September 28, 2026

02a U.S. Politics – Conservative

Federal judge strikes down Education Department rule stripping DEI grants– www.thecollegefix.com
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Department failed to explain why it reversed course on teacher training grants

A federal judge blocked a U.S. Department of Education rule stripping grants from teacher prep programs that teach DEI.

In February 2025, the department pulled “over $600 million in grants to institutions and nonprofits that were using taxpayer funds to train teachers and education agencies on divisive ideologies,” according to a news release.

“Training materials included inappropriate and unnecessary topics such as Critical Race Theory; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI); social justice activism; ‘anti-racism’; and instruction on white privilege and white supremacy,” the release states.

Calling the directive “arbitrary and capricious,” District Judge Angel Kelley ruled that officials failed to adequately explain why they were reversing course on grants that historically encouraged DEI programs, according to The Hill. 

“Rather than confining the Directive to actions that are traditionally understood to constitute discrimination, the record instead reflects that Defendants terminated grants with topics such as ‘acknowledging … racism’ and ‘anti-racism’—activities expressly undertaken to oppose discrimination,” Kelley wrote.

The judge added that the department bypassed mandatory public notice and comment periods, and ignored how heavily states, teachers, students, and principals depend on the funding, according to WPRI.

A German politician who challenged a pro-pedophile activist on social media could face two years in prison for committing a hate speech crime. Vanessa Behrendt was challenging an openly “minor attracted person” for advocating adult-child sex on social media. The pedophile reported her comments to German authorities, who opened a “hate speech” investigation against the one challenging public advocacy of child sex.

German Politician Faces Two Years In Jail After “MAP” Activist Reports Her For Hate Speech After– www.louderwithcrowder.com
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In a sane society, this article would not exist. It would not exist because the man pretending to be a victim in this story would actually be shunned into oblivion, so much so that he would be condemned. That is not what happened. A German politician is now facing two years in jail after an alleged creep reported her for “hate speech.”

Per Reduxx:

A German politician who represents the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) is being investigated by the state for incitement to hatred, defamation, and dissemination of personal data after a pro-pedophile activist filed a criminal complaint against her for social media posts denouncing “LGBTQ propaganda” and pro-pedophile activism. One activist who reported Vanessa Behrendt to police over her social media posts runs an online support group for “minor-attracted people,” or MAPs, and campaigns for pedophilia to be legally recognized as a protected characteristic.

This is nauseating. I cannot deal with how these creeps, to say the very least, can report people for “hate” as if “MAPs” are not worthy of hate. Hate can be a very good thing in many situations. In this situation, these “activists” are worthy of hate. I live in America; I can say that because it is still legal (for now) to hate these lunatics. I just cannot deal with this level of evil. Incredible.

In October 2024, Behrendt, the AfD’s family policy spokesperson, published a controversial opinion to her official X account, which has since racked up over 1 million views.

“The rainbow flag stands for: The machinations of pedophile lobby groups, the endangerment of children through LGBTQ propaganda, the harassment of toddlers with transsexuality, the legal ‘cuddling’ and ‘wrestling’ of foreign men with kindergarten children (‘Original Play’), and the treatment of gender identity disorders with puberty blockers, hormone therapies, and transgender surgeries,” Behrendt wrote. She followed her message with an image of the German flag, stating that its colors represented the country, while the Pride flag, she said, did not.

 

Canada’s British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal has given a Christian doctor a $28,000 fine. The reason for the fine is because the doctor has refused to prescribe puberty blocker medicine to a teenager. The Doctor had clearly informed the patient and her mother, which he documented in his records.

He wrote “I noticed that the injection is for gender re-assignment as patient is already in the waiting room with (her) mother. I called mother into the room and explained to her that I would not be able to give the injection. Based on my religious belief and cultural background.”

Doctor Punished with $28,000 Fine for Refusing to Hurt Teen * The Gateway Pundit * by Guest Contributor– www.thegatewaypundit.com
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The Christian Institute is revealing the newest atrocity from the transgender agenda: Officials in Canada have fined a Christian physician $28,000 when he refused to harm a teenage boy by giving him the puberty blocker Lupron.

The doctor’s beliefs are that God made people male and female.

However, the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal rejects the scientific fact that males cannot become female or vice versa, and claimed the puberty blockers are “not medication for gender reassignment” because the drug prevents puberty rather than inducing physical characteristics of the opposite sex.

The doctor, in his records, said, “I noticed that the injection is for gender re-assignment as patient is already in the waiting room with (her) mother. I called mother into the room and explained to her that I would not be able to give the injection. Based on my religious belief and cultural background.”

A complaint followed and the tribunal confessed it “corrected” the doctor’s notes to “properly reflect Child Q’s gender.”

President Trump has announced he has secured a deal with the Netherlands that effectively gives the U.S. security oversight on the island. The deal assures no enemy of the United States can gain a foothold on Greenland soil.

Trump’s Greenland Deal Makes The World More Secure– thefederalist.com
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The Trump administration has announced a security deal with Denmark over Greenland, surprising no one except the entire foreign policy establishment and a bunch of slogan-chanting journalists who surrendered their capacity for independent thought at least 10 years ago. This is why you don’t take legacy media seriously, and the same goes for listening to the professional brow-furrowers at the think tanks. Remember what they were saying at the beginning of the year:

Like everyone else in the dinosaur media, the toddlers at The New York Times spent January wetting their diapers over the whole thing. Trump was getting ready to attack all of Europe, starting the bloody meal with Greenland as a mere appetizer. The Times compared Trump to, you’ll never guess, Adolf Hitler, with a headline about how Nazis have always yearned to control Greenland. Trump, the leading Democrat newsletter declared, was announcing his violent intentions with regard to Greenland as a way of communicating his intent to exercise unlimited power everywhere. The world would be soaked in blood as the terrifying fascist brutally invaded Greenland, obviously.

NATO’s darkest hour, it turns out, led to a security deal that Denmark and Greenland are speaking of with considerable warmth. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said that the agreement “strengthens our common security in the Arctic and the North Atlantic Area and therefore is great for NATO and Europe as well.”

The Economist has estimated AI has created five jobs for every one job lost. Their study claims AI has caused 200,000 job cuts since mid-2023 while creating one million new jobs.

It’s Not All Doom and Gloom: AI Added 1 Million US Jobs, 5 for Every 1 Cut– www.westernjournal.com
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A wave of doomsday warnings about artificial intelligence (AI) is overshadowing a short-term bright spot: the technology appears to be creating American jobs even as it eliminates others.

U.S. employers cited AI in 116,175 announced job cuts through August, roughly 22% of all cuts announced in 2026, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

Yet amid mounting warnings about AI’s threat to workers and even humanity, The Economist estimated in September that AI has created roughly 1 million American jobs compared with roughly 200,000 AI-attributed layoffs since mid-2023 — a ratio of about five jobs created for every one lost.

The figures are not directly comparable. Challenger tracked announced layoffs in which AI was cited as a reason, while The Economist estimated job creation using employment trends, AI-specific occupations and infrastructure hiring. Challenger has recorded roughly 188,000 announced cuts attributed to AI since it began tracking AI separately in 2023.

The broader labor market has so far avoided mass displacement. Employers added 162,000 jobs in August and the unemployment rate remained at 4.1%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported Sept. 4.

AI-related job creation is also extending beyond the workers constructing the data centers needed to power the technology.

CIA Accused Of Using 23andMe And Ancestry To Hunt For ‘Alien’ DNA Bloodlines– wltreport.com
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A newly resurfaced report is making an extraordinary allegation about the CIA, consumer DNA databases and the search for bloodlines that may not be entirely human.

The claim is not that intelligence officials are merely studying family trees.

It is that the agency allegedly has a backdoor into services such as 23andMe and Ancestry — and is using it to hunt for a rare genetic marker tied to so-called “Nordic” extraterrestrials.

That is a blockbuster accusation. It is also unproven.

The report now drawing fresh attention was first published in May and was pushed back into the spotlight Sunday:

Texas daycare accused of operating toddler ‘fight club’ | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com
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“Their trust was violated when the safe environment they were promised turned into a child fight club.”

A daycare in Fort Worth, Texas, is facing a lawsuit seeking more than $1 million after a substitute teacher allegedly encouraged two 4-year-old children to fight and threw one child to the floor.

Heather and Richard Harris filed the lawsuit against Arka Montessori Academy of Risinger, following an April 27 incident involving their 4-year-old son. According to the lawsuit and findings from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, the incident occurred toward the end of the school day after the child was moved into a combined classroom.

At around 4:30 p.m., the child was placed in teacher Jacqueline De Luna’s classroom as classes were combined. While De Luna’s back was turned, another boy approached the child and struck him in the back, prompting a brief fight between two children.

De Luna separated the children and picked up the other boy, who was the son of substitute teacher Chynia Johnson. Johnson entered the classroom to provide coverage while De Luna used the restroom, and Johnson’s son subsequently pushed the other child in the chest.

At one point, Johnson allegedly grabbed the 4-year-old by the arm and dragged him toward her son while encouraging the boy to kick and hit him. Johnson then threw the child, causing him to fall onto the hard floor. Surveillance footage captured the incident.

Vermont Teachers Union Pushes Gender Identity in Sports, Raises Alarms About ‘White Privilege’– www.dailysignal.com
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The Vermont teachers union formally recognizes students’ right to play sports based on “gender identity,” rather than biological sex.

The National Education Association Vermont chapter also asserts that the state’s public school teachers must acknowledge the nation’s “white supremacy culture” as responsible for “white privilege” that is “conferred irrespective of wealth, gender, and other factors.”

It also supports sanctuary jurisdictions for illegal immigrants.

The parental advocacy group Defending Education obtained a list of resolutions adopted at the Vermont NEA 2025 Representative Assembly.

“The fact that the state-level teachers union requires its members to ‘acknowledge’ that white supremacy culture permeates society shows just how ideologically captured the organization is,” Rhyen Staley, director of research at Defending Education, told the Daily Signal in a statement.

“It should be deeply concerning for parents that members of the union are to accept the far-left conspiracy theory and to become activists while roughly half of the state’s third graders are reading at below-proficient levels.” Staley added.

One resolution was a “Gender Equity in Athletic Programs” resolution.

Sam Altman Holds Secret Meetings with U.S Power Giants as OpenAI Pushes AI Grid ‘Security’– slaynews.com
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been quietly meeting with executives from some of America’s largest electric utility companies while warning that increasingly powerful artificial intelligence systems could pose a threat to the nation’s power grid.

Altman has spent years sounding the alarm about potentially dangerous AI systems while simultaneously pushing for government regulations that would place companies such as OpenAI at the center of the emerging AI oversight regime.

Now, the ChatGPT maker appears to be taking that same warning directly to America’s power industry, while pitching OpenAI’s own cybersecurity services as part of the solution.

According to Politico, Altman has held a series of private meetings with executives from major utilities including Duke Energy, Exelon, Southern Co., and NextEra Energy beginning in July.

One of the latest meetings took place Wednesday in Colorado during the annual gathering of the Edison Electric Institute.

The security of America’s electrical grid was reportedly a major topic.

Ukraine Launches 1,000 Drones At Russia, Hits Oil Refinery, Residential Building– dailycaller.com
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Ukraine sent more than 1,000 drones streaking into Russian airspace overnight, striking Moscow harder than at any point in the war.

Hundreds of those drones flew toward the capital on the final day of Russia’s parliamentary elections, according to CBS News. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin called it the “largest ever” assault on the city and said air defenses knocked down 450 before they reached Moscow.

A facility at the Moscow Oil Refinery and an apartment building sustained damage, he said. Russia’s Defense Ministry put the nationwide total at 1,110 drones destroyed, a count that included Crimea and the Black Sea. (RELATED: Russia And Ukraine Hammer Each Other, But Can’t Defend Themselves)

Regional Gov. Andrei Vorobyov reported two deaths and 20 injuries across the wider Moscow area, identifying the dead as a 74-year-old man and a 44-year-old woman, CBS News reported. In the Ramenskoye district, crews cleared 400 residents, including 70 children, from a 21-story tower, according to ABC News.

A resident of Sofyino named Vitaliy described the moment a strike hit his block. “Glass went flying; people started screaming and shouting. I turned around, and the entrance doors had already been blown out, debris everywhere,” he told ABC News.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his forces fired a mix of drones and missiles, among them the homegrown Flamingo and Pelican, to hit fuel and supply targets, according to CBS News. “These are billions of dollars that sustain the war machine,” he wrote on social media.

The Moscow refinery ran 11.6 million metric tons of oil in 2024, and repeated Ukrainian hits on such plants have thinned Russia’s refining capacity, driving fuel shortages and long lines at pumps nationwide, ABC News reported.

FBI stopped 1,100 terrorist attacks since Trump took office: Kash Patel | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com
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“These attacks did not happen because the FBI and our partners worked around the clock, found the threats and stopped them.”

1,100 terrorist attacks have been stopped since President Donald Trump returned to office, according to FBI Director Kash Patel.

Patel detailed the crackdown on terrorism during his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week. The FBI director said that the agency has seen an 80 percent increase in criminal arrests, a 90 percent increase in violent-crime arrests, and a 30 percent increase in arrests involving gangs and criminal enterprises compared with the previous 18 months.

“In the past 18 months, the FBI has helped to locate and identify over 11,000 children who were the victims of crime,” Patel said. That’s up 21 percent from the preceding 18 months.”

“In the same amount of time, the FBI has been involved in the arrest of over 5,000 child predators and human traffickers,” he continued. “That’s up 13 percent from the preceding 18 months. These predators are the definition of evil, and I applaud your leadership in hunting down these awful people. This all while Democrats stood idly by while Biden-Harris administration lost or couldn’t locate tens of thousands of these children.”

“This FBI is making America safe. We, this FBI, have arrested 4,260 foreign terrorist organization-related affiliates. That’s up 38 percent, including the fact that this FBI has stopped 1,100 criminal perpetrators from committing terrorist attacks on US soil,” Patel added.

As Texas lawmakers crack down on DEI curriculum, lawsuits fly and professors revolt– www.thecollegefix.com
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ANALYSIS: Are public college classrooms subject to state control? Depends who you ask.

Two recent lawsuits brought by the American Association of Professors against the Texas Tech and Texas A&M systems alleging free speech and academic freedom violations have raised questions, concerns, and debate about state authority over publicly funded college classrooms.

The lawsuits center on one-year-old policies within the systems limiting instruction on race or gender ideology without administrative preapproval, regulations that came in the wake of a new law giving campus leaders more oversight and authority over curricula.

The law, SB 37, was billed as a way to rid university curriculum of diversity, equity and inclusion dogma and refocus on workforce preparation, and campus leaders in the Lone Star State quickly took the opportunity to force professors to cull curricula viewed as too ideological.

While professors argue the systems’ policies are too vague, not enforced in a content-neutral manner, and have forced scholars to cancel classes and censor themselves, others see the oversight as long overdue.

Richard Lowery, a finance professor at UT-Austin and vocal DEI critic, said the state response comes after years of negligent oversight over academic institutions’ curricula.

“If they let the faculty run the school, it is still under state control,” he said. “The difference is that the legislature are elected representatives and must answer for their decisions to the public.”

Unhinged Female Jurors Are Mad That the Lindsay Clancy Holdout Focused on the Facts– townhall.com
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Two things: the female jurors need to shut the hell up. We get it — you wanted child killer Lindsay Clancy to get away with it—Second, what a nasty piece of work NBC Boston was by pretty much leading the online leftist activist community right to the man. His family was targeted; then his brother started yapping, another ‘what the hell are you doing’ moment; and finally, his disclosure, despite the judge sealing the names of the jury.

It’s not unusual for jurors to spill their guts after a trial, or for other profiles to be written about the rest of the body, but that’s only after the court releases their names. Alex Gutentag of Public delved into the sordid antics the progressive Left has displayed since the trial.

The lone juror who prevented a not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity verdict was Michael Desronvil, a Catholic MAGA supporter from a Haitian immigrant family. So the Left, which claims to be the vanguard for all black people, attacked a black man because he didn’t go along with the shenanigans of insufferable suburban white women after ten thousand bottles of wine. NBC Boston went to unusual lengths to attack Desronvil, who, as it seems, was the only person to look at the evidence and not view this case as one where children must be sacrificed for a larger discussion about mental health. It’s a lengthy and thorough post about this case devolving into a circus, how leftist logic leads to nothing but brain rot, and how if this is how leftists behave on juries, our system of justice might be in severe trouble (via Public):

The NBC Boston story is part of a larger public smear campaign that began before a mistrial was even declared. The jury foreperson initially alleged that the holdout was not faithfully applying the law during deliberations. Kevin Reddington, Clancy’s defense attorney, tried to have the juror removed and accused him of “bias” against people with mental illness.

FBI Director Kash Patel Says AI Is Helping Stop School Shooting Plots › American Greatness– amgreatness.com
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FBI Director Kash Patel said Saturday that the bureau has dramatically expanded its use of artificial intelligence, including deploying the technology to help prevent potential school shootings.

Patel said the FBI has used AI-assisted tools to identify threats and intervene before attacks could take place, pointing to a school shooting plot in North Carolina that authorities thwarted after receiving a tip through AI software.

“We’ve done it in North Carolina and about half a dozen other states to prevent school shootings since I’ve been in the seat,” Patel said on Fox News. “AI, when used lawfully, is a critical tool to triage data. For far too long the institutional morass in D.C. rejected the advancements of technology.”

Patel said the bureau’s adoption of the technology has accelerated substantially under his leadership.

“I have increased the use of AI in the FBI by 605 percent,” Patel said.

Patel said the bureau plans to work with its partners to examine databases, collect information and DNA, and quickly provide threat information to agents in the field.

The objective, Patel said, is to “stop people from killing children at schools.”

Ceuta Confirms First Monkeypox Case After Summer Border Surge from Morocco– legalinsurrection.com
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The last time we visited Ceuta at Legal Insurrection, thousands of military-age men from Morocco invaded Spain by crossing the border into this bit of Spanish territory.

That was in late July. As we head into the second half of September, conditions certainly have not improved. Now, on top of this de facto invasion, there has been a reported case of monkeypox.

Ceuta has confirmed its first recorded case of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, in a 13-year-old unaccompanied Moroccan boy who entered the Spanish enclave during the mass invasion from Morocco at the end of July.

The Instituto de Salud Carlos III confirmed the infection on Thursday, 17 September, after local health authorities sent samples for testing. According to local reporting, the minor is isolated at the Piniers reception centre, under medical supervision and receiving treatment, while health officials are tracing contacts. A second suspected case involving another minor is reportedly being investigated but has not been confirmed at the time of writing.

The appearance of mpox adds to the enclave’s already raging health crisis since July, when around 80,000 illegal migrants invaded Ceuta from Morocco, with around 10,000 still in the city of 84,000 residents.

INGESA, Spain’s public health authority responsible for the enclave, activated Level 1 of the Hospital Universitario de Ceuta’s External Catastrophe Plan on 31 July. During the first month alone, migrant patients generated 10,725 consultations—an average of 335 per day—and more than 100 additional health workers were hired.

Trump allies prepping legal defense firm for possible Democratic investigations– www.washingtonexaminer.com
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A conservative watchdog is recruiting lawyers to defend President Donald Trump’s allies and administration officials as preparations accelerate for investigations if Democrats win control of either chamber of Congress in November’s elections.

Former Justice Department official Jeff Clark said Wednesday that he would lead a new law firm under the Oversight Project’s banner to challenge what he described as abuses of congressional oversight, bar disciplinary proceedings, and criminal prosecutions.

FULL CONTROL: Trump’s ‘Infinite Life’ Greenland Deal, Permanent U.S. Security Control, China and Russia Barred– gellerreport.com
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Master moves from the master.

President Trump has formally obtained full control over Greenland after striking an infinity deal with Denmark — and the U.S. will immediately begin developing military in the region.

Trump to Ban CNN, MS NOW, Politico From White House Over Fake News Coverage › American Greatness– amgreatness.com
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President Donald Trump said Friday that he is banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House in his long-running battle with news organizations he accuses of publishing false and unfair coverage.

“Media Outlets shouldn’t be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES when they’re covering the President of the United States, the Trump Administration, or the United States of America,” Trump wrote in a Friday Truth Social post. “Other Fake News Media Outlets to follow.”

Asked about the scope of the restrictions, Trump described the move as “a very simple ban.”

“I don’t want him in my office. I don’t want them here. I would say the ban would go as far as you can,” Trump told reporters.

Trump said Politico was targeted in part because the Biden administration spent $8 million on subscriptions, spending that Trump later canceled.

The targeted outlets pushed back. CNN said it stands behind its White House team and argued that implementing the ban would constitute “an illegal assault” on its constitutional rights.

USDA: Food Stamp Fraud Crackdown Has Saved Taxpayers Nearly $6 Billion– slaynews.com
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Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has announced that the Trump administration’s crackdown on fraud in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program prevented nearly $6 billion in taxpayer losses, including by shutting down thousands of fraudulent retailers and illegal devices used to process food stamp benefits.

Rollins said in a September 15 post on X that the administration’s anti-fraud efforts have prevented $5.8 billion in losses since President Donald Trump returned to office.

The crackdown has included shutting down nearly 1,840 illegal SNAP devices used to process Electronic Benefit Transfer cards and disqualifying 5,335 fraudulent retailers from the program.

“Those who defraud SNAP are stealing from taxpayers and taking resources away from Americans who genuinely need assistance,” Rollins said.

“We have zero tolerance for this abuse, and we will continue pursuing bad actors and protecting the integrity of the program.”

Church of England Pulls Exhibit Celebrating Palestinian Jihadis– gellerreport.com
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The Church of England is just leftism at prayer, and so it was hardly surprising that, as The Times put it in its headline on, of all days, September 11, “Church of England promotes tapestry ‘with tribute to jihadists.’” Well, of course. Leftists have their heroes and saints just like everyone else.

The Times explained that “the fabric that will go on display at Leeds Minster appears to show the names of 12 members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad and one member of Hamas.”

Ultimately, this did not happen; saner minds prevailed. The BBC reported Friday that “a church exhibition honouring people who have lost their lives in Gaza has been removed from show after it emerged the display was said to feature names of several Hamas fighters.”

Abashed, the church that was showing the exhibition issued a statement saying that it wanted to “work with all faith groups within the city and acknowledges that by hosting this exhibition we have harmed our relationship with some in the Jewish community for which we apologise and now seek to rebuild trust.”

DOJ Charges 16 Noncitizens in Voter Fraud Cases– legalinsurrection.com
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The Justice Department (DOJ) announced charges against 16 people in seven states for alleged illegal voting, illegal voter registration, and related election crimes. Eight of the defendants were charged in Texas.

DOJ says the cases include noncitizens accused of voting in federal elections, false citizenship claims, and naturalization fraud. Investigators also turned up alleged passport fraud, wire fraud, and illegal firearm purchases.

The department was direct about the consequences:

“If you are not allowed to vote in our elections, you shouldn’t. And if you do, that’s a crime.”

It added a broader warning to anyone considering it:

“Let this be a warning to anyone trying to cheat and undermine our elections.”

Traffic In Strait Of Hormuz Passes Key Milestone, CENTCOM Says– trendingpoliticsnews.com
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U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said Saturday that American forces have supported the movement of more than one billion barrels of crude oil through the Strait of Hormuz in recent months while enforcing a total naval blockade on Iranian ports.

“CENTCOM forces have supported more than one billion barrels of crude oil leaving the Gulf. That’s one billion barrels of crude oil out through the Strait of Hormuz in the last couple of months,” CENTCOM commander Admiral Brad Cooper announced in a video statement.

Cooper said U.S. forces reached the figure while assisting more than 2,000 commercial ship transits. “We’ve reached this significant milestone while assisting over 2,000 commercial ship transits through the Strait by providing coordinated protection. Clearly, momentum is building. Primary transit lanes in the Strait are clear of mines,” he added.

Cooper continued, “Thousands of ships have passed through the Strait. Over one billion barrels of crude have been shipped from Gulf partners through the Strait of Hormuz, and Iran has exported zero barrels thanks to our ironclad blockade.”

The commander went on to state that volumes have increased in recent weeks and days. “The effort is paying off. The volume of crude oil, cargo, and liquid natural gas these past two weeks is higher than at any point in the past six months.” He further noted that CENTCOM was working with U.S. government agencies, the six Gulf Cooperation Council states, insurers, and shipping companies to raise traffic through the waterway.

NPR Criticizes GOP Rhetoric on Radical Islam in Election Campaigns– www.newsbusters.org
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It was jarring on Thursday to hear NPR Morning Edition anchor A Martinez open an hour of the “newscast” warning about anti-Muslim “lies” from Republicans.

Muslim co-anchor Leila Fadel began their story:

FADEL: Over the last few months, anti-Muslim rhetoric has found a solid foothold in GOP messaging. Muslims, who make up about 1% of the population, are being made into a bogeyman in many of these political ads.

UNIDENTIFIED NARRATOR #1: Radical Islam is taking root in Texas.

UNIDENTIFIED NARRATOR #2: Radical Islam is incompatible with the West.

UNIDENTIFIED NARRATOR #3: They don’t think we deserve the right to exist as Americans or as Christians.

UNIDENTIFIED NARRATOR #4: Hate our way of life. They want Sharia law.

UNIDENTIFIED NARRATOR #5: Oklahoma is next.

FADEL: And this bigotry has been met with virtually no condemnation from Republicans.

AI Actress Malfunctions on Air With Piers Morgan and Starts Speaking Chinese– www.louderwithcrowder.com
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It would appear that we have quite some time before AI takes over Hollywood.

Tilly Norwood, a so-called “AI actress,” was being interviewed by Piers Morgan but, unfortunately, had some sort of technical glitch and started speaking Chinese.

LOL.

According to Deadline:

Norwood, a generative AI creation from British company Particle6, switched language from English to Cantonese midway through the exchange, much to Morgan’s bemusement.

Fellow guest Tom Conti, the Oscar-nominated Oppenheimer star, was asking Norwood about her upcoming feature film Misaligned. “Are the other actors on the screen with you real actors? Or are they computer-generated images?” Conti ventured.

Norwood nodded, paused, and responded: “They’re all digital twins, just like me. It’s a hybrid production, which means….” Norwood then stopped and switched to Cantonese.

Democrats Aim To Win Rural Voters By Lying About ‘Moderation’– thefederalist.com
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Texas Senate Democrat candidate James Talarico’s spiritual leader, the lesbian preacher Babs Miller, was recently caught on hidden camera admitting he’s lying to voters about his positions: “I can guarantee you that once he’s elected he’ll change his tune” on transgender politics, she told an undercover reporter.

Deceiving voters is Democrats’ strategy because their political extremism is unpopular. Democrats especially know they cannot win fair elections without making inroads in rural and small-town America, like the Texas areas Talarico needs to win a Senate seat. In fact, Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s campaigning in rural areas may have given him the edge in his primary against Haley Stevens.

Democrats in general, and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) in particular, are paying a lot more attention to rural America these days. That’s because rural America “is the wall the American Left keeps hitting,” according to longtime DSA activist Bhaskar Sunkara.

Democrats know that their brand is toxic in rural America. So, how to get elected while bearing a toxic brand? Sunkara advocates for a strong message of “progressive populism” delivered with “rhetorical discipline.” In a word: propaganda.

For Democrats, disciplined propaganda is critical to striking a delicate balance between keeping their base motivated and appealing to small-town and rural America. For example, with allies in the corporate media, they’ve concocted the narrative of a “Farmageddon” revolt in which farmers are angry with President Trump and the GOP.

Deep State Cited Wikipedia To Try To Launch Trump Investigation– thefederalist.com
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Walter Giardina — an FBI agent whistleblowers claim “openly stated his desire to investigate Trump, even if it meant false predication” — cited a Wikipedia article in support of launching yet another investigation of Donald Trump. That detail is but one of the crazier revelations buried in the latest cache of documents Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, made public last week in conjunction with FBI Director Kash Patel’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

As The Federalist previously reported, last week Patel testified before “the Senate Judiciary Committee on a wide-range of topics.” He dropped in the middle of the four-hour-plus hearing news related to the ongoing investigation of the weaponization of the FBI: The FBI had “made up” the Round River “classification,” Patel told Grassley on Tuesday.

For several years, Grassley has led an investigation into the weaponization of the FBI, including the launch of the Round River investigation, which whistleblowers told the Iowa senator sought to “improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease.” While Patel’s confirmation that the Round River “classification” was fraudulent and that his team was investigating “the individuals who launched and codified this false and fake [classification],” represented the biggest news of the day, the documents Grassley released in connection with the hearing revealed many more troubling details about the weaponization of the FBI.

On Fox, Tom Homan Calls Out Anti-ICE Lies by Liberal Media– www.newsbusters.org
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Appearing as a guest on Wednesday’s The Ingraham Angle on Fox News Channel, border czar Tom Homan called out some of the liberal media’s misinformation attacking ICE activities.

Host Laura Ingraham raised the issue by showing a clip of MS NOW’s Joe Scarborough from Tuesday’s Morning Joe trying to intimidate ICE by warning that they will punished after President Donald Trump leaves office:

LAURA INGRAHAM: Joe Scarborough was essentially warning ICE agents that are currently working for the Trump administration to beware when Democrats take power. Watch.

JOE SCARBOROUGH (from MS NOW’s Morning Joe): I warned on this show in real time that justice will find them, that they’re being told right now, “We’ll pay you X amount of money, put on this mask, you can go out, you can do whatever you want to do, and Donald Trump will protect you.” Donald Trump won’t be in the White House forever. (editing jump) Justice will find them.

So, it’s law enforcement turned upside down. Let’s put the law enforcers in prison. The Fox News host posed:

Tom, I don’t know what exactly he’s getting at here — there, but I think he’s saying you’re going to jail, you’re going to be prosecuted, you’re going to be bankrupted by the Democrat machine that’s going to grind you into the dirt for having done this job.

SURPRISE: Margaret Brennan Imploded the 1A Argument Against the WH Press Ban– www.newsbusters.org
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CBS promoted Margaret Brennan’s interview with U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar as a followup to her video on immigration that dominated the news cycle. What CBS got instead was a complete undermining of the Elite Media’s First Amendment argument against the White House bans against CNN, MS NOW and Politico.

Watch as Brennan tries to engage Salazar on the media bans, collegially gets told to pound sand, before proceeding to blow the First Amendment argument into a million pieces:

MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to talk to you about a number of issues but let me just start up front. Because you are a former journalist, I’m sure you saw yesterday journalists from CNN, Politico, and MS NOW were blocked from entering The White House after the president objected to the content of their organization’s reporting. Do you agree with the president’s order to do that?

MARIA ELVIRA SALAZAR: Well, I think that the president has a different type of style, but at the same time, I think that he is the most accessible president in the later years that has been- that has been talking to the media. You know, he talks to everybody. So, he may not be allowing for some journalists to go into one place, but I’m sure that he’s going- he’s going be talking to everybody at some point. That’s his style and he is been–

BRENNAN: Yeah.

SALAZAR: –very accessible, not like Biden.

BRENNAN: No, I- I understand that point, but when it comes to saying you can’t attend press briefings because I don’t like what you said, doesn’t that premise violate the spirit of the First Amendment?

SALAZAR: Well, I think that he has his own style, and that he will determine who he wants to talk to. But with social media, and with all the different outlets out there for people to receive information, I am sure that those journalists are going to be able to cover the president the way that you- free speech, the way you determine. Because you know, you- the media–

Bombshell Confession: Gaza’s ‘Journalists’ Hid Hamas Atrocities and Silenced Its Victims– gellerreport.com
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No media coverage from the sharia-compliant Nazi-fetishist media.

In a stunning admission in this blockbuster interview, celebrated Gazan “photojournalist” Motaz Azaiza has admitted that journalists in Hamas-run Gaza routinely lowered their cameras and suppressed footage whenever Palestinians blamed Hamas for unleashing the war—confirming that much of the world’s Gaza coverage was a carefully censored propaganda narrative designed to indict Israel while erasing Hamas’s crimes and silencing Palestinian dissent.

Azaiza revealed that he filmed Israeli hostages being beaten on October 7 but deliberately withheld the footage to protect their attackers—exposing the monstrous fraud behind the media-manufactured hero.

Hamas runs a WhatsApp group with all of Gaza’s journalists, where Hamas “managed the discourse and the narrative.”

These outlets have “journalists” in Gaza:

Reuters, AP, NYT, CNN, Wapo, PBS, NPR, BBC, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, and Drop Site News. They are not covering this story.

Dana Bash Appeal to Mike Waltz’ Service over WH Press Ban Is SHUT DOWN– www.newsbusters.org
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As is often the case, the Elitist Media find a way to make the Elitist Media the centerpiece of whatever they do. CNN’s Dana Bash attempted to do the same with the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Mike Waltz, and got promptly schooled.

Watch as Bash’s appeal to Waltz’ military service is promptly balled up and thrown right back at her:

DANA BASH: On Friday, President Trump banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the white house. The president, as I mentioned, is about to host the Chinese leader. Historically, it was the United States pushing countries like China for greater press freedoms. Now, President Trump is the one backsliding on these rights. Are you comfortable with this?

MIKE WALTZ: The president is absolutely within his rights to limit, uh, journalists to government facilities. Particularly when, in his opinion, they’re not behaving as good faith journalists. And that’s just not his opinion. That’s the Supreme Court’s opinion. There are multiple cases, Zemel versus Rusk off the top of my head. And I’m not a lawyer. That said, look, you can have the ability to speak. You can have the ability to publish as an open and free press, but you don’t have an inherent right to any government facility that you want, whether it’s Langley or The White House. And so I’ll leave it to the lawyers, but I think the president is absolutely spot on here.

BASH: Mr. Ambassador, you are a decorated veteran. You served in an elite unit, the Green Berets, for 27 years defending freedoms like the First Amendment, and the president you work for just banned three news organizations. And he said it- it’s because he doesn’t like some of the things that are being reported.

WALTZ: Dana, the prior administration limited all kinds of journalistic outfits and journalists themselves that they deemed as right wing. Those have now been allowed onto the onto the facility. And the president doesn’t believe others are acting in good faith. Heck, I just saw one yesterday use anonymous sources referencing someone who’s dead. And so, you know, I think I would hope that the media would take a good introspective look at itself and its practices because it throws things out there and then puts a little baby correction that nobody pays attention to, and it sticks to people like napalm. And so it is- it is incredibly frustrating, I can tell you, as someone who’s serving in the public space, but meanwhile, again, the Supreme Court has been very clear in multiple cases going back to the 60s, there was a different your right to speak- different, your right to publish than having access to any government facility that you want.