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Should Europeans Overthrow Their ‘Ruling Class’

Should Europeans Overthrow Their ‘Ruling Class’

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, War fever is ramping up again across Europe. This has happened several times in the four and a half years since Russia invaded Ukraine, usually coinciding with important national elections – particularly those in Romania, Moldova, Hungary, Poland, and Germany – when certain domestic political parties have been demonized as “pro-Putin” and “security threats” to the rest of Europe. The war drums also get loud whenever increased military budgets are being debated within the governments of the Scandinavian and Baltic states, Finland, Germany, and Poland, as well as the European Commission. The ebb and flow of political battle cries against the Russian Federation track closely with Europe’s electoral and parliamentary calendars. It is no coincidence that the German government decided to announce five days before Saxony-Anhalt’s September 6 elections that Russia was responsible for a small drone discovered at the Leipzig/Halle Airport over a month earlier. Although the drone carried an explosive charge, the device caused no damage and sat at the airport unnoticed for many hours on …

📚 Ruling the box office

📚 Ruling the box office

Published by Jenni Sidey

S. M. Hallow is the author of The Halls of the Dead, out this week from Harper Voyager. Below, Hallow recommends three queer historical gothic novels. The Wives of Herrick Hall by Julie Lew: In 1799, a disgraced young woman becomes the companion to a Lady in the isolated Herrick Hall. Lady Blake suffers from nightly visions of her impending death, and Herrick Hall is haunted by its previous mistresses. If you’ve longed for a sapphic take on Rebecca or Jane Eyre, and if you like ghosts, family secrets, curses, and forbidden love, this is perfect for your TBR. The White North Has Thy Bones by Dorian Ravenscroft: After returning to London from a dangerous arctic voyage in 1860, one of the five surviving sailors murders his family… but says it was not of his own free will. When he’s hanged, a journalist tracks down two of the other surviving sailors, one of whom is a psychic medium who claims the Arctic granted him otherworldly powers. If you like toxic gays, ghosts, and humans who make desperate …

Court ruling narrows pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients

Court ruling narrows pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients

Published by Sam Flores

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has largely ended a pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients who marry U.S. citizens. President Trump tried, unsuccessfully, to end DACA during his first term. This week’s action reflects his administration’s ongoing focus on the Obama-era program that shields from deportation hundreds of thousands of immigrants, often referred to as Dreamers, who were brought to the U.S. as children. “It was inevitable that what Trump was going to do in office this time was to embark on a massive delegalization mission,” said Karen Tumlin, director of the Justice Action Center in Los Angeles. “That’s what this is.” Tumlin was referring to a ruling by an administrative immigration court that was published Thursday. The ruling concerns a travel provision afforded to recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the program created in 2012. The provision allows DACA recipients to travel in ways other people without legal status cannot. DACA isn’t technically a form of legal status, though its recipients are granted work permits. For immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally, leaving the country …

Haitian migrants get last-minute reprieve after SCOTUS ruling

Haitian migrants get last-minute reprieve after SCOTUS ruling

Published by Sam Flores

Haitian immigrants across the country received an eleventh-hour relief Friday as the government extended work authorizations for Haitians with temporary protected status. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services announced that work permits for Haitian immigrants with the recently terminated legal status — granted to citizens of countries experiencing political violence, environmental disaster and other unsafe circumstances — will now expire on July 24 as a result of a court order. The update came on July 10, the original expiration date set for TPS holders’ work authorizations. “The extension is limited relief until the lower courts align with the U.S. Supreme Court’s favorable decision in Mullin v. Doe,” the notice read. The extension was one of seven USCIS announced Friday for TPS holders from a handful of countries, including Syria, South Sudan, Burma and Ethiopia. It comes on the heels of the Supreme Court’s decision in Mullin v. Doe, which allowed the Homeland Security Secretary’s termination of TPS for Syrian and Haitian recipients to stand. The ruling also held that the governing statute bars federal courts from reviewing …

“You belong here”: Unions rally for migrants hit by SCOTUS ruling

“You belong here”: Unions rally for migrants hit by SCOTUS ruling

Published by Sam Flores

Within hours of the Supreme Court stripping 330,000 Haitian immigrants of their temporary protective status, a program that protects a total of 1.3 million people from 17 countries, Service Employees International Union 1199 President Yvonne Armstrong had assembled at the union’s headquarters to denounce the high court’s ruling as racist and immoral. She was joined by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, Attorney General Letitia James, Mayor Zohran Mamdani, as well as several other elected officials. Racist comments that President Donald Trump has made about immigrants surfaced in the Supreme Court’s deliberation but were dismissed by the majority as not being overtly racist. “They’re poisoning the blood of our country. That’s what they’ve done. They poison — mental institutions and prisons all over the world. Not just in South America,” Trump told a New Hampshire rally in 2023. “Not just the three or four countries that we think about. But all over the world they’re coming into our country — from Africa, from Asia, all over the world. They’re pouring into our country.” The 6-3 ruling …

FDA issues ruling on US infant formula supply after contaminant study

FDA issues ruling on US infant formula supply after contaminant study

Published by Daniella Wilson

A new federal analysis has offered reassuring findings regarding the safety of infant formula in the U.S., reporting “reassuringly low levels” of heavy metals, pesticides, and other potential contaminants. Federal health officials released the findings on Wednesday. The comprehensive review, conducted as part of the Food and Drug Administration’s Operation Stork Speed project, was described as the “largest and most rigorous” to date. It concluded that the nation’s infant formula supply is “safe,” a sentiment echoed by both agency officials and independent experts. “There’s no reason not to use any available formula” in the U.S., stated Dr. Steven Abrams, a pediatrics professor at the University of Texas at Austin, who reviewed the study’s findings. Between 2023 and 2025, FDA officials meticulously tested over 300 samples of commercial infant formula. The extensive screening targeted heavy metals, including lead, arsenic, cadmium, and mercury, alongside pesticides, phthalates (chemicals found in plastics), and PFAS, commonly known as “forever chemicals.” The agency reported that levels of all detected contaminants were either undetectable or very low. Specifically, any heavy metals found …

Polyamory, the Ruling Class’s Latest Fad

Published by Miika Tikkanen

The chattering class has a new fixation: polyamory. What began as a trickle of discourse a few years ago—as shows including Succession and Scenes From a Marriage streamed open relationships into our living rooms—has become a veritable flood. The past weeks and months have seen stories ranging from wide-eyed to prurient in The New Yorker, The New York Times, the Financial Times, NPR, The Wall Street Journal. At the center of the recent discussions is More: A Memoir of an Open Marriage, by Molly Roden Winter, an unsparing account of a polyamorous life—at least, a polyamorous life as lived by a white, wealthy, heterosexual Brooklynite. More—and the present interest in polyamory more broadly—is the result of a long-gestating obsession with authenticity and individual self-fulfillment. That obsession is evident today in Instagram affirmations, Goop, and the (often toxic) sex positivity of an app-dominated dating scene, but its roots go back decades. As the historian Christopher Lasch wrote in 1977, this worldview “assumes that psychic health and personal liberation are synonymous with an absence of inner restraints, …