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Prison inmate wins $150K in unanimous verdict after being housed with trans cellmate who allegedly sexually assaulted her

A former prison inmate has won a federal civil rights case against the Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC), which she accused of forcing her to room with a biological male who assaulted her, according to her lawyer.

Mozzy Clark said in a lawsuit initially filed in U.S. District Court in Tacoma in December 2024 that corrections officers did not take her seriously when she complained that a transgender-identifying inmate who had been transferred from a men’s prison had been harassing her. Her lawyer, David Pivtorak, announced that a jury unanimously awarded her $150,000 in the case.

“A unanimous federal jury in deep-blue Tacoma just awarded my client $150,000 for violation of her constitutional rights in this case,” the lawyer wrote.

“We are also scheduled to go to trial in February against the Department of Corrections in state court on her negligence claims,” he added.

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Why Is the Media Ignoring the Stunning New Trump-Epstein Allegations?

The president of the United States of America has been accused of rape. Again. The president of the United States has been accused of rape in a report issued by the Democrats of the House Judiciary Committee, as part of their ongoing investigation of Donald Trump’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein. The president has been accused of raping two women, one when she was as young as 13, and sexually assaulting three more. They are among 11 women who provided evidence or testimony that Trump “abused, assaulted, and even raped numerous women alongside, and in coordination with, the most infamous sex trafficker in history.”

I have been made to understand that many people do not know about the Judiciary Comittee report—and the fact that five women have accused Trump of sexual assault while in or near the presence of noted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. I have been made to understand that this is because the mainstream media finds former president Barack Obama’s comments about the [checks notes] Cheesecake Factory more worthy of their attention than the current president’s abuse of multiple women.

If asked, mainstream media types would no doubt argue that the lack of coverage of these latest rape allegations stems from the fact that previous rape allegations failed to “move the needle.” Trump’s sexual misconduct (both alleged and litigated) is “baked in” to people’s understanding of the man. People either won’t believe the charges or won’t care—or else they do believe the women and do care and vote accordingly—but everybody knows what he’s been accused of, generally speaking at least.

I find this line of argument unadulterated bollocks that reveals the deep failure of our mainstream media. It is news when the president is credibly accused of rape. It is important news. While I, too, don’t think these latest sexual assault accusations will materially change the national conversation about Trump or his presidency, that is not an excuse for ignoring, downplaying, or skipping over brutal allegations that he repeatedly assaulted women, including minors.

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UN Report Details Israeli Crimes Against Humanity in Palestine, Including Extermination, Rape, and Torture

A United Nations-mandated commission of inquiry on Monday issued a report detailing Israeli crimes against humanity in the occupied Palestinian territories, while also affirming that Israel’s genocide continues in Gaza, despite a nominal yearlong ceasefire.

“Israel has committed war crimes and the crimes against humanity of extermination, persecution, torture, rape, and other forms of sexual violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, intentionally targeting Palestinian civilians as it continues to commit genocide in Gaza,” the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said in a summary of the 19-page report.

“In Gaza… Israeli authorities and forces continue to commit genocidal acts even after the so-called ceasefire agreement, with the intent to destroy the Palestinian people, in whole or in part,” OHCHR said of the report, which was authored by the UN-mandated Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel.

“Israeli forces have also deliberately killed and inflicted serious bodily and mental harm against children in the West Bank – as they have in Gaza – committing age-based persecution against Palestinian children,” the report found. More than 21,500 Palestinian children, including over 1,000 infants, have been killed in Gaza over the past three years.

The commission documented cases of rape and sexual assault of Palestinians, including at the notorious Sde Teiman prison in Israel, where, according to the report, a prisoner “was raped with a stick and forced to insert it into his mouth until he vomited.”

Previous reporting, including by The New York Times, detailed sexual violence against Palestinian prisoners, including one man who died after allegedly being sodomized by an electric baton.

The commission’s report also affirmed that Israeli forces sexually abused Global Sumud Flotilla activists who were seized upon the high seas and abducted to Israel, including one male activist who was raped with a metal detector.

The report comes as Israeli forces intensify a military lockdown and ethnic cleansing in the occupied West Bank, including expulsions and home demolitions in Hebron, following the killing of two Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers by Palestinians resisting the nearly half-century occupation, and ahead of Tuesday’s Israeli elections.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza – is trying to shore up support for his far-right coalition ahead of the elections. Netanyahu and other senior officials, including Defense Minister Israel Katz, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich have vowed to annex parts or all of the West Bank and to ethnically cleanse Gaza.

Netanyahu and members of his Cabinet have also said that Israel is planning to launch the biggest military operation in the West Bank since it was captured and occupied during the 1967 Six-Day War. Both the occupation and colonization of the West Bank are illegal under international law.

More than 250,000 Palestinians have been killed or wounded in Gaza since the Hamas-led attack of October 2023. Roughly 1.9 million others have been forcibly displaced, often multiple times. Israel’s conduct in Gaza is the subject of a genocide case filed by South Africa at the International Court of Justice. A ruling is not expected until at least 2029.

The new report shows how the scale of deadly violence has increased dramatically in the West Bank. Six Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes there between 2008 and October 6, 2023, compared with 254 killed in aerial bombardments between October 7, 2023 and September 30, 2026.

OCHCR has documented 1,143 Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, between October 7, 2023 and October 9, 2026. At least 250 of those killed were children.

“The intentional killing and injuring of Palestinian civilians and destruction of homes in the West Bank combined with Israel’s persistent denial of responsibility form part of a broader strategy to exterminate and displace Palestinians and impose conditions of life that are unliveable,” Srinivasan Muralidhar, who chairs the commission of inquiry, said in a statement. “Meanwhile, Israel’s expansion of territorial control in Gaza continues to result in the killing and harming of Palestinian civilians.”

The commission also faulted the Palestinian Authority for targeting Palestinians for voicing dissent to its policies and actions and for its failure “to conduct effective and impartial investigations into incidents of killings and to ensure effective remedy, including financial compensation to victims and their family members.”

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Los Angeles County DA Considers Charges Against Eric Swalwell Over Allegations of Alleged Rape of Beverly Hills Woman

The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office is currently reviewing a criminal case against former Rep. Eric Swalwell over allegations that he drugged, raped, and choked Beverly Hills woman Lonna Drewes in 2018, but no charging decision has been made.

According to multiple reports, the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department Special Victims Bureau is still in the early stages of investigating the allegations, which were first made public in April 2026 when Drewes accused Swalwell of drugging, sexually assaulting, and choking her during a July 2018 encounter in a West Hollywood hotel room.

Swalwell resigned from Congress in April.

In August, The Daily Mail reported, FBI agents confronted Swalwell with a search warrant when he landed at San Francisco Airport on Saturday. They then took the former congressman’s electronic devices, including his cell phone, reportedly as part of a federal criminal investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct.  Per the Standard, the warrant was issued under federal statute 18 U.S.C. § 242.

Swalwell is being accused of multiple counts of sexual misconduct and assault, a lengthy prison sentence appears firmly on the table should he be convicted.

In was previously reported that the Intel Community had a classified report detailing Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell’s intimate relationship with Fang Fang.

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Hmmm… Democrat Congressional Candidate Claims She Was Raped at 2AM While Fixing a Campaign Sign in a Parking Lot and Was Called a “Democratic B*tch” — Then Waited 17 Days to Report the Alleged Assault

Democrat congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia, who is running in Arizona’s 8th Congressional District, says she was out fixing a campaign sign at 2 AM when she was hit in the back of the head and fell unconscious.

Greene-Placentia said she awoke with her pants down and one of her attackers still assaulting her, according to an interview with the Phoenix New Times.

Then, according to Greene-Placentia, her assaulter called her a “democratic b*tch, not a very good f*ck.”

According to USA Today, Greene-Placentia reported the assault on Aug. 31, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office confirmed, and went public with what happened in an interview with the New Times on Oct. 7.

Greene-Placentia, a former long-haul trucker, is allegedly known for an anti-ICE campaign song. It doesn’t sound like border security is her thing.

The weird song has 801 views, so maybe she is not so famous as the campaign claims.

Greene-Placentia waited 17 days to report the alleged brutal crime to police. She says she told her husband about the alleged attack three days later.

Greene-Placentia is running against conservative stalwart Rep. Abe Hamadeh. She says Bidenomics ruined her career as a long-haul truck driver. But she’s running as a Democrat.

Hamedeh’s campaign released a statement calling on authorities to investigate the serious accusations.

Rob Schmitt from Newsmax said this: “No clue what to make of this.”

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British Home Secretary: Nearly All Women Trying to Reach the UK by Boat Are Raped on the Journey

British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has made an extraordinary admission about Britain’s Channel migration system, saying “you can almost guarantee that every woman” waiting in northern France has “probably been raped along the journey,” according to reports from the British press.

Mahmood then delivered the line that will reverberate through Britain’s immigration debate: “We’re not in control of this border.” The Home Secretary admitted that criminal trafficking organizations effectively determine which migrants reach northern France and ultimately board dinghies for Britain.

“The sifting of the people that end up in the north of France and are about to get on a dinghy is done by criminal gangs who are also, by the way, people traffickers,” she said. Mahmood added that male migrants are also subjected to abuse, intimidation and threats along the journey.

Her description presents a brutal contradiction at the heart of the Channel system: Britain says it controls immigration, yet organized smugglers can still decide who boards boats and reaches British waters. For immigration restrictionists and sovereigntists, Mahmood’s own language amounts to unusually direct confirmation of their argument that border sovereignty remains compromised.

Mahmood herself argued that such a system cannot determine who eventually settles in Britain. “That is not the model that should decide whether somebody gets to come to the UK, make this their place of sanctuary and ultimately become one of us,” she said.

Her comments came as another large migrant boat reached British waters off Hampshire, bringing the border crisis to Gosport rather than the usual landing points farther east. French rescue vessels shadowed the dinghy before two RNLI boats met it in British waters and brought 149 migrants ashore.

The Home Office confirmed that those aboard would be transported to Kent for processing and undergo health, biometric and security checks. Government officials said contingency arrangements had been activated so the arrivals could be “securely disembarked, checked and processed.”

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Additional Text Messages Appear to Unravel Cornell Gang-Rape Allegations

The Cornell University Gang Rape Story unraveled a little more Wednesday when additional text messages between the alleged victim (known only as Jane Doe) and one of the men she’s accusing of rape were released.

Two years ago, in the early hours of October 20, 2024, 20-year-old Jane Doe claims she was gang raped by seven members of Cornell University’s Chi Phi fraternity. Until she filed a massive civil suit earlier this week alleging it was rape, all the contemporaneous statements from Jane Doe (that we’ve seen) indicate she voluntarily took drugs and engaged in four hours of consensual group sex with the men.

This includes a statement Jane Doe gave to the campus police about three weeks after the event on November 8.

The campus police showed  this statement to the local district attorney, Matthew Van Houten, who said then that “Jane Doe’s statement described her participation in drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious, and consensual.”

Earlier this week, CBS News uncovered texts it says are between Jane Doe and one of the accused where she flat-out says that “none of the sexual stuff was illegal,” that she enjoyed being with him and another guy, and would like to get together again.

Now ABC News has uncovered even more texts where Jane Doe expresses regret for her behavior, especially after gossip about the group sex made its way around campus, but she still says it was consensual.

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Left-Wing Author and Professor Camille Paglia Talks About Cornell Rape Allegations, Rips Today’s Feminists for Trying to Have it Both Ways on Sexual Consent 

In case you haven’t heard, there is a new high-profile college campus rape case, this time at Cornell University. A young woman claims she was raped during a party by more than one male student, but others say she gave consent to the sexual activity.

During a recent interview, left wing professor Camille Paglia tore into today’s feminists for trying to have it both ways on the issue of sexual consent, suggesting that women cannot claim to be empowered and then demand to be treated like children.

It’s not the first time that Paglia has made this type of point and it probably won’t be the last.

Transcript via Real Clear Politics:

QUESTION: You don’t think there’s a problem with sexual assault? Because a lot of women are coming forward now.

CAMILE PAGLIA: No. In cases of real rape, of course it should be prosecuted. Of course real rape is a crime.

But this is not real rape.

We’ve been arguing about dating encounters with miscommunications now for decades. It’s absolutely infantilizing to women. It must stop.

QUESTION: But you know that a lot of women are afraid of sexual assault or have been sexually assaulted.

Should they not be able to go and drink and play beer pong and get drunk like the guys do? They live in fear.

CAMILE PAGLIA: If you go to a fraternity-house party, with the chaos going on in the living-room area, and a young man says to you, “Would you like to go up to my room?” I’m sorry — you are consenting to sex.

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Liberals approved 26 male-born inmates for women’s prisons as sexual-assault charges surface in court case

Correctional Service Canada approved 26 inmates assigned male at birth for placement in women’s institutions from fiscal 2019–20 through 2025–26, according to a response to Conservative MP Frank Caputo’s Order Paper question. Ten approvals came in 2022–23 alone.

The figures technically count approvals, not the number of those inmates currently housed in women’s prisons. CSC provided no breakdown by institution or offence, withholding that information on privacy grounds. It said CSC, rather than a judge, made each placement decision.

Those decisions are under scrutiny in a constitutional lawsuit brought by Canadian Women’s Sex-Based Rights, with lawyers funded by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms. The group argues that placing inmates born male in women’s prisons puts female prisoners at risk.

Ottawa’s statement of defence confirms that two complaints at Grand Valley Institution for Women in Kitchener led to criminal charges. After a female inmate complained in April 2020, one gender-diverse inmate was charged with sexual assault and criminal harassment. Following a separate complaint in October 2024, another was charged with two counts of sexual assault. The filing does not say those charges resulted in convictions.

The government also acknowledged other complaints, while disputing or saying it could not verify many of the lawsuit’s allegations. At Grand Valley, a 2018 sexual-assault complaint prompted a police investigation, but no charges were laid. At Fraser Valley Institution in British Columbia, a woman reported in 2021 that another inmate had sexually and physically assaulted her. Police opened a file, but the complainant declined to speak with them. At Saskatchewan’s Okimaw Ohci Healing Lodge, a woman reported a sexual assault in 2019 but did not provide details or pursue charges, according to the defence.

The filing describes two physical altercations at Fraser Valley, in 2017 and 2019, involving gender-diverse and female inmates. CSC says its investigations found both participants were instigators in each altercation. It also says one other sexual-assault allegation at Grand Valley was later retracted by the complainant.

Ottawa denies that any alleged harm flowed from its gender-diverse inmate policy. CSC says it assesses transfer requests individually, including risks to other prisoners, and can deny a request when safety concerns cannot be adequately addressed. 

The constitutional challenge remains before the Federal Court.

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74% Of Sex-Crime Suspects In Spain’s Basque Country Are Foreigners

Foreign-born suspects account for nearly three-quarters of sexual-crime arrests in Basque Country, official figures show

Official statistics released by the Basque regional police, the Ertzaintza, indicate that people born outside Spain made up 58.7 percent of all arrests in the first half of 2026 even though they represent 10.2 percent of the population.

The disparity is sharper in several high-profile offense categories.

Of the 107 people detained for crimes against sexual freedom, 79 were born abroad, making up 74 percent of arrests in this category, according to data obtained by The Objective.

Foreign-born suspects also accounted for 73.3 percent of homicide arrests and 61.3 percent of those for causing injury.

The highest shares appeared in other offences: 94.7 percent of drunk-driving arrests (36 of 38), 79.6 percent of theft arrests (222 of 279), and 77.6 percent of robberies involving violence or intimidation (253 of 326).

The figures come from data the Basque Department of Security, which began publishing this data systematically at the end of 2025. Until then, the Ertzaintza routinely omitted the birthplace of detainees.

Security councillor Bingen Zupiria of the PNV said the change followed “tremendous pressure” from the Popular Party (PP) and Vox in the Basque parliament. Police unions supported the move as a contribution to “crime prevention.”

After that pressure, Zupiria stated, the department was forced to “change its criteria.” Arrests are now broken down first by continent and then by region, including North Africa, the rest of Africa, Latin America, or Europe.

The publication of these breakdowns ended a long-standing practice of withholding origin information that the Basque government said had created more confusion than clarity. Citizens, officials argued, have a right to see the actual composition of recorded crime.

Within the foreign-born group, those originating from North Africa are notable for their high offense rates.

They form roughly 1.8 percent of the Basque population yet accounted for 37 percent of homicide arrests, 24 percent of sexual-assault arrests, 64 percent of theft arrests, 48 percent of robberies with force, and 66 percent of violent robberies in the first six months of the year.

Suspects from the rest of Africa and from Latin America also appear over-represented in several categories of crimes against persons and property.

Overall arrests have been rising. The Ertzaintza recorded 6,903 in 2021 and 9,222 in 2025. The first half of 2026 already produced 5,050. If the pace continues, the year would end with a record of about 10,100.

Only the Basque and Catalan regional forces currently publish the origin of suspects to the general public. However, an internal document obtained earlier this year showed that, across Spain as a whole, foreigners accounted for 51 percent of daily arrests (527 of 1,033). The share was higher in Madrid (64 percent), Catalonia (71.8 percent) and Murcia (60 percent), close to the Basque figure of 59 percent.

Other research has shown that foreigners commit 500 percent more rapes than Spaniards and 400 percent more murders.

Prison data from the Basque Department of Justice for August 2026 shows 722 of the 1,967 inmates (36.7 percent) were foreign-born.

Among those under 25, the proportion rose to 65.9 percent, or two out of three.

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