October 3, 2026

02a U.S. Politics – Conservative

Iran Closes Strait of Hormuz, Conducts Military Exercises With China, Russia– gellerreport.com

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After reports of Iranian missile fire in the most strategically important shipping lane in the Persian Gulf, Tehran announced that the Strait of Hormuz would be closed to all maritime traffic for several hours due to a “Smart Control” exercise conducted by the naval arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps…. At the same time, Russia, China and Iran deployed naval vessels to the Strait of Hormuz for joint maneuvers, Russian presidential aide Nikolai Patrushev said Tuesday. It was not immediately clear whether the Russian and Chinese ships had already joined the ongoing Iranian drill or were expected to participate in the coming days (Israel Hayom).

3rd Transgendered Mass Shooter in Less than One Year Kills Self, Wife, Son

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A man presenting as a woman opened fire at a Rhode Island hockey game, killing his wife, his son, and then himself. The killer was Robert Dorgan, who has a long social media history of making violent threats, including to Kevin Sorbo and Alec Jones. He threatened people online saying, “Keep bashing us, but do not wonder why we Go BERSERK.”

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Rhode Island Shooter Revealed To Be Divorced Transgender With Bizarre Online Footprint – dailycaller.com

The transgender gunman who killed at least two family members at a Rhode Island hockey game on Monday left behind social media posts warning that gender-confused people like him could one day go “berserk.”

Police identified Robert Dorgan, who they say went by “Roberta,” as the man who opened fire at the Pawtucket high school game before killing himself, according to multiple reports. Dorgan’s online posts as “Roberta Dorgano” reveal his apparent interests in racist ideology, pornography and grievances about society’s treatment of transgender people, the Daily Caller News Foundation found.

Dorgan’s household endured multiple disputes over his self-declared gender, including his ex-wife’s divorce in 2021 for what she described as “gender reassignment surgery, narcissistic + personality disorder traits,” WPRI reported. (

VA High Court Gives Go-Ahead for New Gerrymandering Referendum

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The Virginia Supreme Court has just given the insurrectionist DNC state the go-ahead to push a referendum that will effectively cancel 4 U.S. House seats for conservatives. DNC Virginia looks to cement its hold on American soil by effectively making it impossible for non-Democrats to ever win in the state again. The referendum, the new district map, will be voted on starting this March through mid-April. The move followed the GOP’s failure to secure a gerrymandering scheme favorable to their party in Indiana, a state they fully control.

The courts have failed at all levels to recognize the constitutional violations of gerrymandering as a principle, which allows political parties to create geographically unnatural voting districts to assure their party cannot be defeated in a general election ever again. Now, millions of conservatives will be effectively disenfranchised from the voting rolls, taxed without representation. SCOTUS continues to allow this unconstitutional practice.

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VA High Court Greenlights Dem Gerrymandering Effort – thefederalist.com

The Virginia Supreme Court handed Democrats a massive win Friday, allowing them to move forward with a redistricting referendum that would gerrymander the commonwealth’s U.S. House districts from five Republicans and six Democrats to one Republican and 10 Democrats.

Democrats have been looking for a way to push through their referendum, despite legal challenges and court rulings saying the efforts are illegal, in time for an April 21 special election that would allow the gerrymandered map to take effect before the November general election.

Early voting is set to start March 6.

If the referendum passes, it would allow the Virginia legislature the authority to redraw the congressional maps, instead of its nonpartisan commission. The nonpartisan commission is relatively new in Virginia, coming into play once since its creation by referendum in 2020. In that case, the commission failed to agree on maps, requiring the state Supreme Court to complete the process.

Despite the failures of the commission, the gerrymandering plan from the Democrats is a mid-decade power-grab aimed at disenfranchising Virginians in order to pad Democrat House seats ahead of a potential U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the Voting Rights Act, which already artificially gave Democrats numerous seats based on racial gerrymandering.

 

Former Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares and former U.S. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, both Republicans and co-chairs of a group called Virginians for Fair Maps, which is aimed at stopping this process, put out a statement Friday promising further legal challenges.

“Though we firmly believe this referendum is illegal, the court has allowed it to move forward before final judgement. There will be further legal action on this matter,” they said. “All across Virginia, voters are speaking out against this brazen political power grab that allows politicians in Richmond to choose their own voters. It’s wrong, it’s illegal, and it will fail.”

While allowing the special election to move forward, the Virginia Supreme Court bizarrely set itself up to hear the case after the election occurs, meaning there appears to be three potential outcomes: The referendum fails and the case would likely not be heard; the referendum is approved and the court agrees with Democrats, allowing the gerrymander; the referendum is approved and the court agrees with Republicans, throwing it out.

The last scenario is unlikely, since the court would be seen as nullifying a vote.

Republicans are still talking as if things could go their direction, with state House Minority Leader Terry Kilgore, R-Va., saying, “we’re going to make our case to Virginians that this is unfair. This is unprecedented. And, quite frankly it’s against the law we believe.”

State Senate Minority Leader Ryan McDougle, R-Va., said, “Last October, democrats took an unprecedented step to illegally pass a constitutional amendment at the 11th hour. The judiciary agreed, and the Supreme Court has taken up and fast-tracked the case. Make no mistake, the rule of law will prevail.”

But beyond the legal challenges that they could present, the state and national Republican parties, as well as other organizations, face an urgent need to set their sights on a massive get-out-the-vote operation in Virginia.

Breccan F. Thies is the White House correspondent for The Federalist. He is a co-recipient of the 2025 Dao Prize for Excellence in Investigative Journalism. As an investigative journalist, he previously covered education and culture issues for the Washington Examiner and Breitbart News. He holds a degree from the University of Virginia and is a 2022 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow. You can follow him on X: @BreccanFThies.


from thefederalist.com

UK Looks to “Socially Transition” 4 Years Old

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The United Kingdom’s Department of Education is set to issue guidelines for transitioning children to genders of their choosing. The current draft reveals the department plans on allowing schools to “socially transition” children as young as four. The policy “acknowledged that there is a lack of good evidence on the long-term impact of social transition on young people, but it is clear that social transition should be viewed as an active intervention that may have significant effects on the child or young person in terms of their psychological functioning and longer-term outcomes.”

Maya Forstater of the biological-sex human rights group Sex Matters, responded to the report, stating “Schools are still being left with the idea that they can facilitate ‘social transition’ – which remains undefined – and that they should negotiate this on a case-by-case basis. They are being encouraged to think that children have a ‘birth sex’ as well as some other concept of sex. This has no basis in law or reality, and undermines safeguarding. It should be clear by now that allowing children and parents to think that a child who starts their education as a girl can graduate as a boy or vice versa is a dangerous fairy tale.”

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Gender-confused UK children as young as 4 could be ‘socially transitioned’ in school – lifesitenews.com


(LifeSiteNews) – The  lasted draft of the UK Department of Education’s long-awaited student safety guidance waters down its gender confusion policy to the point that children as young as four could be ‘socially transitioned’ under certain circumstances.

The 201-page document covers many classroom issues, but its second, which pertains to gender, appears at first to be rooted in reality. It states that schools “must not allow pupils into toilets, changing rooms, or boarding or residential accommodation designated for the opposite sex, with no exceptions”; “pupils must not be allowed to participate in sports designated for the opposite sex”; schools “should not initiate any action regarding social transition”; and schools must respect the “leading role” of parents and carers in such decisions. 

“Schools and colleges should consider everything that could be affecting a child, including whether they have any wider health issues or neurodiversity,” the policy states and notes that National Health Service (NHS) England’s 2024 Cass Review “acknowledged that there is a lack of good evidence on the long-term impact of social transition on young people, but it is clear that social transition should be viewed as an active intervention that may have significant effects on the child or young person in terms of their psychological functioning and longer-term outcomes.”

However, while urging primary schools to exercise “particular caution,” the document also leaves the door open for such schools to transition very young children, stating “we would expect support for full social transition to be agreed very rarely. The Cass Review acknowledges that older children will generally have greater agency to make their own decisions. Maintaining flexibility and keeping children’s options open will help to avoid a child feeling they are under pressure to commit to a potentially irrevocable pathway when they are young.”

The Daily Mail reports that the latest draft has been significantly watered down by Labour leaders from the version previously drafted by the formerly ruling Conservative Party, which had prohibited the changing of gender pronouns in primary schools, limited the changing of pronouns in secondary schools to “very few occasions,” and protected teachers and students’ right to refuse to use transgender pronouns.

Despite such weaknesses, the BBC notes that the guidance has the support of Cass Review leader Dr. Hilary Cass. She called it a “huge step in the right direction” that “reflects the recommendations of my review, giving schools much-needed clarity on their legal duties so they can support children with confidence.” She emphasized its support for parental involvement and expressed confidence that “proceeding with a social transition is going to be very much the exception, rather than the rule.”

Others disagree. “Primary school children should not be navigating changes in pronouns at all. But, shockingly, Labour’s guidance opens the door to children as young as four being referred to in a way that does not reflect their biological sex,” declared Tory education spokesperson Laura Trott

READ: Britain’s shame: The rape gang inquiry Parliament hopes will disappear

“Schools are still being left with the idea that they can facilitate ‘social transition’ – which remains undefined – and that they should negotiate this on a case-by-case basis,” argued Maya Forstater of the biological-sex human rights group Sex Matters. “They are being encouraged to think that children have a ‘birth sex’ as well as some other concept of sex. This has no basis in law or reality, and undermines safeguarding. It should be clear by now that allowing children and parents to think that a child who starts their education as a girl can graduate as a boy or vice versa is a dangerous fairy tale.”

A large body of evidence shows that “affirming” gender confusion carries serious harms, especially when done with impressionable children who lack the mental development, emotional maturity, and life experience to consider the long-term ramifications of the decisions being pushed on them, or full knowledge about the long-term effects of life-altering, physically-transformative, and often-irreversible surgical and chemical procedures.

Studies find that more than 80% of children experiencing gender dysphoria outgrow it on their own by late adolescence, and that even full “reassignment” surgery often fails to resolve gender-confused individuals’ heightened tendency to engage in self-harm and suicide — and may even exacerbate it, including by reinforcing their confusion and neglecting the actual root causes of their mental strife.

Many oft-ignored detransitioners, individuals who attempted transitioning before regretting it and returning to life as their true sex, attest to the physical and mental harm of reinforcing gender confusion, as well as to the bias and negligence of the medical establishment on the subject, many of whom take an activist approach to their profession and begin cases with a predetermined conclusion that “transitioning” is the best solution.

READ: Tumbler Ridge massacre forces Canada to confront gender ideology’s deadly consequences


from www.lifesitenews.com

Potomac River Sewage Disaster Triggered by DNC Incompetence, Trump Promises Relief

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HHS Secretary Kristi Noem is accusing Maryland’s State Democrat leadership of gross incompetence that led to a catastrophic environmental disaster in the Potomac River. Millions of gallons of sewage water were released into the Potomac because of a faulty pipe.

Noem said, “Thanks to gross mismanagement by Maryland’s Democrat leaders, hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage has reportedly been dumped into the Potomac River—flowing straight through our nation’s capital and endangering millions of people, wildlife, and the entire DC region’s water supply.”

The President has responded by pledging to use Federal resources to attempt to clean up the mess. DC Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) has officially declared a public emergency and requested Federal rescue.

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Bowser declares Potomac sewage spill an emergency, seeks federal aid for cleanup – The Washington Post

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) declared the Potomac River sewage spill a public emergency Wednesday and requested federal assistance with cleanup as the Trump administration continued to criticize local leaders for allegedly mishandling the environmental disaster.

Bowser also requested a presidential disaster declaration, and she asked the federal government to reimburse the D.C. government and D.C. Water for all costs associated with the spill and recovery effort.

“This is the best way to ensure that we have the full weight of resources that quite frankly the residents deserve,” Deputy Mayor for Public Safety and Justice Lindsey Appiah said in a news conference.

from news.google.com

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Democrats Create a Sewage Crisis — Then Defund FEMA’s Cleanup – PJ Media

A Trump administration official is accusing Democrat mismanagement of causing the massive sewage pipe break and spill in the Potomac River, and the government workers who have to deal with the spill just got defunded, discourtesy of toilet-brained Democrats.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is a subsidiary agency of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which Democrats just defunded. Leftists’ anti-ICE obsession consumes every other consideration. But FEMA has to deal with a massive sewage spill poisoning the waters of the river that runs through Maryland, Virginia, and D.C., because if there is one thing that is always true of Democrats, it is that they insist on creating catastrophes with their policies straight from the sewer and then making someone else clean up after them.

Euthanasia Advocacy Group Makes Bank Pushing Suicides in Canada

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The euthanasia advocacy group “Dying with Dignity” is apparently making millions hawking suicide to Canadians, suicide that has already seen the mentally ill and the medically neglected counted among their victims. In 2024 alone, Dying with Dignity had $9 million in tax free assets. The latest figures haven’t been released yet, but in Canada, suicide advocacy groups are treated like religious groups in America. The profit for pushing death is high.

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“Dying With Dignity” Makes Millions From Canada Euthanizing Patients – lifenews.com

There is a basic ethical rule we apply almost everywhere else in society, almost. If you profit from an outcome, you should not be the loudest voice advocating for it, but I guess Dying with Dignity didn’t get the morality memo.

Medicine used to understand this instinctively.

Doctors are not supposed to financially benefit from prescribing a particular drug. Judges are expected to recuse themselves if they have a stake in a case. Regulators are scrutinized when they take money from the industries they oversee. We understand or at least normal people understand intuitively — that money distorts judgment.

Except, apparently, when it comes to death.

Hindu Mobs Attack Indian Christian Homes

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After Indian Christians refused to denounce Christ, a mob of Hindu Indians attacked their homes, destroying them. Four families, 25 believers, were affected by the assault, which was carried out by 20 villagers. Attacks by Hindus against Christians have only increased under the Hindu nationalist Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi.

Christian Solidarity Worldwide President Mervyn Thomas said of the attacks, “It is deeply concerning to witness the grave and unacceptable assault and humiliation these families have been subjected to on account of their religion. Even more alarming is the failure of the police to protect these vulnerable citizens, which has emboldened the perpetrators. We call upon the district administration and state authorities to intervene as matter of urgency, ensuring the safety of the affected families, restoring their rights, compensating them for the loss of their homes, and holding those responsible to account under the law.”

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Mobs in India Destroy Christian Homes After Believers Refuse to Renounce Jesus – westernjournal.com

Christians in the Indian village of Midapalli had their homes destroyed by an angry mob after refusing to renounce their faith in Jesus Christ.

About 25 believers — four families and two other individuals — were confronted by a mob on Jan. 11 and told to renounce their faith, according to a report from Christian Solidarity Worldwide.

They refused to comply — even after being threatened with death.

The mob of about 20 fellow villagers then proceeded to destroy four of their homes.

When the Christians asked the police in Kavande village for assistance, the police not only declined, but sided with the mob.

“The officer in charge threatened the Christian families, questioning their decision to embrace Christianity as members of a tribal community and warning that their unique identity cards and ration supplies would be cancelled,” Christian Solidarity Worldwide reported.

On Jan. 14, the authorities questioned their pastor, banning him from visiting households in Midapalli.

The mob was emboldened even more, and new death threats were directed at the believers.

The Christian families have no choice but to remain in their destroyed homes, which now offer poor shelter.

“It is deeply concerning to witness the grave and unacceptable assault and humiliation these families have been subjected to on account of their religion,”.

“Even more alarming is the failure of the police to protect these vulnerable citizens, which has emboldened the perpetrators,” the statement added.

“We call upon the district administration and state authorities to intervene as matter of urgency, ensuring the safety of the affected families, restoring their rights, compensating them for the loss of their homes, and holding those responsible to account under the law.”

Related:

NBC Issues Apology for Calling Female Olympic Skier ‘She’

Such mob violence against Christians is sorrowfully more and more common in India.

The South Asian nation is seeing an uptick in Hindu nationalism — a sentiment that adherence to Hinduism is core to Indian identity.

Open Doors now ranks India the 12th most severe country in the world for Christian persecution.

“To religious nationalists, to be Indian is to be Hindu, and that leaves no place for Christianity,” the nonprofit described.

“The result is systemic discrimination and violence, particularly against converts.”

The mobs are emboldened by social media virality, and evangelism has become increasingly dangerous in the nation.

Authorities have even passed “anti-conversion laws” in a dozen states.

“In theory, the laws are meant to protect all religions, but the reality is very different — aided by the laws’ vague wording. It means that even a constitutionally approved activity — such as a prayer meeting — can lead to an accusation, arrest and interrogation,” Open Doors said.

“Even a false report is extremely dangerous, as it can lead to mob violence.”

 

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SCOTUS Cuts off Leftist Foreign Aid Slush Funds

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After lower-level insurrectionist DNC-CCP judges repeatedly attempted to force the Trump administration to keep funding their party’s money laundering foreign aid fund scheme, the Supreme Court has officially ended their judicial tyranny. SCOTUS ruled 6-3 the Trump administration has every right to cut off $4 billion in foreign aid if he so chooses. The six justices assessed that “the harms to the Executive’s conduct of foreign affairs appear to outweigh the potential harm faced by respondents.”

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Supreme Court Hands Trump HUGE Victory, Clears Path to Freeze $4 Billion in Foreign Aid – gellerreport.com

The U.S. Supreme Court will allow the federal government to freeze more than $4 billion in foreign aid payments that President Trump tried to cancel last month using a rare “pocket rescission.”

The justices voted 6-3 to grant the Trump administration’s emergency appeal, which stopped a lower court’s order to release the funds that had already been set aside.

A spokesperson for the White House Office of Management and Budget said, “This is a huge win for restoring the President’s power to carry out his policies. Left-wing groups can no longer take over the president’s agenda.

Unborn Children are People too, Says Puerto Rico

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Puerto Rican governor Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon (R) signed legislation that recognizes unborn children as being human beings. The law declares, “Every human being has legal personality and capacity from the moment of conception and is a subject of law for all purposes that are favorable to him or her. The inheritance rights that the law recognizes in favor of the unborn child are subject to the event of birth. The representation of the human being in gestation corresponds to whoever will exercise it when he or she is born and, in case of impossibility or incapacity, to a legal representative or court-appointed guardian.”

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Puerto Rico Legally Recognizes Unborn Babies as Human Beings – standingforfreedom.com

A new law declaring that everyone has “legal personality and capacity from the moment of conception” rejects the kind of dehumanizing statutory language that has helped society normalize and even celebrate the killing of the unborn.

Puerto Rico has taken an important step to support unborn babies after Gov. Jenniffer González-Colón, R, signed new legislation recognizing them as human beings.

Senate Bill 504, which became law on February 12, represents a major development in the fight for life…

Coalition of States to Oppose Mail-Order Abortions Grows to 22

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Alabama has just joined 22 other states in opposing the 2023 FDA decision that allowed a deadly drug designed to terminate the unborn to be purchased over the counter, and even through the mail. The drug has already been used by men to murder unborn children against the mother’s will.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said, “This rule is unlawful, plain and simple. The Biden FDA eliminated critical safety safeguards, authorized the mailing of abortion drugs in direct conflict with federal law, and empowered out-of-state providers to violate the laws of pro-life States. After Dobbs returned abortion policy to the States, the Biden administration attempted to override that decision through executive action. We are standing with Louisiana to defend state sovereignty, enforce the law, and protect unborn life.”

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22 States Fight Biden Rule Allowing Mail-Order Abortions – lifenews.com

Alabama has joined 21 States in filing a brief in support of Louisiana’s lawsuit challenging a Biden-era rule that expanded access to abortion drugs through mail and telehealth, despite contrary state laws.

The case challenges a 2023 Food and Drug Administration action that removed long-standing safeguards on the chemical abortion drug mifepristone and allowed doctors in one State to prescribe abortion pills to patients in another. The States’ brief argues that the rule unlawfully overrides state laws protecting unborn life and intrudes on States’ sovereign authority following the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs.

“This rule is unlawful, plain and simple,” Attorney General Steve Marshall said. “The Biden FDA eliminated critical safety safeguards, authorized the mailing of abortion drugs in direct conflict with federal law, and empowered out-of-state providers to violate the laws of pro-life States. After Dobbs returned abortion policy to the States, the Biden administration attempted to override that decision through executive action. We are standing with Louisiana to defend state sovereignty, enforce the law, and protect unborn life.”

Corporate America is Tuning Out Rainbow Mafia Flagship

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The legal extortionist operation known as Human Rights Campaign (HRC) sends out a questionnaire every year to corporate America, designed to de facto threaten them if they don’t continue to enact policies that grant privilege to non-heterosexuals. Last year, 377 Fortune 500 companies responded, or 75%. This year, that plummeted to just 131, a 65% drop. Let us hope next year sees that number go to zero. Let us also hope HRC one day faces consequences for its decades of extortionist activities.

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Transgender orthodoxy is in retreat in medicine, the courts, and even business—as the LGBTQ mafia bleeds allies in corporate America.

The Human Rights Campaign has long employed mafia-like tactics to pressure companies to toe the line on gender ideology, but a growing chorus of critics, assisted by President Donald Trump’s second administration, has led companies to reconsider their alliances with the organization.

About three-quarters of all Fortune 500 companies (377) disclosed their business practices to HRC in 2025, so the LGBTQ activist group could rate them on its Corporate Equality Index. This year, however, only 131 companies are working with HRC—a 65% drop.

243M Gallons of Sewage Spill Into the Potomac River in Largest U.S. Wastewater Disaster– townhall.com

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Hundreds of millions of gallons of human waste have leaked into the Potomac River after an underground sewage line burst in January.

A Washington D.C. utility said that on Jan. 19, a sewage line burst in the Potomac Interceptor along the Clara Barton Parkway at the 495 interchange and C and O Canal National Historical Park.

The D.C. water utility estimated in a Feb. 6 press release, based on monitoring collection data, that about 243 million gallons of wastewater had overflowed from the collapse site. Roughly 194 million gallons of that happened in the first five days before bypass pumping reduced the overflow.

Major news networks won’t cover what has become the largest human waste spill in U.S. history. What’s worse is that this mess likely won’t be cleaned for about nine months, Townhall reported.

Democrat Gov JB Pritzker’s 2028 Hopes Dashed as Family’s Epstein Links Exposed– slaynews.com

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JB Prikzker, a prominent Democrat governor viewed as a potential 2028 presidential contender, is facing renewed political attention after his cousin abruptly stepped down from a major corporate leadership role, citing regret over past ties to convicted child predator Jeffrey Epstein.

On Monday, Thomas J. Pritzker, 75, announced he would retire immediately as executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels Corporation.

He also confirmed that he would not seek reelection to the company’s board at its 2026 annual meeting.

In a company statement, Pritzker acknowledged that his past contact with Epstein and the pedophile’s child sex trafficking accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell reflected a serious lapse in judgment.

Goldman Sachs Reportedly Plans To Axe DEI Criteria For Board Members– dailycaller.com

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Goldman Sachs is planning to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) criteria for its board of directors when identifying prospective candidates, according to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).

The major investment bank is planning the change in the aftermath of a September 2025 request from the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), a conservative nonprofit group, the WSJ reported on Monday, citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter. Goldman’s board’s governance committee currently selects potential qualified candidates using four main criteria, one of which is a broad definition of diversity that includes things such as perspectives, background, professional and military experience, as well as “other demographics” — a category that lists various DEI considerations, according to the outlet.

Bloody ‘trans’ rampage at boys’ hockey game brought to an end by ‘Good Samaritan’– www.theblaze.com

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A week after a trans-identifying man went on a rampage in Western Canada, killing six children and two adults, another man who masqueraded as a woman allegedly took aim at innocents — this time at a local skating rink in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

Families, students, and supporters flocked to the Dennis M. Lynch Arena on Monday afternoon to watch a boys’ high school hockey game between the Blackstone Valley School and Coventry-Johnson co-op teams.

‘Do not wonder why we Go BERSERK.’

Key GOP Senator Vows To Support SAVE Act, Draws Line On Filibuster– trendingpoliticsnews.com

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U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) has indicated that she will support the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, commonly known as the SAVE Act, after weeks of speculation. While the long-serving GOP moderate indicated that she will vote in favor of the bill, Collins emphasized that she is not in favor of tweaking the legislative filibuster process, which could provide a significant hurdle to the bill’s final passage.

Collins confirmed that she would be supporting the bill in a statement to the Maine Wire on Friday. Her endorsement was critical, as it brought the number of Republicans supporting the measure up to 50, which would allow them to pass it with a tie-breaking vote from Vice President JD Vance.

Schumer Vows to Fight SAVE Act Despite 83% Public Support– www.dailysignal.com

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THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told CNN on Sunday that Democrats will fight “tooth and nail” against the House-passed SAVE America Act, an election integrity bill he likened to racial segregation.

During an appearance on “State of the Union with Jake Tapper and Dana Bash,” Schumer stressed his caucus will “not let” the legislation reach President Donald Trump’s desk and suggested Republicans only support it because they do not want poor people and minorities to vote.

The Trump-backed SAVE America Act would mandate voters to present photo ID at

Ukraine’s Zelensky Says He Met with Democrat Senators to Discuss ‘Pressure’ on Russia– slaynews.com

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced that he met with Democrat senators to discuss plans for ramping up “pressure” on Russia.

Zelensky confirmed that he met with Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI).

The meeting highlights the continued efforts from Democrats to influence Ukrainian leadership as the war with Russia drags on.

In a video included in a post on X, Blumenthal can be heard greeting Zelensky and expressing interest in further cooperation.

Newsom compares Trump admin federal agents to Nazis during Munich appearance | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com

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“I want to remember all those images of masked men, the secret police, something familiar in Germany.”

California Gavin Newsom cannot seem to make up his mind about what to call federal law enforcement. He compared federal agents to Nazis during an appearance in Munich on Saturday, but has recently backtracked on similar claims.

Newsom, who recently backtracked on a post from his press office that referred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as “state sponsored terror” agents, has now claimed that federal law enforcement that was sent to California is like the Nazis.

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Claims Media Covers Trump Administration “Fairly And Accurately”– www.louderwithcrowder.com

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According to CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, the media covers the Trump administration “fairly and accurately.” If that were true, at least when it comes to her reporting, she would not tell such a blatant lie. This is proven by the fact that the media had zero relevance in the 2024 presidential election.

There are two things easily debunked in the video. First, it’s the claim that, at the very least, she believes she’s fair.

This is what she means when she claims she treats the president “fairly.”

Yeah, that was totally unbiased reporting….

Utah bill would protect college students’ right to opt out of pro-LGBT assignments– www.lifesitenews.com

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(LifeSiteNews) — A bill working its way through the Utah state legislature would provide Christian students the ability to opt out of certain homework assignments they have a moral objection to.

Republican state Rep. Mike Peterson told The Salt Lake Tribune that he introduced HB204 after his daughter said her professor required her to write a letter to a local politician expressing support for pro-LGBT policies.

“Sometimes a student gets put in a position where it violates their conscience. It goes against their own core beliefs. They’re not comfortable with doing that assignment yet currently have really have no recourse,” Petersen said.

Rooting Against Anti-American Olympians Is Patriotic– thefederalist.com

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Getting the opportunity to represent one’s country in the Olympics is an incredible honor for any athlete. Sadly, some of this year’s American competitors don’t seem to fully appreciate that point.

Throughout the first week of the 2026 Winter Olympics, several U.S. athletes have happily taken the bait from left-wing “journalists” seeking to get these Americans to trash their nation — and President Trump — on the world stage. Many of the comments thus far have specifically been focused on ICE and its efforts to deport foreign nationals illegally residing in the United States.

Now, Experts Are Warning Revolutionary AI Tools Change Everything – RedState– redstate.com

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The advent of artificial intelligence is rattling a lot of cages. Trust me, I should know; two of our four daughters are freelance commercial graphic artists, and they are (rightfully) worried about being underbid and driven out of the market by computers. As for me, I’m not too worried – what computer could ever match my inimitable style, my wit, my wisdom, not to mention my modesty?

Colorado In-State Tuition Discount for Illegals Requires DOJ Investigation – Equal Protection Project– legalinsurrection.com

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The Equal Protection Project has sent a Request to the Department of Justice calling for an investigation and possible enforcement action against Colorado’s Advancing Students for a Stronger Economy Tomorrow (ASSET) law, which, among other things, provides in-state tuition discounts to students illegally in the country while denying similar benefits to American citizens resident in other states.

Discrimination against American-born students has been a focus at EPP for a while. You may recall that in July 2025, after EPP complaints against five universities for DACA/”Undocumented” only scholarships, the Department of Education opened investigations and launched an initiative to address discrimination against Americans, creating a media firestorm:

Transgender suspect in Rhode Island mass shooting threatened to ‘go BERSERK’ if people ‘keep bashing us’– www.washingtonexaminer.com

pgnewser February 17, 2026 0

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The suspected shooter who opened fire at a Rhode Island high school hockey arena on Monday evening is a 56-year-old man who identified as transgender and made a number of alarming posts on social media prior to the shooting.

The suspect, Robert Dorgan, also went by Roberta and used the last name Esposito. Dorgan posted on X the night before the shooting, “keep bashing us. but do not wonder why we Go BERSERK,” in response to an anti-transgender post referring to Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) by their birth name, “Tim McBride.”

Post-Mortem Doctor Blows Whistle: Epstein Was Murdered– slaynews.com

pgnewser February 17, 2026 0

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A doctor who was present during Jeffrey Epstein’s post-mortem has blown the whistle and declared that the child predator did not die of “suicide” because he was “strangled.”

Dr. Michael Baden, the former New York City chief medical examiner who observed the autopsy on behalf of Epstein’s family, is renewing calls for a full investigation into the convicted sex offender’s death.

Republicans Defeat Wyoming Measure That Could Help Ban Abortions– www.lifenews.com

pgnewser February 17, 2026 0

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A measure to place a pro-life constitutional amendment on the ballot this fall in Wyoming fell short by a single vote of the 2/3rds threshold of votes required during a budget session. The final Senate tally was 20-11, with nine Republicans and the state’s only two Democrat senators casting nay votes.

Senate Joint Resolution 7 was sponsored by Riverton Republican Sen. Tim Salazar, who said, “This is one of the most important issues of our day.” He added, “I and many others simply seek a dialogue.”

CALIFORNIA VOTER FRAUD: New Shirley Report Highlights Dogs Voting, Dead Voters, 125-Year-Old Registrations, 100+ Voters at One Home– gellerreport.com

pgnewser February 17, 2026 0

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Investigative journalist Nick Shirley has uncovered major irregularities in California’s voter rolls, including more than 100 people allegedly registered at a single residence, dozens registered to a mail store, voters listed as 125 years old, and even a case where dogs were reportedly registered and received ballots. He also points to deceased individuals voting.

Man Shoots His Own Family During Hockey Game In Rhode Island– trendingpoliticsnews.com

pgnewser February 17, 2026 0

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UPDATE: The man who opened fire in a Rhode Island ice arena shot and killed his wife and shot two of his kids before turning the gun on himself, according to Fox News. The incident is being called a “domestic violence” altercation that turned deadly, according to the outlet.

All members of the Coventry Boys Hockey team have been accounted for and are safe.

Original article: At least two people were killed in an apparent mass shooting at an indoor ice rink in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, on Monday afternoon, according to local reports.