Archive for 2025
July 11, 2025
BY THEIR FRUITS SHALL YE KNOW THEM: DNC Chair: The Democratic Party Welcomes Those Who Want to Kill Jews.
KRUISER: Dems’ Perverse Deification of Government on Full Display After Texas Floods. “There are religious and faithful Democrats out there, they just aren’t running the party. That’s pretty much the recurring theme for all that ails the Dems. The party elites are not just out of touch with Dems in flyover country, they tend to be out of touch with reality.”
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COLORADO: ‘Persons of color’ postpartum training off limits to white therapists.
In the email, sent to its members in late June, the CPA said it was proud to host two training courses as part of Postpartum Support International. According to its website, CPA “advances the profession of psychology through advocacy and education”
Postpartum Support International’s website says its organization is dedicated to increasing “awareness among public and professional communities about the emotional changes that women experience during pregnancy and postpartum.”
Nothing on its “about” page says anything about being focused only on women of color. However, in bold print the email specifically says: “These September trainings are facilitated by persons of color for persons of color and will focus on serving the needs of BIPOC families. The trainings are open to Black, Indigenous, and other Professionals of Color.
BIPOC is an acronym for black, indigenous, and people of color.
Additionally, the information page for the two-day event as well as a separate one-day training on “advanced perinatal mental health psychotherapy training,” says: “The training is open to Black, Indigenous, and other providers of color.”
Providers of pallor not wanted here.
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Gunn’s Superman Grounds High-Flying Hero.
James Gunn summons that iconic “Superman” score for his DC Comics do-over.
He needn’t have bothered.
There’s little Gunn brings to the DC Comics reboot that demands John Williams’ golden touch. Gunn’s “Superman” is frantic and eager to please, a lackluster story made smaller by forgettable banter.
It’s good to see the aw, shucks Man of Steel again, but Gunn can’t escape the shadow of Christopher Reeve’s 1978 classic.
To be blunt, Gunn and co. never come close.
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Gunn’s penchant for subversive comic book takes is mostly missing here. His approach is earnest and sweet to a fault. It still lacks the Man of Steel’s essential depth. This isn’t your ordinary hero. He’s the strongest character around, an eternal Boy Scout who captures his homeland’s core values.
Truth, justice and … eh, you know a Hollywood movie won’t go near that tag line, right?
And even with Superman’s pro-American attitude muted, the lefties at the Grauniad still hated the movie: Superman review – is it a bust? Is it a pain? James Gunn’s dim reboot is both.
Related: Just as Bush Derangement Syndrome tainted numerous sci-fi movies and TV series 20 years ago (“Only a Sith deals in absolutes!”), TDS has warped this latest Superman reboot:
This is correct and by the way a real subtle upside down thing in the new Superman movie.
It's actually pretty insane how much James Gunn butchers Superman's origin. Like he just did… a thing.. literally no one asked for. It's crazy. https://t.co/sh4MSLTCzN
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 11, 2025
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HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: UChicago professor calls school ‘evil colonial landlord,’ vows to use it to build power for Palestine.
HIS PATIENCE IS FINALLY RUNNING THIN: Trump opens door to Senate sanctions bill as frustrations with Moscow grow. “Trump, impatient with Putin’s unwillingness to entertain even a temporary ceasefire, has grown warmer towards the idea of a sanctions bill which has encouraged the Senate to act. After previously calling the bill ‘very harsh,’ Trump now says that he is now ‘looking at’ the measure ‘very strongly.'”
WRONG SIDE OF HISTORY: People on the Right hear it frequently from those on the Left, but why is it they always think they are on the right side of history? What Would You Say?
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The Dem 2024 Election Post Mortems Are Marvelous Entertainment. “The Dems just can’t figure out that a lot of voters don’t have historic diversity at the top of their priority cards when they choose a president. In both 2016 and 2024 they assumed that the chance to make history with a woman president would be enough. That was supposed to overcome the fact that they were running two of the least likable human beings in the history of politics.”
OH, TO BE IN ENGLAND: Voters asked the main achievements of Starmer’s first year, answer: ‘Nothing.’
It’s a year since Keir Starmer and Labour were elected to govern the UK. Much of what was said at the time now has a hollow, even laughable ring, whether it be Starmer’s own statement in Downing Street that he would lead a “government of service” which would “tread more lightly on your lives”, or the view of Andrew Marr, one of Britain’s top political commentators, that “for the first time in many of our lives Britain looks like a haven of peace and stability”. More disturbingly, Caitlin Moran, a top Times writer, wrote that “Starmer has turbo-charged my arousal levels. I feel fruity.”
One moves on with a shudder and notes what is now obvious to all, that Starmer himself had no real governing philosophy. He won a freak election victory on a third of the vote, but no real consent to do anything much economically or politically. So once voters started to read what sort of man he really was – which they did in August last year as he cracked down on free expression while at the same time taking free gifts from millionaires – he suffered a crisis of confidence from which he has not recovered and is very unlikely to.
A pollster this weekend asked voters what they considered the main achievements of Starmer’s first year. The resultant word cloud contained one giant word – “Nothing”. In truth, Labour seem to have genuinely believed that all they had to do was replace the Conservatives, and all would be well again. That’s why they have made such a mess.
When asked in a press conference near the end of his time in office what his administration’s most important accomplishment was, Calvin Coolidge was quoted as replying, “I think it would have to be, minding our own business.”
Starmer’s attitude has been interfering with the business of many of citizens, not least of which, arresting them for writing angry tweets: The punishment of Lucy Connolly.
‘Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f****** hotels full of the bastards for all I care …. I feel physically sick knowing what these families will now have to endure. If that makes me racist so be it.’ After this rash and ugly tweet, she took the dog out for a walk, mulled it over and later deleted her message. But the post had been screenshotted, and soon she had been arrested for stirring up racial hatred.
‘Whatever I’d done, [the] police made it quite clear I was going down for this’, she says, ‘their intention was always to hammer me’. So it proves. She received only a perfunctory psychiatric evaluation, where she was not even asked about the loss of her child. After she expressed reasonable concerns about illegal immigration in a police interview, the CPS issued a misleading statement that Lucy ‘told officers she did not like immigrants’.
Several legal professionals consider her 31-month sentence inordinately harsh, and we have learned about the effect her imprisonment is having on her family. In the absence of her mother, her daughter has started having behavioural issues at school. Her husband, Ray, who is ill, does his best, but is no substitute for Lucy.
Flashback: The moment a Met Police officer tells Jewish woman that swastikas ‘need to be taken into context’ — after she complained about the Nazi symbol being used in pro-Palestine march banners in London.
And there was the couple arrested for becoming quite cross with their epileptic child’s teachers on WhatsApp: U.K. Parents Arrested for School Criticism on Private Social Media.
LARRY KUDLOW: Both Kevins Will End the Fed’s Deep State.
The Fed is in need of perestroika.
In other words, the Fed has to be cleansed of its Deep State dislike of all things Donald Trump, and frankly its Deep State bureaucratic groupthink of deadwood economists with models that haven’t worked in 50 years — who are now advising Chairman Jay Powell to fight Mr. Trump and his economic growth agenda.
The next Fed chairman has to go toe-to-toe with the hundreds of Fed economists who are spurring Mr. Powell on in his fight against Mr. Trump’s tariff and reciprocity fair trade policies. Also, against Mr. Trump’s tax-cut policies.
Economic growth does not cause inflation. Tariffs do not cause inflation.
As per the recent paper by the Council of Economic Advisers chairman, Stephen Miran, and even the interview by the Chicago Fed president, Austan Goolsbee, where he acknowledged the real-world fact that exporters and American companies will eat the tariffs, not consumers.
Of course, the Board of Governors has to be changed, and that will come over time.
Importantly, however, presidents of the regional reserve banks have got to be rotated out. The vast majority of them are Obama-Biden lefties who are heavily biased against Mr. Trump.
All this has to be changed: the chairman, the board, the regional reserve bank presidents, and the bulk of the Fed staff economists.
I myself started my career at the New York Fed — and am proud of it. I even had a chance to work with the great Paul Volcker.
But the Fed, over the past 50 years or so, has atrophied into a self-serving, central-planning Deep State that is essentially ignoring and opposing the wishes of the 80 million people who voted for Mr. Trump for president.
We all know what happened to the Soviet Union after the Kremlin embraced perestroika, and if the same fate were to somehow befall the Fed… cool.
IT’S NOT SO MUCH LACK OF MORAL CLARITY AS IT IS JUST PLAIN EVIL NATURE: Columbia Trustee Takes School to Task Over Campus Anti-Semitism: ‘Disturbing Lack of Moral Clarity.’
HE’S ACCOMPLISHED A LOT, ACTUALLY, JUST FOR THE ENEMIES OF THE BRITISH PEOPLE: Voters Asked the Main Achievements of Starmer’s First Year, Answer: ‘Nothing.’
I NEVER FELT SHAME WHEN THEY WENT AFTER ME OVER A TWEET: Mark Judge: Surviving the Left’s Shame Storm.
HOW IT STARTED: In Adam Carolla’s epic rant from a hotel room on January 8th as the Pacific Palisades Fire was rampaging through Los Angeles, he predicted:
You guys all voted for Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles. You all voted for Gavin Newsom, and now you fucking get what you get. now that your house is on fire. So here’s what’s going to happen. All these people who are deep blue Democrats are now going to have to pull a permit to rebuild, and they’re going to get the 28 year old bitch from the Coastal Commission telling them to go f*** off and then they’re going to vote for Trump or whoever’s Trumpian next. When they start getting the regulation, they’re going to go nuts. And when they start running into the bureaucracy and the red tape, they’re going to start going nuts and they’re going to vote for Rick Caruso next time.
A month later, Gavin Newsom all but confirmed Carolla:
He's such a poor leader. https://t.co/MQag62kNnk
— Adam Housley (@adamhousley) February 9, 2025
And here we go:
Looks like everyone who said they were gonna let it burn just so they could put Sec. 8 housing there was right. https://t.co/QPIXkHgIgC
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) July 11, 2025
Gooder, and even more harder, California.
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BLUE CITY BLUES: Could City-Owned Grocery Stores Survive New York’s Shoplifting Plague?
An annual survey of chain stores in New York has documented the closing of hundreds of locations since 2020. Every one of the 13 largest chains in the city has fewer outlets today than it did in 2019. Collectively, these operators have shuttered a shocking 797 stores in New York. Essential retailers like drug stores and supermarkets have been disappearing. Rite Aid, whose top retailing executive told analysts in 2022 that it was almost impossible to stop retail theft in New York City, has closed 73 stores. Walgreens and Duane Reade have shuttered another 128 locations. Executives blamed not only losses from theft but also sharply declining sales, thanks to security efforts like removing all merchandise from shelves and locking it in cases. Key Food, a small supermarket chain, has closed 18 stores. The city also has 45 fewer 7-Eleven outlets. Discount chains Family Dollar and Dollar General have shut 20 stores.
In New York City and nationwide, retailers have struggled to respond to waves of shoplifting prompted by revisions to laws that raised the value of goods a shoplifter must steal before getting charged with a felony, and by bail reforms that result in the quick release of those committing nonviolent crimes. In 2021, to take one example, the NYPD arrested one individual 57 times, including 46 times for shoplifting; he never went to jail. In several instances, cops arrested the man twice in the same day. “This guy comes here every day stealing, every single day,” one Walgreens store manager told the New York Post.
A Manhattan Institute study found that, in the wake of the state’s 2020 bail reforms, shoplifting complaints in the city increased from fewer than 40,000 in 2019 to nearly 65,000 in 2022. Meantime, a study by criminologists determined that two-thirds of those released under the 2020 bail reforms get rearrested within two years. Police commissioner Jessica Tisch has argued that these so-called reforms “have rendered the criminal justice system in New York City a high-speed revolving door for recidivists.”
There’s little evidence that Mamdani’s agenda as mayor would address these problems.
Yes, but Mamdani could throw more Other People’s Money at his city-owned stores, effectively subsidizing criminality. Which is probably the point.