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An Alabama woman has been indicted on federal charges after allegedly threatening President Donald Trump in a Facebook post ahead of his planned visit to the Alabama-Georgia football game. Megan Lorraine Utz, 36, of Courtland, faces charges of threatening the president and transmitting a threatening communication across state lines, according to the Justice Department. Utz allegedly responded to a Facebook post about the Oct. 10 game on Oct. 5, writing under the name “Kase Utz”: “He’s not allowed in my stadium! I’ll put a bullet through him if he dares,” according to an indictment obtained by WAFF. Trump ultimately canceled...

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has carefully curated a family narrative for the campaign trail that erases his terror group-linked birth mother for his white stepmom — even though he remains close to his “ummi,” The Post can reveal. Biological mom Fatten Elkomy, 66, a psychiatric nurse at New Horizons Community Support Services in Columbia, MO, was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and previously worked for the Islamic American Relief Agency — a designated terrorist organization — according to 2010 federal court documents naming her. While in Egypt in the 1970s, she was an activist with the Muslim Brotherhood —...

A busy portion of Broadway in downtown Oakland will be renamed in honor of the Black Panther Party. Last week, the Oakland City Council voted unanimously in favor of the change. On Saturday, local leaders will gather at 11:30 a.m. at the intersection of 15th Street and Broadway for a ribbon-cutting. The new name will take effect on Broadway between 14th and 17th streets. The change comes as the Black Panther Party prepares to celebrate 60 years. The anniversary event also includes a two-day conference, gala, community gathering, and multiple other events. You can find more details on the anniversary...

OAKLAND — To mark the 60th anniversary of when two Merritt College students, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, launched the Black Panther Party, party veterans, scholars and activists from around the country will gather for what’s been called a historic four-day conference and gala in downtown Oakland, Oct. 15-18.

An upmarket restaurant in Portland has faced a violent backlash after seating a group of white supremacists. Police were called twice to Clarklewis, an LGBTQ+-owned restaurant in the Central Eastside, on Sunday after protesters confronted the diners and restaurant staff. The restaurant said its staff had no idea about the group’s alleged political affiliations when they arrived for a private brunch.(snip) Rogers made clear that the restaurant does not support white nationalism and said staff would not knowingly host a group with those beliefs. Rogers said one female employee quit on the spot after the confrontation, while other staff members...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has stopped pretending his socialist vision is just a local experiment.On CNN International’s Amanpour, the Democratic Socialist was asked whether America is ready to elect people on the hard left — and whether the 2026 midterms will be a referendum not only on President Trump, but on the Democratic Socialists of America. “I think this will absolutely translate on a national level,” Mamdani said. Amanpour noted that other Democrats still believe national races reward moderates, and that local energy is one thing, but winning the country is another. Mamdani answered by recasting New York’s...

Democratic Michigan Senate hopeful Dr. Abdul El-Sayed danced around pleas from an emotional student Wednesday to condemn the theocratic government of Iran and stand with anti-regime protesters. During a “Students vs. Billionaires” town hall in Ann Arbor, Iman Dashti recounted how his family was oppressed by the Islamic Republic — citing the case of his uncle, who Dashti said suffered 50 lashes before being put to death; and his cousin, who was allegedly detained for not wearing a hijab properly. Dashti then confronted El-Sayed over leaked audio in which the candidate fretted about opining on the death of late Supreme...

ICE watchers across the country who watched federal agents shoot people in the streets and fought to drive ICE from their cities are turning their new skills against the next authoritarian threat from the Trump administration: election interference. Volunteers who showed up a few months ago asking, “Where do I buy a whistle?” are now trained and committed members of an “ICE Watch” movement, said Zach Mueller, whose anti-authoritarian group States at the Core started hosting trainings earlier this year. “They’re not in the normal cast of characters that have been showing up to rallies over the last several decades,”...

Democrats are so desperate to see President Trump out of office that a majority would be happy to see him overthrown in a military coup or die in his sleep, a jaw-dropping new poll has found. Nearly six in 10 (59%) of Democratic respondents said they would feel “very positive” or “somewhat positive” if they learned a junta had removed Trump and seized control of the American government, while 55% said they would feel the same if the president passed away peacefully, according to the survey from the Center for Strategic Politics. An even higher percentage said they would be...

Nine protesters blocked access to Elbit Systems’ factory in Staffordshire by attaching themselves to five ‘lock-ons’ to launch the direct-action group ‘Silence Elbit Drones’. Al Jazeera spoke with spokesperson Audrey Corno, who said the group aims to disrupt Elbit’s operations over its supply of military equipment to Israel.

A group of students at San Pablo, California’s Contra Costa College engaged in a “decapitation” of a Donald Trump piñata, which appeared to be celebrated by one of the school’s counselors. According to Fox News, the X account Libs of TikTok posted video of a person in a blindfold approaching a Trump figurine — donned in a “blue suit, red baseball cap and holding a sign that reads ‘F— ICE'” — and then beheading it. The event reportedly occurred “a few months ago,” but the video surfaced “just last week.” It “appear[ed] to be overseen” by Lorena Gonzalez, currently listed...

The Democratic nominee for Senate in Arkansas, Hallie Shoffner, raised money in the summer of 2020 for a "racial and social justice" bail fund founded by a left-wing activist who was later sentenced to 17 months in prison for her role in a series of firebombing attacks on police cars in Little Rock. Shoffner and the family farming company she ran at the time, SFR Seed, donated flowers to a jewelry store in Little Rock, Bella Vita Jewelry, that in turn sold bouquets to raise money for the Little Rock Freedom Fund. The store's owner posed with Shoffner as she...

PHOENIX — Vandals have defaced the statue honoring Charlie Kirk. Red paint was sprayed across parts of the statue standing outside Turning Point headquarters in Phoenix. The piece of art was unveiled a year after the activist was assassinated while he was talking to college students in Utah. No information on when the statue was vandalized or who the possible suspects are.

The University of Tennessee-Knoxville is condemning messages that celebrate political violence after mysterious "Kirkaversery" [sic] flyers advertised a gathering apparently marking one year since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, declaring, "WE WILL CELEBRATE THE FIRST NEW YEAR AK (AFTER KIRK)." The flyers, images of which circulated widely on social media and by Libs of TikTok, advertise an 8 p.m. Sept. 10 gathering on the HSS Lawn at UT Knoxville. But the university told Fox News Digital that it is not sponsoring an event related to Kirk’s assassination and that no organization has registered to use the location for such a gathering. A...

This is one of thr most disturbing collection of videos you can watch Liberals are planning on throwing celebrations for Charlie Kirk’s murder anniversary - One is baking a Charlie Kirk murder cake with guns and blood - Charlie Kirk murder celebration BBQs are being planned - Multiple Charlie Kirk murder public parties - A salon is giving discounted neck tattoos to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot in the neck - Leaked audio of an Antifa group planning to sabotage the Utah Valley University memorial event, the audio says they’re ready to commit VIOLENCE - and more These people live...

The home of Australian pastor Andrew Sedra was reportedly attacked by multiple LGBT activists, who issued threats against the family members, including their newborn son. The pastor's X account posted security footage of the attackers, saying they cut off power to the home and tried to gain entry. "On Thursday night, 4 left-wing activists including 2 hooded individuals came to our home after our address was leaked publicly online," the post said. "They threatened to kill us and destroy us, they cut out the electricity from our home and attempted to break in. They knew our whole family by name,...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) are calling for a ban on artificial superintelligence and a broader pause on the development of advanced models following a string of AI-powered cyberattacks. The pair are preparing to introduce a bill that would ban the development and deployment of superintelligence and pause development of cutting-edge AI models until an agency is created to monitor their capabilities and identify potential risks. Sanders and Casar, the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, have positioned themselves as leading voices on the left warning of the potential for mass job loss and economic disruption...

The left-wing Guardian newspaper documented how “pro-choice militants” conducted terroristic attempts at intimidation from New York and North Carolina to Wisconsin, Texas and Washington state in recent years. “The methods have been extreme,” the report noted; “vandals have thrown Molotov cocktails, committed arson, damaged property and made threats.” Jane’s Revenge issued a statement demanding “anti-choice establishments” shut down in 30 days or face further violence. That was in 2022 — yet the group continued operating, until its website went dark just days ago thanks to President Donald Trump’s crackdown on terrorist infrastructure. Jane’s Revenge and various other radical organizations, including...

Fatten Elkomy and brother worked for Islamic American Relief Agency that 'provided hundreds of thousands of dollars to Bin Laden in 1999' ============================================================= ============================================================= Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed last month highlighted how his mother “taught me so much about both how to stand with others, and how to stand alone.” In a video posted to TikTok, the former Wayne County health official chatted on a porch swing with Jacqueline El-Sayed, a highly accomplished engineer from Gratiot County, about how his stepmother helped shape his views on life as she helped raise the progressive firebrand in Bloomfield Hills, an...

The leadership of the “Student Intifada,” the National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP), has escalated its war against normalcy and decency in academia. Its incrementalist approach to taking over every campus (as it has haughtily claimed is inevitable) began with targeting students, moved on to targeting faculty, and has now put university presidents and trustees in its cross hairs. The following cases represent only a subset of their recent activities. Cornell University President Targeted The post-October 7 attacks against Jewish students are well-known and widely-documented. So too are efforts to isolate and stigmatize Jewish and Zionist faculty members. Only...