American Indians are, once again, using their past to halt American progress.
And the mental health industry has matured and become so advanced, the pharmaceutical companies are helping to flush out mental problems.
Well, Stop All Progress!!
According to the Post Millennial:
A developer is planning to build thousands of homes and a large commercial development on a 520-acre property outside Richmond, Virginia, that American Indian tribes say is a sacred site and the birthplace of Pocahontas’ father.
The groups are seeking to stop or alter the project, arguing that the land holds significant cultural and historical value and could contain burial sites and undiscovered artifacts. The property, known as Tree Hill, is believed to be the birthplace of Powhatan, an American Indian leader and the father of Pocahontas. Powhatan was born in the mid-1500s and was known as the “chief of chiefs,” as other leaders paid him tribute.
The land was later used as a plantation, and during the Civil War, it was used as an encampment for Union troops. In the last two decades, Tree Hill has been owned by Gray Land and Development Company, which currently leases the property to farms that grow crops. The land is slated to be sold to real estate company Brookfield Residential, which plans to construct approximately 2,300 single-family homes, townhouses, and condominiums, along with roughly 1.1 million square feet in commercial, office, and retail space.
Construction is expected to begin next summer and continue for over a decade. Roughly 320 acres would be reserved as public green space, while 7.5 acres would be set aside as a commemorative site for American Indians.
The opposition coalition, known as Protect Powhatan’s Birthplace, includes six tributes and historians and preservationists. Members have different goals for the property, with some advocating for its sale to American Indians and others calling for a larger portion of the land to receive dedication.
Disagreement has also been raised about the property’s historical significance. Wolf Creek Cherokee, which is not a federally or state-recognized tribe, has rejected the claim that Tree Hill is the birthplace of Powhatan.
A 19-year-old trans-identified man was arrested in Illinois over the weekend after allegedly plotting to carry out a mass shooting at a Hindu temple. Police said that Alexandros Paporakis had driven to the Hindu Temple in southwest suburban Aurora armed but the gun jammed when he attempted to carry out his plan.
Authorities said that Paporakis drove from his mother’s home in Palatine to the temple in Aurora on Sunday, which had been filled with people. Police said he wanted to “kill a significant number of Indians,” Per NBC Chicago. The outlet referred to Paporakis as “he” despite his identifying as trans. The same outlet referred to the Tumbler Ridge trans shooter as “she” the difference is the target.
Investigators said they found a modified AR-style rifle in his possession, as well as 300 rounds of ammo, body armor, gasoline cans, and swastikas. When he attempted to open fire, his gun jammed, and he drove home, where he “searched internet trying to learn how to unjam his gun & called a colleague informing them of (his) intent to carry out a mass shooting.”
That coworker reported to police that he had received concerning communications from Paporakis that day, which led law enforcement to obtain a search warrant and arrest Paporakis. The police were able to identify a red Acura registered to Paporakis after the tip, and surveillance video showed the suspect entering the temple’s parking lot at around 12:25 pm and exiting three minutes later. He was later observed driving to his mother’s residence. He was arrested before he could return to the temple.
Investigators said that they recovered a manifesto believed to have been written by Paporakis, who referred to himself as the “Aurora shooter.” The writings “expressed words of hate, violence, superior race and mass shooting of Indian people,” and expressed hatred against African Americans, Indians, Jewish People, and “non-white” people. Investigators said he “expressed pleasure calling himself a sociopathic white supremacist Neo-Nazi filled with hatred, fantasizing about mass murder nearly every day.”
Paporakis is facing gun charges and is accused of making a terrorist threat. He has been ordered to be held without bond by a Cook County judge, who placed a healthcare order on the teen, noting that he’s being treated for ADHD, depression, anxiety, and is receiving cross-sex hormones for a sex change.
The mother of a 5-year-old who was found beaten to death in her home in Queens on Monday admitted to the 911 operator: “I killed my daughter,” according to a new report.
The mother, Francis Cabello, made the admission just before police were sent to 110th Street near 95th Avenue in South Richmond Hill on Wednesday, the New York Post reported. The mother was waiting at the front door when police arrived. She told them when they entered the home, “She’s upstairs not breathing.”
The 5-year-old girl, identified as Fabiana Cabello, was found unresponsive and lying on the ground with blood coming out of her nose. Although she had a weak pulse, efforts to revive her were not successful as emergency personnel took her to the Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where she was later pronounced dead.
Her mother appeared to be emotionless and did not shed tears over the incident when she was taken away in handcuffs, a neighbor told the outlet.
The mother’s father, Franklin Cabello, told reporters that the mother “wasn’t 100 percent there.” He said that the mother had been off her psych meds and was hospitalized just three months before the daughter was killed.
Florida Democratic Senate candidate Angie Nixon defends her previous comments that her GOP opponent Ashley Moody should be jailed, telling @margbrennan “it’s not a desire to weaponize the justice system.”
Now, Angie Dixon isn’t going to win. But there are people sitting in Congress, right now, that are saying the same thing. Here’s Alyssa Slotkin saying that the DoJ should investigate Republicans who are in or support the Trump administration. Why? So if young people are thinking of supporting the wrong people, they may face consequences and may change their minds. Listen:
The party of “No Kings” wants to ruthlessly prosecute its political opponents and intimidate the next generation out of even considering public service.
This is called a “purge.” Communist and dictatorships like the Soviet Union and China do this. They either imprison or kill the opposition to get rid of political enemies and discourage any other opposition.
You will see this if Congress is taken over by Democrats (I don’t think it is going to be as bad as all that). You will definitely see it if they take over the presidency in 2028.
They Deserve Everything They Are Getting
According to the Daily Wire:
France went up in flames Saturday.
Masked mobs hijacked a nationwide day of protest, torching a 143-year-old town hall, storming government buildings and fighting police in the streets. In the middle of the chaos, protesters waved Palestinian flags.
In the heart of Paris, demonstrators climbed the monument at Place de la République, the towering statue of Marianne that symbolizes the French Republic. A Reuters photographer captured them perched on it holding a French tricolor alongside a Palestinian flag amid pink smoke. One outlet reported that rioters pulled down the statue’s French flag and hoisted a Palestinian banner in its place.
In Marseille, several dozen mostly young protesters battered through the doors of City Hall and briefly overran the lobby, according to Agence France-Presse. They overturned tables and chairs, smashed a screen, and knocked a bust of Marianne to the floor. Some of the intruders wore yellow vests. Others carried Palestinian flags. Someone spray-painted an anarchist symbol on the wall.
In Strasbourg, a local news site counted some Palestinian flags among thousands of marchers packed into Place Kléber. The same flags had appeared at student marches there earlier this month. Video given to Fox News also showed a Paris mob carrying Soviet and communist flags.
The worst destruction hit Limoges in central France. In the evening, a masked gang set a police car on fire outside the city’s landmark town hall, then smashed the windows and set fires inside. The building dates to 1883 and has been a protected monument since 1975. The flames raced to the roof, which caved in on the floors below, and the bell tower came crashing down.
Mobs looted shops and attacked police in Bordeaux and Lille. In Paris, gangs broke away from the official march route, threw up barricades on the Champs-Élysées, and clashed with cops just blocks from the Élysée Palace. Video circulating online appeared to show a Christian Dior boutique being looted.
By midnight, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said 1,200 people had been arrested and 150 officers injured. He blamed far-left criminals, and vowed the government would not be bullied. Macron promised the attackers would be prosecuted.
Those numbers are old. About 2500 rioters have been arrested. Over 1000 police officers have been injured. Hundreds of cars and businesses have been burned, looted, and
Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez put turnout at 550,000 nationwide, including 110,000 in Paris. Organizers claimed up to 800,000.
And here was the French president, Emanual Macron? For almost a week, no one heard from him.
He was in a private box at a Celine Dion concert with his wife.
He finally made a statement. It was less than satisfying:
Macron on the ongoing riots: “When we saw the images we all thought was in their heads? How can French people do this to France?” pic.twitter.com/Yetn95efla
A federal judge born in South Korea has ordered the Trump administration to restart the diversity visa lottery, the program President Donald Trump suspended last year after a green card holder who came through it allegedly killed three people in Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
U.S. District Judge Jinsook Ohta of the Southern District of California issued a preliminary injunction on Wednesday directing Secretary of State Marco Rubio to hold the 2027 lottery, which offers up to 55,000 green cards a year to applicants from countries that send relatively few immigrants to the United States. Ohta, a Biden appointee, was born in Seoul in 1976 and immigrated to the U.S. at age six.
Under a revised timeline both sides requested, the State Department must announce the registration period by October 29, open online entries by November 1, keep the window open for 30 days, and notify winners by December 3. The department must then process selectees’ applications until that year’s visas run out or the fiscal year ends on September 30, 2027.
Some things:
When it comes to positions like judges, Congressman and other positions of power, You should have to be born in the United States.
The President must be born in the United States. Why doesn’t that apply to everyone in government.
Finally, this is just more overreach by the courts.
A U.S. District Court judge has no say in foreign policy which is what the diversity visa lottery falls under.
It is not a human right or a constitutional right to hand out visas.
The Supreme Court has ruled on this multiple times over the last twos years so the State Department really doesn’t need to listen to this judge.
The pope might have a difficult time in the future. It is time for some prayers.
And, it turns out, Christa Pike is just fine and back in prison. So when are they going to finish executing her?
News
Here is some news:
Pope Leo XIV told the faithful gathered for the Angelus on Sunday that his doctors have found a “localized nodule” in his lung and he will be operated on in a few days.
“Dear friends, during some recent medical examinations, the doctors found a small, localized nodule in my lung. It was detected at a very early stage and is well-localized. The doctors believe that it is best to intervene, so, following their advice, I have decided to undergo surgery to remove it. The operation is already scheduled to take place in the coming days. I thank you for your spiritual closeness and entrust myself to your prayers. Thank you, and happy Sunday!”
Convicted murderer Christa Pike has returned to prison and is recovering from her failed execution, according to a statement from her attorneys.
Pike, who tortured and killed 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in 1995, had been in the hospital since September 30 after a botched execution. She is the first known person to survive after execution drugs were actually administered, according to a statement by the Death Penalty Information Center.
The state previously confirmed there is no pending order for another execution attempt, but the possibility is still on the table.
A Philadelphia police officer died Saturday after a gunman shot him and another officer who had answered an overnight call about an armed man in West Philadelphia, Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel said.
Officer Shane Seiber, 40, a ten-year veteran with a 7-year-old son and a 3-year-old daughter, was hit three times. The second officer, 33 and a father of five, was struck 12 times. Bethel said that officer is stable but “not out of the woods yet,” 6ABC News reported. Both were taken to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center.
Officers from the 19th District were sent to the scene just after 12:20 a.m. for a report of a man with a gun on the porch, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. The shots came soon after the officers reached the porch, about half an hour after dispatch. The gunman then reportedly ran through an alley and fired at other officers, missing them. Police found him in a tree and arrested him.
Investigators recovered a shotgun and two handguns. One of the handguns had been taken from a wounded officer, Bethel said.
Mayor Cherelle Parker, who said the officers were “badly wounded,” used the briefing to urge state lawmakers to expand Pennsylvania’s involuntary commitment law to cover substance use disorder and other behavioral conditions.
Police have not publicly named the man in custody or said what prompted the shooting. Law enforcement sources have identified him to the Inquirer as Eric Lewis, a Philadelphia Water Department employee.
A projectile struck a passenger terminal at the international airport in Riyadh on Sunday, a day after a missile hit the same terminal and killed 12 people, the Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen said. The Houthis claimed responsibility for those attacks and others.
Saudi authorities said there were injuries in the latest attack on the King Khalid International Airport complex for terminals 3 and 4, serving domestic flights. The airport — struck four times in the past five days — has been closed since Saturday’s missile attack, which was the deadliest in a Gulf Arab nation since the Iran war began. Over 300 other people were wounded, some critically.
The sharp escalation in the war’s new front threatens to draw in greater U.S. military involvement. President Donald Trump has said he is weighing joining the fight against the Houthis. There was no White House comment Sunday.
India’s embassy in Saudi Arabia said one of its citizens died Sunday of injuries sustained in Saturday’s attack, which would bring the toll to 13. Saudi authorities later said King Fahd International Airport in Dammam also was attacked, with few details. The city is on the Persian Gulf near Bahrain and Qatar.
The latest strike in Riyadh came shortly after the Houthis said the airport in the rebel-held Yemeni capital of Sanaa had been struck again, and blamed the Saudis. On Sunday night the Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV channel reported further strikes on Sanaa, blaming Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia has not commented on the strikes.
At stake, again, in this escalation are global supplies and prices of oil as well as commercial shipping through a crucial alternative waterway to the Iran-threatened Strait of Hormuz — along with civilians and aviation throughout the region.
President Donald Trump said he has struck a deal to obtain diesel from Russia, a stunning reversal of years of U.S. pressure on Moscow over its war with Ukraine and an attempt to address high fuel prices ahead of the U.S. midterm elections.
Trump said on social media on Friday that he struck the deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call in which he was expected to discuss a suspected case of plague in Russia. Instead, Trump announced that Russia will immediately supply more than 300,000 tons of diesel, followed by an additional 500,000 tons in November and 1 million tons “immediately thereafter.” Russia will deliver an additional 3 million tons “within a short period of time” after that, he wrote.
Trump’s shocking announcement was in stark contrast to a sweeping Russia sanctions law he signed last month that aimed at clamping down on the oil and gas revenues that fuel Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called it “a weak decision, unfortunately, a weak decision by strong partners,” according to a statement released by the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington.
Trump announced the deal as his envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner were meeting with Ukrainian officials in Miami to discuss a proposal to end the Russia-Ukraine war.
“I believe our team is simply being used as a smokescreen. And that is certainly not fair. It is certainly not how partners should treat each other,” Zelenskyy said.
Trump’s move casts doubt on the likelihood of the White House imposing new sanctions on Russia, given that the law that passed overwhelmingly by Congress directs the administration to target countries that purchase Russian oil and gas. Lawmakers this week had urged the Trump administration to act quickly to use the tools available to help Ukraine.
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, along with Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, who is the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the ranking Democrat on the Banking Committtee, called Trump’s announcement a betrayal of Ukraine, the European allies and U.S. national security.
War Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Thursday that Fort Hood terrorist Nidal Hasan’s December 3 execution by firing squad will be made public, saying, “We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it.”
Hegseth told “Human Events” host Jack Posobiec that he wanted to make sure people understood the serious consequences of Hasan’s attack, which killed 13 people in 2009.
Hegseth said the execution has been scheduled to mirror Hasan’s massacre, taking place at Fort Hood on a Thursday at 1 p.m. local time, matching the day of the week and time of the attack.
🚨 WOW! SecWar Pete Hegseth just announced the firing squad execution of Fort Hood Islamist terrorist Nidal Hasan will be **PUBLIC**
At the SAME time and place where Hasan carried out the attack.
"We'll make sure that people are able to watch it. That it's public. Because… pic.twitter.com/boEWPqFIUU
Hasan opened fire at Fort Hood in 2009, killing 13 people and wounding more than 30 others while yelling “Allahu Akbar.” He was sentenced to death in 2013.
ROME — Pope Leo XIV waded into the debate over the death penalty Saturday, calling it “an attack” on human dignity a day after senior Church officials pointedly condemned the decision by the U.S. Defense Department to live-stream the execution of the convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.
On a day that capital punishment opponents have dubbed “World Day Against the Death Penalty,” Leo did not specifically reference the United States or Hasan, who on Dec. 3 is scheduled to die in the first known U.S. military execution by firing squad since 1945.
Writing on X, Leo reiterated his opposition, describing the death penalty as “inadmissible” and arguing that the “common good can be safeguarded and the requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment.”
He ended with the hashtag #NoDeathPenalty.
Hasan, a former U.S. Army psychiatrist, opened fire at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, killing 13 people and wounding 32 others. In an unprecedented move, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said this week that Hasan’s execution by firing squad would be live-streamed for the public. President Donald Trump told reporters Friday that he had personally authorized the live stream.
The United States is getting a preview of what will happen here from the country of France.
A pair of has-been actors a screaming and cursing about Trump again, trying to encourage people to get out and vote.
And Donald Trump has been a busy bee.
This Is What Cowardice and Suicidal Empathy Get You
According to the Daily Wire:
French teenagers stormed back to the barricades Tuesday for a third round of their increasingly violent school revolt, and this time the grown-ups joined them.
Scuffles erupted between protesters and cops on the streets of Paris, and clashes flared in Lyon and Strasbourg as thousands of high schoolers once again blockaded their schools. Authorities braced for as many as 40,000 marchers to flood the capital.
The students now have reinforcements. A coalition of teachers’ unions, the hard-Left Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) labor federation, the Socialist Party, and French Left-wing politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s La France Insoumise joined the students. A radical farmers’ union even urged its members to roll up to the blockades on their tractors.
The movement, which started over complaints about crumbling classrooms, packed schedules, and a shortage of teachers, has spiraled into riots.
Cops have made more than 6,000 arrests since September 28, and over 5,000 people, most of them minors, have been hauled into custody, according to France’s Interior Ministry. More than 700 police officers and nearly 100 school staffers have been hurt.
Protests have disrupted 589 schools and left at least 190 students injured. In the northern town of Lens, a 15-year-old lost his hand after picking up a police grenade.
What an f-ing moron! These actors actually think they are the characters that they play. Mark Ruffalo is 5'8". https://t.co/Bk6RIVNy6G
— Dumbasses Talking Politics Blog (@RunninFewl) October 5, 2026
Here is Robert DeNiro:
Robert De Niro goes on unhinged rant against Trump: “When that coward, that f****** piece of s*** Donald Trump tries to take our voice and power away? What do we tell him? Get your f****** hands off our vote!” pic.twitter.com/Ib2MfRIGpJ
President Donald Trump has approved the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan by a U.S. Army firing squad, a step toward what would be the first military execution of a U.S. service member in more than six decades, the Pentagon announced Monday night.
Hasan, an Arab-American and former Army psychiatrist, was convicted of killing 13 people and wounding 32 others in the November 2009 shooting at Fort Hood, Texas. Prosecutors said he shouted “Allahu Akbar” during the rampage.
Trump’s stamp of approval follows a pledge from Hegseth, who said in September that he was committed to carrying out Hasan’s death sentence.
Trump is calling it the “Super Intelligence Force,” because he has tried to rebrand AI as “super intelligence.” The announcement comes after Trump hosted top executives of AI companies at the White House last week and said they had signed a voluntary accord that would effectively self-police the development of the technology.
The task force will coordinate the federal effort “to ensure that America continues to lead the World in Super Intelligence, which many say is bigger than the Industrial Revolution, and the Internet, and will protect the interests, and improve the lives, of all Americans,” Trump in a post on social media Sunday.
The task force will reach out to consumers, public interest groups, religious organizations, critical infrastructure providers and AI companies, the Republican president said.
Others on the task force include the Federal Trade Commission’s chairman, Andrew Ferguson; Emil Michael, the Pentagon’s chief technology officer; and Scott Kupor, the director of the Office of Personnel Management.
The group will report to Trump and his chief of staff, Susie Wiles.
LA’s “mansion tax,” sold to Angelenos as a way to tax the rich and boost housing, has instead blocked the building of 9,100 homes, wiped out 16,650 full-time construction jobs and cost $452 million in revenue.
A damning new report says the tax, officially known as United to House LA, or ULA — has had a negative impact on the city’s high-end and multi-family real estate markets and collected less than half what it was expected to generate to tackle the city’s housing crisis.
The ULA was expected to raise about $900 million a year, or $2.7 billion over its first three years. Instead, it brought in about $1.2 billion.
The tax — which went into effect in April 2023 and was championed by socialist mayoral hopeful Councilwoman Nithya Raman — means if a property in LA sells for more than $5.4 million, the seller is taxed 4% of the price at closing. If it sells for more than $10.9 million, it increases to 5.5%.
Despite its nickname, LA’s “mansion tax” applies far beyond luxury homes. Apartment buildings, offices, warehouses and vacant land can all trigger the tax if they sell above the thresholds.
About 1,000 of the 9,100-plus new homes lost would have been affordable units — the very thing the tax was supposed to create — according to RAND corporation, a non-partisan, nonprofit research group.
Westside real estate broker Danny Brown told The California Post the tax was ”another disaster initiated by the incompetent socialists who run our city.”
“ULA has chopped the legs from under the residential and commercial real estate industry, which is one of the largest parts of our city’s economic engine,” Brown said.
There was a botched execution yesterday in Tennessee. Now everyone is in an uproar. I’ll give you a little insight: She still should be executed and I have a way to verify we never botch another execution.
And Seattle’s policies have decimated business growth. So what does the council do? The same things. I don’t know if they will ever learn.
So? Do It Again!
According to Fox News:
Tennessee officials were unable to execute death row inmate Christa Pike on Wednesday night after she remained alive following two doses of a lethal injection drug, according to court filings from her attorneys.
The failed execution prompted Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee to halt the state’s remaining scheduled execution this year and order “a comprehensive, third-party review to determine exactly what occurred.” Pike was taken to a hospital by ambulance for treatment, her attorneys said.
The Tennessee Department of Correction said it “followed every step of the State’s lawful, established execution protocol approved by the Attorney General’s Office.”
BREAKING: “I’ve witnessed, I believe, 5 executions in Tennessee. Nothing about today was normal, typical at all.”
Shocking new details emerge from the failed attempt to execute Christa Pike, the 50-year-old inmate who has spent nearly 30 years on Tennessee’s death row.
But the execution did not proceed as expected. Pike remained awake and at one point raised her head, asking prison officials whether her arm was supposed to feel that way.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said the executioners had “injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring,” her lawyers said in a federal court filing, according to The Associated Press.
Pike’s attorneys said in emergency court filings that she “has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat,” arguing that the attempted execution was causing “unnecessary agony.”
What did she do? That seems to be buried to the very end of the article:
Pike, 50, was 18 in 1995 when she, her boyfriend and another person beat, kicked and stabbed their 19-year-old classmate Colleen Slemmer to death in a brutal “satanic” attack that Pike claimed took between 30 minutes and an hour, according to court documents.
Pike and Slemmer knew each other through a vocational program in Knoxville called the Job Corps Center, the documents state.
Pike had accused Slemmer of “trying to get [her] boyfriend” and “running her mouth,” the case file shows. A day before the killing, she told another classmate she wanted to kill Slemmer because she “just felt mean that day,” according to the records. She was armed with a box cutter and a meat cleaver.
Pike and her accomplices lured Slemmer out, telling her they wanted to go to a music store and pick up some marijuana they’d hidden in a park nearby.
Pike attacked her, knocked her to the ground and hit her in the face with her knee and foot, according to court documents.
At one point, Slemmer broke away from Pike and tried to flee, but Pike’s boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp, grabbed her and held her down while Pike slashed her with the box cutter. The victim begged for her life, but the attackers kept going. At some point, they gagged her with a hair tie.
Shipp also carved pentagrams into the victim’s face and chest.
At trial, forensic psychiatrist Dr. William Bernet testified that the crime had “satanic elements” but also appeared to involve “the phenomenon of collective aggression, in which a group of people become emotionally aroused and ‘the end result is that they engage in some kind of violent, extremely violent activity,'” court records show.
Dr. Eric Engum testified that Pike had been diagnosed with “very severe borderline personality disorder” in addition to showing signs of cannabis dependence and depression. However, he said, she had no symptoms of brain damage or insanity.
Pike took a piece of the victim’s crushed skull as a trophy and later showed it off in school, recounting that Slemmer had begged the trio to stop, according to court records. Pike told the friend she’d cut Slemmer’s throat a half-dozen times and then smashed her head with a rock. She showed off her bloodstained sneakers to another classmate and brought Slemmer’s skull fragment to breakfast the next morning.
Pike’s supporters counter that her defense did a poor job presenting mitigating factors before her sentencing, including untreated bipolar disorder and PTSD stemming from repeated domestic violence and sexual assaults. Just under 25,000 people had signed a petition to Gov. Bill Lee asking him to commute her death sentence to life in prison.
Seattle is slated to increase its minimum wage to $22.14 an hour in 2027 as the broader metro area contends with a sharp drop in job openings and Seattle businesses face mounting cost pressures.
Beginning in 2025, all Seattle employers, including small businesses, were required to pay the same minimum wage, which is adjusted annually for inflation. Several Seattle restaurant owners who have since closed their businesses have cited rising labor costs among the financial pressures that contributed to their decisions.
During the first half of 2025, shortly after the wage hikes went into effect for all businesses, 450 Seattle restaurants — about 16% of the city’s total — closed. Restaurant and retail transactions fell by as much as 7% over the prior year in some business and shopping districts around Amazon and Microsoft campuses, according to Square data cited by The Wall Street Journal.
“If the servers are making $20 an hour, then I gotta pay the cooks $35,” one Seattle restaurant owner said of the wage increases to Eater in 2024.
“Operators are making less money than ever and are charging more than ever,” Anthony Anton, CEO of the Washington Hospitality Association, said last year, according to The Center Square.
Later in the article:
From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 to 2023, about 500 local businesses closed, according to the Downtown Seattle Association. A year later, the association counted 543 vacant storefronts in the city. During this period, many business owners cited property crime as well as local economic factors as the reasoning behind their exits.
Spouses who don’t share a last name get divorced far more often than those who do — and they split up sooner, data reveals.
Married couples with different surnames call it quits at a 50% higher rate and make it an average of just eight to 10 years before filing for divorce, according to an analysis from the Institute for Family Studies.
By contrast, couples with the same last name stick together about 12 years before divorce on average, according to the report, which analyzed 2023 Pew Research Center data and Texas divorce records.
“Couples who hold more things in common — from names to money — are more likely to take a ‘team-first approach to marriage life’ that reinforces cooperation, trust, and a sense of a common future,” writes the report’s author, Lyman Stone.
He also cites elopements and shotgun weddings as a possible factor.
“Obviously couples who do not share a last name will include some very thoughtful partners who are philosophically opposed to taking the husband’s last name — but it will also include a lot of couples who got married on the spur of the moment and who couldn’t be bothered to get their paperwork in order,” he suggested.
“Non-shared names may partly select for hasty, ill-considered weddings to begin with.”
Some women, however, may simply be staying married to avoid the massive paperwork headache of changing back to their maiden names, the report notes.
Overall, the report found that roughly 75-80% of married couples share surnames nationwide, and that conservative, white, and older women were more likely to take their spouse’s name.
Here’s some good news for adults who “didn’t wanna grow up,” as the old ad jingle had it.
Toys “R” Us is kicking off its biggest expansion in nearly a decade, opening 120 stores amid surging demand from adult customers, the company said Thursday.
The retailer — whose 2017 bankruptcy devastated the toy industry — inked one-year leases across the country as toy sales notched their biggest spike since 2020, according to Circana, which tracks consumer data.
The new locales include Woodbury Commons and the Westchester in White Plains, NY, and the Mall at Short Hills in Millburn, NJ.z
Toy sales in the US grew 17% in the first half of the year – the strongest first-half performance in six years – largely fueled by adults who are snatching up trading cards and collectibles, according to Circana.
Adults now account for 55% of all toy sales, the researcher found.
Mall operators like having toy stores on premises, “so shoppers don’t feel like they have to leave the mall and go to Walmart or Target,” observed former Toys “R” Us chief executive Gerald Storch.
The new stores will offer some of the biggest brands, including LEGO, Barbie, Hot Wheels, Pokémon and KPop Demon Hunters – and some will have cafes and candy shops, according to the company.
The lone juror who wanted to hold Linsey Clancy responsible for murdering her three children finally speaksout.
Kamala Harris is talking again. That is always fun.
And Bill Gates has found another existential threat to humanity to tout.
He’s an F-ing Hero!
Michael Desronvil, the holdout juror
EXCLUSIVE: The juror at the center of the Lindsay Clancy mistrial controversy is breaking his silence for the first time in video exclusively obtained by 'Hannity,' but says the attention should be on the three children whose deaths were at the heart of the case.
Kamala isn’t the only one who thinks that AI is a problem because she’s too stupid to know the difference between yellow and pink flowers. Bill Gates, the has-been tech giant, says that AI will kill billions of people. Mind you, not millions, but billions of people.
According to the Post Millennial:
Bill Gates has claimed that AI is powerful enough to “cause a billion deaths” as there have been some that have called for a slow down on the technology while President Donald Trump has said that the US must go full speed ahead in developing AI.
Gates made the comments in an interview with Kristen Welker on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that was released on Friday. He was asked if the technology could end humanity.
🚨 Bill Gates predicts that AI could “drive events that cause a billion deaths” pic.twitter.com/o1k6KqAkS4
Terrorists are caught in Great Britain. You’ll never guess who they are.
Sunny Hostin has gone full narcissist.
And Hollywood is doing everything they can to normalize evil by destroying great works of literature.
Gee, I Wonder Who Could Have Done It
So what happens when you import millions of military age men who hate your civilization?
According to the Daily Wire:
British authorities arrested five men near a military base hosting U.S. forces early Sunday on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack.
RAF Fairford, in Gloucestershire in southwestern England, serves as a forward operating location for the U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command and has recently been used to launch B-52 and B-1 bombers targeting Iran.
President Donald Trump praised the arrests while speaking to reporters Sunday and said the United States had worked with British authorities on the case. “The arrest in the UK was fantastic,” he said. “Working with Britain, it was an amazing job. We had them under investigation.” Trump said the suspects were “looking to do big damage” and that the group had been under watch “for a long time.”
Police were alerted around 12:45 a.m. to three suspicious vehicles apparently bound for the base, according to a Metropolitan Police statement. Armed officers responded and detained five men in the nearby village of Whelford on suspicion of explosives offenses, then rearrested them on suspicion of preparing an act of terrorism.
Authorities evacuated about 85 households as a precaution and established a 400-meter cordon around the vehicles while Army bomb disposal specialists were examining them. A nearby recreation center opened to accommodate displaced residents. “We are in the early stages of an investigation, and five men remain in custody,” said Deputy Assistant Commissioner Vicki Evans, Counter Terrorism Policing’s senior national coordinator.
“We continue to work with Gloucestershire Police to keep the community safe as we work to gather evidence from the scene,” Evans added. Gloucestershire Police Assistant Chief Constable Richard Ocone said emergency services had established plans for responding to major incidents.
“A cordon is in place as a precaution and the public can expect to see an emergency services presence in the area for some time,” he said.
A spokesperson for the United States European Command told the Daily Wire, “We are working closely with our UK counterparts to monitor this situation, minimize impacts and ensure the safety of US personnel, their families, and the local community.”
The spokesperson added that the command would not discuss its security posture:
“For operational security reasons we will not discuss specific force protection measures. U.S. European Command remains vigilant and will take appropriate actions to ensure the safety and security of our U.S. service members, civilians, contractors, and their families across the European theater. We constantly assess a variety of factors that determine what measures we institute or modify to protect our installations, our people and their families.”
The New York Post reported that the five suspects were stripped down after officers suspected they might be wearing suicide vests. The Telegraph reported that authorities are investigating whether there is a link to the Iranian regime. In August, Iran threatened to attack U.S. air bases in Europe if President Donald Trump escalated the war. “Should the US go too far, Iran will defend itself at any price, go beyond the region and hit Europe, too,” said a source close to the Iranian regime.
Of course, the UK is trying to hide the fact these are Islamists. Pictures were released before the government had a chance to blur the faces out, so we know what they look like.
The government is also saying not to assume who these people are which means these people are Islamists. They only say not to assume things when they are trying to protect people.
The suspects are believed to be tied with the IRGC and Iran. Of course, Iran denies any knowledge of these guys even though they said they’d start bombing military airports like the one these guys were trying to bomb.
In a continued attempt at suicide of their country, the 5 terrorism suspects are already out on bail.
The controversy is about Sunny Hostin’s recent claim that she was the decisive “holdout” juror in the 1991 trial of Daniel Rakowitz, the so-called “Butcher of Tompkins Square Park.” Contemporary reporting and accounts attributed to other jurors conflict with parts of her retelling.nbcnews+1
What Hostin said
On The View in September 2026, Hostin said she had served on Rakowitz’s jury before attending law school and was initially the lone juror favoring a verdict of not criminally responsible by reason of insanity. She described nine days of sequestration, said another juror threw a chair in anger, and said she gradually persuaded the other jurors until the panel unanimously reached the insanity verdict.ew
Rakowitz was tried in the killing, dismemberment, and cannibalization-related case involving his roommate, Monika Beerle. The jury ultimately found him not criminally responsible because of mental illness, resulting in psychiatric commitment rather than a conventional criminal conviction and prison sentence.nbcnews+1
Why it became disputed
The dispute is not mainly whether Hostin was on the jury—reports indicate that she was, under her legal name, Asunción Cummings. The question is whether she was the single, decisive holdout and whether the deliberations unfolded as she described.syracuse+1
Claim or issue
What the reports say
Hostin was a Rakowitz juror
Supported; contemporaneous coverage identified her as a juror under her legal name. syracuse
She was the only holdout
Several contemporaneous accounts reportedly described a male, unemployed juror as the principal holdout. foxnews+1
There may have been two holdouts
A contemporaneous Newsday account reportedly said 10 jurors favored conviction while two favored an insanity finding—leaving room for Hostin to have been one of the dissenters, but not necessarily alone. mediaite
She converted all 11 other jurors one by one
That is Hostin’s account, but the surviving reports do not clearly substantiate that specific version of events. ew+1
Her 1991 public comments align with the current story
Critics point to reported comments attributed to Hostin at the time suggesting Rakowitz “knew what he was doing,” which appears difficult to reconcile with her current portrayal of herself as firmly committed to the insanity defense throughout deliberations. mediaite
Hostin’s response
When questioned about the discrepancy, Hostin reportedly maintained: “I was the holdout juror.” The dispute therefore remains a conflict between her current firsthand account and incomplete, inconsistent contemporaneous reporting—not a settled finding that she fabricated jury service or had no role in the insanity verdict.syracuse+1
Bottom line
The strongest cautious summary is: Hostin did serve on the jury, but the claim that she was the sole juror who single-handedly reversed the panel is contested. Archived reports suggest either a different principal holdout or possibly two jurors holding out, which undercuts the clean “11-to-1, then I converted everyone” narrative without definitively proving she was not among the jurors resisting a guilty verdict.
One of the things that bothers me is the rewriting of great works of literature. People who couldn’t come up with their own pieces of work decide to take the classics and twist the stories to meet their own ideologies to the point that the new version is completely devoid of the original premise intended by the author.
One of the things
Let us go over a few of these movies:
Star Wars
Snow White
The Little Mermaid
101 Dalmations
Sleeping Beauty
The Odyssey
Animal Farm
Wuthering Heights
The Chronicles of Narnia
Now they are doing it with John Steinbeck’s East of Eden.
In the book, one of the main characters is named Cathy Ames. She is pure evil and was meant to be pure evil.
The new series “East of Eden” doesn’t try to make the character Cathy Ames “a monster,” Florence Pugh says. It was “my job to try and get you guys to sympathize and maybe fall in love with her a little bit,” Pugh adds.https://t.co/YN8Rjzs1aY#TAF26pic.twitter.com/RjNDnqI3kJ
The central disruptive force in the novel is Cathy Ames, later known as Kate.
Cathy is portrayed as unusually manipulative, deceitful, and emotionally detached. From childhood she lies and exploits others. She ultimately burns down her parents’ house, killing them, and disappears.
Later she becomes involved with a man who runs a prostitution operation. After attempting to manipulate him, she is severely beaten and left injured near the Trask property.
Adam finds her and becomes fascinated with her. Charles immediately distrusts her.
Adam falls completely in love with Cathy, but his love is largely based on an idealized version of her that does not really exist. He sees goodness and innocence where there is little evidence of either.
Cathy eventually marries Adam, although she repeatedly makes clear that she does not want the life he imagines for them.
At one point, Cathy sleeps with Charles, creating uncertainty about the biological father of the children she will later bear.
This is what John Steinbeck, himself, said about Cathy Ames. I looked this up on Perplexity:
Steinbeck was unusually explicit about Cathy Ames, both in East of Eden itself and in the letters he wrote while composing the novel.
In the novel, he introduces her with one of the starkest descriptions he ever gave a character: “I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents.” He goes on to suggest that, just as someone can be born with a physical deformity, a person might be born with what he calls a “malformed soul.” Cathy is his example of that idea. SparkNotes
What is interesting, though, is that Steinbeck became less certain about that judgment as the novel progressed. Later he writes, “When I said Cathy was a monster it seemed to me that it was so,” but then says that after examining her more closely, he began to wonder whether that conclusion was really true. eNotes
His private writing shows the same complexity. In Journal of a Novel, the letters he wrote to his editor Pascal Covici while working on East of Eden, Steinbeck described Cathy as “a tremendously powerful force in the book” and repeatedly returned to her with fascination, even referring to her affectionately as his “dear Cathy.”
The Left continues digging to find racism. My question is when are people going to stop apologizing to the mob?
The attorneys for Lindsey Clancy continue their harassment of the lone standout juror. A juror we now know.
And we need to listen to stories out of Canada concerning the MAiD program. It’s a very flawed program, an immoral program, and it is coming to the United States.
This is Illegal
According to Fox News:
Lindsay Clancy’s defense has filed a double jeopardy motion seeking to have the three first-degree murder charges she faces for the strangling deaths of her young children dismissed.
Attorney Martin Weinberg, who also represented Karen Read in her double jeopardy claim, filed a motion for Clancy Monday raising claims under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments. Read’s claim failed, but she was later acquitted of all homicide-related charges in her second trial.
Weinberg argued that there was no “manifest necessity” to declare a mistrial on Sept. 4 “given the absence of judicial inquiry regarding repeated reports that one juror was refusing to apply the Court’s instructions regarding reasonable doubt.”
The jury split 11-1, with only the holdout wanting to find her guilty. The others were in favor of finding her not criminally responsible for the children’s deaths after Clancy’s defense claimed she suffered from postpartum psychosis.
Judge William Sullivan previously overruled a defense motion to have the holdout juror dismissed and replaced with an alternate, saying he felt it was not appropriate for him to get involved in the deliberations.
Weinberg’s motion argued that Sullivan’s decision to declare a mistrial before investigating the holdout is improper, alleging that the jury foreperson accused the holdout of making “statements acknowledging doubt but refus[ing] to apply it to the verdict as the law states.”
Weinberg also argued that there was a legal basis for conducting a probe into the holdout before the mistrial was declared. However, Sullivan did not hold one.
On Friday, Clancy’s trial attorney Kevin Reddington called for an investigation into the holdout juror who wanted to find her guilty of murder charges in connection with the strangling deaths of her three young children.
The shoe brand Converse has apologized after social media users accused the company of putting out a “racist” advertisement.
The ad in question, which shows K-pop singer Karina wearing a skirt and holding a pair of Chuck 70 X sneakers, caused controversy as critics accused the company of promoting the KKK and lynching.
Converse apologizes for ad compared to KKK, lynching.
“How any American who is remotely educated can look at this horrifying ad & not see a klan hood and the feet of a hanging body…makes me speechless,” one person said, echoing what many others were saying.
“No, you’re not crazy. Yes, the Converse ad is racist. Yes, it looks like a Klan outfit. Yes, it looks like a lynching. And no, ‘it’s just a shoe ad’ is not a defense,” another popular comment said.
The backlash got so bad that Converse released an apology via social media.
“We’re sorry,” the Boston-based company said in the statement, per ABC 7. “We understand why this image is deeply upsetting and recognize that we got this wrong. We removed it from our channels and are working to remove it everywhere it appeared. This should not have happened and we will do better.”
Karina has yet to release a public statement, but followers have also targeted her for participating in the photo shoot, even though she didn’t know what the final ad would look like. Several users have referenced the original, uncropped photo to defend her involvement.
Plenty of people are wondering what all the fuss is about.
“When you look hard enough, you find racism in everything,” one X commenter observed.
“It’s not about reality. It’s about the reality that the Party tells you exists,” another person agreed.
The Converse brand launched in 1908 and is best known for the popular Chuck Taylor All Star sneaker. Converse is now owned by Nike.
This incident comes on the heels of Target yanking a so-called racist costume from shelves after followers started freaking out about it.
Photos of the costume, which was called “Kids’ Glows under Blacklight Circus Clown,” showed a young black child modeling the outfit. The costume included a black-and-orange printed bodysuit and hood with an oversized smile and a mini top hat.
The listing and photos led customers to compare the costume to blackface performances from the Jim Crow era.
“We removed an offensive Halloween costume that should never have been part of our assortment,” Target wrote in a statement last month, as The Daily Wire previously reported. “It is no longer for sale. As a company, we got this wrong, and we are deeply sorry.”
The Left is a party of death and destruction. I have said this over and over:
Abortion.
Trans-ing kids.
Homelessness.
Drug legalization.
Supporting terrorism.
According to the Post Millennial:
Speaking with the Daily Mail, Brigitte Kranendonk said she sat down with her grandmother, Brigitte Stegemann, two days before the procedure took place to make sure she understood what was going to happen.
“I used very frank terms. I said: ‘Do you know that you’re going to die on Friday?’” Kranendonk said her grandmother was in disbelief and cried for 45 minutes upon hearing this. “I’ve made a mistake,” Kranendonk recalled her grandmother saying. “She was bawling. Inconsolable.”
Kranendonk said that in a cognitive test administered to Stegemann, which is designed to determine whether a person seeking MAID is of sound mind to consent, Stegemann “got every question wrong, believing that her two living siblings were dead.
48 hours after Kranendonk spoke with her grandmother, Stegemann was dead. She reportedly died with her hands clasped in prayer and covered in her own blood after the first attempt at connecting the IV, which was allegedly administered by a nurse not wearing gloves, was botched. Stegemann’s death took place on July 10 at The Pearl care home in Cannifton.
Kranendonk alleges that MAID practitioners had taken advantage of her vulnerable grandmother. “She was a vulnerable human being, and they saw an opportunity.” She added, “No one had ever done MAiD at this residential home before: this was their very first MAiD procedure. So I don’t know if they just dropped the ball, because they didn’t know what they were doing.” The care home has maintained that Stegemann had legally consented.
Speaking on that morning, Kranendonk said, “There was a phenomenal amount of blood. She said a nurse had failed to find the correct vein in her grandmother’s right arm for an IV, and switched to her left arm after having “poked her about three or four times with the needle.”
“It is all over my Oma’s arm, it is all over her nightie, soaking through her pillow, all over the sheets, there is so much blood. And throughout all this time, mind you, the nurse is not wearing gloves.”
Kranendonk spoke of a February incident in which her grandmother was fitted with a medical port. Stegemann repeatedly ripped it off, yelling, “I don’t want the death shot!”
Kranendonk had been Stegemann’s caregiver for 12 years and her medical power of attorney for six years. A year and a half before Stegemann’s death, her family made the decision to place her in The Pearl as her cognitive and physical health began to decline. In February of 2026, she was diagnosed with stage 4 stomach cancer. Doctors, however, were uncertain about the amount of time she had left to years, with estimates ranging as high as two years.
Kranendonk spoke with her grandmother about all options for the final stages of her life after the diagnosis, including MAID, and remembered her grandmother saying, “No, I don’t want that.” Kranendonk said her grandmother’s religiosity was a large factor in why she didn’t want it.
She was told on July 3 that the care home was booking a MAiD assessment for her grandmother. Kranendonk had been on a 10-day trip, and earlier on the trip, no one had said anything about a dramatic decline in her grandmother’s health.
“I truly believe that one nurse really saw us as an obstacle,” Kranendonk said. “We were getting in the way of her doing MAID on my grandmother. I think she really, truly believes that MAID is the best for people, and shame on me for trying to stop that.”
Kranendonk said she was present for her grandmother’s second MAID assessment. She said the doctor spoke in “really loose terms, never using the words death or dying.”
“She explains MAID to my grandmother by saying: ‘We’re going to give you medicine, you’re going to feel at peace. And I just want you to know that you won’t have a bowel movement.’ She’s saying it in these strange terms, that aren’t literal.” She added, “My Oma’s just kind of nodding. Her first language is not English, she is 83-years old and severely hearing-impaired.”
Kranendonk said she has yet to see the MAID paperwork that a nurse claimed her grandmother signed. Stegemann got questions wrong on her assessment and was confused in the days leading up to her death. Kranendonk said that she felt cornered and rushed in the days leading up to her grandmother’s death. She said that when the doctor arrived to administer the life-ending medication and asked Stegemann if that was ok, Stegemann did not respond. The doctor proceeded.
A lunatic following the Lindsey Clancy trial thinks the trial points to a major injustice. And it has nothing to do with the murder of three children.
And stupid is as stupid does. The Squad is back in the news!
News
Here is some news:
An FBI agent repeatedly sought to join the bureau’s Russia investigation involving President Donald Trump, while another pushed for a criminal investigation of Elon Musk over an email asking federal employees what they accomplished at work, according to documents newly released by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa.
The records offer a glimpse into internal FBI discussions surrounding two politically charged matters and prompted Grassley to accuse bureau personnel of political bias, saying the exchanges showed the “Deep State” working against Trump. The documents were released as part of a broader batch involving Crossfire Hurricane and other FBI matters.
Crossfire Hurricane was the FBI’s 2016 counterintelligence investigation into whether members of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign coordinated with Russia’s election interference, though Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation did not establish a criminal conspiracy between the campaign and the Russian government.
Charlie Kirk’s family has filed a notice of claim — a precursor to a lawsuit — against Utah Valley University, the state and key individuals involved in campus leadership and security decisions, alleging that their failures led to the Turning Point USA founder’s wrongful death.
In one alleged exchange cited in the filing, Turning Point USA organizers told UVU Police Chief Jeffrey Long that UVU students had informed them of rooftop access to the Sorenson Center, a building “pretty close” to where Kirk would be speaking the day he was killed — and directly west of the Losee Center, which is where his alleged killer fired the shot from.
A newly unveiled statue of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was vandalized overnight at TPUSA’s headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona.
The statue— which was installed on Thursday to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the conservative free-speech advocate’s Sept. 10, 2025, assassination —was covered in red spray paint, AZFamily reported.
A nearby TPUSA billboard also was defaced, with the vandals crossing out the word “Jesus” and writing “Satan” overtop.
“The vandals doing this in the middle of the night only underscores something we’ve sadly come to understand in a whole new way,” TPUSA spokesman Andrew Kolvet told The Gateway Pundit. “Evil never sleeps. But God is in control, and we’ll pray that whoever did this is held accountable and comes to know Him.”
Kirk’s widow, current TPUSA CEO Erika Kirk, struck a defiant note, saying that “Every attempt to tear down what Charlie built makes us root deeper and work even harder.”
No suspects had yet been identified as of Sunday afternoon.
The bronze statue by artist Quintin McCann features several symbols that were meaningful to Kirk in his faith-based activism— including a cross, wedding band, TPUSA hat and now-iconic T-shirt bearing the word “FREEDOM.”
The religious images were defaced, along with an X over Kirk’s face and paint on his neck representing the spot where a bullet entered last year as he was speaking at a college campus in Utah.
Room full of women on the Oprah show starts cheering after a doctor says that black female child murderers need to be supported too, not just the white child murderers like Lindsay Clancy.
"I want us to have the same passion for [female child murderers] who don't look like… pic.twitter.com/VbaQfq9BYi
Leftist Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) are peddling claims of a “modern-day lynching” epidemic, ignoring official police reports and state autopsies that show some of the tragic deaths were actually suicides.
Pressley kick-started the panic on social media, writing that “black folks are being found hanged” and comparing the deaths to Jim Crow-era “strange fruit hanging from trees.”
Black folks are being found hanged in America.
This is a national crisis and we CANNOT stand by while strange fruit hangs from trees across the country.
We're demanding a federal investigation NOW so we can stop modern-day lynchings. https://t.co/IfiRiYOMNC
AOC quickly jumped on the bandwagon, boasting about backing Pressley’s demand for a federal probe while writing: “This year, there have already been 10 reported hangings of Black people in the U.S. I’m proud to have signed onto @RepPressley’s letter to address these widespread modern-day lynchings and put a stop to this racial terror.”
This year, there have already been 10 reported hangings of Black people in the U.S.
I’m proud to have signed onto @RepPressley ‘s letter to address these widespread modern-day lynchings and put a stop to this racial terror. https://t.co/ISo20mbLyg
There’s just one glaring problem: law enforcement, medical examiners, and independent tracking data say it’s simply not true. And the Democratic lawmakers’ posts were hit with brutal community notes on X.
“Most high-profile cases of Black people found hanging in 2025-26 were ruled suicides by medical examiners and police, with no evidence of foul play. One remains a homicide probe. Framing as modern-day lynchings is not supported by official findings,” the X community note reads.
In many cases cited by activists and online rumor mills, authorities have consistently found zero evidence of foul play. Medical examiners, local police, and even the FBI have repeatedly ruled the tragic deaths as self-inflicted suicides rather than hate-fueled homicides.
Following the 2020 death of Robert Fuller in California, investigators confirmed suicide. Subsequent deaths, including a Delta State University student in late 2025 and 2026 incidents in Georgia and Florida, led to the same conclusion.
Following the death of 21-year-old Kyle Bassinga in Georgia, Cobb County Police Chief Dan Ferrell urged the public to stick to facts over social media hysteria, confirming there were “no indicators” anyone else was involved.
To’Nea Nicole Miller was found dead near Gwen Cherry Park in Miami on June 18. Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office ruled it an apparent suicide with no evidence of foul play. Jerard “Jay” Jackson was found dead in Michigan on June 30. Michigan State police said it appeared he died by suicide with no indication of foul play.
There was one hanging that was found to be murder:
Tasia Fortune, a black woman, was found dead hanging from a tree last month. Ratliff has been charged with murder in Jackson Mississippi.
The suspect was arrested. His name was Jarques Ratliff, 51. A black man. No motive was announced and other arrests are pending. There is no further information about Ratliff.
Two woke New Jersey Democrats are pushing the state to adopt radical new policy changes — including direct reparations payments to all its black residents — even for those who are not direct descendants of slaves.
“The Truth, Reconciliation, and Repair Act of New Jersey” is cosponsored by Assemblywoman Verlina Reynolds-Jackson and state Sen. Angela McKnight, and is seeking to radically transform the state government to compensate for wealth disparities stemming from slavery — which ended in New Jersey 160 years ago.
The bill, first introduced on June 15 which has not yet had a hearing, is informed by a 2025 report from the New Jersey Reparations Council.
“The recent report of the New Jersey Reparations Council tells the often overlooked and largely unknown story of slavery in New Jersey and outlines a clear, compelling, and courageous path forward: the development of meaningful policies that address the racial wealth gap; invest in Black communities; and confrontation of the systemic inequities that still exist in this State,” the proposed bill reads.
That report, entitled “The Nowness of Reparations for Black People in New Jersey” outlines dozens of potential policy changes that the far-left group wants seeded in the Garden State.
The group claimed in the report that New Jersey was “profoundly shaped by its original sin of slavery” and that the report’s conclusions will lead to “bold and transformative policy.”
“These recommendations are designed to help create a new New Jersey where Black people are empowered to finally be free, to be whole and to flourish,” the preface of the report claimed.
The report calls for reparations for all black New Jersey residents, including for those who are not descendants of enslaved black people via “direct payments” aimed and closed an alleged $642,800 household “racial wealth gap.”
The report is filled with even more hairbrained policy prescriptions.
Some of the dozens of “remedies” include creating a Reparations Bureau; restoring the right to vote to incarcerated people; expanding access to free healthcare to adults, children, and “all immigrants regardless of status;” ending cooperation with federal deportations; and establishing a guaranteed income for all residents in the state.
The bill, soon to be debated in New Jersey, fully endorsed the report which is presented as the basis for the legislation.
The bill also demands the state formally apologize for slavery — something which the state government already did in 2008.
New Jersey was the last northern state to end slavery, ratifying the Thirteenth Amendment in 1866, the year after it was added to the US Constitution.
The New Jersey Reparations Council, a private research initiative, was founded by non-profit organizations the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice and progressive Princeton-based Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which has a $13 billion endowment.
Our culture and society is about to crater. Citizens do not matter. Children do not matter. Justice does not matter. All that matters for our institutions and politicians is narrative, ideology, and intersectionality.
I have a question: When are we going to stop this.
The End of Feminism?
According to Fox News:
A Massachusetts judge overseeing the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy gave jurors a Tuey-Rodriguez charge Wednesday after they reported for a second time that they were unable to reach a unanimous verdict.
The instruction is given to a deadlocked jury to encourage continued deliberations while reminding jurors they should not abandon honestly held beliefs simply to reach a verdict.
Judge William Sullivan sent jurors back to deliberate Tuesday after they first indicated they were struggling to agree. After the jury again reported that it was deadlocked, Sullivan delivered the formal charge.
A Tuey-Rodriguez charge is unique to Massachusetts and is sometimes called a “dynamite charge” because it is intended to help break a jury impasse without coercing a verdict.
The instruction takes its name from two Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decisions. In Commonwealth v. Tuey (1851), the court approved an instruction encouraging deadlocked jurors to re-examine their views with an open mind. More than a century later, in Commonwealth v. Rodriguez (1973), the state’s highest court revised that language to remove pressure on minority or holdout jurors, creating a neutral instruction that asks all jurors to carefully consider one another’s views while maintaining their own honestly held convictions.
Receiving a Tuey-Rodriguez charge does not mean a verdict is imminent. The instruction is generally considered a necessary step before a judge declares a mistrial because of a hung jury, although it often results in jurors reaching a unanimous verdict after further deliberations.
🚨 UPDATE: A MOTHER JUST K*LLED HER 2-YEAR-OLD CHILD IN ILLINOIS, then tried to harm herself
No freaking way. Is this a Lindsay Clancy copycat?
The child's mother was found "trying to hurt herself," and had no life-threatening injuries
A judge in the Bronx had found that a mother who was suffering from postpartum psychosis was not guilty of killing her two kids. The case comes as there has been national attention around the Lindsay Clancy case, which bears similarities.
Dimone Fleming, 26, was found not to be responsible because of her mental state in court on Monday after she killed two of her children, 3-year-old Daishawn Fleming and 11-month-old Octavius Canada, per the New York Times. Fleming submerged the two young boys in a bathtub on November 26, 2022, killing them.
Fleming was initially charged with first-degree murder, but was found not guilty by reason of insanity. According to psychiatrist Dr. Eric Goldsmith, Fleming was “grossly psychotic and out of touch with reality” the night of the killings at a family shelter.
The gunman and two victims in a early Monday murder-suicide outside a longtime Tucson gay bar had no prior connection, authorities say. A search of the shooter’s home turned up more evidence that the killings were “motivated by hate,” in addition to the list of LGBTQ businesses he carried at the scene.
A note found in the search indicated that he acted alone, police said.
Tucson police were still investigating Tuesday after Ousman Ceesay, 44, got into a confrontation with two men outside Venture-N, 1239 N. 6th Ave, shortly after midnight on Monday before fatally shooting them and turning the gun on himself.
Authorities dubbed the shooting a hate crime. 42-year-old Vincent Anthony Siqueiros and 33-year-old Cameron Davis Capara were pronounced dead at the scene.
Ceesay was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died shortly after his arrival. A list of businesses associated with Tucson’s LGBTQ community and their addresses was found on him, according to authorities.
Investigators who searched Ceesay’s home Monday afternoon found more evidence, including a note that indicated the shooting “a targeted attack motivated by hate toward the LGBTQIA+ community” and that he acted alone, officers said. Authorities say Ceesay had no prior contact with Tucson police before the shooting nor any records to indicate he was legally barred from owning a firearm. They believe he only lived in Tucson for a short time.
Police also on Monday examined the outdoor crime scene, spoke to several witnesses and family members and canvassed the surrounding area for physical evidence and surveillance footage, which showed Ceesay never tried to enter the bar.
At the Venture-N parking lot, they found several shell casings, which were later determined to all be from the same 9mm handgun, also found at the scene.
That’s about all you need to know from the article and several like it. No pictures of the guy. No history or immigration status. Just another white Christian nationalist homophobe. Or is he?
Andy Ngo tweeted:
Three men were killed in a shooting at a gay bar’s parking lot in Tucson, Ariz. on Aug. 31. The suspected shooter, one of the deceased, is an African Muslim named Ousman Ceesay. The case is being investigated as an anti-LGBTQ+ incident due to the Muslim being found with a list of targeted gay businesses.
One of the victims has been identified as radical Antifa associate Cameron Davis Capara. He advocated anti-American views and supported mass illegal migration. He claimed to be a journalist.
Many LGBTQ+ people have been killed by extremist Muslims in the U.S. but the legacy queer groups routinely advocate in support of fundamentalist Islam and condemn those who blaspheme against the religion.
A Los Angeles councilwoman’s celebration of a newly painted neighborhood crosswalk has drawn online mockery after critics seized on the months-long timeline and glossy “street infrastructure” rollout for what they said amounted to a basic city service.
Los Angeles Councilmember Nithya Raman, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, is facing online mockery after celebrating the completion of a neighborhood crosswalk project, which was first raised by the Los Feliz Neighborhood Council late last year, in a post on X. The post featured before-and-after images and thanked her field team for “continuing to problem-solve, push for solutions, and make our streets safer.”
“Dear Lord, Nithya. Your standards are so incredibly low,” responded Richard Grenell, Presidential Envoy for Special Missions amid Donald Trump’s second term. “They didn’t even fix the street, they painted over cracks. And it took them a year…..”
“Holy s—t, my sides…Nithya Raman’s big accomplishment is taking 9 months to paint 7 yellow stripes over a cracked street?” quipped former L.A. mayoral candidate and reality television star Spencer Pratt. “How dumb do you have to be to post this? BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA”
Raman’s announcement labeled the work “Improving Our Neighborhood Street Infrastructure” and included before-and-after photos showing yellow crosswalk markings across the cracked roadway. She said the Los Feliz Neighborhood Council had brought the issue to her office in late 2025.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who is Muslim, said he would not support a Hindu event in Manhattan where the leader of the group that is the ideological parent of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will speak.
Asked if the event featuring Mohan Bhagwat, head of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), should be canceled, he ripped the party’s “exclusionary vision,” declaring, “I don’t support the rally, but I don’t know if the city has any jurisdiction to cancel a private event. The vision of India that I was taught by my family and one that I grew up being very familiar with was of a pluralistic society of a secular republic that believed in the belonging of each and every person who was from India. And it has been incredibly troubling to see the rise of a movement that is predicated on an exclusionary vision.”
This is just the latest play in Mamdani’s predictable playbook, seemingly derived from an endless urge to rip into anything he deems anti-Muslim while ignoring history.
Mamdani’s sudden posture as a defender of secular pluralism ignores a long, brutal history that has included centuries of documented evidence of violent persecution of Hindus by Islamic conquerors and movements. From the medieval raids of Mahmud of Ghazni targeting iconic Hindu temples to the bloody 1921 Moplah Rebellion in Malabar and the 1946 Direct Action Day massacres, history is replete with chapters of targeted anti-Hindu aggression.
In modern times, that history extends to the violent forced exile of Kashmiri Hindus from their ancestral homes by foreign-backed Islamist militants.
Instead of recognizing the deep-seated historical trauma of non-Muslim communities, Mamdani acts as though any group standing up for its cultural heritage is inherently suspicious, as long as they aren’t part of his preferred voting blocs.
Legislation that would recognize two Muslim holidays as official California holidays is nearing the final steps of passage before being sent out for Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature.
Assembly Bill 2017 would designate Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha as state holidays, meaning state workers could use holiday credits to take off work on those days.
“California is home to one of the largest and most vibrant Muslim communities in the country,” said bill author Assemblymember Matt Haney (D).
“AB 2017 is about making sure Muslim Californians are seen, valued, and treated with the same dignity as every other community in our state.”
Under the bill, community colleges and public schools could also to choose to recognize those days and teach about them.
The legislation already passed the state Assembly 64-1 in late May and is now waiting for a full state Senate vote.
It has until the end of legislative session, expected to be this coming Monday, to head over to the governor’s desk.
Eid al-Fitr, meaning the “Festival of Breaking the Fast,” marks the conclusion of Ramadan, the month during which Muslims fast from dawn to sunset. Eid al-Adha, known as the “Festival of Sacrifice,” commemorates the Prophet Ibrahim’s willingness to sacrifice his son in obedience of Allah.
Both dates revolve around the Islamic lunar calendar, meaning every year, the two holidays fall on different dates of the year.
If the bill is enacted, the two holy days add on to a growing list of community-specific holidays the state has recognized, including Diwali and Lunar New Year.
Muslim groups in the state have urged passage of the legislation, noting California has more than a million Muslim residents.
The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne have been caring for impoverished people dying from cancer for more than 125 years. At Rosary Hill Home in New York, the sisters have treated roughly 45,000 low-income cancer patients at no charge, regardless of faith or background.
Think about what that mission looks like in our current culture. These sisters intentionally enter the part of life that most of us would rather not see. They wash the sick, feed them, and sit beside the dying. They accompany people through the suffering that medicine cannot cure. Now they are in federal court to protect their ability to care for those with terminal cancer, because the state of New York wants to force them to participate in suicide.
New York’s assisted suicide law took effect August 5, making New York the 13th state, along with the District of Columbia, to allow doctors to prescribe a lethal dose of medication to terminally ill patients. Under the law, medical providers caring for terminally ill New Yorkers must proactively inform and counsel their patients about their “option” to kill themselves, a mandate the plaintiffs argue is “far broader than anything required by states like California, Oregon, and Washington.”
The Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm, Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, Missionary Sisters of St. Benedict, and Little Sisters of the Poor joined the lawsuit, as did the Diocese of Rockville Centre and Catholic Health, a network of Long Island hospitals. The State of New York temporarily agreed not to enforce its assisted-suicide mandates against the Catholic plaintiffs, but this is not a final victory. The motion for a preliminary injunction remains before the court and the underlying constitutional case has yet to be decided.
In other words, nuns whose entire vocation is caring for the dying are in federal court fighting for the right to care for the dying without being forced to usher them toward suicide.
Mother Marie Edward, Superior General of the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, put it plainly: for more than a century, her order has ministered to the poor who are dying of cancer as if they were Christ himself, offering comfort, prayer, and medical care, not death. That is the calling New York’s law now threatens to override.
But New York is not an isolated case; Bishop Thomas Paprocki of the Diocese of Springfield has joined a Lutheran nursing home and four Catholic physicians in suing to block the “End-of-Life Options” law, set to take effect September 12. The coalition argues that the state’s suicide regime abandons “nearly two millennia of medical practice” while requiring conscientious objectors to participate in it. Health care entities must promote the “benefits” of the suicide law to patients even if they object, and are required to allow on-site practitioners to facilitate patient access to assisted suicide.
France. New York. Illinois. Different countries, different courts, same disease. A throwaway culture that has grown deeply uncomfortable with dependence, it’s one that prizes autonomy and productivity so highly that when a person can no longer keep pace, the question quietly shifts. It’s no longer “what do we owe this person?” It becomes “is this life still worth the trouble?”
We already ask that question at the beginning of life and call the answer “choice.” Now we’re asking it at the end and calling it “compassion.” The logic is the same. So is the result: a culture that treats the inconvenient as disposable.
There’s another way to respond to suffering, and it isn’t complicated. It’s presence instead of a prescription. It’s service instead of an exit. A civilized society doesn’t make it easier to die; it makes it easier to be cared for. That means investing in hospice and palliative care. It means real support for the families quietly caring for aging parents and disabled children. It means making sure no one facing a terminal diagnosis ever has to wonder if dying quickly would simply be easier on everyone else.
New York Archbishop Ronald Hicks warned that the state’s law ushers in “a new and frightening era,” and asked how long “compassion” for the terminally ill will take to harden from a choice into an expectation for the disabled, the elderly, and the poor. That is a question worth sitting with.
For 125 years, the Hawthorne sisters did not ask whether a dying person’s life is worth living. They simply washed him, fed him, and stayed. In a culture that measures people by what they produce and discards what it cannot use, that is the most radical act remaining.
We are not losing our humanity because we have become cruel. We’re losing it because we’ve forgotten where our humanity comes from in the first place — not our usefulness, but the simple fact of having been made in His image. The sisters see Christ in the dying because they’ve never stopped looking for Him there. A nation that trains itself to stop looking will eventually find it can’t see anyone at all.
After an internal memo was leaked from the taxpayer-funded CBC in Canada that said the outlet would no longer call the 9/11 terrorist attacks terrorism, the outlet has reversed course, saying that it claimed they didn’t ever want to “minimize or obscure the horror of that day and who was behind it.”
The internal memo that was leaked, which was crafted by CBC’s senior director of journalistic standards and public trust, Basem Boshra, had stated, “Do not refer to the Sept. 11 attacks as terrorist attacks.”
The memo described the events not as terrorism, but as hijackings that led to passenger jets crashing into the World Trade Center and other government buildings. In a statement, the CBC said in response to huge backlash to the leak, “It is the practice of the CBC to exercise extreme caution before using the words ‘terrorist’ and ‘terrorism.’ The memo was a reminder of the longstanding practice that favours the use of these terms with attribution in our reporting.”
After getting caught, Boshra published a blog post claiming that there has been a “swirl of confusion” about the internal memo that explicitly directed reporters not to use the words “terrorist attacks” to refer to 9/11. He claimed the leak was “without context,” and said that the note was instead an instruction that attribution was needed to describe 9/11 as a terror attack.
However, the outlet has reversed itself and said that attribution is “no longer required” to accurately describe what the 9/11 attacks were, an act of terrorism. “After reviewing our current language guidance, we have decided to adjust it to clarify that direct attribution is not required for describing the historic events of 9/11 as terrorism,” Boshra said in a post to the CBC’s editor’s blog.
