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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.

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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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Sunset 9-14-26

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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Software voting flaw in Georgia

Georgia's known voting software flaw still unfixed ahead of November midterms

A software flaw in Georgia's statewide voting equipment, first exposed in 2022, can allow voters to be matched to their ballots, and state officials have refused to apply the manufacturer's recommended fix before this fall's elections.

Security researchers at the University of Michigan and Princeton University are raising fresh alarms about the vulnerability in Georgia's Dominion Voting Systems equipment, now sold under the name Liberty Vote. The flaw allows electronic ballot records that are supposed to be randomized to be restored to their original casting order.

Combined with publicly available data, early voting lists, scanner audit logs, and precinct check-in records obtainable through open records requests, that sequence can be used to match individual voters to the ballots they cast. The Associated Press reported that the State Election Board rejected a proposed rule in August that would have required the secretary of state's office to apply the software update before November.

Georgia is the only state that uses the system statewide without the fix applied. And the state's constitution says elections "shall be by secret ballot." State law requires voting machines to "permit voting in absolute secrecy so that no person can see or know any other elector's votes." Revealing how someone voted is a felony.

Those protections are on paper. The software flaw means, in practice, they can be circumvented by anyone with a laptop, a few public records requests, and, thanks to recent advances, a free AI tool.

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Is Artificial Intelligence dangerous?

Former Anthropic and OpenAI safety researcher quits

Warns AI companies are "gambling with our lives"

A former safety researcher who worked at both OpenAI and Anthropic resigned and went public with a blunt warning that neither company "is acting responsibly," days before Anthropic's own CEO called for the industry to slow down.

Jacob Coxon walked away from Anthropic and took his concerns to national television, telling ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos on "This Week" that he welcomed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's newly published letter urging a pause in the breakneck pace of AI development.

Coxon had already posted his own critique on X the week before, accusing both Anthropic and OpenAI of recklessness that could carry existential consequences.

The sequence matters. Coxon quit first. Then he posted. Then Amodei, his former boss, published a letter that echoed, at least in broad strokes, the very concern Coxon had raised. Whether the CEO's letter was a response to internal pressure, a coincidence, or a calculated public-relations move remains an open question neither party has answered.

He went further:

"The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade."

That line deserves a second read. Coxon is not claiming outsiders or critics believe the technology is dangerous. He is saying the engineers and researchers inside these companies, the people with the closest view of what the systems can do, share that fear. And yet, by his account, the work continues at full speed.

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North and South Korea

North Korea fired an unidentified projectile toward the Sea of Japan

according to South Korea’s defense ministry.

The South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said it detected the launch toward the body of water that Koreans call the East Sea but it gave no details.

The report came a day after South Korea concluded five days of joint maritime drills with the United States and Japan that were focused on North Korea.

The US president also said it was important to “get along” with Kim, adding that Pyongyang now had 57 “very powerful” nuclear weapons. It was unusual for a US official to state a specific number on a classified issue. Seoul says the North has around 80-120 nuclear weapons.

Hours after Trump’s remarks, North Korea fired more than 10 short-range ballistic missiles from the Pyongyang area towards the Sea of Japan, South Korea’s military said.

Hours after the launches, Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of the North Korean leader, said Trump’s decision to scale back the drills with South Korea was Seoul’s punishment.

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Dolly being honored with Nashville Airport name change

Nashville to rename its Airport

The Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority voted 6-0 to begin renaming Nashville International Airport after the late Dolly Parton, a rare bipartisan move that drew no opposition from a single commissioner.

The board's unanimous decision on September 11 set in motion what could make Parton the first woman whose name graces one of the fifty busiest airports in the United States.

The final name has not been determined, but the vote clears the way for the airport authority to work with Parton's family and other parties to settle on the official designation in the coming months.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, a Republican, proposed the renaming weeks before the vote, calling Parton "our state's favorite daughter" in a press release from his office. Lee said he wanted to "greet travelers with the enduring legacy of Dolly's music, generosity, faith, and kindness." His office had already spoken with Parton's team, which ABC News reported was "touched by the idea and open to continuing the conversation."

The proposal also drew backing from Nashville's Democratic mayor, Freddie O'Connell, a detail worth noting in a political era when bipartisan agreement on anything, even honoring a beloved country legend, can feel like an accomplishment.

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JD Vance in Dallas and his one-liner

Republican delegates chant '48' at JD Vance during closed-door convention breakfast in Dallas

Vice President JD Vance drew spontaneous chants of "48" from Republican delegates at a closed-door breakfast in Dallas, a pointed signal of grassroots enthusiasm for a 2028 presidential bid he never once mentioned from the podium.

Delegates from four battleground states, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, broke into the chant as Vance took the stage Thursday morning at the GOP midterm convention, four people in the room confirmed. The number refers to Vance potentially becoming the 48th president of the United States. Vance, for his part, kept his remarks tightly focused on the 2026 midterms and never acknowledged the chant or his own political future.

The moment underscored a gap between the vice president's disciplined message, win the midterms, protect the Republican majority, and a party base that is already looking past November to 2028. House GOP Whip Tom Emmer, who spoke earlier in the same breakfast, did nothing to tamp down the speculation. "The stars are the limit for the vice president," Emmer told the room.

If the morning chant was the private signal, Vance's primetime convention address at American Airlines Center in Dallas that evening was the public exclamation point. During his speech, a protester waving Mexican and Palestinian Authority flags interrupted the proceedings. Vance's response was immediate and unscripted.

"If you love Mexico so much, get your a** over there. I'll buy you the plane ticket," Vance told the protester, drawing a roaring "USA!" chant from the convention floor, Fox News reported.

Conservative commentators seized on the exchange as proof that Vance can handle the unscripted moments a presidential candidate faces. "This was masterful. A Trump-level move from JD Vance," wrote conservative commentary account Overton. Andrew Kolvet, a Turning Point USA spokesman, said Vance "told a protester waving a Mexican flag exactly what all red blooded Americans were thinking."

The one-liner did what a thousand donor calls and policy papers cannot: it gave the base a moment they could replay, share, and remember. Combined with the morning's "48" chant from battleground-state delegates, it made the 2028 conversation impossible for the political press to ignore, even as Vance himself refused to engage with it.

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Mamdani and AOC at 9/11 Memorial

 

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Terry Strada brought an overdue demand for accountability to Ground Zero. After remembering her husband, Tom, she accused successive administrations of protecting Saudi Arabia while families fought for answers about its suspected role in September 11.

RAIR’s account captures her direct appeal to Vice President JD Vance: carry that demand to President Trump. Her challenge deserves an answer backed by action.

Memorial ceremonies cannot discharge Washington’s responsibility to help uncover who supported the hijackers. Any partnership with Riyadh should withstand scrutiny of that evidence.

The families deserve a government willing to pursue the truth wherever diplomatic discomfort or financial interests lead. [RAIR Foundation USA]

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Palestinian flag waving idiot

Self-described 'revisionist-Marxist' identified after storming field at Yankee Stadium on 9/11 anniversary

A 38-year-old Long Island man who charged onto the field at Yankee Stadium waving a Palestinian flag during the 9/11 25th Anniversary Subway Series game has been identified as a self-described "revisionist-Marxist", and now faces misdemeanor charges.

Kelly Marcucci jumped from the stands during the seventh inning of the Yankees-Mets game on Friday night, sprinted into centerfield with the flag, and was tackled by stadium security, the New York Post reported. The field charge happened at exactly 9:11 p.m., a detail that, given the occasion, drew immediate attention. Fans in the stands responded with chants of "USA!"

The NYPD charged Marcucci with two misdemeanors: interference with a professional sporting event and trespassing. Neither Marcucci, the Yankees, nor the Mets immediately returned requests for comment.

Hours before the stunt, Marcucci broadcast his intentions online--

Around 4:30 p.m. that same Friday, hours before he allegedly vaulted onto the diamond, Marcucci posted a rambling Facebook screed touching on capitalism, Zionism, Saudi Arabia, and 9/11. The post named President Trump and Joe Rogan. No verbatim text from the rant has been published.

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