Wednesday Wanderings

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

From National Review, author Malcolm Gladwell reaches his tipping point about transgender athletes.

From FrontpageMag, after an "Allah Akbar" breaks out in Marseilles, France, its motive remains a mystery.

From Townhall, a Polish reporter gets a reality check after trying to give President Trump a "gotcha" moment at a joint press conference with Polish President Karol Nawrocki.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Democratic megadonor David Geffen is sued by his gay black ex-husband for allegedly drugging him and showing him off as a "paid sex worker".

From the Washington Examiner, Florida state Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announces the end of the state's vaccine mandates, comparing them to "slavery".

From The Federalist, three ways Americans can fight against the U.K.'s attempted suppression of free speech.

From American Thinker, a migrant cooks his breakfast on the eternal flame of a war memorial in Europe.

From MRCTV, a video shows Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) blaming gun crime in his city on red states.  (Let's go, Brandon!)

From NewsBusters, the media don't want to look back at their frenzy over Russiagate.

From Canada Free Press, a college in New York City teaches about theft and calls it "sociology".

From TeleSUR, Mexico bans 35 pesticides.

From TCW Defending Freedom, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero Ed Miliband's promise that more wind and solar farms would result in lower energy prices is nothing but hot air.  (Yes, his official title is that long.  Of course, Miliband will undoubtedly not use my preferred term for wind farms, which is "bird choppers".)

From Snouts in the Trough, paying taxes to the U.K.'s "no health service".  (Despite a recent post predicting that it would be taken down, SitT is still on the Interwebz.)

From EuroNews, the Czech government approves the purchase of 44 Leopard tanks from Germany for €1.4 billion.

From Free West Media, six politicians from the German party AfD die "in a matter of weeks".

From ReMix, two teenagers "with a migration background" detonate a grenade at a house in Eskilstuna, Sweden, are arrested and convicted, but will not serve any prison time due to their age.  (If you read Swedish, read the story at Samnytt, to which you'll have to log in.)

From Balkan Insight, the Greek parliament passes a bill that could fine and imprison rejected asylum seekers.

From The North Africa Post, the Algerian-backed group Polisario Front suffers a diplomatic setback at the Southern African Development Community summit.

From The New Arab, the Somoud flotilla prepares to sail from Tunisia to Gaza.

From IranWire, the Iranian regime targets Baha'i artists.

From The Jerusalem Post, according to an opinion column, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa is creating a new hybrid ideology, which can be called "neo-jihadism".

From Gatestone Institute, the Muslim Brotherhood is a threat in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East.

From Radio Free Asia, Russian President Vladimir Putin, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and Chinese President Xi Jinping share the stage at China's military parade in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.

From The Stream, Qatar and Türkiye weaponize "jihad" in a new alliance.

From The Daily Signal, Border Czar Tom Homan points out a very difficult part of his job.

From The American Conservative, Europe needs to get real about the war between Russia and Ukraine.

From The Western Journal, thousands of files pertaining to the late Jeffrey Epstein are released.

From BizPac Review, more on the aforementioned release of Epstein files.

From The Daily Wire, victims of the aforementioned Jeffrey Epstein claim that they will release a list of his clients.

From the Daily Caller, the State Department is set to change its Foreign Officer Service Test with one that emphasizes merit over DEI.

From the New York Post, Macy's stock prices surge 18 percent as its sales and profit forecasts are increased in spite of tariff uncertainty.

From Fox News, according to former Chicago Police Department head Jody Weis, Democrats are "afraid" that a crackdown by Trump against crime in the city would work.  (via the New York Post)

From Breitbart, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro announces two maritime interceptions of illegal drug precursor chemicals coming from China and headed to Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel.  (I realize that in going from Fox News to her current position, she probably took a huge pay cut.)

From Newsmax, Trump urges Hamas to return the remaining Israeli hostages.

And from the Genesius Times, thousands of suicidal asthmatics suffering from depression and obesity demand that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stops endangering their health.

Tuesday Tidbits

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

From National Review, if you want to stop New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D), give his opponent Curtis Sliwa some help.  (The Polish word śliwa means "plum tree".)

From FrontpageMag, a cartoonist steps off a plane in the U.K. and gets arrested for Tweets.

From Townhall, an explosive revelation could mean big trouble for Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook.

From The Washington Free Beacon, California Governor Gavin Newsom's "agricultural equity" advisors prepare a plan to redistribute farmland.

From the Washington Examiner, President Trump plans to move the Space Command headquarters from Colorado Springs, Colorado to Huntsville, Alabama.  (Will people training for officer positions in the Space Command be called "space cadets"?)

From The Federalist, anyone who has seen transgenderism ruin people's lives knows how evil it is.

From American Thinker, the Supreme Court ruled that birthright citizenship applies only to the children of foreigners in the U.S. legally - in 1898.

From MRCTV, a video showing a guest on MSNBC claiming that ICE kidnaps American citizens.

From NewsBusters, CNN sports analyst Cari Champion apparently misidentifies the nationality of tennis player Naomi Osaka.

From Canada Free Press, reforms proposed for the U.N. need to go farther.

From TeleSUR, Brazil's Supreme Court opens the trail of former President Jair Bolsonaro for an alleged coup attempt.

From TCW Defending Freedom, mentioning World War II, 80 years after its end.  (On today's date in 1945, Japan signed its official surrender document on the deck of the American naval ship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.)

From EuroNews, a Tunisian man with legal status in France stabs at least five people in the city of Marseille and is shot dead by police.

From ReMix, 72 illegal migrants aboard a boat heading to Spain's Canary Islands are reportedly killed for practicing witchcraft, and their bodies thrown overboard, with the alleged murders later being housed in reception centers on the islands.  (If you read Spanish, read the story at OK Diario.)

From Balkan Insight, according to Greek Minister of Citizens Protection Michalis Chrysochoidis, 1,036 claimants falsely obtained E.U. agricultural subsidies from 2019 to 2024.

From The North Africa Post, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development appoints a new head of its office in Morocco.

From The New Arab, according to Amnesty International, Syrian government personnel and allied fighters have executed 46 Druze civilians.

From the Daily Mail, over 1,400 people have been killed in an earthquake in eastern Afghanistan.

From The Jerusalem Post, at least 1,000 people are killed in a landslide in western Sudan.

From Arutz Sheva, a hospital in Knokke, Belgium lists a nine-year-old girl's Jewishness as an "allergy".

From RAIR Foundation USA, the Georgetown Islamic Center in Texas expands to build a sharia enclave.

From Gatestone Institute, Arabs are not interesting in having Hamas disarm.

From Radio Free Asia, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrives in Beijing, China to attend a military parade.

From The Stream, a video asking is ancient "avatars" are influencing U.S. politics.

From The Daily Signal, the aforementioned arrest of a cartoonist in the U.K. vindicates Vice President Vance's warning about free speech in Europe.

From The American Conservative, right-wing commentator and former presidential advisor Pat Buchanan should be among conservatism's greatest heroes.

From The Western Journal, congresscritter Jerry Nadler (D-NY) decides that he has had enough for one lifetime.

From BizPac Review, former New York City Mayor and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani will receive the President Medal of Freedom, from Trump, his former client.

From The Daily Wire, the lending scheme that allowed Texas developers to sell home to illegal aliens, giving rise to the Colony Ridge development, is common across the U.S.  (My allotment of free articles at TDW is still shrinking.)

From the Daily Caller, Trump finds a way to troll former President Biden and his autopen.

From the New York Post, according to a scientific review, two types of drinks can make you gray and bald.

From Breitbart, more on the aforementioned Lisa Cook, as her boss gets criticized.

From Newsmax, conservatives and Trump supporters get disgusted over (greatly exaggerated) rumors of his death.  (Yes, I know, "conservatives and Trump supporters" is pretty much redundant, kind of like "left-wing" and "media".)

And from The Babylon Bee, English bobbies rush past five stabbings to arrest a social media user who posted offensive material.  (Wait a minute, isn't TBB supposed to be satirical, or at least "fake news you can trust"?)

Labor Day Links To Start September

On a warm and sunny Monday, which is both Labor Day and the first day of September, here are some things going on:

From National Review, celebrating the decline of labor unions.

From FrontpageMag, a woman whom the left-wing media wants you to hate.

From Townhall, President Trump's border security measures have greatly reduced the number of illegal alien deaths in the area of Eagle Pass, Texas.  (I've said it before and I'll probably say it again.  One of the many non-racist reasons for opposing illegal immigration is that it's dangerous to the illegal aliens themselves.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, while congresscritter Ilhan Omar (D-Min) claims that it's "categorically false" to call her a millionaire, she and her husband combined are worth up to $30 million.

From the Washington Examiner, Trump claims that India has offered to greatly reduce its tariffs on imported U.S. goods.

From The Federalist, today, we should ask why California and similar states restrict freelance work.

From American Thinker, whitewashing racism against Jews.

From NewsBusters, according to MSNBC host Jackie Alemany, the "stability of the global economy" is threatened if Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook is fired.

From Canada Free Press, the oil company Shell is burying itself in DEI, and no one is trying to dig them out.

From TeleSUR, almost 700,000 people in Colombia are hit by natural disasters and by armed violence.

From TCW Defending Freedom, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner could be the U.K.'s next prime minister, which would be the disaster that they need.

From Snouts in the Trough, does the U.K. have judges or political komissars?

From EuroNews, Russia is accused of jamming the GPS system on the plane carrying European Commission Ursula von der Leyen on her official visit to Bulgaria.

From Free West Media, celebrating climate scientist Dr. John Christy.

From ReMix, four candidates from the party AfD have died "suddenly and unexpectedly" before elections in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

From Balkan Insight, truckers in Bosnia and Herzegovina stage a protest that blocks traffic.

From The North Africa Post, Rapid Support Forces leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo is sworn in as the head of a self-declared parallel government in Sudan.

From The New Arab, security guards at a Carrefour supermarket in La Marsa, Tunisia assault pro-HamasPalestine protesters.

From The Times Of Israel, a pro-HamasPalestinian activist throws red paint on Israeli singer David D'Or in Warsaw, Poland.

From BBC News, a mob burns a woman to death in the Nigerian state of Niger for alleged blasphemy.  (The Nigerian state of Niger should not be confused with the country of Niger.)

From Arutz Sheva, 10 myths and facts about Israel after October 7th.

From Gatestone Institute, the woman behind the niqab.

From The Stream, a video about finding rest in the middle of war.

From The Daily Signal, who is Salvadorian illegal alien and "Maryland man" Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and why does he matter?

From The American Conservative, Californian Governor Gavin Newsom (D) takes charge of the 2028 democratic presidential field.

From The Western Journal, Iran's Ministry of Intelligence arrests 53 Christians, confiscates their bibles, and charges them with "espionage".

From BizPac Review, according to an opinion column, last week showcased left-wing moral depravity.

From The Daily Wire, an Army football player and his father rescue a man from a burning car.  (TDW informs me that I have only so many free articles to read, and must register to read more after those are used up.  The registration is free, which means that this action is not a paywall.  However, I will soon not be able to access TDW articles without registering, which means that I can't pass them onto you, my readers, unless you register.  It thus appears that I might regrettably have to drop TDW as a source.)

From the Daily Caller, according to Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, who wrote the article, Trump "reviving the dignity of work".

From the New York Post, Finland removes swastikas from its air force flags after realizing that they caused "awkward situations" with NATO allies.  (If you read Finnish, read the story at YLE.)

From Breitbart, coronavirus "fascists" in the CDC go to The New York Times to blast Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

And from Newsmax, Trump praises Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) for working with him against crime in the city.