Monday Links

As the warm and mostly sunny weather continues on a Monday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, California's increased minimum wage has led to disaster.

From FrontpageMag, President Biden appears to be geographically confused.

From Townhall, according to a poll, 63 percent of American voters favor mass deportation of illegal aliens.

From The Washington Free Beacon, while the organization Black Lives Matter loses cash, the family of its co-founder rakes in the bucks.

From the Washington Examiner, First Son Hunter Biden declines to testify at his gun possession trial.

From The Federalist and the "friendly advice" department, if you don't want to find yourself on the business end of a gun, don't take hostages.

From American Thinker, the Swamp's hatred for former President Trump is rational.

From MRCTV, residents of Hartford, Connecticut form a "self-defense brigade".

From NewsBusters, Trump correctly predicts that the media would mangle his joke.

From Canada Free Press, First Lady Jill Biden likes the perks of her position.

From TeleSUR, two Argentinian fishermen find a 5,000-year-old dolphin skull.

From TCW Defending Freedom, U.K. politician Nigel Farage and "the case of the vanishing virtues".

From Snouts in the Trough, only the Labour Party can save the U.K. from the alleged climate crisis.  (Once again, the numerical date corresponds to yesterday but the day of the week corresponds to today.  I wonder if Labor can do anything about carbon dioxide emissions in places like China or the U.S.)

From EuroNews, President Emmanuel Macron dissolves the French parliament.  (I'm sure that more than a few U.S. presidents would have loved to have that type of power over Congress.)

From Voice Of Europe, a truck with military plates carrying 32 people breaks into Hungary from the Ukrainian oblast of Zakarpattia.  (Zakarpattia, a.k.a. Zakarpaty or Transcarpathia, was once part of Hungary.  Ukraine and other former Soviet countries are divided to administrative regions called oblast.)

From ReMix, after E.U. election results come out, the Chief Twit defends the German "anti-immigration" party AfD.  (The term "anti-immigration" does not mean that someone is opposed to all immigration, but only that they're opposed to uncontrolled, unvetted, and/or illegal immigration.  In other words, if someone wants any restrictions whatsoever on immigration, that person is "anti-immigration".)

From Balkan Insight, Albanian and Spanish police bust an operation help Albanians illegally enter the U.K.  (If you disagree with the actions of the Albanian and Spanish police you might be "anti-immigration".)

From Morocco World News, a social media campaign urges Moroccans to boycott both Coke and Pepsi.  (If this campaign is successful, there might be a story about how Moroccans have lost weight and have fewer cases of diabetes.)

From The North Africa Post, the Moroccan parliament passes a bill to provide alternative sentences in order to reduce overcrowding in prisons.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Türkiye's Competition Board fines Google the equivalent of $14.85 million non-compliance with obligations pertaining to hotel searches.

From Turkish Minute, police in the Turkish province of Eskişehir detain 10 people at a Pride march.

From Rûdaw, Iraqi Prime Minister Shia' al-Sudani claims that ISIS remnants are no longer a threat to Iraq.

From Armenpress, according to Armenian National Assembly Speaker Alen Simonyan, Russia has deceived Armenia and left it alone.

From Public Radio Of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia will host a conference organized by the Council of Europe on rehabilitation in criminal justice.

From Azərbaycan24, Baku, Azerbaijan hosts the first World Chovgan Championship.  (Chovgan, also spelled "chowgan" or "chogan", is an equestrian sport that originated in ancient Persia.  The West calls it "polo".)

From AzerNews, tax relief could help the Middle Corridor become green.

From The Syrian Observer, clashes break out between the Eighth Brigade and the Popular Committees in the Syrian region of Daraa.

From North Press Agency, the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria opens an exhibition for women who have returned from the Hawl refugee camp.

From In-Cyprus, a lawyer is expected to be appointed as Cyprus's first Deputy Minister of Migration.

From The New Arab, food shortages force Sudanese people to eat grass and leaves.

From The Times Of Israel, the Biden administration denounces the pro-Hamas rhetoric at the anti-Israel protest in Washington, D.C.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a Muslim party wins 41 percent of the vote - in Duisburg, Germany.  (If you read German, read the story at JouWatch.)

From OpIndia, victims of the terror attack on Hindu pilgrims in the Indian territory of Jammu and Kashmir recount their ordeal.

From Gatestone Institute, Gazan "civilians" become complicit in Hamas's crimes.

From The Stream, on capital punishment, Catholic leaders misinterpret scripture.

From The Daily Signal,  what was seen at a "Kid's Pride Parade" in Maryland.

From The American Conservative, why aren't Democrats angry at President Biden's authoritarianism?

From The Western Journal, could the right-wing victories in Europe be good news for Trump?

From BizPac Review, congresscritter Thomas Massie (R-KY) calls on his fellow congresscritters to repeal the subpoenas on former Trump advisors Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro.

From The Daily Wire, a leftist billionaire colonizes a federal agency.  (No, this is not about George Soros.)

From the Daily Caller, former congresscritter Mondaire Jones (D-NY) calls out people whom he regards are "trust fund socialists" in his own party.

From the New York Post, Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) drives into the rear end of another car and is taken to a hospital "out of an abundance of caution".

From Breitbart, look what happened at the White House, allegedly during one day.

From Newsmax, according to Trump campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt, Democrats are "panicking" over the Latino response to Trump.

And from The Babylon Bee, President Biden asks why European governments can't just arrest right-wing candidates before the European Parliament elections.