As the United States advances toward the 2030 Census, a structural political realignment is quietly but relentlessly taking shape.

It is not being driven by campaign slogans or cable news theatrics, but by population movement, economic performance, and policy outcomes that are increasingly difficult to ignore. Together, these forces are placing Democrats on the brink of a profound loss of electoral power in the 2030s, one that could permanently reshape the national political map.

Fresh population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau have been analyzed by redistricting experts. The facts indicate a clear and persistent migration away from Democrat strongholds, toward Republican-leaning states in the South and West. When translated into congressional representation, this movement has enormous consequences.

Under multiple projection models, states that reliably vote Republican are positioned to gain House seats and Electoral College votes after 2030. Meanwhile, long-dominant Democrat bastions steadily lose clout.

In one model developed by Carnegie Mellon University redistricting scholar Jonathan Cervas, Texas and Florida are each projected to gain four House seats. Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, Utah, and Idaho each gain one. Meanwhile, California, New York, and Illinois collectively lose eight seats, with additional losses in Oregon, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island.

A parallel estimate from the American Redistricting Project is slightly more conservative but reaches the same fundamental conclusion: electoral power is shifting decisively away from blue states and toward red ones.

This matters because House seats determine Electoral College votes. When the math is applied to presidential elections, the implications are stark.

CNN analyst Harry Enten demonstrated that if current population trends hold through 2030, Democrats would lose seven House seats nationally while Republican-leaning states gain seven. Under those adjusted figures, a Democrat presidential nominee could secure every traditional blue state—plus Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—yet still fall short of the 270 electoral votes required to win. The total would reach only 263.

The underlying driver of this transformation is not mysterious. Americans are moving. And they are not moving randomly.

Since the 2020 Census, the five states with the largest population gains have been Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Georgia, and Arizona, all of which voted for Donald Trump in 2024. At the same time, the five states with the worst domestic net migration have been California, New York, Illinois, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, all of which voted for Kamala Harris. This is not a temporary post-pandemic blip. Census estimates through 2025 confirm the pattern is continuing.

The political consequences of this movement are amplified by the economic realities driving it.

Blue states and especially blue metropolitan areas are, by the data, increasingly miserable places to absorb inflationary shocks. Consider a December report from the White House Council of Economic Advisers. States carried by Trump in 2024 averaged 2.5 percent year-over-year inflation as of November 2025, compared with 3.0 percent in states won by Harris. In metropolitan areas, the divide was even sharper. Trump state metros saw inflation of 1.9 percent versus 3.0 percent in Harris ones.

Housing costs tell the most punishing story.

Housing inflation stood at 2.3 percent in Trump state metros compared with 3.9 percent in Harris metros, a disparity attributed to restrictive zoning, burdensome permitting, and chronic underbuilding in blue jurisdictions. In New York City, for instance, average monthly rents reached $5,686 as of December, placing extraordinary strain on working families.

Economic stagnation compounds the pressure.

Moody’s Analytics reported in October that roughly 23 states, plus Washington, D.C., were either in recession or at a high risk of entering one. Economic woes were disproportionately concentrated among blue states like Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Michigan, Oregon, and Washington. These areas collectively represent nearly one-third of U.S. gross domestic product (GDP). California and New York alone account for more than one-fifth of national GDP output, yet both are treading water with minimal growth.

Meanwhile, Republican-governed states are expanding.

Texas recorded 6.3 percent annual income growth in the second quarter of 2025, far exceeding the national average of 2.1 percent. Florida, Utah, and Kentucky posted strong payroll growth and rising employment. This reveals how red states generally offer greater economic opportunity and affordability.

This divergence fuels capital flight. Businesses follow people, and people follow opportunity.

New York residents pay roughly $5,000 more per capita in taxes than the national average and $7,000 more than residents of Florida or Texas. Less than one-quarter of the approximately 500,000 people who left New York City during the pandemic have returned. New York has lost House seats in every decennial reapportionment since 1950. Projections suggest it will lose two more after 2030, while California loses four.

The political feedback loop is brutal. As blue states lose population, they lose representation. As they lose representation, they lose leverage to change national policy. And as economic conditions deteriorate further, more residents leave.

This is why the 2026 midterms loom so large.

Democrats are staring directly at a narrowing window of power. If these demographic and economic trends persist into the early 2030s, the party faces a structurally hostile Electoral College and a House map tilted against it for a generation. That fact raises the stakes for November’s midterms dramatically.

History suggests parties confronted with existential decline do not retreat quietly.

With control of Congress, Democrats would possess the ability to stall legislation, obstruct budgets, block appointments, and paralyze governance. They would wreak havoc and pull out every stop to derail Trump’s administration, along with the Republican brand, as the 2028 presidential election cycle begins. Any fool can see that rank lawfare, procedural warfare, and scorched-earth obstruction become more likely when long-term prospects dim.

This is no exaggeration. It is tactical behavior for a party, specifically the blue one, that understands what the numbers are signaling.

For Republicans, the implication is clear.

Turnout in November is not merely about winning a midterm cycle. It is about preventing a counteroffensive of vandalism by a party confronting the erosion of its power base. Red state growth and economic resilience offer a real model of governance that voters are rewarding with their feet. But that model takes time to show up on congressional maps and in the Electoral College. Furthermore, it can only shape national policy if it has a representative voice on Capitol Hill.

The demographic clock is ticking. The math is shifting. And this year’s fight for Congress, especially the House, is rapidly becoming the front line in a much larger struggle. It is a frenzied clash over what America’s political landscape will look like in the 2030s.

This is the quiet hinge moment of American politics.

Population, money, and misery are moving power south and west. Democrats know it. That is why November matters so much. Turnout shall decide whether blue state decline goes national, or whether voters stop a desperate party from weighing America down with unhinged malice.

Dr. Joseph Ford Cotto is the creator, host, and producer of News Sight, delivering sharp insights on the key events that shape our lives. He publishes Dr. Cotto’s Digest, sharing how business and the economy really impact us all. During the 2024 presidential race, he developed the Five-Point Forecast, which accurately predicted Donald Trump’s national victory and correctly called every swing state. Cotto holds a doctorate in business administration and is a Lean Six Sigma Certified Black 

I always tell people the day Latinos, African-American, Asian and other communities realize that they share the same oppressor is the day we start winning. Because we are the majority in this country. We have the ability to take over this country,” State Rep. ‘Gene’ Yuanzhi Wu, who serves as the Texas Democrat House Minority Leader, recently declared.

Who is oppressing Wu? The Chinese immigrant came here from Guangzhou, graduated from law school and became one of the top officials in the state. Good luck to any American who wants to move to China, become a lawyer and run for public office. And if a non-Chinese immigrant were to suggest that minorities in China should ally together against their Chinese oppressors and take over, his organs would be for sale on Temu in 15 minutes or less.

Rep. Wu represents a Houston district where a majority of the neighborhoods like Gulfton and Sharpstown are Hispanic and only a minority of residents are Chinese. Three out of four core neighborhoods have more black people than Hispanics so it’s understandable that Wu wants to point them at overthrowing their white ‘oppressors’ rather than electing a black or Hispanic man.

(Of course many of the ‘Hispanics’ in Wu’s district are illegal aliens. Wu admitted in an interview that at least a third are illegals, suggesting the real number may be much higher, and that his district is illegitimate. It also explains why Wu fights so hard to protect illegal aliens in Texas.)

But Rep. Gene Wu’s call for a race war isn’t representing Asian Americans either. Instead it hews suspiciously close to the Chinese Communist party’s agenda for tearing apart America.

Houston was the site of one of the most blatant Chinese influence and intimidation operations leading to the forced closure of its consulate in 2020 followed by the fire department showing up when its staffers began burning papers. Wu, who had attended multiple events at the spy consulate, angrily protested the forced closure, warning that “this is how WW3 starts” and ranting that it’s “madness” and claiming that “this is Trump trying to start an actual war.”

Rep. Gene Wu claimed that the closure of the spy consulate was racist and endangering Asian Americans. “It’s not just Chinese Americans that are in danger. But it’s all Asian Americans, because as we’ve seen with COVID-19 issues that there has been a dramatic spike in anti-Asian American attacks both physical and verbal.”

“Everyone spies,” Wu’s wife, who works as a reporter, argued after conducting an interview with the Chinese Communist consul general..

“We try very hard to make sure to bridge the gap between Texas and China,” Rep. Wu told China Daily, a paper controlled by the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party, and described lobbying members of Congress to support exporting natural gas to China. “Every time I go to DC I make it my business to visit senators and representatives to tell them why this bill is a good idea. If this gets passed and signed by the President, it will be huge for Texas and China… This is the perfect area for Chinese companies to do business.”

Rep. Wu led the fight against Texas Senate Bill 17 barring Chinese, Russian, Iranian and North Korean takeovers of American land after foreign nationals belonging to enemy nations, especially to China, began buying up property near air bases.

“It is anti-Asian, anti-immigrant, and specifically against Chinese-Americans,” Rep. Wu falsely claimed. “It is plainly racist, and our community will not stand for it”. He argued that “this is our new form of yellow peril, where people are scared of whatever issues they have with China.”

The representative from China seemed unaware of what issues anyone might have with the PRC. “There’s you know, other administrations, people caught Chinese spies, they caught U.S. spies, whatever it is.” he said dismissively.

Even as Rep. Wu claimed to be fighting for civil rights while criticizing America in the harshest possible language, he’s had little to say about human rights abuses in Communist China. Instead, Wu has met with top Communist officials, celebrated them and promoted China’s interests inside the United States even while seeking to pit Americans against each other.

Shortly after taking office, Wu spoke at a Chinese Communist front group event welcoming Vice Premier Liu Yandong, who had served in China’s ‘United Front Work Department’ global propaganda and influence front, to Texas. The same politician who claimed that democracy would be “gone” if Americans voted for Trump had no such concerns about China’s tyrants.

Rep. Wu has claimed that “our family has been the victims of communism for a very long time, and we fled to this country as fast as we possibly could.” But he certainly doesn’t act like it. It’s entirely plausible that members of his family were purged during the Cultural Revolution. That’s true of many Chinese Communists and while it’s now common to deplore those abuses, much as Stalin’s abuses were later deplored by the USSR, that’s a long way from rejecting China.

I could not find a single mention of the Tiananmen Square massacre by Rep. Wu, but he did falsely accuse Gov. Abbott and President Trump of “sending armed soldiers to suppress peaceful protests” and claimed that “the Texas we love was built on freedom from tyranny, not submission to it.” No word from Wu on what China is built on.

Genuine refugees from Communist China and Cuba don’t pal around with officials from the countries that their families fled, lobby for their interests or denounce America in favor of them, instead they call attention to the abuses and crimes of those regimes and continue to denounce them and their ideological system.

But when given a chance to denounce Communism, Wu defended it instead.

Last year, Texas Senate Bill 24 was introduced incorporating teaching about the dangers of Communism in schools. Wu predictably came out against the bill, claiming that it would lead to discrimination against people from Communist countries and suggesting that some American Communists were heroes.

When Rep. Gene Wu calls for minorities to unite to take over America, he sounds like them.

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Here at Manhattan Contrarian, we get results. After my last three posts harshly critiquing the Federal Judicial Center’s newly revised Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, and particularly its chapter on Climate Science, suddenly on Friday the Center’s Director sent a letter stating that the Center has now “omitted” that chapter!

Well OK, I was not the only one objecting. On January 29, a coalition of state Attorneys General from red states, led by the AG of West Virginia (JB McCuskey), had sent a letter to Judge Robin Rosenberg, the Director of the Center, asking for immediate withdrawal of the offending chapter. Here is a link to the AGs’ letter. McCuskey had rounded up signatures of AGs of some 26 other states in support of the demand for withdrawal.

Judge Rosenberg addressed her letter disclosing the withdrawal to McCuskey. McCuskey posted a tweet announcing the withdrawal and attaching Judge Rosenberg’s letter at 7:07 PM on Friday evening (February 6). No surprise that this kind of thing would get issued at or about the close of business on a Friday. Charles Rotter of Watts Up With That put up a post about the withdrawal on Saturday. The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board posted an editorial on the subject late this afternoon, and presumably that editorial will appear in tomorrow’s print edition. So far, I can find no mention of this embarrassing incident in the MSM.

Judge Rosenberg is the only signatory to her letter, and the letter is a one-liner that gives no explanation for the withdrawal:

In response to your letter dated January 29, 2026, I write to inform you that the Federal Judicial Center has omitted the climate science chapter from the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, Fourth Edition (RMSE).

However, you have to think that Judge Rosenberg did not just do this on her own authority. McCuskey had copied the full Board of the FJC on the AGs’ letter. The Chair of that Board is Chief Justice John Roberts. It is hard to imagine that Roberts was not involved in the decision to pull this chapter, let alone other members of the Board, all of whom are federal judges. And then there’s Justice Elena Kagan, who is not a member of the FJC Board, but had put her name on a Foreword to the new Manual. It would not surprise me if all of the justices of the Supreme Court had a role.

Although Judge Rosenberg’s letter leaves us guessing at the rationale for the withdrawal, I would like to think that my posts made some contribution. The AGs’ letter is a good one, but the rationale put forth for the withdrawal is a limited one. Basically, the position taken by the AGs is that the Climate Science chapter went beyond the mission of the Manual of giving neutral advice to the judiciary, and veered into taking a substantive position on one of the most contested litigation issues of recent times. Here is an excerpt from the AGs’ letter:

[T]he Fourth Edition [of the Reference Manual] places the judiciary firmly on one side of some of the most hotly disputed questions in current litigation: climate-related science and “attribution.” Such work undermines the judiciary’s impartiality and places a thumb on one side of the scale. It does so even as these issues are pending before the Supreme Court and other parts of the federal judiciary. We ask that the Center immediately withdraw the inappropriate “Reference Manual on Climate Science” included in the Fourth Edition. Judges should resolve these issues through the ordinary processes of litigation—not by way of a judicially driven, committee-led, quasi-amicus brief. . . . [T]he authors offer unsolicited, ex parte expert opinions on matters that they recognize are directly at issue in ongoing suits.

That’s good as far as it goes; but they never quite get to saying explicitly that the “attribution” studies endorsed by the chapter are logically incorrect pseudoscience. The studies are pseudoscience because they talk around in circles to evade ever being subject to a test of falsifiability. The Federal Judiciary just came within a hair of endorsing what Richard Feynman famously called “cargo cult science.”

As a great illustration of the problem of non-falsifiability of attribution of weather events to fossil-fuel driven climate change, a reader sends along to me screenshots of two articles from the New York Times, one from two years ago and the other from yesterday.

Francis Menton, Manhattan Contrarian

The morning the whales came, the harbor in Nuuk went quiet in a way that had nothing to do with silence. Motors idled low, conversations broke off mid-sentence, and a line of people abandoned their coffee cups on the dock to lean over the railings. Out there, barely a few hundred meters from the ice-streaked shore, the black-and-white backs of orcas cut through the steel-blue water like a row of moving buoys.

Someone whispered, “They’re too close.” Someone else said, “They’re late.” Above them, the mountains that used to hold a tight white collar of sea ice now showed wide, bare scars of rock. The ice had broken early.

By noon, Greenland’s government phones were ringing non-stop. By dusk, the word “emergency” was on everyone’s lips.

Greenland’s sudden crisis: more orcas, less ice, and a nation on edge

On Wednesday, Greenland’s parliament did something it almost never does: it declared a national state of emergency over the sea. Not because of a storm or a shipwreck, but because of whales, ice, and what looked like a new kind of gold rush. Along the west coast, from Nuuk to smaller fishing towns like Maniitsoq and Paamiut, reports poured in of record numbers of orcas pushing closer to shore than many elders could remember.

At the exact same time, satellite images showed something else: the coastal ice sheet had fractured early, breaking into a maze of floes that opened wide channels of water. For fishermen staring out from the docks, it felt like someone had yanked back a curtain.

On a rocky pier in the town of Qaqortoq, 46-year-old fisherman Karl “Karlu” Jensen leaned on a stack of nets and grinned at the dark fins slicing past. “They’re eating our fish,” he said, “but they’re also showing us where the fish are.” His small trawler, usually scraping by on cod, came back last week with a hold twice as full as the same time last year.

Harbor officials there logged a 38% increase in small-boat landings in just ten days, as crews rushed out to chase the dense shoals of herring and mackerel fleeing the orcas. The town’s only ice factory ran through the night, and a local shop ran out of heavy-duty coolers. People talked about “the orca bonus” over coffee, half joking, half serious.

Scientists framed the moment with a different kind of urgency. A joint Danish–Greenlandic team based in Nuuk released preliminary findings linking this surge of orcas directly to the collapse of near-shore ice structures that usually act like a cold wall. Without that wall, warmer open water extended further north, and with it came predators that once only skirted the edges.

The orcas weren’t just a curiosity; they were a symptom. Where they swam, seals shifted, fish scattered and ancient hunting routes blurred. One researcher described it as “an ecosystem being redrawn live on a shaky screen.” Policymakers saw a tempting short-term boom. Climate activists saw something closer to a final warning.

Between boom and blackout: a new Arctic “gold rush” meets a wall of protest

Within hours of the emergency declaration, Greenland’s fishing cooperatives called emergency meetings of their own. The message from many skippers was blunt: if the ocean is suddenly teeming, don’t tie our hands. Deckhands who had been eyeing layoffs were suddenly bargaining for overtime; some crews reactivated old boats that had been sitting in the snow, patching hulls with whatever they could find just to get a piece of the action.

Unofficial WhatsApp groups buzzed late into the night, swapping GPS coordinates of “crazy” shoals and sharing grainy videos of orcas corralling terrified herring against ice chunks. The mood on those threads was electric, almost defiant. For families who rely on one good season to pay winter debts, this didn’t look like a crisis. It looked like a break.

Out on the water, that rush had a rhythm you could feel in your stomach. A crew in Sisimiut told of chasing a shimmering, dense patch of mackerel that flashed like spilled mercury just beneath the surface, right behind a pod of hunting orcas. The boat’s sonar screen went black with fish. They pulled for hours, arms shaking, until the nets sagged heavy with life. The captain radioed ashore that they’d hit “three seasons in a single day.”

That story spread fast. Small lenders started getting calls about quick loans for fuel and gear. Some younger fishers described it as “our crypto moment on water” – volatile, risky, but impossible to ignore. Nobody wanted to be the one who stayed home.

Climate activists and many scientists watched this unfolding with a knot in their throat. The emergency they heard in the government’s declaration wasn’t a green light to extract more; it was a blinking red sign to hit pause. Groups like Greenpeace Nordic and local youth movements demanded an outright fishing moratorium in the hardest-hit zones, arguing that predators, prey and ice were all in shock at once.

Their argument was stark: the same collapsing ice that brought this boom also made the ecosystem more fragile than anyone fully understands. Let’s be honest: nobody really has the data to say how much fishing that new balance can take. Greenland’s cabinet is now caught between two kinds of urgency—pay the bills today, or keep the sea alive for the next generation.

How Greenland navigates this storm: emergency rules, quiet workarounds, fragile hope

The emergency decree, rushed through late at night, introduced a patchwork of temporary rules that tried to please everyone and satisfied almost no one. Fishing near key orca hunting corridors was restricted, and some zones with rapidly thinning ice were reclassified as “sensitive,” with tight catch limits and real-time monitoring. Patrol boats were ordered to log both fish hauls and whale sightings, turning every trip into a kind of floating survey mission.

Officials framed it as a “breathing space” for the ecosystem, not a full stop. The idea was simple: slow the rush just enough to see what the ocean was actually doing, without slamming the door on income. On paper, it sounded balanced. At sea, things were messier.

On the docks, fishermen talked about “paper seas” versus “real seas.” One captain quietly admitted he’d shifted his routes just outside the new restricted coordinates, gaming the lines on the map while insisting he was following the law. Another talked about refusing a lucrative haul because a pod of exhausted-looking orcas turned up in the same channel.

We’ve all been there, that moment when survival and conscience are pulling your sleeve in opposite directions. For a lot of Greenlandic families, this isn’t a theoretical debate about climate models. It’s whether the oil tank gets filled before the next blizzard. *Nobody wants to be the villain feeding on a dying ocean, but nobody wants their kids cold, either.*

In Nuuk, in a cramped meeting room that still smelled faintly of coffee and wet wool, a young activist faced a semicircle of older trawler owners and tried to compress the planet into a few shaky sentences.

“Every extra net you throw this season is like spending from a savings account that’s already past empty,” she said. “The orcas aren’t a gift. They’re a siren. If we treat this like a gold rush, we’re going to wake up broke in ways that money can’t fix.”

Her words hung in the air, somewhere between prophecy and accusation. Outside that room, officials scribbled rough compromises onto whiteboards and sticky notes, mapping out:

• Rotating closures of the most fragile fishing grounds
• Shorter, more tightly monitored fishing windows
• Subsidies for crews who agree to stay in port on peak orca days

None of it felt tidy. All of it felt urgent.

A fragile frontier that belongs to all of us

Standing on a Greenlandic pier today, you’re looking at more than a local drama between whales, ice and nets. You’re watching the front line of a warming planet redraw itself in real time. Orcas are not the villains of this story, nor are the fishermen, nor the kids chaining themselves to ministry doors in Nuuk. They’re all reacting to the same collapsing certainty: that the seasons will behave the way they used to.

This moment in Greenland holds up an uncomfortable mirror. When a sudden opportunity appears in the wreckage of the climate crisis, do we grab it with both hands, or do we step back, even if it hurts, and learn a new way to live with less? The plain truth is that nobody has a perfect script for this.

What happens next—in cabinet meetings, on voting ballots, in quiet family arguments over dinner—will say a lot about how the rest of the world will handle its own “orca moments” as the ice, literal or not, gives way.

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*Parents of Public School Students: Do you know what their teachers are doing with, and to them?

Just in the past few weeks, it has come to the attention of the American People that, in many cities across the country, Teachers are taking entire classes of students out of school to demonstrate against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers who are enforcing Federal Law by removing Illegal Alien Criminals from our midst. These mostly far-left teachers are also teaching their students about how to “demonstrate” against their own government, and how to act in ways that might injure them. Yes, that’s what Teachers, paid with YOUR tax money, are indoctrinating your children to do. Yeah, these “teachers.”

Here are some interesting news stories. Can you locate your own town in any of them?

SECOND-GRADERS!!!

Local to me, School District urges Teachers to oppose Federal immigration enforcement. Endanger kids much?

School children actually becoming violent against their neighbors. Parents, do you know that their teachers are urging them to do this? Are you aware?

Hey, Waukegan, why are you indoctrinating students to be violent extremists?

The average public school student cannot read, write, or do math at grade level, and teachers are illegally endangering their lives by taking them out of class to participate in sometimes violent demonstrations against the Federal Government.

MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS!!!

MY State legislature is not only allowing school children to be taken out of class to protest, but wants to allow them to use EXCUSED ABSENCES FOR POLITICAL ACTIVITY ON LEARNING TIME!!!

The Seattle Public Schools, which is losing students all the time, and totally FAILING at educating the ones who are left, is encouraging the students to engage in political violence that could get them arrested or jailed. Parents, do you know what your kids are doing when they are supposed to be in class?

Local Seattle “news” station story. They approve of this.

Another local school district, fairly wealthy, allowing public school teachers to take their kids out of class to protest. ON YOUR DIME!

SPECIAL-ED KIDS USED AS FREE LABOR FOR PROTESTS!!!

My local area is a hotbed of illegal Teacher activities, taking your kids out of school to protest against immigration enforcement, with the State Legislature putting its imprimatur on that kind of activity.

Parents, have you seen enough yet? Do you approve of your Public Schools doing this to your children, on your tax dime? Are you awake yet, to the evil being done to your precious children by the Far-Left Government Education (?) system?

Parents, it is long past time for you to pull your precious offspring out of Government schools! You need to dig deep to afford home-schooling or private schools if you want your kids to get a real education, instead of indoctrination in Far-Left ideology. This is NO JOKE. The future of our entire country depends on Educated Citizens, not indoctrinated far-left zombies. Your own and your childrens’ lives are at stake here. Please consider doing this today, and not tomorrow. You don’t want to see your child in the hospital getting treated for tear-gas exposure, or dead in the morgue of a bullet wound or head trauma from being in the wrong place when he should have been in school.

PULL YOUR KIDS OUT OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS TODAY!!

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1. Anonymouskids being manipulated and used as pawns. Its disgusting. February 7, 2026 at 7:32 pmReply
   1. exactlyphilosopherce306b06deBingo – said it perfectly – in a lot fewer words than I do below. February 7, 2026 at 11:22 pmReply
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3. exactlyphilosopherce306b06deScary and useful article. Excused absences for protesting? Organized and ‘egged’ own by Marxist teachers. What a farce! Kids love to get out of school – ‘play hooky’ as we used to say. And they get to march around, shout, throw things, and spew hate – and the Public School System pushes it. Wow, what a groovy vacation day off Where are the parents? The thing is, most of them have no idea what they are protesting about, they are just shouting what their peers are shouting, trying to fit out. Arrogant and obnoxious eight graders, who think they know everything, the dumbest people in the world. I should know, in 1967 that’s what I felt like – we thought we were so smart, and we were not remotely. What are they doing about it? Do the Lefty moron parents think is just so cool for the kids to march, spew hate, and throw things?It works like this. The Kids just spontaneously, in mass, walk out and go galivanting around for a ‘vacation day’ of protesting. The school then says it was all spontaneous, and the Treacher had nothing to do with it. This is of course the big lie they tell to absolve themselves or responsibility in case a kid dies their ‘groovy little protest.’ The school actually wants this to happen, and they can say they had no part in it. And the parents, either they are Leftist loons and proud of their little ‘monsters’ or they are utterly clueless.They look like a great throng of pathetic but very dangerous ‘Little Lefty American Red Guards.’ Chairman Mao would have been proud. These ‘children’ are being used by their Leftist that control the Public School System. This is just so seriously wrong. I am an old guy, and when I was in the 8th grade (that would have been 1967 – we had lots of groovy demonstrations in those days), and had been allowed to leave school for some ‘Anti-Vietnam War Demonstration’ my mother and about all of the other parents would have made sure the ‘rabble rousing’ teachers were fired and never worked again in our state. And these parents – the just sit around and go ‘duh’ or are proud of their little aspiring ‘fascist brownshirts.’ Far out man. February 7, 2026 at 11:20 pmReply

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The violence and size of the anti-ICE riots in Minnesota took federal officials by surprise. But maybe they shouldn’t be shocked. As it turns out, and as is often the case when it comes to far-left demonstrations, outside money, organizations and foreign influence are firing the revolt.

As Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche this week told “The Ingraham Angle,” investigators discovered a “massive fraud going on all through Minneapolis, all through Minnesota, and suddenly it turned. It turned almost on a dime, and it became suddenly all about ICE, all about getting ICE out and how horrible ICE was doing,”

Yes, the Minnesota “uprising” as some call it bears all the signs of strategic planning and financing guiding the local demonstrators. It’s not spontaneous.

Last Friday’s “ICE-Out” demonstration that drew 15,000 is a clear example.

“Anti-ICE protests in Minnesota may appear to be ‘grassroots’ efforts organized by concerned citizens, but they’re really funded with megadonor money — some coming from China,” the New York Post reported.

While the violent protests were organized by a group called “50501,” they’ve been backed by the militant “Party for Socialism and Liberation” and “The People’s Forum,” two groups “largely subsidized by American former tech mogul Neville Roy Singham.”

And who is Singham? He’s a much-investigated current resident of Shanghai who shares an office with a Chinese Communist Party-linked media firm.

Citing a 2023 New York Times investigation of Singham, Fox News notes “that Singham has funneled over a quarter-billion dollars to dark money organizations in the U.S. with little to no footprints, and some of these organizations are vaguely named with office addresses under suspicious locations like general UPS mailboxes.”

As the Times investigation said, “What is less known, and is hidden amid a tangle of nonprofit groups and shell companies, is that Mr. Singham works closely with the Chinese government media machine and is financing its propaganda worldwide.”

Those Minnesota riots, once described by some as “spontaneous,” look more and more like a backdoor attempt by China, allied with extreme groups in the U.S., to foment violence and outright rebellion.

Last week, FBI head Kash Patel hinted at this, saying “We’ve got … investigations ongoing into the funding of this,” adding that the violent demonstrations, which now include roadblocks and “borders” in parts of Minneapolis, are not taking place “organically.”

None of this is an accident, of course. The demonstrations took off just as massive fraud within the Somali refugee began to be seriously investigated. That includes those in and out of Minnesota’s state and local government who either ignored it or abetted it.

Right now, the groups pushing and financing the demonstrations whipped up public anger over the January shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti at the hands of federal agents. Both incidents are being investigated.

But the more we know, the clearer this becomes. This is the far-left playbook: Inciting people to obstruct federal agents performing legitimate enforcement duties, because local politicians — that’s you, Gov. Tim Walz, and you, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey — have refused to aid ICE in doing its duty.

By inflaming opposition, and opening their state to a foreign-funded insurrection using American leftist groups as their foot-soldiers, they’ve abetted what appears to be a massive conspiracy to undermine a U.S. president’s clear right to enforce U.S. law.

And China’s involvement is a major issue. It’s been failing in the Western Hemisphere of late, with the election of five conservative new leaders and the loss of the Panama Canal. The arrest of Nicolas Maduro also stung. Imagine how upset China (not to mention, Russia) will be when Cuba’s murderous regime collapses, too.

This is a dangerous time in America. Blue states, and the increasingly lawless cities that define them, have turned into a sort of leftist neo-Confederacy, believing they can nullify American law at will. Minnesota’s Walz even had the temerity to mention Fort Sumter in a recent speech.

But the usual billionaire leftists who fund radical dissent — including George Soros and son — have company: China. And anyone who thinks Walz, an ardent Sinophile who claims to have visited the Middle Kingdom “dozens” of times, wouldn’t welcome Chinese money to counter President Donald Trump and ICE isn’t thinking straight.

China might be losing in Latin America, but it’s apparently winning here by financial subterfuge. The investigation is ongoing.

Earlier this week, Trump spoke with China’s Xi Jinping, who’s busy himself these days arresting potential rivals in the military. We hope that, in addition to talking about other things, Trump had a chance to tell Xi: Stop supporting U.S. leftist riots, or you’ll pay in ways you can’t imagine.

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Senator Chuck Schumer and Congressman Hakeem Jeffries may call it common-sense solutions, but I would call their list of 40 demands for amnesty-like attacks on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, nothing less than abolishing ICE altogether, and returning to President Biden’s catastrophic open-borders policy is their not-so-hidden agenda.

If you go through their list, you can see that they are siding once again with the far-left wing of the Democratic party that wants to abolish, defund, and damage ICE.

They can’t defund it cause it’s already funded from the One, Big, Beautiful, Bill, with roughly $75 billion, but then again the Democrats would love to undo the one BBB, and slap a $5 trillion tax hike on American families and businesses, along with defunding and abolishing ICE.

Well they’re not gonna get any of it. If they want to shut the government down again, they’re still not gonna get any of it.

Republicans in Congress and President Trump are not gonna allow any of it. Not the tax hikes, not ending ICE, not opening the border.

Here’s the Senate majority leader, John Thune, putting his foot down to stop all of this Democratic nonsense:

“Democrats have to be willing to actually reach an agreement if they’re coming to the table demanding a blank check or refusing to consider any measures but their own. They’re likely to end up with nothing, which is fine if Democrats just want a political issue.”

In fact, Senator Lindsey Graham has a much better idea, he wants to not just defund sanctuary cities, but abolish them. Because sanctuary cities have become the root cause of violence and shootings. 

Even in blue cities, police have said they are more than happy to cooperate with ICE, and release criminal illegals to ICE agents inside the prison. That keeps the illegals off the streets and removes the need for large scale ICE sweeps.

Yet this is way too sensible for Democrats who want to defend sanctuary cities and attack ICE, and go back to some cockeyed amnesty that will wind up returning to the disastrous policy of open borders.

Some of these Democratic ideas in case you haven’t read them: no masks for ICE officers and they should wear ID tags. This just leads to exactly what the anti-ICE protesters want.

It also endangers the ICE agents and their families, and if nothing else, helps to dox them.

The Democrats also want to bar ICE arrests without a judge’s warrant, which of course  just slows down the whole process of removing dangerous criminals, and in so many cases, left-wing prosecutors will go judge shopping in order to stop ICE from doing its job by finding left-wing judges.

Then Democrats say ICE should not be allowed to arrest migrants in certain sensitive locations, quote on quote, which just expands sanctuary cities, and on top of that, the Schumer demands would attach all kinds of race and ancestry criteria for rounding up criminals, and then even give local police jurisdiction over the federal ICE agents, which local police don’t want.

Yet this is a wondrous idea since the federal ICE agents and federal laws supersede local laws. Really sanctuary cities don’t legally exist outside of the blue states and localities, because they violate federal laws.

The Democrats’ 40-plus demands are bundled into 10 bullet points, and virtually prevent any kind of deal to fund the remaining unfunded parts of DHS, like FEMA or TSA or the Secret Service.

For once, it is surely the Democrats who are truly the stupid party, and they are going to lose this battle big time, because the country won’t tolerate open borders, or rampant crime from illegals.

Larry Kudlow is a columnist for the New York Sun. From Mr. Kudlow’s broadcast on Fox Business Network

My childhood memories always include thoughts of my father. Right up until he passed away, he was active and alert; cutting the grass weekly, keeping-up the house and even expertly managing his computer. When clients ask me for tips about aging gracefully, all I have to do is think of him.

That notwithstanding, I suspect that I’m not yet old enough to be an expert on aging. But I can share the experiences of people I regularly encounter who manage to age gracefully.

One man in his mid-eighties told me, “I try to be out of the house by noon every day. I don’t care whether it’s a get-together or simply to go to the store. I get out either way.” This man lost his wife when he was in his seventies, but despite the loss, he found a way to cope by employing this wise strategy.

A friend whose 100^th birthday party I attended told me that the secret to successful aging is, “all in the head.” In other words, you have to keep using your mind. She reads, visits museums, cultivates her tulips and is always ready to engage in active discussion on any subject. She has read all three of my books and we have fascinating talks about them. Her points of view, gleaned over a century, have gifted me with valuable insight into human nature. She stays interested in life, and life pays her back with better physical and mental health than she might otherwise experience.

At 94, my mother told me, “You’re as old as you feel.” Right up until she passed away (at 99!), she aged elegantly and attributed it to NOT thinking like an old person. I’ve noticed that people who age well do everything possible to maintain their posture and to walk with as much confidence as they can. By acting and thinking young, they feel younger.

On the opposite side are those who shuffle along, drive or perform other activities far slower or far more cautiously than is actually necessary, as if they might somehow break or fall apart. I was always amused when my energetic 100-year-old-friend accused her peers of that very thing!

Of course, some people age better because they’re less susceptible to certain ailments and diseases. Yet, how you manage things emotionally counts for more than most of us realize. Mental health professionals who work with cancer patients have told me that recovery, or at least longevity, is more likely in people with happy, realistic attitudes than in people who engage in denial and self-pity. Of course we can’t just wish away negative things, but at the same time a good outlook is easier on the body than a negative one — no matter what the medical situation.

A major factor in aging successfully is how one handles the loss of a spouse. People who experience widowhood fare better if they work to accept the loss while, quite understandably, still grieving it. It’s absolutely normal to grieve — indeed, in some measure, for the rest of your life. But at the same time, you have to develop acceptance. If you can’t learn to accept, then you’ll never allow yourself the opportunity to experience the other things that life still has to offer. This applies to people of every age, since we’re all subject to loss at any time.

Healthy and happy elderly people have told me, “There’s never an excuse for being bored, no matter how old you are.” It makes sense! In my book, “Bad Therapy, Good Therapy And How to Tell the Difference” (available exclusively at DrHurd.com, by the way), I coined the phrase “psychological entrepreneurism” in which negative developments, while still acknowledged as negative, are turned into opportunities and new experiences.

These are just a few of the things that older people happily will tell you. Take it from them, not from me. Seniors who thrive with a positive point of view are the most interesting and admirable psychological entrepreneurs. We can learn so much from them.

Michael J. Hurd, Life’s a Beach

According to a Gallup Organization survey, 20% of Americans believe that it is possible to communicate with the dead. Films such as “Bless the Child” and “Sixth Sense,” along with TV shows peddling self-proclaimed mediums like John Edward, continue to feed an apparent need for otherworldly communication.

Book after book has been written about the authenticity – or lack thereof – associated with those who claim to predict the future and communicate with the dead. It is not my intention to add to that collection of dubious “scientific” study, but as a cognitive psychotherapist, my question is this: What need does this fascination with mysticism serve? Why do otherwise levelheaded people flock to psychics, mediums and the like? What are we looking for that is so superior to reality? As the likes of John Edward artfully cultivates his faux persona of clairvoyance for the TV cameras, there is no doubting the outbursts of genuine emotion from the audience. Right or wrong, true or untrue, there is a need being served here.

Human beings want explanations. Science does not provide us with everything — at least not all at once. Consequently, it can be tempting to look for answers beyond the realm of reason and reality. Of course, what greets you there is nothing more than wishful thinking, but fantasy still holds great emotional appeal in an uncertain world.

Adults who grew up in abusive environments often tell me, “I escaped by retreating into fantasy.” Indeed, fantasy can actually keep a young person sane through the psychological (and sometimes physical) warfare taking place in the household. Of course, not everyone grows up like that, but I think this offers a clue to the appeal of the paranormal: Life can occasionally be puzzling and stressful, and it can be exciting to seek comfort outside the real world. As an old friend of mine once put it, “It’s fine to face reality and confront your fears, but what happens when reality bites?”

Here’s where you run into the difference between healthy and unhealthy attitudes. When reality bites, the healthy person with self-esteem thinks, “What can I do to make it better?” The answer might not be immediate, but that person trusts his or her mind to figure things out without resorting to fantasy and make-believe.

A person who finds it difficult to summon up this kind of strength will say, “I just can’t take it. I need out.” In rare cases this could result in suicide or drug/alcohol addiction, but these are the exceptions. Some will immerse themselves in their work. Still others turn to the paranormal.

The mystical can be fascinating. It addresses questions that most of us don’t think about in daily life. What happens after we die? Is there reincarnation? Can I communicate with lost loved ones? Of course, when all is said and done, there is no hard evidence of any of this. But for many, the appeal lies in escaping the rigors of daily life by venturing to the other side where, for a blissful little while, you can make up the rules yourself.

Unhappy or over-stressed people will think, “Why did this happen to me?” The thought can be in response to tragedy or nothing more than a frustrating day. A cognitive therapist can offer no answer other than, “This is just how it is. Don’t try to read meaning into it. Some things are just what they are.” The challenge is to figure out how to cope. Explanations are certainly valuable, but solutions are more important.

Trying to dig up explanations for the not-yet-explained or the merely coincidental might make for a happy escape, but it accomplishes nothing in the end.

Celebrated singer and songwriter Stevie Wonder said it best in his hit song “Superstition”: “When you believe in things you don’t understand, then you suffer, superstition ain’t the way!”

Michael J. Hurd, Life’s a Beach

Steve Bannon was imprisoned for contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena. Will Bill and Hillary Clinton be imprisoned for the same offense? Not a chance. Why the inconsistency? If the law only applies to certain people, and if the law is applied selectively based on whether you have connections or are a member of the Party — then do we even have a law?

We have hundreds, if not thousands, of examples of this kind.

The theme is always the same: If you are a leftist, a Democrat, a RINO, or otherwise have the right connections, there is no law. The laws apply only to the little people, the people without connections and whether they are guilty, or not. Our government, even with a commendable President (for the moment), has lost all legitimacy. We are truly on our own. It’s not an opinion; it’s a fact. It’s not going to end well.

Case in point: U.S. Senator Elissa Slotkin on Thursday said she won’t sit for an interview requested as part of an inquiry by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice over a video she taped with five other Democrats urging U.S. troops to resist “illegal orders” from the Trump administration.

Does this mean the next time a Democrat Congress orders someone to testify or the next time a Democrat President demands an arrest that nobody has to comply? Because if leftists get to obey laws selectively, so do the rest of us. After all, we are now in a civil war.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason