MeidasTouch Network, the news outlet responsible for the “bloodbath” hoax, took tens of thousands of dollars from the controversial Lincoln Project group when it was still establishing itself.
The White House-linked network received $42,000 from the Lincoln Project, a supposedly conservative organization, in 2021-22, when it was still a Democrat PAC.
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The Lincoln Project was founded in 2019 by John Weaver, who worked on the presidential campaigns of John McCain and John Kasich. It styled itself as a torchbearer of traditional Republicanism, opposed to Donald Trump and his America First agenda.
It was soon mired in scandal, however, after over 20 young males, including a 14-year-old, came forward to accuse Weaver of sexually harassing or grooming them.
The Lincoln Project would eventually acknowledge its co-founder, a married man, was “a predator, a liar, and an abuser.”
Weaver also signed a $350,000 contract with Rosatom, the Russian state-owned nuclear energy corporation, to lobby against sanctions in the same year he founded the Lincoln Project.
He backed out of the contract only after reports emerged he had registered as a Foreign Agent — but the episode has not stopped the Lincoln Project from repeatedly accusing Trump of being a Russian asset.
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❓WHAT HAPPENED: Former President Bill Clinton lashed out during his deposition by the House Oversight Committee over his wife, Hillary Clinton, also being required to testify the day prior. However, according to Chairman James Comer, Bill Clinton did confirm, under oath, that to his knowledge, President Donald J. Trump had no involvement with Jeffrey Epstein.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, President Donald Trump, Representatives Nancy Mace (R-SC) and James Comer (R-KY), and other members of the House Oversight Committee.
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📍WHEN & WHERE: Bill Clinton’s deposition took place on February 27, 2026, in Chappaqua, New York.
💬KEY QUOTE: “No matter how many photos you show me… I know what I did, and more importantly, what I didn’t do. I saw nothing and I did nothing wrong,” Clinton insisted.
🎯IMPACT: The committee continues to seek clarity on the Clintons’ connections to Jeffrey Epstein, with questions about transparency and accountability remaining central to the investigation.
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Former President Bill Clinton appeared before the House Oversight Committee to address his connections to deceased pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, who supported the Clinton Foundation. In his opening statement, Clinton stated, “I had no idea of the crimes Epstein was committing. No matter how many photos you show me, I have two things that, at the end of the day, matter more than your interpretation of those 20-year-old photos. I know what I saw, and more importantly, what I didn’t see. I know what I did, and more importantly, what I didn’t do. I saw nothing and I did nothing wrong.”
The former president also lashed out at the committee for forcing his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to testify on Thursday, saying, “[B]efore we start, I have to get personal. You made Hillary come in. She had nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. Nothing. She has no memory of even meeting him.”
Clinton’s remarks appear to come in response to comments made by Representative Nancy Mace (R-SC) about his wife, with Mace claiming, “I asked her very pointed questions, and you’ll see that in the transcript and the video that comes out, and you’ll see how she responded as well, screaming.” She further described Hillary Clinton as “unhinged.”
Throughout the deposition on Friday, several Democrat members of the House Oversight Committee attempted to deflect allegations against Bill Clinton onto President Donald J. Trump instead. However, according to Chairman James Comer (R-KY), “The President [Clinton] went on to say that the President… Trump… has never said anything to me to make me think he was involved—and he meant with Epstein.”
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❓WHAT HAPPENED: Pakistan and Afghanistan are engaged in “open war,” with Pakistan accusing Afghanistan of harboring militants and Afghanistan retaliating against cross-border airstrikes.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif, the Afghan Taliban, the Pakistani Taliban (Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan/TTP), and other militant groups.
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📍WHEN & WHERE: Fighting restarted on February 26, 2026, along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
💬KEY QUOTE: “Pakistan made every effort to keep the situation normal through direct means and through friendly countries. It engaged in full-fledged diplomacy. But the Taliban became a proxy for India.” — Khawaja Mohammad Asif.
🎯IMPACT: The conflict has led to significant casualties, regional instability, and international concern over militant group activity and refugee displacement.
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Pakistan and Afghanistan are experiencing their most serious armed confrontation since a Qatari-mediated ceasefire in October. The conflict escalated when Afghanistan launched cross-border attacks in retaliation for Pakistani airstrikes that reportedly targeted militants but allegedly killed civilians, including women and children.
“After the withdrawal of NATO forces, it was expected that there would be peace in Afghanistan and that the Taliban would focus on the interests of the Afghan people and peace in the region. However, the Taliban turned Afghanistan into a colony of India,” Pakistan’s Defense Minister, Khawaja Mohammad Asif, wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter). He continued, “They gathered all the terrorists of the world in Afghanistan and began exporting terrorism. They deprived their own people of basic human rights. They snatched away the rights that Islam grants to women.”
“Pakistan made every effort to keep the situation normal through direct means and through friendly countries. It engaged in full-fledged diplomacy. But the Taliban became a proxy for India,” Asif stated, adding that Pakistan is now in “open war” with Afghanistan and that the country’s “cup of patience has overflowed.”
Notably, the Pakistani government has accused Afghanistan of providing a safe haven to the Pakistani Taliban, or Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a militant group responsible for numerous terrorist attacks in Pakistan. Kabul denies these accusations, asserting that Afghan soil is not used for attacks on other nations. However, the TTP, created in 2007, does have known ties to the Afghan Taliban, and has sought stricter enforcement of Islamic laws and the removal of Pakistani military presence in certain regions of the country.
The border area, known as the Durand Line, has long been a source of tension. Afghanistan does not recognize the line as an official boundary, and both nations frequently accuse each other of ignoring militant activity along the border. Fighting resumed after a brief ceasefire last October, with airstrikes and ground skirmishes. International actors, including Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Russia, have called for an immediate resolution.
❓WHAT HAPPENED: A woman was found stabbed to death at a bus stop on Richmond Highway; the suspect, Abdul Jollah, has an extensive criminal record, but has frequently had charges against him dropped by George Soros-backed prosecutors.
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👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Victim Stephanie Minter, suspect Abdul Jalloh, Democrat prosecutor Steve Descano, and liberal plutocrat George Soros.
📍WHEN & WHERE: The murder occurred on Monday evening near George Washington’s Mount Vernon home.
💬KEY QUOTE: “It’s like a tragedy. It’s a public area. There’s kids around here.” – Local witness
🎯IMPACT: The community is on edge, and detectives continue to investigate.
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Homeless 32-year-old Abdul Jalloh has been charged with murder in the fatal, seemingly random stabbing of 41-year-old Stephanie Minter at a bus stop along Richmond Highway in Fairfax County, Virginia. Jalloh was apprehended after an employee at a nearby store recognized him from law enforcement notifications and alerted officials, leading to his initial detention for a separate theft offense.
Jalloh has a long record of criminal activity, including several instances of assault, theft, and a serious felony charge for malicious wounding from 2025. However, prosecutors have repeatedly dropped or failed to pursue charges against him in prior cases, leaving him free despite the evident danger he presented to the public.
The Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office is led by “rogue prosecutor” Steve Descano, a Democrat whose rise to office was funded in large part by groups bankrolled by liberal plutocrat George Soros, along with many other leftist prosecutors.
Descano previously dropped charges against violent career criminal Gerald Brevard III, who was facing decades in prison, in 2021, leaving him at liberty to carry out a deadly shooting spree less than a year later. His office is also accused of pressuring the victim of a 39-year-old pedophile, Ryan Duarte, into helping get him a plea deal, in a traumatizing process that included forcing her to recount her abuse “with Duarte sitting only a foot away” from her.
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❓WHAT HAPPENED: President Donald J. Trump is believed to have previewed a draft executive order proposing new election safeguards, including voter ID requirements and a ban on most mail-in voting.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: President Trump, Peter Ticktin, and Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard.
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📍WHEN & WHERE: The rumored order was drafted in early 2026, while DNI Gabbard has been involved in election security reviews in Georgia and Puerto Rico.
💬KEY QUOTE: “Here we have a situation where the President is aware that there are foreign interests that are interfering in our election processes,” said Peter Ticktin.
🎯IMPACT: If enacted, the executive order would significantly alter election processes, requiring voter re-registration with photo ID and restricting mail-in voting.
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President Donald J. Trump is believed to have reviewed a 17-page draft Executive Order that would declare a national emergency over election security concerns. The order, drafted by Florida attorney Peter Ticktin, proposes new voter ID requirements, a ban on most mail-in voting, and the elimination of voting machines. However, the proposal is facing significant pushback, as elections are largely left to state governments under the U.S. Constitution.
“Here we have a situation where the President is aware that there are foreign interests that are interfering in our election processes. That causes a national emergency where the President has to be able to deal with it,” Ticktin contends, referencing allegations that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) attempted to interfere in the 2020 election. Notably, the draft order closely mirrors the legislative language of the SAVE Act, which has been adopted by the House of Representatives but has faced opposition in the U.S. Senate.
Meanwhile, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard has been involved in election security efforts, including overseeing investigations into voting machine vulnerabilities and reviewing foreign influence on past elections. Gabbard was present during the recent Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seizure of 2020 ballots from a Fulton County, Georgia, election office.
A memo defending the legality of the order, authored by Ticktin, largely relies on the statutory text of the National Emergencies Act (NEA) and the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). “The IEEPA further grants the President authority to address ‘unusual and extraordinary threats’ originating outside the United States that impact national security, foreign policy, or the economy,” Ticktin writes in the memo.
“This authority includes the ability to regulate or prohibit transactions involving foreign property or interests, provided the President has declared a national emergency under the NEA,” he continues, adding, “For example, Executive Order 13848, issued under the IEEPA and NEA, declared a national emergency to address foreign interference in U.S. elections, citing such interference as an extraordinary threat to national security and foreign policy.”
Ticktin argues that “the President may utilize emergency powers to address foreign interference in elections, provided the requirements of the NEA and IEEPA are satisfied, and the actions taken fall within the scope of statutory authority.”
However, other legal analysts have pointed out that mere assertions of CCP election interference aren’t likely to be enough to prevent federal judges from enjoining the order. The NEA outlines the limits of presidential emergency powers and requires the President to specify respective authorizing statutes when invoking them. Meanwhile, IEEPA contains several economic emergency powers but does not contain any explicit election provisions.
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❓WHAT HAPPENED: Former Trump campaign chief and Republican National Committee (RNC) Chief Operating Officer (COO) Chris LaCivita, in a text message sent to POLITICO, appeared to inadvertently confirm that the recent push to discredit WarRoomhost and former White House Chief Strategist Stephen K. Bannon is tied to Senator John Cornyn’s (R-TX) primary reelection campaign.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Chris LaCivita, Sen. John Cornyn, and Stephen K. Bannon.
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📍WHEN & WHERE: The POLITICO story was published on Friday, February 27, 2026.
💬KEY QUOTE: “Associating with Senator Cornyn is better than being a lacky [sic] for Epstein.” — Chris LaCivita
🎯IMPACT: The text message suggests the recent anti-Bannon push by paid social media influencers is tied not just to LaCivita but to Cornyn’s reelection operation, as first reported by Raheem Kassam here.
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Former Trump campaign chief and Republican National Committee (RNC) Chief Operating Officer (COO) Chris LaCivita, in a text message sent to POLITICO, appears to inadvertently confirm that the recent push to discredit WarRoom host and former White House Chief Strategist Stephen K. Bannon is tied to U.S. Senator John Cornyn‘s (R-TX) primary reelection campaign, as first reported by The National Pulse’s Editor-in-Chief Raheem J. Kassam, here.
“Associating with Senator Cornyn is better than being a lacky [sic] for Epstein,” LaCivita wrote to the leftist corporate media outlet after Bannon admonished former Trump campaign aides for involving themselves in the contentious Senate primary in Texas, despite President Donald J. Trump himself remaining neutral.
A mock-up of how the conversation with POLITICO may have gone. For illustrative (and humorous) purposes only.
LaCivita’s paid social media campaign sought to misrepresent Bannon’s efforts to get Epstein on the record for a documentary titled The Monsters, which he was producing alongside Victory Films. During the filming, Epstein claimed he was a supporter of the “Time’s Up” and “Me Too” movements, which Bannon called – to his face – “a sop” to excuse “all of the depravity you’ve done against young women.”
TEXAS.
“My belief is the Trump team should have stayed out of this race, absolutely,” Bannon said of the Texas primary race, in which Sen. Cornyn—a 24-year incumbent—is locked in a three-way battle with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a staunch Trump ally, and Congressman Wesley Hunt (R-TX). LaCivita serves as a senior advisor to the pro-Cornyn super PAC, Texans for a Conservative Majority, while pollster Tony Fabrizio is also working for the Cornyn campaign.
The text message—which misspells “lackey”—is revealing, suggesting that the recent anti-Bannon push by some pro-Trump social media figures is likely tied not just to LaCivita but to Cornyn’s reelection operation itself. Bannon has been making a strong case for voters to back Paxton over both Cornyn and Hunt, arguing, “The Paxton situation is critical, because he has been the MAGA guy since Day One. He is a symbol of the heart of the grassroots MAGA movement.”
Notably, early voting in the Texas Republican primary ends on February 27, while in-person voting on election day will occur on March 3, 2026. At the start of early voting last week, some polls showed Cornyn had fallen to third place in the race, a position that would eliminate him as a candidate should the primary contest move to a runoff.
The National Pulse reported on Thursday that Idaho Governor Brad Little (R) had announced his reelection campaign is also retaining LaCivita as a senior advisor. Last week, when The National Pulse’s Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam called out the anti-Bannon operation as the machinations of LaCivita, the former Trump campaign chief lashed out, falsely referring to Kassam as an “illegal immigrant,“ in an embarrassing display of uncontrolled anger.
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❓WHAT HAPPENED: Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem alleged that spyware was secretly installed on government-issued devices used by Trump administration officials, allowing for unauthorized surveillance.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Kristi Noem, DHS staff, Elon Musk and his team, and political appointees under the Trump administration.
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📍WHEN & WHERE: Allegations emerged during Noem’s appearance on the “PBD Podcast.”
💬KEY QUOTE: “They helped me identify that some of my own employees in my department had downloaded software on my phone and my laptop to spy on me to record our meetings.” – Kristi Noem
🎯IMPACT: The allegations highlight potential deep state activities and the need for increased cybersecurity measures within government agencies.
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem is claiming that employees in her department secretly installed spyware on government-issued devices used by Trump administration officials, including her own phone and laptop. The surveillance reportedly allowed staff to monitor meetings and internal communications.
“I can’t believe what I found since I’ve been in this department. I just found the other day a whole room on this campus that was a secret SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility) secure facility that had files nobody knew existed. So we just happened to have an employee walk by a door and wonder what it was, and started asking questions,” Noem revealed on a recent episode of the PBD Podcast hosted by Patrick Bet-David. She went on to state that Elon Musk and his team helped uncover the unauthorized surveillance software: “They helped me identify that some of my own employees in my department had downloaded software on my phone and my laptop to spy on me to record our meetings.”
Regarding the secret SCIF, Noem explained, “We went in there. There was individuals working there that had secret files that nobody knew about on some of these most controversial topics like that, and now I’ve got that turned over to attorneys, and we’re getting to the bottom of what exactly happened there.”
Noem further stated that the spyware had been installed on the devices of “several of the politicals, and so we ended up bringing in people, and that was something that if you didn’t have those technology experts here in the department looking at all of our laptops and our phones and recognizing that kind of software, it would still be happening today.”
“I always believed when people talked about the deep state before, that it existed. I never would have dreamed that it was as bad as it is,” she said.
Performing my role as Secretary of Homeland Security has shown me just how real and dangerous the deep state really is.@elonmusk helped us find that a few DHS staff had installed spying software on the phones and computers of myself and other political hires. We found secret,… pic.twitter.com/ktnM6j7kog
❓WHAT HAPPENED: Vice President J.D. Vance ruled out the possibility of a prolonged war with Iran as tensions rise amid nuclear negotiations and potential military action.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: J.D. Vance, President Donald J. Trump, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and U.S. military forces.
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📍WHEN & WHERE: Vance made his comments aboard Air Force Two on Thursday.
💬KEY QUOTE: “The idea that we’re going to be in a Middle Eastern war for years with no end in sight – there is no chance that will happen.” – J.D. Vance
🎯IMPACT: The Trump administration continues to pressure Iran diplomatically and militarily, with the potential for escalation.
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Vice President J.D. Vance has said there is “no chance” the United States will become involved in a war with Iran that lasts “for years,” as President Donald J. Trump weighs potential military action amid nuclear talks. Vance made the comments during an interview aboard Air Force Two on Thursday, stressing the administration’s preference for diplomatic solutions.
“The idea that we’re going to be in a Middle Eastern war for years with no end in sight—there is no chance that will happen,” Vance said, citing the example of the Trump administration’s intervention in Venezuela, where now-former Marxist dictator Nicolás Maduro was captured in an overnight operation with no wider war being launched.
President Trump has given Tehran a tight window of 10 to 15 days to reach an agreement limiting its nuclear program, cautioning that failure to comply would bring “really bad things.” Discussions between American and Iranian officials in Geneva, Switzerland, have been strained, with the Iranian representatives insisting that talks should stick to nuclear matters and sanctions relief, while the U.S. side seeks to include wider issues like Iran’s missile arsenal and its regional influence.
U.S. General Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has reportedly warned that any military operation against Iran could result in substantial American casualties and risk turning into an extended conflict. Trump has pushed back against those accounts, while recognizing Caine’s reluctance to pursue war, and insisted that any conflict would be “easily won.”
The USS Gerald R. Ford—the world’s largest aircraft carrier—reached waters near Israel on Friday, adding to more than a dozen other U.S. warships positioned in the Arabian Sea.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has indicated readiness to engage with “seriousness and flexibility,” despite the persistent differences between the parties. Technical-level meetings are slated for Vienna, Austria, next week to advance the discussions, though any breakthrough remains far from guaranteed.
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❓WHAT HAPPENED: Britain’s extreme-left Green Party won a historic parliamentary by-election (special election) in the Gorton and Denton constituency (electoral district) in Manchester, England, with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s left-wing Labour Party crashing to third place behind Nigel Farage’s Reform Party in a seat Labour had held for nearly a century.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Labour leader Keir Starmer, Green Party leader Zack Polanski, winning candidate Hannah Spencer, and Reform Party candidate Matt Goodwin.
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📍WHEN & WHERE: The by-election in Gorton and Denton, Greater Manchester, took place on Thursday, following the resignation of former Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Andrew Gwynne.
💬KEY QUOTE: “I will keep on fighting for those people for as long as I’ve got breath in my body.” – Sir Keir Starmer
🎯IMPACT: The result has raised questions about Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership and the Labour Party’s strategy, with growing criticism of the Prime Minister from within the party.
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Britain’s ruling, left-wing Labour Party has taken a significant hit in a parliamentary by-election (special election) in the Gorton and Denton constituency (electoral district) in Greater Manchester, England, where the extreme-left Green Party defeated them in a seat they had controlled for almost a century. This historic win marks the Green Party’s first-ever victory in a parliamentary by-election and brings their total Members of Parliament (MPs) to five—and raises questions about the future of Labour Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.
Starmer described the results, which saw Labour crash to third place behind Nigel Farage’s Reform Party, as “disappointing,” but pledged to press on, saying, “I came into politics late in life to fight for change for those people who need it… I will keep on fighting for those people for as long as I’ve got breath in my body.” The loss has fueled internal backlash within Labour, with MPs like Karl Turner and Richard Burgon raising concerns about Starmer’s direction and approach.
The victorious Green Party candidate, Hannah Spencer—a local councillor—hailed the result as “just the beginning.” Green Party leader Zack Polanski declared that the win proved the Greens “can win anywhere” and pushed back against claims that their approach, which saw the Greens court the Muslim and ethnic minority vote with pro-Gaza and anti-Trump ads in Urdu and Bangla, was divisive.
Reform candidate Matt Goodwin argued that the results demonstrated Labour’s rapidly weakening grip over its traditional heartland areas, but expressed concern about the Greens’ victory as a product of minority bloc voting and possibly electoral fraud, saying, “We are losing our country. A dangerous Muslim sectarianism has emerged. We have only one general election left to save Britain.”
Starmer and his party face upcoming regional elections in Scotland and Wales, as well as local elections across England, which he previously attempted to postpone. Some Labour MPs are now openly calling for Starmer to step down, while others resist the idea of a messy internal leadership challenge.
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❓WHAT HAPPENED: A statue of Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament Square was defaced with graffiti branding him a “Zionist war criminal” alongside other phrases such as “Globalise the Intifada!” and “Free Palestine”.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: A 38-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated criminal damage. The Dutch group Free the Filton 24 claimed responsibility for the act.
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📍WHEN & WHERE: The incident occurred in the early hours of Friday, February 27, at Parliament Square in Westminster, central London.
💬KEY QUOTE: “This is a disgraceful desecration of the statue of Britain’s greatest wartime leader,” said Zia Yusuf, for Nigel Farage’s Reform Party.
🎯IMPACT: The statue’s vandalization, seemingly by a foreign national, underlines the growing disregard for Britain’s heritage in its increasingly hyper-diverse capital city.
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Early on Friday morning, the statue of wartime Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill in London’s Parliament Square was vandalized with graffiti phrases including “Zionist War Criminal”, “Globalise the Intifada”, and “Free Palestine.” The Metropolitan Police arrested a 38-year-old man on suspicion of racially aggravated criminal damage shortly after the incident was reported at 4:00 AM.
Officers arrived at the scene within two minutes. The statue was subsequently cordoned off and cleaned later that morning. A Dutch group called Free the Filton 24 claimed responsibility, posting a video on Instagram that appeared to show a man identified as Olax Outis defacing the statue.
This is not the first time the wartime prime minister’s statue has been targeted. During the Black Lives Matter disorder in 2020, it was regularly vandalized by agitators, often with accusations of racism. Other statues in Parliament Square were also targeted, including one depicting Abraham Lincoln.
The 12-foot monument, created by Ivor Roberts-Jones and unveiled in 1973 by Lady Churchill, is one of 12 statues in Parliament Square. It commemorates Churchill’s leadership during World War II and serves as a symbol of British history and values—which are being treated with increasing disregard in London, a hyper-diverse city where only an estimated 36.8 percent of the population is White British.
Winston Churchill’s statue in London, defaced with “Zionist war criminal” and “Globalise the Intifada.”
❓WHAT HAPPENED: A by-election (special election) for the Parliamentary constituency of Gorton and Denton, NW England, resulted in a shock win for the Green Party, which campaigned in foreign languages, targeting Muslim voters.
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👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Candidates included Hannah Spencer (Green), Matthew Goodwin (Reform), and others.
📍WHEN & WHERE: The election took place in Gorton and Denton, NW England, with results announced early morning UK time.
The by-election in the UK parliamentary constituency of Gorton and Denton in NW England has concluded, with early morning results indicating a win for the Green Party.
The election was marred by sectarian campaigning, with the Green Party focusing on issues such as Gaza in a constituency with a significant Muslim population.
The results come as a stunning blow to UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, who is currently embroiled in a diplomatic fracas with President Donald J. Trump over the fate of the Chagos Islands and the Diego Garcia military base.
While Starmer is unlikely to be deposed within his own party before May’s local elections across the country, he will almost certainly face a leadership challenge this summer.
GORTON.
In Gorton and Denton, a constituency that takes in parts of Manchester, complaints from independent election observers highlighted illegal “family voting” practices on polling day (Thursday), where family members were instructed on how to vote, a practice that is unlawful in Britain.
Labour, which previously held the seat with a large majority, saw its vote share collapse following the recent resignation of its MP over anti-Semitic messages. The Reform Party, led by Nigel Farage, fielded Matthew Goodwin – a well known academic and TV presenter – who finished a strong second.
The results were as follows:
A total of 36,814 valid votes were cast.
The Green Party’s strategy included campaigning in Urdu and Bengali and relying on postal voting. The victory is comparable to the Democratic Socialists of America outperforming the Democratic Party in the US.
Meanwhile, an anti-Reform Party, right-wing splinter group, ‘Advance UK,’ garnered fewer votes than the satirical Monster Raving Loony Party – achieving just 154 votes, or 0.4 percent.
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