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Socialism 2026 Erupts with Fat Genocide Claims, Prison Abolition, and May Day Mobilization [WATCH]
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Socialism 2026 Erupts with Fat Genocide Claims, Prison Abolition, and May Day Mobilization [WATCH]

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Socialism 2026 appears determined to prove that no ordinary political argument is strange enough for the modern radical left.

The conference reportedly linked popular GLP 1 medications to “fat genocide,” demanded prison “abolition,” and promoted a massive May Day action planned for 2028.

That combination offers a revealing look at the priorities driving socialist organizers.

While working families remain concerned about grocery prices, public safety, medical costs, and government accountability, these activists are preparing years in advance for ideological theater wrapped in revolutionary language.

GLP 1 medications have become widely discussed because of their use in diabetes treatment and weight management.

Yet the conference presentation reportedly cast the drugs as part of a broader attack on heavier people, turning a medical and cultural debate into another sweeping accusation of systemic oppression.

The argument also targeted the Make America Healthy Again movement.

According to the conference framing, MAHA draws from older traditions described as eugenic, racist, hostile to black Americans and heavier people, discriminatory toward disabled people, and obsessed with human productivity.

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That is quite a rhetorical leap.

A movement focused on chronic illness, nutrition, food ingredients, medical transparency, and the health of American children is recast as a sinister project because challenging unhealthy systems apparently threatens the ideological machinery of the activist left.

The phrase “fat genocide” is especially designed to shock rather than clarify.

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Genocide describes the deliberate destruction of a people, not public debate over obesity, prescription drugs, nutrition, exercise, diabetes, or the role that large corporations play in shaping American eating habits.

Using such grave language for political effect does more than invite ridicule.

It drains meaning from genuine historical atrocities while allowing activists to portray any disagreement over health, medicine, or personal responsibility as evidence of hatred and organized oppression.

The prison discussion followed a similarly radical path, with “abolition” presented as the preferred answer.

Americans living with violent crime and repeat offenders may reasonably wonder why their safety keeps landing at the bottom of the socialist priority list.

Prison abolition has long circulated through far left academic and activist spaces, often disguised beneath softer language about transformation and community care.

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The practical question remains stubbornly unanswered: What happens to murderers, rapists, predators, and other dangerous offenders when the institutions holding them are dismantled?

Ordinary citizens know that justice requires both accountability and protection.

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The left can pile up fashionable terminology, but no amount of seminar language changes the reality that dangerous criminals exist and that government has a basic duty to protect innocent people from them.

The planned May Day 2028 action adds another layer to the conference agenda.

Organizers are reportedly looking toward a massive mobilization, suggesting that the socialist movement is not merely holding discussions but building toward a coordinated national display of political power.

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May Day has deep ties to organized labor, socialism, and communist political traditions.

Modern activists often use it to combine labor demands with immigration activism, racial politics, climate campaigns, and broader attacks on capitalism, law enforcement, and traditional American institutions.

Planning years ahead signals patience and ambition, even if the message itself sounds detached from the daily concerns of most voters.

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Conservatives should not dismiss such organizing simply because its slogans are absurd, since disciplined ideological movements can turn fringe ideas into institutional demands.

The conference themes reveal a movement eager to redefine medicine as oppression, incarceration as injustice, and revolutionary organizing as moral necessity.

Every institution becomes suspect, every health debate becomes discrimination, and every demand for public order is portrayed as cruelty.

Meanwhile, the people paying taxes, raising families, running businesses, and trying to keep their neighborhoods safe are expected to accept lectures about genocidal medicine and supposedly illegitimate prisons.

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That sales pitch may excite socialist conference rooms, but it is a much harder sell on Main Street.

Socialism 2026 offers the public a remarkably clear preview of where radical politics wants to go.

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The destination includes weaker public safety, more ideological control over health discussions, and a mass political operation timed to revive the left under the banner of May Day.

Canada’s Retaliatory Tariffs Slam US Goods as Trade Talks Collapse [WATCH]
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Canada imposed retaliatory tariffs on American goods just after midnight Tuesday, escalating economic pressure on its largest trading partner after negotiations collapsed last month.

The move deepens a trade conflict that has already dragged on for 18 months, with neither side currently showing much appetite for retreat.

The Canadian duties cover about $20 billion worth of US products.

Tariff rates range from 15% to 50% and apply to steel, furniture, clothing, electronics, and a broad collection of other goods crossing the northern border.

Ottawa designed the measures as dollar-for-dollar retaliation against tariffs previously imposed by President Donald Trump.

The escalation arrived after officials from both countries blamed one another for wrecking an agreement that appeared close to completion just two weeks earlier.

“What we are worried about is an escalatory spiral,” said Michael Harvey, executive director of a Canadian agricultural trade group and a member of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s advisory committee on bilateral US economic relations.

His concern reflects the obvious danger of two closely connected economies steadily piling costs onto each other.

“But at the same time, we totally understand that the prime minister needs to find areas of leverage,” Harvey said.

That is the political calculation facing Carney as he tries to look tough without inflicting lasting damage on Canadian businesses and consumers.

Trump’s latest tariffs targeted roughly $20 billion in Canadian exports, representing about 5% of the goods Canada sends to the United States.

Products affected include wine, furniture, dairy products, cement, clothing, fishing rods, and hockey equipment, because apparently even hockey gear cannot escape a trade brawl.

Government data from both countries shows that Canada has sent nearly 68% of its total exports to the United States this year.

About 80% of those shipments entered duty free because of protections and exemptions included in the US Mexico Canada trade agreement.

Those protections have given Canada’s domestic economy some breathing room during the dispute.

The new US tariffs, however, were imposed through a Depression era law that does not permit Ottawa to claim the usual agreement exemptions.

The growing confrontation is creating fresh uncertainty about the future of the continental trade pact.

Trump declined to extend the agreement for another decade, leaving it subject to annual reviews and raising questions for companies considering investments in Canada, Mexico, or the United States.

Canada is also taking on an economy approximately 13 times its size, a reality that no amount of patriotic rhetoric can erase.

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Carney may enjoy broad public support now, but political analysts warn that enthusiasm could fade once higher costs, disrupted supply chains, and weaker growth reach Canadian households.

American voters are hardly cheering the tariffs either.

A Reuters and Ipsos survey found that only 20% of Americans approved of Trump’s tariffs on Canadian goods, giving both governments another reason to find a workable exit before the economic pain becomes more visible.

Carney said last week that his government remains prepared to sign an agreement benefiting both countries.

Yet the fresh retaliatory duties suggest Ottawa believes added pressure is necessary before Washington returns to the negotiating table.

Trump raised the stakes again last month by threatening to increase tariffs on all Canadian cars, trucks, and automotive parts to 50% beginning January 1.

He also signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America, adding another theatrical flourish to an already combustible dispute.

A Canadian government source said ministers and government officials are not currently holding talks with their American counterparts.

That silence leaves businesses guessing while tariffs take effect and political leaders trade blame from opposite sides of the border.

“The Canadian government needs to keep channels open to the United States and not go overboard in terms of rhetoric and reacting to the rhetoric from the American side, while waiting for the American decision-making process to come back to economics,” Harvey said.

For now, those channels appear quiet as both governments test how much economic pressure the other side will tolerate.

The central risk is that tariffs intended as leverage become permanent barriers that neither government can remove without looking weak.

With billions of dollars in commerce exposed and the broader trade agreement facing uncertainty, Canada and the United States are moving deeper into a costly standoff that could prove far easier to start than to stop.

ICE Raids One Week, DACA Cops the Next: Danbury Dems Double Down on Open-Border Agenda [WATCH]
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ICE Raids One Week, DACA Cops the Next: Danbury Dems Double Down on Open-Border Agenda [WATCH]

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Danbury Democrats responded to a week of federal immigration enforcement by opening the city police department to certain noncitizens, approving the controversial change in an 18 to 2 City Council vote.

The move followed Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations that reportedly produced more than 60 arrests across the Connecticut community.

The new ordinance allows lawful permanent residents and recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals who live in Danbury to apply for positions as police officers.

Supporters insist every candidate will face the same screening, training, fitness, character, and certification rules imposed on citizen applicants.

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Democrat Councilman Joe Britton made clear that the timing carried a political message after the ICE activity.

He said the vote “sends a message to our immigrant community at large that you are welcome in Danbury.”

Britton described the federal enforcement actions as “frightening” and presented the council vote as a moral response. Before the vote, he declared that “what we have here is an opportunity.”

The Democrat also linked the ordinance directly to the recent ICE presence.

Britton said that “though this definitely wasn’t planned to be on the agenda on the end of a federal invasion of immigration officials in Danbury … I do think it’s timely.”

Then came the familiar moral lecture for anyone who dared disagree.

“There is no reason to vote against this, and if you do vote against this, I truly question your moral compass,” Britton said.

The only two council members who opposed the measure were Republicans, while all 17 Democrats and one Republican voted in favor.

Nothing says open minded local governance quite like questioning the morality of the only members willing to cast a dissenting vote.

Britton later defended the policy by emphasizing that it applies to people who are legally present.

He said, “Danbury is an immigrant city, and I believe someone who is lawfully here, committed to our community, and willing to raise their hand and take an oath to protect and serve should have the opportunity to do so.”

He also argued that eligibility would expand without weakening qualifications.

“This change does not lower Danbury’s standards for becoming a police officer. It simply allows otherwise qualified lawful permanent residents and DACA recipients to apply and compete for these positions,” Britton said.

Taylor O’Brien, a spokesperson for Danbury, said the council revised its ordinance to align with standards established by the Connecticut Police Officer Standards and Training Council.

O’Brien noted that more than 30 Connecticut municipalities, along with jurisdictions in several other states, already use a similar standard.

Connecticut authorities partially waived the citizenship requirement in 2020, allowing lawful permanent residents and DACA recipients to pursue law enforcement positions.

Danbury officials say the local amendment is intended to keep qualified residents from taking police jobs in neighboring communities instead.

Democrat Mayor Roberto Alves supported the change and said the city would retain a rigorous hiring system.

Alves, who reportedly entered the United States as an undocumented child and became a citizen in 2017, said he was “glad the City Council approved” the ordinance.

Alves maintained that “the standards are not being lowered” and said applicants must still satisfy the department’s professional expectations.

“What we are doing is giving qualified people an opportunity to compete for the job,” he said.

The debate arrives with public attention already focused on immigration status and police employment.

ICE arrested two people serving as police officers in separate cases during 2025 after federal authorities accused them of being in the country illegally.

Jamaican national Jon Luke Evans, then a reserve officer in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, was arrested on July 25, 2025, in connection with allegations that he unlawfully attempted to purchase a firearm.

Radule Bojovic of Montenegro, who served with the Hanover Park Police Department in Illinois, was arrested on October 15 during Operation Midway Blitz.

Danbury’s policy applies to lawful permanent residents and DACA recipients, not people deemed unlawfully present by federal authorities.

Still, the council’s rush to frame routine federal immigration enforcement as an “invasion” revealed the political theater surrounding the vote.

City leaders can argue that the applicant pool is broader and the standards remain intact.

Residents, however, are equally entitled to ask whether a police officer empowered to enforce American law should first be an American citizen, without having their “moral compass” questioned by City Hall.

Bessent Schools Wall Street: Elites Still Clueless About Real American Economy [WATCH]
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Bessent Schools Wall Street: Elites Still Clueless About Real American Economy [WATCH]

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Barbara Boyd argued that President Donald Trump’s economic program is moving the United States toward expanded manufacturing, workforce development and domestic production, pointing to remarks from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Vice President JD Vance and Trump.

Boyd said construction must come before manufacturing facilities can begin hiring workers, creating a delay between policy changes and their full effect.

“Factories have to be built before manufacturing begins. That creates new construction jobs of all types, which you’re seeing in the jobs report. Then the manufacturing hiring takes place,” Boyd said.

Bessent contrasted U.S. employment performance with Canada while discussing the administration’s economic message at the G20.

“Steve, I don’t want to do any grave dancing here, but let’s contrast the Canadian employment numbers today. They lost more than 40,000 jobs, and we had a blowout jobs number,” Bessent said. “And our message at the G20 was come and grow with us.”

Bessent criticized European regulations and climate-focused policies while pointing to Boeing’s expansion in Charleston, South Carolina, as an example of investment first producing construction work and later manufacturing jobs.

“And whether whether it’s Europe with their stifling regulatory regime, whether it’s these other countries that have slavishly worshiped at the the altar of climate to the detriment of their citizens economic health,” Bessent said.

He said Boeing was expanding its Dreamliner facility by 50 percent, beginning with construction before creating manufacturing positions.

“That starts out as a big burst of construction jobs, which we are seeing in the data, and then that is going to become a 1,000 high-paid, great, big-benefit manufacturing jobs, and we’re seeing that all over the country, everywhere I go,” Bessent said.

Boyd also described Bessent’s criticism of the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal, saying he accused major financial media of attempting to create economic panic.

She cited a report concerning Norway’s sovereign wealth fund and U.S. Treasuries, saying Norway instead wanted higher-yielding American Fannie and Freddie securities.

Boyd then cited Canadian economic strategist James Thorne’s description of the current environment as a “Red Queen economy,” referring to the need for continued growth to keep ahead of debt, competition from China and technological obsolescence.

Bessent placed responsibility for the price increases inherited by the Trump administration on the previous administration and government spending.

“They torched the American people. 21.5 percent inflation during Biden’s term,” Bessent said.

“And Elizabeth Warren, so this is the Biden-Warren economy.”

Bessent cited an MIT study while making his case about spending and inflation.

“And if you look, study from MIT shows that almost 50% of the great inflation came from the out-of-control spending that went on then. So we had a price level problem. We are bringing prices down,” Bessent said.

Boyd argued that continued improvements in labor productivity, scientific advances and technological development are necessary for economic growth.

She contrasted that approach with Thomas Malthus’ theories about population and resources, zero-growth policies, the green movement and Mark Carney’s Net Zero agenda.

Boyd then turned to the workforce required for reindustrialization, pointing to training and apprenticeship programs for electricians, machinists and other skilled workers.

She highlighted the newly announced Foundry School at the U.S. Institute of Peace.

Rubio said rebuilding industrial capacity requires recognizing how dramatically manufacturing has changed.

“We have to understand that reindustrialization, that 21st century industrial activity is going to look different than it did in the 20th century,” Rubio said.

“It’s going to involve far more skills.”

Rubio said technological changes could require workers to repeatedly update their training.

“It’s going to involve, not just are our workers going to have to be better educated in what they’re doing, but in many cases, given the evolution and the rapidly changing dynamics of the modern world, they may have to be retrained multiple times in their career,” Rubio said.

According to Boyd, the Foundry School will use an advanced manufacturing curriculum developed by Stanford University and include lectures across eight campuses.

The program will hold 17 sessions taught by founders and CEOs from advanced manufacturing companies in the United States and countries participating in the State Department’s Pax Silica partnership, including Korea, Japan, Taiwan and India.

Boyd described Pax Silica as a U.S.-led international partnership launched in December 2025 to secure supply chains involving computer chips, artificial intelligence infrastructure and critical minerals.

Vance focused on the importance of skilled trades and questioned the cultural emphasis placed on four-year college degrees.

“We have to rebuild our country, and we cannot do it without reinvesting in American workers,” Vance said.

Vance referenced his friendship with Mike Rowe and questioned why many Americans accumulated significant college debt without obtaining skills suited to the manufacturing expansion he expects.

“We told them that if you were working with your hands, that was less than. Whereas if you were sitting at a computer, that was that was the work of the future,” Vance said.

Boyd said the administration is also addressing concentration in the beef industry.

She said the Justice Department initiated an antitrust investigation involving JBS, Cargill, Tyson and National Beef and that the investigation expanded to retailers including Walmart, Costco, Amazon, Kroger, Publix, Albertsons, Aldi and Ahold Delhaize USA.

Trump addressed ranchers while signing two executive orders in the Oval Office.

The orders signed Sept. 4 included measures supporting ranchers and expanding market access for American meat producers.

“I especially want to thank the farmers and ranchers who feed our nation from the Great Plains of Texas and South Dakota to the farms and cattle country of California, Arizona, Ohio, and a lot of other areas,” Trump said.

Trump blamed policies under the previous administration for problems facing agriculture.

“Under the last administration, American agriculture was decimated by crippling inflation and radical left environmental regulations. They wouldn’t let our farmers, our ranchers breathe,” Trump said.

Trump said thousands of farms and ranches went out of business and pointed to the size of the national cattle herd.

“Our cattle herd fell to 86 million, the lowest level in 75 years,” Trump said.

The executive orders direct federal agencies to pursue measures intended to support ranchers, strengthen enforcement against potentially unfair or monopolistic practices and expand interstate market opportunities for eligible meat products.

Boyd tied those actions back to her broader argument that the administration’s economic changes require time for factories, infrastructure and a skilled workforce to develop.

“Right now, the administration is creating the skilled workforce to meet what will be a huge demand, given the scope of the president’s rebuilding process,” Boyd said.

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Arizona Lawmakers Demand Deeper Katie Hobbs Bribery Review After Democrat AG Refuses Charges [WATCH]
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Arizona Republican lawmakers are demanding a fresh investigation into Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs after Attorney General Kris Mayes declined to prosecute an alleged bribery scheme involving state contracts, political donations, and Arizona Democrats.

The controversy centers on Sunshine Residential Homes, which reportedly donated about $400,000 to the Arizona Democratic Party and a dark money organization connected to Hobbs inaugural festivities.

The company later received state rate increases that potentially produced millions of dollars in additional revenue.

The sequence raised obvious questions about whether political money influenced government decisions.

Yet Mayes, also a Democrat, closed her investigation after roughly two years and announced that criminal charges would not be filed against Hobbs or others connected to the matter.

Hobbs did not personally sit for an interview with investigators.

Instead, she provided two written statements through attorneys, an arrangement that hardly inspires confidence among taxpayers expecting elected officials to answer direct questions about the handling of public money.

Former Department of Child Safety officials provided investigators with information about internal concerns surrounding Sunshine Residential Homes.

Former Deputy Director Shalom Jacobs said she saw no justification for granting the company a special rate increase outside the regular schedule in May 2023.

Jacobs also supported claims from former agency director Mike Faust, who said he was offered a bribe to approve a rate increase for the company’s group homes.

Despite the seriousness of those accounts, statements from Faust and Jacobs were reportedly omitted from the attorney general’s final report.

That omission has fueled Republican demands for an investigation conducted without political conflicts.

Lawmakers also want Mayes and Hobbs to support stronger disclosure and record preservation requirements designed to expose possible political influence over state contracts.

Arizona Senate President Pro Tempore T.J. Shope called on Mayes to support legislation requiring companies seeking state contracts or certain grants to disclose political donations.

The proposal would also require agencies to retain records used while evaluating contract bids and proposals.

Hobbs previously vetoed two bills containing similar protections.

Shope accused Mayes of remaining silent while lawmakers had opportunities to enact reforms, only to acknowledge the need for changes after the legislative session had ended.

“That’s not leadership. It’s political damage control,” Shope said.

His criticism reflects the growing suspicion that Arizona Democrats are more interested in containing the scandal than establishing safeguards that could prevent another politically connected contracting mess.

Other reviews have not disappeared simply because Mayes closed her case.

“A separate investigation led by the Arizona Auditor General, with assistance from the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, remains open, along with an independent investigation commissioned by the Arizona House.”

Questions also remain about internal communications within the Department of Child Safety.

The legislative release said agency messages acknowledged Sunshine’s political connections and discussed keeping its special rate increase quiet from competing providers.

State Senator David Farnsworth said the lack of prosecution does not settle the broader issue of government accountability.

“The absence of criminal charges does not answer whether taxpayer money was wasted, whether financial safeguards failed, or whether the process was fair.”

Hobbs dismissed the renewed scrutiny as election season politics.

“With just 35 days until voting starts, it’s no surprise partisan extremists are launching desperate political stunts,” her office said in a statement.

Her office also claimed, “As has been made abundantly clear multiple times by public reporting and the Attorney General’s report, there was no wrongdoing by Gov. Hobbs, the Governor’s Office, or the Hobbs campaign.”

That declaration is convenient, especially when the investigation was run by a fellow Democrat who participated in the inauguration ceremony connected to the controversy.

Sunshine Residential Homes likewise rejected the allegations and pointed to the attorney general’s decision.

“We understand this is a campaign season, and we respect that reasonable people can debate state contracting policy, as they should.”

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Republican lawmakers are not arguing that Mayes alone gets the final word on every ethical question.

They contend that taxpayers deserve to know whether political donations opened government doors, whether agency officials faced improper pressure, and why significant witness statements were left outside the public report.

For Hobbs and Mayes, the political problem is not going away through carefully drafted statements.

Arizona voters have watched enough insiders investigate insiders, declare everything acceptable, and expect the public to move along without asking who benefited and who paid the bill.

Amazon Cargo Jet Blasts Beyond Miami Runway, Smashes Vehicles, Leaving Five Dead [WATCH]
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A deadly landing disaster at Miami International Airport left at least five people dead and five others injured Sunday after an Amazon cargo jet ran beyond a runway, slammed into multiple vehicles, and erupted in flames.

The wreck triggered a massive emergency response and brought airport operations under severe strain.

The crash occurred at about 2 p.m. local time as Prime Air Flight 7598 attempted to land on the airport’s diagonal runway, according to the Miami Dade Sheriff’s Office and Miami Dade Fire Rescue.

County dispatch records placed the emergency call at roughly 1:55 p.m.

Officials said at least 10 victims were involved in the catastrophe.

Fire Chief Raied Jadallah reported that three people were transported to a trauma center in critical condition, while two others were taken to a local hospital as crews confronted burning wreckage, trapped occupants, and leaking fuel.

Amazon acknowledged the deadly incident and offered condolences to the victims and their families.

“We’re heartbroken to learn that five people lost their lives in today’s incident at Miami International Airport.

Our deepest sympathies go out to the families, loved ones, and all those affected by this devastating loss,” the company said.

Miami Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said the rescue team “was there within seconds of the crash.”

That rapid deployment proved critical as firefighters faced a sprawling scene involving flames, heavy smoke, crushed vehicles, injured victims, and an aircraft resting beyond the airport operations boundary.

Jadallah said the danger continued even after crews brought the most visible flames under control.

“We do still have an active fuel leak that’s occurring off of the aircraft that is being mitigated,” Jadallah said.

Fire officials said the blaze originated in the aircraft’s engine and required specialized equipment.

“Firefighters encountered a complex engine compartment fire and used foam from specialized airport firefighting units to extinguish the flames,” officials said.

Hazardous materials teams safely shut down the engine while crews worked to control the leaking fuel.

The combination of fire, fuel, twisted metal, and trapped victims turned the scene into the kind of nightmare emergency personnel train for but hope never to encounter.

Several victims were trapped inside vehicles struck by the cargo plane, according to Miami Dade Fire Rescue.

One required “extrication” by specialized rescue personnel, while other teams searched the cockpit for the pilots and copilots who officials said were trapped inside.

More than 60 fire units and approximately 200 personnel responded after the aircraft crossed beyond the runway and airport boundary.

“Units arrived to find an airplane that had caught on fire as a result of this crash, with heavy flames and smoke showing. Firefighters are working on extinguishing the fire and assessing patients,” Miami Dade Fire Rescue said.

Amazon said the aircraft was operated by 21 Air and experienced an “incident” while attempting to land.

“We can confirm that an Amazon Air plane operated by 21 Air experienced an incident while attempting to land at Miami International Airport today,” the company said.

The Federal Aviation Administration identified the aircraft as a Boeing 767 300 that had departed from Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Boeing said the plane was originally delivered as a passenger aircraft in 1994 and was later converted into a cargo freighter.

Boeing said it would assist the federal investigation into the fatal crash.

“Boeing extends our deepest condolences to the families and loved ones of those who lost their lives in the accident in Miami. Our hearts go out to those injured and affected by this tragedy. Boeing is supporting the investigation led by the U.S National Transportation Safety Board,” the manufacturer said.

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The National Transportation Safety Board is leading the investigation, with assistance from Boeing and other agencies.

Investigators will be tasked with determining why the aircraft failed to stop on the runway, crossed the airport boundary, struck vehicles, and caught fire during what should have been a routine landing.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced a complete ground stop as emergency crews assessed the wreckage.

“We’ve issued a full ground stop at Miami International while first responders assess the scene after an Amazon cargo plane overran the runway. If you’re traveling through the area, please expect significant delays and potential cancellations,” he said.

Airport officials later reopened one runway but warned that the crash continued to affect operations.

Travelers scheduled to fly Sunday were urged to contact their airlines before heading to the airport as investigators, firefighters, and rescue personnel remained on the scene.

Bold Trump Plan Could Pay Married Parents to Raise Their Own Children Instead of Strangers [WATCH]
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The Trump administration is drafting a major policy change that could finally allow married parents to receive federal child care assistance when one spouse stays home to raise their children.

Instead of reserving taxpayer support for outside providers, the proposal would recognize the value of care delivered by a mother or father.

The New York Times reported the proposal after reviewing a draft document and speaking with people familiar with the discussions.

According to the report, the change is a priority for Vice President JD Vance, who has repeatedly advocated policies that strengthen traditional families.

The plan would use money from the Child Care and Development Fund, a federal program created during the 1990s.

That program currently helps parents with lower incomes pay for child care while they work or attend school.

Typical assistance through the program amounts to approximately $9,000 per child each year.

Under the draft policy, qualifying married couples could use that assistance when one parent remains at home and the other works at least 35 hours each week.

The proposal would treat care provided by a parent as legitimate child care rather than pretending only an outside provider can perform that role.

It is a simple concept that Washington somehow managed to overlook for decades.

“The change would create the only federal subsidy to pay parents to stay home and raise their children, one of the most significant efforts to date by the Trump administration to harness federal funds to promote a traditional view of families,” the NYT reports.

The administration reportedly would not need a new act of Congress to implement the change.

That could give officials a faster route to adjusting the program without waiting for another prolonged Capitol Hill battle.

Naturally, The Times framed the possibility of parents raising their own children as though Washington had stumbled onto something dangerous.

Its report said, “The policy change would effectively create a government incentive for parents to stay home with their children, an idea embraced as part of a broader conservative effort to advance policies that promote more mothers staying at home.”

That description exposes the strange assumptions embedded in the current system.

A federal program willing to pay a stranger to care for a child, while refusing comparable help when a parent provides that care, is hardly neutral.

Current policy favors households in which both parents earn wages and send their children to an outside provider.

It also supports single parents who rely on institutional care, but it offers little recognition to married couples who sacrifice one income so a parent can remain home.

Many families would prefer to have a mother or father care for young children if their finances allowed it.

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The proposed change could give those parents more freedom to make that choice instead of being pushed toward an arrangement designed around federal bureaucracy.

Vance has made clear that his idea of family policy is not simply another voucher for a child care center down the street.

His approach begins with the obvious proposition that parents themselves should count when government defines and subsidizes child care.

That does not mean every family must make the same decision. It means Washington should stop stacking the financial deck against parents who believe remaining at home is the best arrangement for their children.

In a 2021 Wall Street Journal opinion essay, Vance argued that day care can harm children and defended the benefits of parental care.

He wrote, “Young children are clearly happier and healthier when they spend the day at home with a parent.”

Vance was even more direct on Twitter that year.

He said “normal Americans” want a “family policy that doesn’t shunt their kids into crap day care so they can enjoy more ‘freedom’ in the paid labor force.”

The draft remains a proposal, and important details concerning eligibility and implementation could still change.

Yet the central principle is already clear, federal child care policy should not treat parents as invisible while directing thousands of dollars toward outside institutions.

For years, Washington programs have quietly encouraged one model of family life while politicians insisted they were merely offering choices.

The Trump administration and Vance are now considering a correction that would put parents back where they belong, at the center of decisions about their children.

The Crushing Squeeze on Iran is ‘One of the Most Powerful One-Two Punches’ Ever Used [WATCH]
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Energy Secretary Chris Wright offered Americans a blunt account of the Trump administration’s campaign against Iran.

Washington remains willing to negotiate, but it is also using military force and economic isolation to make Tehran pay dearly for its nuclear ambitions and attacks on global shipping.

After months of conflict, the immediate mission includes choking off Iranian oil and gas exports while protecting traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.

Wright summarized the strategy without diplomatic fog, saying, “We are strangling their economy” to force a change in policy or leadership.

Appearing Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Wright said traffic through the vital passage remains substantial despite Iranian aggression.

More than 9 million barrels are moving through the strait each day, while pipelines around the waterway have helped restore total flows to roughly two thirds of earlier levels.

That does not mean Iran has suddenly discovered good manners.

Tehran has attacked merchant vessels and fired ballistic missiles at American warships, yet Wright insisted, “So Iranians are still causing trouble, but the United States Navy is winning that battle.”

The question is whether American naval forces must remain there indefinitely to keep tankers moving and prevent Iran from holding international commerce hostage.

Wright argued that securing the passage “shouldn’t be just the United States’s responsibility,” a fair point for allies that enjoy secure energy supplies while Washington carries the burden.

Wright expects mounting pressure to produce either a change inside the Iranian regime or a serious shift in its behavior.

As he explained, “Oh, I think we’ll see a change in the Iranian regime, or certainly a change in their policy if they want to become a trading nation again and engage with the world.”

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United States Central Command added teeth to that warning Saturday by striking three Iranian oil tankers after missiles targeted American warships.

Two tankers were disabled and another was destroyed, according to the military, which linked the vessels to a shadow network financing Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

The Trump administration is pairing those operations with efforts to degrade Iran’s nuclear capabilities and reduce its energy income.

President Donald Trump still prefers a negotiated settlement, but his team is plainly refusing to build its entire strategy around the hope that Tehran will suddenly become reasonable.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is handling the financial side of the squeeze.

He described the combination of blockade measures and Treasury sanctions as one of the most powerful economic isolation campaigns ever attempted, with Iran’s remaining commercial lifelines squarely in Washington’s sights.

Bessent said the administration’s sequencing has prevented China’s continued purchases of Iranian crude from defeating the strategy.

Once the remaining exportable supply is exhausted and Iran cannot move additional oil from its ports, Beijing will have little product left to purchase, regardless of its appetite.

The campaign, called Operation Economic Outcast, aims to sever Iran from banks, oil revenue, financial intermediaries, and sanctions evasion networks.

Bessent put the objective in unmistakable language, declaring, “We are going to asphyxiate this regime.”

Treasury launched the initiative with plans to identify the institutions and facilitators that help Iran smuggle oil, move money, procure weapons, and finance terrorist proxies.

The department has warned that organizations assisting Tehran could lose access to the American financial system and face broader secondary sanctions.

That warning gained force Friday when Treasury sanctioned a Turkish financial institution and its subsidiaries for allegedly helping the Revolutionary Guard transfer money internationally.

Iran relies heavily on shadow banking networks across several jurisdictions, often exploiting access to dollar based correspondent banking relationships to keep illicit funds moving.

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The administration is also working with European governments, the United Kingdom, Gulf partners, and other allies to close remaining escape routes.

For years, Tehran counted on complicated financial arrangements and timid enforcement to outlast sanctions, but Bessent is promising faster penalties and fewer places for willing accomplices to hide.

Iran has not changed course yet, and its threats against shipping continue as maritime traffic remains below normal levels.

Wright and Bessent are making clear that Washington’s answer is sustained military pressure, relentless financial isolation, and negotiations only when Tehran concludes that defiance costs more than surrendering its nuclear ambitions.

Supreme Court Hands Republicans a Massive Midterm Campaign Victory [WATCH]
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Supreme Court Hands Republicans a Massive Midterm Campaign Victory [WATCH]

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The Supreme Court handed Republicans a major campaign victory, issuing an eight to one ruling that permits coordinated activity between political campaigns and their party while allowing access to discounted advertising rates.

The decision arrives with the midterm elections rapidly approaching and both parties fighting for every possible advantage.

The Court granted a stay in the dispute, blocking the effect of a Fourth Circuit ruling while the legal challenge continues.

For Republican candidates and party officials, that means valuable breathing room during the most expensive and consequential portion of the election calendar.

At the center of the case is the ability of candidates and political parties to coordinate campaign activity without losing favorable advertising rates.

That cooperation can help campaigns stretch limited resources, sharpen their message, and avoid wasting money on overlapping efforts.

The Supreme Court concluded that the Fourth Circuit ruling stood contrary to decisions reached by numerous other federal circuits.

Such a divide creates confusion for campaigns operating across different jurisdictions and invites selective legal challenges from political opponents looking for an edge.

Democratic candidates launched their lawsuits even though a separate challenge to the new Federal Communications Commission rule remained pending.

Rather than wait for that process to run its course, they pursued another legal route that threatened to disrupt campaign planning as Election Day drew closer.

The justices overwhelmingly rejected that approach for now, with eight members of the Court supporting the stay.

The lopsided result is difficult for Democrats to dismiss as the work of some narrow ideological faction, though that likely will not stop the usual cable news theatrics.

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the lone dissenter.

She separated herself even from her liberal colleagues and argued that the Court should not have issued the stay, leaving her isolated in a case with immediate consequences for political speech and campaign operations.

Jackson has regularly embraced the left flank of the Court, but this dissent placed her in a category all her own.

When even the other liberal justices are unwilling to follow, it is fair to wonder whether the argument wandered beyond ordinary judicial caution and into political stubbornness.

The ruling does not necessarily settle every underlying legal question on the merits.

It does, however, preserve the disputed campaign practices while the broader litigation proceeds, which is precisely what matters to candidates staring at a fast approaching election.

With only 58 days remaining before the midterms, timing is everything.

Campaigns are entering the final period when advertising purchases surge, voter outreach intensifies, and party organizations move resources toward the races most likely to determine control of Congress.

Republicans can now coordinate more confidently with party officials while taking advantage of discounted advertising opportunities permitted under the ruling.

That could make a meaningful difference in competitive House and Senate contests where a modest shift in spending can influence thousands of voters.

The decision also prevents one federal circuit from imposing a disruptive standard that conflicts with the approach adopted elsewhere.

Election rules should not become a patchwork in which political activity is treated differently depending on which courthouse Democrats choose for their latest lawsuit.

For conservatives, the ruling represents another reminder that judicial appointments carry consequences far beyond Washington legal circles.

Courts can either protect political participation under clear rules or allow partisan litigation to throw sand into the gears at the most convenient moment.

Democrats will almost certainly complain that the decision benefits Republicans, but their dissatisfaction does not transform an eight to one ruling into an illegitimate act.

The Court examined the competing legal positions and found the Fourth Circuit approach sufficiently troubling to justify intervention.

Republican campaigns still must persuade voters, defend their records, and offer a compelling alternative to the left.

The Supreme Court did not cast a single ballot for them, but it did stop Democrats from using a disputed legal strategy to reshape the campaign battlefield at the last minute.

That is a significant win as the midterms approach.

Republicans now head into the closing stretch with stronger coordination options, better access to discounted advertising rates, and one fewer Democratic legal obstacle standing between their message and the American people.

Harvard’s 300-Year Treason Empire Finally Meets Its Match [WATCH]
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Harvard’s 300-Year Treason Empire Finally Meets Its Match [WATCH]

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Mike Steger argued that Harvard University’s problems extend far beyond recent disputes over diversity programs, tracing what he described as the institution’s long-running opposition to the American System while pointing to Trump administration initiatives intended to expand skilled trades, manufacturing and mission-oriented education.

“This isn’t a story about DEI, woke professors, or a diversity office that changed its name three times to dodge a lawsuit,” Steger said.

“It’s a story of treason that started 300 years ago, and how it’s finally being confronted.”

Steger said the administration’s latest challenge to higher education involves proposed Treasury Department and IRS regulations affecting the tax-exempt status of private educational institutions that use race-based preferences.

Treasury says the proposed rules could affect as many as 18,000 institutions.

“This week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent proposed a rule that would strip any private university of its tax-exempt status if it’s still running race-based preferences, even if they’ve renamed the program,” Steger said.

Steger placed the current dispute within a much longer historical argument about Harvard, beginning with Massachusetts losing its independent charter in the 17th century.

He cited Harvard historian Sam Morison’s description of John Leverett as establishing the university’s liberal tradition and pointed to the conflict between Harvard and revivalist preacher George Whitefield.

According to Steger, Whitefield’s influence extended across the colonies and helped establish the cultural foundations that preceded the American Revolution.

Steger said Benjamin Franklin published Whitefield’s sermons, became his friend and traveled with him to London to defend the American cause.

“This was an elite, liberal, and secular institution declaring war on the very movement that shaped our independence,” Steger said.

He also pointed to Harvard graduates among Crown loyalists banished from Massachusetts in 1778 and later connected Harvard’s establishment with fortunes made through the opium trade with China.

Steger then turned to economic policy, arguing that Harvard helped replace the American System of protective tariffs with free-trade economics.

He focused on Harvard economist Frank Taussig, who led the university’s political economy program for decades and chaired the U.S. Tariff Commission.

“He promoted the same British free trade system that our revolution had been fought against,” Steger said.

“He gutted the American system not just from the halls of government, but even from the intellectual life of our nation.”

Steger used economist Jeffrey Sachs as a modern example of the policies he opposes.

He cited Sachs’ work in Bolivia beginning in 1985 and later in Russia following the collapse of the Soviet Union, criticizing the rapid economic reforms commonly described as “shock therapy.”

“In 1985, Sachs got his first shot at making a nation in Harvard’s image,” Steger said.

“He was given Bolivia for his experiment. He tore through the economy with what he proudly branded shock therapy: instant price hikes, gutted subsidies, an economy stripped bare overnight.”

Steger said Sachs later went to Moscow through the Harvard Institute for International Development and blamed similar policies for severe economic and social consequences in post-Soviet Russia.

He connected those policies to the broader free-trade era in the United States, including NAFTA and the World Trade Organization.

“Now think about this: soon after Russia was destroyed, these same policies were turned on whom? On the United States: NAFTA, the World Trade Organization, and our total deindustrialization,” Steger said.

His argument then shifted from universities and economic theory to shortages of skilled American workers.

Steger cited labor needs involving naval shipbuilding, welding, mechanics, electricians, construction, semiconductors and manufacturing.

“This isn’t a labor shortage,” Steger said.

“It’s a kind of extinction event for American know-how, the kind of knowledge that doesn’t live in a book. It lives in a man’s hands and in his experience, passed down from one generation to the next.”

Steger contrasted what he described as an academic emphasis on credentials with earlier American efforts to expand practical education.

He pointed to Abraham Lincoln’s creation of land-grant colleges in 1862 and Douglas MacArthur’s later reforms at West Point as examples of education organized around national needs.

“Lincoln didn’t wait for the war to end to invest in the American worker,” Steger said.

“He did it in the middle of the fight because he understood that winning the war and rebuilding the nation were the same mission.”

Steger said the Trump administration is pursuing a modern version of that approach through the Foundry School and the newly created U.S. Space Academy.

Trump signed an executive order establishing the Space Academy on Aug. 28.

“President Trump just launched the Foundry School,” Steger said.

“It’s a real curriculum built with Stanford and seven other universities, training the next generation of industrial founders, working with company and company leaders today in the advanced entrepreneurial skills this country desperately needs.”

Steger also highlighted the administration’s July report, “Science: A New Golden Age,” which calls for changes to the federal research system and greater emphasis on advanced manufacturing, skilled trades and practical knowledge outside traditional academic pipelines.

“This is the same fight Lincoln and MacArthur fought: reach every American with real talent, real skill, and a real sense of mission, and give them something greater to build than a resume of credentialed merit badges,” Steger said.

He concluded by describing those initiatives as part of an effort to revive the American System and redirect young Americans toward manufacturing, science, skilled trades and national projects.

“Recruit this country’s talent into the greatest mission America has ever had: to build a nation conscious, once again, of its own heritage, and to use that heritage, the power of the American system, to advance the very cause of civilization itself,” Steger said.

“Not Harvard’s tiny yard, but the great horizon of the American mile.”

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