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EU announces plan to restrict social media access for children– www.bbc.co.uk

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EU announces plan to restrict social media access for children– www.bbc.co.uk
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The EU has announced plans to restrict social media access for under-15s across its member states, in a bid to increase wellbeing and tackle online safety.

Under the plans, there would be a gradual approach to children using social media which would include banning under 13s from accessing platforms.

Those aged 13 to 15 would only be able to access platforms for an hour per day via “mini accounts” set up through their parent or guardian’s social media account.

The European Commission said social media companies would need to prove platforms were safe by design or face fines of up to 6% of their global sales. EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said the move would “put parents back in the driving seat”.

She added the legislation – called the EU Kids Act – would give parents “the tools to help their children navigate a safer world”.

The restrictions would not just affect well-known apps such as TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat but also YouTube and other video sharing platforms as well as AI chatbots and online games.

“Too many children are being exposed too early to an online world they are not ready to navigate – an environment where bullying can follow you home, where every mistake can be recorded forever,” von der Leyen said.

Man Loses Job and Is Diagnosed With Diabetes, Then HOA Forecloses on His Home Over Less Than $1,000 in Dues — Property Ultimately Sold Back to HOA for $8,172– www.louderwithcrowder.com

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Man Loses Job and Is Diagnosed With Diabetes, Then HOA Forecloses on His Home Over Less Than $1,000 in Dues — Property Ultimately Sold Back to HOA for $8,172– www.louderwithcrowder.com
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A man purchased a home for around $475,000. Unfortunately, he lost his job and was diagnosed with diabetes around the same time. This resulted in him falling behind on his HOA payments. Rather than the association helping him come up with a payment plan for the initial $900 he owed, they ultimately forced a foreclosure, then rebought his property for $8,172.

There are so many protections in place for renters. Yet, when homeowners fall on hard times, there seem to be zero resources for them to rely on. Call me crazy, but one might assume that the government loathes property owners, while only representing renters. Why do you think that is?

According to the New York Post:

Toby Newton purchased the four-bedroom Mesa home for $475,000 in 2022, but ran into financial trouble two years later after losing his job and being diagnosed with diabetes, according to the Mesa Tribune.

Newton fell behind on his quarterly HOA assessments, which were around $170, eventually owing $977 in fees and interest.

It is undoubtedly absurd, the kind of mess an incompetent bureaucracy can create.

He initially offered to pay $50 per month toward his debt while keeping up with his regular assessments. After that was rejected, he increased his proposed payments — eventually offering $200 a month — but said the HOA rejected those offers as well.

Saudi pipeline shutdown threatens oil exports to Europe and Asia as kingdom relies on stored supplies– www.euronews.com

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Saudi pipeline shutdown threatens oil exports to Europe and Asia as kingdom relies on stored supplies– www.euronews.com
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Saudi Arabia is relying on stored oil to maintain exports after drone attacks shut its East-West pipeline, threatening deliveries to buyers in Europe and Asia.

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Saudi Arabia’s energy ministry announced the shutdown on Friday as a precaution, after the pipeline was attacked in the Riyadh and Medina regions last Thursday.

It said emergency and technical teams were securing the pipeline and checking its safety.

Saudi and Iraqi authorities said the drone attack originated in Iraq. The ministry’s announcement did not say when pumping would resume or give a full account of the damage.

Saudi oil buyers and traders quoted in reports published on Sunday estimated that a prolonged shutdown could put at risk around 4 million barrels a day, or about 4% of global oil supply.

They estimated that oil stored at the Red Sea port of Yanbu could keep exports going for five to seven days. Saudi authorities have not confirmed either estimate.

The effect on deliveries will depend on how quickly pumping resumes and how much stored oil is available.

Brent crude futures rose around 3% in early trading on Monday following further attacks on energy facilities and shipping in the Middle East.

A route around Hormuz

The roughly 1,200km pipeline carries oil from eastern Saudi Arabia to Yanbu on the west coast. It allows exports to leave through the Red Sea without tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz.

Aramco said in May that it had increased pumping through the pipeline to its maximum capacity of 7 million barrels a day during the first quarter, helping maintain exports while shipping through Hormuz was disrupted.

The pipeline also supplies refineries on Saudi Arabia’s west coast, so its capacity is not the same as the amount exported.

The shutdown does not mean global oil supplies immediately fall by 7 million barrels a day. Tankers can still load oil stored near export terminals, but those supplies will run down unless more oil arrives.

Deliveries to Europe and Asia

From Yanbu, tankers heading to Europe can sail north through the Red Sea towards the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean. Egypt’s SUMED pipeline offers another route, carrying oil between the Red Sea and Mediterranean coasts.

The direct sea route to Asia runs south through Bab el-Mandeb, the narrow passage between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, and then towards the Indian Ocean.

That route faces a separate threat from Yemen’s Houthis, who have seized Perim Island in the passage and the country’s Red Sea coast, effectively taking control of the strait.

Tankers heading to Asia could instead sail north through Suez and then around Africa, but the journey would be much longer. Changing a tanker’s route does not solve the problem of getting oil to Yanbu.

The International Energy Agency said in its September oil market report that stored oil supplies worldwide had fallen by 507 million barrels since February, including 95 million barrels in August alone.

The agency estimated Gulf oil exports at around 13 million barrels a day in August, nearly half their pre-war level. It also reported sharply higher diesel prices in Europe and Asia as disruptions reduced fuel supplies.


The U.S. Supreme Court just launched a constitutional crisis– www.americanthinker.com

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The U.S. Supreme Court just launched a constitutional crisis– www.americanthinker.com
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The Supreme Court failed to affirm the president’s recent executive order protecting election integrity by voter ID and eligibility.

The details of the Court’s judicial reasoning is full of granular reference made ultimately to various federally derived postal rules which are not relevant to the larger national security implications of the EO.

Unfortunately the Court failed to anchor its attention fully to the one document that mattered: the larger U.S. Constitution.

The Court, yet again, can’t see the forest from the trees, and worse, got caught up in analyzing the tree bark.  Like a pilot in a spin, it is suffering from spatial disorientation, and has judicially crashed.

Apparently the SCOTUS believed the question before them involved the post office.

Their attention was captured by the concept of postal delay: that the president’s EO would retard mail ballot processing with rules designed to actually protect it.  Their perception of time overruled the necessity of security. They fell for the legal subterfuge of the DNC, and lost their constitutional compass. The Court buried itself in minute legalism, rather than actual national justice.

The Court is otherwise so used to picking winners and losers in traditional litigation, that it forgot that the Constitution can be a different national duty. A constitutional fight can sometimes create a zero-sum result: everyone loses if the nation is splintered by political tribalism.  Unity is the constitutional cause, and no one wins when a constitutional election system is seen as a dispute instead of a joint responsibility.

Federal judge blocks Trump admin’s 4-year visa cap for international students– www.thecollegefix.com

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Federal judge blocks Trump admin’s 4-year visa cap for international students– www.thecollegefix.com
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Trump admin failed to back decision with data, judge ruled

A federal judge ruled Monday to block a new U.S. Department of Homeland Security rule that would have capped international student visas at four years. The rule was set to take effect the following day.

“The government’s contention that the rule is necessary to safeguard national security borders on the absurd,” U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor wrote.

“It is based almost entirely on a small handful of anecdotes, each of which involved incidents that the new rule would do nothing to prevent or even mitigate,” he wrote.

DHS forged ahead with the rule despite receiving roughly 22,000 public comments pointing out flaws and offering alternative paths.

The judge ruled that in doing so, the department violated the Administrative Procedure Act, which requires government agencies to act reasonably, respond to public comments logically, and back their decisions with actual data.

The administration argued the rule was vital for national security and fraud prevention, but the court ruled that these rationales failed to withstand meaningful review.

How The Missouri Midterms Wound Up A Constitutional Crisis– thefederalist.com

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California Drags Pro-Lifers To Court For Crime Of ‘Offering Hope’– thefederalist.com
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta wants a court to punish pro-life organizations for telling women they may have another choice after starting a chemical abortion.

His case against Heartbeat International and RealOptions targets their communications about abortion pill reversal and seeks millions in penalties along with restrictions on what they can say. But to understand what California is asking the court to suppress, look beyond the legal briefs and listen to the women who actually sought that help.

Three of them took the witness stand. They told the court what happened when they took mifepristone, regretted their decisions, and desperately searched for a way to keep their babies and continue their pregnancies. Today, each is raising the child she feared she had lost.

And in California’s own closing brief, the state described what these women received from Heartbeat and RealOptions with a remarkable word: “hope.”

“That Defendants offered hope to these individuals underscores the seriousness of their misconduct.” Those words appear on page 45 of the California attorney general’s post-trial brief in The People of the State of California v. Heartbeat International and RealOptions.

The “individuals” are women who took the first drug in a chemical abortion, regretted that decision, and urgently searched for another option. The “hope” was that they might still be able to sustain their babies and continue their pregnancies. The “misconduct” was telling them about abortion pill reversal.

California Drags Pro-Lifers To Court For Crime Of ‘Offering Hope’– thefederalist.com

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California Drags Pro-Lifers To Court For Crime Of ‘Offering Hope’– thefederalist.com
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta wants a court to punish pro-life organizations for telling women they may have another choice after starting a chemical abortion.

His case against Heartbeat International and RealOptions targets their communications about abortion pill reversal and seeks millions in penalties along with restrictions on what they can say. But to understand what California is asking the court to suppress, look beyond the legal briefs and listen to the women who actually sought that help.

Three of them took the witness stand. They told the court what happened when they took mifepristone, regretted their decisions, and desperately searched for a way to keep their babies and continue their pregnancies. Today, each is raising the child she feared she had lost.

And in California’s own closing brief, the state described what these women received from Heartbeat and RealOptions with a remarkable word: “hope.”

“That Defendants offered hope to these individuals underscores the seriousness of their misconduct.” Those words appear on page 45 of the California attorney general’s post-trial brief in The People of the State of California v. Heartbeat International and RealOptions.

The “individuals” are women who took the first drug in a chemical abortion, regretted that decision, and urgently searched for another option. The “hope” was that they might still be able to sustain their babies and continue their pregnancies. The “misconduct” was telling them about abortion pill reversal.

The View Sparks Outrage After Trump Animal Sex Remark on Air– www.newsbusters.org

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The View Sparks Outrage After Trump Animal Sex Remark on Air– www.newsbusters.org
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ABC and Disney have maintained that The View was a “bona fide news program” that operated in the public interest. Co-host Joy Behar made it harder for the network to make that argument to the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday, after she suggested that President Trump has had sex with animals and that it was somehow tied to the FBI lowering their hiring standards.

Behar’s ridiculous suggestion came amid the liberal media pouncing on FBI Director Kash Patel’s Tuesday exchange with senators in a hearing. They presented their audience with this highly edited and chopped up conversation between Patel and Louisiana Senator John Kennedy (R):

PATEL: Obviously we are never going to hire the criminal —

KENNEDY: This side of what, the bestiality?

PATEL: Yes.

KENNEDY: So you disqualified the animal? [Transition] Why would you even get into bestiality?

PATEL: We are not into bestiality. But a lot of these individuals —

[Transition]

KENNEDY: If Joe participated in bestiality. Not as the animal but as the human, don’t you think he ought to be qualified — disqualified?

Canada could become become EU’s first ‘associate member’ | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com

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Canada could become become EU’s first ‘associate member’ | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that she wants the relationship between the bloc and Canada to reach “the highest level possible.”

The European Union has proposed making Canada the first “associate member” in an effort to strengthen allies in “an openly hostile world.” Both the EU and Canada have had issues with the US over the Trump administration’s trade deals.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen made the proposal Wednesday during her annual State of the Union Address in Strasbourg, France. Von der Leyen said that she wants the relationship between the bloc and Canada to reach “the highest level possible.”

“And, dear Mark, I said we must urgently reimagine our partnerships so I would like to work with you on opening the door for Canada to being the first associate member of the European Union,” von der Leyen said, referring to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who was in attendance for the speech.

Von der Leyen told the assembly that the EU and Canada “see the world with the same eyes: from AI to climate change, from the Arctic ​to geopolitics. And we have stood together: on Ukraine, on defence, on raw materials and on supply chains. But above all … Europe and Canada believe in democracy.”

The proposal had drawn criticism within Canada. Comedian Ben Bankas critizied the idea on X, writing, “Why be 51st State when you can be the dumping grounds for European Migrant overflow.”

Medical student research is low quality but spreads nonetheless, study finds– www.thecollegefix.com

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Medical student research is low quality but spreads nonetheless, study finds– www.thecollegefix.com
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Researcher warns of health consequences of doctors using shoddy studies

Published research by medical students continues to proliferate despite concerns about the quality of the work, according to a new report.

“Why Johnny Can’t Stop Writing: The Boom in Low-Impact, Politicized Medical Student Research,” authored by Do No Harm’s Jay Greene, highlights the proliferation of low-quality medical student research in the past 20 years. The researcher offered potential solutions in original comments sent to The College Fix.

Greene found that in the early 2000s, fewer than 12 publications listed students as authors or co-authors, but in the 2020s, more than 700 publications could claim medical student authorship.

Additionally, between 2000 and 2006 no more than 17 publications listed a student author per year, but by 2022, 932 publications listed authors as such.

Much of this research is low-quality and focuses on identity politics.

Greene found between 2000 and 2013, six percent of medical student publications contained at least one of nine preselected “woke terms” in the title or abstract. These terms are: “equity,” “disparities,” “social,” “justice,” “race,” “racist,” “racism,” “diversity,” or “inclusion.”

What Is Going On? Lawmakers Accuse Feds of Stonewalling in Butler Assassination Attempt Probes – RedState– redstate.com

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What Is Going On? Lawmakers Accuse Feds of Stonewalling in Butler Assassination Attempt Probes – RedState– redstate.com
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Question: Why are there still so many questions surrounding the Butler, 2024 Pennsylvania assassination attempt against Donald Trump?

The lack of information gives plenty of fodder for conspiracy theorists and makes many Americans feel like they’re not being told the whole truth. For instance, why was the shooter’s body cremated only 10 days after the shooting — which left firefighter Corey Comperatore dead and Trump wounded — and who paid for it? If law enforcement knows, they’re not telling us; they’ve only said “an anonymous donor” financed it.

If they don’t know, that would be highly suspect.

As our Jennifer Oliver O’Connell reported Tuesday, Chuck Grassley has obtained new information, some of it frankly weird, as he investigates the attack:

These records were obtained by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) as part of his ongoing probe into the Butler debacle. The documents include an FBI interview with Matthew Crooks, Thomas Crooks’ father, only two days after young Crooks’ attempted murder of Trump.

According to the New York Post’s review of the records, Thomas Crooks used the name “Bob Dole” to obtain his stocks of ammunition and gun parts from Amazon and other online retailers, and had these parcels delivered to his parents’ home. The additional gun parts included “‘tools and items to increase the capacity of his rifle,’ the same weapon that his father would give to him on the morning of the rally at the Butler Farm Show Grounds in Pennsylvania.”

Why did it take Senator Chuck Grassley to find this new information about Thomas Crooks? Is he the only person in DC with any investigative powers? The FBI was told by the Crooks’ family that an “anonymous donor” paid for the cremation. It’s been more than two years. Why has that donor not been identified and questioned? Who was it, what was his/her motivation? What evidence was destroyed?

ChatGPT Erases Past, Hides Previous Response Comparing Trump to Hitler– www.newsbusters.org

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ChatGPT Erases Past, Hides Previous Response Comparing Trump to Hitler– www.newsbusters.org
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT attempted to bury the evidence that  it compared President Donald Trump to notorious Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, who murdered six million Jews and started World War II.

MRC researchers found that requests for ChatGPT to locate and provide a link to a Sept. 3 Fox News article about MRC’s study were an exercise in futility. In one chat session on Sept. 9, ChatGPT refused to acknowledge the existence of a Fox News article about ChatGPT comparing Trump and Hitler, even after being told who wrote it. Throughout the chat session, the AI model repeatedly deflected from direct questions and denied that it had previously compared Trump to Hitler.

ChatGPT’s dodge comes at a time when OpenAI is being widely accused by Trump administration officials, Republican members of Congress and many conservative activists — claiming that the company has politicized the potential threat of AI just weeks before the 2026 midterm elections.

When asked directly if it could find the Fox News article in which ChatGPT compared Trump to Hitler, the AI model dissembled instead: “I can’t browse past conversations or retrieve specific articles, but I can search for current news or reports related to the comparison you mentioned.” When pressed again, it went even further, explaining that it “couldn’t find any instances where I have made such comparisons.”

As more and more users turn to AI to quickly and easily distill information, ChatGPT’s erasure of its own blunder becomes increasingly concerning. “ChatGPT’s alarming responses show that bias and censorship continue to be the most pressing dangers associated with developing artificial intelligence models,” said MRC Free Speech Director Michael Morris. “When AI models overwhelmingly rely on elitist media and left-wing so-called academic institutions for their inputs, it’s little wonder that their outputs are so often anti-conservative, anti-Republican and anti-American. It’s high time that American AI companies stop rigging the technology to suppress freedom.”

U.S. Military Confirms Deployment of Weapons in Space– legalinsurrection.com

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U.S. Military Confirms Deployment of Weapons in Space– legalinsurrection.com
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The U.S. military’s public acknowledgment that it has deployed “space control weapons” in orbit should surprise no one who has followed my reporting on the accelerating contest for the ultimate high ground.

The United States has stationed weapons in Earth’s orbit, Air Force Secretary Troy E. Meink said on Monday, the first such public acknowledgment by a Pentagon official after years of preparations to counter potential deployments by Russia and China.

“We are increasing readiness against existing threats, and the United States has on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the Joint Force against hostile adversary action,” he said at a convention in Maryland, according to a news release published on the Air Force’s website.

Mr. Meink did not provide details about the type of weapons or say when they had been deployed. He made his remarks in a keynote speech at the Air, Space and Cyber Conference in National Harbor, Md., an annual forum hosted by the Air and Space Forces Association, a nonprofit organization for members of both services.

The Space Force did not immediately respond to a request for comment late Monday.

Hungary’s new gov’t moves to undo LGBT, pro-life policies– www.lifesitenews.com

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Hungary’s new gov’t moves to undo LGBT, pro-life policies– www.lifesitenews.com
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When Viktor Orbán lost the April elections in Hungary, social conservatives warned that a sea change might be coming. Péter Magyar’s new Tisza government won a massive mandate — a two-thirds parliamentary majority — and had remained strategically silent on the key culture war issues that had dominated the political debate over the previous decade.

Optimists insisted that Magyar was center-right rather than progressive. In just four months, however, the new prime minister has set to work dismantling conservative institutions — and opening the door to LGBT activists.

In June, the police both authorized and protected the Budapest “pride” parade. In March 2025, Hungarian lawmakers passed a ban on “pride” parades and public events promoting LGBT ideology by a margin of 136-27. The ban amended the Child Protection Act passed in 2021 that forbade the promotion of LGBT ideology in middle schools and on primetime TV shows and resulted in a lawsuit against Hungary from the European Union. The law itself was not repealed; it was simply ignored.

On September 12, Magyar announced that his government will revise the 2020 system, which mandated that single applicants for adoption require ministerial approval. LGBT activists had decried this system as a de facto ban on same-sex couples adopting; because same-sex “marriage” is not legal in Hungary, homosexuals could only adopt via the single-parent route. Magyar carefully stated that this decision would now be made by “child-welfare professionals.”

Far Left Makes Gains in Swedish Elections, Buoyed Muslim Migrant Votes From Middle East– gellerreport.com

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Far Left Makes Gains in Swedish Elections, Buoyed Muslim Migrant Votes From Middle East– gellerreport.com
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A cautionary tale for every freedom-loving Western nation.

As of this writing, votes are being counted, but preliminary indications are that the right-wing ruling coalition will lose control of the Swedish government, largely on the back of votes by MENAPT migrants. BBC: Sweden’s general election remains too close to call, early results suggest. With 50% of the votes counted, the two main blocs were separated by only 20,000 votes, Sweden public broadcaster SVT said. Projected results from Sweden’s election authority had given the left-wing political bloc led by the Social Democrats’ Magdalena Andersson a one-seat majority over the rival four-party coalition put together by current conservative Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson. Kristersson has been supported in government by the hard-right Sweden Democrats (SD), which have neo-Nazi roots. He has promised cabinet jobs for the SD if he stays in charge. But partial results suggest the party was losing support for the first time since 2010 when it entered parliament. Sweden has two major political blocs featuring four parties on the right and four on the left – meaning coalition and minority governments are relatively common. On Sunday night, Andersson urged supporters to wait for the final result, but added that if the current results hold, “Sweden will have a new government.”

Jew-Hating New York Times: ‘Israelis Still Largely View Themselves As The Victims of Oct. 7’– gellerreport.com

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Jew-Hating New York Times: ‘Israelis Still Largely View Themselves As The Victims of Oct. 7’– gellerreport.com
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Scott Jennings responds: No words for this abomination (Jennings).

The leopard never changes its spots. The same New York Times that whitewashed Hitler and minimized his war against the Jews is trafficking in the same Jew-hatred nearly a century later. This is not ignorance. It is institutional depravity, a newspaper once again lending its prestige and power to the demonization of the Jewish people.

The parallel would be: New Yorkers still largely view themselves as the victims of 9/11. The line comes from an article on a new documentary from hard-left filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor entitled “NAZA.” Amit Segal describes the film: The critically acclaimed libel is the Israeli far left’s contribution to a steadily growing genre: anti-Israel propaganda, what might be called Hague bait. From the people who applauded the historical revisionist epic Palestine 36 and the directors behind the false frontier western No Other Land comes the sci-fi dystopia NAZA (Segal). Notably: After withering criticism, The New York Times removed that line in the updated version of the story on their site. They write it off as an “editing error”: Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article included a statement that was intended to convey Israelis’ perception of the government’s military response to the Oct. 7 terror attack in relation to the attacks, but inadvertently suggested that Israelis’ experience as terror victims was a matter of perception. It has been removed from the article (New York Times).

5-year-old boy with special needs charged with felony assault — parents ‘punch the bully back’ with lawsuit– www.theblaze.com

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5-year-old boy with special needs charged with felony assault — parents ‘punch the bully back’ with lawsuit– www.theblaze.com
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The parents of a 5-year-old boy with autism who had been charged with felony assault in Tennessee have filed a lawsuit after a school administrator refused to back down.

The boy had been enrolled at Sumner County’s H.B. Williams Elementary School in the kindergarten class, and school officials were made aware of his special needs.

‘Resorting to legal actions to punish parents for the actions of a 5-year-old child who still needs those supports — that’s just not the way to go.’

The parents said they asked for behavioral support and federal law requires schools to provide extra resources, but the school officials refused and said they would gather their own evidence, according to the lawsuit.

The school agreed to providing an aide after several behavioral incidents involving pushing, shoving, and throwing objects at other children.

The parents said the support came too late.

“When you don’t provide those supports, you can deny rights not only to the child with a disability, but you can risk harming other children,” said Justin Gilbert, the attorney for the family. “It’s a key reminder that there are broad consequences to not providing supports and interventions and paraprofessional roles and special education.”

Amendments Would Put Transgenderism, Abortion In VA Constitution– thefederalist.com

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Amendments Would Put Transgenderism, Abortion In VA Constitution– thefederalist.com
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This Friday, Sept. 18, Virginia will begin early voting for the Nov. 3 election, which for residents is not only about the midterms, but also about two amendments, both introduced and sponsored by Northern Virginia Democrats. The Virginia Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment, an extremist abortion-until-birth measure, and the Virginia Remove Constitutional Same-Sex Marriage Ban Amendment are grim reminders that, for the left, there is no “moderation.”

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger ran, infamously, as a moderate candidate — and she supports both proposed amendments. It’s further proof that when given the opportunity to radically broaden access to aborting babies, restricting religious freedom, or exploiting children through surrogacy, Democrats will take it.

Lindsay Clancy Juror’s Take on What Justice Looks Like for the Murdered Children Is Beyond Appalling– townhall.com

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Lindsay Clancy Juror’s Take on What Justice Looks Like for the Murdered Children Is Beyond Appalling– townhall.com
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I’m tired, man. These women are crazy. The more they talk, the more I think the lone juror in the Lindsay Clancy case is a hero. It’s nuts. It’s all-around nuts. Child murder has not just been rationalized and trivialized here but has been used as a springboard for a mental health dialogue. No. And one said that a spotlight on this issue would serve as justice for Clancy’s three dead kids, whom she murdered with exercise bands in January 2023.

There Is No Such Thing As A Moderate Democrat Anymore– thefederalist.com

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There Is No Such Thing As A Moderate Democrat Anymore– thefederalist.com
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Nearly 60 percent of Democrats support the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), according to a recent Quinnipiac University poll.

The poll, conducted between Sept. 3 and Sept. 6, asked respondents: “On political matters, do you consider yourself a supporter of the Democratic Socialists of America, or not?”

Fifty-nine percent of Democrats said “yes,” while just 30 percent said “no.” Two percent of Republicans said “yes,” while 96 percent of Republicans said “no.” Among independents, 22 percent said “yes,” and 70 percent said “no.”

It’s a concerning statistic, especially given what the DSA platform stands for.

The DSA released a new platform in June that explicitly called for drafting “a new constitution, and creat[ing] a democratic socialist republic.” The organization also called for abolishing the Electoral College, as well as “replac[ing] the President and Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress.”

The DSA is also pushing to “demilitarize police departments, disempower police unions, and redirect funding to public services as steps toward fully abolishing the police and prison system.” The socialists want to abolish ICE, “legalize migration, grant amnesty for all immigrants regardless of status, provide a path to citizenship for all permanent residents, and end visa caps and quotas.”

There are now just 10 Democrats of more than 250 in Congress who have signed on to a coalition that opposes rising socialism and communism. As part of their “Promise to America,” the 10 Democrats declare (among other things): “We are capitalist, not socialist,” “We want safety, not lawlessness,” “We are proud, not ashamed of America.” That not all Democrats signed on to that in and of itself is concerning.

Federal Reserve Raises Interest Rates in First Hike in More Than Three Years– slaynews.com

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Federal Reserve Raises Interest Rates in First Hike in More Than Three Years– slaynews.com
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The Federal Reserve raised interest rates Wednesday for the first time in more than three years, reversing one of last year’s cuts as officials moved to contain stubborn inflation.

In a unanimous 12-0 decision, the Federal Open Market Committee increased its benchmark federal funds rate by a quarter percentage point, bringing the target range to 3.75% to 4%.

The decision marks the first major interest rate move under newly installed Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh.

It immediately puts President Donald Trump’s handpicked central bank chief at odds with the president’s repeated calls for lower borrowing costs.

Fed Reverses Course as Inflation Remains Elevated

The quarter-point increase effectively erases one of the three interest rate cuts approved last year.

Federal Reserve officials pointed directly to persistent inflation in explaining the reversal.

“Inflation remains elevated,” the Federal Open Market Committee said in its statement.

House Democrats Target Data Center Tax Breaks as Trump Pushes AI Expansion › American Greatness– amgreatness.com

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House Democrats Target Data Center Tax Breaks as Trump Pushes AI Expansion › American Greatness– amgreatness.com
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House Democrats are moving to prevent data centers from receiving certain federal tax incentives, obstructing the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence infrastructure.

Reps. Kristen McDonald Rivet, D-Mich., and Don Davis, D-N.C., introduced legislation Wednesday that would exclude data centers from specified federal investment incentives. The proposal has support from 21 additional House Democrats, according to information released with the legislation.

The opposition comes as President Donald Trump’s administration has made expanding American AI infrastructure a national priority. Trump signed an executive order in July 2025 directing federal agencies to accelerate permitting for qualifying data center projects and identifying potential financial support including loans, grants and tax incentives.

The White House’s AI Action Plan also calls for streamlining permits for data centers, semiconductor plants and supporting energy infrastructure as part of an effort to strengthen U.S. competitiveness in artificial intelligence.

Democrats behind the new legislation argue that federal incentives should not subsidize large technology companies while households face concerns about utility bills and other living expenses.

Man Arrested For Threatening To Kill Ben Shapiro– wltreport.com

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Man Arrested For Threatening To Kill Ben Shapiro– wltreport.com
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One year after the tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk, conservatives continue to be targets of deranged people.

The latest conservative targeted by a threat is co-founder of the Daily Wire Ben Shapiro.

Shapiro was recently threatened by a Kansas man who posted on X that he planned to kill Shapiro.

The man in a series of posts, threatened to kill Shapiro for being Jewish and even gave a timeline of the dates he allegedly planned to do it.

The New York Post reported more details on Strube’s arrest:

A Kansas wacko is behind bars after allegedly threatening to kill conservative podcaster Ben Shapiro, who opened up about daily security concerns in a new interview.

Korby Allen Strube, 29, was arrested recently by Florida police for allegedly posting a spree of vile antisemitic threats on X, including a menacing countdown to Yom Kippur and insinuations something would happen to Shapiro on the Jewish holiday.

“I’m going to kill be Shapiro and hes not gonna be a-live,” read a July 31 post, with a deluge of menace pouring across Strube’s X account over the following days, police records obtained by The Post showed.

“I’ll kill you just the same. Go meet Jesus. 51 days left,” read another. “Die with Jesus … I’ll kill you just the same I guess. 52 days.”

Others claimed Shapiro would be killed “for being Jewish,” or else called him a “stupid jew,” with police determining the countdown to the supposed murder plot coincided with this year’s Yom Kippur dates.

The threats weren’t just reserved for Shapiro – Strube allegedly named President Trump, the Obamas and suggested his social media behavior had somehow led to the death of Shapiro’s fellow conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.

Netherlands Euthanizes Two-Year-Old Despite Doctors Saying Alternatives Remained– www.lifenews.com

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Netherlands Euthanizes Two-Year-Old Despite Doctors Saying Alternatives Remained– www.lifenews.com
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A two-year-old child has died by euthanasia in the Netherlands, the first case of a non-infant child under 12 dying by euthanasia, despite independent doctors initially concluding that the child was “not continuously suffering unbearably” and that reasonable alternatives remained.

The child died by euthanasia at the end of 2025, which was revealed by a letter to the Dutch parliament from Health Minister Sophie Hermans in June. Infant euthanasia has been practised in the Netherlands for many years, as before a recent law change, only newborns and children over twelve could die by euthanasia. However, this was the first time that a non-infant child under the age of 12 had died by euthanasia in the country.

Before the child’s life was ended, the doctor consulted independent doctors from outside his region of practice.

These other doctors concluded that “the child was not continuously suffering unbearably”, according to the Review Committee on Late-term Abortions and Termination of Life of Neonates and Children aged under 12.

The Review Committee revealed that the other doctors believed “there were still reasonable alternatives, such as palliative options and other medications that could possibly result in better control of the epileptic seizures”.

Fourth Person Dies In Florida From Flesh-Eating Bacteria Linked To Raw Oysters– wltreport.com

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Fourth Person Dies In Florida From Flesh-Eating Bacteria Linked To Raw Oysters– wltreport.com
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This is concerning if you like oysters.

The Florida Department of Health has revealed four people have died after eating raw oysters.

According to health officials the four people who died ate raw oysters that were contaminated with Vibrio vulnificus.

Yahoo News had the full scoop and shared details on how oysters can be contaminated with Vibrio vulnificus

A fourth person has died in Florida this year from an infection caused by Vibrio vulnificus, a potentially deadly bacterium commonly associated with eating raw or undercooked shellfish, particularly oysters.

The latest fatality was a Broward County resident between 75 and 79 years old, according to Florida Department of Health data last updated September 10. The state has recorded 21 Vibrio vulnificus infections in 2026, including previous fatalities in Bay, Palm Beach and Marion counties.

It remains unclear how the latest victim contracted the infection. However, most people develop vibriosis after eating raw or undercooked shellfish, particularly oysters, according to the Florida Department of Health.

Vibrio vulnificus occurs naturally in warm coastal and brackish waters. People can also become infected when an open wound comes into contact with contaminated water. The bacteria can enter the body through cuts, scrapes or other breaks in the skin, putting swimmers, boaters and people who work around coastal water at risk, particularly if they have an open wound. Recent tattoos or piercings can also provide an entry point for the bacteria, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Vibrio is more prevalent in warmer water, which is one reason infections tend to increase during the warmer months.

Oysters can pose a particular risk because they filter large amounts of seawater as they feed, allowing bacteria such as Vibrio to accumulate inside the shellfish. A contaminated oyster can look, smell and taste normal, meaning consumers cannot tell whether one contains the bacteria.

Cooking oysters thoroughly can kill the bacteria. Health officials also advise people at higher risk of severe Vibrio infection to avoid raw or undercooked shellfish.

Federal Union Suing Trump Endorses Democrats in Midterms– www.dailysignal.com

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Federal Union Suing Trump Endorses Democrats in Midterms– www.dailysignal.com
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The American Federation of Government Employees, America’s largest federal government union, has endorsed more than 100 Democrats and a handful of Republicans in the 2026 midterm elections, while AFGE also files lawsuits to block President Donald Trump’s federal workforce reforms.

AFGE, which represents more than 800,000 federal and D.C. government employees, has endorsed House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y.; Senate candidates such as James Talarico in Texas and Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan; and many House Democrats, including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Pramila Jayapal, and Sarah McBride.

AFGE endorsed at least six Republicans among a slate otherwise dominated by Democrats. It endorsed New York Reps. Andrew Garbarino, Nick LaLota, Mike Lawler, and Nicole Malliotakis; and Pennsylvania Reps. Rob Bresnahan and Brian Fitzpatrick.

One vote may explain this list.

When President Donald Trump signed an executive order exempting certain agencies from collective bargaining rules due to their “primary function” of “intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative, or national security work,” AFGE sued to block the order. Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, one of the many Democrats AFGE has endorsed, sponsored a bill to invalidate Trump’s executive order.

AFGE’s six Republican endorsees all voted for the measure.

German Chancellor’s Attack on Free Speech Reveals Europe’s Growing Fear of Dissent– www.dailysignal.com

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German Chancellor’s Attack on Free Speech Reveals Europe’s Growing Fear of Dissent– www.dailysignal.com
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Free speech isn’t just dying in Europe; it’s being ruthlessly strangled by an out-of-touch ruling class that’s desperate to snuff it out before it loses power.

And those elites are hardly hiding their contempt for what we here in America consider a foundational, God-given right.

On Tuesday, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz made a public, frontal attack on free speech in the name of diversity and “protecting” people from “misinformation.”

There Are Ghost Kids in Them Thar Fake Daycare Centers in Gavin Newsom’s California – PJ Media– pjmedia.com

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There Are Ghost Kids in Them Thar Fake Daycare Centers in Gavin Newsom’s California – PJ Media– pjmedia.com
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Remember when the California Democrats were so upset when Nick Shirley found their tax-sucking fake daycare centers that they wrote a law, which Gavin Newsom signed , to prevent Shirley from uncovering more fraud? Remember that it was just a couple of weeks ago?

Well, Operation Cradle to Grift — and no, I’m not making up that name — has just been unleashed on a dozen alleged bad actors who ran daycare centers full of ghost babies for whom they were paid very well for years in California.

Look at this dude: he bought himself a new whip — or two — to get to work at the daycare, which was allegedly run out of his home.

Well, who are we kidding? This guy actually traveled out of the country while raking in daily dollars for fake daycare kids in his “home daycare.”

California activist Amy Reichert directed Shirley to the locations where the feds later confirmed that “daycares” were “filled” with “ghost” children and run exclusively by people from Middle Eastern and African countries in San Diego.

The feds confirmed that a dozen alleged grifters were charged with ripping off state taxpayers to the tune of $10 million. The defendants came from countries that basically hate the U.S.

Biden Administration Handicapped Federal Law Enforcement from Aggressively Pursuing Terrorist Cartels, Says South Texas U.S. Attorney– www.breitbart.com

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Biden Administration Handicapped Federal Law Enforcement from Aggressively Pursuing Terrorist Cartels, Says South Texas U.S. Attorney– www.breitbart.com
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During the Biden administration, federal authorities had their hands tied in the way they could go after and prosecute members of terrorist cartels, said Aaron Reitz, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas. Reitz explained at a press conference near the Texas-Mexico border that the Trump administration’s Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) designation is allowing the government to take back control of the border.

“The cartels functionally controlled, through a campaign of assassination, terror, rape, trafficking, kidnapping, extortion, and smuggling, all egress and ingress of our southern border,” Reitz said.

When Trump designated certain drug cartels as FTOs, it unlocked a powerful tool for the U.S. Department of Justice in going after its members.

“Because it now provides my office, along with our federal partners, the ability to smoke out, hunt down, and bring to justice some of the most evil people and organizations on the planet,” the new U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas explained.

Dems Admit They Want To Bring Third-Worlders To Put Them On Welfare– thefederalist.com

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Dems Admit They Want To Bring Third-Worlders To Put Them On Welfare– thefederalist.com
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New York City’s socialist-in-chief, Zohran Mamdani, announced Monday that the Big Apple will lead a new lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging a rule that would expand the list of public benefits under which immigration officials can deny green cards to immigrants who are “likely at any time to become a public charge,” that is, to take advantage of welfare benefits. The programs that would be included in the new rule include SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) and WIC (Women, Infants, and Children).

During his speech announcing the lawsuit, Mamdani employed the left’s usual scare tactics in an attempt to guilt the administration into doing what he wants. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: “People could die” if the government doesn’t give out these handouts.

“The federal government finalized a set of drastic and unlawful changes to our country’s public charge rule, a rule that makes it possible for someone to be denied immigration status based on the likelihood of their need for public benefits,” he said. “It is intentionally vague as a means of creating uncertainty and fear, to isolate immigrant New Yorkers.”

“This is an undisguised effort to strip New Yorkers of the services they rely on, the public benefits they are entitled to,” he continued. “Up to 4 million people from across the country could unenroll from their health care alone. … None of this is abstract. People could die. … Immigrants are New Yorkers.”