The newly declassified investigation files also show that the FBI had initially tried to recruit the infamous Fang Fang as a source that could share information on Chinese influence operations targeting public officials in the United States.

Below is my column in The Hill on the familiar bust-and-boom cycle of socialism, where failure is used to call for even more radical changes. While House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries this week reaffirmed that Democratic Socialists are part of the Democratic Party, radical figures are demonstrating how extreme this agenda is for some. For example, Socialist State Assemblywoman Emily Gallagher has declared that stealing should be legal for those in need. If socialism takes hold in New York, many will indeed need five-finger discounts in the Big Apple.

The beauty of Enes Kantor Freedom and Royce White’s trolling of the WNBA is that it exposes the arbitrary nature of the left’s rules.

Defenders of the WNBA are pointing out, I assume rightly, that the two are just pretending to be women and therefore have no business being in the WNBA. Enes Kantor Freedom and Royce White, on the other hand, are demonstrating by persisting in their efforts that the same is true for every other man who is pretending to be a woman, and they, too, have no business being in women’s sports.

What is the difference between “Lea” Thomas and Royce White in this regard? Thomas is physically male in every respect, and so are White and EKF. The only difference from the outside is…nothing, really. The alphabet activists are maintaining that Thomas is “really” a woman, and that those two are not, based on nothing more than their mind-reading abilities, which determine that Thomas is “sincere” in being a woman and the other two are not.

Being female is a metaphysical state that can only be determined by observers’ feelings. This is an even further step than the absurd assertions they have had to make up until now, where they relied on the statements of people about their own gender to determine reality.

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U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) spending appears to have no effect on lowing housing prices, according to a recent report by government spending watchdog OpenTheBooks.com, which analyzed data released by the U.S. Census Bureau and Federal Housing Finance Agency from 2015 to 2024. Additionally, the data suggests it that homeownership has become harder to attain in nearly every state regardless of partisan lean.

“Americans are rightly focused on affordability issues on the heels of years of historic inflation and new pressure on energy prices. Those macroeconomic factors have put homebuying out of reach for many Americans,” a spokesperson for OpenTheBooks.com told the DCNF.

The report defines the disparity between the change in house prices and the change in household income as the “affordability gap.”

England’s most peaceful villages are once again being turned into the front line of the migrant crisis.

Up to 1,200 single adult male asylum seekers are earmarked for former military sites sitting within a mile of primary schools, nurseries and children’s play areas, in direct tension with the Home Office’s own recent guidance against housing near sensitive locations.

The plan, revived and pressed forward under the current government, would drop large numbers of young men into high-trust, low-density rural communities that could not be more culturally distant from the backgrounds of many arrivals. The effect is to create maximum demographic shock and local fury in places least equipped to absorb it.

Villagers across North Yorkshire, Suffolk and Oxfordshire are now up in arms as the Home Office continues with three former military bases. RAF Linton-on-Ouse near York is set for as many as 1,200 male asylum seekers. The village itself has only around 600 residents. The result would be a ratio of six migrant men to every local woman. The site sits right in the heart of the community, adjacent to the primary school, a nursery and a children’s play area.

NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the man who replaced the Fauci-Collins machine, has unloaded on Anthony Fauci for privately fretting about miscarriage risks from the COVID shots while publicly telling pregnant women everything was fine.

Newly released texts from Fauci’s government phone, dumped by Sens. Ron Johnson and Rand Paul, show the former NIAID chief warning colleagues in January 2021 that the cytokine storm and fever from the second dose of the mRNA vaccine “theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester.”

Days later, Fauci was on a JAMA livestream claiming the FDA had found “thus far no red flags” for pregnant women.

Bhattacharya didn’t hold back. Reacting to the revelations and the long-circulating analysis of the early CDC V-safe data, the NIH director declared that “Tony Fauci was OUT OF HIS LANE, and used that power to tell America one thing when he really thought another.”

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For more than a century, Delaware enjoyed something close to an automatic presumption in American corporate law: If you were building a major company or preparing to go public, you incorporated in Delaware.

That presumption no longer exists.

On Tuesday, DoorDash, a major online delivery service, informed the Securities and Exchange Commission that the controlling stockholders approved reincorporating the company in Nevada, following unanimous approval from DoorDash’s board.

What makes the decision particularly significant is the rationale.

DoorDash pointed to what it sees as surprising outcomes in Delaware courts and an increasingly litigious corporate environment.

Nevada, by contrast, offers a more statute-focused system that the company believes can provide greater predictability.

For decades, Delaware’s great competitive advantage was predictability. Its specialized Court of Chancery, sophisticated judges, and enormous body of corporate case law gave companies confidence they understood the rules.

Today, critics argue that recent Delaware decisions have weakened that advantage as the state has embraced woke politics, been influenced by plaintiff law firms dominating the state’s political machinery, and tolerated outright legal corruption.

Over the past two years, more than 60 public companies with over $3 trillion in combined market capitalization have left Delaware.

Worse, Delaware is losing a major share of big public companies.

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President Donald Trump’s approval rating fell to the lowest level of his presidency, with an overwhelming majority of Americans concerned the U.S. war with Iran will last a long time, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that concluded on Monday.

Just 33% of respondents in the four-day survey ‌said they approved of Trump’s performance in the White House, while 64% disapproved. Trump’s approval rating, down from 35% in a poll that ​closed earlier this month and lower than at any point in his current term, has now tied the lowest level of his prior term reached in December 2017.

After returning to the White House in 2025 with just under ⁠half the country approving of his presidency, Trump’s popularity this year took a hit after he ordered strikes on Iran alongside U.S. ally ​Israel. The ensuing conflict paralyzed a fifth of the global oil trade, triggering a surge in the price of gasoline that is weighing on ⁠U.S. households — and on Trump’s Republican allies defending congressional majorities in November midterm elections.

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A migrant from Ghana has been arrested at least three times in the last two weeks for raping and sexually assaulting women in Oklahoma.

26-year-old Jeff Kufi Asare, a foreign national from Ghana, has sexually assaulted four women this month.

Koco reported:

Jeff Asare has been in jail three times in the last two weeks, all for allegedly assaulting women.

On Aug. 1, near Northwest 23rd Street and Classen Boulevard, police responded to a possible rape. Asare allegedly pushed a woman against a bus stop window and put his hands down her pants.

Another woman told police that Asare came up behind her while she was walking on Classen Boulevard, pulled her pants down, and fled after she pushed him away. He was arrested for sexual battery and indecent exposure.

Five days later, near Scissortail Park, Asare allegedly walked up behind a woman, grabbed her buttocks multiple times, and began digging in his pants. When the woman asked him to leave, he walked away. Police later spotted him and arrested him for sexual battery.

Six days after that, on Wednesday, Asare allegedly approached a woman from behind on the Lake Hefner Trail, pulled her down, and attempted to rape her. Firefighters intervened and called police.

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Animals were euthanized and tested positive for rabies, doctors urge care and caution with wildlife

A popular state park in Maryland is now partially closed after two recent attacks by rabid beavers.

The first beaver attack at Cunningham Falls State Park in Frederick County, Maryland, by the town of Thurmont, involved a 13-year-old swimmer on July 26.

The teenage boy, who had injuries to his hands and chest, was airlifted to Johns Hopkins Hospital, according to WJLA in Washington, D.C.

Following the attack, the beaver was euthanized. It tested positive for rabies the following day, a press release from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) noted.

Swimming access to Hunting Creek Lake at the park was closed soon afterward.

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Donald Trump threatened to ‘bomb the s***’ out of Oman if it continues negotiations with Iran without American approval as the ceasefire with Tehran nears its expiration.

Oman, a major US defense ally in the Middle East, is negotiating with Iran over a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz by placing the narrow waterway, through which one-fifth of the world’s oil passes, under joint control.

Trump has previously stated that Iran will not be allowed to control the waterway by charging US-backed oil tankers levies or taxes.

The President issued a dire warning if Oman moves forward with its negotiations on Monday morning during a Fox News interview. He said: ‘If Oman gets in the way, we’ll bomb the s*** out of them.’

The Strait of Hormuz has been shut since Iran closed it after US and Israeli airstrikes in late February. It remains a key sticking point in peace talks.

Oman has a history of serving as a friendly mediator between the White House and the Iranian regime.

The country helped broker the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal and has acted as a US defense partner in the Middle East since 1980.

Trump’s threats against his own ally come as the 60-day US-Iran ceasefire is set to expire today, raising fears of renewed fighting that could further destabilize the region and disrupt global oil supplies.

Trump Latest Iran Remarks from Oval

President Trump repeated some of the same old talking points while addressing reporters in the Oval Office on Monday. He asserted that Iran wants to make a deal, but “they’re not going to make the kind of deal that I feel is necessary.”

“Look, we’re in there for one reason: Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon,” he said. He also doubled down on a prior declaration that he wants to make the Strait of Hormuz a US territory. He said this is “a great idea” – which in effect dispels the notion that when he said it the first time it was mere hyperbole. This is also amid ongoing claims that the US military has “complete control” over the strait.

Oil Spikes as Hormuz Developments Continue from Bad to Bad

Oil spiking amid a hodgepodge of more ‘bad news’ Hormuz headlines, as the Iranians have vowed to go on the ‘offensive’ amid demands that American forces clear out of the region. Fars is currently reporting Iranian forces have seized a UAE oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz.

US Energy Secretary Wright has meanwhile vowed that the US Navy will continue getting better at escorting approved maritime traffic across. He confirmed “we are not fully back to full oil flow in the Middle East,” according to the Monday comments.

Oil jumps, though its unclear what the precise catalyst might be…

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A drunk couple aboard a cruise ship forced their way into a neighboring cabin and assaulted a family after being asked to quiet down during an argument, a Florida sheriff said.

Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey detailed how suspects Gannon Jacox and his girlfriend, Brooklyn Hicks, saw their vacation end early after they were arrested at Port Canaveral, according to a statement released Sunday.

The couple were allegedly intoxicated when a family staying next to them asked them to quiet down, which apparently bothered Hicks, according to Ivey.

She allegedly went to confront the family, with Jacox right behind her, recording on his cellphone and reportedly egging her on to beat them up.

‘The suspects then pushed their way into the victims’ room, which included a 9-year-old child who was inside the room!’ Ivey wrote.

‘As a fight ensued, Jacox ended up hitting all three people (including the child), and Hicks was just swinging, hoping one would land.’

The boyfriend sustained a severe eye injury that could be seen in his smiling mugshot, while his girlfriend chose the typical blank expression.

The sheriff added that, thankfully, none of the victims were seriously injured.

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Shocking video captured a vicious fight that sent two women’s hijabs flying off inside a Target store.

Footage of the scrap has been heavily circulating online, racking up tens of thousands of views and comments across several uploads.

The two women, who appeared to be wearing traditional Muslim attire, could be heard shrieking as their hijabs lay on the ground while they tried to rip out each other’s hair.

Several bystanders attempted to break up the brawl, except for a security guard who appeared to wait a little too long before stepping in.

The asset protection associate, wearing a high-visibility green jacket, stood by watching as the women, one in a navy blue dress and the other in a black gown, rolled around striking one another in the face.

At one point, the woman in navy blue ended up on top of the other woman as she lay on the white-tiled walkway of the Target store.

While on top, the brawler threw several hammer fists while screaming: ‘I’ll spit on you h**, I’ll spit on this b****.’

Towards the end of the footage, a man finally stepped in to separate the women, grabbing the wrists of the woman on top and pulling her away.

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A Midwest state fair was ruined by a huge gang of youngsters who started brawling with each other and attacking random police officers.

A string of fights broke out at the Wisconsin State Fair on Sunday around 10pm, prompting a large police response at Wisconsin State Fair Park – a popular fairgrounds and exhibition center in the Milwaukee suburb of West Allis.

Social media posts revealed the dystopian scene, as both male and female teenagers punched, kicked, tackled, and screamed at each other.

Hordes of aggressors rushed over to people at the fair and started aggressively beating them up between food stands and rides, the videos showed.

Garbage cans tumbled to the ground as fair-goers tried to flee the violence.

At one point, a teen, dressed in all black clothing, appeared to hold their face in pain as they lay on the ground.

Another person was seen crouching down as they held their head, appearing to try to shield themselves as people repeatedly whacked them.

One clip alone caught at least three brawls – one after the other – as hordes of people ran over to each fight to scream and record the action.

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16059093/wisconsin-state-fair-fight-video-police-chaos-social-media.html

Atlanta has become one of the most heavily surveilled cities in America, with more than 5,000 automatic license plate readers tracking vehicles across the city.

But new FBI data suggests the massive expansion of Flock Safety cameras has done little to improve the Atlanta Police Department’s ability to solve crimes.

The findings, first reported by the Atlanta Community Press Collective (ACPC), undercut one of the central arguments made by supporters of automatic license plate reader systems: that sacrificing some privacy is justified because the technology helps police catch criminals.

In several major crime categories, Atlanta’s clearance rates actually fell as the surveillance network expanded.

Homicide Clearance Rate Fell as Cameras Proliferated

Flock Safety launched in 2017 and has since installed an estimated 100,000 automatic license plate readers across the United States, according to the ACLU.

Atlanta has embraced the technology more aggressively than almost anywhere else.

The city is now covered by more than 5,000 Flock and other ALPR cameras capable of photographing vehicles, recording license plates, and building searchable databases of vehicle movements.

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CHICAGO (WGN) — Two people are dead after a shooting incident at an elementary school in Chicago’s Garfield Ridge neighborhood.

According to police, at around 3:40 p.m., the two adults were found unresponsive inside Mark Twain Elementary School, located at 5134 S Lotus Ave. Police said a 48-year-old victim suffered a single gunshot wound to her head and was transported to Christ Hospital in critical condition. A 63-year-old man also suffered a gunshot wound to his head and was transported to Christ Hospital in critical condition.

Both individuals were pronounced at the hospital, police added. Authorities recovered a weapon at the scene.

A man who lives near the elementary school, who wished to be identified solely as Kenny, said he was sitting outside when he heard gunshots.

“I heard pop, pop, pop, pop, and since it’s a school, it echoes,” the man said. “And then I saw the guy chasing the lady back into the school.”

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So much for abortions being “safe, legal and rare.”

The Democrat governor of Massachusetts signed into law the killing of babies up until birth – or nine months into development.

This is the definition of murder.

There is a difference in the political parties.

They lied to us. They lied to you. And they knew exactly what they were doing the entire time.

For years, the Fake News media and the authoritarian sports establishment tried to DESTROY Aaron Rodgers.

As The Gateway Pundit extensively reported back in 2021 when the unhinged left-wing mob tried to cancel the future Hall of Famer, Rodgers was relentlessly smeared for daring to stand up to the NFL’s draconian, anti-science COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

Rodgers refused to bow to the woke mob. He called out the hypocrisy. He exposed the absolute sham that was the NFL’s COVID testing and vaccine protocol.

Being old enough to remember the heady days of 2020-22, I was led to understand that questioning the edicts of The Science™, with the Public Health™ apparatus as the conduit, was a cardinal sin that warranted summary excommunication from grocery stores, schools, churches, the military, etc. — in short, the whole of society — on the grounds that, in so doing, one had exposed oneself as a “conspiracy theorist,” a threat to public safety, and likely a domestic terrorist to boot.

As an assumed loyal consumer of Armageddon Prose, because I’ve probably clipped it a hundred times over the years, you’re likely familiar with COVID Warlord Anthony Fauci’s infamous crowning of himself as the divine physical manifestation of The Science™, dispatched from above the clouds to liaise with the lesser beings of Earth, to direct and guide their behavior so as to liberate them from the shackles of their ignorance.

But here’s a lesser-known, and perhaps a more apropos clip for the purpose of this article, from August 2020, in which the old pharma warhorse laments “mistrust“ in the “authority” Public Health™ (with himself as its high priest and spokesman):

“There is a degree of anti-science feeling in this country. And I think it’s not just related to science, it’s almost related to authority and a mistrust in authority that spills over because, in some respects, scientists because they’re trying to represent data, may be looked upon as being authoritative figure. And their pushing back on authority, their pushing back on government, is the same as pushing back on science.”

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Those who claim that there would be peace in the Middle East if Palestine became a state miss the point that, while the Israel-Gaza conflict grabs headlines, it is actually a very small component of a much larger pattern of Muslim violence that continues across the Middle East, North Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa.

Between 1999 and 2026, approximately 1,140,000 to 1,600,000 people were killed by Islamic extremists or Islamic religious-nationalists, while 10,125,000 to 14,215,000 were displaced. The victims were a wide range of ethnic and religious minorities, including other Muslims whom perpetrator groups considered heretics, infidels, or ethnic inferiors.

The victims were Yazidis, Alawites, Druze, Sunni Arabs in Iraq, Kurds, Jews and Israelis, Christians in Nigeria, Copts in Egypt, Assyrians and Syriacs, non-Arab Darfuris including the Masalit, Fur, Zaghawa, Tama, and Erenga, Christians in Sudan and the Nuba Mountains, Christians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Christians in the Central African Republic, Christians in Ethiopia and Amhara, and Christians in Eritrea.

The perpetrator groups include ISIS, al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, the IRGC, Boko Haram, ISWAP, Turkey and Turkish state forces, the Sudanese Armed Forces, the RSF/Janjaweed, SPLA-N breakaway militants, Séléka/ex-Séléka, anti-balaka, the Oromo Liberation Army, Amhara Fano militias, and the Eritrean government.

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Christen Phillips says she was beaten after honking at a driver who then followed her to her delivery drop-off point

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT

“I had multiple skull fractures and brain bleeds,” said Christen Phillips.

She’s a mother of three currently recovering in the hospital with a serious brain injury after deputies say she was attacked by a man who beat her with a baseball bat as she was delivering food for DoorDash.

Her suspected attacker, Stanley Shockley, 44, is behind bars.

The Onslow County Sheriff’s Office says the assault happened when the suspect allegedly hunted the woman down and beat her with the bat when she exited her car to drop off food.

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Fox News correspondent and America Reports co-anchor John Roberts has publicly acknowledged that he developed pericarditis, inflammation of the lining around the heart, after his third COVID-19 shot, and that the condition worsened after he took a fourth dose.

The startling disclosure appeared in a newly circulated video clip, with Roberts recounting the sequence in his own words.

After years of mandates, booster campaigns and lectures from Washington’s so-called experts, another prominent media figure is now publicly describing a serious medical condition that arose following vaccination.

And the history here is impossible to ignore.

The Gateway Pundit previously reported in October 2021 that Roberts deleted a post questioning the long-term effectiveness of COVID vaccines following Colin Powell’s breakthrough infection and death.

After receiving immediate backlash, Roberts defended the vaccines and declared: “I plan to get a booster as soon as possible.”

Now Roberts says pericarditis developed after his third shot and worsened after the fourth.

Devin Rice was arrested on criminal homicide charges after Fredrick Lytton died at Vanderbilt University Medical Center

A Nashville U-Haul employee allegedly gunned down his 56-year-old co-worker during a shift, as police say he fired several shots after the two men were arguing over a drink.

Devin Rice, 23, was arrested on Aug. 5 after he allegedly shot and killed Fredrick Lytton at a U-Haul store in Nashville, Tennessee, according to police. Lytton died after arriving at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said Rice admitted to arguing with Lytton over a drink and then shooting him.

Police accused Rice of pulling out a pistol and shooting Lytton several times.

Officials said Rice fled the area after allegedly shooting Lytton, but was later arrested. Rice was arrested on charges of criminal homicide.

Joshua Houghtaylen, who lives in the area of the shooting, told WSMV that crime is getting worse and putting the onus on the city’s police to act.

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Two former Metro Nashville Public Schools teachers say administrators directed them to change failing grades so the district’s performance would look better on paper.

Samira Hardcastle, an eight-year art teacher at John F. Kennedy Middle School who was named the school’s 2025–2026 Teacher of the Year and recognized as a district Blue Ribbon Teacher of the Year, resigned in May.

Hardcastle said a student failed to complete an art project and received a failing grade. After the student’s parent challenged the grade, three administrators met with the parent and concluded that Hardcastle had not supplied an adequate rubric. Hardcastle refused to change the grade herself. According to her account, administrators then changed it.

Hardcastle described the episode in her resignation letter as grade fabrication and told WSMV that she believes such changes make district performance appear better than it really is.

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Meet at the Liberty Tree…

This chapter in American history could be titled, “The Bad Guys Keep Winning Because They Suffer No Consequences for Their Treachery.”

Islamo-fascists and communists have taken over the Democrat Party and threaten to take over the U.S. Congress.

Neither Barack Obama nor Hillary Clinton has been brought to justice for conspiring with parts of the Intelligence Community to frame President Trump as a Russian spy.  The same Ukrainian and British Intelligence agents who helped orchestrate the first ridiculous impeachment against Trump (ostensibly set in motion because the president asked Volodymyr Zelenskyy why Joe Biden’s son was making tens of thousands of dollars each month as a board member of a Ukrainian energy company) continue trying to instigate an all-out war between the Russian Federation and the United States.  The mainstream media and globalist politicians want us all to forget that they used COVID as an excuse to roll out totalitarianism around the planet — justifying widespread censorship, lockdowns, mass surveillance, deadly chemical injections, and the abrogation of God-given rights in the name of “public health.”  Our scientific institutions refuse to say clearly that COVID was most likely engineered in a Chinese bio-lab with funding from U.S. taxpayers that Dr. Anthony Fauci had redirected to assist his friends and business associates overseas.  Nobody has been prosecuted for any of these crimes, just as nobody was prosecuted when President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder used the ATF to arm Mexican drug cartels, the IRS to target conservatives, and the USA PATRIOT Act to spy on political enemies (including all of the Republican presidential candidates for the 2016 election).

During the Obama and Biden administrations, Christians were prosecuted for being faithful servants of Christ.  Parents were put on domestic terror watchlists for objecting to radical infusions of “transgenderism,” pornography, and race-based discrimination in their children’s public school curricula.  The Democrat Party nationalized healthcare, used USAID budgets to subvert foreign elections, and redirected trillions of taxpayer dollars into “climate change” slush funds for domestic and foreign political allies.  The Obama-Biden regime defamed police officers as inherently racist and disparaged all white Americans as inherently “privileged.”  Decades of solid improvement in race relations in the United States were thrown out the window, as Democrats told their voters that white, heterosexual males deserve to be vilified and attacked.  For fifteen years, Antifa goons, BLM rioters, Islamic supremacists, and other violent left-wingers have burned down neighborhoods, destroyed churches, looted businesses, terrorized motorists, and harassed, threatened, and murdered ideological adversaries.  Instead of reporting on years of leftist domestic terrorism, corporate news talking heads still pretend that President Trump’s MAGA voters are the biggest threat to the United States.

It is easy to list the long train of abuses that have been committed against us and lose hope for the future.  Particularly because nobody has been held accountable for any of the serious crimes listed above, a lot of American patriots have begun to wonder whether our country can even be saved.  It can be saved.  But doing so will require Americans to get their minds right about the struggles ahead.

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It’s her ‘steal’ of approval.

A Brooklyn socialist lawmaker declared this week that shoplifters have a right to swipe items like soap and toothpaste from local stores without getting busted — because of their “biological need” for the products.

State Assemblywoman Emily Gallagher strongly suggested shoplifting should be legalized while joined at a news conference outside Manhattan Criminal Court on Thursday by other lefty pols and criminal justice advocates with Court Watch NYC. The group claimed it monitored 360 arraignments over four days and found more than half were for misdemeanor offenses.

“Most of what we saw were crimes of poverty-people who are stealing things like toothpaste, people who were stealing things like, you know, soap. And that means if you’re stealing those things, you need them,” said Gallagher, who reps Greenpoint and other sections of woke northern Brooklyn.

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Dr. Anthony Fauci just refused a private transcribed interview with Sen. Ron Johnson’s subcommittee. The same week, a former ABC News correspondent revealed that the network gutted a 2021 Wuhan lab leak investigation after the script was sent to Fauci for review.

The pattern is unmistakable. Stonewall. Censor. Invoke privilege. Repeat.

On Friday, Fauci’s attorney notified Sen. Ron Johnson that the former NIAID director would not appear for a closed-door, transcribed interview as part of the ongoing investigation into the failed COVID response.

Johnson laid it out plainly:

“Dr. Fauci’s attorney has just notified us that Fauci refuses to appear for a private transcribed interview. The American people deserve answers to legitimate questions regarding our miserably failed response to COVID-19. Some of those questions can only be answered by Dr. Fauci. He arrogantly once stated that he was ‘very happy to testify before any congressional oversight committee. I have nothing to hide.’ Apparently, he has a lot to hide. Since Fauci refuses to talk about his role and decisions related to COVID-19, my Subcommittee will continue to obtain his records and request to speak with key individuals that he worked with. We will explore our legal options before deciding our next steps.”

This comes days after the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted along party lines to hold Fauci in contempt for his July 29 performance, where he invoked the Fifth Amendment roughly 112 times.

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President Trump shrugged off mounting concerns over the welfare of 5,000 sailors aboard the USS Lincoln on Friday, denying that family members were worried and telling reporters that nine months at sea was “not nearly long enough.” His remarks came on the same day that he promised an audience that he would declare the Strait of Hormuz a US territory, and that higher gas prices were a small price to pay so that a “very evil country” wouldn’t obtain “a nuclear weapon.”

The media’s questioning of the US commander-in-chief was prompted by concerns raised by family members of sailors aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, who say their loved ones are suffering from low morale from being stuck on the ship so long, and that they’re enduring moldy showers, rationing of food, and a lack of basic hygiene supplies like toothpaste, deodorant and soap. One woman says her son told her the food situation has been so bad at times that a meal consists of only a half-cup of rice and two tortillas. Things are so bad that there are reports that at least two crew members have recently attempted to kill themselves by leaping off the towering deck of the ship, which has been participating in the US-Israeli war on Iran.

As he was about to leave Washington for a rally in New York, a reporter started to frame a question by noting that family members were concerned about what was happening to the crew of the Lincoln. “No, they’re not,” interrupted Trump, contradicting the fact that many have raised their worries in a town hall with Navy Secretary Hung Cao attended by some 200 family members, and with the media.

“That ship is moving right now — well, very shortly — and it’s being replaced with another very similar ship,” Trump continued, referring to the USS George Washington. When the reporter asked if the deployments were going on too long, Trump replied, “No, no, no — not nearly long enough.”

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The higher-education lobby has put a price tag on President Donald Trump’s crackdown on student visas and international enrollment: $3.4 billion.

The figures come from the Association of International Educators (NAFSA) and JB International, which project U.S. colleges and universities could enroll as many as 111,000 fewer international students during the 2026-27 academic year, a 9.5 percent drop from the current year, costing $3.4 billion in economic contributions and more than 39,000 jobs.

NAFSA’s numbers are preliminary projections, not final fall enrollment totals. The organization is also asking the Trump administration to reverse several policies it identifies as contributing to the decline.

The estimate is based partly on responses to the Institute of International Education’s Spring 2026 Snapshot on International Educational Exchange. NAFSA projects roughly 1.057 million international students this fall, down from an estimated 1.169 million in 2025-26. International enrollment reached about 1.178 million in 2024-25 after rebounding from the pandemic.

International students contributed $43.8 billion to the U.S. economy and supported 378,000 jobs during the 2023-24 academic year, according to NAFSA. Its projection for 2026-27 is $38.3 billion and 294,000 jobs.

A December 2025 executive order imposed travel restrictions affecting nationals of 39 countries, with no exception for F-1 students or J-1 exchange-visitor applicants. NAFSA also points to limited or delayed visa appointments in India and China, the two largest countries sending international students to the United States. The State Department prioritized visa processing for FIFA World Cup ticket holders during part of the traditional student-visa season this summer.

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A teenager has been arrested hours after five people were shot at Virginia State University just as new freshman arrived on campus.

None of the victims were killed in the 1.30am shooting, but one is fighting for their life in hospital as of Saturday evening.

Police arrested a Camron Harris, 19, who is not a VSU student, of Henrico, Virginia, about 4pm on Saturday after finding him hiding in a closet on campus.

He was charged with eight felonies including four counts of malicious wounding and four of using of a firearm in commission of a felony, Chesterfield County Police said.

The teenager’s alleged motive and connection to the university are yet to be revealed.

Campus police and Chesterfield County officers discovered five people suffering from gunshot wounds in the university’s Quad Annexes outside campus dormitories.

At least one of the wounded was later confirmed to be a student.

The shooting was still under investigation later on Saturday and happened as Virginia State’s academic year began.

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Public school enrollment is shrinking across much of the United States, but nowhere faster than West Virginia. An August 2026 study by family location-tracking app iSharing found that the state lost more than 10,500 public school students between 2021 and 2024, a decline of 4.2%, the steepest in the country, according to family location-tracking app iSharing,

The trend reflects a broader demographic shift. Births have fallen in 44 of the 50 states, meaning many schools are receiving smaller incoming classes. In West Virginia, births dropped 18.3% between 2005 and 2024. New Mexico experienced an even larger 26% decline. Migration can offset some of these losses, but in many states it has not been enough to reverse the trend.

The  iSharing study compared public school enrollment across all 50 states over three years and examined changes in births and migration. It also considered federal projections for 2031 to identify where enrollment could fall further.

West Virginia ranked first, with enrollment falling from about 252,000 students in 2021 to 242,000 in 2024. Although the state recorded slightly positive net migration, declining births continue to reduce the number of school-age children. Enrollment is projected to fall to roughly 217,000 by 2031, another 13.5% decline.

Hawaii ranked second after losing more than 6,000 students, or 3.5%, in three years. Unlike West Virginia, Hawaii faces pressure from both declining births and population loss. Births are down 16.8% since 2005, while net migration was negative. By 2031, Hawaii could lose another 16% of its public school enrollment, the largest projected decline among the states highlighted in the study.

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The Town of Ocean City will not move forward with the acquisition of a 193-acre property to the west of Berlin for the development of a future sports complex. A majority of the Ocean City Council on Monday shared their concerns about either the project or location, as well as intense opposition from neighboring property owners. A motion to pass the first reading of an ordinance, authorizing the Mayor and City Council to purchase the property, failed for lack of a second.

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Investigative reporter Paul Sperry posted a damning update to the Jim Comey “86 47” beach story on Friday.

According to Paul, there is evidence that Jim Comey’s wife Patricia sent him a Google screenshot of a non-violent definition of the term “86” two minutes before Comey posted his infamous rock picture of “86-47” on Instagram.

Paul Sperry: BREAKING: An FBI affidavit for a search warrant in the James Comey presidential threat case reveals his wife Patrice Comey sent him a Google screenshot of a nonviolent definition of the term “86” two (2) minutes before Comey posted the alleged threat against President Trump, indicating some forethought his posting could be construed as a threat.”

86 is a common street term for murder. Comey and his wife thought they were being cute.

Comey was also one of the leaders along with Barack Obama and John Brennan who decided to run a coup against the US President during Trump’s first term in office.

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Ethan Curreri is a former New York City police office who arrested Laken Riley’s killer for a lesser crime six months before the illegal migrant was released — thanks to New York’s sanctuary policies — and moved to Georgia. Curreri was invited by President Trump to speak at the Angel Family event at the White House in February 2025, where the families of victims of criminal migrants gathered. Curreri is now a an officer with the Juno Beach Police Department in Florida.

I began my law enforcement career with the NYPD assigned to the 113th Precinct in South Jamaica, Queens.

I’ve walked into many difficult scenes as a police officer, but nothing compares to standing in a room full of broken hearts at the White House.

On Feb. 23, 2026, President Donald Trump hosted the Angel Family Remembrance Ceremony honoring those who lost their lives at the hands of illegal immigrants. The President gave me the opportunity to share the story that connects me to the families of those victims.

A 68-year-old Martinez, California, retiree was fatally stabbed outside his own home, allegedly by an illegal immigrant a judge had released on his own recognizance just one day earlier, prompting DHS to demand Governor Gavin Newsom hand the suspect over.

Todd Stewart had lived on his quiet street in Martinez, a small city just east of San Francisco, for roughly 40 years. Prosecutors say Marcos Iriarte-Valdez, a 36-year-old Venezuelan national, killed him during an attempted burglary, one day after a Contra Costa County judge turned Iriarte-Valdez loose despite his criminal record and a pending home-detention violation. Fox News reported that DHS has now placed an immigration detainer on the suspect and is publicly pressuring California’s governor to surrender him to federal custody for removal.

The timeline is damning. Iriarte-Valdez was arrested on a Tuesday for allegedly violating a condition of his home detention, itself tied to earlier burglary charges. On Wednesday, an unnamed judge ordered him released on his own recognizance. By Thursday, Stewart was dead.

Investigators say Stewart encountered Iriarte-Valdez in the garage of his Martinez home. Iriarte-Valdez allegedly tried to flee, then stabbed the 68-year-old retiree and killed him. Martinez police arrested Iriarte-Valdez on Friday evening after tracking him through automated license-plate-recognition technology and community tips.

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Police have reportedly obtained 8 felony warrants in connection with the case

At least five people were shot at Virginia State University (VSU) Saturday morning, and one remains in critical condition, according to university officials and the VSU Police Department.

Police arrested 19-year-old Camron Harris of Henrico, Virginia, on Saturday after finding him hiding in a dormitory closet on campus in connection with the shooting, The Associated Press reported.

Harris is not a VSU student, Chesterfield County Police said.

Police obtained eight felony warrants in connection with the case, including for malicious wounding and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, according to the AP. It was not immediately clear whether Harris had an attorney who could speak on his behalf.

“Officers responded to the 3300 block of Boisseau Street at approximately 1:28 a.m. and discovered five individuals suffering from gunshot wounds outside VSU residence halls,” a university official told Fox News Digital.

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An experimental vaccine may offer a way to intercept pancreatic cancer before it becomes invasive, potentially preventing the disease in people born with a high genetic risk.

The new vaccine targets a KRAS mutation found in more than 90 percent of pancreatic cancers, or roughly 60,000 of the more than 67,000 Americans diagnosed with the disease annually.

The vaccine trains the immune system to spot and destroy cells that carry the KRAS mutation. By doing so, researchers hope to intercept the disease at its earliest, precancerous stage long before it turns invasive and deadly.

In a small trial of 20 high-risk patients, all with a KRAS mutation or a strong family history of the disease, the vaccine triggered immune responses in 90 percent of participants. None developed pancreatic cancer during the follow-up period.

The results mark the first time a vaccine targeting mutations on the KRAS gene has been tested in people with a hereditary predisposition to pancreatic cancer.

Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest, with a five-year survival rate of just 13 percent. It is often diagnosed late because its early symptoms are vague and easily mistaken for other conditions, by which time the cancer has usually spread.

In a trial of 20 high-risk patients, the vaccine triggered immune responses in 90 percent of participants. Over 16.5 months, none developed pancreatic cancer and some saw their precancerous cysts shrink.

Pancreatic cancer rates have been steadily climbing over the past three decades. Since 1995, the overall incidence has risen by nearly 20 percent – from 10.6 to 11.9 per 100,000 people – with women seeing a sharper increase than men.

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It’s finally happened. An Obama-appointed judge has decided to uphold the law, rather than indulge her feelings about Donald Trump. Her cocktail circuit friends will surely be disappointed in her.

So will Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN-5), given the litigants in the case. The case, African Communities Together v. Mullin, challenged the Trump administration’s decision to terminate Somalia’s TPS designation, which had been scheduled to take effect March 17.

U.S. District Judge Allison D. Burroughs had initially stepped in on March 13, just four days before the termination was supposed to become effective, and temporarily froze the administration’s action.

As we reported earlier on RedState, Burroughs had faced an impeachment effort after refusing to clear the way for the Somali deportations.

“SCOTUS made it very clear that lower courts cannot suspend TPS. Yet, an Obama-appointed judge is defying the Court and the Constitution in an attempt to subvert the will of the President,” Republican Rep. Andy Ogles (TN-5) said in a statement.

“This judicial activist’s obstruction of the people’s will must be stopped. Judge Burroughs must be impeached,” he added.

“On Monday I will file Articles of Impeachment against Judge Allison Burroughs for her unconstitutional act of Judicial Activism!!! Enough is enough, Americans First NOT 3rd world migrants,” he wrote.

In August, Rep. Ogles did just that. Then, like magic, she had a change of heart.

On Friday, Judge Burroughs denied an effort to keep Somalia’s Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation alive, lifting the administrative stay she had previously imposed while the case played out.

Of all the things the United States State Department or Health and Human Services might choose to fund, groups supporting Islamic terrorism should not even be on the list. And yet, it’s happened; both of those agencies have sent $2 billion in taxpayer money to a group that was convicted in an Israeli court of providing support to Hamas.

Why would we send money to people like that?

The State Department worked with World Vision to distribute $2 billion in global health foreign assistance even though an Israeli court convicted the nonprofit’s Gaza affiliate operations manager of sending up to $50 million to Hamas in 2022. Separately, the Health and Human Services Department (HHS) provided nearly $80 million to 14 organizations linked to terrorism and extremism.

In 2022, we might note, that was during the Biden administration. Anyone surprised? It would be easy to lay all this at Joe Biden’s feet, but he may well have had very little idea what was going on, as by 2022 his obvious and apparent dementia had already taken hold. No, this is a stark example of what can happen when you have a leftist administration left to its own devices, with a chief executive that is incapable, incoherent, and incompetent.

Here’s the onion:

The Middle East Forum (MEF) recently reported that 14 terror-linked and extremist organizations, led by CAIR, collected nearly $80 million from HHS through the Refugee Resettlement, Health, and Mosque Renovation grants. Through this fund, the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) California chapter received the most of any Islamist group, collecting $42.2 million in funding from the HHS to provide legal and social services to Afghan refugees.

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The socialists have been getting a lot of attention of late with their wins in primaries.

Unfortunately for them, though, their unhinged positions are also being exposed. As Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) previously said, one of the most effective strategies against them is simple: “Operation Let Them Speak,” as he termed it.

We heard from Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) National Political Committee member Frances Gill in an interview on Sunday, confirming some of their wild positions like abolishing police and prisons, but also acting like people were “promised” success if they went to college and were ‘highly educated.” If they didn’t achieve “success,” it was because things are tipped to benefit the wealthy — not because of their own failures or because they got degrees that weren’t marketable.

Meanwhile, former Vice President Kamala Harris, who is increasingly looking like she will run in 2028, has been trying to cozy up to the socialist mayor of New York City, and she’s endorsed the socialist-backed Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan. So she’s already showing she’s making the wrong choices, even before she formally declares her presidential run. Kamala also is saying Democrats have to get “comfortable” with adopting a certain “ruthlessness” in their approach.

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San Francisco police officers smashed an innocent man’s car window, pulled him out of his vehicle and dangerously pepper-sprayed him after law enforcement made an avoidable mistake.

The innocent man reportedly died by suicide after losing everything as a result of the detainment and ensuing legal trouble.

The San Francisco Department of Police Accountability (DPA), a police watchdog agency, said Monday that two officers had violently arrested Matthew Ludwig on the night of July 4, 2024, because they wrongly believed he was driving a stolen car.

That happened because law enforcement had entered the wrong license plate into their system, according to the DPA’s findings.

Police then followed Ludwig and smashed the window of his Honda Accord while he was stopped at a red light, the watchdog agency said.

The officers, who were named as Jonathan Zepeda and Vinesh Govindbhai in a complaint filed by the DPA last May 28, then pulled him out of the car and onto the street.

Zepeda drew his gun, while Govindbhai pushed Ludwig’s shoulders and head toward the street pavement, per the complaint.

Body camera footage posted by the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office showed Govindbhai telling Ludwig to ‘put your f***ing hands behind your back’ after yanking him out of the car.

Govindbhai then warned Ludwig that he was ‘about to get sprayed’ before pepper-spraying his face in very close proximity.

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Here’s a fresh outrage thanks to Democrats’ all-out resistance to immigration enforcement: Pedro Aguilar-Alvarez, an El Salvadoran illegal immigrant who’s been running amok in the US for years, just got no-bailed prior to sentencing for his fourth DWI bust.

That’s right: Aguilar-Alvarez was duly tried and convicted — then Judge Bryan Browns, a veteran of pro-crime law shop Legal Aid, released him before sentencing, despite the massive flight risk he presents.

The pattern — thug jumps the border, is shielded by “sanctuary” extremism, only to commit a new crime here as Dems double down on “mercy” — repeats in blue state after blue state.

Sheridan Gorman was a college freshman from New York shot to death in March in Chicago by a Biden-era Venezuelan “asylum seeker.”

North Carolina authorities have arrested the individual responsible for an incredibly wicked and stunning attack on a hard-working mom of three earlier this month.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Jacksonville DoorDash driver Christen Phillips suffered life-threatening injuries earlier this month following one of the worst possible attacks of road rage imaginable.

The 34-year-old Phillips was on her way to deliver an order in Onslow County at 1:19 a.m. Saturday, when she came up to a green traffic light. But the car in front of her, a Range Rover, refused to move.

She began honking her horn. The driver allowed Phillips to pass, but then followed her all the way to her stop.

Wisconsin’s likely winner in Tuesday’s Democratic primary for governor is making Democrats shudder.

Francesca Hong is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America who has been defending her past trashing of Thanksgiving in the closing days of the race, as noted by The Hill.

A social media post from her account in 2020 said America should “cancel Thanksgiving” in order to “stop celebrating colonialism and the original superspreader event that killed Indegenous [sic] folx and women.”

Democratic pundit James Carville, in a recent X post, called Hong “a font of zany liberal, faculty lounge exotica.”

But according to The New York Times, Hong is riding a series of polls giving her double-digit leads as Tuesday’s Wisconsin primary approaches.

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SPRING HILL, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida mother of two was kidnapped and killed by a Pinellas County deputy who then died by suicide Monday, according to authorities.

Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco and Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri held a joint press conference Monday night to share more details on what Gualtieri described as a “horrific situation.”

Nocco said the victim and her two children, ages 9 and 12, had just returned from a trip to the beach when they found the suspect, Deputy Troy Savetz, 47, in the front yard of their Hudson home.

“They went from the best day of their lives probably to the worst day of their lives,” Nocco said.

Savetz and the victim had been in a “tumultuous” on and off again relationship, according to authorities. Officials said Savetz began arguing with the victim over a TV set and took her phone when she tried to call 911.

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Private 2021 messages show Fauci warned cytokine storms after the second dose could cause miscarriage

A Senate Republican leading the charge on investigating Dr. Anthony Fauci’s old government phone told Fox News Digital that the revelation that the former COVID-czar was concerned that vaccines could cause miscarriages was “just the tip of the iceberg.”

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., in an interview with Fox News Digital, alleged that the first tranche of texts from Fauci’s old government iPhone was a clear sign that the man who became the face of the nation’s COVID-19 response said one thing privately while taking a different message to the public.

“We tell pregnant women don’t even have a glass of wine and yet we coerce them, convince them, sometimes mandated them, to get an experimental gene therapy as early as the first trimester,” Johnson said. “This is truly sick.”

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I hope the resident got all of his or her valuables out of the house now that it’s being blasted all over social media that the house is unoccupied.

WHO/WHAT: Wicomico County Recreation & Parks will host a check presentation celebrating the Gatorade Community Grant awarded to the organization by Ava Twilley, who was recently named Gatorade Maryland Softball Player of the Year.

Gatorade Player of the Year Community Grants empower all 610 State Gatorade Player of the Year recipients to award a $1,000 grant from Gatorade to a social impact partner of their choice that helps the next generation of athletes reap the benefits of sport.

WHEN: THURSDAY, AUG. 13 at 4 P.M.

WHERE: HENRY S. PARKER ATHLETIC COMPLEX, FIELD 7 ½

BACKGROUND: Little League Challenger is an adaptive baseball program for individuals with physical and intellectual challenges.

The Gatorade Player of the Year Program honors the top athletes in high school sports, champions the next generation of greats by recognizing their all-around excellence and propels their futures with ongoing, unmatched support and opportunities only Gatorade’s legacy in sport can provide. Gatorade Player of the Year is the top honor in high school sports, celebrating the nation’s best high school athletes for their excellence in sport, academics and community.The program has an elite legacy, including star alums like Peyton Manning, Paige Bueckers, Cooper Flagg, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and more. From professional athletes and coaches to CEOs, Gatorade Player of the Year alumni showcase the power of sport and serve as role models for the next generation of greats.

As part of Gatorade’s commitment to breaking down barriers in sport, every Player of the Year receives a grant to donate to a social impact partner of their choice. To date, the Gatorade Player of the Year program has provided more than $6.4 million in grants to winners across more than 2,200 organizations.

Gatorade State Player of the Year recipients can also submit a video explaining why the organization they chose is deserving of one of 12 Spotlight Grants, which awards an additional $10,000 to the organization.

It all started with complaints from residents in Springfield, OH that a surge of Haitian migrants was causing chaos and an odd disappearance of local wildlife and pets.  City officials and local companies where shipping the migrants in by the thousands and giving them jobs.  NGOs arranged for extensive handouts including housing, food and cash. Initially, all of this was done while avoiding any discussion with the community at large.

The surge started after 2021, but the Biden Administration denied that such a plan existed.  Within a few years, Springfield’s Haitian population grew from a couple thousand to over 15,000 migrants.  That’s nearly 25% of the total population of the city.  This does not happen without government coordination.

When Donald Trump dared to address the issue in a debate with Kamala Harris, the media and Democrats exploded with outrage.  But Trump’s assertion that the migrants were “Eating the dogs and eating the cats” in Ohio likely helped to win him the presidency.  His position echoed a growing concern among native citizens over the rapid invasion of the third world into the US and the fact that most of these people will never assimilate into American standards.

This problem is about the be rectified, with ICE officially operating in Ohio.  The Haitian round-up has begun.  With the latest Supreme Court decision, TPS designations can now be terminated by the Trump Administration. Many migrants exploiting TPS are being called in by ICE to turn in their passports and wear an ankle monitor.  These are people who will likely be deported in the near term.  NGO’s are already trying to preempt deportations by mobilizing well funded left-wing activists.

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In revealing the commonalities of the Reds and the Greens in the Red-Green Axis, we have elucidated their shared goals of violence, wealth redistribution, inequality before the law, a binary world, monopoly rule by the elites, and controlling the totality of society. Here we explore the promise of transitional phase slaughter.

Both Islamic political systems and Marxist-Leninist communism make two promises about the violent neutralization of internal rivals. The first is that it will happen: a transitional phase, necessary to secure the new order. The second is that it will end: temporary by design, giving way once the order is secure.

Both systems keep the first promise and break the second.

Marxism states both explicitly. Islamic political theory implies them structurally. Neither system’s own history shows the second promise kept. In both, what was authorized as a passing emergency became, in practice, a standing condition, reopened by each generation against a new list of names.

Marx and Engels wrote that between capitalist and communist society lies a transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat. Lenin, in The State and Revolution, built an entire argument on the promise attached to that dictatorship: it is temporary by definition because the state itself will “wither away” once class antagonism is eliminated and coercion becomes unnecessary. This is not a minor clause. It is the doctrine’s central justification for tolerating the dictatorship at all.

The Bolsheviks began implementing their slaughter within a year of taking power: the September 5, 1918, Decree on Red Terror, which ordered class enemies isolated in concentration camps and authorized summary execution, was issued after the assassination attempt on Lenin and the killing of the Petrograd Cheka chief.

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The FBI had 14 informants feeding the bureau information on the Biden Crime Family related to Ukraine, according to newly declassified documents obtained by Just The News.

However, the FBI ran a secret counter-operation dubbed “Round River” to bury the evidence.

Just The News founder John Solomon is currently in charge of the White House Government Transparency Task Force.

They can’t win without CHEATING! The modern Democrat Party is completely LAWLESS.

Former Lumberton Township Mayor and current Committeewoman Gina LaPlaca, along with her husband, Democratic operative Jason Carty, are facing a new round of criminal charges after prosecutors say they submitted fraudulent signatures to place LaPlaca on the June Democratic primary ballot for the Lumberton Township Committee.

Burlington County Prosecutor LaChia L. Bradshaw’s office announced the charges this week. An investigation found that multiple people whose names and purported signatures appeared on LaPlaca’s nominating petition never signed it and never authorized anyone to sign on their behalf. Without those fake signatures, LaPlaca would not have had enough valid signatures to qualify for the ballot at all.

LaPlaca, 47, signed a sworn affidavit claiming she had “personally circulated the petition” and that every signature was in the voter’s own handwriting. Investigators determined her husband Carty, 49, also collected signatures. The petition was submitted to the Lumberton Township Municipal Clerk by Carty.

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Plus, Nick issues a wake-up call to Americans: “Don’t fall for the trap,” and the Fraud Ledger goes live.

Governor Kathy Hochul’s campaign received $55,000 from social adult daycare centers in Flushing, the New York City neighborhood where Nick Shirley investigated alleged fraud. This month, the New York Post reviewed donation records, visited the two largest donors, and found both centers empty of patients during business hours. Nick had found the same situation there about a month earlier.

A mob of teens swarmed a 7-Eleven convenience store in Oakland, causing serious damage and sparking widespread fear in the community.

Shocking video captured around 4.30pm local time on Saturday outside of the franchise in the 500 block of International Boulevard showed an agitated young crowd entering the store and then rushing away on bikes while an alarm sounded.

Later in the footage, a smaller group of youngsters could be seen violently shattering part of the front door.

When they could not force their way in, at least one member of the group was observed trying to climb into the store through the broken glass while someone could be heard encouraging the others to ‘go in there with him.’

There were only two employees inside the convenience store when the initial attack happened, according to KTVU.

The employees reported that the crowd consisted of roughly 20 people who looked to be between 14 and 20 years old.

They stole multiple items before rushing out, only for part of the group to return after the workers locked the door and called 911.

‘I feel scared,’ Jasshan Singh, one of the employees inside at the time, told the outlet. ‘We can’t do anything. We can’t even run.’

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RedState columnist and author Buzz Patterson knows a thing or two about presidential security and flight operations.

After all, he served 20 years on active duty as an Air Force pilot, received the Air Medal for flying combat support missions into Sarajevo, and from 1996 to 1998 he served as a senior military aide to President Bill Clinton and was put in charge of the nuclear football. Following his WH service, he became a commercial pilot and best-selling author.

He knows a thing or two about what he’s talking about, then, and he’s deeply concerned that top-secret information about President Trump’s early July decoy flight out of Ankara, Turkey, was leaked to the media in August. The president was seen publicly boarding Air Force One, but was then secretly transferred to a different military aircraft due to Iranian threats.

Patterson says we have no business knowing about it:

A retired Air Force lieutenant colonel who carried the nuclear “football” for former President Bill Clinton is sounding the alarm that exposing the vital national security secrets that protected President Trump from a potential attack on Air Force One could put presidents, military personnel and the White House press corps in danger for years to come.

“If somebody leaked it, it was somebody involved in the process, and that scares the hell out of me,” Robert ‘Buzz’ Patterson tells Fox News Digital.

He added that the operation was “brilliant” and wishes he had been part of it, it was so well done.

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(LINKWOOD, MD) – Maryland State Police are investigating a fatal shooting that occurred early this morning in Dorchester County.

The deceased is identified as a five-year-old female. An additional victim, a 30-year-old male, was flown by Maryland State Police Aviation Command to a local trauma center for treatment of his injuries.

Around 2:17 a.m., troopers from the Maryland State Police Easton Barrack responded to a residence in the 3900-block of Ocean Gateway for a report of a shooting. Upon arrival on the scene, troopers located two victims with suspected gunshot wounds.

Investigators from the Maryland State Police Homicide Unit responded to the scene. Crime Scene Technicians from the Maryland State Police Forensic Sciences Division additionally processed the scene for evidence.

Anyone with information related to this case is asked to contact the Maryland State Police Easton Barrack at 410-822-3101. The investigation remains active and ongoing.

County tourism officials promoting briny seafood caught in coastal bays

Iran has mocked U.S. President Donald Trump over his secret aircraft switch during a visit to Turkey, claiming the extraordinary security operation showed his fear of Iran’s military power.

The Islamic Republic’s embassy in South Africa also piled in, sharing a meme showing Trump inside a catering box surrounded by food and warning that he ‘will be hidden in a trash can before long’.

The embassy’s X account, which is listed on its official website, often goes viral for memes that are also reported by Iranian state media.

‘Again, Trump, with his new scandal, has become the top subject in the U.S. media these days. A scandal stemming from fear of Iran’s military power, a power that caused Trump, last month, while returning from Turkey, to secretly switch his plane,’ said a presenter on state television, adding that the episode has become a source of ‘humiliation’ for Trump.

Tehran also hit back at Trump’s claim that the US has ‘total control’ of the Strait of Hormuz, insisting the vital waterway remains under the ‘management and control’ of the Islamic Republic.

Hossein Taeb, the head of Iran’s Basij paramilitary unit, made the declaration on Thursday, a day after Trump’s remarks.

Trump’s secret aircraft switch was prompted by a threat that Air Force One could be targeted by a shoulder-fired missile, a person briefed on the matter said.

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