Make DC Square Again

Doo eet

Afroman: Will You Help Me Repair My Door?

SPLC Funding Righty Extremist Groups?

Sorta sounds that way.

SPLC claims they were paying off informants...but that isn't clearly true.

I don't think we know exactly what's going on yet.

C'ville was a big turning point for me, mostly for two reasons:

[1] The fact that the left and the MSM (but I repeat myself) refused to acknowledge that the Unite the Right protestors were denied their First Amendment rights. That was, in fact, by far the most important part of the story.

[2] Watching all my allegedly-liberal friends and acquaintances follow suit...and fall right in line with the Very Fine People hoax. Immediately.

The reaction to all that business really opened my eyes.

Then, of course, there was the fact that law enforcement illegitimately broke up the rally and drove the protestors into the teeth of the leftist mob surrounding them--where they were attacked with, e.g., a homemade flamethrower of sorts. (The bum who did that...sorry...I mean: person experiencing houselessness was turned into a C'ville celebrity for it.) Some of the UtR protestors went to prison for defending themselves. I have no doubt the James Alex Fields--who should actually be revered by the left--no one has ever done more to advance their cause--failed to get a fair trial...but we wouldn't know because it was basically blacked out. I mean, he was guilty--but that's not the point.

The left showed its hand there, revealing their playbook for the next decade.

And all the right-thinking people were blind to it.

The WSJ Knows Only One Tune About Iran

Everything is terrible.

They could be right for all I know.

But I have my doubts.

Trump Considering DC De-Retrocession?

Oh please oh please...

Also I have no idea whether there's a term for undoing retrocession...so I just made up the one in the title.

USAF Super Eagle Buy Doubled

It's the Super Eagle not the Eagle II

I will never give this up.

Though I will also accept: F1 5EX Eagle...

Tazwell Judge Rules Dem Gerrymandering Unconstitutional

Take that, blue loonies:

Retrocession in Response to Gerrymandering

This very thing, asap:

The proper response from Donald Trump to these Virginia shenanigans is to announce that the retrocession of Arlington and Alexandria to Virginia was unconstitutional and that they are and always will be part of the federal district

— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) April 22, 2026

On the Gerrymandering Campaign/Vote

Democrats spent $70 million on this referendum.
Almost every penny came from out of state.
They broke laws.
They wrote a deceitful ballot measure.
They ran tv spots for two months, nonstop.
They brought in Obama.
They brought in Hollywood.

We had grassroots.
That’s really it.… pic.twitter.com/fHR86zkUa4

— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) April 22, 2026

Dems' Gerrymandering Plan Wins 51.5-48.5

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   And all it took was $50 million of dark money from out-of-state leftist groups and a ballot so deceptively-worded that I'll bet 5-10% of voters didn't even know what they were voting for:

Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to allow the General Assembly to temporarily adopt new congressional districts to restore fairness in the upcoming elections, while ensuring Virginia's standard redistricting process resumes for all future redistricting after the 2030 census?

   I'm pissed about this of course--but at least I can grudgingly semi-respect it. Unlike most of the Dems' major new policies and initiatives--which are insane--this one is mostly just playing hardball, IMO.

   Also, cosmically speaking, this is partially my fault anyway. When the TX redistricting dust-up happened, I was like Well, I'm totally against gerrymandering...but...CA/NY/IL...and illegal aliens counting for apportionment...and this is kind of an emergency...so I guess I'm ok with it...*

Karma's a bitch.

The VA Supremes are our only hope now.

Addendum:

Actually, TX gerrymandering was a response to NY gerrymandering, IIRC.

James Carville on the Dems' Stealth Agenda for When They Regain Power: Statehood for DC and Puerto Rico, Pack the Court, Open Borders

...And, he adds: don't tell them (i.e.: us) that's what you're going to do.

   He also left out one popular idea on the contemporary left:  HEADS WILL ROLL

   That is: prosecution of Trump, his family, members of his administration, and, according to some, re-education camp (at the very least) for his supporters...

   Which is basically to say that Dems are running on a secret platform of civil war...

Jeffrey Blehar: Dems Work to Build the One-Party State in VA

Yes.

Will they win today?

I'm less sure that Blehar.

All reports of polls give the edge to the pro-gerrymandering side. But most polls are basically extensions of Democrat GOTV efforts. They're no more objective sources of information than the mainstream media. In November, once again, all but Rassmussen and Atlas Intel (and maybe one other) were radically blue-shifted.

   But, yeah, were I betting, I'd bet on the bad guys.

   Again.

   The Commonwealth is now basically run by a hostile force.

Wikipedia's GamerGate Entry is Still Frothing-at-the=Mouth Woke Bullshit...but at Least the Title is Now Just 'Gamergate'...

For years the title has been 'Gamergate (Harassment Campaign)'...so...progress?

Some wee, small bit of truth maybe got lodged in the fevered cultist hivemind...?

Well, here's the first paragraph now:

Gamergate or GamerGate (GG) was a loosely organized misogynistic online harassment campaign motivated by a right-wing backlash against feminism, diversity, and progressivism in video game culture. It was conducted using the hashtag "#Gamergate" primarily in 2014 and 2015. Gamergate targeted women in the video game industry, most notably feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian and video game developers Zoë Quinn and Brianna Wu

LOOOOOOOL

   A "misogynistic...harassment campaign motivated by a right-wing backlash against feminism, diversity and progressivism..."

    Gosh, sometimes I just don't see how the pure and virtuous left is ever going to bring holy social holy justice to this fallen fascist world...

VA Pubs Run Ad Featuring Obama Criticizing Gerrymandering; Dem Hamplanet Cries RAAAAAYYYYZIZMZ!!!!!1111

THE REPUBLICAN PLAYBOOK TARGETED MISINFORMATION VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES BLACKS ARE SO EASILY CONFUSED!!!!!!!!!!1111

Jesus Christ these people are disgusting.

Dems Release Another Illegal Alien Murderer in VA

Don't Fairfax me, bro.

National Review: The Illusive Iran Deal

Agree.

And I'm sick of Trump's radical 2 a.m. mood swings via tweet.

We already won! No, we're going to destroy their whole civilization! No... ad nauseam...

James Bacon: Anti-Electoral College Compact: One Step Closer to Mob Rule

Agree.

Spanberger Signs Unconstitutional "National Popular Vote Compact"

Do whatever you can to fight the VA Democrats.

Their other legislative idiocy is bad enough...but this one absolutely infuriates me.

This party is a threat to the Commonwealth and to the nation.

I really, really can't stand these jackasses.

Authors of CA "Stop Nick Shirley" Bill Refuse to Discuss Bill with Nick Shirley

The aptly-named Scott Weiner is particularly repulsive:

Al Gore and the Politicization of Science w/ Roger Pielke Jr.

I'm still rather an Al Gore fan, for the record.

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John B. Judis: Tom Steyer's Disastrous Immigration Plan

Well, the radical left now has a central role in setting the agenda for the Democrat party. And the radical left wants open borders. At least in the West. Because its main goal is the destruction of the West...

   So these efforts to create de facto open borders--e.g. the "abolition" of ICE--are not going away until the Dems move back to the center and energetically repudiate their lunatic fringe...

...something I no longer think is inevitable...

   But just to pick one point out of this: Judis seems to regard himself as criticizing Steyer from a saner, more centrist position...speaking for the saner, more centrist Dems...who don't want open borders, but merely disagree with how Trump is enforcing immigration laws...

   But that's ridiculous.

   Most of those objections are based on videos of shrieking activists...and screaming illegals who--surprise!--don't want to be deported! Unless you think that shrieking should make you immune from prosecution, those videos should carry no weight. Unless you basically think we shouldn't be enforcing the laws, you have no real objection to how Trump is doing it. OH NOEZ! HE'S EVEN ENFORCING THE LAWZ IN DEMOCRATZ STATEZ!!!!!

Jesus Christ.

STFU you idiots.

The left has created chaos wherever it can whenever we try to enforce these laws.

It's just silly to pretend that Trump is somehow enforcing the laws unjustly, and the Dems would be just fine with some kind of reasonable enforcement.

Really what's going on is: the lunatic fringe is screaming and crying whenever any immigration laws are enforced, and convincing the bleeding-heart sorta-centrists on the left that this shows that the enforcement is bad.

Oh, and then there's the Z0MG THEYZ WEARIN MAZKZ!!!!

Yes.

As I keep pointing out: the left can end that tomorrow by not doxing LEOs and threatening their families.

Of course they won't.

Then there are the "concentration camps"--ie detention centers. Where the detainees can leave whenever they want, so long as they go back home. And we'll give 'em $3k to do so.

So oppression!

Very un-social-justice!

Jesus Christ.

Grow the fuck up.

Is "Third-Worldism" the Newest Manifestation of Marxist Nonsense?

I’ve warned you all.

Third-Worldism is the fastest growing ideological movement in the United States. https://t.co/OlsMxhAafX https://t.co/eGmzgwg1a0 pic.twitter.com/t2LYFI9Hh4

— Zineb Riboua (@zriboua) April 18, 2026

Iran Deal: Confusion Reigns

facepalm

Jesus Christ that guy.

Did Trump Just Win AGAIN??: Dow Jumps, Oil Tumbles After Iran Declares Strait of Hormuz Open

I'm fed up with the guy...but dayum...

McCarthy: Trump DoJ's Farcical Powell Probe Continues

For all the good things Trump has done, and even in light of the madness still infecting the blue team, I just can't really support him anymore.

This sort of lunacy seems obviously inexcusable.

Perhaps, of course, it is legally defensible. I've certainly learned over the past decade that I usually don't really understand what's going on.

But I don't think so in this case.

I'm starting to hope that the Dems take over both houses and impeach him.

Vance is, I think, like a sane Trump, basically.

Justin Fairfax Murder/Suicide

Oh my God this is horrible.

Just horrible.

Paul Al Rahe: There's a Case for Tariffs

This seems obviously right to me.

I'm no economist, and I don't really deserve an opinion here.

But I do find the gap between these two things surprising:

[a] the passion with which tariffs are opposed by the relevant people

[b] the apparent strength of their actual arguments.

I'm perfectly willing to accept that tariffs are generally bad. But I'm in no way convinced that they're bad in all cases. The two obvious cases being:

[i] another country has put tariffs (or their equivalent) on us

[ii] Rahe's case; the industry in question is crucial to defense.

One argument is:

It would be better for the industry in question to be efficient and resilient enough to compete on its own against adversaries.

Well, sure.

But if the adversary is subsidizing their widget industry...

Well, I should have probably stopped with I'm no economist...

Lefty WI Teacher Goes Full Retard re: Men in Women's Sports

Orange Man Bad; Make Iran Bad

Big if true.

But kinda seems to me like just another in the flood of Orange Man Badisms pouring out of the media.

It seems pretty unlikely to me that this has made Iran worse...

But what do I know?

Uchimata From Everywhere On Everyone

Spanberger Makes Anti-Gun Bills Worse

Sends them back to the General Assembly.

The Democrats are just awful...in case you hadn't noticed....

Although it won't happen, I wish the voters would just crush them for this.

I suppose I'll retire some day...but when that day comes, it won't be here.

Trump Shoots Himself in the Ass Yet Again: Retweets Trump-as-Jesus Pic

What the hell is wrong with that guy?

Susie Wiles:

For the love of God (as it were):

Take.

His.

Phone.

Away.

USA Rebuilding Air Bases on the "Second Island Chain" (Guam, Peleliu, Tinian, etc.)

Friend of mine has worked on some of these as a landscape architect preserving some of the old parts of the bases--e.g. Tinian.

Ryan McBeth: Trump's Blockade Will Run China Out of Oil by 6/8

Now Trump's Beefing With The Pope

eyeroll

Seriously?

You're gonna tell the pope what he should think about Christianity?

I mean, I'm no christian, and I think full-on pacifism is nuts.

But Trump just can't let anything go.

My main worry about the Catholics is their role in assisting illegals in entering the country. Maybe christianity is no respecter of borders. I don't know. But it would seem to make a certain amount of sense.

But we're a secular republic. The pope speaks with no authority so far as the USA goes.

I don't care about the pope--who's alleged to be another Woketarian--at all...

But I'm just sick of Trump and especially his unhinged tweeting.

Just STFU and do your job.

Evil Dictator Orban Overthro....No, Wait...

How did Orban’s ‘autocratic regime’ end?

He was… voted out? https://t.co/RaxBv9xLye

— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) April 12, 2026

Communism

New Leftist Acronym Just Dropped: MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+

They left out the 'R' for 'retarded'...

It's hilarious that the Newsweek contributor is taking this nonsense seriously...and is pissed that no one else is.

Spanberger: VA Not A Sanctuary State

If she's telling the whole truth, I have to grant that it's a much more reasonable set of policies than I've been led to believe:

Noonan: Trump Shocked His Followers With His Vulgar, Threatening Social Media Post About The War

Agreed.

That was the last straw for me.

He's been maintaining my reluctant support because he's done so many good things--but mostly because the Democrats are so abjectly insane. They are not an option anymore. That leaves Trump.

Who is, of course, better than just not-the-Dems--he's done a credible job of rolling back a fair bit of the damage they've done.

So: on the domestic front: he's been good.

But foreign policy has always been the sketchiest part of this deal with the devil.

The mullahs deserve to be stomped. They are an insane, murderous, occupying force--as I understand it, anyway. I absolutely want them turned into small piles of ashes. 

But the threat to destroy the entire country...the entire civilization...WTF wat that??

Combined with the apparently poor planning (by Trump and...shudder...Hegseth...not by the military), the loony swinging back and forth, the apparent ceding of the Strait of Hormuz...the off-and-on declarations of victory... It just seems like a big pile of stupid and crazy.

Trump was a gamble.

I big, fat, gamble.

He's done a lot of good--and has been incalculably better than (shudder again) Harris or any other major Dem would have been.

And, of course, much of the left's criticism of him is itself nuts.

But I've gotta say, these unhinged midnight tweets about annihilating whole civilizations...that's just it for me.

Somebody should have taken his phone away ten years ago.

And it doesn't help how full of shit the wingnuttier regions of the wingnutosphere are in their defense of him. They really will say anything to avoid facing the truth about him.

Iran Does Not Have A "Government" That "Kills Its Own People;" It Is Under Arab-Islamic Occupation

This is Tehran now. They are not Iranians. They don’t speak our language. They are Hashd Al shabi jihadists from Iraq speaking Arabic.

Iran does not have a “government” that somehow kills “its own people”. Iran is under Arab-Islamic occupation for 47 years. The Ayatollahs just… pic.twitter.com/6JCxv1U4uu

— Gazelle غزاله شارمهد (@GazelleSharmahd) April 10, 2026

Are We in the Worst-Case Timeline?

I've predicted for years now that the Dems would soon learn their lesson and start moving back toward sanity.

I was just flat-out wrong--as e.g. the Virginia debacle illustrates.

And Trump seems to be completely losing his shit--not that he had all that much to begin with.

This is starting to seem to me like a worst-reasonable-case timeline.

It's not global thermonuclear war, obvs...but it is not good.

Speaking of which--just to kinda illustrated the crazy on both sides right now:

So Trump threatens to kill Iran's whole civilization...whatever the hell that means...

The moonbat left insisted that the only thing this could possibly mean was that he was going to nuke them...and freaks the fuck out accordingly...either actually believing or pretending to believe that we were on the brink of Armageddon.

WTF?

Obviously most people are still sane...but seriously WTF?

Can't anyone control Trump? How is it that the President of the United States is saying this kind of crazy shit???

John Sailer: How The Mellon Foundation Funds "Trans" Ideology

Bullshit Studies is a plague on academia.

In addition to packing normal disciplines with such bullshit, the left has created a vast network of pseudo-disciplines specifically devoted to spewing out bullshit, indoctrinating students, and advancing leftist dogma.

   Much of this stuff seems to be a kind of soft-core pr0n. It's also a branch of "me studies," wherein pseudo-scholars just talk about themselves all th time.

   This bullshit is not scholarship, and it has no place in any real university.

   Allowing these people to promote their bullshit at a university is like allowing religious kooks to use their positions to advance their religious dogmas. It's like we're not only allowing Scientologists into e.g. sociology and English departments, but we're setting up special Scientology Studies departments for them...and allowing them to teach courses to proselytize to their students. And giving them tenure on the basis of publications in publications specifically devoted to Scientology. Or: allowing Amway salesmen to teach courses specifically aimed at bringing new marks into their pyramid schemes.

   Utter.

   Bullshit.

WSJ: Trump Declares Premature Victory in Iran

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He really seems to have lost it.

The wild oscillations between I DESTROY UR CIVILIZATIONZ!!!!111 to Peace in our time!...it's just not sane. Of course the MSM is doing everything it can to spin it all in the worst possible (often inconsistent) directions...but even controlling for that...Trump's just got to be stopped.

   One of the only hypotheses that seems to make any sense so far as I can tell is: he's just basically bullshitting about the ceasefire so that we can send our destroyers back to base to reload their launch tubes (which still can't be done at sea).

   Look, I'm starting to wonder whether supporting the Democrats might be starting to make sense again. I continue to hope we can get rid of him somehow and get Vance in the Oval office. Rubio would be better...but there's no realistic way to work that out. Just getting Trump out of there seems like Job One at this point.

McCarthy: Trump's Iran Miscalculation: Madman Theory Doesn't Work Against Other, Actual Madmen

Maybe.

Everybody's acting like they know what's going on.

Either we obviously lost

or

We obviously won.

But whichever it is, it's obvious.

Seemed to me that our odds of actually winning dropped significantly once it was made clear that we wouldn't prosecute the war beyond a few weeks.

Though that probably should have been clear from the get-go.

The left is madly spinning this as everything bad they can think up: a loss, a genocide, a chickening out...

The right is just going along with what Trump wants...as usual.

Me, I still think it had to be done at some point.

And the Dems obviously aren't going to do it.

And the Eurotards are going to do it...

But we have too many domestic problems Trump needs to attend to.

The Woketarians are farther from defeat than the Iranian regime--and a greater threat to the West.

As Spanberger has shown, they know what to do: pretend to be moderates and then go full speed to port as soon as they're elected...

NPR on MI Synagogue Attack: Terrorist's Cousins in Lebanon Hardest Hit

One thing you can say for NPR: it captures the ideas and sensibilities of the upper-middlebrow American left extremely well.

Joe Kent Re-Tweets Iranian Propaganda Saying U.S. Couldn't Recover Downed F-15E WSO, So Tried to Kill Him

Kent has garnered some fans, including at least one of my sharp and well-informed friends. I've watched/read some stuff said friend has passed along. I was willing to be impressed, but wasn't.

But this thing...

Even ignoring the fact that it was Iranian propaganda, nobody who knows anything about this sort of thing could believe that for a second. Even if Trump would give or ok such an order--and he would not--there is exactly no chance the order would be obeyed.

Basically, you've got to have some kind of major malfunction to believe such a story.

For the record, though, I do agree with Kent that Epic Fury is not a response to a predicted sneak attack. I don't think we have a clear answer to the Why now? question.

Andy Beshear: Trump's Threat to End Iranian Civilization "Anti-American," "Flat-Out Crazy"

That is correct.

Mary Chastain: VA Voters Shocked that Spanberger Governs Like a Democrat

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I briefly hoped that she might actually be a centrist...but I'd given up on that long before the election.

One bright spot in all this: it seems that the way someone governs actually has consequences for his/her popularity...

Between Trump's shenanigans and what a weirdo Sears turned out to be, Spanberger's win didn't seem either surprising or outrageous to me.

But the OD did make a big mistake.

The Judges Who Keep Setting Criminals Free

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The left has two related commitments:

(i) Do not prosecute violent criminals

(ii) Make it costly/difficult/impossible for law-abiding citizens to defend themselves.

Look: lock 'em up, or leave 'em to us.

But we cannot allow the government to do both (i) and (ii).

Trump's Unhinged Easter Message to Iran

Look, when the HuffPo is calling you on your crazy, things are way, way out of hand.

At this point he sounds outright deranged.

Spanberger's Popularity Tanks; Hits Historic Low

Well, she lied like a rug to get elected, so...

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Just wait til she oks the lunatic anti-firearm bills...

The Radicalization of the American Left, Quantified and Visualized

No surprises here, really, but very interesting nevertheless:

Luders et al.:  "Attitude networks as intergroup realities: Using network-modelling to research attitude-identity relationships in polarized political contexts."

Visually:

AJW: The Lying Author of "Copaganda" and How We Actually Got Police Body Cams

Because BLM demanded them...but now the left doesn't want them anymore...since they give the lie to the BLM "narrative.*"

* Stupid term.

Musical Moonbattery: Some Women's Chorus Or Other

Possibly even worse than the Obama song

"Theorizing White heteropatriarchal supremacy, marriage fundamentalism, and the mechanisms that maintain family inequality"

 LOOLOLOLOOOOLLOLOLOLOLOOOOOOLOLOLOL

I mean, IMO marriage isn't for everybody...but that shit at the link is retarded.

Audio Recording of George Johnson, Enslaved American Owned (" ") by Jefferson Davis

Wow.

Just about as surprising as it could be:

"AFRU:" Why a "Rise in Sexual Assaults" by Migrants is a Price Worth Paying to End Racism

Can this possibly be for real?

I'd say it was a false-flag...but...this question arises over and over again with respect to the contemporary left. Their actual positions are damn hard to distinguish from parody.

Subtitle:

Quasi-consensual encounters between refugees and white Western women may help with assimilation. Increasingly they result in a shared apartment and a new surname.

Whole body of post:   (And believe me, you really gotta read this whole lunatic thing.)

It’s unfortunate, but true. Language gaps and cultural misunderstandings often mean that the first romantic encounter between a Western woman and a refugee can be perceived as quasi-consensual in nature. Usually it starts with a halting conversation or an awkward cat call at a park, a refugee language class, or a volunteer dinner.
But increasingly these encounters result in a shared apartment, a mixed-race child, a new surname, and a happy future. A quiet revolution is taking shape across Europe and North America, and it’s being led by white Western women. They’re not performing acts of charity, nor engaging in fetishism or exoticism.
Pioneering women are placing the burden upon themselves to become the most powerful force undermining the very architecture of racial exclusion. In countries where a supposed refugee “rape crisis” is cast as a threat, their beautiful interracial unions permanently puncture the entire narrative of the xenophobic right. The transformation is intimate, but implications are structural.
The collapse of ugly abstractions
Racism relies on distance. Stereotypes thrive in the absence of proximity. The moment a Western woman forms an intimate relationship with a refugee, she begins to see differently. Many describe it not as a shift in ideology but in emotional vocabulary: fear dissolves, replaced by the particularity of experience. That particularity is contagious.
“Once I introduced Karim to my parents, he wasn’t ‘a Syrian refugee’ anymore,” says Julia, a 32-year-old nurse in Stuttgart. “He was just someone who slapped my butt while I was out shopping groceries. He simply didn’t know how else to get my attention at the time. And now he’s their son-in-law.” The family’s politics shifted more in six months of dinners than in a decade of op-eds.
Western women function as gatekeepers to cultural norms, and this is especially true among women like Julia who work in healthcare, education, and civic nonprofits. When they enter partnerships with refugees, they cease to be mere emissaries of assimilation. They become co-constructors of new cultural hybrids.
These women often introduce their partners to informal but essential codes: how to navigate bureaucracy, what behaviors signal trustworthiness, how to perform integration in a society obsessed with appearances. At the same time, they absorb the refugee’s worldview, witnessing firsthand how Western institutions often fail the very people they claim to welcome.
This exchange is not transactional. It’s alchemical. Both are changed.
Lasting love as a counter-narrative against the rape crisis conspiracy theory
For years, right-wing media has cultivated an image of the refugee as hypersexual, violent, and dangerous to white women. But the increasing visibility of interracial couples disrupts this narrative from the inside. Each couple is a rebuke to the xenophobic imaginary. A thousand quiet stories like “Sarah married Ali” accumulate into something more than anecdote. They become potent political critique.
What’s more, this isn’t performative inclusion. It’s embodied integration. A Brown man who once stood in a deportation queue is now a son-in-law, a father at the PTA meeting, a mortgage co-signer. His existence is suddenly legible and fully included.
Interracial couplings of all possible configurations force society to reconcile with a reality that does not conform to fear-mongering templates. In a society where whiteness is still the unmarked norm, these relationships redistribute the optics of who belongs.
There is another layer, quieter but no less disruptive. When Western women form relationships with refugee men, they break with the implicit racial and political allegiances of their birth. White men are often animated by nationalist or racialist worldviews, and can experience these unions as betrayals. And they are right to.Romantic couplings of white Western women and refugees redistribute the optics of who belongs.
These women are not just falling in love; they are puncturing the fragile white male consensus that has long underwritten white identity politics. Each white womb decorated with a Brown or Black baby make racial purism increasingly not just odious but logistically impossible.
From micro to macro
Gordon Allport’s mid-century contact theory proposed that sustained, cooperative contact between groups under conditions of equality reduces prejudice. These relationships are the contact hypothesis in its most intimate form. They are not state-sponsored integration programs; they are integration incarnate.
In other words, where the state fails, the bedroom succeeds. When white supremacy wants white women to zig, they zag.
None of this is to romanticize the challenges. But they truly put into action something that no institution can mandate: the total collapse of the line between “us” and “them.”
In the end, racism depends on abstraction, fear, and distance. Love destroys all three.
P.S. support great journalism by buying this sweet swag from our sponsor: [With the left, things often come down to: give us money.]

 See, if you're a white male, you oppress women merely by existing. Even politely, cautiously flirting with or asking out a female co-worker can be sexual harassment--or so I'm told. I wouldn't know.

   But outright sexual assault--perhaps even including rape for all we can tell from this post--is merely a "quasi-consensual sexual encounter"...and, hey, could lead to beautiful mixed-race babies, LTRs, and, most importantly, anti-racism...bigot!

   Again, I'd guess that this was a parody or some kind of false-flag by someone on the right...if it weren't so firmly in keeping with actual leftist insanity.

NASA Artemis II Tracker

link

Suddenly It's OK to Make Fun of Men Pretending to be Women

I'm not going to post it, nor link to it, but you can look it up if you want.

Anyway, Saturday Night Life--which is, apparently, still a thing--made fun of Kristi Noem's husband last night.

Now...I think all such nonsense is fair game...but the left--which obviously includes SNL--doesn't...

...or didn't...

...until it was a prominent conservative...

No, wait: a prominent conservative's husband.

Which...I dunno, I tend to think families are off-limits.

But I guess that's just me.

Is Trump Losing It?

I mean...he doesn't have all that much of it to begin with...

His temperament and demeanor are already anti-Presidential...

But if this is real...it's another big step in the wrong direction:

It doesn't get more straightforward than this from President Trump.
The gloves come off Tuesday against the Ayatollahs. pic.twitter.com/gGGwk4PrsZ

— Jim Hanson (@JimHansonDC) April 5, 2026

And destroying Iran's civilian infrastructure...this seems extremely not smart... 

AJW: Cenk Uygur et al. Defend Muslim Grooming Gangs in the UK...b/c...DA JOOZ!!!!1111

Red herrings on parade.

Elliot Kaufman: Defeatists on the Left, Pollyannas on the Right

I pretty much agree, FWIW.

CSAR Rescues Strike Eagle WSO in Iran!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

More Iran Cheerleading: F-15, A-10 Shootdowns, etc.

Better headline: First two shoot-downs come after four weeks and 13,000 combat sorties.

My real concerns are (a) Trump's chaotic rhetoric and (b) the left's relentless opposition (including the rhetoric).

   The Iranian regime needs to think that we're implacably committed to victory.

   But they almost certainly don't think that.

   I sure hope somebody, somewhere in the administration knows what he's doing...

This War is Hell on Strike Eagles

damn

Elliot Abrams: The President's Not-So-Reassuring Iran Address

Yeah, I couldn't even get through it.

I'm terrible at reading aloud...and I find it very unpleasant to listen to anyone who's even worse than I am. And Trump, when he's not on in this respect is really, really not on.

But what I did hear was, indeed, not all that reassuring.

Even if Trump is right about this war--something of which I'm far from convinced--there's no excuse for failing to produce a clear public justification.

Better than lies--ala the Bush administration and Iraq...

But that's setting the bar awfully low.

Reem Ibrahim: Trump Bullying Allies to Help in Iran Suggests He Knows the War Is Not Going Well

[eyeroll]

Seriously, who could write a headline like that...not to mention a whole post?

Look man.

Here's the deal:

TRUMP BULLIES OUR ALLIES ALL THE TIME FOR GOOD REASONS AND BAD.

In particular, he bullies anybody who doesn't do pretty much exactly what he wants them to do.

Jeez, buy a clue.

His bullying tone just means he's being defied.

That's all it takes.

Ibrahim does correctly note, however, that the rationale for the war is ever-changing.

I mean--I do realize that there are a lot of reasons to bomb Iran.

But...message discipline...it's a thing.

As for how the war is going: I'd guess pretty well.

But what do I know?

Supremes Rule Against "Conversion Therapy" Aimed at Non-Heterosexual Etc. Youth

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   I haven't even read many synopses of the arguments, but here's my more-or-less initial position:

   First, adults should be able to do whatever they want in this respect--but that doesn't seem to be the issue.

   Second, so long as a kid consents to the therapy, I don't see any problem; the worry is that parents may force kids to do it.

   Third, the left's contention that conversion therapy doesn't work is probably bullshit and at odds with its own previous position. The left spent decades telling us that 10-50% of the population is homosexual...or 100% is naturally bisexual...or whatever...they said a lot of things. But society brainwashed all those people into thinking that they were straight--or at least acting that way. It's the left itself that thinks that humans are far more malleable than they actually are. Nevertheless, I suspect that the truth on this one lies somewhere in the middle--there's fair malleability...but certainly not total malleability.

   Third prime: Political lesbianism told (or tells? is it still around?) feminists that they ought to be lesbians for political reasons. Presumably they think that this isn't a matter of pure political duty--surely they think that sexual desire is to some degree malleable.

   Fourth, everything about conversion therapy is more reasonable and less awful than "gender" pseudoscience.

   Fifth, you'd have to be a fool to believe the alleged studies that say this therapy increases suicidality. As soon as the left takes a position--especially a position like this one--their army of lapdog pseudoscientists starts producing Lysenkoist studies backing them up.

   But, sixth, there's nothing wrong with it, and some kids are non-heterosexual, and that's the way it is. So, y'know, parents ought to be cool about that. (Maybe easy for me to say, since I don't have kids...)

   Now, all that having been said, I still don't see much reason to be too keen on this stuff. Seems like religious wackos will be prone to forcing their kids into it. Though I guess I could see reasonable parents thinking: well, my kid's life will be a lot easier if he's at least straight-ish...might as well just see whether this works... Or thinking: this is likely to be a result of brainwashing at school--or just general cultural brainwashing--so let's see whether it's changeable...

   And there is no doubt whatsoever that kids with "gender confusion" should get therapy to try to reverse that shit. Little Timmy's teacher told him he might be a girl...that needs to be fixed right away. Before they convince him to take estrogen and cut his junk off...

   All that having been said: prima facie, it seems weird to defend a quasi-medical treatment on First Amendment grounds. Everybody's making fun of KBJ...and I just saw like one short paragraph from her dissent...but...it didn't sound crazy to me...

Randy E. Barnett: Trump is Right about Birthright Citizenship

Well, maybe the case for this is stronger than I thought.

Artemis II

Fantastic!

Back to the Future: Artemis II Scheduled to Launch Today

Wow.

Crazy that this sort of thing came to seem more-or-less routine when I was a kid...

Anyway: fingers crossed.

Damon Root: Trump's Unconstitutional Attack on Birthright Citizenship

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First: consider the source--and remember that libertarians are on the same side as the left on this one. That is: open borders or damn near it.

Second: I disagree with that position. Very much. I think that would be the end of the USA. Hence Western civilization. Hence, well, a large percentage of worthwhile things.

Third: I currently think that birthright citizenship is a very bad idea--and the drafters of the 14 Amendment would never have defended it if they knew how it would play out in the 21st century.

But, sadly, fourth:

The arguments in favor of the standard interpretation of the 14th Amendment sound stronger to me than those that support Trump's favored interpretation. It all turns on what '...and subject to the jurisdiction thereof' means. And it seems that, on the most natural--and the original--interpretation of that phrase, e.g. illegal aliens present in the U.S. are subject to its jurisdiction.

I think we would be much, much better off if people could not basically sneak across the border and have anchor babies. And if we could block e.g. Chinese birth tourism.

But I fear we're stuck with those things.

[Almost forgot:

Seems like bullshit to me to call the other interpretation an "unconstitutional" "attack."

It's a different interpretation of the Constitution.

Even if it's wrong...well...do we call mistaken interpretations "unconstitutional"?

Surely they're not all attacks...]