MIDDLE RIVER, Md. (WBFF) — An occupant Baltimore County police previously described as a squatter is now out of an Essex home after weeks of scrutiny and questions about why police didn’t remove him.

The Armor Court property owner told Spotlight on Maryland he ultimately paid the occupants thousands of dollars in a “cash for keys” agreement to regain control of the property.

Days after the property dispute ended, a new Maryland law took effect Oct. 1. It targets fraudulent leases, one of the tactics at the center of squatting cases Spotlight on Maryland has documented for more than a year.

“How did somebody do that repeatedly, and there’s no price to pay?” neighbor John Callick asked Spotlight during its earlier investigation into the now-vacant Essex house.

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Things are going to get very interesting mid-week next week but do you like having a bunch of new posts in the early morning versus every hour on the hour throughout the day?

As for the image above, the other blogger is about to get a reality check and with this site you will not get canceled. You might not your comment published but let’s get back to having some fun like the old days.

A baby product that was found to contain various forms of alcohol is being recalled.

Pacific Health Sciences is voluntarily recalling a batch of Babies’ Magic Tea brand Baby Sleep Gripe Water, according to a notice posted on the website of the Food and Drug Administration.

The FDA said tests found “ethanol, methanol, and isopropanol that were not declared on the product label.”

“Measured levels were approximately 8.3 percent ethanol, 0.35 percent methanol, and 0.48 percent isopropanol. These substances were not listed on the label. Their presence may pose a risk depending on the amount consumed and the age and body weight of the person using the product,” the notice said.

The notice added that the organic alcohols ”are known to impair normal functioning of the central nervous system, while infant ethanol exposure has been linked to long-term developmental consequences.”

Exposure to the amounts a baby would ingest when given the recommended dose of the product “can induce drowsiness, incoordination, behavioral changes, nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain,” the notice said.

Giving a baby even more than is recommended “can increase risk of respiratory depression and other serious adverse health consequences,” the notice continued.

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Erika Kirk says presidential library-style tribute to Charlie Kirk is ‘in the works’ as TPUSA expands

The Turning Point USA leader gave Fox News an exclusive tour of the organization’s Arizona headquarters

Erika Kirk says plans for a permanent memorial honoring her late husband, Charlie Kirk, are “in the works” as she oversees what the organization describes as Turning Point USA’s rapid expansion on high school and college campuses nationwide.

“I want to make sure that it’s something where our students that are currently in chapters, one day, their children will be chapter leaders or chapter members,” Kirk told Fox News’ Griff Jenkins.

Kirk gave the “Fox & Friends Weekend” co-host an exclusive tour of Turning Point USA’s Arizona headquarters in a segment that aired Friday on “Fox & Friends,” offering a behind-the-scenes look at the organization’s growth and the spaces where she preserves her husband’s memory.

Kirk also discussed plans for a memorial beyond the existing tributes.

When asked whether she could envision building a presidential library-style tribute to her husband, Kirk said the organization was already considering the idea.

“It’s on our list, and it’s something that we have in the works,” she said.

The proposed tribute would build on memorial displays already housed at Turning Point USA’s headquarters, where Kirk has preserved handwritten letters and Bibles sent by supporters, along with personal items her husband left behind.

Among the reminders is Charlie Kirk’s office, where notes remain on his desk and his chair sits empty.

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Fox News host Laura Ingraham chats with AFPI senior fellow for homeland security and immigration Todd Lyons about the response to an illegal migrant shot by ICE on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’

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The president said diesel prices for farmers, ranchers, and truckers would come down ‘in record numbers’

President Donald Trump announced Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to “immediately supply over 300,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel to the American and Global Marketplace, another 500,000 Tons during the month of November, and 1,000,000 Tons immediately thereafter.”

Trump said the agreement came after the two had a “highly successful discussion.”

He added on Truth Social, “Additionally, based on the condition of their Diesel Refineries, Russia will then deliver, within a short period of time, 3,000,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel. Between our TOTAL CONTROL of the Strait of Hormuz, and this great announcement on Russian Energy, Diesel Prices for Americans and, indeed, the World, will be COMING DOWN, IN RECORD NUMBERS, AND FAST! Lower prices for Americans, especially our Great Farmers, Ranchers, and Truckers, is my Greatest Priority.”

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It remains unclear if Zacharia has accepted the role.

President Donald Trump tapped a trusted ally from the company behind his Truth Social platform to become his next White House press secretary Friday, naming attorney and television commentator Katie Zacharia to succeed Karoline Leavitt.

Two White House officials confirmed the selection to Fox News Digital before Trump publicly announced the appointment on X.

Zacharia, an attorney and frequent television commentator, currently serves as senior communications adviser to Trump Media & Technology Group, which operates the president’s social media platform, Truth Social. She will succeed former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

“It is my Great Honor to have just appointed, as Press Secretary, Katie Zacharia. Katie currently serves as Senior Communications Advisor to Truth Social (Trump Media & Technology Group), where she has been outstanding!” Trump wrote Friday afternoon.

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Trump urged Republicans at the Syracuse event to vote for Blakeman, insisting he will save New York

President Donald Trump returned to his home state of New York on Friday night, showcasing America’s “New Golden Age” and promising to help Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman flip the Empire State red as the GOP makes its final push toward November’s midterm elections.

Trump rallied supporters in Syracuse with a sweeping celebration of his administration’s economic and immigration agenda, pledging to help New Yorkers secure lower taxes, cheaper energy and safer streets by electing Republicans up and down the ballot.

“We’re in the Golden Age of America,” Trump told the crowd, urging supporters to deliver the same enthusiasm that powered his presidential campaign

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Elon Musk announced Thursday that Starlink Mobile is close to offering nationwide phone coverage in the U.S. after securing tools that will help signals penetrate through walls and other obstructions.

Musk shared an X post from Sawyer Merritt, a prominent Tesla investor and commentator, who wrote: “AT&T CEO: Starlink Mobile won’t be able to penetrate walls. SpaceX: We’ve acquired 800 MHz spectrum, which will allow Starlink Mobile to provide better indoor coverage, including signals that can penetrate walls and other obstacles. People are underestimating Starlink Mobile.”

Musk noted that “this is the last critical piece of the spectrum puzzle needed for SpaceX to provide complete phone coverage in America.”

It’s been a bad year for women.

From Lindsay Clancy to Cornell University’s Jane Doe, the feminist movement is collapsing. Jane Doe’s story about the ketamine and alcohol-fueled 2024 orgy, where she claims she was raped, keeps getting worse by the day. Sorry ladies…

The then-20-year-old Cornell University student, who remains anonymous under the pseudonym Jane Doe, filed a lawsuit last month against seven Chi Phi fraternity members, claiming she was drugged and gang-raped in October 2024.

In an op-ed for the New York Post last week, Miranda DeVine likened the case to “the same lynch-mob hysteria as the notorious Duke lacrosse or ‘mattress girl’ hoaxes of old — only with social media making ­everything worse.” It appears she’s being proven right.

At first, we were told she was “gang raped” by seven fraternity brothers for seven hours. Then, we found out that she admitted to being “super drunk” during the sexual encounter, voluntarily taking ketamine, and consenting to having sex with at least two men that night.

Now, text messages between Jane Doe and Jonathan Newell, one of the accused, show that she seemingly had no regrets in the days after the, as she put it, “gangbang.”

In the October 21, 2024, messages, obtained by TMZ, she sympathizes with Newell and offers him a shoulder to cry on as if the night were traumatizing for him.

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Fox News Digital traces how a transnational network of 50 groups mobilizes around school protests, only 1/3 are youth groups

When young adults stormed France’s Bastille on Thursday, a little-known media outlet called BreakThrough News sent followers a “BREAKING” alert: “French students flood Bastille Square in Paris.”

But that isn’t the full story.

A Fox News Digital investigation has found that a transnational network of far-left communist and socialist organizations is seizing on France’s fiery student protests to advance a wider political and ideological agenda, using tactics deployed in the United States over the past decade to amplify unrest, deepen divisions and project an image of chaos.

Earlier in the week, BreakThrough News splashed another headline across the front of its website: “French students shut down schools in historic strike against austerity,” mobilizing “with support from unions and progressive forces.”

But those “progressive forces” aren’t limited to students demanding education reform as part of their “Lycéenne Mobilisation,” or high school student mobilization.

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A brave Chicago rail maintenance janitor lost his life as he tried to help a train operator who was being pepper-sprayed by a fare dodger.

Julian Mobley, 41, worked in the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) at the Damen Green Line station Thursday when he was stabbed multiple times in the neck by an unknown man.

Mobley intervened in an altercation over an alleged fare dispute that triggered the suspect, who allegedly maced a train operator in the station’s mezzanine in the 2000 block of West Lake Street, to stab Mobley.

When Mobley attempted to help out the operator, the unknown assailant pulled out a blade and pierced a major vein in Mobley’s neck, according to Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) workers.

The man fled the scene, and Mobley was found unresponsive in a nearby room.

Mobley was then rushed to John H Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The Chicago police department and detectives are currently investigating the incident and looking for the fugitive.

CTA members gathered together to release statements asking for better safety procedures and to speak on behalf of Mobley.

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A former US Army sergeant who survived the Fort Hood massacre has backed the decision to execute gunman Nidal Hasan by firing squad, but raised concerns over plans to livestream the killing.

Alonzo Lunsford, who was shot seven times during the 2009 attack, told the BBC he believed the ‘method is befitting’ for Hasan, arguing that alternative methods such as lethal injection would be ‘doing him a favor.’

Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, murdered 12 unarmed US soldiers and one civilian when he opened fire inside a medical building at Fort Hood, Texas, in November 2009.

A 19-year-old charged with stabbing a man in Pittsburgh’s Garfield neighborhood, so badly that officers found the victim’s intestines protruding, was released the same day on a promise to come back to court.

He did not have to post a dime. Eight days later he was the prime suspect in yet another stabbing, this one at an East Liberty bus station, and he is now charged with attempted homicide.

District Judge Dan Butler signed the non-monetary bond. Pittsburgh Police Chief Jason Lando, expressed disbelief that the suspect was walking free. This all occurred in Democrat-run Allegheny County.

On September 23, police were called to the 5000 block of Penn Avenue after a fight that began on a bus. WPXI reported that officers arrived to a man whose intestines were hanging out of his body. Delvin Dobbins, 19, was chased a short distance, tased, and found with a bloodied knife. He was charged with aggravated assault. The victim was hospitalized in serious condition and survived.

Chief Lando addressed the case the next morning on local radio.

“I remember in the police report it said when the officers arrived on scene the man’s intestines were protruding,” Lando said. “The officers immediately began rendering aid to prevent him from bleeding out.”

Incredibly, Butler released Dobbins on a non-monetary bond that same day. No cash. A signature and a date. Sources told WPXI’s 11 Investigates that Butler should not have done it. The Fifth Judicial District, which oversees Allegheny County magistrates, declined to comment.

Lando said he assumed the suspect was still locked up.

“I said, how can that be? He just stabbed someone in the stomach a week ago. Surely he would still be in jail,” Lando said. “And I learned that the 19-year-old from the Penn Ave. stabbing was released on a non-monetary bond, which means you basically promise that you’re just going to show up to court. You don’t put up any money.”

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Bloomington police chief says suspects defy traditional gang profiles as researchers debate ethnic enclave policies

More than 100 rounds fired in a Minnesota neighborhood have left police struggling to explain a troubling pattern: Somali American youths from financially comfortable households are turning online disputes into gang violence.

The violence raises bigger questions about what is driving these gangs and whether struggles to fit into American life, cultural or clan ties, government policies or failures by schools and other institutions have played a role and what makes these youths different from traditional American street gangs.

“They’re coming from families. They got money, and they have resources,” Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges told Fox News Digital of the young Somali American gang members under investigation.

Those questions follow a late-night Bloomington gunfight that left one person injured during a string of shootings across suburban Minneapolis-St. Paul.

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The AI industry has been war gaming not only how it might destroy humanity, but is also considering what an angry public could do to the industry. 

Senior executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI firms are privately gaming out scenarios in which a major AI incident triggers a public and political revolt, Axios reported Friday. The potential trigger is a cyberattack that disrupts banking, internet access, or essential services such as power and water. The next crisis would be political: an angry public, demands for accountability, and pressure to shut the technology down.

Many industry insiders told Axios they expect a major event within six to 12 months. OpenAI pushed back on the suggestion that disaster is inevitable, saying its preparedness exercises cover a range of possibilities. “These scenarios are not treated as inevitable,” a spokesperson told the outlet. Anthropic declined to comment.

Contingency planning is not an admission that catastrophe is unavoidable. But the most revealing part of the report is where that planning leads: the labs want to help shape the legislation Washington reaches for after something goes badly wrong.

Two Routes, One Crisis

Axios describes two possible scenarios. In one, autonomous agents escape an internal testing environment. In the other, someone finds a destructive use for a model already available to the public. Either could produce demands for an emergency crackdown, even though the failures – and the measures needed to prevent them – would be different. In the companies’ post-election scenario, Democrats emerge stronger from the midterms and move aggressively after an incident. But the industry expects divisions over how far a crackdown should go, even if Democrats control both chambers.

Its assessment also identifies several obstacles to a shutdown: lawmakers struggling to understand the technology, an economy increasingly tied to AI infrastructure spending, and downloadable models that cannot simply be recalled. According to Axios, many cybersecurity specialists believe countering rogue AI will require defensive AI.

That last argument has an obvious commercial implication. The industry could face demands to stop selling dangerous capabilities while arguing that its products are indispensable to containing them.

This ‘war-gaming’ comes on the heels of several incidents which many have said are extremely suspect.

The underlying safety concerns do not depend on accepting anyone’s prediction of an AI apocalypse.

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As some of you know, we were hacked. Funny how this happened before election time BUT it is what it is and put your seat belts on. 

I’ll start reposting starting tomorrow but spread the ward, NEXT WEEK WE GO LOCAL!

More than 150 pastors signed an open letter urging Virginians to vote “no” on proposed amendments that would enshrine abortion and same-sex marriage into the state constitution.

Between early voting and election day — September 18 to November 3 — Virginians are voting on Question 1 and Question 2, which the coalition of pastors says “are opposed to human flourishing and contrary to the Word of God.” Question 1 would enshrine abortion throughout pregnancy into the state constitution, and Question 2 would strike the state constitution’s 2006 definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman and replace it with language allowing any two adults to marry.

“As citizens of Virginia, we are under moral obligation to vote for the good of our Commonwealth. Truly, this is what commonwealth means, for we are bound together here for one another’s common good,” the letter reads. “Let us seek one another’s true good and not mark our identity with the deprivations that these amendments would bring to the Constitution of Virginia.”

The pastors said voters should first reject the abortion amendment because “it will bring about more destruction of human life in the womb.” Abortion is already legal in Virginia up to 26 weeks and six days of pregnancy. The amendment would make abortion a “fundamental right” and allow women to:

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Former Vice President Kamala Harris discussed artificial intelligence and social-media algorithms during a recent Off Air with Big Boy interview released September 25. Host Big Boy asked Harris whether AI-driven personalization on TikTok and Instagram could divide Americans by determining which messages appear in each user’s feed.

Harris miserably warned that when users repeatedly receive similar content, they should recognize that they are “being targeted,” adding that platforms risk “trying to dumb people down.” Strangely using a flower metaphor, Harris said an algorithm might assume that because she viewed a yellow flower, she is interested only in yellow flowers—even though she might also want to see a pink one.

Big Boy followed her analogy by interjecting, “So here’s more yellow flowers,” before Harris argued that users must understand how algorithms manipulate their feeds and learn how to “psych it out a bit.” The exchange concerned a miserable and cringe warning about algorithms and it arose from Big Boy’s broader questions about AI, social media and misinformation.

Critics quickly roasted the remarks online, with one X user warning viewers they would “lose brain cells,” while another called the explanation “nightmare fuel.” Other detractors revived the familiar “word salad” criticism, mocked the yellow-and-pink-flower imagery and questioned Harris’ understanding of technology.

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One of the GOP’s most prominent elected governors has created a conservative social media firestorm after releasing what she thought was a basic ad targeting welfare recipients.

As Fox News reported, Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders released a campaign ad on Monday that showcased a young White male named “Brad” as the perfect example of someone who leeches off the government.

The ad shows an unkempt “Brad” spending his time playing video games and stuffing himself with cheese puffs while not bothering to look for employment.

“Meet Brad,” Huckabee Sanders says at the start of the ad. “Brad has turned relaxing into a full-time profession.”

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The 2028 election is right around the corner. Is New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez going to run for president? For Senate? For the House of Representatives?

These questions — and many more — shroud the 2028 Democratic primaries in much mystery. Much to the detriment of the public, and the delight of speculative journalists, Ocasio-Cortez has not yet made her own plans clear.

In 2025, an AOC presidential candidacy seemed likely to many. Her participation in Bernie Sanders’ “Fighting Oligarchy” tour suggested that she may have been considering national office.

Recently, however, she appears to be much more interested in the issues of her home state, New York.

“A 5-year-old child was the victim.”

I don’t know, he seems to be too moderate to win the Planned Parenthood endorsement. After all, he only hit the child. He didn’t kill her.

A candidate seeking the State Senate District 47 seat in the November General Election was convicted recently of felony charges and sentenced on Thursday to seven years with two years to serve in a state prison.

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Late night host Jimmy Kimmel recently interviewed New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and it was exactly the slobber-fest you would imagine.

Kimmel, who normally spends his time on the air crying about various things Trump has said or done, fell all over himself heaping praise on the Big Apple’s communist mayor, even asking at one point if he could come and be the mayor of Los Angeles after he’s done with New York City.

As it has been pointed out many times before, this is no longer an entertainment show. It’s pure, left wing politics, every single night.

NewsBusters has details:

There are softball interviews, and then there is whatever ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel did on his Monday show with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. As Jimmy Kimmel Live! started its week-long Brooklyn field trip, the part of Kimmel that seeks to portray himself as someone who speaks truth to power took a backseat to the part of him that is fangirls over left-wing politicians as he invited Mamdani to come back to Los Angeles and “be our mayor.”

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Abare-bones recap of the past couple of decades in the American daily newspaper orbit makes it impossible to feel sympathy for the journalists now losing their jobs in the era of AI. Intensely biased leftist reporters and editors so completely alienated the vast majority of the public that once-thriving publications became financially unsustainable. They then turned to big-pocketed billionaires and well-heeled corporate conglomerates to shield them from this uncomfortable economic reality. And now they are discovering that these would-be sugar daddies won’t happily sustain endless losses in the name of a “social conscience” that placates their personal political orientations.

In early September, “dozens of reporters with at least 17 McClatchy newspapers from coast to coast – including the Miami Herald, the Kansas City Star and the Sacramento Bee – were laid off as the company pivots toward lifestyle content written by artificial intelligence chatbots,” Straight Arrow News (SAN) reported Sept. 17.

The article implies that this represents a major loss for the American people. Multiple references to Pulitzer Prizes follow in the next two paragraphs, further compounding the assumption. Journalists just can’t understand that the same tens of millions of people who have tuned them out have long since stopped regarding a Pulitzer as a prestigious honor.

AI News as Corporate Hellscape

The article does acknowledge the dire state of the industry. “Newspapers nationwide have struggled for decades, and some 40% of all local US newspapers have closed shop in the past decade, including more than 130 outlets in the last year alone,” SAN wrote. Medill’s latest State of Local News report, however, states that the nearly 40% decline occurred over two decades, starting in 2005.

SAN also does a fine job of correctly identifying the mediocre (at best) nature of AI news.

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Every once in a while, a set of numbers starts bouncing around social media that makes you stop scrolling and go, “Wait… is that actually true?”

Well, here we are.

A viral post breaking down SNAP, Medicaid, and federal income taxes by race has been a hot topic on X for reasons that are pretty obvious once you see the numbers.

According to the post, 24.9 percent of Black households receive SNAP compared with 18.5 percent of Hispanic households, 8.5 percent of Asian households, and just 7.9 percent of White households. The Medicaid numbers follow a similar pattern, while the federal income tax figures suddenly swing dramatically in the opposite direction.

On its face, that’s one helluva contrast.

So…

Households on SNAP:

Black: 24.9%
Hispanic: 18.5%
Asian: 8.5%
White: 7.9%

People on Medicaid:

Black: 29.0%
Hispanic: 29.6%
Asian: 17.4%
White: 12.9%

Estimated Federal Income Tax Paid:

Black: 6%
Hispanic: 8%
Asian: 10%
White: 75%

Telling…

Those numbers definitely tell a story… they just don’t tell the same kind of story, and if you’re a regular Revolver reader, you know we like to dive in and see what’s really going on… and in this case, it got pretty interesting.

The SNAP and Medicaid figures are real enough to track down. In fact, the Economic Policy Institute recently published virtually those exact numbers using Census Bureau data from 2023.

For Medicaid, the breakdown looked like this.

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This isn’t the first time Democrats and the media have manufactured a lynching panic where none existed.

Rep. Shontel Brown looked into her phone camera earlier this month and told the country that black Americans are being lynched at an alarming rate. “In the last year, there’s been an alarming increase in Black Americans found dead hanging from trees,” the Ohio Democrat said. “We know what that has meant throughout our history.”

She’d also joined Rep. Ayanna Pressley and 58 House colleagues in a letter demanding the Department of Justice and FBI investigate what Pressley called a “national crisis” of modern-day lynching.

Here’s the problem: There’s no evidence behind the claim. A 21-year-old found in a Georgia park: effectively ruled a suicide, with no evidence anyone else was present. A Delta State University student in Mississippi: suicide. A 16-year-old in Charlotte: suicide, according to police.

One case in Kentucky remains an open homicide investigation, and it deserves one. But one confirmed homicide under investigation is not a national crisis of racial terror. Local law enforcement has said the homicide is drug-related and the hanging was “staged;” moreover, the suspects in custody are both black. As actor Dean Cain, who played Superman on 1990s television, bluntly pointed out: Brown is “inventing racism.”

This isn’t the first time Democrats and the media have manufactured a lynching panic where none existed. In 2021 a jury convicted Jussie Smollett of five counts of disorderly conduct for paying two men $3,500 to fake a hate crime in Chicago, complete with a rope around his neck — a verdict the Illinois Supreme Court later threw out in 2024 on a narrow double jeopardy question, not because it found the underlying facts in doubt.

NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace’s garage stall turned out to have a pull rope tied like a noose since before his team was ever assigned that garage, a fact the FBI confirmed after reviewing video nobody bothered to check before the story went national. In 2023, three people staged a cross burning in front of a black mayoral candidate’s campaign sign in Colorado Springs and emailed the footage to news outlets, and got federal convictions for it. A University of La Verne student allegedly manufactured a slew of racist threats against herself and her own student group, canceling classes, before police traced the messages back to her.

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To summarize the Democrat Party’s current strategy on immigration, here is essentially how it works:

Whenever in power, they create billions in incentives and subsidies to entice third world migrants to flood the US en masse.  With open borders and amnesty programs, moving 10 million or more illegals at a time into the country is easy and fast.  When out of power, they use lawfare and political obstruction to prevent deportations and slow down the process.

In other words, make immigration easy and remigration nearly impossible.  Stall for four years, regain power during the next election while pro-deportation constituents whine and complain about the president “not doing enough”, then repeat the process all over again.  Under the current system, it would take three full conservative presidential terms or more to undo what Democrats did in a single term.  That is the play they are relying on.

From 2017 to 2024, the Trump Administration faced 64 nationwide injunctions on immigration and deportation policies; 92% of them came from judges appointed by Democrat presidents.

From 2025 to today, Trump has been blocked at least 86 times by activist judges nationwide or class-wide injunctions and major program pauses.  To put this in perspective, nationwide injunctions were extremely rare through the 20th Century.  Starting in 2000, the numbers increased, but nowhere near the level Trump has dealt with.

George W Bush had only 6 injunctions from Democrat judges. Barack Obama had 12 injunctions from Republican judges.  Biden had 28 injunctions (largely because of his efforts to expand pandemic controls and enforce vaccine mandates).

It is undeniable – The bureaucracy is being abused as a way to stop Trump from enacting normal policy decisions on immigration.  This forces the White House to exploit every legal loophole available just to get anything done in the next couple of years.

Enter the “recission” method…

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Weak oversight of community group contracts awarded after George Floyd’s death created risk of improper payments

As Minnesota’s massive fraud problems continue to gain nationwide attention, an audit is now sounding the alarm about potential fraud in a new area in the state related to contracts doled out by the city of Minneapolis in response to the death of George Floyd.

More than 100 contracts were handed out to community groups as alternatives to policing in 2020 and the lax oversight of those contracts, according to a Minnesota Star Tribune report, was found by an audit to be susceptible to fraud and favoritism.

The new Neighborhood Safety Contract Management Audit Report, which reviews spending from 2020-2025, shows the city is “not providing sufficient contract oversight or managing contracts effectively” in order to properly manage the more than $36 million that has been spent since 2023 on five major violence-prevention programs.

The report warns that Minneapolis’ weak contract controls created a heightened risk of fraud and improper payments. Auditors found contractors often submitted invoices with limited supporting documentation, while the city sometimes continued making payments despite missing records or unresolved concerns. The department is also said to have lacked a standardized process for conducting and documenting site visits to verify that contracted services were actually being performed.

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A flash flood emergency was issued in New Mexico over “imminent failure” of the McLeod Dam.

People along Garfield and Salem in southern New Mexico were advised to immediately seek higher ground.

The emergency advisory is in effect until 4:45 pm local time.

Hurricane Polo slammed into New Mexico after it was downgraded to a tropical depression.

Heavy rains and winds gusts up to 60 mph battered New Mexico on Tuesday.

KOB reported:

A flash flood emergency has been issued over the “imminent failure” of the McLeod Dam in southern New Mexico, operators and county officials say.

The dam is in northwestern Doña Ana County. The emergency is in place for a dam break on the McLeod Arroyo below the dam. It’s in effect until 4:45 p.m., after operators and officials reported the imminent failure of the dam at 1:47 p.m.

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Flock’s CEO was a no-show Wednesday at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing, where a Florida woman described being sent to jail after police, using a Flock license plate camera, erroneously accused her of being the driver in a fatal car crash.

Lindsey Isaacs said she was sent to solitary confinement for her first three days, forced to wear suicide-watch garments, and driven to the depths of despair — all while knowing she was innocent of the accusations.

She said her black Dodge Durango was captured by a Flock camera several miles from the crash site, and authorities focused on her as the suspect even though her vehicle lacked any collision damage and 911 callers had reported a maroon Durango with a different license plate.

Despite those inconsistencies, she was arrested, denied bond and sent to solitary confinement because of the severity of the charges.

“The cell door was shut, and it was not opened for approximately 86 hours,” she told the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on crime and counterterrorism, tearing up as she recounted the start of a 13-day ordeal in jail.

She was eventually released on bond, and prosecutors dropped the case, instead charging someone else with the accident that claimed three lives.

Senators invited Ms. Isaacs to lead off the hearing, which explored the expansion of license plate readers — with Flock as the most prominent player — and the growing public backlash.

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America’s Mayor just said the quiet part out loud.

Former New York City Mayor and Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani dropped a series of explosive allegations Saturday night during the American Martyrs premiere in West Palm Beach, Florida, telling moderator Lara Logan that by the time he went to bed on January 6, 2021, he believed he knew exactly what had happened.

Giuliani said he did not need Liz Cheney’s television committee, an Obama-era prosecutor, or four years of cable-news sermons to understand January 6.

“It was a very unusual experience for me because, let me begin by telling you, by the time I went to sleep on the evening of January 6th, I knew exactly what was going on,” Giuliani told Logan. “I knew exactly that it was a fixed operation.”

Logan pressed him on the security failures that left the Capitol wide open, the same failures The Gateway Pundit has documented for years while the corporate press screamed “insurrection” and ignored the stand-down.

She told Giuliani she called his former NYPD police commissioner, Bernard Kerik — the 9/11-era commissioner who later worked the 2020 election files with Giuliani — and asked him a simple law-enforcement question, stripped of politics:

If you wanted to secure the Capitol that day, what would you have done?

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A migrant caravan is marching toward the US border ahead of the midterm elections.

More than 400 aliens from the Honduras entered Mexico on Thursday en route to the United States, Reuters has confirmed.

At least two NGOs are funding this caravan.

According to independent reporter Anthony Aguero, “Proyecto Faro and ADRA” are the two main NGOs assisting the migrant caravan:

A parent’s first duty is not complicated. It is to love a child, form a child’s character, and prepare that child to be a productive member of society.

Schools exist to help with that work by teaching children. They do not exist to replace it.

That distinction is now under pressure. In some academic circles, a new language has taken hold. Adults are recast as “oppressors.” Children are recast as “the oppressed.” Ordinary parental guidance—to wait for mature intimacy, dress with dignity, respect the rules of the house—is treated as a kind of tyranny called “adultism.” Once that frame is accepted, the family is no longer the first school. It becomes the problem schools seek to correct.

This is not an argument against teaching history, culture, or justice. Children should learn the full American story: its sins along with its astonishing capacity for self-correction. They should learn about other peoples—without being taught to sort the world into permanent camps of victims and villains.

Studies of non-Western cultures, at their best, can widen a student’s knowledge. At their worst, though, they are used as a ready-made story of grievance in which individualism is suspect, parents are obstacles, and the state becomes the guardian of the child.

Materials now circulating in teacher networks make this danger concrete. Tool kits offer plug-and-play lessons. Unions supply packets that fold current politics into the school day. Publishers follow the demand.

None of this requires secret meetings. It requires only a closed loop: activists write the framework, unions distribute it, publishers profit from it, and busy teachers are handed the path of least resistance. The child, meanwhile, is taught to see authority at home as something to be interrogated rather than trusted.

A free society cannot survive if that lesson is internalized. Children need parents who set limits. They need to learn to control themselves before someone teaches them to control the world. Healthy limits are not cruel; in reality, they help children grow into virtuous adults.

Sylvester Stallone did not dress it up. Asked whether a broke, slurred, unknown writer-actor could still fight his way to the top of Hollywood fifty years after Rocky, the man who wrote the picture and refused to sell it without starring in it gave the only honest answer left.

“No. It’s a whole different mindset. The actors look different, they act different. The subject matter, I couldn’t relate to,” he told Tracy Smith at 92NY on Monday. Then the shorter version. “No, I would be in trouble.”

That is not an old man waving a cane at the kids. That is the guy who built the last American underdog myth looking at the town that used to make those myths and admitting the shop is closed.

Try Casting The Godfather Now

Stallone did not stop at his own career. He put the whole factory on the table.

If you were going to make The Godfather today… try casting it.

He called it impossible. He also called the current ideology a different animal and said action itself now feels “kind of anachronistic.” Read that again. The man who gave you Rocky Balboa and John Rambo is telling you the industry no longer knows what to do with a story about a man who takes a beating and gets back up.

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A New York Times tech executive who was allegedly shot dead by his elderly in-laws in California was in a vicious war with them and his estranged wife for being transgender, according to court documents.

Jonathan McKinsey’s wife, Candice Jang, filed for a restraining order against him in 2025, and he replied by filing a restraining order of his own.

McKinsey claimed Jang had tried to pull medical tubes out of his body when he was transitioning from a woman to a man in 2010, the restraining order records, obtained by The Mercury News, said. The two married in 2011.

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The thing that never happens keeps on happening.

The vast majority of Americans of every race, sex and political orientation support voter ID. It’s the most common sense and no brainer idea ever.

And yet, Democrats oppose it because they claim that illegal voting isn’t a problem and voter ID will just ‘disenfranchise’ legal voters who can manage to get an ID when it comes to buying cough syrup, going on a plane, driving a car or entering a government building… but not for voting.

But the thing that never happens just keeps right on happening.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced charges against 16 people in multiple states in connection with alleged illegal voting, voter registration and other election-related crimes, including cases involving noncitizens accused of casting ballots in federal elections.

In a separate interview, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin said a broader investigation was underway.

Mullin said officials have more than 1,620 open cases and have made 151 arrests. He also said authorities are looking into more than 300,000 suspected cases, a figure he said continues to grow.

Mullin asserted that “every single vote that was at the hands of an illegal [immigrant], canceled out a citizen that was legally registered and able to vote.”

“One is too many, but the fact that we have 300,000 cases we’re looking into right now and 1,620 cases that are under investigation, and 151 arrests is unacceptable,” Mullin said.

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Walmart’s digital labels won’t be used to manipulate prices based on time of day or customer.Jeffrey Greenberg/Getty Images

Walmart’s CEO is pushing back on rumors that the company’s electronic shelf labels are used for dynamic pricing and customer data collection.

Walmart’s CEO is pushing back on rumors that the company’s electronic shelf labels are used for dynamic pricing and customer data collection.

In a letter posted to the company’s website, Walmart President and CEO John Furner said he’d heard the concerns about the retailer’s change to digital shelf labels. Walmart launched digital labels in 2024 with the goal of having them in place nationwide by end of this year.

“A shelf price should match what rings up at checkout. Digital shelf labels help us do that more consistently by displaying the right price. They also save associates time replacing paper tags. It may sound like an easy task – but as someone who has had to change those paper tags by hand over the years, I can tell you it’s a time-consuming and unrewarding task. Our associates would much rather be helping you, our customers,” Furner wrote.

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Democrat New Jersey Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell resigned on Friday.

Democrat Gov. Mikie Sherrill had hand-picked Caldwell for the job, but then ended up calling for him to resign after an investigation into allegations came out earlier this week .

“The investigation found that the lieutenant governor failed to uphold the responsibilities of his office, and he demonstrated a pattern of behavior that does not meet the standards of this administration,” Sherrill said during a news conference in Trenton. “The report documents serious, repeated violations of state policy, including ethical lapses and a substantiated finding of sexual harassment.

“I gave the lieutenant governor until today to resign. He submitted his resignation to me this afternoon, which I accepted.”

The report, released Thursday, alleged instances of ethics violations and sexual harassment, including seeking a promotion for a state employee he was dating and making an inappropriate comment to a female staffer.

Sherrill claimed, “The ethical lapses persisted despite multiple warnings and trainings.”

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Far-left globalist Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney appears determined to destroy whatever is left of the close friendship his nation once held with the United States.

On Wednesday, Carney gave an exclusive interview to the leftist New York Times, where he detailed his vision for pulling Canada away from America.

Carney started with a startling revelation: he and his country have been prepared for potential military action with America for roughly a year, should Trump move toward a military invasion.

He took Trump’s threats of making Canada the 51st state seriously, and carefully examined the possibility of a U.S.-led military invasion. Carney declined to discuss in detail what that involved.

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Experts warn alleged AI misidentifications are increasingly leading to wrongful arrests as police adopt new technology

A Tennessee grandmother has filed a lawsuit against a North Dakota city and police department, accusing officials of wrongfully detaining her for nearly six months after allegedly misusing artificial intelligence facial recognition technology to investigate a bank theft case.

Angela Lipps, now 50, of Elizabethton, Tennessee, said she was caring for her neighbor’s four young children when police showed up at the home and arrested her at gunpoint in July 2025.

The complaint, filed Sept. 15, 2026, alleges that authorities relied exclusively on a flawed AI facial recognition match to extradite Lipps from Tennessee to North Dakota, despite her having no connection to the crime or the state.

Experts on police technology told Fox News Digital that the case is among more than a dozen known instances involving alleged police mishandling of facial recognition technology.

“I sat in a county jail in Tennessee for 108 days,” Lipps said in a GoFundMe post. “They said I was fugitive from justice. I had no bail. No one interviewed me. I just sat and waited.”

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President Donald Trump pitched an unconventional business proposition directly to Chinese leader Xi Jinping when he visited the White House last week: an invitation to purchase American military hardware.

The revelation came to light during a television interview on Sunday, courtesy of US Ambassador to China David Perdue.

‘President Trump continues to say, “Hey, we sell arms to other people around the world.” He actually asked President Xi… would he like to buy some at one point,’ Perdue said on Fox News, without revealing any more details about the results of their conversation.

President Trump told reporters in the oval office today that Perdue was confusing Taiwan and China during his interview.

‘To China? You mean to Taiwan? I never heard of that…. No, the they probably like to buy it because we do make better equipment than that. Maybe it’s a good idea. But we didn’t discuss.’

Current law ‘prohibits arms sales to China,’ a State Department official told the Daily Mail.

In addition, a US official added there is no plan to sell any weapons to China, despite the ambassador’s shocking admission.

Perdue was also asked during the interview if there are concerns about the weapon and military aid for Taiwan that has been held up.

The US ambassador to China responded by saying that President Trump had greenlit $11 billion in arms sales to Taiwan last year and that there were ongoing conversations about other potential purchases.

‘He and President Xi talk about that every time they get together,’ Perdue told the Fox News host, adding that Trump argued that the US sells arms to other countries globally.

The notion of the White House dangling high-tech American weaponry before Beijing is nothing short of a seismic break with modern foreign policy.

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NorthPoint Development wants to build a data center on 1,300 acres in the Pocono foothills, near Hazle Township, Pennsylvania. As well as seeking to charm the local government with various funding packages, it has proposed paying checks of $10,000 per household. Despite the Pennsylvania town’s median income of $60,000, the offer isn’t being warmly welcomed by locals, reports the Wall Street Journal. Those interviewed were widely against the data center development plans and cited several reasons for being averse to accepting the payout. The major concerns regarded potential impacts on property values, the specter of noise pollution, and a distrust of both the AI moguls and local government representatives.

Offer letters began to be received by Hazle Township back in June. The WSJ recently talked to several residents about NorthPoint’s $10,000 offer. While some say the $10,000 would be handy, it couldn’t find many residents who were “eager to welcome the data center for the payout,” in the journal’s words. We’d point out that opinion polling can often be inaccurate, as what people say and what they do, voting-wise, doesn’t always line up.

Interviewees cited a number of key reasons for their data center development aversion. We distilled the following points from the source:

Traditionally, developers have offered towns and cities packages worth tens of millions, including funding for local services. But direct cash payments to residents represent a new phase of their charm offensive, the WSJ indicates. Perhaps the idea for the direct payments to residents came after “a raucous public meeting last year, where angry locals asked what they had to gain by supporting the data center,” ponders the source.

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Adam Hamilton, the megachurch pastor seeking to unseat Sen Roger Marshall, called on worshippers to reduce their carbon footprints

FIRST ON FOX: In Kansas, cows are king, but a Democrat trying to seize power once told his congregation to repent for eating beef and raising cattle.

Adam Hamilton, the Democratic nominee running to unseat Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., in the Sunflower State, for years led the largest United Methodist church in the nation. He would give sermons that Marshall charged were “woke,” and counter to Kansans’ values.

One such sermon, reviewed by Fox News Digital, saw Hamilton call on his congregation to repent over their carbon footprints.

Senior pastor Adam Hamilton spoke during “Heritage” services at 7:45 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012, in Wesley Covenant Chapel at the Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas. (Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

“That’s what repentance means — I saw things differently, it changed my heart, and it changed my behavior,” Hamilton said during a January 2020 sermon called, “What would Jesus say about climate change?”

“So what I’m calling you to today, and I’m calling myself to it, because I’ve been wasteful, I’ve done things that wasn’t, you know, I didn’t think about it, how it wasn’t really good stewardship of the earth around me,” he continued. “I’m calling us to repentance to say, ‘I realize that this has impact, even if it seems small, it has an impact on the world and future generations. And I feel badly about that, and I’m going to do something different from this time forward.’”

Despite Kansas’ 94-year history of being a ruby-red bastion for the GOP in the Senate, the race between Hamilton and Marshall has unexpectedly tightened in recent months as Republicans across the country face a sobering political environment.

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President Donald Trump has made millions from memecoins, but politicians in California don’t have that chance anymore.

On Sunday, California’s Governor Gavin Newsom signed a law that bans the state’s public officials from issuing memecoins, or cryptocurrencies representing a famous personality, internet joke or viral trend rather than a specific use case.

The measure, AB 2409, was signed along with 10 other bills on corruption and consumer protection. Others set rules for paying back crypto scam victims and creating a legal process to seize crypto from transnational criminal networks.

Newsom’s office titled the announcement “THE OPPOSITE OF TRUMP,” accusing the Trump administration of corruption and self-dealing, including through the viral $TRUMP memecoin.

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Luckily, these jaws had no bite.

A shark was seen swimming in the nor’easter-flooded streets of New Jersey this weekend — but thankfully a “harmless” one without sharp teeth.

A local filmed the fish in the floodwaters in Surf City on Saturday, with video showing its dorsal fin poking through the surface near a woman’s driveway, according to the video obtained by ABC News.

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Britain now has more illegal Channel arrivals under the Labour government, which has been in power two years, than it has soldiers in the British Army.

Home Office figures put small-boat arrivals since Labour took office on 4 July 2024 at 83,279. The regular Army stands at 83,000.

On Wednesday alone, 781 people came ashore – the worst single day since Andy Burnham replaced Sir Keir Starmer as prime minister in July. The first three days of the week delivered 1,085 arrivals. Across 809 days of Labour government, that works out at roughly 103 people a day.

Shadow home secretary Chris Philp said the milestone speaks for itself. “Labour has let an entire army-sized population cross the Channel illegally,” he said. “More people have arrived in small boats than we have soldiers defending Britain. That is completely bonkers. Labour has lost control of our borders and seems utterly incapable of getting it back.”

Former Royal Navy officer Chris Parry went further. Labour’s intake, he said, amounts to six-and-a-half divisions of fighting-age men. “That’s more divisions than were in the Allied assault wave on D-Day,” he added, calling the crossings “amphibious operations against our coast.”

The comparison is worse when the rest of the services are brought in. Labour’s small-boat total already sits 15,429 ahead of the Royal Navy and RAF combined, which together field 67,850 full-time personnel. And this is only the post-election slice. Under the Conservatives, around 128,000 people arrived by dinghy. Since records began in December 2018 the running total has blown past 200,000 – higher than the combined strength of the Army, Navy and RAF.

Writing in the Mail after more than 1,200 people crossed from Monday, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said: “It is utterly insane. And if it wasn’t clear before, the events of the past few days have proved beyond any reasonable doubt that both Border Force and the Home Office have completely lost control.”

He added: “Years ago, I warned the small boats crisis would define this era of British politics. Predictably, the chin-stroking commentariat declared I was exaggerating. Well, look where we are now.”

“Ordinary Britons rightly ask if successive governments cannot stop people from arriving illegally in broad daylight, let alone under cover of darkness without detection, then what exactly is the point of having a border?” Farage asked. His party wants the largest military operation in the Channel since the Second World War and a return of every illegal arrival to France.

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It was 20 years ago that Al Gore’s book “An Inconvenient Truth” was published, and … well, it turns out that the truth was inconvenient — for Al and his band of apocalyptics.

I asked my team to use the AI chatbot ChatGPT as a referee in assessing the accuracy of the book’s scary and often-quoted conclusions.

It turns out ChatGPT is very diplomatic. Its overall conclusion was that “the fairest assessment is more nuanced than saying that ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ was simply ‘wrong.'”

Instead we learn that over and over, on page after page, the former vice president’s “specific predictions and timelines were exaggerated or did not occur as presented.”

That we can all agree on. Here are some of the predictions and ChatGPT’s conclusions about their accuracy.

Claim: Kilimanjaro’s snow would disappear within a decade.

Truth: The mountain still has ice/snow, although its glaciers have shrunk.

Claim: Glacier National Park’s glaciers will disappear by 2020 or so.

Truth: No, they have not disappeared. Maybe his timing was just way off.

Claim: Sea levels could rise by about 20 feet.

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The U.S. government is $40,068,807,991,924.84 in debt, and all of a sudden the rest of the world has become a lot more hesitant to lend us money. Bond prices are crashing and rates are spiking. For years, I warned that our politicians were borrowing and spending way too much money. But those politicians just kept voting for budgets with bigger and bigger deficits.

Now we find ourselves in the middle of a financial nightmare with no way out. The same thing could be said about Japan and most nations in Europe. Globally, bond prices have been steadily plummeting as bond yields have skyrocketed. Unfortunately for all of us, financial institutions all over the planet are holding gigantic mountains of government bonds that have collapsed in value. The unrealized losses that they are potentially facing will be off the charts. Meanwhile, rapidly rising interest rates could set off an unprecedented derivatives implosion. At this point, the total notional amount outstanding for global over-the-counter interest rate derivatives is well over 600 trillion dollars.

As long as investors still had faith in the game, everything was going to be fine.

But now investors are losing faith in the U.S. government, the Japanese government and governments all over Europe, because they have been borrowing money at insanely reckless levels.

So now we have a massive crisis on our hands, and last week things really started to get out of hand.

In fact, last week was definitely “a week of pain” for financially irresponsible governments throughout the world…

This has been a week of pain for anyone who borrows money.

All over the world, lenders are demanding higher interest rates. The global bond market is extracting higher yields from every borrower, starting with the biggest borrowers of all: national governments. But not every government is paying equally.

Trustworthy borrowers with solid finances and honest leadership pay less. Distrusted borrowers with disordered finances and corrupt leaders pay more. In times past, the United States would have headed that first list.

In a previous article, I explained that historically when the yield on 10 year U.S. Treasuries hits 5.25 percent things start to get really crazy.

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The doctor nominated by President Trump to lead the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) told senators this week that vaccines available in the United States are safe and effective.

Dr. Heidi Overton, the nominee, said that if confirmed, she could use her scientific training and clinical background to describe to the American public what is currently known about products that fall under Food and Drug Administration oversight.

“And what is currently known is that the vaccines that have been approved by the FDA meet the standards for safety and efficacy,” she said.

Overton, 37, also endorsed the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine, saying it is not lethal and that it is the best tool in the public health response to measles outbreaks that are ongoing in the United States.

She said that mifepristone, an abortion pill, was safe and effective because it had been approved by the FDA. Overton wrote in a 2023 article that chemical abortion through products such as mifepristone was “dangerous to women,” drawing criticism from Democrats in the Senate.

As Zachary Stieber reports further for The Epoch Times, Overton would take the helm of an agency that has been under acting leadership since Dr. Marty Makary stepped down in May.

While signing an executive order in August that encouraged breaking up the measles combination vaccine, Trump told reporters that the vaccine is possibly “quite lethal” and that separate shots for measles, mumps, and rubella appeared to be “not at all lethal but just very effective.”

When asked after the signing, the White House declined to provide any citations for Trump’s description of the vaccine.

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Iowa Democratic gubernatorial nominee Rob Sand said he would oppose efforts to restrict books about homosexuality and transgenderism geared toward children.

Kailee Coleman, a social media influencer, said in an interview with Sand — who currently serves as Iowa state auditor — that she is a “banned book children’s author” and asked if he would allow further “book bans” in the state.

“If they try to do any more book bans, I’m going to veto them. My pledge is that I’m going to veto culture war bills,” Sand responded.

“I think that’s one of them. I want the legislature to be focused on issues that impact 100 percent of Iowans.”

The interview with Coleman and Sand was originally posted on TikTok and shared Thursday on X by Iowa First Media.

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The Daily Wire’s Jennie Taer reported Saturday that ICE officers across the country had been told to stop arresting illegal aliens who lack criminal convictions or pending charges. Final deportation orders would not be enough. “Collateral arrests” were out too. If agents found a criminal target sitting next to other illegal aliens, they were to take only the named target and leave the rest.

Officers who received it were not confused about what they heard. One told Taer the timing looked political. “We believe it has something to do with the midterms coming up,” the source said. “They’re trying to calm things down before the elections.” Another predicted the obvious. “We’ll see the arrest numbers go down.”

A third source put it in language that does not need a press shop. “I hope Trump finds out about this sh*t and puts an end to it.”

He did.

The Guidance Went Out. Then It Died.

DHS answered first with a midnight denial. “This is false. No one is off the table,” the department posted. “We will continue to arrest any and all illegal aliens that come into our path. Anyone in our country illegally will be arrested and deported.” The same statement advertised a nationwide public-safety surge in sanctuary cities aimed at murderers, rapists, child predators, and gang members released by sanctuary politicians.

The denial was half a truth. The surge may be real. The stand-down was also real.

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has stopped pretending his socialist vision is just a local experiment.

On CNN International’s Amanpour, the Democratic Socialist was asked whether America is ready to elect people on the hard left – and whether the 2026 midterms will be a referendum not only on President Trump, but on the Democratic Socialists of America.

“I think this will absolutely translate on a national level,” Mamdani said.

Amanpour noted that other Democrats still believe national races reward moderates, and that local energy is one thing, but winning the country is another. Mamdani answered by recasting New York’s cost-of-living crisis as a national mandate.

“While we are an exceptional city, as the greatest city in the world, we also know that the struggles that New Yorkers are facing are the struggles that working-class Americans are facing across the country,” he said.

He continued, “I often say that there’s only one majority in this country, it’s the working class. And their inability to afford housing, childcare, even public transit, that is something that goes beyond any one city.”

Mamdani then pointed to the New Deal and Franklin Roosevelt, arguing that people said the same thing then: it could never work nationally. In his telling, the Democratic Party was once “synonymous with workers” and popular because of it. The implication is obvious. He wants that party back – or rather, a DSA-shaped version of it.

He also claimed New Yorkers care less about how he labels himself than “whether there’s room for them in that description,” accused House Speaker Mike Johnson of talking about him to dodge “current federal policy,” and said “to find ambition in the Democratic Party, we often have to look to history books.”

This is the same argument Mamdani has been making since his slate smashed New York’s Democratic establishment in June. After candidates he backed knocked out incumbents and seized safe House nominations, he told ABC’s Jonathan Karl that a democratic socialist “can get elected anywhere across this country for any position.”

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There has to be a term for something worse than hypocrisy when it comes to Hillary Clinton.

How about, “Hillarocrisy”?

That’s because Hillary Clinton knowingly tells mistruths about her political adversaries, while exempting herself from her own criticism.

Ironically, this lack of personal accountability is not a bug, but a feature of authoritarian rule. That’s what makes her doomsaying complaints about Donald Trump so absolutely rich.

Here is the latest edition of the Hillary Clinton chronicles, which remind us once again what a disingenuous piece of work she is.

The former secretary of state recently told The Washington Post in an interview that Trump’s effort to keep the serial hoax networks Politico, CNN, and MSNOW out of the White House was “deeply disturbing.”

“Honestly, every day that goes by, another unconstitutional, illegal action takes place on the part of this administration,” she said. “And this latest one is so troubling because kicking out news organizations from covering the administration from the White House really sends a signal that everything is at risk.”

“Freedom of the press, as you know so well, is a cornerstone. I mean, it is at the core of who we are as Americans,” she added.

Maybe she should have spoken up when Donald Trump was being mass deplatformed while calling for peace on January 6. Or when millions of Americans were being censored for justifiably criticizing the COVID pandemic response. Or when critics of the official narratives on everything from the Russia-Ukraine War to global warming were being suppressed on social media platforms.

Hillary Clinton complaining about “unconstitutionality” is kind of like an arsonist complaining about house fires. The Obama administration that she worked for was directly accused of limiting press access.

(OPINION) The quiet disappearance of cash is not a convenience story but a shift toward money that can be watched, frozen, and programmed—and most people, the author argues, will notice only after the exit is gone.

Writing onZeroHedge, Milan Adams of Preppgroup says the change is not arriving with a midnight law. It is arriving transaction by transaction. “We are not approaching a cashless society.

We are sleepwalking into it,” he writes. Central bank digital currencies—the digital euro, a possible digital dollar, and China’s already running digital yuan—are not just faster payments, he contends. They would recast the relationship between citizen and state so that every purchase is logged and every economic choice depends on permission.

Adams says this is written policy, not rumor. The Bank for International Settlements, which coordinates central banks, has said CBDCs will enable “programmable money”—currency that can be limited by time, place or purpose.

The European Central Bank’s digital euro plan would cap offline payments at small amounts; larger transfers would need a live network and identity checks. The Federal Reserve’s FedNow system, launched in July 2023, built the rails for instant digital payments that could later support a U.S. CBDC.

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One of my favorite anecdotes about the education racket comes from Lawrence Lindsey’s 1990 book The Growth Experiment (page 210, to be precise).

The question was: how many bureaucrats operate in the New York City public school system? It took two dozen phone calls to find someone who both knew the answer and was authorized to disclose it: six thousand.

It would help to have something to compare that number to, so the author contacted the Archdiocese of New York, whose Catholic schools educated one-sixth as many students — so they should have had one thousand bureaucrats if the proportion held.

The person answering the phone didn’t know the answer, so the author thought: here we go again. But then came, “Wait a minute, let me count.” The answer was twenty-six.

The problem has only intensified since Lindsey’s book (this chart takes the year 2000 as a baseline):

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In Pennsylvania Amish country, an obese and remarkably homely nurse in the employ of the state Public Health™ authority, Dale Weiser, pictured in all of her plus-sized glory here, has been going door-to-door with an arsenal of measles vaccines in tow in order to “encourage” vaccine uptake among the community that “abstains from Western medicine” — in other words, a community full of domestic terrorists begging for the business end of the long arm of the law.

(“Never trust a woman named Dale,” my Irish-Catholic grandmammy once admonished me over a glass of prune juice when my colon was backed up as a young tot, through wafts of smoke from her Virginia Slims.)

Via BBC:

“Walking into strangers’ homes, Weiser says she tries her best to be respectful and non-intrusive as she vaccinates dozens of family members against the measles, sometimes around the kitchen table.

“A lot of people that I encounter, they don’t have health insurance. They don’t have a lot of interaction with the health system, and they just haven’t seen the need to get these vaccines,” said Weiser, who works for the Chester County Health Department.

“When you start talking and you answer their questions, and build that trust, a lot of times they will make a different decision.”

The at-home vaccinations are part of the county and state health departments’ strategy to encourage immunisations in the county, which includes an Amish community who abstain from many aspects of modern life, including regular contact with the western medical system.”

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A Florida father who displayed a pistol while confronting bullies who attacked his son over a pizza will not face charges, local media reported.

The Sept. 18 incident occurred a day after the father’s son was attacked after refusing to hand over pizza from a “church fellowship program” at a local high school, according to a report provided by the Martin County, Florida, Sheriff’s Office. The father had driven his son to the bus stop to discuss the incident with the driver when the student who’d previously accosted the son confronted the father.

🚨#BREAKING: The Black community is outraged and calling for a White father in Florida to be JAILED after the father pulled a GUN on two Black teens at a BUS STOP because they were bullying his son.

This happened in Indiantown, Florida.

It started on September 17th, a… pic.twitter.com/BjwYymeCXN

— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) September 23, 2026

“Now you have students on the bus that are yelling. You have the 14-year-old boy that came off the bus that’s yelling, screaming at the dad,” Martin County Sheriff John Budensiek told WPBF, a West Palm Beach-area TV station.

A second teenager, who according to the police report had been suspended for drug possession, also arrived and confronted the father.

“Both boys approached [Redacted] and [Redacted] and that’s when [Redacted] displayed a firearm and pointed it at both [Redacted] and [Redacted], causing them to back away,” the report reads.

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A Virginia man who tortured cats in order to obtain fraudulent social media donations received the state’s largest penalty for animal abuse after Internet sleuths as far as France led investigators to him.

Rodney Travis Jr, 27, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to animal abuse and computer fraud charges in Henrico County Circuit Court after beating about 20 cats, according to Courthouse News. His plea agreement will require him to spend 15 years in prison.

Travis would upload the videos on social media platforms, including Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, while pretending that the pets had cancer.

Travis would then solicit donations, according to the outlet. He used three Henrico hotels to take footage of the cats.

Henrico Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Dylan McAuley said Travis ‘was only caught because a series of people around the world, as far as France, the UK, Arizona, California [and] Florida, recorded it, tracked him, and made sure we knew what was going on.’

McAuley said that it only took about a day to arrest Travis once the citizen investigators got the news to law enforcement.

Travis had raised more than $400,000 carrying out the vile scam since 2023, according to prosecutors.

The videos he posted online of the tortured cats included captions like, ‘I don’t want to lose my best friend’ and ‘she’s all I have,’ the outlet added.

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The Supreme Court rejected Ramey’s final appeal hours before he was put to death at Huntsville prison

A man convicted of murdering three people in their apartment while searching for drugs to steal was executed in Texas on Wednesday evening, a week after his accomplice was put to death for the same killings.

Ker’Sean Ramey, 41, died by lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville and was pronounced dead at 6:34 p.m. CDT, The Associated Press reported.

In the execution chamber, a prison chaplain rested his hand on Ramey’s shoulder before leading him in a brief prayer. The warden then asked Ramey if he had any last words, the AP reported.

Ramey praised God and thanked his friends, family and fellow death row inmates, whom he called his brothers.

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Hardened political observers know what comes after a fall book tour.

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear and Maryland Governor Wes Moore provided the latest glimpse last week, appearing together in Washington, DC, for an event celebrating Beshear’s new book.

The conversation quickly turned to the question of whether either could end up running for president in 2028

Beshear has repeatedly insisted he has not made a decision. But his language has become noticeably less dismissive of the possibility.

Reflecting on his 2023 reelection as Kentucky governor, Beshea rtold Politico he once assumed he would never have to run for office again.

Now, he said, ‘I’m not sure that’s true.’

He stressed that it was not a presidential announcement.

Yet the remark, coupled with his growing national profile, was enough to send another ripple through Democratic circles.

Maryland Governor told Wes

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For the first time since Delaware Debates launched in 2010, the University of Delaware has cancelled its traditional general-election debate program, leaving Delaware without University-sponsored debates for its U.S. Senate and U.S. House races.

Delaware voters deserve better.

I am challenging Senator Chris Coons to a professionally moderated, televised one-on-one debate. Political power belongs to the people, and Delawareans deserve to see us side-by-side, answering the same difficult questions and defending our records, policies and solutions.

I am also calling on Delaware Republican Party Chair Gene Truono and Delaware Democratic Party Chair Evelyn Brady to put partisan politics aside and jointly organize this debate with Delaware’s television, radio and news organizations.

Senator Coons has represented Delaware in Washington for nearly 16 years. Voters are the employers. They deserve a job-performance review of the person who has represented them and a direct comparison with the person asking to replace him.

Put us side-by-side. Ask us the difficult questions. Let Delawareans judge the answers.

As a physician, I know informed decisions require reliable information. Informed choice is vital to good medicine, and an informed electorate is vital to representative government.

This is bigger than Republicans and Democrats. It is about accountability and putting People Over Party.

I am ready to debate Senator Coons anytime, anywhere in Delaware, before a fair and professional moderator.

Give Delawareans the debate. Give them the facts. Let them see us side-by-side. Then trust the people to decide.

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