April 9, 2026

OOPS: Russia Cracks Down On VPNs, Brings Down Banks. “Feeling that too much military information has been leaking out via such channels as Telegram (it only took them four years of war to figure this out), Russia officials decided to crack down on VPN use, leading to one of the greatest examples of unintended consequences in recent memory.”

Posted at 3:51 pm by Stephen Green

MEANWHILE, ON M-SNOW:

Posted at 3:04 pm by Stephen Green

COLONIALISM, STRAIGHT UP: ‘Get over it’: Georgetown professor dismisses concerns about Muslim ‘rape gangs.’

The Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization at Georgetown University recently told social media users to “get over it” in response to concerns about a link between “rape gangs” and Islam.

Professor Jonathan Brown dismissed concerns about the crisis in the United Kingdom in two now-deleted X posts, the Daily Caller reported.

Rupert Lowe, an Independent Member of Parliament, wrote in a post on X, “There is a link between the rape gangs and one particular religion – we have seen it again and again and again at our inquiry.”

“That religion is Islam. As a country, we must have the courage to face up to that fact,” he wrote.

Brown replied, “get over it.”

He then wrote the same phrase in response to another user who called his remark “absurdly evil.”

The Alwaleed bin Talal chair was funded by a donation from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal as part of a $40 million gift split between Georgetown and Harvard in 2005.

Posted at 2:49 pm by Stephen Green

GLOBAL PUPPET MASTER EXPOSED:

Posted at 2:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

SOLDIERS ALWAYS KNOW WHO HAS THEIR BACKS AND WHO DOESN’T:

Posted at 2:33 pm by Stephen Green

THE HOTTEST OF HOT TAKES FROM THE GRAUNIAD: Are OnlyFans models the best way to explain the climate crisis?

The world, as we know, is in trouble. The last three years have been the hottest ever recorded. Global emissions are still at record highs. The planet is now consistently flirting with the 1.5C limit it promised not to cross. Increasingly, it feels as if we need a genuine miracle to stop us from sleepwalking into catastrophe. Could that miracle be an environmental warning from a woman in her [under]pants?

No, because OnlyFans models have to workout extensively to maintain their physiques, which they’re quite proud of. And we know from the Grauniad exactly what that means:

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

JONATHAN TURLEY: USC Bans Men from Gym Areas to Avoid Triggering Women and Non-Binary Students. “According to the New York Post, the University of Southern California has adopted a policy banning men from certain workout areas. The plan, pushed by an LGBTQ+ group, is designed to prevent the presence of males from triggering women or non-binary students. It may, however, trigger a major legal challenge.”

Posted at 1:47 pm by Stephen Green

NOT ANTI-WAR, MERELY ON THE OTHER SIDE:

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

DAVID THOMPSON: Unto Others.

Lifted from the comments, which you’re reading of course, this strikes me as broadly accurate:

It comes up over and over again that liberals think conservative types are creating special exceptions for their enemies whenever the conservative has blindly applied their conception of justice.

That’s how you get liberals saying stuff like, “oh I’m sure you’d be jumping straight to execution if this were a white guy“ and then every single time a white guy commits a heinous crime the entire right in unison chants, “execute him.”

Or, to take another example, consider the way in which liberals always think that conservatives want and expect immigrants to behave in a certain way just simply because they hate immigrants, when the conservative is merely applying the same standard to which they would hold themselves in a foreign country.

In these cases and many others, liberals are confused by a straightforward and universal conception of justice.

QED: WaPo Columnist Makes the Case Against Muslim Assimilation.

Tweet continues:

At that point, saying you still need to prove yourself is like Taylor Swift insisting no one listens to her music.

If assimilation feels out of reach, it isn’t because the system has excluded you. By any reasonable measure, it has already brought you into its highest ranks. What remains is a decision about whether you’re willing to fully embrace where you already stand.

And all signs point to “no.”

This is a you problem.

Exit question: “I’m not sure if Hamid was born in the United States or if he’s an immigrant, but a lot of people asked the same question I ask: There are 57 Muslim countries in the world … why do you choose to move to a Christian country and then complain about being expected to assimilate?”

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

AS IF DATING ISN’T HARD ENOUGH:

Posted at 12:55 pm by Helen Smith

BUT WILL THEY VOTE RED: That’s the question whenever the topic of folks leaving blue states and moving red states enters the conversation. Usually, the source data for such talks is state-to-state moves, but the sharp minds at Issues & Insights (I&I) dug deeper in the Census Bureau data and found some things that may put the whole issue into clearer focus.

“What we found was that millions aren’t just moving out of blue states, but are moving out of blue counties within states. Trump won 2,589 counties in each of the past three elections.

“From 2020 to 2025, those counties gained 5.4 million people due to net migration — which measures how many people move into and out of an area. The 433 counties where Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris carried the day saw a net loss of 5.43 million people. And the 121 counties in which Trump won at least one of the past three elections saw a net gain of 29,000 people over those years.”

Be sure and check out the top 10 population gaining counties and the top 10 loser counties.

Posted at 12:38 pm by Mark Tapscott

IRISH ARMY CALLED IN TO REMOVE FUEL DEPOT BLOCKADES:

The Irish government has asked the army to help remove vehicles blocking fuel depots as protests entered a third day.

Haulage and agricultural businesses are angry about the response to rising fuel costs, and have also set up slow-moving convoys on motorways and disrupted major roads in Dublin.

“The blocking of critical national infrastructure will not be permitted to continue and the assistance of the Defence Forces has been requested,” justice minister Jim O’Callaghan said in a statement.

He said large vehicles would be removed – and warned owners to “remove them immediately” on Thursday morning, or face the possibility of them being damaged.

Owners “should not complain later about any damage caused to those vehicles during removal”, he said.

“Denying people access to fuel and clean water is an unacceptable interference in the most basic of human rights,” he added.

Related:

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll