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DHS Chair drops FACTS about the left’s new favorite anti-ICE propaganda, aka “the 5-year-old in a car”– www.louderwithcrowder.com
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If you glazed the news quickly, you may have seen something about ICE shooting at a 5-year-old in a car. They weren’t. They were shooting at Oscar the Illegal. Oscar the Illegal is a violent criminal and member of the Trinitarios gang, who ICE attempted to apprehend in the Boogie Down Bronx. That detail, and the detail about him (allegedly) trying to run over ICE agents with the car, was left out when The Zohran first tweeted about the story. As you can imagine, the media is focusing on the 5-year-old and not Oscar the Illegal.

As DHS Chairman Markwayne Mullin keeps pointing out, Oscar the Illegal is the only one involved who knew that there was a 5-year-old in the car when he attempted to turn his car into a weapon. On CNN, Jake Tapper questioned if it’s the responsibility of ICE agents to check to make sure there are no children in a car that is being used to run them over before they stop the car from running them over.

Here’s Mullin’s response.

Whoops, wrong Tweet. That’s a list of all the most recent examples of the violent criminals, all of whom are here illegally, who the Democrat party defends and prevents immigration officials from doing anything about. Mullin was talking about a specific story that took place in the Boogey Down.

Whoops, wrong tweet again. That’s a clip from the woman running against Letitia James for attorney general, pointing out the increase in crime under her watch. 40% in the Bronx. It makes you think, doesn’t it?

Under Trump, The United States Is Now Funding Russian Terrorism– www.politicususa.com
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I have just concluded a highly successful discussion with President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, wherein it was agreed that Russia will immediately supply over 300,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel to the American and Global Marketplace, another 500,000 Tons during the month of November, and 1,000,000 Tons immediately thereafter. Additionally, based on the condition of their Diesel Refineries, Russia will then deliver, within a short period of time, 3,000,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel.

Between our TOTAL CONTROL of the Strait of Hormuz, and this great announcement on Russian Energy, Diesel Prices for Americans and, indeed, the World, will be COMING DOWN, IN RECORD NUMBERS, AND FAST! Lower prices for Americans, especially our Great Farmers, Ranchers, and Truckers, is my Greatest Priority. This is a very big and important announcement. Additionally, it must be understood, that Iran will not have a Nuclear Weapon!

300,000 tons of diesel fuel sounds like a lot, but diesel is a liquid that is measured in gallons, and when broken down into gallons, the truth about Trump’s deal is revealed.

 

White House Denies Trump Suggested Iran Should “Take Out” US Cities– www.ndtv.com
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The White House pushed back Tuesday after Democrats accused President Donald Trump of suggesting Iran should “take out” the major US cities of Los Angeles and San Diego.

Viral footage showed comments by Trump at a midterm elections rally in Nebraska on Monday, where he said high oil prices from the Iran war were justified by the need to stop Tehran getting nuclear weapons.

“It’s a little bit high. It’s a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe,” Trump said.

“They can take out a city. Let them take, let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay, and it’s going to be over with very soon.”

Democrats — who control the state of California where both Los Angeles and San Diego are located — accused the 80-year-old Republican president of encouraging Iran to hit the two urban centers.

“Donald Trump is now saying our foreign enemies should ‘take out’ Los Angeles and San Diego. He is deranged and dangerous,” California Governor Gavin Newsom said on X.

“The nuclear annihilation of an American city is no laughing matter,” Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic minority leader in the US House of Representatives, said on X.

But the White House insisted Trump was talking about the threat posed by Iran, branding it a “media freakout” that was “not rooted in reality.”

“He was clearly stating US cities would have been threatened if a nuclear Iran hadn’t been stopped,” White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said on X.

The White House’s Rapid Response account on X took issue with a Los Angeles Times headline saying Trump had suggested “letting Iran ‘take out’ Los Angeles and San Diego.”

“No, he didn’t, you buffoons. He was saying the US is fighting to STOP Iran from having the ability to take out LA and San Diego with a nuclear weapon — which they would if they had the chance,” it said.

Trump is hitting the road in the last month before the midterms amid Republican fears that voter anger over the Iran war and high prices could cost them control of Congress.

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)


 

 

“They hit us bad.” Newly obtained footage, witness accounts detail Iran attack — and U.S. retreat — at major post in Kuwait– www.cbsnews.com
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Washington — New videos obtained exclusively by CBS News show Iranian attacks on a major U.S. military base in Kuwait as the war with Iran kicked off seven months ago. American forces faced ballistic missiles, drones and what witnesses described as Iranian F-5 fighter jets.

The footage obtained by CBS News was recorded by a person stationed on the ground at Camp Buehring, and captures the moments of impact and their explosive aftermath. Damage to buildings and military equipment can also be seen in the videos.

The attacks on Camp Buehring offer a window into the strain Iranian attacks placed on American forces during the opening days of the war. CBS News has learned that soldiers defending the base ran critically low on .50-caliber ammunition as some soldiers were repositioned into the Udari Desert in Kuwait. Two soldiers were injured by lightning there in late April, according to U.S. officials with knowledge of the matter.

Contacted by CBS News, U.S. Central Command, the primary unit which oversees American military operations across the Middle East, declined to comment.

“The Single Most Toxic Issue in the Midterms”: How America Turned on Data Centers. – Mother Jones– www.motherjones.com
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Tim Murphy joins Garrison Hayes to break down the bipartisan revolt against data centers.

America is hopelessly divided along party lines. That’s a stubborn fact, we’re told, and the polling bears it out: Democrats dislike Republicans and Republicans dislike Democrats, in almost precisely the same proportions.

But every election produces surprising coalitions that defy entrenched partisanship. In these midterms, left and right have found something so commonly loathed that politicians across the country are flip-flopping in real time.

Mother Jones has been tracking the backlash to data centers on the ground long before the water-guzzling behemoths became the country’s bête noire. The AI boom, with its insatiable need for computing, has unleashed a power grab by tech billionaires. “Data centers have replaced megayachts as the preferred theater of oligarchic status signaling,” national correspondent Tim Murphy wrote in his big Mother Jones investigation into hyperscale data centers and the communities they land on. “Oligarchy is now more than an idea; it is a place.”

Networks Falsely Claim Trump Wants Iran to Attack Los Angeles and San Diego– www.newsbusters.org
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On Tuesday, the “Big Three” elitist networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC each used their flagship morning newscasts to lie to their viewers with four weeks until Election Day by falsely claiming President Trump mused about allowing Iran to destroy Los Angeles and/or San Diego, California, as a “small price to pay” to defeat the Islamist regime.

In a move reminiscent of their 2024 push to make “garbage-gate” a thing, the spin wasn’t true, as Trump was referring to fuel prices as the “small price to pay” to crush Iran as opposed to allowing its ballistic missile and nuclear programs to grow to the point they could fire said warhead at an American city.

ABC’s Good Morning America unsurprisingly led the way. Co-host George Stephanopoulos leaned into his true calling as a longtime Democratic Party official: “Also on Iran, the President is sparking a fierce backlash after suggesting a campaign rally that Iran could take out Los Angeles or San Diego, American cities run by Democrats.”

Trump Has A Truly Deranged Message About Iran Destroying U.S. Cities– crooksandliars.com
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Donald J. Trump suggested during a campaign rally in Nebraska that allowing Iran to “take out” Los Angeles or San Diego would be an acceptable cost of the ongoing war.

While discussing the conflict, Trump described its economic impact as a “small price to pay” to keep the country safe. He then bizarrely applied that logic concerning the possibility of an attack on a major American city, telling the crowd, “They can take out a city. Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego.”

Even more disturbing was the crowd’s response: they cheered rather than recoiled. We’re used to Trump’s deranged remarks, but there’s something extremely disturbing about the idea of thousands of people enthusiastically applauding the notion that millions of their fellow Americans could be sacrificed as an acceptable “price to pay.”

Trump’s comments immediately drew condemnation from California officials. Gov. Gavin Newsom called the president “deranged and dangerous,” while Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said a president’s responsibility is to protect Americans, not threaten them or encourage attacks against them.

San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria similarly rejected the idea that his city could be treated as collateral damage, saying San Diego residents are “not expendable” and should not be considered a “small price to pay.”

Both cities overwhelmingly rejected him at the ballot box. That’s not a coincidence.

French PM says ‘accidents happen’ after teens hurt in student protests– www.foxnews.com
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French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu defended the police response to student protests after one teenager lost a hand in an incident involving a police grenade and another lost sight in one eye after being struck by a projectile.

In parliament on Tuesday, Lecornu pushed back on accusations of police brutality or state repression, adding that the term “police brutality” implies that officers had been instructed to use force, according to Politico.

“What triggers police action is the occurrence of urban violence,” Lecornu said.

“Can accidents happen? The answer is yes,” he added.

U.S. troops leave Iraq, but Iran-backed militias’ future is uncertain– www.latimes.com
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America opened its “forever war” in Iraq more than 23 years ago with “Shock and Awe.” It ended it on Wednesday with little of either, even as the legacy of that conflict — which saw Iraq endure sectarian bloodbaths, civil war and an insurgency that made Baghdad the car bomb capital of the world — continues to cast its shadow on the country today.

President Trump, summing up the U.S. role in Iraq as “a very expensive excursion into Hell,” said, “This day is a victory for the United States, a victory for Iraq…. We’re getting the hell out of there.”

It was the second time U.S. forces have pulled out of Iraq. The first withdrawal took place in 2011, capping the occupation that began in 2003 and toppled Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, and which resulted in Iraqi deaths that number 110,000 to four times greater and the loss of about 4,500 U.S. service members.

But three years later, Islamic State jihadis scythed through wide swaths of Iraq, scooping up U.S.-supplied materiel — as Iraqi troops literally ran away — and seizing control of nearly a third of the country. The U.S., this time at the Iraqi government’s request, led a coalition in a campaign — named Inherent Resolve — that by 2017 had destroyed Islamic State’s caliphate and driven most of its fighters into Syria. Since then, Iraqi forces have fought Islamic State remnants engaged in a low-level insurgency around the country’s remote areas.

Media outlets bashed Sydney Sweeney while sympathizing with child killer Lindsay Clancy | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com
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While Sweeney has faced repeated criticism from major broadcast networks, the same networks gave comparatively favorable coverage to Clancy, who admitted to killing her three children.

Actress Sydney Sweeney received immense negative coverage from major broadcast networks over controversial advertising campaigns over the last year. The same outlets, meanwhile, have broadly been sympathetic toward Lindsay Clancy.

Sweeney faced widespread backlash last year over an American Eagle advertising campaign promoting jeans that played on the words “jeans” and “genes.” The advertisement was intended to imply that Sweeney has great genetic features that make her attractive, but left-wing activists accused the campaign of invoking eugenics and Nazi racial ideology.

Socialist or MAGA Republican? America has a preference.– www.dailykos.com
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Survey Says is a weekly series rounding up the most important polling trends or data points you need to know about, plus a vibe check on a trend that’s driving politics or culture.


Democratic socialist versus MAGA Republican—it’s a war of two extremes equally likely to turn off voters, right?

Not remotely, the data suggests. And that may have big implications this year.

The latest YouGov/Economist poll ran an experiment that asked voters to pick between pairs of hypothetical candidates. When asked to choose between a “Democratic socialist who supports Medicare for All, ending military aid to Israel, and abolishing ICE” and a “MAGA Republican who supports mass deportations and always votes with Trump,” 51% of registered voters went for the socialist, while only 34% picked the MAGA Republican. The remaining 15% were unsure.

Notably, this figure did not change much when the hypothetical socialist candidate was swapped for a “Liberal Democrat who wants to protect Obamacare (ACA), increase support for child care and housing, and opposes tariffs.” Fifty-five percent backed the liberal Democrat, and an identical 34% supported the MAGA Republican.

Democratic attorneys general work to Trump-proof election– www.latimes.com
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The office of Colorado’s attorney general is a perch 10 stories above downtown Denver. From his aerie, Phil Weiser has a sweeping view of the city skyline, the gold-domed Capitol and, occasionally, a red hawk on the wing.

But looking toward November, Weiser sees something darker.

Federal agents swarming polling places. Voters intimidated or blocked from casting their ballots. A tyrannical president using his powers, real and imagined, to undermine or try to overturn the Nov. 3 election.

“With this administration what we have seen is it’s important that we not limit our imagination to what … type of harm could happen,” Weiser said during a sunny noon hour in the Mile High City.

For that reason, Colorado’s attorney general and his Democratic peers around the country have spent more than a year strategizing — by phone, via Zoom, sometimes in person — on ways to Trump-proof the midterm election.

They’ve researched history and the law, war-gamed what-ifs, divvied up responsibilities and drafted emergency lawsuits and temporary restraining orders so they can be hurried into court at a moment’s notice.

Liberal Media Outlet Falsely Claims Pro-Life Group is Violent– www.lifenews.com
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Operation Rescue and Life Legal Defense Foundation recently traveled to Colorado for our #JusticeForLexi Campaign, a three-day event of education and activism exposing the death of 18-year-old Lexi Arguello at the hands of Planned Parenthood.

Every event was peaceful and prayerful, and the campaign received coverage from national and local news outlet. One reporter from the Colorado Times Recorder attended every event and wrote a lengthy article. Unfortunately, he chose to focus on a false narrative that attempted to tie Operation Rescue to violent incidents this organization has never endorsed or participated in. In reply, LLDF and OR offered the following letter to reporter Sean Beedle and his editor:

Dear Editor: 

In an article dated September 2, 2026, entitled “Kansas Group Linked to Abortion Clinic Violence Protests in Colorado,” the author, Sean Beedle, devoted a substantial portion to discussing Operation Rescue’s “alleged ties to multiple violent incidents.” We are writing to correct the record, as the article fails to distinguish between the conduct of particular individuals and disputed allegations for which Operation Rescue bears no responsibility.

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Opposition grows to Paramount-Warner Bros. merger settlement– www.latimes.com
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Tensions flared on the eve of a critical week ahead for Paramount Skydance’s proposed $111-billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, amid new urgency for talks aimed at settling antitrust litigation brought by California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta and 11 other states.

Over the weekend, opposition intensified to a proposed settlement as details trickled out, including a proposal to establish a bipartisan editorial board to monitor cable news channel CNN, one of Warner’s premier properties that Paramount Chief Executive David Ellison would control along with CBS News.

It was unclear Sunday whether a proposed settlement would require Paramount to sell off assets — something Bonta repeatedly has insisted upon. Critics of the deal urged Bonta and other state attorneys general to resist pressure to reach a settlement that would allow Ellison’s deal to move forward.

“State Attorneys General, please hang tough against the giant proposed Paramount-Warner Brothers merger,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) wrote on social media late Saturday.

“Paramount, run by the Ellisons, should not own both CBS and CNN. California must not cave and take a deal that leaves both under the same owner,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Fremont) wrote.

El-Sayed Called On Egyptian President To ‘Purge the Media’– thefederalist.com
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The Democrats’ Islamist communist candidate for Senate in swing state Michigan earlier this week snidely criticized President Donald Trump’s decision to take away White House passes from leftist propaganda outlets — MS Now, CNN, and Politico.

“May I just say, it’s nice to see MSNow and CNN covering the news,” Abdul El-Sayed, the Eddie Haskell of Muslim politicians, told reporters during a campaign stop with the Democratic Party’s failed replacement presidential candidate, Kamala Harris. “That’s what you do, it’s great.”

“You are welcome here anytime to cover news. I’m grateful that you do that. I mean, there are certain people who occupy certain offices that are too cowardly to take your questions,” the smarmy public health bureaucrat and failed former candidate for governor added in a not-so-subtle jab at the president.

He was more direct in another exchange with the media, asserting that “Trump hates the idea of democracy.”

“That’s why he denies elections and is interfering with the freedom of the press,” El-Sayed told Deadline Detroit.

That’s an interesting criticism from a guy who reportedly once urged the Muslim Brotherhood to “purge” news outlets and law enforcement in Egypt. The Trump administration has designated the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization.

The Associated Press attempted to incite violence against white people by fanning the flames of racial hatred. They did so through their report of the murder by hanging of a black woman, Tasia Fortune, who was only 29. After a black man, Jarques Ratcliff, 51, was arrested for the murder, the narrative wasn’t changed, that white supremacism is causing a lynching epidemic.

AP continued to promote the original anti-white narrative, accusing white supremacism of murdering the woman. CNN, which reported on the story in a similar manner, failed to follow up on the story when it became apparent the murderer was not a white man after all. This is not the free press, this is a military operation.

Media Claims Woman’s Death Is Part of a Lynching Crisis, Refuses to Show Inconvenient Photo of Suspect– www.westernjournal.com
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The Associated Press can describe a Mississippi murder in the language of 1930. What it will not do, at least on X, is show the face of the man charged with it.

Why? Because doing so would completely invalidate their narrative that the killing was yet another example of today’s supposedly rampant white supremacist violence.

Tasia Fortune, 29, a mother of four, was found dead behind an abandoned Jackson, Mississippi, house on Aug. 3. The medical examiner later ruled the death a homicide. Police arrested Jarques “Jock” Ratliff, 51 for allegedly committing the crime. He pleaded not guilty and was denied bond.

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Liberal Outlets Are Lashing Out About Trump’s Press Crackdown– townhall.com
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Members of the liberal media are lashing out at President Donald Trump’s decision to revoke press access from some of the worst offenders in the world of lying for political gain.

AP exploits black woman’s horrific murder to lecture America about racism– www.theblaze.com
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A young black mother was brutally murdered in Mississippi last month, but the Associated Press seems more interested in browbeating Americans about racism than in finding justice.

On Monday, the AP published a video on YouTube that uses the horrific murder of Tasia Fortune, a 29-year-old mother of four, as a pretext to revisit the history of racially motivated lynching.

‘I don’t think this was racist. I think this was something very personal.’

“The death of Tasia Fortune, a black Mississippi woman who was found hanging from a tree, has brought up distressing memories of the grim history of lynchings in the United States South,” Sarah Jones-Smith of the AP says to open the video.

“For many black people, the imagery of a rope and noose evokes the legacy of lynching and vigilante violence against black people in the U.S. and brings deep pain and trauma,” Jones-Smith continues.

The fact that Fortune was found hanging from a tree in the back yard of a vacant Jackson home on August 3 appears to be the only tie between her murder and previous racial lynchings.

In fact, a black man has already been identified as the suspected murderer. On September 11, police arrested 51-year-old Jarques “Jock” Ratliff and charged him with murder in connection with Fortune’s death.

 

CNN, MS NOW, Politico Sue Trump Administration Over White House Access Ban › American Greatness– amgreatness.com
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CNN, MS NOW and Politico filed a federal lawsuit Monday challenging President Donald Trump’s decision to bar their journalists from White House grounds, setting up a legal battle over presidential press access and First Amendment protections.

The three news organizations allege the administration violated the First Amendment by retaliating against them because of their reporting and discriminating based on viewpoint. They also allege their Fifth Amendment due process rights were violated when their credentials were revoked without adequate notice or process.

The lawsuit asks a federal court in Washington to declare the ban unconstitutional and restore the outlets’ access while the case proceeds.

“This morning, we notified the government that we are filing a lawsuit today to protect our First Amendment rights and defend the principle that the government does not decide what the press reports or publishes,” the organizations said in a joint statement.

The Trump administration has defended the restrictions.

“The First Amendment protects their right to publish; it does not entitle them to a hard pass, briefing room seat, or place in the press pool,” the White House said, according to The Associated Press.

Trump calls out CNN for showing up to UN despite ‘boycott’ over White House ejection | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com
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Fox News, ABC, NBC, CBS, and MS NOW aired Trump’s speech using a UN televised feed.

Trump spoke at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday morning, and coverage was widely provided by a number of outlets, including those who have vowed to boycott coverage of Trump over his banning of CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House.

Speaking with reporters, Trump addressed the presence of CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, saying, “I’m surprised that CNN is here covering me.” Collins said the UN had allowed the outlet in, and Trump replied, “you should not be here covering me. You said you weren’t gonna cover me. You shouldn’t be covering me.”

Collins said in a CNN broadcast that the outlet is credentialed by the United Nations. She claimed, “We never said that we were not going to cover the president, we will do our best to cover him each and every day. We were actually positioned in this spot last year when the president was here, long before all this back and forth over access to the White House began as it did on Friday.”

Trump Bombs At The UN As He Tries To Avoid Being Charged With War Crimes– www.politicususa.com
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Trump showed up at the UN to address the General Assembly and insisted on treating the world like one of his rallies.

Trump said, “ I can report to you with pride that America is back, and our country is stronger today than ever before. Our economy is the envy of the world.”

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The president then waited for applause and was met with silence.

He continued, “ Our economy is the envy of the world.”

Trump was met with even more silence.

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The only applause that Trump generated seemed to come from members of his own administration who were in attendance.

The world looked at Trump with an expression of not this guy again, and silently sat there and tolerated his babbling.

At one point in his address, Trump announced that he was renaming AI to SI.

The president said:

 From this point forward, all of United States documents, and hopefully the world’s, will be changed to use the much more accurate term super as opposed to artificial. So it’s super intelligence. In other words, welcome to the new world of super intelligence-SI SI. Let’s see if that goes. It sounds much better, it is much better, and it’s much more accurate. Let’s see if I have any power. Maybe I do, and maybe I don’t. We’re gonna find out pretty soon.

Later, Trump lost it and began ranting about hoaxes, but he also called for the abolition of the International Criminal Court.