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A shadowy for-profit company and its nonprofit counterpart provide free services to at least 40 far-left prosecutor offices, raising questions about whether it’s working on behalf of taxpayers or of donors who have essentially bought government. The Wren Collective is a shadowy group that emerged from a Cold War-era initiative aimed at promoting Soviet films in the United States. Its current iteration — funded by a former Enron executive and host of other leftist megadonors — claims that America’s “system of policing and mass incarceration is deeply flawed and intractably racist.” The group has intervened on specific criminal cases, written...

During the recent gathering of Democrat Party bosses in Minneapolis, there was no shortage of deranged rhetoric, usually about the dark doings of the “dictator” Trump. But the most delusional diatribe was delivered by DNC Chair Ken Martin, who unintentionally captured why Democrats have been unable to recover from their drubbing last November – and why their prospects aren’t much better moving forward. Martin opened the first session of the three-day meeting with a predictably dull speech full of progressive platitudes and mangled metaphors that ended with this bizarre call to arms: “The Democratic Party has to stop trying to...

“Despicable.” That’s how one Columbine survivor framed some of the anti-prayer rhetoric coming from politicians and public figures after the horrific shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis. Evan Todd, who was shot and injured during the Columbine High School shooting in 1999, said many of those speaking ill of thoughts and prayers fail to understand the importance of invocations. “It’s heartbreaking,” Todd said in response to those decrying thoughts and prayers. “I think [it’s] despicable. I think it’s revealing of the people who are doing it.” Todd said his own story is evidence of just how powerful prayer can...

The voting process at the Minneapolis Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party convention in July was such a mess that state DFL leadership investigated and nullified the local party’s endorsements. Now the Minneapolis DFL wants the state DFL to restore the results it nullified and give the endorsement back to DFL candidate Omar Fateh, a member of the Democrat Socialists of America (DSA), KSTP Television reports.Fateh is challenging incumbent DFL Mayor Jacob Frey, who came in second in the shady Minneapolis endorsement convention.The Federalist previously reported that the Minnesota DFL’s Constitution, Bylaws and Rules Committee (CBRC) investigated the local convention and found the...

To call last week’s mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a “tragedy” would ignore the culpability of the shooter, Robert Westman—a man who identified as “Robin,” a woman. Victor Davis Hanson explains why this was not simply a tragedy, but an act of evil, and why the media and political leaders refuse to have an honest discussion about the factors behind it on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” “They won't have any discussion over transgenderism. This falls in the broader category of exempt DEI woke topics, but I think we should talk...

When the shield protecting a city’s children begins to crack, the first signs appear not in statistics or policy papers, but in stained glass windows shattered by gunfire. The fortress we build around our most vulnerable—our children at prayer, our elderly in worship—depends entirely on those sworn to hold the line. But what happens when that line has already broken? This isn’t fiction or dystopian fantasy. This week in Minneapolis, a gunman opened fire on children attending their first Mass of the school year at Annunciation Catholic School. Two young souls, ages 8 and 10, never made it home. Seventeen...

Rosie O’Donell is quite possibly MAGA’s biggest critic, but today she was forced to issue a grovelling public apology after falsely claiming the suspect in the Minnesota school shooting tragedy was MAGA.

Leftist actress Rosie O’Donnell has falsely claimed the anti-Catholic trans Minneapolis school shooter “was a Republican MAGA person” amongst other falsehoods regarding the motivation of the murderer and the political inspirations she alleged drove him. O’Donnell, still in self-imposed exile from the United States, who has a daughter who identifies as they/them, made her claims in a post on social media network TikTok. She alleged the shooter was , “A white guy, Republican, MAGA person… whaddya’ know… white supremacist.” She further alleged, “The NRA is a terrorist organization. And they have been for many years […] the system is broken....

The mother of transgender Minneapolis mass shooter Robin Westman once appeared in a movie made by her daughter — who she gave up for adoption as a child, a report revealed. Mary Grace Westman, 67, starred in the short film “Mary Meets Grace,” written and directed by her biological daughter, Faryl Amadeus, 44, who was adopted as a child from Kentucky, the Daily Mail reported. Faryl Amadeus, 44, is the filmmaker daughter of Mary Grace Westman, the mother of transgender mass shooter Robin Westman.In 2005, Amadeus traveled to Minnesota to meet her ‘five half-siblings,’ which would include a then 3-year-old...

The mother of Minneapolis shooter Robin Westman appeared in a movie about her reunion with a daughter she put up for adoption as a child, the Daily Mail can reveal.Years after giving up her baby, Mary Grace Westman, now 67, went on to became a devout Catholic and anti-abortion activist who once held a crucifix in protest outside a Planned Parenthood clinic.Mary Grace has so far refused to cooperate with police seeking information about her son.She flew to Minnesota on Wednesday afternoon, within hours of the shocking attack at the Church of the Annunciation Catholic School that left two children...

The debate is not just about the power of prayer. In the United States — with both a large religious population and the most mass shootings in the world — it’s also a polarized debate about gun control. In other words, the episode set off rhetorical skirmishes along two of the biggest dividing lines in America’s cultural and political wars: God and guns. (That doesn’t even count the scrutiny over the motives and gender identity of the shooter, who died by suicide after the attack.) Frey tapped into the principle of “Tikkun Olam,” in his Jewish faith, which speaks about...

The gunman who slaughtered two children and injured 18 other people at a Minneapolis Catholic school and church had recently broken up with his romantic partner — and previously had a “medical mental health” call made to his home when he was a teen, according to police records. The father of Robin Westman, 23, told investigators that the shooter had “broke up with a significant and/or romantic partner” and had been staying with a friend in St. Louis Park, Fox9 reported. Police were also made aware of a 2018 welfare check at the home of Westman’s mother, with the incident...

Deranged Minneapolis gunman Robin Westman blamed his mother for his decision to kill “so many people” at a Catholic school after she warned him that he would regret transitioning to female — while in the next line discouraging people from letting their kids transition. In his disturbed manifesto, Westman, 23, claimed to be anxious about a visit from his mother in an entry dated July 1, where he recalled her concerns about him transitioning. “Your words, mother, made me stay in my discomfort unable to ask for help to avoid admitting defeat. You were right mama, but the way you...

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey paused before George Floyd's casket at the memorial. He dropped to one knee and began sobbing

This week, another transgender shoot-up of a Christian school provides more chilling evidence that the culture war is a spiritual war. The Minneapolis shooter’s actions and Democrats’ interpretation of them both demonstrate this. The New York Post published excerpts of the shooter’s journal posted on YouTube that include a drawing of him communing with a Satanic figure in a mirror. As I’ve written before, Satan-worshippers can be startlingly more direct than many Christians about the connections between their spiritual and political beliefs.

We’ve seen the demonic advance throughout our culture over the past decade and more.On Wednesday morning, the students at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis were attending a Mass in the church next to the school when, suddenly, the stained-glass windows were shattered by a hail of gunfire.The fusillade didn’t stop immediately. Witnesses said that between 50 and 100 bullets were pumped into the church, injuring at least 15 of the students badly enough to send them to the hospital and killing an 8-year-old and a 10-year-old.The shooter, whose indiscriminate hosing-down of that place of worship was preceded by a...

WASHINGTON — White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt condemned her predecessor Jen Psaki on Thursday for comments dismissing prayer in the wake of a mass shooting at a Roman Catholic school in Minnesota that left two children dead. "I saw the comments of my predecessor, Ms. Psaki, and frankly, I think they're incredibly insensitive and disrespectful to the tens of millions of Americans of faith across this country who believe in the power of prayer," Leavitt said during a press briefing at the White House. With class and calm, Karoline Leavitt just absolutely wrecked Jen Psaki for mocking the power...

Evil defeated tolerance again yesterday, in George Floyd’s Minneapolis.Just days after the Democratic National Committee held its “Summer Camp” in the Minneapple, with a speaker remarking that most Americans don’t care about migrant crime or carjackings, a “trans” person shot and killed two children and injured 17 other people at a Catholic school in the city. 23-year-old Robert Westman, who changed his name to “Robin” Westman six years ago because he identified as a female, eventually turned a gun on himself after the extended bout of senseless carnage.Westman (wonder why he didn’t change his last name, too) reportedly had a...

— he aimed his wrath at God by trying to stop people with his bullets from praying to God. Now is a time for us to come together and join hands in prayer, for the children who were killed, their loved ones, and those who survived this horrific shooting.

President Donald Trump threw his support behind Fox News host Trey Gowdy — hours after he was brutally rebuked by MAGA. Gowdy suggested on air Wednesday that it is time to enact stricter gun laws, after two children were killed and 17 others were injured when a shooter opened fire through the windows of Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Nearly 200 children were celebrating Mass during the first week of school. Keep Watching 5 Scenic & Rugged - Riding Eb’s Canyon - ATV Utah AdventureScenic & Rugged - Riding Eb’s Canyon - ATV Utah Adventure "We’re going to have...