The Hollywood wolf in sheep's clothing

In some more news about the Timothy Busfield sexual abuse scandal, here's some recent coverage by USA Today about the reporter's journey to see the area in New Mexico where the Cleaning Lady TV series was filmed (and it won't be shocking if it doesn't air in reruns again for a long time). Here's something to consider regarding the employment issues:

The boys shared the role, like the Olsen twins played Michelle Tanner on “Full House,” ensuring that neither child was on set for too many hours. When the show began filming in late summer 2021, the boys were 6 and they were allowed to work four hours a day.

The boys each earned between $25,000 and $30,000 per episode, according to court documents. Parents of child actors in New Mexico are only required to put 15% of their salary in a trust for them available when they turn 18.

Toward the end of shooting the third season, in spring 2024, the boys’ mother heard a rumor they might be dropped from the show, according to court documents filed by Busfield’s attorneys.

She was at lunch with Elodie Yung, the show’s lead actress, when Yung’s security guard, Chris Ford, overheard a conversation, he later told defense attorneys.

He said the boys’ mother told Yung that if her boys weren’t brought back, she would “get” Busfield and “have his ass."

But that decision didn’t belong to Busfield. In the somewhat confusing hierarchy of TV show production, the showrunner has creative oversight of the series.

And the showrunner, Daniel Cerone, wanted to replace the boys, he told Albuquerque Police Detective Marvin Brown in an interview recorded Jan. 2. The twins were 10 playing a 6-year-old.

Cerone told Busfield that he didn’t need to audition the twins. “I've seen their work and look, they can't pull it off,” Cerone said, according to a video of the police interview. [...]

“Tim doesn't have the level as a producer or the authority to hire or fire or cast,” Cerone told Brown.

In that case, if there had been resentment over dismissal, wouldn't the parents have taken out their anger on the executive producer, which I think is what "showrunner" means these days? So what kind of shameless approach is Busfield's defense making use of? Or, who do they think they are, smearing the parents like that? It gets more chilling with the following:

The father showed Osborne a photo.

Busfield is kneeling, his arms wrapped around the boys’ chests. One boy has his hand on Busfield’s. All three – as well as another crew member – are wearing shirts that say “Hi! Tim Busfield Big Fan.”

While the Screen Actors Guild handbook does not address physical contact off set, it requires parents to supervise their children. The boys’ mother had snapped the photo.

Osborne noted the photo was in “live” mode and captured Busfield “possibly” tickling the boys.

Based on what Busfield's accused of, that's why any tickling he did is in very repulsive form, as is his holding them by the chest. It's decidedly just as offensive as if he'd be holding a woman around her breasts. On which note, let's not forget the testimonies given to date by at least a 5 women who were victimized by Busfield in the years before his arrest and indictment.

One of the boys told caseworkers that when his scenes ended, he was scared and walked quickly to hide behind his dad. [...]

One set teacher told police she noticed one of the boys became uncomfortable after Busfield joined the show.

The teacher “did not understand why [the boy] did not want to go to the set, but he was pretty clear he didn’t want to do it,” the officer wrote in the arrest affidavit.

Those are important clues as to what went on behind the scenes too. And then, there's something odd about what Busfield told investigators:

Busfield told police he wasn’t alone with the boys, but said it’s likely he picked up the boys and tickled them in front of their parents or teacher. “It was a playful environment,” he said.

He pauses.

“I don't remember [tickling] those boys,” Busfield said. “No, I don't, I don't actually. I don't remember it. If it happened, I don't remember overtly tickling the boys ever, but it wouldn't be uncommon for me."

It sounds like he realized he may have let the mask slip, and tried frantically to walk back/deny his wrongdoings. Put another way, he flip-flopped in his shoddy "defense".

The cases are some of the most difficult to prosecute.

Sex abuse cases don’t often come with the evidence you see with murders.

Juries want emails and eyewitnesses, documented injuries.

Instead, usually they get a child’s voice. An adult’s denial.

Brandenburg-Koch tries to help juries understand these complexities.

“Abusers can be really great people. And they can still abuse children,” she says. “Two things can be true.”

She explains that most children, about 80%, delay telling anyone about abuse until they feel safe, mentally or physically. Most often the abuser is someone they know.

In their combined almost 20 years as prosecutors, Brandenburg-Koch and Reyes say they can’t recall a child making up abuse.

And unfortunately, Busfield's lawyers are trying to make the victims look like the villains. An utter disgrace.

In response to some of this coverage, Northeastern Global News quoted more psychology experts, and here's also what they say in response to the pathetic Hollywooders who tried writing letters in Busfield's defense:

But the letters don’t align with interviews published by USA Today with several women who told stories of being groped and sexually assaulted by Busfield when they were in their teens and twenties.

The contentious case is raising questions about the phenomenon of community grooming.

While the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) describes grooming as “the deliberate act of building trust with a child, teen or at-risk adult (such as an adult with a cognitive impairment) for the purpose of exploiting them sexually,” community grooming is a relatively new term for an age-old tactic.

It describes how perpetrators attempt to win over the intended victim’s family, friends and community, knowing “that building a good reputation is the most effective way to avoid detection,” RAINN says.

The reality is that having a good guy persona is not incongruous with being a predator, said Northeastern University experts on sexual and domestic violence.

Being a trusted member of a church, school, theatrical group or sports club can be a shield for those who want to avoid the shadow of suspicion — and to increase their exposure to potential victims, according to Northeastern professors Carlos Cuevas and Hayat Bearat, who said they are speaking in general and not about Busfield’s case.

Cuevas, a psychologist and professor of criminology and criminal justice, said in his work with offenders, “one of the things they would talk about is this idea of grooming those around you” to think of them as a nice person and upstanding member of the community.

“That will help hide any nefarious behavior that they’re engaged in,” he said. They would think, “‘How do I make it so I don’t get found out?’”

In Busfield’s case, an arrest warrant affidavit concluded that the director, who has denied the charges, used a dual tactic of “charming parents while secretly violating the child,” using his authority on a hectic TV set to his advantage.

It’s also not unusual for predators with a degree of fame, including those locally famous in religious or other communities, to get away with sexual abuse for quite some time, Bearat said. In Busfield’s case, the alleged incidents date back to 1994, with other allegations in the interim years.

Here's also something else I found in the replies to a post on X:

A comment on @LawCrimeNetwork pic.twitter.com/MzIF0yTM3F

— LightningInHerEyes (@Wakinyan_Winyan) April 9, 2026

So Busfield was going after 14-year-olds at the time he was a co-manager of a theater company? Absolutely repulsive. And his current wife Melissa Gilbert's making things worse with her continued apologia. Her claim she knew about accusations against him before they married sounds hard to swallow, but what's really disturbing is that here, she allegedly knew about them yet married him anyway. That doesn't reflect well on her judgement at all.

I don't know what the exact outcome of the official trial coming next year will be, but for now, we must hope the court of public opinion will ensure Busfield's career and reputation are kaput. And even Gilbert's going to have to be shunned.

SPLC maintained secret connections with racists groups, including the KKK

In one of the better articles at the Federalist, it's reported that a grand jury indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center for making fraudulent payments to racist movements, including the one and only Ku Klux Klan:

A federal grand jury indicted the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on Tuesday for allegedly making fraudulent payments to racist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).

“The SPLC is manufacturing racism to justify its existence,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement announcing the charges. “Using donor money to allegedly profit off Klansmen cannot go unchecked. This Department of Justice will hold the SPLC and every other fraudulent organization operating with the same deceptive playbook accountable. No entity is above the law.”

According to a Justice Department press release, the SPLC — which has often put targets on the backs of nonviolent conservative organizations by falsely labeling them as “hate groups” — has been charged with 11 counts of “wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering.” Per the presser, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Alabama Northern Division “filed two forfeiture actions to recover alleged proceeds of the organization’s fraud scheme.”

The agency noted that the indictment returned by the Alabama grand jury detailed how the SPLC reportedly began a “covert network” in the 1980s comprised of individuals “who were either associated with violent and extremist groups … or who had infiltrated violent extremist groups at the SPLC’s direction.” The SPLC, however, allegedly did not inform its donors that “some of their donated money was being used to fund the leaders and organizers of racist groups at the same time that the SPLC was denouncing the same groups on its website.”

What we have here is a classic case of a corrupt source accusing everyone else they see fit of racism, yet they see nothing wrong with being racist themselves. It could also be described as a case of them saying, "it's everyone else's fault but theirs". Now, much like CAIR, the SPLC's credibility has hopefully been destroyed, and we have to hope donors will reevalute what they think of conservative groups who abhor violence and crime. Seriously, when will anybody who's a realist, above all, say clearly that what they're against is barbarism?

Over 60 percent of French believe country undergoing replacement by the Religion of Peace

New polling reveals a majority of French citizens believe the country's population is being replaced by non-European migrants, and more precisely, by Muslims:

Six in ten adults in France believe that their country is facing a “great replacement” with the mass importation of non-European immigrants.

A survey conducted by the Institut français d’opinion publique (Ifop) research firm has found that 60 per cent of French people believe that their country is experiencing a “profound demographic transformation” and that the French are being “progressively replaced by non-European populations, primarily from the African continent.”

Of those who agreed with the statement, 66 per cent said the development was entirely bad, compared with 21 per cent who felt it was neither good nor bad, and 9 per cent who felt it was a positive development.

Opinions on the matter were divided largely along party lines, with supporters of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally being the most concerned about demographic displacement at 81 per cent, compared to 76 per cent of Les Républicains voters, 37 per cent of Macron supporters, and just 30 per cent of far-left La France Insoumise voters.

Intriguingly, 64 per cent of Socialist Party voters expressed concerns about the country’s transformation through mass migration. Conversely, just 4 per cent — a Lizardman’s Constant — of National Rally voters felt it was entirely a good thing, compared to 39 per cent of Green Party voters and 32 per cent of LFI supporters.

What's also clear is that Jean-Luc Melenchon and his LFI are proving to be a serious danger to the country, no matter what he says. This is going to be very hard to fix, and the worst part is, what if the USA public, based on previous polling news, doesn't want to turn things around? If not, they'd be betraying the memory of the builders of the Statue of Liberty. I'll never forgive a writer at the Federalist who once obscured the seriousness of Islamofascism's role in destroying France, that's for sure. When anybody repeatedly lets a line be drawn in the sand when it comes to what damage the Religion of Peace has wrought, that's very chilling. A serious world war is brewing, and anybody who lets Islam take over Europe will make even the war on Iran look like a joke.

A terrible injustice from 2005 is hopefully being reversed

A Jewish village is being reestablished in the Samaria region, 2 decades after the abominable Ariel Sharon tore it down for the sake of "disengagement":

Sixteen families moved into caravans in the community of Sa-Nur in northern Samaria on Sunday, marking the first Jewish residence at the site since it was evacuated during the disengagement in 2005.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who attended the occasion, posted a video on X in which he was seen congratulating the families.

“In addition to the [reestablishment of the] four communities, Sa-Nur, Chomesh, Ganim and Kadim, [this government] has decided to establish 11 more communities in northern Samaria,” the minister told those in attendance in Sa-Nur.

If on the eve of the disengagement plan there were 10 Israeli towns in the area, 21 communities are now ready for construction, Smotrich said.

Yossi Dagan, head of the Samaria Regional Council, has returned to Sa-Nur with his wife, Oriya, after they were evacuated from the community 21 years ago.

“We were expelled from here as a young couple twenty years ago, and we are returning now with our four children, happy,” Oriya Dagan was quoted as saying by Israel National News.

Her husband added, “Last night I couldn’t fall asleep. Since we were expelled from here, since they lifted us by force and dragged us out of the fortress, we have never stopped dreaming, praying, struggling, and working to return here together with the wonderful families who are coming back to the community. Thank God, the people of Israel are winning today.”

Dagan said that this time, the families have returned to Sa-Nur “for good,” describing the town as “the heart of the Land of Israel, the center of the biblical land,” where Joseph went to look for his brothers and Abraham, Elijah and Elisha passed through.

Gaza also looks to see the injustice reversed, and it's very good these families are finally able to return to an area a monster like Sharon turned out to be wrongfully uprooted them from, doing exactly what the leftists wanted. Even pseudo-conservatives like Ed Morrissey have blame to shoulder for this (and he was a prime choice of the disgraced Michelle Malkin to run the Hot Air website, which I can't bear to look at these days). Any authority figures who took part in that tragedy that led to October 7, 2023 should also be condemned and ostracized. What's happened in the past 3 years makes for a very vital and serious lesson.

Democrats may replace Eric Swalwell with first Muslim Congresswoman in California

Recently, the California Democrat Eric Swalwell was forced to resign over sexual assault accusations. But now, one can wonder if all this was planned as an excuse to elect a Muslim Congresswoman instead, specifically of Afghan background:

Aisha Wahab, an Afghan Muslim, appears to have the inside track and is holding the process ‘hostage’.

Five Democratic candidates running in the regularly-scheduled primary to succeed Swalwell for a full term have pledged they would not also run in the June 16 special election. Their hope is that rallying around a single candidate would ensure that person wins an outright majority in the primary and could be quickly sworn in.

But one Democratic contender, state Sen. Aisha Wahab, has not signed on, according to two people familiar with the document and granted anonymity to describe it. Having two or more Democrats on the ballot in the reliably blue district would all but guarantee the need for a run-off in mid-August, and the winner would not be seated until Congress returned from its August recess.

Wahab, who is also running for a full term, didn’t immediately respond to a text message seeking comment. She’s endorsed by institutional players including the California Democratic Party, Wieckowski and members of the state’s congressional delegation — Reps. Robert Garcia, Kevin Mullin and Lateefah Simon — but the large crop of Democratic contenders is nevertheless expected to dilute the vote.

The California Democratic Party would be a rather major ‘institutional player’ indeed.

State Sen. Aisha Wahab’s gender politics though make Swalwell look like a feminist.

Sen. Aisha Wahab, the first Afghan or Muslim senator, who had joined with her political allies to amend Senate Bill 1414 to protect those soliciting 16-year-olds for sex. Worse still, the process weakened the punishment for child predators.

What's chilling is that she's willing to enable child endangerment, which makes her worse in some ways than Swalwell. She's the kind of disgrace that Phyllis Chesler's spoken about in the past. And now, the Democrat party's taking steps to practically replace a considerable number of regular members with those of Muslim backgrounds. That's a telling clue to where they're going in the future.

Haredi extremists in Beit Shemesh tore down Israeli flags on War Memorial Day

Although this article doesn't directly identify the suspects in the repugnant incident, it's not hard to guess who the guilty party is:

Officers from the Beit Shemesh Police Station arrested two suspects who were caught on Monday tearing down Israeli flags that were flown in honor of Memorial Day.

The suspects were seen tearing down the flags and desecrating them, disturbing public order.

They were taken for questioning at the police station.

The police noted that the action is especially severe, being that the suspects did not suffice with desecrating the flag, but chose to do so on Memorial Day Eve, as Israelis remembered the fallen at memorial ceremonies.

Don't be shocked if self-haters like the above have long done so even on Holocaust Memorial Day. And Independence Day, which is tomorrow, so who knows what more Haredis will do this, and side with antisemitic advocates? Something must be done to reeducate these 5th columnists, and Beit Shemesh is making a case study of a whole hotbed full of them.

IDF worked to erase footage from October 7, 2023

A most horrific discovery was made that the same outfit that enabled sexual discrimination against female soldiers over petty issues and ignored warnings of a female observer also worked to erase footage of investigations into the October 7, 2023 massacre:

A Channel 12 report has revealed new details about the military mechanism that operated on the ground after October 7th to gain exclusive control over documentation from the massacre.

The special unit was established in 2020 as a lesson from previous operations in the Gaza Strip, and is headed by Lieutenant Colonel N. On October 7th, 2023, the unit's soldiers, all former members of elite units who received fictitious officer ranks in order to move freely, were deployed to the mission defined as "classified and complex."

The unit's mission was clear: collect every bit of footage from the massacre before anyone else lays their hands on it. The teams worked through several different means. The soldiers broke into kibbutz offices and homes to seize DVR machines from closed-circuit television systems. In the Gaza envelope communities and the Nova Festival site, the soldiers collected dozens of memory cards from dashcams. Additionally, they collected hundreds of mobile phones, belonging to both Nukhba terrorists and Israeli citizens, both the victims and the survivors. The soldiers carried military iPhones without SIM cards and uploaded the materials to an internal IDF Telegram in real-time.

Sources in the unit recounted: "We promised a guy from Be'eri that we would not delete anything and that we'd return everything, and that didn't happen. Everything was deleted. They instructed us not to do anything, and only then to return the devices. We deleted the content from some of the phones we returned, including videos and recordings of conversations between people from the Gaza envelope and the party."

According to the sources, the orders came directly from the Operations Directorate, and the orders were clear: "Collect everything and don't leave anything."

While the soldiers collected materials under fire, an "editing operations room" was opened on a floor that was rented out in a Tel Aviv office building. In the operations room, professional video editors dealt with the materials. Some of the materials were compiled into the video shown to the international audience to prove the scope of the atrocities.

According to the soldiers, a significant amount of the raw footage "disappeared" into the military system and never reached the families or civilian investigation teams.

The IDF did not comment on the report.

It shouldn't have to be told this is a most repulsive discovery, no matter how unshocking it may be to some at this point. No doubt, some people are wondering if some IDF officials were collaborators who enabled the horror to occur. And collaborators/infiltrators are a problem everywhere. What the military officials who worked to erase vital information did is offensive to the families of the victims along with the victims themselves. It's also stunning how desensitized to violence some people can be, that they'd even practically engage in cover up cliches.

Haredi brigade will attend Memorial Day ceremony, but not gathering where women sing?

According to the following report:

The Hasmonean Brigade has responded to a report by Channel 13 that claimed that the haredi brigade would not participate in Memorial Day ceremonies and would not mark Independence Day to "prevent exposing the soldiers to Zionist and patriotic content." The Hasmonean Brigade emphhatically denied the report.

"Preparations for the Hasmonean Brigade Memorial Day ceremony were recently completed as planned," the brigade said.

It further noted that "at the same time, a Hasmonean Brigade battalion currently operating in Lebanon will also hold a moving remembrance ceremony, as all IDF brigades do, while continuing its operational activities on the ground."

While this is welcome news, if the following is factual, it most definitely isn't:

The Channel 13 report also claimed that two soldiers from the brigade who were selected to receive the President's Distinction Medal will not appear at the ceremony at the President's Residence with the other recipients due to concerns about women singing during the ceremony, According to the report, the Chief of Staff will hold a private ceremony for the two at a later date.

Well that ruins everything, and is a disgrace and shame. As I've noted before, during October 7, 2023, many women were murdered by the Hamas jihadists as much for singing as for their ethnicity and sexuality. And the twosome they speak of won't attend a ceremony where women sing? They're only perpetuating the moral and societal harm that we need to avoid. They don't deserve medals at all.

IDF soldier in Lebanon causes disgusting PR embarrassment by vandalizing Jesus statue

At a time when Israel needs to be able to keep morale high, and is supposed to be dedicated to protecting Christian adherents endangered by Islamofascism, an IDF soldier had to create a repellent situation by vandalizing a Jesus statue in Lebanon:

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed on Sunday that a photo circulating online showed an IDF soldier wielding a hammer over the head of a statue of Jesus in southern Lebanon, committing to take “appropriate measures” against those involved.

The outrageous image of desecration of Christian iconography surfaced in the context of an ongoing Israeli invasion of Lebanon that President Donald Trump claimed had entered a ceasefire period to allow for peace talks on Thursday. The text of the IDF statement on the matter stated only that “the photograph depicts an IDF soldier operating in southern Lebanon” and did not specify whether the military had confirmed that the photograph was authentic and undoctored.

The assurance that the IDF is preparing to take “appropriate measures” against individuals involved suggests that officials do consider that those involved have behaved inappropriately, either truly engaging in the behavior photographed or producing the image to escalate tensions between Christians in Lebanon and Israel. The IDF statement also described the situation around the photo as an “incident” and stated that its soldiers are working to help restore the statue, again indicating that officials do not believe the photo was doctored or created with artificial intelligence.

Could the soldier who committed the disgusting act have been an ultra-Orthodox extremist? I don't know, but here's a case where a valid condemnation and complaint can be lodged against a soldier for doing something dirty that damages morale along with the IDF's expected mission. It's entirely possible the soldier did it deliberately to flare tensions. And division is the last thing we need at a time when the Hezbollah is still bound to be a serious danger. I hope the statue can be repaired, and that's something the IDF should do, along with sentencing the corrupt soldier to prison for the offensive act that was completely uncalled for.

USA military captures Iranian cargo ship that tried to bypass blockade

The USA military captured an Iranian cargo ship whose crew tried to disobey the blockade:

US President Donald Trump announces that the US has taken custody of an Iranian cargo ship that attempted to pass a blockade that Washington has been maintaining around Iranian ports.

“Today, an Iranian-flagged cargo ship named TOUSKA — nearly 900 feet long and weighing almost as much as an aircraft carrier — tried to get past our naval blockade, and it did not go well for them,” Trump claims in a Truth Social post.

“The US Navy guided missile destroyer USS SPRUANCE intercepted the TOUSKA in the Gulf of Oman, and gave [it a] fair warning to stop,” Trump continues. “The Iranian crew refused to listen, so our navy ship stopped them right in their tracks by blowing a hole in the engineer room. Right now, US Marines have custody of the vessel.”

“The TOUSKA is under US Treasury sanctions because of [its] prior history of illegal activity. We have full custody of the ship, and are seeing what’s on board!” the US president adds.

Will it turn out the cargo is comprised of illegal weaponry and other such components? This is just why the blockade has to be performed, and now, the USA military has a special victory where they can use the Iranian ship for gathering info from, and also of course from any crew members captured in the process.

The IDF sadly has a problem with gender bigotry, pro-LGBT positions and even dhimmitude to PLO figures, even after October 7, 2023

A horrifying case turned up of female IDF soldiers who were court-martialed for wearing outfits like tank tops when they were being discharged, and it's caused valid outrage:

The IDF court-martialed three female soldiers and docked a third of their salaries for wearing purportedly revealing clothes to base when they arrived to be discharged this week, two of the soldiers’ mothers said.

The military confirmed the incident on Friday, saying it “constitutes a departure from orders and was therefore handled by the deputy commander of the unit in accordance with the IDF’s disciplinary code of conduct.” The women had a right to appeal, the military added.

Soldiers typically show up to base in civilian clothing on the day of their discharge, when they often take celebratory photos of themselves cutting their military ID cards once they return their equipment and complete the requisite paperwork.

On social media, one of the mothers shared the ID-cutting photo that her daughter, who had served as a commander in basic training for non-combat soldiers, took with some colleagues who were also finishing their service.

Three of the women in the photo wore a tank top, a short skirt and a crop top, respectively. Shortly after they cut their ID cards, the three were put on trial and fined for “dressing inappropriately,” she said, calling the incident “repulsive and humiliating.”

“We got home, with headlines in the background about funding for draft-dodging Haredim and about Holocaust Remembrance Day, and it hit me,” she wrote about the immediate aftermath. “How upside-down everything is here. And what an incredible girl I have.”

Another of the soldiers’ mothers suggested on Facebook that her daughter’s “show trial” was a case study in misogyny.

“What was the point? To educate? To make an example of them? To stop them from repeating the horrible act of wearing jeans and a tank top?” wrote the mother, an attorney, on Facebook. “I wonder if male soldiers being discharged while wearing a tank top would have also been court-martialed. For some reason, I think not.”

On this, they may be alluding to how the IDF is quite possibly far more likely to take an entirely different direction when it comes to male homosexuality: if some gay men were practically photographing themselves kissing while wearing said outfits, chances are more likely they'd see no such disciplinary action at all. And there have been strong suggestions that's the disturbing situation in the IDF. Suggesting in turn they have a "classist" system at work, where men anywhere similar to Haredis are considered a degree above women in status, but a degree below gay men. Women rightfully offended by this incident should also consider that, if LGBT movements haven't backed them, that's exactly why they shouldn't rely upon said movements for side support, just like Jewish movements in the USA shouldn't rely on LGBT movements when it comes to seeking support against antisemitism, and let's not forget how supporters of transsexual ideology enabled misogyny to flourish in the past decade, along with antisemitism.

The incident came amid renewed criticism of religious coercion in the armed forces following the recent detention of four Border Police combat medics accused of “harming religion and Judaism” by barbecuing in a non-populated part of a base during the Jewish Sabbath.

MK Naama Lazimi, of the left-leaning Democrats party, slammed the punishment of the women as theocratic overreach.

“We have to protect the IDF from this insanity,” wrote Lazimi, adding that the women should “not only sue, but issue a sexual harassment complaint.”

“Fining a woman for her civilian clothing is to humiliate her, turn her into a sexual object and in practice sexually harass her by disparagement and comments about her clothing,” wrote Lazimi on Instagram.

While I don't approve of Lazimi's leftist politics, and wouldn't be surprised if she's not being altruistic (what are the chances she has no issues with Islam's misogyny?), the complaints in themselves are valid, and the victims of this abomination should take legal action against any and all staffers who made petty issues over their outfits, which should not be even the least bit controversial, even in military service. It should also be noted that this is practically what led to October 7, 2023, and that the IDF would do something so repulsive after what many Jewish women were graphically raped and murdered for as much as their ethnicity is unspeakably evil. Those army staffers who court martialed the girls should not be working in the army at all. They should be arrested, prosecuted and imprisoned.

Meanwhile, the military has promoted the expansion of gender-segregated frameworks to accommodate ultra-Orthodox soldiers, and a recent conservative campaign has called to remove women from the army outright.

Earlier this month, the IDF took down the music video of an original Passover song that was included in the army rabbinate’s Hagaddah, which critics said consigned women to the home and neglected their contributions in the military.

The furor over the Passover song came days after criticism within the Shin Bet over a letter from the spouse of the security agency’s chief, David Zini, to “the wives of security personnel,” which was seen to reinforce gender stereotypes.

Well this too is decidedly an embarrassment, and one of the worst things about this debacle is that it was quite possibly intended to damage the Netanyahu government's reputation, and even cause damage during the upcoming election later this year. Which is precisely why it's vital this subject be addressed publicly, and the country's rabbinate would do well to reach out to the girls and show solidarity with them. Yes, I am firmly serious here. Right-wing and Orthodox Judaist movements should openly address this now.

I also noticed in the article comments section the following:

My daughter is one of the women. It was actually 4 soldiers that were court-martialed, not 3. The fourth one was cropped out of this picture. She came home that day on Monday with such a bad taste in her mouth from her last day of service. She said many, many soldiers come like that on their last day, and none of them had any idea this could happen.

I'm most terribly sorry this happened, and hope the observant Orthodox Judaist community in Israel feels the same way. That's why they have to publicly speak out in the girls' defense and let them know the IDF doesn't speak for Orthodox Judaists. They'd also do well to condemn the IDF requiring women in a marathon wear pants while men were allowed to wear shorts. That too is deeply offensive and gender-bigoted.

Equally disturbing is an incident that occurred in the past month, where a soldier was disciplined/dismissed for toppling a statue of PLO savage Yaser Arafat, and that too strongly suggests the IDF's overlorded by leftists who see nothing wrong with Islamofacism, despite any recent indications to the contrary. Let's be clear. This kind of cowardice cannot continue, and any and all personnel who were involved in the humiliation of those 4 lady soldiers owes a colossal apology, and must resign, not to mention ensure that in or out of the army, they'll make sure these kind of misogynist monstrosities don't happen any longer in the post-October 7 era.

Palestinian "refugee" in Britain attempted to rape underaged girl

ENGLAND: A Palestinian refugee from Gaza, who arrived claiming to be fleeing a ‘genocide’, was arrested for attempting to rape a 14-year-old girl.

He defends himself: “According to Sharia law, raping a non-Muslim girl is legal. I only follow Allah and Sharia law.”

Pure evil! pic.twitter.com/5pABBRge5B

— Dr. Maalouf ‏ (@realMaalouf) April 18, 2026

As told here, a Muslim who identifies as a "palestinian" tried to rape a 14-year-old girl in Britain, and he blatantly used the Islamic koran to defend his behavior. This abominable incident must serve as a lesson that the koran isn't just built on antisemitism. It's also built on misogyny and racism. Yet the government of Kier Starmer sees fit to import such monsters into their territory, and doesn't demand any other countries in places like north Africa that are Muslim (but shouldn't be) take them in instead. Just absolutely disgusting.

Rock singer arrested for murder in Los Angeles

A singer in Los Angeles with the pen name D4vd has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a 13 year old girl:

Singer D4vd has been arrested on suspicion of killing a 14-year-old girl whose decomposed body was found seven months ago in his apparently abandoned Tesla, authorities said Thursday, while his lawyers declared his innocence.

Los Angeles police said in a brief statement that homicide detectives arrested the 21-year-old Houston-born alt-pop singer, whose legal name is David Burke, on suspicion of murder in the investigation of the killing of Celeste Rivas Hernandez. [...]

The singer had been under investigation by an LA County grand jury looking into the death of Rivas Hernandez. The probe was officially secret, but its existence — and the designation of D4vd as its target — was revealed on Feb. 25 when his mother, father and brother filed an objection in a Texas court to subpoenas demanding they testify.

The long-dead body of Rivas Hernandez was found in a Tesla towed from the Hollywood Hills on Sept. 8, a day after she would have turned 15. She was a 13-year-old seventh grader when her family reported her missing in 2024 from her hometown of Lake Elsinore, about 70 miles (112 kilometers) southeast of Los Angeles. Authorities give her age as 14 when she was killed in court documents.

Sounds like yet another "celebrity" is on his way to prison for a long time, and his record albums are on their way to the dumpster. Somebody needs to make the argument and demand that showbiz performers start cleaning up their acts, because years after #MeToo, it's clear nothing changed for the better as a result of that.

Zohran Mamdani planning to open socialist supermarkets

If there's any campaign promise NYC's first Muslim mayor wants to keep, its his plans to open government-run supermarkets:

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani intends to keep one of his most controversial campaign promises: city-owned grocery stores.

In his 100-day address on Sunday, he announced the city’s first socialist supermarket will be up and running in East Harlem in 2027. The only thing slower than Mr. Mamdani opening the store next year will be the checkout line once it finally opens—and that’s assuming the shelves aren’t empty.

The mayor plans to manage five government-run stores by the end of his first term, one located in each of New York City’s five boroughs, that will be run for no profit with the objective of keeping prices artificially low for a select basket of staples (e.g. bread, milk, eggs). Addressing food affordability in an already expensive city is important, but this “solution” is central planning dressed up as compassion.

Rather than addressing the web of city regulations, labor costs above national averages, and high real estate expenses that inflate prices for small grocers, the mayor suggests government intervention. This could harm small businesses by crowding them out.

Private grocery stores operate on thin profit margins of only 1 to 3% while simultaneously navigating labor costs and theft. Owners are not “greedy capitalists,” despite what communists might say. The incentive to maximize profits actually facilitates competition and naturally drives prices down. When a public option enters the market with artificially low prices and no barriers to entry, mom-and-pop shops get pushed out.

In a free market system, private grocers outperform public options. When asked about the private sector’s natural advantage over his socialist marts, Mamdani stated, “I look forward to the competition. May the most affordable grocery store win.” However, the city will be funneling tens of millions of taxpayer dollars into stores that do not pay rent or property taxes—hardly fair competition.

And that's tragically just what Mamdani believes and upholds - unfair competition, or just plain pushing out all the fair competition entirely. Yet this is tragically whom many New Yorkers voted for, and now, the economy's set to sink even further.

Rand Paul sounding like his father by dismissing seriousness of Iranian threat

Senator Rand Paul, the son of the awful Ron Paul, is now sadly giving signs he's not better than his father:

Paul said, “The interesting thing about the War Powers Act is it’s misreported all the time. It’s misreported it as a reporting, requirement that after 60 days, the president needs to report. Well, people don’t read the whole War Powers Act. War Powers Act only says there’s three instances when a president can go to war, a declaration by Congress, use of authorization of force by Congress or an imminent threat.”

He added, “So really, the debate now should be is a 47-year-old conflict and imminent threat. Were there changes in their nuclear program that made this an imminent threat? And I don’t think the evidence is there that there was an imminent threat that would allow the president to go to war on his own.”

This is a disgrace and shame he's joined the army of underminers, because there was once a time when he'd made at least a few perceptive arguments, and now he's kowtowing to just what the Islamofascists running Iran would want to hear, along with anybody else who didn't give a damn about the threat of nuclear weapons in the Islamic world. I'd like to think the Kentucky populace who voted him into office would be willing now to vote him out, but I've got a bad feeling they don't care much either how naive and appeasing Paul's being. Which would explain how terrible situations like these come about, tragically enough.

The new right-wing anti-Trump crowd kowtows to Islam

Andrea Widburg discussed how bad right-wingers like Tucker Carlson, and also Pope Leo, have sold out to Islam along their path to undermining Donald Trump's policies:

Today’s news brought stories of two thought leaders—the Pope and Tucker Carlson—showing reverence for Islam. This differs from the left’s long-standing political allegiance with Islamic causes, something reflecting that the left and Islam share a common goal, which is the West’s destruction. Instead, this is a reverence for the Islamic faith. That’s new and, I must say, as someone who likes the Judeo-Christian worldview, disturbing.

The way I see it, the Koran is a pastiche of random lessons from the Bible, with which Mohammed was clearly familiar, plus a lot of rules that worked well for Mohammed’s personal advancement. Thus, Mohammed echoed such principles as a unitary god and the rejection of idolatry, charity to the poor, honesty in trade, respect for parents, mercy and forgiveness, and keeping one’s word.

The problem is that he added other rules that were carve-outs for Muslims. Thus, Mohammed himself is idolized to the point at which he is indistinguishable from God, sharia laws are utterly merciless, and Muslims have no obligation to extend to non-Muslims mercy, honesty in trade, or keeping one’s word.

In addition, Islam has icky things layered over it. For example, because the 50-year-old Mohammed married a six-year-old and consummated the marriage when he was 53 and she was nine, that’s a right given to all Muslim men. And because Mohammed veiled his wives because he was a prophet, Muslim women must wear tents.

Lastly, of course, there’s the whole war thing. Mohammed mandated conquest and war against infidels. Some people counter this by pointing to the violence in the Bible but the Bible is both a religious book and a history book. It recounts battles. But there is no “perfect man” telling Christians and Jews that they must convert the world through fire and sword, nor that women are the sexual spoils of such wars.

What’s disturbing is that two Western men who proclaim both their faith and hostility to Trump and the MAGA movement have lately become very supportive of Islam.

You could probably add a few more rotten apples to the list, those being the aforementioned RINO writers at the Federalist, who've also signaled support for Carlson and Leo. What the main 2 figures in focus are doing is merely an attempt to stealth indoctrinate the western populace under the guise of "conservatism", and we must hope most of the population understands what sellouts both these disgraces really are. They both keep silent on Christians persecuated by Islam, and it's chilling to wonder if both could be secret converts to Islam, much like some British in past decades wondered if King Charles was secretly a convert. Why, what if French communist Jean-Luc Melenchon is? For now, it's disgusting how Leo's following up Carlson as a religious figure who's a dhimmi sellout.

Iran's monsters still trying to rebuild their missile cities

Even as the USA tries to get Iran to hand over their uranium deposits, the Islamofascist tyrants are once again trying to restore access to their missile cities and recover any other weapons buried there:

Iran is working to recover missile launchers and restore its "missile cities" system, according to a satellite image published by CNN. The image shows engineering vehicles removing barriers and debris from a tunnel shaft that was hit in Israeli Air Force strikes during Operation Roaring Lion.

A previous CNN investigation found that the US and Israel struck entrances to the bases in order to prevent missile launchers from leaving to fire or returning to reload. US intelligence assessed that about half of Iran's missile launchers remained intact after a month of fighting, according to sources who spoke with CNN. Many of those launchers may now be buried underground because of the strikes on tunnel entrances.

This certainly makes clear why they can't be allowed to make use of even construction equipment, if that's what they're using to try and reach the sick weapons again. And the sooner the Islamic regime can be brought down, the better.

The sad crisis of uglification

Jamie Wilson's written about the modern obsession on the left with uglifying everything, and how beauty's suffered from it as a result:

Tolkien shows us exactly how it works. The ruffians and “gatherers and sharers” that took over the peaceful Shire don’t just loot; they uglify. They close the old inns, fell beloved trees, replace hobbit-holes with ugly, mean brick houses, pollute the water, and craft and post ugly rules and propaganda. But why bother making things hideous? Why is it important to destroy beauty?

Because beauty is quietly powerful. The ordinary hobbit could go outside in the evening and smoke his pipe, gazing out across the lovely green hills of the Shire. Daily, they saw that life could be ordered, delightful, and worth defending. Once beauty is ruined, there is less to care about, less to fight for. Compliance becomes normal — after all, the Party Tree has already been cut down and left to rot, so there's nothing to fight for. Quaint Bagshot Row is an open quarry. Gatherers take surplus and more, despoiling what they don’t take. The hobbits grumble, of course, but they are demoralized, hungry but not starving, and much easier to control because they just don’t care anymore.

We saw the same things in the old Soviet Union. Socialist realism, with its austere lines and solid colors, replaced real art with propaganda posters praising the USSR and the worker. Beautiful, graceful cathedrals and exotic Russian onion domes were replaced by brutalist concrete blocks. Fashion and music and gathering places, things of delight, were flattened into drabness, functional but not fun. Because the state could not redistribute beauty, and because beauty gives people joy and hope, beauty was pathologized, called bourgeois, and replaced with an antiseptic, dark aesthetic. The common man was given enough “culture” to be sated, but never enough to satisfy the hunger of his soul for beauty. Other, darker things filled that void.

Today’s Quiet Uglification

We’re watching a softer version play out in real time, especially in the cultural sphere. One of the most visible symptoms is the trend toward ugliness among segments of young liberal or feminist women in America and Europe, especially: deliberate androgyny, rejection of makeup or feminine presentation, garish and jarring hair colors, glorification of obesity under the banner of “body positivity,” and an overall embrace of what can only be called uglification. This is not simply a trend or fashion or a fad, but rather the same dynamic we saw in the Soviet Union and the Shire. But this dynamic uses guilt and fitting in as enforcement mechanisms. Striving for conventional beauty is “internalized patriarchy,” “fatphobia,” or complicity in oppression. The message is don’t try too hard, or you’re betraying the group. The result? Personal self-sabotage that signals virtue inside the subculture, transferring the ego boost young women once got from looking nice to the “you go girl” affirmation from her peers.

Obviously, this is terrible it's happened over the past decade, and we can only hope the art scene will recover. But what's also angering is that in the past, religious hysteria also played a part in leading to this. Locally, I've felt extreme ultra-Orthodox influence had its own role in damaging women's dignity, along with imagery in advertising, by seeing to it said imagery would be censored altogether, along with singing/music. Such cases make me wonder if leftists thought that the religious communities weren't serious about supporting women's rights and dignity, to the point where they believed said religious communities wouldn't give a damn if they turned everything ugly. As a result, the left filled a vacuum that was shamefully enabled by hysterical pious folks. And of course, that means religions that aren't Islam, or anything similar to it.

I'm very disappointed in western religious movements that came within even miles of leading to the situations they did in past years, because they put the keys in the ignition for what the left brought about in the past decade. And any religious figures who don't address this, and don't have the courage to, are only furthering the disgrace. So I'd highly appreciate it that after October 7, 2023, Judaist religious figures who really don't want to let division continue in any way kindly address issues like what Wilson's spoken about, and call for stopping all the anti-sex hysteria they led to that's deeply hurt women's status and civil rights. The atrocities that the Haredi extremists caused in the past decade and more can't go ignored anymore by anybody who understands the issues involved.