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Muslims, Marxists, And Mayhem In Minnesota

Authored by Eric Utter via AmericanThinker.com,

Many have been asking lately if the onslaught of Islam or the rapid rise of Marxism is more likely to destroy the United States.

The correct answer is that they both have the capability to do so.

If unchecked, together they will undoubtedly see to our demise.

Which one would ultimately prevail has been the subject of a few articles of late and will be the subject of one of mine in the not-too-distant future.

This one, however, will focus on Muslims and Islam. I will attempt to address the advance of the Democratic Socialists of America/Marxism/communism in the coming days, as well.

First off, it should not need to be said (yet again) that Islam and Sharia law are utterly, irretrievably incompatible with a free democratic republic, let alone a country founded on Christian principles and the Judeo-Christian work ethic.

Islam demands the subjugation of all non-Muslims, or “infidels.” Virtually all the nations of the Middle East and part of Asia that are now Muslim were once Christian. There is a reason for that. And it is not peaceful, logical, rational persuasion. The simple, inarguable historical fact is that, whenever Muslim populations swell in a given country, that country is almost certainly fated to be ruled by the dictates of the Quran. This is a virtual certainty unless “good” Christians (and others) find it in themselves to fight back. (And, at some point, one has to ask how “good, decent and moral” is a person who lets his family, neighbors, and nation be usurped by those who are O.K. with child rape and who worship violence and death.)

And then there is the staggering fraud. It appears that much of the money local, state, and federal governments extract from hard-working taxpayers is subsequently stolen, much of it by Somali fraudsters.

This is over and above the mind-blowing amounts of free stuff bestowed on illegal aliens, many of whom are Muslim.

Contemptible asshats like Govs. Gavin “Slick” Newsom and “Tampon” Timmy Walz pretend to disapprove of this unprecedented and illegal transfer of wealth from citizens to “undocumented immigrants,” even as they foster and cover for it.

And they are both still in office. Sad and incredible.

So New York City Mayor Mamdani‘s wife flies off to an Islamic retreat on the island of Mallorca on July 3rd, the day before America’s 250th birthday celebration, and one of his top officials made plans to meet with Iran’s ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations without informing anyone, a meeting called off after the State Department got wind of it.

The People’s Republic of Minnesota sports the highest Somali population in the nation, one buttressed by scams of almost unimaginable magnitude.

From the Feeding Our Future scam to countless childless daycares to sham trucking companies, autism centers, and home health care firms, this state sports more than one town nicknamed “Little Mogadishu.”

One of those cities, St. Cloud, hosted a Somalia Independence Day celebration on July 3rd, during which a U.S. flag was flown upside down on a city flagpole.

Event organizers outlandishly claimed that it was an accident, unintentional, a mistake. Sure. Not one of the event organizers, 500-plus attendees, local politicians, or members of organizations such as the AFL-CIO and the absurdly named Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), who had booths at the festive extravaganza, noticed the “error?” The folks who slowly ran Old Glory up the pole never noticed that it was inverted? Right. And Dr. Fauci was entirely unaware of the gain-of function research at the Wuhan Lab.

Speaking of New Somalia Minnesota, which has already changed its flag, apparently to honor its countless Somali Muslim “refugees,” an increasing number of kids in ever-growing Somali youth gangs are expressing their appreciation for all the state has done to welcome and care for them by shooting some of its residents.

Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher said that there have been more than 100 Somali gang-related shootings in just the past two years. Predictably, this fact prompted far-left Democratic Minneapolis City Council vice president Jamal Osman to state: “Somali youth deserve investment, dignity, opportunity, and respect — not public officials using their platform to stereotype them.” Shockingly, Osman himself is a Somali immigrant. I mean, so they shot a few people. They’re just rambunctious kids. Cut them some slack! Right?

If the stupefying immigrant fraud and attendant violence isn’t reined in by “authorities,” fewer and fewer people will keep playing by the rules. Understandably. Societal collapse will shortly ensue.

Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of ZeroHedge.

Tyler Durden
Sun, 07/12/2026 – 23:20

On Saturday former Clinton advisor James Carville took to YouTube and delivered what purported to be a “Presidential History Lesson.” It was a fairly typical Carvillian rant, yet quite revealing about how worried the Democratic establishment is about the damage the DSA insurgency is doing to their party. He begins his diatribe with the 2000 election and insists that every Democrat loss from then on was caused by leftist attacks on the centrist candidates the party nominated. Thus, George W. Bush won in 2000 because Ralph Nader attacked Al Gore from the left. Likewise, Hillary Clinton lost in 2016 because Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders attacked her from the left.
As with the alleged theft of the 2000 election by SCOTUS, Carville is peddling a shopworn conspiracy theory unsupported by facts.
From there his history lesson ties Nader and Sanders to the current insurgency that the Democratic Socialists have launched and poses the following question: “Is their solution to beat Republicans, to run against Republicans? No, their solution is to beat Democrats.” He then adds this observation: “These people are so f*cking stupid, I don’t know what to say about them.” It’s difficult to argue with that assessment, of course, but Carville’s memory of presidential election results from 2000 onward diverges from the facts. For example, he repeats the obligatory canard about the Supreme Court gifting the presidency to George W. Bush by “stopping the recount.” In fact, Gore was never ahead during the initial count or the two subsequent recounts.
Nonetheless, Carville insists that Ralph Nader received enough support in Florida to permit the judicial theft of the Sunshine State’s electoral college votes: “Rehnquist, Scalia, et al. steal the presidential election, of which the media establishment says, well, the court has spoken.” Next he describes how Sanders cost Hillary Clinton the 2016 election: “Bernie Sanders is the reason that Donald Trump is president … So he runs the whole time against Hillary on the dreaded massive income growth, the dreaded reality that we’re dealing with in foreign policy, the massive knowledge of knowing what the hell goes on in the world. But no, we got to blow the whole goddamn thing up again.” Yet, as John Sides wrote in the Washington Post in 2017:
It’s a perennial question whether supporters of losing primary candidates will vote for their party’s nominee in the general election. So let’s compare the Democratic primary with the Republican primary. In the VOTER Survey, only 3 percent of those supporting Texas Sen. Ted Cruz reported voting for Hillary Clinton, as did 10 percent of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s supporters and 32 percent of Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s supporters. So, Sanders supporters were as likely to vote for Trump as Rubio’s supporters were to vote for Clinton, and less likely than Kasich supporters were to vote for Clinton.
As with the alleged theft of the 2000 election by SCOTUS, Carville is peddling a shopworn conspiracy theory unsupported by facts. But he’s not finished with his history lesson: “Since 1992, I think it’s seven elections, I think the Democrats won the popular vote, five, 92, 96, 2004, 12, 16, 20, 24, no, it’s eight. It was six out of eight.” In 1992 and 1996 his client won 43 and 49 percent of the popular vote respectively. In 2000 and 2004 Bush won 48 and 51 percent. In 2008 and 2012 Obama won 53 and 51 percent. In 2016 Clinton won 48 percent to Trump’s 46 percent. In 2020, Biden won 51 percent to Trump’s 47 percent. In 2024 Trump won 50 percent to Harris’s 48 percent. But winning the popular vote isn’t how one becomes President.
As Carville himself says to the socialist insurgents in his party, “Run in a country with an electoral college … Run in that country, because that’s the one you live in. It’s not the one that you fantasize about at night. Run in a country where the most important thing to do in an election is to win the thing.” By that standard, Republicans have won 4 of the 7 presidential elections held beginning in 2000. This is why Carville loathes the Social Democrats: “I am a proud liberal. I am not a leftist. I don’t believe you ought to break the thing up.” Well, if Carville really believes that, he needs to go into TDS rehab, stop lying about recent electoral history and help purge his party of the “useful idiots” who are determined to “fundamentally change” it.
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CNBC sounds like a business channel, but it’s really just another liberal channel. When it thinks about the best “states for business,” they’re matching that with what they call “quality of life.” Some measures – health care, crime – make nonpartisan sense, but CNBC adds grades for “inclusiveness,” “protections” against discrimination, anti-gun “reforms,” and naturally, “reproductive rights.”

They touted their ongoing winner — Vermont, the Bernie Sanders State: 

The best states to live in for 2026: No. 1 has a six-year winning streak

The best states are the most liberal states? Scott Cohn’s report on Minnesota gives you a flavor:

Minnesota offers among the nation’s strongest guarantees of reproductive rights, according to analysis by the Guttmacher Institute. While there are few issues more divisive than abortion, the economics of it are becoming increasingly clear-cut since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision returned the jurisdiction to the states in 2022. A 2025 study by the National Bureau of Economic Research found abortion bans “increase net migration outflows” and that ”(t)he effects are more prominent for single-person households than family households, which may reflect larger effects on younger adults.”

So being anti-baby is pro-business. Liberal groups are brought in to testify on behalf of blue states: 

The North Star State also offers strong protections against discrimination, and it earns a near-perfect score from Oxfam America for its worker protections such as the right of workers to organize.

In Maine, the Giffords gun controllers are the experts: 

After a horrific mass shooting spree in 2023 in Lewiston that left 18 people dead, Maine legislators passed a series of reforms that earned the state “most improved” honors in 2024 from the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

Cohn really stretched on behalf of Democrats in the Virginia section. Republicans have succeeded in reducing crime, but he wants to spread credit to the Democrats who came in and promptly imposed some gun control:

With just 218 incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, Virginia had one of the lowest violent crime rates in the nation, according to FBI statistics. Ceasefire Virginia, launched in 2022 under Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Attorney General Jason Miyares, both Republicans — and continuing under their Democratic successors, Abigail Spanberger and Jay Jones — targets gun violence in 13 municipalities in the Commonwealth with increased penalties for possession and use of firearms by convicted felons. An analysis of the program last year by Virginia Commonwealth University’s Center for Public Policy credited it with a 10% decrease in homicides statewide through 2024, including a 24% reduction in homicides in Ceasefire localities. 

Back in 2023, CNBC’s Cohn picked all blue states for his top ten. This time, there were a couple of states Trump won in 2024, Nebraska and North Dakota. 

In 2018, the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation was quick to write off the death of Rankin County jail inmate William Wade Aycock IV as an accident. But an investigation by Mississippi Today and The New York Times unearthed new evidence in the case that suggests Aycock was killed. With support from the Fund, the reporting […]
The post Grantee uncovers evidence of murder in a Mississippi jail; story leads state to reopen the case and launch new investigation appeared first on The Fund for Investigative Journalism.

Iran, Israel and the United States are now engaged in war, with the fallout spreading across the region.Strikes have been reported in at least 18 provinces of Iran.

High-definition satellite imagery shows the massive destruction caused by the bombing of the compound of Iran’s supreme leader in the heart of Tehran.US President Donald Trump declared Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had been killed in the assault by Israel and the United States.

As a single mother of two, Leanne Farrugia was proud to secure a stable job as a junior prison guard at Metropolitan Remand & Reception Centre at Silverwater, in Sydney’s west, in 2018.That sense of security was shattered one night in May 2022. She was at home sick when her supervisor, then-senior correctional officer Scott Hawken, arrived at her house and drugged her.

Another excellent episode of House of the Dragon Season 3 gives us a glimpse at the true nature of Ormund Hightower, the show’s most compelling new villain.

Women Over 40 Are Now Having More Babies Than American Teenagers

Americans are increasingly reaching major life milestones later than previous generations, and parenthood is no exception.

While overall U.S. fertility rates have fallen for decades, births among women over 40 are moving in the opposite direction. Rising education levels, delayed marriage, and high housing costs have all contributed to a growing share of women waiting longer to have children.

Using newly published research based on National Vital Statistics System data, this map, via Visual Capitalist’s Dorothy Neufeld, shows where births among women ages 40–49 are most common across the country.

Births After 40 Are Growing Nationwide

For the first time, women over 40 are having more babies than teenagers. Since 1990, the share of U.S. births to women 40 and older has more than tripled, reaching 4.3% in 2025, while birth rates among women ages 40–49 rose 24% over the past decade.

The table below highlights where births among women ages 40–49 were most common in 2024. Washington, D.C., recorded the highest rate in the nation at 13.6 births per 1,000 women, followed by New York, New Jersey, and Hawaii.

State
Births per 1,000 Women
2015 (Ages 40-49)
Births per 1,000 Women
2024 (Ages 40-49)
% Change
District of Columbia
13.1
13.6
4%
New York
8.3
10.5
27%
New Jersey
7.4
9.8
32%
Hawaii
8.6
9.7
13%
California
8.4
9.6
14%
Maryland
7.0
9.2
31%
Massachusetts
6.9
9.0
30%
Connecticut
6.0
8.5
42%
Virginia
6.3
8.0
27%
Delaware
5.0
7.8
56%
Alaska
5.8
7.7
33%
Washington
6.4
7.6
19%
Florida
5.8
7.5
29%
Colorado
6.1
7.3
20%
Minnesota
5.5
7.3
33%
Rhode Island
5.2
7.2
38%
Illinois
6.0
6.9
15%
Texas
5.9
6.8
15%
Georgia
5.3
6.5
23%
Nebraska
5.5
6.5
18%
Nevada
6.0
6.5
8%
Utah
6.4
6.5
2%
Pennsylvania
4.7
6.4
36%
Oregon
5.8
6.3
9%
Vermont
3.7
6.3
70%
North Carolina
4.6
6.2
35%
Arizona
5.7
6.1
7%
Idaho
5.2
6.1
17%
New Hampshire
4.2
6.0
43%
South Dakota
4.8
5.8
21%
Maine
3.5
5.7
63%
North Dakota
4.5
5.7
27%
South Carolina
4.1
5.7
39%
Wisconsin
4.3
5.6
30%
Tennessee
3.8
5.5
45%
Indiana
4.0
5.4
35%
Kansas
4.6
5.4
17%
Iowa
4.0
5.3
33%
Michigan
4.2
5.3
26%
Montana
4.9
5.3
8%
Ohio
4.0
5.2
30%
New Mexico
4.3
5.1
19%
Louisiana
3.9
5.0
28%
Missouri
3.7
4.9
32%
Kentucky
3.4
4.6
35%
Alabama
3.1
4.5
45%
Oklahoma
4.0
4.5
13%
Wyoming
4.4
4.5
2%
Arkansas
3.3
4.3
30%
Mississippi
2.8
3.8
36%
West Virginia
2.9
3.3
14%
🇺🇸 U.S. Average
5.8
7.2
24%
Many of the highest-ranking states are both highly educated and expensive, with steep housing costs increasingly delaying homeownership and parenthood.

By contrast, Southern states account for seven of the 10 lowest birth rates among women in their 40s, including West Virginia, Mississippi, and Arkansas. Still, most have seen double-digit growth since 2015, highlighting how later parenthood is rising even in lower-rate states.

How Education Is Reshaping America’s Birth Rates

The average age of first-time mothers reached a record 27.5 years in 2023, rising from 21 in 1972.

Compared with previous decades, Americans are also spending more years in higher education. With more time spent attaining degrees and advancing their careers, women are increasingly deferring childbirth into their 30s and 40s.

Researchers have also found that older parents often bring greater financial resources. Studies suggest that children of older mothers perform better on math and behavioral assessments, largely due to higher levels of parental education and income rather than age itself.

Later Parenthood Is Becoming More Visible

Births after 40 remain uncommon compared with women in their 20s or 30s. Yet their rapid growth highlights how much the timeline of adulthood has changed.

Previous generations often married, purchased homes, and started families in their 20s. Today, many Americans spend longer pursuing education, building careers, and saving for housing before reaching those milestones.

As those timelines shift, later parenthood is becoming a more visible part of the American family landscape.

To learn more about this topic, check out this graphic on the cost of raising a child in every state.

Tyler Durden
Sun, 07/12/2026 – 22:45

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