Good question: I think we know the answer, at least in California, Chicago, Cleveland, and soon-to-be Mandami City

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And no, it’s not just evil”corporaations” who are hammered by the refusal to prosecute shoplifters and other miscreants

Thousands of NYC Shoplifting Cases Committed by Just 327 People - The New York Times

Is American Urban Culture Beyond Repair? Pt. I: Retail Reparations

Ben Bartee, PJ Media:

Examining the deleterious impacts of modern urban culture on the American social fabric and its future prognosis.  

For the first installment of “Is American Urban Culture Beyond Repair?”, we’ll survey the national retail scene.

U.S. retailers, I can assure you, are utterly unique in the world in terms of keeping even run-of-the-mill personal hygiene supplies worth a few bucks under lock and key due to rampant theft — particularly in the post-Floyd era, after he martyred himself to emancipate razors and tampons from department store shelves.

If there exists a land outside of American borders where common, cheap goods like toothbrushes are secured behind glass, I haven’t seen it — and I’ve tramped all over the Third World. (Which begs another question, one I plan to explore at some point coming up in this series: Why, if poverty is the main driver of crime in urban America, does wanton retail theft not exist at nearly the same rate in much poorer countries?)

In our first exhibit, a feral child at a local Walmart randomly destroys merchandise while onlookers watch.

Eventually, in a nearly perfect microcosm of the social forces at play here, an ad hoc team of store clerks and good Samaritans attempt to intervene to stop the wanton property destruction… until a white woman, almost certainly a Kamala voter, steps in to aid and abet the child’s vandalism, as products lay broken and strewn all across the floor: “Don’t yell at her. Don’t film her. Don’t stop her. You don’t know what she’s going through!”

Here, an Ohio woman goes merchandise-harvesting (the term “shopping” implies she might have intended to buy something at some point) at Target.

Here is the timeline of events:

  • Makes her way through the checkout line

  • Declares after her items are rung up that Target ought to comp her loot, worth $1,000, as a spontaneous form of reparations

  • Threatens and assaults manager after her request is politely refused

  • Backs security guard into office, screaming threats

  • Asks “Do you know who I am?” to police officer when he shows up like she’s the mayor or something

  • Feigns indignance when she is asked to present ID

  • Describes her attempted larceny as her “Rosa Parks moment”

  • Does the black power fist at officers to “make a stand”

  • Gets arrested for menacing and disorderly conduct after her ten-minute civil rights sermon

Once agin, the Bee has strayed into straight reporting

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NFL Hoping To Win Back Conservatives With Super Bowl Performance By Spanish-Speaking Man In Dress

I gave up watching the NFL some years ago, not because of its woke campaign but because it’s become a referee’s game, with endless penalties that prevent enjoying spectacular plays until all the multiple flags are sorted out and a rerun is aired.

And I definitely don’t read past headlines announcing the Super Bowl performer, so I had no idea who or waht “Bad Bunny” is, but I trust the Bee on this one.

U.S. — The National Football League is apparently working double time to win back its conservative fanbase by planning a Super Bowl halftime show with a Spanish-speaking man in a dress.

Puerto Rican rapper and singer Bad Bunny has officially signed with the NFL to perform at the Super Bowl halftime show in what experts are calling a desperate bid to attract conservative viewership.

"Conservatives are going to love this," NFL Chairman Roger Goodell said. "They're always talking about the brave Latinx people and gender roles."

Bad Bunny, who champions a new masculinity with his floral dresses, short shorts, and pink skirts, topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 2018. This makes him influential enough to reach conservative minds, said experts.

Conservatives gradually dropped out of football during COVID when the league embraced social justice causes such as defunding the police, Black Lives Matter, and kneeling for the National Anthem. The NFL is hoping to change all that with Bad Bunny.

Would-be assassin is let off lightly because a sympathetic judge fears he'll have a tough time in prison, and our ruling news media is right there to switch the narrative

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You are what you say you are: a Cadillac Eldorado, a light bulb, a horny moose, or even a female ninja.

Waaaay back in April, the guy was a guy, and even NBC News knew it:

But wait! It’s October now, sentencing day, and the laws of nature, with our media’s assistance, have changed:

Hard to argue that the creator of Amazon doesn't know his audience, but this seems unlikely to succeed in Washington D.C.

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Washington Post hires 3 conservative columnists as Jeff Bezos shifts toward ‘free markets and personal liberties’

Free markets and personal liberties are anathema to the inhabitants of the swamp, and they don’t want to see even the mention of them in their morning paper. If Bezos drives his current readership away, where’s he going to find their replacement?

But good luck to him; I hope he somehow succeeds.

Imagine my shocked face

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“Well I wonder where it all went?”

Foreign Ministry: Flotilla to Gaza had no humanitarian supplies

“It was never about bringing aid to Gaza. It was about the headlines and social media followings”, Israeli Police spokesperson Dean Elsdunne said.

None of the 40 vessels participating in the Global Sumud Flotilla, which Israel intercepted on Yom Kippur, was carrying humanitarian aid, according to the Israeli Foreign Ministry.

The ministry also released a video by the Israeli Police featuring spokesperson Dean Elsdunne showing the empty interior of one of the flotilla’s largest vessels.

The spokesperson points out that the complete lack of aid explains why the organizers refused Israel’s and multiple countries’ offers to hand over the aid and avoid entering an active war zone and breaking the law.

It's too early to speculate, but whether Chevron's California oil refinery explosion was sabotage or accident, the state's in trouble

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Ho, Boy - Massive Fire Erupts at Chevron's El Segundo, CA, Refinery Last Night

...According to Chevron's website, the El Segundo refinery was constructed in 1911. The facility produces 276,000 barrels of crude oil every day and "is the largest producing oil refinery on the west coast," Chevron officials wrote on its website.

The refinery is closed until further notice.

This is California - think what that means.

Well, wait - let me first tell you what the El Segundo refinery does:

...Chevron's second biggest refinery in the United States, the El Segundo facility supplies a fifth of all motor vehicle fuels and 40% of the jet fuel consumed in southern California.

Forty percent of the state's oil refining capacity gone.

BUT WAIT - THERE'S MORE!

You see, the oleaginous King of California has driven refiners out of the state, and, yup - another one leaves...*checks notes*...next month.

If the Chevron El Segundo refinery has to go offline for any amount of time, gas prices in CA, AZ, NV are going to soar.

Another complication: Philipps 66's LA refinery is closing this month - in 2024 it represented 8% of the state's crude oil capacity pic.twitter.com/69MF3KNOKP

— Jennifer Van Laar (@jenvanlaar) October 3, 2025

What happens if Chevron can't get El Segundo back into operation as Philipps pulls chocks and exits the pattern?

Will California even have enough gasoline to worry about the cost?

As of that moment, the answer is HARD NO.

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Given planned refining outages by the beginning of 2026 California was going to be walking a tight rope with just a 6% buffer between refining capacity and daily consumption.

With Chevrons El Segundo out there will be a deficit of roughly 11% between the states needs…

— TheDailyCompounder (@100xCompounding) October 3, 2025

...With Chevrons El Segundo out there will be a deficit of roughly 11% between the states needs daily and what the state can refine.

As Britain's muslims cheer, BBC steps in to aid the cause

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Michael moore reacting to news of the 9/11 attack: “:Don’t they know that NYC voted for Gore?”

This is the new England, where the government is arresting and imprisoning its citizens for daring to criticize Islam or question the policy of open immigration, so why not?

David Strom: The authorities and the elites are like the peasants fleeing from wolves who throw the infant to them to slow them down. Eat our child, not us. They are far worse than Neville Chamberlain, who at least hoped to keep the British Empire out of a devastating war. These elites are happy to sacrifice their own citizens if they can buy a bit more time for themselves. 

Those right-thinking Brits seem similar to American Jews who are ignoring or even approving the increasing anti-Semitism in Blue cities and campuses across the country: “Oh, they’re not against Jews, just Israel and its awful leaders. We’re as safe here as our late cousins in Germany, who were safely assimilated into German culture and secure against anything happening to them”.