The Ukrainian government said that its counteroffensive had finally made a significant gain, after Ukrainian forces pierced the first line of Russian defenses in southeast Ukraine. Meanwhile, Ukrainian officials have expressed a concern that Ukraine may run out of troops unless recruitment is expedited.
In other news, the Chapel Hill campus of the University of North Carolina was put on lockdown after an active shooter shot and killed a faculty member. The suspected killer, a man named Tailei Qi, was eventually tracked down and arrested.
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Liza Balmer, the CEO of NPY Women’s Council, spoke of the ‘absolute poverty’ people in central Australia are living in.
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“Just What Our Corrupt Government Wanted”: Trump Rages After Activist Judge Sets Trial for March
Update (1450ET): Trump has responded to the trial date, saying on Truth Social: “Today a biased, Trump Hating Judge gave me only a two month extension, just what our corrupt government wanted, SUPER TUESDAY. I will APPEAL!”
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A professor who has long been suspected of lying about her Native American heritage is resigning from UC Riverside with her full title and benefits package intact.
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Biden Says More Must be Done to Address Hate in US During Meeting With MLK Jr.’s Family
‘There’s a whole group of extreme people trying to erase history,’ the president said on the 60th anniversary of the first March on Washington
President Joe Biden said Monday that more needs to be done to address hate in the United States during a meeting with members of Martin Luther King Jr.’s family to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the March on Washington.
“We have to speak out,” Biden said in opening remarks to the meeting. “There’s a whole group of extreme people trying to erase history.”
“Silence is complicity. We’re not going to remain silent. We have to act against this hate fueled violence that we saw was happening,” Biden added.
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Biden’s Cringe Whiteboard Presentation Memed Into Oblivion
Joe Biden spent his Friday trying to convince Americans that the economy is doing just wonderful because of him by standing in front of a whiteboard and talking down to them.
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Biden Campaign Backs Newsom DeSantis Debate Even as White House Advisers Object
Gavin Newsom’s decision to take part in a debate with Ron DeSantis has been met with mixed reactions in the White House. While the Biden campaign said it endorsed the event, an adviser to Vice President Kamala Harris called the move “disrespectful.”
The California governor and rumored Democratic presidential candidate is set to debate his Republican Floridian counterpart, with Fox News’ Sean Hannity moderating. An exact date has not yet been set.
According to NBC News, while a number of Biden advisers expressed concern over the proposed event, some said it was acceptable given Newsom’s relatively low polling numbers.
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Breaking: Faculty Member Dead, Suspect in Custody After Shooting at UNC
On Monday, a gunman opened fire at the University of Carolina’s Chapel Hill campus, killing one member of the faculty.
Neither their identity, nor the name of the suspect, who is now in custody, has been released.
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Chicago Police ‘Almost Completely Dispelled’ Shooting at White Sox Game Came From Outside Stadium
Fred Waller, Chicago’s interim superintendent of police, announced Monday that the shooting in which two women were wounded during Friday night’s Chicago White Sox-Oakland Athletics game was most likely caused by a gun that went off inside Guaranteed Rate Field.
“We’re dispelling a lot of things,” Waller said during a media availability, per the Associated Press. “[A shot] coming from outside is something we’ve almost completely dispelled. We’re still looking at every avenue. It’s still under investigation. Something from inside, it could’ve happened that way. We’re looking at every avenue, exploring every lead and everything that we can get.”
Chicago police have not detailed where the shots came from or if someone brought a gun into Guaranteed Rate Field.
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is facing backlash after filing suit against Kia and Hyundai over claims they manufactured cars that lacked appropriate anti-theft measures, ultimately leading to a surge in car crimes.
Democrat Alderman Raymond Lopez mocked Johnson over the lawsuit on “Fox & Friends,” calling the move a “play from a socialist playbook” as crime continues to ravage streets in the Windy City.
“Clearly, we don’t have a crime problem. We have a Kia problem in the city of Chicago, according to Mayor Johnson,” Lopez told Steve Doocy on Monday. “The numbers speak for themselves — 104% increase from last year, a 234% increase in vehicle thefts from two years ago — but yet it’s the car’s fault.”
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DHS Uses Social Media Surveillance Tools to Detect Peoples’ Emotions
More and more reports are coming out detailing US government agencies’ desire to expand and “refine” their surveillance operations by including detection of sentiment and emotion, by using “AI”-powered software.
One of them is Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which is part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and which, according to internal documents obtained through freedom of information act (FOIA) requests, hired a third party in order to scan online posts for “risk terms and phrases.”
The company that provides this tool, Fivecast, does so in multiple languages. Fivecast also sells surveillance of video and image material through what it calls AI-enabled object recognition.
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Exclusive: Maui Resident Says Police Chief’s Claim That Officers Knocked on Doors is a ‘Total Lie’
A local resident who has led grassroots relief efforts in Maui told Breitbart News in a recent exclusive interview the Maui police chief’s claim that officers tried to evacuate people is a “total lie.”
“Lie. Total lie. Total lie. That is false. No loudspeaker, nothing,” said Dale Hermo-Fernandez in a phone interview from Maui on Friday evening. He said there was “no warning, no sirens. Nobody knew.”
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GOP Rep Finds Biden’s Weakness, Moves to Defund Jack Smith, Fani Willis, Alvin Bragg
Republican Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) has announced plans today to put an end to the weaponized prosecutions of President Donald Trump.
Clyde unveiled a strategy to stop the flow of money to state and federal officials who are targeting Trump with politically motivated cases ahead of the critical 2024 election.
The congressman said he will use the appropriations process to defund Special Counsel Jack Smith, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ prosecutorial authority.
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Hawaiian Electric Soars After Statement: Power Lines “De-Energized” When Fire Started
Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. surged as much as 43% in premarket trading in New York after the utility released a statement: their power lines were de-energized for more than six hours in Lahaina when the “Afternoon Fire” broke out on Aug. 8 that ultimately leveled the resort town in West Maui.
Just last week, Maui County slapped Hawaiian Electric with a lawsuit, accusing the utility of negligence that sparked the devastating wildfire that leveled Lahaina and killed more than 100 people, with hundreds still missing.
“We were surprised and disappointed that the County of Maui rushed to court even before completing its own investigation,” said Shelee Kimura, president and CEO of Hawaiian Electric.
Kimura said, “We believe the complaint is factually and legally irresponsible. It is inconsistent with the path that we believe we should pursue as a resilient community committed and accountable to each other as well as to Hawaii’s future. We continue to stand ready to work to that end with our communities and others. Unfortunately, the county’s lawsuit may leave us no choice in the legal system but to show its responsibility for what happened that day.”
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Jacksonville Sheriff SLAMS Gun Control Narrative After Racially Motivated Shooting
While many used the racially motivated shooting of three African Americans in Jacksonville, Florida on Saturday as an opportunity to push for more gun control, County Sheriff TK Waters placed the blame on the individual, not the weapon.
He slammed those who pushed the narrative that the firearm was the problem, and urged people to see the crime for what it was, a bad guy with a gun.
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Kevin McCarthy Issues Warning to Biden: ‘Democrats Now Tell Me They’Re Very Concerned’
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has issued a warning to Joe Biden about the level of concern that’s mounting in response to investigations into the Democrat president’s family business.
McCarthy warned Biden that several Democrats have told him they are “very concerned” as evidence mounts of a years-long foreign influence-peddling scheme.
The speaker was asked on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures” whether he’d bring an impeachment inquiry against Biden next month as he recently indicated.
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Legal Weed Industry in US ‘Verges on Collapse’ Amid Booming Blackmarket
The legal marijuana industry in the United States is reportedly on the verge of collapsing as black-market vendors throttle sales, according to the National Cannabis Industry Association’s recent report.
Beau Whitney, senior economist for the National Cannabis Industry Association, asserted that the industry is looming on a “crisis” that is “unsustainable from an economic perspective.”
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Live Updates: UNC Faculty Member Dead in on-Campus Shooting
A faculty member was killed in a shooting on campus at UNC-Chapel Hill on Monday, according to a source. One man is in custody. An hours-long lockdown has been lifted.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Key information in Monday’s report of a shooting at UNC:
- Around 1 p.m., UNC sent an emergency notification reporting an armed and dangerous person was “on or near” campus.
- One person, a UNC faculty member, has died in the shooting.
- All classes and UNC-sanctioned events are canceled for the rest of the day.
- The university’s students, faculty and staff were alerted to go inside and lock all doors as campus was locked down.
- WRAL sources say one person is in custody as of 3:15 p.m.
- Police identified Tailei Qi as a person of interest.
- UNC Hospitals was placed on lockdown as a precaution. The lockdown ended at 4 p.m. UNC outpatient clinics are closed for the rest of the day.
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Man Lunges at Climate Activists Blocking Road on His Way to Work: ‘You Motherf***er’’
A man was attempting to go to work on Saturday morning in Washington, D.C. when climate protesters showed up to block the road. He responded by flipping the bird and calling them “motherf***er[s].”
“I want to work, I want to go to work,” the man said. He proceeded to yank the banners out of their hands.
“You don’t give a f**k,” a woman yelled at the protesters. At one point the woman screamed into one of their faces. “Get the f**k out of here. We have to go to f***ing work,” she said.
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Marxist Teacher Who Called for ‘Forceful Cultural Revolution’ Lands Seat on State Legislature
A Marxist teacher from Colorado, who called for a “FORCEFUL Cultural Revolution” against “Whiteness,” was voted in by Democrats to fill an open state House of Representatives seat Saturday.
Tim Hernandez was selected as a state representative for the Denver area on Saturday by a committee of Democrats tasked with filling the vacant seat after its incumbent, Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez, was elected to the Denver City Council.
Hernandez worked at Aurora West Preparatory Academy in the Aurora Public Schools District, according to its website from May. Their staff list has since been scrubbed, and it was unclear if he continues to work in the Colorado district. A sign in his classroom called for “Dismantl[ing] White systems.”
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Massive Bay Area Land-Buy Organized by Tech Industry Moguls Who Want to Build New City From Scratch
A few months ago, it was revealed that Flannery Associates, an investment company, has spent nearly $1 billion in the last five years buying up 52,000 acres of dry farmland next to the Travis Air Force Base in Solano County, California. Questions surrounding the purchase have remained unanswered, until now.
The New York Times reported that billionaire venture capitalist Michael Moritz, along with other tech industry moguls, has been purchasing the land with the intention of creating a new California city near San Francisco, which is also within short distance of Silicon Valley.
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Mayo Researcher Sentenced to 18 Years for Supporting ISIS
MINNEAPOLIS — A Pakistani doctor who worked as a research coordinator in the Mayo Clinic system has been sentenced to 18 years in federal prison for attempting to provide material support to ISIS, a well-known terrorist organization.
When he was arrested at the Minneapolis airport in March 2020, his bag packed with combat gear, Muhammad Masood had pledged to travel to Syria to fight for ISIS as a soldier and medic, writing, “I want to kill and get killed… and kill and get killed… and again and again.”
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Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich dropped a bombshell on Fox News with Mark Levin when he claimed that former President Barack Obama is running the Biden administration.
Newt said Biden was not ‘cognitively capable’ of doing the job and that everything team Biden does ‘that’s smart comes from Obama’s acolytes.’
Gingrich said about President Joe Biden: “Well, he’s clearly cognitively disadvantaged. He went to Maui and talked to people who may have had a thousand people killed in the fire.
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NIH-Backed Study: COVID Masks Expose People to Toxic Chemicals
As Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration prepares to bring back mask mandates, concerns are growing about the health implications of widespread masking.
The Biden White House is claiming that mask mandates help to fight against the alleged threat of newly emerging Covid variants.
Despite the pandemic being over and there being no increase in deaths related to Covid, the Biden admin is reportedly planning to force the public to mask up again.
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NYU, Columbia and Other Top Med Schools Face Discrimination Complaints by White, Asian Teens
Six medical schools in New York state have been hit with civil rights complaints by white and asian teens who say the schools have made it easier for blacks and other races to join their introductory courses.
According to the Daily Mail, Columbia, NYU and other top institutions now face probes by the federal Department of Education, after six letters of complaint were filed with the DoE’s civil rights office in New York.
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Portland Schools Mull Banning Zeroes for Cheating and Not Doing Work: ‘Bigotry of Low Expectations’
Students in Portland, Oregon may soon be able to get away with cheating and not doing assignments, if Portland Public Schools implements new “equitable grading practices.”
If adopted, the new practices will bring various changes such as new grading structures, not grading homework, not giving students failing grades for not completing their work or cheating, and not grading for “non-academic factors” such as behavior, participation, and effort.
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Project Veritas CEO and Board Refuse to Release Findings of Internal O’Keefe Audit
Project Veritas CEO Hannah Giles refused to comment when confronted by citizen journalist SageOps about the company’s decision not to release the forensic audit report into ousted founder James O’Keefe.
Leaked audio from a board meeting has revealed that the company planned to keep the results of the report away from the public, despite claiming that they had been “vindicated.”
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Report: Kevin McCarthy Hopes to Launch Biden Impeachment Inquiry in September
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) reportedly hopes to launch an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden at the end of September.
While Congress left Washington, DC, for summer recess, McCarthy initiated strategies to open a sweeping impeachment inquiry into Biden to uncover the depth of his involvement in his family’s foreign dealings, multiple Republican sources familiar with the conversations told CNN.
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Republicans in Nine Florida Counties Adopt Resolution Calling for Ban of COVID Vaccines
Authored by T.J. Muscaro via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours)
A movement is gaining momentum to pressure Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, county sheriffs, and the Florida Legislature to ban COVID-19 vaccines and all other mRNA vaccines in the state.
Republican executive committees in nine Florida counties—the local arms of the Republican Party of Florida—have adopted a resolution asking Mr. DeSantis and lawmakers to prohibit the sale and distribution of the vaccines in Florida.
The 83-page resolution also asks state Attorney General Ashley Moody to immediately seize all remaining vaccine supplies and conduct a forensic analysis of them.
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The San Francisco Police Officers Association blasted a local bakery after it refused to serve an armed police officer.
The police union shared that one of their officers was denied service this month at Reem’s California, an Arab bakery on Mission Street, due to being “armed and in uniform.”
“NO COPS ALLOWED. That’s the confirmed policy of the bakery chain Reem’s,” the SF POA wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. The post includes a photo of an email exchange between the union and the bakery where a Reem’s spokesperson wrote, “At Reem’s, we do have a policy to not serve anyone that is armed in a uniform.”
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St. Paul Restaurant Owner Assaulted, Burglarized Six Times: There ‘Needs to be More Repercussions’
Minnesota resident Annie Rose is fed up with the crime plaguing her neighborhood.
Rose is the owner of the Lost Fox Restaurant in the Lowertown Historic District in St. Paul, where she’s worked for years. Recently, however, she’s noticed an uptick in “ongoing and condoned” crime in the city.
According to Rose, her restaurant had been burglarized at least four times since opening in early 2022 and two additional times since April.
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The NSA Tells Employees to Surveil People “With Dignity and Respect”
The National Security Agency (NSA), a highly classified agency spearheading American electronic espionage, has imposed a new directive to its employees.
The directive places the emphasis on foreign intelligence targets being treated with “dignity and respect.” This guidance is primarily for the department in-charge of furtive surveillance and global data collection, notoriously known as the signals intelligence or SIGINT division.
As reported by The Intercept, this internal directive, disclosed in the balmy days of summer, said that: “In recognition that SIGINT activities must take into account that all persons should be treated with dignity and respect, regardless of their nationality or wherever they might reside.”
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The Washington Post Calls for Reducing Free Speech to Improve Democracy
In very post-2016 fashion, The Washington Post last week published an article implying democracy might require curbs on freedom of speech. This unsettling approach suggests concerns around “misinformation” on social networks supersede freedom of speech, a move that has elicited intense debate and, rightly so; criticism.
In what appears to be a shift in public discourse towards further censorship, the widely-read Washington Post article critiqued Elon Musk’s reinstatement of former President Donald Trump on the social media platform, X, previously known as Twitter.
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Trump to GOP: Impeach “The BUM” Biden or “Fade Into Oblivion”
President Trump issued an ultimatum to Congressional Republicans Sunday, to either impeach Joe Biden or “fade into oblivion.”
In a Truth Social post, Trump wrote that “well meaning” Republicans in Congress “keep talking about an Impeachment ‘Inquiry’ on Crooked Joe Biden,” but they don’t seem tone doing anything about it.
“Look, the guy got bribed, he paid people off, and he wouldn’t give One Billion Dollars to Ukraine unless they ‘got rid of the Prosecutor,” Trump continued.
He added, “Biden is a Stone Cold Crook-You don’t need a long INQUIRY to prove it, it’s already proven.”
“These lowlifes Impeached me TWICE (I WON!), and Indicted me FOUR TIMES — For NOTHING!” Trump urged, before demanding “Either IMPEACH the BUM, or fade into OBLIVION. THEY DID IT TO US.”
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TV News Crew Robbed at Gunpoint in Chicago as City Hit With 30 Robberies in 12 Hours
While reporting on the violent crime wave in Democrat-controlled Chicago, a TV news crew was robbed at gunpoint over the weekend.
The news comes as Chicago politicians continue to make excuses for the armed thugs terrorizing the city.
However, the stats don’t lie and Chicago recorded at least 30 cases of people being robbed or carjacked during a 12-hour crime spree that started Sunday afternoon and ended Monday morning.
As they reported on the crime wave this morning, a TV news crew was hit by armed thieves.
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GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy ran away from his proposal to cut aid to Israel by 2028 on Saturday, instead promising that he would provide endless US aid to Israel “until Israel told us they were ready for it” to be cut off.
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Vivek Ramaswamy Rolls Out Foreign Policy Agenda Based in Founding Principles
Vivek Ramaswamy rolled out his foreign policy platform early Monday morning in an op-ed for The American Conservative: “A Viable Realism and Revival Doctrine.”
In the piece, Ramaswamy draws from the wisdom of the Founding Fathers, citing both the Washington Doctrine and the Monroe Doctrine as he lays out the foundation of his vision for the United States, a vision that puts America First on all fronts.
Ramaswamy looks to Richard Nixon to further flesh out his message by citing the former president’s foreign policy strategy which called for our allies to bear their own security burdens and provide the primary manpower for their own defense, with America serving as defender of last resort.
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Watch: Climate Commies Blocking Burning Man Taken Down Hard by Tribal Cops
Tribal police took aggressive action against a group of anti-capitalist climate protesters blocking the road to Burning Man in Nevada on Sunday.
Approximately six activists from Seven Circles and Extinction Rebellion locked themselves to a trailer in the middle of the road, when rangers from the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Police Department of Nevada drove straight through their blockade, sending demonstrators flying as they sobbed “We’re non-violent,” the Daily Mail reports.
At one point a tribal officer exited his vehicle and ordered a climate protester to the ground at gunpoint before telling her to ‘stop resisting’ arrest.
Another can be heard asking a protestors ‘who has the gun’, as the protestors say ‘we have no weapons at all, we’re environmental protestors’.
Guardian journalist Michelle Hooq claimed on social media that the Rangers attended the protest after receiving a call that ‘someone in the crowd was going to shoot the activists’.
DailyMail.com did not immediately receive a response to a request for comment from Extinction Rebellion, Seven Circles or the PLPTPD.
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Watch: Big Government Raids Small-Town Amish Farm
Townhall published a documentary on X, formerly known as Twitter, titled “David vs. Goliath: Big Government’s War on an Amish Farmer.” The film shows big government raiding the business of a small-town Amish farmer tucked away in Virginia’s heartland.
Samuel B. Fisher and his family farm, Golden Valley Farms, was raided unannounced in June by the Virginia Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services (VDACS) and Cumberland County sheriff’s deputy for selling meat from his 100-acre farm because the meat was not processed in a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) facility.
“They went through everything, house, every building, in the barn. They just raided through everything, put their nose in everything, and wanted to know every detail of everything. They went out back, trying to find all the failure they can find on a farm, which, of course, some of their stuff, which they think is wrong, is just normal stuff on a farm,” Fisher stated.
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Woman, 2 Dogs in Stable Condition After Friday Stabbing
MISHAWAKA, Ind. (WSBT) — After a 16-year-old stabbed his mother and two dogs, all victims are now in stable condition.
Caden Rutledge is accused of stabbing his mother several times early Friday morning.
Officers say he admitted to stabbing his mother and claimed he had been manipulated by Satan.
According to police, both dogs have undergone surgery and a blood transfusion.
The mother is expected to be in the hospital for several more days.
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Women Charged With Smuggling Fentanyl in Body Cavities
CBP officers detained female carriers on consecutive days at pedestrian lanes of El Paso’s Ysleta port of entry
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) — Two women face multiple federal charges after allegedly trying to smuggle fentanyl from Mexico inside their bodies through the pedestrian lanes of El Paso’s Ysleta port of entry.
One indictment returned last week charges Angelysse Swink Gonzalez with the importation of a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute.
Gonzalez on Aug. 5 stated at the port of entry she was returning from visiting her grandmother on her birthday in Juarez, Mexico, but had no identification on her, court records show. She showed a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer a photo in her cellphone of a state identification card.
The officer noticed during the interview that Gonzalez appeared to be wearing a thick undergarment under her legging jeans. The officer sent her to a secondary inspection area where a female officer conducted a pat down and asked her to squat.
The officer reported the woman struggled to comply with her instructions, so she touched her and felt a bulge in the pelvic area. According to court records, Gonzalez voluntarily removed from her vagina a sealed condom carrying 1,000 pills that tested positive for fentanyl.
Gonzalez was later interviewed by Homeland Security Investigators to whom she allegedly told a man in Las Cruces, New Mexico, offered her “work” bringing drugs into the United States. She and her contact traveled to Juarez, where she was instructed to call an Uber. They arrived at an address where she was offered 100 fentanyl pills as payment if she could smuggle a “boat” of pills into the U.S., court records show.
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Brits Told to Not Heat Their Homes in Evenings
British NGO the Climate Change Committee has urged people to turn their heaters off at night and during other peak times in its latest “carbon budget“ report, the UK Telegraph revealed on Saturday.
Rather than keeping radiators on at night during the coldest months of the year, Britons should “pre-heat“ their homes in the afternoon to save money, the report advised, explaining, “Where homes are sufficiently well insulated, it is possible to pre-heat ahead of peak times, enabling access to cheaper tariffs which reflect the reduced costs associated with running networks and producing power during off-peak times.“
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France: Olympic Games: The Impossible Swim in the Seine
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo’s ambition for the Olympic Games, which the French capital will host in the summer of 2024, is to hold the swimming events directly in the Seine rather than in an artificial pool. But for the time being, three test competitions designed to check that the river’s water is fit for human use have had to be cancelled one after the other because the water is still too polluted. Doubts are growing about the feasibility of the mayor’s project.
With less than a year to go before the start of the Games, which will kick off on July 26, 2024, three test events have been cancelled in the space of two weeks.
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France Bans Islamic Dress in Schools Citing Breach of Secular Laws
France announced a ban Sunday on Muslim women wearing the Islamic abaya to school, declaring the garment breached France’s strict secular laws in education.
“When you walk into a classroom, you shouldn’t be able to identify the pupils’ religion just by looking at them,” Education Minister Gabriel Attal told France’s TF1 TV, adding: “I have decided that the abaya could no longer be worn in schools.”
He said he would give “clear rules at the national level” to school heads ahead of the return to classes nationwide from September 4.
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Germany to Miss Climate Goals Despite Spending Over $500 Billion on Green Agenda
Germany is expected to fall far short of its ambitious “climate change” goals and will fail to comply with the globalist green agenda, according to reports.
Reuters is reporting that the German government is failing to meet the climate goals despite having spent more than $500 billion to reach them.
Unfortunately for the taxpaying German public, the country isn’t even close to complying with the green agenda targets, even after the epic spending.
Germany had pledged to meet targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 65 percent before 2030.
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Despite 34-year-old Berhan S. breaking into the Protestant school in the multicultural Berlin neighborhood of Neukölln and stabbing two little girls, his crime will go unpunished. Instead, the courts have ruled that due to “mental illness,” he cannot be held responsible for the stabbing case, in which two 8-year-old girls nearly lost their lives after suffering multiple wounds to their necks and chests.
In the Berlin public prosecutor’s office’s “preliminary psychiatric report,” it stated that Berhan S. “was in a psychotic state at the time of the crime due to a mental illness,” which was first reported by BZ.
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Hungary: Tucker Carlson Blasts ‘Creep’ US Ambassador
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson has called for the firing of US Ambassador to Hungary David Pressman, saying the diplomat has undermined the interests of Americans by trying to impose an LGBTQ agenda rather than building stronger relations with Budapest.
Speaking at an event earlier this week in Budapest, Carlson said he was compelled to apologize for the treatment of Hungary by President Joe Biden’s administration. “The world is realigning at high speed and turning against the United States, but the Biden administration is spending its time harassing one of our last sincere allies in Europe, Hungary, for the crime of being too Christian,” he said.
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Poland and Baltic States Demand Belarus Expel Wagner and End Migrant Crisis or Face Border Closure
Poland and the three Baltic states — Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia — have jointly called on Belarus to remove Wagner Group mercenaries from its territory and end the migration crisis it and Russia have engineered on its borders.
They warn that, if Minsk and Moscow mount further “provocations”, they will adopt a “joint, decisive and appropriate response”, including the possibility of closing all border crossings with Belarus.
“We are determined to protect the borders of the democratic world,” say the quartet, who sit on the eastern flank of both the European Union and NATO.
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Slovenia: Former ECHR Judge Caught With Antisemitic Twitter Account
A retired Slovenian human rights judge has faced calls to have his former cases involving Jews and World War II restitution reviewed after his personal Twitter account came to light in which he publicly expresses antisemitic posts and content.
Jewish groups called for the judicial review last week after tweets by the former European Court of Human Rights judge Bostjan Zupancic showed the retired jurist endorsed blatantly antisemitic canards and rhetoric including tweeting racist cartoons of Jews.
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Soros-Backed Fund Completes Majority Purchase of Polish Newspaper
An investment group backed by billionaire George Soros has taken a majority stake in a Polish media house that publishes one of the country’s leading newspapers, Rzeczpospolita.
The move is the latest in a series of investments in Poland’s media market linked to Soros, who is a prominent supporter of liberal political causes. Some figures associated with Poland’s conservative ruling camp have raised concern about the latest deal, which comes just weeks before elections.
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Spain: Concert Poster Suggestive of Vox Leader’s Assassination
A poster announcing a concert series in the Basque regional capital of Bilbao depicted VOX leader Santiago Abascal with blood spurting from his neck.
The poster appeared on social media during the city’s annual festival week in August.
As typically happens, there was an alternative festival program organised outside of the official one sponsored, financed, and controlled by the city hall and often associated with radical groups, according to the Spanish newspaper Vozpópuli, which was the first to report on the menacing poster.
The announcement uses an image of Abascal as the main visual element. He is riding in a convertible as if in a parade, and a red stain, evocative of blood, emerges from the nape of his neck. The scene is suggestive of the politician receiving a shot from behind.
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A Conservative politician was arrested in England for allegedly engaging in a hate crime by sharing a video showing police detaining a Christian street preacher and for defending the free speech of a fellow councillor who criticised the LGBT Pride movement.
In yet another blow to the state of freedom of expression in Britain, Conservative Councillor Anthony Stevens has revealed that he was arrested at his home earlier this month by Northamptonshire Police for posts he made on social media, for which they dragged him into a police station for questioning.
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‘Expanding Our Foothold’: Ukraine Says it Has Pierced Russian Line of Defence
Kyiv: Ukrainian forces pierced the first line of Russian fortifications in the nation’s southeast and are fighting to widen the breach, the nation’s defence chief said, in a bid for a potential breakthrough.
Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov said that Ukrainian soldiers, on foot and mostly at night, had made slow progress in clearing heavily mined areas to create approach corridors for a larger force that has now fought through the first main line of Russian trenches, bunkers and tanks traps.
“We broke the first line and now we are expanding our foothold,” Reznikov told reporters Monday in Kyiv.
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Not a Proxy War? Zelensky Aide Confirms ‘Secret’ Meetings With NATO Brass
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov first characterized the Ukrainian crisis as a NATO “proxy war” against Russia in April 2022. The US and its allies vocally rejected the characterization. But a series of Pentagon leaks, combined with statements made by Ukrainian officials themselves, have served to confirm the validity of Lavrov’s assessment.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s top advisor has confirmed that a “secret meeting” recently took place between Ukrainian Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi, other Ukrainian generals, and NATO top brass on the Polish-Ukrainian border.
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Russia Appeals to Ukrainian Soldiers in Counteroffensive: ‘This is Your Last Chance’
Russia released a compelling ad appealing to Ukrainian soldiers in its counteroffensive on the eastern front, telling them, “this is your last chance” to surrender or face annihilation.
The ad shows a frightened Ukrainian soldier attempt to make a stand on the battlefield before getting unceremoniously shot in the head.
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Tucker Carlson Planning to Interview Putin, Left Implodes
Independent news reporter Tucker Carlson is reportedly in negotiations to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The news was first revealed on social media on Sunday.
However, Russia Today (RT), the pro-Putin state-owned media outlet, also confirmed the reports early Monday morning.
“Former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson has been seeking an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin,” RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan said on Sunday.
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Ukraine and Russia Battle for Vital Oil and Gas Platforms in the Black Sea
Battles are taking place between Ukraine and Russia over economically and strategically important oil and gas platforms in the Black Sea, British intelligence claims. These gas platforms are located between Crimea and Odessa and are referred to as the “Boyko Towers.”
These platforms are not only economically but also strategically important, being near Ukraine’s Snake Island. They “can be used as bases for advanced navigational deployments and deployment of long-range missile systems,” the British claim.
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Ukraine Claims Counteroffensive Breakthrough, Recaptures Frontline Village From Russians
(AFP) — Ukraine announced Monday it had recaptured a village on the southern frontline where its forces are hoping for a breakthrough in their grinding offensive against entrenched Russian positions.
Kyiv launched its pushback in June after stockpiling Western-supplied weapons, building up assault battalions and attacking Russian positions.
But officials in Kyiv have acknowledged that progress has been slow and Moscow says Ukrainian forces are running out of resources.
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Will Ukraine Run Out of Troops?
The Ukrainian military leadership is facing a serious problem due to soaring casualties. As the death toll of the conflict and the recent stalled counteroffensive become clear, it is becoming increasingly difficult to replace these lost soldiers. Recruitment is being made exceedingly difficult by the fact that many are fleeing conscription, even at great risk, while others are simply bribing recruiters.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy confirmed that the army had asked for an acceleration of mobilization, with Kyiv planning to recruit more than 300,000 people into the Ukrainian armed forces by spring to compensate for losses, according to the Russian news agency TASS.
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Zelensky Says Ukraine Won’t Hold Elections Unless US & EU Taxpayers Pay for Them
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky demanded that the US and EU taxpayers fork over more money if they want to see Ukraine hold elections next year.
In an interview released by his office on Sunday, Zelensky said he’d like to hold elections despite ongoing martial law in the country as long as the United States and the European Union pay for the election process.
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An unidentified teacher at the public junior high school SMPN 1 in the East Java town of Lamongan partially shaved the hair of 14 Muslim girls last Wednesday
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Taliban’s security in Afghanistan will be blocking women and girls from using a public park to punish them for failing to wear Islamic headgear properly while claiming that women don’t need “sightseeing,” according to a report from Foreign Press.
Last year, the Taliban demanded that women start wearing the niqab, a loose Islamic headdress that covers the entire body from head to toe, with a slim exception for the eyes. The burka, which covers the eyes as well, was stated as the preference. The move became one of many that are targeting the freedoms of women and girls since the Biden administration’s withdrawal in 2021.
Taliban’s acting minister for the promotion of virtue and prevention of vice, Khaled Hanafi, said “We want our sisters to live with dignity and safety.”
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Police have warned the ACT is set to become a haven for drug-fuelled parties and increased bikie gang presence following the decriminalisation of almost all illlicit drugs including heroin and meth.
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Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce has repeatedly refused to confirm if Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s son Nathan, 23, was given Chairman’s Lounge membershiip.
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Australia’s real estate industry is the go-to sector for money laundering and more professionals should be compelled to report dodgy transactions, an anti-corruption group says.
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Bankwest’s own ‘find your nearest branch’ search feature on it’s website even directs customers in Queensland, NSW, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania that their closest branch is in Perth.
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Indigenous leader and lawyer Michael Mansell has proposed Indigenous Australians form a seventh Aboriginal state that would have the same powers and recognition as the six other Australian states.
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13 Pakistani and Syrian Migrants Arrested for Arson as Deadly Wildfires Erupt Near Greek Border
For the past week, Greece has once again been plagued by wildfires, particularly in the vicinity of Alexandroupolis, in the northeast of the country, near the border with Turkey, which is close to where 13 Pakistani and Syrian migrants were arrested for arson.
A video posted on social networks last Tuesday says the group was caught red-handed trying to start a fire near the town of Alexandroupolis. They have been charged with illegal entry and attempted arson by a public prosecutor, but one government source says the fire was an “accident.”
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Albanian criminals and migrants have shared TikTok videos boasting about how easy it is to remove ankle tags using just a pair of kitchen scissors.
The trackers are being dubbed ‘British Rolexes’ by Albanians, as hundreds have been tagged after arriving in the UK, either as part of their immigration bail or before deportation following release from prison.
Multiple videos show how easily the tags can be removed, with those filming them often detailing how to cut through the thin plastic bands and what to do once they are off.
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Germany is Sending More and More Migrants Back to Poland
Germany is attempting to send back thousands of migrants to Poland, and hundreds have already been transferred.
Data from the Polish Border Guard shows that from the beginning of the year to the end of July, all EU member states have reported transfer orders for 3,950 foreigners to Poland. Of those, 804 of them have already been returned to Poland, with the majority of these migrants hailing from Georgia and Iraq as well as Chechnya.
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Machete-Wielding Migrants Attack Attendees at German Cultural Festival
Two men were injured during an attack by migrants armed with a machete and knife at a cultural festival in Germany over the weekend, according to reports.
The harrowing incident unfolded at around 10 p.m. in Dorsten, a town in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
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Substantial Drop in Ukrainian Refugees in Poland
Ukrainian refugee numbers are falling in Poland by as much as 15 to 20 percent from the beginning of 2023, and the beginning of the school year may have played an important factor.
At the beginning of 2023, the number of Ukrainian refugees in Poland with a Polish national identification number (PESEL) was 955,000. Miroslaw Skórka, the head of the Union of Ukrainians in Poland, estimates that the number is definitely lower today, with a decrease of around 15-20 percent.
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Channel migrants could be forced to wear electronic tags as Suella Braverman vowed to do ‘whatever it takes’ to get the crisis under control.
In a round of interviews this morning, the Home Secretary said the government is looking at a ‘range of options’ including tracking arrivals rather than detaining them.
The idea, first mooted more than a year ago, is under fresh scrutiny as Rishi Sunak attempts to get a handle on immigration and stop people illegally gaining entry to the UK.
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EXCLUSIVE: Locals living in rural Langtoft, Lincolnshire, have reacted with anger after it emerged the council would be housing Afghan and Ukrainian families on a new-build estate.
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UK: Farage Calls for ‘Mass Sackings’ After Ex-Govt Asylum Director Joins Pro-Mass Migration Charity
Brexit leader Nigel Farage has called on the government to embark upon “mass sackings” of deep state civil servants after it was revealed that a key former Home Office official in dealing with the migrant crisis joined a pro-mass migration charity.
The former director general for asylum at the Home Office, Emma Haddad, has sparked a political row over the supposed impartiality of civil servant bureaucrats after joining Amnesty International UK. The left-wing charity has been a vocal critic of the government’s efforts to stop the illegal migrant crisis in the English Channel, branding such efforts as “inhumane, racist and divisive”.
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Anna Piper Scott (pictured) made her Fringe debut this year and said she and other trans performers have had less coverage and found it difficult to get reviewers to come to shows.
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Disney Stock Plunges to 9 Year Lows After Multiple Woke Box Office Failures
Maybe attacking the state of Florida and supporting transgender indoctrination in schools was not the best money-making business model?
Disney has been injecting far-left propaganda into its film productions and streaming productions for a number of years, but it was not until their very public attempt to undermine Florida’s Parental Rights In Education Bill that larger audiences started applying more scrutiny to the company and withholding their dollars. In the past, consumers used to let subversive progressive preaching slide, but with the rapid decline in story quality as well as the open hostility shown by companies like Disney towards conservatives, the tide is turning.
Woke leftist messaging would include — Mary Sue stories designed to bolster false feminist premises while denigrating men. Critical Race Theory messaging that attempts to exaggerate and exploit negative race relations. The race swapping of established white characters for the sake of virtue signaling. The erasure of positive romantic stories featuring straight protagonists; showing only LGBT relationships in a positive light. LGBT propaganda aimed at young children. The promotion of trans ideology, often based on anti-science. Sexualized messaging aimed at children. Regularly depicting pro-American and pro-free market characters as the villains. The list goes on…
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Exclusive: ‘The Woke Left Has Inherited the Stalinists’ Hatred of Freedom,’ Warns British Columnist
Remix sat down with Mick Hume, a journalist and author known in Britain for his focus on issues related to free speech and freedom of the press, at the MCC Feszt in Esztergom, Hungary, at the end of July to talk about what has happened to free speech in the U.K.
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Teen girls competing in a 4-H equestrian competition were threatened with punitive action for wearing t-shirts proclaiming their pronouns as “nor/mal.”
During the Pierce County Fair in Graham, Washington earlier this month, the girls purchased the shirts that read, “My pronoun is nor/mal” from a booth at the fair after discovering that in an event called Groom Squad, teams could get extra points if they had matching outfits.
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Capital Pride’s main weekend occurred this weekend in Ottawa, with a host of Pride-themed activities in the downtown core. Thousands of people partook in the festivities.
To commemorate the event, an “intersex-inclusive” Progress Pride flag was hung outside the office of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Privy Council.
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Half of Transgender Prison Inmates Convicted of Sex Crimes: Wisconsin Data
Half of the transgender inmates in the Wisconsin prison system were convicted of at least one count of sexual abuse or assault, according to data provided by the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project.
Obtained via a public records request to the Wisconsin Department of Corrections in April 2022, the data — provided more than a year later and reported by the Daily Caller, indicates that 81 of the 161 transgender inmates at female prisons had a record of sexual abuse.
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‘I’m a Pedophile, Not a Molester, ‘ Says Masked Pedo in British Puff Piece Interview
British media outlet Channel 4 interviewed a pedophile in an apparent attempt to destigmatize the disturbing deviance.
Channel 4 last Thursday interviewed a self-described “virtuous pedophile” who calls himself “Mouse”, presumably named after the creepy mouse mask he was wearing to conceal his identity during the interview.
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Pope Francis Blasts ‘Backwardness’ of Conservatives in US Catholic Church
Pope Francis has blasted the “backwardness” of some conservatives in the U.S. Catholic Church, saying they have replaced faith with ideology and that a correct understanding of Catholic doctrine allows for change over time.
Francis’ comments were an acknowledgment of the divisions in the U.S. Catholic Church, which has been split between progressives and conservatives who long found support in the doctrinaire papacies of St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI, particularly on issues of abortion and same-sex marriage.
Many conservatives have blasted Francis’ emphasis instead on social justice issues such as the environment and the poor, while also branding as heretical his opening to letting divorced and civilly remarried Catholics receive the sacraments.
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Trans Tiktoker Dylan Mulvaney Wins ‘Best New Creator’ at Streamys Awards
Trans TikTok influencer Dylan Mulvaney, 26, won an award for Breakout Creator at the 2023 Streamy Awards on Sunday, in which Mulvaney took the opportunity to call out “hate and transphobia” during his acceptance speech.
Mulvaney, who famously came out as a “girl” after a failed acting career has both advised Joe Biden on the issue of trans kids and brought down Bud Light through a disastrous marketing partnership. Mulvaney did not achieve any real recognition, other than an appearance on The Price is Right, until deciding to transition and document that journey on TikTok.
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An elderly woman in the UK received a home visit and a 30 minute interrogation from police for taking a photograph of a sticker that said “Keep Males Out Of Women-Only Spaces”.
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