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Court Says UW-Madison Social Media Censorship Illegal

The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s attempt to suppress an animal rights advocate’s comments on its social media pages has been declared unconstitutional by a federal appeals court, reinforcing the limits of government control over public discourse online.

Madeline Krasno, a UW-Madison graduate and former lab worker who spoke out against the school’s animal research practices, brought a lawsuit in 2021 after discovering that her posts were either blocked or hidden from the university’s Facebook and Instagram accounts.

The 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in her favor on August 1, concluding that the university violated her First Amendment rights by silencing her viewpoint.

We obtained a copy of the opinion for you here.

Now faced with the ruling, UW-Madison must decide whether to revise its moderation policies, disable comment functions on its social platforms, or try to escalate the case to the US Supreme Court. University officials have not indicated which direction they plan to take.

Krasno’s criticism comes from her time spent inside the university’s primate lab, where she worked as an undergraduate. She described disturbing conditions, saying she witnessed monkeys kept in isolation, sometimes escaping, and often displaying stress or aggression after being subjected to research. When she later tried to express these concerns publicly through university-run social media, her posts disappeared.

At one point, the university placed an account-level restriction on her Instagram profile, preventing any of her comments from being seen by the public. Even after that restriction was lifted, the school relied on automated filters that blocked posts containing words such as “lab,” “monkeys,” “torture,” “animal testing,” and “primate.”

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Leftist WA activist raises $12,000 on GoFundMe for illegal immigrant wanted for murder in Mexico

A GoFundMe campaign raised over $12,000 for an illegal migrant referred to as “Paco,” who was detained last month by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Washington state. The campaign described the illegal immigrant as a friend and a hardworking business owner. However, it has since been revealed that “Paco’s” real identity is Yussef Zarate-Barbon, a Mexican national who is wanted in his home country for homicide.

The online fundraiser, created by leftist activist Carissa Miller, was amplified in a recent news article published in The Olympian, a local newspaper that did not include Zarate-Barbon’s past. Brandi Kruse, an independent journalist and host of the “UnDivided” podcast, was the first to report on the apprehended migrant’s true identity.

The GoFundMe campaign for “Paco” has since been shut down as of Tuesday. It read at the time: “On June 24th my close friend and neighbor, Paco, was abducted by ICE,” the fundraiser read. “He was pulled over while riding passenger and removed from the vehicle without a warrant or receiving any information about why he was being detained.”

“He is currently being held in the NW detention center and still hasn’t been told why he is being held,” the fundraiser continued. “Paco is a local business owner of a mechanic shop in Lacey as well as running a small organic farm, all of this on the books. He was the ‘bread winner’ for his family who are struggling to wrap up loose ends and shut down his business in his absence.”

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Trantifa city council member facing recall over indecent exposure charges during topless protest now running for mayor of Stevenson, WA

A left-wing trans-identified city council member who was arrested for indecent exposure while protesting topless in Stevenson, Washington earlier this year has announced a run for mayor. At the same time, the official is facing a recall campaign in the wake of the arrest.

Lucy Lauser, a city council member in Stevenson, Washington, is running for mayor in the Democrat primary set for August 5. Archives of Lauser’s social media profile link the official to Antifa, who has talked about treating Republicans as “Nazis.”

In April when Lauser protested topless, police wrote in their report that the they were tipped off by someone who said “a ‘female protester’ was standing on the sidewalk exposing her ‘chest'” in public, and that when police approached Lauser, the official claimed that displaying the “breasts as an act of protesting was not considered obscene.”

“Lauser advised she was expressing her First Amendment Right by exposing her breasts,” the report at the time added.

Lauser has said of the mayoral campaign, per KREM2, that inspiration for political office came from Stu Rasmussen, who was the former mayor of Silverton, Oregon, as well as the first openly transgender mayor in America.

“It kind of changed what I thought was possible for myself,” Lauser said. “It was the first time I’d ever seen someone like me not presented as a monster or a joke, but as someone in a position of respect.”

After the earlier topless indecent in April, Lauer once again protested topless, only this time using small pieces of tape to cover up on July 4. Lauser was later arrested and then released after posting bond and was charged with indecent exposure.

“I couldn’t think of a better method of protesting the president calling me a man than taking off my shirt and getting arrested for it,” Lauser said.

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Extremism Masquerading As Activism

Earlier this month, the UK Parliament voted 385-26 to ban Palestine Action after members infiltrated an air force base and vandalized equipment. Under the UK’s Terrorism Act of 2000, it is now illegal to fund, support, or even publicly approve of the organization. Arrests have already begun, sparking backlash from critics, who describe cracking down on pro-Palestine Action protests as “dystopian.”

Now, Palestine Action’s U.S. wing, “Unity of Fields” (UoF) faces similar scrutiny for similar behavior, including calling for police to be set on fire, cheering the murder of Israeli-Americans, traveling to Iran and publicly supporting them against the U.S., and advocating for “direct action” tactics including vandalism, violence, and full-blown terrorism. The question is: Should the U.S. follow the UK’s lead and formally ban UoF and similar extremist groups?

That decision rests with lawmakers. Before discussing the decision’s finer details, we must face a more basic truth: Organizations like Unity of Fields aren’t just saying outrageous things. They incite violence, empower extremism, and undermine the legitimate pro-Palestine movement.

Incitement, Not Free Speech

UoF frequently uses far-left, Marxist rhetoric, similar to Iran and Hamas, to disguise their extremist, authoritarian agendas. This dissembling has effectively led many American progressives to embrace organizations like UoF as ideological allies. However, UoF’s rhetoric crosses from critique to incitement – speech “directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action” – which the First Amendment does not protect. Among other things, UoF has:

  • Stormed Columbia’s library, distributing pamphlets praising terrorists
  • Called for violence during the LA riots
  • Celebrated the murder of Israeli-Americans as a “legitimate act of resistance” and called for the release of the murderer

UoF claims to lead the pro-Palestinian movement, yet it follows the playbook of online radicalization, prioritizing violence over progress. Consequently, UoF and similar organizations aren’t simply exercising speech; they’re deliberately manufacturing the conditions for violence, which has already paid off in a wave of antisemitism and skyrocketing political violence.

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Report: More Than $25M in DHS Grants Went to Radical Groups With Terror Ties

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security sent more than $25 million to extremist groups with ties to Islamist terror groups between 2013 and 2023, according to a new report from the Middle East Forum.

Gregg Roman, executive director of the think tank, told JNS that the forum pored over publicly accessible government spending data.

“We matched these grants with extremist groups found in our research archives to identify the misuse of taxpayer dollars on a grand scale,” he said.

“Americans should know that their hard-earned money was allocated to build up security around a luxurious mosque compound in Maryland owned by Turkey’s Islamist government and that mosques in Michigan and Texas that serve as outposts for Iran’s regime were also recipients of DHS funds,” he told JNS.

Some $750,000 in federal grants went “to mosques suspected of operating on behalf of the Islamic Republic of Iran or its proxies,” according to the report. The report acknowledges that it is not known if the U.S. government ultimately paid the grants, only that it earmarked them in a specific year. (JNS sought comment from the Department of Homeland Security.)

The report, which the forum published on Monday, examines three federal grant programs — the Nonprofit Security Grant Program, Countering Violent Extremism, and the Disaster Relief Fund — from which the extremist groups received funding.

The Nonprofit Security Grant Program is “the greatest source of DHS funding to extremist groups,” as support for the program surged from $10 million in 2012 to $454 million in 2024, per the report.

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Gavin Newsom Personally Secured Nonprofit Cash For Anti-Law Enforcement Activists

California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom asked nonprofits to donate at least $610,000 to groups that call for defunding or abolishing law enforcement since 2023 before distancing himself from such stances.

Immigrant Defenders Law Center (IDLC) and Immigrant Legal Defense (ILD) received $500,000 in 2023 and $110,000 in 2025, respectively, at Newsom’s request, according to state records first reported by The Washington Free Beacon. IDLC has advocated for defunding the police and worked to free illegal immigrants detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), while ILD “prioritizes abolishing immigration detention and reimagining the U.S. immigration system entirely,” the group’s website says.

Newsom said in a March interview that proposals to defund police after the Black Lives Matter movement gained steam in 2020 were “lunacy.” He also declared in a July 14 interview that he is “happy to advocate for eliminating sanctuary policy,” referring to laws in Democratic-leaning areas that prohibit police from helping ICE catch illegal immigrants. The governor’s recent push toward more moderate rhetoric on major issues has fueled speculation that he plans to run for president in 2028.

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California High-Speed Train Boondoggle Reveals Collusion of Blue Government and Environmentalists

Socialists and Communists love trains for the masses.  They go where they are told, and Citizens do not have the freedom to change their mind and go somewhere else.  Cars and Freeways allow too much freedom.  The utopia of passenger trains in America was supposed to be the California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) project to connect San Francisco and Los Angeles with over 800 miles of tracks.  From 1981 to 2008 plans were made and a vote to proceed was approved by Californians with funding via a state bond plus Federal Funding.  In 2015 the initial construction commenced.

Fortunately, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy and President Trump brought an end to this insanity and announced on July 16 that the Federal Railroad Administration was terminating and clawing back approximately $4 billion in unspent federal funding for California’s High-Speed Rail debacle.

Secretary Duffy’s announcement said, “After 16 years and roughly $15 billion spent, not one high speed track has been laid by the California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA). The $135 billion projected total cost of the project could buy every San Francisco and LA resident nearly 200 roundtrip flights between the cities.

Secretary Duffy went on, “This is California’s fault. Governor Newsom and the complicit Democrats have enabled this waste for years. Federal dollars are not a blank check – they come with a promise to deliver results. After over a decade of failures, CHSRA’s mismanagement and incompetence has proven it cannot build its train to nowhere on time or on budget.  It’s time for this boondoggle to die.”  Governor Newsom recently appeared on the Shawn Ryan show and lied about all the progress on the CHSRA project.

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1900 Scientists Say ‘Climate Change Not Caused by CO2’ – The Real Environment Movement Was Hijacked

Millions of people worldwide are concerned about climate change and believe there is a climate emergency. For decades we have been told by the United Nations that Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from human activity are causing disastrous climate change. In 2018, a UN IPCC report even warned that ‘we have 12 years to save the Earth’, thus sending millions of people worldwide into a frenzy. 

Thirty-five years ago, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the (World Meteorological Organization) WMO established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to provide scientific advice on the complex topic of climate change. The panel was asked to prepare, based on available scientific information, a report on all aspects relevant to climate change and its impacts and to formulate realistic response strategies. The first assessment report of the IPCC served as the basis for negotiating the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Governments worldwide have signed this convention, thereby, significantly impacting the lives of the people of the world.

However, many scientists dispute with the UN-promoted man-made climate change theory, and many people worldwide are confused by the subject, or are unaware of the full facts. Please allow me to provide some information you may not be aware of.

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Meet the woman working inside Trump’s DOJ – she’s married to a radical leftist who doxxes ICE agents…

We always hear about “Deep State” operatives burrowed inside federal agencies, and anyone paying attention has seen it play out time and time again. But what if one of them isn’t hiding at all? What if they’re sitting right under Trump’s nose, embedded in his DOJ, hiding in plain sight?

The story is a bit convoluted, but let’s start at the beginning with a left-wing group called “ICEBlock.” This is a radical anti-ICE group that openly doxxes federal agents and broadcasts the location of active enforcement teams. But here’s the kicker: the creator of this dangerous, illegal site has a wife, and her name is Carolyn Feinstein, and she works for the US Department of Justice under the Trump administration.

And if that’s not bad enough, the ties get even more clear. It turns out the app is supposedly hosted on servers tied to her husband’s own tech firm. This is raising serious questions about whether a federal insider—Carolyn Feinstein—is helping sabotage law enforcement from deep within the Trump administration.

Are we looking at dangerous, violent corruption unfolding in plain sight?

So, what is ICEblock? As we mentioned above, it’s a doxxing app for ICE agents. It was launched in April 2025 by developer Joshua “Aaron” Feinstein. This app lets users anonymously report ICE sightings to notify others nearby. The irony is that AG Pam Bondi has called out this app for how dangerous it is, yet the wife of the developer is working in her department.

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Prominent French LGBT Activist Operated Pedophile Ring Using His Own Foster Children, Some As Young As 5 Months Old

Disturbing new information has been released in the case of the prominent French left-wing LGBT activist who ran an international pedophile network. Pierre-Alain Cottineau, 32, was arrested in September of last year after being traced back to the horrific sexual torture of a 4-year-old disabled girl.

Cottineau first became a target for investigators after OFMIN, a branch of the French police specifically focused on crimes involving children, became aware of a violent child sexual abuse video being exchanged through Telegram. The video appeared to show a disabled girl being sexually abused by an adult man. Incredibly, investigators were able to ascertain the whereabouts of the young victim by tracing the sale and shipment history of a very unique medical bed seen in the footage.

The child was reportedly placed into Cottineau’s care after he obtained approval from Child Welfare services to become a foster parent just months before the filmed abuse took place. Disturbingly, Cottineau had specifically requested to foster children under the age of 6.

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