July 18th, 2026
Whether they’re speaking Ultraorthodox or Ultramuslim, we all recognize the international language of Asshole.

They refuse to sit next to women on planes, and I guess sometimes airlines accommodate their assholery; but when they don’t, things can get very bad very quickly. The latest incident featured a Sharia maniac slapping a female crew member who attempted to reason with him when he did his no-women-next-to-me thing. He was arrested.

July 3rd, 2026
‘Judge slams Malaysia’s mandatory female circumcision edict as “primitive patriarchal practice”’

All praise to Melbourne judge Jonathan Beach, who is not only willing to notice that ALL Muslim girls (babies. toddlers.) in that benighted country MUST get slashed and desexed, but who is even willing to condemn it publicly.

It’s the whole fucking country, folks, and you didn’t even know about it. Islam is the official state religion. 65% of the place practices the religion. Virtually everyone practices FGM.

July 2nd, 2026
‘I sat in an Amish church once where whooping cough was making rounds; the group preferred this over the unknowns of vaccination.’

The Amish and the Jewish ultraorthodox – when serious disease runs rampant in the larger population, it will probably be these baleful sects we have to thank.

Even as yet another court – this one in New York State – says you can’t kill our kids, even if you’re willing to kill your own, these ignorant people continue to fight for their right to be exempt from human decency.

July 2nd, 2026
Catholic church excommunicates an anti-Semitic breakaway.

The nutty SSPX has always reviled UD types (Jews, that is), which upsets the Vatican; but now that they’ve gone and consecrated a bunch of bishops that is the last straw.

For its part, SSPX delivered a fuck you in a sermon anticipating the excommunication. Boys will be boys.

June 29th, 2026
Trying to find out where Dr Dewayne Walker got his Doctorate.

It’s nowhere online, but now that he’s all over the news it would be good to find out who educated him. He runs a Baptist school in Kentucky which gathers its little kids in a room and makes them watch as a bunch of men in fatigues rush in and shoot massive guns at a man onstage. The man writhes and wriggles and moans and spasms until he dies.

The shooters drag the corpse offstage and blow it up.

And even though it’s all just pretend, the pastor explains that the kids should shoot and then explode the corpse of the devil, just the way the pretend killers did.

We must all shoot and detonate the devil, he goes on to explain in the video he made to respond to the fallout the skit is generating.

June 25th, 2026
Denmark continues to be a model for secular democracies.

Its leftwing government will soon likely ban the Muslim call to prayer, where men only are summoned several times a a day, loudly, to their religious duty. Denmark already restricts burqas, niqabs, and religious dress in schools. Like France, Quebec, and other self-respecting liberal democracies, it knows that the price of freedom and equality is eternal vigilance.

The [immigration] minister’s comments reflect concerns in Denmark that the public broadcasting of the adhan represents more than a simple religious practice. The adhan is performed five times each day and is intended to summon Muslims to prayer. Critics argue that broadcasting it over loudspeakers imposes a religious message on the wider public, including those who do not belong to the faith.

The controversy is further intensified by the meaning of the words being broadcast. The adhan can be translated as “God is great, there is no God but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. Come to prayer.” For opponents, the wording goes beyond a simple call to worship by publicly proclaiming Islam’s religious claims.

June 25th, 2026
‘[Church Pastor Tony] Spell sued former Governor John Bel Edwards, East Baton Rouge Sheriff Sid Gautreaux and Corcoran, adding [his neighbors, the] Sherwins to the lawsuit in 2023 when their home security system caught footage of Spell allegedly trying to hit a protester outside Life Tabernacle Church with a church bus.’

Plus he just beat up one of the Sherwins. They don’t make men of God like this outside of Louisiana.

June 15th, 2026
The Jew hater looks like Jack Antonoff’s younger brother. The hated Jew looks like Conan O’Brien’s younger brother.

But in the wonderfully mixed up way of these United States, the one that looks Jewish won’t work for a Jew, and the one that looks Irish is a proud kippah-wearing Jew.

Never the twain would have met, except that the Jew invited the anti-semite (a rising junior at Cornell) to apply for a job at his startup, and the anti-semite’s now hugely viral response was “Not interested in working for a Jew.”

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The Jew – the hero of the piece – posted the lad’s anti-semitic turndown, but went to some trouble to erase his name: “He’s just a student, he might not know any better — it could be people in his environment, or on social media he saw something about Jewish people and he is just following the wave.”

The anti-semite’s name got out anyway, and … you can imagine. His life has become a lot more difficult than it was before he sussed out a Jew based (he explains) on his “physiognomy.”

And yet the Jew returns vileness with kindness: “At the end of the day, I hope he realizes that he shouldn’t have generalized like that. … You never know who you might work with, or work for, or be friends with that comes from a different background or different religion. I really don’t wish that he ends up not finding a job from it. I just hope he learns from it, and people can realize he changed and accept it.”

Cornell’s investigating the dude, etc. I guess it’s possible he could be expelled.

I’m with the long-suffering Jew – the student is 19 years old. Shaddup and give him a chance to change. He’s been called out enough.

In any case, his real problem ain’t with UD and her fellow Jews. He has I’m sure attracted the attention of the equally highly educated Richard Spencer and his gang. There’s a whole anti-semitic cadre in this country just waiting for bright young recruits to groom for frontline positions.

June 7th, 2026
Latter-Day Plaints

Blame it on the musical.

While the Pentagon is perfectly happy to retain the even-freakier Pentecostals on its new list of officially recognized faiths, it has decided that Joseph Smith’s peeps – the nation’s first polyamorists – are too fucking weird for prime time. The official LDS Churchmen (ain’t no Churchwomen) are complaining.

June 3rd, 2026
THE SACRED ART OF CASH FLOW

One of the many people just arrested for massive insider trading wrote a financial advice column for Orthodox Jews.

May 13th, 2026
‘Texas Attorney General, senate candidate, soon-to-be divorced guy, human lawsuit machine, alleged granite connoisseur, and noted pen thief Ken Paxton announced Thursday that his office is investigating school districts that are not displaying the Ten Commandments in classrooms.’

Awesome writing.

May 1st, 2026
Ohio: Land of incomprehension about the separation of church and state.

They keep trying to anoint the state a Christian kingdom. Back in 1995 they got all pissed when the local ACLU threatened to sue an Ohio county just cuz they put a twelve foot cross on top of their courthouse. And just tuther day the entire Columbus Downtown Commission rejected a Christian lobbyist group’s proposal for three crosses on a rooftop right across from the statehouse, two 12 feet and one 16 feet high and illuminated and all.

It’s real hard to make people who don’t understand the foundations of this country stop trying to Christianize its institutions. Like the Columbus Commission, you just have to keep heading them off at the pass.

April 21st, 2026
“When kids see people from diverse religions and ethnic groups, we teach them respect. We teach them tolerance. …. By limiting the people they’re exposed to, we are also limiting that tolerance and awareness and respect.”

Weawy? Are you sure? This hijabi, who runs a hijab-heavy day care center in Montreal, counsels us that restricting almost-total face and body veiling at public centers like hers is naughty and bigoted and will turn out insufficiently tolerant people. When young girls see other young girls, and older women, swathed en masse because they think God tells them that women and only women should hide themselves because otherwise they will inflame the raging lust of men… Is this sort of reasoning worthy of our respect? Does it tend to produce an egalitarian society?

Babe, as soon as people can start to reason for themselves (assuming they’re being raised to reason rather than obey their imam) they can perceive the regression of the burqa/hijab in the context of a free and equal liberal order.

April 21st, 2026
Wow. The New Orbanism became the Old Orbanism real fast.

Even in the pages of theocrat-friendly First Things, they’re already pissing on Viktor’s grave…

I mean, dat was fast. Integralism, with its coercive religious state replacing liberal democracy, is not even being afforded a proper funeral, for chrissake, and both its Menchevik and Bolshevik wings are flailing. Orban was their ticket to a gender-adjusted, permapreg USA, and now the Federalist Fertility Clinic is leaking sperm deposits out of every pore. GOING OUT OF WHIZNESS.

Orbán’s illiberal democracy, which he has spent the past sixteen years embedding in the institutions and culture of Hungarian national life, looks set to be dissolved by a successor keen to embrace all the European Union diktats Orbán’s ascendancy was predicated on opposing. On how a postliberal order can be developed into a society organized around material and spiritual virtue, integralism has few convincing answers. On how such an order would be maintained against the vicissitudes of democracy, it has no answers. 

Well, that last question at least has an answer. Duce Waldstein will burn at the stake as many heretics as it takes to maintain God’s kingdom.

And hey look at the dude’s last paragraph. Turns out – wait for it -the secular liberal state is your best bet if you want to be a big ol’ Catholic! Whodathunkit.

Integralists will not like hearing it, but there is already a means by which to live faithfully, extol the doctrines of the Church, and contribute to the forging of a common good society. Their old enemy, liberalism, properly understood, gives the Catholic holder of public office the freedom to live a life integrated to the eternal verities and ordered to virtue, while exercising temporal power under the law with ex officio neutrality, and promoting a culture conducive to religious devotion in which the faithful are secure from coercive state secularism. It is an imperfect model, it does not always deliver victory, and its concepts and mechanisms have been directed to un-Christian and anti-Christian ends and will be again. That is all the more reason to fight for the proper understanding and application of liberalism, and thus the right and ability of the faith to flourish in “enemy” territory, rather than taking the political Catholic tradition out of the mainstream and into the coercive, authoritarian fringe. 

April 15th, 2026
‘[Female Genital Mutilation is] an archaic socio-cultural norm that is a criminal offence in most countries’ domestic law — a position further buttressed by international legal obligations.’

 The practice is not religious and thus not protected by Article 25 or 26. Even if it were, it cannot be constitutionally protected; it is a form of torture that results in the permanent dismemberment of a girl-child’s body, leading to long-term psychological and physical suffering, and can result in death. The Court must separate the constitutionality of FGM from issues of religious freedom…

The respondents argue that FGM is “an integral part” of the Bohra religion. This is patently untrue. Even if it were true, no claim of religious freedom can justify a violation of bodily integrity, human dignity, or fundamental rights. Under the SC’s jurisprudence, even if a practice is intrinsic to a religion, it cannot supersede other essential fundamental rights, particularly the right to life. The respondents argue that the right to life is not implicated by FGM as it is voluntary. This is a flawed interpretation, as consent has no bearing on the right to life. And no child can provide informed consent at age seven…

Hope now rests with [the Indian Supreme Court] to expressly reaffirm the grave illegality of this practice.

Maya Nirula

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