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A violent “protester” named “Jihad” was arrested on charges of assault and robbery following a brutal confrontation at a Turning Point USA rally at the University of California, Berkeley.

Antifa thugs attacked conservative attendees at the event on November 10, marking the two-month anniversary of the organization’s founder, Charlie Kirk, Breitbart reported.

The man in custody allegedly stole a necklace from someone in the crowd, which led to a fight.

Both the victim, who was wearing a red shirt emblazoned with “Freedom” like the one Kirk wore on the day he died, and the alleged perpetrator, Jihad Dphrepaulezz, were left bloody from the confrontation.

A spokesman for the Berkeley Police Department said:

“Officers determined that one of the men — Jihad Dphrepaulezz — had stolen the other man’s chain from around his neck.

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The United States may lose its measles elimination status as soon as January, marking the sustained resurgence of a disease that had been eliminated from the country 25 years ago.

On Nov. 10, Canada lost its measles elimination status, after the Pan American Health Organization concluded that the country’s recent measles outbreaks were connected and represented ongoing transmission lasting more than 12 months. Measles is considered eliminated in a country or region only when there are no outbreaks lasting longer than a year. Thus, to maintain “elimination status,” any introductions of the disease from travel must be quashed before 12 consecutive months of spread.

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The entrepreneurs who are part of the booming school safety industry face a cruel irony: they are dependent on the uniquely American epidemic of school shootings.

“Every time there is a shooting, we see an uptick in business,” says one, featured in the new HBO documentary Thoughts and Prayers, who sells bulletproof wall art and skateboards. “Every time there is a tragedy, it economically benefits my family. That’s not what I wanted. We could be a $300 million company by the time this documentary airs.”

There are, as the documentary shows, bulletproof desks that can double as shields, blackout shutters to block visibility into classrooms, and video game simulations that test how teachers respond to a fake threat of a school shooter. The school safety industry has become an estimated $4 billion juggernaut, aided in part by a $1 billion infusion from Congress in 2022 to support mental health services and infrastructure upgrades, instead of meaningful gun reform.

Despite the documentary’s critique of the American gun culture that has given rise to mass shootings, political debates and depictions of gun violence are absent from the film. Instead, there are sit-down interviews with teachers reluctantly learning how to shoot guns and kids learning to live with the looming threat of mass shootings. The filmmakers were also present for lockdown drills and a highly realistic mass casualty simulation at a school district in Oregon that included volunteer students portraying gunshot victims. For co-directors Jessica Dimmock and Zackary Canepari, the goal of making the documentary was to “look at what people are trying to do” to combat mass shootings, Dimmock told me, “and ask the audience to consider whether or not this is going to work. And do we want to live like this?”

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Diplomatic dispute deepens between Tokyo and Beijing over Taiwan remarks by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.

China will again ban all imports of Japanese seafood as a diplomatic dispute between the two countries escalates, Japanese media report.

Japanese public broadcaster NHK and Kyodo News agency said on Wednesday that the seafood ban follows after China earlier this month lifted import restrictions on Japanese marine products, which were imposed by Beijing in 2023 after the release of treated radioactive water from Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea.

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Progressives in higher education are not listening to the country on this topic; they just keep doubling down.

UMich faculty senate urges school to continue performing sex changes for minors

The Faculty Senate at the University of Michigan passed a resolution at its Nov. 3 meeting that pushes the university to resume performing sex changes on minors.

The resolution argues that because “cisgender” patients receive hormone blockers, the university is discriminating against transgender-identifying individuals by refusing to give them care. The resolution does not elaborate further, but could be referring to treatments for precocious puberty, a condition in which young children go through puberty at a very early age.

The university paused “gender-affirming care” at Michigan Medicine for patients under 19 on Aug. 25, due to federal pressure. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January that threatened loss of federal funding for institutions that failed to eliminate the practice.

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At 9:00 PM on Wednesday, November 12, legislators in South Australia voted against banning abortion after the child in the womb reaches 22 weeks and six days gestation, the point at which babies can routinely survive outside the womb. The youngest preemie to survive is Nash Keen, who was born at 21 weeks in Iowa on June 4, 2025.

ABC News reported that hundreds of pro-lifers gathered outside Parliament House Wednesday night to support the bill; an opposing rally hosted by abortion activists the previous week had attracted only “dozens of attendees.”

Eleven members voted of the state Parliament’s Upper House voted against the bill, and eight members voted for it. The bill had been put forward by Upper House MLC Sarah Game in September. Game is an independent MP formerly a member of the One Nation party.

“A lot of healthy babies are being denied a choice at life,” Game told the Legislative Council. She also warned her colleagues that late-term abortions were not a “rare event.”

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Did Gavin Newsom forget that the Department of Justice arrested the suspect believed to have started the Palisades fire in January? Because he’s still out there blaming an invisible climate that no one can see, feel, or comprehend—despite all the evidence proving otherwise.

According to Newsom, the climate is “climate-ing.” You know, dryness is dry and hotter is hot—a concept that shouldn’t be blamed on invisible, evil forces. But, of course, Newsom doesn’t care about this little thing called “facts,” which is why he went on to blame climate change for his state’s failures.

And don’t take their failures lightly. Although the blaze was originally started by arson, according to officials, there are still reports that firefighters were ordered not to monitor the fire closely—despite knowing that winds were reaching 100 mph.

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The fight is between two people who never married but whose daughter now is nearly a teen. And the coming decision by the Maine Supreme Court will determine if judges in that state can simply overturn the constitutional religious rights of parents.

The battle has been outlined by Liberty Counsel, which explained the judge’s trial court ruling in the dispute between mother and father is well into the extreme range, or beyond.

For example, the judge ruled that the custodial mother “is a fit parent EXCEPT for the fact that she is a Christian.”

The war erupted over the non-custodial father’s opposition to Christianity, specifically demanding to ban his daughter’s attendance at a Christian church.

But, based on the “counsel” to the court from a “Marxist former sociality professor,” the judge said the daughter “cannot associate with any of her church friends or any member of Calvary Chapel Portland.”

“If Ava meets a new friend outside of Calvary and that person begins attending Calvary, Ava must cut ties with that friend.”

Ava cannot attend ANY Christmas, Easter, or any other Christian event or celebration at ANY church, including any wedding, funeral, or even hospital visits with anyone associated with Calvary Chapel.”

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horrific story out of Ohio illustrates what we should all be able to agree is common sense – that prescription drugs meant to cause an abortion should not be freely available to anyone and everyone online.

The State Medical Board of Ohio recently suspended a doctor’s license after an investigation revealed he administered abortion pills that he obtained online to his pregnant girlfriend after she declined to have an abortion.

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Per new polling reported by Gallup, religion is no longer important to most Americans.

In response to the question “Is religion an important part of your daily life?” 49% said yes.

Ten years ago, in 2015, 66% responded affirmatively.

Gallup notes that this 17-point drop “ranks among the largest Gallup has recorded in any country over any 10-year period since 2007.”

This departure from religion has partisan characteristics.

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The term “smart city” fails to fully capture the integrated data system that is the Pudong New Area of Shanghai.  Chinese authorities call it the “city brain,” a centrally controlled A.I. center that surveils and manages the city and its inhabitants.  It offers a disturbing preview of future urban governance, built on a previously unimaginable level of monitoring and control.  Since 2017, this system has linked hundreds of government databases to tens of thousands of sensors, effectively turning an entire urban district into a single, real-time data object.

Officials defend the surveillance for its tangible rewards: cleaner neighborhoods, faster emergency response, smoother traffic, and better protection for isolated seniors.  Those benefits help explain why many citizens accept the system.  But the costs are equally real.  It normalizes penetrating, constant visibility, the steady expansion of behavior-based penalties, and an infrastructure that is also used for political and social control.

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The chaos, harassment, and violence that unfolded at a recent TPUSA event at UC Berkeley were so bad that the Department of Justice and FBI are now investigating.

“Antifa is an existential threat to our nation,” Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote on X following the event. “The violent riots at UC Berkeley last night are under full investigation by the FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force. We will continue to spare no expense unmasking all who commit and orchestrate acts of political violence.”

Alongside comedian Rob Schneider, author Frank Turek hosted the Turning Point event that packed the university’s Zellerbach Hall — and he’s telling BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey what really happened.

“Antifa was there, obviously. They were hurling insults and slurs at the people trying to get in. They set off fireworks, which sounded like gunfire, so people were scrambling,” Turek explains.

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This makes it clear that leftist students are actively trying to do this. They do not want TPUSA to expand its reach.

Student brags about getting Loyola U. New Orleans to reject TPUSA chapter

A Democratic student leader at Loyola University New Orleans bragged over the weekend about the impact of her advocacy when the student government denied an “official university organization” charter for Turning Point USA.

Juleea Berthelot, a student and vice president of National Students for a Democratic Society, made the remark during a panel discussion at a National Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression conference, which took place over the weekend in Chicago.

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The DOJ has previously sued Oregon and Maine for declining to provide confidential voter data.

Secretaries of State from 10 states sent a joint letter on Tuesday to Attorney General Pamela Bondi and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem seeking clarification about recent federal requests for statewide voter registration data and the manner in which that information is being used.

The officials said they were concerned about misleading and contradictory statements from the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) regarding the collection and sharing of voter information.

In the letter, the Secretaries said that in recent months, each of their states received requests from the DOJ for full voter-registration lists. In some instances, the federal government sought unredacted data, including dates of birth, driver’s license numbers, and the last four digits of Social Security numbers. The Secretaries called the scope of these requests “unprecedented” and said they needed to know how the federal government intended to use, secure, and distribute such information.

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The air forces of several NATO states were scrambled overnight to protect the airspace of the alliance along its eastern border as Russia launched one of its deadliest air strikes against Ukraine’s western regions of the war so far.

Polish, Romanian, German, Spanish, Norwegian, and Dutch fighter jets were scrambled in two deployments in airspace bordering Ukraine over Poland and Romania and the Russian armed forces hammered western Ukraine. According to Kyiv, Russia launched 476 drones, 47 cruise missiles and one ballistic missiles in strikes across the country, but particularly on Western cities Ternopil and Lviv.

At least 20 people have been found dead in Ternopil, which is approximately 225 miles west of Ukrainian capital Kyiv and 110 miles short of the Polish border. Of the killed, at least two are children, and a further 66 were wounded including 16 children in the strikes which badly damaged two apartment blocks.

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House Republicans tried and failed last night to censure Rep. Stacey Plaskett of the Virgin Islands. The move came in the wake of revelations about Plaskett texting with Jeffrey Epstein during a hearing.

Three Republicans voted against the measure, along with House Democrats who voted unanimously against it, and three Republicans voted present.

Great work guys, really great.

FOX News reports:

House Freedom Caucus bid to censure Democrat over Epstein links goes down in flames

A House Freedom Caucus-led bid to strip a member of the House Democratic Caucus of her role on a high-profile committee after her ties to Jeffrey Epstein were revealed earlier this month failed on Tuesday night.

Lawmakers voted against censuring Del. Stacey Plaskett, D-V.I., the Virgin Islands’ nonvoting delegate in the House of Representatives, over newly surfaced text messages between her and Epstein that were exchanged during the February 2019 congressional testimony of Michael Cohen.

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Much is made every election year about the abortion issue.

The debate usually devolves into a black and white confrontation over whether you support abortion rights or if you are opposed.

The complexity of the NJ abortion debate

The Left has done a better job marketing and messaging as “Pro-Choice” simply sounds American. It’s no surprise given the strong left leaning of most news outlets.

I have said for years that there are actually three sides to the debate: Those of us who are pro-Life, counting babies as a blessing and wanting to protect the unborn, those who simply don’t want the government involved, who could actually be referred to as ‘pro-choice’ and then there are those who are absolutely pro-abortion.

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The event was organized by Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). They’re a radical leftist group from way back.

NYU students call for ‘sanctuary campus’ and ‘race-based scholarships’ at university senate rally

A New York University (NYU) student group organized a protest rally on Thursday, demanding that school officials declare NYU a “sanctuary campus” and supporting “race-based scholarships.”

The Nov. 13 protest, organized by Students for a Democratic Society during a university senate meeting, also advocated for many other left-wing positions, including a call for the school to reject President Donald Trump’s compact on higher education, protections for transgender-identifying students, and an increase in black student enrollment.

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A male entered a 7-Eleven in Oklahoma City just before midnight Thursday and tried to buy burritos, beef sticks, and ice cream with a counterfeit $100 bill, according to a KOKH-TV news video.

But the female clerk wasn’t buying the con.

‘You have the right to defend yourself.’

What’s more, the clerk said she was calling police, KWTV-DT reported — and she refused the male’s demand that she give him back the counterfeit bill, Gary Knight of the Oklahoma City Police Department added to the station.

Then the thug reportedly got violent.

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If you’ve ever wondered how the hordes of antisemites who marauded across college campuses in the months after October 7 were able to afford being full-time haters and agitators, we have the answer for you: a radical Muslim group was cutting some of them $1,000 checks. Which radical Muslim group was doing this, you ask? The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), of course.

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STORY-AT-A-GLANCE

  1. The proposal to institutionalize informal relationships in Poland would not solve any real social problem – all the necessary legal instruments for such relationships already exist.
  2. In Western countries, interest in same-sex civil partnerships is extremely low, which proves that it does not stem from a genuine social need but from an ideological agenda.
  3. Granting unmarried couples marital privileges constitutes an injustice toward married couples who raise children and bear the social costs of procreation.
  4. The goal of the draft bill announced by the governing coalition is not so much “protecting relationships” as the weakening and relativization of the institutions of marriage and the family.
  5. Introducing an alternative to marriage leads to a further decline in the birth rate and a blurring of the concept of the family.
  6. This is only the first step toward granting same-sex couples the right to adopt children, and then toward recognizing all forms of cohabitation, including “multi-parent” families, where a child may have, for example, three “fathers.”

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They’re at it again.

Radical abortion activists are exploiting the tragic death of a pregnant woman to try to target and overturn abortion bans that protect women and their babies.

The leftist publication ProPublica, which has been exposed multiple times for misleading readers about abortions and the terrible deaths of pregnant women, published another article about the death of a pregnant women in an attempt to falsely blame the Texas abortion ban.

Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old dental assistant from San Antonio, Texas, died on December 28, 2024, at around 20 weeks pregnant. She was a mother of three with a history of high-risk pregnancies, including a previous stillbirth due to severe preeclampsia. Her death was ultimately caused by preeclampsia, a dangerous pregnancy-related condition involving extremely high blood pressure that led to heart failure, kidney damage, and fluid buildup in her organs. An autopsy confirmed hypertensive cardiovascular disease as the direct mechanism: her heart became enlarged and overwhelmed, causing multi-organ shutdown.

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A Washington state man is “severely ill” after contracting a strain of bird flu never seen before in humans, the New York Post reports.

The outlet claims the man was hospitalized after exhibiting symptoms such as confusion, high fever, and respiratory distress.

According to the outlet, the man was infected with H5N5, a “subtype of avian influenza carried by wild birds like ducks and geese.”

More from the New York Post:

The Washington State Department of Health described the unidentified patient as being “older” and having “underlying health conditions.”

The agency noted that the man has a “mixed backyard flock of domestic poultry” at his home in Grays Harbor County, on the southwest Pacific coast of the state.

Two of the birds recently died, the Washington Post reported.

Wild birds could also access the property, with agency officials believing that either set of birds is “most likely” the source of the virus exposure.

The man remained hospitalized as of last week while the investigation continues.

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A Berkeley public school teacher who’s become a star on the far-left protest circuit led a weekend “tribunal” plotting fresh action to shut down Turning Point USA chapters on campuses and even inside public schools, including her own.

Yvette Felarca, long tied to the militant group By Any Means Necessary, ran the 90-minute Sunday meeting with about 40 members of the socialist outfit. Fox News Digital learned she closed the session by calling for a vote on the next phase of the group’s campaign. The plan: “stop” Turning Point USA at colleges and in K–12 schools, beginning with Berkeley High School, where she teaches. The vote was unanimous.

The group cheered the effort as a push to “stop fascist recruiting in schools,” a phrase BAMN has used as it collects tax-deductible donations through the Detroit-based Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality.

“Solidarity!” Felarca said at the end.

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Newly released Epstein files are now raising serious questions for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY).

The documents revealed that Jeffries’ representatives sought donations from convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

The emails show that Jeffries’ reps encouraged the child sex offender to attend a private fundraising dinner with then-President Barack Obama.

Thousands of pages of Epstein’s estate documents were released last week by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

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Republicans are firing back after a group of six Democrat lawmakers created a video telling U.S. military members and the intelligence community they do not need to follow “illegal orders.”

“Like us, you all swore an oath to protect and defend this Constitution. Right now, the threats to our Constitution aren’t just coming from abroad, but from right here at home,” the Democrats say in the video message. “Our laws are clear. You can refuse illegal orders. … You must refuse illegal orders.”

Michigan Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin shared the video, which appears to be in reference to the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations, on X Tuesday, telling the military and intelligence community, the “American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution. Don’t give up the ship.”

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A panel of three unelected judges issued an injunction Tuesday blocking Texas from using its newly drawn congressional map. If Texas loses the appeals process, the injunction could stand, which means the five seats Texas thought it was gaining will not materialize. But five seats that could materialize will be in California. Which means that Republicans in red states must step up or risk losing the House to Democrats permanently.

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey V. Brown ruled alongside Judge Davi Guaderrama in a 2-1 decision that the new map appears to be a race-based gerrymander, which is illegal.

“The public perception of this case is that it’s about politics,” the majority opinion reads. “To be sure, politics played a role in drawing the 2025 map. But it was much more than just politics. Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 map.”