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California lawmakers pass bill allowing people to identify their Jewish ancestry on state forms– abcnews.com

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California lawmakers pass bill allowing people to identify their Jewish ancestry on state forms– abcnews.com
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California would allow Jews to voluntarily identify their Jewish heritage on state forms under a bill the state Assembly passed Monday.

The bill, which needs a final vote in the Legislature to head to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk, would require state agencies that collect demographic information to add “Jewish” as an option for ethnicity or ancestry. The goal is to give state officials and researchers better data on Jewish Californians, including their unemployment rates and representation in schools.

The data would enable lawmakers to create policies that address the needs of Jews in the state, said David Bocarsly, CEO of Jewish California, an advocacy group.

“It’s about inclusion as a community,” Bocarsly said, noting the Legislature has passed laws in recent years to collect more inclusive demographic data on Middle Eastern, North African and LGBTQ+ communities.

Some opponents of the bill are worried about the idea of the state collecting such data given the traumatic history of the Nazi government keeping records of Jews during the Holocaust. The proposal would bar agencies from disclosing “personal identifying information,” and bill author Henry Stern, a Democratic state senator who is Jewish, said California already has robust privacy protections that should assuage those concerns.

Sydney Levy of Jewish Voice for Peace, a progressive anti-Zionist group, wasn’t convinced by that argument.

Canada’s anti-American boycott goes so far it targets California wine: ‘These Canadians hate us so much’– www.theblaze.com

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Canada’s anti-American boycott goes so far it targets California wine: ‘These Canadians hate us so much’– www.theblaze.com
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Ontario officials are cracking down on American alcohol so aggressively that even a grocery store display of California wine sparked a government response after a citizen tipped off local media.

“We were alerted to this by a viewer who said a store in Kemptville had set up a full display in the front of the beer and wine section, prominently selling wine from California,” CTV News anchor Dylan Dyson reported.

“I saw the wine on display this morning, and within hours of contacting Loblaw, the dusty U.S. bottles were pulled from the shelves once again.

“When CTV News reached out to Loblaw, the parent company of the independent grocer chain, it said the wine was put on the shelves without the approval of the store owner,” he continued.

“And once identified, it was removed immediately,” he added.

“I don’t know why they would do it,” one resident told cameras in response to the store having American wine on their shelves.

Ontario’s minister of finance responded as well, saying, “We have been clear — US alcohol will remain off shelves. We expect all retailers, including this grocer, to follow the rules.”

According to the CTV News Ottawa report, the incident helped in “reigniting shoppers’ patriotism amid trade tensions with Donald Trump and the United States.”

“If these Canadians hate us so much, why not boycott all 30,000 American businesses that dominate your craphole country? You know why they won’t?” BlazeTV host Pat Gray asks.

“Because they can’t. They’re far too dependent on us to actually put their money where their inflated egos are,” he adds.

Gray notes that Canada is also dependent on the U.S. for protection.

China warns of ‘consequences’ for Taiwan after Taipei envoys attend leaders summit– abcnews.com

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China warns of ‘consequences’ for Taiwan after Taipei envoys attend leaders summit– abcnews.com
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KOROR, Palau — China warned of “consequences” for Taiwan after officials from Beijing and Taipei attended a ceremonial event at a Pacific leaders summit, where major powers already had been urged to restrain from turning a meeting of mostly small island countries into a geopolitical sideshow.

The 18 member states and territories of the Pacific Islands Forum, which opened its annual summit in Palau’s largest city Koror on Monday, do not include China, the United States or Taiwan. However, battles for influence over the lucrative oceans and strategically important locations of the forum’s members this week threatened, as they have before, to overshadow its summit.

Some theater was expected at this year’s event because the host country, a western Pacific island nation next to the Philippines that has close ties to the U.S., is among the 11 countries and the Vatican that recognize Taiwan, which Beijing says is a part of China.

Several Pacific leaders didn’t attend this year’s event. While some absences were due to ill health or politics at home and signaled in advance, analysts speculated others might be missing due to pressure from Beijing.

Ahead of the summit, Palau President Surangel Whipps Jr. hosted joint events with Taiwan’s representative, Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung, and at the opening ceremony placed the envoys from Beijing and Taipei in the same row, although they were in separate blocks of seats.

Nepal deaths cross 1,000 as rescuers continue search for hundreds trapped in tunnels — RT World News– www.rt.com

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Nepal deaths cross 1,000 as rescuers continue search for hundreds trapped in tunnels — RT World News– www.rt.com
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About 4,000 people remain missing seven days after a devastating flash flood hit the country’s northern border regions with China

Rescue teams in Nepal continue to search water-logged hydropower tunnels in the country’s north, where hundreds of workers remain unaccounted for seven days after a flash flood devastated areas near the border with China.

The death toll has risen to 1,003, Nepal’s National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRRMA) said on Tuesday afternoon.

Nearly 4,000 people remain unaccounted for, the country’s Foreign Ministry said, adding about 590 foreign nationals from 39 countries are among them. Some 11,800 have been rescued.

As the authorities try to bring relief and supplies to survivors , rescue teams are racing to locate the hundreds believed trapped in the 12-13 tunnels of the many hydroelectric projects dotting the Trishuli river corridor.

The NDRRMA has listed 639 people associated with the hydropower projects as missing. But the authorities have not been able to establish how many of those could be inside the tunnels or may have been swept away.

Watch: Trump Posts A.I. Video of Iran’s Kharg Island ‘Blown to Smithereens’– www.breitbart.com

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Watch: Trump Posts A.I. Video of Iran’s Kharg Island ‘Blown to Smithereens’– www.breitbart.com
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President Donald Trump on Sunday posted a ten-second A.I.-generated video of Iran’s Kharg Island oil terminal being “blown to smithereens,” as he put it, shortly after the first U.S. airstrikes against Iran in a month. None of the actual strikes was confirmed to have targeted Kharg Island.

Hamid Bovard, chief executive of the state-run National Iranian Oil Company, said on Monday that Trump’s tweet was “laughable,” and “conditions in Kharg are calm and appropriate.”

Bovard claimed the Kharg Island oil facility remains operational, workers are repairing damage from previous strikes, and the facilities are being modernized. About 90 percent of Iran’s oil exports normally pass through Kharg Island.

U.S. warplanes struck Iranian forces on Sunday as they were preparing to deploy more mines into the Strait of Hormuz, following the surprising revelation by U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) on Thursday that most of the mines previously deployed by Iran had been quietly disarmed and cleared by American personnel.

The targets for Sunday’s airstrikes include two Iranian missile launchers on Larak Island, which is located off the coast of Bandar Abbas, Iran in the Strait of Hormuz. Larak Island is hundreds of miles from Kharg Island, Iran’s primary oil loading terminal in the Persian Gulf.

CNN Criticized for Emotional Appeals in Tom Homan Border Deportation Interview– www.newsbusters.org

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CNN Criticized for Emotional Appeals in Tom Homan Border Deportation Interview– www.newsbusters.org
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On Sunday’s State of the Union, CNN host Dana Bash pressured Tom Homan — “as a border czar and as a human” — how can you be comfortable with sending Haitians back to Haiti, when it’s dangerous? Emotional appeals against most if not all deportations is what journalists do now. They can’t admit the border czar might also have emotional appeals for getting dangerous people out of the country.

Journalists like Bash sound more like ACLU activists than journalists. Haitians don’t get Temporary Protective Status from the Media. It’s permanent protection. Senior research analyst Bill D’Agostino and media analyst (Latinx-pert?) Jorge Bonilla joined the show.

Mika Brzezinski won Worst media quote of the week on this line: “Are, again, we going after the worst of the worst, or are we just going after people to create a level of fear out there where laws can be broken, people can be detained for months, and children have to show up alone for the detention hearings? The list goes on as to how backwards, un-American, and sick this is.”

Speaking of Bash, media reporter Justin Baragona of Zeteo employed anonymous CNN sources to bash Dana Bash for not being “objective” on Israel, and on Piker.  As in:

“It was really disappointing to see Dana and CNN playing into these characterizations of Hasan, who is not as controversial as they’ve made him out to be,” a CNN producer told me about Dana Bash’s “bad-faith” campaign, which has seen her misconstrue Piker’s comments.”

If You’re Using AI To Replace Discipleship, You’re A Bad Pastor– thefederalist.com

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If You’re Using AI To Replace Discipleship, You’re A Bad Pastor– thefederalist.com
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PreacherBot ain’t got no soul.

But people really want him — or rather, it — to have one. This is bad, as was demonstrated by a recent New York Times profile of Justin Lester, a California Bay Area pastor who has created an AI “twin” of himself using “almost two million words of his sermons, podcasts, books, text messages and emails.” This AI facsimile is “available on his website and Facebook page for online chats or phone calls … to provide advice around the clock.”

Lester is not the first to do something like this — a Catholic parish in Switzerland even installed AI Jesus in a confessional for a while — and he won’t be the last, in part because he is encouraging and assisting other pastors in following his lead. And though his efforts are concentrated among historically black Baptist churches, everyone from Catholics to Pentecostals to Presbyterians will be tempted to create a PreacherBot of their own.

The incentives are simple: There are not enough pastors, and pastors don’t have enough time. As his life and ministry got busier, Lester, a longtime tech enthusiast, turned to AI, first as an assistant, then as a substitute. He won’t use AI to write his sermons, but otherwise he adopted AI as a way to multiply his ministry, first by using it to handle some mundane tasks, and then by multiplying himself via an AI doppelganger that is always available for in-depth conversations, even with “people he’d never met who had questions he’d never been asked.” He thought this AI “twin” captured not only his views but also his voice, and he became comfortable with it dispensing advice in his image.

But using AI in this way seems to further increase the distance between Lester and his congregation. For instance, The New York Times related that “he shook a young woman’s hand after church and then watched her walk to the car and begin chatting on her phone with his digital twin.” In this case, Lester’s efforts to expand his pastoral role shrunk it, as a congregant who could have taken time with him in person instead turned to the ersatz digital self he had commissioned. Yet he still pushes other pastors to build PreacherBots of their own.

Pennsylvania gov. moves to replace moms with ‘pregnant individuals’– www.lifesitenews.com

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Pennsylvania gov. moves to replace moms with ‘pregnant individuals’– www.lifesitenews.com
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HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (LifeSiteNews) — Pennsylvania Democrat Gov. Josh Shapiro is moving to update the state’s health code by replacing terms denoting females with gender-neutral language, underscoring the woke reality beneath the moderate image sometimes attributed to the governor.

The Daily Wire reports that the governor’s proposed updates, which span more than 500 pages, replace instances of “woman” with “individual” and refer to new mothers as “postpartum individuals,” ostensibly to leave room to recognize the ultimately-fictional concept of “pregnant men” – as explained by a notorious 2021 opinion from the left-wing American College of Gynecologists and Obstetricians that “Some postpartum [so-called] transgender individuals may not identify as ‘mothers;’ thus, obstetrician–gynecologists and other health care professionals should be mindful of the language they use.”

“Somehow, in the midst of hundreds of pages of new government mandates, the department also found it necessary to erase words like ‘pregnant woman’ and ‘mother’ in the regulations and replace them with terms like ‘pregnant individual,’” responded Republican state Sen. Michele Brooks.

“The changing of language in the regulations represents the triumph of ideology over biology,” said Independence Law Center chief counsel Randall Wenger. “This change of language doesn’t reflect reality; it obscures it. It erases female identity as a stable category in favor of a fluid concept of gender. The Shapiro administration is so concerned with affirming transgender identity that it can no longer recognize the realities of biological sex. The department cannot pretend to fight dangerous diseases with its delusions about gender.”

Newspaper Mailed to Michiganders Wrongly Claims El-Sayed Is a ‘Veteran’– townhall.com

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Newspaper Mailed to Michiganders Wrongly Claims El-Sayed Is a ‘Veteran’– townhall.com
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A left-wing group has sent unsolicited newspapers to many Michiganders claiming that Socialist Democrat Abdul El-Sayed is a “veteran.”

Earlier this week, a left-wing organization calling itself “The Michigan Independent” ran a piece on El-Sayed’s Senate primary win in August, the Washington Free Beacon reported. The Michigan Independent favors Democrats and claimed that El-Sayed served in the military.

One of the Michigan Independent pieces contains a headline saying “El-Sayed — veteran, doctor, and former health official — is Democratic Senate pick.”

El-Sayed isn’t a veteran, and he’s never practiced as a physician. Jay Murray, a writer from the Michigan Enjoyer, quickly exposed the fake news. Then, a national outlet noticed the apparent error that benefited El-Sayed’s campaign.

The Michigan Independent’s mailing address routes to The American Independent Foundation in Washington, D.C. Writer Alyssa Burr has the byline on the story.

Sec. of the Army Dan Driscoll Has Resigned– townhall.com

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Sec. of the Army Dan Driscoll Has Resigned– townhall.com
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Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll has resigned from his post following altercations with Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth, Fox News reported Monday evening.

U.S Attorney Essayli: California Voter Rolls ‘Vulnerable’ After Non-Citizen Arrested– legalinsurrection.com

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U.S Attorney Essayli: California Voter Rolls ‘Vulnerable’ After Non-Citizen Arrested– legalinsurrection.com
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First Assistant United States Attorney Bill Essayli said that the arrest of the Honduran national in California for allegedly unlawfully registering to vote shows the state’s vulnerability.

Essayli told Bill Melugin on Fox News:

This case really highlights the vulnerability in California’s voter rolls. They basically allow anybody to register to vote on the honor system. There’s nobody in government that is checking to confirm you’re a citizen, and in fact, in this case, he on the form put down a California driver’s license and a social, which he had because he has a visa that does not prove you’re a citizen. And according to the Secretary of State, they say at least half a million people don’t even provide that information when they register to vote.

Darwin Jonathan Rivera Flores faces two felony charges: false claim to U.S. citizenship and fraudulent voter registration.

Rivera Flores is a lawful permanent resident in California’s San Fernando Valley. But he is not a citizen and therefore cannot vote.

Rivera Flores has not voted in an election. The voter registration was dated November 4, 2025.

Authorities believe Rivera Flores intended to vote in November.

Rivera Flores appeared on the FBI’s radar due to harassing an agent after he disrupted ICE operations in February.

Socialist Democrat Melts Down in Defense of Hasan Piker, Demands Party Focus on Targeting ‘White Christians’ & ‘Broligarchs’– slaynews.com

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Socialist Democrat Melts Down in Defense of Hasan Piker, Demands Party Focus on Targeting ‘White Christians’ & ‘Broligarchs’– slaynews.com
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A socialist Democrat poised to represent much of Philadelphia in Congress erupted at members of his own party for distancing themselves from far-left streamer Hasan Piker, who has faced mounting condemnation from prominent Democrats over his controversial rhetoric.

Pennsylvania State Rep. Chris Rabb (D-Philadelphia) is heavily favored to win Pennsylvania’s deep-blue 3rd Congressional District in November.

Rabb lashed out as Democrat leaders are increasingly condemning Piker.

“This is what the institutionalists are focusing their efforts on now: Disavowing Hasan Piker,” Rabb wrote Friday on X.

“Not White Christian nationalists? Not the broligarchs? Not the AI overlords?

“Nope, the guy encouraging young people to use their collective political power for good.”

Rabb concluded his response with an expletive.

“F**k that noise,” he raged.

Australian judge floats giving court-appointed expert access to Tesla’s engineering systems– www.channelnewsasia.com

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Australian judge floats giving court-appointed expert access to Tesla’s engineering systems– www.channelnewsasia.com
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SYDNEY: An Australian judge said he may order Tesla to give an independent expert access to its internal engineering platforms as part of a class action against the Elon Musk-led carmaker, a move designed to bypass a drawn-out discovery process that has dogged the case.

The lawsuit, filed in February 2025, alleges Tesla’s Model 3 and Model Y vehicles suffer from “phantom braking” and that the advertised self-driving capability and battery range were overstated.

Federal Court judge Tom Thawley suggested appointing an independent expert after lawyers for the applicants, representing some 10,000 Tesla owners, complained the documents Tesla had turned over failed to capture crucial technical information they needed to run the case.

Bringing in an independent expert who was endorsed by both sides “would eliminate the discovery issue because they would have, if they needed access to something, the power to get access”, Thawley told the court on Tuesday (Sep 1).

He added that he would not necessarily keep the court-appointed expert away from certain material “just because one of the parties doesn’t like that idea”.

The matter is yet to go to trial as the parties clash over the discovery process.

CBS Host Brennan Avoids Naming El-Sayed Amid Piker Controversy on Face The Natio– www.newsbusters.org

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CBS Host Brennan Avoids Naming El-Sayed Amid Piker Controversy on Face The Natio– www.newsbusters.org
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Ever since Abdul El-Sayed became the Democratic Senate nominee from Michigan, the liberal media has been doing all \it can to protect him against accusations of anti-Semitism, and belittle concerns about his close relationship with radical left wing streamer Hasan Piker, who, among other outrageous statements, once said America deserved 9-11. On Sunday’s Face The Nation, CBS host Margaret Brennan’s performance was one of the most egregious examples of this.

After receiving a ‘good morning’ welcome from Brennan, Congressman John James of Michigan, who is also the GOP’s gubernatorial candidate from the state, wasted no time in getting his main point across:

JAMES: Hey, Margaret, good morning. Thank you so much for having me on. I’m really excited, because in a state like Michigan, we have the most extreme ticket running, with Abdul El Sayyed and Jocelyn Benson [MI Secretary of State and Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate] campaigning with people who said that we deserved 9/11–

BRENNAN: Okay–

JAMES: I say, never forget.

James seemed to rattle Brennan, who was apparently caught off guard, and then acted confused, as if she had never heard this issue raised before, or as if she had never heard of Piker. She also seemed to label Benson as a senate candidate, which is of course incorrect:

Oh, wow. I want to ask you about some issues with your platform and the like, but never forget, of course. I’m sorry, did you just accuse Senate candidates of something to do with terrorism? I’m not clear what you just said?

“Senate candidates?” “Something to do with terrorism?” She refused to mention both El-Sayed, or Piker, who, maybe someone should inform Brennan.

So here we go. Piker recently said that American Jews who support Israel, are responsible for bringing about acts of anti-Semitism, causing a rebuke from House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and has along history of verbally attacking Jews.

Lindsay Clancy Supporters Praise Her Lawyer: “You’re the voice of so many moms”– www.louderwithcrowder.com

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Lindsay Clancy Supporters Praise Her Lawyer: “You’re the voice of so many moms”– www.louderwithcrowder.com
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The depravity of Lindsay Clancy supporters is getting worse by the day.

Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, was confronted by a mother and her daughter outside the courthouse. Nearly in tears, they thanked him for defending Clancy, who admitted to killing her three children, while the daughter claimed how much she related and wished someone like him had advocated for her when she was postpartum.

This is incredibly embarrassing, cringe, and reprehensible. How pathetic does one have to be to travel from Houston just to tell the lawyer of a mother who killed her own children that they wish she had support like this when she was postpartum? Support for what? She is supporting an evil murderer. She does realize that, right? The mass psychosis is beyond evident at this point.

According to the New York Post:

Witwen and her daughter, Hannah Estrada, both traveled from Houston, Texas to support Clancy in light of their own experience with postpartum.

“We came from Houston to watch you. I wish someone would have held my daughter’s hand,” said the 65-year-old mother through tears.

Well, why didn’t the mother hold her own daughter’s hand? Why are these people so pathetic? Why does she desperately need someone to coddle her? Why are they supporting a murderer? It truly is a whole new level of depravity.

“We want to take you out for a steak dinner, Mr, Reddington! We love you so much,” Estrada, 37, said. “I had my health weaponized against me in family court.”

Democrats Admit They Don’t See Illegal Immigration As A Problem– thefederalist.com

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Democrats Admit They Don’t See Illegal Immigration As A Problem– thefederalist.com
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Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., thinks the problem Democrats had with immigration was not that they allowed millions of illegals to invade the country, but rather that Democrats’ simply failed to explain to Americans that they should be grateful for living with illegal aliens who apparently make communities safer.

During an interview with the CT Mirror, Murphy claimed that President Donald Trump was trying to solve a “fake problem” of mass migration being a threat to the American people.

“The problem, according to the Trump administration, is a country that has been invaded, a country that is at risk physically because of the presence of people from other countries,” Murphy said. “That is a fake problem. That is not a real problem.”

Murphy then cited unnamed sources purportedly showing illegal aliens — who by definition have committed a crime by being here illegally — are actually less likely to be criminals than Americans.

“Nobody likes to hear this, but immigrants, first generation immigrants and undocumented immigrants both commit crimes at rates lower than natural-born Americans, than people that are born here in this country,” Murphy said. “So if you want to live in a safe community, you are actually better off living in a community with people that just got to the United States of America. And so we’re not seeking to solve ‘a problem’ of migrant crime.”

This answer makes a lot of sense if you understand that Democrats have learned absolutely nothing after the 2024 presidential election.

For four years the Biden administration facilitated a mass illegal alien invasion. Democrat cities and states became filled with Third World foreigners. Hotels were turned into migrant shelters, American students were sent home for remote learning so that illegal aliens could sleep in public schools, and taxpayers were forced to feed, clothe, shelter, and protect millions of illegal aliens who had no right to be here.

Enes Kanter Freedom Banned From Sky Arena Over ‘Potential To Be A Threat’– dailycaller.com

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Enes Kanter Freedom Banned From Sky Arena Over ‘Potential To Be A Threat’– dailycaller.com
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A “threat”? … They really went there.

Michael Alter, the owner of the Chicago Sky, stated Tuesday that former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom is banned from Wintrust Arena following Sunday’s confrontation with guard Natasha Cloud.

The ruling was revealed by Alter in an address to beat writers. (RELATED: Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White — Former NBA Players Who Declared For WNBA Draft — Ruled Ineligible: REPORT)

“He has demonstrated to us, unequivocally, that he has the potential to be a threat,” said Alter, per ESPN.

It’s not clear how it was determined that Freedom could be threatening.

The incident between Freedom and Cloud took place in the third quarter of Chicago’s defeat against the Indiana Fever. After Cloud scored, the Fever called a timeout, and she ended up directing her energy at Freedom, who was sitting around the basket. Freedom got out of his seat and began walking toward Cloud, and immediately, security and Sky players got in the middle of the two.

Let’s call this what it actually is: pure theater.

CIA Director Made Secret Moscow Trip to Warn Putin Against Attacking NATO: Report– slaynews.com

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CIA Director Made Secret Moscow Trip to Warn Putin Against Attacking NATO: Report– slaynews.com
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CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s mysterious trip to Moscow this week was reportedly intended to deliver a direct warning to Russia against attacking a NATO country amid U.S. intelligence concerns that President Vladimir Putin could eventually test the alliance with a limited military assault.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Ratcliffe’s surprise mission was connected to recent U.S. intelligence assessments indicating that Putin could attempt an attack against an allied nation in the coming years to gauge whether NATO would respond.

President Donald Trump, however, offered a different account of the closely guarded mission, describing Ratcliffe’s trip as “sort of semi-routine.”

Asked by conservative radio host Glenn Beck whether the CIA director had traveled to Moscow to warn Russia about NATO, potential strikes involving England, or sanctions against Iran, Trump responded that it concerned “none of the above.”

“Something may come out of it,” Trump added, saying his administration was “working very hard to get that war ended,” referring to Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Ratcliffe’s visit nevertheless represented one of the highest-level contacts between Washington and Moscow in months.

Obama Judge Once Again Orders Postal Service To Defy Trump’s Mail-In Ballot Executive Order– dailycaller.com

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Obama Judge Once Again Orders Postal Service To Defy Trump’s Mail-In Ballot Executive Order– dailycaller.com
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An Obama-appointed judge once again temporarily barred the U.S. Postal Service from carrying out President Donald Trump’s restrictions on mail-in ballots in a Thursday ruling.

U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani lifted a preliminary injunction Wednesday after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that some of Trump’s limits could remain in place. The judge issued a new ruling reversing the previous decision, arguing that USPS overstepped its legal mandate, which once again blocked Trump’s rule.

Trump signed an executive order on March 31 titled, “Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections,” which established certain rules for the USPS regarding mail-in and absentee ballots. Section 3 of the executive order required all outgoing election mail to be marked as “Official Election Mail,” including a unique Intelligent Mail barcode and be pre-approved by the USPS for design and barcode placement. (RELATED: Judicial Order Blocking Trump’s Post Office Rule For Mail-In Ballots Lifted After SCOTUS Intervention)

“Where a state or local election official does not obtain envelope and return envelope design approval, or does not upload voter information, or does not include unique intelligent mail bar codes on ballot envelopes, the U.S.P.S. will not mail ballots to voters,” the ruling stated.

Talwani argued that Congress did not delegate authority to the USPS to regulate election mail. She argued the rules would prevent citizens from voting by mail unless the USPS approved the ballots in a timely manner.

The judge further argued that imposing these rules on the states is unconstitutional. She placed a fourteen-day stay on the “implementation or enforcement” of the rules, which prevents USPS from taking these steps ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

“The court finds Plaintiffs likely to succeed on the merits of their claims that (1) the USPS lacked authority to issue the Final Rule; (2) the Final Rule is unconstitutional in imposing these requirements on the States; and (3) the Final Rule is unconstitutional in prohibiting non-compliant State and local officials from using the United States Postal Service to mail ballots,” the judge said.

Talwani initially barred Section 3 in an Aug. 11 ruling after the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts and other activist groups sued the administration over the executive order.

A court in California issued a similar injunction, which reached the Supreme Court in the case, Trump v. California. The high court stayed the injunction, allowing the administration to move forward with the executive order.


Apocalyptic Flash Flood Devastates Tibet and Nepal

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Major flash floods from a glacial collapse devastated parts of Tibet and Nepal, with Nepal being the hardest hit. The flash floods removed whole villages, hitting them with 30-plus-foot high walls. The alleged current death toll stands at around 500, with 1,300 reported missing. The true death toll may be much higher. There were scores of foreigners among the dead. They were there to make Hindu pilgrimages.

Catastrophic Nepal, Tibet flood death toll soars as 25 Canadians still missing – National– globalnews.ca
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Catastrophic flash floods in a border area of Nepal and Tibet, an autonomous region of China, have killed at least 353 and left more than 1,300 people missing as of Thursday. Many were foreigners in the area for trekking, guided tours or a pilgrimage to a sacred Hindu site.

The number of missing from Wednesday’s disaster may vary across agencies because of differences in how they collected data, when it was reported and how it was verified, as well as gaps in coordination between those assembling data and those conducting rescue efforts in the affected area.

Police reported at least 353 dead and 826 missing. Local reports cited the National Emergency Operation Center as saying Thursday the missing included 113 Nepali tourists, 85 security personnel from the army and police as well as 161 residents from the Rasuwa district and one from the Nuwakot district.

Anti-Journalist Law Signed by Gavin Newsome

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California’s Progressive Governor, Gavin Newsome, has signed the “Stop Nick Shirley” Act into law. The law makes it illegal for reporters to question immigration service providers on film and share the results online. The law selectively protects a certain class of people from American journalism. The law is sure to be challenged in the courts.

The law takes effect October 1, 2027. Progressive Assemblywoman Mia Bonta, who introduced the bill, claimed, “Our immigrant service providers are living in fear because of extremists looking to demonize the work that they do and the populations they serve.” This is not Americanism, this is progressivism. We are different nations altogether.

Newsom Signs ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act’ to Stop Investigations Into Immigration ‘Service’ Provider Fraud › American Greatness– amgreatness.com
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation Saturday expanding privacy protections for immigration service workers, despite warnings that the measure could chill investigative journalism and face First Amendment challenges.

Assembly Bill 2624, dubbed the “Stop Nick Shirley Act” by Republican Assemblyman Carl DeMaio, expands California’s Safe at Home program to certain nonprofit employees who assist people navigating the U.S. immigration system.

The law will take effect Oct. 1, 2027, after Newsom leaves office because of term limits.

Democratic Assemblywoman Mia Bonta, who introduced the bill in February, said the protections are necessary because immigration service providers face harassment and threats.

“Our immigrant service providers are living in fear because of extremists looking to demonize the work that they do and the populations they serve,” Bonta said Saturday.

The measure imposes penalties on people who distribute information or images of covered immigration workers under circumstances the law defines as inciting violence or threats. Penalties can range from $10,000 to $50,000, with violations potentially carrying jail or prison sentences.

DHS Finds Chinese Parts in U.S. Voting Machines

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Due to a breach in security, the Department of Homeland Security has let states know it will be conducting spot paper ballot audits of U.S. voting machines this November.

The announcement comes following news Chinese parts have shown up in U.S. voting machines, giving the Chinese government potential opportunity to manipulate election results. This is a follow-up on the announcement President Trump made in July about Chinese interference in U.S. elections.

DHS Secretary Says Chinese Parts in Voting Machines Necessitate Audit – PJ Media– pjmedia.com
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is planning to require states do random audits of paper ballots in order to counteract the danger from potential Chinese access to voting machines this November.

The statement that China interferes in our elections is not supposition. It is fact, and the only question is to what extent. As part of his July reveal of classified document caches exposing a vast domestic and international election fraud network, President Donald Trump noted that not only did the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) steal 200 million voters’ data and manufacture fake ballots to help Joe Biden, it also has potential access to vote tabulation machines. Indeed, the CCP mounted a pressure campaign to influence American officials ahead of the 2020 election. It subsequently transpired that a Chinese company had bought the vendor involved in the New Jersey noncitizen registered voters scandal.

All of which is to say that it is perfectly understandable that DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin is concerned about the CCP’s and related entities’ possible ability to influence the midterm election, especially since he almost certainly has even more evidence than we, the public, do about Chinese meddling.

CCP Hackers Break into Major U.S. Government Institutions

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The Department of Justice announced the disruption of a Chinese Communist Party hacking operation that had successfully accessed government networks. Some institutions breached include the Senate, the DOJ, NASA, and the Federal Reserve.

FBI Director Kash Patel announced, “Today we announced the disruption of a global botnet and hacking platform used by Chinese state-sponsored hackers to target U.S. critical infrastructure. These tools were used by PRC cyber actors to hide the origin of their attacks… Today’s action is just the latest technical operation against PRC-sponsored hacking – and in support of President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America, the FBI is surging efforts to shape adversary behavior and defend the homeland in cyberspace.”

Feds: Chinese Hackers Broke Into DoJ, NASA, Federal Reserve, Senate › American Greatness– amgreatness.com
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The Justice Department announced Wednesday that federal authorities seized internet domains associated with two Chinese hacking platforms used to target some of the nation’s most sensitive government institutions.

The platforms, known as QScan and QTRouter, were operated by a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group called QTFY, according to the Justice Department.

Federal officials said QTFY was employed by China-based Nanjing Xinjiuwei Network Technology Company and provided computer intrusion services to paying customers, including China’s Ministry of State Security and People’s Liberation Army.

The hacking tools allowed malicious actors to infiltrate computer systems while concealing the country from which the attacks originated, prosecutors said.

Among the targets were the Justice Department, NASA, Federal Reserve and U.S. Senate. The Energy Department, Department of Health and Human Services and National Institutes of Health were also victims of QTFY-related intrusion activity, according to federal officials.

“State-sponsored malicious hackers preying on America’s critical infrastructure will be stopped and prosecuted,” Attorney General Todd Blanche said. “We are here to ensure security for the American people and will use every tool we have to keep that promise.”

AWFL Wisconsin TikToker is armed with a bow and arrows to rally an uprising for Lindsey Clancy (who murdered her three kids)– www.louderwithcrowder.com

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AWFL Wisconsin TikToker is armed with a bow and arrows to rally an uprising for Lindsey Clancy (who murdered her three kids)– www.louderwithcrowder.com
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The harpies are going into battle! There is a Million AWFL March movement brewing in every state. Lindsey Clancy murdered her three children, and you would think, “Hey, that’s bad. What an evil person!” You would be wrong. Lindsey isn’t a woman so much as she is a symbol, signalling to other women that it’s…ok to murder your children? I’m honestly at a loss, and that’s before getting into why this broad is “armed” with a bow and a fanny pack.

Usual viral video disclaimers. Grok couldn’t provide be any more context on who this AWFL broad is. I’m assuming she doesn’t have any children of her own, but that’s just based on the fact that if she did, she seems like the kind of person who would include them in her content.

I know this is being shared around the X-Twitters to bait rage, and it’s working. My rage is, in point of fact, baited. Dare I say, I have AWFL fatigue. But if I’m being honest, I’m mostly put off by the laziness of it. You go through the trouble of setting up the tripod, putting on your homeliest dress, your fancy fanny pack, and grab a bow…just to stand there?

I’d expect at least a feminist Hunger Games motif. Katniss Everderp ready to storm the Capitol in support of President Snow’s wife sending him out on an errand so that she could murder their three children. Even if that was too much work, use that annoying whistling song from the movie as the backing track.