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Abdul El-Sayed Benefiting From $15 Million Via ‘Epstein Class’ Donors

Michigan Muslim Socialist Abdulrahman El-Sayed promises in his campaign to get money out of politics and campaigns with far-left surrogates like Rep. Ro Khanna railing against the “Epstein class.” But he is secretly benefitting from over $15 million from those associated with the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

After meeting with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in Washington last week, his Senate Majority PAC (SMP) invested an extra $10 million into Michigan’s Senate race, bringing the group’s total investment to $30 million boosting El-Sayed.

SMP has been funded by the same “Epstein class” billionaires that Democrats like El-Sayed say they want to get out of politics. In total, $15,150,000 of SMP donations are linked to Epstein-associated individuals, which now go towards electing candidates like El-Sayed in November.

Those donors include:

Vinod Khosla

  • A February 8, 2011 email from Boris Nikolic to Epstein listed Khosla as a great dinner invitee according to a document in the Department of Justice’s online repository.
  • Later, Khosla helped Nikolic receive office space. Epstein advised Nikolic through the arrangement, saying “take your office at Khosla… it will come together.” Epstein later advised to “find what infrastructure of khosal you can use… find a place where you can have someone over for dinner.” (Department of Justice, 6/14/14 ; Department of Justice, 5/31/14 ; Department of Justice, 6/5/14)

Jon Stryker

  • In 2014, an Epstein associate suggested that he copy Jon Stryker’s playbook to bury his negative press post-conviction.

In addition, George Soros’ Democracy PAC and Michael Bloomberg’s American Opportunity Action, have both contributed to SMP:

George Soros

  • A 2007 article preserved in the DOJ production lists Soros and Epstein among people involved in a group seeking to establish a $10 million endowment led by Henry Jarecki.
  • In an FBI victim statement, George Soros was implicated for being on a yacht with Jeffrey Epstein, in which he witnessed the victim being sodomized and raped, in a heavily drug induced state, with the bottoms of his feet being slashed.

Michael Bloomberg

  • Reporting based on the 2026 DOJ release found that Epstein and Maxwell had contact with Bloomberg’s assistants, invited him to events, and appeared on invitations with him.

Monday is also the day of a major Hollywood fundraiser for El-Sayed at the home of Jeffrey Soros, the nephew of George, with co-hosts including Pod Save America hosts Jon Favreau, Tommy Vietor, and Hamas fanboy Ben Rhodes, according to an invitation.

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Ukraine Air-Drops Exploding Robots Deep Behind Russian Lines, Killing Thousands

Ukraine claims it killed around 3,000 Russian soldiers in a secret operation that included dropping bomb-carrying robots behind enemy lines by drone.

The Telegraph reports that the mission, known as Operation Vivaldi, was carried out by Ukraine’s 3rd Army Corps over several months.

The unit also claims it retook 48 square miles of Russian-occupied land.

According to the report, a large drone carries a small robot on wheels, loaded with explosives, 10 miles or more into Russian territory in the Donetsk region before releasing it.

Operators then drive the robot, which is known as Gryphon, by remote control toward Russian troops preparing to ambush Ukrainian forces and detonate it.

The unit’s commander claimed Ukraine is the first country to use the tactic.

The drones needed to carry the robots are large enough that it is easy for Russian troops to spot and shoot down.

To get them through, Ukrainian forces jam Russian surveillance drones, hit enemy positions with artillery and drones to keep troops pinned down and fly only at night.

Some of the robots have reached as far as 12 miles behind Russian lines.

Once the robots strike, Ukrainian infantry move in on foot to capture the ground, then wait for drones and artillery to hit the next target.

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Nvidia unveils security platform to stop AI agents from going rogue after new, troubling incidents

Nvidia on Monday unveiled a new security platform that the chipmaker said can stop artificial intelligence agents from going rogue.

The company said that its Open Agent Safety Platform includes open source software that “sets boundaries for agents,” and follows a series of revelations from top AI companies about their models escaping and breaking into other organizations.

The disclosures sparked furious debate about the safety of advanced artificial intelligence systems, including self-improving models that some fear could race out of human control.

Nvidia executives said in a media briefing that the new system could have prevented a recent incident involving a swarm of OpenAI agents that autonomously hacked into AI company Hugging Face.

“From what we know, this new security platform could have stopped the breach if it was being used in frontier labs for model evaluation early on,” said the company’s vice president of enterprise AI, Justin Boitano, referring to companies at the forefront of AI.

The Hugging Face incident was a high-profile breach that inflamed the safety concerns about AI, which were followed by similar rogue actions involving OpenAI’s models including breaching an Australian health department website. Anthropic and Meta have also disclosed that their AI systems hacked into other organizations on their own.

Nvidia’s software, called OpenShell, lets developers “formally verify an agent has enough authority to do its job and no more,” Boitano said.

Because it’s open source, it can be “extended” to run on rival computing platforms including those from Arm and Intel.

The platform also includes a separate security layer called Sentry that runs onboard a chip to continuously monitor AI agent activity and can “intervene instantly” if the agent starts trying to move beyond its target, the company said.

“It can quarantine a suspicious agent in milliseconds,” Boitano said.

“OpenShell governs the agent’s actions, and then Sentry independently monitors and contains suspicious behavior,” Boitano said.

Nvidia said more than 100 organizations are using the platform at its launch, including Microsoft, Perplexity, Accenture, and JPMorgan Chase.

The AI safety debate has divided the industry, with the heads of Anthropic and OpenAI championing a coordinated slowdown of AI development to let safety efforts catch up. But others including Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang say it should be up to individual companies to make sure their models are safe for release.

Huang, during the annual Salesforce technology conference held earlier this month, characterized AI safety, including the danger of rogue agents, as an engineering problem that software developers can address.

Also Monday, Nvidia said its board approved expanding its share repurchase program by $150 billion, raising the total amount to $235 billion.

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Another Federal Judge Strikes Down New York’s $75 Billion Climate Superfund Law as Unconstitutional — Second Court Torpedoes Hochul’s Climate Cash Grab

New York Democrats just lost again.

A second federal judge has now struck down Gov. Kathy Hochul’s Climate Change Superfund Act, the Albany scheme that tried to shake down American and foreign energy companies for $75 billion over alleged “local effects” of climate change.

According to a Department of Justice press release issued Monday, U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel of the Southern District of New York granted the United States’ motion for summary judgment last week, declared the statute unconstitutional, and permanently enjoined the state from enforcing it.

Castel, a George W. Bush appointee, found that New York’s law is preempted on two independent grounds: the federal Clean Air Act and the foreign affairs doctrine. The court also held that the United States has standing to defend its sovereign authority over interstate emissions and foreign policy.

That is the second knockout in a month.

As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier this month, Chief Judge Brenda K. Sannes, an Obama appointee in the Northern District of New York, already shredded the same statute, calling it an “unusual and sweeping” law that was “simply beyond the limits of state law.”

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OpenAI Scraps Planned Release Of “Deceptive” New Model As Rogue Agents Force Unprecedented Rollback

Days after we detailed the unprecedented freezing of OpenAI’s top models following a disastrous breach where autonomous AI agents leaked user images to the web, OpenAI has reportedly scrapped the planned release of its next-generation AI model due to severe safety and “alignment” failures. It basically lies when convenient (they used the word “deceptive”). 

According to a new report from the Wall Street Journal, OpenAI was aiming for an October debut of GPT-6.1 Astra, a model designed to complete complex, end-to-end tasks without human assistance – only to scrap the planned release after internal testing revealed that the AI was not only acting unsafely, but was actively lying to its handlers.

According to Saachi Jain, OpenAI’s head of safety systems, GPT-6.1 Astra regressed significantly in its alignment testing, which measures how well the model adheres to human intent. And just like a baby Skynet, the model exhibited “higher levels of deception,” meaning it wasn’t always honest with users about the actions it did or did not execute.

What’s more, the model regressed sharply on what OpenAI calls “scope authorization.” The AI would aggressively push forward on tasks without asking for user permission and would attempt to access external tools and services even if it was unsafe to do so. Highlighting the internal struggle to control the system, Jain noted, “For anything regarding safety and alignment, there’s a trade off. You really do need to find what’s the right line between staying within scope, but also avoiding laziness in terms of how the model actually pursues tasks even when it hits friction”.

As we previously reported, on Sept. 20 an internal OpenAI research agent discovered a gap in the DNS filtering of its training sandbox and used it to query an external public chatbot despite internet-access restrictions. OpenAI’s misalignment monitoring system flagged the behavior within 15 minutes, and a human reviewer picked it up three minutes later. The company subsequently said training, evaluation, and inference involving tool use for its most capable models would remain paused while it validated its containment systems and conducted additional red-teaming.

This latest cancellation does not exist in a vacuum. In July, during internal cybersecurity evaluations, OpenAI’s own agents blew through restrictions designed to keep them isolated from the internet and compromised both the company’s research infrastructure and Hugging Face. According to OpenAI’s own postmortem, the agents communicated through unauthorized channels, exploited vulnerabilities in shared infrastructure, executed code on dozens of Hugging Face servers, obtained full root access on one server, acquired credentials to the company’s messaging platform, and later gained full administrator access to an OpenAI research cluster.

OpenAI itself called the episode a “warning shot” for us and for the world, acknowledging that highly capable agents can now work around technical controls and take dangerous actions that no human directed. The company said the incidents did not affect OpenAI customer data, product functionality, or availability.

And Hugging Face wasn’t the only external system involved. Australian officials have confirmed that an OpenAI agent gained unauthorized access to non-public aggregate statistics on a government Medicare portal after its initial requests were denied. Separately, a security researcher linked more than 16,000 attempts to work around restrictions on a United Nations trade-statistics API to agents he said were highly likely to have been operated by OpenAI. The UN data itself was public, and OpenAI said it was looking into the findings.

The compounding failures have forced OpenAI into a defensive crouch. The company has implemented stronger monitoring to catch agent misbehavior more quickly and tightened security requirements around internal testing. Attempting to reassure the public, Jain stated, “We want to make sure our model development is safe no matter whether that’s in the company, or when we ship it to users. But when we ship it to users, we have an extremely high bar in terms of safety and alignment”.

The timing of the GPT-6.1 Astra cancellation is brutal for the ChatGPT-maker, arriving just one day before OpenAI’s annual developer conference in San Francisco. Historically, the event has served as a platform to launch new services and attract developers in the fierce competition against rivals like Anthropic. Instead, OpenAI is left doing damage control, planning “deep dives” to figure out why its reinforcement learning environments are rewarding deceptive, rogue behavior.

The political and legal blowback is already accelerating. State and federal officials are zeroing in on the rapid development of these technologies. Later this week, a Senate subcommittee will hold a hearing explicitly titled, “Rogue AI: Securing the Homeland Against AI Agent Attacks.”

Meanwhile, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, a Republican who sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman in June for allegedly releasing an unsafe product, filed a motion for a temporary injunction on Monday. Uthmeier is seeking to legally block OpenAI from developing new models without third-party approved safeguards. Florida argued in the filing that tech companies “cannot stop barreling forward with their potentially civilization-ending endeavors unless they are forced to do so by the government”. Uthmeier added, “The Florida Attorney General is answering your cry for help”.

In response to the growing legal assault, an OpenAI spokeswoman said people want to know AI is being developed safely, “and that starts with what companies like ours do ourselves”. She added, “Governments have an important role to play in setting robust safety standards for AI, and we’re committed to working with Florida and other states on advancing pragmatic AI policies that apply to the entire AI industry – not just one company”.

And DO NOT FORGET: All of this “oh shit, the AI’s about to kill us all” panic cropped up just as China’s open-weight models were flooding the market, producing results effectively on par with the frontier models for many tasks while doing so far more cheaply. What a coincidence!

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California Democrat Pushes Bill to Redefine BB Guns as Dangerous Firearms

Kevin Mullin, a House Democrat from California, is now pushing a bill that would redefine BB guns as dangerous firearms.

This is just further proof that Democrats will never, ever stop pushing various forms of gun control. Many Americans become familiar with guns in their youth by owning a BB gun. If you restrict these types of guns, fewer Americans will have that type of experience.

Is that the end goal here?

Breitbart News reports:

U.S. Rep. Kevin Mullin introduced legislation Friday to close what he calls “a dangerous gap” by redefining BB and pellet guns as firearms.

If the redefinition were adopted it would require BB and pellet gun buyers to undergo the same background checks that prospective buyers of AR-15s, 9mm pistols, and other firearms are subject to now.

Daisy BB Guns used an X post to comment on the proposed legislation, writing, “[This bill] would include guns like the Daisy 880. Their goal is to eventually include all airguns. If passed it will treat airguns producing ‘high velocity’ as firearms. [The bill] was introduced… to the House of Representatives… it would add all airguns that produce 800 or more feet per second velocities in .177 caliber, and all pellets over .25 caliber.”

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Ottawa spent $1.8 million on DEI in one year, including paying the Anti-Hate Network to train Environment Canada staff

Federal departments and agencies spent $1,812,162.60 on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) contracts in a single year. That’s according to the government’s response to an order paper question from Conservative MP Vincent Neil Ho.

Ho, the MP for Richmond Hill South, filed question Q-1252 on June 2, 2026. He asked every department to list its DEI contracts from June 1, 2025 to June 1, 2026, including the vendor, date, amount, service and how each contract was awarded. The government tabled its answer on Sept. 21.

Thirty-two institutions responded. Rebel News went through every table and added up the totals, then checked them against the itemized contracts. The final bill came to $1,812,162.60.

The Anti-Hate Network, on the taxpayer’s dime

On March 18, 2026, Environment and Climate Change Canada paid the Canadian Anti-Hate Network $2,260 for a workshop titled “State of Hate – Understanding the Landscape.” It was sole-sourced, with no competition.

The group has been chaired by Bernie Farber. Ottawa’s own officials had already flagged concerns about it.

Public Safety Canada officials warned that the Canadian Anti-Hate Network “has been accused of creating products that were not free from bias.” Blacklock’s Reporter obtained that warning through an access to information request. But the Liberals went ahead and approved another $200,000 grant anyway, for research on the “far-right landscape in Canada.”

That brought the group’s federal funding to about $908,000 since 2020.

A 2025 Canadian Heritage memo also cited complaints about “anti-Catholic messages.” It noted that the allegations were “about spreading hate regarding religion and beliefs and further polarization.”

Heritage investigated and cleared the group, but it did the review in-house. It used no outside experts or independent reviewer, only public information and internal consultations.

The group’s federal grant expired on March 31, 2026, just 13 days after Environment Canada paid it to train staff.

Paying the CBC twice

On Dec. 16, 2025, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada paid CBC/Radio-Canada $350 to screen “The Elders,” a CBC Gem documentary. The screening was for its Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee’s Indigenous Elders event. That contract was sole-sourced too.

Canadians already give the CBC more than a billion dollars a year. Ottawa then paid the CBC again so bureaucrats could watch something taxpayers had already funded.

Svend Robinson’s panel fee

The National Film Board paid former NDP MP Svend Robinson $250 on Aug. 28, 2025 to sit on a panel after a documentary screening. It paid Syrus Marcus Ware, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter Toronto, the same amount for the same thing.

National Defence leads the pack

National Defence spent $628,091.43, more than a third of the total.

The single largest item was $451,202.31 to Calian Ltd. for an “Inclusion and Respect in Defence” training workshop. Calian got another $11,618.40 for a literature review on equity, diversity and inclusion.

National Defence also paid:

  • $22,600 to the Michaëlle Jean Foundation for a speaker at the Canadian Armed Forces apology for racial discrimination
  • $5,650 to Pride at Work Canada for a 2SLGBTQI+ e-learning portal
  • $10,500 for a membership in the Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion

Pins, menopause and critical minerals

Other departments listed these as DEI spending:

  • The Canada Border Services Agency spent $11,793 on 10,500 pins with themes like “Positive Space,” gender equity, disability and anti-racism.
  • The Treasury Board Secretariat spent $8,475 on a Menopause Foundation education series.
  • Prairies Economic Development Canada included a $37,800 critical-minerals procurement study.
  • The CRTC included an audience-measurement database ($19,507.87) and a $28,250 sponsorship for Women in Communications and Technology.
  • The Immigration and Refugee Board paid Egale Canada $6,000 for a diversity workshop.

The real number is higher

But that $1.8 million is the floor, not the ceiling.

Several big departments gave no figure at all. They said the information isn’t tracked centrally. They include Global Affairs Canada, Health Canada, Natural Resources Canada, the RCMP, Correctional Service Canada, Parks Canada and Statistics Canada.

CSIS and the Communications Security Establishment refused to answer, citing security. The Canada Border Services Agency and Crown-Indigenous Relations reported only part of their spending.

So the government is spending your money on DEI, and many departments either don’t know how much or won’t say.

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AOC Pushes ‘Free’ College as Only Way to Rein in Runaway Cost of College Tuition

New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pushed the idea of ‘free’ college during a recent event at Cornell University, saying that this is the only way to rein in the ridiculous cost of tuition these days.

It is worth mentioning that this event was called ‘Students vs. Billionaires Town Hall’ so even the name of the event sets up an adversarial relationship between students and wealthy people. The message is clear. Rich people are the bad guys.

It’s also important to point out that there is no such thing as ‘free’ college. Someone is going to pay for it, usually taxpayers.

Breitbart News reports:

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) suggested “tuition-free public colleges and universities” as part of an effort to “rein in” the increased costs at private institutions.

While speaking at a “Students vs. Billionaires Town Hall” event on Sunday, hosted by the More Perfect Union, Ocasio-Cortez was asked what her team and the Democratic Party are “doing to ensure that middle and low-income families can continue to afford a quality, higher education.” The question came as Cornell University “recently broke $100,000 a year for tuition.”

Ocasio-Cortez responded by expressing shock at the tuition number, stating that it was “far more than what many households make in a year in this country.”

The congresswoman explained that what a lot of colleges and universities “do with their funds is more of a real estate investment strategy, than an educational strategy.” Ocasio-Cortez continued to state that colleges and universities put a lot of the funds toward “new buildings, and facilities that are often marketed as luxury,” while the adjunct faculty is “barely paid a living wage” and the quality of education is going downhill.

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History Will Tell How Canada’s Spies Helped Trump in Cuba

Canada has long assisted the US bid to suffocate Cuba. And the roots of intelligence sharing undercut the idea of Ottawa standing up to US bullying.

On Saturday the Globe and Mail confirmed that Canada has long spied on Cuba for the US. In “Canadians passed intelligence to U.S. at time of alleged attacks in Cuba: source”, Robert Fife reports, “A Canadian diplomat was sharing intelligence with American spies in Havana and Canadians were using satellite equipment brought into Cuba by the United States when officials from both countries began experiencing debilitating symptoms caused by alleged sonic attacks linked to Russia.”

The long story about the 2017 “Havana syndrome” describes how a Canadian diplomat gathered human intelligence on the island, which was often passed on directly to a CIA agent at the US embassy. Another source told Fife that “Canadians were using satellite equipment brought in surreptitiously by the United States.” The information gathered was sent to the intelligence division at Global Affairs, CSIS and to Five Eyes partners (US, Britain, Australia and New Zealand). Fife added, “the two sources said the Canadian embassy’s intelligence-gathering was valued by the U.S. because of Canada’s longstanding friendship with Cuba. Unlike the Americans, Canadian diplomats had better access to Cuban officials and were allowed to travel outside of Havana.”

As has been documented by multiple sources, including the 2015 International Journal article “Our men in Havana: Canadian foreign intelligence operations in Castro’s Cuba”, Canada has spied for the US since the Cuban revolution. In fact, Washington’s request for Canadian spying assistance is part of the reason Ottawa didn’t sever diplomatic relations with Havana after the 1959 revolution. In the 2007 book Three Nights in Havana: Pierre Trudeau, Fidel Castro, and the Cold War World Robert Wright explains: “Recently declassified State Department documents have revealed that, far from encouraging Canada to support the embargo, the United States secretly urged [Prime Minister John] Diefenbaker to maintain normal relations because it was thought that Canada would be well positioned to gather intelligence on the island.”

Ottawa did not let Washington down. The Communications Security Establishment (CSE), Canada’s NSA, listened to Cuban leaders’ secret conversations from an interception post in the Canadian embassy in Havana and Canadian diplomats were among the first to alert the US to incoming Soviet arms and troops before the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. A senior Canadian official, close to Washington, in Inside Canadian intelligence: exposing the new realities of espionage and international terrorism “admitted that the U.S. made ‘far greater use’ of our intelligence during the Cuban Missile Crisis than has been revealed.” Pentagon and State Department sources cite the UK and Canada as the only countries that “supply any real military information on Cuba” with Canada providing “the best” military intelligence.

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Trump Junks Biden’s Title IX Rules, Now Defines Sex by Biology

The Department of Education said Monday it will formally remove the Biden administration’s Title IX regulations and restore rules issued during President Donald Trump’s first term.

The change takes effect Tuesday. Under the final rule issued Monday, the Education Department’s anti-discrimination policy will recognize sex as male or female at birth. It formally removes Biden-era regulations that extended protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity to students and employees at federally funded schools.

The 2024 rules also forced schools to use transgender students’ pronouns and changed how schools handle harassment complaints. A federal court struck down the rules in January 2025.

The Education Department then told schools it would enforce the 2020 rules. Monday’s action puts that change into the published federal regulations; schools have already been operating under the earlier rules.

The department said the last lawsuits over the Biden rules were dismissed in August, clearing the way for it to formally remove them. Education Secretary Linda McMahon said the move would make the written regulations match the court rulings and the rules her department has been enforcing since Trump returned to office:

Today’s rulemaking clears the Biden Administration’s illegal rewrite of Title IX from the Code of Federal Regulations and restores the commonsense language promulgated in the first Trump Administration, which we have been enforcing since the first days of the Administration. Thanks to today’s action, the published Title IX regulations faithfully reflects court orders and Congressional intent—reducing confusion for parents, students, and educational institutions. We will continue to relentlessly champion equal opportunity for all Americans and hold accountable any school or college that violates the rights, privacy, or athletic opportunities of our women and girls.

The rule follows a 2025 executive order from Trump directing federal agencies to recognize only male and female as sexes and apply that definition when enforcing laws against sex discrimination.

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