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Author: HP McLovincraft
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Saying there are 2 sexes is ‘very transphobic,’ Oregon State instructor says
A class instructor reported an Oregon State University student to the bias response team after he argued there are only two sexes in a final course project.
The incident report, obtained by The College Fix through a public records request, reveals that an instructor (or teaching assistant) flagged the male undergraduate student for holding views critical of gender theory.
The incident was among 20 bias reports filed at Oregon State at the start of the Fall 2025 semester.
While specific details, dates, and course titles were heavily redacted by university public records office the remaining narrative makes it clear that the student’s offense stemmed from disputing that gender is on a spectrum.
According to the report, the student was enrolled in an eight-week summer Canvas course within the university’s College of Education. As part of the course requirements, students were tasked with submitting an “action project” designed to identify a local issue, outline potential collaborators, project a timeline, and take an initial step toward a solution.
Despite acknowledging that the student had “consistently done well in the course, and not struggled with any of the other social justice content,” the instructor initiated formal administrative intervention over the final project, writing that the submission contained “extensive examples of transphobia.”
“Many of the claims he makes in his paper, and the sources he uses, are very transphobic,” the instructor wrote in the report, which categorized the perceived motive as involving “Gender identity, Gender expression, [and] Sex.”
Poland’s Would-Be Globalist Coup
While Poland’s conservative president, Karol Nawrocki, was flying to Senegal, police dispatched by Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s justice minister took control of the grounds of the country’s highest constitutional court. Tusk, a pro-EU liberal and former president of the European Council, governs with a coalition that includes Poland’s left-wing parties.
Police locked out the court’s chief judge, Bogdan Święczkowski, while a judge allied with Tusk declared herself in charge. Nawrocki turned his plane around, returned to Warsaw, and denounced the operation as a forcible takeover of a constitutional body. Poland’s conservatives are calling it a coup, accusing the ruling coalition of using the justice ministry and police to seize control of the court that can strike down its laws.
Shortly after 6 p.m. on Friday, orders signed by Judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska appeared on the court’s website. They suspended the chief judge and his deputy for one month and named Korwin-Piotrowska acting head of the court, on the grounds that she has the longest judicial career of any sitting judge.
Korwin-Piotrowska heads Themis, a judges’ association that challenged the previous conservative government over her removal from office. That government’s justice minister, Zbigniew Ziobro, removed her as vice president of the regional court in Opole in 2017. Tusk’s justice ministry appointed her president of the same court in October 2024, and his parliamentary majority elected her to the constitutional court in March 2026.
Polish law requires incoming constitutional court judges to take their oath before the president, but she took hers at a ceremony in parliament. Nawrocki has never accepted that oath, and neither he nor the court’s leadership recognizes her as a judge.
Police said they acted on letters from Justice Minister Waldemar Żurek and Korwin-Piotrowska. Żurek, who also serves as Poland’s chief prosecutor, is a former judge and was a prominent critic of the previous conservative government’s judicial reforms. After taking office in 2025, he removed 46 court presidents and vice presidents.
In January, Poland’s Supreme Court ruled that he had acted unlawfully in dismissing three judicial officials. Korwin-Piotrowska’s letter warned of possible threats to the lives and health of judges and staff. Officers in riot gear secured the grounds inside the court’s fence and prevented the chief judge from entering. Police said they did not enter the building.
DOJ Uncovers $29M More In Minnesota Benefits Fraud, Calls State ‘Epicenter For Fraud In America’
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it identified roughly $29.1 million in government benefits fraud in Minnesota over a one-month period.
Between Sept. 30 and Oct. 30, the DOJ’s National Fraud Enforcement Division and the District of Minnesota charged, convicted, or sentenced 13 individuals for proven or alleged schemes that caused nearly $83 million in intended losses to the federal government.
The DOJ said in an Oct. 30 statement that it uncovered $29.1 million in fraud in newly charged cases, which is part of the total $83 million.
The targeted benefits programs include Minnesota’s Medicaid program, the Federal Child Nutrition Program, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. Some are accused of engaging in bribery as part of carrying out their schemes.
In one case, Shaakir Mohamud Ibrahim, 54, of Pelican Rapids, Minnesota, is facing wire fraud and money laundering charges for being part of a scheme to defraud the Federal Child Nutrition Program through the nonprofit Feeding Our Future.
Ibrahim and his co-conspirators are alleged to have falsely claimed to be serving thousands of meals to children every day for four months. The department alleged he used this fake meal distribution to collect more than $1.1 million in reimbursements through the nonprofit.
In another case, the DOJ said it charged Feisal Mohamed Elmi, 46, of New Brighton, Minnesota, with 11 counts related to health care fraud in an $8.2 million scheme that targeted the state’s Medicaid program.
Havana Syndrome hits the homefront: Senior defense officials hospitalized
At least six new suspected Havana syndrome cases are being treated at Walter Reed as reports of mysterious neurological incidents involving U.S. government personnel emerge in the Washington, D.C. area.
The patients are receiving treatment for confirmed or suspected brain injuries at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, raising concerns about potential directed-energy attacks on American soil, according to NewsNation. The cases follow reports of suspected incidents involving U.S. government personnel in the area around the nation’s capital — although investigators have not publicly established the cause of the injuries or identified a responsible party.
These cases occur at a time when there is renewed conversation regarding Havana Syndrome and government transparency regarding the manner.
Walter Reed Hospital did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
Havana syndrome typically impacts diplomats and intelligence officers operating overseas. Symptoms include tinnitus, blurred vision, dizziness, and vertigo — and they usually follow a loud noise and intense pain in the ears and head,” per the Government Accountability Office.
However, the new suspected cases are in government workers based out of Washington, D.C., with some being senior members in the defense community. Some of the victims were involved in direct-energy technology research, investigative journalist Catherine Herridge reported on NewsNation.
Prior to the symptoms, many of these victims reported suspicious vehicles operating nearby, following a sudden shock or disorientation. Others claimed that their pets sensed something was amiss before they did.
“I’ve had people tell me that they’ve been walking their dogs and the first instant they realize that something is happening is that the dog reacts,” Herridge said. “I anticipate that we probably will be learning more before the end of the year about ultimately the government findings.”
The U.S. is investigating whether or not a foreign entity was involved, NewsNation reported.
Radiant Wins First-Ever DOE OK For Full-Power Microreactor As Nuclear Stocks Crash To Multi-Year Lows
For the first time ever, Washington has signed off on a commercial nuclear microreactor running at full power. On Wall Street, nobody seems to care.
On Thursday, the Department of Energy approved the Documented Safety Analysis (DSA) for LA-based Radiant’s Kaleidos, a 1-megawatt, truck-transportable reactor that is now sitting inside the DOME test bed at Idaho National Laboratory. According to the company, it is the only microreactor design to secure DOE safety approval covering operation at power, as opposed to the zero-power criticality tests that every other entrant in the DOE pilot program has run so far.
And yet the stocks most levered to the small modular reactor story are trading like the industry is going out of business: Oklo (OKLO) closed Friday at $25.25, down 86% from its October 2025 peak and at its lowest since April 2025, while NuScale (SMR) is down 89% and sitting at a price last seen in April 2024.
Regular readers know we have been tracking the microreactor buildout since well before it was a meme (and long before it stopped being one), so let’s take a closer look at what Radiant actually got, where the rest of the pack stands, and why the market has decided none of it matters, at least for now.
What Radiant Actually Won
The DSA approval is the step that comes after DOE signed off on Radiant’s preliminary safety analysis back in February. With it in hand, Radiant moves into DOE’s Readiness Review, which will check whether the reactor and the crew operating it are ready to go nuclear. Once that is done, Radiant fuels Kaleidos and kicks off a five-phase test campaign at the National Reactor Innovation Center’s DOME facility.
The campaign goes from first criticality through progressively higher power, and ends with at least 150 hours of continuous full-power operation with no operator intervention. Radiant also plans to run the same unit for 60 effective full-power days over several months, using essentially the same design and custom fuel that customers will get. DOE’s acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Reactors Chimi Zacot called it “another important step forward in President Trump’s vision for an American nuclear renaissance.”
Which, to be fair, is a meaningful upgrade from what we have seen so far. As we covered in “The Rebirth Of America’s Nuclear Industry” (Jun 5) and then in “Four By The Fourth“, Antares, Valar Atomics, Deployable Energy and Aalo all hit criticality at INL ahead of Trump’s July 4 deadline, and Oklo’s Groves test reactor in Texas followed on August 5. But those were zero-power demonstrations: proof the physics works, with nothing plugged into the other end. Kaleidos is being cleared to actually make power, for weeks at a time.
Alex Padilla Set Up California with Dominion Voting Machines While Secretary of State, Now Senator Padilla Fights to Prevent Them from Being Examined
Forty of California’s 58 counties were using the same Dominion central vote-counting system by 2020. That number belongs at the center of every conversation about Alex Padilla’s defense of California elections.
Padilla ran the state office that certified voting equipment and administered the money helping counties replace it. His decisions helped shape what counties could buy with public assistance. Now he is urging the Justice Department to drop voter-roll lawsuits and demanding limits on seizures of election materials. He tells California election officials, “We have your back.”
What, exactly, is Alex Padilla protecting? His own record is a good place to start.
I began following that record in November 2020, when I asked Sacramento County’s voter registration office why it had chosen Dominion. The answer sent me looking for contracts: I was told there had been two bids, but Dominion was the only system certified to qualify for reimbursement of up to 75 percent. I recorded that explanation in a December email. Several people helped me collect county contracts in 2021.
Sacramento committed to Dominion in late 2017, with its contract taking effect in January 2018. The county’s own public explanation says Dominion was the only bidder that held the certification Sacramento required. The new state reimbursement program did not become law until June.
Dominion was selling the value of that approval. In a proposal included with San Luis Obispo County’s January 2018 contract, the company advertised its product as the “only system in California” certified to the standard cited in its pitch. Exclusivity was part of the sales presentation.
Dominion cleared the newer state standards in October 2017, 13 months before competing vendor Hart received its qualifying approval. When the new reimbursement program began, that newer certification became a condition for funding new systems. Sacramento’s experience shows how a county could receive competing bids and still have only one that met its requirements.
Counties’ cost concerns were already on the record. Legislative analysts reported doubts about affording the new vote-center model. The Legislature and Governor Jerry Brown created a roughly $134 million replacement program in 2018, initially requiring an equal county match. Padilla’s office administered it, and qualifying earlier purchases could be reimbursed.
Padilla also put his own authority behind the spending. His office said he earmarked $20 million in federal election funds to help counties buy new equipment as they moved to the vote-center model. In February 2019, he directed counties to retire older systems under a transition schedule with an extension process. Hart was already qualified by then.
That June, the Legislature and Governor Gavin Newsom added roughly $87 million. For counties such as Sacramento, the state’s share rose to 75 percent of qualifying costs within their allocations, including under the earlier funding allocation. Sacramento had already chosen Dominion. The revised rules made a larger subsidy available for eligible purchases already made.
Then there is the fine print. Sacramento’s Dominion software license bars the county from reverse engineering, decompiling or analyzing the software without the company’s prior written permission. The records of authorized testing and independent reviews deserve close attention.
Chinese Couriers Posed As Federal Agents To Scam Over $10 Million In Cash From Elderly Victims In 19 States
A federal judge in Pennsylvania sentenced three Chinese nationals this month for their roles in a scheme in which couriers went to elderly victims’ homes, posed as federal law enforcement officers and took cash they said would be protected, the Justice Department announced. More than 50 victims in 19 states lost more than $10 million.
The scheme began with a computer “pop-up” that falsely told victims their computers or bank accounts had been compromised, according to the release. Couriers then collected the cash in person, and the conspiracy moved it to other members in Los Angeles.
Chief U.S. District Judge Matthew W. Brann handed down the sentences in the Middle District of Pennsylvania over four days:
- Yankun Jiang, 26, of State College, received 84 months on October 22 and was ordered to pay $1,267,122 in restitution. Prosecutors say he started as a courier and became a key supervisor of the couriers, collecting stolen cash from the others, packaging it and coordinating delivery to Los Angeles.
- Lei Bao, 24, of New York, received 30 months on October 20 and was ordered to pay $377,591. She made several cash pick-ups and, on at least five occasions, carried suitcases of stolen cash from Philadelphia to Los Angeles.
- Hanlin Yang, 26, of State College, received 24 months on October 23 and was ordered to pay $400,800. He went to the homes of at least six victims to pick up cash.
Together the three got 138 months. The restitution orders total $2,045,513, about a fifth of the more than $10 million the conspiracy took, so most of the money is unaccounted for in the sentences. The release does not say how much was recovered.
The three were among eight Chinese nationals indicted in July 2025, when the office announced the charges. The Sun-Gazette reported that the eight had obtained student visas to attend college in the United States, and that the conspiracy ran from about August 2023 to February 22, 2024. The charge was conspiracy to commit wire fraud, which carries up to 20 years. The new release does not say what happened to the other five defendants or whether any of the three faces deportation.
Kansas Group Caught Buying Votes With Gift Cards – Trump Responds: “We Have Photographic Evidence”
President Trump announced on Sunday that in Kansas, Democrat groups have been caught bribing voters.
Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach announced on Saturday that he sent a cease and desist letter to Bluestem Kansas, a leftwing nonprofit, ordering them to “immediately stop offering voters incentives tied to voting in the November 3 general election.”
Kobach’s office said in a press release that they’ve obtained evidence from a voter who was offered a $5 gift card by a canvasser with the group.
“Under K.S.A. 25-2409, election bribery includes giving, offering or agreeing to give a benefit in exchange for voting at a public election. It is a severity level 7, nonperson felony. Federal law, 52 U.S.C. § 10307(c), separately makes it a crime to pay or offer to pay anyone for voting in an election that includes federal candidates,” the release notes.
Kobach said in a statement, “As attorney general and before that as secretary of state, I have prosecuted many cases of voter fraud in Kansas, including voting by non-citizens and double voting. But I never thought that a group in Kansas would be so brazen as to go door-to-door three days before a general election offering voters monetary incentives.”
“This sounds like Chicago in the 1950s, not Kansas in the 2020s. As long as I am attorney general, those who violate our election laws will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” he continued.
President Trump highlighted the election fraud on Truth Social on Sunday, revealing that Kobach has “photographic evidence” of the operative “going door to door in Wichita offering gift cards to people for votes.”
The Left’s Dumbed Down Tower Of Babel
Today’s cantankerous debate over “what is a woman” seems pointless. After all, it is easily settled scientifically—XX vs. XY chromosome—and human anatomy is unambiguous. Even toddlers can distinguish between males and females, so why argue? Hard to imagine a less contentious dispute yet, as the recent controversy in the WNBA (and elsewhere) illustrates, reaffirming the self-evident reality of sexual identity invites potentially career-ending condemnation, even death threats.
This “what is a woman” controversy also applies to sexual nomenclature. One medical-based compilation lists 72 distinct genders, including the adman gender, defined as “a gender that is indefinable or indomitable. People identifying with this gender refuse to be categorized in any gender identity.” Some prefer “birthing person” versus “mother” and “chest-feeding” rather than breastfeeding, while a 2021 Harvard Medical school journal article explained the serious harm from “misgendering”—using the wrong pronoun for an individual who now identifies as a different sex will make them feel invalidated and unseen while likely promoting mental illness.
What drives this “what is a woman” controversy? The answer is that the Left intends to undermine people’s own judgements about reality, and when people no longer trust their own beliefs about what is real, the Left will substitute their Marxist ideology. This battle over defining “woman” is part of this redefinition of reality. Recall those 2020 TV news reports of burning cars, periodic gunfire, and looters smashing storefronts characterized as “mostly peaceful demonstrations. ” For some viewers, looting and fire-bombing was now “political protest” and thus constitutionally protected free speech. As Groucho Marx once supposedly quipped, “Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?” The Left would like Americans to believe Groucho.
Getting people to deny reality is not as difficult as it might seem. In the famous Asch experiments the experimenters put an individual in a group and asked him to choose one of three lines of very different lengths that was closest in length to “a standard.” (One line was obviously identical to “the standard”).
Other than the subject in the study, all participants were in league with the experimenter and instructed to answer incorrectly, so the study was designed to see how many subjects followed the group’s undeniably incorrect judgment. Most resisted group pressure to offer the obviously wrong response but, about a third disregarded reality and concurred with the group’s blatantly erroneous judgement. When multiple opportunities for judgement were presented, about three-quarters occasionally defied reality. Solomon Asch, the experiment’s inventor, opined, “That intelligent, well-meaning young people are willing to call white black is a matter of concern.”
Furthermore, with coercion, lies can more easily become “truth.” In Orwell’s novel, 1984, the protagonist, Winston Smith, is tortured into believing that 2+2=5, just as he had already come to believe that War was Peace and Freedom was Slavery. To quote Orwell,
In the end, the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? [Emphasis added.]
Orwell stressed the power of the modern state to make lies into truth, and today this power largely resides in the contemporary universities where professors can insist that someone with an XY chromosome, a beard, male testosterones levels and male genitalia, can be “a woman” by just announcing it. This is only the first step.
The door now opens to a parade of “don’t believe your lying eyes” brainwashing nonsense. Gullibility is the new norm. If men can have babies, then it is easy to accept that “race” does not exist either other than superficially, such as skin color, and that women are identical to men in their mathematical ability. And, to recall 1984’s “War is Peace,” students learn that diversity is our strength, so importing 260,000 Somalis must, by definition, strengthen our nation despite all contrary evidence. Particularly Orwellian is the slogan “silence is violence” whereby students on perfectly peaceful campuses feel physically threatened and thus demand measures such as speech codes to protect them.
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