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The EU is ordering AI agents like ChatGPT to enforce its recently enacted (and now in-effect) Online Censorship laws. These laws protect favored classes like Muslims, homosexuals, and people of color from “offensive” language. They also penalize positive expressions of unfavored classes like Christians, heterosexuals, and whites.

EU Orders ChatGPT, Reddit, Roblox to Enforce Sweeping Online Censorship Rules– slaynews.com
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Unelected European Union bureaucrats are tightening their grip on American technology platforms, ordering ChatGPT, Reddit, and Roblox to comply with the bloc’s sweeping online speech regulations or risk crippling financial penalties.

The European Commission has officially designated ChatGPT as a “Very Large Online Search Engine” (VLOSE) under the EU’s controversial Digital Services Act (DSA).

Reddit and Roblox have meanwhile been classified as “Very Large Online Platforms” (VLOPs).

The designations place all three American services under the DSA’s most stringent regulatory regime.

The companies now have until January 2027 to comply with additional requirements governing how they assess, monitor, and mitigate what EU regulators classify as “systemic risks.”

Those requirements extend beyond material that is actually illegal.

Under the DSA, regulators can also scrutinize lawful information they determine contributes to broader “systemic risks,” including content deemed “misleading,” “deceptive,” or “disinformation.”

That sweeping authority has fueled warnings that Brussels has created a censorship mechanism capable of pressuring American companies to suppress perfectly legal speech.

Is Russia preparing to unleash autonomous killer robots? They’re recent announcement of their intentions to remove key UN AI safeguards from their own AI development suggests they might be. America appears to be going down a similar path, though not officially so… yet.

‘Killer robots’ one step closer as Russia strips safeguards from UN pact | World | News– www.express.co.uk
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Russia has taken a major step toward regulating “killer robots,” after the Kremlin alongside the US pushed to strip ethical and human-oversight safeguards from a U.N. treaty. The draft agremement on autonomous weapons took place during closed door talks in Geneva earlier this month.

US and Russian negotiators pushed through the changes during a closed-door session after three years of talks under the U.N. Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW). This marks the furthest progress yet toward establishing international rules for autonomous weapons, according to HRW. The rights group said the revised draft also removed language on predictability, reliability and design standards and narrowed the treaty’s scope from all international law to international humanitarian law.

Cameras were turned off and observers were excluded during the agreement, according to people familiar with the talks cited by The Washington Post.

Russian and US delegations also deployed legal teams nearly twice the size of those from other countries during about 15 hours of last-minute negotiations.

Nicole van Rooijen, executive director of the advocacy coalition Stop Killer Robots, accused Washington and Moscow of seeking to weaken the draft, while human rights groups warned that the changes could reduce accountability for civilian casualties caused by autonomous weapons.

The Washington Post also reported that the US and Russia removed a provision that would have required humans to review AI-generated targets before a weapon carried out a strike.

Speaking to reporters this morning Trump told Fox News: “You know what I want him to do? Make a deal. I want him to settle with Putin and I want Putin to settle with him.”

Afghanistan says 28 fighters killed as Islamabad, Kabul trade accusations | Pakistan Taliban News– www.aljazeera.com
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Afghanistan’s Ministry of Defence said its forces killed 28 fighters in the eastern province of Nuristan who had crossed the border from Pakistan.

In a statement posted to X, the Taliban’s defence ministry confirmed it had engaged in clashes with the opposing group on Sunday.

The defence ministry alleged that most of the fighters were former Afghan government security personnel recruited by Pakistan’s intelligence services with promises of asylum and well-paid employment in foreign countries.

The defence ministry claimed the fighters included ISIL (ISIS) fighters who were supported by Pakistani militias.

Pakistan’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting rejected the allegations, describing them in a post on X as “frivolous, baseless and devoid of any truth”.

Pakistan denied that its security forces or intelligence agencies were involved in clashes in Nuristan, had recruited or trained former Afghan security personnel, or had facilitated ISIL (ISIS) or other armed groups in Afghanistan.

Pakistan’s information ministry also said the Taliban “should take credible and verifiable action against terrorist organisations operating from its territory” and fulfil its obligation so that “Afghan soil will not be used for terrorism against Pakistan or any other country rather than attempting to deflect responsibility through fabricated accusations”.

Bessent: Iran’s Economy Will Have ‘Nothing Left to Trade’ in Two Weeks– www.breitbart.com
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned Sunday that Iran will have “nothing left to trade for anything” within roughly two weeks as its remaining oil reaches China, arguing that the Trump administration’s economic campaign has brought Tehran “to its knees” and is driving the regime to seek a deal.

Bessent said only about 15 million barrels of Iranian oil remain on the water as the United States maintains its blockade of Iranian exports, leaving Tehran close to exhausting one of its remaining major sources of revenue.

“I am confident, given that there are only 15 million more barrels of Iranian oil on the water, that Iran will have nothing left to trade for anything,” Bessent told Fox News’s Larry Kudlow on Sunday Morning Futures.

Bessent put the remaining window at roughly two weeks.

“Probably within the next two weeks, they are going to make their final deliveries of oil to China, and then they will have nothing,” he said. “It is an empty set, and I believe they are feeling the pressure here and that’s why they want a deal.”

Bessent’s assessment comes as President Donald Trump has rejected Tehran’s latest proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz while signaling that negotiations could continue this week, saying Iran is now seeking terms Washington might have accepted before the war.

“They want to make a deal, but it is not the deal that I want to make,” Trump told Axios on Sunday. “It is what we would have maybe agreed to a year ago. They overplayed their hand.”

Lame-duck TN lawmaker throws kitchen sink at Trump with 26 articles of impeachment | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com
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Democratic Tennessee Representative Steve Cohen introduced over two dozen articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump this week. The move comes after the House rejected a separate impeachment resolution earlier this month.

Cohen’s 26 articles cover a broad range of allegations, ranging from Trump’s immigration policies to use of military force, to election rhetoric. The first article accuses Trump of “undermining democracy” by promoting doubt in US elections, while another accuses him of abusing his power by waging war in Iran without congressional approval. A separate article focuses on Trump’s deployment of military forces against US cities to combat unruly political agitators and crime.

“Trump is clearly the most impeachable President our country has ever endured. His continued presence in office is a danger to our democracy,” Cohen claimed in a press release. “That the sycophantic Republican majority in Congress is derelict in its duty does not mean that I must abandon my responsibilities. I took an independent oath to support and defend the Constitution. That commitment compels me to introduce this resolution today. When historians write about this period, and our constituents ask who stood up to President Trump’s lawlessness, this resolution is the answer.”

The effort comes less than two weeks after the House rejected an impeachment attempt brought forward by Representative Al Green. Green’s effort was narrower, focusing on Trump’s immigration policies and accusing him of abusing presidential authority after the killings of several civilians by federal agents.

It remains to be seen how Democrats will decide to move forward with impeachment attempts against Trump. The House voted to table Green’s resolution, and Democratic leaders did not endorse the effort.

Ethiopia accuses Eritrea, Sudan of backing Tigray rebels amid clashes– www.france24.com
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Ethiopia‘s army commander on Sunday accused Eritrea and Sudan of backing armed groups fighting its troops in the north of the country.

Heavy clashes have resumed between the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and the federal government since Wednesday, raising fears of a return to a 2020-2022 civil war in which an estimated 600,000 people died.

The TPLF has seized airports and launched attacks into the neighbouring states of Afar and Amhara, saying they were engaged in a “defensive war” against the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.

A humanitarian source said the Afar town of Erebti, near the border with Tigray, fell to the rebels on Sunday after being pounded by heavy artillery.

The TPLF was now advancing towards the town of Afdeera, some 100 kilometres (60 miles) to the east.

The source estimated that at least 150,000 people have been displaced in Afar, but said it was impossible to give precise numbers.

Speaking on the army’s YouTube channel, army chief Field Marshal Birhanu Jula said: “We are fighting forces that are organised and allied to serve the interests of external forces.

“Neither Shaebia (Eritrea) nor the TPLF can achieve anything alone, even if they are allied, unless they are backed, supported and supplied by Sudan, Egypt and other external powers,” he added.

U.S. Ambassador David Purdue Says Trump Offered To Sell U.S. Weapons To Chinese President Xi Jinping During Meeting– wltreport.com
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U.S. Ambassador to China David Perdue gave some inside details on President Trump’s recent meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Perdue, in a recent interview with Fox News, shared that President Trump offered the Chinese President to buy U.S. weapons.

The former Senator from Georgia, however, did not reveal what Xi Jinping said in response to Trump’s offer.

Mediaite provided quotes from Ambassador David Perdue:

President Donald Trump asked Chinese leader Xi Jinping if he would like to buy American weapons during the communist politician’s three day trip to the States last week, according to U.S. Ambassador to China David Purdue.

The ambassador shared the surprising news during an interview on Fox News Sunday with anchor Shannon Bream.

“President Trump continues to say, ‘Hey, we sell arms to other people around the world.’ He actually asked President Xi if he would like to buy some, at one point,” Purdue said.

The comment came as he defended Trump’s relationship with Taiwan, with Purdue arguing Trump has “already sold 50% more arms to Taiwan than any other president since 1979.”

He said Trump’s support for an independent Taiwan should not be questioned, before saying the president is always in deal-making mode, even when it comes to potentially selling arms to America’s biggest rival.

Here’s the moment Perdue made the comments:

America’s ‘AI czar’ could revolutionize our form of government– www.theblaze.com
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Donald Trump is considering a small handful of candidates for “AI czar” — notionally, a Cabinet-level role overseeing the industry, the technology, and something the president is calling, perhaps in the spirit of Space Force, the “AI Force.”

Trump has not specified much beyond that. Nobody rumored to be under consideration seems especially eager for the job.

Perhaps we don’t need someone with the power of a czar to rule AI. Perhaps we need someone with the authority of a saint to counsel us about it.

Plenty of reasons suggest themselves.

Not quite everything is computer. Many crucial components of America’s good working order still require special and undivided attention of their own. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is no longer being considered because of the importance of his current role. The logic is arguably the same for White House science and technology adviser Michael Kratsios and other potential candidates.

And, as the untimely demise of Czar Nicholas II and his family at the hands of the communists reminds us, a czar invested with enough power and authority can swiftly become a scapegoat or blood sacrifice of the highest order.

Which brings us to the momentous possibilities unsealed simply by creating a high office called AI czar.

Polls show most Americans think democracy is doing poorly. For a growing share across the political spectrum, that is not necessarily a bad thing.

HAMAS IN OUR SCHOOLS: Antisemitic Narratives Are Reaching K-12 Classrooms– gellerreport.com
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The devastating harm of this indoctrination is incalculable. Just today comes a story of North Carolina High School students planningto “kill as many Jews as possible” in North Carolina. These things don’t just happen. They are made to happen.

For years my colleagues and I have reported on the infiltration of jihadis and far left radical anxious to use schools and textbooks to proselytize for Islam.  It fell on deaf ears or was widely derided as conspiracy nuttery.

Hamas in our schools? Concern surfaces that anti-Israel narratives are reaching K-12 classrooms

What children learn about terrorism, Israel, and Jewish identity is being shaped in public classrooms, but questions have arisen as to whether schools are vetting the teachers and materials presenting those subjects.

OpenAI pauses training after a model escaped containment, and its kill switch failed– www.techspot.com
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What just happened? As almost every new day brings stories of another AI agent going rogue and breaching an organization’s systems, OpenAI has announced a pause in the training of its most powerful artificial intelligence models. The announcement came hours after the company disclosed more incidents of its agents acting concerningly, and a separate report that its agents unsuccessfully tried to hack into a US Department of Education website.

OpenAI’s incident report links the pause to a separate September 20 escape from a restricted training environment. An internal research model found a gap in DNS filtering and used it to contact an external chatbot while attempting to answer a research question – so much for keeping it offline.

The company says the suspension covers training, evaluations, and running its most capable models with tools. Work will resume after OpenAI validates its fixes and completes additional adversarial testing. The particular model involved will not resume training; the company plans a fresh run with additional alignment improvements.

The monitoring system did raise an alert within 15 minutes, which a human acknowledged three minutes later. Unfortunately, the automatic shutdown failed to happen, and the run continued for another two and a half hours before someone stopped it manually.

Separately, Transluce reported that agents apparently linked to OpenAI attempted to break into the US Education Department’s civil rights website. OpenAI has not confirmed that incident, while the department said it found no evidence its website or databases were affected.

Key Alaska Senate Race Comes Down to One Issue: Fish– www.westernjournal.com
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Former Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola has made fishing the centerpiece of her campaign to unseat Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan in Alaska.

Peltola, who is Yup’ik and grew up fishing on the Kuskokwim River, has revived her longtime “Fish, Family, Freedom” slogan from her House campaigns and is calling for a ban on factory trawling.

“I’m the only candidate on this stage who’s an Alaskan fisherman. Fish is in my blood, earned over generations on the water,” Peltola said at a Sept. 12 fisheries debate hosted by the Kodiak Chamber of Commerce, the Alaska Beacon reported.

The Peltola and Sullivan campaigns and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s requests for comment.

The fight centers on bycatch — the salmon, halibut and crab swept up in the nets of large trawlers harvesting pollock and other groundfish in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska — which many Alaskans blame, at least in part, for weak salmon runs and declining halibut and crab stocks, the outlet reported.

The race could help decide which party controls the Senate, Gunnar Knapp, a retired University of Alaska Anchorage economist, told the Beacon.

Brett Watson, an economist at the University of Alaska Anchorage, told the outlet he could not recall fishing issues playing “such a central role in a statewide or federal campaign.”

Talarico ‘Mentor’ Pastor: Capitalism in ‘Death Throes’ — Democratic Socialism Is ‘the Next Chapter’– townhall.com
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Texas Democrat U.S. Senate nominee James Talarico has called St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Austin home since he was two years old. It has been led for 35 years by Rev. Jim Rigby, whom Talarico calls a “mentor,” according to The Christian Post.

Undercover video obtained exclusively by Townhall shows Rigby musing about his economic philosophy — a philosophy that has undoubtedly been impressed upon Talarico for virtually the candidate’s entire life.

“I think capitalism is in death throes,” Rigby says in the video. “You’re gonna have to throw everything overboard. It’s like, that’s the next chapter of human rights. It’s like, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness is not capitalism. That every person has a right to medicine, to a livable wage, stuff. That’s not radical.”

Rigby asserts the United States is the only developed nation “that doesn’t have that stuff. And they’re calling that communism.”

“So, to me, just stop looking at the label and what is it that you want?” he continues in the video.

“Gandhi and Martin Luther King were democratic socialists. That’s the next chapter, and it’s not this horrific thing. It’s like, that’s what the rest of the civilized world calls sanity.”

On Poland’s border with Ukraine, residents brace for a possible Russian hybrid attack– abcnews.com
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DOROHUSK, Poland — Three times in one day, phones lit up across this Polish border community with a warning: A drone or a missile could cross from Ukraine, and residents should stay vigilant in case they might need to take cover.

Above the village of Dorohusk in eastern Poland, vapor trails cut across the pale blue sky and military helicopters rumbled overhead. Just 2 kilometers (1.24 miles) away, traffic at the border crossing into Ukraine was suspended three times, and staff were even evacuated once.

The alerts and disruptions on Thursday came as The Associated Press was visiting the village. They reflected a new reality along Poland’s eastern frontier, where the war in Ukraine — now 4 1/2 years old — has felt increasingly close.

Russia isn’t at war with Poland, but over the past few years European leaders say it’s mounted a series of so-called hybrid attacks to pressure to pressure adversaries in the West and NATO that include sabotage, disinformation and cyberattacks. Poland is worried that the drones or missiles strikes could spill over from Ukraine, whether by accident or as part of a Russian strategy of ambiguous attacks.

The anxiety intensified after two Russian drones exploded on the Ukrainian side of the Dorohusk-Yahodyn crossing in the early hours of Sept. 13. The explosions could clearly be heard in Dorohusk.

“There is new restlessness and fear because you could hear those explosions very well on that night in our village,” said Wojciech Sawa, the Dorohusk mayor. “We had never had something like that before. This was the first time the sirens wailed.”

DHS Responds to Latest Migrant Caravan Marching Toward US Border (VIDEO) * The Gateway Pundit * by Cristina Laila– www.thegatewaypundit.com
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A migrant caravan is marching toward the US border ahead of the midterm elections.

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

At least two NGOs are funding this caravan.

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

Proyecto Faro, the immigrant support nonprofit out of Rockland County, New York, is funded by a mix of foundations, nonprofits, and government grants. Mainly funded by a Jewish Foundation, The Harry Donenfeld Foundation, named for the Jewish immigrant who co-founded DC Comics.

Another major donor is The Gitlin Family Foundation which is also Jewish-led. The Freedom Together Foundation, another major donor was founded in 2012 by Barbara Picower as the JPB Foundation, renamed Freedom Together in 2024.

The money came from her late husband Jeffry Picower’s estate, he was Jewish, and their earlier Picower Foundation gave to other Jewish causes.

ADRA stand for the Adventist Development and Relief Agency, its the humanitarian arm of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, a “Christian” denomination.

Its biggest funder is the U.S. government, mainly USAID, which has given it roughly three hundred eighty-five million dollars across over a hundred awards. in August 2026 ADRA was named a partner in the State Department’s new Faith and Community Initiative.

Their last report clarifies they were given at least 36 million US dollars by the end of 2025… more to come.

Iran opens criminal probe after actress rests head against actor’s chest during play in latest crackdown by evil regime– www.thesun.co.uk
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IRANIAN prosecutors have opened a criminal case against a theatre company after a female actress rested her head on a male actor on stage.

Lackeys of Tehran’s savage mullahs claim the behaviour violates the country’s standard of public decency and was a “violation of social norms.”

The controversial scene is said to violate Iran’s social norms and public decency Credit: X/AlinejadMasih
Fatemeh Masoudifar plays the lead Sara in the play Credit: mojnews

An audience members shared footage of popular play Tehran Paris Tehran, being staged at Book Garden, showing Fatemeh Masoudifar leaning her head toward Mehrdad Sedighian’s chest.

Mehrdad places his hand over her head as she appears to tightly embrace him.

Live Updates: Iran says Trump must choose between war or diplomacy as talks expected to resume this week– www.cbsnews.com
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Iran lodges complaint with U.N. over U.S. sanctions on its aviation industry

Iran has lodged a complaint with the United Nations over U.S. sanctions against its aviation sector, which have forced the cancellation of many flights across the region, state media reported Monday.

The U.S. imposed restrictions this month on the entire Iranian aviation industry and vowed to take a hard line against any companies or countries that continue to assist it.

As the sanctions took effect last Wednesday, some major airlines were forced to cancel international flights as several nations in the region implemented bans.

“To defend the legitimate rights of the aviation industry and counter illegal restrictions imposed by America, Iran has drafted and submitted a formal protest to the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO),” said civil aviation chief Abouzar Shiroudi, according to Iran’s official IRNA news agency.

Doc On Trans Youth Abortions Is A Preview Of Newsom Presidency– thefederalist.com
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This is the pure stuff, an undiluted dose of raw California. A “request for information” (RFI) from the California Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) invites private organizations to apply for a role administering the state’s transgender equity programs. The winning bidder will distribute funds from three separate pools of money:

The section of the RFI describing the background of these grant programs explains that federal policy has caused a crisis in “access to gender affirming care, in particular for children and youth.” Children can’t get their genitals mutilated, so the state must act.

Respondents are required to have administrative experience in the field of youth genital mutilation, being required to submit an application that describes “your organization’s experience providing culturally competent services to transgender, gender-diverse, and intersex (TGI) communities, including gender affirming care,” which has to include particular experience with “communities of color” and people who speak limited English.

Every theme comes together: government spending outsourced to non-profit corporations, transgender kids, taxpayer-funded abortions for the gender diverse, public services for people who just showed up and need a translator to get their free government money. If you’re wondering how California is governed, it’s governed like this.

Talarico Invokes Jesus to Justify His Positions and It Goes All Kinds of Wrong – RedState– redstate.com
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We’ve seen a lot of wild statements from Texas Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico.

But Talarico posted a screed on Sunday about how his healthcare positions were based on “biblical grounds,” then misused Jesus to justify his takes.

When Jesus healed the sick, he didn’t ask for a deductible. So when I fight for universal healthcare, I’m doing it on biblical grounds.

When Jesus fed the hungry, he didn’t price gouge to turn a profit. So when I say that no child in the state of Texas should go to bed hungry, I’m doing it on biblical grounds.

And when the Hebrew prophets saw corruption in high places, they spoke truth to power. So when I take on the politicians who are serving themselves and not the people, I’m doing it on biblical grounds.

UPenn requires disclosure of ‘controversial speakers’– www.thecollegefix.com
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The University of Pennsylvania’s “special event review process” is drawing criticism after the school issued the guidelines ahead of the fall semester.

The Special Event Review Group says the guidelines are meant to support “open expression on campus.”

However, critics say the rules will have the opposite effect.

“Does the event have high-level, notable, or controversial speakers,” one mandatory question asks.

The school also requires all details “prior to an event being confirmed or publicized.”

These rules drew criticism from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.

The policy is “unacceptably vague, and could be applied to require students planning just about any event to jump through extra bureaucratic hoops,” Laura Beltz, the director of policy reform, told The Fix via email.

WATCH: UK Reporter GOES off on UK Defense Secretary and Prime Minister Over Mass Migration Following Bomb Plot at RAF Fairford Base– www.thegatewaypundit.com
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British Talk TV host Alex Phillips tears into UK officials over migrant crisis

A British TV host absolutely eviscerated UK officials this morning on her live broadcast, crediting the bomb plot at Royal Air Force Fairford Base, where US bombers and personnel are stationed, to mass migration. 

As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, British police made several arrests in connection with a bombing plot at RAF Fairford, which is currently under investigation for potential ties to Iran.

“We had them under investigation,” Trump told reporters on Sunday, confirming the reports and suggesting that they were already known to authorities as dangerous migrants.

(VIDEO) Trump Confirms Foiled Attack on UK’s RAF Fairford Base

Five foreign-looking suspects were photographed in British police detention after their suspicious vans, which were suspected of carrying chemicals and explosives, were reported traveling toward the air base. They sure don’t look like native Brits.

Following the news this morning, Talk TV host Alex Phillips went off on UK Defense Secretary Wes Streeting, UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham, “every single Muppet in the unions,” and “every single past prime minister for the past 10 years” for their refusal to acknowledge the dangers of open borders and mass migration.

“You should join a dot, right, between Iran saying, ‘we shipped in various terrorists from the IRGC to your country via a boat over the Channel.’ They told you! it came out of their mouths,” Phillips said. This is seemingly a reference to a Telegraph report earlier this year that details the human smuggling network used by the IRGC to bring agents into the UK.  An unnamed Iranian official even told the Telegraph this summer, “Of course, don’t forget that our armed forces have influence and run the [smuggling] routes in some cases if they want.”

Media outlets bashed Sydney Sweeney while sympathizing with child killer Lindsay Clancy | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com
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While Sweeney has faced repeated criticism from major broadcast networks, the same networks gave comparatively favorable coverage to Clancy, who admitted to killing her three children.

Actress Sydney Sweeney received immense negative coverage from major broadcast networks over controversial advertising campaigns over the last year. The same outlets, meanwhile, have broadly been sympathetic toward Lindsay Clancy.

Sweeney faced widespread backlash last year over an American Eagle advertising campaign promoting jeans that played on the words “jeans” and “genes.” The advertisement was intended to imply that Sweeney has great genetic features that make her attractive, but left-wing activists accused the campaign of invoking eugenics and Nazi racial ideology.

Socialist or MAGA Republican? America has a preference.– www.dailykos.com
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Survey Says is a weekly series rounding up the most important polling trends or data points you need to know about, plus a vibe check on a trend that’s driving politics or culture.


Democratic socialist versus MAGA Republican—it’s a war of two extremes equally likely to turn off voters, right?

Not remotely, the data suggests. And that may have big implications this year.

The latest YouGov/Economist poll ran an experiment that asked voters to pick between pairs of hypothetical candidates. When asked to choose between a “Democratic socialist who supports Medicare for All, ending military aid to Israel, and abolishing ICE” and a “MAGA Republican who supports mass deportations and always votes with Trump,” 51% of registered voters went for the socialist, while only 34% picked the MAGA Republican. The remaining 15% were unsure.

Notably, this figure did not change much when the hypothetical socialist candidate was swapped for a “Liberal Democrat who wants to protect Obamacare (ACA), increase support for child care and housing, and opposes tariffs.” Fifty-five percent backed the liberal Democrat, and an identical 34% supported the MAGA Republican.

Democratic attorneys general work to Trump-proof election– www.latimes.com
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The office of Colorado’s attorney general is a perch 10 stories above downtown Denver. From his aerie, Phil Weiser has a sweeping view of the city skyline, the gold-domed Capitol and, occasionally, a red hawk on the wing.

But looking toward November, Weiser sees something darker.

Federal agents swarming polling places. Voters intimidated or blocked from casting their ballots. A tyrannical president using his powers, real and imagined, to undermine or try to overturn the Nov. 3 election.

“With this administration what we have seen is it’s important that we not limit our imagination to what … type of harm could happen,” Weiser said during a sunny noon hour in the Mile High City.

For that reason, Colorado’s attorney general and his Democratic peers around the country have spent more than a year strategizing — by phone, via Zoom, sometimes in person — on ways to Trump-proof the midterm election.

They’ve researched history and the law, war-gamed what-ifs, divvied up responsibilities and drafted emergency lawsuits and temporary restraining orders so they can be hurried into court at a moment’s notice.

House Democrats Plot Sweeping Trump Investigations if They Retake Majority › American Greatness– amgreatness.com
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House Democrats are preparing an expansive slate of investigations targeting President Donald Trump, his family and his administration if they capture the House majority in November, with impeachment remaining among the tools they could pursue.

Democratic lawmakers are already laying the groundwork for investigations across several committees, focusing on issues ranging from Trump family business dealings and immigration enforcement to foreign policy and administration projects.

“There is a cost to the American people of the out-of-control corruption,” House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York said.

“If folks have been stealing from the American people, shortchanging the American people or screwing over the American people,” Jeffries added, “we are going to hold the crooks accountable.”

Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., who could become Judiciary Committee chairman under a Democratic majority, described the potential scope of investigations as “gargantuan.”

Rutgers University leftist student coalition marches against ICE– www.thecollegefix.com
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This past Tuesday, a coalition of progressive student groups from Rutgers University took to the streets to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement, aka ICE, and to present school officials with a list of demands.

According to The Daily Targum, the People Power Coalition — which includes Students for Justice in Palestine, the Young Democratic Socialists of America Rutgers chapter and the Climate Revolution Action Network — previously had presented Rutgers officials with a set of 14 demands which it said “must” be addressed by September 1.

But administrators “failed to meet or agree to” that deadline.

The coalition’s demands include making it “official policy” that campus police will not cooperate with ICE, “continued support” for “cultural centers for vulnerable communities,” and an official statement that Rutgers will “affirm” protection of “undocumented, immigrant, and international students, transgender students, and students of color.”

In addition, PPC representative Brea Yumiguano, who identifies as non-binary, “intended” to have a meeting with Rutgers Executive Vice President and General Counsel William Castner regarding making the school a “sanctuary campus,” but his staff reportedly “delayed” and then cancelled it.

In a statement posted to Instagram, the PPC accused Rutgers of canceling the meeting (and “blocking” entrance to the building) out of “retaliation.”