Monkey see, monkey do? Sadly, when a civil war breaks in Uganda or in some other African country is hardly an unprecedented event. But a war between two clans of apes is a whole other story. The New York Post reported: “’Chimps from one group began attacking and killing those from the other group and that turned into an escalated period of lethal violence’, study author Aaron Sandel, an anthropologist at the University of Texas at Austin, told Livescience. While the late great primatologist Jane Goodall had reported of a similar ‘fissure’ 50 years ago, this marked the first time that such an intratribal schism had been researched and documented as it occurred, the Times reported, although chimp communities often compete with neighbors over land and resources.” The 200 members of the ape clan were close, until the late 1980’s, when a rift caused various cliques to be formed. “By 2015, the formerly cohesive community had split into two clans that lived and reproduced separately. […] It’s yet unclear what caused the schism. However, the researchers postulated that several adult males who acted as ambassadors between different factions died, leading to strained relations and a ‘change in the male dominance hierarchy’.” https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/ape-war-two-chimpanzee-clans-uganda-violently-turn/ President Nayib Bukele described El Salvador’s transformation as something that could not be explained by human effort alone. “Our war against poverty didn’t have a single chance. I don’t know how to explain it, more than because it was God’s hand.” The transformation President Bukele is referring to began with crime reduction. El Salvador recorded 2,398 homicides in 2019, the year he took office. By 2024, that number had fallen to 114, a murder rate of 1.9 per 100,000 people. Once widely considered the most violent country in the world, El Salvador is now among the safest in the region. Earth’s magnetic north pole has a new official position. The updated World Magnetic Model 2025, released by the National Centers for Environmental Information (NOAA) and the British Geological Survey, confirms the pole is drifting closer to Siberia. That matters well beyond geophysics. The model keeps military and civilian planes, ships, submarines, and GPS units aligned with the planet’s changing magnetic field. The pole is now officially closer to northern Russia than to Canada, a notable geographic milestone after more than 190 years of movement across the Arctic. Without regular updates to the magnetic model, navigation errors would accumulate quietly. A few degrees of uncorrected declination can throw off flight paths, shipping lanes, and military targeting systems. That is why governments and industries treat each five-year update as a critical event. Unlike geographic north, which is fixed by Earth’s axis, magnetic north is tied to motion in the planet’s outer core. Flowing molten iron and nickel generate electric currents that produce the magnetic field. As that field changes, the magnetic pole moves too. The shift has been underway for more than 190 years. The pole has traveled over 2,200 kilometers from its original position in the high Canadian Arctic. What was once a slow crawl became a sprint in the 1990s. The update also revises the location of magnetic blackout zones. These are polar regions where compass readings become unreliable due to magnetic interference. As the magnetic pole shifts toward Siberia, so do the boundaries of these zones, affecting both military planning and scientific expeditions. https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/04/earth-magnetic-north-pole-new-location/ One of the most common talking points from the left is that if you don’t rush confused kids into the gender reassignment pipeline, they will kill themselves. The left tells us that “transgenderism” is not a mental health problem, while at the same time telling us that people, especially minors, will kill themselves at greater rates if steps aren’t quickly taken to get those kids on puberty blockers, and on track to have their bodies permanently mutilated to change their sex. More to the point, the narrative goes like this: “Trans kids” are at higher risk of suicide if they don’t receive greater acceptance, supportive environments, and “access” to “gender-affirming care.” Did it ever occur to the left that the suicide in these cases may be connected to the increased likelihood that gender-confused children have severe mental health instability? Did it ever occur to the left that a pre-existing mental health issue, not the gender issue, is what may contribute to the risk of suicide? Don’t take my word for it. Researchers in Finland published a groundbreaking study in the peer-reviewed pediatric journal Acta Paediatrica, which pretty much destroyed the notion that “gender reassignment” surgeries and treatments help gender-confused kids. According to the study, the surgeries and treatments may, in fact, be making things worse. “In some individuals, medical GR [gender reassignment] appears to be linked to deterioration in mental health,” the study found. “Subsequent to medical GR, psychiatric treatment needs appear to increase.” You would think that if you take a deep dive into 25 years of real-world data, you might get a clear picture of the issues at play and what’s really happening. During that period, the percentage of males wanting to become female jumped from 9.8% in 1996 to 60.7% in 2019. This stat alone kills the “born this way” assumption. As Finland’s culture has shifted aggressively leftward, more boys want to be girls. This suggests that the “trans kids” dynamic is a social contagion. The study found that teens who decided not to receive hormonal or surgical treatments enjoyed better mental health outcomes. The rate of mental health challenges increased by a much lesser amount. That puts the kibosh on the whole rationale for transing the kids. If a kid is confused over his or her gender, and you don’t give them puberty blockers, and you don’t push surgeries on them, you’re more likely to have a kid with better mental health in the end. But if you do put them on the hormonal treatment track and the surgery track, the chances of the child having compounded mental health problems increase. The left likes to lecture the right to “follow the science,” but this science will be buried if the left has anything to do with it. The left wants gender-confused children. The left wants to "trans kids." It’s time to put an end to this. The more irrefutable data we have that cannot be suppressed, the more likely we’ll be able to look after the most vulnerable among us and protect them from “gender affirming” destruction. If the morally-confused Pope Leo XIV continues to assume the role of a partisan podcaster, he will very quickly lose his moral authority. ...Leo is recklessly engaging in a left-wing campaign to damage President Trump’s and the Republican Party’s standing with Catholics, and, by extension, his own standing as a credible spiritual leader. Thus far, after only a short time as pope, Leo has already: repeatedly attacked Trump’s positions on immigration; blasted Trump’s approach towards the weaklings in Europe and the useless United Nations; and blistered what he describes as Trump’s “diplomacy based on force.” Leo is already the most divisive pope of my lifetime. First, there is Leo’s political hypocrisy. We see Muslims all around the world engaging in terrible misdeeds including the persecution of Christians, and Leo’s only response has either been silence or whataboutism. If you are going to assume the role of a daily podcaster and want to be seen as an honest moral broker, you have to call out all the ills of the world, not just Trump’s. For example, why hasn’t Pope Podcaster said something about Democrats covering up sexual assault allegations against Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) for over a decade? Above all, Leo is just plain morally wrong when it comes to bashing Trump. To begin with, no reasonable or moral person is okay with the suicidal mullahs of Iran obtaining nukes, and that’s the only choice here. Instead of grasping that piece of moral clarity, Leo’s criticism of the war makes him sound, at best, naïve. Where is Leo’s criticism of the Iranian regime’s daily promise to destroy America and Israel? Google failed to find one. What’s more, why does Leo side with Europe over the U.S? ...Again, all we get from Leo are the same partisan, empty-headed pro-U.N. talking points we hear from the empty-headed partisans who infest CNN. I’m a Catholic. I’ll always be a Catholic. Francis was sincere in his desire to save souls, the primary job of the Catholic Church. Leo seems sincere only in his desire to earn the good opinion of the New York Times and Hillary Clinton. It’s a grotesque and un-Christian dereliction of duty.
APE WAR: Two Chimpanzee Clans in Uganda Violently Turn on Each Other in the First Recorded Simian Conflict – And Scientists Have No Idea Why:
A Matter of Political Will: How El Salvador Destroyed Three Decades of Liberal Criminology:
It’s Official: Earth’s Magnetic North Pole Shifted Again, and It’s Moving Into Unmapped Magnetic Territory:
Decades-Long Study Blows Up Narrative That 'Gender Reassignment' Prevents Suicide:
Nolte: Pope Leo’s Anti-Trump Crusade Squanders His Moral Authority [commentary]: