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A plan at Utah Valley University (UVU) to create a memorial to Charlie Kirk has been met by protests and a petition signed by thousands to block the effort.

One protester declared, “We don’t want his likeness on campus.”

That is hardly a new sentiment since Kirk was assassinated on the campus on Sept. 10, 2025.

However, the protest shows the sense of license that many have in opposing anyone with conflicting views, including those represented in memorials.

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Yosemite National Park is seeing a sharp rise in illegal BASE jumping and other banned activities as the prolonged federal shutdown strains enforcement — a surge conservatives say proves White House warnings about security lapses when government operations stall.

The National Park Service on Friday announced the conviction of three individuals for illegal BASE jumping inside Yosemite National Park, part of a noticeable increase in lawbreaking during the shutdown as federal enforcement bandwidth is stretched thin.

The agency said the cases, some dating back to 2020, were announced now because similar activity appears to be escalating during the shutdown, with jumpers openly leaping from iconic formations in broad daylight.

Freedom! In broad daylight! We can’t have that!

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Major tech companies are distancing themselves from the Southern Poverty Law Center, a leftist group that demonizes conservatives and Christians, after facing pressure over previous relationships with the SPLC in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

Kirk’s alleged murderer said he killed the Turning Point USA founder because he “spreads too much hate.” The assassination took place two months after the SPLC put Turning Point USA on a “hate map” with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan—a “hate map” that had inspired a terrorist attack in 2012. The SPLC condemned the assassination, but kept Turning Point on the map.

Earlier this month, shareholders filed proposals at major companies, urging them to investigate whether the companies have used politicized tools like the SPLC’s “hate map.” Conservative groups also sent a letter to Benevity, which connects nonprofits to major corporations, urging it to stop using the SPLC “hate map.”

The New Neo.

They won’t give up until they kill him, or die trying.

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Of couxrse it did.

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There’s probably no more polarizing and outright catchy vehicle on the road than the Tesla Cybertruck. Depending on who you ask, the Tesla Cybertruck is either the future of American engineering or a stainless-steel political statement.

But to some at a Cybertruck meetup in Palm Springs, it’s simpler than that, according to a new profile by Wired. “To me, it’s just a vehicle that I love,” says Andrew Castillo, a stock trader from Los Angeles. “It has no political affiliations at all to me.”

The event was organized by Michael Goldman, who runs the 53,000-member Facebook group Cybertruck Owners Only. Goldman, who nicknamed his truck “Beastie,” says reactions are often strong — both positive and negative. “When I first got it, my wife really made fun of me for it,” he says. “She actually made a T-shirt. It says ‘It looks like a brick and moves like a beast.’” Her opinion changed after seeing it in action towing dump trailers and hauling equipment. “Now she says it’s actually pretty cool.”

The Telegraph (UK).

A university is teaching students that JRR Tolkien demonises “people of colour” in the Lord of the Rings books.

A history module called Decolonising Tolkien et al, taught at the University of Nottingham, uses a text that says orcs and other dark-skinned characters in the trilogy are the victims of “ethnic chauvinism”.

Dr Onyeka Nubia, a historian and writer who leads the module, argues that eastern races in the fictional realm of Middle Earth are depicted as evil while fairer-skinned peoples of the west are shown as virtuous.

In academia, “decolonising” usually means re-examining or moving away from white, western viewpoints.

In the module’s core text, Dr Onyeka writes that maligned peoples include Easterlings, Southrons and men from Harad. The trilogy also features the dark-skinned orcs, evil creatures that do the bidding of Sauron, known as the “Dark Lord”.

Carl Benjamin (“Sargon of Akkad”) has some fun with this.

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Grace Jin Drexel hadn’t expected her father’s final message before his disappearance to be a call for prayer.

“He told me to pray for another pastor who had gone missing,” she said.

Hours later, her mother called to say she could no longer reach him.

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Supporting Israel and voting to reopen the government amid the Senate Democrat-forced government shutdown has left Sen. John Fetterman fending off opposition and ambitious Pennsylvania Democrats circling to run for his Senate seat in 2028.

Democrats are quietly positioning to challenge Fetterman in the 2028 Senate primary, setting up a potential intraparty fight in one of the nation’s most critical swing states, Axios reported Thursday, naming a trio of power-seeking critics in the party.

“Enjoy your clickbait!” Fetterman texted Axios when reached for comment, adding a go-away message when pressed further: “Please do not contact.”

If you stray from the Party Line, they’ll dump you in the brine.

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Imagine a leftist group with ties to Antifa puts conservatives and Christians on a “hate map” with defunct chapters of the Ku Klux Klan, and that map inspires an act of terrorism and would go on to contribute to the demonization of Turning Point USA ahead of the Charlie Kirk assassination.

Now, imagine that, rather than investigating such a group, the Justice Department sidles up to it—asking these radical leftists for direction on how to track “civil rights matters.” Imagine the feds host quarterly meetings with this group, cultivating close relationships with its leaders, and inviting its staff to train prosecutors on combatting “hate crimes.”

It strains credulity, doesn’t it? How could federal law enforcement become so blind to the obvious bias and destructive influence of such an organization? How could the American people put up with an administration that would weaponize justice against conservatives in this way?

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The far-left extremist portal “Indymedia,” associated with Antifa, was used to target three politicians of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in Hamburg, including the publishing of their home addresses and calls to take action against the “fascists.” The information was published both on the platform but also on stickers, which were put up all over the neighborhoods where the three politicians live.

Two AfD city council members were targeted, as well as a district council member, with the stickers distributed in the neighborhoods of all three individuals. The stickers featured the address and photos of all three politicians, along with a message that read: “Attention, AfD fascists in your neighborhood.”

The same information was published on the Indymedia website, which is well-known for publishing manifestos and calls to action for Antifa terror groups. Recently, a left-wing group took responsibility on the platform for a series of attacks on Berlin’s electrical grid, which resulted in the longest-running blackout in Berlin’s history since the end of the Cold War.

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Family members of law enforcement officers are facing threats from individuals affiliated with the far-left extremist group Antifa, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in an Oct. 10 X post.

“Antifa terrorists are threatening the families of our law enforcement. We will hunt these sickos down and put them behind bars,” the post said. “In Texas, the spouse of an ICE officer received a voicemail filled with violent threats.”

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German police are investigating whether far-left extremists from Antifa were behind a massive fire that destroyed the historic Thurn und Taxis hunting lodge near Regensburg, Bavaria earlier this week.

The fire, which broke out in the early hours of Monday, reduced the 19th-century building to its outer walls and caused damage estimated at around €4 million.

Authorities confirmed that a statement claiming responsibility for the arson has been posted on the far-left online platform Indymedia.

The message, signed by an “Antifa Kommando,” described the fire as a “warning” to Gloria, Dowager Princess of Thurn und Taxis, accusing her of “reactionary” and “fascist” sympathies.

Police in Regensburg said the statement is being examined but stressed that they are “investigating in all directions.”

Common Dreams, a Voice of the Woke.

When I saw the headline “Maria Corina Machado Wins the Nobel Peace Prize,” I almost laughed at the absurdity. But I didn’t, because there’s nothing funny about rewarding someone whose politics have brought so much suffering. Anyone who knows what she stands for knows there’s nothing remotely peaceful about her politics.

If this is what counts as “peace” in 2025, then the prize itself has lost every ounce of credibility. I’m Venezuelan-American, and I know exactly what Machado represents. She’s the smiling face of Washington’s regime-change machine, the polished spokesperson for sanctions, privatization, and foreign intervention dressed up as democracy.

I like her already.

The Telegraph (UK).

Donald Trump does not align with the ideals of the Nobel Peace Prize and his divisive leadership style will harm his quest for the award, according to insiders.

They say the president’s military posturing, US Aid cuts and worldwide tariffs conflict with the spirit of international harmony that the prize’s founder Alfred Nobel sought to promote. The winner will be announced on Friday from a list of 338 nominees.

Mr Trump has piled intense pressure on the Norwegian Nobel Committee, the five-member body that awards the prize, claiming to have “solved” six wars and arguing that it would be an insult to the US if he does not receive the medal on December 10.

He’s not a Magic Negro and he’s not a socialist. Of course he won’t get it.

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A scandal is rocking Germany: members of the youth wing of the Die Linke (The Left) party (Linksjugend) in Hanover distributed stickers featuring Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) co-leader Alice Weidel with a sniper’s crosshair over her head and the English caption “Aim Here.”

Lower Saxony police confirmed they have opened an investigation on charges of “public incitement to commit crimes and threats” after images of the stickers circulated on social media and AfD representatives filed a formal complaint.

Far from a fringe act of vandalism, the stickers bore the official logo of the radical leftist party’s youth branch, raising serious concerns about growing political radicalization.

The episode inevitably recalls the recent assassination of U.S. commentator Charlie Kirk, which the same Hanover group celebrated online with posts such as: “With a targeted shot to Kirk’s neck, the end of his inhumane policies was sealed.”

That the same aesthetic has now been deployed against an elected German politician marks a dangerous escalation in symbolic violence. What was once associated with loosely organized groups such as Antifa is now coming directly from an official youth organization tied to a parliamentary party.

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California parents will no longer face arrest if their children miss school following Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Oct. 1 decision to approve legislation repealing Kamala Harris’s truancy law.

The Telegraph (UK).

A university has placed a trigger warning on Ian Fleming’s James Bond classic Dr No, warning students of “racism and xenophobia”.

Fleming’s sixth Bond novel, Dr No tells the story of 007’s investigation into the disappearance of two fellow MI6 operatives in Jamaica. The villain is the Chinese-German mad scientist Dr Julius No, who runs a guano mine from the fictional island of Crab Key.

With steel pincers for hands, the evil doctor was later immortalised in the first Bond franchise film featuring Sean Connery in 1962, using the same title as Fleming’s novel.

But “academic killjoys” at the University of Portsmouth have deemed Fleming’s portrayal of the main antagonist and other characters as “problematic”, warning the book contains instances of “racism and xenophobia”.

UPDATE: Amazon Is Digitally Erasing Guns from James Bond Posters

The Telegraph (UK).

Three “hero” Tube passengers who tackled a man exposing himself in front of children have been interviewed under caution by police.

‘Under caution’ means they’ve been read their rights, similar to being Mirandized in the U.S., and indicating that they are under formal criminal investigation.

Five members of the public removed the naked man from a busy carriage on the District Line in August.

Video footage posted online at the time showed the man repeatedly refusing to pull up his trousers as he shouted and told those trying to intervene to “f— off”. A scuffle then broke out as the individual was tackled to the carriage floor and thrown off the train at East Ham station, where he was eventually arrested on the platform.

However, when he was later detained under the Mental Health Act, the British Transport Police (BTP) began an investigation into his “assault by a number of other passengers”.

No good deed goes unpunished, especially in modern Britain.

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Real America’s Voice correspondent Ben Bergquam visited the ICE facility in South Portland, exposing how the left-wing political machine operates, from Antifa attacks on the building at night to dark-money–funded NGOs providing support to illegal aliens by day. Together, this paints the picture of how the left’s machine works to subvert the nation, and in extension, national security.

Let’s begin with Bergquam’s late-night reporting outside the ICE facility in Portland that shows the federal government personnel countering Antifa warriors who attempted to undermine the Trump administration’s deportation program of criminal illegals.

By early morning, Antifa cells scatter like ants, only to be replaced by workers from leftist NGOs, according to Bergquam, who spoke with Steve Bannon. He noted that these NGO workers are “aiding and abetting illegal aliens” outside the courthouse in Portland.

Bergquam added, “These leftist NGOs are also part of the networks of telling these illegals when ICE is coming to their communities – it’s all a coordinated effort.”

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The New York Times Magazine posted a 2,500-word essay, likely bound for the next print edition of the Sunday magazine, by far-left Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones: “What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed.” Hannah-Jones was the force behind the paper’s discredited revisionist history The 1619 Project, which tied the founding of America to slavery.

The headline deck to this callous piece, another failed and personally obnoxious attempt at ideological revisionism.

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We have no idea whether the current DOJ indictments will lead to a conviction of James Comey, namely that he authorized FBI subordinates to leak to the media and then lied about it, obstructing Congress in the process.

It may come down to the word of Comey, a known fabricator, against the testimony of his former subordinate, Andrew McCabe, an admitted liar. Take your pick.

We know, however, that Comey is not facing a Trumpian $500 million in potential fines, nor 93 indictments, nor the scrutiny of five different local, state, and federal prosecutors. Nor, like some of the J6 arrested, will he be sent to solitary confinement to await a trial in a year or two or be charged with “illegal parading.”

We also know of the crimes or unethical conduct for which James Comey is not currently being indicted or investigated.

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Three women have been indicted by a federal grand jury in California on accusations that they doxed an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent after following him home last month, according to the Justice Department.

Cynthia Raygoza, 37, of Riverside, Californina; Ashleigh Brown, 38, of Aurora, Colorado; and Sandra Carmona Samane, 25, of Panorama City, California, face charges of conspiracy and of publicly disclosing the personal information of a federal agent, The Hill reported.

Prosecutors said the suspects allegedly followed the agent from the Los Angeles Civic Center district to his home on Aug. 28, while livestreaming their pursuit on Instagram and broadcasting directions to the agent’s residence.

Newsbusters.

This past Sunday, some 90,000 people attended the memorial for Charlie Kirk at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. One of those in attendance was Chicago Cubs rookie third baseman Matt Shaw. Shaw missed his club’s 1-0 loss in Cincinnati. The Cubs are assured of making the playoffs which begin next week, and hold a small lead over the San Diego Padres for the first Wild Card spot in the National League, but the whole situation did not sit well with New York Mets veteran announcer Gary Cohen.

During Tuesday night’s Mets-Cubs game, Cohen decided to use his SNY platform to weigh in on Shaw’s decision. “Shaw had Cubs world in a tizzy this weekend when he was not here for the Cubs game with the Reds. A game they lost 1-0 and in which his lack of presence was felt.”

Cohen makes it sound as if the Cubs might have won, if only Shaw had played. I’ m not sure exactly how that was the case. The Reds did not score their one run on an error by Shaw’s fill-in at third base. Shaw is only hitting around .225, with an OPS near .680. Nothing great by any means.

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Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., is accusing Stanford University of punishing a graduate student who refused to pay dues to a union that supported abortion rights and gender transitioning procedures, Blaze News reported Thursday.

In a letter dated Thursday, Cassidy wrote that he was “seriously concerned” over the plight of a graduate student who was threatened with termination as a teaching assistant if he did not pay dues to the Stanford Graduate Workers Union, which sends two-thirds of its dues to the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America.

At issue is that UE “supports abortion and taxpayer-funded gender transition procedures, positions that run contrary to the religious beliefs” of the affected student, Cassidy wrote.

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Andy Ngo, a longtime independent reporter on antifa domestic terrorist cells, has unearthed an anarchist blog calling for the targeting of ICE facilities.

The blog’s call to violence came one day after President Donald Trump signed an executive order designating antifa a domestic terrorist organization, and it was dated one day before Wednesday’s assassin killed one ICE detainee, wounded two others, and took his own life.

“An Antifa blog site is issuing a call for further attacks on @ICEgov facilities across the country,” Ngo, who says he is “next” to be targeted for assassination, wrote on X.

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Carl Benjamin (“Sargon of Akkad”) explains how YouTube helped enforce the Overton Window.

Instead of ‘conspiracy theories’, we ought to speak of ‘spoiler alerts’.

ATQUE: Google Says Users Removed Over COVID-19 Views Can Rejoin YouTube

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A whistleblower letter obtained by The Croton Chronicle has cast new light on a free-speech issue in Croton-on-Hudson, a quiet village 40 miles north of New York City, where a resident’s Trump flag became the subject of code enforcement action and a federal inquiry, even coming to the attention of President Donald Trump.

The letter, written by Code Enforcement Officer Thor Snilsberg and filed with village officials on Sept. 8, alleges that Croton-on-Hudson leaders ordered him to cite local resident Lenny Amicola for displaying a large Trump banner — even while other noncommercial flags and displays in the community went unchallenged.

Snilsberg, who has since taken medical leave citing stress-related health issues, says he felt “used as a pawn in a political game” and pressured to issue a violation that he didn’t believe was legitimate.

The Guardian (UK), a Voice of the Crust.

A former Meta executive who wrote an explosive exposé making allegations about the social media company’s dealings with China and its treatment of teenagers is said to be “on the verge of bankruptcy” after publishing the book.

An MP has claimed in parliament that Mark Zuckerberg’s company was trying to “silence and punish” Sarah Wynn-Williams, the former director of global public policy at Meta’s precursor, Facebook, after her decision to speak out about her time at the company.

Louise Haigh, the former Labour transport secretary, said Wynn-Williams was facing a fine of $50,000 (£37,000) every time she breached an order secured by Meta preventing her from talking disparagingly about the company.

Imagine living in a country in which such an ‘order’ is possible. Britain effectively has no Freedom of Speech, popular delusion to the contrary notwithsanding. (It used to. But that was then, this is now. And with no analogue of the First Amendment, rights depend on the sufferance of the government of the day.)

Britain of today in what Democrats want the U.S. to be.

Newsbusters.

The words of the legacy media suggest that they abhor political violence in all its forms, and condemn such acts. But they continually platform the very politicians that inflame our discourse during delicate times. The latest example of this is Dana Bash’s interview with Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett on State of the Union. 

After a pro forma question on the allegations against Tom Homan, Bash pivots to the House resolution memorializing Charlie Kirk. Crockett’s response was to lament that only two white people voted against the resolution, and to smear Kirk as a “New Age Relic” of the Confederacy:\

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My comment on a recent post by @SusanQuinn expanded into a post of its own, as is not uncommon for the famously verbose GrannyDude. So here you go:

The only definition of political violence that makes any sense is violence that is undertaken with the intention (however quixotic or insane) of affecting the policies and processes of governance. By this definition, political violence is now overwhelmingly coming from the left. It is not merely a matter of fringe elements either, as the behavior of the so-called “fringe” has been encouraged, aided and rewarded by Democrat politicians and office-holders.

One obvious example: The #BLM Mostly-Peaceful-Protests (MPPs) not only had a peculiar tendency to become very violent, its protesters frequently, openly called for violence. E.g. what do we want, dead cops. Unsurprisingly, homicides against police officers, including deliberate planned assassinations, ensued, perpetrated by persons who explicitly claimed #BLM as motivation. The declared intention of #BLM violence—from speech to action, from doxing to assaults to arson to murder—was to change the way government functions, that is, the way laws are enforced (or not enforced).

To a considerable degree, #BLM violence was successful. Police officers themselves became far more hesitant to do proactive policing, many left the profession altogether and potential new hires decided against such dangerous and thankless employment, leaving law enforcement agencies nationwide understaffed to this day.

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In a video that is going viral on X, and which appears to be real and not AI-generated, two British female police officers show up at the front door of a family home, demanding that the phone of a child in the household be handed over to them for an apparently unlawful social media post.

Britain of today is what Democrats want the U.S. to be.

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On the right, Christians have responded with prayer, vigils, and church services. There was no rioting, no burning of private businesses or government buildings after Kirk’s murder. This stands in sharp contrast to how Democrats respond to pivotal events (remember the nationwide BLM riots of 2020).

Meanwhile, on the left, Kirk’s death was celebrated because assassination culture has been normalized by a party that smears opponents as “Nazis” and “Fascists,” while its armed revolutionary groups spread propaganda that it’s acceptable to kill such people.

These people are really sick.

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An American woman living in Britain got a taste of what it’s like to have your freedom of speech taken away when a police officer visited her house to interrogate her over a Facebook post that he claimed had “upset someone.”

Yes, really. The officer demanded that she apologise about the post, without informing her what the post was about or who she was supposed to apologise to.

Britain now is what the Democrats want the U.S. to be.

New York Post.

The slain victim of Saturday’s country-club shooting in New Hampshire threw himself in front of his wife and daughter to save them from the deranged gunman, his mother has revealed.

Robert DeCesare, 59, was having dinner at a wedding with his family at the Sky Meadow Country Club in Nashua when police say 23-year-old Hunter Nadeau stormed the building with a handgun.

“[Nadeau] kicked the door open, and Rob just went right for him and protected his family,” DeCesare’s mother, Evie O’Rourke, told WMUR.

The Telegraph (UK).

Private schools will be charged up to three times more for Ofsted inspections under a fresh raid on the independent sector to be unveiled by the Education Secretary.

Bridget Phillipson will announce plans to axe subsidies for independent schools in a move that could spark more accusations she is waging a class war.

Ms Phillipson is currently currying favour with Labour’s Left-wing members in the battle to succeed Angela Rayner as the party’s deputy leader.

Her move risks further pushing up fees for parents already struggling to cope with the impact of Labour’s VAT raid, which has sparked a wave of school closures.

The Democrats would love to put the Deep State in charge of ‘inspecting’ private schools in the U.S., and would ban them if they could.

The Times (UK).

Elon Musk is a “criminal” and should be arrested after inciting violence during a rally in London last week, Sir Ed Davey has said.

The Liberal Democrat leader said that the tech billionaire had broken the law by telling a protest led by far-right activist Tommy Robinson that “violence is coming to you”. Davey said that the “standard has been met” to arrest Musk if he landed in the UK.

Last Saturday, the Tesla chief executive told a crowd of up to 150,000 demonstrators to “fight back” against immigration “or die”.

The Bernie Sanders of Britain. This is what the Democrats would be saying were it not for the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

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President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced he was designating the anti-fascist movement antifa a “major terrorist organization,” a move that follows last week’s assassination of conservative leader Charlie Kirk.

Trump posted the declaration on Truth Social while on a state visit to the United Kingdom, hours after attending a state banquet at Windsor Castle.

“I am pleased to inform our many U.S.A. Patriots that I am designating ANTIFA, A SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER, AS A MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION,” Trump wrote, adding that he would “strongly recommend that those funding ANTIFA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices.”

And about time,  too.

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A group of around 20 pro-Palestine activist students interrupted a lecture at the University of Pisa’s politics department on Tuesday and reportedly physically assaulted the professor because he would not take their side on the Israel-Hamas war.

The group said in a statement on social media that “we occupied the lecture of a Zionist professor,” adding:

There is no room for Zionists and warmongers in our university!

But the professor, Rino Casella, responded that “they accuse me of being a Zionist just because I’ve always said I’m not pro-Palestinian.” Casella says he and one of his students were “kicked and punched” by the activists and that he ended up in the university’s emergency room as a result of the attack.

Neither Muslims nor Leftists have ever hesitated to use violence against people they dislike. Perhaps that’s why the get along so well together.

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It’s back-to-school season, and some teachers have promised that the racist ideas from diversity, equity, and inclusion would not be in their classrooms this year. That’s the good news. The bad news is that many of these teachers and administrators are clearly telling whoppers.

In fact, K-12 schools and colleges around the country are disguising their DEI offices and their racial preferences.

Take Maryland, across the border from the nation’s capital and where many federal bureaucrats sleep and send their children to school.

State education officials said schools would comply with President Donald Trump’s executive orders calling on schools to reject DEI, citing the ways in which DEI programs violate civil rights laws.

Yet schools in Montgomery County, precisely where the swamp lives, still have resources on their website dedicated to DEI and critical race theory.

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Conservatives have faced many kinds of hostility, including 96 attacks on pro-life pregnancy centers and 356 attacks on Catholic churches since the leak of the Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022. Democrats, too, have faced attacks—most recently the horrific shooting of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman.

This article, however, focuses on physical attacks on Republican leaders or conservative groups.

The Washington Poop, a Voice of the Crust.

Within 24 hours of Charlie Kirk’s killing, an assistant dean at a Tennessee college, a communications staffer for an NFL team, a Next Door employee in Milwaukee, and the co-owner of a Cincinnati barbecue restaurant were fired after posting about it.

They had all used language or memes their employers deemed offensive or insensitive about the 31-year-old conservative firebrand. Kirk evoked strong feelings along party lines, and the fatal shooting in Utah on Wednesday unleashed parallel outpourings: On the right, there were mostly mournful expressions and demands for retribution; on the left, there was mostly condemnation of political violence and some suggestions that he had it coming.

“Looks like ol’ Charlie spoke his fate into existence,” Laura Sosh-Lightsy, assistant dean of students at Middle Tennessee State University, posted Wednesday on Facebook. “Hate begets hate. ZERO sympathy.”

Actions have consequences. Accountability is a stone-cold bitch.

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George Abaraonye, president-elect of the University of Oxford’s debating union, is facing calls to resign after he appeared to celebrate the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, The Telegraph reported.

Abaraonye sent messages to a group chat saying, “Charlie Kirk got shot, let’s [expletive] go” and “Charlie Kirk got shot loool.”

Gregory Stafford, a Conservative MP and former treasurer of the Oxford Union, said Abaraonye has brought the society “into disrepute.”

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A lot of people have noticed that a disproportionate number of teachers have been celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

If you haven’t been following the disastrous state of our public schools and figured out how ideologically captured they are, this might surprise you.

UPDATE: Charlie Kirk’s Murder Cheered Online by Liberal Teachers Across U.S.

The Foundry.

The prophet Isaiah warned a wayward nation: “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness.” Right was condemned as wrong, and what darkened the soul was repackaged as enlightenment. Isaiah cautioned that rejecting God’s word would bring devastation. The warning still stands.

Two developments last week expose the warning’s timeliness. For years, activists in media and government have advanced a gender ideology that tells even children they can choose an identity opposite of their biological reality. That confusion is not benign.

In Minneapolis, a gunman opened fire during a school Mass at Annunciation Catholic Church, killing two children and injuring many others. Police identified the attacker as Robert Westman, who identified as transgender and, in notes posted before the attack, expressed regret and anger about “being trans” and deep confusion about identity.

This is not isolated. Recall the Covenant School massacre in Nashville, and now we have Minneapolis—both carried out by individuals who identified as transgender. The point is not to stigmatize anyone; it is to confront a reality our culture keeps trying to deny: ideas have consequences and masquerading a lie as the truth can be deadly.

Yet rather than pause to reassess the narrative, legacy outlets scolded themselves for “misgendering.” NBC News even issued a correction after its initial report used what it called the wrong pronoun when referring to Westman as “he.” “She used female pronouns,” NBC sycophantically stated. This, despite law enforcement identifying the killer as male.

What a commentary on the press. Apologizing for mistakenly telling the truth reflects a deeper malady: trading evil for good and darkness for light. And when this deception is celebrated, children suffer. A civilization cannot protect what it refuses to name, and language becomes a veil for violence.

Still, the media is not the fountainhead of this confusion; they are its amplifiers. The deeper problem is philosophical. If truth is now established by feelings, then law must enforce the feelings.

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Austria’s Supreme Court has sided with FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl in his legal dispute with the association Plattform Österreich, Die Presse reported.

The case centered on a campaign video that compared Kickl to Adolf Hitler, using the term “Volkskanzler” (“People’s Chancellor”) as part of the imagery.

Plattform Österreich, led by Robert Luschnik—a former federal manager for the Greens and NEOS and now club director of the Pink Party—released the video ahead of the last national elections under the title “Do you want that? Our Austria is in danger.”

The footage juxtaposed black-and-white World War II battle scenes with the question, “Do you really want another People’s Chancellor?” before showing Kickl’s face under the caption “People’s Chancellor Project.”

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Leftist organizations like the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center have been saying for decades that “conservative extremists” are the biggest domestic terror threat in the US. Of course, the ADL and SPLC have been oddly quiet when it comes to the multitude of leftist related shootings and terror attacks in recent years, including several transgender related mass shootings since 2018. These incidents don’t fit the progressive narrative mold.

You will likely never see a TV series based on government agents scouring the internet for left-wing extremists plotting potential mass killings, even though there is an endless gold vein of real life story material to be mined for such a show. Until Donald Trump took office this year, it’s highly unlikely that the FBI was looking into woke zealots with any seriousness.

The focus of Hollywood propaganda, the focus of government propaganda and the focus of NGO propaganda has long been the demonization of conservatives, red pillers, anti-feminists, militia members and “white supremacists” (essentially anyone against mass immigration from third-world nations). Overtly political productions are crushing Hollywood’s profit margins because they still operate on a model that treats the “right wing” as a fringe minority. In reality, the right wing is the majority.

Apple TV apparently still hasn’t gotten the memo, or, they’re releasing content today that they started shooting years ago and it’s too late to turn back. Their latest series, The Savant, is set to be released this month and the trailer has gone viral on social media, but not in a good way.