Evening Sky 9-16-26

Vice President JD Vance took the stage at the Republican midterm convention on September 11thVance opened by surveying the wreckage the Trump administration inherited eighteen months ago.

Worker wages down. Prices up twenty percent. A southern border that functioned more like a suggestion than a boundary. “They bankrupted our country and left us poor,” he told the crowd. “They left our country weaker, wide open, and our communities less safe.”

The vice president argued that something fundamental has shifted inside the Democrat Party. The policies haven’t changed – defund the police, abolish the border, the Green New Deal. What’s changed is the raw hatred driving them.

“In primary after primary, we have watched the few reasonable Democrats lose to extremists who openly hate our nation,” Vance said. [pjnewsletter]

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Thomas Matthew Crooks - Butler Pennsylvania

Trump calls Butler assassination attempt a 'Democratic plot' after FBI documents surface on gunman Thomas Crooks

President Trump accused the FBI of mishandling the investigation into the July 2024 attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania, calling it a "Democratic plot" after newly released documents revealed disturbing details about gunman Thomas Crooks' preparations.

Trump took to Truth Social on Tuesday to level the charge directly at the bureau and its former director, Christopher Wray, hours after the New York Post reported new details from FBI documents showing Crooks used the pseudonym "Bob Dole", the late senator's name, to order Amazon packages containing parts, tools, and items designed to increase the capacity of his rifle.

The revelation added fresh fuel to questions about how a 20-year-old managed to meticulously plot a shooting that killed one supporter, wounded two others, and clipped the president's ear, all while the FBI, by Trump's account, sat on or lost critical evidence.

Attorney General Todd Blanche reinforced the president's frustration from the White House Rose Garden, telling reporters that FBI leadership's actions before the July 13, 2024, shooting remain unexplained, and that the same agency was simultaneously pursuing criminal cases against Trump.

Trump points to missing FBI evidence and demands accountability from Wray The president's Truth Social post laid out the accusation in blunt terms. Trump alleged that by the time he returned to office on January 20th, the trail had gone cold, not by accident.

"By the time I got into Office, on January 20th, most of the information was missing, altered, corrupted, or gone. New info was just found! Why wasn't it seen long ago? This was all a Democrat Plot, to get me out of the Election, that failed."

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El-Sayed jumped to wrong conclusion on Iraqi Refugee Murder

Abdul El-Sayed pushed a false hate crime narrative in 2012 — and never corrected the record

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed published an essay blaming the murder of an Iraqi refugee on anti-Muslim bigotry, even after police warned the case wasn't a hate crime, and her husband was later convicted of killing her.

In March 2012, Shaima Alawadi, a 32-year-old Iraqi refugee and mother of five, was bludgeoned with a tire iron at her home in El Cajon, California. A handwritten note left at the scene read, "Go back to your country, you terrorist." Within days, activists and commentators seized on the killing as proof of rising anti-Muslim hatred in America. El-Sayed was among the loudest voices.

On March 28, 2012, one week after Alawadi's death, El-Sayed published an essay in Mic, a liberal digital outlet, tying her killing to the shooting of Trayvon Martin in Florida. He cast both deaths as products of American racism and xenophobia.

By that point, local police had already cautioned the public against jumping to conclusions about the motive, stating they were not at the point of calling the death a hate crime. El-Sayed published his essay anyway, as the Washington Free Beacon reported.

El-Sayed blamed a hijab for a murder her husband committed.

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Talarico on children's gender Identity

James Talarico called parents 'abusive' for rejecting children's gender identity in resurfaced 2019 video

A resurfaced clip from a 2019 Texas Legislature hearing shows Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico declaring that parents who refuse to affirm a child's gender identity are engaged in "abusive" behavior, a position now colliding with his campaign's moderate rebrand.

Talarico, a former state representative now locked in a competitive race for a Texas Senate seat against Republican Ken Paxton, made the remarks during a committee hearing on HB 1910, a bill designed to prevent family courts from treating a parent's refusal to affirm a child's gender identity as evidence of child abuse in custody disputes.

Fox News Digital reported on the video and obtained responses from both the Republican National Committee and the Talarico campaign.

The bill's language was straightforward. It barred judges from weighing "whether the party demonstrates a history or pattern of acknowledging or declining to acknowledge the child's gender identity or expression" when deciding custody.

Talarico opposed it, and went further, arguing that the very act of declining to affirm a child's stated gender identity should remain on the table as a form of abuse under Texas law.

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Elaine Chao's connection to the CCP

Mitch McConnell's wife ran two US Cabinet departments

while secretly holding appointments inside the Chinese Communist Party's primary espionage operation

She never told the Senate a word of it.

Now the Daily Caller has the photographs – and Elaine Chao’s spokesman's excuse for why she didn't disclose is one of the most insulting things you'll ever read.

Elaine Chao – Labor Secretary under Bush, Transportation Secretary under Trump – received at least four Chinese government positions since 2008, according to Daily Caller News Foundation translations of Chinese state media reports.

At least two of those roles were inside the United Front Work Department – the CCP's dedicated influence and espionage arm.

The House Select Committee on the CCP describes United Front as "a unique blend of engagement, influence activities, and intelligence operations that the Chinese Communist Party uses to shape its political environment, including to influence other countries' policy toward the PRC and to gain access to advanced foreign technology."

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Two Squad Members declare "racial" hangings

Investigations Show Hangings Cited by AOC and Pressley Were Suicides, Not ‘Modern-Day Lynchings’

Nothing poisons public discourse quite like an elected official who weaponizes the gravest accusations in American history for cheap political points.

When members of Congress invoke lynching – a word drenched in generations of real suffering and real blood – they carry a solemn obligation to deal in verified facts. That’s not a high bar. It’s the bare minimum.

Yet progressive politicians keep treating racial tragedy like a campaign resource. The grieving families, the dead – they become set dressing for a narrative that serves nobody except the lawmakers pushing it. And somehow, despite getting caught over and over again, the playbook never changes. This week delivered another prime example.

Pressley kick-started the panic on social media, writing that “black folks are being found hanged” and comparing the deaths to Jim Crow-era “strange fruit hanging from trees.”

AOC piled on shortly after, boasting about signing Pressley’s letter and declaring: “This year, there have already been 10 reported hangings of Black people in the U.S.” She branded the deaths “widespread modern-day lynchings” and “racial terror.”

“Most high-profile cases of Black people found hanging in 2025-26 were ruled suicides by medical examiners and police, with no evidence of foul play.”

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Sunset 9-15-26

A university should demand equal intellectual rigor from those attacking America as they do when scrutinizing government power.

Laura Loomer’s report challenges George Washington University’s role in a conference examining 25 years of the War on Terror. She highlights an agenda centered on American wrongdoing, speakers contesting terrorism convictions, and language portraying counterterrorism institutions as instruments of oppression.

The question deserves a direct answer: where does this program confront al-Qaeda’s radical Islamist ideology and the people it murdered? Criticism of American policy can withstand that examination.

An academic program that leaves those realities outside the discussion offers students a politically convenient, incomplete, and ideologically-driven history. [Luthmann-Laura Loomer]

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Trump considers looking at secret 9/11 records on Saudi Arabia’s alleged role in 9/11 attacks

9/11 families ask Trump to release the Saudi Arabian files, his answer surprised them

President Trump says he’s considering releasing files related to Saudi Arabia’s alleged involvement in 9/11...

He did not promise a release. He promised a look. That is already more than these families got from the men who came before him.

The ceremony happened. The families are still here. The file is still locked. Now the man in the Oval said he will pick it up.

AMERICA FIRST means the widows come before the diplomats.

Catherine Herridge@C__Herridge

9/11 SECRET FILES: Now @realDonaldTrump is getting involved FBI/CIA records reveal two Saudi government employees “may have served as an advance team” for the hijackers. After our exclusive 2025 investigation, the 9/11 families pressed the US government to release the FBI's …

Rachel Maddow or Jacob Soboroff

'Funniest thing ever--Spencer Pratt

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Watch Spencer Pratt call out everyone who can't tell difference between male MS NOW anchor and Rachel Maddow

'Spencer, do you think we're dumb? That IS Rachel Maddow. You cannot tell me otherwise'

On Sunday, Pratt posted a video clip of Soboroff interviewing Democrat Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass as she explained she would not attend a congressional inquiry into the city's fires, noting: "I cannot attend due to my schedule."

Pratt said Sunday: "Incredible. Rachel Maddow didn't push back on Karen Bass AT ALL as she calls the Palisades Fire investigation a waste of time & resources. Lady … 6K homes burned, hundreds of people died, and you illegally deleted all of your messages. Integrity is dead."

The complete absence of anyone pointing out that this isn't Rachel Maddow, but – in fact – Jacob Soboroff, is the funniest thing ever.

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Zelensky knocking out diesel fuel in Russia

Trump Calls on Zelenskyy to Stop Attacks on Russian Diesel Facilities

Diesel prices in the United States hit their highest ever on Sunday

U.S. President Donald Trump has called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to stop targeting Russian diesel fuel as the attacks are causing a global shortage and diesel in the United States has hit a record high.

Zelenskyy “has to do one thing—he has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia,” Trump told reporters on the sidelines of the Irish Open, adding that he had spoken to the Ukrainian president about it. “There are plenty of other targets. Don’t hit diesel fuel, because that’s hurting the world.”

Ukraine has targeted Russia’s oil and gas industry for months with long-range attacks and Russia has responded with fuel rationing. In July, Russia banned diesel exports.

Diesel in the United States rose to $6.20 a gallon on average on Sept. 13, a new record, while regular gas is selling for $4.31 a gallon on average, according to American Automobile Association.

Zelenskyy has defended Ukraine’s tactics of striking Russian refineries.

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They live Among Us

Children of Somalia’s Former Dictator Reportedly Live in Ohio

Amid Questions Over Regime Tied to Up to 200,000 Deaths

A Quiet Ohio Life Raises Old Wounds A New York Post investigation reportedly identified the adult children of former Somali dictator Mohamed Siad Barre living quiet suburban lives in Columbus, Ohio.

Ayanle Mohamed Siad and Deka Mohamed Siad settled in the United States after their father was overthrown in 1991. Their reported presence has stirred pain in Columbus’s Somali community, where some refugees and families carry memories of the 21-year military dictatorship. The issue is not merely where two people live. It is how victims experience a regime’s legacy when members of its ruling family appear to have found ordinary American lives.

Barre seized power in a 1969 coup and ruled Somalia through political repression and military violence. The regime’s campaign against the Isaaq people in northern Somalia was marked by mass killings, destroyed cities, poisoned wells, and widespread displacement. Estimates of those killed reach as high as 200,000.

Ali-Guban Mohamed, whose family members were reportedly executed by Barre’s forces, told the Post: “Siad Barre and his men committed so many war crimes, so I was shocked to see his son in the mosque enjoying his freedom.” That reaction shows why the Columbus account has reopened old wounds.

Ayanle, 61, has been described by historian Mohamed Haji Ingiriis as his father’s “right-hand man.” Ingiriis told the Post that Ayanle held significant power during the dictatorship’s final years and at one point acted as the de facto ruler while Barre was incapacitated. He also said Ayanle could appoint and dismiss regime authorities on his father’s behalf.

Those are serious historical claims, and they explain why the son’s reported life in a Columbus suburb draws attention far beyond a routine immigration story. A family relationship alone proves nothing, but reported political power is a different question.

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Jimmy Lai appeal to Xi Jinping

Rep. Chris Smith to chair hearing on imprisoned Catholic democracy advocate 78 year old Jimmy Lai

The Sept. 16 hearing is timed just ahead of a planned Trump-Xi summit that Catholic advocates say offers another chance to press for the release of Lai, whose faith played a key role in his opposition to Beijing’s crackdown on democracy advocates.

Smith, co-chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, will lead the Sept. 16 hearing titled, “A Son and Daughter's Appeal to Xi Jinping to Release Their Dad, Jimmy Lai,” scheduled for 9:30 a.m. in the Rayburn House Office Building and livestreamed publicly.

Planned witnesses include Lai's son, Sebastien Lai, who leads the #FreeJimmyLai campaign; Mark Clifford, president of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation and author of a Lai biography; and a senior China researcher from the Heritage Foundation.

The hearing follows a year of escalating diplomatic appeals. After a May summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing, President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that he had personally raised Lai’s case, but that Xi’s response “was not positive.”

"He told me that would be a tough one," Trump said, contrasting it with China's apparent openness to releasing detained pastor Ezra Jin.

As the Trump-Xi summit approaches, Smith’s hearing next week will mark the latest attempt by American lawmakers to keep pressure on Beijing over Lai’s case.

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Kennedy Center faces Bankruptcy

Kennedy Center faces bankruptcy, says Trump's name on facade is the only path to survival

The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is warning its own board that the institution faces "certain fiscal collapse" and could shut its doors within days, unless President Trump's name goes on the building.

A 57-page internal packet distributed to the Kennedy Center's board of trustees lays out the stakes in blunt terms: without adding Trump's name to the facade, the center risks bankruptcy, mass layoffs, and a potential closure as early as Tuesday, September 15.

The documents, first obtained by The Washington Post and also reported by The New York Times, include a draft resolution that details ten options for placing the president's name below the main signage on the front of the building.

The draft resolution states plainly that within a few weeks the institution will not be able to pay its employees or cover basic maintenance costs. A special board meeting is scheduled for September 15 to address the crisis.

Trump offered to raise the money, but the center has to recognize him first.

At the heart of the standoff is a conditional offer. Trump has "offered to step in and raise the necessary funds" to rescue the center, USA Today reported. But the draft resolution makes clear that the board believes this lifeline depends on what it calls "appropriate recognition."

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Teaching September 11 requires explaining who carried out the attacks, what motivated them, and how they succeeded.

Fairfax County’s commemorative guidance identifies al-Qaeda and discourages blaming Muslims. Critics question whether its wording obscures the perpetrators’ religious motivations.

The 9/11 Commission’s findings document al-Qaeda’s Radical Islamic Terrorist extremist ideology, operational planning, and the failures within American institutions that preceded the attacks. Those findings give teachers material for explaining the history accurately.

A complete account includes victims and rescuers, examines the perpetrators’ stated beliefs, and distinguishes their responsibility from the identities of children learning about that day a generation later.

VA School District Tells Teachers Not to Link 9/11 Terror Attacks to ‘Islam or Muslims’ to Shield Students from ‘Anti-Muslim Racism’ [RAIR FOUNDATION USA]

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