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Wednesday, September 17, 2025

The Trump administration is using the killing of bigoted conservative activist Charlie Kirk to justify a crackdown on a purported network of left-wing agitators in America, but a stream of evidence continues to undermine their false narrative. read more


Ryan Adamczeski, The Advocate: Since his death, [Charlie] Kirk has been praised for how he engaged in political debate -- but his legacy is not one of honest discourse. Kirk built his brand by demonizing LGBTQ+ people and other minorities, frequently spreading disinformation about transgender people and gender-affirming care.


The Texas-born man was even asked how he spoke English so well during an early morning raid. read more


The Weather Channel: The Atlantic Basin is finally waking up after an almost three-week slumber. After Gabrielle, we're watching another tropical wave for development. Here's the latest. read more


FBI Director Kash Patel said Tuesday that the bureau has "no credible information" that sex offender Jeffrey Epstein trafficked young women to other individuals beside himself. He also said the "original sin" in the Epstein case was former Trump cabinet member Alex Acosta's handling of it. read more


New documents obtained by 404 Media show how a data broker owned by American Airlines, United, Delta, and many other airlines is selling masses of passenger data to the U.S. government. read more


House Republicans eyeing legislation that would give the Trump administration, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio in particular, broad powers to revoke American citizens' passports are having second thoughts in the face of public backlash. read more


A judge on Tuesday dismissed terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione in New York state's case over the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson ... read more


The group wrote: "Trump is coming to the UK to avoid the Epstein story. Unfortunately the British public just crowdfunded the world's biggest photo ... read more


The Justice Department has reportedly scrubbed a study that documented the frequency of far-right violence from its website, according to 404 Media. "The number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism," the opening paragraph of the study reads. "Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists, including 227 events that took more than 520 lives. In this same period, far-left extremists committed 42 ideologically motivated attacks that took 78 lives." read more


President Trump said Monday he would have ordered flags to be lowered in honor of the Minnesota state lawmaker who was assassinated this summer at her home if he had been asked. read more


Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Cars are no longer just machines designed to take us from point A to point B. Increasingly, they resemble something else entirely: smartphones on wheels.


The nefarious sex offender was worth $600m when he died, but exactly how Jeffery Epstein acquired his fabulous wealth remains a mystery. read more


Maureen Comey, a federal prosecutor involved in the Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Sean Combs cases, has sued the Trump administration over her firing this summer ... read more


British officials are preparing for President Donald Trump's state visit to Tuesday ... read more


Lukium: First, you brand your opponents as wicked, malicious, soulless. You tell the public they're "radicalized people," "terrorists," a "wicked ideology." You convince your followers that the very existence of the opposition is a mortal threat to family, to faith, to civilization itself. And there is only one final stop on that train. Dehumanization always has the same destination: extermination. read more


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