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Texas Republican Cites Little-Known Rule That Could Stop DSA Radicals From Being Sworn Into Congress

Texas Republican Rep. Keith Self believes he knows a way to keep DSA radicals from being sworn in to Congress, if they win their races. He should reach out to Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee, who is also looking into this.

Rep. Self believes these candidates cannot swear an oath to protect and defend the Constitution because their own platform describes their desire to destroy it.

How can they swear to protect something that they want to destroy?

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Little-known rule could stop socialists from being sworn into Congress

A little-known congressional maneuver could block members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) from being sworn in as members of the House of Representatives next year, even if they win their elections on Tuesday.

Members-elect must swear an oath to uphold the Constitution before they can become full members of the House. At the beginning of a new Congress, that oath is typically taken en masse by all 435 members, led by the House speaker.

But an argument circulating in conservative circles posits that any member-elect can challenge another member-elect’s right to be sworn in, provided they have compiled evidence that that person would not uphold their oath. That would then lead to House-wide deliberations followed by a vote on whether that member-elect has a right to be sworn in.

In the case of DSA members, one potential argument could be the group’s platform calling to scrap the current U.S. Constitution and draft a new one. Several DSA members and self-proclaimed democratic socialists have already won primaries across the country.

Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, suggested to Fox News Digital that he could invoke the maneuver.

“You cannot swear an oath to support and defend the Constitution while actively working to destroy it. The oath of office is not just words you say at a ceremony. It is a belief. It is an oath to our country and our fellow countrymen,” Self told Fox News Digital.

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Teachers Unions Spent More Than $930 Million On Political Activism & Lobbying Over Decade, Watchdog Finds

Two of America’s largest teachers unions spent more than $930 million on political activism, lobbying and progressive advocacy over the past decade, raising questions about how union dues are being used beyond traditional education priorities.

According to investigations by the North American Values Institute (NAVI), the National Education Association (NEA) spent at least $547 million on political activities and advocacy between fiscal years 2016 and 2025.

The spending included $458.9 million officially reported as political activity and lobbying, along with another $88.2 million directed toward progressive advocacy organizations.

The NEA, which represents more than 3 million members, also directed $116.9 million to its super PAC, the NEA Advocacy Fund, according to the watchdog.

NAVI identified another $80.2 million distributed among political intermediaries, including the State Engagement Fund, Strategic Victory Fund and State Victory Fund LLC. The organization warned that such arrangements make it difficult for dues-paying teachers to determine where their money ultimately goes.

The report also found that the NEA contributed $30.1 million to Education International, a global teachers federation that includes a Palestinian teachers union NAVI describes as affiliated with the Palestine Liberation Organization.

Meanwhile, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the nation’s second-largest teachers union, reported $383.2 million in political activity and lobbying expenditures during the same period.

According to NAVI, the AFT directed $123.35 million to outside political organizations and committees, including $45.7 million to four national partisan political committees.

The union also spent millions supporting ballot initiatives and judicial elections, including campaigns involving redistricting, taxation and Wisconsin Supreme Court races.

NAVI concluded that both unions have expanded their political operations well beyond traditional education issues, financing campaigns involving elections, tax policy and ideological advocacy.

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Trump cut their climate jobs. This secretive network found them new ones.

Last year was a tough time for anyone who studies climate change for a living. The United States, once respected around the world for its sprawling investments in science, suddenly reversed course. Shortly after President Donald Trump began his second term in office, his administration set to work slashing funds for America’s scientific institutions, scrapping billions of dollars in research grants and firing thousands of federal employees at agencies ranging from the Environmental Protection Agency to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

People were “in shock,” said Aparna Shrivastava, who was a senior climate official in the Biden administration. In private chats, she found herself in conversation with dozens of experts who had recently lost their jobs or funding, but who wanted to continue studying the rapidly warming planet or trying to prevent its worst effects. But the sudden cuts left many with few options.

All of them were trying to figure out, “What could we possibly do to address this?” Shrivastava said. Eventually, the conversations started happening in person. At a workshop convened by the Aspen Global Change Institute in Colorado last July, a group of more than 30 climate experts landed on a possible solution — one that would help fund new jobs for laid-off colleagues across the country. Today that idea is a full-fledged initiative, backed by tens of millions of dollars, with Shrivastava at the helm. They call themselves the Climate Reserve, and they’re just now taking their operation public.

Climate Reserve functions through a network of experts with a mission to identify the most critical climate work left in limbo and find a place where it can continue, even without federal support. Sometimes that means placing a climate researcher with an organization focused on the environment or climate; other times that means finding a new home for projects that the government cut from its budget, Shrivastava said.

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ICE Arrests Kenyan Illegal Alien Working at Washington’s Department of Children, Youth, and Families

ICE’s Seattle office arrested Stanley Robert Kungu Muthee, a Kenyan national who overstayed a tourist visa, during a traffic stop on Monday while he was wearing a jacket from his job at the Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families.

Bill Melugin reported that ICE confirmed Muthee entered the United States on February 6, 2019, on a B-2 tourist visa, never left, and remained in the country illegally.

During the arrest, he admitted he worked for the agency and was carrying a DCYF identification card.

ICE quoted Melugin’s scoop on X and stated that American taxpayer dollars should never pay the salaries of illegal aliens or be responsible for the safety and well-being of American children.

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Why is the research council paying $75,000 for AI agents that optimize EDI?

The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) lists a $75,000 contribution to a Montreal company, under an agreement starting April 13, 2026, to develop artificial intelligence agents for equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in scientific research, the federal grants disclosure shows. The recipient is Scikoop inc., and the contribution’s title is “ARP – Development of AI Agents to Optimize Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in Research.” Its stated purpose: “This project will help democratize EDI best practices within the Canadian scientific ecosystem.”

The money comes from the NRC’s Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP), which exists, in its own words, to help small firms “grow through innovation and stimulate wealth creation for Canada.” Scikoop says it helps health research teams with “data representativity and community engagement,” offers “representativeness AI tools” and sells “research certification.” Its about page lists “Making EDI Work for Science” as one of three things it does, names Adèle Salin-Cantegrel as executive director and shows “CNRC PARI,” the French name of IRAP, among its supporters. The ODISÉ research network lists Scikoop under “EDI-A research support,” with a “Scikoop Certification” for teams showing “responsible and inclusive research practices.”

The grant runs to March 31, 2027. On September 21, 2026, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research tabled a report recommending that the three federal granting agencies remove all references to EDI from the awarding of research funding and ban demographic quotas and proportionality targets; the report also backed EDI training for applicants, and does not address IRAP or this contribution.

At a February 23 meeting, members had asked whether EDI requirements affect perceptions of merit. The NRC, which reports to Parliament through the Minister of Industry, told the committee on March 12 that “funding decisions are merit-based and guided by clear eligibility and assessment criteria,” while reducing its grants and contributions under the expenditure review and adding funding to IRAP.

The record does not name who approved the contribution. NRC President Mitch Davies was appointed for five years from January 3, 2024, announced by Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne on December 20, 2023; IRAP is run by acting vice-president Laural Porth-Jones; the Minister of Industry is Mélanie Joly.

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US Journalist and Activist Detained After Israeli Settler Attack in West Bank

An American journalist and an activist who reportedly suffered a concussion from being beaten by armed Israeli settlers remained in detention Wednesday night, hours after Israeli police arrested them following the attack.

Adele Shoko, a Russian activist, reported that settlers had attacked her, Israeli-Russian activist Andrey Khrzhanovskiy, and US journalist Jasper Nathaniel late Wednesday in the Palestinian village of Umm al-Khair, in the Masafer Yatta area of the occupied West Bank.

“They beat us, threatened to shoot us, stole Andrey’s phone and my glasses, and pepper-sprayed Jasper,” Shoko said on the social media platform X.

According to Shoko, Khrzhanovskiy was denied medical treatment after losing consciousness “several times in front of police.” He and Nathaniel were taken to a police station, where they remained hours later.

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Trump Supporter Stabbed At Rally; Police Release New Details

A chaotic confrontation outside President Donald Trump’s Ohio rally sparked claims that a supporter had been stabbed, but local police are pushing back, revealing that the apparent weapon was actually an officer’s pocketknife caught in the man’s shirt.

The incident unfolded Wednesday evening outside the Shoemaker Center at Ohio University Chillicothe, where Trump was addressing supporters ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections.

Video circulating across social media appeared to show a knife protruding from a man’s back as frightened onlookers gathered around him and demanded answers.

But the Chillicothe Police Department says the alarming footage does not show a stabbing.

“There was no stabbing,” police Capt. Micheal Short told Newsweek.

According to authorities, an officer was attempting to separate two individuals involved in an altercation when the retention clip on the officer’s pocketknife became tangled in one person’s shirt.

The department confirmed that the knife never opened, contradicting widespread claims that someone had been attacked with a blade.

The explanation came after footage of the confrontation spread online, prompting accusations of political violence against Trump supporters.

Conservative activist Tyler Bowyer was among those who shared the video, initially suggesting that an anti-Trump individual had stabbed a rally attendee.

“Apparently some crazy anti-Trump person stabbed a Trump supporter outside his rally in Ohio,” Bowyer wrote.

“This is more of the insane political violence stoked by the Left. Pray for the person who was stabbed.”

However, police have not substantiated the allegation that an anti-Trump demonstrator stabbed anyone during the confrontation.

The viral recording captured the confusion surrounding the incident as the man questioned officers about what appeared to be lodged in his clothing.

“Is there a knife in my back?” he asked.

“I think I’ve been stabbed.”

An officer subsequently examined the man’s back with a flashlight while nearby spectators reacted to the unusual scene.

One woman exclaimed, “Oh my god” after noticing the knife handle protruding from the man’s black T-shirt.

Another bystander pointed toward someone nearby and demanded, “Arrest that m**********, he stabbed him.”

The confusion quickly escalated into a confrontation between spectators and officers as people demanded that someone be taken into custody.

The man eventually sat along the sidewalk while witnesses continued recording the scene.

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Hackers Dump Records on Over 41,000 DHS Employees, Including Undercover ICE Agents

A group calling itself the “Department of Peace” has released a massive trove of records on more than 41,000 Department of Homeland Security employees and contractors, including names, cellphone numbers, email addresses, office locations, membership in internal groups tied to undercover operations, wiretap programs, and surveillance tools.

The transparency nonprofit Distributed Denial of Secrets published the archive under the name “Icepick” on Wednesday after receiving the material from the “Department of Peace,” which claims it obtained the data from DHS’s Okta single sign-on login system.

The records were last updated on August 19, 2026, and cover DHS headquarters along with agencies including Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

WIRED, which reviewed the data dump, reported that the leak maps out organizational structure, reporting lines, facility locations, and permission groups for sensitive programs.

The report noted, “The Trump administration has prosecuted protesters for posting information about individual ICE officers and warned others for doing so. In June, 15 Minnesota residents were charged under laws related to stalking and threats of violence, which prosecutors linked to their participation in ICE-opposition activities. More than 100 HSI agents, including undercover operatives, took part in an operation that included widespread surveillance and infiltration of group chats.”

The BBC reports:

Most of the agents included, more than 21,000 of them, work for CBP, according to the data. Nearly 6,600 work for ICE.

Other records show agents with Homeland Security Investigations, the Federal Protective Service and even people working for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

The leaked information also included dozens of previously unknown operation names, the agents that led and worked on those operations, and some of the technology they used in their work, including tech provided by Cellbrite and Palantir.

The hackers left a note with the files stating, “They have our information, so it’s only fair that we have theirs.”

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DEA whistleblower says agency allowed millions of fentanyl pills on the streets

As New Mexico officials sounded alarms this month about a growing fentanyl crisis, a veteran Drug Enforcement Administration agent has alleged the agency has contributed to the problem by allowing the deadly pills to reach the streets.

“For three years, I’ve told my DEA managers that we’re allowing dangerous amounts of fentanyl to hit the street, and we’re doing nothing to stop it, and they didn’t listen to me,” DEA Special Agent David Howell told CBS News in his first television interview.

Howell, who is still an active agent, claims the agency tasked with enforcing federal drug laws has allowed millions of fentanyl pills to “walk” — a tactic in which investigators allow drug traffickers to distribute their product and then follow the trail to build bigger cases.

But because fentanyl is so lethal, Howell said the tactic has done more harm than good.

“We at the DEA have let drugs hit the street, yes. The difference was we were told not to with fentanyl,” he said.

In 2023, Howell was part of a team tracking a suspect in Albuquerque from the air. Images obtained by CBS News from congressional investigators on the House Oversight Committee showed a person driving a white SUV picking up a child.

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