NEW FRACKING REVOLUTION IS HERE: If you haven’t read Rod Martin’s latest on the all-but-unheralded development of petcoke-blend proppant, you might as well be back in the days of whale oil. And oh by the way, if the DSA looneys get in power, we can all forget being warmed in the winter and A/C-cooled in the summer because they will kill this new technology.
Like Polish, German, Irish, and Italian immigrants before them, American Muslims now control several small cities. These include Hamtramck, which has an all-Muslim city council, as well as midsize cities like neighboring Dearborn. They are also wielding influence in large metropolises like New York City, where Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s top staff is composed almost entirely of Muslims.
In one sense, this is just the continuation of the country’s deep tradition of offering newcomers the opportunity to contribute their own customs to American society. But some critics say this iteration of the immigrant story offers a distinct challenge. A number of leading Muslim candidates for office, for example, are so opposed to America’s longtime ally Israel that their rhetoric veers into antisemitism. And some, such as the Democratic Party candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, are being supported with campaign funds linked to Hamas front groups and the radical, pro-jihad Muslim Brotherhood, which federal authorities say has a secret plan for “destroying” America “from within.”
El-Sayed won his primary with at least $315,000 in Muslim Brotherhood-tied funds, a RealClearInvestigations examination of Federal Election Commission filings reveals, and he hopes his harsh attacks on “evil” Israel will help him become the first Muslim to sit in the U.S. Senate. Other Muslim candidates have ties to groups that have officially been designated as terror organizations, including al-Qaeda. Adam Hisham Hamawy, the Democratic nominee running for New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District, once maintained close ties to the late al-Qaeda “Blind Sheikh,” who was convicted for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, including acting as his translator, driver and defense witness.
5 MILLION LOST JOBS IF DSA GETS ITS WAY: New economic analysis of the projected impact of raising the Minimum Wage to $25 per hour sees more than 5 million jobs lost, with the biggest impact by far being on women and teenagers.
The government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain is handing out guides to migrants upon entry to teach them why raping people is bad.
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Don’t rape. Don’t be a pedo.
(Pretty please.)
If only they had these pamphlets years ago, then the whole rape gang issue could have been avoided, right?
We can just educate the rapists out of being rapists, right?
As we saw last summer, this is already going, err, swimmingly in Germany: Drowning in Lies:
Exit quote: “I’ll leave you with this frustrated news anchor who can’t believe this is happening:”
'It's very rare a story comes in that completely takes my breath away, but this is it!'@MartinDaubney shares his outrage as migrants are issued a guide by the Home Office on how to avoid committing rape in Britain, and other guidance on harassment and paedophilia. pic.twitter.com/hhTRpmir1k
How do you know when you’ve made it in America? When your grown-up kid declares he’s a socialist. It means you’ve given your family a level of material comfort and security so unquestionable that your child has never even thought about how it happened. The very life you’ve provided him is like a seamless work of art in which all the grueling spadework has been successfully hidden. Good for you. Bad for everyone else.
The New York Post has a terrific piece today that provides a detailed example of this phenomenon. The co-chair of the New York City Democratic Socialists of America, Gustavo Gordillo, lives in a two-story, $1.5 million home that his parents purchased in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
They didn’t buy the place for themselves but for the 38-year-old Gordillo and his brother. What, after all, would his parents want with a 2,000-square-foot house in Brooklyn when they own a “sprawling more than 5,000-square-foot, five-bed, six-bath home in Boca Raton that is currently on the market for $3.1 million” and “another $3 million home in Weston, Fla., that is just slightly larger and has five beds and seven baths”?
Gordillo, you see, comes from an exorbitantly prosperous and enterprising family of Peruvian immigrants who came to the U.S. and struck gold. Naturally, he hates American capitalism and the country that has showered him in miracles.
As with John Lennon in 1970, a working class hero is something to cosplay:
The @nycDSA chair @unionGustavo, who claims to be a "union electrician", is a Yale graduate who signed up for Union apprenticeship, failed, and then skipped on the bill.
CHRISTIAN TOTO: It’s Bill Maher vs. Jon Stewart for Democrats’ Soul. “The contrast between the two late-night legends is clear. So are the stakes. These high-profile comics are battling to shape the Democratic Party to their liking.”
At 5:29:45 in the morning on July 16, 1945, in a stretch of New Mexico desert the Spanish called the Jornada del Muerto, the sky turned brighter than the noon sun. Aimed at that flash, tucked into steel-and-lead bunkers and buried instrument boxes ringing a 100-foot tower, sat roughly fifty cameras. Most of the cameras were unmanned and triggered automatically, although Brixner personally occupied a tracking-camera position at North 10,000. Every one had been focused, loaded, and left in the dark hours earlier, wired to fire on a countdown, because no human eye could be trusted to catch what was about to happen and no photographer could survive standing close enough to try. The world has entered the nuclear age.
Those cameras had a job no camera had ever been asked to do. They had to record an event that had never been photographed, that was calculated to outshine the sun many times over, and that would be finished, in its most important moments, in a few thousandths of a second. The team that built the rig had no exposure to copy, no reference frame to trust, and exactly one chance. What they captured became some of the most reproduced photographs of the twentieth century, and, in a twist almost no one expects, the raw material a British physicist would later use to reverse-engineer the bomb’s secret yield from published pictures alone.
Also, the creation of the bomb is couched firmly as a continuation of—maybe the *culmination* of—modernism. This is the whole point of the "can you hear the music" montage early on, where modern art and modern literature are of a piece with the new "modern" science.
It really is maddening over time to be part of this never ending game of media Calvinball. Sure, the right said Joe Biden was slipping for years, but even when it turns out they were absolutely right almost no one will admit that or remember it for next time. No one wants to talk about why the rest of the media dropped the ball either. And no matter how many cycles of this game we go through, right up to Jason Arday, the Left never can credit the right for just speaking the truth.
Needless to say, this is not a healthy media landscape. It’s a recipe for failure that always harms one side more than another. And that’s exactly the point. If they can’t have resistance journalism that demonizes the right and favors the left, many people would rather have no journalism at all.
If you think I’m overstating that, watch this clip.
As part of an ongoing self-imposed struggle session, a professional journalist criticizes Novara Media for digging into Jason Arday's academic credentials. I'd love @malonebarry and others in this camp to more clearly lay out what they think journalists *should* do. https://t.co/Jw6iidEEsq
Update: Another hot take suggesting the Guardian in particular should have just shut up and maybe never covered this at all.
The Good Law Project’s Jolyon Maugham insists that only the right-wing media ever should have covered the Jason Arday story, because he insists it was only ever a culture-war story. This despite the fact that Times Higher Education, a nonpartisan outlet, was the first to spend…
When the Arday story breached the containment field of conservative-adjacent British media (the London Times and Telegraph, the Spectator, and Spiked) and crossed over to the Grauniad and American left-leaning publications such as The Atlantic and The New York Times, it was obvious it had serious legs. So no wonder the British left are having yet another case of autophagy:
The reason they decided to focus their ire on The Guardian is that it's a progressive leftist outlet they think they can bully into retracting its journalism under the idea that they are supposed to be an ally. https://t.co/v2JGka21SX
21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Amazon to expand drone service to nearly 500 cities after targeting 1 million deliveries this year. “Amazon in 2024 received a critical greenlight from regulators to conduct long-range drone deliveries, and over the past year has expanded beyond initial markets near Dallas and Phoenix to 11 metro areas, with six other locations coming online soon. Residents in some of those markets continue to raise concerns about drone noise and privacy and how those issues could hurt property values.”
Very cool, but someday I’ll miss the nice driver who always brings treats for my dogs and asks how they’re doing.
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