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CHAOS IN LOS ANGELES: Antifa-Linked Mob Storms Catholic Church, Chases Conservative Activist Into Starbucks, and Douses Him in Blue Paint While Screaming “Nazi!”

Left-wing extremists and Antifa militants stormed the Precious Blood Catholic Church in Los Angeles on Saturday, August 23, where right-wing activist and free speech advocate Eoin Richard was hosting a peaceful free speech, anti-Islam rally.

The confrontation unfolded after Connolly, known publicly as Eoin Richard, organized a “Take Back LA” free-speech rally criticizing Islam.

Connolly originally advertised the August 23 demonstration outside the Islamic Center of Southern California on Vermont Avenue.

A pre-event advisory circulated by opponents described the gathering as a “far-right” rally and accused its organizers of targeting the Muslim community.

As counter-protesters gathered outside the Islamic center, Connolly reportedly redirected supporters to the nearby Precious Blood Catholic Church in Koreatown.

But the mob followed him.

According to journalist Andy Ngo, left-wing extremists and Antifa activists stormed the church, disrupted the gathering, and chased Connolly from the property.

Footage from the confrontation shows counter-protesters surrounding Connolly and repeatedly branding him a “Nazi,” the far left’s favorite label for anyone it believes should be silenced, intimidated, or physically attacked.

Connolly eventually sought refuge inside a nearby Starbucks, but the mob followed him into the business and surrounded the table where he and another man were seated.

Video circulating on social media shows blue paint being dumped over Connolly and his companion as counter-protesters crowd around them.

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Exclusive: Palestine Action facing new rigged ‘terrorism’ trials

As the British state seeks to destroy Palestine Action, a new trial is underway in which a judge has threatened defendants with a ‘terrorism connection’ if they explain the motives behind their activism. 

It is one of three such trials in which the government has muzzled defendants, blinded jurors and banned local media coverage to guarantee convictions.

The Grayzone can exclusively reveal that hearings have been underway in the trial of the so-called Teledyne Three. These three defendants damaged the clean room of a UK factory which produces parts for the F-35 aircraft which Israel has used to carry out an array of crimes against civilians in the besieged Gaza Strip, and beyond. They are members of the direction action protest collective, Palestine Action, which the British state has designated as a “terrorist entity” in the face of international condemnation. 

The presiding judge in the Teledyne Three case, Driver, has imposed restrictions on the defense which threatens them with a “terrorism connection” if they attempt to explain the motives behind their actions.

The British media is currently forbidden from reporting on the trial or the draconian measures applied by the judge.   

The Teledyne Three case is one of three ongoing trials in which the British state is intensifying its assault on Palestine Action by muzzling defendants and blinding jurors. Stretching the definition of terrorism to the point of absurdity, and applying it as promiscuously as possible, forms the heart of the government’s strategy.

This February, the government’s relentless attempts to designate Palestine Action as a terrorism entity was found “unlawful”. However, the Home Office’s July 2025 designation of the protest group as a “terrorist entity” remains under final appeal. Meanwhile, separate ongoing court proceedings against PA actionists testify to a systematic campaign of dubious legal tactics to sentence defendants as terrorists, drastically increasing their penalties if found guilty.

As first revealed by The Grayzone, British authorities stacked the legal deck against a group of PA defendants known as the Filton Six. A judge imposed severe restrictions on what the defense could say, what the jury was allowed to hear, and which defenses the jurors were allowed to consider. The jury was not even able to know that the defendants could be sentenced as terrorists if found guilty of lesser criminal convictions. The entire case appeared engineered to guarantee convictions. 

In June, four were convicted, receiving jail sentences as “terrorists” of five to eight years.

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Government Spy Hubs Are Surveilling Anti-Flock Camera Activists

Government spy hubs across America are surveilling activists seeking to remove Flock surveillance cameras from their cities and towns according to documents obtained by Deeper States. These intelligence products show dozens of state fusion centers and their counterparts in the FBI and DHS circulating memos warning that peaceful protesters organizing to stop AI powered surveillance cameras in their backyard are a national security threat.

Alongside the grassroots movement to stop data centers in communities across the country, Flock Safety’s automated license plate reader systems have stirred similar outpourings of civic outrage. At town halls and city council meetings, citizens from all walks of life have demanded local legislators ban flock cameras from being used in their localities. These efforts have found success with over 100 cities canceling their Flock contracts.

Anti-surveillance sentiment has coalesced with the activist organization DeFlock, which maps the tens of thousands of flock cameras pockmarking the country and offers resources to activists who oppose the widespread adaptation of automated license plate readers.

According to Deflock’s mission statement, “ALPRs [automated license plate readers] are a serious risk to your privacy and civil liberties. These systems continuously record your movements without a warrant, probable cause, or even reasonable suspicion. Your driving history is rarely confined to the town or city where the cameras are installed. It’s typically shared with thousands of other agencies nationwide (secretly). Once the data is out of your community, you have no control over how it’s used or what rules apply”.

The organization also points to intentional misuse of Flock systems for stalking and the potential for misidentification of suspects leading to false arrests as further cause for concern. Last year, flock CEO Garett Langley described Deflock activists as a “terroristic organization”, a description he was forced to walk back this week after widespread outrage at the resurfaced comments.

“My comments were a mistake and I apologize,” Langley told Forbes. “There are groups today that have real valid criticisms of the business, and I think what’s changed for us is, as we’ve listened to them and heard them out, what we’re trying to do is find this balance. We believe in a world where we can have safety and privacy.”

Despite Langley’s retreat, intelligence agencies are approaching Deflock’s constitutionally protected speech and organizing with the same tools and language they apply to terrorism. One report obtained by Deeper States and generated by the Wisconsin State Wide Intelligence Center shows intelligence components surveilling organizers of Deflock “days of action” in Alaska and Wisconsin.

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CAIR-CT’s New “Back To School” Guide Offers More Political Activism Than Student Support

As Connecticut families prepare for another school year, the Connecticut chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CT) has released its 2025-26 Back to School Resource Guide.

Framed as a helpful tool for Muslim students facing “challenges to their identity, inclusion, and religious accommodation,” the document is far more than a neutral rights pamphlet.

It is a sophisticated advocacy package that pushes special accommodations, encourages school closures for Islamic holidays, promotes a highly selective 9/11 curriculum, and injects a one-sided narrative on Palestine into classrooms—all while positioning CAIR as the indispensable intermediary between families and public schools. This is particularly relevant now that CAIR-CT has also positioned itself as a “partner” to the Connecticut State Department of Education on the development of K-12 Islamic and Arab Studies curriculum resources.

The guide opens with familiar civil-rights language: Muslim students have the right to a safe environment free from bullying, reasonable religious accommodations (prayer space, excused absences for Eid, alternatives during Ramadan fasting, modest dress including the hijab), and protection from discrimination. These are legitimate concerns under existing federal and state law. No serious observer disputes that students of any faith should be free from harassment or should receive reasonable accommodations for sincerely held beliefs.

But CAIR-CT does not stop at equal treatment.

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The Left Can’t Erase Moms And Dads, No Matter How Hard They Try

This past month, our organization, Them Before Us, put up a handful of billboards across the country with a message that has been uncontroversial for all of recorded history: “No child has two dads. No child has two moms.”

Within days, LGBT activists were organizing against them, trying to bully the billboard company, raising funds for counterprotests, and lobbing accusations at our organization, calling us a hate group. The collective outrage has now begun trending on X, drawing millions of views across platforms, thousands of comments, and tens of thousands of likes in just a few short days. All of that fury is aimed at a sentence that every person alive knows to be true, because every person alive arrived here through one biological mother and one biological father.

The rage begins to make sense once you understand why these words pose such a threat to a certain ideology. “Mother” and “father” are real words with real definitions that carry real responsibilities anchored to the creation of a child. If we turn “mother” and “father” into feelings, into roles anybody can claim or set aside, we allow adults to abdicate (or sell) their responsibility by way of this redefinition, detaching them from the children they have created. These detached children then sit in a legal limbo, waiting to be assigned to whichever adults the state sees fit. This transformation from a person who needs protecting to an asset that needs allocating is a project extremists across history have long dreamt about.

Children have always come into the world making a claim on the adults around them. If a parent takes home a child, refuses to care for her, and the child is injured as a result, we do not arrest the nurse who sent her home or the neighbor across the street. We arrest the mother or father, because built into how we define a child is a biological responsibility laid at the feet of the people responsible for her creation. That definition is how every child has always known who she is, whose she is, and what she is owed: to be known and loved by her mother and father.

Now, our billboard detractors were quick to recite a list they thought disproved biology: children growing up in divorced homes; those who no longer have a father or mother on earth due to death; and those said to have multiple mothers or fathers because of stepparents, blended families, or adoption.

Their concerns highlight an unfortunate reality: Millions of children do live without or apart from their biological parents. But every situation on that list is also a result of a circumstance nobody premeditated or desired. Society has long recognized this and even constructed a process in response to the worst of these tragedies, called adoption, which is a process for a child who has already lost his or her mother or father and sees those responsibilities pass to two vetted adults. Adoption honors the biological definition rather than undermining it, because it begins by admitting the child lost something.

On the other hand, this new regime of redefinition deliberately deprives a child of her mother or father before she is born, through purchased eggs, purchased sperm, and rented wombs. This is not a difference in degree, but in kind: a market in which the child is the product of adult manufacture and state assignment.

Just this past week, news broke that Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier was intervening in a surrogacy case that shows this ideology carried to its logical end. A single man in China rented the womb of a Florida woman, and when she gave birth to his triplets, he never came. Their birth was met with silence. The death of one of the boys from RSV complications was met with the same silence. For 20 months, the woman cared for the boys; then, the moment she moved to terminate his parental rights and adopt the survivors, the Chinese national hired a lawyer, who has since had the two boys pulled from the only woman they have ever known and placed in foster care while he fights to ship them to a country from which no court could ever bring them back.

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‘Anti-violence’ activist sentenced to decades behind bars … for murder!

An “anti-violence” activist in the leftist state of Colorado has been sentenced to decades behind prison bars for murder.

It is Lumumba Sayers Sr. who has been give 48 years in the Colorado Department of Corrections for second-degree murder and 18 months each on charges of tampering with evidence and attempted tampering, according to a report from Denver’s Channel 7. The terms were ordered to run consecutively.

A report at Law & Crime said District Attorney Brian Mason confirmed, “Mr. Sayers’ actions directly undermined the work he claimed to dedicate his life to. A man who presented himself as a mentor to young people and an advocate for nonviolence chose to commit the very act he said he stood against.”

The convict was a mixed martial arts fighter who “provided community outreach to end the scourge of youth violence,” the report said.

But when his son, Lumumba Sayers Jr., was shot and killed in Denver’s Five Points, his father was charged with being out for revenge.

“At the birthday party, the defendant shot and killed a friend of the man police once believed was the prime suspect in — and once arrested for — the Five Points shooting [of the younger Sayers]. Sayers Sr. was originally arrested and charged with counts of first-degree murder and felony menacing,” the report said.

“Mr. Sayers murdered the father of a young boy at that boy’s fifth birthday party, an unconscionable and brutal act of violence,” the district attorney’s statement said. “This is particularly heartbreaking because Mr. Sayers had devoted part of his career to advancing the message of anti-violence. Justice is carried out in courtrooms, not in parking lots in front of children by someone seeking revenge.”

The convict was charged with the killing of Malcolm Watson, 28, in 2024, at a birthday party.

As the victim was leaving the party at around 5 p.m., a man walked up to him, pulled out a gun, and shot him “in the head at close range,” witnesses told law enforcement, the report said.

“Witnesses had stated the [shooter’s son] had been murdered about a year ago by a friend of the deceased,” a case affidavit charged. “[T]his murder was probably in retaliation or revenge.”

Sayers told the courtroom someone else fired the fatal shots and then fled, and he was “only attempting to retrieve his $15,000 gold necklace that somehow ended up near the victim’s body.”

The defense lawyers cited the convict’s “extraordinary life” and his involvement in the “Gloves Up, Guns Down” program that pushes young people away from violence.

Denver’s KDVR television said Sayers had worked “as an anti-violence advocate in the Aurora area,” and was “well known in the community for working to curb youth violence at the Heavy Hands Heavy Hearts gym in Aurora.”

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Transgender Activist and Former Dem Campaigner Vows to Unleash a “Trans Jihad” Against the GOP: “Kill Your Local Republican”

A transgender person has gone viral for threatening to unleash a “trans jihad” against MAGA nation and the GOP in a pair of sickening social media videos.

As the New York Post reported, a transgender activist and former Democrat campaign volunteer named Teha Delaruelle has been caught calling for the killing of Republicans across America in two separate videos.

The shocking videos were first uncovered by Minnesota independent journalist Dustin Grage.

In the first video, Delaruelle, a biological male who pretends to be female, sits right in front of a dry-erase board that carries the chilling message: “kill your local Republican.”

“We’re going to make this the moderate position for the state of Wisconsin,” Delaruelle says while pointing at the message.

“But I need your help, because we have one month to do this, so let’s do it,” he adds.

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Are The Epstein Survivors Being Exploited Yet Again?

On February 8, 2026, the advocacy group World Without Exploitation launched a 40-second public service announcement during the Super Bowl featuring Jeffrey Epstein survivors demanding the full release of federal files related to Epstein’s sex trafficking network.

The Epstein survivors held up pictures of themselves when they were initially abused by Epstein as minors or young women. “After years of being kept apart, we’re standing together,” they said.

The background was pitch black, and the music was haunting.

The PSA ended with the following: “Stand With Us. Tell Attorney General Pam Bondi IT’S TIME FOR THE TRUTH.”

As a longtime advocate for justice in the Epstein case, the PSA felt like a supernova. I felt an eruption of gratitude. But as my elation faded, I wondered how World Without Exploitation could afford the PSA.

The co-founders of World Without Exploitation, Lauren Hersh and Rachel Foster, have certainly generated remarkable fanfare. In fact, they’ve even been hailed as two of Time magazine’s most influential 100 people of 2026.

I’m the director of Epstein Justice, a 501(c)(3), and our raison d’être is an independent congressional commission to investigate the Epstein case. Like many nonprofits, we struggle to find funders. So, I’ve marveled at the success of World Without Exploitation, which was founded in 2016. By 2019, the Atlanta Jewish Times reports, World Without Exploitation was the “umbrella group of 140 organizations.” The landing page of its website states: “Our 175+ member groups are working to end exploitation.”

But I started to hear whispers about World Without Exploitation that were less than stellar. Let’s dive in.

The Strange Case of World Without Exploitation Co-Founder Lauren Hersh

On paper, Hersh would appear to have impeccable credentials to be the director of an organization dedicated to ending exploitation. She joined the Brooklyn (King’s County) District Attorney’s office in 2004 after graduating from Brooklyn Law School, then transitioned to the domestic violence bureau before joining the rackets division, where she ultimately became “chief” of the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Sex Trafficking Unit. Yet Hersh’s last case as a Brooklyn Assistant District Attorney would be marred by apparent prosecutorial misconduct. The case involved the alleged trafficking and rape of a young woman by four men.

The Backstory of Hersh’s Resignation from the Brooklyn DA’s Office

On March 31, 2010, a 22-year-old Brooklyn woman told NYPD officers that Damien Crooks took her to a party, where she was raped and beaten. She said that she managed to escape her abusers and phoned her best friend. Her friend took her to the police, and she was then sent to the hospital. A June 2, 2012, New York Times article reports that at 6:30 AM the following morning, the young woman talked to an NYPD detective and filed a formal statement, discussing rapes, beatings, and Crooks pimping her out. She said she was “afraid for her life.”

By 10:45 AM, however, she was interviewed again by a second NYPD detective and recanted her prior statements. She informed the detective interviewing her that she was a prostitute, was not forcibly raped by Crooks, and had had consensual intercourse with him several times over the preceding years. The detective wrote that the accuser promulgated her allegations, because one of the men at the party had sex with her, and he hadn’t worn a condom and hit her. The following day, the NYPD terminated its investigation – a turn of events that would prove integral to Herch’s prosecutorial problems.

But the woman’s allegations were not without foundation. She lived in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which has been a melting pot for both Orthodox Jews and African Americans. Crooks lived in the house directly behind her family’s house.

The young woman said she’d been molested by a family member. She also said her teenage nightmare continued when her brother asked her to purchase marijuana from Jawara Brockett who lived nearby. As her brother waited for her downstairs, she said she was forced to have oral, anal and vaginal sex with three men that included purported perpetrator Jawara Brockett.

The alleged victim claimed that she quickly became immersed in a double life. Women at a neighborhood hair salon remembered a teenager regularly ducking into the salon’s bathroom, where she disrobed from long dresses and slipped into clothes suited for working the streets.

There is a picture of the alleged victim donning a crimson dress – surrounded by black men, including one she named as a perpetrator. Like the men, her hand is rounded into a “C,” which law enforcement asserts is a signal for Crips. One of her alleged perpetrators, Jamali Brockett, would ultimately be sentenced to 24 years in prison on unrelated federal charges for sex trafficking women and minors.

Police records reveal that when she was 13 and 14 years old, in 2004 and 2004, she phoned the police at least four times to report assaults and provided her address. The NYPD said that one arrest was made because of the alleged victim’s complaints in 2003, but the responding commanders didn’t remember meeting her father, who claimed that the police never visited their family home. Her best friend also said that she approached police officers on the street as a teenager, but they had a callous attitude: “You put yourself in this situation, you get yourself out.”

In September of 2004, the alleged victim said a tipping point occurred: a “client” stabbed her. By the time she made it home at 3:00 AM her sweatshirt was drenched in blood. Her panic-stricken parents met her at the front door – and would eventually place their teenage daughter in a psychiatric hospital. She was discharged in 2006, finished high school, and enrolled in John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

The young woman maintained that Crooks’ threats against her sister drove her back into a life of prostitution.

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BLM Activist Targets White Christians with a Disgusting Suggestion After Minneapolis Officials Move to Close Popular Dog Park

A Minnesota Black Lives Matter Activist declared war on whites earlier this week in a social media post while whining about the upcoming closure of a dog park.

As Fox News reported, the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board recently voted 8-1 to close the Minnehaha Off-Leash Dog Park by the end of the year due to concern that it is part of the Mni Owe Sni (Coldwater Spring) Traditional Cultural Place.

The Minnehaha Dog Park is a 6.6-acre riverfront area that features hiking trails. Dogs with required permits can roam freely.

Alpha News notes that the land is sacred to Dakota tribes and officials believe there are unmarked graves from the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862.

“There was a concentration camp there at Fort Snelling, at the Bdóte area, and due to that, history there, there were a lot of relatives, ancestors who died over that winter,” Maggie Lorenz, executive director of Wakan Tipi Awanyankapi, told CBS Minnesota.

“Because of that, there were a lot of unmarked graves and burials around that area,” she added.

Chauntyll Allen, a St. Paul school board member and co-founder of Black Lives Matter (BLM) Twin Cities, was unhappy with the move to close the park and had a vile suggestion for the board.

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Activist facing prison for exposing drag event for children

French activist Yohan Pawer says he is facing possible prison time and a 45,000 € fine after denouncing what he describes as the sexualization of children at a drag-themed event in Nice, France.

Pawer, founder of the Eros collective, says his activism began in 2024 after he “infiltrated a drag queens club” where, according to him, “drag queens [were] reading stories to five-year-old children in schools.”

“I did a hidden camera,” he said. “And at the time it made a huge buzz in France.”

Pawer says the backlash also exposed a political reality many refuse to admit: “Many people think that homosexuality, when you are homosexual, you are on the left. No, there are also homosexuals on the right.”

That experience led him to create Eros, a collective of homosexuals opposed to left-wing LGBT activism. “That’s where Eros was born,” he said.

Now, Pawer says he has been placed under investigation after denouncing a “drag queen picnic” allegedly promoted for children as young as five. He claims hosts used adult sexual language and that “there were stands with pornographic books” while “children [were] running right next to it.”

“Because of denouncing that, I face one year in prison and a 45,000 € fine,” he said. “It is extremely serious.”

According to Pawer, the complaint was filed by the Family Planning organization of Nice and a local LGBT group for “defamation and public insult.”

But he insists: “We have all the evidence.”

“What I denounce is that the world of children must remain the world of children,” Pawer said. “Why do adults come into the children’s world?”

He says France is being swallowed by “wokism,” adding that “the government is complicit” and “turning a blind eye.”

Pawer says he will fight the case.

“It is out of the question that I be silenced,” he said. “I will fight until the end.”

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