Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, appeared in a short video Wednesday afternoon from inside an undisclosed warehouse, standing before what she says is the largest-ever seizure of precursor chemicals from China. The shipment, bound for narcoterrorist networks in Mexico to manufacture illicit drugs, was intercepted by U.S. forces. 

“You are looking at the largest seizure of precursor chemicals used to manufacture methamphetamine in U.S. history. China was sending over 700,000 lbs on the high seas to the Sinaloa Cartel before my office seized them,” Pirro wrote on X, alongside a video of her standing in the undisclosed warehouse full of the precursor chemicals in barrels. 

She continued, “Because President Trump and Secretary Rubio declared the Sinaloa Cartel a Foreign Terrorist Organization, we can now strike faster and hit harder.” 

You are looking at the largest seizure of precursor chemicals used to manufacture methamphetamine in U.S. history. China was sending over 700,000 lbs on the high seas to the Sinaloa Cartel before my office seized them.

Because President Trump and Secretary Rubio declared the… pic.twitter.com/kAyijtTlTM

— Jeanine Pirro (@JudgeJeanine) September 3, 2025

In April 2024, the House Select Committee on China revealed that the Chinese Communist Party used tax rebates to subsidize exports of precursor chemicals to make fentanyl.

The committee said, “Through subsidies, grants, and other incentives, the PRC harms Americans while enriching PRC companies.” 

Here’s how the CCP wages hybrid warfare (read more here) against Americans, fueling a drug death crisis that kills more than 100,000 people every year.

Related: 

• Chinese Fentanyl Financier Evades U.S. Extradition After Daring Mexico City Tunnel Escape

• China’s Role In U.S. Fentanyl Crisis Directed By Regime Leadership, Expert Says

• Busted Fentanyl Super Lab In Canada Makes “Breaking Bad Look Minor League”: Former Trump Official

On Tuesday, the Trump administration began dismantling supply chains of narcoterrorist networks (watch here), including the destruction of a drug-laden boat carrying Tren de Aragua militants and shipments bound for the U.S. The neutralizing operation was carried out near Venezuela.

Securing the North American continent is part of a broader Trump administration strategy, dubbed “hemispheric defense.” Whether it’s purging transnational gangs from American city streets, driving the CCP out of the U.S. and Canadian financial systems, or disrupting drug-boat supply chains in the Caribbean Sea, Trump admin folks are no longer playing around.

The new concern is that armed narcoterrorists inside the U.S. could retaliate. Remember, the Biden-Harris globalist regime allowed these cartel members to walk in by the thousands through nation-killing open border policies.  

Pirro’s video suggests that Trump could soon be targeting China over its involvement in fueling the drug-death crisis in America. Sanctions inbound?  

Authored by Lear Zhou via The Epoch Times,

A Chinese national who was formerly an xAI engineer has been sued by the company for alleged “willful and malicious” stealing of xAI’s trade secrets and documents, including “cutting-edge AI technologies with features superior to those offered by ChatGPT and other competing products.”

The 29-page federal civil complaint filed Aug. 28 in the Northern District of California seeks a temporary restraining order, ordering the defendant to surrender all stolen files and documents, as well as injunctions to prevent any others from accessing those materials.

The lawsuit also seeks damages and emergency injunctive relief to prevent defendant Li Xuechen from working at OpenAI or any other competitor of xAI pertaining to generative AI, until xAI confirms all allegedly stolen files are deleted.

Li, a Stanford University alumni and permanent resident of Canada, joined xAI’s technical team with approximately 20 engineers in late February 2024.

According to the court filing, Li allegedly secretly uploaded a copy of data containing xAI’s trade secrets three days before his sudden resignation on July 28, 2025.

Prior to this, Li had accepted an offer from xAI competitor OpenAI to join its team starting Aug. 19.

Elon Musk, xAI founder and owner, said in an X post,

“He downloaded the entire xAI code repo, the logs prove he did it and he admitted he did it!” 

Details of Musk’s accusations are included in the court documents.

Generative artificial intelligence was introduced for public access in late 2022 with ChatGPT’s debut as a chatbot. xAI entered the race in November 2023. The company’s advanced model, Grok 4, achieved groundbreaking results  in which it surpassed rival products in some AI benchmark tests published on July 11.

As part of the Grok 4 team, Li wrote in his last public X post on July 10, just one day after the announcement of Grok 4:

“It never fails to astonish me how much a small group of talented people working with extreme focus and intensity can achieve in a very short time.”

While Li was working for xAI developing and training Grok, he was granted “restricted and controlled access to its confidential documents and proprietary information” to enable him to perform his job duties, according to the complaint.

“The data could be used by xAI’s competitors, such as OpenAI, and/or foreign entities to preempt xAI’s product offerings and market expansions, and understand and use its current and in-development product features to strengthen their own AI models, thus giving any competitor or entities with access to the data a potentially insurmountable competitive advantage in the AI race,” the complaint said.

Li worked as an intern in the Google AI related TensorFlow team when he was a student at the University of Toronto, according to his LinkedIn profile. Li also entered into Meta’s PhD fellowship during his time as a PhD candidate at Stanford University, studying artificial intelligence.

Employees in the AI community like Li get paid well. Li sold nearly $7 million in xAI company stock through two transactions facilitated by xAI, receiving $4.7 million on July 23 and another $2.2 million on July 25, according to the complaint.

The complaint said that xAI facilitated the latter one of Li’s sale requests because the company “valued his contributions, and wanted to retain him as a productive and successful employee.”

The court document said Li allegedly stole xAI’s confidential info and trade secrets, and “betrayed the trust and faith” of the company the same day he received millions from the second stock sale.

The company only discovered the theft through a routined security log review on Aug. 11.

Li, with his criminal attorneys present, admitted in a handwritten document that he “misappropriated xAI’s Confidential Information and trade secrets,” and further verbally admitted he tried to hide the theft in a consequent in-person meeting on Aug. 14–15, the court file said.

Li has 21 days from Aug. 29, when the court issued the summons against him, to answer the litigation, or he will be facing judgment by default, according to a court file.

With just under a month until the next government shutdown (sigh), Republicans are locked in an increasingly messy internal battle over how to keep federal agencies funded, as competing strategies in the House, Senate, and White House collide over spending priorities, foreign aid, and political leverage.

Congress has until Sept. 30 to pass new legislation to avoid a lapse in funding, but the GOP – which controls the White House, House, and Senate – remains fractured on a path forward. This isn’t just about keeping the lights on, but also the balance of power within the Republican Party itself, as President Donald Trump’s latest move to rescind nearly $5 billion in foreign aid has inflamed tensions within the Senate and complicated delicate negotiations, Punchbowl News reports.

Three Strategies, One Deadline (and no cup)

While Republicans control all levers of government, they are far from unified:

• Senate Republicans, led by Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), are pushing for bipartisan funding bills that exceed House and White House proposals by tens of billions of dollars. Thune wants to position Senate Republicans as willing partners on funding, betting he can portray Democrats as obstructionists if they refuse to cooperate.

• House Republicans, under Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), are leaning toward a short-term continuing resolution (CR) to keep the government open through mid-November, buying time for broader talks on full-year appropriations.

• The White House, meanwhile, prefers a longer stopgap that would fund the government until at least the first quarter of 2026 – avoiding repeated shutdown showdowns but angering hard-line conservatives who see it as a capitulation to Democrats.

This divide sets up a high-stakes battle within the GOP and against Democrats, with each faction maneuvering to avoid taking the blame if the government shutters.

Trump’s Pocket Rescission Sparks Backlash

Fueling the chaos is President Trump’s decision to issue a “pocket rescission” canceling nearly $5 billion in congressionally approved foreign aid, a move that has enraged Senate Democrats and rattled some top Republicans. 

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, called the maneuver ‘flat-out illegal’ and said her counsel is reviewing potential legal challenges. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) warned the move could derail bipartisan negotiations:

“I think it can give Democrats a reason not to work with us on a bipartisan appropriations bill. That’s got me concerned,” Rounds said.

Making the rescission issue extra spicy; the Senate is preparing to mark up the State Department–Foreign Operations funding bill next week – one of the very accounts targeted by Trump’s cuts. With immigration and border security funding also in the mix, appropriators face an increasingly combustible set of issues.

Johnson Balances a Razor-Thin Majority

Speaker Johnson is under pressure from both establishment Republicans and the hard-right Freedom Caucus as he tries to corral votes for any funding deal.

House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole (R-OK) supports a short-term CR into late November, tied to a handful of full-year funding bills, which would include spending for Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, and the Legislative Branch, leaving continuing negotiations over the remaining appropriations.

But conservatives are pushing back hard, The Hill notes:

• Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA), former chair of the Freedom Caucus, insists on a one-year CR with automatic spending cuts:

  “I’m not interested in anything that gets us right before the holidays, because we all know exactly how that’s going to go.”

• Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD), current Freedom Caucus chair, echoed that sentiment, saying if Congress is going to extend funding into 2026, “I say just go for it and put it into next December.”

• Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) warned he would “probably not” vote for any short-term deal if it’s loaded with community funding projects, aka ‘earmarks,’ while other Republicans want those local funding boosts included.

For Thune, the goal is to protect the Senate’s bipartisan traditions and keep Democrats at the table. He believes moving regular appropriations bills, even at higher spending levels than Trump’s budget — will put political pressure on Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and his caucus.

“If the Democrats are interested in funding the government, we’re going to give them every opportunity to do that,” Thune told Punchbowl, promising to bring more funding bills to the floor this month.

However, the rescission fight threatens to blow up that strategy. Collins’ criticism signals a rare Republican split in the Senate, while Democrats, furious over Trump’s foreign aid cuts, may be less inclined to cooperate on Thune’s bipartisan path.

Democrats Hold Their Fire – For Now

Despite frustration with Trump’s rescission, some Democrats are signaling support for pairing a short-term CR with several full-year appropriations bills to avoid a shutdown.

Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee, said she supports attaching three bipartisan bills; for Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, and the Legislative Branch, to a short-term deal:

“As part of a bipartisan, short-term CR, I support conferencing those three bills and passing them with a short-term CR for the remaining nine bills,” Murray said.

The White House has also struck a cautiously conciliatory tone, acknowledging that a short-term CR is “increasing in likelihood” but continuing to press for a longer solution that avoids repeated deadlines.

Submitted by investigative reporter Chris Papst, author of “Failure Factory: How Baltimore City Public Schools Deprive Taxpayers and Students of a Future”, 

Over Labor Day weekend, a series of posts on the X platform regarding student outcomes in Illinois went viral. According to one post, which cites 2022 state data, 30 Illinois schools had zero students test proficient in English. Another post, citing 2024 state data, indicates that 80 Illinois schools had zero students test proficient in math. 

Wow

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 30, 2025

The likely reason these posts went viral is because the data are alarming and, for many, surprising. But it shouldn’t be. Disheartening educational outcomes, similar to Illinois, are not rare. Unfortunately, they are common. Especially in states such as Maryland. 

For the past eight years, I’ve been investigating Baltimore City Public Schools as a reporter for Fox45 News’ Project Baltimore – a station owned and operated by Sinclair, Inc. When Project Baltimore launched in 2017, our mission was simple – to hold school leaders accountable by following the money, while shining a spotlight on why students continue to fail within a school system that’s failing Baltimore.

At White House @realDonaldTrump said, “In Baltimore, 40% of the high schools have zero students who can do basic mathematics.”

That stat is from this ’23 Project Baltimore report. We found 13 High Schools (40%) had ZERO students test proficient in math.https://t.co/CTDOdwSaff

— Chris Papst (@chrispapst) March 21, 2025

Now, after filing nearly 1,000 reports, I have written a book detailing our most shocking findings – Failure Factory: How Baltimore City Public Schools Deprive Taxpayers and Students of a Future.

U.S. News and World Reports, in July, ranked Baltimore as the nation’s fourth most dangerous city. But perhaps violence is not really the problem. Rather, the violence is a symptom of the real problem, which is a failing public school system that for decades has not provided city residents with a quality education.

Baltimore City Public Schools, in 2024, had a $1.7 billion budget, which makes it one of the nation’s most funded large school systems, according to the U.S. Census. But that same year, which is the most recent school year for which we have full data, just 10% of Baltimore students tested proficient in math. That means, about 90% of Baltimore’s students did not test proficient in math.

In 2023, Project Baltimore analyzed state testing data and found that 40% of the high schools in Baltimore City had zero students test proficient in math. When President Donald Trump signed an executive order, earlier this year, to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education he mentioned that grim fact uncovered by Fox45 News. 

These issues are not unique to recent years. The failure is systemic. In 2017, Project Baltimore combed through state testing data and found six public schools in Baltimore City that did not have a single student test proficient on any state exam. You read that correctly. Despite being one of the most funded large school systems in America, Baltimore had six entire schools where zero students tested proficient in math and English. 

As I promote Failure Factory on podcasts, radio shows and TV programs, I often get this question: “Are there any elected officials in Maryland who are calling for greater accountability from Baltimore City Schools, while demanding better student outcomes?”

The answer is largely, no. And this may be why: In Baltimore, there is no diversity of political thought. 

The following is hard to believe, but it’s true. Every elected official in Maryland, who represents Baltimore City, is from the same political party. Every. Single. One. 

Both U.S. Senators from Maryland, are Democrats. Each member of the U.S. House of Representatives who represent parts of Baltimore City, is a Democrat. Every State Senator and State House of Delegates member who represents the people of Baltimore, is a Democrat. Within city limits, there is not one Republican currently elected to any position. There hasn’t been a Republican mayor in Baltimore since the 1960s. There hasn’t been a Republican elected to City Council in generations. 

This is not to suggest that Republicans have all the answers. But I do believe most Americans would agree that two-party control is more effective than one-party rule. 

The aforementioned Project Baltimore reports regarding student proficiencies all went viral. But most of the outrage emanated from outside the state. Public officials in Maryland stayed relatively quiet. And remain so to this day. 

What will happen in Illinois? Will public officials in that state demand that public schools improve the quality of education offered to students? I suppose we’ll find out. But as an investigative journalist who has been entrenched in Baltimore for nearly a decade, I’ll tell you this – a community with a failing public school system cannot thrive. 

. . . 

Chris Papst is a National Emmy award-winning investigative reporter for Fox45 News and the 2023 Maryland State Conference NAACP Vanguard Award recipient. Chris is also the author of Failure Factory: How Baltimore City Public Schools Deprive Taxpayers and Students of a Future. 

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Chris Papst featured on The Megyn Kelly Show … 

And Newt Gingrich.

Chris Papst’s new book Failure Factory: How Baltimore public Schools Deprive Taxpayers and Students of a Future is an astonishing portrayal of a corrupt system which cheats the taxpayers and cheats the students. Chris spent years investigating the tragic and infuriating failures…

— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) August 29, 2025

The Trump administration’s move to restore law and order in crime-ridden Democrat-controlled cities could soon expand and shine a massive spotlight for the nation to see, revealing uncomfortable truths about how Democrats robbed America’s youngest generations of a future through corrupt grade-rigging and more.

Earlier this week a suspect was arrested over the murder of former Ukrainian parliamentary speaker and hardline nationalist Andriy Parubiy, who was shot execution-style in the streets of Lviv on Saturday. A man wearing a helmet pulled up behind Parubiy on an e-bike, hopped off and shot him in the back of the head, before fleeing. It all happened in broad daylight near the victim’s home and shocked the Ukrainian public.

By Tuesday a suspect was arrested and he confessed to the murder, Ukrainian President Zelensky announced. “The suspect has given an initial testimony,” Zelensky wrote on Telegram. “Urgent investigative actions are currently under way to establish all the circumstances of this murder.”

Initially, the killer was widely assumed to have been linked to Russia, given Parubiy has long been on a Russian ‘most wanted’ list for his role in the 2014 Maidan coup events, as well as overseeing far-right militias in the Donbass.

But the man in custody hasn’t been found to be linked to Russia. Instead, the 52-year-old resident of Lviv, whose name is still being withheld by authorities pending the investigation, described his killing the ex-lawmaker as an act of “revenge” against government authorities.

Police say the attack was “carefully planned” – after which the killer fled to a nearby forest and burned his clothes, and disposed of the e-bike.

During an initial court appearance, the suspect called the killing as his “personal revenge against the Ukrainian authorities” and said he shot Parubiy “because he was nearby”. He further told reporters outside the courtroom, “Yes, I admit I killed him.”

The murdered MP Andriy Parubiy had served in the same unit in 2022 as the son of the suspect in his killing, MP Mykola Kniazhytskyi reported. pic.twitter.com/HPYinVNRUc

— Marta Havryshko (@HavryshkoMarta) September 2, 2025

And importantly, he denied that he had been in contact with Russian intelligence or any foreign service in carrying out the killing. Authorities are looking at every association, however.

According to a summary of statements reported by CNN, the man was angry that he lost a son to the war:

The suspect told journalists that he would like a verdict to be issued quickly so that he can be “exchanged for prisoners of war so that I can go and find my son’s body,” the video from the courtroom shows.

The man’s son was a junior sergeant in Ukraine’s armed forces who was killed in combat, according the suspect’s ex-wife Olena Cherninka. “My son was a hero who died for Ukraine,” Cherninka wrote in a Facebook post on Tuesday, claiming that she raised the soldier, named Mykhailo-Victor, herself, with very little input from his father.

The father and son had argued about the younger man fighting in the war, she said, claiming that the soldier had blocked his father everywhere.

“Yes, I admit — I killed him. This is my personal revenge against the Ukrainian authorities,” declared the suspect in the murder of MP Andriy Parubiy in the court. pic.twitter.com/3DTDkaVq93

— Marta Havryshko (@HavryshkoMarta) September 2, 2025

Based on the emerging testimony of the crime so far, the shooter was outraged at Ukrainian authorities for recruiting his son, or else for allowing him to go to war – after the father apparently sought to thwart his son from joining the armed forces. 

Now it appears the man blames Ukrainian officials for his son’s death, and sought to take vengeance on a well known public figure who is widely considered an anti-Russian hardliner and hawk. However, Ukrainian investigators have reportedly not ruled out that the man is possibly being blackmailed by Russian intelligence, or some other similar scenario.

Many observers immediately suspected that this was a Russian assassination operation…

We are at war in Ukraine. We in Great Britain know only too well how Russia uses every means possible for assassinations—chemical, radioactive, you name it.

This footage shows a killer opening fire with a pistol at Andriy Parubiy, former Speaker of Ukraine’s Parliament and key… pic.twitter.com/7yuL6ovQSl

— Shaun Pinner (@olddog100ua) August 30, 2025

The whole episode is representative of rising anger and frustration among the Ukrainian population, amid a grinding war against a superior-armed Russia, and with no end in sight as casualties mount to historic proportions. Officers’ recruiting tactics, which have involved nabbing eligible young men from city streets and sending them to the front lines, remain as unpopular as ever.

Update (2000ET): The Trump administration responded quickly to Obama-appointed judge’s decision with Secretary of Education Linda McMahon posting on X that 

“In an unsurprising turn of events, the same Obama-appointed judge that ruled in favor of Harvard’s illegal race-based admissions practices – which was ultimately overturned by the Supreme Court – just ruled against the Trump Administration’s efforts to hold Harvard accountable for rampant discrimination on campus. 

The Trump Administration is fully committed to appealing this erroneous decision and will ensure that new taxpayer funding is not invested at any university that steadfastly refuses to uphold civil rights for all students.

Cleaning up our nation’s universities will be a long road, but worth it.”

No response from President Trump yet…

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As Sam Dorman detailed earlier via The Epoch Times, a federal judge has ruled against the Trump administration’s attempt to freeze more than $2 billion of Harvard University’s funding, holding that the government violated the First Amendment through its efforts to combat anti-Semitism.

In a ruling on Sept. 3, U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs cast doubt on the administration’s motives in freezing vast amounts of funding for things like medical research. She suggested that the government retaliated over the university’s refusal to comply with multiple demands the Justice Department made after an investigation into anti-Semitism on campus.

“The government-initiated onslaught against Harvard was much more about promoting a governmental orthodoxy in violation of the First Amendment than about anything else, including fighting antisemitism,” she said.

She added that “there is, in reality, little connection between the research affected by the grant terminations and antisemitism.”

Reviewing the evidence, she said, indicated that the administration used anti-Semitism as a “smokescreen.”

Her decision removes the administration’s orders freezing vast amounts of federal money flowing to Harvard and prohibits it from issuing additional funding freezes.

White House spokesperson Liz Huston said the administration would appeal the ruling, which she said was egregious.

“To any fair-minded observer, it is clear that Harvard University failed to protect their students from harassment and allowed discrimination to plague their campus for years. Harvard does not have a constitutional right to taxpayer dollars and remains ineligible for grants in the future,” she said in a statement provided to The Epoch Times.

In April, the administration made several demands that Burroughs said included changes to activities protected by the First Amendment. These protected rights include a school’s ability to manage its academic community and evaluate teaching without government interference.

Her ruling followed a hearing in July when the Justice Department argued that the government was well within its rights to terminate funding streams to Harvard. The university, the department also said, brought the case in a federal district court when it should have brought it in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, which typically handles contract-related disputes.

Tension inside and outside the courthouse seemed to underscore the high stakes alleged by both sides.

In his rebuttal, Justice Department attorney Michael Velchik, a Harvard alumnus, got choked up while discussing the importance of the university and the concern about anti-Semitism on campus.

Velchik said that the government would have canceled Harvard’s contracts regardless of how the university responded to its demands.

In her Sept. 3 opinion, Burroughs doubted that the funding freeze was unrelated to Harvard’s refusal to comply with the government’s demands.

The judge said President Donald Trump’s posts on social media evinced an interest in punishing Harvard’s views rather than anti-Semitism.

The Epoch Times reached out to Harvard for comment.

On Tuesday, the House Oversight Committee released a massive dump of ‘Epstein files’ – only for most of them to be highly redacted, providing little to no additional insight into who Jeffrey Epstein’s high-profile clients were. 

Surprise…The Epstein files are all redacted https://t.co/UPAQ39MFtC pic.twitter.com/VZrpi8Qqes

— 𝕻𝖆𝖓𝖓𝖘𝖙𝖎𝖌𝖆𝖙𝖔𝖗 (@hippyresident) September 2, 2025

Massie ‘Demands Accountability’

On Wendesday, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) held a press conference outside the Capitol along with some of Epstein’s accusers, where he called on at least two more Republican Reps to sign onto a bipartisan discharge petition that will allow him to bypass leadership and force a vote on the release of the Epstein files. 

“We demand real accountability,” Massie said. “I encourage my colleagues … there’s over 200 Republicans who have not signed this discharge petition. We only need two of them to sign it.”

🇺🇸 EPSTEIN VICTIM TO TRUMP: WE ARE THE AMERICANS YOU PROMISED TO PROTECT

Epstein survivor Jena-Lisa Jones:

“A person who has chosen to serve in an elected position has a duty to stand up for those you represent who cannot always stand up for themselves.

We are those people.… https://t.co/EKmKoZlqIy pic.twitter.com/uEwsVpHXta

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) September 3, 2025

So far, just four Republicans have signed on to the petition; Massie, and Reps. Nancy Mace, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Bobert. 

The White House, meanwhile, says that any Republicans helping Massie would be engaging int a ‘hostile act’

White House says helping me secure a vote to release all the Epstein files is a “Hostile Act.”

They’re threatening anyone who helps bring true transparency and justice for the survivors.

This is a tacit admission the Oversight Committee data release is woefully incomplete. pic.twitter.com/EOPLBDjXdA

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) September 3, 2025

Victims Vow To Release Own List

During the press conference, model Lisa Phillips – who was introduced to Epstein in the early 2000s, said that she and other survivors of the Epstein-Maxwell sex-trafficking network are going to release their own list of abusers. 

“We know the names,” said Phillips. “Many of us were abused by them.”

“Now, together, as survivors, we will confidentially compile the names we all know who were regularly in the Epstein world. And it will be done by survivors and for survivors — no one else is involved.” 

BREAKING: Epstein victims announce they will compile their own list of pedophiles. pic.twitter.com/7eoLZxXQXV

— Sal the Agorist (@SallyMayweather) September 3, 2025

Phillips was joined by nearly a dozen other victims or family members of victims who were involved in Jeffrey Epstein’s network to urge Congress to pass the discharge petition. 

Watch the entire press conference below:

Epstein’s survivors deserve justice and Americans deserve transparency. https://t.co/TVi2RmNS4B

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) September 3, 2025

An uncomfortable truth surfaced earlier this week in California when the chair of the California State Student Association (CSSA) openly admitted that the California State University (CSU) system “proudly” serves 10,000 illegal alien students. 

CSSA Chair Aaron Villarreal stated, “The CSU is proud to serve nearly 10,000 undocumented students. The highest number at any university system in the country.” 

WHAT

.@csustudents has 10,000 illegal alien students‼️

Great for @ICEgov to target next!

cc @TheJusticeDept @DHSgov @RealTomHoman @Sec_Noem pic.twitter.com/mAUcJaCi3A

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 3, 2025

CSSA is made up of representatives from each of the 23 CSU campuses, meaning it oversees about half a million CSU students. The goal of Villarreal and others at CSSA is to push for policies that benefit students (such as affordable tuition, financial aid, housing, and academic resources). 

Or in Villarreal’s speech, he boasted about taxpayer dollars funding illegal aliens at CSU campuses. 

To note, CSU campuses admit students regardless of their immigration status.

Prioritizing non-citizens over citizens is why Americans voted for President Trump. Folks are tired of leftists plowing taxpayer funds into third-worlders, while that money could be used to help working-poor citizens.

Democrats are tripling down on their illegals… why? Because this party of leftist radicals imports its future voters from third-world countries, indoctrinates them in schools, and then unleashes them into the country. It’s a far-left ‘factory’ that produces future Democrats.

Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com,

President Trump said in an interview published on Tuesday that no one has done more for the state of Israel than himself and cited his recent airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities as an example.

“So, Israel is amazing, because, you know, I have good support from Israel,” the president told the Daily Caller. “Look, nobody has done more for Israel than I have, including the recent attacks with Iran, wiping that thing out. We, that plane, wiped them out like nobody ever saw before.”

Trump made the comments when asked if he was worried about the growing skepticism among young Republicans when it comes to the US relationship with Israel, and he noted the Israel lobby’s control over Congress, saying it has waned in recent years.

“But when, if you go back 20 years. I mean, I will tell you, Israel had the strongest lobby in Congress of anything or body, or of any company or corporation or state that I’ve ever seen. Israel was the strongest. Today, it doesn’t have that strong a lobby. It’s amazing,” Trump said.

“There was a time where you couldn’t speak bad, if you wanted to be a politician, you couldn’t speak badly. But today, you have, you know, AOC plus three, and you have all these lunatics, and they’ve really, they’ve changed it,” he added.

The criticism of Israel among a small number of members of Congress is no longer limited to Democrats, as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who is considered a strong supporter of President Trump, has recently come out strongly against Israel’s campaign in Gaza and became the first Republican in Congress to label it a genocide. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) is also known for his opposition to US aid to Israel and the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC.

“Israel, you would understand this very much, Israel was the strongest lobby I’ve ever seen. They had total control over Congress, and now they don’t, you know, I’m a little surprised to see that,” Trump said.

The president, who is strongly backing Israel’s assault in Gaza, said the military campaign is not good for Israel’s public image. “They may be winning the war, but they’re not winning the world of public relations, you know, and it is hurting them. But Israel was the strongest lobby 15 years ago that there has ever been, and now it’s, it’s been hurt, especially in Congress,” he said.

President Trump Admits To Daily Caller — He Attacked Iran For Israel & The Israel Lobby “Had Total Control Over Congress” pic.twitter.com/BcQN6qLmM5

— Ron Paul (@RonPaul) September 2, 2025

Trump made similar comments while on the campaign trail last year, both about the Israel lobby and Israel’s public image being damaged by the destruction of Gaza. “Some 15 years ago, Israel had the strongest lobby. If you were a politician, you couldn’t say anything bad about Israel, that would be like the end of your political career. Today, it’s almost the opposite,” he told Israel Hayom in March 2024.

Leftist organizations like the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center have been saying for decades that “conservative extremists” are the biggest domestic terror threat in the US.  Of course, the ADL and SPLC have been oddly quiet when it comes to the multitude of leftist related shootings and terror attacks in recent years, including several transgender related mass shootings since 2018.  These incidents don’t fit the progressive narrative mold. 

You will likely never see a TV series based on government agents scouring the internet for left-wing extremists plotting potential mass killings, even though there is an endless gold vein of real life story material to be mined for such a show.  Until Donald Trump took office this year, it’s highly unlikely that the FBI was looking into woke zealots with any seriousness.     

The focus of Hollywood propaganda, the focus of government propaganda and the focus of NGO propaganda has long been the demonization of conservatives, red pillers, anti-feminists, militia members and “white supremacists” (essentially anyone against mass immigration from third-world nations).  Overtly political productions are crushing Hollywood’s profit margins because they still operate on a model that treats the “right wing” as a fringe minority.  In reality, the right wing is the majority.

Apple TV apparently still hasn’t gotten the memo, or, they’re releasing content today that they started shooting years ago and it’s too late to turn back.  Their latest series, The Savant, is set to be released this month and the trailer has gone viral on social media, but not in a good way. 

Beyond the tiresome woke tropes that plague the majority of mainstream productions, The Savant trailer feels like something out of a time capsule dug up from an earthen floor in the basement at MSNBC.  A brilliant liberal white women operating in the shadows, working for the FBI and using the internet as a weapon to undermine conservative racists, terrorists and “incels” bent on the destruction of progressive democracy?  It’s a bit laughable.   

It sounds like an ego-stroking fantasy tale written for Tumblre, but the show is actually based on a “true story” featured in an article written for Cosmopolitan back in 2019.  The article tracks the career of an anonymous woman known as “the Savant” who works for the federal authorities to identify possible terrorists.  She frequents forums and chat boards, engaging with “evil right wingers” and determining if they are a serious threat.  She even, allegedly, received praise from former FBI Director Robert Mueller.   

The idea feels old because it is old.  The article mentions the Savant’s operations in reference to the ADL and SPLC, though it’s unclear if she collaborates with them directly.  Her work links to events that occurred almost a decade prior to the Cosmo piece.  Most of her targets are little known, arrested for minor offenses that rarely make the news.  But according to Cosmo, people like the Savant are defusing worse crimes before they happen.  

Interestingly, the primary example used in the article to showcase the Savant’s talents is the identification of a Muslim terrorist, not a right wing terrorist. The man was Michael Finton, who was arrested in 2009 during a sting in which the feds gave him a fake truck bomb and let him try to blow up a federal building in Illinois.

This suggests that the Savant is probably more than a profiler, she’s a profiler who identifies people who can be “nudged”.  It’s a covert agency term often used to describe the tactic of manipulating an easily led person into committing a crime or attack.  These crimes are then used by governments to destroy the reputations of the various groups that the individuals are associated with, while conjuring mass fear and suspicion in the populace.

A recent example would be the FBI attempt to manufacture a militia kidnapping plot against Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2022 that involved more federal informants than actual suspects.  

Cosmo focuses heavily on the “red pill” movement, which the Savant was monitoring in 2019.  The bias is dripping and the hatred for anti-feminist movements is obvious, connecting the most extreme of examples to average men who have the guts to call out the trespasses of Marxist feminism.  There was a clear agenda in the US at that time to link anti-feminism among white conservatives with terrorism, a plan which ultimately failed to gain traction.  Though, we are still seeing similar propaganda programs today in Europe, Canada and Australia.  The article notes:

“On sites like Gab, Reddit, 4chan, 8chan, and VK, the new white supremacists and misogynists hatch conspiracy theories that take off on Twitter and make it on fake news sites like InfoWars and even occasionally Fox News. They serve up “constant peer pressure to do something criminal,” says K (the Savant). They turn hate speech into hate crimes…”

It’s easy to see why this is nonsense – They make no mention of Islamic fundamentalism which is perhaps the greatest concentration of violent ideology against women in the world.  In other words, whoever the Savant is, she is a mechanism of a leftist slander machine that is quickly dying (whether she considers herself a leftist or not). A machine desperate to fabricate a conspiracy of murderous conservatives that doesn’t exist, simply because people on the right disagree with woke talking points.  She’s not a hero, far from it.  

Apple TV thought this story was a worthy premise for an expensive streaming series and they’ve been met with resounding ridicule online.  The political left is not just out of touch, they are out of time.