Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times,

Nearly 25,000 missing illegal immigrant children in the United States have been identified by the Trump administration, border czar Tom Homan said this past week.

“When President Trump called me to come back from retirement, he told me they wanted me to do three things—secure the border, run the largest deportation operation the country’s seen, and third, find over 300,000 missing children. And that was priority one,” Homan said in a Sept. 18 interview with Fox News.

“So, they’ve already located just under 25,000. Some of these children were fine, with parents just hiding because they didn’t want to be deported.”

“But many were in sex trafficking. Many we found in forced labor, slavery. I mean forced to work ungodly hours, not going to school,” he said.

They were “not getting paid, being abused.”

Homan said he and President Donald Trump are committed to looking for these missing children and “run down the leads” until every one of them is found.

“And unfortunately, 27 of these children have since died. So, we’re not giving up. This is the main priority for the Trump administration. We’ll keep going at it,” he said.

In November 2024, after Trump’s election, Homan said that his agency would prioritize locating or rescuing the 300,000 illegal immigrant children.

An August 2024 report from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) found that 323,000 illegal immigrant children were unaccounted for in the United States. These were children who illegally entered the United States and are considered at risk of exploitation.

As of May 2024, this included more than 32,000 children who were served notices to appear in court but failed to do so. In addition, the safety of another 291,000 children could not be verified, the report said.

In a September 2024 post, the American Immigration Council, an advocacy group, questioned the figures.

“These media reports are misleading—ICE is the immigration enforcement agency whose mission is to remove individuals, including children, who do not have a legal basis to remain in the United States,” the post said.

“It is not a child welfare agency, and it did not ‘lose’ these children. The OIG report reflects paperwork gaps, not lost children.

“The lack of a current address on file does not mean that the children have been trafficked, are lost, or that their parents or sponsors are purposely evading immigration proceedings. Quite the contrary, a majority of the children may be residing in loving homes, attending school, and acclimating to their new surroundings after being reunited with family members in the United States.”

Meanwhile, illegal immigration numbers have plummeted under the Trump administration.

“Daily Southwest Border encounters have plunged by 93 percent since President Trump took office,” said an Aug. 15 statement from the DHS.

“The number of nationwide apprehensions in July was also a historic low of just 6,177. Notably, on July 20, Border Patrol recorded only 116 apprehensions nationwide—the lowest single-day total in agency history.”

Abuse in Sponsorship

In a June 5 post, the DHS said it had uncovered widespread abuse and exploitation of illegal minors who were placed with “improperly vetted sponsors.”

Special agents found some of these sponsors possessed child sexual material, the agency said. Some of them forced minors into labor, while others subjected the children to neglectful living conditions.

“Children’s safety and security is nonnegotiable,” said ICE spokesperson Laszlo Baksay.

“The previous administration’s failure to implement meaningful safeguards has allowed vulnerable kids to fall into the hands of criminals.

“Our special agents are working tirelessly to locate these alien children, ensure their protection, and hold accountable those who have abused the system.”

Several sponsors were found to have committed serious crimes such as prostitution, drug trafficking, aggravated assault, hit-and-run, larceny, and attempted murder, the DHS said. In some instances, girls were impregnated by their sponsors.

To ensure the well-being of unaccompanied illegal immigrant children, special agents from ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations have been conducting welfare checks, it said.

The visits are aimed at assessing whether the children are receiving appropriate care and not being trafficked or abused, the agency said.

The latest September grocery pricing survey from Goldman Sachs analysts shows that Walmart remains the leader in the price war among retailers, including Kroger, Albertsons, Sprouts Farmers Market, Whole Foods (WFM), and Dollar General. 

A team of Goldman analysts led by Leah Jordan wrote in a note to clients on Monday their key takeaways from the September grocery pricing survey. The survey reveals that overall, month-over-month pricing among tracked retailers remains stable, with Walmart continuing to offer the lowest prices, despite price gaps widening.

An excerpt from Jordan’s note reads:

WMT continued to have the lowest prices

As highlighted in Exhibit 1, WMT had the lowest prices at -14.8% vs. the group average (widened from -13.6% last month), followed by DG at -6.6% (vs -3.7% last month). WFM had the highest prices in the group at +9.8%, followed by SFM at +8.2%. KR had the highest SKU availability for the products surveyed at 38, followed by WMT at 37.

Looking by category (Exhibit 2), WMT had the lowest prices in dairy (-14.8%), frozen foods (-15.0%), dry grocery (-10.8%), and produce (-20.9%), while WFM had the lowest prices in HPC (-10.3%). On the other hand, WFM had the highest prices in dairy (+13.1%) and produce (+11.1%), SFM had the highest prices in frozen foods (+19.0%) and dry grocery (+24.2%), and ACI had the highest prices in HPC (+5.9%). That said, we note limited SKU availability for SFM in frozen and dry grocery.

Prices overall were relatively stable sequentially

We compare how prices for our select SKUs have changed since our last survey in August 2025. The overall average basket was relatively stable m/m with increases in dry grocery and frozen foods largely offset by decreases in produce and dairy. By retailer, we observed the most sequential increases from ACI and WMT with 3 out of 5 categories, and the most sequential decreases from KR and DG with 3 out of 5 categories

Price gaps widened

Considering how the price gap has evolved, we compare the price variance against the group average and learn that price gaps widened m/m for 4 out of 6 retailers in our survey including ACI, WFM, DG, and WMT, while KR and SFM narrowed. Compared to the group average, prices were relatively higher vs. last month for KR, ACI, and WFM, while SFM, DG, and WMT were lower.

Additionally, price gaps widened vs. a year ago for SFM, WFM, and WMT, while KR, ACI, and DG narrowed. Compared to the group average, prices were relatively higher vs. last year for KR, SFM, WFM, and DG, while ACI and WMT were lower.

The full note, along with consumer survey data from HundredX, can be found in the usual place for ZeroHedge Pro Subs.

With the back-to-school season underway, investors remain concerned about low-income consumers, although overall spending appears to be stable. Earlier this month, Deloitte’s holiday sales forecast raised concerns about a potential slowdown later this year. 

Goldman’s top sector specialist, Scott Feiler, provided clients over the weekend with four tactical thoughts on the health of the American consumer. 

As for the supermarket price war, Walmart has been leading for well over a year, as recent trends have shown wealthier consumers traded down from Whole Foods and other upscale supermarkets to Walmart at the tail end of the Biden-Harris regime’s first term.  

President Trump signed an executive order designating the Antifa movement a “domestic terrorist organization” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s political assassination nearly two weeks ago.

The White House has signaled its intent to designate Antifa as a terror organization over the past week (read here & here), but now it’s official as reported by The White House’s Rapid Response X account:

Here is the text of the order:

Section 1. Antifa as a Terrorist Threat. 

Antifa is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and our system of law.  It uses illegal means to organize and execute a campaign of violence and terrorism nationwide to accomplish these goals.  This campaign involves coordinated efforts to obstruct enforcement of Federal laws through armed standoffs with law enforcement, organized riots, violent assaults on Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other law enforcement officers, and routine doxing of and other threats against political figures and activists. Antifa recruits, trains, and radicalizes young Americans to engage in this violence and suppression of political activity, then employs elaborate means and mechanisms to shield the identities of its operatives, conceal its funding sources and operations in an effort to frustrate law enforcement, and recruit additional members.  Individuals associated with and acting on behalf of Antifa further coordinate with other organizations and entities for the purpose of spreading, fomenting, and advancing political violence and suppressing lawful political speech.  This organized effort designed to achieve policy objectives by coercion and intimidation is domestic terrorism.

​Sec. 2. Designation as a Domestic Terrorist Organization. 

Because of the aforementioned pattern of political violence designed to suppress lawful political activity and obstruct the rule of law, I hereby designate Antifa as a “domestic terrorist organization.”  All relevant executive departments and agencies shall utilize all applicable authorities to investigate, disrupt, and dismantle any and all illegal operations –especially those involving terrorist actions — conducted by Antifa or any person claiming to act on behalf of Antifa, or for which Antifa or any person claiming to act on behalf of Antifa provided material support, including necessary investigatory and prosecutorial actions against those who fund such operations.

Sec. 3. General Provisions. 

(a)  This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law.  This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

(b)  This order shall be published in the Federal Register.

DONALD J. TRUMP

This is a move that is not merely symbolic but also puts other radical leftist groups, including dark-money-funded NGOs, on heightened alert. The federal government’s new strategy aims to “disrupt and dismantle” the command-and-control nodes of radical leftist groups seeking to subvert the nation in an attempted Marxist takeover.

The designation doesn’t create new criminal charges against Antifa, but it allows the FBI, DHS, and DOJ to ramp up investigations under terrorism statutes and potentially deploy Patriot Act surveillance against the decentralized terror org. As a result, Antifa, which relies on platforms like Signal and Discord, may be forced to reconfigure its communication networks when planning future attacks, given the increased federal monitoring.

What this designation also means is that if Antifa commits a violent crime that meets the federal definition of terrorism (using force to influence government or intimidate a population), prosecutors can apply longer sentencing. This will act as a deterrent for Antifa revolutionaries who have been able to get away with violent crimes for years. This designation will also shift more funding, surveillance tools, and inter-agency cooperation toward it, such as a much-needed NGO-busting task force to counter radical leftist groups (or the deep state).

Stephen Miller says Charlie Kirk’s final message to him was a call to take down and dismantle violent left-wing groups.

He vows to carry that mission forward.

“The last message that Charlie sent me was, I think it was just the day before we lost him, which is that we need to… pic.twitter.com/Gl5i9ojBmK

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) September 15, 2025

Additionally, the designation encompasses any financial contribution or logistical support, including purchasing gas masks, buying hammers or weapons, or renting vans, which can be prosecuted as “material support for terrorism.” This gives the feds leverage to target Antifa’s money networks. By compelling reporting from banks and platforms, the feds could build a network of money sources for Antifa-related funds, including grassroots donors, NGOs, international groups, billionaires, and state actors, and track how these funds are distributed locally (e.g., bail funds, travel stipends, street gear).

Civil terrorism expert Jason Curtis Anderson of One City Rising commented on Antifa’s designation: 

Designating Antifa is a great step. The fact that it originated in Germany sets a significant precedent for designating it as a terror org, which would allow us to treat the American chapter with the seriousness it deserves. That is not where the foreign influence stops, though. There was a recent antifascist forum in Moscow, attended by members of Jackson Hinkle’s “American Communist Party.” For those unaware, he and another member of the org, Christopher Helali, help manage this organization from Moscow.

The Democratic Socialists of America (think Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib) also publicly voted in 2019 to establish Antifa working groups as an official arm of their operation.

Mike Benz explains how the Antifa network has a very ugly marriage with the Deep State… 

Antifa is a global network. From Germany against AfD, to France against Le Pen, to Spain against Vox, to Hungary against Orban, to Belarus against Lukashenko, to Syria against Assad, Antifa’s actions — violent shutdown of speech & events of targeted political groups, ecoterrorism to push climate agenda policies, attacks to break up anti-vaccine meetings — has perfectly line up with the exact policy goals of the prior State Dept, CIA, USAID, Pentagon, and USIP goals in each region. It’s time to crack open each agency’s files. Classified and unclassified. We need to know, both at home and abroad, every touch point, every fibre of connective tissue, between each of those federal governance agencies and so-called “antifascist” networks at each of the State Dept, CIA, USAID, Pentagon, and US Institute of Peace. Each agency should conduct its own internal review and analysis of all files, doing both internal keyword searches and regional-level reviews. Add FBI and DHS to cover the domestic side. All 7 of these agencies should commit within 6 months to making all such files public.

Antifa is a global network. From Germany against AfD, to France against Le Pen, to Spain against Vox, to Hungary against Orban, to Belarus against Lukashenko, to Syria against Assad, Antifa’s actions — violent shutdown of speech & events of targeted political groups, ecoterrorism… pic.twitter.com/5x8n9RUOk6

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) September 22, 2025

Radical leftist groups don’t stop with Antifa: 

• “Planning War Against Fascists” – Socialist Rifle Association Boasts 10,000 Members

• Trump Calls For RICO Charges Against Soros Over Violent Protest Support; Gates Foundation Abruptly Severs Ties With Rogue Arabella Advisors

• New Report Reveals Soros’ Open Society Funneled $80 Million To Pro-Terror Groups

• Senior Trump Official Declares War On Far-Left NGOs Sowing Chaos Nationwide

• White House Plans Security Boost On Civil Terrorism Fears As FBI Investigates Revolutionary Leftist Groups In Kirk Assassination

• FBI’s ‘Armed Queers’ Probe Just The Start – Lawmakers Urge Treasury To Freeze China-Linked Billionaire’s NGO Empire

• Another Week Of Madness: The Left’s Reaction To Kirk’s Assassination

For a decade, Democrats and their radical leftist groups normalized assassination culture by labeling President Trump, MAGA, and anyone they didn’t like as “Fascists,” “Nazis,” and “Racists,” and many other hateful words.

Where did Charlie Kirk’s murderer learn to call conservatives “fascists”?

“Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist?”

Kamala Harris: “Yes, I do. YES, I DO!” pic.twitter.com/RxDjgOYjKY

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 12, 2025

Still, this kind of dangerous rhetoric is nothing new and is merely a playbook straight from the Communists. 

pic.twitter.com/lM6JRuH0sB

— Azrael (@azraeleternal) September 22, 2025

Now do you understand?

Democrats have ushered in the “Permission Structure for Violence,” which is why some Democrats celebrated Kirk’s political assassination. 

“Permission Structure for Violence” is an excellent term for what Democrats and their Media partners engage in every single day.

How do we dismantle and collapse it?

— Publius (@OcrazioCornPop) September 22, 2025

Ending with this…

Stephen Miller to the radical left who believed they silenced Charlie Kirk:

“You are nothing. You wickedness, you are jealousy, you are hatred. You are NOTHING.”

“You thought you could kill Charlie Kirk? You have made him immortal.”

Absolute FIRE. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/XxzJzGO38E

— Walter Curt (@WCdispatch_) September 21, 2025

. . . 

It was only days ago that new US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz was belatedly confirmed by the Senate, in a drawn-out and somewhat embarrassing ordeal which took six months. Waltz took his seat at the UN Security Council for the first time Monday, and already came out swinging with anti-Russian sentiment, and appearing to side with the hawks in NATO.

“The United States stands by our NATO allies in the face of these airspace violations,” Waltz said. “And I want to take this first opportunity to repeat and to emphasize the United States and our allies will defend every inch of NATO territory.”

Estonia and its partners in Europe have been making a lot of noise over the alleged Russian jet violation of its airspace days ago, which Moscow has vehemently rejected. 

Days prior to that, there were reported drone incursion incidents also in NATO member Poland and Romania, resulting in jets being scrambled to monitor and intercept the UAVs which had been initially operating over Ukraine. 

While Waltz’s warnings can be seen as hawkish, in his prior national security advisory position, he expressed Trump’s vision that Ukraine will never be in NATO. For example, last spring:

National security adviser Mike Waltz said on Sunday the U.S. does “not see Ukraine being a member of NATO.”

“One thing is clear, we do not see Ukraine being a member of NATO, because that would automatically drag U.S. troops in,” Waltz told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union.” 

That prior position appears incongruous with the new assertions as UN ambassador that the United States is ready to ‘defend every inch’ of NATO. 

Even Trump last week downplayed the drone incidents as well as latest jet incursions in Estonia. Trump merely said over the weekend “I don’t like it” and previously suggested the drone activity was inadvertent.

To review of Waltz’s tumultuous path toward the UN ambassadorship:

The vote on Waltz could easily have gone the other way. When his confirmation vote reached the floor, 10 senators were absent (there’s a reason Friday afternoon votes are uncommon), and Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky opposed Trump’s nominee.

That might’ve spelled doom for Waltz, were it not for the fact that three Senate Democrats — Sens. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, Mark Kelly of Arizona and Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire — voted to confirm him, resulting in a 47-43 final tally.

This outcome might’ve been difficult to imagine in the spring. As regular readers know, Waltz’s troubles began in earnest, of course, in March after he organized a Signal chat to discuss sensitive operational details of a foreign military strike. That chat accidentally included a journalist.

In the days that followed, there were multiple reports that the Signal chat about a military operation in Yemen was not the first of its kind and that Waltz also allegedly used a private email account to conduct government business.

Publicly, the White House backed Waltz, but NBC News reported that Trump had privately “expressed frustration” with his aide. 

Despite all of this Waltz will be even more visible, representing the US administration at the United Nations – where President Trump is getting ready to address the General Assembly on Tuesday.

Authored by James Howard Kunstler,

A Personal Note

“I’ve never talked to a Democrat who ever wanted to listen. They start to glitch out if you try.” 

– Sasha Stone

This past summer, I tried to open a line of communication with a West Coast relative. We exchanged a few letters. I tactically steered the conversation away from the political. Here was the closer salvo from my relative:

Jimmy, on a completely personal level, and in different times, I think we could have been very good friends. At this point in our history, I find what you say in your blogs and Kunstlercast to be outrageous, deceptive, and ugly. I disagree with almost everything you hold dear politically, and even if, for instance, we agree about the horrors of Big Pharma, your worship of Kennedy makes me ill. Your language falls right into all the clichés of the far right ideologies I loathe. Maybe someday things will change. For now, this is the last you’ll be hearing from me.

Frankly, what stung most keenly was the accusation that my language fell “into all the clichés of the far right ideologies. . . .” I like to think that I am allergic to clichés, though it’s possible that I am deluded about that. If anything, the dynamic collective thought disorders of our time present themselves in astonishingly fresh ways — for instance, a Supreme Court nominee who can’t define what a woman is. (Makes you kind of wonder how such a mind could parse Article Two of the Constitution.)

Mostly, I would have liked to know what those “far right ideologies” are, exactly, but it looks like I will never find out now.

Maybe it is being opposed to censorship. . .

or against Ukraine’s entry into NATO. . .

or wanting coherent procedure for foreigners seeking to enter the USA. . .

or keeping biological men out of the women’s swim lanes. . .

or saying that ivermectin is a safe and effective anti-viral med. . .

or supposing that people charged with felonies should not be released to the streets without significant cash bail.

Stuff like that.

As it happened, we were not discussing these matters in our brief correspondence, but I was at something of a disadvantage since I am a professional writer who posts his opinion for public scrutiny and my relative is not. Of course, I describe what is a pandemic of broken family relations in our country. And social relations. I have been cancelled by most of my old friends, too, and I’m quite sure that I am not a special case.

I am mystified by what these relatives and old friends actually believe these days.

When we were hippies back in the day, they were very much opposed to war, turned-off by attempts at censorship, and deeply averse to the dark operations of the CIA and FBI. Now, they seem avid for intel ops and hoaxes, eager for war, and all-in for censoring ideas that make them feel “unsafe.”

There are various useful theories for this state-of-affairs, all pretty cross-compatible. Strauss and Howe’s Fourth Turning template of generational cycles explains a lot. Elizabeth Nickson has some fine insights about the extreme discontents of women these days leading them to summon political demons. Mattias Desmet, the Belgian psych professor has his Mass Formation theory, which states that societal anxieties provoke aligned “radical intolerance” among a populace. I recommend Wendy Williamson’s recent blog discussion of The Law of Reversal. Joseph Tainter’s classic, The Collapse of Complex Societies lays out the pitfalls of our “over-investments in complexity.” I wrote a book in 2005 titled The Long Emergency which describes the drawn-out collapse of our techno-industrial economy — the widespread apprehension of which helps define the societal anxieties described by Dr. Desmet that bring on his “Mass Formation Psychosis.”

All these theories tend to imply an inflection point where our assumptions about human progress get undermined, provoking an intense loss of faith in institutions and authorities, resulting in epochal socio-political disorder. Wouldn’t you agree we are seeing exactly that now? That the net effect of all this is of a society driven insane. Surely, the craziness is amplified by the novel connectivities of the Internet and exacerbated by many other high-tech innovations from ubiquitous camera surveillance to cryptocurrency to drone warfare.

In our country these days, all of this has apparently produced two camps at war psychologically, now verging on something like a hot civil war. One camp calling itself “progressive” insists on a roster of ideas, policies, and practices that look patently absurd, abusive of the public interest, and hostile to the values of Western Civ. The other camp styles itself as “conservative” seeking to preserve Western Civ and the advancement of our so-called way of life — an ever growth-seeking high-tech economy.

Personally, I doubt that the latter is possible. I believe we’re due for a pretty serious time-out from the sort of economic “growth” we enjoyed the past two-hundred years. That high-tech mega-fiesta has thrown off a lot of entropy, which is now working hard to slow things down and make us stop a lot of what we are doing. It manifests in many ways, but most vividly by flinging us into social disorder, turning what had been communication and correspondence into a rising babel that is driving us crazy. That is exactly why it is so hard to talk to our relatives and old friends. But mark this: there is a time coming when we will get tired of being crazy, and then things will go differently for us. We’ll start talking again.

Hours after 400 artists signed an ACLU letter in response to Jimmy Kimmel’s firing, the late-night host’s ‘indefinite termination’ for propaganda surrounding the Charlie Kirk assassination has been turned into a week’s vacation.

According to Variety, Disney and ABC are bringing the comedian back to its schedule Tuesday night. 

“Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country.  It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive,” the company said in a statement. “We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday.”

Kimmel’s show was pulled last Wednesday after the host said that Charlie Kirk assassination suspect Tyler Robinson was ‘MAGA’ – when he’s very clearly not based on what we know. In response, FCC Chair Brendan Carr threatened to revoke ABC affiliate licenses over the comments, which he described in a podcast interview with host Benny Johnson as “the sickest conduct possible.”

Does Roseanne Barr get her show back too now?

Developing…

Authored by Jonathan Turley,

Charlotte Bronte once wrote “I believe that creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities.”

No quote better captured the chilling curiosity that is Hillary Clinton.

This week, Clinton (without any sign of shame or self-awareness) attacked others for seeking censorship and blacklisting political opponents through government and corporate collaboration. Clinton is one of the most anti-free speech figures in the United States and actively campaigned for the censorship of opponents. Today, my column in the Hill discusses the hypocrisy of many on the left this week after the suspension of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel. However, there is simply no one in the same class as Clinton in hitting hypocrisy’s rock bottom.

This week, Clinton declared: “I think this is a very clear example of using the power of the state to suppress speech. It is a direct government action to try to intimidate employers, organizations, corporations, much of which we’ve already seen, to remove an opponent, even though it’s a comic.”

For many in the free speech community, the statement led us to spit out our morning coffee.

Clinton and her allies have long shown contempt for the intelligence of the voters, often denying facts or flipping positions while denying any inconsistencies. It was a record that produced not only polling as one of the least popular American politicians but also record lows in the public’s view of trustworthiness and authenticity. Clinton’s campaign routinely lied about major issues, including denying to the media that it funded the infamous Steele dossier.

For the record, I have repeatedly criticized Administration statements from recently on free speech and some of the actions taken against critics as threatening to our core values of free speech. This has included threats to prosecute hate speech and flag burning despite countervailing precedent. However, the last person any of us in the free speech community wants to see in this fight is Hillary Clinton.

As I have previously written, Clinton heralded the growing anti-free speech movement and noted that “there are people who are championing it, but it’s been a long and difficult road to getting anything done.”

In my book, I discuss the challenge for anti-free speech champions like Clinton is that it is not easy to convince a free people to give up their freedom.

That is why figures like Clinton are going “old school” and turning to government or corporations to crack down on citizens. One of the lowest moments came after Elon Musk acquired Twitter, promising to restore free speech protections. Clinton called upon European officials to force Elon Musk to censor American citizens under the infamous Digital Services Act (DSA). This is a former democratic presidential nominee calling upon Europeans to push the censorship of Americans.

Clinton praised the anti-free speech efforts in California and New York and called for the rest of the country to replicate the approach of those states.

Clinton added a particularly illuminating line that said the quiet part out loud. This is all about power and the fear that she and others will “lose control” over speech:

“Whether it’s Facebook or Twitter or X or Instagram or TikTok, whatever they are, if they don’t moderate and monitor the content, we lose total control and it’s not just the social and psychological effects it’s real harm, it’s child porn and threats of violence, things that are terribly dangerous.”

Clinton continues to offer a textbook example of the anti-free speech narrative. While seeking sweeping censorship for anything deemed disinformation, Clinton cites specific examples that are already barred under federal law like child porn.

Not surprisingly, when I spoke in Berlin on free speech, Hillary Clinton also spoke to call for greater speech limits to a highly appreciative European audience. She has been a major voice in fostering the government-corporate alliance that carried out massive censorship of political opponents.

As Bronte noted, this “creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities.” Fortunately, the public has never been deceived by the changeling. They have always seen her opportunistic attacks as a sign of contempt for them as a bunch of chumps. Both Clinton and the media have learned in prior elections that these narratives are falling flat with most Americans outside of the core Democratic base.

There has to be some lingering residue of shame left; some modicum of decency in refraining from such raw hypocrisy at these moments. Yet, we seem to be living in an era of post-shame politics. The only thing missing is lawyer Joseph Welch:

*  *  *

Elon Musk and President Donald Trump were spotted Sunday afternoon at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, for Charlie Kirk’s memorial service. It was their first public appearance together since Musk’s dispute over Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” and his criticism of the president regarding Epstein.

The Trump-Musk feud appears to have come to an end – well, at least for now – as any MAGA fracturing this past summer over BBB and Epstein has been conveniently put aside after Kirk’s political assassination nearly two weeks ago at Utah Valley University by a crazed leftist. 

Unity filled the air at State Farm Stadium, with Musk posting “For Charlie,” alongside an image of him and the president sitting in the stands and chatting in what appears to be a civil manner.

For Charlie pic.twitter.com/8092jIt319

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 21, 2025

Late Sunday, the White House posted an image of Trump and Musk on X, signaling that the feud is over for now. 

POTUS x @ElonMusk

For Charlie. pic.twitter.com/Inaf8X81Gy

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) September 22, 2025

Why this matters is that President Trump and the MAGA movement are beginning to recognize the severity of “civil terrorism” fueled by Democrats in power – from the highest levels of government down to corporate media.

Where did Charlie Kirk’s murderer learn to call conservatives “fascists”?

“Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist?”

Kamala Harris: “Yes, I do. YES, I DO!” pic.twitter.com/RxDjgOYjKY

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 12, 2025

A decade of amplifying dangerous rhetoric by labeling Trump, his supporters, and anyone Democrats disagree with as “fascists,” “Nazis,” and “racists” has contributed to the rise of far-left militancy that has now “planned war against fascists.” 

Democrats appear to have adopted a 1943 Communist directive in their information war against the American people:

The Communist Directive in 1943: “Label them a Nazi or Fascist”

Sounds familiar. pic.twitter.com/cLKTCFl9gI

— American AF 🇺🇸 (@iAnonPatriot) September 18, 2025

Shortly after Kirk’s murder, Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller declared war on the radical left. At the same time, President Trump stated that Antifa could soon become a designated terror group. The White House has requested tens of millions of dollars for a security boost. 

Miller last night on the radical left:

Stephen Miller to the radical left who believed they silenced Charlie Kirk:

“You are nothing. You wickedness, you are jealousy, you are hatred. You are NOTHING.”

“You thought you could kill Charlie Kirk? You have made him immortal.”

Absolute FIRE. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/XxzJzGO38E

— Walter Curt (@WCdispatch_) September 21, 2025

Must Reads: 

• “Planning War Against Fascists” – Socialist Rifle Association Boasts 10,000 Members

• Trump Calls For RICO Charges Against Soros Over Violent Protest Support; Gates Foundation Abruptly Severs Ties With Rogue Arabella Advisors

• New Report Reveals Soros’ Open Society Funneled $80 Million To Pro-Terror Groups

• Senior Trump Official Declares War On Far-Left NGOs Sowing Chaos Nationwide

• White House Plans Security Boost On Civil Terrorism Fears As FBI Investigates Revolutionary Leftist Groups In Kirk Assassination

• Trump Supports Designating Antifa A Terrorist Organization

• FBI’s ‘Armed Queers’ Probe Just The Start – Lawmakers Urge Treasury To Freeze China-Linked Billionaire’s NGO Empire

• Another Week Of Madness: The Left’s Reaction To Kirk’s Assassination

One of the Marxist groups the FBI is investigating in the Kirk assassination is Armed Queers of Salt Lake City.

Armed Queers had an obsession with “No Kings” protest and the 50501 movement …

And who funded No Kings? As per Schweizer’s reporting:

“New Schweizer team investigation reveals how ‘No Kings’ and its partners bagged $114.8 million from the Arabella dark money network and how these professional protest organizations use tax dollars as a force multiplier.”

As we noted, citing a recent NYT report, the Gates Foundation was a major donor for Arabella Advisors and abruptly cut ties this past summer.

The White House needs to establish an urgent task force to counter civil terrorism threats unleashed by radical leftist groups supported by what appears to be a dark-money-funded NGO network. If MAGA – or, say, Trump and Musk can unite on one issue, it’s dismantling these leftist NGOs that sow chaos nationwide and attempt to subvert the nation with a Marxist takeover, aided by foreign actors. Musk remembers that these leftist groups firebombed his Tesla showrooms and tarnished the brand.

We’ll end with Charlie.

Charlie Kirk on Elon Musk and Trump:

“I actually think they are going to reconcile at some point because, deep down, they both want the same thing…..Both of these men deserve great credit for their contributions to help save civilization.”

The reconciliation appears to be… pic.twitter.com/qRWDrNOjSw

— Green Lives Matter (@Ultrafrog17) September 21, 2025

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Authored by Steve Watson via modernity.news,

British Rock singer Morrissey has been forced to cancel two scheduled US shows owing to what have been described as ‘credible’ threats to assassinate him onstage.

The NY Post reports, “The canceled concerts were set for Friday at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Conn., and Saturday at Boston’s MGM Music Hall at Fenway. Both venues said refunds would be issued.“

A post on Morrissey’s official social media pages reads “In recent days, there has been a credible threat on Morrissey’s life,” adding that “Out of an abundance of caution for the safety of both the artist and band’, the two dates were pulled.”

‘Credible’ Morrissey assassination threat prompts rocker to cancel Boston, Connecticut shows https://t.co/9XopaoBAAp pic.twitter.com/y2KFj12Vqj

— New York Post (@nypost) September 20, 2025

The report also notes that a threat to kill Morrissey was also made by a deranged leftist on Bluesky prior to the singer’s CityFolk appearance in Ottawa.

Police arrested a 26-year old man on Sept. 12 and charged him with uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm, later releasing him on $5,000 bail.

This serves as yet another example of the rise of ‘assassination culture’ among leftist extremists.

Morrissey has become a pariah in the music industry establishment due to his ‘politically incorrect’ opinions confronting the conformist creed of the bed-wetting mob.

For a time, the former Smiths frontman, who maintains a loyal hardcore fanbase, couldn’t find a record deal due to the blisteringly honest themes of his work, which including a whole album condemning the May 2017 Manchester Arena bombing by Islamic jihadist Salman Abedi, which claimed the lives of 23 people and injured 800, many of them children.

As we have previously highlighted, the Manchester Arena bombing is a harrowing example of how political correctness literally kills.

Suicide bomber Abedi was rescued as a ‘refugee’ by the British Royal Navy following the overthrow of Colonel Gadaffi in Libya.

On the night of the Manchester Arena bombing, numerous concertgoers and security guards saw Abedi acting suspiciously but were either ignored or didn’t report the terrorist’s alarming behaviour for fear of being labeled “racist.”

The same label that has made Morrissey public enemy number one for an industry that reacts to honesty, authenticity and integrity in music like a vampire reacts to sunlight.

Indie rock icon Morrissey points to images of Klaus Schwab, Fauci and Bill Gates, singing “educated criminals work within the law.” This is why he is shunned by the industry establishment. He refuses to conform like the other “lock-jawed pop-stars” Report: https://t.co/5hEL5MhlkB pic.twitter.com/jLchMGLMUF

— m o d e r n i t y (@ModernityNews) July 30, 2024

After Morrissey had the temerity to point out the blindingly obvious, that diversity is not a strength, BMG, which is owned by Sony Corporation, announced they would be dropping Morrissey due to “new plans for ‘diversity” that didn’t include him.

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In the past Israel relied on its weapons superiority to dissuade potential attacks from neighbors, but that gap is obviously narrowing, as the massive Iranian retaliatory missile strikes on Tel Aviv and other cities demonstrated last June. Lessons from Ukraine should also be taken into account, as Israeli armor might not have the same battlefield presence it once did if cheap drones are so effective in destroying vastly more expensive tanks.  

While the superior-armed IDF military has clearly been pushing forward in Gaza, as the war is soon to reach the two-year mark, Hamas has all the while released a steady stream of battlefield videos showing its militants engaged in successful ambushes. Large IDF tanks have been blown up often by militants sneaking up and placing IEDs directly on them.

The fact that Israel has since Oct.7 been engaging hostile groups from the Houthis of Yemen, to the Iranians, to Hezbollah in Lebanon – has meant a severe strain on public and government coffers. Israel has also frequently bombed Syria, as it did back in the days of Assad, and is now occupying parts of the country’s south, well beyond the Golan Heights. All of this also requires more manpower, and steady updates regarding weapons tech, parts, and mechanical upkeep.

Now there are new risks and mounting costs involved, as reservists continued to be called up in the thousands, connected to the effort to fully take over Gaza City – the Strip’s most populous location.

New Monday reporting in Bloomberg says that “Israel’s push to take over Gaza City is expected to add 25 billion shekels ($7.5 billion) to the war bill through the end of the year, according to an Israeli government official.”

“The added costs — equivalent to more than 1% of Israel’s gross domestic product — will pile onto the 204-billion-shekel military tally for the almost two-year war in Gaza, which spread to Lebanon, Iran, Syria and Yemen,” the report continues. That’s over $60 billion total.

Additionally the report notes that “Reservists’ salaries, ammunition and missile interceptors make up the bulk of spending, the official said on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters that haven’t been made public.”

There are other indirect factors putting an immense strain on funding the war effort, amid Israel’s increased global isolation, as CNN writes:

Netanyahu, meanwhile, is calling on Israel’s arms makers to step up their readiness. “We will need to strengthen our independent weapons industries so that we have munitions independence, a defense industrial economy, and the industrial capability to produce them,” he said last Monday, speaking at a finance ministry conference.

Israel and its arms makers have long been viewed as producing cutting-edge weapons technology, and those weapons have been sold to countries around the world. But as international criticism of the war in Gaza grows, Israel risks losing its position in some of those markets.

But the ‘special relationship’ with Washington will once again form the basis of bailing Israel out, and the Trump White House is already pushing for Congress to approve a nearly $6 billion arms deal with Israel.

The proposed package includes 30 AH-64 Apache attack helicopters valued at $3.8 billion, which would nearly double Israel’s current fleet, as well as 3,250 infantry fighting vehicles – at $1.9 billion.

Trump is said to be deeply frustrated with Prime Minister Netanyahu over the risky Doha operation targeting Hamas leaders earlier this month, but certainly this public stance doesn’t square with promise of $6 billion more in weapons. It’s yet another example of watch what Trump does and not what he says.