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Friday, October 16, 2026
Meet Abdul El-Sayed's Academic 'Inspiration': A Muslim Brotherhood Scion Barred From Entering US Over Terror Ties
Meet Abdul El-Sayed's Academic 'Inspiration': A Muslim Brotherhood Scion Barred From Entering US Over Terror Ties
https://freebeacon.com/
Tariq Ramadan, known for his diatribes against 'Jewish intellectuals,' was recently sentenced to 18 years in prison in France for raping three women
Left-wing Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed said he drew inspiration from the "excellent" works of a disgraced Oxford professor—and grandson of the Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna—best known for his diatribes against "Jewish intellectuals" and for being sentenced to 18 years in French prison for raping three women.
The despicable John Brennan
Federal Judge Tosses Ex-CIA Chief Brennan's 'Speculative' Lawsuit Against Trump Admin
Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness,
A federal judge on Thursday threw out former CIA Director John Brennan's lawsuit, which sought to compel the Trump administration to preserve records for his defense against potential criminal charges, ruling that he lacked standing.
The Department of Justice is investigating claims that Brennan and other national security officials conspired to undermine President Donald Trump.
The suit, filed in July 2026, sought to compel the Justice Department to retain investigative records so Brennan could prove any indictment against him was the result of vindictive or selective prosecution by the Trump administration.
Judge Jia Cobb, a Clinton-appointed judge, described Brennan's allegations of political targeting as "deeply concerning," but determined the claimed injury was "speculative" and not yet imminent, as no indictment has been filed.
Brennan was President Barack Obama's CIA director from March 2013 to January 2017, and before that, Obama's counterterrorism adviser.
He is facing indictment in at least two investigations: the broader "grand conspiracy" probe into the 2016 electioninterference inquiry and a separate case regarding alleged false statements made to Congress in 2023.
Prosecutors in the Southern District of Florida are examining allegations that Obama and Biden-era intelligence and law enforcement officials conspired to deprive President Trump of his civil rights through various investigations, from the 2016 Russia probe and the intelligence community assessment to the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case and related matters.
According to the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee, Brennan "made numerous willfully and intentionally false statements of material fact" during his testimony in 2023, including:
Falsely denying that the CIA relied on the discredited Steele dossier in drafting the post-2016 election Intelligence Community Assessment; and
Falsely testifying when he told the Committee that the CIA opposed including the Steele dossier in the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA).
These statements were contradicted by the record established by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) and the CIA, the committee stated in a press release in October 2025.
Newly declassified documents show:
A CIA officer drafted the annex containing a summary of the dossier;
Brennan made the ultimate decision, along with then-FBI Director James Comey, to include information from the dossier in the ICA; and
Brennan overruled senior CIA officers who objected to the inclusion of the dossier material.
The former CIA director argued in his lawsuit that because he planned to contest any prosecution that arises from the DOJ's probes as vindictive and selective, internal records and communications would be needed to establish that in court.
Brennan alleged that President Trump had singled him out in retaliation for his role in the Russian collusion hoax.
Cobb appeared to that aspect of Brennan's case seriously, saying that "if he was eventually able to prove those allegations true, that would certainly suggest that his potential prosecution is vindictive."
But at this point, the judge said it remains to be seen that Brennan is facing enough harm to bring the lawsuit.
"Even taking all of Brennan's allegations to be truthful at this stage," the judge wrote, "the injury he alleges is simply too attenuated from the actions he seeks to enjoin to warrant a finding of standing here."
The jobs Obama said would never return!
US Industrial Production Is Growing At The Fastest Pace In 4 Years As Manufacturing Rebounds
Amid hot inflation (CPI, PPI, Import/Export prices) and AI-infected growth scares, US Industrial Production data this morning added another twist, printing far better than expected as capacity utilization picked up further in September.
Headline Industrial Production rose 0.7% MoM in September (almost double the 0.5% MoM expected) with August's unchanged revised up to +0.1% MoM. That is the sixth straight month of gains for industrial production...
...lifting the annual increase in US industrial production to +2.25% - the highest since Sept 2022.
Utilities were the main driver: +3.5% in September (and a strong +14.8% annual rate in Q3) and Mining picked up.
US Manufacturing rebounded from August's dip (better than expected)...
Durable manufacturing was up only slightly as motor vehicles & parts fell 3.0%. Nondurables rose 0.4%, though semiconductors and related components were very strong.
Capacity Utilization also surprised to the upside (76.9% vs 76.5% exp).
That is the highest since Dec 2023 (but still 2.5 percentage points below its long-run (1972–2025) average).
Nevertheless, it was a clear beat on the side of growth (albeit uneven as autos lagged), driven largely by utilities, with manufacturing showing a modest rebound after prior softness.
Sleeping at highway speed
Outrageous moment sleeping Tesla driver gets rude awakening as he crashes into California patrol car
The very profitable business of immigration
Two Christian groups were paid $62M to resettle tens of thousands of Somalis in Minnesota
Two church non-profits have taken in at least $62 million to build the Somali community in Minnesota — leading to the rise of Ilhan Omar and the fraud scandals that have gripped that state, The Post can reveal.
Catholic Charities and Lutheran Social Services were at the forefront of reshaping the frigid Land of 10,000 Lakes thanks to generous government contracts stemming back generations.
“This is a very big pile of government money and a whole bunch of different groups have come to get their own slice of it,” Parker Thayer, an immigration expert at the Washington, DC-based Capital Research Center, told The Post.
He added the total money pouring into Minneapolis resettlement programs alone is “in the hundreds of millions.”
He noted that since 2021, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, the body overseeing Catholic Charities, has received $140 million in migrant resettlement contracts from the federal government.
Newsom claims gains in student achievement in California, analyst disagrees
Newsom claims gains in student achievement in California, analyst disagrees
The English and math results remain below pre-pandemic levels recorded during the 2018-19 school year, when 51.7% of students met proficiency standards in English language arts and 39.7% did so in mathematics.
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/newsom-claims-academic-gains-analyst-disagrees
(The Center Square) -
California Gov. Gavin Newsom claims academic gains and student achievement, but an education analyst says the state’s results for test scores mask persistent academic shortcomings, with fewer than half of students scoring proficient or above in English language arts, math and science.
Gov. Gavin Newsom said the progress reflects state investments in education, including universal transitional kindergarten, expanded learning opportunities, literacy and math support, community schools and universal school meals.
“The continued progress we are seeing is a testament to the hard work of students, families and educators across the state,” Newsom said in a statement.
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond said California had expanded student support and educational opportunities but acknowledged that academic improvement remains a challenge.
“These investments have laid an important foundation, but we must do more to translate them into stronger academic outcomes,” Thurmond said in a statement.
State assessment results showed, according to the governor's press release, that student achievement in ELA scores grew overall to 71% in ELA, 61.8% in mathematics, and 86.5% in science.
Lance Izumi, senior director of education studies at the Pacific Research Institute in Pasadena, criticized the state’s presentation of student achievement data, arguing that combining students who are near proficiency with those who meet or exceed standards can obscure academic shortcomings.
“Near proficiency is not proficiency!” Izumi told The Center Square.
Izumi argued that grouping students approaching proficiency with proficient students could make overall results appear stronger than they are. State figures show that a majority of students did not meet proficiency standards in English language arts, mathematics or science.
Broken down, that is 49.3% of students scored proficient or advanced in English language arts, a 0.5 percentage-point increase from the previous year. In math, 38.4% met those benchmarks, up about 1.1 percentage points. In science, 36% scored proficient or advanced, an increase of 3.3 percentage points.
The English and math results remain below pre-pandemic levels recorded during the 2018-19 school year, when 51.7% of students met proficiency standards in English language arts and 39.7% did so in mathematics.
California has invested substantial public funding in education, with the figures provided estimating spending at about $150 billion, or roughly $27,000 per student.
Izumi pointed to the National Assessment of Educational Progress results for 2024 that showed achievement gaps. In California, 29% of fourth graders scored proficient in reading and 35% in math. Among eighth graders, 28% scored proficient in reading and 25% in math.
“He (Newsom) wants to make it appear that there are these huge groups of kids that are doing just fine in school when that really is masking the fact that there is still a majority of kids who are not proficient,” Izumi said. “It doesn't matter if they're going towards proficiency. They're not at proficiency. And so to claim that those kids who are supposedly near proficiency and to group those with the kids who are at or above proficient is really just a sleight of hand, meant to bolster his numbers, to make his education program look like it's a success when it really hasn't been.”
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A good guy with a gun saved many in Bend Oregon. When police arrived gunman was already dead
Morning Greatness: Hero Bystander Kills Maniac School Shooter in Gun-Controlled Oregon
By Liz Sheld
Good Friday morning.
Here is what’s on President Trump’s agenda today:
8:00 AM THE PRESIDENT participates in Executive Time
10:00 AM THE PRESIDENT receives his Intelligence Briefing
2:45 PM THE PRESIDENT delivers Remarks in Dalton, Georgia
7:30 PM THE PRESIDENT participates in an RNC Event in Palm Beach, Florida
Two Minutes of hate:
A 16-year-old maniac who has not been identified, shot his way into a school in Bend, Oregon and murdered three children, a teacher and wounded others. He was neutralized by an armed bystander.
What are the chances that a state the anti- Second Amendment group Everytown ranks 12th out of 50 for the strength of its gun laws would have someone nearby armed and prepared to defend human life? Take a moment to think about such a miracle since the media will be focusing on gun violence, school shootings and the need for “sensible gun laws.” However, depending on the attributes of the killer, we might not see further details about this event. If the maniac is a straight, white kid, this will be in the news until the election. Count on that.
Reports indicate the shooter used his mother’s shotgun which translates to stole his mother’s shotgun.
Meanwhile, The New York Times reports:
Bump stocks and other modifications to increase a gun’s rate of fire are banned in Oregon. Next year, a ban on high-capacity magazines and stricter background checks will go into effect. The state has also passed laws cracking down on 3-D-printed ghost guns.
None of these measures would have stopped this school shooting. A pump shotgun doesn’t use magazines, this wasn’t a “ghost gun” it was a stolen gun and there was no background check of the killer before he gained possession of the gun because it didn’t belong to him. In fact, most of the gun laws on the books and there are thousands and thousands across the country, would stop school shootings or gun violence. Gun idiot activists pray on the emotionally-driven population with cosmetic and useless restrictions that do not impact crimes involving a firearm.
What will we learn about the homicidal maniac responsible for these murders? Was he on SSRIs? Was this a trans-identifying teen? Was this a known wolf who was familiar to law enforcement and the school but never held to account and punished? Stay tuned.
Thursday, October 15, 2026
Suspected ISIS Bomber Lived In UK Taxpayer Hotel After Small Boat Arrival
Suspected ISIS Bomber Lived In UK Taxpayer Hotel After Small Boat Arrival
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,
Reports have emerged of a suspected ISIS operative and alleged rapist being housed in a taxpayer-funded hotel following his illegal arrival in the UK.
"Britain is getting the dregs," GB News presenter Patrick Christys urged, reacting to the case of an Iraqi man who crossed the Channel, gave a false name, and lived undetected for weeks before German authorities tipped off the UK National Crime Agency.
Layth Ibrahim Mohammed, 39, is accused of links to Islamic State in Iraq during the 2010s, including making booby-trapped bombs and teaching the children of ISIS fighters at a school run by the group.
'Britain is getting the dregs.'
— GB News (@GBNEWS) October 13, 2026
@PatrickChristys is disgusted after a suspected ISIS fighter and rapist has been found living in a migrant hotel. https://t.co/JTpccqb2Pf
He arrived by small boat from France in August 2025, claimed asylum, and was placed in a Home Office hotel in Oldham, Greater Manchester. NCA officers arrested him there in October 2025, but only after Germany flagged his background.
He is now fighting extradition to face terrorism-related charges and an allegation of raping a German woman. The allegations have not been established in court.
His lawyer, Joanna Curtis, told a Westminster hearing that extradition would be inhumane because "he has significant mental health issues, including severe anxiety, as well as depression." She linked the trauma to a bomb attack in Iraq that killed his son and even laughably cited symptoms of "pins and needles."
This is not an isolated failure. Earlier this year, another ISIS-linked man reached Britain the same way after social media reassured him the UK takes everyone.
Mohammed Yaseen, previously convicted in Germany for ISIS membership, attended beheadings and floggings in Iraq, then crossed after watching TikTok videos claiming Britain "accepts everyone and respects human rights."
He gave false details, was processed, and only later identified by biometrics. Prosecutors described him as high risk.
The pattern is clear: people with documented extremist histories clear the Channel, destroy or withhold documents, and enter the asylum system before any meaningful check occurs.
The scale makes individual cases inevitable. Small-boat arrivals since Labour took office have already surpassed the strength of the British Army.
More than 83,000 crossed between July 2024 and September 2026, exceeding the Army's roughly 83,000 regulars and outnumbering the Navy and RAF combined.
Total arrivals since 2018 top 200,000. The vast majority are military-aged men. Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp called it "completely bonkers," noting Labour had "let an entire army-sized population cross the Channel illegally."
Reform leader Nigel Farage has repeatedly warned the crossings represent a national security emergency.
At this week's Prime Minister's Questions he pressed Andy Burnham directly: "Every week there are young, unidentified males from Iran coming into this country, some of whom pose a genuine security threat to our nation. Is it not time the Government recognises that what is going on in the English Channel is a national security emergency?"
Burnham replied that crossings were "coming down" and removals were up, while acknowledging more needed to be done. Farage has described the situation as an "out-of-control disaster."
The numbers are not sustainable on any measure. Settlement grants alone have reached one every minute.
Home Office data show 140,000 grants of settlement or citizenship in a single three-month period. Asylum system costs hit £4.3 billion in one year. Fewer than 5 percent of Channel arrivals since 2018 have been removed.
Foreign nationals are disproportionately represented in certain offence categories, including sexual offences. The system continues to grant status and benefits while the backlog of appeals grows.
Much of this rests on claims that officials themselves describe as fraudulent. A Home Office caseworker with years of experience processing thousands of applications stated that "at best 1 per cent of asylum seekers are genuine."
Identical "package claims," recycled stories, and fabricated evidence are routine. Networks coach applicants for thousands of pounds. Staff are instructed to treat claimants as "customers." Modern slavery claims are nearly impossible to disprove and routinely succeed.
The result is a system that rewards illegal entry while genuine refugees and British citizens compete for housing, healthcare, and public resources.
Local authorities have responded to public concern by locking down entire towns rather than stopping the boats. In Gosport, police used multiple public-order powers to restrict residents, ban face coverings, and disperse gatherings so that hundreds of unvetted men arriving on mega-dinghies could be moved in luxury coaches.
Anti-migrant protesters faced arrests; an activist who slashed a dinghy was remanded in custody for months. The contrast with the rapid bail of terrorism suspects elsewhere is stark. Residents are treated as the problem while arrivals with unknown backgrounds are protected and housed.
These cases - ISIS suspects in hotels, arrivals outnumbering the Army, a system insiders call a scam, and towns placed under lockdown to facilitate landings - are not separate scandals. They are the predictable outcome of a policy that prioritises processing over screening, accommodation over removal, and international obligations over the security of the existing population.
Farage has called for the Royal Navy in the Channel and a pause on asylum claims. Successive governments have preferred payments to France and further hotel contracts.
The result is visible on the Kent coast, in Oldham hotels, and in the courtrooms where extradition is contested on mental-health grounds after the individual has already lived at public expense.
Britain cannot indefinitely absorb unvetted military-aged men, some with documented terror links, while maintaining public safety, housing stock, and basic services.
British society rests on a basic social contract: the state collects taxes and enforces laws in return for protecting the people who already live here. That bargain is rapidly fraying in real time.
The patience that has sustained decades of mass illegal entry is not unlimited. Once enough people conclude the state will not prioritise their safety, their housing, or their taxes, the remaining consent that keeps the system functioning quickly erodes. That is the edge the current policy has reached.
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