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The DOJ announced Thursday they have uncovered a MULTIMILLION DOLLAR Kenyan student loan fraud ring. The Kenyans were stealing American identities, using the names to apply for student loans, and then sending the money back to Kenya. They weren't here to assimilate. They were here to steal. Nick Sorter reports, "Numerous Kenyans have now been indicted by federal grand juries on multiple federal charges, including theft of government money and aggravated identity theft." Here is DOJ Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald speaking to reporters. Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald: There's more than $750,000 in cryptocurrency tied to this scheme and...

Metal has a woke problem. A very broad statement as it applies to a heavy metal, extreme metal slam hard-core goth punk. For most of the alternative subcultures that pride themselves on individuality and self expression, the word “woke” is not a vague term for kindness and acceptance. It does not just mean awareness of social issues For them, “woke” means hyper fixation on far left activism. It means putting far left messaging first, above all else, above quality and truth. The current dynamic is not that there are zero problems from the far right. It is that a loud,...

[Catholic Caucus] Faith should ‘become culture,’ Pope Leo emphasizes at audience on Vatican II Continuing his series of Wednesday general audiences on the Second Vatican Council and its documents, Pope Leo XIV devoted his October 28 audience (video) to the relationship between faith and culture.The audience, which took place in St. Peter’s Square, was the thirtieth audience in the series and the seventh devoted to the Gaudium et Spes, the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World (1965). The audience was devoted to the second chapter of Part II of the pastoral constitution; the chapter is entitled “The...

There's nothing that the kind and tolerant left loves more than being unkind and intolerant towards people who have a different political perspective. Particularly when that political perspective involves acknowledging the biological reality of physical advantages males have over females in sports. This consistent intolerance and hatred was on full display recently at a women's soccer match in Portland. A group of around 20 women wearing XX-XY shirts to a Portland Thorns game at Providence Park were allegedly harassed by a number of anti-reality fans nearby, including verbal and physical aggression. The "kind and tolerant" left, as always. You'd assume...

Even in Alaska, cold as it gets, if you leave a fish out long enough, it starts to get rank. The same is true for leftists. Give them enough time and enough space, and they will eventually funk up the place, and it will be no secret where the stink is coming from. .... The picture is not pretty. ... Where there’s smoke, there’s fire ... this scandal is growing. ... the scandal starts to strike at the core of the national leftist election infrastructure. The Elias Law Group is not just a law firm that serves leftist clients. In...

Kyiv has temporarily halted one of its most effective operations against Moscow after complaints from Trump KYIV—Ukraine’s military has paused its strikes against Russian oil refineries, people with knowledge of the operations said, after weeks of pressure from President Trump shook Kyiv’s confidence in U.S. support. The unofficial pause, which is expected to last until after the U.S. midterm elections but potentially deeper into November, began early last week at the height of a crisis in U.S.-Ukrainian relations, the people said. Days earlier, Trump had called for the removal of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and Elon Musk’s SpaceX had limited...

(Translated) MEGA-SCANDAL: The winner of the BERLIN elections, from the far-left party Die Linke, accidentally confesses that Hamas controls her party and fears for her life💣 A mistake has just triggered an astonishing security crisis. The magazine Der Spiegel—a media outlet, it must be noted, with a marked leftist slant—has brought to light an internal document proving how Die Linke has been hijacked by Islamism. Its candidate to govern Berlin, Elif Eralp, accidentally sent the newsroom her private notes from an interview where she confesses to being coerced and terrified by Hamas operatives within her own party. It turns out...

Untold War Stories@UntoldWarFacts22 seconds.That is how long it took for a 23 year old staff sergeant from Alabama to save the lives of his entire B-29 crew on a mission to Japan in 1945.He had to carry a burning phosphorus bomb 25 feet through the aircraft.He held it against his body while it burned through to the bone.This is the story of Red Erwin...🧵1/5Untold War Stories@UntoldWarFacts·Sep 26Replying to @UntoldWarFacts🧵 2/5Henry Eugene Erwin was born on May 8 1921 in Adamsville, Alabama. A small coal mining town outside Birmingham. His father was a coal miner who died when Henry was 10...

CBS’s Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan reportedly challenged CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss when Weiss asked reporters to investigate the scandal of Alaska’s ballot controversy. Fox News reported that several CBS staffers downplayed a New York Times report detailing how Democrats placed a decoy “Dan Sullivan” on the ballot to confuse voters and give Democrat candidate Mary Peltola an advantage in the Senate race. The New York Times reported that Peltola has ordered a staffer in Summer 2025 to find “as many people named Dan Sullivan in Alaska as you can.” ... The Justice Department has reportedly started investigating...

FeelGoodThoughts@feelgoodtale On April 6, 1967, 20-year-old Douglas Hegdahl, a farm kid from South Dakota, was knocked overboard from the USS Canberra in the South China Sea. By dawn, he was a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. Unlike the captured pilots who arrived in Hanoi, Doug had little military training or intelligence experience. His captors saw a confused, inexperienced young sailor and assumed he was too simple to be dangerous. Doug made a decision that would change his life and the lives of hundreds of others: he let them believe it. He acted clumsy, confused, and almost comically incompetent. His...

In this week's Avid Space industry update, SpaceX launches their second Starfall capsule, we have program updates from PLD Space, Rocket Lab and NASA, and Japan sends a lander to Mars' moon Phobos. NASA Releases New Details on Moon Base Progress | 6:05 Avid Space | 251K subscribers | 11,408 views | October 29, 2026 YouTube transcript reformatted at textformatter.ai *may* follow.

Embattled Rep. Ilhan Omar’s ex-husband and rumored brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, referred to himself as a “gay man” in an academic paper published earlier this year. Elmi’s self-described sexual orientation adds to the mounting evidence that his 2009 marriage to Omar was a sham to obtain legal immigration status for her alleged brother. “As a gay man of the East African diaspora, my fieldwork was never neutral,” Elmi, a doctoral researcher at the University of Bristol, wrote in an August 2026 paper titled, “Out in the Field: Notes on Researching Queer Violence in Kenya.” “It was a space shaped...

The Justice Department is seeking to block Alaska’s election certification if Sen. Dan Sullivan narrowly loses, adding legal uncertainty to a race that could shape Senate control after Tuesday’s vote... The Justice Department filed a revised lawsuit on Thursday seeking to block certification of Alaska's election results if Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan loses narrowly, citing a New York Times report that Democratic operatives recruited a candidate with the same first and last names. The suit raises the prospect of a messy fight over a contest that could determine Senate control in next Tuesday's midterm elections...

He may be the leader of the Catholic church, but Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV is still a registered voter in Illinois and requested a mail ballot for the midterm elections. That’s according to the Will County clerk’s office. “Robert Francis Prevost is on the list of individuals who requested a vote by mail ballot for the upcoming election,” Kim Fladhammer, Will County clerk’s office chief of staff, told the Sun-Times. The pope, who is registered to a New Lenox address, made the request on Oct. 3. That mail ballot had to travel a long way — from Joliet to the...

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s effort to restore voting rights to tens of thousands of convicted felons sparked controversy Thursday after an attorney obtained an executive citation addressed to "Betty No Last Name," purportedly notifying the recipient that her voting rights had been restored. The citation identifies No Last Name as one of more than 66,000 Virginians whose rights to vote, serve on juries and seek public office have reportedly been restored under Spanberger's administration. The controversy comes ahead of a Nov. 3 ballot measure that would make voting rights restoration automatic upon release from prison. "It’s a big deal," said...

The firing of Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia, a top military planner on the Joint Staff, came after an "extensive" investigation into leaks, and the matter has been referred to the Justice Department, according to Sean Parnell, the top Pentagon spokesman. Parnell posted a lengthy statement on social media Thursday morning addressing the news of Sylvia's firing, which came out a day earlier. His comments are the first on-the-record response since it became public. "Following an extensive Air Force OSI investigation, the Department took necessary personnel action to protect sensitive information," Parnell said. "To protect the integrity of the investigation, no...

High-profile races that will determine which party controls the Senate for the next two years are extremely tight, according to a new CNN poll, as Maine and Kansas remain close and Democrats extended their leads in Texas and Michigan. Democrats, who are widely projected to win a majority in the House of Representatives, need to flip four Senate seats from red to blue in order to gain a 51-seat majority, protecting their majority from the vice presidential tiebreaker. MaineIn Maine, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, is the only Republican incumbent running in a state that went for Kamala Harris in 2024....

~The French lady below does not seem obviously "far right"; she is merely describing the humdrum reality of our degenerating society:Josef Bosch @realjosefbosch · Follow It’s so anachronistic to hear a random woman—let alone a French one—speak like this. I can’t remember the last time I heard a white woman of any national origin speak this defiantly and bravely. Major blancpill.Video Here"Women are the first victims of immigration": merci, chère madame, there is a slogan for our times. If you're wondering why the "refugees" and "asylum-seekers" are all but exclusively male, that's because the human traffickers market the entire western...

A little-known congressional maneuver could block members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) from being sworn in as members of the House of Representatives next year, even if they win their elections on Tuesday. Members-elect must swear an oath to uphold the Constitution before they can become full members of the House. At the beginning of a new Congress, that oath is typically taken en masse by all 435 members, led by the House speaker. But an argument circulating in conservative circles posits that any member-elect can challenge another member-elect's right to be sworn in, provided they have compiled...

[Catholic Caucus] Two Pilgrimages, Two Bans: Traditional Catholics Shut Out of Rome and Lourdes In the same weekend, traditional Catholics were denied their customary prayer service inside St. Peter’s Basilica and barred from public liturgies and processions at Lourdes. Two pilgrimages. Two holy places. And one unforgettable witness to a faith that no ecclesiastical restriction can extinguish. During the “Christ the King” pilgrimage organized by the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) in October 2026, I learned more vividly than ever that a pilgrimage’s true success does not rest on a basilica, a sanctuary, or even an official authorization from...