Daily Wire Investigative Reporter Luke Rosiak appeared on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fox-news">‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’</a> Monday evening to share a story he broke for the Daily Wire about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jetblue-wont-hire-the-unvaxxed-but-hired-violent-felon-to-fly-planes">bizarre hiring practices at JetBlue</a>.
The show began by assessing the widespread mass protests across China against the regime of Xi Jinping and his repressive ‘Zero COVID’ policies, which appear to be the largest internal outcry against the Chinese Communist Party in decades. The program also condemned several U.S. public officials and various corporate entities and prominent citizens, such as John Kirby of the National Security Council, the NBA and reporter Taylor Lorenz.
Carlson claimed that greed or complicity had caused them to stay silent on China’s crackdown against its own citizens, noting that some of them had advocated for the kind of COVID policy that Xi had put into practice and a few had even praised the authoritarian regime for its approach to the pandemic.
Carlson later brought on Rosiak to discuss the case of John Perrys, a convicted felon and reported employee of JetBlue who in 2005 broke into a judge’s home and assaulted his daughter as she came out of the shower. Perrys was released in 2014 and according to the <a href="http://www.dc.state.fl.us/offenderSearch/detail.aspx?Page=Detail&amp;DCNumber=A50372&amp;TypeSearch=AO">Florida Department of Corrections</a>, he will be on felony probation until 2044.
Perrys&#8217; hiring has caused controversy because his employer is unwilling to hire pilots who have not been vaccinated against COVID in the name of ‘safety.’
“Apparently JetBlue won’t hire unvaccinated pilots, but they will hire violent convicted felons to fly their airplanes,” one pilot said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Roughly a year ago JetBlue implemented a company-wide vaccine mandate, arguing in public that as a federal contractor they were required to do so by a Biden Administration rule. The relevant rule, however, has been delayed, then blocked by an injunction which was only lifted last month, and even now is <a href="https://www.saferfederalworkforce.gov/contractors/">not actively being enforced</a>.
Rosiak and Carlson both lambasted the mandate and characterized it as incoherent and counter productive, since new data indicates that a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-vaccinated-now-make-up-majority-of-covid-deaths">majority of people currently dying from COVID-19 are vaccinated.</a>
“They won’t hire you if you haven&#8217;t had the vaxx, but they did hire John Perrys,” Rosiak noted, “And interestingly enough, I thought you would get a kick out of this, the crime he was convicted of was assault with a deadly weapon while wearing a mask.”

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Daily Wire Host and best selling author <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/matt-walsh" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Walsh</a> addressed a crowd of about 400 people at the University of California, Berkeley after airing his acclaimed documentary “<a href="https://get.dailywire.com/wiaw/subscribe?utm_campaign=wiaw&amp;utm_medium=paid&amp;utm_source=googlesearch&amp;utm_content=na_subscriptions&amp;mid=g&amp;cid=wiaw&amp;xid=0&amp;utm_term=what%20is%20a%20woman&amp;utm_campaign=dw_conversions_subscriptions_wiaw_na&amp;utm_source=adwords&amp;utm_medium=ppc&amp;hsa_acc=6411461344&amp;hsa_cam=16641304732&amp;hsa_grp=135685453885&amp;hsa_ad=601327250290&amp;hsa_src=g&amp;hsa_tgt=kwd-316948161071&amp;hsa_kw=what%20is%20a%20woman&amp;hsa_mt=e&amp;hsa_net=adwords&amp;hsa_ver=3&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQiA1NebBhDDARIsAANiDD39cplSLZbeLdguuP36tgyKaBnPXyaoyQlFu2Xp70kewezr08ko60waAvDREALw_wcB" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What is a Woman?</a>”
UC Berkeley is well known for the left-wing tilt of its campus culture and its history as the <a href="https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-berkeley-protest-shapiro-20170914-htmlstory.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">birthplace of the free speech</a> movement — although in more recent years, it has become a well known battleground in the culture war, as students and local agitators have repeatedly attempted to prevent conservative speakers, with protests that have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-female-student-assaulted-harassed-robbed-by-mob-at-coulter-speech-get-the-f-out-of-here-b" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sometimes</a> escalated to violence. Roughly 100 protesters gathered outside the event, but no serious incidents occurred.
Before the event began, Young America&#8217;s Foundation, a conservative student organization that sponsored Walsh&#8217;s speaking tour, interviewed several students about their thoughts on Walsh&#8217;s appearance.
&#8220;There&#8217;s a difference between free speech and hate speech,&#8221; one young woman said. &#8220;If it is free and it is, like, what you believe, then that&#8217;s great. But if it&#8217;s against, like, the safety and health of other people, then it&#8217;s not right.&#8221; Hate speech does not exist in the United States as a legal concept, and what is often considered “hate speech” in other countries is protected in America by the First Amendment.
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We toured around UC Berkeley to ask students how they felt about <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@mattwalshblog</a> speaking tonight. It did not disappoint. Here&#39;s what they said: <a href="https://t.co/cXYl006tGs">pic.twitter.com/cXYl006tGs</a>
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At the start of Walsh&#8217;s lecture, he quipped about the city&#8217;s issues with drug abuse and sanitation. “The thing I really loved about this area is that you can always find your way downtown, even if you don&#8217;t have a map or GPS, because you can just follow the stench of weed and fecal matter &#8230; this is public speaking 101, to start by insulting the host city.&#8221;
Walsh also noted that it was “providential” that he came to San Francisco to discuss the subject of gender ideology, as earlier this week, the city announced its “Guaranteed Income For Trans People&#8221; or GIFT, program, which will offer a select group of transgender individuals $1,200 a month because members of the trans community are &#8220;disproportionately impacted by poverty.&#8221;
&#8220;We already know that trans people are disproportionately affected by everything, really. &#8230; If there was an apocalyptic asteroid strike, the very last news report filed for CNN would have the headline, &#8216;Asteroid Apocalypse At Hand: Trans &amp; BIPOC Most Affected.’”
Walsh also noted that gender confused individuals tend to have higher rates of mental illness and substance abuse, which he argues is a better explanation for their higher levels of poverty than alleged discrimination, given that the disparity exists in a place like San Francisco where the social attitudes toward such people are exceptionally welcoming.
Walsh also noted that the official government application form for the GIFT program includes 15 sets of gender pronouns such as ve/ver/vis and a sexual orientation of “f*****” (a slur for homosexuals who would seemingly be covered under the also listed “gay” orientation). Walsh noted other seeming redundancies in the list of 97 gender identities, such as “trans woman” and “woman of transgender experience.”
&#8220;What are these pronouns, what do they signify, what does it mean to be a ve/ver/vis? No one can really explain that.&#8221; Walsh said.
Walsh structured the bulk of his lecture around four common rebuttals to his perspective fielded by advocates of gender theory.
1. Sex and Gender are not the same
Walsh holds that the conceptual difference between the two categories has been deliberately obfuscated by such phrases as “trans women are women,” and that gender was first extracted from sex and then elevated above it in a rhetorical sleight of hand, and that “gender” was, in his mind, a useless concept outside of the study of language and the “gender” of certain words. Walsh also argued that the natural variation in human behavior in personality and self perception is better encapsulated by personality.
2. You say that “women” can get pregnant; what about women who can&#8217;t get pregnant?
Walsh noted that while some biological females, due to age or illness, cannot become pregnant, “women” are still “of the nature to get pregnant,” in the same way that it is “in the nature” of human beings to walk on two legs. Counterexamples also exist as the result of age or infirmity, but &#8220;does the existence of amputees and infants call into question the notion that human beings have two legs?&#8221;
3. The gender binary is a western construct and other cultures have more diverse beliefs about gender
Walsh spoke about his own experience outside the western bubble during his visit with the Maasai people in Kenya, noting that the idea of men getting pregnant was utterly foreign to them. Walsh also argued that while some cultures do have situations where a member of one sex “acts out” the role of the other sex in various ways, no other society has made the claim that those individuals literally are the opposite sex, making that idea a uniquely western concept, which can be traced back to a relative handful of academics in the middle of the 20th century.
4. Why do you care?
Walsh argued that this was an intellectual cop out, as the advocates of gender theory care deeply for their beliefs and want him and others to care as well, they just want him to come to more favorable conclusions. Furthermore, Walsh argued for the preeminent value of truth and stated that he was so deeply opposed to gender theory because it is simultaneously pervasive and wrong.
From there, Walsh fielded questions from the audience on a variety of topics, such as the role of theology in understanding and addressing gender-related issues, raising children in a culture largely hostile to traditional values, his controversial opinions on anime, and the “rule heavy” nature of western society as opposed to the more “duty” or “relational” based societies in other parts of the world.
A series of noteworthy exchanges surrounded the issue of publicly expressing the beliefs Walsh shared in variety of settings, including the classroom (both as an instructor and student), and interpersonal relationships with friends and family. Walsh advised that while it was unnecessary to actively antagonize people who disagree with you at work or in life, people should never run from the truth or espouse ideas that they didn&#8217;t agree with.
Most notably, Walsh had a prolonged exchange with a young man over the reliability of “around 30” recent medical studies that supported the use of “gender affirming care” as a treatment for gender dysphoria. Walsh contended that many of the studies were unreliable, due to the bias of the authors and researchers, as well issues with the methodology and sample sizes.
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&#8220;Why, in your movies and your discussions, do you selectively ignore and misrepresent the recent, burgeoning medical and behavioral literature that demonstrates that gender affirming care and similar medical interventions demonstrate consistent improvements to mental health, suicidality, and general well-being?&#8221; the young man asked.
&#8220;How do you think they would have large scale, long-term studies on the effects of these drugs and these surgeries on children when we only started doing it to children at a large scale a few years ago?&#8221; Walsh responded.
The questioner pushed back, encouraging listeners to search out and read the various studies, while defending their merits and the objectivity of their authors, dismissing Walsh&#8217;s claims of bias as a “conspiracy.”
“I think you can know some things without asking for permission, sometimes from professors, to say that you know them.&#8221; Walsh responded. &#8220;And one of those things that you can know is it’s never okay to castrate a child.&#8221;

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On Tuesday President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trump</a> joined a small club of former presidents who have sought reelection after leaving office.
Trump’s third bid for the White House is a cause for controversy both inside and outside the Republican Party — the former President is <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11431315/Trump-favorite-Republican-nominee.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">beloved</a> by his base and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/curl-tds-suffering-liberals-say-trump-is-joker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reviled</a> by his opponents in almost equal measure, and after a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exit-poll-shows-nearly-70-of-single-women-voted-democrat-in-midterms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disappointing showing</a> in the midterm elections, many in Republican circles believe Trump is too polarizing of a candidate to win: after the catastrophic COVID lockdowns, the riot on January 6, and the defeat of many Trump aligned candidates in 2022, they consider him damaged goods.
That’s unlikely to stop him from trying, and he has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2016/10/18/presidential-forecast-updates/newsletter.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">beaten the odds before</a>.
Historically, though, former presidents have not performed well. <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/11/15/why-they-ran-again-00066579" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Four</a> have attempted to make their way back into office: three of them failed to receive their party’s nomination and only one succeeded.
While Grover Cleveland is the famous success story, the other would be Democratic comeback candidate is rarely mentioned in the history books. Martin Van Buren served as Andrew Jackson’s Vice-President during the populist Democrat’s 2nd term, before being elected as his successor in 1836. He was never as popular as his former boss, and after a major economic crisis at the beginning of his term in office, his star power never recovered — he was ultimately defeated in his 1840 re-election campaign by William Henry Harrison (who himself is best remembered for dying a mere 31 days into his presidency).
Van Buren would attempt to secure the Democratic nomination in 1844, but he was passed over at the convention by James K. Polk, who would go on to win the election. He failed to secure the nomination again in 1848 and was enticed into a third-party run as the Free Soil Party’s candidate in 1848, but only secured 10% of the vote; the Democratic nominee, Lewis Cass, lost to the Whig Party’s Zachary Taylor.
Now we come to the sole success story in past president redemption attempts, the man, the myth, the legend, Grover Cleveland. Cleveland was the first Democrat to hold the presidency since the end of the Civil War, after decades of Republican dominance. He won the popular vote every time he ran — in 1884, 1888, and 1892, but failed to receive a majority of electoral college votes on his second try.
The parties were less ideological back then, and Cleveland’s opposition to high taxes, loose monetary policy, political corruption, foreign intervention, and government subsidies actually made him an icon of fiscal conservatism in his day and induced a large number of Republican voters to back him in his first presidential bid. Cleveland’s tenure was widely considered to be efficient but uninspiring. The president himself seemed bored with his electoral prospects; after clinching his party’s support in 1888, Cleveland reportedly told a friend, “I sometimes think that perhaps more enthusiasm would have been created if somebody else had been nominated after a lively scrimmage.”
The Republican Benjamin Harrison (who, amusingly enough, was the 2nd man in his family to defeat an incumbent president) was ultimately able to displace Cleveland into a quiet retirement for a few years before he observed that Harrison’s political coalition was beginning to weaken, at which point, he easily secured the Democratic nomination and won a tight race against the incumbent in 1892, forever cementing his historical legacy as the man who divorced the sequential number of the presidents from their actual number (if you’ve ever wondered why Joe Biden is #46 when there are have only been 45, #22 &amp; 24 is why). Cleveland was able to capitalize on a polarized political climate and an unpopular incumbent president and marshall his own popularity within his party to pull off an unprecedented upset, and if President Trump is going to succeed, it will have to be in his footsteps.
But while the past does give Trump a model of success, it also warns of the catastrophic consequences of failure.
Theodore Roosevelt was a popular war hero before being elevated to the rank of vice president, and remains an American icon to this day, famous for his trust busting, his founding of the national parks, and his ‘speak softly and carry a big stick’ approach to diplomacy. While Cleveland was a conservative Democrat, Roosevelt was a progressive Republican who saw a larger role for government both at home and abroad. Roosevelt was elevated to the presidency in 1901 after his predecessor, William McKinley, was assassinated six months into his second term. Although he was handily elected to a second term and was broadly popular, Roosevelt ultimately decided not to run for a third term, as no previous president had broken Washington’s precedent. Instead, he settled for selecting a handpicked successor, William Howard Taft, and riding off into the sunset.
Except… Taft didn’t do things quite the way he would’ve done, and Roosevelt was concerned that Taft was moving closer to conservative wing of the Republican Party. So, after he made his dissatisfaction with his former heir known, Roosevelt attempted to win the Republican Party’s nomination in 1912 — he would win the popular primary, but was outmaneuvered at the convention and ultimately failed.
Undeterred, Roosevelt mounted a third party run as the standard bearer of the Progressive Party. He did not win, but he did outperform Taft. He also delivered the electoral victory to Woodrow Wilson, who won the plurality of the vote against Roosevelt, Taft, and the Socialist Eugene Debbs.
Wilson is regarded by many as the father of the modern administrative state and his presidency saw the introduction of a permanent national income tax and the creation of the U.S. Federal Reserve. He was also an avowed racist who segregated the federal workforce and his use of the <a href="https://www.history.com/news/woodrow-wilson-racial-segregation-jim-crow-ku-klux-klan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bully pulpit</a> helped to revitalize the Ku Klux Klan, which had faded into obsolescence after reconstruction, but was reborn and surged to its zenith during and in the years after his time in office. He spearheaded U.S. intervention into the messy conflict of World War 1, and added to allied pressure to keep the provisional Russian government in the unpopular conflict, which eroded their domestic support and set the stage for the October Revolution that brought the Soviet Union into existence.
The harsh terms of the Versailles Peace Treaty, which Wilson helped negotiate, resulted in widespread resentment in the defeated Germany that helped pave the way for the rise of the National Socialist German Workers Party during the throes of the Great Depression, meaning that Wilson’s foreign policy indirectly helped to bring about the twin horrors of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia and set the stage for the Second World War.
In this writer’s opinion, Woodrow Wilson’s election was one of the most unfortunate events in U.S. history, and it is the sort of “own goal” on the part of the Republican Party that can never be repeated under any circumstances.
Lastly, we have the oft overlooked ambitions of the defeated Herbert Hoover. Hoover won widespread acclaim for his humanitarian efforts in Europe after the ravages of the First World War — as Wilson’s director general of the American Relief Administration in Europe, he was responsible for feeding millions of people. His popularity evaporated after he presided over the opening years of the Great Depression. Hoover was a fairly progressive Republican who favored large government intervention in the economy, but despite his efforts, he was widely seen as responsible for the crisis and was trounced by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932. Roosevelt would go on to continue and greatly expand on Hoover’s interventions in his New Deal, which many economists believe actually <a href="https://fee.org/articles/fdr-s-new-deal-worsened-and-prolonged-the-great-depression/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prolonged the Great Depression</a>. Hoover would later become an outspoken critic of Roosevelt’s economic policies despite their conceptual similarity to his own.
In 1940, Hoover sought the Republican nomination for president to contest FDR’s quest for an unprecedented third term, but he was ultimately passed over for Wendell Willkie.
There are a few takeaways from the examples of history.
Firstly, Trump does have a credible path toward the nomination and the presidency — he is still popular within the party and such a road has been walked before. However, while party bosses no longer have the same sway they once did, influential members of the Republican Party could successfully elevate a candidate of their own over a populist former president, as they have before. Thirdly, it generally doesn’t pay to run against your own previous positions, which Trump should keep in mind if he wins the nomination.
Finally, if he doesn’t, running as a third party candidate has never worked. Trump <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/30/472363315/trump-abandons-pledge-to-support-republican-nominee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">made headlines</a> in 2016 when he entertained an independent run in the event that he did not win the Republican primaries — an eventuality that thankfully did not come to pass. Trump may be tempted, if he feels the party leaders have conspired against him in favor, to run for president without the party’s support, and if he does, he will lose. More to the point, in both cases where a former president ran against his former party, that party lost. And the consequences of such losses can be felt for decades.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/science" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Research</a> suggests that certain octopuses deliberately throw objects like silt, sand, and shells at other octopuses.
21 hours of film of Octupus tetricus, the common Sydney octopus, has captured over 100 instances of individuals gathering debris in their arms and then launching it away with a burst of water from their siphon — an organ octopuses also use to help them swim and steer.
While many of these “throws” appear to be used for cleaning out the octopuses’ den or chucking away shells, 53% of the 102 throws were made within two minutes of a previous interaction with another octopus, such as fighting, grappling, or even mating. About a third of those throws hit the other octopus. On a few occasions, one octopus would notice where the other was aiming and would duck out of the way.
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“The throwing — or propelling, or projecting — of objects that have been gathered and held is rare in the animal kingdom. To propel an object, even for a short distance, under water is especially unusual, and also quite hard to do,” Professor Peter Godfrey-Smith, the primary author of the study, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/nov/09/octopuses-throw-objects-at-one-another-researchers-observe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Octopuses are generally solitary and territorial creatures and have even been known to cannibalize one another. However, they are exceptionally intelligent animals — they have an unusually high brain-body ratio, although their brains are dispersed throughout their arms rather than located solely in their heads. Octopuses are capable of using tools and engaging in complex problem solving — octopuses have even been known to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2016/04/13/octopus-slips-out-of-aquarium-tank-crawls-across-floor-escapes-down-pipe-to-ocean/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">escape aquariums</a>, contorting their bodies so they can slip through even the smallest cracks; a 600 lb octopus can slip through a hole <a href="https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/boneless-600lb-octopus-video" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the size of a quarter</a>.
Octopuses are also able to modify the shape, color, and texture of their bodies to a remarkable degree, often as camouflage to avoid predators or ambush prey. Some researchers believe this variation in color could also reflect variations in mood or function as a kind of <a href="https://marybatessciencewriter.com/home/2015/07/15/octopuses-signal-each-other-with-body-posture-and-color-changes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">social signaling</a>.
“Earlier work at this site has found that darker colours are associated with more aggressive behaviours,” the team write. Octopuses that hit other octopuses with projectiles were usually darker in color than most were when performing a normal “throw”; they also tended to hold the projectile differently and throw it with more force, further suggesting that the strikes were deliberate.
Throwing behavior is rare, however — while individuals of both sexes were observed lobbing various objects, two females accounted for 66 of the 102 total throws.
Furthermore, despite the seemingly aggressive nature of the behavior, none of the strikes escalated to a full blown fight between the animals or provoked any “return fire.”
“I think quite a lot of it is a bit like an assertion of ‘personal space,’” Godfrey-Smith said. “In quite a few cases, females have thrown material at male octopuses who have been attempting to mate with them … But in other cases, females throw and hit other females.”
The footage was collected in Jervis Bay, off the coast of New South Wales, Australia, by stationary cameras.

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A new study has discovered a black hole roughly 1500 light years from Earth, the closest such object on record.
The dormant black hole, known as <a href="https://www.sciencenews.org/article/closest-known-black-hole-to-earth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gaia BH1</a>, is 10 times as massive as the mass of the sun and is orbited by a Sun-like star. BH1 was identified using the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft, and it and its stellar companion can be found in the night sky in the constellation Ophiuchus.
“This is the nearest known black hole by a factor of three, and its discovery suggests the existence of a sizable population of dormant black holes in binaries,” Dr. Kareem El-Badry, an astrophysicist at the Max Planck Center for Astronomy and the primary author of the <a href="https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac3140/6794289?redirectedFrom=fulltext&amp;login=false">paper</a> outlining the discovery, <a href="https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2227/?lang" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a press release.
Black holes are superdense concentrations of matter that exert a gravitational force so strong that not even light can escape it. Because of that, they are often difficult to spot: Albert Einstein <a href="https://www.space.com/15421-black-holes-facts-formation-discovery-sdcmp.html">posited </a>their existence as early as 1916, alongside his theory of general relativity, but they remained purely theoretical until astronomers discovered the first observed black hole, Cygnus X-1, in 1964.
Because they emit no light, astronomers rely on a black hole’s gravitational influence on other nearby celestial bodies to observe them. Black holes can consume nearby stars and nebulae — ripping them apart in a bright and violent spectacle before their mass passes the black hole’s ‘event horizon’, the point where its gravity becomes so strong that light can no longer escape.
Gaia BH1 is considered ‘dormant’ because it is not consuming anything at the moment — its stellar companion seems to be in a stable orbit outside the event horizon. 
“I&#8217;ve been searching for dormant black holes for the last four years using a wide range of datasets and methods,” said El-Badry. “My previous attempts — as well as those of others — turned up a menagerie of binary systems that masquerade as black holes, but this is the first time the search has borne fruit.”
Scientists have observed 20 black holes within the Milky Way Galaxy, but, because of how difficult it is for most ‘dormant’ black holes to be identified, scientists believe the true number is much higher. Astronomers believe there could be 100 million black holes in our galaxy alone.
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Black holes form during the collapse of exceptionally large stars (&gt;8 solar masses). Stars form when accretions of gas are massive enough that the heat and pressure at their cores is high enough to cause nuclear fusion, which transforms lighter elements such as hydrogen and helium into heavier elements, with high mass stars being able to produce every element up to and including iron via such fusion. A star ‘survives’ so long as the energy and internal pressure produced by its core can counterbalance the pull of its own gravity.
Conventional fusion can only go so far and last for so long, however — even high mass stars can only fuse elements up to iron. Once a star has exhausted the fuel in it collapses into itself and ‘dies.’ The outer layers of the star are expelled in a massive explosion called a supernova — which produces minute amounts of heavy elements like gold, lead and uranium — and form new stellar nebulae that will coalesce into the next generation of stars. The remnant of the core condenses into a super dense form until a new force counterbalances the force of gravity: a star the size of our Sun would become a ‘white dwarf’, while more massive stars would collapse into ‘neutron stars’.
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A black hole only forms when the force of gravity is so strong that no other force can counter it.
Another supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, sits at the center of our galaxy and is thought to be more than 4 million times as massive as the Sun, and astronomers believe that similar black holes lie at the core of nearly all large galaxies. With the breakthrough discovery of Gaia BH1, it is quite possible that we will find many smaller black holes in our local neighborhood.

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Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, colloquially known as ‘Lula’, defeated incumbent President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jair-bolsonaro">Jair Bolsonaro</a> in a tightly contested election on Sunday night, and will be the next President of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/brazil">Brazil</a>.
With 99% of the vote in, the self described socialist defeated the populist conservative Jair Bolsonaro by a margin of <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-brazil-election/">50.9% &#8211; 49.1%</a>. The election went to a run-off between the top two finishers after no candidate secured a majority in the first round: Lula led the pack with 48% to Bolsonaro’s 43%, but Bolsonaro outperformed polling which suggested that Lula would walk away with the contest in the first round.
Lula is a founding member of Brazil’s left-wing Worker’s Party. He was a perennial presidential candidate before finally coming to power in the 2002 Brazilian elections, and held office from 2003-2010. Lula is also a populist and something of an icon in Latin America, where his ideology, Lulism, is a popular strand of socialist thought.
Lula’s defeat of Bolsonaro follows a trend of left-wing governments coming to power across Latin America, described by some observers as a second ‘<a href="https://theglobalamericans.org/2022/09/pink-tide-2-0-the-same-trap-awaits/">pink tide</a>’ reminiscent of a similar political shift in the first years of the 21st century. In the final days of the campaign, President Bolsonaro spoke to Daily Wire Host Ben Shapiro about the potential stakes of the election.
“We in Brazil cannot possibly join the Venezuela club, or league of countries, which now includes Chile, Argentina, and Nicaragua. Brazil is the most important country in South America, so if Brazil succumbs to the left-wing, that’s the end of South America,” he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVytVgGNxU8">said</a>.
Brazil is the 7th most populous nation in the world, home to over 215 million people, and it is also the world’s 12th largest economy &#8211; it is by far the largest nation in Latin America.
While his administration has been described as ‘moderate left,&#8217; Lula also supported Hugo Chavez’s rise to power in Venezuela and was aligned with him and other left-wing leaders in Latin America. Lula also played a role in negotiating the Obama Administration’s Iran Nuclear Deal, and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/10/lula-brazil-iran-us-suleimani-peace-war">condemned</a> the killing of Qassem Soleimani during the Trump Administration.
Lula’s government was also plagued by several corruption scandals, although the largest scandal would emerge after he left office. His successor and former chief of staff, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/01/world/americas/brazil-dilma-rousseff-impeached-removed-president.html">Dilma Rouseff</a>, was impeached and removed from office in 2016 in connection with the largest corruption investigation in Brazil’s history, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-35810578">Operation Car Wash</a>. The scandal involved a massive money laundering and bribery scheme centered around a state owned oil company, Petrobras, and by the time the smoke cleared 3 former presidents had been jailed on corruption charges, including Lula.
Normally, that conviction would have been disqualifying: Brazil has a <a href="https://www.as-coa.org/articles/explainer-brazils-clean-record-law">‘Clean Slate’</a> law that blocks politicians convicted of certain felonies from running for office. Lula was <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-01/lula-banned-from-brazil-presidential-race-by-election-court">blocked</a> from running in 2018, and many observers believe that was a major reason why Bolsonaro won that election.
But, in a controversial decision a justice on Brazil’s Supreme Court <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-56326389">voided</a> Lula’s convictions in 2021, restoring his eligibility for office. Documents leaked after Lula’s trial suggested that the judge in the case, Sergio Moro, improperly collaborated with the prosecution. Moro would go on to serve in Bolsonaro&#8217;s cabinet as the Minister of Justice and Public Security.
Lula was also reportedly tried in the wrong jurisdiction &#8211; the trial took place in a court in Curitiba in the state of Paraná, but the alleged crimes were committed in Brasilia, the nation’s capital, and Lula was a resident of Brasilia at the time of prosecution so his trial supposedly should have been conducted there. The decision was highly controversial and did not exonerate Lula of wrongdoing, but any lingering miasma of disrepute was not enough to stop Lula from crossing the finish line.
The incumbent, Bolsonaro, is a populist conservative, sometimes called ‘the Tropical Trump’, who came to power after the aforementioned corruption scandals soured public opinion on the then dominant Worker’s Party, after surviving an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-brazil-presidential-candidate-stabbed-rally-ashe-schow">assassination attempt</a>.
Bolsonaro is well known for his hardline stances on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/brazilian-president-bolsonaro-criminals-will-die-hank-berrien">crime</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/brazil-government-champions-return-to-tradition-sexual-abstinence-before-marriage">social issues</a> like same sex marriage and abortion. He’s also taken steps to <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-08-10/brazils-bolsonaro-pledges-privatizations-if-re-elected-mum-on-petrobras">privatize</a> government owned business, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/08/13/1116989125/brazil-firearm-ownership-booms-gun-laws-loosen-bolsonaro">increase civilian access to firearms</a> and open up parts of the <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/what-brazils-election-means-amazon-rainforest-2022-10-26/">Amazon rainforest</a> to economic development. Bolsonaro has also pursued closer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/brazil-surges-toward-american-conservatism-kassy-dillon">economic and political ties with the United States</a> compared to previous Brazilian governments.
Bolsonaro has also made international headlines for his stance COVID-19 &#8211; from very early on he actively <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/stand-your-ground-hugs-from-brazil-brazilian-right-wing-president-cheers-joe-rogan">opposed lockdowns</a> and even prevented local governments from imposing restrictions. The Brazilian economy fared better than many people predicted and recovered to pre-pandemic levels by early 2021, but critics of Bolsonaro have <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/20/americas/brazil-bolsonaro-covid-19-intl-hnk">accused him</a> of downplaying the danger of the virus and causing hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths. 600,000 Brazillians died from COVID, the second highest death toll reported in any nation, although on a <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/">per capita basis</a> Brazil’s death rate was comparable to the rate seen in neighboring Chile and the United States, and only as half as high as Peru’s.
Bolsonaro has regularly criticized the integrity of Brazilian elections, and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/30/bolsonaro-trump-brazil-election-democracy/">raised concerns</a> about fraud before the vote. Unlike in the United States, however, the Brazilian President is selected by national popular vote, and it will be difficult to overcome the nearly 2 million ballot advantage Lula amassed even if some local fraud is demonstrated. The Biden administration <a href="https://rollcall.com/2022/10/28/democrats-warn-of-consequences-if-bolsonaro-denies-vote-results/">rebuked</a> Bolsonaro preemptively several days before the election, and prominent Democrats have suggested that the US will “re-evaluate its relationship” with the largest democracy in Latin America if Bolsonaro challenges the results of the vote.
President Biden put out an <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/10/30/statement-by-president-joe-biden-congratulating-luiz-inacio-lula-da-silva-as-president-of-brazil/">official statement</a> congratulating Lula after his victory, stressing that the election was “free, fair and credible.”

Former President Lula Narrowly Wins Brazil’s Presidency In Stunning Comeback

Ex-Con Defeats Incumbent In Brazilian Presidential Election

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Daily Wire Host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/matt-walsh">Matt Walsh</a> made waves at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Monday night while student activists <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/protesters-outside-matt-walsh-speech-shred-pages-of-bible-eat-them-walsh-responds-your-choice-america">protested</a> outside after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wisconsin-college-campus-vandalized-ahead-of-matt-walshs-speech">vandalizing a veteran’s memorial</a> on campus.
Walsh’s 30 minute lecture was part of the ‘<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman">What is a Woman?</a>’ tour sponsored by <a href="https://www.yaf.org/news/matt-walshs-what-is-a-woman-fall-tour-is-headed-to-these-campuses-exclusively-with-yaf/">Young Americans for Freedom</a>, a series expanding upon his <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/what_is_a_woman">widely acclaimed</a> film of the same name, regarded by many as an unrivaled masterclass in the contentious field of Gender Studies.
“Thank you everyone for being here tonight,” Walsh began.” I want to thank also the leftist crybabies for the free advertising spray painted all over the campus.” Walsh dryly noted that while his campus lectures are often met with intensely emotional opposition, though he believed the behavior at UW-Madison represented a new zenith of censorious zeal.
Walsh noted that controversy ensued soon after the local YAF chapter posted flyers advertising the event in the Gender Studies department, which in his estimate most badly needed to be exposed to the film’s message. A teaching assistant tore the flyers down and filed a ‘bias incident report’. The LGBT center on campus offered a safe space to students on campus during the talk, and the university put out an official statement condemning the content of Walsh’s lecture.
“We are aware that a speaker is coming to campus on Monday whose viewpoints we believe are harmful towards the trans community.” The statement read.
“They’re aware because they approved the event.” Walsh responded. “They are aware of what they are doing, which is more than I can say for Joe Biden.”
Walsh challenged the university’s statement that they ‘affirm and celebrate a spectrum of perspectives’ and argued that by taking a vocal stance on the issue they made it apparent that they only affirmed viewpoints that conformed to a far left ideology <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/poll-majority-of-american-voters-say-transgender-movements-targeting-of-underage-minors-has-gone-too-far">out of step with most Americans</a>.
Walsh then outlined his view, that male and female are fundamentally biological categories that conform to the production of male and female gametes, sperm and ova, and the suite of characteristics that complement them in reproduction.
“A female is that member of the human species who, by her nature, can become pregnant, while a male is the member of the human species who can impregnate the female.” Walsh explained, arguing that non-binary characterizations of sex could not provide any biological basis for additional sexes within the human species. “It’s not complicated, it’s not confusing which is why nobody ever was confused by it until 8 seconds ago.”
Walsh compared the idea that sex and gender were fluid to the idea that geometry is fluid, and argued that the claim that a man could be a woman was even more absurd and pernicious than claiming that a square could be a circle.
“The untruth at the core of gender ideology, of the transgender phenomenon, reaches down to the deepest conceivable level.Gender ideology wages its assault against our knoweldege of ourselves.” Walsh said, arguing that such a worldview ‘replaces light with darkness’ and by its very nature results in self-contradictory confusion in those who adhere to it.
Walsh took the time to respond to the four principal objections to his position, although he argued that the burden of proof should be on those arguing that ‘men can get pregnant.’
“If you’re coming along to deny what everyone in the world has always known to be the case, you are the one who has to prove that assertion.”
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1.Sex and Gender are not identical
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Walsh argued that he had “no use for the term ‘gender’” and that it was gender theorists who advocated for the sex/gender split in the first place, before the “collapsing the very sex/gender distinction that [they] invented.”
“If you did still affirm a definitional distinction between sex and gender then you would also have to affirm that there is in this world a binary category of male and female, and that those who belong to one group cannot cross the chasm between the two.”
Walsh noted that transgender activists would not affirm any binary distinction between ‘trans women’ and ‘women, and claimed that “the whole sex/gender thing was nothing but a sleight of hand trick.”
“I see only men and women, males and females. Each individual in either group has a different way of being and expressing themselves and understanding the world, that’s true, but we don’t need the word ‘gender’ to describe that. We have a word for that: it’s called ‘personality.’
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 2.You say that ‘women can get pregnant’ but what about women that can’t get pregnant.
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Walsh compared this objection to arguing against describing human beings as ‘bipedal’ because some people don’t walk on two legs. “Does the existence of amputees and infants call into question the notion that humans have two legs?”
Walsh argued that human beings naturally have two legs “unless accident, or disease or deformity intervenes. The humans without two legs should have two legs, but they don’t.”
Walsh similarly noted that although age and various other factors could prevent her from becoming pregnant, a woman should be able to get pregnant and if a young woman went to a doctor to ask why she couldn’t that doctor would deduce that something was wrong with her body, and likely be able to diagnose what that problem was, whereas if a young man complained to his doctor that he couldn’t get pregnant that doctor should realize there is no problem with his body at all.
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 3. Trans people have existed throughout history across the world. The ‘binary’ is a Western construct.
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Walsh called this “the dumbest damn thing I’ve ever heard” and observed that gender theory was in fact the modern western construct that was created in the middle of the 20th century by a “relatively small collection of degenerate creeps and whackos,” such as Alfred Kinsey and John Money.
Walsh recounted his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yAnHFj4IK0">expeditio</a>n to Maasai territory in Kenya, where he discussed the intricacies of sex and gender with the incredulous natives, and pointed out that very few of the people criticizing the ‘Western’ gender binary had traveled outside their Western bubble and talked to people about the subject.
“There are places where, for one reason or another, a woman may dress as a woman or play the part of a woman. But none of these cultures believe that the man actually is a woman. Outside of the West, you will not hear of a ‘pregnant man’ anywhere.”
Walsh also noted that the ‘two-spirit’ identity, which was an alleged precursor of transgenderism among native american cultures, was invented by gay activists in <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-american-indian/2021/06/23/lgbtqia-pride-and-two-spirit-people/">1990</a> in a “ret-con” of history.
“There has never been a culture, before ours, that believed that men could have babies.” Walsh stated. “Such madness is uniquely modern. Nobody before us was stupid enough to believe that. It took the most educated and technologically advanced civilization in history to come up with fantastic bulls*** like that.
Furthermore, Walsh noted that if trans people did exist in large numbers throughout history, but were not affirmed by any of these cultures, then by the logic of ‘gender affirmative care’, “that should mean that a great many of these unaffirmed trans people, historically, would have killed themselves.”
Instead, the historical record shows the precise opposite &#8211; childhood suicide was vanishingly rare until very recently, “in correlation with the rise in trans affirmation.” Walsh argued that this correlation was causal and that “trans affirmation causes suicide, and not the other way around.”
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 4. Why do you care so much?
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Walsh called this line of argument an ‘intellectual surrender’ before arguing that it was trans activist themselves who were elevating the importance of the topic.
“You literally throw parades announcing your sexuality and gender identity to the world… You can’t put something on a flag and then ask me why I care about it.” Walsh said.
“You won’t allow me to not care,” he continued. “It’s just that you want me to care in the way that you have determined and arrive at the conclusions that you have pre-approved. You don’t have a problem with the fact that I care. You have a problem with the conclusions that I have drawn.”
Walsh concluded by stating that he was so invested in the topic because “the truth matters.”
“It matters more than your ideology, it matters more than your preferences, it matters more than your self identification, it matters more than your feelings. The truth matters more than anything: it matters more than your life. And more than mine.”
Walsh stressed that no claims of emotional harm or even threats to his life would deter him from speaking the truth as he saw it.
“Nothing can have meaning, apart from truth. There is nothing to fight for, except for truth. Nothing to live for, except for truth. There’s no love without truth, there’s no joy without truth, there’s no beauty without truth, there’s no freedom without truth. There’s nothing without truth, and that’s why I won’t give it up for your sake. Or anyone else&#8217;s.”
“The question we really ought to be asking, then, is not ‘why do I care about the truth?’, it’s  ‘why don’t you?’”
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A global rise in the price of<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/oil-and-gas"> fue</a>l has caused thousands of protests in 92 countries so far this year.
Data collected from around the world by the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-63185186">Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project </a>found a substantial increase in the number of street protests against rising fuel costs on all inhabited continents. Notably, a third of the 92 countries with protests this year had none recorded in 2021: Spain, for example, an upper-income nation in Europe, went from zero such demonstrations last year to 335 in the month of March alone. More than 100,000 citizens <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/19/france-strikes-inflation-protests-refineries/">took to the streets in France</a> over the weekend, with the largest protests occurring in Paris.
The demonstrations have evolved into civil unrest in some parts of the world, most notably in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sri-lankas-president-flees-the-country-amid-mass-uprising">Sri Lanka</a>, where protesters stormed the Presidential Palace and overthrew the sitting government.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inflation-surpasses-forecasts-ahead-of-midterm-elections-in-bad-omen-for-democrats">record</a> levels of inflation have left the US economy reeling, and voter confidence in Democrats to handle the economy has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/17/us/politics/republicans-economy-nyt-siena-poll.html">cratered</a> less than a month before the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/2022-midterms">2022 midterm elections</a>, leading Democrats have pointed to the dismal economic situation in much of the rest of the world as the primary driver of America&#8217;s financial woes.
“Our economy is strong as hell,” Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-between-bites-of-ice-cream-brags-the-economy-is-strong-as-hell-ice-cream-prices-are-up-13-6">said</a> in a recent interview. “The internal — inflation is worldwide, it’s worse off everywhere else than it is in the United States. So the problem is a lack of economic growth and sound policy in other countries, not so much ours.”
A June survey of 44 mostly developed nations by<a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/06/15/in-the-u-s-and-around-the-world-inflation-is-high-and-getting-higher/"> Pew Research</a> found that the US ranked 13th for the highest rate of year-over-year inflation in the first quarter of 2022. Between 1991 and 2019, the US experienced an average year-over-year inflation of 2.3%, only exceeding 5% four times during that period. Inflation has been above 5% since May 2021 and has hovered around 8% for most of 2022, peaking in June at 9.1%.
All countries surveyed had a noticeable spike in inflation rates compared to Q1 of 2020, when COVID lockdowns began. Israel led the pack in relative terms with an inflation rate 25 times higher than it had been in 2020, although Turkey led in absolute terms with a year-over-year inflation rate of 54.8%. U.S. inflation went up just under 4x compared to 2020 levels.
Disruptions in global supply chains as a result of the lockdowns are thought to be a lingering cause of economic malaise, but the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ukraine-russia-war">Russian invasion of Ukraine</a> and subsequent sanctions are also believed to be a major contributing factor. America has increasingly been dipping into its <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-to-release-more-oil-from-strategic-reserve-ahead-of-midterms">Strategic Petroleum Reserve</a> to attempt to offset the rise in costs, as the Biden Administration has opened up <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-oil-leases-slow-to-a-trickle-under-biden-11662230816">fewer</a> federal acres for oil and gas leases than any administration in the last 60 years.
Rising energy costs tend to drive up prices across the economy, but food prices are especially affected as many fertilizers are made using <a href="https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insights/blogs/agriculture/011922-fertilizer-costs-natural-gas-prices">natural gas</a> or <a href="https://www.resourceinfocus.com/2020/08/the-future-of-fertilizer/">petroleum</a> byproducts.
As a wealthy nation and a net exporter of food and <a href="https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/imports-and-exports.php">energy</a>, the US will likely be spared from the worst of the global downturn, but many developing countries face the very real prospect of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/experts-warn-of-impending-global-food-shortage-that-could-lead-to-social-unrest-riots">famine</a>, and even wealthy European nations like the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/oct/06/uk-power-cut-warning-prompts-fear-for-people-using-life-saving-machines">United Kingdom</a> and <a href="https://gript.ie/4-german-companies-all-125-years-old-declared-insolvent-in-24-hours/">Germany</a> face power shortages and widespread insolvency over the winter.

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/montana">Montana</a> woman has come under fire after posting photos of a skinned Husky she shot and killed after mistaking it for a wolf.
Amber Rose provoked widespread ire and condemnation after posting <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2022/09/26/montana-woman-kills-skins-husky-dog-think-wolf-outrage/">graphic photos</a> of the carcass of a Siberian Husky she killed on a bear hunt, which she identified as a ‘wolf pup.’
&#8220;So this morning I set out for a solo predator hunt for a fall black bear however I got the opportunity to take another predator wolf,” Rose wrote, “was a great feeling to text my man and say I just smoked a wolf pup. #firstwolf #onelesspredatorMT.&#8221;
Huskies are more visually similar to their canid cousins than many other breeds of dog, however, they are noticeably smaller: full grown Huskies are 20-23.5 inches tall typically weigh 35-65 lbs, while a gray wolf stands between 26-32 inches at the shoulder and weighs between 50-110lbs. The size discrepancy could explain why Rose identified it as a juvenile rather than an adult, but Huskies also have a broader snout and various minute differences in coloration and build when compared to wolves.
The incident took place outside of Martin City, Montana. The local Sheriff’s Office, Animal Control and Fish and Game agencies are currently investigating, although as of now there is no indication that Rose will face any legal repercussions, although some locals and many online observers are up in arms.
“It’s like, how could you ever mistake a husky like that for a wolf,” Rebecca Harding, a resident of Green Hills, Montana, told <a href="https://www.ktvq.com/news/local-news/western-montana-woman-ignites-fury-after-posting-photos-of-shot-and-skinned-husky-dog">MTN News</a>. “She’s poaching. She’s hurting our hunting community by posting that she went out looking for one specific animal and shooting a different one.”
Rose defended herself from the backlash in a subsequent post, arguing that she had received a wolf tag before her hunt began and was authorized to kill a wolf if she encountered one, although she admitted that she &#8220;made a mistake.&#8221;
Rose also claimed that she had made the kill in self defense, stating that the Husky was &#8220;aggressive&#8221; and &#8220;coming directly for me.&#8221;

Portrait of Sled Dog in winter, Le Corbier, France

Montana Woman Shoots And Skins Dog She Mistook For Wolf

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The new British monarch bears the name of a predecessor who was executed and another who was exiled.
King Charles III, 73, formerly Prince Charles, chose to keep his name following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, on Thursday. He is the first monarch named Charles since the 1600s, and the oldest person to ascend the throne in history. In a pre-recorded speech Friday, the new king vowed his life to service and invoked his mother.
&#8220;As The Queen herself did with such unswerving devotion, I too now solemnly pledge myself, throughout the remaining time God grants me, to uphold the Constitutional principles at the heart of our nation,&#8221; said King Charles III.
Who Was King Charles I?
King Charles I, born November 19, 1600, ruled England for more than two decades beginning in 1625. A firm believer in divine right — the idea that the monarch&#8217;s right to rule comes directly from God — Charles I didn&#8217;t summon parliament for years, starting an era that was known as his &#8220;Personal Rule.&#8221;
But after a series of controversial political and religious policies, a civil war broke out that would ultimately kill more than 3% of the population. King Charles I would be accused of treason and executed in 1649.
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His trial and execution are among the most controversial moments in British history. Some see it as a lawless reprisal against a political opponent, while others consider it a watershed moment for the rule of law and the authority of Parliament. Undoubtedly the sequence of events was a key milestone in the decline of the British monarchy and the relative rise of Parliament, eventually leading to the symbolic and largely neutered royals of the modern era.
His Son&#8217;s Short Reign
Charles I’s son, King Charles II, was formally crowned days after his father’s death. Born May 29, 1630, Charles II was caught up in a complex web of civil wars and forced into exile in 1651. He would spend the next nine years in France, before he was invited back to England and restored to the throne after the death of Oliver Cromwell, the de-facto leader during the period without a king. 
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For legal purposes, Charles II was considered to have been the rightful monarch the entire time and the brief republican escapade was papered over as an odd detour in an unbroken succession of monarchs. 
Charles II had his own controversies surrounding Parliament and the Church. But he never went as far as his father, and he is perhaps best remembered as &#8220;The Merry Monarch&#8221; and for the reported hedonism and extravagance of his court. (He fathered at least 12 children illegitimately.)
When Charles II died in 1685, he left behind no legal heirs, passing the throne instead to his brother James.

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/taliban">Taliban</a> celebrated the anniversary of the withdrawal of American forces from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/afghanistan">Afghanistan</a> on Wednesday with a parade in front of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul and in front of Bagram Air Base.
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The withdrawal followed a 20-year-long insurgency against a U.S.-led NATO force and the rapid collapse of the U.S.-backed government, which fell almost immediately after the U.S. pulled its troops. The handling of the withdrawal by the Biden administration has been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-report-reveals-biden-failures-that-led-to-botched-afghanistan-withdrawal">widely criticized</a> and reportedly left thousands of <a href="https://www.risch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2022/2/bombshell-report-biden-admin-left-9k-americans-in-afghanistan-originally-claimed-150">Americans</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-army-colonel-sent-busloads-of-americans-afghan-allies-to-be-murdered-by-taliban-evac-team-says">allies</a> trapped behind enemy lines.
U.S. forces officially withdrew from the country at one minute to midnight on August 30, 2022. The Taliban, which is still not recognized by any nation as the legitimate government of Afghanistan, declared it a national holiday, Freedom Day, and launched celebratory fireworks over the capital on Tuesday night.
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This is the celebration of the Taliban tonight the withdrawal of the US last soldier from Afghanistan on 30th August 2021. And the US also announced today that we have given $775 million to the Taliban in response to China and Russia&#39;s criticism. <a href="https://t.co/EJ68KTjQsj">pic.twitter.com/EJ68KTjQsj</a>
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Since taking power, the Taliban has reimposed harsh Sharia law on the country, forbidden women from work outside of a small number of economic sectors, banned female education past the 6th grade, and placed restrictions on internal travel. Harsh legal punishments such as stoning and mutilation have reemerged.
The parade included Taliban fighters, as well as missile launchers, tanks, helicopters, and other military equipment. The U.S. gave <a href="https://americanmilitarynews.com/2022/08/videos-taliban-holds-parade-at-us-embassy-to-celebrate-us-withdrawal-anniversary/">billions of dollars</a> in weapons and equipment to the Afghan government, and much of that materiel fell into the hands of the Taliban when they took control of the country.

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/united-nations">UN</a> Commission on Human Rights released a stunning report on Wednesday alleging that human rights abuses <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/china">China</a> has committed against the Uyghur minority population may constitute “crimes against humanity.”
The <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/countries/2022-08-31/22-08-31-final-assesment.pdf">48-page report</a> outlines allegations leveled against the Chinese Communist Party for years by numerous journalists, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/us-and-allies-impose-sanctions-on-officials-in-china-over-human-rights-offenses-in-xinjiang">governments</a>, and international organizations. The Uyghurs, an Islamic, Turkic-speaking minority in China’s remote northwestern frontier, have been reportedly subjected to arbitrary detention, torture, sexual violence, and forced labor. 
“Despite well-documented evidence of state-sponsored torture and the intended destruction of the entire Uyghur ethnic groups through massive concentration camps, physical and mental torture, slave labor, massive displacement, enforced sterilization to prevent population growth and separation of children from their parents, the U.N. report came short of calling the crime by name,” Mehmet Tohti, executive director of the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project, told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/01/world/asia/china-xinjiang-uyghurs.html">The New York Times</a>.
The UN first began receiving reports of abuse at the end of 2017, and the report cites 40 interviews with witnesses of the atrocities, 26 of whom reportedly spent time in a Uyghur internment camp. China initially <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/world/asia/china-xinjiang-un.html">denied</a> the existence of the camps, and when that became impossible, Beijing characterized them as “vocational training centers” meant to combat “extremism.&#8221;
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The Chinese mission to the UN released a <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/countries/2022-08-31/ANNEX_A.pdf">122-page counter</a> condemning the UN&#8217;s decision to release their report. 
“This so called &#8216;assessment&#8217; … ignores the human rights achievements made together by people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang and the devastating damage caused by terrorism and extremism to the human rights of people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang,” the Chinese mission said. 
The CCP has been increasingly aggressive in its censorship of foreign media, using its iron grip on the highly coveted Chinese market to compel American corporations like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mike-pompeo-rips-hollywood-corporate-acquiescence-to-communist-china">Disney</a> and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-nba-blocks-people-from-being-able-to-order-freehongkong-customizable-jerseys">NBA</a> to kowtow to the party line.
While the UN report was condemnatory in its language, it did not go so far as to call the ongoing campaign of repression a genocide, despite the widespread demolition of Uyghur mosques, restrictions on the speaking and teaching the Uyghur language, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/only-on-ap-middle-east-europe-government-and-politics-76acafd6547fb7cc9ef03c0dd0156eab">forced abortions of Uyghur children</a> and the drastic and demonstrable drop in Uyghur birth rates.
“It is imperative that nations take this report and make concrete steps toward stopping these crimes against humanity and holding China accountable for them,” Rushan Abbas, a Uyghur American activist said. 
Abbas previously worked as a translator for the US Department of Defense, and after he began speaking out his sister was reportedly sentenced to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/18/world/asia/uighur-muslims-china-detainment.html">20 years in prison</a> by the Chinese government. Chinese authorities have been accused of taking reprisals against the relatives of whistleblowers and foreign critics.
For some Uyghurs, the report is too little, too late. Mukerrem Abitoglu, who fled to Turkey from China with her youngest daughter 5 years ago, told <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/china/uyghurs-turkey-disappointed-by-un-report-chinas-xinjiang-2022-09-01/">Reuters</a>, “China kills our young people, leaves our children orphaned so what [the United Nations] do now is not enough.”

Ethnic Uygur women (R) clash with Chines

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China Committed 'Serious Human Rights Violations' In Uyghur Concentration Camps: UN Report

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