Links for 5–11-25
torturing dogs at taxpayer expense
🚩 Trump shuts Fauci labs accused of brutally torturing and murdering thousands of dogs. From: Ellyn LaPointe/Daily Mail. ‘They're allowed to suffer for up to 96 hours, and the ones who don't die during that period are killed at the end of the project.’
PETA thanks Trump administration for ending beagle torture at NIH. From: Olivia Rondeau/Breitbart. A years-long investigation by medical watchdog group White Coat Waste (WCW) revealed that the NIH killed over 2,100 beagles in “brutal septic shock experiments” since 1986.
⭐️ Big government is chaos: Trump’s 2026 budget is a step toward sanity. From: Thaddeus G McCotter/American Greatness. Trump’s FY2026 budget slashes non-defense spending to 2017 levels, axes DEI and climate schemes, and declares war on Big Government’s chaos.
DC Dems out to get Fetterman. From: NY Post Editorial Board. Sen. John Fetterman’s “mental acuity was just fine to Democrats. But then he stood up for Israel,” observes the Washington Examiner’s Salena Zito.
🎯 Do the rich pay their fair share of taxes? From: Thomas Savage/AIER. Tax data answers a frequently echoed question.
A new survey suggests illicit opioid use is much more common than the government's numbers indicate. From: Jacob Sullum/Reason. The survey estimates that 7.5 percent of America adults use illegally produced fentanyl each year, 25 times the rate indicated by a government-sponsored survey.
👉 UCLA med school discriminates against white, Asian applicants. From: Kenneth Schrupp/The Center Square. A class action lawsuit from Do No Harm and Students for Fair Admissions alleges that UCLA is illegally discriminating against white and Asian applicants by holding some applicants to a much lower admissions standard.
Why Elon Musk is right: The case against subsidizing Amtrak. From: J D Wong/Mises Institute. The case for defunding Amtrak has never been stronger.
🇮🇳🇵🇰 The Trump administration gets India and Pakistan to agree to a ceasefire. From: Andrea Widburg/American Thinker. This is very good news, because no one—least of all India and Pakistan—wanted a nuclear war.
The Pulitzer Prizes have become a sad joke. From: David Harsanyi/Creators. Mosab Abu Toha, a Hamas apologist and serial fabricator who vilified female Israeli hostages and justified their kidnapping on Oct. 7, won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize.
👎 A new low for the Pulitzer Prize. From: Brendan O’Neill/Spiked. How gross to give the commentary prize to a man who denigrated the Israeli hostages.
States are using this absurd metric to hand out aid based on race. From: Thomas Kelly/City-Journal. President Trump should abandon the “Social Vulnerability Index.”
😬 Gender-affirming care for minors under fire. From: Maryanne Demasi/Brownstone Institute. The HHS report is more than a policy review —i t is a warning. It reveals that thousands of children have been placed on a path of irreversible medicalization without the safeguards expected in any other area of healthcare.
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