The Department of Education has opened an investigation into the Minnesota Department of Education following reports that schools plan to use transgender dolls with interchangeable genitalia to teach children about gender identity.
“We are deeply grateful the Education Department is taking immediate action to protect Minnesota students from being subject to UMN’s appalling ‘My Gender Dolls,’” said Defending Education Founder and President Nicole Neily in a statement. “It is deeply perverse – and biologically false – to impress upon children that genitalia can be swapped out like Mr. Potato Head parts, with no lasting damage. And for the state to wrest control of these conversations from parents (while using their tax dollars to do so, no less) is truly insult to injury.”
The taxpayer-funded dolls have been described as the “first-of-their-kind” and are planned to be available in schools beginning this fall, including for children as young as four years old. The dolls have gender-neutral names and are intended to be a “therapeutic” tool to “make gender fun.” The company behind the dolls has said that they are “built to help children tell their stories and see themselves represented.”
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
The powerful artificial intelligence models from OpenAI that went rogue and mounted an unprecedented, autonomous cyberattack earlier this month spent more than four days loose on the internet orchestrating the hack, according to a new analysis from the platform that was breached.
Separately, a second AI company confirmed that one of its customers was also targeted by OpenAI’s models during the same event, raising questions about how OpenAI failed to detect the alarming activity for days.
OpenAI admitted last week that two of its most advanced models escaped a closed testing environment and strung together a series of advanced hacking techniques to breach AI developer platform Hugging Face before being discovered.
But in a new analysis published Tuesday, Hugging Face said OpenAI’s two models — one publicly released and a second unreleased — did much more: They carried out 17,600 hacking actions on the internet between July 9 and July 13, during which time the models moved from their first foothold on the open internet to inside Hugging Face’s servers.
The Part I Like Best
About pot legalization is the way it diverted Canadian dealers from the dangerous criminal underground to open government regulated dispensaries.
Legally grown cannabis is flooding into Europe from Canada, enriching criminal gangs and helping turn Belgium into a “narco state”.
Farms legalised under Justin Trudeau, the former prime minister of Canada, are supplying smugglers with high-strength marijuana to be shipped into some of the Continent’s major ports, a Telegraph investigation has found.
Record quantities of cannabis are flooding into the port of Antwerp in Belgium, with customs seizing 32 tons of cannabis in the last year alone – a 500 per cent increase from 2024.
The gangs smuggle the cannabis into Europe’s ports in 6m-long shipping containers sent from the docks of Vancouver, Montreal, Halifax and St John.
The smuggling operation is being driven by Chinese state-linked mafia networks which have proliferated in Canada’s countryside since Mr Trudeau legalised the drug eight years ago.
Friday On Turtle Island
The Democrat Party’s America: VDH – Trump and Iran. Why Fauci matters. Al Jazeera. Fifth man.
Conman Carney’s Canada: Lawful access vs privacy. Jews aren’t allowed here. The Elbows Up people are upset. Summer of our discontent. Old white women.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: Sounds like Canada – Why I am leaving Britain. Border invasion.
Oddments For The Weekend
Including sweaty pleasures; the doing of finger-math; and a tale of atomic mishaps and melting people.
All this and more.
July 31, 2026: Reader Tips
To end this summer month, I’d like to do something a little different and reflect back on the most popular songs of the recent World Cup. Here are my Top 2 nominees:
- Take Me Home, Country Roads – John Denver
- Choosin’ Texas – Ella Langley – Much because of social media phenom, Freddy
I’m a bit stuck on what are #3, #4, & #5 on my list. But what are your Top 3 or Top 5 songs that you remember from the World Cup?
Also, feel free to share any news tips you find interesting!
I Know What You’re Thinking
Because I’m thinking it, too.
Whatever will they do with all of these doctors?
At this point, Brexit is looking like an absolute solid banger of an idea. https://t.co/iySkr5RMzs
— Andrew Fox (@Mr_Andrew_Fox) July 30, 2026
Lest We Forget
This morning, on a national American radio program, my email was read out to Senator Bernie Moreno live on air:
Dear Senator Moreno,
The moment where you got people harmed by Fauci’s actions to stand up and then he refused to turn around and look at them was one of the most powerful moments in history I have ever seen.
Thank you for standing up against this petty little man. He is a true incarnation of evil.
Robert
Today In The Vote Rich Rapey-Beheader Community
Post-Industrial Society
Ignoring the obvious contradiction in the funding announcement, why are we throwing even more tax dollars at a chronic money loser? There was a time when Canada built plenty of locomotives, but apparently we lost all that knowledge and now need to relearn it. Who knew?
“Locomotive assembly is returning to Canada,” Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon said Wednesday at a news conference in Montreal, where the plant will be built.
Ottawa says the trains will be built by Switzerland-based Stadler. The first nine are to be built in Spain, while the remaining 36 will be built in Canada after Canadian workers learn how to assemble them from their Spanish counterparts.
The Honourable Member For Air India
Jagmeet Singh is now being considered to run a federal Crown corporation, Destination Canada, with a taxpayer funded, $350K/yr CEO salary.
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
“We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out” is a legitimate business model in 2026.
AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they’re free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain “all the books in the world.” […]
A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb’s website literally says “‘AI company destroys two million books’ is not a headline that generates sympathy,” and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it “digital preservation.”
I’ve covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it’s irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can’t replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data.
And the judge said it’s legal. So it’s going to accelerate.
Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!
If An Elbow Falls In The Forest
Canadian lumber giant is shifting corporate support operations to Georgia
Canadian lumber giant Interfor Corp., which blamed U.S. tariffs on softwood lumber when it idled two Northern Ontario sawmills indefinitely in April, has told employees it plans to shift its corporate and functional support operations from the company’s current headquarters in Burnaby, B.C., to an office in Georgia.
In a memo sent to employees earlier this month and viewed by the Financial Post, chief executive Ian Fillinger said the Peachtree City office, which is on the outskirts of Atlanta, will be established as Interfor’s “primary hub for corporate and functional support.”[…]
Since last year, Interfor and other lumber companies have been grappling with the impact of U.S. tariffs on softwood lumber. A 10 per cent tariff came on top of longstanding anti-dumping and countervailing duties, and softwood lumber shipments to the U.S. now face a cumulative levy of 45 per cent.
The United States is a big customer for Interfor. According to a November 2025 investor presentation, the U.S. accounted for 84 per cent of Interfor’s lumber sales by market. At the time, 62 per cent of the company’s operations were in the U.S. south and northwest, with the balance in the B.C. interior and eastern Canada.
Still nothing at the CBC this morning.
The Insane Reality of Democrats in 2026
Carl Benjamin reviews Evan Barker‘s new book, Nothing Left.
Clay Travis interviewed Ms. Barker.
I came up with a list. Feel free to add to it!
Requirements for being a Democrat in 2026:
1. Hate America
2. Hate all white people (even if you’re white)
3. Hate individualism
4. Refrain from any original thought
5. Support race communism
6. Believe in Free Everything*
7. Support criminals, punish law-abiders
* – There’s a big catch.
Thursday On Turtle Island
Carnival Carney’s Canada: Terrorists love Canada. Stolen land. Renaming everything.
The Democrat Party’s America: VDH – The Odyssey. The Fauci files. A Biden judge.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: Paul Joseph Watson – It went wrong and it’s a mystery. Still waiting. Muslima wins award.
July 30, 2026: Reader Tips
From 1961, here’s The Best of Enemies. With an RT rating of 75%, it’s well worth a watch.
Got some of your best tips ready to share? You know what to do!
History Will Not Fondly Remember Anthony Fauci
🚨STOP SCROLLING: Everyone Should Bear Witness To This Savage TAKEDOWN of Dr. Fauci by Senator Josh Hawley.
Watch as he DECIMATES Fauci and makes him SQUIRM in his seat.
This is how all of our Representatives and Senators in Congress should act.
Total MASTERCLASS pic.twitter.com/ZAj8rd8PVc
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 29, 2026
Here may be the most powerful moment of today’s hearings. Fauci refused to turn around to look at all of the people who were harmed throughout the Covid plandemic.
Update: On this very difficult day for all of us who never bought into all of the Covid B.S., here’s a little something to lighten the mood.
Money For Nothing
It’s all well and good to end the requirements for useless ingredients for streaming services, but why turn around and pay streamers directly for stuff no one watches?
The federal government will “eliminate” the financial contribution requirement for streamers set by the CRTC and replace it with government funding, it said in a court document.
Nonetheless, it’s anyone’s guess as to whether this will actually happen or not.
The office of Culture Minister Marc Miller did not immediately respond when asked to clarify the government’s stance or state whether the government plans to eliminate the contribution requirement permanently or temporarily.
How much? A zillion? Surely more than that!
NDP claim coal refurbishments will cost even more, while SaskPower minister tours Boundary Dam and Estevan mine
On a day when the Minister Responsible for SaskPower was touring the work done on the coal-fired Boundary Dam Power Station Unit 4 and the nearby Estevan coal mine, the Saskatchewan NDP was quoting another number, their highest yet, as an estimated cost of the coal refurbishments. But what are those numbers based on?
Pipeline Online digs into that analysis, and finds the scenarios each to have significant flaws.
Also:
Jim Warren: Why the biggest oil supply crisis in history hasn’t produced the highest crude prices in recent history