Friday Fuss

On a cool and partly sunny Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, a member of the Arlington County, Virginia school board sympathized with a sex offender who claimed to be transgender in order to expose himself in female locker rooms and bathrooms.

From FrontpageMag, with the peace deal with Hamas, the U.S. could be repeating its mistakes made in Afghanistan and Iraq.

From Townhall, Democrats double down on their support for California gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter.

From The Washington Free Beacon, CNN host Kasie Hunt tries to excuse New York Attorney General Letitia James's alleged mortgage fraud with an "everybody does it" type of excuse.

From the Washington Examiner, the shutdown-related federal government layoffs have begun.

From The Federalist, the Democratic Party's establishment is giving up on democracy.

From American Thinker, Russian President Putin eviscerates the Nobel Prize committee for passing over U.S. President Trump.

From MRCTV, nominees for the worst media take of the week.

From NewsBusters, left-wing media networks bury a leftist attempt to bomb a church service traditionally attended by several Supreme Court justices.

From Canada Free Press, manufacturing is back.

From TeleSUR, former Peruvian President Dina Boluarte, after being removed from office, appears to have gone missing.

From TCW Defending Freedom, can U.K. opposition leader Kemi Badenoch defeat the green blob?

From Snouts in the Trough, what happened to the story of a man who allegedly set fire to a mosque in Peacehaven, England?

From EuroNews, NATO will conduct an exercise next week, focusing on protecting its nuclear weapons.

From ReMix, ProFa conducts a wave of terrorism in Germany.

From Balkan Insight, Bosnia has a destructive appetite for date mussels, despite a ban on harvesting them.  (During my trip to Croatia in 2007, I learned that mussels are a popular appetizer there.  Hopefully, we didn't consume any banned date mussels.)

From The North Africa Post, Algeria allegedly vassalizes Tunisia with a defense agreement.

From The New Arab, Syrian authorities arrest an officer of the former Assad government for allegedly crimes against civilians in the province of Daraa.

From The Times Of Israel, Indonesia decides to block Israel's team from participating in the world gymnastics championships.

From The Jerusalem Post, a synagogue in Minneapolis is vandalized with antisemitic and pro-Hamas graffiti on the anniversary of the October 7th attacks.

From Gatestone Institute, is Germany headed towards a left-wing reich?

From The Stream, about democracy, republics, rights, and the American founders.

From The Daily Signal, Trump is not "declaring" a civil war in Chicago, but preventing one.

From The American Conservative, Democrats take a trick from the Tea Party movement from a few years ago.

From The Western Journal, the aforementioned Katie Porter once fired a staffer for being distracted by the murder of her best friend.

From BizPac Review, more left-wing violence that will largely be overlooked.

From the Daily Caller, the Department of Justice charges a man who allegedly sent a death threat to right-wing activist Benny Johnson.

From the New York Post, Pope Leo XIV condemns.......clickbait.

From Breitbart, First Lady Melania Trump announces the reunification of eight Ukrainian children who had been held in Russia with their families.

And from Newsmax, bassist-singer John Lodge of the Moody Blues goes to the musical stage in the sky.