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A Portland jury was faced with an unusual question: Should a 71-year-old man who shot a stranger flashing his genitals at him on a MAX train be convicted of any crimes? It was after midnight when Michael Grover Phill and his legally blind life partner boarded a MAX train in North Portland in January.Later, a 40-year-old man with a gaping hole in the crotch of his pants and his penis clearly visible boarded the train. The man walked up and down the aisle, past the three passengers who were fumbling with some aluminum foil, a straw and what Phill presumed...

Updated on Oct. 5 at 3:36 p.m. Before the justices took the bench on Monday for the first oral arguments of the 2026-27 term, the Supreme Court issued a list of orders from the justices’ private conference on Sept. 28, where they considered petitions for review that built up during the summer recess. As it does each year, that “long conference” produced a lengthy list of denied petitions. The justices denied review in hundreds of cases, including a high-profile dispute over whether schools may bar students from wearing sweatshirts printed with the phrase “Let’s Go Brandon,” a clash over the...

The effort to end the conservative majority in the Wyoming House is backed by a well-funded left-wing network. The effort to end the conservative majority in the Wyoming House is not simply a spontaneous, homegrown campaign. It is backed by a well-funded left-wing network stretching from national progressive organizations directly into Wyoming’s Republican primary. In a red state like Wyoming, the vast majority of political races are decided in the Republican primary, as few Democrats run in the November general. Instead, liberals often run as Republicans and get supporters to infiltrate the Republican primary at the polls to vote for...

Most people will experience back pain. In fact, two-thirds of us will deal with it if we don’t already, said Karena Wu, doctor of physical therapy, Start TODAY trainer and orthopedic physical therapist. As we age, our back issues will only get more challenging because with getting older comes mobility changes. You might notice a shift in your ability to walk and move freely, and maintain balance and strength, she said during a TODAY segment. So, “restoring mobility and maintaining mobility is super important,” she added. And one move in particular can make all the difference.

See, this is what happens when you lie about being a doctor, Abdul El-Sayed. You do not understand how the healthcare system actually works, because you have never held a license to practice medicine and you've never treated a patient. If you had, you'd know what the wait times are for appointments in America. But lying helps serve El-Sayed's real agenda: destroying our healthcare system by socializing it, so lie he must. This time, it's about wait times for things like cardiologists.

[Catholic Caucus] Heterodox cardinal says ‘entire Tradition’ must be read ‘in light of’ Vatican II 'The Council was not a departure from Tradition. It was a return to that current of Tradition which is the oldest and establishes the measure,' claimed Cardinal Grzegorz Ryś.A heterodox Polish cardinal said that Catholics should read the “entire Tradition of the Church in light of” the Second Vatican Council.On October 3, Cardinal Grzegorz Ryś, archbishop of Kraków, made a series of striking remarks on the relationship between Tradition and Vatican II during an interview with Dr. Konstanty Pilawa at a session of the Jagiellonian...

One post, "time for mass deportation," paired with a caption about a supposed "12-year-old Mohammed" who wanted donors to move him from a three-star hotel to a five-star hotel with a better halal menu, free Wi-Fi, Sky, and a location nearer a girls' school, was treated as politics. The judge said it concerned an issue already debated in Parliament and acquitted Gray. The second post was the one that counted. It showed a rasher of bacon next to a man in a turban, with the caption: "Fun facts about bacon! People who eat bacon have a lower chance of marrying...

[Catholic Caucus] German bishop to share gay couples’ ‘experiences’ at Leo’s Amoris Laetitia summit Bishop Heiner Wilmer's stated intention to bring those experiences with him to the Vatican meeting signals a continued movement toward normalizing homosexuality within the Catholic Church.The president of the German Bishops’ Conference (DBK) promised to bring the “experiences” of homosexual couples with him to Rome for the Vatican’s upcoming conference on Amoris Laetitia.Bishop Heiner Wilmer, the DBK president, said that he prepared for the Vatican summit by meeting with a wide variety of couples – including same-sex couples and those living in a second civil marriage...

Brivael Le Pogam@brivael·5hTranslated from FrenchIn 50 years, history books will say that Elon Musk won a war that no one even knew we were losing.A war that began 100 years ago, in an Italian prison cell.In 1926, Mussolini had a 35-year-old Sardinian intellectual arrested. At the trial, the prosecutor reportedly said: "We must stop this brain from working for twenty years."His name was Antonio Gramsci.His brain never stopped working. In prison, he filled thousands of pages that became one of the most influential political texts of the 20th century. I think we're living through the moment when his theory is...

California Democrats slammed Donald Trump after he joked the US should let Iran 'take out' Los Angeles and San Diego at a rally in Nebraska on Monday. The President campaigned in Grand Island alongside GOP Senator Pete Ricketts, who is running against an independent candidate backed by national Democrats. Trump was defending the Iran War and explaining that higher gas prices - which he hopes to lower with an Executive Order ⁠expanding ​access to tax-exempt ​diesel - are a small price to pay to keep Iran from having a nuclear weapon. 'And again, remember, with the war, it's just artificial....

It’s likely nothing unless you travel a lot. However, it would be prudent to maintain heightened situational awareness on Tuesday (6th) and Wednesday (7th). There is a better than average likelihood the RAF Fairford base attack was going to coincide on Oct 6 or 7 with what the French provocateurs are calling a “National Day of Action.” The U.K terrorist network was simply caught in the rehearsal phase. October 7th is the anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel. The “Red‑Green Alliance” refers to a tactical partnership between far‑left movements (“red”) and Islamist movements (“green”), rooted in shared opposition to...

There are 15-16 million illegal aliens in the US according to Grok.There are 270,000 temporary protected refugees down from a peek of 1.3 million under Biden according As for asylum seekers, there are between 3.5 million and 3.7 million pending claims according to Grok.This would make roughly 20 million more to deport and does not count birthright citizens born to illegals nor does it count legal residents like H1B visa holders and their dependents (about 1.3 million) nor OPT visa holders (400,000).20 million seems like a pretty low number to me given how common illegals are in schools, on construction...

Veteran GOP strategist Karl Rove on Wednesday published a scorching condemnation of the Republican Party, announcing in a Wall Street Journal editorial that he will vote Democratic in the Texas Railroad Commission race over "bigoted" Republican candidate Bo French. "These people are diminishing the Republican Party, not building it," Rove wrote. "I'll have no part of it. This November, I'll vote for only the second Democrat in my life. The first was Lt. Gov. Bob Bullock in 1994, because I thought he would work with Republicans." He continued, "The second will be Mr. French's opponent, Jon Rosenthal."

Contingency Target. Co-Pilot Had Backup Plan to Hit US Base Hamam al-Hammami intended to crash at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base if he could not reach Israel, Open Source Intel reports • UAE prosecutors charged him with attempted terrorism | World News

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), under President Joe Biden and former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, knowingly allowed millions of illegal aliens who overstayed their visas to remain in the United States, classifying them as “non-priority” aliens. A report from DHS Inspector General (IG) Joseph Cuffari details a clear lack of immigration enforcement embedded within the Biden administration — particularly regarding visa overstays. From 2021 to 2024, for instance, ICE received more than 3.1 million leads on visa overstays, about 104,000 of whom were classified as potential national security or public safety threats. Fewer than 500 of...

The “Dumbocrats” NarrativeA long list of prominent conservatives have referred to leftists and Democrats as dumb, stupid, incompetent, crazy, and insane. In 2007, Ann Coulter wrote the book “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They’d Be Republicans.” Both Rush Limbaugh and President Trump regularly referred to Democrats as “Dumbocrats.” More recently, the leader of the House Freedom Caucus called Democrats “the crazy party,” and JD Vance framed the contrast between the parties as “common sense vs. crazy.” Matt Margolis titled a piece in PJ Media this year “Democrats Are Too Stupid to Heed This Warning,” and posited that somewhere between the...

Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said Monday night that President Donald Trump has approved the execution by Army firing squad of convicted terrorist and shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.Hasan, a former Army psychiatrist, was convicted in 2013 of fatally shooting 13 people in 2009 and injuring 32 others at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas.The date and location of the shooting has not been selected.

Nothing is ever new under the sun (Eccl. 1:9). It is just demonically repackaged and sold to the next godless and reprobate generation as a new bill of goods. Since 1973, no other act of genocide has so ravished the “Land of the Free” as the abomination of abortion. Since that time, over 64,000,000 (SIXTY-FOUR MILLION) unwanted children have been butchered on the altar of selflessness, and the erotic altar of America's Moloch. Millions of women from all walks of life who have offered up their children have NEVER recovered psychologically from the horrific psychological afflictions of their acts of...

This ought to cause the wild-eyed Democrats to start pulling out their hair... Hispanic voters support Republicans over Democrats by a 50%-42% margin in the latest Rasmussen poll taken from 9-24 to 9-30. Generic Ballot — Hispanic voters 🟥 Republicans 50% (+13) 🟦 Democrats 42% (-8) (+/- shuft vs 9/17) @Rasmussen_Poll | 9/24-30 | 1,794 LV https://t.co/nbRePzLGEF — InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) October 5, 2026 Real Clear Politics highlighted Rasmussen Reports for having the most accurate poll of popular vote results in the 2016 presidential election. Now, look at these other polls... The legacy media polls have Democrats up by 20-30%! Someone...

The Department of Justice announced today that it has filed denaturalization actions in multiple U.S. district courts against 40 individuals accused of serious offenses, including acting as an agent for a foreign government, committing voluntary manslaughter, and aggravated sodomy against a special‑needs man. Filed between Aug. 21 and Oct. 2, 2026, these complaints represent the largest volume of complaints submitted in a single period under the Trump administration. Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, a naturalized U.S. citizen’s citizenship may be revoked, and certificate of naturalization canceled, if the naturalization was illegally procured or procured by concealment of a material...