Friday, October 09, 2026
DHS chief, ICE officials spotlight sanctuary city consequences
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DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin and ICE officials hold a press conference to highlight the dangerous consequences of sanctuary city policies.
Number of teens who identify themselves as gay or bisexual is in ‘free fall’
Conservatives have trumpeted the data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but researchers say the reasons for the decline are unclear.
October 8, 2026 at 5:00 a.m. EDTYesterday at 5:00 a.m. EDT
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A massive Pride flag is displayed during a parade in D.C. in 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
By Casey Parks
Young teenagers are less likely to identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual than they were a few years ago, according to a new analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.
The decline is particularly striking among ninth-grade girls, according to Jean Twenge, a professor of psychology at San Diego State University who published her analysis of the 2025 data on her Substack “Generation Tech.” In 2021, 30 percent of ninth-grade girls identified as lesbian or bisexual. Last year, 17 percent did.
“It really does look like a free fall,” Twenge said. “But what’s causing it is unclear.”
Twenge has been researching generational differences for decades. As part of that work, she regularly analyzes data from the CDC’s biennial Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System.
The rate of boys who identify as gay or bisexual has remained roughly the same over the past decade. But a few years ago, after the pandemic shutdowns, the CDC data showed big upticks in the percentage of high school girls identifying as lesbian or bisexual. Within a few years, those rates began to drop, but only by a few percentage points. Though the overall numbers have continued to decline, older teenagers’ sexual orientation has held relatively stable. They are still more likely to identify as lesbian or bisexual than teenagers were before the pandemic.
The “free fall,” Twenge found, mostly comes from a huge drop in the number of freshmen girls who identify as bisexual. While 26 percent of ninth-grade girls identified as bisexual in 2021, only 13 percent — half as many — did in 2025.
Online, conservative activists celebrated the news as a win brought on by the Donald Trump administration.
October 8, 2026 at 5:00 a.m. EDTYesterday at 5:00 a.m. EDT
By Casey Parks
Young teenagers are less likely to identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual than they were a few years ago, according to a new analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.
The decline is particularly striking among ninth-grade girls, according to Jean Twenge, a professor of psychology at San Diego State University who published her analysis of the 2025 data on her Substack “Generation Tech.” In 2021, 30 percent of ninth-grade girls identified as lesbian or bisexual. Last year, 17 percent did.
“It really does look like a free fall,” Twenge said. “But what’s causing it is unclear.”
Twenge has been researching generational differences for decades. As part of that work, she regularly analyzes data from the CDC’s biennial Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System.
The rate of boys who identify as gay or bisexual has remained roughly the same over the past decade. But a few years ago, after the pandemic shutdowns, the CDC data showed big upticks in the percentage of high school girls identifying as lesbian or bisexual. Within a few years, those rates began to drop, but only by a few percentage points. Though the overall numbers have continued to decline, older teenagers’ sexual orientation has held relatively stable. They are still more likely to identify as lesbian or bisexual than teenagers were before the pandemic.
The “free fall,” Twenge found, mostly comes from a huge drop in the number of freshmen girls who identify as bisexual. While 26 percent of ninth-grade girls identified as bisexual in 2021, only 13 percent — half as many — did in 2025.
Online, conservative activists celebrated the news as a win brought on by the Donald Trump administration.
Thursday, October 08, 2026
LIVE: Scene near site of ICE-involved shooting in New York City
LIVE: Scene near site of ICE-involved shooting in New York City
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LIVE: Scene near site of ICE-involved shooting in New York City
‘Out of Control Mass Migration’: Trump’s Explosive Take On France’s Student Protests
‘Out of Control Mass Migration’: Trump’s Explosive Take On France’s Student Protests
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Oct 6, 2026
US President Donald Trump has blamed France’s mass student protests on “out of control mass migration” and Islam, saying the demonstrations are not really about schools. Here’s what Trump said and what is happening on the ground in France.
France in Crisis? Viral Video Warns of the Dangers of Mass Migration
France in Crisis? Viral Video Warns of the Dangers of Mass Migration
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A viral video warning about the unrest in France has surpassed 3.5 million views, sparking a broader debate over mass migration, border control and the future of French identity.
Thais d’Escufon joins Chanel Rion to discuss the unrest in France, why she says the situation is being misrepresented, and why she believes France’s migration policies have failed. She also addresses the legal pressure she says she has faced over her political activism and online statements.
Watch the full interview as Chanel Rion and Thais d’Escufon examine the growing controversy surrounding France, migration and the country’s future.
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America owes Mahmoud Khalil nothing
Pro-terrorist activist Mahmoud Khalil was asked by CNN the other day if he would condemn Hamas. He, of course, would not, calling the question “silly” and “disingenuous.” It is not “black and white,” he whined.
Even if you oppose Israel’s reaction to the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, the answer is still black and white for any person with a conscience. Certainly, it should be for any person who wants to become a naturalized citizen of the United States. After all, Hamas is designated by the State Department as a terrorist organization for, among other things, murdering Americans.
But the fact that Khalil can’t condemn Hamas — and anyone paying attention understands that he supports the terrorist army — not only tells us that he deserves to be deported but also that it’s imperative we deport him.
During the 1960s and 1970s, immigration officials grilled newcomers to the U.S. and elsewhere about their affiliations with communist parties. Why would we import people who want to destroy our system? Newcomers were, and still are, compelled to disavow associations with illiberal movements, violent groups, and ideologies. They were also required to promise not to engage in any subversive or revolutionary activity.
Well, Khalil’s entire job as an “activist” is to engage in subversive or revolutionary activity.
Khalil is an Algerian, incidentally, not a Palestinian, though he is a champion of Palestinianism, one of the most nihilistic, bigoted, violent, anti-Western ideologies of the age. There’s no anti-American or Marxist protest or riot anywhere in the world these days where Palestinian flags are not prominent.
The French, of course, don’t need much impetus to riot. But protests that began over a lack of school funding a few weeks ago have now escalated into increasingly destructive and violent riots across France, clearly fueled in part by Marxist pro-Palestinian elements. The red-green alliance between Islamists and communists isn’t new — it’s just more popular than ever. France has over 5 million Muslims.
What you see happening on the streets of Paris is exactly what Khalil hopes to see in the U.S. We saw as much when he was the lead “negotiator” for Columbia University Apartheid Divest, which rioted at the school in 2025. The group’s goal is to fight for the “total eradication of Western civilization,” “global intifada,” and the “armed resistance” of Hamas. That doesn’t sound very American.
Khalil’s friend, Mohsen Mahdawi, another leader of CUAD fighting against deportation, reportedly has a propensity to make Hamas-like statements, such as “I like to kill Jews,” “soon, very soon, we will annihilate the Jews,” and that “servants of the Jews or the Americans” will have their heads “cut off.” Would we give citizenship to a foreigner who said, “I like to kill blacks” or “I like to kill Christians”? I hope not.
Khalil is being deported for lying on his application, though he was initially picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers for threatening U.S. foreign policy. These deportations should not be treated as a matter of botched paperwork but as a matter of national security.
They Trained to Protect Immigrants From ICE. Now They’re Prepping to Defend the Midterm Elections.
ICE-watchers-turned-poll-watchers are preparing for the worst, as the Trump administration hints at potential strategies to disrupt the midterm elections.
ICE watchers across the country who watched federal agents shoot people in the streets and fought to drive ICE from their cities are turning their new skills against the next authoritarian threat from the Trump administration: election interference.
Volunteers who showed up a few months ago asking, “Where do I buy a whistle?” are now trained and committed members of an “ICE Watch” movement, said Zach Mueller, whose anti-authoritarian group States at the Core started hosting trainings earlier this year. “They’re not in the normal cast of characters that have been showing up to rallies over the last several decades,” said Mueller. Now, they’re planning to fan out to their local polling places and defend their neighbors’ rights to vote.
The ICE-watchers-turned-poll-watchers are preparing for the worst despite a temporary win the voting rights movement secured last week, when the Supreme Court upheld a decision to block a Trump administration rule that would have let the U.S. Postal Service refuse to deliver ballots from states that don’t share their voter rolls with the federal government, among other new constraints, which advocates warned would lead to chaos and uncounted votes. While that plan was foiled for the midterms, other electoral threats abound.
“There are 100 different scenarios that you can run through,” said Ezra Levin, co-founder of Indivisible. “Could be ICE at the polls, could be Trump getting every Republican to swear to sabotage the results … Could be something after the fact, seizing ballot boxes or refusing to acknowledge the results. Who knows?”
Demonstrators at a voting rights rally outside the Capitol in Washington on Sept. 15, 2026, a day after the Supreme Court rejected implementing the Trump administration’s new restrictions on mail-in voting. Photo: Pete Kiehart/Bloomberg via Getty Images
ICE watchers across the country who watched federal agents shoot people in the streets and fought to drive ICE from their cities are turning their new skills against the next authoritarian threat from the Trump administration: election interference.
Volunteers who showed up a few months ago asking, “Where do I buy a whistle?” are now trained and committed members of an “ICE Watch” movement, said Zach Mueller, whose anti-authoritarian group States at the Core started hosting trainings earlier this year. “They’re not in the normal cast of characters that have been showing up to rallies over the last several decades,” said Mueller. Now, they’re planning to fan out to their local polling places and defend their neighbors’ rights to vote.
The ICE-watchers-turned-poll-watchers are preparing for the worst despite a temporary win the voting rights movement secured last week, when the Supreme Court upheld a decision to block a Trump administration rule that would have let the U.S. Postal Service refuse to deliver ballots from states that don’t share their voter rolls with the federal government, among other new constraints, which advocates warned would lead to chaos and uncounted votes. While that plan was foiled for the midterms, other electoral threats abound.
“There are 100 different scenarios that you can run through,” said Ezra Levin, co-founder of Indivisible. “Could be ICE at the polls, could be Trump getting every Republican to swear to sabotage the results … Could be something after the fact, seizing ballot boxes or refusing to acknowledge the results. Who knows?”
Your Kids Are Already Communists, and College Will Make It Worse | Mark Thornton
misesmedia
Sep 28, 2026
Dr. Mark Thornton argues that America's schools and universities have spent 150 years quietly instilling a collectivist ideology, and that the real problem isn't declining test scores but a progressive worldview baked in from kindergarten up. Drawing on Bastiat, Mises, and South Carolina history, he shows how to fight it from the bottom up.
Dr. Mark Thornton argues that America's schools and universities have spent 150 years quietly instilling a collectivist ideology, and that the real problem isn't declining test scores but a progressive worldview baked in from kindergarten up. Drawing on Bastiat, Mises, and South Carolina history, he shows how to fight it from the bottom up.
Recorded in Greenville, South Carolina, on September 12, 2026.
Special thanks to Bryan Lee Briggs for sponsoring this event.
Satanic prayer causes uproar at city council meeting
CHAD DRURY Courier staff writer
OTTUMWA — An invocation at the beginning of Tuesday's Ottumwa City Council meeting overshadowed everything else that took place over the course of 80 minutes.
Resident and former council member Matt Dalbey read a satanic prayer — capped off by "Hail Satan" — to kick off the meeting at City Hall, leading to a reaction from New Life Center pastor Rick Bick during a contentious opening few minutes of the meeting.
In a private message, Dalbey said the prayer is used by the Satanic Temple of Iowa, of which he is a member, "but has nothing to do with the belief in a satanic deity."
The Satanic Temple of Iowa is "a resolutely non-theistic" religious organization that follows seven core tenants, according to its website.
Soon after Dalbey left the podium and after the council, staff and audience recited the Pledge of Allegiance, Bick had his turn, and was out of turn with the meeting's protocol of speaking on agenda items.
"Let's just reverse this curse that was put on our city. That 'Hail Satan' is not welcome here," Bick said.
Council member Cara Galloway, who has never stood for an invocation, said that Bick should speak during the portion of the meeting where citizens can speak on either agenda or non-agenda items; Bick spoke after the roll call was taken and the council was to discuss the consent agenda.
"It needs to be done now," he said. "I appreciate what Ms. Galloway is saying, but that was a curse put on the city. Most of you know that, and we need to just stop and reverse it."
Mayor Benjamin Foote then called for a 30-second moment of silence "to reflect on whatever it is we need to reflect on at this time," but again, Galloway said "it was time to move forward" before being overruled by the mayor.
Dalbey's invocation was within the scope of the city's invocation policy, which was approved Jan. 20, with Galloway the only council member to vote against it. In part, the policy says:
Wednesday, October 07, 2026
Zohran Mamdani Condemns Israel’s Gaza Genocide, Says New York Taxes Fund War Crimes
Gaza Genocideupdated 31m ago2 min read
New York mayor says U.S. tax money funds war crimes in Gaza On the third anniversary of Oct. 7, he highlighted U.S. complicity in Gaza genocide
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Pro-Israel, pro-Palestinian crowds converge on Union Square for Oct. 7 vigil
Giulia Heyward/Gothamist
By Giulia HeywardPublished Oct 7, 2026 at 7:33 p.m. ET
Union Square was on high alert Wednesday night as demonstrators poured in ahead of a vigil marking the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, where Mayor Zohran Mamdani was expected to attend.
Demonstrators waved Israeli and Palestinian flags and held signs as dozens of police vehicles surrounded the area. Members of the NYPD’s counterterrorism unit were among the NYPD deployment around the park.
Laura Liben, a Jewish Upper West Side resident, said she arrived around 6:30 p.m. to participate in the vigil and complained about the pro-Palestinian demonstrators who’d gathered around.
“I feel like they kind of came and took over the whole thing,” Liben said. “I think if they had come maybe asking questions or starting a dialogue, but this feels really hostile.”
About 1,200 people were killed in the attacks and roughly 250 others were taken hostage. The ensuing war in Gaza has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians, according to data provided by Gaza’s health ministry. Both the attacks and the war that followed remain a source of deep tension in the five boroughs and Mamdani, the first Muslim mayor of New York, has faced accusations of antisemitism from his detractors for supporting Palestinians and accusing Israel of genocide.
In a statement on Wednesday, Mamdani denounced “every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing.”
The Anti-Defamation League’s New York/New Jersey office criticized Mamdani on Wednesday, saying “the grief and pain has not dulled in the three years since” the attacks.
“Mayor Mamdani had the opportunity to use this anniversary to mourn alongside his Jewish constituents,” the organization said on social media. “Instead he chose to use his considerable platform to level political charges against Israel, justifying the very violence he claims to condemn.”
City Councilmember Vickie Paladino from Queens also called Mamdani’s remarks “disgraceful.”
“He does this knowing that today leftist, Islamist and pro-Palestinian activist organizations — many of which he and his wife have aligned with — are openly celebrating the 10/7 attacks, in some of the most grotesque and disturbing actions we've ever seen in this country,” Paladino said.
New York has the largest Jewish population of any city in the world outside of Israel. The ADL has also criticized Mamdani over his administration’s recently released plan to combat hate crimes against Jewish New Yorkers, which did not adopt a formal definition of antisemitism.
Mamdani released the plan as reported antisemitic hate crimes continue to rise in the city. The NYPD said antisemitic hate crimes increased 9% during the first eight months of the year compared with the same period last year. Jewish New Yorkers were the targets of more than half of all confirmed hate crimes citywide during that period, according to Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
NYC Pro-Palestinian Protest vs Israel Vigil Victims of October 7th
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LIVE: Pro-Palestinian Demonstration on October 7th in New York City
Pro-Palestine Demonstration on October 7th at Washington Square Park in NYC
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LIVE: Pro-Palestine Demonstration on October 7th at Washington Square Park in NYC
The Breach The FEDS Missed for Nine Months
By Worldview Report, 06 October, 2026
Defense One reported this week that a Pentagon personnel breach and a separate FBI breach are raising the same old question: can the federal government even tell when it has been broken into?
The answer, on the evidence, is not for months.
Between October 2025 and July 16, 2026, unauthorized users reached a file-sharing system at the Defense Manpower Data Center. That office holds the personnel records the military and other agencies use. The files were not encrypted. They included Social Security numbers, and, depending on the person, names, dates of birth, contact information, and military job specialties. A defense official later put the exposure at about 2.76 million living people and another 294,000 who are deceased. Roughly three million records. Nine months of access. The flaw was patched after it was found. Affected people were offered a year of credit monitoring. That is the government’s idea of a response.
At the same time, the FBI is dealing with a separate intrusion claimed by the cybercrime group ShinyHunters. Reporting tied to that breach says sensitive records of personnel in intelligence and surveillance roles were exposed. No public evidence has linked the two intrusions. Both, though, hand an adversary a map of who works where, what they do, and how to impersonate them.
Nitay Milner of the data-security firm ORION put the real point in one sentence: three million people may be the headline, but months of unauthorized access to highly sensitive data going undetected is the warning. He is right. And he is describing the Pentagon and the FBI, not a county clerk’s office.
If the institutions charged with national defense cannot see a stranger in their own personnel files for the better part of a year, the country should stop pretending those same institutions are ready for a deliberate strike on the systems that keep daily life running.
Start with the banks. A payments system does not have to be destroyed to be crippled. It has to be distrusted. Freeze clearing. Corrupt account records. Knock out the networks that move payroll, card authorizations, and wire transfers. Households do not keep weeks of cash. Businesses do not keep weeks of operating money in a drawer. A serious disruption in the financial pipes is a disruption in food, fuel, and medicine within days, because those things are bought, not stockpiled, by most families.
Water treatment is worse, because it is quieter. In 2021 an intruder reached the controls of a plant in Oldsmar, Florida, and tried to raise the level of sodium hydroxide in the drinking water to a dangerous concentration. An operator noticed and reversed it. That was one plant, one attempt, caught by a person at a screen. There are thousands of water systems in this country. Many of them run on aging equipment, remote access, and a staff of a few people. A coordinated campaign does not need to poison a city. It needs to force plants offline, or force operators to stop trusting their own readings. Boil-water orders and tanker trucks are a local fix. They are not a national one.
The electric grid is the system everything else sits on. Pumps, card readers, traffic lights, cell towers, refineries, hospitals after the generators run down. Federal agencies have already warned that Chinese state-sponsored actors, tracked publicly as Volt Typhoon, have burrowed into American critical-infrastructure networks, not only to steal files but to be in position. Pre-positioned access is the point. The attacker does not have to win on the day of the strike. He has to be inside before the day arrives. Colonial Pipeline in 2021 showed what one ransomware hit on one fuel operator can do to the East Coast. That was crime. A state campaign against generation and transmission would not be solved by paying a bitcoin demand and restarting a billing server.
Then the FAA. In January 2023 the Notice to Air Missions system failed and flights across the country stopped. The government later blamed a damaged database file and a failure to follow procedure, not a hack. Remember that. The nation’s airspace was grounded by a file error and a bad process. If a clerical failure can halt departures, a deliberate attack on flight-data, radar-adjacent, or airline operational systems does not have to be exotic to produce the same picture: aircraft on the ground, crews out of position, cargo not moving. The FAA has spent years trying to modernize systems that still carry the habits of another era. Modernization is not the same thing as resilience under attack.
Here is the part official Washington will not say plainly. In a real strike on banks, water, power, and aviation at once, the federal government will not arrive with restoration crews in the first week. It will arrive with press conferences. The Pentagon could not see unauthorized users in a file share for nine months. The FBI is notifying its own people that criminal hackers reached personnel data tied to intelligence work. Treasury disclosed in 2024 that Chinese state-sponsored hackers had reached unclassified documents through a remote-support tool. The federal courts and the Congressional Budget Office have had their own intrusions. These are the scorecards of the institutions that would be asked to coordinate a national recovery.
Recovery from a grid event is measured in weeks for the hard-hit regions, and longer where large transformers or specialized control equipment are destroyed. Those are not items on a warehouse shelf. Water systems come back plant by plant. Banks come back when ledgers can be trusted again, which is a different problem from flipping a switch. Air travel comes back last, because it depends on power, communications, fuel, and confidence at the same time.
So the practical truth is this. If critical infrastructure is disrupted at scale, Americans will be on their own for weeks, and in the worst pockets for months. The household that has assumed the state will keep the lights on, the water safe, the card reader live, and the airport open is making a bet the recent record does not support. The government that cannot detect a nine-month breach of military personnel files is not a government prepared to win the first day of a real infrastructure war. It is a government that will learn it has been hit the same way it learned this time. Late.
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