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9/11 Families Plan to Ignore Mamdani at Ground Zero Memorial
Relatives of Sept. 11 victims say they will turn away from New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani if he attends the 25th anniversary ceremony at Ground Zero. A petition asking organizers to keep him from the event has collected more than 98,000 signatures and will be delivered to City Hall on Sept. 8. Families pointed to Mamdaniâs associations and public record. Mamdani has said he plans to attend and honor those killed. The 2001 attacks claimed 2,977 lives, including 658 Cantor Fitzgerald employees.
Editorâs Note: And itâs not about Mamdani being a Muslim. Itâs about him being sympathetic to Islamist terrorism.
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Sanders Bill Would Jail Developers and Dissolve Firms for Superintelligent AI
Sen. Bernie Sanders (S-VT) and Rep. Greg Casar D-TX) announced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act on Sept. 3. The measure would permanently bar development or deployment of AI systems that surpass human intelligence, could overthrow governments, or evade shutdown commands. It would pause advanced AI work until a new Cabinet-level agency writes safety rules and a model-review process. That agency could monitor frontier systems, order the removal of dangerous capabilities, and supervise the destruction of banned models. Companies that violate the rules would face a corporate death penalty. Individuals could get up to 20 years in prison, a penalty the sponsors liken to unlawful nuclear-weapons work. The bill also directs the United States to pursue international agreements and export controls to prevent the proliferation of superintelligence abroad. Critics say a U.S. pause would hand the lead to China.
Editorâs Note: While unhinged AI models are concerning, how would Sanders respond to groundbreaking cures in medicine at the hands of AI that were beyond contemporary human capability? Progressives never think things throughâŚ
House Democrats Eye 2027 Impeachment of Trump and Hegseth
House Democrats, banking on a November midterm win, say President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have committed impeachable offenses. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), in line to chair the House Judiciary Committee if Democrats take the majority, told NBCâs âMeet the Pressâ that Trump has âundoubtedlyâ committed crimes worthy of impeachment and listed tearing down the East Wing for a ballroom among the grievances. Democrat candidate Cait Conley, running in New Yorkâs 17th District, told CNNâs âState of the Unionâ that Hegseth is âa hazard to American national securityâ and that she would support removing him. Capitol Hill members in both parties have criticized Hegseth after Army Secretary Dan Driscoll resigned amid leadership clashes. Only Sen. Thom Tillis R-NC) has called on Trump to fire him. Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) said he is not ready to oust Hegseth but questioned the firings of staff. Democrat leaders say they have no locked-in impeachment plan but are not ruling one out if they win the House.
Editorâs Note: Impeachment required the committing of âhigh crimes and misdemeanorsâ. Those have not taken place. But Democrats will spend your tax dollars on the circus anywayâŚ
MAGA Inc Opens Midterm Spending With $10 Million Texas Senate Ad Buy
President Trumpâs MAGA Inc. super PAC disclosed Saturday a $10 million television and digital ad buy in the Texas Senate race, its first general election outlay of the cycle. Half the money backs Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), and half targets Democrat state Rep. James Talarico (DS). One spot casts Talarico as backing a âradical healthcare planâ and Paxton as a tax cutter with a plan on costs. Trump said Friday that the PAC holds close to $1 billion and that he intends to allocate $400 million to $500 million this fall. The group reported more than $403 million in cash on hand at the end of July. Elon Muskâs America PAC has already reported $1.6 million in the same contest. Paxton defeated Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) in the primary after Trumpâs endorsement. The National Republican Senatorial Committee and Senate Leadership Fund have not spent in the general race. Talarico had raised nearly $70 million by the end of June. The Cook Political Report rates the seat a toss-up. Texas has not elected a Democrat senator since 1988 and backed Trump by nearly 14 points in 2024.
FCC Chairman Carr Flags Actions Against Broadcast Networks Over Fake Polls
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr said Sunday that the agency is looking at a range of actions against broadcast networks that air fake polls and partisan coverage ahead of the midterm elections. Appearing on Fox Newsâs Sunday Briefing, Carr said President Trump understands that licensed broadcast television differs from cable and other platforms because stations receive billions of dollars in subsidized distribution and must operate in the public interest. Carr said the FCC may soon issue guidance reminding broadcasters of their obligations not to air fake polls, especially if used to suppress turnout this fall. The remarks followed Trumpâs demand that NBCâs Kristen Welker be reported to the FCC after she described his primary endorsement record as mixed.
Peltola Draws Green Donor Cash While Pitching Oil in Alaska Senate Race
Alaska Democrat Senate nominee Mary Peltola collected nearly $100,000 from at least 23 environmental activists and climate-focused donors in the first half of 2026, according to Federal Election Commission records. Many of those contributors, including Patagonia co-founder Malinda Chouinard and former Natural Resources Defense Council chair Daniel Tishman, have opposed the Willow oil project that Peltola publicly supports. Peltola has billed herself as a pro-oil Democrat in an energy-dependent state and released a plan centered on expanding fossil fuel production with only a passing mention of renewables. A campaign spokesman said she puts Alaska first and is not beholden to out-of-state donors. Peltola paid herself $34,400 in campaign salary during the same period.
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NYC Mayor Opens Labor Day Office to Steer Private Workers Toward Unions
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed a Labor Day executive order creating the Mayorâs Office of Worker Power, billed as the first municipal shop of its kind, to help private-sector employees get informed, connected and organized. The office will be run by former longshoreman and United Auto Workers organizing director Tony Perlstein, who reports to Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice Julie Su, a former acting U.S. labor secretary. Officials said the unit will hold hearings, circulate workersâ rights material and refer employees to unions and worker centers, drawing inspiration from a 2020 Democratic Socialists of America and United Electrical Workers project. City Hall released no budget or extra staffing figures. The same order tells city agencies to develop probes of workplace violations even when no worker has filed a complaint, a shift small-business groups called concerning in a city already running more than twice the national unionization rate.
Editorâs Note: Using public money to promote labor unionization? Sounds, well, illegal, doesnât it?
Daughter Called 911 on Ohio Democrat Nominee Amy Acton After 2019 Home Disturbance
Bexley police responded Aug. 17, 2019, to the home of then-Ohio health director Amy Acton after her daughter called 911 reporting that her mother and stepfather were fighting and that Acton had been drinking, throwing things, and breaking glass. Officers documented a verbal argument over Actonâs work hours in which she pulled a mirror from the wall and shattered it. Both Acton and her husband told police they had been drinking. Acton said she had taken an unknown amount of prescription medication and had gone to the garage intending to leave before her husband stopped her. Medics recommended a hospital trip. She refused. Police found no physical violence and listed the matter as a verbal dispute only. Actonâs campaign later said she had one drink at dinner, bumped a wall hanging, and was asleep when officers arrived.
AirTags Guide Police to Retired College Prof & Dem-Donor Wife After Georgia Campaign Signs Vanish
A conservative-leaning independent candidate for Georgia House District 137 hid Apple AirTags inside replacement campaign signs after they kept disappearing near Matthews Elementary School and County Line Road in Columbus. The trackers alerted Stephen Acorn within 24 hours that two signs were moving and led him and Columbus police to the residence of retired Columbus State University lecturer Richard Spencer Garrard and his wife, Rev. Dr. Cindy Cox Garrard, a donor to incumbent Democrat Debbie Buckner. Officers recovered four Acorn signs from the coupleâs garbage. Garrard later said she removed the signs because she believed they sat on a public right-of-way and confirmed they were returned. Acorn has not decided whether to press charges, which carry a maximum of 12 months in jail and a $1,000 fine under Georgia law.
Virginia Mom Put on Child Abuse Registry After Son Walked Familiar Path Alone
Williamsburg mother Karyann Parkinson was convicted of contributing to the delinquency of a minor after her 5-year-old son, Sam, walked a familiar gated-community path that passed a pond to collect goose feathers. A security guard intercepted the boy and brought him home, after which police and Child Protective Services stepped in. Parkinson, who was eight months pregnant at the time, received a six-month jail sentence that was suspended and was placed on Virginiaâs Child Abuse and Neglect Central Registry for seven years. She is appealing the conviction and the registry listing, which she said will keep her from volunteering at her sonâs school until he reaches sixth grade.
Editorâs Note: The land of Washington, Jefferson, and Madison has become a socialist joke.
Columbia Institute Features Deportation-Fighting Protester at 9/11-Eve Free Speech Symposium
Columbia Universityâs Knight First Amendment Institute will host a Sept. 9-10 symposium on the âForever Warâ and First Amendment rights that includes a Sept. 10 interview with graduate student Mohsen Mahdawi, a former leader of the 2024 campus protests who is appealing a deportation order. Organizers list Mahdawi as a Palestinian human rights advocate. A 100-page report released days earlier by investigators David Collier and Rachel Feldman documents years of his Arabic-language posts praising Hamas and other designated terrorist groups, statements about annihilating Jews, and a 2015 Vermont gun-shop allegation that he said he liked to kill Jews. Mahdawi denies the gun-shop remarks. The event falls on the eve of the 9/11 anniversary. Columbia last year paid $220 million in a federal settlement over claims it fostered a hostile environment for Jewish students.
Editorâs Note: Do you know whatâs becoming incredibly boring? Pro-Palestinian ProtestsâŚ
ON THIS DAY IN 1776:
During the American Revolutionary War, patriot soldier Ezra Lee piloted the hand-powered submarine Turtle in an attempt to attach an explosive charge to the hull of the British flagship HMS Eagle in New York Harbor. While the attempt failed, it marked the first recorded use of a submarine in military combat.
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Hundreds Block Portsmouth Roads After 140 Migrants Land From Unusual Channel Crossing
Around 140 people were brought ashore at Eastney Landing in Portsmouth on Sept. 6 after a small boat that departed western Normandy was intercepted off the Hampshire coast. Hundreds of demonstrators, some in black clothing and masks, blocked Fort Cumberland Road and other access routes near the marina, chanting âstop the boatsâ and vowing to prevent coaches from taking the arrivals to the Manston processing center in Kent. A local resident paddled in a canoe to deliver supplies to those in positions police could not easily reach. Hampshire Police imposed a dispersal order, formed cordons around parked coaches, and later reported that some officers were injured and vehicles were damaged. The coaches left in the early hours of Sept. 7. The landing followed a similar road-blocking protest at Dover the previous day and occurred after an unusually long crossing from a departure point far west of the usual Calais-area routes.
Iran Warns South Korea of Serious Consequences for Hormuz Role
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei posted in Korean on X on Monday that any South Korean military presence or participation in operations in the Persian Gulf or the Strait of Hormuz would be considered direct support for U.S. aggression and would bring serious consequences. Seoul said Friday it was reviewing options such as maritime patrol aircraft, a logistics ship, or other assets to help secure navigation, but that nothing has been decided. Iranian academic Mohammad Marandi separately warned that Tehran could treat South Korea as an enemy and strike its economic and military holdings in Gulf states if Seoul joins the effort.
Haiti Presses Gang Force Renewal After US Slams Savage Attacks
The United States condemned as savage a late August gang assault on Haitiâs Kenscoff community that killed at least 47 people, including children, and left dozens abducted, while urging faster deployment of the UN-authorized Gang Suppression Force. Haitian Foreign Minister Raina Forbin told the Organization of American States the forceâs mandate must be renewed before it expires Sept. 30 and its planned 5,500 personnel fully mobilized so the government can reclaim gang-held territory and hold elections set for Dec. 13. Gangs already control an estimated 80 to 90 percent of Port-au-Prince, and the United Nations recorded 1,408 gang-related deaths from April through June as nearly 1.47 million Haitians remain displaced.
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Thousands Pack Belgrade Streets for Funeral of âThe Butcher of Bosniaâ Serb Commander Ratko Mladic
Thousands of mourners gathered Monday in Belgrade for the funeral of Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb general who died last month in a Hague prison while serving a life sentence for genocide over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. Crowds filled the streets around St. Luka Church as people kissed the closed coffin and unfurled banners hailing him as a hero. Serbian Orthodox priests led prayers while police sealed nearby roads. President Aleksandar Vucic did not attend. The European Union accused Serbia of glorifying a convicted war criminal. Officials from Serbia and Bosniaâs Republika Srpska were present. His flag-draped coffin was later moved to a cemetery under military escort.
Anak Krakatau Ash Cloud Grounds 1,500 Flights and Strands 170,000 Across Eight Airports
Anak Krakatau in the Sunda Strait erupted repeatedly after rising activity Friday, with two bursts Sunday morning sending ash as high as 50,000 feet. Indonesian authorities closed eight airports, including Jakartaâs Soekarno-Hatta hub, grounding more than 1,500 flights and leaving about 170,000 passengers stranded. Ash drifted toward Jakarta, western Java, and Lampung. Officials shifted schools to remote learning, warned residents to limit time outdoors and wear masks, and noted disruptions to fishing. Mount Semeru also erupted, leaving five volcanoes on Level 3 alert.
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