02a U.S. Politics – Conservative

Data Center Boom Could Supercharge Blackouts Nationwide By 2030, Pennsylvania Regulators Warn– dailycaller.com
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America’s AI gold rush could soon drive the nation’s largest power grid to blackouts.

Pennsylvania regulators warn that power-hungry facilities are arriving faster than new generation. Pennsylvania could experience as many as 13 loss-of-load events per year by 2030 if more data centers connect than currently anticipated and no new plants come online, Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PAPUC) Chairman Stephen DeFrank warned.

DeFrank’s statements are based on a recent PAPUC analysis assessing electricity within the state.

“Pennsylvania is at an energy crossroads,” DeFrank said in a press release. “Data center development brings significant opportunities, but that growth cannot come at the expense of the families and businesses that already depend on reliable and affordable electric service.”

The PAPUC-commissioned analysis found that data centers are a major driver of the tightening power supply across PJM Interconnection, the nation’s largest regional transmission organization. Electricity demand is rising as older power plants shut down and new generation struggles to come online quickly enough, according to the report, which was prepared by Synapse Energy Economics and other consultants.

The analysis modeled several possible futures for the grid. Under its baseline scenario, which uses PJM’s 2026 electricity demand forecast, the grid could experience the equivalent of about 5.9 instances every 10 years in which electricity supply falls short of demand by 2030, according to the report. Researchers said the increase was mainly driven by the large amount of new electricity demand expected from data centers.

Study: Students Show Lower Literacy in Blue States With Strong Teachers’ Unions › American Greatness– amgreatness.com
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A 2026 analysis from the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) shows a strong negative correlation between the political strength of state teachers’ unions and the adoption of evidence-based early literacy policies.

The New York Post reports at least eight of the ten states where students had the worst literacy scores were liberal bastions with politically powerful teachers’ unions, while just five were Republican and one was a swing state.

The top-performing states were overwhelmingly conservative and had less politically powerful unions — of the 23 top-performing states, 13 were Republican majority and just 4 were Democratic hubs, according to the New York Post.

 

Nearly 100% of Princeton faculty donations went to Democrats — zero to Republicans: study– www.thecollegefix.com
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Nearly all of the reported political contributions by Princeton faculty — 98 percent — went to Democratic candidates or affiliated groups during the most recent election cycle compared to zero donations to Republican candidates and affiliated groups, according to a study released Tuesday.

Princetonians for Free Speech reviewed Federal Election Commission data covering the 2023-24 election cycle and matched it to a roster of Princeton faculty department by department.

Among the 818 faculty members reviewed, 101 made a federal contribution, and of those, 99 supported Democrats and two supported independents; none went to Republicans.

In terms of dollars, $300,747 went to Democratic recipients and $1,270 to independent recipients.

“[A]cross all 34 departments, no department recorded a single Republican contributor,” the study found. “Politics, the department whose subject is American electoral politics, returned five contributors and five Democrats.”

Gay Dad’s Gross Diary Illuminates Dysfunctions Of Buying Babies– thefederalist.com
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New York Magazine recently published the sex diary of a 42-year-old gay dad living outside Boston. He and his “husband,” Gavin, have an infant daughter, Sophie, who was presumably born through paid surrogacy.

At 10 a.m., Dad opens Sniffies, a location-based app used primarily by men seeking anonymous sex.

Over the next seven days, he propositions a married man who initially refuses to show his face. He has sex with that stranger on his infant daughter’s leaf-shaped play mat while her stuffed giraffe knocks against his head. He sends Gavin a photo of himself in a jockstrap, hoping he will leave work early. He ends the week having sex with a police officer at a party up against a washing machine.

One infant. Two gay men. No mother. Welcome to the post-Obergefell family.

From the adult’s side, the diary is supposed to read as naughty, funny, and liberated. From Sophie’s perspective, this isn’t a cheeky account about sexual liberation. It’s a record of her fundamental biological and developmental needs being subordinated to a sex-crazed man.

NY Times Free Speech Analysis Exposes Media Bias Against Conservatives– www.newsbusters.org
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The New York Times has an annoying habit of topping its front page with an article labeled “News Analysis.” In reality, it’s a badly disguised editorial, often inveighing against their rage target Donald Trump.

In 2024, Times White House correspondent Peter Baker wrote a “news analysis” nudging voters to pick the Democrats with the question “If a Felon Becomes President, Can Anyone Limit His Power?” In February, White House correspondent Katie Rogers offered a combative rebuttal to Trump’s State of the Union address under the headline “Casting Democrats as Villains, Trump Produces a Spectacle.”

The Times thinks no one should ever paint Democrats as villains. They should be considered  the best humans in America. Another Baker “news analysis” after the October 7, 2023 slaughter in Israel oozed “Mr. Biden flew to Israel on Wednesday to give the whole country a hug.”

Topping the Sunday paper on September 13 was an Trump-trashing editorial by White House correspondent Maggie Haberman (maligned as “Maggot Hagerman” on Trump’s Truth Social account) and writer-at-large Jim Rutenberg. The headline warned: “A Sweeping Effort To Stifle Free Speech: Trump Deploys Agencies and Lawsuits.”

Nearly 100% of NIH employee donations go to Democrats– www.thecollegefix.com
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ANALYSIS: Groups say grants should remain with ‘neutral’ NIH staffers – but nearly all support Democrats

Nearly all donations from National Institutes of Health employees went to Democratic candidates or aligned political action committees, a College Fix analysis found.

The findings come as higher education groups and other liberal advocacy organizations criticize the Trump administration for proposed changes to how research grants are distributed.

The proposed change would require grants to align with the political priorities of the administration in charge at the time. However, some groups argue that decisions should be made by ostensibly neutral bureaucrats, not a president’s political appointees.

Federal research grants, like those from the NIH, should use a “neutral program definition,” the Association of American Universities argued in a public comment. The new grant policy would “inject political and ideological considerations into decisions that have historically been based on scientific merit, programmatic objectives established by Congress, and agency expertise,” the group warned.

Yet across the board, NIH employees support Democrats. And that holds true for the supposedly neutral scientists and program managers who influence the grant decision-making process.

Obama Pushing to Make AI Doomerism a Centerpiece of Democrat Agenda– gellerreport.com
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Barack Hussein Obama told Democrats: They badly need to grab hold of the debate over artificial intelligence and impeding its progress a central pillar of their agenda.

Of course he did. There is one infallible rule in 211st century American politics – anything the Democrats are behind and pushing, is disastrous for America. Every time.

Thus: The sudden pressing of the “panic” button by talking heads on the left. New York Times: Former President Barack Obama warned during a recent private fund-raising event that artificial intelligence technology could be “dangerous” if not properly managed, as he implored Democrats to aggressively develop political and governing agendas to prioritize the issue in the coming years. In his remarks on Thursday, which have not been previously reported, Mr. Obama urged Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York and the House minority leader, to assemble a clear framework for a public conversation about A.I. policy, should Democrats win back the House in the midterm elections, according to a partial transcript provided by Mr. Obama’s office (New York Times).

Politico adds: Obama said AI development would be “one of my central agendas” if he were running for president, throwing down a gauntlet as the shadow 2028 Democratic primary debate responded to the AI leaders’ calls (Politico).

Make no mistake, Communist China is not slowing down and they are making huge gain using American (much of it stolen) technology. Why would we deliberately handicap ourselves while Communist China races ahead, weaponizing artificial intelligence for military power, mass surveillance, cyberwarfare and global domination?

Did Liberal Justices Delay Dissents To Stop Trump’s Voting EO?– thefederalist.com
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Did the Supreme Court’s liberal justices slow-walk their dissents in litigation over President Trump’s mail-in voting order to run out the clock on its implementation for the 2026 midterms? That seems to be what Justice Samuel Alito subtly suggested in the court’s most recent ruling on the subject.

On Monday night, the high court rejected the Trump administration’s request to pause a lower court blockade on a new U.S. Postal Service rule. As described by Fox News, the new rule required election officials to “submit ballot-envelope designs for approval and upload voter information and unique tracking barcodes to a new USPS portal.”

The decision — which effectively bars the policy from taking effect for the fall elections — was presumably 7-2, with Alito and Justice Clarence Thomas saying they would have granted the government’s request for relief. Aside from Justice Brett Kavanaugh — who said the USPS rule seems lawful but denied the government’s request because it’s too close to the midterms for election officials to implement it — the majority offered little explanation for its decision.

Alito, on the other hand, penned a lengthy dissent (joined by Thomas) outlining several issues with the court’s holding. It was in this opinion that the Bush 43 appointee seemingly telegraphed some potentially nefarious shenanigans by the court’s Democrat appointees in the case.

The apparent hint came in the dissent’s concluding pages, in which Alito refuted the alleged concerns that the Democrat-led states challenging the Postal Service rule had regarding “the practical effects of implementing the rule close to the midterm elections.” While taking “that problem very seriously,” the justice highlighted two key points demonstrating why it isn’t enough to warrant rejecting the government’s request to implement the rule for the 2026 contests.

They say ‘never forget’ as Muslims gain power in America — and laugh at the 9/11 memorial– www.theblaze.com
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Young Americans may be posting “Never Forget” in light of the 25th anniversary of the most devastating terror attack to hit American soil, but that doesn’t mean they’re not really forgetting.

“Sometimes I feel like people who did not live through it don’t fully appreciate what we’re up against. Like something changes in you when you live through something like that. And I think the younger generation, they just don’t get it,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales tells Xaviaer DuRousseau.

“Unless you went through it, you’re just like, ‘Yeah, whatever. What? Let’s go along to get along. What could possibly go wrong with, you know, bringing in Islam here?’ They just don’t get it ‘cause they didn’t live through it,” she continues.

DuRousseau points out that there was even a “TikTok trend” a couple of years ago where users were siding with Osama bin Laden.

“The fact that they are glorifying this mindset that we are allowing so many people with the jihadi ideology to gain power and influence in our country and they’re very outspoken about it: That’s terrifying to me,” he says.

“And not just in our country, but in New York freaking City. We have the Muslim commie mayor Zohran Mamdani, who they were protesting. They didn’t want him to show up to their 9/11 memorial, but he did,” Gonzales says.

“And he went and shook hands with Rudy Giuliani, who of course was the mayor of New York City during 9/11,” she adds, pointing out that there was “an interesting moment” when Mamdani was caught on camera laughing with AOC.

Democrats create an AI panic and then falsely promise solutions– www.americanthinker.com
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Democrats have been so good at handling everything they focus on, so I know they can come up with sensible ways to implement AI.

It is surprising that the Biden-Harris administration and other Democrats didn’t solve this program while they were in office because Biden put Kamala in charge of the issue in 2023. Back then, Kamala led a meeting with tech leaders in 2023 to address the issue because the vigorous and sharp Biden needed to lighten his busy schedule:

Kamala is now lecturing Trump about what he must do to control China and handle AI. Kamala’s brilliance and expertise on the issue can be summed up in her statement introducing the issue:

“I think the first part of this issue that should be articulated is AI is kind of a fancy thing,” Harris said. “First of all, it’s two letters. It means artificial intelligence, but ultimately what it is is it’s about machine learning.”

 

Trump To Repay Americans For Biden’s Obamacare Overcharges– thefederalist.com
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The Trump administration recently announced a proposal to issue payments to individuals that makes a good deal of policy sense. No, I don’t mean the proposal for $5,000 rebate checks, which has myriad policy and political flaws.

But refunding excess user fees for people enrolled in Obamacare Exchange plans would help offset rising premium costs. And lowering user fees in the future would also mitigate against future premium increases. Depending on the details, this policy may also provide targeted relief to those affected by last year’s expiration of enhanced exchange subsidies.

Outside Groups Say Trump Administration Has Disrupted $177 Billion in Federal Grants › American Greatness– amgreatness.com
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The Trump administration has canceled, frozen or delayed as much as $177 billion in federal grants since President Donald Trump began his second term, according to an analysis released Wednesday by two outside groups tracking the administration’s spending decisions.

The Lost Funds database, created by the States United Democracy Center and Grant Witness, says funding disruptions have reached all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Health, nutrition, environmental programs and disaster relief account for some of the largest categories identified by the groups.

California, Texas, New York, Illinois and North Carolina had the largest amounts of funding affected, according to the tracker. Individual grants cited by researchers include maternal health funding in Michigan, education research in Mississippi and assistance for minority farmers in Iowa.

The groups said the $177 billion figure amounts to nearly 10 percent of federal discretionary spending, although the database includes grants that were delayed or frozen in addition to those that were terminated.

The findings come as Trump has pursued an aggressive effort to reshape federal spending and redirect government priorities. Some funding decisions have faced legal challenges, and courts have blocked certain grant cancellations. Other lawsuits remain pending.

Federal Judge Refers Philadelphia’s Soros DA Larry Krasner to DOJ Over Possible Criminal Conduct › American Greatness– amgreatness.com
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A federal judge has referred Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner and one of his top deputies to federal prosecutors for investigation, citing evidence of possible perjury, obstruction of justice, false statements and conspiracy stemming from the handling of a convicted murderer’s appeal.

U.S. District Judge Paul S. Diamond on Tuesday also disqualified Krasner and Assistant District Attorney Matthew Stiegler, chief of the office’s Conviction Integrity Unit, from further involvement in the case of Dennis Johnson. Johnson was convicted of second-degree murder in 2009 in connection with the 2007 killing of Kenyatta Smith.

Diamond’s 40-page memorandum followed hearings examining how Krasner’s office handled Johnson’s effort to overturn his conviction. The judge said testimony indicated Krasner and Stiegler may have pressured prosecutors to present a false account to the court while attempting to protect the district attorney’s office and Stiegler.

“I have thus reluctantly concluded that Philadelphia’s highest law enforcement official and one of his top assistants may have violated the law,” Diamond wrote.

According to court documents, prosecutors within Krasner’s office recommended referring the Johnson matter to the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office because of potential conflicts involving Stiegler. Krasner rejected that approach, saying he needed to remain involved to “protect the office.” Diamond also said Krasner warned employees of “consequences” if they alerted the court to the conflict.

No criminal charges have been filed against Krasner or Stiegler. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has not said whether it will pursue an investigation.

Rogue TX Police Dept. Arrests Woman for Criticizing Town’s Water, So State Disbands Entire Dept.– www.westernjournal.com
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The score: Free Speech, 1; Trinidad, Texas, Police Department, 0.

Months after a citizen was put in jail for a social media post about the community’s water, Trinidad police were notified that the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement had revoked all required licenses, effectively shutting down the department, according to KETK-TV.

The state agency investigated the police department in August and found it did not meet minimum standard licenses for the Trinidad Police Department, meaning the agency has effectively been disbanded this week.

The department of five full-time officers and some part-timers “was unable to provide evidence that the agency provides public benefit to the community,” the state wrote in its scathing review, according to KDFW-TV.

It said 18 required policies were not in place.

“It was not a shock. I’m not gonna say that it was,” Trinidad Mayor Dennis Haws said.

“There’s been a lot of neglect through the years,” Haws added.

Did the state do the right thing in disbanding this police department?

EXCLUSIVE: DHS Cracks Down On Immigration Attorneys Who File ‘Meritless’ Asylum Claims– dailycaller.com
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is cracking down on immigration attorneys who file what the agency calls “meritless” and fraudulent asylum claims, according to a letter obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller.

A letter from DHS General Counsel James Percival to the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) argues that the immigration court system is facing a massive backlog, with nearly 3.5 million cases and 2.3 million asylum claims pending as of July 2026.

DHS attributes much of the backlog to what it calls “meritless asylum claims,” arguing that such claims can delay deportation and allow migrants to remain in the U.S. while their cases are pending.

The letter says claims involving generalized gang violence, domestic violence, economic hardship, and other country conditions often fail to meet the legal standard for asylum.

DOJ Goes After Berkeley For Discrimination Vs. White Applicants– thefederalist.com
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On Sept. 9, federal investigators concluded that the University of California, Berkeley School of Law broke the law. Not some obscure regulation buried in an agency handbook. Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the same statute Berkeley’s own professors teach first-year students. The joint finding from the Justice Department and the Department of Education says Berkeley Law discriminated against Asian and white applicants in the entering classes of 2024 and 2025, after the Supreme Court restricted race-conscious admissions.

In 2022, Berkeley Dean Erwin Chemerinsky told the New Yorker that colleges would have to “find ways to achieve diversity that can’t be documented as violating the Constitution.” That’s a law school dean telling colleagues to dodge a ruling without leaving fingerprints.

A quick refresher on constitutional law: In 2023 in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, the Supreme Court ruled that Harvard’s and the University of North Carolina’s race-conscious admissions programs violated the Equal Protection Clause, and by extension Title VI, which bars any federally funded institution from discriminating on the ground of race, color, or national origin. The court left room for schools to weigh how race shaped an applicant’s personal story, but not to use race itself, or a stand-in for it, as a plus factor. Berkeley’s own numbers show which side of that line it landed on.

Senate Confirms Pro-Life State Judge for Federal Judgeship– www.lifenews.com
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The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Ohio appeals court Judge Matthew R. Byrne, who has a career of pro-life work, to a lifetime seat on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.

The vote was 52-45.

President Donald Trump nominated Byrne on the recommendation of Ohio’s two Republican senators and Vice President JD Vance. Byrne, a Republican, was elected to Ohio’s Twelfth District Court of Appeals in 2020 after a decade as an employment litigator.

Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, told the Senate Judiciary Committee in June that Byrne had decided more than 800 appeals and written majority, concurring and dissenting opinions in nearly 250 cases.

“Judge Byrne has earned a distinguished reputation as a hardworking, thoughtful, and fair judge,” Husted said. “He has remained dedicated to upholding the reputation of the court and the rule of law.”

Byrne has been affiliated with Ohio Right to Life, Cincinnati Right to Life, Warren County Right to Life, the Center for Christian Virtue and the Federalist Society. He also served on the board of a pro-life pregnancy center.

BREAKING: Board votes to close Kennedy Center after federal judge bars Trump’s name from facade | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com
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The Kennedy Center is verging on bankruptcy.

The board of the Kennedy Center voted on Tuesday to close the storied performing arts space due to their “dire financial position.” The vote came as a federal judge said that President Donald Trump’s name could not be added to the building. Trump pressed for the move in order to aid him in fundraising for the structure.

A recent ceiling collapse emphasized the concerns Trump noted about the building when he initially said, upon coming into office, that the Kennedy Center should be closed so renovations could be done. The plan was to add Trump’s name to the building, calling it the Trump Kennedy Center, and to close for two years to make upgrades to the buidling facade and structure.

The board has voted repeatedly to close the building only to have their decisions held up in the courts. This Tuesday vote marks the third time the board has said that the building must close. Former board member Rep. Joyce Beatty of Ohio brought the issue before a federal court, saying that the board needed more due diligence before shutting down.

The legal fights against the board of the Kennedy Center and against Trump and his proposed rennovations is part of the incessant battle of Democrats against any Trump initiative. They were angry that a Joel Shapiro statue was removed from the grounds of the Kennedy Center and returned to his foundation. They have been in and out of court to try to stop the construction of ballroom at the White House that is already underway.

The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that a lower court ruling suspending President Trump’s XO attempting make Mass mailer voting more accountable will stand, at least until AFTER the 2026 election. The ruling effectively enables Democrats to slow-walk close races in their favor using reserve “ballots” “registered” to the dead and non-citizens still on their uncleansed voter rolls.

SCOTUS Blocks Trump’s Mail-In Voting Order Ahead Of Midterms– thefederalist.com
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The U.S. Supreme Court declined to pause a lower court blockade on Monday night against President Trump’s mail-in voting executive order ahead of the 2026 midterms. The vote was presumably 7-2, with Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissenting.

In its unsigned opinion, the high court rejected the Trump administration’s emergency application to stay a Sept. 4 decision by Massachusetts-based District Judge Indira Talwani. The Obama appointee and past Democrat donor issued a preliminary injunction blocking part of the U.S. Postal Service’s new policy that complies with the president’s mail-in voting order. The USPS rule “would require election officials to submit ballot-envelope designs for approval and upload voter information and unique tracking barcodes to a new USPS portal,” as described by Fox News.

The preliminary injunction replaced a temporary restraining order Talwani had issued against the new rule days prior. The Trump administration — which initially appealed the TRO to SCOTUS — withdrew its initial application over the TRO and filed a new one asking the high court to pause Talwani’s injunction.

The Supreme Court previously overturned a separate injunction by Talwani against Trump’s mail-in voting order last month. In a 6-3 ruling, the high court ruled that it was too soon for courts to consider the challenge brought by Democrat-led states and D.C. because the administration had yet to issue rules at that time, as required by the president’s edict.

A Roman Catholic couple lost their child to the state when they refused to transition her to a boy. Algonquin Regional High School in Southborough socially transitioned her to a “boy” without her parents’ consent. When the parents rightly contested this illegal activity, Massachusetts state authorities chose to kidnap the child instead of prosecuting school officials.

Child grooming and violating parents’ rights is protected criminal action by the state of Massachusetts. The girl is now 17 and being unconstitutionally confined in a boys’ dormitory. The state is giving her birth control pills and psychiatric drugs while it prepares to mutilate her body.

Catholic Parents Wouldn’t Call Their Daughter a Boy, So Now Massachusetts Has Kidnapped Her for Hormone Therapy– www.westernjournal.com
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Joseph and Arlene Kutzko would not tell their daughter she was a boy.

Massachusetts took her anyway.

The Roman Catholic couple said that staff at Algonquin Regional High School in Southborough began socially transitioning Sophie without telling them, Fox News Radio’s Lighthouse Faith reported.

In December 2024, when she was 15, the Department of Children and Families removed her from the house. The stated reason was that her parents would not recognize her as male.

Physical abuse claims against Joseph were later called unfounded. That did not return the girl.

A permanent restraining order followed. DCF cut contact after the Kutzkos still refused a male name and pronouns.

Sophie is now 17. Her parents said the state housed her in a boys’ dormitory, kept her from Sunday Mass, and put her on birth control and psychiatric drugs.

Foundation For Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) released a poll that revealed 30% of surveyed college students approve of violence to stop free speech rarely, which is down from last year’s high of 34%. However, of that group, half (or 15% total) said yes to violence to stop fee speech “sometimes,” not just rarely; 3% chose “always.”

30% of college students say violence can be used to stop speakers– www.lifesitenews.com
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Some college students say violence could be an “acceptable” way to stop campus speakers.

The survey, from free-speech group Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), shows an overall decline in support for political violence among college students. The group surveyed 63,000 students at 262 schools as part of its annual review of free speech on college campuses.

Last year, 34 percent of college students said, “using violence to stop someone from speaking on campus is acceptable, at least in rare cases.”

This year, 30 percent of students affirmed the statement; however, half of those respondents said it could be justified in more than merely “rare” situations.

U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika struck down Delaware’s ghost-gun ban, which effectively bans the constitutional rights of Americans to make their own guns.

The judge ruled, “… An untraceable firearm is an Arm under the Second Amendment.  It is, after all, a firearm, and even under the narrowest reading of ‘Arms,’ ‘all firearms constitute [] ‘arms,’ whether serialized or not. Moreover, the evidence here shows that untraceable firearms are customarily used for offensive or defensive purposes such as self-defense…”

Trump-Appointed Judge Slaps Down Delaware’s ‘Ghost Gun’ Ban as Unconstitutional– www.westernjournal.com
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A federal judge ruled Delaware’s ban on so-called “ghost guns” was unconstitutional Thursday, the latest victory for Second Amendment advocates in court.

Several states passed laws that targeted partially completed firearms or receivers after anti-Second Amendment organizations labeled them “ghost guns,” while the Biden administration sought to classify them as firearms. In a ruling issued Thursday, United States District Judge Maryellen Noreika of the District of Delaware, a Trump appointee, said Delaware’s ban violated the Second Amendment.

The Oregon Department of Human Services had to change its standards for adoption after a Christian widow sued them. Jessica Bates sued the state after she was denied the right to adopt a child in their system for refusing to affirm the rainbow ideology. The state settled with Bates, removing the conditions of adoption that demand LGBTQ affirmation. They also had to pay Bates’ court costs.

Christian Mom Defeats Oregon Bid to Stop Her From Adopting– www.lifenews.com
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A Christian mom in Oregon has won her battle against a liberal state to adopt children.

Oregon child-welfare officials have agreed to let a Christian widow seek a license to adopt children from foster care without violating her religious beliefs, ending a three-year fight over a state rule that barred her because she would not promote gender ideology on the kids.

Jessica Bates, a widowed mother of five, sued the Oregon Department of Human Services in April 2023 after the agency rejected her application. Officials deemed her ineligible to adopt any child — even infants or children who share her religious beliefs — because she said she would not use inaccurate pronouns, take children to pride parades, or take a hypothetical 9-year-old to receive puberty blockers or hormone shots.

Under an agreed court order announced Monday, Bates may reapply for her license and need not promote gender ideology to a vulnerable child. Oregon also agreed that Bates, as the prevailing party, is entitled to attorneys’ fees and costs, to be decided later.

Massachusetts: School Secretly Transitioned Girl, State Seized Her From Parents – RedState– redstate.com
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It’s an insane state of affairs indeed when a state can step in and yank a teenage girl out of her home, can block the girl’s parents and older brother from seeing or speaking with her, all because the family’s faith precludes them from acknowledging her school-prompted “transgender” status and because they refused to call her a boy.

Now the daughter is a ward of the state of Massachusetts, and the parents are fighting to get her back.

That conversation:

Bill Hemmer (host): A devout Catholic family in Massachusetts are locked a huge legal fight to stop the state from transitioning their teen daughter to a boy without their consent. Lauren Green’s got more on this story, here in New York. What have you found out, Lauren, good morning.

Lauren Green: Hey Bill, you know, Joseph and Arlene Kutzko haven’t spoken to their daughter since the end of 2024, after the Department of Children and Families (DCF) removed her from their home. The family claims it was because of their Catholic faith, that would not allow them to affirm their daughter as a boy. An emotional Joseph Kutzko reading the birthday card his daughter Sophie gave him in October of 2024.

Joseph Kutzko: Without you, I would have nothing. So it’s wholeheartedly, fully, sincerely, I love you with no end.

The Supreme Court Just Ruled Against Election Security– townhall.com
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The Supreme Court has rejected the Trump administration’s efforts to restrict mail-in ballots for the upcoming midterm elections in the 7-2 decision.

BREAKING: Gavin Newsom says he will not run for president in 2028 if Kamala Harris runs | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com
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California Governor Gavin Newsom has revealed that he will not run for president in 2028 if fellow Californian former Vice President Kamala Harris decides to run. He had been widely rumored to be interested in the position.

Speaking with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Newsom, who is one of a few Democrats being floated to run for the presidency, said of Harris, “I don’t know if she runs, but we’ll see.” He later added, “I wouldn’t run if she ran.”

Tapper asked, “If she runs, you will not?”

“Of course not,” Newsom replied. “Why would I? I wouldn’t do that to her … I wouldn’t waste everyone’s time. Who needs that?”

“First of all, electorally, it’s a gift from God for everybody else. They can enjoy the hell out of it. Mutually assured destruction. It serves no greater good,” Newsom said.

Tapper shot back, “She had a shot and you’ve never run and she’s run twice.” Harris ran in 2020 seeking the Democrat Party’s nomination for president. During her brief stint in the primaries, she gained some 3% of the vote. She ran again in 2024 but only when her boss, President Joe Biden, was forced out of the race due to apparent age-related mental decline and endorsed her in his stead.

“Yeah, I mean that’d be the approach to the campaign certainly,” Newsom said. “That’d be the case you’d make. A pretty good one actually. That’s objectively true.”

870,000 Fraudsters Guilty of Stealing $50 Billion in Fraudulent Pandemic Loans– gellerreport.com
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If you felt the government was just shoveling out money—and the system was ripe for fraud, your intuition was right. It was worse than many of us thought. Washington Times: Vice President J.D. Vance announced Monday that the government is barring 870,000 people from getting future federal loans because they are suspected of defrauding the government during the pandemic. They accounted for nearly $50 billion in bogus small business loans, officials said. Letters will be mailed out starting this week notifying them they’re banned. “If you screwed the American taxpayer, the federal government is now going to say you’re cut off,” Mr. Vance said at an appearance in Kansas City, flanked by Attorney General Todd Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel and Small Business Administration Administrator Kelly Loeffler….  Mr. Vance, who was tapped to lead President Trump’s task force on combating fraud, also called upon Democrats to join the fraud fight. “Congressional Democrats have been so captured by far-left advocacy groups that they can’t even participate in something as common sense as protecting the American taxpayer’s money,” he said. “We can’t allow it to be normalized that the American people get stolen from by fraudsters.” (Washington Times).

The SBA announced suspensions for 870,000 PPP and COVID EIDL borrowers tied to $39 billion in suspected fraud, in our biggest fraud action to date.

NEW: House Republicans Map Out Filibuster Bypass for President Trump’s SAVE America Act– wltreport.com
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House Republicans may have found their best path yet to get President Trump’s election-integrity agenda through the Senate.

Instead of waiting for Democrats to supply the votes needed to break a filibuster, GOP leaders are preparing to use budget reconciliation to move the core of the SAVE America Act with a simple majority.

The target is straightforward: require proof of citizenship when Americans register to vote and establish a nationwide photo-ID standard for federal elections.

Current reporting lays out the plan and the tight timetable facing Republicans before the November midterms:

House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil is overseeing the election provisions. He says conversations are underway with the Trump administration and Senate Republicans about writing them into a reconciliation package.

Fox News Digital reports that Steil wants to include the SAVE America Act’s two biggest mandates: documentary proof of citizenship during voter registration and photo identification when casting a federal ballot.

Mitch McConnell Returns to Senate After Three-Month Absence and Casts First Vote Since June Fall– wltreport.com
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Sen. Mitch McConnell returned to the U.S. Capitol on Monday and cast his first Senate vote since a June fall led to a three-month absence.

The Kentucky Republican arrived in a wheelchair and spoke briefly with reporters outside the Senate chamber before going inside for the vote.

His return ended weeks of uncertainty over when the 84-year-old senator would be able to resume work in person.

Earlier Monday, a reporter recorded U.S. Capitol Police positioned behind McConnell’s Washington home before his departure for the Capitol:

McConnell announced the move in a statement posted Monday afternoon:

‘Feminist’ on Lindsay Clancy Jury Just Threw More Gasoline on the Fire – RedState– redstate.com
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America, I regret to inform you that the Clancy jurors are still talking.

One juror in particular is continuing to do massive damage to the credibility of the 11-1 decision that resulted in a mistrial. Nine “angry women” and two beta-males were unwilling to convict Clancy, and it increasingly looks like they had an axe to grind.

The lone holdout juror — a black man effectively doxxed in a smear campaign — was ultimately able to hold true to his convictions despite what looks like an agenda-driven environment.

The picture these women are painting with their needless comments is that they were belligerently pushing a narrative to get the lone holdout to cave and acquit an accused murderer.

That poor man. He should never have to buy his own drink in America again.

According to an outspoken juror, Paula Devlin, the jury saw the Clancy case as a chance to promote a “feminist” cause.