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Politicians have found a slogan for the data center boom. Let the servers come, but make them “100% renewable.”
Wisconsin’s Democratic candidate for governor, David Crowley, put it in his platform. Similar language is turning up wherever a campus is proposed.
But which “100% renewable” do they mean?
There are two. In one, the servers physically run on wind and sun every hour. In the other, a data center draws whatever the grid is producing at 2 a.m. and buys enough renewable contracts and credits to match its consumption on paper over a year.
The second is an accounting ledger. The first is physics. They do not cost the same.
Wisconsin is a measuring stick. The Paris Solar-Battery Park in Kenosha County sits near Microsoft’s Mount Pleasant campus: about 500,000 panels on roughly 1,500 acres, 200 megawatts of solar, and the state’s first large battery, 110 megawatts for about four hours, or 440 megawatt-hours. The project ran about $575 million.
Microsoft says phase one of Mount Pleasant needs about 450 megawatts around the clock. That is 3.9 million megawatt-hours a year.
Start with the ledger. In Wisconsin, solar produces about 18 percent of its rated capacity over a year, so Paris generates about 315,000 megawatt-hours annually. Matching one hall on paper takes 12 to 13 Paris-sized projects: roughly 2,500 megawatts, 6.5 million panels, 19,000 acres, about 30 square miles.
Built as complete Paris plants, on the order of $7 billion. That is the cheap version of the promise. The servers still run on the grid at night.
The state spends billions on housing, health care, and other benefits.
California runs the nation’s largest welfare system, devoting more than $180 billion annually to food, health care, and other programs for the poor and downtrodden. To sustain the arrangement, the state imposes the nation’s highest tax rates.
In theory, these programs are supposed to help struggling Californians. In reality, many serve large numbers of illegal immigrants. Today, California oversees a shadow welfare system that allows noncitizens to receive health care, rental assistance, college grants, tax credits, low-cost car insurance, and even smartphones on the taxpayers’ dime.
We visited four public-services offices in Southern California, each of which admitted that illegal aliens can enroll in public-welfare programs or receive benefits on their children’s behalf. In total, California taxpayers spent at least $11 billion subsidizing illegal immigrants in the last fiscal year. The state’s shadow welfare system, it seems, shows no signs of slowing down.
Local officials were remarkably transparent. In Glendale, we spoke to a welfare officer about California’s Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants (CAPI), a state-funded alternative to Supplemental Security Income that provides monthly cash assistance to low-income noncitizens who are elderly or disabled.
“If [you are] a citizen, you cannot get CAPI,” he said. “I don’t care about legal or not. Not being [a] citizen [is the key].”
In Los Angeles, we heard more of the same. We asked another welfare officer about the benefits available to illegal immigrants and their children. While some state programs are closed to illegals, we learned, they are open to those aliens’ U.S.-born children.
“If you were born here and the child was born here, you get money for two,” the officer said of CalWORKs, the state’s version of the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. “Because she is not and the child is, she only gets money for the child, and not for her.”
These benefits add up. In California, illegal immigrants can qualify for CAPI, public health insurance, and various tax credits. Their children qualify for others, including CalWORKs and, as in other states, Section 8 rental subsidies. All told, a family of five in California with two illegal-alien parents, two U.S.-born children, and one illegal-alien grandparent can receive public services worth more than $100,000 per year.
State leaders are proud of it. In a recent podcast episode, Governor Gavin Newsom bragged about his “controversial” decision to extend Medi-Cal coverage to illegal immigrants. His wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, encouraged people to sign up for the California Earned Income Tax Credit, a program whose promotional materials assure applicants that “no Social Security number” is “no problem.”
The governor’s office did not respond to our comment request by deadline.
How is all this possible?
Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Stephen Descano is facing a forceful rebuke from a former federal prosecutor who extensively criticized his record after announcing her bid to unseat him.
Descano, a Democrat, has faced criticism over what opponents describe as lenient prosecutorial decisions, particularly in serious cases involving illegal immigrant suspects. Former federal prosecutor Brittany Dunn-Pirio said that if there weren’t systemic problems in his office, she would want to work there.
“If this office were doing its job, I wouldn’t be running against it. I’d be applying to work for it. But it isn’t,” Dunn-Pirio said on her new campaign website after Washington, D.C.-area media reported her bid late Wednesday.
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill called on handpicked Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell to resign by Friday after an independent investigation substantiated sexual harassment and two ethics violations.
The investigation found Caldwell told a female staffer that “you young women are looking for young sperm” after she told him her younger friend was not interested in a romantic relationship with him.
Investigators concluded the sexually charged remark constituted sexual harassment and said Caldwell’s denial that he made the comment was not credible.
The staffer said she subsequently attempted to distance herself from Caldwell at work and avoid traveling with him when possible.
The eyes of the world have been fixated on the war in Iran for the past six months, meanwhile, the single-most dangerous flashpoint on the planet has gone mostly ignored. Until, that is, waves of Ukrainian drone strikes activated a run on global diesel markets. Suddenly, everyone is paying attention again…
Russia is the second largest diesel exporter in the world next to the United States, supplying around 12% of total global exports (the US supplies 22% of exports). To put this in perspective, only 10% of global diesel exports pass through the Strait of Hormuz under normal conditions – And that supply is coming from seven different oil producing nations including Iran.
Technology CEOs did not show up to testify before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing Wednesday about mass surveillance concerns related to Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs).
Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, who chairs the Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, invited CEOs Garrett Langley of Flock Safety, Rick Smith of Axon Enterprise, Greg Brown of Motorola Solutions and Filip Kaliszan of Verkada to testify about their products’ access to Americans’ data. Five witnesses, including alleged victims of automated surveillance and a cybersecurity engineer, testified before the committee.
“The CEOs of Flock Safety, Axon, Motorola Solutions, and Verkada declined to testify today,” Hawley said on X.
Hawley announced Friday that he invited the CEOs to testify after the subcommittee opened an investigation into automated surveillance technologies. A Verkada spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation Friday they would be “unable” to attend the hearing.
“Unfortunately, our CEO is unable to attend next week’s hearing. We are in communication with the Subcommittee and are providing information to assist Chairman Hawley and Ranking Member Durbin as they prepare for the hearing. As we’ve explained to the Subcommittee, none of our customers can search a national Verkada network – because none exists. Our customers can only access the data in their own systems,” the spokesperson said.
Flock Safety, Axon and Motorola Solutions did not respond to the DCNF’s question on why they did not appear.
Among those who testified were Lindsey Isaacs, a driver from Florida who was wrongfully accused of fleeing a fatal car accident due to data collected from Flock cameras. She spent 13 days in jail and faced eight felony counts, according to Hawley’s letter to Langley in August.
In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, prosecutors charged a police officer who allegedly searched his girlfriend’s license plate 124 times and her former boyfriend’s plate 55 times, and was later caught by a private citizen instead of Flock’s audit system, according to Hawley’s letter.
If you read media headlines about the Supreme Court’s September 14, 2026, ruling on the Post Office’s handling of mail-in ballots, it’s easy to think the Supreme Court completely stopped Trump’s effort to secure our national elections.
Pundits, activists, and state officials claimed total victory. They pointed to federal district court injunctions issued by Judges Indira Talwani and Carl Nichols, arguing that because the Supreme Court didn’t lift those stays, Executive Order 14399 is permanently dismantled. They want you to believe federal oversight was turned back, leaving local election practices completely untouched for the midterm cycle.
Don’t buy it.
To understand why this mainstream narrative is wrong, let’s look beyond the media hype to legal history and statutory text.
On March 31, 2026, the administration issued EO 14399 to enforce citizenship verification and administrative integrity in federal elections. The U.S. Postal Service finalized regulations requiring uniform envelope designs, standardized Intelligent Mail barcodes, and mandatory state voter-list uploads to a centralized Federal Ballot Mail Portal. The order instructed USPS to hold or return ballot envelopes that lacked proper tracking or failed verification.
Using the Postal Service to stop mailing ballots to dead addresses, vacant lots, and unverified locations was a brilliant idea that eliminates potential fraud before it starts.
A coalition of Democrat attorneys general and election officials sued, arguing that Article I, Section 4 of the Constitution gives states—not federal agencies—authority over election rules.
China is rapidly expanding infrastructure tied to its nuclear weapons program, with satellite images revealing major construction at seven sites as Beijing faces growing scrutiny over its expanding arsenal.
An investigation published Wednesday identified activity at Pingtong, Zitong, Lop Nur, Jiuquan, Mianyang, Jinta and Guangyuan. The satellite imagery documents substantial construction, although the images alone cannot establish precisely what work is occurring inside the facilities.
At one location, villages and farms reportedly were cleared for a fusion research center where powerful lasers can help scientists study how materials behave under conditions associated with nuclear detonations.
The expansion comes amid a dispute between Washington and Beijing over nuclear testing. U.S. officials have accused China of conducting a secret nuclear test at Lop Nur in 2020 and concealing its activities. China denies the allegation. Available seismic data have not conclusively established that a nuclear explosion occurred.
U.S. Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Thomas DiNanno has accused China of using techniques designed to make nuclear testing more difficult to detect.
New York City’s socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani has carefully plucked away another small but significant element of public order.
According to the New York Post, the mayor’s office issued a directive that the New York Police Department would no longer be responding to calls relating to homeless encampments. Instead, officers will now have to first dispatch social services to deal with such matters before they are allowed to act.
The move is just the latest by the Mamdani administration to peel away public order in the Big Apple in the name of social justice.
The administration had already put up roadblocks to prevent the NYPD from removing homeless encampments, but now it will be further handcuffed.
The New York Post noted that this move represents a radical change and will likely mean that problems at homeless encampments may never be addressed at all.
“This year, the NYPD responded to more than 26,000 of the 36,000 complaints to 311 about encampments,” the Post reported. “Now, [the Department of Homeless Services] will handle triple the calls they previously responded to, with fewer than 2,000 staffers across the entire agency.”
While Mamdani has been careful not to work too directly against the NYPD since he was elected, this is just further demonstration that he’s determined to, over time, entirely undo the kind of policing that made New York dramatically safer under former Mayor Rudy Giuliani. That crime-fighting revolution paid dramatic dividends for decades.
Even though many crimes have dropped to rates below their post-George Floyd riots peak, urban chaos remains a problem and, in some cases, is getting worse.
Former school system administrator Denise Shorts, pictured above, submitted a guilty plea to theft scheme over $100,000 at the start of Wednesday’s trial proceedings. She was ultimately sentenced to 10 years, with all but five years suspended.
Former Worcester County Public Schools assistant superintendent Denise Shorts will serve five years in prison following a guilty plea in Worcester County Circuit Court Wednesday.
Shorts, facing three charges for stealing more than $118,000 from the public school system to buy personal items and then falsifying the receipts, pleaded guilty this week to theft scheme over $100,000.
The open-ended plea, unlike the binding agreement she reached with state prosecutors earlier this year, gave presiding Judge S. James Sarbanes the discretion to impose a 10-year sentence, with all but five years suspended. Restitution for the funds she had stolen had already been paid, attorneys shared this week.
“I offer no excuses. What I did was unacceptable and something I will have to live with the rest of my life …,” Shorts told the judge. “I truly apologize for what I’ve done to Worcester County Public Schools.”
One day before the Worcester County Commissioners imposed a moratorium on data centers and cable landing stations, an Amazon lobbyist asked the county to exclude cable landing stations so the company’s Fastnet transatlantic cable project could proceed.
“We respectfully ask that the Cable Landing Station language be taken out of the resolution proposed for this week,” wrote John Fiastro, an Amazon lobbyist. “Alternatively, we’d be happy to work on language with you that accomplishes the larger aims of the Board of County Commissioners whilst also facilitating the Fastnet project.”
Emails obtained by OC Today-Dispatch show Amazon had already devised a smaller alternative at the Ocean City Municipal Airport before the moratorium passed – while also considering another, smaller cable landing station elsewhere in Worcester County.
At the time, Virginia-based Globalinx was proposing a 25,000-square-foot cable landing station on five acres along Route 611 outside West Ocean City. It would have connected Amazon’s undersea cable with land-based telecommunications networks.
The project drew fierce opposition over its size, power demands, proximity to homes, and proposed location beside a historic African American cemetery.
The Berlin Planning Commission last week approved a site plan for a proposed 18-megawatt solar project that would become the largest solar installation in Worcester County.
The New Jersey-based company Soltage is proposing six solar arrays across approximately 113.7 acres of a 157-acre industrially zoned property at the northwest corner of Routes 50 and 113. The land would be leased.
The project is structured as multiple community solar facilities that would provide electricity savings to subscribers, including residents and small businesses.
Zac Meyer, a project manager with Soltage, told commissioners the company has been working through the project’s local approvals, including stormwater review, fire marshal approval, and an entrance permit from the Maryland State Highway Administration.
The project has also received approval from the Berlin Board of Zoning Appeals and recommendation from the Maryland Public Service Commission.
Maryland Legal Aid has stepped to help residents of a senior housing community in Berlin who have been dealing with poor living conditions and a property management company that has not responded to their complaints so far.
The private nonprofit law firm is following up on complaints that accuse Severn Management of ignoring work orders, maintenance requests, and calls for more staff.
In one instance, according to residents, a tenant was without heat and air conditioning for 12 months.
Maryland Legal Aid began working with renters of Cottages at Berlin last December. Cottages is a 40-unit community offering affordable housing options to seniors aged 62 and above.
Residents sought Legal Aid’s help late last year to address what they say is a lack of availability and responsiveness from Annapolis-based Severn Management, which oversees properties throughout Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia.
Law firm representative said tenants told them issues began to materialize in 2020, when oversight of the property transitioned from Schuster Management Corporation in Westminster to Severn.
“During that transition, it went from an active tenant management team to an absent staff,” said Avery Shivers, Maryland Legal Aid’s Equal Justice Works Community Organizing Fellow.
Berlin’s outdoor burning policy returned to the council agenda last week as officials try to maintain town safety while acknowledging the needs of large property owners, who require special considerations for disposing of yard and storm debris.
Under a proposed code amendment discussed at last Monday’s Town Council meeting, open burns could be permitted on properties of more than five contiguous acres, provided they meet specific criteria.
The proposed policy revision would limit owners of these large parcels to one open burn per year and require them to notify the Town of Berlin of their intent at least 48 hours in advance. Landowners must also receive approval from the Worcester County Fire Marshal before ignition.
Additionally, the fire must be attended at all times, means of extinguishing the flames must be readily available, and the burn location must be at least 200 feet from any habitable structure. Landowners must also provide alternative dates in case weather conditions on the scheduled day are not conducive to burning.
The Town of Berlin has been working to tighten its outdoor burning ordinance for the past few months. A public hearing on a previous policy draft was held during the Aug. 24 council meeting, which included updated language explicitly prohibiting open burning within municipal limits.
The Ocean City Motor Event Task Force will convene next week to review this month’s OC Rock and Ride motorcycle rally, and to discuss the upcoming Endless Summer Cruisin’ event.
On Sept. 28, beginning at 10 a.m., committee members will meet at City Hall to discuss the outcome of this year’s OC Rock and Ride, which returned to the resort Sept. 9-12 for the second annual motorcycle rally. Event organizers also will provide update the committee on their plans.
In 2017, the Town of Ocean City formed the Motor Event Task Force to discuss the challenges associated with both sanctioned and unsanctioned motor events that occur within town limits.
Those events included the annual, sanctioned Cruisin’ events, as well as the unsanctioned pop-up car rallies that plagued the resort for years.
The goal of the committee is not only to identify the challenges those events bring, but to develop strategies and solutions to the problems they might cause. In 2024, for example, following a troublesome OC Bikefest event, the task force agreed to implement a special event zone for the 2025 event, effectively reducing speed limits and enhancing penalties for violators.
An official’s plea to revisit the sports complex project capped yesterday’s meeting of the Ocean City Council.
At the end of Monday’s regular meeting, Councilman John Gehrig implored other members of council to take proactive steps in bringing an indoor-outdoor sports complex to Worcester County.
While the project has stalled since the council decided last month not to proceed with the purchase of a 193-acre property roughly 9 miles from the municipal limits, he asked that the topic be revisited following the city’s election in November.
“The one thing at the top of our strategic plan was this, and we are made for this,” he told council members this week. “We are built for one thing. And we get a couple of questions and we shut it down. It’s embarrassing.”
Rep. Andy Harris is proposing that Congress suspend federal gasoline and diesel taxes through the end of the year, although the measure faces a steep path to passage with the House in recess until after the November elections.
The Eastern Shore’s Republican congressman blamed higher prices at the pump on what he called “Democrat policies” that restricted drilling, pipelines, and refinery operations. He also cited the war in Iran, which has disrupted supply.
Nearly seven months into that conflict, fuel prices “went much higher than they should’ve gone,” Harris told OC Today-Dispatch, “and my bill tries to provide relief for that.”
They will not say this on a swing-state mailer. They will talk about groceries and “affordability” and holding crooks accountable. Fine. Read the platforms. Read what House Democrats have already promised for Day One if they take the gavel.
Then read what the Democratic Socialists of America put in writing this summer and what their national co-chair confirmed on live television. And to those who think the Democratic Socialists are not the “mainstream” Democrat Party, I would encourage you to pay closer attention. The days of Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are numbered, and will be effectively over if the Democrats are able to take control of the House and Senate through the efforts of the DSA.
The polite agenda and the radical agenda are not two different parties. They are two speeds of the same wrecking crew.
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed.
If they win the midterms, they get subpoenas, appropriations, and a veto-proof mood. If they later take the White House, they get the pen. Here is what they intend to do with both. I will go into more detail on today’s episode of The JD Rucker Show.
The DSA’s 2026 “Workers Deserve More” program is not a vibes document. It says, in so many words, replace the President and the Supreme Court with an executive and a judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress. That is not reform. That is the end of separated powers.
Fox News reported the update in July. DSA co-chair Megan Romer then sat on Fox News Sunday and answered true when asked whether the group wants to replace the presidency and the Court “as we now know them.” A legislature that hires the judges who review its own statutes is not a republic. It is a committee with a flag.
Mainstream Democrats still talk “court reform” instead of abolition. Hakeem Jeffries has already said the country needs “dramatic Supreme Court reform.” Same destination. Softer brochure.
Homeschool your kids and they apparently can’t become firefighters in Nebraska.
The remains of Noah’s Ark are contained in the Durupinar formation in the Mountains of Ararat. I have no doubt about this. The boat-shaped Durupinar formation has the exact same dimensions that the Bible says that Noah’s Ark had. Ground-penetrating radar has confirmed that the ship that is buried there has corridors, compartments and three distinct levels. Needless to say, the Bible says that the Ark was built with lower, middle, and upper levels. There are perfect right angles inside the formation that could not have been produced naturally.
What I have shared so far is just the tip of the iceberg, because there is so much more evidence. So how did an absolutely enormous three level ship that is roughly the size of a World War I-era aircraft carrier end up so far away from any major body of water in the Mountains of Ararat?
That is a very good question.
If you do not believe in Noah’s Ark, that will be exceedingly difficult for you to explain.
Skeptics are scrambling to come up with some sort of a theory that might work, because for most of them it is unthinkable to concede that the Bible is historically accurate.
Yesterday, the Daily Mail published an article that claimed that the resting place of Noah’s Ark has been 100 percent confirmed.
In response, one of the organizations that is involved with the scientific work that is going on at the Durupinar formation stated that “knowing what we know now, we are also 100% sure that they are not going to have to issue a retraction”…
So how can they be so confident?
The oil industry is pushing back after President Donald Trump floated a temporary ban on diesel exports to deal with skyrocketing prices.
Trump told reporters Tuesday that he might look at placing an oil export embargo on diesel as a response to rising prices as the war with Iran continues. The average price for a gallon of diesel rose above $6 for the first time ever in September.
“I’ve called for that, too. I said, ‘Let’s not send out the diesel.’ We make a lot of diesel. I’ve called for it — I’ve called for it with my people,” Trump said during a trip to the United Nations on Tuesday, adding that a decision on a possible embargo would be coming soon.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed that the administration was considering the possibility with diesel prices driving up costs across the board. Despite Bessent’s comments, Energy Secretary Chris Wright appeared skeptical on Wednesday during comments at a climate event that an export ban would actually lower prices.
The upper sections of the Bay’s tidal rivers provide a lot of excellent fishing for largemouth bass, Chesapeake Channa, chain pickerel, and crappie. These sheltered waters can provide safe and comfortable fishing for small boats, canoes and kayaks. Blue catfish are becoming more active as water temperatures cool. The fall months are a great time to find them venturing out of the deeper channels to nearby shoal areas. Anglers are enjoying fishing the many rivers, lakes, ponds, and reservoirs in the state for a wide variety of species. Largemouth bass and smallmouth bass are still holding to a summer pattern and now that area waters are beginning to cool, the fish are becoming more active. |
Kamala Harris is baaaaacccckkkk.
The elite-coronated queen of cringe has returned. And if you had any doubt whatsoever that she is running in 2028, check out her new “blaccent.”
“Shirley Chisholm talked about it. If you’re not at the table, bring a folding chair, otherwise you might be on the menu,” she said. “I’m conflating two people saying that [cackles].”
Jasmine Crockett, eat your heart out.
But her real show-stopping line during the NAACP event was so mind-bending that only a Democrat would believe it.
You see, stopping cheating… is actually cheating. Who knew?
“They are cheating by purging voter rolls,” a totally not drunk Harris argued. “So we say as leaders then to folks, not only must you regislur to vote, check your voter registration status to make sure you haven’t been purged from the rolls. They’re trying to take our tools, but we are a creative people. And we know how to fight and we have always been fighting against the odds. And that has never deterred us.”
A Baltimore rowhouse sells for $40,000. Just months later, it changes hands again for around $200,000.
There’s just one problem: According to a new lawsuit, virtually nothing happened to the house in between.
That dramatic leap in value was allegedly repeated across dozens of Baltimore properties as part of a sprawling mortgage fraud scheme that one lender says left it with more than $14 million in losses.
AmeriTrust Mortgage Corp. filed a federal lawsuit in Maryland, accusing a network of real estate investors, a mortgage broker, appraisers and title companies of working together to make inexpensive properties appear far more valuable than they really were.
A Georgia man has been sentenced to six months of home confinement in connection with a scheme to fraudulently obtain more than $170,000 in COVID-19 disaster relief loans for a trucking company that had ceased operating years earlier
Preston Fleming, 68, of Dacula, Georgia, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to six months of home confinement in connection with a scheme to fraudulently obtain more than $170,000 in COVID-19 disaster relief loans for a trucking company that had ceased operating years earlier.
“Fleming lied about his company’s operations, lied about how the money would be used, and then lied again to have the loan forgiven, all so he could build himself a new home with pandemic relief funds meant to save struggling small businesses,” said U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro. “My office will continue to hold accountable anyone who treated disaster relief programs as a personal piggy bank.”
Fleming pleaded guilty on April 17, 2026, before U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell to one count of wire fraud. In addition to six months of home confinement, Judge Howell ordered Fleming to serve two years of supervised release and to pay the total remaining balance of fraudulently obtained funds. Prosecutors had requested a term of imprisonment.
“Preston Fleming’s conduct reflects a blatant audacity to commit fraud. As a former HUD employee, he knew the responsibilities that come with public service, yet he chose to exploit a national emergency for personal gain,” according to HUD Office of Inspector General Special Agent in Charge Jerome Winkle. “Applying for substantial COVID‑19 relief funds for a business he had already closed undermines the integrity of programs meant to support Americans in crisis. Our office remains steadfast in bringing accountability to those who abuse federal relief efforts.”
Elections can bring some real surprises. Case in point: Only a few weeks ago most political junkies would have thought that Minnesota’s Senate race, given the nature of the Land of 10,000 Lakes and at least 10,000 welfare fraud schemes, was a shoo-in for the Democrat candidate, Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan. But now, in the wake of Flanagan and her boss, Governor Tim “Great Walz of China,” being implicated or at least linked to several major fraud schemes, the race is tightening. The Republican candidate, Michele Tafoya, has closed the polling gap, with the latest showing the race to be a tie.
We may be looking at an upset in the making.
The Minnesota senate race is polling unusually close as the state enters the midterms’ homestretch. Republicans are sharply criticizing the state’s Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan for welfare fraud under the Walz administration’s watch, hoping that tying her to the scandals will help decide the race that could be an unexpected pickup opportunity for Republicans in the midterms.
The most recent polling in the Minnesota race shows Republican Michelle Tafoya, a former NFL sideline reporter, tied with current Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, and the race is tightening. After the primary elections earlier this year, Flanagan held about a five-point lead over Tafoya. That lead has now evaporated about a month and a half out from the election. While Tafoya has adopted the usual Republican framing on issues like immigration, crime, and tax cuts, she has seized upon the recent welfare fraud scandals in the blue state to hammer her opponent.
She’s not the only one hammering Peggy Flanagan on this issue. Flanagan is linked to one Nimco Ahmed, whom Flanagan describes as a great personal friend. Ahmed is implicated in fraudulent billing schemes for autism treatment centers. That’s still working through the due process, but this is an election, not a trial, and in the case of an election, that may be enough to tip the scale.
Or will it? This account cites one poll, a KSTP/Survey USA poll taken from 9/9 to 9/14, which shows the two candidates tied. But a co/efficient poll taken on 9/14 and 9/15 shows Flanagan ahead by one point, with a Quantus Insights showing Flanagan with a four point lead; the final recent poll is a TIPP poll taken from 8/31 to 9/2, showing Flanagan leading by two points. That gives a RealClear Polling average showing Flanagan ahead by 1.8 points.
Donald Trump is facing open revolt from Republicans, including a staunch Senate ally, as he rolls out the red carpet to Chinese tyrant Xi Jinping.
The president will meet Xi at Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday, the communist dictator’s first US state visit in 11 years which includes a lavish banquet on Thursday.
Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi, one of Trump’s allies in the upper chamber, issued a blistering critique on the Senate floor on Tuesday.
‘Had the White House asked me for advice, I would have suggested the president not invite Xi Jinping to Washington for such a lavish welcome,’ the Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman said.
‘During every minute of dialog, our commander-in-chief should keep in mind that his guest is a brutal, unelected and oppressive dictator who seeks to dominate his neighbors and whose massive military arsenal is aimed directly at the United States of America,’ Wicker continued.
Republican lawmakers are wary of China‘s staggering military buildup, its support for Iran, detention of Uyghurs in labor camps, as well as the increasingly high-stakes AI race, which has been likened to modern Manhattan Project.
Taiwan is central to the AI race. The democratic island, which is constantly menaced by China’s military, is home to TSMC, the chipmaking giant responsible for 90 percent of the world’s cutting-edge chips used in AI systems, smartphones, supercomputers and military technology.
Republicans led by Mitch McConnell were also this week urging Trump to back a $14 billion military package for Taiwan. Xi is reportedly planning to lobby Trump against the deal on his visit. They also pushed for another $1.3 billion in funds already approved for the island’s defense be spent before it expires at the end of this month.
Democrats have grown so unmoored that a majority of them would be happy if a military coup overthrew President Donald Trump and seized control of America . . . to “safeguard the Constitution.”
Yes, a new survey finds their derangement so profound that most Dems say they would welcome the armed forces ending civilian democratic rule — burning the Constitution to “save” it.
And that’s just the appetizer in a five-course meal of despair.
While a third of Democrats would find it “Very Negative” to learn of Trump being assassinated at a rally, another third would view it as “Very” or “Somewhat Positive.”
A full 45% would be elated if they were to wake up and hear the prez “died overnight in his sleep.”
How do math skills compare around the world?
This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, ranks participating countries and economies by the average mathematics scores of 15-year-old students in the most recent PISA 2025 study, published in September 2026.
PISA assesses students in mathematics, reading, and science. Its mathematics assessment goes beyond memorizing formulas or procedures, measuring whether students can apply mathematical knowledge and reasoning to real-world problems.
More than 760,000 students took part in PISA 2025 across 91 countries and economies, representing roughly 33 million 15-year-olds worldwide.
China in this ranking represents the participating jurisdictions of Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang. Uzbekistan is excluded because a comparable mathematics score was not reported.
A former U.S. Postal Service worker has been federally indicted after prosecutors say he discarded roughly 300 mail-in ballots meant for Utah voters ahead of the state’s June primary election.
Damon Matai Seei, 34, of Payson, was indicted by a federal grand jury Sept. 16 on a charge of unlawful secretion, destruction and delay of mail. He was arrested Tuesday and appeared in federal court in Salt Lake City.
According to prosecutors, Seei was working as a letter carrier June 3 when he was responsible for delivering mail to at least 300 residents in Eagle Mountain. His deliveries included advertisements and hundreds of mail-in ballots for the June 23 primary.
Federal authorities allege Seei instead discarded mail, including the ballots, in a dumpster in a church parking lot. A Justice Department court filing says Seei later told investigators he threw away the mail to “lighten his workload.”
Several voters subsequently complained that their ballots had not arrived. Authorities are investigating whether affected residents obtained replacement ballots or were ultimately able to vote.
Seei told investigators he had no political motive, according to officials.
“When American voters lawfully cast their vote, they should feel confident that it is counted,” Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter said. “Allegedly throwing away hundreds of ballots is a serious federal crime that undermines the integrity of our elections.”
The U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General and Homeland Security Investigations jointly investigated the case. Seei’s next court appearance is scheduled for Nov. 30.
Many anti-Second Amendment groups cite the licensing of drivers and registration of cars to justify backing similar procedures for guns, but there is one big difference: A driver’s license is recognized in all 50 states, but the same is not true for concealed-carry permits, but that could change as early as this Supreme Court term.
While a majority of states either have “constitutional carry” or universally recognize permits from other states, ten states reject permits issued by some or all other states, leading to a series of lawsuits, including one that could be heard by the Supreme Court. The Daily Caller News Foundation asked attorneys and organizations representing plaintiffs about lawsuits seeking to force the recognition of out-of-state permits. These lawsuits have mostly focused on allegations that refusing to recognize out-of-state permits violates the Second Amendment.
“In the Eighth Circuit’s view, an individual’s Second Amendment rights are confined to the borders of the state of where he holds a firearm permit,” Liberty Justice Center argued in its Aug. 24 petition to the high court. “No matter how many times an ordinary law-abiding citizen proves his worth through a state’s firearm licensing process, another state can force him to do it again before he can exercise his ‘constitutional right to bear arms in public for self-defense.’”
Gun Owners of America (GOA) and the group’s Oregon state director, Cynthia Ladd, sued the city of Salem, Oregon, and Marion County, Oregon, Sheriff Nick Hunter Friday in the United States District Court for the District of Oregon on Sept. 11, demanding that the state’s b
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Frank Turek was Charlie Kirk’s friend and mentor. They shared one mission: to bring the gospel to college students. One year ago, Frank was standing next to Charlie Kirk on the campus of Utah Valley University when Charlie was murdered. He rode with Charlie’s body to the hospital. He has spent the year since defending Erika Kirk, TPUSA, and his own name against a flood of conspiracy theories—chiefly from Candace Owens.
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President Trump participated in an event with the Prime Ministers of Denmark and Greenland, signing a historic deal that gives the United States “permanent control over security” in Greenland, Trump said.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Trump announced the deal after over a year of expressing a desire to purchase the Arctic island for defense purposes since he returned to office in January 2025.
“There will be NO COST to the United States!” Trump said, noting that “from now on, no U.S. adversary can EVER have a base in Greenland, have a military presence in Greenland, or make sensitive investments in Greenland, without our express written approval.”
Radical socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has repeatedly puffed up his chest with threats against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
In July, Mamdan threatened to arrest Netanyahu during this week’s UN General Assembly.
“Netanyahu belongs in The Hague,” Mamdani said, referencing Prison Scheveningen in The Hague, Netherlands, home of the United Nations Detention Unit (UNDU) and the International Criminal Court (ICC) Detention Center.
In a wide-ranging interview with the New York Times, Lulu Garcia-Navarro asked Mamdani whether he would follow through on his campaign promise to “arrest Benjamin Netanyahu.”
A promise he later admitted he lacked the political power to follow through on.
Now, Netanyahu is pushing back.
In a video shared on social media, Netanyahu said, “Shame on you, Mr. Mamdani.”
Failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris campaigned with radical Muslim Communist Michigan US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed on Tuesday.
The duo arrived for a campaign roundtable in Detroit to discuss “black birthing people.”
This is their first public appearance together since Kamala Harris endorsed El-Sayed.
“I am here to support Dr. El-Sayed because on this subject, I know he will be a champion. And I have a right to say that,” Harris said.
Kamala Harris shouted about DEI as El-Sayed looked miserable.
“The attack on DEI is an attack on maternal care!” Harris repeatedly shouted.
Abdul El-Sayed is being funded by Islamic terrorists.
Another day, another slimy Democrat is exposed as a convicted perp and fired.
The Vice Chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin’s Latino Caucus was fired today after news broke that he is a convicted child sex offender.
Diego Rodriguez was previously convicted of using the dating app Grindr to have sex with teenage boys while working as a church youth leader.
Rodriquez was fired after Heartland Post minutes after exposed his criminal record.
According to Heartland Post, Diego A. Rodriguez was convicted of using a computer to facilitate a child sex crime after he tried to meet up with an undercover officer posing as a teenage boy on the gay dating app Grindr. Rodriguez was working as a youth leader at a church in Racine at the time.
Rep. Pracilla Prado fired Rodriguez this afternoon.
JL Online reported that Prado fired the convicted child sex offender after news broke on Heartland Post.
Austin Police released bodycam footage of the moments after a Venezuelan illegal alien was shot by an ICE officer over the weekend.
An ICE agent shot and wounded a Venezuelan illegal alien during a confrontation in the 7000 block of West Anderson Lane in North Austin on Sunday afternoon.
The wounded illegal was transported to a local hospital and in stable condition.
According to reports, an ICE SUV rammed into the illegal alien’s blue Toyota Corolla when he tried to drive away.’
An ICE agent got out of his vehicle and shot the illegal as he tried to flee.
The illegal, identified as Wilbur Rafael Garces Perez, claimed that police officers yanked him out of the car after he was shot.
Police bodycam footage shows officers gently helped him out of the vehicle and cuffed him.
MAID deaths reached a record high in 2024 and made up around 5 percent of all deaths in Canada, or about 1 in 20.
Canada’s medical assistance in dying (MAID) program accounted for more deaths than gun homicides in the United States in 2024. This is despite the US having roughly eight times the population as Canada.
A total of 16,499 people received MAID in Canada in 2024, according to Health Canada’s Sixth Annual Report on MAID, the latest report available. In the US, 15,364 people were killed by a gun in 2024, per a report from the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions. The MAID total is 1,135 higher.
MAID deaths reached a record high in 2024 and made up around 5 percent of all deaths in Canada, or about 1 in 20.
Senator Mike Lee commented on the difference between the death rates with MAID and gun homicide and responded, “State-administered death is now more common in Canada than gun homicide is in the U.S. That didn’t happen by accident.”
Monday, during an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “The Will Cain Show,” Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) reacted to the backlash now underway in Austin after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent allegedly shot and wounded Venezuelan Wilber Rafael Garces Perez.
Gill told host Will Cain that Democrats’ rush to judgment was evidence they “impulisively” will side with illegal aliens over law enforcement.
“What do you make of what’s happening right now in Austin?” Cain asked.
Gill replied, “Well, I mean, it it’s what you expect from the party that as a matter of policy brought millions of illegal aliens into our country, who just last fall shut down our federal government in order to give health care benefits to those illegal aliens, and who are right now suing the federal government, the Trump administration, to give more welfare to illegal aliens.”
“I mean, what you see any time there is law enforcement versus the illegal aliens, Democrats will impulsively side with illegal aliens, no matter what the facts are, no matter whether they know the facts or not, and that’s what you see right here,” he added. “It is a party that is fundamentally against law and order, fundamentally against American sovereignty, and against the American people.”
The education of America’s youth is rapidly changing, as more and more parents recognize the failures of the public school system and take matters into their own hands.
“I think the odds that education is going to completely change in America over the next five to 10 years are very high, because we are seeing individuals want to take individual responsibility over raising their kids,” PragerU CEO Marissa Streit tells Glenn Beck.
Now that an abundance of high-quality alternatives are available, the days of relying on “the experts” for resources are over.
“I think what we call the educational industrial complex is going to now see a complete alternative economy. There’s going to be a new economy in education that is created thanks to technology,” says Streit.
Glenn is thrilled to see the shift, because much of what public schools have been teaching he calls downright “hair-raising.”
People can lecture you about “paying your fair share” until the cows come home. Then they sell the house in New York or New Jersey, look at the tax bill, and drive to Delaware.’
That is the story the New York Post laid out Tuesday. Baby Boomers are pouring into the First State’s tiny coastline not because they suddenly discovered patriotism for Joe Biden’s summer neighborhood, but because they can keep more of what they already earned and still walk to the sand.
Low property taxes. No state sales tax. A beach close enough that the kids in Pennsylvania or Long Island can still show up for the weekend. For a generation that spent decades feeding the high-tax machines of the Northeast, that combination is not a lifestyle brand. It is arithmetic.
More than 40,000 people have moved into Sussex County since 2020. That is a 17 percent jump, about five times the national growth rate. Delaware’s population of residents 65 and older rose 23 percent over the same stretch, faster than any other state, including the usual retirement magnets.
An earlier Post report and Fox Business both tracked the same migration. Florida is still Florida. It is also more crowded, more expensive, and farther from the grandchildren. Delaware sits a few hours down I-95. You can flee the tax man without vanishing from the family.
Hegseth said the evaluation will ensure “our flag is carried by our most lethal and most adaptable leaders.”
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced on Tuesday a new process through which senior officers being promoted will be required to demonstrate how well they can solve problems and make decisions in warfighting scenarios.
Hegseth announced, “Today, I’m announcing the Joint Warfighter Evaluation. Starting this year, eligible O-6s—that’s colonels and Navy captains—screening for one star will undergo this assessment to stratify their ability to fight, adapt, and win. While the backbone of our military is our NCOs and our petty officers, victory depends on the commanders who lead them. America needs warfighters who can master a chaotic battle space. This principle is proven.”
He later added, “This evaluation is an objective equalizer. The scenario only cares about operational decisions under pressure.” He said the evaluation will ensure “our flag is carried by our most lethal and most adaptable leaders.”
Prosecutors dropped a first-degree murder charge against the mother, Mariah K. Thomas, 28, as part of the deal.
Judge Sarah A. Castle sentenced the Kansas City woman to 13 years in the Missouri Department of Corrections with no probation.
The infant, Za’Riah Mae Thomas, was about eight weeks old when she was killed by the person she was dependent on for protection.
One neighbor said that he has known for years that a daycare close to him has been a scam.
In an investigation into Somali-run daycares in Seattle by The Post Millennial’s Katie Daviscourt, several daycares appeared to be misusing taxpayer funds and grants.
In one instance, Daisy Family Childcare, which appeared to be a modern mansion, has brought in nearly $2 million of taxpayer dollars and was bringing $70,000 a month. But during the middle of the day, there did not appear to be any kids at the supposed daycare center.
Aboo Family Daycare in Seattle also came under scrutiny in the video. A neighbor said that he has known for years that the daycare was a scam. Aboo Family Daycare in Seattle has been getting $40,000 a month in taxpayer funding, according to public records.
Researchers have revealed that 45 data center projects worth $68 billion were blocked or delayed by local pushback across the United States between April and June.
Bloomberg reports that the projects, tracked by Data Center Watch, a project of the AI intelligence company 10a Labs, made up more than half of all new large-scale developments the group monitored during that period. Data Center Watch’s lead analyst, Miquel Vila, said opposition to the industry is broadening. “New groups continue to emerge, opposition is appearing across a wide range of states and jurisdictions, and online petition signatures continue to grow,” he said.
The numbers back that up. Data Center Watch counted 843 opposition groups spread across 49 states; Hawaii is the only state without one. About 30 statehouses have introduced or adopted rules covering data center siting, electricity use or water consumption. In Tennessee, a petition against a single data center project drew more than 500,000 signatures on Change.org, more than a third of all signatures collected on the platform that quarter, according to Data Center Watch.
The first quarter of 2026 was worse. Breitbart News reported that $130 billion in projects were delayed or shut down in Q1:
At least 75 projects worth about $130 billion have been blocked or delayed from January through March across the country as a result of data center opponents, according to a Data Center Watch study obtained by NBC News.
The authors of the study further noted that this hindering of AI data centers is the most on record in a three-month period since they began tracking the matter in 2023.
“The quarter reflected a structural shift rather than a cyclical spike: communities have internalized an opposition playbook, legislative sessions introduced formal regulatory uncertainty, and the number of active opposition groups more than doubled to 833 across 49 states,” the study read.
Public sentiment tracks the same trend. A new Gallup poll found 70 percent of Americans oppose building AI data centers in their local area, with 48 percent strongly opposed. Roughly a quarter favor such projects, and just 7 percent are strongly in favor.
Residents are the ones dumping rotting food INSIDE the recycling bins as well as their trash as seen on these images. People bitch about why the county isn’t recycling, who in their right mind should expect ANY HUMAN BEING to dig through rotten spoiled food to get to a plastic bottle. What volunteers want to sign up for the job? Your leaders need to do a better job and fine the people who are illegally dumping.
Vice President JD Vance’s anti-fraud task force is set to oust more than half a million Americans from their Obamacare health insurance, according to a report.
Vance’s White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud claims the 760,000 Affordable Care Act accounts being targeted are either people who don’t actually meet eligibility requirements — or people who don’t exist, The Wall Street Journal reported.
It is the largest purges of the insurance exchange since President Donald Trump’s administration began tackling fraud last year, the outlet noted.
Now that a grand jury has decided there’s no merit for criminal charges in the death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells over the Independence Day weekend, Jackson County District Attorney Angel Myers-McIlrath is unloading on Ben Crump, the race-baiting celebrity “civil rights” attorney hired by Wells’ family to raise suspicions about the teen’s friends.
True to form, Crump got the story into the headlines by insinuating there was a racial element to the teen’s death; Wells was black and many in the friend group with him that day were white. A 23-member grand jury decided last week there was zero proof that racism played a role in Wells’ death, concluding that it was, in fact, “consistent” with a drowning.
McIlrath now says that Crump and his team privately admitted in August that there was “no evidence of a crime being committed against Nolan Wells,” but nonetheless proceeded to spin “false narratives,” such as the fallacy that medical examiners “withheld Nolan’s lungs and stomach when his body was released” to the family for a private autopsy.
“All lies, and they knew it,” she said of the rhetoric pushed by Crump and the Wells family.
“The Crump team knew better, but allowed the public to believe, among other false narratives, that our medical examiners withheld Nolan’s lungs and stomach when his body was released, that things had been deleted off of Nolan’s phone before it was given back to his family, that I refused to cooperate with the examination of Nolan’s cell phone, that I refused to provide Nolan’s autopsy results to the family,” District Attorney Angel Myers-McIlrath said. “All lies, and they knew it.”
In a video released Monday, the DA said that “outsiders and influencers have attempted to exploit Nolan’s death to divide and create chaos” through their “hateful rhetoric and vile speculation.”
Santos Maria Chilel Soto, 39, was walking through a Delaware field when authorities say a Maryland hunter mistook her for a deer and fatally shot her.
I went to the store yesterday and bought just four items. Store brand coffee, kitty litter, store brand coffee creamer and one other item. Almost $71.00! While we are fortunate to be able to afford such items, WE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN WHERE WE CAME FROM!
They, Liberals/Conservatives/Independents, it has to STOP! Seniors are fixed budgets. This is not the AMERICA I grew up in. We must take back control of our government raping us and every angle.
There are more middle class and lower class than the rest of them and we must take back our AMERICA. It’s ALL PARTIES YOU DIPSH!TS. Wake the hell up and stop playing puppets on a sting. Stop blaming a particular party. Get rid of them all and force candidate intentions or get rid of them.
St. John’s Church in Hyde Park hosted a “modest fashion week” catwalk featuring “parades of hijab- and niqab-wearing women.”
St. John’s Church in Hyde Park hosted a “modest fashion week” catwalk featuring “parades of hijab- and niqab-wearing women,” according to video posted by the watchdog Subversive Force.
It noted that “No mosque in Britain would ever host the equivalent event.”
“The duty of managing the household, and taking care of the husband’s and children’s needs fall under the dominion of the wife,” it wrote in a 2021 article still visible on the front page of the magazine’s website.
In a series of follow-up posts, Subversive Force pointed out other recent controversies involving the Church of England and its departure from any semblance of religious tradition.
It noted that St. John’s also had hosted a somewhat immodest parade of shirtless men as part of its “fashion week.”
Washington wants seniors to treat a larger check like a gift. It is not. A bigger 2027 cost-of-living adjustment means the grocery aisle, the pharmacy counter, and the power bill already ate last year’s raise. The only question left is how large the catch-up will be after September’s inflation print.
Fox Business reports that next year’s Social Security COLA is tracking higher than the 2.8 percent bump that hit checks in 2026. Forecasts now sit in a tight band. AARP puts the 2027 adjustment at 3.6 percent. The Senior Citizens League is at 3.5 percent. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget is at 3.4 percent. Unless September prices lurch, the official number will land in the mid-3s.
That is better than this year’s raise. It is also the government admitting prices did not settle down.
By law, the Social Security Administration does not guess. It averages the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers for July, August, and September, then compares that average with the same three months a year earlier. The percentage increase, rounded to the nearest tenth, becomes the COLA. No increase means no raise.
August’s report already filled two of the three slots. Headline consumer prices were up 3.4 percent from a year earlier. The CPI-W, the index that actually drives the COLA, was up 3.5 percent. The Bureau of Labor Statistics releases September’s numbers on October 14. SSA announces the official 2027 COLA shortly after. New amounts show up on January checks, with personalized notices in December.
“We have met the enemy and he is us.”
This election is like no other, and elections to follow will be the same for some time to come. Democrats opened the borders to millions of people and didn’t vet them. Many came from communist, cartel-controlled, and radical Islamist countries. Yet no one vetted them. This is what Democrats did to the United States.
Republicans are the only party we have. We only have two choices, and one of them is the enemy.
As Stephen Miller says, “Democrats’ policies aren’t just wrong; their policies are evil. You cannot sit on the sidelines when we are trying to save this country from an agenda that is sinister and wicked and morally indefensible.”
The administration is delivering results, and without Republicans, we will go back to the Hell we lived in under Joe Biden. The second Democrats take power, they will open the borders again, and the mass invasion of our country will continue.
This is a fight for our nation’s future. Don’t doubt me on this.
Two things: the female jurors need to shut the hell up. We get it — you wanted child killer Lindsay Clancy to get away with it—Second, what a nasty piece of work NBC Boston was by pretty much leading the online leftist activist community right to the man. His family was targeted; then his brother started yapping, another ‘what the hell are you doing’ moment; and finally, his disclosure, despite the judge sealing the names of the jury.
It’s not unusual for jurors to spill their guts after a trial, or for other profiles to be written about the rest of the body, but that’s only after the court releases their names. Alex Gutentag of Public delved into the sordid antics the progressive Left has displayed since the trial.
The lone juror who prevented a not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity verdict was Michael Desronvil, a Catholic MAGA supporter from a Haitian immigrant family. So the Left, which claims to be the vanguard for all black people, attacked a black man because he didn’t go along with the shenanigans of insufferable suburban white women after ten thousand bottles of wine. NBC Boston went to unusual lengths to attack Desronvil, who, as it seems, was the only person to look at the evidence and not view this case as one where children must be sacrificed for a larger discussion about mental health. It’s a lengthy and thorough post about this case devolving into a circus, how leftist logic leads to nothing but brain rot, and how if this is how leftists behave on juries, our system of justice might be in severe trouble (via Public):
The NBC Boston story is part of a larger public smear campaign that began before a mistrial was even declared. The jury foreperson initially alleged that the holdout was not faithfully applying the law during deliberations. Kevin Reddington, Clancy’s defense attorney, tried to have the juror removed and accused him of “bias” against people with mental illness.
The holdout, the foreperson said in a later interview, had acknowledged “reasonable doubt” but still would not agree to a Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity (NGRI) verdict. He was “arrogant,” a female juror said, and refused to listen. He “mimicked” the strangulation of Clancy’s children, a young male juror agreed, saying his behavior was “disgusting.” An anonymous female juror said the holdout did not back up his views with “any logic.” And, said another juror, he “didn’t make any sense” and was bizarrely concerned with the volume of blood spatter from Clancy’s suicide attempt. The holdout “robbed” Clancy and the other jurors, Reddington said. “I hope that guy can sleep well at night,” he added.
This weeks-long effort to shame and dox the holdout will taint future jury pools if Clancy is retried. For the jury system to function, individual jurors must be able to follow their individual conscience; normalizing intimidation to achieve a unanimous verdict undermines trial by jury altogether. Jurors in any controversial case will now have reasonable fears that if they do not acquiesce to the group, they will face consequences.
Part of what makes these actions so remarkable is that the holdout juror is black, and in other circumstances, progressives would have referred to the media-supported targeting of the holdout as “racist.” After all, jurors repeatedly insulted the only person of color on the jury as stupid and immoral, Clancy fans attacked him online, and a retaliatory press published his personal information.
In recent months I’ve been asked by numerous readers to give my take on the AI data center issue and the debate it has ignited across the US. In response, I’ve jumped into a steep learning curve, but it seems to parallel information I’ve covered in previous articles on AI.
From what I can tell, both political parties are split on the data center debate. There are Democrats and Republicans on both sides of the divide, though their reasons for opposing or supporting the centers are not necessarily the same.
It’s clear that the Trump Administration has given its seal of approval on the concept and this has spurred many on the left to mindlessly attack it by default. Some conservatives support the centers simply because leftists complain about them. It’s important to move past the partisanship on this issue to get to the facts. According to polls, around 70% of Americans oppose new data centers in their communities, but why?
We might call it “infrastructure”, which sounds very important, but it’s clear that the reason for all the public apprehension about data centers is because no one has outlined any tangible benefits for the economy or society at large. Corporations and technocrats wax philosophical about a Utopian future, but this kind of rhetoric is rightly treated with suspicion.
People want to know, what is the actual point of building so many of these facilities? I’ll try to break it down in basic terms…
The taxpayer cost of Minnesota’s “free” school meal program continues to grow each year, with the program running significantly over budget.
Since the launch of the School Meals Program in 2023, nearly 450 million meals have been served in Minnesota’s public, charter, and non-public schools. Just in its third year, it funded more than 150 million free meals for students.
Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat who helped spearhead the program, applauded it as the school year kicked off earlier this month.
“Every meal we serve means one less child worried about hunger and one more student ready to learn,” Walz said. “As we begin a new school year, we’re reminded that breakfast and lunch are essential to a child’s health, development, and success . . . Thanks to this program, kids can concentrate on the science lesson or the game at recess instead of worrying about where their next meal will come from.”
“For us, anyone who comes to Italy and wants to build their future here must learn our language, understand our culture, and respect our rules.”
Italy is set to join a growing European push to tighten immigration and integration rules, with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni proposing to ban burqas and niqabs in schools and limit the number of foreign students in classrooms.
At a raucous gathering of her party’s young Right-wing supporters, Meloni announced plans to introduce the legislation as Western countries grapple with Islam’s growing cultural and political influence. The measures would also require Italian-language lessons for parents of foreign students facing “serious difficulties integrating into the school system,” according to the Associated Press.
“For us, anyone who comes to Italy and wants to build their future here must learn our language, understand our culture, and respect our rules,” she said at the Gioventù Nazionale national festival in Rome. “It is the only serious way to welcome them.”
Meloni, who is leading Italy’s longest-serving government since World War Two, said the proposed ban would cover the burqa, a full-body garment that covers the face, and the niqab, a face veil that leaves only th
The White House described the new endeavor as an “essentials station,” which will feature all the administration’s top moments in a livestream on the White House’s YouTube page.
The White House announced Monday the creation of a new project, dubbed “TRUMP TV,” which comes amid a legal battle regarding media coverage of President Donald Trump and his presidential administration.
The White House described the new endeavor as an “essentials station,” which will feature all the administration’s top moments in a livestream on the White House’s YouTube page.
“TRUMP TV IS STREAMING NOW. 24/7, updated in real time, with top past moments, announcements, and the latest and greatest from the administration all in one place,” the White House posted on X. “Not every big moment has made it on your TV, now it can.”
The move comes after President Donald Trump last week, chose to ban Politico, MSNOW, and CNN from the White House, citing what he called their long history of posting “fake news” about him. Those outlets have since sued the administration and other media companies have halted White House pool coverage in solidarity with them.
Trump condemned the news coverage of him as “biased news,” highlighting that some of his successes have been ignored by the mainstream outlets.
“It’s just biased news,” Trump said in a news conference in New York City on Monday. “I think that these outlets have an obligation to be fair, and if they’re fake news, I really think I have an obligation not to allow them.”
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth pulled no punches when he hit the Washington Post over a shameful story the outlet dropped late last week. WaPo claims that “six U.S. officials” said the Pentagon data on U.S. deaths in Iran is incorrect and that more Americans have died than we know about.
Here’s what WaPo is claiming:
A sixth official, who like the others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the figures, said 23 service members have died since Feb. 28, when the Trump administration, in concert with Israel, initiated the Iran war. Not all of the undisclosed deaths are directly tied to the conflict but have involved U.S. personnel who were in the Middle East amid ongoing hostilities, this person said.
Once again, we have unnamed officials and anonymous sources. No on-the-record interviews, no actual data. Just the media narrative.
Hegseth responded to the WaPo and shamed them for their fake news.
West Virginia Mountaineers assistant football coach Noel Devine strangled his girlfriend outside of a sports bar before later attempting to enter the hospital where she was being evaluated, according to a criminal complaint obtained by The Daily Mail.
As previously reported, Devine was booked at a Greenwood, West Virginia lockup on Sunday at 12:45pm and charged with one count of strangle, suffocate, or asphyxiate causing bodily injury or loss of consciousness. He has since been released on a $40,000 bond before Friday’s hearing in Morgantown.
Now 38, Devine was once among the top football recruits in the country while being mentored by Hall of Famer Deion Sanders in the early 2000s. He would ultimately play at WVU from 2007 until 2010 before missing out on the NFL and embarking on a brief career in the Canadian Football League. In 2025, he returned to his alma mater to embark on a coaching career.
Condo owners across America are discovering that their supposedly affordable homes may come with an expensive catch: They can be extraordinarily difficult to sell.
Soaring homeowners association fees, costly special assessments and insurance problems are scaring off buyers and making it harder for some to obtain mortgages — leaving existing owners stuck in properties they no longer want, MarketWatch reported.
Will Hudson, 43, bought a two-bedroom condo in Golden, Colorado, sight unseen for $260,000 in July 2024, according to the outlet.
The public employee had previously lived in the complex in his 20s and hoped to return to a place he remembered fondly.
Instead, he now calls the purchase “the greatest mistake of my life.
More than a hundred doctors, nurses, political figures and advocates have urged President Donald Trump to ban mRNA COVID vaccines.
In a letter signed by figures including Tucker Carlson, Republican Rep. Thomas Massie and former Trump supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene, the individuals called for an immediate suspension of the use of all mRNA-based technology, which includes the COVID and newly approved mRNA flu vaccines.
In the document, which was also sent to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, the signatories said the president had ‘failed’ to take action on mRNA vaccines despite what they claimed was ‘evidence [of] the harm of this technology.’
