Tyler Robinson wants to dodge the death penalty because his bullet only “hit the intended target” when it killed conservative activist Charlie Kirk, his lawyers wildly argued in new court documents.
Robinson’s attorneys claimed that no other person was in danger during Kirk’s Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University last year — an aggravating factor that would make it a capital crime.
“The only evidence presented supports that the bullet traveled above, not through, the crowd,” defense attorneys wrote in documents late Tuesday to stop the case from proceeding to trial.
Prosecutors maintained that Robinson loaded his rifle with four bullets, suggesting that he knew he could miss Kirk and “thereby putting others in danger,” according to documents filed last month.
The defense, however, argued that “it is just as likely that the shooter did not believe he would miss.”
Whether Robinson put the crowd of spectators at the Turning Point USA event remains a key element needed to charge him with aggravated murder.
Prosecutors have to provide evidence of the so-called “aggravating factor” for Kirk’s death to be considered a capital crime in Utah, where the death penalty exists.
Robinson’s lawyers claim prosecutors have yet to provide any evidence that Robinson knew that his actions would create a “great risk of death” to anyone other than Kirk.
Robinson also faces possible sentence enhancements if prosecutors can prove he targeted Kirk over his political views.
The prosecution alleges that Robinson told his trans roommate, Lance Twiggs, that he killed Kirk because he “had enough of his hatred.”
The prosecutors contend that Kirk’s strong opposition to same-sex marriage and gender transitioning stood in contrast to Robinson, who was in a relationship with Twiggs.
A Texas high school teacher was reduced to tears and broke down in front of his class when he realized the seniors he was teaching couldn’t complete a writing exercise.
Darius Williams, a teacher for Houston Independent School District’s Wheatley High School, said he couldn’t get through the first class of the second day of school before his students’ poor literacy skills were too much for him.
“I just finished a three-hour class, and I literally broke down in the middle of class,” Williams said in an Instagram video during his lunch break on Tuesday.
Williams, a New Education System (NES) Career and Technical Education (CTE) staffer, said he gave his class full of seniors two paragraphs to read and asked them to complete another sentence he had practically filled out for them, but was left stunned when they couldn’t finish the task.
“I basically completed the sentence for them, he said. “These are 17- and 18-year-old kids, and they couldn’t fill in four words. Four words!” exclaimed Williams.
“I gave them the scenario, we annotated together. I gave them the answers before we even had the problem and they couldn’t do it. I don’t know I simply don’t know where the problem is,” he said frustratingly.
“This is only day two, and I have seniors who simply cannot read and seniors who cannot write. They cannot write,” Williams cried out.
Colorado has been using taxpayer dollars to groom children into believing they are “transgender” and point them to mutilation surgeries, emphasizing that many do not need parental consent.
According to a new report from Do No Harm, Colorado spends millions of dollars on government programs, social media influencer campaigns, and medical school curriculums all aimed at convincing children they are a different gender, pointing them toward medicalization, and bullying the parents who do not want to destroy their children. Colorado even paid “queer” children ages 12-18 to participate in virtual meetings about “transition” resources, the report stated.
“Something unsettling is happening in Colorado. A publicly funded network of Colorado organizations is pushing resources that promote youth gender ideology on vulnerable children,” Dr. Kurt Miceli, chief medical officer at Do No Harm, said. “Our report is a case study examining how the transgender industrial complex has pushed further and further into the lives of children, reaching even as far as school-based health centers in the state.”
‘I Matter‘
Colorado’s “I Matter” program was set up to provide free mental health counseling to children, costing taxpayers about $11 million per year. The program includes a “confidentiality waiver” that strips parental consent around age 12, though the report states it is unclear how the program verifies parental consent under that age. Participation in “I Matter” also does not require insurance or citizenship.
“The program also notes that it will refer patients to healthcare providers for further treatment, allowing a child to confidentially begin the medical journey of sex-rejecting ‘transition’ without parental knowledge or consent,” the report states.
The program is not solely focused on “transitioning” children, but of the 12,896 total encounters with children from 2021-2024, 469 were considered “gender-affirming care,” three of which involved children ages five and younger. Forty-six of those sessions were for children between 6 and 9 years old, and 40 sessions included children with special needs.
“I Matter” also advertised its services to children using social media influencers specifically chosen because their audience was mostly children. The $5 million influencer campaign “stressed the confidential nature and lack of parental consent at I Matter,” the report states.
The primary target audience was children ages 12-18 (the cohort that does not require parental consent at all) and the secondary audience was parents with children ages 7-18. While influencer talking points for the children emphasized the lack of parental consent, the ones targeted at the parents are asking them to give their children over to government transition therapists.
“‘Having a child in therapy is not a sign of failure’ and ‘Sometimes youth need to talk to someone else (a professional, not a parent),’” the talking points state.
“I Matter” does not provide things like puberty blockers, hormones, or mutilation surgeries itself, but its free counseling sessions appear to be a gateway into convincing children to believe they are a different gender, and then pointing them to organizations that will medicalize their dysphoria.
Public School Clinics
According to the report, Colorado’s School-Based Health Center (SBHC) are clinics housed inside public schools that provide health care outside the capabilities of a standard school nurse’s office. From 2021-2022, there were 53 operating in the state, which offered “well-child exams, sick visits, health screenings, immunizations, mental-health counseling, reproductive health, and health education.”
Costing $21.5 million in operating costs, the clinics saw 34,427 patients over the course of 96,452 visits.
Services provided do not specifically mention “gender-affirming care,” but trainings and resources given to practitioners are heavily focused on “transitioning” children, according to the report.
The trainings included: “Introduction to Providing Gender-Affirming Care to Transgender & Gender Diverse Youth,” “Introduction to Providing LGBTQ+ Competent Care,” “Supporting Gender-Expansive Youth,” and “Working With Gender Diverse Youth For Advanced Practitioners.”
The report said that “The explicit note that [Supporting Gender-Expansive Youth] was ‘not an introductory course’ suggests an institutional trajectory of building GAC competency among school-based health providers.”
As The Federalist reported, schools are a a major part of the “transgender” medicalization pipeline.
University Of Colorado
Multiple initiatives from CU’s medical school train future doctors in how to transition children and strongarm parents into castrating and mutilating their children.
Children’s Hospital Colorado is an affiliate of CU’s school of medicine, which offers puberty blockers, hormones, and “mental health services” through its gender clinic called the “TRUE Center for Gender Diversity.”
In 2025, the TRUE Center gave puberty blockers to 257 children and cross-sex hormones to 549 adolescents.
The TRUE Center is also staffed by CU school of medicine faculty as opposed to Children’s Hospital Colorado, including for all billing and collection for clinical services.
CU’s “LGBTQ+ Health” curriculum appears to shed light as to why that might be: It “uncritically supports” the “transition” of children at essentially all stages of life, and it suggests billing workarounds to avoid calling attention to it.
“Colorado’s future physicians are taught to follow the child’s lead if he or she expresses any sign of gender incongruence, convince parents that irreversible gender ‘transition’ is the right choice for their child, and even assist in hiding aspects of a child’s gender ‘transition’ from his or her parents,” the report states.
Students are taught that children as young as 18 months old can “distinguish between gender identities,” and by six years old, “develop his or her own gender identity.”
The courses uses an example of a five-year-old boy and tracks him throughout the “transition” process.
Even slight evidence of gender incongruence from the boy allows the physician to start angling toward a “transition,” and they will start pressuring the parents to seek “therapy” and the possibility of “transition.”
“If parents are not supportive of ‘transitioning’ their child, students are instructed to confront them with the fallacious claim that their rejection will risk adverse mental-health outcomes, including suicide,” the report states. “Contrarily, affirming the child’s gender will allegedly increase self-esteem, social support, and general health and protect against depression, drug use, and suicidal ideation.”
Any attempt from the parent to talk about therapy to discourage the child from going down the path of “transition” is met with accusations of “conversation therapy.”
By 11 years old, the therapists and others have successfully convinced him he is the opposite gender, and he is considered “socially transitioned” and ready to start puberty blockers. By 15 years old, the child has been on puberty blockers for years, and wants to start cross-sex hormones, but wants to conceal that from his parents.
Students are taught how to conceal certain parts of a child’s health records from parents, including improperly billing insurance or not billing them at all. The Children’s Hospital of Colorado has “work arounds” and will “bill it differently,” according to the report.
“If the parents are unwilling to approve cross-sex hormones, students are essentially instructed to convince the parents to approve them by finding ‘commonalities (e.g., everyone wants to do what is best for Katerina),” the report states. “Students are also told that the child can decide ‘what and how much she wants the provider to share with her parents.’ The practical effect of this could be that parents end up approving an intervention without truly understanding what the ‘treatment’ entails.”
Students are told that by the age of 16, a child has a full enough understanding of the irreversible procedures to decide for themselves whether to be sterilized or mutilated. They are also told that there are “no age minimums for ‘chest surgeries,’” and that “‘bottom surgeries’ for minors are permissible if there is parental consent along with a letter from a physician and two therapists.”
As The Federalist reported, Colorado has numerous legal mechanisms for forcing gender transition on children, including through custody battles. Later this year, Coloradans will have the opportunity to vote on ballot initiatives to stop mutilation surgeries for children.
So, at time of writing, it looks as if voters don’t want to cancel Thanksgiving – on balance, at least.
Come November, however, few Democrats will be expressing gratitude for their party’s vote-tabulation systems.
Francesca Hong, it seems, will not be America’s first avowedly socialist state governor. She appears to have just lost an extremely tight primary to David Crowley, a Milwaukee County executive, in the gubernatorial primary in Wisconsin.
The long-view – and already ubiquitous – reaction to this news is to mark it down as a major blow for the Democratic Socialists of America and their bid to take over the Democratic establishment. But the more immediate takeaway is two-fold: pollsters are very bad at divining Democratic primaries – and Democratic primary officials are hopeless at tallying votes.
The primary ended in farce early this morning as Milwaukee County workers reportedly had to recover five USB sticks with vote counts on them, only for those sticks to apparently be blank – or something, nobody seems entirely sure. But what is certain is that the Wisconsin polls predicting a comfortable victory for Hong were wildly wrong – and did not take into account the peculiar dynamics of the race. Crowley only became the clear moderate choice late in the process – and mainstream voters duly flocked to him over Hong, a proud DSA member with a long record of expressing barmy radical opinions. Polling companies failed to anticipate or identify those shifts. They made a similar mistake in not identifying late trends in last week’s Senate primary in Michigan, which ended up being a far narrower victory for the DSA-aligned – but not affiliated – candidate Abdul El-Sayed.
But the real story should not be how Hong lost. It should be how on earth she came so close to being the Democratic choice for Wisconsin in a very high turnout primary in such an important swing state. Like many DSA members, Hong has said she wants to abolish the police because law enforcement agencies “uphold white supremacy.” She’s also expressed discomfort at the fact her bi-racial son gives her a “proximity to whiteness.” She has supported the abolition of the Senate, supported public-owned grocery stores and banks, and opposed Valentine’s Day. In 2019 she tweeted the following:
No, it suggests that successful Democratic candidates are now the ones who bridge the gap between the hard and soft left of their party – as El-Sayed just about did in Michigan, and as the Ojibwe Native American activist Peggy Flanagan did in her Minnesota senate primary last night. Flanagan is not a DSA member, but she was the progressive choice – backed by Senator Bernie Sanders, the party’s elder socialist statesman.
“I’m doin a 6-course dinner inspired by menstruation alongside my friends Autumn and Kel. There will be booze too. Come hang.”
And, on CNN a few weeks ago, she declined to disavow her stated view that Thanksgiving should be annulled – insisting instead that she was a trained chef who knew all about bringing people together (to celebrate catamenia, for instance.)
In comparison to Hong, El-Sayed comes across as Obamaesque in his political professionalism. And yet she came within a whisker of being the Democratic nominee for governor in a state Donald Trump won twice. None of this means the party’s voters are returning to the establishment’s preferred path.
She won by 20 percent in a primary cycle dominated by debates about immigration enforcement. She is now the strong favorite to win against Michele Tafoya, the Republican former National Football League sideline reporter.
Just a couple of years ago, Republican strategists would have found it easy to cast Flanagan as a far-left lunatic. Their problem in 2026 is that, compared to Hong and the popular DSA fringe, she seems to many to be the reassuringly sensible choice.
Among all the viral memes and online trends one sees while scrolling through social media, one term has been coming up more regularly: “black fatigue.” The term has been around since 2015, and appears to have originated from a board on a site that has become the Twilight Zone of the internet (a site that is “both shadow and substance, of things and ideas”), 4Chan. As with many post-modern neologisms, its meaning depends entirely on who is using it. Initially, it indicated a feeling of frustration by black people for either being tokenized, or for being held up as being remarkable simply because they were black. This definition was later re-formalized (or perhaps inverted) in the 2020 book by Mary-Frances Winters Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body and Spirit, which stated that the term referred to “the fatigue that some Black people feel from being the consistent subjects of racism and microaggression.”
However, since 2022 when the term was added to the Urban Dictionary, its definition has again been transformed, and is currently being used by people of all races to express an exasperation of “black people acting out in public, being loud and obnoxious” as well a “deep mental exhaustion from being forced to care about black people and their actions 24/7.” This is the definition that is currently trending online, as video after video appears to show some segments of the black community being rude, entitled, and belligerent in public, and then crying “racism” when they are called out for acting in an unacceptable manner.
This behavior, combined with the victim mentality of woke critical race theories that have been filtered down to their lowest common denominator, has created a subculture among black people. A subculture that includes individuals such as Nikole Hannah-Jones (of 1619 Project fame) and the “super”-hero known as the “Ethnic Enhancer” from the documentary No Safe Spaces, who see racism and oppression everywhere, in everyone, and in every event.
While it is a reasonable assumption to recognize that the reality one sees online through the lens of social media is very different from real life. Unfortunately, however, this is increasingly not always the case. The same algorithms which push online rage bait are now affecting people’s behavior in real life. And when it comes to black fatigue, I can speak from experience.
Black Fatigue IRL
As I have mentioned before, my day job is that of a mid-level manager at a chain retail store, one where I have experience working in loss prevention. Anyone who has entered a store and seen all manner of items locked up or attached to security devices knows that retail theft is a serious problem. While our company has a hands-off policy, we are still vigilant about spotting potential shoplifters. And contrary to what most people think, the policy is not based on skin color, age, sex or how someone dresses, but rather on their behavior and actions. So many of the shoplifters think they are being clever and discrete in their thievery, but probably about ninety percent are utterly predictable in their behavior. And while our store has experienced thieves of all races and ages, it is no exaggeration to observe that, for whatever reason, it has seen a rise in unruly and blatant larcenous behavior among black youth.
Recently, two black youths (maybe ages of around 12 or 13) entered the store with one carrying an igloo cooler, so I knew, based on experience, that the chance of a theft taking place was heightened. Presumably to create a distraction, the other young person got into a wheelchair that we keep for disabled customers and started running around. I questioned him and asked if he really needed it, to which he replied, “No.” So I asked him to get up out of the chair, so that I could take it back up front to be ready for a person in need. He wanted to ride it back, but I said no, and that I would take it. After arguing back and forth, another member of management came and said the young man could ride it up, while we followed him from behind.
On the way up to the front of the store, he proceeded to let loose an entire litany of profanity and threats about how I “better not meet him outside of work” or “better not end up in his neighborhood.” When he got to the front and got out of the electric wheelchair he walked twenty feet over to me and got right up in my face (I could feel his spittle) and proceed to continue his “bad boy” braggadocio before I walked away. He followed me further until the manager yelled at him to get out, and he finally left.
While what happened to me was somewhat unusual in its brazenness, it is not uncommon. Our store has seen an increase in shoplifting from younger and younger kids, such as those between the ages of 8-13. The police are helpful and sympathetic the problem, but they openly admit that there is nothing they can really do since the lawbreakers are minors. The most help they can offer is to call the parents, but more often than not the parents will blow off their kids’ shoplifting as being “no big deal.” This, regrettably, is the same attitude the police tell us any prosecutor or judge will take when it comes to minors stealing candy or small jewelry items. All of these miscreants who continuously pilfer stuff from retail establishments know this, and use it to their advantage as they lie to your face, swear at you in the most undecipherable yet profane manner, and (as in the case with the joyrider in the wheelchair) threaten you without one ounce of concern of suffering any consequences.
Moreover, there is no shortage of people, even other customers who obviously don’t preach what they themselves practice, who will offer up excuses for the offenders and admonish us not to ruin their future by calling the police, or to try and think about what kind of hard life they must have that makes them turn to theft. The excuses are nearly endless and there is almost never any sense that stealing is wrong, or that the young persons need to be held accountable for their actions. This to me encapsulates what the term black fatigue means, and there are days when my coworkers and I just about reach the limits of what we are willing to put up with.
Uncomfortable Truths Behind Black Crime and Fatigue
Since it is considered ideologically gauche to comment on cultures or races other than one’s own—in this case black culture—I will defer to cultural critic Chi Brown. Chi runs a YouTube channel called Consider Culture, where he has been commenting on the more deleterious aspects of black culture from a conservative and libertarian-leaning point of view for over a decade.
According to Brown, there are two major factors currently driving the majority of the dysfunction and criminality in the black community.
The first is the continued glorification of ghetto culture. He explains how the legitimate struggle for civil rights led to always highlighting what the black community lacked at the expense of what they could and already had accomplished. This engendered the rise of a social identity, which equated being authentically black with being poor, oppressed, and rising up “from the streets.” This, according to Brown, is why you will see black people from middle-class upbringings, like the rapper Drake or Jasmine Crockett, adopt ghetto mannerisms so as to appear “more black.” This singular fixation on ghetto culture went mainstream through hip-hop and rap culture in the late 80’s and throughout the 90’s, and has been pushed and amplified by the Left and social media ever since.
The second major factor responsible for all the crime and dysfunction in the black community is the removal of social barriers or cultural corrections which traditionally kept such anti-social behavior in check. Brown comments, “in a lot of black America, those corrections got switched off, one at a time some got switched off by other people and some got switched off by ourselves.”
Those barriers are:
1. The Removal of the Father from Black Families. Without a devoted father to guide and raise a son, “boys turn to somewhere else to learn what it means to be a man, like the street. But all the street offers is the very thing a father would keep in check.”
2. The Removal of the Corrective Force of Schools. Since kid traditionally spent much of their days in school, they were expected to play a part in addressing poor behavior. However, at some point public schools decided the best way to deal with too many black youths having to be disciplined or suspended for bad behavior was simply to stop suspending them. This is an issue the Everyman’s Auguste Meyrat has written about and has first-hand experience with. When black students are not given correction for disruptive behavior, those kids realize they can scam the system to keep on acting out without consequences.
3. The Removal of the Corrective Power of Police. While being careful not to ignore problems with bad policing, Brown also states that after the death of a petty criminal named Freddy Gray in the city of Baltimore in 2015 and riots broke out, there was a marked change in the way police operated. You may remember this event, if only for the city’s mayor famously saying in a press conference that she wanted make sure to give “those who wished to destroy, space to do that as well.” The police ended up pulling back from enforcing any sense of order, and this was later dubbed the Ferguson Effect in the wake of the shooting of violent shoplifter named Michael Brown. After this event, like the teachers in schools, some police forces solved the overabundance of crime (and avoided being called racist) by making even less effort to enforce the law.
4. The Failure of the Black Community to Correct Itself. Brown explains how blacks themselves made, “snitching the worst thing a black person can do…and to make loyalty to the race more important than loyalty to the truth.” He then recounts a story of how when he was young, he had attended a predominantly white private school. He was visiting with a friend from “the hood” who was mocking him about having too many white friends which grew heated enough that his friend wanted to fight about it. Brown told his friend he didn’t want to fight over it, to which his friend replied, “You’ve been hanging around those white boys too long, that’s why you won’t fight me.”
That statement stuck with Brown his entire life because to him it meant that his friend,
“believed that being quick to throw hands was what it meant to be black, that backing down made me less black. And here’s the kicker, his parents were deep into civil rights. That’s correction switching itself off! Inside his head he was taught that violence was an authentic part of being black, that the calm was the sell-out part. When a community starts teaching that, that’s when the community stops correcting itself and starts protecting the stuff that is killing us.”
5. The Failure the Media to Report the Truth About Crime in the Black Community. Brown comments that the failure of the media to use accurate language in reporting things like “teen takeovers” or by using euphemistic language like “mostly peaceful protesting” not only hides the severity of the troubles in the community, but gives the black community an out for having to accept responsibility for dysfunctional behavior. As Brown points out,
“Just like the teachers and the police, they take a behavior problem and turn the perpetrators into victims…(however) the people doing this framing get to feel like the good guys, and the kids get told over and over that nothing they do is ever their fault. And who pays that bill? Us! The same people who live in those neighborhoods.”
The Two Words we Won’t Use but Should!
In looking at my own experiences working in retail, in conjunction with Chi Brown’s assessment on the problems in some segments of the black community, it is clear that the issue is one of holding everyone else to certain level of accountability, but holding the black community to a different (and lesser) standard. This is what some have called the “bigotry of low expectations,” or what black cultural commentator and radio host Tommy Sotomayor has pointed out as the irritating tendency of white people to see black people as naughty little kids, or worse, pets, that money and motivational speeches can somehow “fix.”
Based on my own experience I mostly agree with these sentiments. To me the widespread willingness to ignore or exempt black people from the ordinary social, legal, and moral expectations that we expect from everyone else should not be seen as a sign of respect for their culture and history. Instead, it should be seen as a patronizing and offhand (and incorrect) assumption that blacks are a permanently or perennially damaged group of people who will always potentially be seen as immature citizens.
However, as my own experience with and Browns comments about black crime show, those who do engage in criminal behavior are nevertheless aware of the that patronizing attitude and are willing to use it to their advantage as a “get out of jail free” (i.e., avoid responsibility) card.
Again let me reiterate, I and other retail businesses have historically dealt with shoplifters of all races, ages and sexes, but only when it comes to black criminals are certain customers and large swaths of society willing to make excuses for those youths who come into the store, make a lot of noise, make a mess, swear at the workers, and walk off with any number of items. And in my case, being threatened by a 12-year-old boy for telling him not to use our wheelchair if he didn’t need to (which I also appreciate was probably part of the “distraction” element of the originally intended property crime).
To me this sort of entitled thievery amounts to what should rightly be called, but which you are not allowed to say in polite company- Black Privilege! And while I will not argue the existence or extent here of “white privilege,” as someone who is regularly at receiving end of some of the most egregious and entitled behavior from black youth, I would contend that the notion of black privilege is far less an academic-ideological construct and is far more grounded (albeit subjectively so) in reality than white privilege.
Perhaps it is time to stop having our feelings and intelligences gaslit by the threat of being called racist, and to call (but only when warranted) such criminal behavior as it is— black privilege—a term we should be using much more frequently.
Americans have become increasingly concerned with mosques being built all over this country. Now McKinney, Texas, has raised the alarm once again. Its city council, in a 7-0 vote, approved a new mosque. This reflects the growing incursion of these institutions all over the country:
Recent surveys highlight the scale of this growth: The U.S. Mosque Survey, conducted by the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) in collaboration with Faith Communities Today, found 2,769 mosques across America in 2020, a 31% increase from 2010. New York alone hosts over 720,000 Muslims, and at least 15 states have Muslim populations exceeding 100,000.
Texas has emerged as a particularly dramatic example. The 2020 ISPU survey recorded 224 mosques in the state, up from 166 in 2010 — a 35% increase. Online directories today list as many as 330 mosques in Texas as of 2025. Reports indicate 47-48 new mosques have opened since 2023 alone, including large clusters in Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston.
You might ask what the problem is, since the United States celebrates freedom of religion. The problem with Islam is that it not only promotes a religion, but also its followers often support political Islam and its spread worldwide, particularly sharia law. Islam not only governs every aspect of Muslim life, but also requires that non-Muslims live under its dictates, often to their detriment.
Americans are at risk when Muslim communities choose to honor sharia law, despite the ways it may directly contradict U.S. law. In addition, Muslim practices have made inroads into conventional culture and politics:
Growth in numbers translates into influence. Across the U.S., dozens of Muslim candidates have run for positions ranging from school boards to judgeships, and several have won office. Muslim voters often vote as a bloc, meaning even a small but organized population can shape local elections where other communities are divided. While victories are modest today, the trend is clear: as communities grow, their civic influence does too.
The ability for Islamic power to grow in almost every aspect of our lives is disturbing. Muslims will be able to influence school curriculum with their own agenda, rule against legal decisions as judges, and pass laws that will support their Muslim communities.
With Islam’s motivation to govern the countries in which they live, our Constitution may be at risk.
Two U.S. Republican Reps.—Keith Self and Chip Roy—have realized the dangers of sharia law and have formed the Sharia-Free America Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives:
Sharia is a dominating force that is not compatible with the U.S. Constitution’ the caucus contends.
‘The American way of life is under siege by radicals from a culture waging war against our Constitution and Western values,’ said Self. ‘We’ve seen what happens when nations allow this infiltration: countries like France and England are on the verge of losing their identity and sovereignty. The same forces are at play here in America today, and if we don’t stop them, they will conquer our country too.’’
Although many high-profile Islamic organizations insist that they are not interested in imposing sharia law on the US legal system, there is evidence that their goals are to do just that:
A series of videos circulating on social media have captured prominent American Muslim activists outlining a coordinated strategy to reshape U.S. governance along Islamic lines. In footage from recent conferences, speakers boast of ‘43 state delegates in the United States who are Muslim’ and project that ‘we may end up with about 50 members of Congress in the next six years.’
The speakers explicitly urge followers to ‘use the legal system, the law… to change the law,’ calling for the ‘implementation of Sharia law through political power’ by first targeting local governments before advancing to higher offices. One orator declared, ‘Islam is jihad. Islam is a social system. Islam is a political system,’ insisting that ‘Allah commands us to change and replace this system.’
Despite our concerns about Islam, most states have not been able to figure out how to legally ban the construction of these Islamic Centers:
Reports of Sharia courts in Texas, particularly in Dallas-Fort Worth, have raised concern. While these are described as voluntary Islamic arbitration panels without binding legal authority, their existence and expansion underscore a larger reality: communities are creating structures for civil and family matters grounded in Islamic principles. Even voluntary, these systems reflect a broader cultural organization that can influence neighborhood norms and expectations.
Governor Greg Abbott has signed legislation explicitly prohibiting the establishment of Sharia courts in Texas. Yet, how this law is being implemented — and how it intersects with these voluntary Islamic arbitration panels — remains unclear. Many within the Islamic community continue to operate these courts under the guise of mediation or civil arbitration, leaving questions about oversight, compliance, and the long-term impact on local communities.
Blood was shed and battles were fought for us to establish this country, under the Constitution, a country we can be proud of.
Every new mosque, every new Islamic education center, and every request to change our culture bodes ill for our lives.
We must be vigilant, making sure that Islam does not destroy our achievements and our future.
Tne giant dam has already nudged the way our planet turns. When the enormous Three Gorges Dam reservoir in China filled with tens of billions of tons of water, NASA calculations showed that the extra mass made each day about 0.06 microseconds longer and shifted Earth’s rotation axis by roughly 2 centimeters.
Now Beijing is moving ahead with an even more ambitious project on the Tibetan Plateau. A new hydropower complex planned for Medog County in Tibet is expected to become the largest dam system on the planet, with an annual output roughly three times that of Three Gorges and a price tag of around 1.2 trillion yuan.
Chinese premier Li Qiang has already described it as a “project of the century” that could reshape global clean energy supply.
How a giant reservoir can slow the planet’s spin In 2005, scientists at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory modeled what would happen if the Three Gorges reservoir reached full capacity. Their conclusion was striking even if the numbers were small. The stored water would lengthen the day by about sixty billionths of a second and move the rotational pole by about two centimeters.
To explain it, NASA geophysicist Benjamin Fong Chao used a simple idea familiar from figure skating. When mass shifts farther from the spin axis, rotation slows slightly, just as a skater who extends their arms turns more slowly. “Any worldly event that involves the movement of mass affects the Earth’s rotation,” he said, noting that the effect from one dam is tiny but measurable with modern instruments.
Inside the Medog megadam on the Yarlung Tsangpo The new complex, known as the Medog Hydropower Station, is being built on the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo River. Here the river drops about 2,000 meters in only 50 kilometers as it cuts through one of the deepest canyons on Earth, a natural staircase that engineers see as a vast source of energy.
Plans call for five hydropower stations in cascade, together generating about 300 billion kilowatt hours of electricity each year, roughly triple the output of Three Gorges and similar to the annual power use of the United Kingdom.
That is enough to keep hundreds of millions of homes, factories, and data centers running, and to a large extent it could help China cut coal use and keep electric bills more predictable.
Could the Tibet project shift Earth’s rotation again So far, no detailed public study has estimated how much the Medog reservoirs might alter Earth’s spin. Scientists expect any change in day length to remain extremely small, because even a record breaking dam stores only a fraction of the planet’s total water. For most people, that means no noticeable difference in sunrise, sunset, or calendar time.
At the same time, researchers are paying closer attention to these subtle effects. A recent study from Harvard University showed that the combined water stored behind nearly seven thousand dams since the 19th century shifted the position of the North Pole by about a meter and slightly lowered global sea level.
The work, published with support from the American Geophysical Union, suggests that megaprojects like Medog are now part of the story of how Earth itself moves.
Rivers, neighbors, and a fragile mountain region Physics is only part of the debate. The Yarlung Tsangpo flows out of Tibet into India, where it is known as the Brahmaputra River, and then into Bangladesh. Farmers there depend on its waters for rice fields, drinking supplies, and existing hydropower, so any major upstream project naturally raises fears about droughts, floods, or changes in nutrient rich sediment.
Environmental groups also warn that the gorge sits in a seismically active, landslide prone region where storing such vast amounts of water could amplify risks. Beijing argues that the design will keep most of the flow moving through and that strict safeguards will protect ecosystems, while delivering clean power and jobs to a remote part of China.
At the end of the day, what the project is trying to do is balance climate goals, regional development, and cross border water politics, and that is a tough equation.
For the most part, the tug of an extra reservoir on Earth’s spin will stay in the realm of high-precision geodesy and satellite navigation, not everyday life. The bigger question is whether societies can agree on how to use rivers that now double as planetary-scale levers.
The main work on the rotational effects of the Three Gorges reservoir has been published in NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory news release.
In Trump v. Barbara, the Supreme Court justices ruled that children born to parents here unlawfully, or only temporarily, still claim U.S. citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment, with a few longstanding exceptions. That decision landed on June 30.
Less than six weeks later, the president signed a pair of executive orders that take advantage of every centimeter of leeway the Court allows. He aims to shut down the lucrative, gangrenous industry of birth tourism for good.
On August 6, Trump signed two new executive orders to curtail anchor birthing. One order identifies categories of children whose parents fall inside the historical exceptions the Court itself acknowledged. These exceptions include alien enemies, foreign government employees, those who buy access to citizenship through commercial schemes, or births in certain territories. Trump directed agencies to withhold recognition of citizenship in those situations.
The second order specifically ends birth tourism. It defines the practice as foreign nationals entering on temporary visas for the express purpose of giving birth on U.S. soil, or helping others do the same. Trump empowered the secretaries of State and Homeland Security to deny visas, revoke existing ones, bar entry, and target the businesses who run birth tourism schemes.
These steps matter because birthright citizenship creates clear, measurable harms.
It turns illegal entry or short-term presence into a permanent claim on the nation’s resources. The anchor baby gains lifelong access to public schools, medical programs, food assistance, and, eventually, voting rights and the power to sponsor relatives. Native-born taxpayers who never consented to the parents’ presence foot the bill. Americans compete for the same classrooms, hospital beds, and starter jobs.
Studies have long shown that households headed by illegal immigrants generate large net costs once U.S.-born children are counted. Citizenship, sanely defined, is membership in a self-governing people, not a free ticket handed out by geography alone. Nations from Australia to Ireland to most of continental Europe have restricted pure soil-based citizenship. Why? Because they recognized corrosive incentives and understood the strain on public resources.
There is also the stark reality that birth-tourist immigrants, whether legal or illegal, treat America not as a sovereign state, but as a system to be gamed. Their children no doubt inherit this view. When these kids grow into adults and start voting, they are highly prone to nation-wrecking politics. That includes third-worldist causes which wave a black flag against Western civilization.
The original meaning of the Citizenship Clause supports Trump’s limits. The phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” was understood by its Framers to exclude those who owe primary allegiance elsewhere. That includes diplomats, invading forces, and, by logical extension, people present in open violation of the laws. Expanding it to every birth on American soil was based on a later decision, not an unchangeable command.
Trump’s new orders stay within the historical exceptions the Court recognized. He attacks the commercial industry that treats American citizenship as a product for sale. Birth-tourism operators advertise packages, coach clients to lie to consular officers, and profit while women are exploited and immigration laws are mocked.
Ending that racket restores integrity to the visa system and protects the value of citizenship for those who already hold it.
As referenced in a Townhall story, President Trump recently outlined how Beijing may have compromised the voter data of roughly 220 million Americans.
The Chinese communist party likely stole your voting data. And mine. And that of nearly all other Americans of voting age.
Are you outraged? Do you feel violated? Did you hear about this?
The mainstream media doesn’t want you to hear about this, as they have given it little or no coverage.
The piece also noted that the Communist Party of China (CPC) allegedly paid U.S. reporters to spread anti-Trump propaganda and cited numerous intelligence officials who kept the extent of the Chinese election meddling operation from him.
Chinese communists paid off American “journalists?”
Maybe that is a factor in why there has been so little coverage of our biggest adversary, a communist nation with a massive economy and a growing military, interfering in our elections, bribing the very “reporters” that many rely on to feed them the “news” — and of intelligence and Deep State officials eschewing their oaths of office and constitutional duties to protect the republic.
Should that not be a blockbuster, the biggest story in any news cycle?
Moreover, former CBS reporter Catherine Herridge recently added to this story, revealing that she might have come upon proof that the Bidens were blackmailed by the Chinese.
A sitting U.S. president blackmailed by the Chi-coms you say? Dear God! Certainly, every news outlet is clamoring to further investigate a story with such staggering potential implications. Right? Bueller? Bueller?
Instead, media chieftains say: You mean Hunter Biden’s laptop and its illustration of ubiquitous depravity is real? Everyone just clam up until after the election, O.K.? But if you find something — anything — on Don Jr. or Eric, let me know and we’ll run whatever it is! 24/7 baby!
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s diary contradicts his previous statements and testimony, suggesting that he may be responsible for countless cover-ups and almost unimaginable devastation? Meh.
Nigerian Christians are being slaughtered by the tens of thousands? Nah. No biggie, not going to cover that.
Trump made what some consider to be a bad joke about a serially adversarial reporter? Oh my God! Run that baby! Nail the bastard! Is impeachment imminent?
With the exception of the Trump joke, all of the aforementioned stories are — or should be — literal blockbusters that make “Watergate” look like someone accidentally bringing home an office pen in their shirt pocket. And these are just a few of the biases, omissions, and outright hoaxes the mainstream media has visited upon us in recent years.
Shouldn’t that, too, be a big story?! A “free” press continually abdicating its responsibility to report fairly and accurately? A press so outrageously biased as to reflexively cheer the same act when one party is in power and to utterly denounce it when the other is? And vice-versa?
Forget Watergate, still being bandied about more than half a century later. Forget Woodward and Bernstein. Who will write the full and honest account of this, perhapsthe greatest ongoing and deliberate breech of trust in history?
It’s certainly not going to be anyone from ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MS-NOW, the New York Times, the Washington Post … you get the idea. They steadfastly refuse to tell you and I the truth, the one thing they have been tasked with doing, the one thing that ultimately matters most of
There is a lot of wishful thinking among centrist Democrats that they can weather the socialist storm. It’s the one about looking the other way and the problem will go away. The problem is that socialists usually don’t go away, especially when they want to destroy your civilization. They say “transform,” but Fidel Castro used to say the same thing. As my late Cuban mother used to say, these people will invite you for a coffee and then poison it when you are listening to their wonderful message.
Let me recommend that naive Democrats check out this post from Professor Jonathan Turley:
Hasan Piker, a close ally of Abdul El-Sayed, is calling for “Marxist-Leninist” punishment for those who criticize Michigan’s Democratic Senatorial candidate. As radicals and antisemites like Piker flood the Democratic Party, establishment figures are struggling to justify their alliance with extremist candidates.
Ironically, Democrats are now fulfilling the false narrative that they used against President Donald Trump after the Charlottesville protests. They are maintaining that there are “many fine people” in the Democratic Socialists of America party, despite its leaders seeking to destroy our constitutional system, open our borders, defund the police and embrace virtual anarchy.
Now, some of these fine people are calling for moderates to be purged as radicals take over the Democratic Party.
Purge moderates? Why not? The so-called centrists better get ready for the “purging” because it’s coming. These people are not going to moderate and reason things out. They have to be defeated and cost the party the 2026 midterms, and then maybe they can regroup for 2028.
If they win the House, then the madness will creep into the 2028 Democrat primaries. Can they pull a Biden 2020 and screw the left again? I doubt that because the modern party is made up of cowards who won’t stand up to them. I guess that they don’t want to be “primaried” either.
So it’s up to voters to deny them victory and send them back to wherever they came from. We are literally talking about the future of the Democrat Party.
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