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What if I told you that when federal district judges issue injunctions blocking President Donald Trump’s policies in a judicial insurrection, they were the ones breaking the law?

No, it’s not just because these judges are effectively usurping the authority of the president over the executive branch. It’s more clear-cut than that.

When Chief Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., issued an order demanding the Trump administration return reputed members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua to the U.S., he wasn’t just making immigration policy—he was violating a black-and-white rule laid down by the U.S. Supreme Court.

NBC News, a Voice of the Crust.

he Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered that, for now, President Donald Trump is not required to reinstate two members of independent federal agencies he wants to fire.

The provisional decision affects Gwynne Wilcox, a member of the National Labor Relations Board, and Cathy Harris, a member of the Merit Systems Protection Board.

Chief Justice John Roberts issued an order that temporarily blocked lower court rulings that said the two officials should be reinstated.

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The head of the nation’s largest health care union “has for years used the politically influential union’s funds to benefit himself, his family and political allies,” Politico reported after reviewing thousands of pages of financial records and interviewing more than 20 current and former union staffers.

George Gresham, president of the 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, spent more than $60,000 in union funds on hotel stays, meals, and transportation for his daughter to accompany him as a caregiver on business trips, according to Politico. The union also paid over $86,000 for Gresham’s flights to South Africa and $17,000 for his extended stay at a Bronx hotel—even though he owns a home nearby and earns a $300,000 annual salary.

“Whatever George needs, they find the money to do it,” one union employee told Politico, while a former staffer said that “it was clear I wasn’t supposed to ask questions about a whole bunch of stuff.” Another staffer said that, unlike Gresham, “our members don’t get an unlimited piggy bank where they can just tap it anytime they need something.” Nearly all of the interviewed staffers requested anonymity for fear of retaliation by Gresham and his allies, Politico reported.

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Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine exposed the harsh reality that energy dependence can pose a threat to national security. For too long, Romania, like much of Europe, has relied on imported Russian fossil fuels, leaving families and businesses vulnerable to geopolitical manipulation. If Romania is to secure its future, it must cut its reliance on unstable suppliers and invest in domestic energy.

A solution for achieving energy independence? Nuclear energy. Specifically, small modular reactors. These reactors are currently developed in partnership with the United States as a clean, scalable, and safe source of energy.

Romania can benefit from safe, sustainable power generation, strengthen its economy, and attain true energy independence with America’s innovative assistance and technology.

Perhaps if enough desperate small countries try SMRs, and they work, the sclerotic energy establishment in the U.S. will get a clue and reduce the regulatory burden sufficiently for them to take hold in this country as well.

We can only hope.

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The things your doctor tells you ain’t necessarily so.

Babylon Bee.

Aye, there’s the rub … so to speak.

The Bullshitwark, a Voice of the Crust.

William Kriston loses his shit.

Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

Salon, a Voice of the Crust.

Amanda Marcotte loses her shit.

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President Donald Trump’s tax cuts from his first term helped low- and medium-income earners more than high earners, a new study from The Heartland Institute found.

The conservative think tank based in Illinois examined Internal Revenue Service data from 2017, the year Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law, through 2022, the most recent year that tax data is available.

While all income earners got lower rates, high earners paid a larger portion of the tax burden from 2018-2022 compared to 2017 when the tax law was not in effect, the study found.

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If they didn’t do it for Biden, they certainly won’t do it for Trump.

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A significant portion of unemployed people in Germany have a migrant background. According to the federal employment office, 1.5 million out of the 2.8 million unemployed are migrants—they represent 54% of the total.

Among the migrants, 1,1 million people, 39% of all unemployed people, are foreigners—people without German citizenship. This means that they are hugely overrepresented in the unemployment figures, as foreigners make up 16% of the total population.

There is a similar trend among the long-term unemployed—defined as those who have been out of work for two years or more. Of the 881,000 long-term unemployed in Germany, 52% have a migrant background.

Differences between Germans and non-Germans also run through the levels of education. While 51% of unemployed Germans have not completed vocational training, the figure is almost 82% for non-Germans.

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Democrat Hawaii Sen. Brian Schatz is blocking more than 300 of President Donald Trump’s nominees from swift confirmation votes despite previously criticizing efforts to stall nominations during the Biden administration.

Schatz’s blockade on hundreds of Trump nominees and at least nine bipartisan foreign relations bills comes as Senate Democrats are escalating opposition tactics against the Trump administration to appease their left-wing base. Schatz, a member of Senate Democrat leadership, previously criticized Republican Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s decision to place holds on military officials’ promotions as “obstruction” and “antithetical” to the Senate’s “advice and consent” responsibilities.

Schatz expanded his holds on Trump nominees to include individuals tapped to serve across 12 agencies, such as former New York Republican Rep. Anthony D’Esposito whom Trump appointed to a Department of Labor position, Axios reported.

UK Daily Record.

A 3D digital scan of the Titanic wreckage has given a new insight into the luxury liner’s tragic final hours. More than 1,500 passengers and crew died after the ‘unsinkable’ ship crashed into an iceberg and plunged to the Atlantic Ocean seabed in 1912.

Many of those that survived the disaster told of how the Titanic split in two before sinking – but their testimonies were dismissed for decades, largely thanks to claims from White Star Line employees that it wasn’t possible. It was only when the wreckage was discovered in 1985 that the survivors were proved right.

Next step: Ground-penetrating radar to reconstruct the parts that are now buried in silt.

UPDATE: How did the Titanic 3D scan work? As new details of the ship’s final hours revealed

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Over the last few days, I’ve been part of an extraordinarily small contingency of people not freaking out and losing their minds over President Trump’s new tariff plan or the ensuing stock market pullback.

A couple of days ago, I argued that the media shrieking hysterically about how the world was ending as a result of this trade policy was nothing more than a visceral reaction to what was happening in the stock market. It had to be. With just hours having passed since the implementation of Trump’s tariff policy, there was no real way to judge its success based on the merits.

Said another way, these things take time.

Politico, a Voice of the Crust.

A new crop of Democratic candidates is trying to turn the midterms into a referendum on age and complacency in their party’s ranks.

In recent weeks, Jake Rakov, a 37-year-old former staffer to Rep. Brad Sherman of California, announced he is challenging his onetime boss, lambasting the 70-year-old, 15-term incumbent for not doing enough when the district was engulfed by wildfires. Progressive YouTuber Kat Abughazaleh, 26, is taking on 80-year-old Rep. Jan Schakowsky of Illinois, declaring that the party desperately needs to “change the establishment.” Saikat Chakrabarti, the 39-year-old former chief of staff to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), is going up against former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, saying, “we are living in a totally different America than the one she knew when she entered politics 45 years ago.”

And on Wednesday, George Hornedo, a 34-year-old who went viral on TikTok for his comments about a “party elder” discouraging him from mounting a Democratic primary bid in Indiana, announced he is running against eighth-term Democratic Rep. Andre Carson.

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Northwestern University’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter held an anarchist training session for its members at which it cited propaganda from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terror group urging U.S. students to “build an Intifada” and “destroy amerika.”

Northwestern’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter featured two radical pamphlets as part of its materials for the Thursday training, titled “Organizing Safety 101.” One of those, an anarchist pamphlet, quoted a PFLP leader and called on students to “build an Intifada” so they could “destroy amerika.” The other, crafted by the SJP chapter, featured a PFLP cartoon on the cover and encouraged students to “channel [their] anger” so they could “aid in the fight” against Israel.

The event coincides with the Trump administration’s intensifying efforts to address anti-Semitism on college campuses across the nation, slashing more than $430 million in federal funds at Columbia University and threatening to cut another $9 billion in grants and contracts at Harvard University. And on Tuesday, the Trump administration froze $790 million at Northwestern amid a civil rights investigation, the New York Times reported.

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Democrats don’t hate Trump… they want to be him, mimicking his style but failing to connect with voters, exposing their desperation and lack of authenticity.

By now, everyone and his brother is familiar with Trump Derangement Syndrome, that particular pathology that drives liberals and even many conservatives absolutely batty. Not only does Trump drive his opponents and detractors to fits of apoplexy, but he also compels them to make foolish statements and to embrace positions they would otherwise never even consider. During Trump’s first presidency, at the height of the COVID panic, the left openly and ardently dismissed a vaccine as partisan quackery. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, then running against Trump, openly warned that “his” vaccine was not to be trusted, that they would be hesitant to take it, and that they were sure the experts would not recommend it. As soon as they hit 270 electoral votes, however, that vaccine was suddenly the greatest thing in the history of ever, and you better take it…or else! And while there are good and just reasons to support Ukraine in its war with Russia, it is almost inarguable that the American Left’s obsession with the war, with Ukraine, and with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is a byproduct of its belief that Donald Trump is on Putin’s side and, therefore, they must do precisely the opposite. Whatever he likes, they hate. Whatever he supports, they oppose. Whatever he says, they say the opposite. And so it has been for roughly a decade now.

Lately, however, a new Trump-related syndrome has begun to manifest among his opponents, one that is equally potent, equally idiocy-inducing, and equally self-defeating. This new syndrome has been prevalent among Democrats for the last several months at least, but only recently has it clearly distinguished itself from all the Democrats’ other pathologies. The key moment in the diagnosis of this syndrome came just the other night, when Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D, TX) spoke at a banquet in Los Angeles and referred to her state’s Governor Greg Abbott as “Governor Hot Wheels.” Abbott, of course, is wheelchair-bound after a freak accident 41 years ago left him paralyzed. Crockett insisted that she meant no offense and adamantly refused to apologize.

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It’s no secret that American colleges and universities, once revered as pillars of intellectual integrity, have devolved into hotbeds of anti-American ideologies and radical left-wing activism. Rather than fostering critical thinking, they are actively pushing toxic agendas and even championing dangerous extremism.

But now, we have a chance to change all that.

President Donald Trump’s administration’s decisive action to strip federal funding from universities that have allowed extremist ideologies to thrive has opened a critical opportunity for alumni and donors to step in and make a meaningful difference.

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Many have suspected that Dr. Jill Biden played a key role in saving the country by facilitating Donald Trump’s long-awaited return to the White House. Many have assumed the former first lady (and acting president of the United States) was possessed of an insatiable lust for power, which drove her to insist that her enfeebled octogenarian husband, Joe Biden, run for reelection. The ill-advised decision nearly destroyed the Democratic Party when Biden’s cognitive impairment became impossible to ignore. It forced the party to rally around Kamala Harris, the most incompetent presidential candidate since Hillary Clinton, all but ensuring that Trump would win a second term and usher in the Golden Age of America.

The revelations unearthed in several new books by political journalists—conveniently published after the election—confirm that these suspicions and assumptions were correct.

“[L]et’s be honest, Jill was a thousand percent behind this,” a Biden ally told journalists Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, authors of Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House. “So, she was pushing it. The staff was all pushing it. At the end of the day, I don’t think anyone in that inner circle was presenting the president any contrary advice that this thing is not going to be easy or maybe this is not the best thing for the Democratic Party.”

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London is no longer one of the top five wealthiest cities in the world after losing a higher proportion of millionaires than anywhere other than Moscow.

An annual report on global wealth says the UK’s capital has lost 11,300 dollar millionaires over the past year, including 18 centimillionaires and two billionaires. A centimillionaire is someone who has at least $100 million, while a billionaire has more than $1,000 million.

The study, conducted for the advisory firm Henley & Partners by New World Wealth, defines wealth as “liquid investable” assets, which means cash, bonds and shares but excludes property wealth.

The assessment was conducted before the recent stock market falls that followed the announcement of Donald Trump’s tariffs.

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A Canadian government task force responsible for monitoring foreign interference in elections has disclosed that Chinese state-affiliated social media posts were amplifying messages in support of unelected leftist Prime Minister Mark Carney.

The messages appeared on a WeChat news account called “Youli-Youmian,” which the Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections (SITE) Task Force has linked to the Chinese Communist Party.

“The SITE Task Force observed large spikes of coordinated inauthentic behavior preceding the election campaign, on March 10, and again during the writ period on March 25, 2025,” the agency stated.

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Radical Democrat Jasmine Crockett, who attended elitist private schools in her youth, made the argument this weekend that the country needs illegal immigrants to “pick our cotton.”

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For decades, Democrats have been telling us that the climate apocalypse was just around the corner. If we didn’t adopt renewable fuels and energy sources immediately, we would all bake to death from global warming.

Democrats didn’t care about the jobs or economic growth they would destroy to appease their climate gods. “Learn to code,” they said.

Unfortunately for Democrats, the company making the most popular electric car in America is Tesla, owned by the Left’s newest bete noire, Elon Musk.

They hate Musk because he and his Department of Government Efficiency are cutting off the gravy train of federal funding of left-wing nongovernmental organizations—the taxpayer-subsidized entities that allow unemployed leftists to protest while you and I are at work and that provide jobs to otherwise unemployable grievance studies majors.

So, faced with a choice between saving the environment and opposing Musk, what did Democrats do?

Easy. Democrats decided to look out for themselves. Musk has to be stopped, no matter what it means for the environment.

Democrats went from ostentatiously buying Teslas as a symbol of their virtue to ostentatiously selling Teslas as a symbol of their commitment to the party. Whether buying or selling the car was worthwhile didn’t matter to Democrats; for them, everything about Tesla is performative.

The Dramacrat Party in action.

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What scientists? Well, you know just … scientists….

Most people know that inherited traits between generations is a genetic process, but a new study says other inheritable mechanisms may exist.

Scientists at the University of Toronto studying the hermaphroditic worm Caenorhabditis elegans found that amyloid-like structures—proteins often associated with diseases like Alzheimer’s—can have inheritable traits.

This pathway, or others like it, could explain why some inheritable traits between generations can’t be explained exclusively via DNA and RNA.

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A terrorist attack was foiled earlier this week in northern France, involving a 19-year-old man who claimed to be acting on behalf of Daesh—the Islamic State. No fewer than six attacks have been foiled in recent months. For the minister of the interior, the real danger today is no longer an external attack but the actions of a fringe of radicalised French youth.

Morad M. was arrested by the police in a social centre in Dunkirk on the morning of Wednesday, April 2nd, following a tip-off. The young man, a French citizen and unemployed, was known for drug trafficking. Investigators found a letter of allegiance to Daesh at his home. He admitted wanting to commit an attack with an explosive belt in the city of Dunkirk, targeting café terraces and places frequented by the Jewish community, to do “like the Bataclan.” He said he was motivated by “the state of France.” The managers of the centre where he had been living for three years had been alerted by his gradual radicalisation. Two other men he knew were arrested with him; one of them was imprisoned for “criminal association with terrorists.”

Speaking to the media following this case, Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau expressed his concern about the scale of the terrorist threat that France is facing today. 80% of investigations conducted by the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office concern jihadist attacks.

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Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Rep. Ben Cline (R-Va.) introduced companion versions of the No Union Time on Taxpayers’ Dime Act on April 7.

This bill, which calls for eliminating taxpayer funding of federal employees working for their unions, is more relevant now than when first introduced in 2024.

That’s because the Trump administration not only reinstated agency requirements to measure and report what’s called official time; it also signed an executive order precluding wide swaths of federal agencies and offices from engaging in collective bargaining agreements with unions and preventing federal workers in those agencies from engaging in official time.

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The Deep State is discovering that without the Big Guy in Washington their comfy chairs aren’t so comfy any more.

The New York Times, a Voice of the Crust.

Donald Trump’s 2024 election sent many finance types into spasms of anticipatory ecstasy as they imagined freedom from regulations, taxes and unfamiliar pronouns. “Bankers and financiers say Trump’s victory has emboldened those who chafed at ‘woke doctrine’ and felt they had to self-censor or change their language to avoid offending younger colleagues, women, minorities or disabled people,” The Financial Times reported a few days before Trump’s inauguration. It quoted one leading banker crowing — anonymously — about finally being able to use slurs like “retard” again. The vibes had shifted; the animal spirits were loose.

“We’re stepping into the most pro-growth, pro-business, pro-American administration I’ve perhaps seen in my adult lifetime,” gushed the hedge fund manager Bill Ackman in December.

One Wall Street veteran, however, understood the risk an unleashed Trump posed to the economy. After Trump’s victory in November, Peter Berezin, chief global strategist at BCA Research, which provides macroeconomic research to major financial institutions, estimated that the chance of a recession had climbed to 75 percent. “The prospect of an escalation of the trade war is likely to depress corporate investment while lowering real household disposable income,” said a BCA report.

Never has a journalist demonstrated more convincingly an inferior mind. Goldberg thinks that ‘Wall Street’ (the Economic Crust) rejoiced in Trump’s election because it would free their Inner Nazi, and then pivots to saying that They Were Wrong because of tariffs, completely missing the fact that (a) she’s reading into their motivations what she pretends they wanted and (b) that there is some connection between her fanciful notions of their mindset and Trump’s actions regarding trade.

Well, if ‘Wall Street’ got Trump wrong, it was because they believed the Narrative Media about who Trump was rather than believing the most sure evidence, what he said and did. But we have no evidence other than Goldberg’s proglodyte fantasies that such a thing happened. Trump has made no secret about his views on economics and trade. Most billionaires are much smarter than journalists like Goldberg, who has been a scribbler all her life and never had a job that required her to do something that would make people’s lives better.

Trump is not imposing tariffs just because he likes tariffs, although he claims he does. The tariffs were in response to other countries imposing tariffs on U.S. goods while expecting the U.S. to be Free Trade Land, and Trump isn’t going to put up with it. Once the moaners and weepers back off on their tariffs, Trump will lower his; he has made that quite clear on more than one occasion, despite the Usual Suspects wringing their hands about how he’s attempting to destroy America. (People would believe that of a Dramacrat, but not of Trump.)

The Times actually pays people to write this shit. Unbelievable.

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Sen. Cory Booker’s (D., N.J.) marathon 25-hour speech last week broke a Senate speaking record. But his fundraising off that speech broke long-standing Senate ethics rules, a watchdog group alleged in a complaint filed Tuesday.

The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT), an ethics watchdog nonprofit organization, alleged that Booker violated ethics rules by using his record-breaking speech for campaign purposes. In a complaint filed Tuesday with the Senate Select Committee on Ethics, the watchdog group highlighted a series of campaign messages Booker sent to his supporters during and after his record-breaking performance on the Senate floor, including messages asking followers to “stand with Cory” during his speech by signing up for his email list and others that solicited contributions for Booker and the DNC from anyone “inspired” by his historic showing.

Booker’s use of his record-breaking Senate speech to raise money for his campaign is a clear violation of long-standing ethics rules that prohibit lawmakers from using their official position for campaign purposes, FACT said in its complaint. If Booker’s violation goes unpunished, the group warned, the Senate floor “will increasingly be seen as a campaign venue and treated as such.”

Political theater is what Dramacrats do best. Converting political theater to cash comes second. Ignoring rules that they find inconvenient is a permanent part of their character.

The Economist, a Voice of the Crust.

Dzaleka’s strange economy exposes the variety of ways humans go about spending even very modest endowments.

It is partly for this reason that confined economies fascinate researchers. The most famous is Stalag VII-A. The Nazi prisoner-of-war camp, in modern-day Poland, was home to Richard Radford, a British army officer. After the war, on returning to Cambridge University, Radford wrote a paper describing how the camp’s rudimentary cigarette trade evolved into a specialised economy that used cigarettes as the currency by which the value of every other available good was expressed. Much as in Dzaleka, work was scarce and everyone’s endowments—packages sent by the Red Cross, a charity—were pretty much equal.

The camp’s economy allowed Radford to challenge an old economic assumption. The “labour theory of value” is most commonly associated with Karl Marx, but classical liberal economists such as Adam Smith and David Ricardo also believed that the price of a good mostly reflected how much work it had taken to produce it, or the perception of that work among buyers and sellers. In Stalag VII-A nobody worked, and everything still had value. The price of butter came from its scarcity relative to how much was sought, not the number of hours a milkmaid had spent churning.

The Labor Theory of Value is an outgrowth of mediaeval Just Price Theory, in which philosophers and theologians desperately scrabbled to figure out some way that the price of something is related in some way to something outside of the market.

It’s wrong, and it’s always been wrong. You can dig a hole and fill it up again and again, but all that labor hasn’t added a thing to the value of that patch of ground, and is totally unrelated to its price.

There is a distinction (which even prize-winning economists–yeah, I’m looking at you, Paul Krugman–don’t seem to grasp) between ‘value’ and ‘price’, and price is always determined by the market: What someone else is willing to pay in trade for your stuff. That is the thing and the whole of the thing.

As one might expect, this comes as a surprise to the people at The Economist, a Voice of the Crust.

ZMan yanks back the curtain.

The reason regular people feel so much economic angst, despite the appearance of material prosperity, is that we have reached the end of the line for this model, where costs are socialized but profits are privatized. The NBA is one example where the quality of the product has been disconnected from its financial success. In a true market economy, the owners of the Celtics would struggle to give it away, because the NBA, as an entertainment product, is in steep decline.

If you look closely, you will see this dynamic everywhere. The offset to those cheap products at big-box stores is the collapse of American manufacturing, and the social capital that came with it. The offset to cheap labor via immigration has been stagnant wages and emergency rooms that resemble Tijuana bus stops. The offset to a rising stock market is endless financial insecurity. The hidden costs have accumulated to the point where they can no longer be ignored.

The reason Trump is trying to usher in a new economic model is that the old one, the financialized economy, is running out of places to hide the costs of endless credit creation and the auctioning off of social capital. It is not just that we cannot borrow more money. It is that we cannot continue to socialize the costs of creating more credit money. Just as critically, we can no longer tolerate an oligarchy built on privatizing the profits of this system.

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After spending years pouring billions into left-wing progressive activism and demonizing conservatives for wanting financial transparency, the European Commission just received a giant blow from the inside.

In a bombshell report, the EU Court of Auditors (ECA) confirmed what right-wing groups have been saying all this time: there is no transparency, no oversight, and no clue where most of the money sent to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) will end up.

“Transparency is key to ensuring credible participation by NGOs in EU policymaking,” Laima Andrikien?, the ECA member in charge of the report, said.

However, despite some progress since our last audit, the picture of EU funding for NGOs remains hazy, as information on EU funding—including lobbying—is neither reliable nor transparent.

The key findings listed in the damning report speak for themselves. Most importantly, the EU seems to be intentionally violating its own transparency standards with its “opaque” system. Data is fragmented across incompatible online platforms, with key information mislabeled, buried, or outright missing—making reliable information “practically impossible” to find.

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The Soros-funded Civil Society Europe, an organisation that connects left-wing groups from across Europe, released a statement on Monday, April 7th, decrying the “attack” on NGOs by right-wing groups in the European Parliament.

“This attack resorts to misleading arguments to fabricate a scandal,” the statement reads. It claims that civil society organisations are a “crucial tool” for ensuring that “the rights of citizens” are “collectively heard for building an inclusive society and a shared European future.”

The statement comes after recent revelations that billions of euros in EU taxpayer funds have been spent on progressive political activism across the bloc.

Members of the national conservative Patriots for Europe (PfE)—the third largest group in the European Parliament and the main opposition bloc in Brussels—recently launched a campaign to force the Commission to disclose all contracts with EU-funded NGOs. In a report on Monday, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) also labelled EU funding of NGOs “too opaque.” The ECA criticised the European Commission for failing to clearly disclose information about advocacy activities carried out by NGOs using EU funds.

NBC News, a Voice of the Crust.

The Trump administration is considering launching drone strikes on drug cartels in Mexico as part of an ambitious effort to combat criminal gangs trafficking narcotics across the southern border, according to six current and former U.S. military, law enforcement and intelligence officials with knowledge of the matter.

Discussions among White House, Defense Department and intelligence officials, which are still at an early stage, have included possible drone strikes against cartel figures and their logistical networks in Mexico with the cooperation of Mexico’s government, the sources said.

Still, the administration has made no final decision and reached no definitive agreement about countering the cartels. And unilateral covert action, without Mexico’s consent, has not been ruled out and could be an option of last resort, the sources said. It is unclear whether American officials have floated the possibility of drone strikes to the Mexican government.

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A panel of inspectors general has been “wielding power” outside supervision of the president or Congress in targeting officials appointed during the first Trump administration that investigated waste, fraud, and abuse in government, according to a court filing.

Inspectors general have become a contentious issue after President Donald Trump fired 17 in January. However, inspectors general appointed by Trump in his first term have faced targeting from the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, also known as CIGIE.

CIGIE is a body within the executive branch that serves as a watchdog of watchdogs of sorts. CIGIE has an integrity committee that investigates complaints against agency inspectors general. Over the last year, the council has faced scrutiny from Congress and pushback from IGs questioning the lack of transparency by the council and its objectivity.

Interestingly, one of the most powerful positions in CIGIE is held by a non-federal employee. The chair of the CIGIE Integrity Committee is Corporation for Public Broadcasting Inspector General Kimberly Howell, who was selected by a private nonprofit board. Nevertheless, the integrity committee can act against presidential-appointed and Senate-confirmed inspectors general.

Stewart Slater: “We recognise few greater injustices than people not doing what we want.”

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The history of human flourishing is a story of technological progress. From the taming of fire to the Industrial Revolution, our species has found ways to reshape the world, turning scarcity into abundance and hardship into comfort. Yet, when it comes to some of today’s concerns—climate change, food security, deforestation—the instinctive response is rarely technological optimism. Instead, the prevailing narrative emphasises social change: reducing consumption, altering human behaviour, and enforcing collective restraint.

Why do so many people reflexively favour social solutions—carbon taxes, regulations, lifestyle changes—while discounting the promise of technological breakthroughs? The answer lies in our evolutionary past and in the way our minds have been shaped to solve problems. As psychologist William von Hippel has noted, humans evolved for social solutions rather than technological ones. That cognitive legacy continues to influence how we approach modern challenges, often leading us to dismiss the very innovations that could provide scalable, lasting solutions.

For most of our history, human survival depended less on technological ingenuity and more on cooperation and social cohesion. Our ancestors did not invent their way out of problems; they solved them through alliances, negotiations, and collective rulemaking. Food shortages, for instance, were addressed not by developing advanced agricultural techniques—those came much later—but by rationing resources, redistributing wealth within the tribe, and reinforcing norms against hoarding.

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The year was 1992. The Clinton administration was trying to get Israeli Prime Minister Rabin to sign on the dotted line of the peace process to create a’ ‘Palestinian’ state, but Hamas terrorists wouldn’t stop killing Israelis.

15-year-old Helena Rapp was stabbed to death at a bus stop on the way to school. Several days later, Rabbi Shimon Biran, a father of four, was murdered by an Islamic terrorist.

Fed up with the latest killings, Prime Minister Rabin put 417 Islamists terrorists, including top Hamas leaders, on buses and dumped them in Lebanon.

On the six buses were Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh, Hamas co-founder Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, who would vow, “by Allah, we will not leave one Jew in Palestine”, Abu Osama, who helped draft the Hamas charter calling for the extermination of the Jews, Hamas co-founders Mohammed Taha, Hammad Al-Hasanat, and Mahmoud Zahar, who threatened “They have legitimized the killing of their people all over the world by killing our people”, Hamad Al-Bitawi, who proclaimed that “Jihad is a collective duty” along with Abdullah al-Shami, the head of Islamic Jihad, and many other present and future Islamic terror leaders deported to Lebanon.

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The White House announced that a Honduran national in the U.S. illegally has been indicted for allegedly stealing over 40 firearms from a Tennessee gun store, according to Breitbart and a DOJ press release. The guns, still bearing price tags, were found in his car.

“Under President Trump, criminals like this are being hunted down and taken off our streets,” the White House said on X.

The DOJ wrote in a press release: “Carlos Alberto Diaz-Chavez, 21, a citizen of Honduras without legal status in the United States, has been charged by criminal complaint with being an Alien in possession of a firearm, possession of a machinegun, possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced Acting United States Attorney Robert E. McGuire for the Middle District of Tennessee.”

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Colossal Biosciences, the biotech start-up that’s attempting to revive the woolly mammoth, has brought not just one, but three dire wolves back from extinction. The species, which garnered plenty of attention in Games of Thrones, has not been seen on Earth for over 10,000 years, Bloomberg reported.

The pups in question are Remus and Romulus, two 6-month-old brothers that weigh 80 pounds each and extend four feet long, as well as the younger Khaleesi, a two-month-old female named after Emilia Clarke’s Daenerys Targaryen in the Thrones franchise. For reference, the brothers are nearly 20 to 25 percent larger than their closest living relative, the gray wolf, would be at the same age—and the duo is expected to be 140 pounds each when they’re fully grown. Among other differences, Remus and Romulus also have wider heads, larger teeth and jaws, and more muscular legs than its kin, Time reported. The trio currently live in a fenced-in nature preserve (in an undisclosed U.S. location), surviving off a diet of beef, deer, and horse meat, along with a special kibble.

Sure, let’s bring back a Pale0lithic apex predator. What could possibly go wrong?

If they wanted to bring something back, why not the Irish elk? At least you could eat it.

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Most of our readers are too young to remember the Vietnam War of a half-century ago, but those of us alive who held draft cards classifying us as 1A have a more personal perspective. In 1971, when I received my low draft number, all I could think was that perhaps I, too, would have to participate in the horror that was combat in that wicked war.

The Paris Peace Accords of January 1973—signed a month after I took my military physical—ended direct US involvement, although the US government continued to aid the South Vietnamese until their government and armed forces completely collapsed in April 1975. Today, Vietnam and the US are at peace with each other, but even today, unexploded US bombs continue to blow up and kill innocent people.

Steve Graham.

I see a lot of people, including RINO’s, criticizing Trump for increasing tariffs on foreign goods. The ignorance is amazing.

No one can answer this simple question for me: if tariffs are bad for an economy, how come they’ve been so good for the economies of the countries that put unfair tariffs on our exports?

How can it be that a practice that benefits all of our economic enemies can harm us when we do it to a lesser degree?

Another question: since Trump’s tariffs are tied directly to the tariffs and barriers imposed by other countries, if we want to get rid of them, why don’t we pressure the other countries instead of attacking our president? They can lower OUR tariffs in an hour by lowering their own.

I don’t know how well Trump’s tariff fight will work out, but I can’t see any reason at all why it shouldn’t be a whopping success. Sure, it’s hard on the stock market. Temporarily. Real investors know that the success of a market is measured in decades, not days. This is probably a great time to buy depressed stocks sold off by people with weak hands. “Weak hands” is the term career investors use to ridicule those who sell their stocks every time they dip. The people who buy high and sell low.

The US has the largest internal market in the world, meaning we have the big stick to beat everyone else with. Liars say the EU is the biggest, but that’s propaganda. The US is the biggest in terms of money spent, and that’s all that counts. The EU’s market is about half the size of ours. If you want to sell stuff to foreigners, you want to sell in the US. When the US blocks you, you’re like a diaper manufacturer who can’t sell to Walmart. You’re done.

Let’s see how we’re doing in 6 months.

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About 45 years have passed since a U.S. state last eliminated its income tax on wages and salaries. But with recent actions in Mississippi and Kentucky, two states now are on a path to do so, if their economies keep growing.

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A conservative Christian law firm is gearing up to countersue the Southern Poverty Law Center after the left-leaning firm attempted to bankrupt it with a “frivolous lawsuit” that demanded $200 billion in damages.

The SPLC represented a woman who dragged Liberty Counsel through nine years of legal purgatory, all based on a lie. The SPLC did not originally represent the woman, but joined the case after she sued Liberty Counsel, a conservative Christian law firm the SPLC has branded an “anti-LGBTQ hate group.”

“The Southern Poverty Law Center saw Liberty Counsel’s name and that’s when they started salivating, thinking they could come after Liberty Counsel and bankrupt us,” Mat Staver, the Christian firm’s founder and chairman, told The Daily Signal in an interview Friday.

Yet the entire case fell apart when the Vermont woman who sued Liberty Counsel, Janet Jenkins, admitted under oath that the very basis for including the law firm in the suit was a lie, Staver said.

Judge William K. Sessions III, a Bill Clinton appointee, granted Liberty Counsel’s motion on March 31. Sessions ruled that Jenkins’ case against Liberty Counsel had no merit. This came, however, after 9 years of legal proceedings involving 186,000 documents, over 500 pages of legal writing, over 5,000 exhibits, and 25 depositions, Staver said.

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Even the secretary general of the Muslim World League (MWL) thinks young British Muslims are becoming a “national security risk.” Former Saudi justice minister, Sheikh Dr Muhammad bin Abdulkarim al-Issa, says he would prefer it if British citizens of all faiths (and none, presumably) could focus on domestic issues.

With half of all British Muslims aged under 25, such youth claim they are growing more disillusioned and alienated—as a result of UK foreign policy in the Middle East. Specifically, it seems that ‘Gaza’, i.e. code for Israel, is being blamed for the failure of multiculturalism.

The comments follow a survey of 5,000 people, including more than 450 Muslims. Almost two-thirds of the Muslims asked said their relationship with non-Muslims is “positive” or “mostly positive”, while less than a quarter of non-Muslims saw the relationship the same way. Younger Muslims also reported viewing Britain as ‘less tolerant’ than did older generations. According to Dr. al-Issa, the solution is increased Muslim involvement in domestic politics—a process not without its critics.

Newsbusters.

If you got all of your news from CNN and MSNBC, you’d have a higher than 50/50 chance of believing the Trump administration had accidentally arrested and deported a naturalized American citizen living in Maryland, and for no particular reason.

Cable networks CNN and MSNBC have hopelessly twisted the story of an El Salvadoran illegal alien who recently was deported by the Trump administration. Over the past week, these two networks have referred to Kilmar Abrego-Garcia as a “Maryland man” or “Maryland father” a whopping 120 times, while identifying him as an illegal alien only seven times. Meanwhile, MSNBC alone aired thirteen objectively false assertions that Garcia was actually a legal resident.

MRC analysts looked at all coverage of Kilmar Abrego-Garcia’s deportation to El Salvador on CNN and MSNBC, from April 1 through April 6. In that time, the networks aired a combined 72 stories about Garcia (40 on MSNBC, 32 on CNN).

CNN referred to Garcia using terms such as “Maryland man” and “Maryland father” 51 times. Across the 32 news stories about him last week, only a single segment (3%) contained any mention he was in the country illegally, and just thirteen (41%) even bothered to mention he was from El Salvador, not America.

On MSNBC, Garcia was referred to by terms like “Maryland father” an absurd 69 times. Throughout the 40 segments discussing his deportation, his illegal status was mentioned in just six (15%), and only twelve segments (30%) pointed out that he was from El Salvador.