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Supreme Court Says New Hampshire Can Ban Voters from Using Student IDs at Polls in Midterms – Ketanji Brown Jackson Dissents

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled 7-1 that New Hampshire can indeed stop voters from using student IDs at polls during the midterm elections.

The high court paused a lower court’s ruling that allowed student IDs to be using as a form of voter identification.

Liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.

“I respectfully dissent because—even, and perhaps especially, when an election is looming—I would not disturb a clearly justifiable federal-court order issued to ensure that the public receives accurate information about a State’s electoral processes,” Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in her dissent.

The Hill reported:

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled New Hampshire’s top election official can fully stop voters from using their student IDs when showing up to the polls in the midterms — a request backed by the Republican National Committee (RNC).

A lower judge ruled officials had improperly gone further than a new state law placing restrictions on student IDs to get a ballot.

The judge said the state still needed to consider student IDs alongside other evidence when a voter lacks other ways to prove their identity.

The Supreme Court chastised the judge for intervening too close to November’s contests.

The high court has said such orders can cause voter confusion, known as the Purcell principle. The opinion points to the recent legal whiplash over Missouri’s redistricting as one recent example.

“Here, the District Court did not point to anything that would justify deviating from that principle,” the majority wrote in its unsigned, one-paragraph opinion.

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Trump Calls On Data Center Developers To Pay Communities A Dividend

President Donald Trump has suggested that companies building data centers in the United States should offer local communities a dividend to make them more popular.

“If companies want to make their Data Centers popular, pay the community, and/or individuals within the community, a ‘dividend,’” Trump said in a Truth Social post on Wednesday.

New data centers, which are required to fuel the growth of artificial intelligence (AI), have become politically controversial in some areas because of the amount of electricity and water they consume.

Local resistance blocked or delayed at least 75 data center projects, worth $130 billion, in the first quarter of 2026, according to Data Center Watch.

The Trump administration has supported AI, and the president said last month that U.S. government documents would start referring to it as “super intelligence.”

On Oct. 4, Trump announced the creation of the Super Intelligence Force to coordinate federal efforts to maintain the United States’ lead over China in AI technology.

“As the President of the United States, I have been watching Data Centers very closely, and have come to a very strong conclusion,” Trump wrote on Wednesday.

“New and large, in some cases gigantic, Data Centers are mandated by me to make their own electricity, and give or sell any excess back to the local community, or grid, and therefore there is [an] electric price increase. In fact, there could be a substantial decrease.”

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WNBA Releases Letter- Says Enes Cantor Freedom and Royce White Cannot Play in League But REFUSE TO ANSWER What Is a Women… Update: And They Allowed a Trans Man to Play!

The WNBA dashed the hopes of trans athletes everywhere when they released their letter earlier this week on trans athletes in the league.

The WNBA WILL NOT allow Enes Cantor Freedom and Royce (Roysha) White to play in their women’s league.

But they will not define what a woman is! Why is that?

The once trans-welcoming league is now the nation’s leading openly trans-phobic league!

Enes Cantor Freedom released their letter on Thursday.

And, they still won’t define what it means to be a woman!

Never forget that the WNBA had an openly trans player in the league for years.

The Gateway Pundit reported earlier that the league previously allowed trans players to play.

In fact, one of the trans players has been very vocal.

Layshia Clarendon was born a female but decided to have her breasts removed while playing in the WNBA. She played in the league from 2013 to 2024.

Clay Travis posted the tweet earlier on Thursday. Travis believes the WNBA has a major legal problem.

The league allowed Clarendon to play while receiving testosterone, but Royce and Enes are not allowed?

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Ilhan Omar is Not Somali Congresswoman’s Real Name – Every Form She’s Ever Filled Out Could Be “Called into Question,” Former Immigration Judge Says

Federal sources have revealed to Fox News that “Ilhan Omar” is a fake name used by the Somali Minnesota Congresswoman currently embattled in a federal fraud investigation.

Her real name is Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, the name of her brother-husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, two sources familiar with the ongoing investigation confirmed to Fox.

A former Minnesota federal immigration judge also told the outlet that if it is proven that she lived her “entire life under an alias,” every document she’s ever filled out with the fake name could be “called into question.”

The Gateway Pundit reported yesterday that the Department of Justice revealed in a recent court filing that Omar is identified in the search warrant used to raid her home as “Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, a/k/a Ilhan Abdullahi Omar.”

The DC US Attorney’s Office further revealed that their extensive search warrant has not yet been fully executed.

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Autism Rates Surged More Than 40% Between 2019-2024 — Where’s the Urgency?

Children from low-income families, girls, and 3- to 5-year-olds showed the steepest increases in autism rates, according to a large CDC study. The researchers also found 1 in 5 children were diagnosed with a developmental disability. The authors cited earlier detection and awareness as contributors to the increases. But experts said the paper offered no evidence for those explanations, called for a “greater sense of urgency to understand” what’s behind the large increases.

The percentage of U.S. children diagnosed with a developmental disability rose sharply between 2019 and 2024, with reported cases of autism increasing by more than 40% and ADHD also climbing substantially, according to a new study published in Pediatrics.

In 2023-2024, an estimated 20.45% of children ages 3 to 17 — roughly 1 in 5 — were diagnosed with at least one of five developmental disabilities, up from 16.73% in 2019-2020, a 22.2% increase in just five years.

Autism showed the largest increase, rising 42.4%, with the steepest increases reported among 3- to 5-year-olds and children from families living below 200% of the federal poverty level.

Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics analyzed data from the 2019-2024 National Health Interview Survey, a nationally representative household survey that includes detailed health interviews with families in their home or by phone.

Toby Rogers, Ph.D., social & economic research fellow at the Brownstone Institute, told The Defender that the “truly alarming” findings were solid, based on a large sample size and a detailed dataset.

He called the lead author, Benjamin Zablotsky, Ph.D., “a titan in the field of autism prevalence research.”

However, Rogers told The Defender that he was “struck by the cowardice of the study’s discussion section and conclusions.”

In their discussion of the data, the authors said the study didn’t investigate what drove the substantial increases, but that changes in diagnostic criteria and clinical practices, and increased awareness among parents and across society may explain the increased prevalence.

“The conclusion that these increases ‘could be related to earlier detection and awareness’ is speculation that is not grounded in any strong evidence presented in the paper, autism researcher Cynthia Nevison, Ph.D., told The Defender.

Nevison, who recently published a study in California that found comparable rising rates, said the CDC researchers could have acknowledged that the numbers may also reflect true increases in autism — and that “distinguishing those alternative explanations is an urgent public health research priority.”

The study examined data from 2019-2024. “A lot of toxicological factors changed during that time period,” Rogers said. He cited more onerous vaccine mandates in California, New York and other blue states; more shots added to the childhood vaccine schedule and recommended for pregnant women; and the COVID-19 shots, which were given to the most Americans for the first time.

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Savannah Mayor Says Some “Gangs” May Just Be Groups Making Music Together

This week Savannah Mayor Van Johnson tried to answer a question about gang violence in the city but in the end provided only more evidence of how one avoids referring to gangs in public.

“It would be irresponsible for me to call… sometimes we have groups of people that are engaged in music, engaged in sports, and people say they’re a gang,” said Mayor Johnson in an interview with WTOC this week. Johnson stated “I don’t have the slightest idea” how many gangs there were in the city of Savannah.

Chatham County Sheriff Richard Coleman held a news conference less than a month ago to say that 18 groups of people that the Sheriff’s Office has intelligence on must immediately cease to exist. He said some of the groups are tied to the Bloods, Crips and Vice Lords. The Sheriff’s Office did not provide documentation for how each of the 18 groups was identified as a gang by law enforcement, reported WJCL.

Johnson did acknowledge that there are street gangs operating in Savannah today, telling WJCL, “We know we do have street gangs here,” and he has listed out all of the things that are being done to deal with them, including the fact that the Savannah police department has had a gang unit for about 10 years. The city also funds a prosecutor that works out of the U.S. Attorney’s Office to deal with violent crimes and he said overall violent crime is down in the city of Savannah, according to WTOC.

But then Johnson went on to explain in some detail why he believed some groups of young people were not gangs. He acknowledged that not every incident of youth crime was gang-related, and he said police should make their case in court rather than in social media posts. Johnson told WTOC he was “glad the sheriff wants to get involved” in addressing the problem of gang violence in Savannah.

A shooting took place on September 26 near West Bay Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in the downtown area of Savannah. At least 27 rounds of ammunition were fired, according to WTOC. Although video was captured of individuals running from the scene of the shooting, no gang connection has been established by the Savannah police in the recent shooting, though the sheriff called it gang activity. As was reported by WTOC, last year’s Oglethorpe Mall shootout left a woman dead after she ran from the gunfire, and six men now face a 71-count indictment that includes charges of felony murder and gang-related charges.

It is a difficult question for a mayor to respond to on the topic of gang violence in his city, but that does not mean he has to answer it with a disclaimer about the unfairness of labeling certain groups as gangs. He can lead with strength on this one.

Savannah residents don’t need a primer on the different kinds of criminal gangs out there. All they need is for their Mayor to acknowledge that gangs are a problem in the city and to assert that he stands behind the police and the prosecutors who are working to combat them. That he spent a press conference about gang violence on the unfairness of labels instead is unfortunate.

Savannah has a gang unit, a federal prosecutor funded by the city, and the numbers of violent crime are decreasing. But what the city needs is the right tone on this matter of growing concern, as the sheriff in the area lists 18 gangs and there is gunfire downtown.

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The UK’s Push For War With Russia Continues: Fishing Trawlers Are The Latest Excuse

Britain is building a case for another confrontation with Russia – this time a large fleet of fishing boats.

The Telegraph reported that Russian trawlers are mapping the seabed where many of the UK’s undersea cables travel. The paper’s analysis of four and a half years’ of satellite tracking data from Global Fishing Watch revealed that more than 500 incidents had been logged in which Russian vessels operated above, or followed the routes of, cables connecting the UK to Europe and the US. Of these, 17 ships had been tracked hovering in the same area for long periods at low speed in regions where cables ran through charted routes.

The examples given by the Telegraph are specific and detailed. For example, Ship A turned up near nine separate cables. North of Scotland, Russian fishing boats logged 337 hours over the Atlantic Crossing 1 cable, 322 of them in April 2023. Ship B crossed the Hibernia Express cable several times and sat for nearly an hour at under two knots. Ship C followed a decommissioned cable for 10 miles, reversed course, then slowed over Google’s Grace Hopper cable and the Amitie cable linking the UK to France and Spain.

Again, there is no proof of interference or damage to any cable. As ClashReport noted in its summary of the Telegraph findings, tracking data alone does not establish what equipment the boats carried. What’s left is anonymous sourcing and naval speculation. A NATO source told the Telegraph that some of the ships identified in the article “have never seen a single fish on their deck”. A senior naval officer who watched footage of one of the ships identified told the Telegraph that it “could be easily used for other activities to store an uncrewed surface vehicle or remotely operated vehicles (ROVs)”.

The government is presenting it as an urgent threat, to be answered by replacing the 140-year-old Submarine Telegraph Act. The new security measures proposed by the White Paper of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology include up to 14 years in prison and unlimited fines for anyone who intentionally damages cables or pipelines. There will be new security duties placed upon telecoms companies, and the government will be granted new powers to instruct such companies on a national security basis. A 12 week consultation will be held upon the proposals of the new legislation.

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‘We Know Where It Is’: Treasury Secretary Threatens To Freeze $1B of Iran’s Crypto

The U.S. will seize $1 billion of Iran’s crypto this week, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said. It isn’t clear which asset though.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said the American authorities will soon seize $1 billion in crypto from Iran.

Speaking on Newsmax’s NPolicy Summit in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, Bessent added that economic sanctions on the Middle Eastern country were working.

Iran has been using bitcoin — and other cryptocurrencies — to skirt around U.S. sanctions. The U.S. in April started targeting crypto wallets linked to the Iranian regime, Bessent said at the time.

“What we have done has never been seen before,” Bessent said Thursday on Iranian sanctions.

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How a Citizen Bought a Kidnapping From Israel’s Spy-for-Hire

On New Year’s Eve in 2023, on the Danish side of the border with Germany, two children stood near their father’s house watching fireworks. The boy was ten, his sister thirteen. A team of masked men in black stormed the house, beat the father to the ground, and took the two children. One of them pressed a distress button that summoned Danish police, who tracked the group as it moved on foot toward the border. When the children cried out, their captors taped their mouths. After thirty-five minutes they crossed into Germany and drove eight hundred kilometers south, and two days later the mother collected them at her home in Hamburg. The men who did this were not relatives and not street criminals. They were hired professionals, and somewhere there was a price.

The capabilities used that night, the watching, the fabrication of evidence, the seizure of a person and their removal across a frontier, once belonged to states alone. They have moved into private companies that sell them to private buyers, and the firms at the center of this case are Israeli, staffed by veterans of the country’s intelligence services. Reaching that market is not a matter of walking in off the street. It runs through insiders, the retired officers and officials who know which company does what, and in this instance the alleged broker was a former chief of German intelligence and the alleged organizer a former head of an Israeli security service. That is what should trouble a reader who will never meet a spy. The instruments of the state are available for purchase, and the people selling and brokering them are the same people who once wielded them on the public’s behalf.

Christina Block, 52, owns eight percent of the company her father built from a German steakhouse chain, and is worth hundreds of millions of euros. She married Stephan Hensel in 2005 and divorced him in 2014, and a long custody war followed over their two youngest children. German courts first granted custody to the father, then on appeal to Block. Denmark, where Hensel had settled with the children and which is the one European Union country not obliged to recognize another member state’s custody rulings, held its own hearings and decided the children would stay with him. By the account German prosecutors have put before the Hamburg court, the effort to get them back began in 2021 with Block’s partner, the sports journalist Gerhard Delling, and an early attempt to smear the father and his lawyer as pedophiles, which failed.

What the prosecution describes next is an escalation, and the exact wording matters. By spring 2023, prosecutors say, Block allegedly turned to an Israeli company called Cyber Cúpula Operations, which the same reporting describes as previously employed by the family for cyber protection, and asked its staff to “rescue” the children. Der Spiegel’s reporting puts the earlier retainer the same way, hedged, with the firm said to have been engaged by the Block business for information security. Prosecutors also say Block had earlier hired the same firm to smear her ex-husband, and German prosecutors allege a further attempt to frame him by planting a hard drive loaded with child-abuse material. Each of these is an allegation within the prosecution’s case rather than a finding, and every defendant denies involvement.

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AOC Claims the FBI and DOJ That Democrats Used to Investigate Trump Are Now Corrupt and Must be Investigated

AOC of New York was recently in Maine campaigning for Troy Jackson.

During her remarks, she went off on a tangent about the FBI and the DOJ, suggesting that both agencies are corrupt and must be investigated.

Why? Because they’re going after her good friend Ilhan Omar.

AOC had no problem with the FBI or the DOJ when Democrats were using them to investigate Donald Trump, because that was just different.

Transcript via Real Clear Politics:

REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ (D-NY): First and foremost, everything that we are seeing unfold right now is an absolute weaponization of the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigations, point blank period. And I want to zoom out, you know, if you’re having a conversation with someone that isn’t sure about the details of what’s happening in the news and whatnot, just know that it has been standing practice in order to protect the integrity of our elections that the FBI and the DOJ do not take actions like these within a certain time frame of an election, regardless of what is happening in any circumstance of an investigation.

And so the very fact that this is happening in October and September tells you, period, that these agencies have been weaponized and compromised. So what we have to do, whether it’s this, whether it’s the corruption that we’ve seen with crypto and the ballroom and all of these things, is that we’ve known that Kash Patel has purged the FBI of many serious investigators. We’ve known that the Department of Justice has also been weaponized in its absolute groundless indictments of everyone from Tish James to Jerome Powell and so on and so forth.

Day one, we need to be opening investigations into the heads of every single one of these agencies, and we need to hold them accountable. I’m talking subpoenas. I’m talking investigations.

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