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If The Onion or the Babylon Bee wanted to spoof the absurdity of DEI — the woke ideology of “diversity, equity and inclusion” — they couldn’t have invented a character as unbelievable as Jason Arday. *** Born in 1985, in 2023 he became the youngest black man ever to hold a professorship at Cambridge University. Naturally, he had to overcome great adversity to do so. *** because Arday, the son of a Ghanaian immigrant to London, isn’t just black, he’s autistic and was nonverbal until the age of 11, according to the glowing media profiles he’s received. And he’s epileptic,...

Police arrested a Hawaii Democratic congressional candidate Aug. 1 after a violent altercation with another beachgoer at Keawakapu Beach in South Kihei, Hawaii. Authorities charged 40-year-old Kirill Basin with two counts of first-degree terroristic threatening after the altercation with a 61-year-old man, according to Hawaii News Now. Basin is running to unseat incumbent Democratic Rep. Jill Tokuda. Police said the incident began when Basin threatened the bystander, who had asked him to turn down his music, according to the outlet. Basin allegedly suggested he had a firearm and threatened to shoot the man’s wife. A physical altercation ensued, during which...

The capture of the juvenile tiger shark comes as scientists warn of a surge of warm-water species migrating north due to rising ocean temperatures. Tiger sharks are commonly found in southern waters such as the Caribbean Sea and their appearance in Massachusetts is an indicator of warming seas. The brothers, Nate and Nelson Rouette, are longtime sport fishermen who live in Massachusetts and were fishing for more commonly found brown sharks. The five-foot juvenile they hooked can grow to over 15 feet and 1,400 pounds. Tiger sharks eat a variety of ocean life including fish, crustaceans and birds, and are...

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Private credit companies are key owners of AI-related assets. Many of their parent private equity firms own life insurers that are dumping grounds for bad loans—and subject to state bailouts. If AI is propping up the economy, who is propping up AI? The answer, extrapolating from a fascinating new paper about private credit and the life insurance industry, could be the U.S. taxpayer. Private credit is private equity’s $3 trillion financing arm. They make largely unregulated, relatively high-risk, relatively complex and opaque loans, mostly to their own portfolio companies. Private credit is entangled, maybe more than the rest of Wall...

The OCGOP describes the photograph as ‘assassination artwork’ after being denied booth space based on the Fair’s decision to avoid ‘political activity’ *The article has been updated to include a response from Terry Moore, Communications Director of the OC Fair.* A photograph currently on display in the Orange County Fair’s competitive photography exhibit has ignited sharp criticism after videos of the framed work circulated widely online. The entry, titled “The Young Fight” by photographer Alexander Nguyen (Entry #1443), shows a family at a “No Kings” protest in Torrance. Prominent in the image are handmade signs reading “Happy Last Birthday” and...

Hamas wing of the Democratic Party The "Hamas wing of the Democratic Party" (also referred to as the "pro-Hamas wing") is a political epithet and rhetorical device primarily used by conservative commentators and members of the Republican Party in the United States. The phrase emerged in late 2023 following the outbreak of the Oct 7 War and has been used to criticize progressive (and progracist) Democrats, and party policies or candidates overly critical of Israel or sympathetic to / influenced by / accepting Arab "Palestinian" propaganda, on many occasions expressing rationalization of "Palestinian" terror / crimes campaign. ContentsBackground and OriginsUsage...

McGraw is charged with a total of nine charges and 272 specifications alleged to have occurred between 2021 and 2026. The U.S. Army Office of Special Trial Counsel has referred charges against a doctor accused of sexually abusing dozens of individuals over an approximate five-year period. His charges are as follows: 91 specifications of abusive sexual contact and sexual assault. One specification of attempted sexual assault. One specification of attempted subordination of perjury. One specification of solicitation to commit perjury. 66 specifications of indecent recording. 91 specifications of assault consummated by a battery. 18 specifications of conduct unbecoming an officer....

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis responded to insults from Dr. Anthony Fauci written during the pandemic, calling them "badges of honor" in an appearance Monday on FOX News. In his 'diaries' from August 2021, Fauci wrote: "Besides being a total jerk, he is causing people to die in his home state.” Four days later: “Governor DeSantis is a complete disgrace." "I think those are badges of honor, to have him attacking me," DeSantis said. "The diaries, I think, really validate what I saw early on. This is a guy who was drinking his own Kool-Aid. He was venerated by the media."...

Katherine Boyle just named Elon Musk's greatest contribution to America, and it isn't sitting on a launchpad. Boyle, General Partner at a16z: "I think that Elon's most important contribution to this country is training two generations of engineers … on how to work with their hands again." For a decade, America's sharpest technical minds optimized ad clicks and shipped messaging apps. Software consumed ambition. The physical world became something you abstracted into an API, not something you touched. Building real things became what you did if you couldn't code. Elon didn't reverse that with inspiration. He reversed it by building...

President Donald Trump said the U.S. and Iran were resuming talks, claiming a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and denuclearize Tehran is "imminent.” Iranian officials, however, have denied participating in direct talks with the U.S., saying that they are negotiating with mediators in Oman. Facebook Twitter Flipboard Email

3% of the vote is in and the Commie leads the Weirdo by 62.3% to 34.0%. In raw votes, 27,061 to 14,788.

OutKick founder says he will pay $10 million to the winner of a showdown between the Aces and a boys’ high-school championship team of his choosing and floats an all-transgender Nashville franchise to test the league’s inclusion rhetoric. The OutKick founder announced Monday that he is offering $10 million for a head-to-head basketball game between the defending WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces and a boys’ high-school state championship team of his choice. In a second proposal, he said he would seek primary ownership of a Nashville WNBA franchise and build a roster and coaching staff entirely around transgender participation. He...

This video features *Megyn Kelly* and *Matt Taibbi* dig into an escalating scandal surrounding *Jason Arde*, a professor at *Cambridge University*. The discussion centers on allegations that *Arde*'s professional bio and academic achievements are largely fabricated or exaggerated, while *Arde* maintains that these accusations are motivated by racism and ableism. **Key points of the controversy include:** * **Questionable Bio Details:** The video reports that several claims in *Arde*'s biography are being debunked. This includes claims about volunteer work with the charity *Water Aid*—which the charity states they do not offer (0:30-2:15)—and his status as a "visiting professor" at the *University...

Has Leo gone TOO FAR? Pope Leo calls mosque 'holy place of God'Pope Leo visited a mosque and called it a “holy place of God.” Can you imagine Pope Benedict saying that? Pope Pius XI? The question writes itself: Has the papacy finally gone too far?John-Henry Westen examines a growing pattern that has left traditional Catholics stunned. The same pope who participated in a Pachamama ritual in 1995 now calls a mosque, a place that denies the divinity of Christ, a holy place of God. The same pope who walked a pregnant migrant through an open border symbol at Lampedusa...

Several outlets reported that the DNC used its headquarters as collateral for a $15 million loan due to financial difficulties. Gateway Pundit, Townhall, and Fox all covered this story. I considered reporting it as well. However, I reviewed the original version 54-page document filed with the FEC on November 20, 2025, rather than relying on secondary news coverage. This revealed multiple inaccuracies in the headlines. **SNIP** However, there are key inaccuracies in the widely reported version of events. The interest rate is not 8.75%. That figure does not appear in the credit agreement or the FEC’s loan schedule. The actual...

An armed man, said to be monitoring “security-planning activities,” was arrested Sunday with a cache of weapons and body armor outside Trump National Golf Course — just two days before the president’s visit. Jeanine John Taele, 38, from Downey, California, was taken into custody outside the Rancho Palos Verdes site by plainclothes FBI agents after they spotted his suspicious activity. They found him with an illegally modified AR platform rifle, two radio signal devices, a 1911 .45 caliber pistol, an AR platform upper receiver, body armor, high-capacity magazines, bulk pistol and rifle ammunition, and multiple notebooks containing concerning statements. Lomita...

From Ceuta to Cuba to Tehran — and increasingly the American left — the same destructive ideas keep proving that reality is no match for ideological zeal. I’m looking around the world right now, and what I see isn’t all bad. In fact, there are lots of indications of positive things happening or about to happen. What strikes me, though, in seeing the hopeful signs, is the contrast between those and the, er… other things going on in the world. For example, the Moorish invasion of the Spanish town of Ceuta. Much of the reporting, particularly on social media, that...

The new framework, completed in recent days, is seen as most likely to affect OpenAI, Anthropic and Google WASHINGTON—The Trump administration’s new guidelines for powerful artificial-intelligence tools exempt open models made by U.S. companies, a gap that marks the White House’s latest bid to ensure AI tools are safe without slowing down innovation. Under a framework that administration officials discussed with executives from leading AI companies Tuesday, only makers of closed, proprietary U.S. models that demonstrate state-of-the-art capabilities in cybersecurity and hacking based on performance benchmarks would have to voluntarily submit those models to the government for testing before they...