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<p>Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou BREAKING: Heavily armed Australian counter-terrorism police just detained five young Australian men who planned to potentially attack Bondi Beach again today. No information so far as to possible motives.</p>

Customs and Border Protection has thwarted a large drug smuggling attempt in Texas. CBP officers in the Lone Star State discovered a tractor trailer filled with cereal ingredients. More than $10.3 million in alleged methamphetamine was found hidden inside the cereal bags. “Our front-line CBP officers shut down a significant meth smuggling attempt hidden within ingredients that shouldn’t grace anyone’s breakfast table,” Port Director for the Hidalgo/Pharr/Anzalduas Port of Entry Carlos Rodriguez said. “As this seizure perfectly illustrates, our officers continue to use their inspections skills and technological tools to prevent this poison from reaching American streets,” Rodriguez added. The...

Rhode Island officials held another press conference on Wednesday as the manhunt for the Brown University shooter dragged into its fifth day – but it didn’t end well. Two students were killed and nine others critically injured after a gunman opened fire at Brown University on Saturday afternoon. Brown University President Christina Hall Paxson confirmed that there are 1,200 cameras on campus and all data has been turned over to law enforcement. However, after five days, the public has only seen a few videos from the surrounding area of Brown University. Law enforcement on Tuesday released a new timeline and...

A NEW SOURCE SAYS ELLA COOK WAS SPECIFICALLY TARGETED IN BROWN UNIVERSITY ATTACK. WHY HAVE WE HEARD NOTHING PUBLICLY FROM THE OTHER KIDS IN THAT ECON STUDY SESSION. 7 Minute video at link................

This is what the end of Jewish safety looks like in a city that refuses to confront the ideology driving the violence, first denial, then normalization, then blood. During the festival of Hanukkah, a holiday centered on light, faith, and survival, visibly Jewish New Yorkers returning from celebrations were violently targeted on a New York City subway train. The assault was not random. It was ideological. And it is increasingly becoming the norm in a city unraveling under radical political and cultural forces that have normalized open hatred toward Jews. Footage circulating on social media shows a young Jewish man...

Discriminatory “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” (DEI) policies have been enshrined in virtually every major American institution for more than a decade now. While conservatives have made some laudatory progress in turning the cultural tide against DEI, the fallout on the American economy and, even more devastatingly, the American family, is only just beginning. This week, Compact Magazine published what may be the most important long-form essay of the year. “The Lost Generation,” authored by aspiring screenwriter and odd-jobs aficionado Jacob Savage, describes in specific, heartbreaking detail the economic carnage that DEI has wrought on young men, and young white men...

Leftists charged in a suspected bombing plot in California allegedly told an undercover FBI informant of their radical intentions several times before their Friday arrest, even mentioning a “terrorist diary,” court records show. The paid informant and an undercover FBI agent were key to infiltrating the leftist group Turtle Island Liberation Front (TILF) and disrupting its alleged New Year’s Eve terrorist plot, the FBI said in a criminal complaint filed Saturday. Defendant Zachary Page said during a December in-person meeting — which included the unnamed informant and agent — that he was “100,000 percent” sure the FBI would certainly be...

In Minnesota, home to the largest population of Somali immigrants in the U.S. and the site of numerous fraud investigations, fraudsters received $12.5 million in student loan and education grant money, according to a letter Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. The letter calls on Walz to resign, and states that a new fraud prevention system at the department has found over $1 billion in “attempted financial aid theft,” including by international fraud rings and artificial intelligence (AI) bots. “[Y]our careless lack of oversight and abuse of the welfare system has attracted fraudsters from around the...

Top FBI Whistleblower Kyle Seraphin shares exclusive intel on FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, his staff & the future of the Trump Administration: Breaking Exclusive! Dan Bongino's Staff Has Quit, His Office Is Empty And He Is Set To Officially Resign Within The Next 48 HoursTop FBI Whistleblower Kyle Seraphin Breaks Down The Latest Developments And Makes Major New Predictions On The Future Of The FBI, DOJ and Trump… pic.twitter.com/0nH2cEkD89— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) December 17, 2025

Is there an active cover-up in the Brown University shooting? Does it involve Brown University and/or the FBI? Many are saying yes. Many are also saying it appears quite clear who the shooter is. NOTE: I am not saying this is the shooter. We don’t know. Also everyone is presumed innocent until being found guilty. But there’s a lot of smoke blowing around here and I want to show you everything we have so far…. People online believe the Brown Shooter is student Mustapha Kharbouch: 🚨: #BREAKING: Brown University Shooter IDENTIFIED? Brown University MYSTERIOUSLY REMOVES Mustapha Kharbouch from their website.Could...

Ella Cook vigil Vigil held for students killed at Brown University. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) Ella Cook, of Mountain Brook, identified as a victim. ************************************************************************** The Mountain Brook woman who was killed in the Brown University shooting was the vice president of the school's Republican club and was likely targeted, according to multiple sources. Ella Cook was one of two shot and killed on Saturday while studying with a group of students. "We are devastated to learn of the loss of our Brown College Republicans Vice President, Ella Cook," the club's president, Martin Bertao, stated. "Ella was known for her bold,...

“I believe in being transparent here. If I were editing The New York Times, I don't think I’d put it in the paper,” says @MarkHalperin . But people are telling me that the family of Ella Cook, the Alabama young woman who was a sophomore, has been told that she was the target of what happened at Brown. I have no idea whether that’s true. There’s other theories about why the person did what they did. And since we don’t know who the assailant is, it’s going to be harder to say. But if it’s true that she was targeted,...

Inside a closed Los Angeles courtroom, something wasn’t right. Clerks working for family court Judge Amy Pellman were reviewing routine surrogacy petitions when they spotted an unusual pattern: the same name, again and again. A Chinese billionaire was seeking parental rights to at least four unborn children, and the court’s additional research showed that he had already fathered or was in the process of fathering at least eight more—all through surrogates. When Pellman called Xu Bo in for a confidential hearing in the summer of 2023, he never entered the courtroom, according to people who attended the hearing. The maker...

Former FBI Director James Comey got another assist from a Clinton-appointed judge Friday as the Justice Department looks to hold him accountable for his role in Russiagate. Last month, U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, a Clinton appointee, ruled that Interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan was incorrectly appointed and therefore, the charges brought by her office against Comey were “defective.” “All actions flowing from Ms. Halligan’s defective appointment … constitute unlawful exercises of executive power and must be set aside,” the judge wrote. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced at the time that the Justice Department would be appealing the ruling....

Amazing things are happening in Latin America. We have Javier Milei in Argentina, Nayib Bukele in El Salvador, and now José Antonio Kast in Chile, who just beat Communist Party candidate Jeannette Jara with 58% of the vote. The dude is a devout conservative Christian and father of nine: Kast ran mainly on a platform of cracking down on crime and mass immigration, and celebrations in the streets began as his victory was announced. Thousands of Chileans flood the streets to celebrate the win of pro-Trump populist Jose Antonio Kast Rist.Chile has defeated communism today..pic.twitter.com/WsGL43NKWG— Daily Dose of Chaos (@DailyDosOfChaos)...

Erika Kirk @MrsErikaKirk Had a very productive conversation with @RealCandaceO . More to come from both of us. Looking forward to AmFest this week. Time to get back to work. _________________ Candace Owens @RealCandaceO Erika and I had an extremely productive 4 1/2 hour meeting that I think we both feel should have taken place a lot earlier than it did. We agreed much more than I had anticipated. Of course, we also disagreed on various points and people as well. Most importantly, we were able to share intel and clarify intent. I will of course have a full rundown...

The mother of Naveed Akram, who, along with his father, allegedly killed more than a dozen people at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, on Sunday, insisted her son was a “good boy.” Footage shows Naveed Akram, 24, and his father, Sajid, calmly leaving a rented home in Campsie late Sunday afternoon, climbing into a silver hatchback, and driving toward Bondi Beach. Less than 90 minutes later, police say the pair opened fire on a Hanukkah celebration, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens more in a targeted attack on Jews. The footage contradicts what Akram...

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump is now saying “TRUCKLOADS” of evidence will be coming out proving the 2020 election was rigged “We have all the ammunition, all the stuff, and you'll see it come out. It's coming out in truckloads.” https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/2000299373226561793/video/1 Trump’s DOJ is also now suing FULTON COUNTY, GA over 2020 records. “California more than any other place is so rigged. It's such a rigged election — If the vote in California was legitimate, which it's not, they have 38 million ballots. Everything is mail-in voting.” If there’s NOTHING TO HIDE, it should ALL be released.

The young woman identified as the first victim killed in Saturday’s deadly shooting at Brown University was Ella Cook, a 19-year-old sophomore and outspoken conservative activist whose death has sent shockwaves through both the campus community and conservative circles nationwide. Cook, a native of Birmingham, Alabama, was serving as vice president of Brown University’s College Republicans and was widely known for standing firm in her beliefs on one of the most ideologically hostile campuses in the country. Friends say she was thoughtful, kind, and unafraid to express her convictions, even when doing so made her a target for hostility or...

A beast was awakened by the tragedy. But it didn’t devour the Left. Charlie Kirk’s death shocked the world. Millions of Americans grieved over the loss of the Turning Point USA founder. His public memorial essentially became a state funeral, with thousands in attendance, and countless others watching it live. His death gruesomely illustrated the threat of political violence, with the White House declaring Antifa a terror group and pledging more resources to tackle left-wing extremism. The traumatic event offered the promise of unifying the Right in a common cause against the Left. Tyler Robinson’s actions were clearly inspired by...