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US ties with Ukraine hit new low as Trump slights Zelenskyy and eases up on Russia– abcnews.com

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US ties with Ukraine hit new low as Trump slights Zelenskyy and eases up on Russia– abcnews.com
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WASHINGTON — The U.S.-Ukraine alliance is careening toward a possible breaking point, with Moscow strengthened by President Donald Trump’s recent rejection of new Russia sanctions and Kyiv undermined by disruptions in satellite support for its drones during the war.

Trump’s relationship with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has always been a moving target, while the Republican president has frequently boasted of his rapport with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. But relations between the U.S. and Ukraine appear to be at a new low, threatening to tip the balance of the war to Russia’s favor and imperil America’s security interests across the globe.

“At this moment in time, things look blacker than they ever had regarding this administration’s policy towards Russia and Ukraine,” said John Herbst, a former ambassador to Ukraine under President George W. Bush and now a scholar with the Atlantic Council.

Trump has been lobbing insults at Zelenskyy for over a week and turning to policies that benefit Putin, while Ukraine’s president has said he feels betrayed and worries for his country’s future. But the American president can still shift on Zelenskyy — especially as he faces bipartisan outrage from lawmakers — which Trump has done before.

Le Pen vows to end ‘decades of anarchic immigration’ as France torn apart by riots– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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Le Pen vows to end ‘decades of anarchic immigration’ as France torn apart by riots– www.washingtonexaminer.com
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The riots and looting across France might have been supported by leftist radicals, but National Rally leader Marine Le Pen stands to be the greatest beneficiary when the dust eventually settles.

Protesters, many of whom have been seen carrying Palestinian flags, have set fire to historic buildings and attacked civilians. Le Pen’s already insurgent brand of nationalist, law-and-order politics is finding little meaningful opposition from the left or center.

Video. Police patrol Paris streets under overnight curfew– www.euronews.com

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Video. Police patrol Paris streets under overnight curfew– www.euronews.com
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Paris police imposed an overnight curfew on Monday in two areas of the capital, after a weekend of some of France’s worst rioting in years.

People may not enter or stay in Place de la Republique or the Les Halles shopping district from 11pm until 6am on Tuesday. Gatherings and demonstrations are barred from 8pm.

On Monday evening, police guarded the two spots and asked passers-by to take other routes.

Some people had their identity papers checked. A helicopter with a searchlight passed over Les Halles several times, and the streets stayed quiet.

The prime minister had earlier asked prefects to impose ‘very limited’ and ‘localized’ curfews to prevent more looting.

 

French protests: Is it game over for Macron’s centrists before elections? | Protests News– www.aljazeera.com

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French protests: Is it game over for Macron’s centrists before elections? | Protests News– www.aljazeera.com
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Paris, France – After nationwide protests turned violent, French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday night tried to strike a balance between acknowledging the concerns of students demanding changes to the education system and criticising rioters.

“Those who have destroyed property must pay. Those who have looted must reimburse their victims. Those who sought to bring down the republic will be held accountable,” Macron said.

But the president’s speech was not what Yanis, a 20-year-old from Ivry-sur-Seine, a suburb just southeast of Paris, wanted to hear.

“He gave his usual ‘bla bla bla speech’ without putting forward anything concrete,” he said. “We’ll be back on the streets anyway. There will be one demonstration after another until something changes – every weekend, without a break”.

As France grapples with widespread anger that bubbled over in the form of violent protests last weekend, appetite – at least among the country’s youth – for centrist politics of the kind that Macron represents appears to be rapidly shrinking.

Hostin: Trump Calling El-Sayed a Jihadist ‘Islamophobic’ and ‘Despicable’– www.breitbart.com

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Hostin: Trump Calling El-Sayed a Jihadist ‘Islamophobic’ and ‘Despicable’– www.breitbart.com
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Monday on ABC’s “The View,” co-host Sunny Hostin said President Donald Trump’s remarks calling Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed a jihadist is Islamophobic and despicable.

Hostin said, “I loved that comparison because when John F. Kennedy was asked, he said, I am not running to be a Catholic president, I’m running to be a president who happens to be Catholic. And El-Sayed said the same thing. I am running to be a senator who happens to be Muslim. And I think with his candidacy, we were just talking about qualifications. This is a man who holds a medical degree from Columbia University. This is a man who was a Rhodes Scholar, who got his doctorate in public health from Oxford University. I feel like he is one of the most qualified Senate candidates that we’ve seen in a long time. I think he does politics extremely well. And there has been these constant Islamophobic, these Islamophobic comments, around his candidacy. Trump called him a jihadist.

Morning Greatness: Feds Search Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Trash for DNA Samples Like Righteous Raccoons › American Greatness– amgreatness.com

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Morning Greatness: Feds Search Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Trash for DNA Samples Like Righteous Raccoons › American Greatness– amgreatness.com
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Good Tuesday morning.

Here is what’s on President Trump’s agenda today:

8:00 AM THE PRESIDENT participates in Executive Time

10:00 AM THE PRESIDENT participates in a Policy Meeting

12:30 PM THE PRESIDENT participates in a Policy Meeting

1:30 PM THE PRESIDENT and THE VICE PRESIDENT make an Announcement

3:00 PM THE PRESIDENT participates in a Policy Meeting

4:30 PM THE PRESIDENT participates in Signing Time

7:00 PM THE PRESIDENT delivers Remarks in Greenville, North Carolina

An Australian lawmaker is critical but stable after being hit by a car, PM says– abcnews.com

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An Australian lawmaker is critical but stable after being hit by a car, PM says– abcnews.com
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MELBOURNE, Australia — An Australian federal lawmaker remained in a hospital in a critical but stable condition, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Tuesday as he praised a barber who helped restrain a driver accused of deliberately hitting her.

Helen Haines, a 65-year-old independent politician, was struck by a Toyota Land Cruiser SUV on Monday outside her office in her electorate in the city of Wangaratta in Victoria state. The 43-year-old driver remained in police custody on Tuesday.

Albanese said he phoned local barber Ricky Jefferies, who had run from his store to help members of the public detain the suspect, to thank him on Tuesday for intervening.

“It’s a reminder that at the worst of times, we see the best of the Australian character,” Albanese said in Melbourne.

Jefferies had earlier told reporters he searched the driver’s pockets and removed a knife. Police confirmed a knife had been found. Jefferies also said he did not consider himself a hero.

“It was crazy,” he said. “I just ran out the front to see what was happening and … amazing members of the Wangaratta community who I know, or know most of them, and they were helping.”

Alberta Province Holds Separation Vote: Polls Open Late – Results Incoming… * The Gateway Pundit * by Jim Hoft– www.thegatewaypundit.com

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Alberta Province Holds Separation Vote: Polls Open Late – Results Incoming… * The Gateway Pundit * by Jim Hoft– www.thegatewaypundit.com
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Mark Carney’s war on Trump is not going so well. The country is enduring a job loss crisis. Screenshot: cpac / Youtube

Voters in oil-rich Alberta province in Canada held its vote Monday on whether or not to separate from the Canada and the far left leadership that is destroying our great northern neighbor.

The polls were held open late with the last scheduled late-closing location at 10 PM Alberta Time – or Mountain time in the US.

The results are being held until all voting locations are closed.

Alberta referendum ballot –

According to the Alberta Elections page:

This is a non-binding, consultative referendum. A “No” (Remain) result changes nothing legally. A “Yes” (Leave) majority would not start separation: under the federal Clarity Act and the Supreme Court’s 1998 Secession Reference, only a clear majority on a clear question obliges Ottawa and the provinces to negotiate — and any actual secession would require a constitutional amendment.

Either way, the political consequences arrive immediately; the legal ones, if any, would take years.

Watch CNN’s Dana Bash BEND OVER BACKWARDS Trying to Defend Radical Leftist Abdul El-Sayed From Mike Rogers (VIDEO)– www.thegatewaypundit.com

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President Trump Responds to Democrat Senator Threatening Political Persecution to Scare Young Conservatives– wltreport.com
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President Trump just issued a stern response to Democrat Sen. Elissa Slotkin, who recently made some threatening remarks during a liberal podcast.

During the podcast taping at the University of Chicago, Slotkin — who is a former CIA agent — called for President Trump’s allies to be persecuted in order to scare young conservatives away from being involved in politics.

“I want young people coming out of school to say, should I go work for the Trump administration?” she said,

“Like, that sounds fun, I might get an opportunity. I want them to be like, Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems that I don’t want, and so let me avoid participating in that. I want that deterrence message sent.”

For reference, here’s the original clip:

President Trump Responds to Democrat Senator Threatening Political Persecution to Scare Young Conservatives– wltreport.com

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President Trump Responds to Democrat Senator Threatening Political Persecution to Scare Young Conservatives– wltreport.com
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President Trump just issued a stern response to Democrat Sen. Elissa Slotkin, who recently made some threatening remarks during a liberal podcast.

During the podcast taping at the University of Chicago, Slotkin — who is a former CIA agent — called for President Trump’s allies to be persecuted in order to scare young conservatives away from being involved in politics.

“I want young people coming out of school to say, should I go work for the Trump administration?” she said,

“Like, that sounds fun, I might get an opportunity. I want them to be like, Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems that I don’t want, and so let me avoid participating in that. I want that deterrence message sent.”

For reference, here’s the original clip:

Sen. Slotkin: Trump Is Trying to Help Putin Win the War with Ukraine– www.breitbart.com

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Sen. Slotkin: Trump Is Trying to Help Putin Win the War with Ukraine– www.breitbart.com
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Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) said Monday on MS NOW’s “Deadline” that President Donald Trump “has always wanted Putin to win, and now he’s acting clearly in that interest and against a democracy and in support of an authoritarian country.”

Slotkin said, “I think it’s hard to overstate what President Trump did this week and what it means for the war in Ukraine, but also for the entire United States of America and our positioning in the world. The president has had this bromance with Putin for a long time. We all know that. He rolled out the red carpet for him in Alaska last year, while they were shooting at Ukraine. And we’ve always seen this. I mean, the average person can see that weird kind of admiration that Trump has for Putin. And but he sort of tried to, like, gloss over who he really wanted to win the war between Russia and Ukraine.”

Sen. Slotkin under fire for suggesting college grads who work for Trump could be prosecuted– www.thecollegefix.com

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Sen. Slotkin under fire for suggesting college grads who work for Trump could be prosecuted– www.thecollegefix.com
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Sen. Elissa Slotkin is under fire for suggesting recent college grads who consider working for the Trump administration might want to think twice — as they could be prosecuted.

Speaking Oct. 13 at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics, the Michigan Democrat said potential legal problems should be a deterrent against working for Trump.

“I wanna look at these signature cases, and not just focus on the president, but on the people who enabled him,” Slotkin said. “I want young people coming out of school to say, ‘Should I go work for the Trump administration? Like, that sounds like fun. I might get an opportunity.’”

“I want them to be like, ‘Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems that I don’t want, and so let me avoid participating in that,” she said. “I want that deterrent message.”

The Chicago Thinker student newspaper, which broke the news of the comments, posted the clip Saturday with the comments: “U.S. Senator from Michigan Elissa Slotkin hopes planned political prosecutions of republican leaders will scare young conservatives from getting involved in politics.”

Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump hits back at Zelensky and says Ukraine has ‘given us nothing’– www.independent.co.uk

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Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump hits back at Zelensky and says Ukraine has ‘given us nothing’– www.independent.co.uk
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Russia strikes 28 energy critical energy facilities

Russia has struck 28 substations and other critical energy facilities across Ukraine in another wave of attacks.

At least 550,000 households lost power overnight, Volodymyr Zelensky said.

“Restoration work is underway everywhere, and electricity is gradually being restored to people.

“Grateful to every repair crew, all employees of energy companies—men and women alike.”

Both Russia and Ukraine have ramped up attacks on energy facilities after Donald Trump’s energy ceasefire collapsed.

Massive AI Data Center Left In The Dark Until 2030s As Microsoft Walks Away– dailycaller.com

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Massive AI Data Center Left In The Dark Until 2030s As Microsoft Walks Away– dailycaller.com
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A tech giant backed out of a massive artificial intelligence data center project as its developer hunts for another power source.

Microsoft ended its plan to fund a supercomputer at Nscale’s roughly $2.7 billion AI data center in Loughton, England, which was set to be the largest in the U.K., the BBC reported Sunday. The pullback shows how power shortages are threatening data center build-out, as U.S. projects seeking to connect to PJM now take more than eight years on average to come online, according to Rocky Mountain Institute. (RELATED: Microsoft Boss Says ‘Every Carton Of Milk’ Faces More Safety Rules Than AI)

“We remain committed to our partnership with Nscale, including work to build robust digital infrastructure and support AI growth globally. This decision relates to a single site,” a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement to the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Nscale was told the Loughton site will not get grid power until the 2030s, the Telegraph reported. The Nvidia-funded company markets itself as “the only full stack sovereign AI infrastructure provider in the UK,” according to a statement from Nscale CEO Josh Payne on the company’s website.

Nscale did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s requests for comment.

Israel’s far right find fertile ground among first-time voters– www.bbc.co.uk

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Israel’s far right find fertile ground among first-time voters– www.bbc.co.uk
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More than half a million first-time voters will cast their ballots in this election, which many Israelis see as existential for Israel’s future security and identity.

Polls suggest it will be a tight race, and the new young voters could help decide the result.

More than 16% are planning to support far-right parties – either Ben Gvir’s Jewish Power or the Religious Zionism party of his far-right ally Bezalel Smotrich – according to a poll for one of Israel’s most popular newspapers, Yedioth Ahronoth.

And almost three-quarters see themselves as “right or centre-right”, according to another survey for Israel’s leading Channel 12 television network.

“Itamar Ben Gvir gives me a sense of security,” said 20-year-old Mordechai, one of the young fans accompanying the politician to Ramle.

“Like everyone in history, from Trump to Moses, there are slips of the tongue that are a bit less good. So what? 90% of the things by Itamar are amazing.”

Trump’s attack on California voting is false, and a bit funny– www.latimes.com

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Trump’s attack on California voting is false, and a bit funny– www.latimes.com
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In what may be one of the most comical self-owns in recent politics, the esteemed attorneys of the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday that despite the extravagant and terrifying misuse of their investigative power under the Trump administration, they have so far been able to identify only 28 people in all of California who may have voted illegally.

“The announcement today by the United States DOJ makes the point that there is no widespread voter fraud,” California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta said after the news conference announcing the results of “Operation Protect the Vote.”

Twenty-eight people out of about 23 million registered voters in the state — and not all of them even tried to vote, according to the feds. That’s about 1 in 820,000 folks allegedly registering or voting illegally, a rate that roughly matches how often people in the United States get struck by lightning in a given year.

So much for Trump’s endless claims that there is a vast, organized conspiracy between Democrats and undocumented people to have them vote in large numbers to steal elections. I’ll point out here that none of those charged Monday have been accused of colluding with one another or with Democratic overlords.

Abdul El-Sayed is So Radical Some Democrats Refuse to Vote for Him– www.lifenews.com

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Abdul El-Sayed is So Radical Some Democrats Refuse to Vote for Him– www.lifenews.com
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We are two weeks and one day out and something I have written about repeatedly is coming increasingly to the fore. To quote HotAir’s Ed Morrissey:

And that may once again prompt the question of who exactly answers polls in Michigan in this cycle – and in Texas, Maine, Wisconsin, and other battlegrounds where radical Democrats hold inexplicable leads at RCP.

Morrissey is talking about how pro-abortion Democrat Abdul El-Sayed supposedly can lead in Michigan when David Kramer and Lon Johnson wrote over the weekend that

Some may then conclude we, or loyal Democrats, need to vote for a different party, but for many of us, leaving the ballot blank is an act of dignity. Party unity does not require silence, and no nomination entitles anyone to our votes.

Note: These are not some run-of-the mill Democrats. According to the Detroit News

David Kramer served in senior leadership roles for Michigan Democrats running for Senate. Lon Johnson is a former Chairman of the Michigan Democratic Party.

Kramer and Johnson are worried that

Australia police charge man over alleged ‘targeted’ car attack on lawmaker– www.channelnewsasia.com

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Australia police charge man over alleged ‘targeted’ car attack on lawmaker– www.channelnewsasia.com
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Haines was critically injured and underwent surgery overnight at the Alfred hospital in Melbourne.

National broadcaster ABC and The Sydney Morning Herald said that she had lost a leg, with reports indicating she was fighting to keep the other.

The 43-year-old male driver – named by local media as Brendan Nugent – remains in custody and will appear in court on Wednesday, police said. He was reportedly known to police.

He was charged on Tuesday evening with dangerous driving causing serious injury and intentionally causing serious injury, as well as the federal crime of harming a public official, which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.

“Police will allege the incident was targeted,” Victoria police said.

A statement released by the suspect’s parents said Haines had been “our friend for more than 20 years and what happened to her yesterday is devastating and unfathomable”, The Age newspaper reported.

Israel’s military detains at least 40 ultra-Orthodox Jewish men accused of trying to evade draft– www.cbsnews.com

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Israel’s military detains at least 40 ultra-Orthodox Jewish men accused of trying to evade draft– www.cbsnews.com
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Tel Aviv — At least 40 ultra-Orthodox Jewish men were arrested upon arriving Tuesday morning at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport on suspicion of attempting to evade the country’s military draft, the Israel Defense Forces said.

“The aforementioned individuals, who passed through the border crossing at Ben Gurion Airport, are subject to mandatory military service and will be tried in accordance with the law,” the IDF said in a statement.

The mass-arrest by military police was unusual in its scale, and it came amid a national reckoning over whether the ultra-Orthodox should have to serve in the military like the rest of Israel’s Jewish citizens.

The ultra-Orthodox have traditionally been exempt from military service, but in 2024, Israel’s Supreme Court ruled that in the absence of any law legalizing the exemption, the military must start drafting them.

Since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks on Israel and the subsequent multi-front war, the issue of equality of service has been thrust to the forefront of political debate ahead of Israel’s looming national elections on Oct. 27.

Many Israelis who serve in the military, particularly in the reserves, have complained of having to take on an unfair amount of the security burden for the state.

Did Ilhan Omar’s Husband Sell Empty Barrels of Wine? – PJ Media– pjmedia.com

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Did Ilhan Omar’s Husband Sell Empty Barrels of Wine? – PJ Media– pjmedia.com
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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and her family seem to have abandoned their life as murderous warlords in Somalia only to become professional fraudsters in America.

Omar’s husband, Tim Mynett — the one to whom she is currently married, not her brother, whom she pretended to marry for immigration fraud purposes — used to run a winery. Because, you know, she’s a super devout Muslim and all that. The winery abruptly closed earlier this year amid official scrutiny. Turns out part of the problem might’ve been that Omar’s husband was selling investors empty barrels of wine. It’s absolutely incredible how these people seem incapable of running a business or holding a job that is not a front for crime.

In fact, Not the Bee sums up all the latest allegations against Omar very succinctly:

Data visualization exposes just how bad income inequality has grown– boingboing.net

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Data visualization exposes just how bad income inequality has grown– boingboing.net
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In 2013, Politizane explained America’s untenable and growing wealth gap in what would become an all-time classic of data visualization. Thirteen years on, they’re back with a four-part update. It makes for grim viewing: the wealth gap has become runaway income inequality, with the world’s first trillionaire in the mix, a fast-sinking middle class, and a tax system that offers elites a myriad of legal dodges. — Read the rest

The post Data visualization exposes just how bad income inequality has grown appeared first on Boing Boing.

 

James Talarico is an Abortion Fanatic, Wants to Kill Babies Up to Birth– www.lifenews.com

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James Talarico is an Abortion Fanatic, Wants to Kill Babies Up to Birth– www.lifenews.com
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Women Speak Out PAC, super PAC of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, has launched $500,000 in new ads exposing the radical abortion stances of Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico, including:

  • Lobbying the Biden administration to hire abortionists and establish abortion centers on federal land.
  • Blocking abortionists from being sued.
  • Pushing for taxpayer-funded abortion up to birth.

The ads are part of a $2 million voter contact effort to win Senate and House races in Texas—including outreach to Hispanic voters—and an overall nationwide campaign, including efforts on the ground, absentee voting, and early voting, to reach 10 million persuadable and low-turnout voters in the 2026 cycle. The groups’ Texas team has visited the homes of nearly 260,000 voters thus far.

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Talarico was called out in a town hall last week for claiming “the Bible is silent on abortion,” among other false claims.

New Call for China to Free U.S. Scholar Min Zin, Detained Since June– chinadigitaltimes.net

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New Call for China to Free U.S. Scholar Min Zin, Detained Since June– chinadigitaltimes.net
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A statement from the Forum 2000 Foundation and International Coalition for Democratic Renewal (ICDR)—of which CDT founder and editor-in-chief Xiao Qiang is a member—adds to widespread calls for the release of Burmese democracy advocate Min Zin, a U.S. citizen. Min Zin was detained in Kunming on June 3 after traveling to China for a conference; soon after, a spokesperson for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that he was being held on suspicion of “engaging in espionage activities that endanger China’s national security.” The U.S. State Department formally designated Min Zin’s case as one of wrongful detention in late August, and President Donald Trump told reporters he had raised it during Xi Jinping’s state visit to Washington the following month.

From the Forum 2000 Foundation and ICDR:

The International Coalition for Democratic Renewal (ICDR) and Forum 2000 Foundation are deeply concerned by the wrongful detention of Min Zin, a prominent democracy advocate and independent scholar, in China.

On June 3, 2026, Min Zin, a United States citizen, was detained upon arrival at the airport in Yunnan province after traveling there on invitation of a Chinese university for an academic workshop. He has since spent over one hundred days in criminal detention at an undisclosed location investigated on spurious allegations of espionage and endangering China’s national security. Since his wrongful detention, there has been little information regarding Min Zin’s condition, access to legal counsel, or any evidence supporting the allegations against him. On August 20th, the United States government formally designated Min Zin as wrongfully detained.

China’s detention of Min Zin is an affront to international norms and standards and sends a chilling message to those in our community who uphold the principles of intellectual freedom and the open exchange of ideas.