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LaToya Ratlieff’s life was changed forever four and half years ago when Fort Lauderdale Police Department shot her with a rubber bullet during a peaceful protest over George Floyd’s murder. On Tuesday, after years of legal battles, a $1.9 million settlement was approved. The Fort Lauderdale City Commission finalized the approval of the $1,975,000 settlement Tuesday night during a public meeting.

The township council of Edison Township in New Jersey prohibited residents from using "props" when addressing the council, including the Constitution and the U.S. flag. The Edison Municipal Township said the ban was meant to keep any props from becoming “an impediment to the orderly conduct.” Residents, outraged about the ban, showed up at the council meeting on Nov. 25 to voice their opposition to the law, leading to a five-hour meeting. Many argued the prohibition was a violation of free speech and their constitutional rights. "To consider the American flag and the Constitution a prop when someone raises it...

democrats seem not to know it, but Donald Trump won the election. He promised mass deportations and the country elected him. The message hasn't gotten through to a lot of democrats. Over a hundred and fifty years ago the US took away slaves from democrats and they haven't been the same since. Aided by Biden, democrats are once again creating a slave class of people - illegal aliens. This includes murderers, rapists and criminal gangs. A cabal of democrats is plotting to obstruct Trump's effort to remove much of the illegal alien hoard. Nov 13 (Reuters) – The governors of...

Calvert, 26, was arrested in February after a coffee container-like vessel containing insulation material soaked in a lighter fluid, a mortar, firecrackers and nails was discovered outside the Alabama Attorney General's Office. ... Investigators connected Calvert to the crime after discovering stickers he placed on buildings near the scene. The stickers depicted far-left terrorist sympathies, such as "Support your local antifa."

Los Angeles City Councilman Hugo Soto-Martínez said Thursday on MSNBC’s “José Díaz-Balart Reports” that the city of Los Angeles passed a sanctuary city ordinance, preventing the use of city resources for enforcing President-elect Donald Trump’s upcoming immigration plans. Díaz-Balart said, “Would you explain to us what the definition of sanctuary city is for Los Angeles.” Soto-Martínez said, “Yeah, I think we wanted to make it very clear that though the federal government has a lot of power over their resources, that the city of Los Angeles will not be collaborating or using any City resource to enforce his deportation machine...

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will headline a conference featuring activists who justified Oct. 7.These include "Fatties for a Free Palestine" supporter Hannah Moushabeck and Sawsan Jaber, who said Palestinians were “fighting for their humanity.”

U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) have sent a letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, criticizing the Department of Education (DOE) for allowing federal funds to be used by universities promoting extremist, anti-Israel views. The senators highlighted that since the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack in Israel, which killed over 1,200 people, incidents of harassment and violence against Jewish students have risen on college campuses. They accused the Department of Education of funneling taxpayer money to programs that may be contributing to this surge of antisemitism rather than combating it. According to the lawmakers, starting in 2020,...

Don’t look at the man behind the curtain. Leaders of the Resistance is a new Freedom Center Investigates series that highlights key figures and organizations in the anti-Trump movement and the secret forces behind them. Ahead of Election Day, women wearing red Handmaid’s Tale costumes, rainbow scarves, and toting warning signs about their private parts rallied in D.C. for Kamala and abortion. The crowd was so small that the media hardly bothered reporting on the rallies. The Women’s March had come a long way since it claimed to have brought out millions to protest Trump in 2017. And the long...

UW President Ana Mari Cauce’s home and car were vandalized Wednesday evening with messages reading “Free Palestine” and “Ana Marie – blood on your hands.” An Instagram post featuring a video of the vandalism included a caption stating that demonstrators aimed to send a message to the president ahead of Thursday’s Board of Regents meeting at UW Tacoma. The post attributed the action to an “anonymous submission from UW students/actioners.” The video showed protesters spraying red spray paint on the President’s front door and car. The phrase “Ana Mari is complicit in genocide” was spray painted onto the car door...

University of Southern California (USC) President Carol Folt announced that she would resign, effective July 1, 2025, making her the latest academic leader to depart following more than a year of antisemitic protests on campus.The Daily Trojan noted that Folt did not provide a specific reason for her resignation. However, the Jewish News Syndicate noted that Folt had been criticized for the way USC handled — or mishandled — the protests: "In June, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights opened an investigation into USC for potential violations of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. In...

Hundreds of illegal immigrants are protesting President-elect Donald Trump’s election win as he promises to execute immigration laws on day one of his second term. On Saturday, massive groups of illegal aliens took to the streets to protest Trump’s pending immigration policies, in which he has vowed to deport every last immigrant that was allowed to illegally enter the United States under the Biden-Harris Administration. The protestors marched through the streets of Manhattan and yelled “we are not leaving!” Others held a large banner that read "we won't back down," while chanting "he's not my president." This comes after data...

The first protest since the election took place today on Capitol Hill, but despite that the security officials at the White House and Vice President's residence decided to remove the riot fencing around those buildings. (Youtube blog) PenguinSix is an apolitical guy in a political town who likes to walk a lot. He has hiked over 17,000 miles (27,000kms) in the past six years and is still walking today. He is an American expat who spent the last decade in Hong Kong with his family and is now back in Washington DC, continuing his daily ritual of taking very long...

Tens of thousands of people are expected in Washington ahead of Inauguration Day in January to protest President-elect Donald Trump and policy priorities that they say will undermine the rights of women, immigrants, the LGBTQ+ community and racial and religious minorities. The demonstration, dubbed the “People’s March on Washington,” is scheduled for Jan. 18, two days before the inauguration. It is being organized by leading civil rights, racial justice and reproductive health organizations, including the Women’s March and Abortion Access Now, a coalition of organizations including the ACLU, Planned Parenthood and the National Women’s Law Center. Organizers estimate 50,000 people...

🚨#BREAKING: Massive Anti-Trump Protest is underway and have gathered in Chicago after Hours after President Elect Donald Trump's victory 📌#Chicago | #Illinois Currently Massive anti-Trump protesters, along with pro-Palestine activists and other demonstrators, have gathered in downtown Chicago, Illinois, to express their opposition to President-elect Donald Trump’s victory. The crowd, consisting of a diverse group of individuals, is marching through the streets, continuing their demonstrations hours after the election results were announced. Protesters are chanting slogans such as "Not my president," "Free Palestine," and "Fight for our freedom," while blocking major intersections and disrupting traffic. As the demonstration grows in...

Kamala Harris has been warned she runs the risk of losing the state of Pennsylvania and the election if she does not denounce anti-Israel activists who have appeared on the campaign trail for her. The incumbent Vice President is set to campaign in Pittsburgh on Election Eve as the race for the White House enters its final hours alongside the likes of Lady Gaga. Backlash has been brewing in the city after her campaign hosted speakers who have blamed Israel for being partly-responsible for the horrific October 7 attacks by Hamas terrorists. Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey and Allegheny County Executive...

UPDATE: - "You heard it here first… the shooter is a radical Muslim that shot a Jewish guy walking home from temple. The kicker is that the Muslim guy (shooter) illegally crossed the border into the United States in March 2023."

As the temperature dropped into the 50s in central Pennsylvania Saturday, things were heating up in the final push to the November 5 election. Thus was the case in State College as former President Donald Trump made the first of two possible stops at Penn State. His presence invited challenge from two grassroots organizations and a smattering of others on campus. Around 50 protesters with signs featuring progressive rhetoric marched up University Drive and wrapped around the Bryce Jordan Center onto Curtin Road, loudly decrying racism, fascism and the excesses of capitalism. “Dare to struggle, dare to win… Make racists...

Former security officials say increasingly violent rhetoric mimics that of 1960s students who pivoted to domestic terror. It’s going unhindered as students point to First Amendment NEW YORK — These days, Brian Cohen, the executive director of the Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life at Columbia University, spends more time than he would like explaining the meaning behind social media posts to campus administrators — from one featuring an infamous photograph of a man holding up his bloody hands during the Ramallah lynching in 2000, to others highlighting the inverted red triangle used by the Hamas terror group to paint...

It was all Greek to her. A dimwitted anti-Israel TikTokker filmed herself tearing down flags outside a New Jersey restaurant — not realizing they were Greek, rather than similarly-colored Israeli ones. “The time I mistakenly thought the flag for Greek was for Israel and took the restaurant’s flag down OMG,” the woman, who goes by “Ambamelia,” titled her video, which has gone viral with more than 3.2 million views on TikTok and millions more on X since being posted Tuesday. “Look at that s–t,” she says in the footage as she starts ripping down a string of Greek flags hung...

A recent rally in Dearborn, Michigan, featured late Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s infamous hand gesture and threat to American troops, echoing an infamous speech where he mocked U.S. forces and warned they would return home “horizontally” in coffins. Earlier this month, a rally titled “Stand with Lebanon” was held outside the Dearborn Police Department in Michigan. Among the signs carried by protesters, one prominently displayed the distinctive hand gesture of the late Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, accompanied by the misspelled words, “You will be return horizontaly [sic] The placard referenced a notorious speech Nasrallah gave in Lebanon, during which he...