Thursday, May 8, 2025

Thursday Things

On a warm and sunny Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Columbia University calls the cops on the pro-HamasPalestine students who took over its school library.

From FrontpageMag, Disneyland plans to open a park in Abu Dhabi, UAE, which puts people in prison for being gay.

From Townhall, some details of President Trump's trade deal with the U.K.

From the Washington Examiner, Trump decides to pull the nomination of Ed Martin for U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.

From The Federalist, the statue of a random black woman in New York City's Times Square is left-wing cultural warfare.

From American Thinker, Hamas, ProFa and the "transfascists" are the Democrat Party's new shock troops.

From MRCTV, a Colorado state Senator claims that he will stand before "trans Jesus" on judgment day.

From NewsBusters, PBS ridiculously equates protecting Jews on college campuses with the "chilling" of free speech.

From Canada Free Press, a Columbia University Professor speaks at a conference of "minor-attracted persons".

From TeleSUR, the Women's Ordination Conference demands a greater presence of women in the Catholic Church by spreading pink smoke.

From TCW Defending Freedom, a story for VE Day.

From Snouts in the Trough, is UNICEF charitable to its own bosses?

From EuroNews, two seagulls steal the show at the papal conclave.

From Free West Media, democracy in Germany is broken.

From ReMix, according to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, the issue to unpaid reparations to Poland is "concluded", while Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announces a reset in relations between their two countries.  (If you read Polish, read the story at Do Rzeczy.)

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a Syrian man is caught spray-painting a swastika onto an advertising pillar in Magdeburg, Germany.

From Balkan Insight, the party Democratic League of Kosovo sues outgoing Prime Minister Albin Kurti for maintaining his government role despite resigning last month.

From The North Africa Post, Moroccan King Mohammed VI regards Atlantic Africa has having geostrategic importance, and as an area of innovation and resilience.

From The New Arab, Israeli strikes at the Sana'a, Yemen airport leaves Yemenis stranded in Jordan.

From Palestinian Media Watch, 59 percent of polled Palestinians in the West Bank think that what Hamas did on October 7th, 2023 was the "correct decision".

From the Ethiopian Monitor, the brewing company BGI-Ethiopia appoints a new CEO.

From IranWire, female Iranian athletes win medals and get forced into exile.

From Iran International, uneven power blackouts in Tehran, Iran spark a debate on social equity on energy access.

From Khaama Press, over 2,500 rare birds are rescued and released in the Afghani province of Herat.

From Hasht e Subh, why do the Taliban oppose "intra-Afghan" negotiations?

From AMU, Afghans returning from Pakistan face unemployment and economic hardship.

From Dawn, according to Pakistan's Inter-Services Public Relations, the Pakistani armed forces shot down 25 Israeli-made drones sent into Pakistan by India.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif tells U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio that Pakistanis are outraged by India's actions.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistan's government denies the Indian government's claims that Pakistan targeted 15 sites in India.

From Gatestone Institute, why Hamas wants to steal control the humanitarian aid going into Gaza.

From The Stream, getting baffled about borders.

From The Daily Signal, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announces an overhaul of U.S. air traffic control system.  (I remember years ago seeing a video of former Speaker Newt Gingrich giving a speech and holding up a vacuum tube of the type used by our air traffic control system.)

From The American Conservative, whatever you wish to call it, the aforementioned VE Day is a day for remembering and building.

From The Western Journal, according to right-wing commentator Matt Walsh, it's "positive" that Shiloh Hendrix, who appeared to lash out at a kid who was accosting her kid at a playground, has raised lots of money after using a racial slur.

From BizPac Review, congresscritter Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) wants to play a game of "Trump or trans".

From The Daily Wire, the aforementioned Marco Rubio threatens to revoke the visas from the "pro-Hamas thugs" who occupied the library at Columbia University.  (Have I picked on Columbia University enough for one day?)

Form the Daily Caller, a male "transgender" prisoner who allegedly sexually assaulted his female cellmate has a long history of violence and infractions while in prison.

From the New York Post, the aforementioned trade deal with the U.K. sends Bitcoin over $100,000 for the first time since February.

From Breitbart, pictures of Europeans celebrating VE Day.

From Newsmax, Trump gives Iran an ultimatum about its nukes.

From TechSideline, the song Enter Sandman rings out at Virginia Tech's Lane Stadium, not from a recording before a football game, but live from the band Metallica.

And from CNN, we have a pope, the first-ever American to be elected to the office.

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