I see the protests in France are trending. Since I just spent 10 days there during the heart of them, I figured I'd chime in with what's actually going on. The news and clickbait accounts on X will show you the outlier events: burning buildings, raging violence and everything that triggers you. I was in the heart of Aix en Provence during the biggest protest day and filmed the center where it was happening. (See below) This is right the University, across from the church, dead center of town. The students are dancing, singing, kicking soccer balls and have comically barricaded the entrance doors to force the school to close. I visited many cities in France during the protest period, and saw zero violence or malpractice of any kind. More broadly, I spent more than a month this year in France across 3 trips and 10+ cities, including Paris, Bordeaux, Aix en Provence, Nice, Antibes, Biarritz, and others, and it's incredibly safe, charming, peaceful and beautiful. Every city I visited is nicer than almost every American city, and there's zero comparison. So much that it wouldn't even be insulting to France to try, because nobody who has spent significant time in both countries would take this comparison seriously. I spoke with the students at length about their views. I also spoke with waiters, drivers, merchants, staff and whoever. They were all civil, well articulated and genuinely wanted to see change. We can disagree about their reasoning, logic or whatever, and it's true that France has fiscal problems, but to chalk up the France protests to raging extremist violence from "pick your favorite group to blame", is a laughable misrepresentation of what's actually going on. If you exclusively watch the news and believe the top 1% extreme situations, you have likely been psyoped.

Trump: "If you're in doubt about somebody's name from the Middle East, just say Mohammed, you have about a 65% chance. 'Hello, Mohammed.' I've done it for years now. I've never been wrong." 😭

Tucker Carlson on watching b*stiality p*rnography: "If you look at p*rnography enough or b*stiality videos all day: after a while, like, it's kind of an attractive horse, I get it. I'm not into it personally, but it's not crazy."

I wonder what is going on here.

Democrats would look for any reason to charge the father for stopping the shooter becuase he brought a gun onto school grounds.

Martha Plimpton is slamming Shane Gillis' "SNL" monologue, calling it "really f****g stupid": “There’s this Shane Gillis guy who I’ve never heard of who said some really f*****g stupid sh** on live on air on ‘SNL’ on Saturday. It’s like really stupid sh**. He deserves a spanking from his mom.” variety.com/2026/tv/news/sha…

Unbelievable story from Adelaide, Australia where Pakistani student Samia Malik was fatally struck on May 6, 2025 in the middle of the road why she prayed to Allah. Ashton Friend, from Banksia Park, pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving but not jailed.

In solidarity with the African migrant who set a french lady's face on fire leftists are trying to prove it's not that bad. Spoiler, it is! xitter.cf/silly_200/status/21096…

Colorado Democratic nominee Melat Kiros: "I'm coming from a long generation of proud, proud black socialists and radicals." (She has no black American ancestors)

EXC: A Washington think tank whose immigration program receives Soros funding has identified hundreds of American counties as destinations for migrants. 96.5% of selected counties are majority White . Residents would have no say. Its November 2025 immigration blueprint urges policymakers to “enable local governments and private entities to sponsor immigrants directly.” It also proposes state visa programs and “incentivizing new arrivals to stay in specific states and regions.” Two weeks later, Niskanen published its Migration Match Index, assessing American communities for their capacity to accommodate more immigration. The report describes places with “aging, stagnant, or insufficient native labor supply.” It weighs factors including job openings, rental vacancies, affordability, unemployment, and age. The authors explicitly discuss using updated data to plan resettlement following “an influx of asylum seekers at the border.” They also contemplate applications to a future refugee-admissions system. Niskanen’s own funding disclosure lists $300,000 from Open Society Foundation for immigration work, covering the period when both documents were published. Other donors include the Rockefeller Family Fund and the Pritzker Family Foundation. The organization already has a record of helping turn private sponsorship into policy. Its 2025 annual report says it “helped conceive and implement” Welcome Corps, the private refugee-sponsorship program established under Biden.

At the point, yes, typical Minnesota names. Also, why are the words "kids" and "teens" always used when Somalis commit crime?

I’m outraged by this attack on Representative Omar. Trump and his DOJ have a bizarre obsession with tearing down Minnesota, our leaders and our communities. This latest action, even as voting has already started in Minnesota, is a transparent attempt to interfere in our elections. This is their corrupt playbook: Use all the powers of the federal government to attack our leaders. Deploy an out of control, violent federal police force to invade our communities and kill and injure Minnesotans. Launch baseless and hateful attacks on the Somali community. And feed Trump’s longstanding obsession with Representative Omar. Minnesota won’t stand for it.

I'm often amused at the Universe's sense of humor. Example: CCR writes a protest song with so much certainty and smug swagger that 50 years later it's used to soundtrack the very institutions it was condemning. Any US military action *Fortunate Son intensifies