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Conservative students report vandalism, protests at first meeting earlier this month

Students erupted in cheers after the Fort Lewis College senate voted this week to reject a request to recognize a new Turning Point USA chapter as an official student organization, according to a video of the meeting.

“Disappointing day for our college. They value ‘diversity’, but not diversity of thought. This will not stand,” the Fort Lewis TPUSA chapter wrote Thursday on X.

Senate President Asa Worthington announced the vote during the Associated Students of Fort Lewis College’s weekly meeting, describing it as a “difficult decision,” according to a video of the meeting, posted by Libs of TikTok. Fort Lewis is a public college in Colorado.

“In light of the opinions and concerns shared with us today on both sides of the discussion, … we have decided to deny Turning Point USA’s request to become an RSO1 at this time,” Worthington said.

The announcement resulted in cheers from a number of students in attendance.

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ABUJA: Nigerians across the religious spectrum pushed back Monday (Nov 3) on US President Donald Trump’s threats of military intervention over the killing of Christians in the country.

Africa’s most populous country, which is roughly evenly split between a mostly Christian south and Muslim-majority north, is home to myriad conflicts, which experts say kill both Christians and Muslims, often without distinction.

But claims of Christian “persecution” in Nigeria have found traction online among the US and European right in recent weeks.

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Pregnancy help centers (PHCs) in Virginia are facing a serious threat. A proposed constitutional amendment could expand abortion access, remove the limited safeguards for women and girls that currently exist, and endanger the existence of PHCs across the Commonwealth.

This fall’s election will determine which delegates will vote on that amendment in January.

If you’ve ever supported a PHC with your time, prayers, or donations, we’re asking you now to take one more step: support us with your vote. Vote for a delegate who will protect women, unborn children, and the ministry you’ve built.

 

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The day before the start of the latest shutdown drama, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries declared that Republicans were “lying” about the Democrats’ hostage demands to turn the lights back on. No, the left’s spending plan would not pay for health care for illegal immigrants, the New York Democrat said. Doing so would require a change in federal law that bars such a thing, echoed Jeffries’ pals in corporate media.

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A powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake shook northern Afghanistan before dawn, killing at least 20 people and injuring 260 others, Afghan health officials said on Monday.

Sharafat Zaman, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Public Health, said at least 20 people died and 260 were injured in the earthquake. Yousaf Hammad, a spokesman for Afghanistan’s disaster management agency, added that most of the injured suffered minor wounds and were discharged after receiving initial treatment.

According to the US Geological Survey, the earthquake struck around midnight Monday local time, the USGS said.

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Imagine reliving your entire life in the space of seconds. Like a flash of lightning, you are outside of your body, watching memorable moments you lived through. This process, known as “life recall,” can be similar to what it is like to have a near-death experience.

What happens inside your brain during these experiences and after death are questions that have puzzled neuroscientists for centuries.

However, a new study  from Dr. Ajmal Zemmar of the University of Louisville and colleagues throughout the world, “Enhanced Interplay of Neuronal Coherence and Coupling in the Dying Human Brain,” published in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, suggests that your brain may remain active and coordinated during and even after the transition to death, and be programmed to orchestrate the whole ordeal.

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The US Department of Commerce has launched what could become one of the most significant initiatives in the Administration’s AI Action Plan: the American AI Exports Program. This new effort positions the Department of Commerce as an active partner in expanding the global reach of American AI technologies: hardware, software, and models. This initiative marks a shift from regulating AI development domestically to fostering trusted AI ecosystems worldwide. At its core, this effort uses US economic and diplomatic strengths to shape the global AI marketplace before others do.

Over the past few years, Washington’s AI policy debate has focused on risk management: how to prevent bias, combat misinformation, and ensure safety in critical systems. These concerns are crucial, but they shouldn’t be the sole focus when discussing emerging technology. The AI Exports Program demonstrates a deliberate expansion of the federal government’s tools, with the Department of Commerce acting as both a regulator and promoter of growth.

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Well, with 95% of the votes in, Zohran Mamdani will become New York City’s 111th Mayor when he is sworn in on Jan. 1, 2026. The polls, the real polls, and the betting odds were all right. Betting markets, Kalshi put it at 93%, Polymarket at 94.6% and Marist University and Beacon Research polls all had a big win for the newbie socialist assemblyman from Astoria, Queens.

The fear that by not dropping out, Republican Curtis Sliwa would tip the election proved a mirage. For Andrew Cuomo, it was déjà vu all over again, to quote Yogi Berra. Or maybe it was like father like son. When Andrew Cuomo ran his father Mario Cuomo’s primary campaign for mayor in 1977, his dad lost with 45% of the vote. The winner in that race was Mayor Ed “how am I doing” Koch. By many accounts, it was a poorly run and, according to Koch, a dirty campaign.

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Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill, a staunch advocate for unrestricted abortion, won New Jersey’s gubernatorial race Tuesday night, defeating Republican Jack Ciattarelli in a contest that pro-life leaders decried as a setback for vulnerable unborn children.

With nearly all votes counted, Sherrill captured 53% of the vote to Ciattarelli’s 46%, according to projections. The victory extends Democratic control of the governor’s mansion for a third consecutive term — the first such streak for the party in New Jersey since 1961 — and positions Sherrill, a former Navy helicopter pilot and federal prosecutor, to succeed pro-abortion Gov. Phil Murphy in January.

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Cory Bowman, Vice President JD Vance’s 36-year-old half-brother, decided to run for mayor of Cincinnati after watching President Donald Trump’s second inauguration. He told Politico earlier this year, “I was just really inspired, because I look up to my brother not just as a political model but as a role model.”

Bowman’s stated goal was to address the city’s “deteriorating infrastructure, unsafe streets, and misallocated funds.”

‘Government can’t fix everything.’

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As our Managing Editor Jennifer Van Laar reported, California voters approved Prop 50, Gavin Newsom’s gerrymandering scam that essentially tossed out the maps drawn by the constitutionally-mandated independent redistricting commission in favor of maps drawn by the California Democrat Party. The goal: to get rid of five Republican-held seats in the House of Representatives.

 

There was only one issue on the ballot in California this Election Day: Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Election Rigging Act, Proposition 50, which throws out the maps the state constitution-mandated independent redistricting commission spent a year drawing and replaces them with maps paid for by the DCCC and drawn by an extreme partisan with the purpose of disenfranchising Republicans.

Although polls closed only 30 minutes ago, and although people are still voting at some vote centers, the race has already been called – Newsom now can brag that California has voter-approved gerrymandering that could decimate the state’s Republican congressional delegation.

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Leave it to Scott Jennings to find the silver lining in a horrible election night for Republicans: The Zohran. He is the new leader of the Democrat Party, and will lead to primary challenges from the Hudson River to the Salton Sea. Now that The Zohran doesn’t have to pretend to be a “moderate” anymore and can strut in his true form, it’s going to cause headaches for a Democrat Party already struggling with its extremist base.

It’s not much of a silver lining. The right definitely got schlonged last night. I’d just offer two things.

1. We were always going to lose. There were glimmers of hope in a few New Jersey polls, and it would have been nice if Northern Virginia wine moms stopped chasing their SSRIs with Sauvignon Blanc long enough to NOT vote for the attorney general candidate who wanted to murder children. But it is what it is. Both are blue states. When one party wins the White House, Virginia goes the other way the following year. It’s the circle of life.

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Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) faced an unlikely foe as he tried to plant the seeds of the Democrats’ narrative about the Schumer shutdown: CNN. Of all people, host Dana Bash blew up Jeffries’s “GOP shut down the government’ line, which knocked the New York liberal off course in comical fashion.

 

Bash rightly noted that Democrats rejected 14 motions to reopen the government:

JEFFRIES: “Donald Trump and Republicans shut the government and refused to reopen it. Donald Trump has spent the last 35 days, more time on the golf course, more time talking to Hamas and more time talking to the Chinese Communist Party than to Democrats on Capitol Hill, who represent half the country.”

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A Florida couple is fighting to regain custody of their twin boys after the state falsely accused them of child abuse.

Michael and Tasha Patterson’s ordeal began in October 2022 when the parents took their premature twins to Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital in Hollywood, Florida. Hospital staff found that the twins had suffered several injuries, including rib fractures.

 

The Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) took custody of the twins and Michael’s eight-year-old son.

Yet, multiple doctors found that the twins had Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a genetic disorder that causes easy bruising, dislocations, and an increased risk of bone fractures. Dr. Michael Holick, a renowned expert in metabolic bone disorders, examined Tasha and found that she had the same condition, which means she likely passed it on to the twins.

He concluded that it was most likely the twins inherited this condition from me… which affects bones, blood vessels, cartilage, muscles, everything,” Tasha told Townhall in a previous article.

You can read the original report here.

Nevertheless, the courts ruled against the couple. Judge Stacey Schulman did not allow the conclusions of the other doctors to be included in the court proceedings. “She didn’t allow us to bring in everything that we had. She only allowed us to bring in limited evidence… So even when it was brought up that we had other doctors saying the same thing. She said no,” Tasha said.

However, more information has now emerged regarding a potential conflict of interest involving Judge Schulman. Patterson and her attorney discovered through public filings that the judge’s family foundation donated at least $4,000 to ChildNet—the lead agency pushing for the removal and permanent adoption of the Pattersons’ children.

Moreover, Schulman never disclosed the donation, which was made in 2019, at any point before or during the proceedings, according to a motion filed by the Pattersons’ attorney.

 

ChildNet is a private, nonprofit agency contracted with DCF to manage foster care, adoption, and child welfare services in Broward and Palm Beach counties. It is responsible for handling child protection cases, which include placement, supervision, and determining whether to reunify parents with their children or to pursue adoption by other families. The agency wields tremendous influence in court proceedings as its recommendations carry weight with judges.

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Not that anyone should count on congressional Republicans to take a win when it’s presented on a gold-plated platter, but with each passing second, their position on this stupid, Democrat-driven government “shut down” only grows stronger.

Food stamp recipients aren’t getting their supplements, and air traffic controllers aren’t getting paid. Neither are thousands of other government workers. It’s not because President Trump and his Republican allies are causing a holdup. They’ve voted to continue current government funding levels. It’s because Democrats are demanding that middle-aged people (which is to say, working-aged) get to have cheap or free health insurance.

Seriously, that’s what Democrats are fighting for. According to 2023 data cited by the health policy organization KFF, the average age of a “nonelderly” Obamacare enrollee is 40 years old. Even if elderly Americans were included in that stat, it wouldn’t make a difference. Most are eligible for Medicare when they turn 65, and Obamacare was designed to extend health care benefits to individuals younger than that

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There’s no sugar-coating it: Sanity had a bad night Tuesday. Democrats, energized by having President Donald Trump to rail against, turned out at the polls and brought some radical candidates across the finish line in key races across the country.

Just a brief recap: Muslim democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won the New York mayor’s race. Abigail Spanberger won the Virginia governor’s race. Mikie Sherrill won the New Jersey governor’s race. Even Jay Jones, the Democrat who infamously fantasized about the deaths of Republicans’ children, prevailed in the Virginia attorney general’s race.

This doesn’t necessarily bode ill for Republicans in the midterms next year, but it does disappoint those of us who expected better from our fellow Americans.

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The third time wasn’t the charm for Republican businessman and former New Jersey lawmaker Jack Ciattarelli in Tuesday’s race for the Garden State’s next governor. And Virginia didn’t elect its first black governor — a woman at that.

New Jersey and Virginia remain squarely in the blue state column.

But Tuesday’s election, contrary to the left and their corporate media partners, wasn’t an early verdict on Republican President Donald Trump or a bellwether of next year’s midterms.

The Democratic National Committee proclaimed far-left Abigail Spanberger’s victory over Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears in Virginia’s race for governor “another sign that voters are rejecting Donald Trump and his Republican allies’ extreme agenda that is raising health care and utility costs and destroying jobs.”

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“If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities,” he wrote. “I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action.”

Trump added, in his signature style, “I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action. If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our CHERISHED Christians! WARNING: THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT BETTER MOVE FAST!”

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth responded beneath the post: “Yes sir.” Trump elaborated on his post Sunday, stating, “They’re killing record numbers of Christians in Nigeria. They’re killing the Christians and killing them in very large numbers. We’re not going to allow that to happen.”

Predictably, the mainstream press pivoted immediately to trotting out a claim they have been making for years: That there is no targeted mass killing of Christians in Nigeria, and that there is certainly no genocide underway. The BBC led their coverage by stating that “claims of a genocide against Nigeria’s Christians have been circulating in recent weeks and months in some right-wing U.S. circles.”

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If you missed last night, a few blue state politicians won some elections in a few blue states and now the big blue sky is falling. The 2026 midterms are a fait accompli! President Donald Trump is a lame duck!

I pity my friends who live in the commonwealth across the river who have enjoyed the past four years with Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin sitting in Richmond, but this is not so.

The conservative chattering class will lament loudly and profusely about Tuesday’s results, not only because it is good for business, but because it’s their elections. Virginia, New Jersey, New York City—these are the places they call home, and they expect too much of the citizens of Sodom and Gomorrah. Which I only feel comfortable saying because I’m from California, a modern-day Capernaum.

Certainly, the temptation to get swept up in the punishment about to be exacted on these places is strong. In New York City, Democrat Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s policies will destroy what’s left of the city’s independent working class. In Virginia, Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger is poised to set the schoolmarms loose on parents who don’t want their girls changing in locker rooms with boys. In New Jersey, Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill, if her absentee voting record in Congress is any indication, will do little to relieve citizens of the Garden State from the green policies pushing up energy prices.

Weep, if you must, but it’s best not to turn back.

As I previously wrote for The Daily Signal:

On Tuesday night, the temptation for professional and casual election observers alike will be to assume that if more candidates win with D’s next to their names than R’s, Democrats are in the driver’s seat for the midterms, and vice versa….

The truth is that the party identification of Tuesday night’s winners are oftentimes bad predictors of how the chips will fall in the midterms.

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It looks like California Gov. Gavin Newsom just succeeded in his ploy to gerrymander California for Democrats.

The Proposition 50 redistricting measure, which will likely give five more House seats to Democrats, has officially passed.

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A federal judge has ruled that the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) must provide sex change procedures to a convicted pedophile who recently began identifying as transgender.

Brian Buckingham, 47, is serving more than 21 years in prison for sexually abusing his 10-year-old son and producing child sex abuse images. Shortly before sentencing, Buckingham began identifying as “Nani Love” and claimed to be female, Reduxx reported.

In court filings, Buckingham claimed that being unable to access previously provided “gender-affirming” treatments, like hormone therapy, had worsened his depression and suicidal thoughts, The Post Millennial reported. Attorneys for Buckingham argued the sex change procedures were “medically necessary” to treat gender dysphoria and that denying Buckingham access to them is a violation of his Eighth Amendment rights.

Magistrate Judge David Christel ruled in September that Buckingham is “likely to succeed” on his claim that the BOP’s denial of sex change procedures is cruel and unusual punishment. In his ruling, Christel cited evidence that the BOP first acknowledged Buckingham’s requests for sex change procedures but then “discontinued them without reason.”

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There are numerous incidents of voter suppression, voter fraud, intimidation and other election crimes.

The RNC joins lawsuit to BLOCK the counting of suspected illegal mail-in ballots.

New Jersey: Bomb Threats in Republican Polling Sites Force Relocations

Chester County where so many voters were forced to leave

People need to be arrested.

RNC joins lawsuit to BLOCK the counting of suspected illegal mail-in ballots in Bergen County, NJ.

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In Virginia tonight, it was a clean, blue sweep.

Former Democrat Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger was elected Governor.

Jay Jones — who fantasized about murdering a Republican official and his children — was elected Attorney-General.

And now, another Democrat has been elected as Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor.

Ghazala Hashmi has now become the first Muslim woman to be elected to statewide office in our nation.

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New Jersey: Bomb Threats in Republican Polling Sites Force Relocations Of Seven Sites

“Politically motivated”

Always the Democrats. Always.

The lie, cheat, steal and if all else fails….. bomb.

In three RED districts in Cumberland County, New Jersey, the machines are down.

On the phone w/ legal right now.

Bomb threats forced relocations of seven NJ polling sites Tuesday morning
🚨Toms River, Woodbridge, and Lake Como schools were targeted as voting began
🚨The email making one threat said it was ‘politically motivated’

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Tonight was essentially a blue bloodbath, with Democrats sweeping multiple state elections.

Here’s a quick rundown of the results so far:

Democrats score several election victories tonight, including:

• Zohran Mamdani (Mayor of New York City)
• Aftab Pureval (Mayor of Cincinnati)
• Abigail Spanberger (Governor of Virginia)
• Mikie Sherrill (Governor of New Jersey)
• Ghazala Hashmi (Lieutenant Governor of Virginia)
• Jay Jones (Attorney General of Virginia)
• Alicia Johnson (Public Service Commissioner of Georgia)
• Peter Hubbard (Public Service Commissioner of Georgia)
• Pennsylvania Supreme Court

Many of these victories seemed more than a little fishy.

But, cheating or not, Democrats took it all.

And now, President Trump has issued a response to tonight’s shameful election results.

He posted on Truth Social:

“TRUMP WASN’T ON THE BALLOT, AND SHUTDOWN, WERE THE TWO REASONS THAT REPUBLICANS LOST ELECTIONS TONIGHT,” according to Pollsters.

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Following their significant losses in the 2024 presidential election, Democrats were jubilant when election results came in for their candidates in Virginia, New Jersey, and New York City late Tuesday. On the other hand, Republicans admitted defeat in the most high-stakes races this year.

2025 ELECTIONS LIVE UPDATES: DEMOCRATS SWEPT IN FIRST MAJOR ELECTION SINCE TRUMP TOOK OFFICE

Republicans try to learn lessons from 2025 election

Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy reflected on the loss in a short video, advising his fellow Republicans to focus on lowering costs for Americans’ utility bills and groceries, among other areas. Also, President Donald Trump claimed Republicans lost because he wasn’t on the ballot this year.