come across an orang-utan using the same path they're on, and the big lug just passes peacefully.

Quick Hits

—Disinformation Expert Ace

It's not just CIA agent Elissa Slotkin -- Adulterer and Senator Chris Murphy is also previewing his schemes for a left-wing authoritarian putsch.

Western Lensman @WesternLensman

Oct 17

Democrats want to imprison their political enemies to deter young conservatives.

They also want to regulate social media so people are less likely to support candidates they don't like.

Chris Murphy:

"Regulating the internet...should be an important government project."

"if people are feeling more powerful and less lonely, then they are going to be less likely to fall for a bullsht demagogue like Donald Trump."

From the so-called "anti-authoritarian" party.

The DSA is also plotting a full-on coup.

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican

The past few days, I got my hands on thousands of new transcripts and hundreds of recordings, thanks to leads from @SKDoubleDub33 and @iamlisalogan.

You've heard that the DSA is proposing structural reforms to America, including abolishing the Senate and imposing term limits.

What you not have heard is - there is an operational plan to put it all into action. If the Democratic Party sweeps 2026, then DSA will become "foot soldiers" in constant clashes with the administration to cross a "red line" or invoke a "doomsday scenario" - meaning, President Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, probably sometime in 2027.

Then, a lot of coordinated responses kick off, including delegitimizing the federal government itself and handing that legitimacy to Democratic governors. 2028 then becomes a vote on whether to keep America governance as-is or to burn it all down to appease a "young and brown" demographic.

The mysterious group who's been coordinating 50501, Indivisible, and coordinating the NoKings protests is called "United Democracy Alliance" and their intellectual leader is Erica Chenoweth who came up with the 3.5% rule of nonviolent regime change.

Patience. I know I've hyped this more than anything else. It's genuinely the biggest discovery I've had. This is an enormous archive. This is only the beginning.

Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed Is Confronted With Proof His Half-Sister Was on the Terrorist Watch List; In Response, the Muslim Manlet Just Babbles About the Patriot Act and the Surveillance State and How Poor Muslims Are Suspected of being Terroris

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Is this Islamist Entryism, I wonder?

Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed acknowledged Saturday night that his sister-in-law was involved in a federal terrorist watchlist lawsuit during the Obama administration, just days before former President Barack Obama is scheduled to campaign alongside him.

El-Sayed was confronted by Fox News senior correspondent Mike Tobin about court documents identifying his sister-in-law, Mariam Jukaku, as a plaintiff in a 2016 lawsuit challenging her alleged placement on the federal Terrorism Screening Database, commonly known as the terrorist watchlist.

"There's reporting in a lawsuit that now backs it up. And documentation with the lawsuit that Mariam Jukaku, who's your sister-in-law, that she was on the terrorist watch list?" Tobin asked.

"Yeah," El-Sayed responded.

El-Sayed then defended his sister-in-law, insisting she had committed no wrongdoing and turning his criticism toward Republican Senate rival Mike Rogers.

"She did nothing wrong and was captured on that and then sued and got off," El-Sayed said. "You've got this system where folks are guilty until proven innocent because they've got different kinds of names, because of the infrastructure that people like Mike Rogers set up."

The exchange comes as Obama prepares to campaign alongside El-Sayed in Michigan on Oct. 24, ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm election.

According to the 2016 complaint, Jukaku underwent additional airport screening in 2012, and alleged she was never told why she had been flagged. The filing said she was believed to have been removed from the watchlist by 2016.

Oh, Obama and John Brennan took her off the list. That's very reassuring to me.

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Despite El-Sayed's claim that she sued and won, a federal appeals court overturned a ruling favoring the plaintiffs in 2021, while a separate lawsuit seeking damages was dismissed in 2017.

The FBI said it does not confirm or deny individuals' watchlist status.

"It is the U.S. government's policy to neither confirm nor deny a person's inclusion in the Terrorist Screening Dataset, commonly known as the terrorist watchlist," the agency told Fox News.

The exchange follows separate allegations about El-Sayed's family's purported Muslim Brotherhood connections, which his campaign called "racist and untrue."

Two Christian (?) Groups Were Paid $62 Million by the Biden Thugocracy to Settle Somalis in Minnesota

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Weird how the left is willing to pay money to some "religious" groups for some purposes.

Chadwick Moore:

Two church non-profits have taken in at least $62 million to build the Somali community in Minnesota -- leading to the rise of Ilhan Omar and the fraud scandals that have gripped that state, The Post can reveal.

Catholic Charities and Lutheran Social Services were at the forefront of reshaping the frigid Land of 10,000 Lakes thanks to generous government contracts stemming back generations.

"This is a very big pile of government money and a whole bunch of different groups have come to get their own slice of it," Parker Thayer, an immigration expert at the Washington, DC-based Capital Research Center, told The Post.

He added the total money pouring into Minneapolis resettlement programs alone is "in the hundreds of millions."

He noted that since 2021, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, the body overseeing Catholic Charities, has received $140 million in migrant resettlement contracts from the federal government.

Say, who usurped the government in 2021?

"It is hurting the ability of these organizations to fundraise in arguably more important areas of their work. I imagine a lot of donors are being pushed away by something that is very reasonably viewed as highly controversial by a lot of people," Thayer said.

Before Minnesota became Somali central, it was known as the Hmong hub.

The state first became a test ground for a Vietnam-era resettlement program -- with powerful advocacy from then-Vice President Walter Mondale and Minnesota's Democrat governor Al Quie, according to local historians.

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Mondale then headed the US delegation to the United Nations in 1979, where he delivered a speech which helped secure international commitments to resettlement, framing the crisis in moral terms by comparing it to a failure to protect Jewish refugees before and during World War II.

Within a couple years, the Twin Cities' Hmong population was in the thousands.

Catholic Charities and Lutheran Social Services -- the latter now called Global Refuge -- had built an extensive resettlement operation as far back as World War II to help Christians displaced from war-torn Europe, so were a natural go-for the federal government to help with its mass resettlement.

During World War II, however, their operations were largely funded from the pews, not Uncle Sam, said Kelsey Reinhardt, president and CEO of the nonprofit advocacy group CatholicVote.

"I don't think there's a recognition of how generous the US has been," she told The Post.

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When Somalia was thrown into civil war in the 1990s and the US decided to take in refugees, the Minnesota operation was already an established, well-oiled machine.

The two church groups have resettled an estimated 29,000 Somalians into Minnesota since 1993, collecting a reported $2,500 per refugee to cover costs like food, initial housing and social workers.

The population today is over 100,000 in Minnesota according to data, thanks to chain migration (also known as "family reunification") and the state's generous welfare system, which became a magnet for Somalis, including those initially placed elsewhere in the US.

"They picked Minnesota because it had extremely generous state social safety net policies and welfare programs, which of course made resettling refugees there easier," Thayer said. "Refugees from Somalia then moved to Minnesota after they were resettled elsewhere, in places like South Dakota.

"A lot of these people, while claiming to be refugees, you look at their Facebook pages, or you look at indictments and find that they routinely travel out of the US back to the place they are supposedly a refugee from," he added.

The Biden administration oversaw the largest jump in living memory of migrant resettlement operations.

Minnesota has been a flashpoint in the controversial effort, where a gob-smacking $9 billion in estimated welfare fraud, largely stemming from the Somali community, was uncovered in the last year -- speculated to be the largest welfare scam in the history of the US.

Completely, totally, transcendantally unrelated: the EU Parliament actually voted to condemn the Muslim Brotherhood and object to "Islamist entryism" into the West.

Following the sanctioning of foreign Muslim Brotherhood groups by the Trump administration, the European Parliament recently took its own action against the transnational radical Islamist group.

As Europe begins to respond to the threat of radical Islam across the continent, an overwhelming majority of the European Parliament voted for a resolution that condemned the Muslim Brotherhood and its actions.

European Parliament member Céline Imart of France, who sponsored the resolution, called the vote "a historic victory because it is a European first. For the first time, Europe has voted on a text that tackles Islamist entryism and the Muslim Brotherhood."

I don't know how they mean the term "entryism" but the context I've heard it in regards SJW entryism. It's the scripted process of taking over an organization by agitating first for "just some more diverse members," then demanding not just a more diverse membership but a more diverse leadership, then changing the rules that that only SJWs can serve in leadership, then changing the rules so that only SJWs can even be members.

It's a textbook playbook for capturing an organization, outlawing the former leaders and members of that organization, and then turning that organization completely against its old goals and towards the goal of further SJW propaganda and subversion of other institutions.

I assume they mean it the same way, but in regards to Islamists invading, subverting, and ultimately taking over countries.

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Lorenzo Vidino, director of the program on extremism at George Washington University, told Fox News Digital that, "This is something that the French and the Austrian governments have been pushing for almost a decade," noting a growing consensus across Europe that wants action.

The resolution was led by the European People's Party, or EPP, a center-right coalition that is the largest group in the European Parliament. "The voting does reflect a gap between the right and the left," said Vidino, "with the right voting almost entirely in favor of the resolution, and a good part of the left, although with some notable exceptions, voting against it."

You don't say.

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Vidino said, "The Brotherhood remains something that is seen through the political lenses of our own political debates, where it shouldn't be... because it's a challenge to our societies."

A press release on the resolution issued by the European Parliament's news website stated that Islamist entryism targets "democratic institutions, the rule of law, equality between women and men and fundamental freedoms." It stressed that Muslim citizens must be protected from discrimination as "a democratic obligation," while "warning against treating organized Islamist networks as representative interlocutors."

The release also stated, "While Europe must remain free, open and faithful to its principles, it can 'no longer fund, consult or legitimize networks that use its language, procedures and funding to weaken its values from within,'" but "MEPs stress that anti-discrimination policies must not be used to shield Islam from criticism or legitimize organized Islamist networks."

From August 25: Denmark's left-wing PM warns of a "big enemy" growing in Europe due to unlimited immigration.

Denmark's left-wing prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, has sent shock waves throughout the European left after recent comments about the Scandinavian nation's -- and the continent's -- failure to deal with radical Islam among migrant communities.

Her comments come after the mass migration chaos in the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, when Frederiksen criticized the actions of Spain's leftist leader, Pedro Sánchez, during a special session on Ceuta in the Danish Parliament.

Responding to a question from a far-left legislator on Denmark's apparent lack of "solidarity" with Spain against "anti-democratic forces" pressuring Europe, Frederiksen said, "If we talk about undemocratic forces, then Russia is our biggest enemy. The problem is that a big enemy has started to grow from within, and it is foreigners who have come to Europe," according to an English translation.

While not singling out Denmark's integrated immigrant population, she continued, "It is Hamas supporters. It is people who commit terror against European societies. It is people who do not recognize our fundamental European values. It is people who sympathize with some of the darkest forces in this world. So, Europe is threatened. The problem is that we are threatened both from outside and now from within, but it is not because of a disagreement between the Danish and Spanish governments, but because of people with an Islamic background who do not want the open, free European society, unfortunately."

Sweden-based foreign policy expert and author Daniel Schatz told Fox News Digital, "What is striking is not that a conservative politician is talking about illegal immigration, failed integration and Islamist extremism, it is that one of Europe's leading center-left prime ministers is saying it in such blunt terms. That tells you how far the European immigration debate has shifted."

The UK's Censorship Police, Prevent, Harass Woman For "Over-Identifying with Israel," Visiting That Country

—Disinformation Expert Ace

What is Prevent? Google AI:

Prevent is a UK government-led, multi-agency counter-terrorism strategy designed to stop vulnerable people from being drawn into terrorism or extremist ideologies.

In reality, Prevent was created as a "counter-terrorism" organization and then very quickly mutated by the hard left into a pro-terrorism organization that is chiefly interested in harassing the Enemies of Islam.

The woman they decided to harass and accuse of being too "vulnerable" to read the news is not Jewish herself, just a supporter of that besieged nation.

Prevent decided that she is "over-identifying" with Israel and might be led astray by Evil Jewish Propaganda.

Gee I wonder if there are any people of a different religion in the UK who might "over-identify" with a foreign country and consume propaganda pumped out by that regime?

Might there be an entire global left-wing movement to falsely claim a "genocide" so that a barbaric foreign country can continue to murder and rape without military consequence?

Nah. It's probably just these turbulent Jews.

Mother referred to Prevent for 'over-identifying with Israel'

Holly Passmore says police asked why she was interested in 'Jewish issues' and described the postgraduate student as 'vulnerable'

When Holly Passmore heard a knock at her front door at about 11am on July 4 last year, she assumed it was an Amazon delivery.

Instead, the 44-year-old mother-of-two from County Durham found two plain-clothes police officers on her doorstep wanting to know why she had recently visited Israel.
"They said it was a safeguarding matter," recalled Ms Passmore, who cares for her nine-year-old son, Rex, who has severe autism, while studying for a master's degree.

She assumed they were concerned she had taken her son into a war zone.

"I said, 'Well, my son didn't go to Israel. He stayed here with my mum and my daughter, who's 20'," she recalled. But the female officer replied: "No this is about you -- because you may be at risk of manipulation."

Ms Passmore suspected her support for Israel had prompted the referral. It was only months later, when she obtained police records through a subject access request, that her suspicions were confirmed.

A police intelligence report seen by The Telegraph reveals that the referral said she "over-identified with the conflict between Israel and Palestine" and was "supportive of Israel to the point that she has travelled to Israel".

Wow -- that supportive, huh?

It also described her as having "MH" -- meaning mental health -- issues and being "vulnerable to negative influence".

"Nobody would describe me as vulnerable," said Ms Passmore, who is reading Holocaust studies at the University of Haifa.

'They only asked about Israel'

Ms Passmore said that, while she has health concerns, including severe endometriosis and adenomyosis, and has been diagnosed with ADHD and autism, she has no mental health issues.

"They knew I'm not vulnerable but they wanted to monitor me because I was advocating for Israel," she told The Telegraph.

"When they came to the door they didn't discuss my health. They only asked about Israel."

The police intelligence report Ms Passmore obtained under data protection laws acknowledged that there "is no CT [counter-terror] concern with an individual being supportive of Israel as a democracy and it would not be a CT concern for a person to travel there".

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Ms Passmore is not Jewish, but after the Oct 7 massacre in 2023, she increasingly used her account to speak out against anti-Semitism and to express solidarity with Jewish people.

Which is why, when the Israeli embassy invited her to come to Israel, she accepted. The trip included a visit to Kfar Aza, a kibbutz attacked by Hamas terrorists on Oct 7, where Emily Damari, the British hostage, was abducted.

Three days after the police visit, on July 7, she lodged a complaint, which brought two more officers, one a superintendent, to her door.

"They said that, clearly, I'm not a terrorist," she recalled, explaining they were keen to reassure her that police did not consider her a threat or an extremist in any way.
"I thought that was strange at the time. You don't usually end up with a superintendent on your couch."

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She also alleges that the superintendent urged her to stop discussing the case online. By then, her experience had attracted widespread attention online, helped by Darren Grimes, a local Reform UK councillor, and David Collier, a journalist and campaigner.

We Got Your DNA: Federal Agents Dug Through Ilhan Omar's and Her "Sister's" Garbage to Find DNA to Establish Whether Or Not They're Actually Related

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Remember, when you toss out your garbage, you are abandoning it and disowning it, so no warrant is needed to search and seize it.

So we have Ilhan "Omar's" DNA.

Federal agents collected garbage in hopes of obtaining the DNA of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and her family before this week's raid at her Washington, D.C. home, sources told NewsNation.

Investigators historically have used secretive "dumpster diving" to obtain DNA when search warrants were not possible or would have tipped off investigatory targets. It is legally permissible for law enforcement to collect trash that has been discarded for pickup and comb through it for genetic material.

Multiple sources familiar with the probe tell NewsNation that potential DNA evidence is critical to the investigation into Omar. They say the case is broader than the public may assume based on longstanding accusations surrounding her immigration history or marital status.

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Federal agents seized Omar's phone during a widely publicized search Monday at her Washington residence. NewsNation has learned that more than a dozen raids actually occurred simultaneously.

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She originally was investigated by the Department of Justice under former President Biden before the case was closed. Parts of that investigation were reopened and expanded under the administration of President Trump.

In other words, Biden's henchmen covered it up and closed the investigation.

There are so many elements of the "Omar" family's fraud that it's hard to keep them straight, but one strand involves the theory that she's not even part of the Omar family. The Omar family got a visa when she was in a refugee camp, and she pretended to be an Omar to exploit that visa.

Evidence for this consists of past social media postings in which she called a man named Elmi "father" repeatedly in discussions with her family. When asked about this curious habit of referring to a man as "father" who was supposedly not her father, she claimed there was a tradition in her particular region of Somalia of referring to men who aren't your fathers "father" out of respect or some absurd nonsense like that.

This may be one of the reasons they also seized her "sister's" phone as well. Sarha Noor is probably being investigated for being part of the Somali Fraud Syndicate, but they also might want to check how many times she refers to this Elmi person as "father," too.

Daily Wire:

The raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar's (D-MN) home reportedly moved forward after federal law enforcement reviewed a phone seized from the Minnesota congresswoman's sister, author and health care executive Sahra Noor.

The New York Times reported that Noor's phone was taken earlier this year as investigators reportedly sought to build a case against Omar for conspiracy to commit immigration fraud -- and that text messages sent between members of her family are being used to bolster that case.

Homeland Security agents, the outlet reported, had used those messages to convince a federal judge to sign off on the search warrant that was executed on Monday at Omar's home in Washington, D.C.

The investigation into Omar and her family -- and whether or not they are guilty of immigration fraud -- began during former President Joe Biden's term in the White House but has ramped up in recent weeks as President Donald Trump's administration has also vowed to investigate whether the Minnesota Democrat is guilty of marriage fraud.

Investigators who searched the congresswoman's home in Washington, D.C., were reportedly looking for documents that were filled out by Omar and her father when they first came to the United States in an effort to determine whether or not her citizenship is valid.

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Further complicating Omar's account is the fact that a 2023 search for any record or proof of Omar's father's naturalization came up empty, the New York Post reported.

Tom Homan once again confirms that the endgame may well be the deportation of this foreign pirate spy.

Homan said, "Well, look, I said over a year ago the allegations were made clear and it would be investigated. And they are investigating it. I'm not going to get ahead of, you know, the bureau or agency, but, you know, I've been told they have a strong case and we'll let the evidence lead where it leads. But she'll be held to the same standard you and I are held. If she violated law, then she will be held accountable. But I don't have the specifics of the evidence they have line by line, but we'll see where it leads. I think they're doing a great investigation. I think they're going to turn over every rock they've got with this."

Lahren said, "Would this involve denaturalizing and then deporting her, if it does turn out there is some kind of immigration fraud?"

Homan said, "Of course. If you lie during the naturalization process, there is a process to denaturalize somebody. We've done it before, it's a long, tedious process, but it's been done before. I've been involved with those investigations before, and certainly, if the evidence points that way, that could happen."

At American Greatness, Liz Sheld reports on the Lightbringer speaking out on Ilhan "Omar's" behalf.

Morning Greatness: Obama White Knights for Credibly Accused Scofflaw Rep. Ilhan Omar

Former President Barack Hussein Obama has stepped in on X to defend his comrade Ilhan Omar from unjust attacks by a weaponized Trump Administration. "It is a basic principle of American democracy that the government can't selectively target individuals simply because of their political beliefs or what they say."

And he continued to explain, "The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president."

Full weight of the government, eh? The Obama machine and his deep state vultures relentlessly attacked elected official President Donald J. Trump with witch hunts, hearings and investigations. They abused the FISA process, spied on his campaign, and planted lies in the media that were used to "justify" further government overreach. During the four years of the "Biden" administration, the Obama machine sent storm troopers to Trump's private residence complete with pre-arranged media coverage, staged evidence for photo ops and ransacked his wife and child's private belongings. His operation worked with disgruntled characters to file civil suits against the president and changed the law to prosecute Trump for manufactured crimes in New York. Obama's henchmen had a television producer create a prime time broadcast spectacle of a "hearing" for the J6 protest on the taxpayer dime. Don't get me started on what they did to the J6ers with SWAT raids, debanking, surveillance, financial ruin, lawfare and ritual defamation.

Democrat Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin: We Must Relentlessly Prosecute Trump Personnel So That Young People Are Too Scared to Join the Conservative Movement

—Disinformation Expert Ace

As with many bloodthirsty leftist authoritarian operatives lately, she says the quiet part out loud.

She's another degenerate CIA authoritarian now attempting a color revolution in the US.

Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin publicly called on Democrats to intimidate young conservatives who want to work for the Trump administration by prosecuting the president's staffers.

Slotkin (D-Mich.), a former CIA analyst, contended that Democrats must "go after" and make examples out of officials in President Trump's orbit who engage in corruption to send a message to young people who may want to join the administration.

"I want young people coming out of school to say, 'Should I go work for the Trump administration? That sounds fun, I might get an opportunity,'" Slotkin mused at a University of Chicago event last week that has since gone viral.

"I want them to be like, 'Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems I don't want, and so let me avoid participating in that,'" the senator went on. "I want that deterrence message sent."

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Slotkin reflected that despite her voting to impeach Trump twice, he's still in the White House and seemingly alluded to how he survived the four criminal cases against him.

"The people around Donald Trump who are doing his bidding and enabling this have no such immunity. They have no immunity the way the president does," she added.

"And to me, he couldn't do any of this stuff without all of those people saluting and supporting it. So you go after the people who do his bidding."

Slotkin's remarks ignited a firestorm on social media from conservatives.

"Sen. Slotkin, a self-avowed 'defender of democracy,' told me and other conservative students that we should live in fear of political persecution if we dare serve our country in the Trump administration," University of Chicago student Michael Bicksel posted on X.

"Sadly for her, we will never be intimidated by her Bolshevik-style tactics."

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Last week, Trump openly mused about going on a massive pardon spree, including a self-pardon near the end of his time in the White House.

"I don't want to see people that work for me go through years of nonsense, hire lawyers and everything else, all for nothing," the president told Newsmax host Rob Finnerty.

I'll take a pardon, if he's handing them out.

Miranda Divine: This CIA communist whore is another fake "moderate."

Elissa Slotkin was elected to the Senate in 2024 as a supposed "moderate."

But of course we know that, apart from Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, that species of Democratic politician doesn't exist in Congress anymore.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for Slotkin, a former CIA analyst who served under John Brennan, to show her true colors.

The Michigan senator told students at the University of Chicago last week how she plans to use the power that will come to Democrats if they win Senate control in the midterms next month.

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Slotkin pretends she is a stickler for "defending democracy." But this is how the Bolshevik left who control today's Democratic Party play the game, even as they cloak themselves in conservative disguises, as intelligence professionals, soldiers, astronauts or doctors.

Slotkin, who fancies herself as a future president, used that same term "signature cases" in a chilling speech to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in September when she named Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro and then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem as the Trump officials she would target for political prosecutions that would see them jailed for 20 years.

She likened her planned revenge campaign against Trump officials to Poland's "Iron Broom" cleanup, in which Democrats would create "a list of signature cases that go after some of the most obvious and harmful abuses of taxpayer dollars."

"We need to hold accountable the people and institutions who stole billions of our taxpayer dollars and weaponized the government against its people," she said.

"In Poland, they called this plan the Iron Broom -- cleaning the place up."

Slotkin's threats are especially disturbing when you consider the body count of administration officials and Trump allies from the president's first term who were attacked by Joe Biden's weaponized Justice Department.

It's one aspect of the psychological warfare she learned in her former intelligence career.

Last year, Slotkin and five other "national security" Democrats launched a sly propaganda video implying that Trump was giving "illegal orders" to the military.

French Police Flee from Violent "Students" "Protesting Class Sizes" as "Class Size Riots" Spread Throughout Europe

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Boy, foreign immigrants and 35-year-old communist fifth columnists sure are bears for education resources.

France went up in flames Saturday.

Masked mobs hijacked a nationwide day of protest, torching a 143-year-old town hall, storming government buildings and fighting police in the streets. In the middle of the chaos, protesters waved Palestinian flags.

In the heart of Paris, demonstrators climbed the monument at Place de la République, the towering statue of Marianne that symbolizes the French Republic. A Reuters photographer captured them perched on it holding a French tricolor alongside a Palestinian flag amid pink smoke. One outlet reported that rioters pulled down the statue's French flag and hoisted a Palestinian banner in its place.

The flags turned up well beyond Paris.

In Marseille, several dozen mostly young protesters battered through the doors of City Hall and briefly overran the lobby, according to Agence France-Presse. They overturned tables and chairs, smashed a screen, and knocked a bust of Marianne to the floor. Some of the intruders wore yellow vests. Others carried Palestinian flags. Someone spray-painted an anarchist symbol on the wall.

Marseille Mayor Benoit Payan said he had to phone President Emmanuel Macron, the prime minister and the interior minister to get reinforcements. The city went from one riot police comany that morning to three, plus two armored units.

Guys they just want smaller class sizes. Why won't you let them have smaller class sizes?

How can they all become Doctors and Engineers if they have one teacher per thirty students instead of one teacher per twenty-six students? Why are you being so Racist?

The "protesters" "clashed" with police, which is a euphemistic way of saying the police simply turned tail and ran from the "protesters," leaving citizens with no protection at all.

Paris woke Sunday to shattered storefronts, burned cars and a heavy police presence after unrest swept through the city and other parts of France.

Violent clashes broke out Saturday during nationwide demonstrations over rising living costs and poor school conditions. Hundreds of thousands marched across the country, while masked groups fought with police, looted businesses and set fires in several cities.

As with the BLM rioters -- I mean Mostly Peaceful Protesters -- these Change Agents showed a particular zeal for liberating electronics stores and high-end designer handbag shops.

The destruction was not limited to Paris.

In Limoges, about three hours south of the capital, fire tore through the city's historic town hall, built in 1883 and designated a historic landmark in 1975.

A fire tore through the town hall, Fox? Is that like "A car mowed down citizens at a Christmas market?"

Can we get any information about who started this fire? Or is it a case of spontaneous combustion?

The local prefect, Maurice Barate, told AFP that the roof had collapsed onto the lower floors and about two-thirds of the building's exterior had disappeared. He called it "a catastrophe for heritage."

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President Donald Trump weighed in Sunday, blaming immigration for the unrest in a Truth Social post and urging France to close its borders.

"The immigration of people from an entirely different world, people with hatred in their hearts, has shattered that once great country," he wrote. "Close your borders and take control, before it is too late!"

That's just racist. These protests are about class sizes.

Be Better, Trump. #BeBetter.

The Interior Minister acknowledged failure even as the president Macron refused to take any responsibility.

The French government acknowledged on Monday a failure in handling the rioters who attacked the police, ransacked public buildings and looted stores in cities across the country over the weekend.

France's interior minister, Laurent Nuñez, offered a mea culpa on national radio, saying that the police had been underprepared to deal with the scale of the riots that spun out from planned protests on Saturday night. He said he had offered his resignation to President Emmanuel Macron but that it had not been accepted.

The justice minister, Gérald Darmanin, also acknowledged that the authorities had "undeniably failed" in the face of the violence -- the biggest unrest to hit France in years -- and said on French television that there had been "a failure in intelligence."

With many people in France still stunned on Monday by the scale of the damage, mayors and councilors gathered outside their city halls to show that they were still standing and to demand answers from the national government.

Benoit Payan, the mayor of Marseille, has accused the government and the police of "delivering" that city -- France's second largest -- to "looters and rioters."

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"I want compensation down to the last cent," he added, saying: "You cannot leave a country to sink into a political crisis without an answer."

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Amid calls for calm and order, there were questions about what would happen next.

The students who started a protest movement more than a month ago by blockading their high schools to demand better conditions are now on a two-week vacation. However, other groups have joined the protests in solidarity and to highlight their own grievances -- with some seemingly determined to keep the movement going.

Really? Professional rioters and criminal looters want to keep the anarchy going?

So... it's not about class sizes?

Macron once again spoke weakly, promising to punish the rioters while insisting he would continue to honor the foreign army's "right" to loot, pillage, and destroy.

He also refused to take any responsibility for the riots. He just let his Interior Minister pretend to take responsibility (with no actual accountability).

In an address to the nation on Sunday evening, French President Emmanuel Macron refused to take any accountability for the national riots that erupted on Saturday, as he sought to shift the blame onto the far-left and even external forces like the Iran conflict while failing to acknowledge the role mass migration played in creating a groundswell of support for the unrest.

President Macron, who has become little more than a lame duck in the Élysée with six months left in his term in office, addressed the country for the first time since the youth revolt began nearly a month ago.

Rather than taking a 'the buck stops here' approach, Mr Macron did not admit to any personal failings after his government failed to foresee or prevent some of the most destructive riots in recent memory, resulting in historic buildings being torched, thousands of shops being looted, and hundreds of police officers, gendarmes, and firefighters being injured on Saturday.

Instead, the outgoing leader pointed to "extremists from far-left groups" and "criminals" as being solely responsible for the "unrestrained violence" witnessed across France.

Meanwhile, Macron appeared to completely ignore the role that the importation of millions of foreigners into the country has had on the social framework, with many of the rioters being suspected of hailing from the multicultural suburban enclaves like Saint-Denis. Instead, the president questioned, "How can French people do this to France?"

"Why burn down the town hall in Limoges, the tourist office in Lyon, storm the town hall in Marseille, or attack the prefect's residence in Bordeaux? How can they go so far? Nothing justifies it, nothing explains it, nothing excuses it. We all feel anger and shame tonight. Seeing the streets of our cities so ransacked is unbearable," he questioned.

Marine Le Pen is not impressed by his leadership in this crisis:

National Rally presidential candidate Marine Le Pen said that the "Macron government is on its last legs, exhausted, disoriented." In a video published two hours before President Macron's planned national address, Le Pen said that her longtime rival's government "seems incapable of doing anything other than commenting on its own impotence."

"We are experiencing a profound crisis of confidence and authority that threatens democracy. This situation should alarm us: our country is caught in a vice, even held hostage, between violence and impotence," she said.

Macron will not rest until the nation is at peace. Now let's grab some lunch.

French President Emmanuel Macron is facing criticism over his decision to attend a Celine Dion concert Friday night, on the eve of nationwide demonstrations that descended into violence, leaving hundreds of emergency personnel injured and nearly 1,800 people arrested.

Macron and his wife, Brigitte, were spotted at Dion's concert at the Plenitude Arena in Nanterre, west of Paris, according to French media reports. The couple reportedly arrived and left discreetly and were among roughly 35,000 spectators at the performance.

The concert came after Macron spent Thursday and Friday in Brussels attending a European Council meeting. During a news conference in Brussels on Friday, he called for "calm and respect" ahead of Saturday's planned demonstrations, saying the right to protest must be exercised with respect for people and property.

The riots over "class sizes" have spread to other European countries which coincidentally also have large populations of unassimilated Third World foreigners.

Because we can't acknowledge what the riots are really about, the media has decided to claim the riots in other countries are over "the increasing cost of living."

Violent protests have broken out across Europe amid growing frustration over the cost of living crisis, a lack of affordable housing and deteriorating school conditions.

As many as 550,000 people turned out across France on Saturday, according to authorities, to demonstrate against declining public services. Protests turned violent in Paris as shops were looted and cars set on fire in some of the city's worst violence in years.

Young people waved Italian flags and let off flares in Milan as they rallied against the rising cost of living in scenes that were condemned by prime minister Giorgia Meloni.

Did they only wave "Italian flags"? Of course not. It took me three minutes to find this Palestinian flag at the Milan riots, at 0:09. It's so weird that I can easily find this while "professional journalistic corporations" can't find it.

Or did Italy's tricolor get a black band added when I wasn't looking?

By the way, I found zero Italian flags being waved. I'm not saying there weren't any; I only looked for three minutes. I am saying, however, that a brief search for flags turned up a Palestinian flag and zero Italian flags, so I'm not sure where this leftwing propaganda outlet is getting its information from.

I'm just kidding. I know where they're getting it from. It's a UK outlet and they're taking their orders from the government's censorship police, like "Prevent."

More on Prevent later today. They have unmasked fully.

Authorities said more than half a million people turned out to march on Saturday including 110,000 in Paris alone. Organisers put the figure closer to 800,000.

While hundreds of thousands protested peacefully across France on Saturday, violent fringe groups targeted public buildings, looted luxury boutiques and supermarkets, and attacked police vehicles and officers.

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More than 2,400 people were arrested across France, while nearly 1,000 officers were injured, according to the government. Police fired teargas in Paris on Sunday afternoon and protesters set fire to piles of bicycles.

One protester died on Saturday after suffering a cardiac arrest during demonstrations in the capital.

I blame the January 6th protesters, who are responsible for all deaths that occur at any riot, anywhere.

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Milan police clashed on Sunday with protesters throwing stones and looting shops during demonstrations against crumbling public services and the rising cost of living, a day after similar unrest in several Italian cities.

Police in riot gear fired teargas and used water cannons after several hundred hooded protesters broke shop windows and set bins on fire in the area near central Piazza Duomo, sources told Reuters, adding that more than 60 protesters had been detained for checks.

A total of 28 protesters were arrested after similar clashes erupted on Saturday in northern cities including Milan, Bologna, Brescia, Bergamo and Turin, according to a police report on Sunday.

Breitbart notes the "multicultural riots" outside of Milan's Duomo.

But I thought they were only waving Italian flags...?

Dozens of rioters have been arrested following the outbreak of a "guerrilla war" outside the Duomo cathedral in central Milan as unrest from France appears to be boiling over into fellow European nations.

Stones, smoke bombs, fireworks, and Molotov cocktails were the weapons of choice for the youth hoodlums that descended upon Milan, leaving some 141 police officers injured during the so-called cost of living protests on Saturday. The violence mainly occurred in Piazza del Duomo, the square outside Milan Cathedral, the neo-Gothic church dedicated to the Nativity of St. Mary, which serves as the seat of the Archbishop of Milan and stands as the largest church in the whole of Italy.

According to Italy's public news wire service Ansa, 197 people were detained by police during the demonstration, while 28 were arrested, including 12 minors and six foreign nationals. The wire service noted that there was also a heavy contingent of "second-generation migrants" involved in the riots.

An estimated 5,000 protesters took part in the demonstration in Milan, which was called to mimic the supposed cost-of-living protests in France. While some demonstrators literally chanted in French, the protest quickly devolved into "guerrilla warfare", Ansa reported.

"Milan was reduced to a battlefield, with Piazza Duomo besieged by hundreds of young people dressed in black. They forced the police to retreat under the hurling of firecrackers, barriers, and bottles, until they occupied the city's symbolic square," the wire service wrote.

NY Post Op-Ed: Can we stop lying now?

France is seeing its worst riots in decades -- violence clearly aimed not simply at the ruling party, but at France itself -- and the left-liberal establishment is still trying to blame a few bad apples.

That's true not just of President Emmanuel Macron, but of global media that claim it's mainly about student grievances over budget cuts -- at least one BBC article actually used the phrase "mostly peaceful protests."

This is nonsense: The street mobs haven't been just (or even mostly) kids for weeks now, and the vandalism began in the first days; it was last month that "protesters" set a teacher on fire.

Foreign flags (Morocco, Algeria, "Palestine") came out at the start; the crowds are mostly blacks and Arabs -- overwhelmingly from Muslim immigrant communities, in other words.

And the political statements are obvious: Burning down historic town halls; smashing a statue of Marianne, the symbol of the French Republic.

Synagogues ransacked and other targeting of Jews.

Liberty isn't leading these people, but a hatred for Western civilization itself.

Toussi TV pointed out that no mosques had been targeted. Of course not.