California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has gone DEFCON-1 on President Trump’s new education agenda — <a href="https://www.kcra.com/article/gov-newsom-threatens-to-withhold-billions-from-california-colleges-that-sign-trumps-compact/68366652" target="_blank" rel="noopener">threatening</a> to yank billions in state funding from any California university that dares join Trump’s sweeping “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.”
Trump’s 10-page declaration demands universities ditch DEI ideology, stop using race and gender-conscious admission standards, freeze tuition hikes, cap international student enrollment, and enforce free speech protections for conservative students. The compact calls for ending race-based hiring, restoring standardized tests like the SAT, and banning the use of endowment money for political causes.
The Trump administration sent the compact to nine elite universities this week — including the University of Southern California, the only school in California on the list. Those universities that agreed would get preferential access to massive federal grants, increased overhead payments, and priority in civil rights investigations.
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Newsom responded in all-caps rage, appearing to mock Trump’s social media style: “IF ANY CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY SIGNS THIS RADICAL AGREEMENT, THEY’LL LOSE BILLIONS IN STATE FUNDING — INCLUDING CAL GRANTS — INSTANTLY. CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS, PROFESSORS, RESEARCHERS, AND SURRENDER ACADEMIC FREEDOM.”
USC — a private university — received $28.4 million in Cal Grants last year alone. Statewide, private institutions hauled in $227.6 million. Public colleges, such as the University of California and California State University systems, raked in a whopping $2.2 billion from Cal Grants in the most recent budget year. Newsom is threatening to axe it all.
The legacy media is clutching pearls over the compact, warning that Trump is “politicizing” higher ed. But White House adviser May Mailman <a href="https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/trump-universities-compact-federal-funds-agreement-df158493?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=ASWzDAjelwuXl8TA4CzirTqRK9Hyi6E682Bq3vwYUToAONl96khJkbNWTWxpdFeloT8%3D&amp;gaa_ts=68dfbc86&amp;gaa_sig=C5Sjme964PrJZ5EEW7ZEedhXq7Hn7eUUHmJEm0OHm8IDOhaliFSUR_pzVPOgoDMOVi_iuqK7Hm9UYNkpjUZ3NQ%3D%3D">stated</a>, “Our hope is that a lot of schools see that this is highly reasonable.”
Meanwhile, the usual suspects are losing their minds. Ted Mitchell of the American Council on Education <a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-political-agenda-colleges-federal-money-756407729a3b16c7bb51564d5056084c">called the proposal</a> a “Faustian bargain.” Larry Summers — Obama’s former Treasury Secretary — said it’s like “fixing a watch with a hammer.”
The compact also explicitly defends women’s sports by requiring colleges to recognize biological sex in athletics and protect fairness in competition — a direct rebuke to Newsom’s radical gender policies.
White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson fired back at Newsom’s tantrum, saying, “Gavin Newscum should worry about the disaster he’s created in his own state.” She added that opposing the compact means opposing “efforts to cap wild tuition hikes and protect free speech.”

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The British Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, — a member of the ruling Labour Party that has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/29/labour-party-conference-vote-israel-genocide-gaza?utm_source=chatgpt.com">falsely </a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/29/labour-party-conference-vote-israel-genocide-gaza?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused </a>Israel of genocide — was criticized after offering a statement on the killings of two Jews at a Manchester synagogue by a reputed Islamic terrorist.
On Thursday — as Jews started to mark Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, by fasting for 25 hours and praying at synagogues— a British citizen of Syrian descent named Jihad Al-Shamie rammed people with his vehicle and then attacked one person with a knife, killing two Jews and wounding others. Three other people were arrested in connection with the attack.
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“I am horrified by the antisemitic terrorist attack at a synagogue on the holiest day in the Jewish calendar,” Mahmood wrote on X. “The government has stepped up security at synagogues across the whole of the country, and we will do whatever is required to keep our Jewish community safe. To those who seek to divide us: they will fail.”
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I am horrified by the antisemitic terrorist attack at a synagogue on the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. 
The government has stepped up security at synagogues across the whole of the country, and we will do whatever is required to keep our Jewish community safe.
To those… <a href="https://t.co/sdf0ZcKW6N">pic.twitter.com/sdf0ZcKW6N</a>
&mdash; Shabana Mahmood MP (@ShabanaMahmood) <a href="https://twitter.com/ShabanaMahmood/status/1973824171299012725?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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In response to claims that the toxic antisemitic atmosphere in Britain was a contributor to the attack, Mahmood <a href="https://x.com/Basil_TGMD/status/1974009919159337118">replied</a>, “The only person responsible for this devastating attack is the attacker himself. He is the one who bears the responsibility for what has happened. &#8220;
 Mahmood was taken to task by critics:
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The Labour rats are running around pretending to care about the Jewish community. 
This attack is on you. <a href="https://t.co/tPhvwS8g7Z">https://t.co/tPhvwS8g7Z</a> <a href="https://t.co/5tPcHdbFOk">pic.twitter.com/5tPcHdbFOk</a>
&mdash; Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) <a href="https://twitter.com/TRobinsonNewEra/status/1973724604851237106?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Don’t you dare come out acting like you give a fuck about the Jewish community <a href="https://twitter.com/UKLabour?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UKLabour</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Keir_Starmer</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ShabanaMahmood?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ShabanaMahmood</a> you chose the side of the jihadists
&mdash; Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) <a href="https://twitter.com/TRobinsonNewEra/status/1973740839605289441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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You’re full of it. <a href="https://t.co/kXyizfNRgp">pic.twitter.com/kXyizfNRgp</a>
&mdash; Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) <a href="https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1973890018361160182?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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No you&#39;re not. You CALLED for this by validating the &quot;Free Palestine&quot; death cult. <a href="https://t.co/qu5c92cutX">pic.twitter.com/qu5c92cutX</a>
&mdash; StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) <a href="https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1973763631545463219?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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YOU. ARE. THE. PROBLEM. <a href="https://t.co/btGHL11uzA">pic.twitter.com/btGHL11uzA</a>
&mdash; Avi Yemini (@OzraeliAvi) <a href="https://twitter.com/OzraeliAvi/status/1973728747171070015?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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You&#39;re not &#39;horrified&#39;. 
You incited this. 
You&#39;ve said that &#39;Islamophobia&#39; is the biggest threat to Britain. 
It&#39;s obvious to all rational people that Islam is the biggest threat to Britain.
&mdash; Geoffrey Miller (@primalpoly) <a href="https://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/1973765657742410127?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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In 2014, Mahmood <a href="https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/watch-birmingham-mp-shabana-mahmood-7643691?utm_source=chatgpt.com">joined</a> a pro-Palestinian demonstration and later uploaded a YouTube video in which she appeared to boast about forcing a store to shut down for selling products from Judea and Samaria. “There’s been a huge response today just here in central Birmingham, incredible to see, and the passion here of all of the people campaigning is incredible to see,” she said.
Just last week, Mahmood <a href="https://x.com/TRobinsonNewEra/status/1972762598253981725">ripped</a> into the &#8220;Unite the Kingdom&#8221; rally held in central London on September 13, declaring, “On the 13th of September, 150,000 people marched through London. They did so under the banner of a convicted criminal and a former BNP member. While not everyone was violent, some were. &#8230; While not everyone chanted racist slogans, some did, clear in their view of this country, I have no place. It would be easy to dismiss this as nothing but an angry minority, heirs to the skinheads and Paki-bashers of old.”
It might be instructive to note Mahmood’s comments on “Paki-bashers,” as many Pakistani men have been involved in the massive numbers of the raping of British young girls. As AP <a href="https://apnews.com/article/britain-grooming-gangs-child-sex-abuse-da6b9f3d9dea41530dfb017c9f3bde62">noted</a> in June:
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In a statement to Parliament, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said a new review of data from three police forces found “clear evidence of over-representation among suspects of Asian and Pakistani heritage men” who prey on often young and vulnerable girls and women. But the review, published Monday, found that ethnicity data was “shied away from” and not recorded for two-thirds of perpetrators in crimes involving ”grooming gangs” — those involving multiple perpetrators coercing, manipulating and deceiving children into sex, the review said.
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U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/nyregion/sdny-unrwa-lawsuit-dismissed.html">dismissed</a> a high-profile lawsuit accusing the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) of enabling Hamas’s October 7, 2023, terror attack on Israel. Filed in New York by about 100 Israeli plaintiffs—including survivors, victims’ families, and a former hostage—the case sought more than $1 billion in damages, alleging UNRWA bolstered Hamas’s terror infrastructure through indirect funding and logistical support.
The central legal issue in the case was whether UNRWA, as part of the United Nations, could be held accountable in U.S. courts. Judge Torres, a 2013 Obama appointee, ruled that UNRWA was immune from litigation under international law, <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-judge-dismisses-1b-suit-against-unrwa-though-feds-had-said-it-doesnt-have-immunity/">stating</a>, “Because UNRWA is a subsidiary organ of the United Nations and has not waived its immunity, this court lacks subject matter jurisdiction over Plaintiffs’ claims.”
This ruling directly contradicted the position of the Trump-era Department of Justice, which in April 2025 had submitted a brief rejecting the notion of immunity for UNRWA. That brief asserted that UNRWA had played a “significant role in the heinous offenses” committed by Hamas on October 7, in which approximately 1,200 people were killed and 250 taken hostage. It further argued that neither UNRWA nor its Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini should be protected from suit in U.S. courts.
The Trump DOJ argued that international organizations like UNRWA are not automatically entitled to immunity, stating, “The Constitution does not grant immunity to foreign sovereigns or organizations. Instead, such immunity is a matter of grace and comity.”
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The lawsuit stated that UNRWA was “knowingly providing Hamas with the U.S. dollars in cash that it needed to pay smugglers for weapons, explosives and other terror materiel.” It also stated that UNRWA allegedly aided Hamas by paying staff in U.S. dollars, knowing they would have to exchange them through Hamas-linked money changers, thereby generating a steady income stream for the terror group.
Adding to the controversy, revelations in 2024 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-n-fires-multiple-unrwa-employees-after-discovering-evidence-of-alleged-involvement-in-october-7-attacks">confirmed</a> that nine UNRWA employees were fired after a U.N. internal investigation found they “may have been involved” in the October 7 attack.
Under Biden, the DOJ maintained that UNRWA remained shielded under international law and diplomatic immunity. The Trump DOJ challenged that tradition, seeking accountability for international actors accused of supporting terrorism.
Torres’ ruling undercuts a significant legal effort to hold international organizations accountable for allegedly enabling terror.

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According to the BBC, the head of Hamas&#8217; military wing in Gaza told mediators from Egypt and Qatar that Hamas will not agree to the peace deal put forth by President Trump.
“Izz al-Din al-Haddad is thought to believe the plan was designed to finish Hamas, whether the group accepts it or not, and so is determined to fight on,” the BBC <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c708v2q5r09o">reported</a>, adding that Hamas know that if they release the Israeli hostages, they will lose any leverage they have.
Hamas’ military wing “holds greater sway over proceedings given that it holds the 48 hostages remaining in Gaza, only 20 of whom are thought to be alive,” Arab News <a href="https://www.arabnews.pk/node/2617570/middle-east">acknowledged</a>.
According to <a href="https://israelbehindthenews.com/2024/07/02/like-sadistic-nazis-secret-hamas-papers-reveal-step-by-step-action-plan-for-oct-7/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">Israel Behind the News</a>:
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Izz ad-Din al-Haddad, known as “Abu Saheeb,” a senior Hamas official and commander of the Gaza Brigade, held a secret meeting with his battalion commanders on October 6, hours before the surprise attack on Israel. He personally handed them a printed page bearing the logo of Hamas’ military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. 
“With faith in crushing victory, the leadership of the brigades has approved the start of the major military operation ‘Al-Aqsa Flood’,” Abu Saheeb declared at the top of the page. “Place your faith and trust in Allah, rely on Him and fight bravely, act with a clear conscience, and let the cries of ‘Allahu Akbar’ be the crowning glory.”
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Israel’s Kan News <a href="https://www.kan.org.il/content/kan-news/defense/834271/">reported</a> of Izz al-Din al-Haddad that he led a guerrilla warfare strategy in northern Gaza. In the past, the head of the Palestinian affairs desk at Kan News reported that al-Haddad had been marked as the successor to Mohammed Deif.
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Deif, one of Israel’s most wanted terrorists for decades, was the architect of numerous terrorist attacks, including suicide bombings, kidnappings, and rocket attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers. He was responsible for Hamas’ military planning, weapon development, and tunnel warfare. He was also a central figure in the October 7, 2023, massacre, which saw Hamas fighters breach into Israeli territory, killing and kidnapping civilians. He was killed in an Israeli airstrike in July 2024.

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In a moment that should send shockwaves through the open borders establishment, an alleged second figure tied to the brutal Sinaloa Cartel confirmed: President Donald Trump’s aggressive border and anti-smuggling strategy is working — and the cartels are feeling the heat.
In a revealing new report from CNN, a senior leader of the Sinaloa Cartel sat down with journalist David Culver for a rare interview. Hidden behind layers of anonymity — black mask, sunglasses, gloves, and hat — the confessed killer and trafficker revealed how Trump’s policy shift has impacted one of the world’s most dangerous criminal organizations.
Asked point-blank if President Trump’s actions have made business more difficult for drug cartels, the man responded without hesitation, “Oh yeah. Yeah.” When pressed, he repeated, “Yes.”
CNN’s reporting also revealed that cartels are jacking up prices to smuggle migrants into the United States because of Trump’s crackdown. What used to cost $6,500 now runs close to $10,000 per person, pricing many migrants out of the black market border business. Those who can’t afford the fee? They’re often forced into debt bondage, working for the cartels to pay off what they owe.
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It doesn’t stop there. The masked figure revealed how cartels are increasingly turning to American teenagers on social media — recruiting young, impressionable American citizens into their operations as transporters and lookouts. As Trump’s administration deploys more resources to border enforcement, the cartels are shifting tactics, growing more desperate, and scraping the bottom of the barrel to keep operations running.
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Mexican drug cartels are using social media to recruit American teens into their operations. David Culver investigates. <a href="https://t.co/1Kg3EHuoaQ">pic.twitter.com/1Kg3EHuoaQ</a>
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This latest cartel admission comes just weeks after Margarito “Jay” Flores Jr., the former top U.S. distributor for the Sinaloa Cartel under El Chapo, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-chicago-kingpin-trump-doing-great-job-targeting-mexican-drug-cartels?utm_source=chatgpt.com">praised</a> Trump’s war on cartels in a separate interview.
Flores, who helped federal authorities take down El Chapo and whose face remains blurred for his safety, said, “I believe that the Trump administration is doing a great job … I don’t believe that the Chapo faction or the Mayo Zambada faction will last another year.”
Flores noted that more arrests and prosecutions have occurred in the last year than in the previous 25, emphasizing that the Trump administration’s approach isn’t just noise — it’s action. He predicted the collapse of major criminal networks, such as CJNG, if this level of pressure continues. “By the time the president’s term is over, the landscape of Mexico and the drug cartels is going to look very, very different,” Flores concluded.
Trump’s recent move to deploy the U.S. military for anti-cartel operations, treating cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, marks an unprecedented escalation in America’s fight against these criminal syndicates. And the message from inside the enemy’s camp is clear: It’s working.
In contrast to the permissive border policies of the Biden years — which saw record crossings, fentanyl floods, and a cartel boom — Trump’s return to law and order is forcing the cartels to adapt, pay more, and ultimately lose control.
The Sinaloa Cartel leader’s clearest message was simple: Trump is hurting the cartels. And they know it.

National Police Dismantle Sinaloa Cartel In Spain

‘Oh, Yeah’: Second Sinaloa Cartel Member Admits Trump’s Crackdown Is Working

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In a chilling real-life story indicative of the evil that the Israeli population faces from Palestinians, former Fox News reporter Leland Vittert, now with NewsNation, recounted a bloodcurdling tale of a Palestinian woman whose life was saved twice by Israel but still wanted to murder Israelis.
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In 2012, I’m a foreign correspondent for Fox. Normally, when you’re based in Jerusalem you’re covering protests in the West Bank or riots in the West Bank on and on and on. Because of the Arab Spring I really hadn’t spent that much time in Israel, and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict was not a thing in those years, there had been a couple of Gaza skirmishes.
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“Including Sinwar,” Weiss interjected, referencing Yahya Sinwar, who headed the horrific October 7, 2023, massacre of more than 1200 Israelis.
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Including Sinwar and including a woman named Wafa. And Wafa had been a woman in Gaza. She had pulled a pot of boiling water over herself when she was like five or six years old. The Israelis treat most of the people out of Gaza who have really horrific burns, catastrophic medical injuries.
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So she gets recruited to be a suicide bomber. This is in the Second Intifada, so in the mid-2000s. And there’s the video of her, coming to the checkpoint to get into Israel wearing her suicide vest, and she’d been given three options by the Al-Aqsa Martyr’s Brigade: a bus, a café, or the hospital that had treated her and saved her life. She chose the hospital that had treated her and saved her life.
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Fine. So I get into Gaza, and I bring with me the iPad that has the video of her trying to blow herself up. So we’re sitting across from each other like this (gesturing to Weiss sitting facing him). She’s wearing a hijab in a very junky Gazan apartment — it is an awful place  in every sense of the word – and I show her the video. And I said, “What do you think, watching this?” And she says, “Oh! Oh! Oh!” has all this reaction, and she goes, “I’m thinking I almost tasted paradise.”  
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And that’s when my mind was made up of the sort of moral clarity of the Israeli-Palestinian debate. Are the Israelis perfect? No. But that’s what they’re up against.
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“They are the infidels. They are evil. They are the enemy.”<a href="https://twitter.com/LelandVittert?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LelandVittert</a> on the conversation with a Palestinian suicide bomber that, for him, clarified the moral asymmetry of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“Are the Israelis perfect? No—but that’s what they’re up against.” <a href="https://t.co/KsFPUgSAz2">pic.twitter.com/KsFPUgSAz2</a>
&mdash; Honestly with Bari Weiss (@thehonestlypod) <a href="https://twitter.com/thehonestlypod/status/1973045630428655972?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 30, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The official account of California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom&#8217;s press office posted a vile meme on social media depicting White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller walking President Donald Trump as a dog on a leash.
The press office for California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom posted a vile meme portraying White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller walking President Donald Trump as a dog on a leash.
In all caps, the account wrote: “TIME FOR YOUR DAILY WALK, DONALD! (NO STAIRS),” a flourish echoing Trump’s own style that Newsom has recently adopted.
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&mdash; Governor Newsom Press Office (@GovPressOffice) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovPressOffice/status/1973185102499946916?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The cartoon also appealed to antisemitic tropes, enlarging Miller’s nose in the caricature style long used by Jew-haters.
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The meme was also similar to an infamous 2019 cartoon published in The New York Times&#8217; international edition, which depicted a guide dog with the face of Benjamin Netanyahu — wearing a collar with a Star of David hanging from it — leading a blind, overweight Donald Trump, who was wearing dark glasses and a black yarmulke.
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Liberalism = 21st century Reich
Hitler and Goebbles used propaganda pre-WW2 very successfully. NYTimes, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib. The left is trying to normalize anti-semitism again:
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&mdash; Տᗩᑎᗪᖇᗩ🎗️ (@SandraXFreedom) <a href="https://twitter.com/SandraXFreedom/status/1122552143469326337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 28, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Newsom&#8217;s office has previously targeted Miller&#8217;s hard-line positions on immigration. In July, responding to a ruling from a Biden-appointed judge involving immigration enforcement in the Central District of California (Los Angeles area), Miller wrote on X: “The ruling has just been issued. A communist judge in LA has ordered ICE to report directly to her and radical left NGOs — not the president. This is another act of insurrection against the United States and its sovereign people.”
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The ruling has just been issued. A communist judge in LA has ordered ICE to report directly to her and radical left NGOs — not the president. This is another act of insurrection against the United States and its sovereign people. <a href="https://t.co/pkEjl7lEP4">https://t.co/pkEjl7lEP4</a>
&mdash; Stephen Miller (@StephenM) <a href="https://twitter.com/StephenM/status/1943855465349198026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The Newsom press office account on X responded, “This fascist cuck in DC continues his assault on democracy and the Constitution, and his attempt to replace the sovereignty of the people with autocracy. Sorry the Constitution hurt your feelings, Stephen. Cry harder.”
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This fascist cuck in DC continues his assault on democracy and the Constitution, and his attempt to replace the sovereignty of the people with autocracy.
Sorry the Constitution hurt your feelings, Stephen.
Cry harder. <a href="https://t.co/3a4pvYftxb">https://t.co/3a4pvYftxb</a>
&mdash; Governor Newsom Press Office (@GovPressOffice) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovPressOffice/status/1943871761658835148?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
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In June 2025, the federal government, via ICE and other agencies, started launching patrols in Los Angeles. On July 11, 2025, Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong <a href="https://kesq.com/news/california/2025/07/14/feds-seek-stay-of-la-judges-ruling-on-immigration-raids/">issued</a> a temporary restraining order barring federal agents from conducting detentions unless they had “reasonable suspicion” that the person was unlawfully present in the country. The Trump administration sought a stay of the order, which Frimpong denied, prompting the case to be taken up by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. On August 1, the court rejected the emergency motion to stay the order.

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The BBC has reported that Hamas is expected to reject President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace proposal designed to end the war in Gaza and secure the release of 48 Israeli hostages. According to a senior Hamas official quoted by the BBC, the plan “serves Israel’s interests” while blatantly “ignoring those of the Palestinian people,” the Jerusalem Post <a href="https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-869173">reported</a>.
The terror group also reportedly made clear its opposition to two key conditions in Trump’s plan: disarmament and the deployment of an international stabilization force inside Gaza. Hamas will reportedly not surrender its weapons, nor will it tolerate what it sees as foreign occupation under the guise of peacekeeping.
This reported rejection by Hamas contradicts a <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-gaza-plan-israel-hamas-ceasefire-proposal-reaction-expected/">CBS News report</a> from the day before, which suggested the group and other Palestinian factions were warming to the proposal and considering it &#8220;responsibly.&#8221; While Hamas has yet to issue a formal reply, the conflicting signals expose a pattern: public posturing, private evasion.
Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Trump at the White House on Monday and agreed to the plan. “If Hamas rejects the deal, which is always possible—they’re the only ones left—then Israel would have my full backing to finish the job of destroying Hamas,” Trump declared. &#8220;But I have a feeling we’re going to have a positive answer.&#8221;
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But Mahmoud Mardawi, a senior Hamas leader, crushed those hopes with a categorical denunciation of the plan, calling it a “one-sided proposal” designed to “entrench occupation” and delegitimize the Palestinian struggle. In remarks reported by <a href="https://ilkha.com/english/world/hamas-rejects-trump-peace-plan-affirms-right-of-palestinian-self-determination-482268?utm_source=chatgpt.com">Ilkha.com,</a> Mardawi claimed the plan was never even shared with Hamas or other Palestinian factions, highlighting its alleged illegitimacy.
“This plan aligns with the goals of the Zionist occupation and offers no genuine solutions for our people,” he blustered, labeling the proposal vague and devoid of guarantees for Palestinian rights. Mardawi insisted Hamas would only accept a plan that protected Palestinian sovereignty, explicitly defending armed resistance as a &#8220;legitimate&#8221; method of liberation.
But behind the rhetoric of victimhood and resistance lies a darker truth. Israel Hayom <a href="https://www.israelhayom.com/2024/09/06/hamas-secret-playbook-sinwars-psychological-warfare-exposed/">reported</a> in September 2024 that confidential documents recovered by the IDF and believed to be from the computer of Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’s top commander in Gaza, exposed the terror group’s chilling manipulation of hostages, media, and peace negotiations.
According to the report, the document—initially revealed by Germany’s Bild—was drafted in spring 2024 and provided a window into Hamas’ ruthless priorities. Nowhere in the text are Palestinian civilian casualties mentioned. Instead, it detailed strategies to “exhaust” Israel’s political and military resources while prolonging negotiations to rebuild Hamas’ crippled military power.
Far from striving for peace, the document instructed Hamas to apply psychological pressure on the families of Israeli hostages, including during ceasefires. Hamas propaganda videos that showed hostages pleading for their lives align precisely with these instructions.
According to the document, Hamas planned to exploit ceasefire periods by allowing the Red Cross limited access to hostages—not as a humanitarian gesture, but to manipulate the emotional state of families and extend temporary truces, regardless of compliance with agreements. The document also proposed bringing in Arab military forces to act as a buffer while Hamas secretly re-armed for future attacks.
Hamas’ relentless deception has involved ignoring the suffering of Gazans, using hostages as bargaining chips, and ceasefires as camouflage for regrouping.

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Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton aroused the ire of the political Right when she satirized the idea of the dominance of “white men of a certain persuasion, a certain religion,” saying that did damage to the nation.
<a href="https://news.grabien.com/story/hillary-the-idea-of-we-the-people-that-all-men-and-women-are-created-e">Appearing</a> on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Clinton started by disparaging the political Right in answer to co-host Mika Brzezinski asking, “Are we still headed toward a more perfect union?”
“I think right now we&#8217;re on pause,” Clinton replied. “I think that people are uncertain. Some people are actually scared about what&#8217;s going on in our country. The idea of we the people, that all men and women are created equal, that seems to be in the crosshairs of those on the Right who want to turn the clock back on the progress that has been made, writing out huge chunks of our history, slavery, suffrage, anything inconvenient, you know, take it out of museums, take it out of national parks.”
“I think our story is all the more glorious when you look at where we came from; what we fought through,” co-host Joe Scarborough commented. “Even Abraham Lincoln’s life, even Abraham Lincoln’s own words, even Abraham Lincoln’s own evolution, you can’t look at this American story and not be proud because of that progress.”
Clinton then took a swipe at the Trump White House, responding, “I wish you would record that and literally go play it outside the White House, the Congress 24/7. Because I love my country and I love it, warts and all. And I am proud of the fact that we have always been a work in progress. We haven’t gotten to a more perfect union. We fought a civil war over part of it. And people have been protesting for hundreds of years that things were not as they should be, given our ideals and how we should be moving toward them.”
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What followed was a not-so-subtle attack on Christian white men: “So I think that’s what makes us so special as a country, and the idea that you could turn the clock back and try to recreate a world that never was dominated by, you know, let’s say it: white men of a certain persuasion, a certain religion, a certain point of view, a certain ideology, it’s just doing such damage to what we should be aiming for. And we were on the path to that, imperfectly. Lots of bumps along the way, but I agree with you. We were on the right trajectory.”
“It’s beyond tone-deaf for Hillary to proclaim that conservative white Christian men are what’s wrong with America while the nation mourns the loss of Charlie Kirk,” Roger Severino of the Heritage Foundation told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/hillary-clinton-rips-white-men-a-certain-religion-sparks-backlash-from-conservatives">Fox News</a>. “At least it confirms what we all suspected, that Hillary still believes millions of Americans belong in her ‘basket of deplorables.’”
“Two weeks after Charlie Kirk is assassinated, Hillary Clinton reminds everyone that white Christian men are dangerous and doing damage to America. These people have no intention of turning down the temperature. They know they’re encouraging what happened,” one person <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/09/30/us-news/hillary-clinton-ripped-for-tone-deaf-remarks-about-white-men-of-a-certain-religion/">wrote</a> on X.
“Hillary Clinton makes yet another case for violence against white Christian men — the constant drumbeat against huge segments of the population is dehumanizing and dangerous. Her focus on Christianity is chilling — especially given the fact that she can’t bring herself to even name the religion,” another X user echoed.

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At a House Judiciary Field Hearing in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Monday, Steve Federico didn’t just testify — he erupted. His voice, shaking with fury and loss, laid bare the failure of a justice system that allowed a repeat violent offender to walk free — until he executed Federico’s daughter, Logan Federico, in cold blood.
“My daughter was Logan Federico,” he began. “She was 22. Visiting friends at the University of South Carolina.” But what began as a description quickly became an indictment — not just of one man, Alexander Devonte Dickey, but of a system that let him remain free.
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This is Logan Federico. 
She was murdered in her sleep by a career criminal.
We won&#39;t forget you. <a href="https://t.co/0sshyRKElw">https://t.co/0sshyRKElw</a> <a href="https://t.co/ttV9yTiuXv">pic.twitter.com/ttV9yTiuXv</a>
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Alexander Dickey, who was arrested for allegedly shooting and killing 22yo Logan Federico during a home burglary, had an EXTENSIVE criminal history consisting of nearly 40 CHARGES which include strong-armed robbery, grand larceny, and drug possession.
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As Federico noted, Dickey had 39 arrests and 25 felonies, yet had spent just over 600 days in prison over a ten-year span. “He should have been in jail for over 140 years,” Federico accused. “He should have been in jail for over 140 years for all the crimes he committed. You know how much time he spent in prison? A little over 600 days in 10 years.&#8221;
Federico painted a harrowing scene — his daughter dragged from her bed, naked, forced onto her knees, hands raised, begging for her life. “Begging for her hero — me — that couldn’t be there,” he choked out. “She was five-foot-three. She weighed 115 pounds.&#8221;
“Bye,” he thundered. “Dead. Gone.”
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The room fell silent, but Federico kept going, hammering the point home: “He was committing 2.65 crimes a year since he was 15 years old, but nobody could figure out that he couldn’t be rehabilitated?” He wasn’t just angry at Dickey. He was furious at prosecutors, judges, and lawmakers who, in his view, allowed monsters to roam free.
One target of his outrage was Barry Gipson, South Carolina’s Fifth Judicial Circuit Court Solicitor, whom Federico claimed hadn’t reached out once in the four months since Logan’s murder. “And I haven’t heard a damn word from Barry Gipson in South Carolina,” Federico said with disgust. “Not one word. Four months, no communication. His biggest concern was that he was pissed off at my interview and how I made him look on the Fox News channel.”
Federico’s daughter wanted to be a teacher. She figured it out, her father said, just two weeks before she was executed. “You will not forget her,” he vowed. “You will be sick and tired of my face and my voice until this gets fixed.”
The House hearing was meant to address rising crime and repeat offenders, but Federico’s speech turned it into a moment of reckoning. While Democrats called for more resources for prosecutors, Republicans pointed to a systemic failure of accountability. Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) <a href="https://www.qcnews.com/charlotte/bangdeadgone-father-of-slain-waxhaw-college-student-speaks-out-at-charlotte-crime-hearing-but-lawmakers-remain-divided/">declared</a>, “This is not a money issue — this is a policy issue.”
Federico agreed. “You have the power. We put you into power to do what you have to do. We’re asking you. We’re begging you all to stop this.”
In his closing, Federico reminded lawmakers how long his daughter’s body lay on the floor — seven hours — before anyone realized she was dead. The killer? Off using her debit card. “And that pure criminal? An hour later, went on a spending spree with her debit card. When they saw his face on a video, they didn’t have to do a check. He was arrested so many times they knew who he was. They knew exactly where to go get him.”
“Pathetic,” Federico said. “Absolutely pathetic that I’m even here today.”
Federico — a grieving father turned reluctant activist — declared war on a justice system that let his daughter’s killer roam free, declaring: “You woke up a beast. You pissed off the wrong daddy.”
And America heard.
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Complete transcript below:
My daughter was Logan Federico. She was 22, visiting friends at the University of South Carolina. I know y’all have kids. I’m just curious. Here’s what I need you to do. When I tell you this story, think about your kids. Think about your child coming home from a night out with their friends. Laying down, going to sleep. Feeling somebody come into the room and wake them, and drag her out of bed, naked, forced on her knees, with her hands over her head, begging for her life. Begging for her hero, her father. Me, that couldn’t be there. She was five-foot-three, she weighed 115 pounds.
Bye! Dead. Gone. Why? Because Alexander Devonte Dickey, who was arrested 39 godd*** times, 25 felonies, was on the street. How about that. How good are we doing for our family? How good are you doing for your kids? He should have been in jail for over 140 years for all the crimes he committed. You know how much time he spent in prison? A little over 600 days in 10 years. He’s only 30 years old. He was committing 2.65 crimes a year since he was 15 years old but nobody could figure out that he couldn’t be rehabilitated? Well, you’d have to put him in prison to see if he could be rehabilitated. Isn’t that the idea of prison? But no.
My daughter wanted to be a teacher; she finally figured it out two weeks before she was executed. And I haven’t heard a damn word from Barry Gipson (South Carolina’s Fifth Judicial Circuit Court Solicitor) in South Carolina. Not one word. Four months, no communication. His biggest concern was that he was pissed off at my interview and how I made him look on the Fox News channel with Trey Gowdy. How pathetic is that, that we’re letting our 22-year-old kid visiting friends — it’s all she ever wanted to do was visit friends — and she literally was executed while on her knees, begging for her life. Her name’s Logan Federico. Not Iryna.
And you will not forget her, I promise you. You will be sick and tired of my face and my voice until this gets fixed. I will fight until my last breath for my daughter. You need to fight for the rest of our children, the rest of the innocents and stop protecting the people that keep taking them from us. Please. You have the power. We put you into power to do what you have to do. We’re asking you. We’re begging you all to stop this.
39 crimes in ten years; 25 felonies. Can anybody here explain to me how possibly he could be on the street? Possibly be on the street? How is it possible? I could sit down every night and explain the whole process of how it failed, how South Carolina failed Logan, how lack of communication &#8230;
What y’all did? You woke up a beast. And you pissed off the wrong daddy. Because I’m gonna put it out there. And I’m not gonna be quiet until somebody helps. Logan deserves to be heard. Everyone on this panel deserves to be heard. And we will. Trust me. My daughter laid on that floor for seven hours before somebody in that house recognized that something was wrong. And that pure criminal? An hour later, went on a spending spree with her debit card. When they saw his face on a video, they didn’t have to do a check. He was arrested so many times they knew who he was. They knew exactly where to go get him. Pathetic. Absolutely pathetic that I am here today. Thank you for your time.

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In a move that the U.S. State Department called “tyrannical,&#8221; a 75-year-old anti-abortion grandmother, Rose Docherty, once again found herself in handcuffs in Scotland—not for a crime of violence, but for holding a sign.
Docherty was arrested over the weekend outside Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, allegedly for violating Scotland’s sweeping “buffer zone” law, which criminalizes not only harassment or intimidation around abortion clinics, but even the vague notion of “influencing.”
In response to the arrest, the State Department issued a <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/09/28/us-condemns-arrest-scottish-antiabortion-campaigner/">statement</a> to the Telegraph, saying:
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The arrest of Rose Docherty is another egregious example of the tyrannical suppression of free speech happening across Europe. When 75-year-old grandmothers are being arrested for standing peacefully and offering conversation, common sense and basic civility are under attack. The United States will always speak out against these violations of fundamental rights.
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Her message on the sign read, “Coercion is a crime, here to talk, only if you want.” No confrontation, no mention of abortion, just a placard offering consensual conversation.
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The law forbids any such action within 200 meters of every hospital in Scotland.
This isn’t Docherty’s first run-in with the law. She was previously arrested in August for holding the same sign in the same spot. That case was quietly dropped after global outrage and a direct rebuke from the State Department.
Docherty has had two hip replacements. After her most recent arrest, she was reportedly denied a chair for several hours while in custody. Her bail conditions now prevent her from returning not only to the buffer zone, but also to an area even larger than the restricted zone—an expansion her legal team at Alliance Defending Freedom International calls “disproportionate.”
Legal counsel Lorcan Price <a href="https://adfinternational.org/news/tyrannical-arrest-of-scottish-grandmother-abortion-buffer-zone">hit</a> the nail on the head: “This is not a case about harassment or intimidation&#8230; This is simply a grandmother, who held a sign offering to speak to anyone who would like to engage.”
Scotland’s government, led by those determined to muzzle dissent, seems committed to pushing the narrative that a peaceful granny is somehow a public threat.
In a now-infamous moment, Scottish Member of Parliament Gillian Mackay, architect of the law, even admitted that someone could potentially be criminalized for praying inside their home if visible from the street, “depending on who’s passing by the window.”
Docherty summed it up: “Conversation is not forbidden on the streets of Glasgow. And yet, this is the second time I have been arrested for doing just that.”

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Before President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met at the White House on Monday to discuss Trump’s plan to end the Israel-Hamas war, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) made plain what many in the conservative movement already believe: Israel must be allowed to finish the job against terrorist forces that seek its annihilation.
Responding on X to an Axios report that President Trump planned to “squeeze” Netanyahu into a Gaza peace deal, Graham cut straight to the point: “When it comes to terrorist threats, Israel must be allowed to defend itself and finish the job. While I strongly support trying to end major military operations in Gaza and moving toward a new Middle East, it is imperative that this is accomplished in the right way. I do not support ending major military operations if it means that Hamas is not eliminated forever and does not ensure that there will never be another October 7. From my point of view, Israel is not the problem; It is Iran and its proxies that are the problem.”
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When it comes to terrorist threats, Israel must be allowed to defend itself and finish the job. 
While I strongly support trying to end major military operations in Gaza and moving toward a new Middle East, it is imperative that this is accomplished in the right way. 
I do not… <a href="https://t.co/DU60e6ayTA">https://t.co/DU60e6ayTA</a>
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That X post is more than political chest‑thumping — it’s a manifesto of existential clarity. Graham doesn’t fear negotiation, but a hollow cessation that leaves the terror infrastructure intact. To Graham, tactical pauses that preserve Hamas (or fail to neutralize Iran’s regional networks) amount to strategic failure.
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This stance is consistent with a pattern Graham has long championed. In Congressional hearings, he has blasted U.S. officials for withholding weapons from Israel at a moment of peril, framing the issue in stark historical terms — civilian losses in wartime are tragic, but sometimes unavoidable when destroying a mortal enemy. In April 2024, Graham <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-is-obscene-lindsey-graham-unloads-on-secdef-after-u-s-withholds-aid-to-israel?utm_source=chatgpt.com">excoriated</a> Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin over delayed munitions shipments to Israel, arguing that restraining Israel’s ability to remove threats would send the wrong signal to Tehran and its proxies. And after the October 7 massacre, he defended Israel’s right to wage total war on Hamas out of necessity to prevent another slaughter.
Trump, for his part, told reporters he was “very confident” his plan would end the Israel‑Hamas war, but Graham’s X post is the reminder conservatives will keep pressing: peace cannot be bought at the price of security.
For Graham and like-minded allies, the equation is simple: eliminate the terror threat, then build peace. Anything less risks another October 7.

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