Ethnic clashes have started in the town of Torre Pacheco, population 35,000, in Southeastern Spain. A group of Moroccan migrants brutalized a peaceful grandpa who was walking to the cemetery. The video of the grandpa being beaten and taunted by a group of young louts is painful to watch.

Locals, who have had thousands of migrants brought into their town in the past couple of years, went out to protest. More Moroccans arrived, and now there are large disturbances.

The Spanish media are describing what is happening as “the far right is persecuting migrants.”

I do not advise looking at the videos or photos of the brutalized grandpa. They are not pretty.

Republicans are extremely scared of the New York subway but every time I ride it, its like mostly women riding and at 11 PM tonight and it was like 5 : 1 young women on board.

The secretary of transportation is scared of something hoards of 20 year old girls ride at midnight.

— Darrell Owens (idothethinking on bluesky) (@IDoTheThinking) July 12, 2025

I’m very uninterested in a discussion of the New York subway but I’ve got to ask:

Where are all these 20-year-old women going at midnight and why are there no young men going to that destination? It’s a completely sincere question. What are these “hoards of girls” pursuing alone on the subway at night?

I also wonder if the spelling mistakes are aimed at bolstering the self-infantilization that this guy pursues.

The leader of the Conservatives, Kemi Badenoch, has said she does not believe one in four people are disabled and the term is in danger of losing its meaning, as she used a speech to criticise the size of the welfare state.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/10/term-disabled-in-danger-of-losing-all-meaning-says-badenoch

And she’s right. If everybody is disabled, then nobody is.

My Twitter feed is bursting at the seams with people feeling self-righteous about Badenoch’s eminently reasonable statements. They are drowning in self-pity and clearly experiencing great pleasure at doing it. Being sick, incapable, and wounded is like a badge of honor that they won’t relinquish.

I’m not sure whose side I’m on in this conflict:

These people all truly deserve each other.

So what’s been happening news-wise?

I’m on vacation, and my news are mostly of the culinary kind. For example, today I tried something called “fried green tomatoes with grouper.” It wasn’t half bad. But I would like to know what’s happening on more elevated planes of existence.

Any important news stories I need to know?

Klara keeps referring to things “back home in America.” I have not been able to impress upon her that we are currently also in America.

JP Lindsley went on Ben Shapiro. Please listen because this is a conservative American journalist in Ukraine, and there’s no better coverage than what he provides.

JP’s segment starts at 00:15:00 and goes until 00:25:30.

This is excellent journalism. If you aren’t following JP Lindsley, you should.

I haven’t been in this area since 2022, and it turned pretty much completely Hispanic since then. It’s to the point where a customer at the 7/11 said “Please go ahead” in English, and I jumped because I wasn’t expecting it.

Miami was like this years ago but in FMB this is new.

In her thirties, overwhelmed with work and struggling with the debts she’d inherited from a gigolo loser she used to date, Sarma finally met a mega-rich, powerful man who liked her and could have solved her problems.

In response, she immediately found a fresh gigolo user, moved him into her place, ditched the stable, wealthy suitor, and wasted the next several years of her life on servicing the needs of the gigolo.

Finally, the gigolo dumped her. Guess what she did then?

Yes. Found a new gigolo loser.

The most fascinating part of the memoir is that none of this seems to have led Sarma to any insight. I’m 30% into the book, and I’m yet to see a single sentence where she’d recognize that ditching good men in favor of the trashiest loser bastards imaginable was something she kept doing with the dedication of a crazed woodpecker.

The really funny part is that Melngailis wrote her memoir The Girl with the Duck Tattoo to counteract what she thought was an unfairly negative portrayal of her character in the Netflix documentary Bad Vegan.

Of her own free will, she shared that horrid “falafel in, baby out” story in order to – get this! – make a good impression on people. She thinks this is a story that will endear her to strangers. She’s hoping to rebuild her brand as a result of these efforts to restore her reputation.

She could just simply have avoided sharing the story. Or pretended to not be a horrible person about it. This is completely self-inflicted.

Think about it. She believes “falafel in” is going to make a good impression.