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6 hours ago
Wake Up Right
Economy
World

European Union Bulldozed in Trump Trade Talks.

President Donald J. Trump “rolled over” the European Union (EU) in a historic trade deal—unlocking billions in energy purchases, investment, and military sales while locking in higher tariffs on European imports.

The details: Following a 75-minute private meeting in Scotland with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Trump unveiled the outline of their preliminary agreement, which includes:

  • EU tariffs on U.S. imports drops to zero
  • 15 percent tariffs on most EU goods entering the U.S.
  • $750B in U.S. energy purchases from the EU
  • $600B in new European investment into the U.S.
  • EU will buy “hundreds of billions” in U.S. military equipment

Exclusions: Trump kept steel and aluminum tariffs at 50 percent, and pharma is not part of the deal.

President Trump, sitting beside von der Leyen, told the press:

  • “I think it’s great that we made a deal today instead of playing games and maybe not making a deal at all… I think it’s the biggest deal ever made.”

Zoom out: The deal comes just days before Trump’s August 1 deadline, which would have seen steep tariffs—including 30 percent on autos and 200 percent on pharma—levied against EU imports to the U.S.

Back up: Trump has said the EU was “formed to screw the U.S.” and “nastier than China”.

What the Europeans are saying: An article for the Financial Times titled “How the EU succumbed to Trump’s tariff steamroller,” concluded:

  • “There is no hiding the fact the EU was rolled over by the Trump juggernaut, said one ambassador. ‘Trump worked out exactly where our pain threshold is.’”

Big picture: Since beginning his second term, Trump has sought to reset the United States’ relationship with Europe in trade and defense. He’s gotten NATO allies to agree to increase defense spending to five percent, signed a historic trade deal with the UK, and now a trade deal with the EU.

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7 minutes ago
Media
Politics

The Washington Post’s Anti-Trump ‘Fact Checker’ Jumps Ship Over ‘Financial Considerations.’

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❓WHAT HAPPENED: Glenn Kessler, editor of The Washington Post‘s “The Fact Checker,” announced he is leaving the paper after 27 years, citing financial considerations as a key factor in his decision.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Glenn Kessler, Washington Post executive editor Matt Murray, and other high-profile contributors who also took buyouts.

📍WHEN & WHERE: Kessler will leave The Washington Post on July 31, with the buyout program concluding this week.

💬KEY QUOTE: “Much as I would have liked to keep scrutinizing politicians in Washington, especially in this era, the financial considerations were impossible to dismiss.” – Glenn Kessler

🎯IMPACT: The Washington Post has not signalled an immediate successor for Kessler, and it is unclear whether the newspaper will continue to have a newsroom employee dedicated to “fact-checking.”

IN FULL

Glenn Kessler, editor of The Washington Post‘s “The Fact Checker,” has announced his departure from the paper after 27 years, including nearly 15 years leading the fact-checking division. Kessler revealed his decision to leave on Facebook, stating, “After more than 27 years at The Washington Post, including almost 15 as The Fact Checker, I will be leaving on July 31, having taken a buyout.”

Kessler cited financial considerations as a major factor in his decision and expressed disappointment that no agreement was reached to allow him to remain on a contract basis while a successor was found. “I didn’t want The Post to have a gap in fact-checking coverage during this fraught period in U.S. history. But we couldn’t work out an agreement,” he wrote. Kessler also noted that he had written or edited over 3,000 fact checks during his tenure.

The Washington Post‘s buyout program, introduced by executive editor Matt Murray in the face of collapsing revenue and readership, has also seen other prominent contributors, including columnists Jonathan Capehart, Catherine Rampell, Philip Bump, and Joe Davidson, leave the paper. The program offers financial incentives based on years of service, with veteran employees receiving up to 18 months of base pay.

Notably, the Jeff Bezos-owned newspaper shed two other prominent newspaper staffers after Pulitzer Prize winners Darrin Bell—a cartoonist—and Thomas Pham LeGro—a video journalist—were separately arrested on charges of possession of child pornography.

Kessler and the other departures come amid broader editorial changes at the paper, driven by Bezos’s push to align the Post with principles of personal liberties and free markets. Bezos’ directive earlier this year led to the resignation of opinion editor David Shipley and sparked further resignations and subscription cancellations from liberal readers. The paper has faced similar backlash in the past over editorial decisions.

Despite a career mostly aimed at smearing Republican lawmakers, and especially President Donald J. Trump, the soon-to-be former fact checker for The Washington Post did begrudgingly admit in 2023 that former President Joe Biden regularly lies to the public regarding his past, not simply embellishing, but outright fabricating details about his personal and family history.

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Is Ghislaine Maxwell Trying to ‘Blackmail Her Way Into a Pardon?’

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❓WHAT HAPPENED: Convicted child sex trafficker and Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell is reportedly demanding that President Donald J. Trump grant her a pardon for her crimes in exchange for cooperating with federal investigators on an ongoing controversy over an alleged Epstein “client list.”

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: President Donald J. Trump, Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Jeffrey Epstein.

📍WHEN & WHERE: Blanche held a second meeting with Maxwell and her attorneys on Friday, July 25, 2025.

💬KEY QUOTE: “I predicted this weeks ago, and non-practitioner, hyper-online, nouveau-MAGA internet idiots claimed I was insane. Turns out I’m just always right.” — Raheem Kassam

🎯IMPACT: The leak of an alleged birthday letter from Trump to Epstein, along with other narratives linking the two, may be a ploy by Maxwell’s attorneys to “blackmail her way into a pardon.”

IN FULL

Convicted child sex trafficker and Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell is reportedly demanding that President Donald J. Trump grant her a pardon for her crimes in exchange for cooperating with federal investigators on an ongoing controversy over an alleged Epstein “client list”

“We haven’t spoken to the President or anybody about a pardon just yet,” Maxwell’s attorney, David Oscar Markus, said on Friday, but noted that, “The President this morning said he had the power to do so. We hope he exercises that power in the right and just way.”

The National Pulse Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam previously raised the possibility that Maxwell’s attorneys are actively working to foment controversy around Epstein, President Trump, and the alleged client list as a ploy to secure freedom for their client.

“I predicted this weeks ago, and non-practitioner, hyper-online, nouveau-MAGA internet idiots claimed I was insane. Turns out I’m just always right,” Kassam wrote on X (formerly Twitter), responding to the revelation that Maxwell’s lawyers are pushing Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche for a presidential pardon.

Last week, addressing President Trump’s lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal over an alleged birthday card and message Trump sent to Epstein: “It’s almost certainly real. Why would someone go to the lengths to invent a cringey birthday card that proves nothing? It was likely leaked by Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers to try and blackmail her way into a pardon. THINK.”

“A lawsuit will prove nothing either way. I promise you that. There will be some settlement over the terminology, such as that the letter ‘may have been provided by a Trump Organization employee against the President’s knowledge…’ etc etc,” Kassam added.

On Friday, while fielding questions outside the White House, Trump acknowledged for the first time that the birthday letter could be real, and indeed speculated that someone else may have signed his name to the message. Previously, President Trump insisted the letter did not exist. Notably, the Wall Street Journal does not appear to possess the letter, but was informed of its alleged contents by a source.

“I don’t even know what they’re talking about,” Trump said, adding: “Now, somebody could have written a letter and used my name, but that’s happened a lot.”

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1 hour ago
News
UK

Trump Warns ‘You’re Not Going to Have Europe Anymore’ Due to Mass Migration.

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❓WHAT HAPPENED: President Donald J. Trump doubled down on his comments on European migration policies, warning that Europe may irrevocably change if current policies remain in place.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: President Donald J. Trump, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, British Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds, and Scottish Secretary Ian Murray.

📍WHEN & WHERE: Trump arrived in Scotland on Friday evening for a four-day visit to his golf clubs in Aberdeen and Ayrshire.

💬KEY QUOTE: “They’ve got to get their act together. If they don’t, you’re not going to have Europe anymore, as you know it.” – President Donald J. Trump

🎯IMPACT: Trump’s remarks have reignited debates over immigration policies in Europe, with Nigel Farage’s Reform Party calling for the number of migrants to be slashed.

IN FULL

President Donald J. Trump has doubled down on his comments Friday regarding Europe’s immigration policies, when he described the situation as a “horrible invasion.” Speaking to reporters on July 28, Trump remarked, “Europe is a much different place than it was just five years ago, 10 years ago. They’ve got to get their act together. If they don’t, you’re not going to have Europe anymore, as you know it,” he said on Monday.

Trump emphasized illegal immigration, saying, “You cannot let people come in here illegally. And what happens is, there’ll be murderers, there’ll be drug dealers, there’ll be all sorts of things that other countries don’t want, and they send them to you, [like] they send them to us, and you’ve got to stop them.” His comments come amid a surge in migrant boats crossing the English Channel, with more than 40,000 people having landed in Britain since Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party took power last July.

When questioned about Trump’s choice of words, particularly his use of the term “invasion” on Friday, Starmer’s Business Secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, pushed back. “No, I wouldn’t [use the term]… I don’t know whether [Trump is] talking about other European countries there, or the wider context,” he said.

Net immigration to Britain in the year to December 2024 is currently estimated at 431,000, although provisional figures in recent years have all been revised upwards substantially. The total is down from the “Boriswave” peak of close to a million under former prime ministers Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak, but still one of the highest figures in British history by hundreds of thousands.

 

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Immigration
UK

London’s ‘Nasty’ Mayor Khan Clashes With Trump: ‘Diversity Makes Us Stronger.’

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❓WHAT HAPPENED: President Donald J. Trump is clashing with London Mayor Sadiq Khan on his trip to the United Kingdom, with Trump criticizing Khan’s performance as Mayor of London and Khan defending mass migration.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: President Trump, Sadiq Khan, and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.

📍WHEN & WHERE: The exchange took place on July 28, 2025, in the United Kingdom.

💬KEY QUOTE: “I’m not a fan of your mayor… He’s a nasty person.” – President Trump

🎯IMPACT: The exchange extends President Trump’s yearslong feud with Khan, who has publicly denounced the America First leader as “racist, sexist, homophobic, and Islamophobic” and rooted for Hillary Clinton and his other election opponents.

IN FULL

President Donald J. Trump criticized London Mayor Sadiq Khan during a meeting with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer—a Labour Party colleague of Khan’s—describing him as a “nasty person” who has done “a terrible job” running the British capital. “I’m not a fan of your mayor,” Trump told the press, with Starmer laughing nervously and interjecting “He’s a friend of mine, actually” after the American leader remarked on Khan’s poor performance.

Unmoved by the Prime Minister’s intervention, Trump continued, “No, I think he’s done a terrible job,” while expressing willingness to visit London.

Khan, who has attacked Trump as “racist, sexist, homophobic, and Islamophobic” and accused him of “defending white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and anti-Semites” for close to a decade, responded via a spokesman, who said, “Sadiq is delighted that President Trump wants to come to the greatest city in the world. He’d see how our diversity makes us stronger not weaker; richer, not poorer.”

However, contrary to Khan’s claims, recent official statistics and studies suggest that mass migration is, overall, a significant net drain on Britain in general and London in particular. For instance, low-wage migrant workers—who comprise a majority of migrant workers—are estimated to drain the equivalent of nearly $200,000, net, by the time they reach retirement age, rising to over $650,000 each if they live to 80 and well over $1 million if they live to 100.

Notably, migrants who arrive on work visas are a minority of the migrants arriving in Britain annually, with a combination of jobless dependents, asylum seekers, and others who are an even larger drain on the public finances, making up the bulk of the yearly influx.

Many migrants are also a significantly greater threat to public safety than the British-born, too, with Afghans, for instance, being over 22 times more likely to be over 22 times more likely to be convicted of sex crimes.

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Crime

FBI and DOJ Dismantle Massive Dark Web Child Porn Networks.

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❓WHAT HAPPENED: The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the results of Operation Grayskull, a major joint investigation with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that dismantled four dark web sites dedicated to child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: The DOJ’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, the FBI’s Child Exploitation Operational Unit, multiple U.S. Attorney’s Offices, and international partners.

📍WHEN & WHERE: The operation targeted sites active since 2022 and involved arrests across the U.S., the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and other countries.

💬KEY QUOTE: “These offenders thought that they could act without consequences, but they were wrong,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew R. Galeotti of the DOJ’s Criminal Division.

🎯IMPACT: The operation resulted in 18 convictions, sentences up to life in prison, and the dismantling of some of the most egregious child exploitation platforms online.

IN FULL

The Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have announced the conclusion of a sweeping investigation that dismantled four dark web sites hosting child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Dubbed Operation Grayskull, the effort has thus far resulted in 18 criminal convictions, with the offenders receiving significant federal sentences.

Last week, one of the high-profile prosecutions resulted in Thomas Peter Katsampes, 52, of Eagan, Minnesota, being sentenced to 250 months in prison, lifetime supervised release, and ordered to pay $23,000 in restitution after pleading guilty to conspiracy to advertise and distribute child pornography. He joined one of the dark web sites in 2022 and became a site moderator, actively distributing CSAM and advising others on sharing illegal content.

FBI Director Kash Patel described Operation Grayskull as “one of the most significant strikes ever made against online child exploitation networks.” He emphasized, “You cannot hide behind anonymity to harm children.”

Investigators revealed that the dismantled sites included some of the most egregious child exploitation platforms online, featuring sections dedicated to infants, toddlers, and violent content involving sadism and torture. The sites collectively attracted over 120,000 users and had at least 100,000 visits in a single day.

Eight defendants were prosecuted and sentenced in the Southern District of Florida alone for running one of the largest of the targeted websites. Sentences ranged from 20 years to life in prison. Additional convictions in other federal districts included sentences from nearly six years to 18 years. Two individuals died before they could be charged, and arrests were also made internationally, including in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Estonia, Belgium, and South Africa.

“These offenders thought that they could act without consequences, but they were wrong,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew R. Galeotti of the DOJ’s Criminal Division.

Operation Grayskull was led by the DOJ’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) and the FBI’s Child Exploitation Operational Unit, with support from Project Safe Childhood, a DOJ initiative launched in 2006 to combat online child exploitation. U.S. Attorney Hayden P. O’Byrne for the Southern District of Florida stated, “Let this be a clear warning. We will relentlessly pursue and prosecute anyone engaged in such atrocities, no matter how they attempt to cover their tracks.”

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4 hours ago
William Upton
Politics

Project 2025 Architect Paul Dans Set to Challenge Neocon Lindsey Graham.

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❓WHAT HAPPENED: Former Trump White House and Heritage Foundation staffer Paul Dans who led the pro-America First Project 2025, is set to announce a primary challenge to Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC).

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Paul Dans, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), President Donald J. Trump, former South Carolina Lt. Gov. André Bauer (R-SC).

📍WHEN & WHERE: Dans is set to announce his primary bid at an event in Charleston, South Carolina, on Wednesday, July 30, 2025.

💬KEY QUOTE: “What we’ve done with Project 2025 is really change the game in terms of closing the door on the progressive era. If you look at where the chokepoint is, it’s the United States Senate. That’s the headwaters of the swamp.” — Paul Dans

🎯IMPACT: The entry of Dans into the Republican Senate primary marks one of the most serious challenges Graham has faced since being elected to the seat in 2002. Dans’s America First bona fides draw a stark contrast to Graham’s pro-establishment history, especially regarding amnesty for illegal immigrants and foreign wars.

IN FULL

Paul Dans, a former Trump White House and Heritage Foundation staffer who oversaw the development of Project 2025, is set to announce he will challenge Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) in the 2026 South Carolina Republican primary. Dans will officially announce the primary challenge on Wednesday in Charleston, South Carolina, joining the Senate race, which includes Graham and former South Carolina Lt. Gov. André Bauer (R-SC).

“What we’ve done with Project 2025 is really change the game in terms of closing the door on the progressive era,” Dans said in a recent media interview, adding: “If you look at where the chokepoint is, it’s the United States Senate. That’s the headwaters of the swamp.”

The former White House official and Heritage Foundation staffer emphasized that Graham has spent most of his career in Washington, D.C., being more representative of the political establishment than the voters of South Carolina. “It’s time to show him the door,” Dans declared.

Sen. Graham has served in Congress for over 30 years. The South Carolina Republican, best known for his aggressively hawkish neoconservative foreign policy, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1994 as part of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s “Republican Revolution.” Subsequently, in 2002, Graham was elevated to the U.S. Senate, succeeding Strom Thurmond.

During his tenure in Congress, Sen. Graham became a close ally of the late anti-Trump Senator John McCain (R-AZ), and a staunch advocate for foreign interventionism in countries including Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran, as well as mass immigration policies, including amnesty for illegal immigrants. However, in recent years, Graham has attempted to reposition himself as an ally of President Trump—while continuing to push for U.S military intervention in the Middle East and the ongoing war in Ukraine.

For Dans, Graham is emblematic of the careerist politicians who have enabled the administrative state that President Donald J. Trump is working to dismantle. “To be clear, I believe that there is a ‘deep state’ out there, and I’m the single one who stepped forward at the end of the first term of Trump and really started to drain the swamp,” Dan said, noting entities like the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are now working to identify bureaucratic waste.

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4 hours ago
Christopher Tomlinson
Religion
UK

Government Job Site Posts Ad for ‘Sharia Law Administrator.’

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❓WHAT HAPPENED: A government job website in the United Kingdom advertised for an Islamic law administrator, sparking backlash.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Britain’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Reform Party leader Nigel Farage.

📍WHEN & WHERE: The advertisement was posted on July 24 but taken down on July 28.

💬KEY QUOTE: “Our country and its values are being destroyed.” — Nigel Farage

🎯IMPACT: The DWP claimed the advertisement was for a third party and not a government entity, but the backlash led to them taking it down just days after posting it.

IN FULL

A job advertisement for an administrative position at a Sharia court in Britain has sparked political backlash after being posted on the British government’s official jobs website. Listed on the Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) Find a Job site, the $31,500-a-year role is based at Manchester Community Centre in Didsbury, England.

The position, advertised by an independent charity, requires applicants to hold a degree in Sharia law and have prior experience working within Islamic courts abroad. Duties include administrative and secretarial responsibilities for the Manchester Sharia Council and coordinating social and religious services.

Outrage quickly followed, with Reform Party leader Nigel Farage commenting, “Our country and its values are being destroyed.”

Zia Yusuf, who heads Reform’s British DOGE initiative, echoed the party leader, warning: “There is only one legal system in the UK. Any attempt to upend or replace it should be illegal.”

The uproar follows increasing scrutiny over the presence of Sharia courts across Britain. Reports indicate there are approximately 85 such bodies in the country, often handling religious rulings related to family matters, particularly Islamic divorces.

Usually comprised of male Islamic scholars, they offer “guidance” and decisions that hold significance for those married under Islamic law, particularly women seeking religious divorces, which often require Sharia court approval even if a civil divorce has been granted. Though many Muslim-majority countries have reformed elements of Sharia in family law, traditional interpretations still heavily influence rulings in these Britain-based councils.

The DWP, under Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and the Labour Party, has tried to distance itself from the advertisement, insisting that “Find A Job is a free platform to help jobseekers find vacancies with employers from various sectors.”

Regardless, the listing was removed on July 28 amid public outrage.

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5 hours ago
Crime

Trump DOJ Examining Beating of Whites by Black Mob as Possible Hate Crime.

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❓WHAT HAPPENED: Police in Cincinnati, Ohio, are investigating violent attacks that went viral on social media, with video footage showing white men and a white woman being beaten brutally downtown. The Department of Justice (DOJ) is monitoring local law enforcement’s handling of the attacks, which may amount to federal hate crimes.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: The victims appear to be white men and a white woman, while the attackers were largely or exclusively black. Police Chief Teresa Theetge, Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy (R), Ohio Senator Bernie Moreno (R), and Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon have commented on the attack.

📍WHEN & WHERE: The incident occurred on Friday night and early Saturday morning near Elm and Fourth Streets in downtown Cincinnati.

💬KEY QUOTE: “Nobody in our great nation should be the victim of such a crime, and where race is a motivation, federal law may apply.” — Harmeet Dhillon

🎯IMPACT: The incident highlights concerns over public safety and lax crime policies, and the apparent reluctance of local Democrats to acknowledge incidents in which white victims are targeted by ethnic minority criminals.

IN FULL

Police in Cincinnati, Ohio, have launched an investigation into a violent attack that occurred late Friday and early Saturday morning following the Cincinnati Music Festival at Paycor Stadium and a Reds baseball game. Videos of the incident have circulated widely on social media, showing a white man being shoved to the ground and beaten by multiple black attackers, and a white woman receiving a serious concussion. Other white people can be seen being attacked in the background of the footage. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has suggested the attacks may amount to federal hate crimes.

The videos depict many in the crowd, including women, joining in the attacks, with one man being stomped on and beaten for nearly a minute before being helped to his feet. However, he quickly collapses again, appearing to suffer from head, nose, and mouth injuries. A woman who attempts to assist the man is shown receiving blows to the face and being knocked unconscious after her head hits the pavement.

Another video from the same night shows a third white person being knocked out in an apparently separate incident, also involving black assailants.

“The behavior displayed is nothing short of cruel and absolutely unacceptable,” Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge said of the attack.

Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy (R) also weighed in, saying, “I was born and raised in Cincinnati, and it’s sad to see this kind of heinous violence on the streets. It’s a shame that Democrats in our state remain silent when so many of their constituents are suffering from their lax-on-crime policies. We’re going to bring law and order back to cities across Ohio on my watch.”

Much of the discourse surrounding the incident has revolved around the ethnicity of the victims and the attackers, and the relative lack of interest from local Democrats and the corporate media. Republican Ohio Senator Bernie Moreno, responding to a viral social media post noting this lack of interest, commented that Cincinnati’s Democrat mayor, Aftab Pureval, “has an opinion on lots of irrelevant topics, [but] has not issued a statement, let alone a condemnation, of this heinous attack.”

Responding to Sen. Moreno, Harmeet Dhillon, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Department of Justice, wrote on X (formerly Twitter): “Our federal hate crimes laws apply to ALL Americans. We [at the Civil Rights division] will monitor closely how local authorities handle this attack. Nobody in our great nation should be the victim of such a crime, and where race is a motivation, federal law may apply.”

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6 hours ago
TECH
UK

‘Online Safety Act’ Imposes Mass Censorship on Social Media.

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❓WHAT HAPPENED: British users of the X social media platform reported being prevented from viewing anti-mass migration protest footage due to the Online Safety Act.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Social media platform X, British users, the UK Government, and the Free Speech Union.

📍WHEN & WHERE: The censorship began on Friday as the Online Safety Act was enacted across the United Kingdom.

💬KEY QUOTE: “The purpose is suppression of the people.” – Elon Musk

🎯IMPACT: Online petitions to repeal the law have gained over 160,000 signatures, and VPN searches in Britain surged by 700%.

IN FULL

X (formerly Twitter) users in the United Kingdom are being blocked from viewing anti-mass migration protest footage and parliamentary speeches on the subject of Muslim rape gangs after the so-called Online Safety Act took effect on Friday. Crafted by the prior Conservative (Tory) government, the Online Safety Act was pitched as a means of shielding children from pornography and other graphic content online. Still, many of its provisions are more concerned with censoring political speech.

After the law came into effect on Friday, British users shared screenshots of X messages received while trying to access footage of recent anti-mass migration protests, sparked by an alleged sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl by an Ethiopian migrant in Epping, England. The message read: “Due to local laws, we are temporarily restricting access to this content until X estimates your age.”

It has also resulted in a parliamentary speech by a Conservative politician discussing Muslim groomers being censored, including quotes from victims, further suppressing an issue that the British authorities, media, and political class have failed to address.

With fines of up to £18 million (~$24.2 million) or 10 percent of a company’s global turnover for violating the Online Safety Act, social media platforms are likely to be overly cautious in moderating content to avoid penalties. On Saturday, X owner Elon Musk stated that the Online Safety Act’s “purpose is suppression of the people.”

An online petition calling for the repeal of the Online Safety Act has already garnered over 160,000 signatures, mandating parliamentary consideration for debate.

Meanwhile, searches for VPNs—software that masks IP addresses to simulate being in another country—surged by over 700 percent in Britain on Friday as users sought to bypass the new restrictions. However, the incumbent Labour Party government under Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is already considering banning VPNs to prevent them from being used to bypass national censorship regulations.

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Trump Order Shuts Down ‘Child Sexual Mutilation’ Center.

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❓WHAT HAPPENED: Yale New Haven Health and Connecticut Children’s Medical Center announced they are ending their “gender-affirming care services.”

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: President Donald J. Trump, Yale New Haven Health, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, and other health systems nationwide.

📍WHEN & WHERE: Various hospitals across the United States have announced changes in recent weeks.

💬KEY QUOTE: “We are not going to allow child sexual mutilation.” – Donald Trump last year.

🎯IMPACT: A growing number of health providers have ended or paused so-called “gender-affirming care” for minors nationwide.

IN FULL

The Trump White House has released a statement showing the effects of the administration’s policies on preventing the mutilation of children as a result of medical transgenderism, noting Yale New Haven Health and Connecticut Children’s Medical Center have announced they are ending their so-called “gender-affirming care services.” The center joins a growing list of health systems across the country following President Trump’s executive action to stop “child sexual mutilation.”

Phoenix Children’s Hospital has stopped providing puberty blockers and hormone therapy to minors. Stanford Medicine has ended sex-change surgeries for minors, while Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has closed its “Center for Transyouth Health and Development and Gender-Affirming Care.”

Other institutions such as Denver Health, UCHealth, Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, UChicago, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and Rush Medical Center have also halted various forms of so-called “gender-affirming care” for minors. Similar actions have been taken by hospitals in New York City, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., and beyond.

Kaiser Permanente has also joined the list by pausing sex-change surgeries for patients under 19 across its hospitals and surgical centers. This marks a significant shift in the medical approach to minors and gender-related treatments in the United States.

President Trump has threatened to cut federal funding to hospitals and clinics that perform chemical or surgical gender treatment on minors. Despite this, some, like New York Attorney General Letitia James, have told hospitals to ignore President Trump’s order and follow local and state laws instead, resulting in legal confrontations with the federal government.

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