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Warning for a homophobic throwaway line from a villain, and some...controversial character development.

The heroes of the JLA and JLE are gathered in New York after the Bialya mission. While they mingle with some of their usual irreverent chatter, it’s more subdued than usual.

J’Onn and Catherine hope to get things back to normal--“as much as they can be, without Max.” But Cap nips “normal” in the bud as the JLE starts teleporting back to London.

( He starts spraying his pits with WD-40 and speaking French in a Gambit voice. ‘‘Ah, oui, cherie, hon hon hon!’’ )

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The artist best known for his unapologetically cheeky pin-up art style, Adam Hughes, needs little introduction to most comic fans.

However, today his wife, fellow artist Allison Sohn posted that Hughes had been diagnosed with Stage 3C colorectal cancer.

This is a treatable, and survivable, condition but there are never guarantees.

I know I speak for the Mods, and am sure I speak for all members of the scans_daily community in sending him all our best, and wishing him the best possible outcome in his upcoming fight against this most unpleasant of diseases.

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Posted by Daniel Greenfield

http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2026/04/israel-records-lowest-number-of.html

Terrorism in Western nations rose sharply last year with a recorded 280% increase from 2024. That’s the conclusion of the Institute for Economics and Peace’s Global Terrorism Index report.

According to the index, the driving cause was Islamic terrorism “including the New Orleans truck attack in the United States in January, and the Bondi Beach shooting in Australia in December” and “most of these deaths and attacks were caused by jihadist groups or affiliated individuals.”

In the United States, deaths from terrorism attacks hit their highest level since 2019 with 28 killings. This includes not only various Islamic terrorist attacks, but the assassination of Charlie Kirk by a radical leftist angry at his opposition to transgender identity politics.

America accounts for half the terrorism casualties in western nations, but these numbers pale compared to 5,582 people killed worldwide in 2,944 terrorist attacks.

70% of these worldwide terrorist attacks were carried out by four Muslim terrorist organizations including ISIS, Jamaat Nusrat Al-Islam wal Muslimeen (Group Upholding for Islam and Muslims), a West African terror group that has served as an affiliate for Al Qaeda and ISIS, the Pakistani Taliban (TTP), affiliated with Afghanistan’s Taliban and Al-Shabab, a Somali Islamic terrorist group that had allegedly benefited from Somali fraud in Minnesota.

What about Israel? There were only 5 deaths from terrorist attacks in the last year.

The index notes that “Israel experienced its lowest number of terror attacks in 2025 since the inception of the Index.” In early 2023, before the October 7 attacks, I tracked how the number of Islamic terrorist attacks in Israel rose when Biden reversed Trump’s aid cutoff and began sending massive amounts of money in ‘humanitarian aid’ to Islamic terrorists in Israel.

In Feb 2019, President Trump’s total cutoff of aid became official. That year, 10 Israelis or people in Israeli controlled areas were killed in stabbings, shootings, rocket and other attacks, down from 12 the previous year, and 15 in 2017, and 16 in 2016. In 2020 however only three Israelis were killed. This was likely an aberration due to the pandemic and the lack of easy targets. But by 2021, after the Biden administration restored aid, terrorist attacks quickly resumed with 17 dead, and then up to 32 killed in 2022. And 2023 became the worst year.

Israel has seen the lowest rate of terrorist attacks under President Trump. And it has shown that going on the offensive against Islamic terrorists works while pandering to them does not.

The Index reported that only five Western European nations had worsening terror scores: France, United Kingdom, Austria, the Netherlands, and Serbia. Four out of those countries, France, the UK, Austria and the Netherlands have governments that have bent over backwards for Islam and Islamic terrorism. They condemned Israel while encouraging Islamic migration.

Instead of making them more safe, it has made life in these countries more dangerous.

We have been told ever since 9/11 that fighting Islamic terrorism doesn’t work, that it just creates more terrorists and that the only thing to do is try and defuse their grievances.

But that hasn’t worked.

What has worked is cutting off their money and going after state sponsors of terrorism. Israel’s campaign against Iran has done far more to reduce terrorism than its disastrous efforts to improve life in Gaza that every other government and expert insisted was the only solution.

Islamic terrorism became a global crisis because during the Cold War, Western nations refused to hold the state sponsors of terrorism accountable and I instead played a senseless game of whack-a-mole with small bands of Jihadists whose leadership wasn’t in caves, but in the heartland of the Muslim countries whom we insisted on pretending were really our allies.

Even finding Osama bin Laden living under Pakistani protection didn’t stop us from pretending that the Islamic terrorist state whose leaders had praised the terrorist was really an ally.

When Israel moved from bombing Hamas to bombing Iran, it exchanged a proxy war for direct warfare. Much as when it struck Qatar, it sent a clear message. There are few Islamic terrorist groups that are truly independent. Most of them have state sponsors that fund and harbor them.

Islamic terrorism isn’t about ‘grievances’; it’s about Muslim countries and wealthy clans funding terrorism with our own money. They invest millions into terrorist groups that we then spend billions fighting. If the Saudis, the Qataris and the Pakistanis had to fear real U.S. retaliation after September 11, they would have thought twice about their role in Al Qaeda.

After decades of playing that same game, Israel has decided to play a new game. And it’s paying off not just in the destruction of Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile program, but in the diminishing number of Islamic terrorist attacks.

The rest of the world would be wise to learn from it. Fighting terrorists works.

Those trying to convince us that fighting Islamic terrorism is futile want them to win. And so they seek to convince us that Islamic terrorism can never be defeated and that trying will be much worse than surrendering to it. What frightens them is that we will actually try to defeat it and win.

Barack Obama tried to convince us that weakness was strength, President Trump has shown us that weakness is just weakness and strength is strength, and that if you want to stop terrorist attacks, you have to crush the terrorists. Israel has shown us that when terrorists die, terrorist attacks drop because most of the time the most obvious solution to a problem is also the right one.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.

Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.

Thank you for reading.

Read my book 'Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers' Fight Against the Left' to discover the true origins of the American Left.

http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2026/04/israel-records-lowest-number-of.html

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The Global Guardians were only the third most popular “GG” in the JLI era, after Guy Gardner and General Glory. But they merited at least a little attention after all their buildup. Assistant editor Kevin Dooley slid into the writing role for these four stories with Andy Smith on pencils, though it’s hard to believe the same people wrote and drew all four of them. Even by JLI standards, they’re quite varied in tone.

( Almost as much as Sumaan Harjavti’s skin and hair are from appearance to appearance. )

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How to kill my interest in Absolute Robin's in one panel

I confess I've only been glancing at the Absolute Batman title, it's just.. not to my tastes. If you're enjoying it, then more power to you, but not for me.

However, me also being me, I was interested to see what they'd do with the concept of Robin.

So how does the latest issue introduce the concept? With one panel they poured cold water over me.

( Oh no... not HIM )

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In the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.

Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.

The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.

Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.

It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.

The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.

Artemis II arrived safely back to Earth, though apparently Mission Contgrol chose not to all put on ape masks

The beloved internet meme "Neil Banging out the Tunes" celebrated it's 20th Anniversary

And speaking of rats doing improbable things (without the charm of the above) POTUS47 managed a remarkable week even by his usual, unbelieveably low, standards. Trying to save face when his chaotic Iran War went horrendously badly, to the extent he's now blockading a blockade that only exists because he set in motion the events which caused it in the first place. Milirary historians will be documenting this one for years.

Suffice it to say that when you manage to post an AI image so offensive that your own Christian Nationalist supporters come out on the side of the POPE in an argument (even momentarily), you HAVE to know you've buggered things up.

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Posted by Daniel Greenfield

http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2026/04/the-homeless-fraud-everyone-saw-coming.html

In 1997, Gwendolyn Westbrook was arrested after being accused of embezzling thousands of dollars from the San Francisco port parking lot collections that she had been hired to monitor.

By 2022, she was running a homeless nonprofit that took in $36 million in grants while operating a tent city that took over a block and filled a neighborhood with violence and human waste..

Now she’s under arrest. Again.

Westbrook, the CEO of the United Council of Human Services, is currently accused of misappropriating $1.2 million and a lawsuit claims that she told staffers about buying a Tesla for herself, handing out luxury cars to other family members, vacationing in Aruba and driving around for some unstated reason with a “a trunk full of high-priced jewelry”.

“I guess it’s because I’m a black woman,” Westbrook had said of critics. “I think it’s racism. They don’t want a black woman running this organization.”

Westbrook has been indicted by San Francisco DA Brooke Jenkins: also a black woman.

But the real question is why was Westbrook entrusted with millions of dollars and allowed to run a disastrous organization despite her past history at the San Francisco port? The answer lies with the reason why Westbrook got the job as an senior manager assistant at the Port of San Francisco in the first place.

The CEO of the homeless organization had been raised by Idaree Westbrook, an ally of the notorious Willie Brown, the former mayor and operator of the political machine that had turned the likes of Gov. Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris, his former mistress, into statewide players.

Idaree had founded the San Francisco Black Leadership Forum which her adopted daughter took over and, as a San Francisco Chronicle story mentioned, its “endorsement is considered a key factor in local political races”. Gwendolyn Westbrook was forced to step down after the port scandal, but six years later she was running a local soup kitchen named Mother Brown’s Kitchen that morphed into the United Council of Human Services. By 2014, San Francisco authorized a homeless shelter with 100 beds next door over the protests of the neighbors.

Locals complained of screaming at all hours of the day and night, vomit, drunkenness, human waste and domestic violence. “They are just very mean people,” Westbrook accused, who “just don’t want to help other people get one up.”

Police shut down a charity gambling event that included blackjack tables funding the group.

An audit was requested in 2015 and released in 2017 which found that the ‘Council’ had received $1.5 million in city funds and had not kept a proper record of where the money was going. Over $88,000 in expenses couldn’t be properly accounted for, the board lacked members and existing board members didn’t seem to know what the organization was doing.

But the director of homeless services claimed that, “I feel this is kind of a success story.” And the money just went on pouring in.

Then came a ‘Safe Overnight Parking Pilot Program’ for vagrants to sleep in their cars.

A year later the pandemic hit and Westbrook came up with her greatest idea yet.

Westbrook set up socially distanced’ tents for the homeless in a park to create ‘safe sleeping villages.’

Nobody cares about homeless people,” she claimed. “They won’t come to their rescue. We had to do something for our community and that’s what we came up with.”

San Francisco adopted the ‘safe sleeping model’ at a modest price of $61,000 per tent per year.

By 2021, taxpayers were paying $16 million a year to keep the homeless in tents. Something that they were already doing on their own. As the Chronicle noted, the annual cost for one of these tents was “2½ times the median rent for a one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco.”

A supervisor called the cost “eye-popping” and argued that “we need to understand why that is”. Meanwhile the media and activists hailed Westbrook as a wonderfully compassionate genius.

“We’re going to fight to keep what we got. We’re going to keep our people in this neighborhood, and it doesn’t matter who’s going to like it,” Westbrook warned.

A lot of people didn’t like it.

By 2022, the ‘safe sleeping site’ with its tents, public toilets and showers had taken over a street, blocking food deliveries to stores and intimidating the locals. Business owners couldn’t get to their own shops and faced violence and ugliness. One man was threatened with a baseball bat, others complained about human waste, describing having to wash down the sides of their businesses after they were used as bathrooms.

Not to mention the garbage dumping and the drug dealing.

That same year, city auditors took a look at the organization’s $28 million in public funds and forwarded their results to the FBI. Housing was being used for employees of the organization and allegedly for Westbrook’s family members. The organization had collected over $100,000 in rent, even though it wasn’t supposed to be collecting rent, and $177,000 in credit card payments couldn’t be documented. Westbrook meanwhile had been donating money to local politicians.

Including Mayor London Breed.

Westbrook claimed that it was all a “damn lie” and blamed racism. When asked how her original port case had ended, the CEO claimed that she did not remember despite having pled guilty.

But it was San Francisco officials who chose not to remember, to ignore every red flag along the way, to provide millions in funding to a woman who had been accused of embezzlement, to ignore the failed audits and the neighborhood complaints until the toll passed $1 million.

The millions in the United Council of Human Services case are a drop in the bucket of billions in California. The Los Angeles Homeless Authority couldn’t account for $2.5 billion in spending. The story was a familiar one with an influential CEO who provided a multi-million dollar contract to her husband, hired her friends and protected Mayor Karen Bass.

The more money California spends on fixing ‘homelessness’, the worse the problem grows. But the money isn’t going to the homeless. Had all the homeless spending gone to the homeless, they could have been buying themselves luxury cars, trunks full of jewels and trips to Aruba.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.

Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.

Thank you for reading.

Read my book 'Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers' Fight Against the Left' to discover the true origins of the American Left.

http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2026/04/the-homeless-fraud-everyone-saw-coming.html

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JLE Giffen-Jones-Robertson, JLA Giffen-DeMatteis-Wozniak.

Storytelling is as much about what you don’t include as what you do. Giffen and company were often inspired in terms of what they left out or minimized. This appealed to a smart audience who could fill in the blanks.

But sometimes you leave too many blanks. Sometimes you cross the line between making your reader an enthusiastic participant in the storyline and making them wonder why they’re doing all your work for you.

___ ______ ________ ______ _______, and that’s why this final Queen Bee of Bialya storyline leaves too many blanks. ( ____________ __ __ ____ _____ ____ ___ _____ _______ __ ____ ___ __, ___ ______ ___ _______ ____ _____ ________ __ ____ ____ ____ ___ __ _________, _______ __ _ _____ ________ ___ _____ ____ __ ___ ______! ___ _________ ___ _____ ___ ____ ______… )

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Yeah, I only bought this because of that variant cover (by Mike Spicer). But hey, the interior isn't bad!

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Posted by Daniel Greenfield

http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2026/04/the-somalization-of-minnesota-town.html

“Faribault has become our city,” a Somali interviewed by the Minnesota Post bragged.

Faribault, Minnesota, is a small city about an hour’s drive from Minneapolis. On paper it should have the smaller crime rate of the alphabetically similar Farmington which is nearly the same size and only a half hour away. Instead, Faribault has more than twice as much violent crime, aggravated assaults, burglaries and car thefts, 30% more rapes, and 8 times as many robberies. Farmington has no arsons, but Faribault has the most arsons of any city outside major strongholds like Minneapolis, St. Paul or Duluth.

But Faribault has something Farmington doesn’t: diversity. Especially from its Somalis.

The city of over 20,000 used to be much less diverse. In 1990, it was even 98% white. Or as the Minnesota Post described it, with a shudder, “an almost entirely homogeneous white community, not much different from many towns across Minnesota.” But Faribault was an hour away from Minneapolis at a time when it was being overtaken by Somali mass migration, and it had a meat processing plant, now partly shut down, which is always a draw for illegal aliens and migrants.

Now Faribault is much more diverse and it has problems that it didn’t used to have.

Faribault was the epicenter of a $2.6 million Somali Medicaid ride fraud scam in which 8 Somalis, two of them named Mohammed, stole hundreds of names to bill taxpayers for rides, interpreters and acupuncture services that never happened.

It was also part of the $250 million Somali meal scam that first broke open Somali fraud.

Faribault’s part in the massive fraud in which nonprofits claimed to be providing free meals to hundreds of thousands of Somali kids who didn’t exist came through the Somali American Faribault Education (SAFE) run by Mohamed Hussein and Lul Bashir Ali, who made off with $5 million in meal funds after claiming that their restaurant in Faribault, which only had 9 tables, was serving meals to 1,600 children a day and had served a total of 700,000 meals.

The Somali American Faribault Education (SAFE) nonprofit also claimed to be providing meals to 2,500 children a day. Sizable amounts of kickbacks were paid to a man who then fled to Somalia. The Minnesota Post’s article praising the Somali takeover of Faribault had hailed SAFE, claiming that it “provides refugees with ESL programs and connects them to jobs”.

The other non-profit promoted by the Post article, the ‘Somali Community Resettlement Services’, which operates out of the massive 115-year-old historic Gale Mansion, often used as a wedding venue, has been linked to one Faribault meal site that claimed to be offering 2,000 meals a day.

The ‘Somali Community Resettlement Services’ solicited nearly $3 million for the free meals and Somali elected officials had proposed bills that would pour millions into the organization.

The fraud also penetrated the Faribault public school system as investigators are also trying to figure out where $1 million in grant money to stop Somali drug abuse solicited by Lul Bashir Ali, initially identified only as a Somali mother, went.

“‘We need help.’ This sentiment, expressed by a Somali mother about the specific concern of youth drug use and the more general frustration of trying to parent in a new culture, captures the heart of this grant proposal.” The Minnesota Department of Human Services responded with nearly $1 million for the Faribault schools that was supposedly used to provide Somali services.

Faribault is much more diverse now with an estimated 4,600 Somalis out of 25,000 people. The white population has dropped to 65% and the school system is even more diverse.

Minority enrollment in the city’s schools was up 243% in twenty years. By 2018, minority students made up a majority of the school system. Today, 60% of the school district is minority and only 36% white. A population of older white homeowners is subsidizing education and services for Somali and South American migrant meatpacking plant workers with their property taxes.

The Faribault School Board has recently been debating teaching science, health and social studies in Somali. As of 2022, there were over 900 Faribault students who didn’t speak English.

The Somali education program was proposed after complaints from Somalis and other migrants that their “home languages were being lost as students became more English-dominant” and “parents and children no longer shared a common language, weakening communication and cultural connections within families.” Rather than expecting their parents to learn English, Faribault schools are expected to prevent their children from learning English, instead teaching them in Somali.

Faribault might as well teach the students in Somali because state test proficiency scores showed that math proficiency was at 13.7%, science was at 16.1% and reading was at 29.8%. Test scores, graduation rates, attendance and every possible metric are below state standards.

What would Faribault be like if it were less diverse and Somali? Faribault school statistics show that students for whom English is their native language perform over three times better on math, science and more than twice as well on reading. Students who aren’t on welfare perform four times as well on math and science. Call it the ‘Somali Effect’.

Faribault is more diverse, it’s also more dangerous and has linked up with the epicenter of Somali fraud in the Twin Cities. Its schools are failing and it has no future.

(Image above from Hormel meatpacking plant video showcasing its Somali workers.)

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.

Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.

Thank you for reading.

Read my book 'Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers' Fight Against the Left' to discover the true origins of the American Left.

http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2026/04/the-somalization-of-minnesota-town.html

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I keep forgetting to post about this: we've been troubleshooting the "missing notifications" problem for the past few days. (Well, I say "we", really I mean Mark and Robby; I'm just the amanuensis.) It's been one of those annoying loops of "find a logical explanation for what could be causing the problem, fix that thing, observe that the problem gets better for some people but doesn't go away completely, go back to step one and start again", sigh.

Mark is hauling out the heavy debugging ordinance to try to find the root cause. Once he's done building all the extra logging tools he needs, he'll comment to this entry. After he does, if you find a comment that should have gone to your inbox and sent an email notification but didn't, leave him a link to the comment that should have sent the notification, as long as the comment itself was made after Mark says he's collecting them. (I'd wait and post this after he gets the debug code in but I need to go to sleep and he's not sure how long it will take!)

We're sorry about the hassle! Irregular/sporadic issues like this are really hard to troubleshoot because it's impossible to know if they're fixed or if they're just not happening while you're looking. With luck, this will give us enough information to figure out the root cause for real this time.

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Max’s replacement looks ready to make Peter Gyrich look like Edwin Jarvis. But maybe he won’t be so ba--

( Never mind, he just held a three-hour efficiency meeting and spiked the donuts with Scarecrow fear toxin ‘‘to instill respect.’’ )

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