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Radical Liberal Justice Elena Kagan Attacks Supreme Court’s Conservative Majority, Claims Their Rulings Are ‘Destructive to Democracy’ as Midterm Elections Loom

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, one of the Court’s three liberals, took a swipe at her conservative colleagues on Tuesday, accusing the 6-3 majority of undermining American democracy and fueling political polarization by declining to police partisan gerrymandering.

Speaking Tuesday at the Catholic University of America’s law school in Washington, D.C., Kagan blasted conservative-backed rulings on congressional redistricting, voting rights, and campaign finance laws, arguing that the decisions have allowed political parties to manipulate election maps for partisan advantage.

According to Reuters, Kagan claimed the conservative majority had enabled what she described as a race to the bottom in congressional redistricting.

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Why is Ottawa’s anti-racism fund paying $217,200 for an Atlantic ‘inclusive politics’ project?

Canadian Heritage’s anti-racism fund has committed $217,200 to the PEI Coalition for Women’s Leadership for a project called the Atlantic Alliance for Inclusive Politics, under an agreement listed as running from April 6, 2026 to March 30, 2028, according to the federal grants disclosure. The coalition’s interim executive director is Hannah Bell, who sat in the Prince Edward Island legislature as a Green Party member from 2017 to 2023 and ran for the provincial Green leadership in 2025, finishing with 147 votes.

The grant record describes the project only as “Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Program – CAHAP – Projects”. A July 22, 2026 call for applicants on the coalition’s website says “The Atlantic Alliance for Inclusive Politics is a project to address rising hate, harassment, and the exclusion of marginalized people from political spaces in Atlantic Canada.” The only component advertised so far is a youth advisory council: “A minimum of three members per province”, “One year, with four group online meetings overall”, a “$250 honorarium” each, and “Themes discussed will include experiences and impacts of polarization, hate, and racism.” The page says “This project funded by the Government of Canada.” No Canadian Heritage news release announcing the grant could be found.

Rebel News listed the grant on October 16 among 78 anti-hate projects worth $11 million. The programme’s stated objectives are to “advance anti-racism, foster ethnocultural diversity and inclusion and promote intercultural and interfaith understanding” and to “provide equitable opportunities for equity-deserving populations”; its page does not mention political participation. Nothing on the record ties the project to any party.

The coalition, known until September 2024 as the PEI Coalition for Women in Government, has received federal money before: $246,557 from Status of Women Canada in 2015 for a project on women on provincial agencies and boards, and $360,000 announced by Women and Gender Equality Canada in February 2021 for capacity building and governance.

Marc Miller was Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, the minister for Canadian Heritage, when the agreement started, appointed by Prime Minister Mark Carney on December 1, 2025. The department’s organizational chart lists Annalisa Bonardi as Acting Director General, Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism.

A group led by a former Green MLA gets $217,200 of anti-racism money for a project on politics whose only advertised piece is a youth council with four online meetings.

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With MAGA Enemies List, Jack Smith Trashes The Constitution Once Again

Evidence disclosed last week confirms what many have long suspected: Special Counsel Jack Smith and the Biden Justice Department assembled a massive database of political opponents.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley has disclosed that Smith’s operation collected personal data on at least 639,000 Republican donors, voters, and supporters. The records included names, addresses, email addresses, occupations, employers, donation histories, and even the last four digits of credit-card numbers. Some entries tracked purchases of ordinary red MAGA hats. Grassley has called this indefensible—an effort that went far beyond any legitimate investigation into the 2020 election or January 6 and instead mapped the Republican political apparatus itself.

This is not the first time Smith has treated the Constitution as optional. The August 2022 FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago raised serious Fourth Amendment concerns. Agents searched private rooms, including those used by Melania and Barron Trump. Internal FBI assessments later indicated that Washington Field Office agents did not believe probable cause existed for a full search of the residence; the Justice Department pushed ahead anyway.

However, Smith, who was appointed special counsel three months later, did not care. Instead, he used the raid to his advantage. As I documented in my book Kangaroo Court (Post Hill Press, October 2024), Smith’s pattern of aggressive, constitutionally dubious tactics against political adversaries was already evident.

The newly disclosed database compounds the problem. Where the Mar-a-Lago raid implicated the right to be secure against unreasonable searches, the compilation of hundreds of thousands of names of ordinary Americans who bought hats or made small donations strikes at the First Amendment rights of free speech and free association.

The Supreme Court has long held that government compilation or compelled disclosure of membership and association lists for the purpose of intimidating citizens is unconstitutional. In NAACP v. Alabama (1958), the Court unanimously ruled that Alabama could not force the NAACP to surrender its membership rolls. Justice Harlan explained that “immunity from state scrutiny of membership lists” is inseparable from the right of individuals “to associate freely with others” in the pursuit of lawful interests and ideas.

Forced disclosure would expose members to reprisals and thereby chill the exercise of First Amendment associational rights protected by the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause. The state had shown no “controlling justification” that outweighed that deterrent effect.

Other cases followed. In Bates v. City of Little Rock (1960), the Court struck down municipal ordinances that required local NAACP branches to disclose membership lists under the guise of occupational tax enforcement. Justice Stewart wrote that freedom of association “for the purpose of advancing ideas and airing grievances” is protected from state invasion, and that the cities demonstrated no relevant correlation between their tax power and the need for the names.

That same year, Shelton v. Tucker invalidated an Arkansas law requiring public-school teachers to list every organization to which they had belonged or contributed over the preceding five years. The Court again recognized that compelled disclosure of associational ties impairs the right of free association because the information can be used to penalize political or ideological affiliation.

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In LA, More Evidence That Single-Party Rule California Is A Madhouse Where Nothing Ever Works

A transportation project in Los Angeles may start to serve passengers next year, or it may collapse into financial chaos, abandonment, and a desperate search for someone to start running the thing after lenders bail out and it all falls apart. But first, the courts will have to work through the allegation that an engineer spied on a legal strategy session, and the builders will have to figure out why electrical arc flashes are charring the tracks.

It’s not the state’s infamously late high-speed rail project, but all of the same themes are there. Democrat-run California is the place where delivery never has any relationship to the promise, the cost estimate never comes close to suggesting the actual cost, the scheduled completion date is an open joke, and the failures and misunderstandings descend into allegations so bizarre they seem like a series of Mad Libs answers.

With the summer Olympics bringing crowds to Los Angeles in 2028, the City of Los Angeles decided to reduce traffic congestion at its famously nightmarish airport, LAX, by at-long-last linking the terminals and off-site rental car facilities with an automated train. The 2.25-mile SkyLink project was approved in 2018 and broke ground in 2019, with a promised opening date of 2023, at a budgeted construction cost of $1.9 billion. A larger dollar figure cited in that approval, totaling just under $5 billion, was supposed to be the cost of construction plus the cost of operating the system, covering the first thirty years of the project.

Today, the project is hoping to start serving passengers sometime in 2027, and construction costs alone are expected to top $3 billion. The empty trains slowly circle the airport, being tested again after recent structural failures that caused damage and uncertainty.

To understand everything that comes next, you’ll need to know the abbreviations for the two entities that make up SkyLink’s public-private construction partnership: Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), an agency of the City of Los Angeles, and LAX Express Integrated Solutions (LINXS), a Delaware LLC created in 2018 by the consortium of construction and engineering contractors who are building the project.

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45% Of College Students Justify Violence To Stop ‘Hate Speech’: Survey

A new survey finds that nearly half of undergraduate students support censorship, shout-downs, and physical violence to suppress what they consider “hate speech” or offensive ideas.

Fox News reports that the 2026 National Undergraduate Student Survey, released this month by the Buckley Institute, shows that 45 percent of undergraduate students surveyed believe physical violence can be justified to stop so-called hate speech. That number is up 6 points from 2025 and ties the all-time record set in 2023.

The survey, which polled 803 full-time undergraduate students at four-year public and private colleges across the United States, revealed several record-high metrics concerning free expression on campus, according to Yahoo.

Other takeaways from the survey were that 46 percent of students support shout downs and 40 percent believe that offensive speech should be subject to criminal prosecution.

Some 42 percent of respondents said that political comments they disagree with can be harmful to their mental health, up 4 points from last year; the highest reading in the 5 years this question has been monitored.

The findings prompted Cornerstone University President Dr. Gerson Moreno-Riaño to warn that higher education has “lost its way.”

Moreno-Riaño told Fox News Digital:

American colleges and universities for a long time now have really ceased to form students morally and are teaching resentment, teaching grievance politics, teaching violent entitlement. So, when graduates leave these universities, they leave with that. They’re not leaving with a moral formation of their hearts, their minds, their lives. They’re leaving with resentment.

Moreno-Riaño also cautioned that many colleges and universities are preparing “socialists and Marxists” who want entitlement and to “destroy the system” rather than “build it, make it, refine it and improve it.”

The Cornerstone University president also stressed that American higher education “has to shift,” saying it needs to “take moral formation seriously and not be grounded in entitlement and grievance culture.”

The Buckley Institute survey was conducted online between Sept. 5 and Sept. 14 by Inquire LLC and included 803 full-time undergraduate students under age 25 attending four-year public or private colleges and universities.

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Rep. Scott Perry Ad Highlights Police Complaint Alleging Democrat Janelle Stelson Exposed Herself to a Child

Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) has released a campaign advertisement highlighting allegations that Democrat congressional challenger Janelle Stelson was naked outside her home in view of a neighbor’s grandchild, referencing a written statement from a neighbor who claims to have photographed the incident.

“Disgraced TV reporter Janelle Stelson has been exposed, literally,” the advertisement’s narrator says. “First Stelson got caught making a degrading racial slur live on TV. Stelson got exposed using illegals as campaign workers. One Stelson illegal was even arrested for exposing his genitals in public.”

“Now police have been called to investigate Stelson for exposing herself totally naked to a neighborhood child,” the narrator continues. “Janelle Stelson. She’s not fit to serve.”

According to an October 21 report from PennLive, Stelson’s neighbor Sharon Orr alleged in a written statement that she contacted police on August 14 around 3:15 p.m. after observing Stelson “walking around outdoors” with her “breasts and buttocks fully exposed and in plain sight of my minor aged grandchild.”

The neighbor also claimed to have photographed Stelson and alleged that she had previously observed the congressional candidate insufficiently clothed.

According to Orr’s statement, East Pennsboro Township police informed her that Stelson had described herself as wearing “a nude bra and panties.” Orr maintained that the photograph she allegedly captured contradicted that explanation.

However, the photograph has not been publicly released, and Perry’s campaign acknowledged that it does not possess the image.

East Pennsboro Township police confirmed to PennLive that officers responded to the complaint at Stelson’s and Orr’s homes but declined to release any reports or records. No criminal charges have been filed against Stelson in connection with the allegation.

In an August 26 letter provided to Breitbart News, East Pennsboro Township Police Chief William S. Diehl denied a Right-to-Know request seeking incident reports involving an address on Oyster Mill Road, citing exemptions under Pennsylvania law for criminal and noncriminal investigative records.

The letter did not disclose the contents of any police reports or identify a specific incident.

“This false accusation is a pathetic, desperate attempt by Scott Perry to rescue his failing campaign, with easily disproven lies,” Stelson campaign manager Alma Baker told PennLive in an emailed statement.

Baker added that Stelson “has been a victim of stalking and harassment before” and “now she is a victim of Perry’s supporters making up totally unsubstantiated claims to smear her reputation.”

The allegations have also drawn differing reactions from Stelson’s neighbors.

According to PennLive, several Perry campaign signs were displayed along Orr’s driveway and attached to a railing facing Stelson’s residence, located only a few feet away. When a reporter approached Orr’s home Tuesday afternoon, she threatened to contact police and declined to discuss her statement or share the photograph. “Nobody has talked to me about even releasing or talking to anybody” in the news media, Orr said.

Another neighbor, Steve Dillon, who lives on the opposite side of Stelson’s residence, questioned the accusation. “All I know is that she wasn’t [naked],” Dillon told PennLive. “She was just sitting in her back yard or her back deck.” Although Dillon acknowledged he was not home at the time of the alleged incident, he said he frequently observed Stelson sitting outside, “clothed,” while taking breaks from campaign work.  He suggested that flesh-toned clothing could have been mistaken for nudity, but said being entirely naked “would not be in character with what I’ve gotten to know of her.” Dillon also noted that their homes border a creek frequently traveled by canoeists and kayakers, questioning how such an incident could have gone unnoticed by other residents.

Perry’s advertisement also references the arrest of Chimaobim Adedayo Igbojekwe, a Nigerian national who allegedly exposed himself in a residential neighborhood near a park in East Pennsboro Township. As Breitbart News previously reported on October 7, Igbojekwe, who entered the United States legally in 2017 but overstayed his authorization, reportedly told police he was waiting to distribute Stelson campaign flyers and produced a stack of them. Prosecutors subsequently dropped an indecent exposure charge and one disorderly conduct count before he pleaded guilty to a remaining disorderly conduct charge. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) took him into custody October 1.

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The Democrat Party Platform Is Throwing Conservatives In Prison And Slotkin Just Said It Out Loud

en. Elissa Slotkin laid out Democrats’ plans for another round of lawfare against President Donald Trump’s administration in a public interview last week, saying the prosecutions would be a “deterrence message” to scare young conservatives away from politics.

Speaking to students at the University of Chicago, Slotkin said, “The people around Donald Trump … have no immunity the way the president does. … So you go after the people who do his bidding.”

“I want to look at these signature cases and not just focus on the president, but on the people who enabled him,” Slotkin continued. “I want young people coming out of school to say, ‘Should I go work for the Trump administration? Like that sounds fun. I might get an opportunity.’ I want them to be like, ‘Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems that I don’t want, and so let me avoid participating in that.’ I want that deterrence message.”

Slotkin then doubled down in a post on X days later: “America must be a place where the rule of law still matters. Those laws should apply to everyone equally. If you have aided in the corrupt use of U.S. taxpayer dollars to benefit the President or his family, or you have violated the law in order to carry out guidance from the President, you should be held accountable.”

“And given how rampant that corruption appears to the average American, people looking to work for his Administration should realize that while the Supreme Court has granted the President immunity, it has not done the same for those who do illegal things at his behest,” her post continued.

The warning followed a September speech Slotkin gave in which she had already identified targets for her lawfare, saying “the goal here is to have a list of ‘signature cases’ that go after some of the most obvious and harmful abuses of taxpayer dollars.” The list of targets includes former DHS secretary Kristi Noem, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, and U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro. Slotkin herself describes these efforts as “retribution.”

She’s not the only Democrat calling for jailing their opposition.

Democrat Senate candidate Angie Nixon said last week that her Republican opponent, former attorney general of Florida Ashley Moody, should be “locked up and punished in jail.”

When asked whether those comments sounded “like a desire to weaponize the justice system,” Nixon told the CBS Face the Nation audience that “it’s not a desire to weaponize the justice system. It’s designed to actually hold corrupt politicians accountable for what they’re doing.”

These recent Democrat promises to continue lawfare are merely the latest in a long series. Last year House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said: “The one thing that should be clear — to all of these Republican extremists and sycophants and the people who are either actively involved in corruption, violating the law, engaged in extrajudicial activity — is that the statute of limitations for any crimes being committed now is five years. It will extend well beyond the end of the Trump administration.”

But the Democrat Party has gone far beyond threatening lawfare. Democrats spent the lead-up to the 2024 election trying to throw President Donald Trump in jail and successfully jailing some of his allies.

New York Attorney General Letitia James — who campaigned on using lawfare to target Trump and called him an “illegitimate president” — accused Trump of inflating his personal wealth to get more favorable loan terms in a case in which there were no victims. A court ultimately found the judgment against Trump to be unconstitutional. The case was so political that even anti-Trump CNN political commentator Jonah Goldberg called the “prosecution … a mistake” and “very political.”

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Axios Uses Fake AI Image to Run Damage Control for Somali Politician Who Spoke Next to Upside-Down Flag

To defend a leftist politician who spoke in front of an upside-down American flag, Axios published a fake fact check claiming the video was “doctored” by AI and that, in reality, the flag was right side up.

Axios just retracted that fact check.

Naturally, Axios would like us to believe its fake fact check was an honest mistake, but Normal People know two things about dishonest, leftist outlets like Axios: 1) their “mistakes” only ever fall one way, and that’s to benefit the left, and 2) Axios was in a panic to defend a leftist, so they rushed to publish this — something Axios would never do for a Republican.

Oh, and 3) fact-checking is a hoax, a leftist psyop, a disgraced profession that has spewed more lies than Joe Isuzu.

Side note: Fai is currently a Washington County Commissioner. Officially, she holds a non-partisan office, but she is a leftist.

On October 10, Washington County, Oregon, Commissioner Nafisa Fai spoke at a Somali event in Minneapolis. A few days later, the End Wokeness X account published a portion of that speech that clearly showed her speaking with an upside-down American flag behind her.

“Oregon politician Nafisa Fai just held a rally in MN, speaking Somali, with an American flag UPSIDE DOWN,” wrote End Wokeness. “Enough with the pretending already. These are not Americans.”

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Dem Kissimmee mayor arrested on grand theft, fraud charges: AG Uthmeier

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced on Wednesday that earlier in the morning, Democrat Kissimmee Mayor Jackie Espinosa had been arrested. He said his office was charging her with grand theft and organized scheme to defraud.

Details on the case are currently limited. Uthmeier said that a press conference would be held at 2 pm to provide further details.

Per WESH, a special prosecutor found probable cause earlier in 2026 to initiate impeachment proceedings against Espinosa, alleging that she had withheld public funds and failed to disclose personal interests. She was accused of disbursing $50,000 in grants to businesses that had been owned by her and her family. It is unclear if her arrest is connected to these allegations.

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A Pollster Just Admitted Faking Its Numbers, and The Fallout Is Huge!

A polling firm that spent months pumping out numbers in key races across the country admitted Tuesday evening that nearly all of them were fake.

Wedgewood Polls now claims the entire operation was a social experiment meant to expose lazy vetting in the polling world. Some election observers aren’t buying that explanation, and the timing of the confession gives them every reason to doubt it.

In its statement, Wedgewood cast itself as a kind of whistleblower. “Having previously worked in the polling and research sector, we watched as the public’s trust in polling eroded alongside a rise in unverified, low-quality methodology,” the firm said.

It then described what it claimed was the project’s goal. “We wanted to test a simple hypothesis: How easy is it for an entirely fabricated polling firm to gain traction, be taken seriously, and expose how little scrutinization exists in media and public commentary? The short answer: Far too easy.”

The statement also turned to the aggregators that published its work. “Despite having no history, formal credentials, or real data behind the vast majority of our releases, Wedgewood Polling was added to major polling aggregators, including The New York Times, FiftyPlusOne, and VoteHub, and repeatedly treated as a legitimate data source,” Wedgewood claimed.

Next, the firm addressed the press. “Our fabricated numbers were given instant credibility across national media platforms-including being cited on air and in reporting by outlets such as MS NOW,” it added. “The ease with which unverified figures were absorbed into mainstream political narratives highlights a systemic breakdown in media vetting and data aggregation.”

Mark Mitchell, the head pollster of The Honest Poll, didn’t buy that explanation for a second.

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