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41% of Muslim youth in Vienna believe their religious laws take precedence over Austrian laws


ReMix News
Mon, 18 May 2026 18:36 UTC
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© Askin Kiyagan/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesVienna, Austria, April 21: Muslims attend Eid al-Fitr prayers at Central Mosque of Austrian Turkish-Islamic Culture and Social Assistance Union in Vienna, Austria.
A recent study conducted on behalf of the city of Vienna highlights a concerning trend among young Muslims regarding their religious and political views. This follows the recent announcement that Muslim children now comprise nearly 41 percent of the population in Vienna's compulsory schools, making them the largest religious group.

The study, published on May 12, 2026, was led by Kenan Güngör. He classifies the results as "very worrying," noting that religion occupies a much larger space in the lives of Muslim youth compared to their peers.

One of the most significant findings involves the hierarchy of legal and religious authority. Forty-one percent of Muslim youth agree with the statement that their religious laws take precedence over the laws in Austria, compared to 21 percent of Christian youth, as reported in Austrian news outlet Der Standard.

Comment: If someone moves to another country and seeks to benefit from their way of living in some way, whether it be financial or social, some degree of assimilation is necessary for social cohesion.

This isn't about totalitarianism and suppression of religious freedom, but respect for the values, norms and laws that exist in the host country. There are strict laws in some Middle-Eastern countries that are followed despite the nationality or religion of the individual. It should be no different in the West.

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The Sedation of Appalachia

Sako Garabedian
Mises.org
Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00 UTC
Appalachian town
© Adobe StockAppalachian town
Consider what Appalachia gave America before America returned the favor in pill form.

The region supplied the coal that powered two industrial revolutions and two world wars. It supplied, per capita, more military volunteers than almost anywhere else in the country — a tradition that held through Vietnam and into Iraq and Afghanistan. It fed American steel mills, timber yards, and chemical plants. Its people worked in the dark, underground, and underpaid, and when the work was done, they came home to churches and kin and the kind of densely-interlocking community life that sociologists now study as sort of an artifact of a vanished world. Many of these communities now record the highest drug-related deaths in the developed world.

This isn't a story about weakness. It's a story about what happens when every institution that once made hardship survivable is now removed at the same time, and the market for chemical sedation expands to fill the void.
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Minneapolis police rarely responded to ICE calls but still managed to spend millions on overtime

Deena Winter, Susan Du and Jeff Hargarten
The Minnesota Star Tribune
Thu, 28 May 2026 23:52 UTC
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© Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune/TNSA protester sits in the street in front of a group of federal agents and Minneapolis police officers at West 27th Street and Nicollet Avenue after federal agents fatally shot Alex Pretti on Jan. 24, 2026, in Minneapolis.
The MPD prioritized preventing large-scale civil unrest over responding to calls from residents concerned about unlawful force by ICE, and racked up huge OT costs doing it.

Minneapolis police rarely responded to immigration-related emergency calls during Operation Metro Surge, even as the department spent $10 million on overtime and standby pay preparing for unrest that largely never materialized.

In December, then-Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara urged citizens to call 911 if they witnessed apparent kidnappings by masked people in the street and were unsure if they were actually law enforcement. He also vowed to fire officers who failed to intervene in cases where federal agents used unlawful force.

A rise in emergency calls about ICE followed.

In early December, a Minneapolis grocery store owner called 911 to report agents were in his parking lot, harassing customers and refusing to leave.

In January, a Minneapolis resident complained to a 911 dispatcher that about a dozen agents were tear-gassing protesters near downtown.

Two days later, another caller reported being chased by an SUV as agents inside pointed their firearms.
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Bizarro Earth

Britain mourned George Floyd. Why won't it mourn Henry Nowak?

Alexander Muse
Amuse on X
Sun, 31 May 2026 23:32 UTC
george floyd henre nowak police deaths
A dying teenager said "I can't breathe." Britain looked away.

Consider what a nation chooses to see. Attention is not a neutral faculty, a camera that simply records whatever passes before it. A society has only so much moral attention to spend, and the way it spends that attention, what it magnifies and what it lets slide past, is among the most honest confessions it ever makes about its real beliefs. We learn what a people values not from its official creeds but from the deaths it cannot stop talking about, set beside the deaths it manages to forget within a week.

Begin, then, with the deaths a nation could not stop talking about. When George Floyd died under a Minneapolis officer's knee in May 2020, Britain responded as though the killing had happened in Bristol rather than 4,000 miles away. The Guardian's own survey of that summer found demonstrations in more than 260 British towns and cities, from Shetland to south Wales, with crowds of 15,000 in Manchester and well over 210,000 marchers nationwide by mid June. The future Prime Minister knelt for the cameras. This is worth dwelling on, because it proves something the British establishment now seems eager to deny about itself. It is fully capable of treating a police death on another continent as a domestic moral emergency. The machinery exists. The will exists. The question is only when it switches on.
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Dem establishment starting to worry about Spencer Pratt

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Sun, 31 May 2026 19:44 UTC
Spencer Pratt
Spencer Pratt has run a brilliant campaign trading on Karen Bass's failures as mayor. The message was placed on a typical LA street by power-washing the grime away.
The last person California Democrats expected to keep them up at night is Spencer Pratt. Yet here we are.

The former reality television personality-turned-independent mayoral candidate has spent the past several weeks doing something that Los Angeles's political establishment convinced itself was impossible: making incumbent Mayor Karen Bass look vulnerable.

Conventional wisdom held that a candidate like Pratt, a former television personality with no governing experience, running as an independent in a deep-blue city, had no realistic path to victory. The conventional wisdom was wrong, or at a minimum, it failed to account for how much patience voters had actually lost with the Democratic Party's incompetence.

Comment: Pratt's campaign team deserves every award:





They've been so inspiring, others are making content for him:



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Germany: Left Party wants voting rights for all foreigners who have lived in the country for 5 years


REMIX
Thu, 28 May 2026 10:06 UTC
Heidi Reichinnek
© Florian Gaertner/Photothek/Getty ImagesHeidi Reichinnek parliamentary party leader DIE LINKE • May 19, 2026 • Berlin, Germany
There are over 14 million foreigners living in Germany without voting rights, representing a massive pool of potential voters for the left.

Germany's Left Party is pushing for a major overhaul of the German electoral system by proposing that foreign residents without a German passport be granted voting rights after five years of legal residency.

To achieve this, the Left faction in the Bundestag has submitted a formal application demanding that anyone residing legally in the country for at least five years be permitted to vote in federal elections, irrespective of their nationality.

The move would serve as a major electoral boost for left-wing parties, with foreigners overwhelmingly voting for these parties when given the opportunity. Data from the Federal Statistical Office cited in the motion reveals that over 14 million people living in Germany in 2025 lacked German citizenship, a figure that includes roughly 5 million EU citizens. This foreign population has resided in the country for an average of 15 years. In other words, this pool of potential voters for the left is massive.
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Bacon

Should an industry-friendly rider in the farm bill override over 1,000 state laws?

Meryl Nass
Brownstone Intitute
Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00 UTC
farm
There is an alarming but little-known provision in Congress' 2026 Farm Bill that is likely to find its way into law within the next few weeks.
  • It attempts to remove the right of Americans to maintain local control over our food and farms.
  • It could also nullify over 1,000 state laws that are already on the books.
The Farm Bill, also known as the Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026, which includes the Save Our Bacon Act as Section 12006, was passed by the House on April 30, 2026 and now heads to the Senate, where the Agriculture Committee is expected to draft its own version of the bill.

Embedded in the legislation is the so-called "Save our Bacon" (SOB) Act, which would strip state and local governments of their ability to make agricultural policies for meat consumed in the state — preventing state and local governments from establishing food production and distribution safeguards.
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Family

The fragile balance between compassion and civilization

Armstrong Williams
ZeroHedge
Fri, 29 May 2026 20:57 UTC
anti immigration protest britain
© Niklas Halle'n/AFP via Getty ImagesA protester holds a banner reading "Stop the Boats!" while taking part in an anti-immigration march in Dover, England, on April 27, 2025.
What is unfolding across parts of Europe, particularly in the UK under Prime Minister Keir Starmer, should serve as a warning to every Western democracy wrestling with questions of immigration, national identity, social cohesion, and the limits of political tolerance.

A nation can be compassionate without becoming careless. It can welcome newcomers while still expecting assimilation, civic responsibility, and respect for the laws and traditions that hold a society together. But when governments become so consumed with appearing morally virtuous that they neglect order, border enforcement, public safety, and cultural confidence, the social fabric eventually begins to fray.

Across Europe, many citizens increasingly feel that they are watching this happen in real time.

Businesses struggle under layers of regulation and insecurity. Historic neighborhoods in cities such as London, Paris, Brussels, and parts of Germany face growing tensions between communities living side by side but not necessarily living together. In too many places, political leaders have become hesitant to speak honestly about integration failures for fear of being labeled intolerant or divisive. Yet avoiding difficult conversations does not eliminate problems; it merely delays them until frustration hardens into anger.

Comment: Witness Russia, a country with probably more ethnic diversity than most nations on Earth. Yet they all feel they are Russians.





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FBI issues alert on phishing tool that steals Microsoft 365 accounts; able to bypass multi-factor authentification

Ariel Zilber
New York Post
Fri, 29 May 2026 20:06 UTC
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© picsmart – stock.adobe.comAttackers using the Kali365 phishing toolkit can gain long-term access to Outlook, Teams and OneDrive accounts.
The FBI is warning that a new hacking platform is allowing cybercriminals to hijack Microsoft 365 accounts — including Outlook, Teams and OneDrive — while bypassing multi-factor authentication entirely.

The bureau posted a public service announcement last week sounding the alarm about the "Phishing-as-a-Service" toolkit known as Kali365, which is being used to steal Microsoft 365 access tokens and gain entry to victim accounts without intercepting passwords.

The feds say that Kali365 makes it easy for even amateur hackers to run advanced phishing scams that used to require serious technical skills.

"Kali365 lowers the barrier of entry, providing less-technical attackers access to AI-generated phishing lures, automated campaign templates, real-time targeted individual/entity tracking dashboards, and OAuth token capture capabilities," the FBI warned.
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Seattle residents forced to barricade their streets to protect from gun violence

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Wed, 27 May 2026 19:47 UTC
seattle street barricade residents gun violence
© KOMO NewsThe barriers put up by neighbors in Seattle WA, include this one on N 97th Street, as well as on N 98th and N 102nd streets. (Photo:
Fed up with years of gun violence and repeated shootings near Aurora Avenue, some residents in North Seattle have started installing their own street barricades in an effort to protect their neighborhoods, KOMO News writes.

Neighbors living near North 97th, 98th, and 102nd streets recently placed large planter boxes, piles of dirt, and gravel across parts of residential roads that connect to Aurora Avenue North. The goal, residents say, is to make it harder for shooters to speed through side streets during violent incidents linked to ongoing prostitution and human trafficking activity in the area.

Tensions escalated again over the weekend after another shooting near Aurora Avenue N and N 98th Street. Seattle police said officers found around 40 shell casings at the scene after multiple people exchanged gunfire. Security footage reportedly captured several seconds of rapid shooting, with bullets hitting nearby apartments, homes, and parked cars. In one recent case, a stray bullet entered a family's home and came to rest near the bassinet of a 6-week-old baby.

Comment: You get what you pay vote for:





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