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Britain now arrests people for speech at industrial scale. At least 62,199 people were arrested for “communications offences” between 2021 and 2025 — roughly 34 a day. Campaign group Big Brother Watch compiled the figures from Freedom of Information replies covering 38 of 45 territorial forces. Seven forces refused or failed to supply full data. If those missing forces tracked the national average, the real total would sit closer to 73,000. One arrest for every 940 people in the country.

Was there a threat of political violence against Ohio Democrat gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton over the Labor Day weekend? Or was it much ado about nothing? Acton was speaking to Democrats in a tent in Mahoning County when a man moving toward Acton caused several senior citizens to fall down.Acton’s campaign put out a statement “praying for the recovery of those injured” and argued “This kind of violence has no place in Ohio.” What was initially hyped as a serious threat by many liberal sources was later downgraded to just a man "moving forward." The local district attorney has downgraded...

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Grindr, the world's largest LGBTQ+ dating app, reportedly went down as the Republican National Convention's midterm event began on Wednesday. According to Downdetector, the app reported several outages just as the conservative event kicked off at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas ahead of the speech of Donald Trump The highest number of reported outages appeared to occur in and around the Dallas area. "Man, I should become a Republican," joked one person on X. "Well, they say it's a big tent," posted another person. It comes after Trump's furious 5-word outburst at his pilot before storming off was...

President Trump will send $500 rebate checks to thousands of Americans who bought health insurance on Affordable Care Act exchanges, claiming they were overcharged. “Our administration is doing the right thing and giving the money back to the people who were wrongly ripped off. Nearly 1 million hardworking Americans in 30 states will soon be getting refunds of $500 each, with a check sent to their home address,” the president said in a video announcement posted on White House social media accounts Thursday morning promoting his ‘Great Healthcare Plan.” Trump said the payments would be dispatched “in just a few...

Former secretary of state Antony Blinken denied a report from Haaretz on Wednesday that he had refused an offer to secure the immediate release of Israeli hostages taken by Hamas on Oct. 7. The Israeli outlet claimed in an article published on Tuesday that Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani had told Blinken just hours after the attack began that Hamas was willing to release all of the "civilian" hostages immediately and that Blinken rebuffed the offer, preferring to wait until he could travel to Israel days later. "For the record, this is false," Blinken wrote in...

[Catholic Caucus] Leo XIV’s Appointed President of the ‘Academy for Life’ Opens the Door to Euthanasia Archbishop Renzo Pegoraro, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life, claims that Catholics could morally assent to a law permitting assisted suicide in Italy.Speaking to the Italian bishops’ newspaper Avvenire.it on September 6, he said: “From the Catholic side, it is a matter of assessing whether we will be faced with an ‘imperfect law’, to which it would nevertheless be moral to give one’s assent, in view of the fact that more permissive and libertarian laws could otherwise quickly be approved in Parliament, laws...

[Catholic Caucus] Leo XIV Appoints Communist Chinese Bishop: "Love the Party!" Today, the Vatican announced that Leo XIV approved Archbishop Andrea Ding Yang, 44, of Chongqing, China, on 28 July and that he was consecrated a bishop today.Andrea Ding Yang, born in Chongqing in 1981, was ordained a priest in 2007 after studying at the Beijing state seminary.He was chosen unilateral by the Chinese state religion on 15 April. ChinaCatholic.cn states that he “was elected bishop-designate” on that date.Beijing’s ApparatchikHe served as a formator at the National Seminary in Beijing from 2012–14, and was allowed to study at the Pontifical...

James McMaster, 94 years old, lost about $1.3 million in the collapse of First Liberty Building & Loan, the Georgia investment firm built by a family of Republican power brokers. He recently got a call to contribute to a GOP campaign. “I said, ‘OK, let me tell you. Here’s where I’m at,’” McMaster said. “‘When you get all the politicians that have received funds from them and get them to return them, then maybe we can talk.’” The saga of First Liberty and the Frost family that ran it—and were long among the Georgia GOP’s most influential names—haunts the midterms....

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Leo approves his seventh bishop for Chinese Communist ‘Catholic’ church The Vatican reported that the new bishop of Datong was appointed ‘under the framework of the Provisional Agreement between the Holy See and the People’s Republic of China.’A bishop of Datong was consecrated in China today with the approval of Pope Leo XIV under the controversial Vatican-China deal. Pope Leo XIV appointed Paolo Liu Honggang Bishop of Datong in Shanxi, China, on August 10, “following the approval of his candidacy under the framework of the Provisional Agreement between the Holy See and the People’s Republic of China,”...

The Biden administration investigated traditional Catholic groups as if they were terrorists The United States Department of Justice has this week released the most damning report to date on the FBI’s anti-Catholic memo from Richmond. The document, prepared by the Weaponization Working Group created by the Trump Administration, confirms with more than 1,800 pages of internal records what many Catholics denounced from the very first day and what the Biden Administration tried to downplay: the FBI treated traditional Catholic faith as a suspicious ideology, spied on innocent priests, and, when the scandal came to light, protected, comforted, and even rewarded...

The FBI previously refused to hire job applicants if they admitted to hiring sex workers or stealing from an employer — or engaging in acts of bestiality. Today, those acts, which are mostly illegal across the country, are no longer automatic deal breakers for applicants to the nation's top law enforcement agency. In June, the FBI quietly lowered some of the standards it uses when it conducts background checks on would-be federal agents and other personnel. According to multiple sources briefed on the matter, the FBI did so to facilitate hiring in some cases, even if candidates acknowledged they engaged...

Jack Poso 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec BREAKING: PRESIDENT TRUMP MAY HAVE HIS TRAVEL PROHIBITED WHILE AWAITING TRIAL, BE BLOCKED FROM CAMPAIGNING Real America's Voice (RAV) @RealAmVoice HUMAN EVENTS WITH JACK POSOBIEC EP. 492 1:17 PM · Jun 9, 2023 ·

Left-wing extremists and Antifa militants stormed the Precious Blood Catholic Church in Los Angeles on Saturday, August 23, where right-wing activist and free speech advocate Eoin Richard was hosting a peaceful free speech, anti-Islam rally. The confrontation unfolded after Connolly, known publicly as Eoin Richard, organized a “Take Back LA” free-speech rally criticizing Islam. Connolly originally advertised the August 23 demonstration outside the Islamic Center of Southern California on Vermont Avenue. A pre-event advisory circulated by opponents described the gathering as a “far-right” rally and accused its organizers of targeting the Muslim community. As counter-protesters gathered outside the Islamic center,...

On Wednesday, CNN's Erin Burnett enthusiastically interviewed the brother of Natalie Harp, Preston Harp, who proceeded to slime both her and President Donald Trump. Of course, no pushback by Burnett as to what motivated him to attack his sister and Trump. Could it be because she and the CNN producers knew very well something quite toxic about him that would tend to cause much of their audience to dismiss his criticisms?The Washington Post on Saturday revealed the important background of Preston Harp that CNN oh so very conveniently declined to reveal to their audience in a story by Terrence McCoy,...

As I wrote at the time, Pres. Trump made a good deal in June, got the oil flowing, and left the Iranians with no leverage and few benefits. So the IRGC reneged on it in a few weeks and started shooting. Now we learn the U.S. Navy has set up a stealth convoy system for Hormuz that is taking 9-15 million barrels a day out of the Gulf, according to Energy Sec. Chris Wright. When you combine that with the 7-8 million barrels from the Hormuz bypass pipes, we are getting back to the pre-war normal of 20 million barrels...

If you needed another reminder that the state of California needs help, this should do the trick. Eileen Wang, the mayor of the city of Arcadia, has just been charged with acting as a foreign agent for China. She was posting information on a supposed news website that was basically regime-approved propaganda from the Chinese Communist Party. How many more sleepers like Wang are out there? It’s disturbing to consider that possibility, isn’t it? From ABC News: California mayor charged with acting as illegal agent for China Eileen Wang, the mayor of Arcadia, California, has been charged with acting as...

Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed is leading Republican nominee Mike Rogers in Michigan’s closely watched open Senate race, according to a new poll, showing signs that the progressive candidate is consolidating support from Democrats after a bitter primary. El-Sayed leads with 46 percent support to Rogers’s 39 percent among likely voters, according to a Susquehanna Polling & Research survey released Tuesday. Nine percent of voters were undecided while 4 percent favored another candidate in the battleground state, which President Trump flipped in 2024 by 1 percentage point. The poll is an encouraging sign for El-Sayed, who emerged as his party’s nominee...

We see what you did there, Mr. Todd C. Frankel. The reporter for the Washington Post, whose motto is "Democracy Dies In The Darkness," went absurdly opaque on Monday as to shedding light as to what type of "modern" cars have gone incendiary in "They were told to park outside. Then their cars burst into flames." The subtitle does narrow it down to "modern" cars without any more specificity: "Modern vehicles don’t need to be moving — or even turned on — to catch fire. That’s fueling lots of safety recalls and tough choices." The first couple of paragraphs come...

According to US Energy Secretary Chris Wright, an average of 9 million barrels of oil are passing through Hormuz daily, while between 5 million to 7 million barrels are reaching consumers through “newly upgraded pipelines and export facilities.” Many ships moving covertly through Hormuz with US Navy assistance, going uncounted by analysts who rely solely on open-source data. It also ignores the spectacular transformation of the oil export route that’s currently underway. The United Arab Emirates is fast-tracking a new west-east pipeline to Fujairah, which will allow exports to bypass Hormuz at minimal cost lies outside the strait. The Abu...