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A federal judge has ordered Long Island's Suffolk County, NY, to pay $112 million in damages after hundreds of illegal immigrants were detained by local authorities on behalf of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The ruling determined that both the county and the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office violated the constitutional rights of 674 individuals who were kept in county jails in 2017 even after posting bail or resolving their criminal cases. “This decision brings long-overdue accountability,” said Jose Perez, Deputy General Counsel at LatinoJustice PRLDEF, which represented the plaintiffs. “The jury confirmed what we have argued all along, that Suffolk...

A woman who has organized a local farmers' market for years in the city of Pataskala, Ohio, was prohibited from putting on a live nativity display for a Christmas-themed market until officials backed down. Susan Conley requested in September to be allowed to set up the nativity scene on public grounds this year after previously having it located on private property. The city denied the request, despite allowing other displays that included the Grinch, Santa Claus, and Buddy the Elf. The First Liberty Institute, which represents Conley, said in a press release that city officials backtracked after the organization sent...

Artificial intelligence has democratized knowledge more than any invention in history. Anyone can now solve a problem in physics, medicine, or Greek literature instantly. Yet the safeguards that once verified a student’s mastery of a subject have been replaced by compliance rituals that only simulate it. [...] What once required thought, practice, and time now takes a single click. That isn’t evolution; it’s a breakthrough, disruptive technology doing what it is meant to do: collapsing the distance between skill and result. In higher education, this transformative technology has created a perfect storm where tools that make cheating effortless have collided...

Fortunately for the Great State of Texas, their Former Speaker, who is no longer Speaker, Dade Phelan, is quitting Politics. He was the one responsible for killing every Bill having to do with Voter Integrity and School Choice. Good luck in your next life, Dade!

I don’t know what you did on Friday night, but I spent about 90 minutes in the vice president’s study with him and the men you see above, talking geopolitics, Hungary, and the survival of Christianity in Europe, among other things. Of course I can’t be indiscreet about the discussion, but it was rich and vigorous. I’m really glad that JD got to experience the actual, living Viktor Orban in person, and to see for himself how wrong the propaganda is. They got on very, very well. I was able to have a few minutes with the vice president before...

I despise the Groyper movement, but if you want to understand where Fuentes gets purchase with young men I will tell you how it happened by telling you about my experience at the orientation night when my son joined elementary school band: My 11 year old son son joined the elementary school band, and so I went to the parents orientation night which was held at a local high-school. As the night went on it became obvious to me why young men rage against the larger social system.

The adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) numbers from the FBI show almost no change for firearms sales and for background checks, comparing October 2025 with October 2024.There has been a slight decrease in adjusted firearms sales, from 1.303 million to 1.299 million, a difference of about 0.3% of sales. The total NICS background checks fell from 2.298 million to 2.289 million, about a 0.4% decrease in background checks. There have only been four Octobers in the last 26 years with numbers higher than those in 2024 and 2025.NSSF NICS Report October 2025 NSSF NICS Report October 2025...

If they were given the choice, two thirds of the British public would not fight for their country. That’s according to a new survey compiled of the opinions of more than 1,000 JOE readers. Of those who responded, 63% said they would not currently consider fighting for their country, leaving just 37% of participants willing to take up arms for the United Kingdom. Although the UK hasn’t been engaged in a major conflict since the conclusion of World War Two, the results of this survey couldn’t come at a worse time. Growing tensions in the Middle East, and the risks...

In May 2025, the authorities in Moscow unveiled a life-size bas‑relief sculpture of Josef Stalin in the Taganskaya metro station. The next month, a statue of Lenin was pulled down in Osh, Kyrgyzstan. Between these two symbolic acts lies Kazakhstan, caught in a tug-of-war over the memory of Soviet-era repression. Tensions have sharpened since the war in Ukraine. In the background, Putin has accelerated the rehabilitation of Stalin, architect of the gulag archipelago. His busts are reappearing across Russia. Volgograd’s airport has been renamed “Stalingrad.” In occupied Melitopol, a new statue of the dictator was erected. “We’re witnessing a broad...

A Glimmer of Justice Amidst Enduring Shadows:Venezuela's Unlikely Strike Against Islamic Fascist Republic of Iran / Hezbollah's Legacy of Jewish BloodIn a stunning turn that defies the toxic alliance between Venezuela's Chavismo regime and the genocidal mullahs of the Islamo-Fascist Iranian Republic, President Nicolás Maduro's forces have apprehended Ali Hage Zaki Jalil—a Lebanese-Arab Hezbollah terrorist long-sought for his role in the barbaric 1994 bombing of Alas Chiricanas Flight 901 over Panama.[0][1] This monstrous act of Jew-hatred claimed 21 innocent lives, including 12 precious Jewish souls en route from Colón to Panama City, their dreams shattered by the same Iranian-backed terror...

This important historical commentary takes a deep dive into the atrocities committed by the Soviet Union and the Russian people. From the invasion of Poland and the Katyn Forest Massacre to the millions of Eastern Europeans who never returned from the inhuman conditions of the Gulag system the narrator discusses in detail the unspeakable atrocities committed against the Eastern Europeans.

🚨 JUST IN: Local CBS affiliate is being scorched for calling the TPUSA WAR ZONE at UC Berkeley "MOSTLY PEACEFUL" as Antifa violently assaulted Charlie Kirk supporters, lit off flares and threw SMOKE BOMBS https://x.com/i/status/1988307683091640361/video/1 "[Protestors] have been MOSTLY peaceful! BUT there have been some tense moments!" 🤯 Literal rioting = "tense." They seriously did it again.

Liberal radio host Stephanie Miller was caught on video literally kissing the feet of Texas Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett. The footage captures Miller gleefully bending down to plant a kiss on Crockett’s sneakers. After the smooching, Miller asks, “Senator, can you confirm that I just kissed your sneakers?” Crockett responds affirmatively with, “This is true!” Miller then enthusiastically declares Crockett the “future senator of the great state of Texas,” adding, “I’m going to miss Ted Cruz so much… He’s still likeable.” The progressive radio host even bragged about kissing her feet on X, posting photos and writing, “Why, yes I...

Kamala Harris is back once again with an extremely interesting new angle on her 2024 election failure. Her memoir "107 Days" was released a couple of months ago, and she is about to wrap up her book tour (one that Democrats aren't too wild about, by the way) with a final stop on November 20. Not too terribly long ago, Harris told Stephen Colbert she was stepping away from politics because the "system is broken" — only to tease a 2028 run at the end of October. Now she's back, and she's rewriting history once again with a wild claim...

are medical costs so high? Nevada Senate: Behind The Headline » It came down to one Marine Editor’s note: USMC Col. Mitchell Paige (ret.) died Nov. 15, 2003, in La Quinta, Calif. This annual column is dedicated to his memory, and to the men who fought beside him. It’s Oct. 26. Today we struggle to envision — or, for a few of us, to remember — how the world must have looked on Oct. 26, 1942. A few thousand lonely American Marines had been put ashore on Guadalcanal, a god-forsaken malarial jungle island which just happened to lie like a...

The NABU (National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine) names another batch of corrupt Ukraine officials connected to Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Quickly jumping into action, Zelenskyy shouts ‘prosecute them’.Having previously said the NABU needs to be shutdown, “President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has [now] said he supports the ongoing investigation by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) into corruption in the energy sector. Although Zelenskyy did not name names, reports suggest that an associate of his may be involved in the case.” {source}I have personally seen these corrupt Ukraine characters (politicians and private sector oligarchs) in action,...

Maine's Graham Platner is hardly the most extreme Democrat candidate running for office. Graham Platner, the oyster farmer running for the U.S. Senate in Maine, was exposed last month for making a number of damning comments on social media — including posts where he apparently identified as a communist, branded rural white Americans as racists, suggested that service members worried about being raped should buy "Kevlar underwear," and smeared all police officers as "bastards." Although he has since covered it up, Platner was also outed for having a tattoo of a skull image similar to that popularized by Adolf Hitler's...

Former FBI Director James Comey's claim that he is being "selectively prosecuted by Trump" was verified by current FBI Director Kash Patel. "Every prosecution is selective in a sense that persons who commit crimes are targeted for potential prosecution," Patel explained. "It would be idiotic to randomly prosecute persons who are not committing crimes. Perhaps that's where the Democrats erred by inventing reasons to prosecute President Trump in the run up to the 2024 election." Comey contended that "the leaked data, my emails congratulating the individuals who took credit for the leaks and expressing my expectation that a grateful President...

The Japanese government on Monday demanded explanations from China after Xue Jian, the Chinese consul general in Osaka, threatened to “cut” Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s “dirty neck.” Xue, in a now deleted social media post on X (formerly Twitter), reportedly threatened Takaichi over remarks recently issued by the prime minister regarding Taiwan. According to the Tokyo Weekender, the Chinese diplomat’s message read, “We have no choice but to cut off that dirty neck that has lunged at us without a moment’s hesitation. Are you ready?” The now-deleted social media post included a link to a news article covering comments made...

Shortly before New York’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, delivered his rousing victory speech to a packed hall in Brooklyn on Tuesday night, one person was singled out for praise: Elle Bisgaard-Church, his 34-year-old chief adviser… It was a fleeting moment in the spotlight for Bisgaard-Church…She rarely speaks in public or gives interviews and, unusually for a New York politico, does not post on X. Yet she has masterminded one of the most improbable, closely-watched and successful campaigns in recent political history, propelling an obscure socialist candidate to the highest office of the most important city in the US. Patrick Gaspard,...