Julie Sweeney pleaded guilty to sending a communication to convey a threat of death or serious harm, per The Guardian. In response to a photo of people cleaning up an area affected by the protests-turned-riots in Southport after three young school girls were stabbed to death by the son of Rwandan immigrants, she commented, “It’s absolutely ridiculous. Don’t protect the mosques. Blow the mosque up with the adults in it.”

The judge presiding over the case stated: “You should have been looking at the news and media with horror like every right-minded person. Instead, you chose to take part in stirring up hatred. You had a big audience. You threatened a mosque … It truly was a terrible threat.”

He added that “so-called keyboard warriors have to learn to take responsibility for their language – particularly in the context of the disorder that was going on around the country,” and told Sweeney “even people like you need to go to prison.”

Sweeney’s defense attorney told the court “This was a single comment on a single day. She lives a quiet, sheltered life in Cheshire and has not troubled the courts in her long life. Her character references show she lives a kind and compassionate lifestyle.” He added his client had accepted that what she wrote was wrong.

Her husband had also written a “heart-rending” letter to the judge to no avail and Sweeney was sentenced to 25 months in jail on Thursday. This comes after the UK declared that a dedicated team of authorities would be monitoring social media platforms for any materials deemed to be “inciting racial hatred” and would charge those who even comment or repost materials. Last week a man was jailed for posting emojis depicting minorities and a gun on Facebook. Another man was jailed for 3 years for copying and pasting a quote from the wife of a Tory councilor that was critical of mass migration.

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The Panamanian government expressed frustrations about the Biden-Harris administration faltering on its promise to help the country stop the flow of migrants traveling through the Darien Gap, which is home to the main passageway used by migrants heading to the United States from South America.

President Jose Raul Mulino said during a press brief last week that the Biden-Harris administration has not provided the financial assistance they promised for repatriation flights. Unlike prior government leadership, Mulino has remained steadfast in his mission to thwart the flow of migrants passing through the dangerous Darien Gap.

But Mulino said he can’t do this without the aid that the Biden-Harris administration promised, as reported by Reuters. “The ball is in their court, we have done everything we can do,” said Mulino. “Their border is in Panama, not in Texas,” he added.

The official stated that the absence of American follow-through is likely “political,” but it has become increasingly urgent in response to a new wave of Venezuelans, who have been among the highest population of migrants crossing through Panama for an extended period, and are currently escaping a new round of political violence.
Panama aims to significantly increase the number of Venezuelans who are expelled by air to Colombia in order to “alter their perspective” and discourage them from undertaking the perilous journey. However, the Panamanian official stated that his nation cannot continue to operate independently any longer.

“We understand that we need logistical support to reinforce the expulsion of migrants…so we can avoid the movement and the normal flow to the United States. We need to change the migration politics of the border of the United States so we can send a very clear message to the migrants,” said a senior government official, per the NYP.

Given the current unrest in Venezuela and the measly $6 million the White House reportedly promised Panama for air expulsions, critics argue the delay in funds is inexcusable. This is because Panama is finally willing to curb US-bound immigration.

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The first case of a more dangerous type of mpox, also known as monkeypox, was found outside of Africa in Sweden on Thursday, a day after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global health emergency.

The head of Sweden’s public health agency, Olivia Wigzell, said a person in Sweden had become infected while they were staying in Africa in an area where there is currently a major outbreak of mpox Clade 1, per BBC News. She said the person is being treated in Stockholm and cautioned that this did not necessarily mean there’s a risk to the broader population. The person infected tested positive for Clade 1b, which reportedly a “newer and more serious type,” of the infection, the outlet states.

Director of WHO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated in a press conference on Wednesday that his emergency committee advised him that “the situation constitutes a public emergency of international concern” and he accepted the advice. “The detection and rapid spread of a new clade of mpox” in Africa and its neighboring countries “is very worrying,” he said, adding that “it’s clear a coordinated international response is essential to stop these outbreaks and save lives.”

The WHO said it was communicating with Sweden’s health authorities on “how best to manage the first confirmed case of mpox Clade 1b.”

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In the last few weeks, there has undeniably been a significant vibe shift. Kamala Harris, once thought toxic and unelectable, is now favored by many mainstream media and perceptive election “experts,” to say nothing of national polls. Granted, many of those polls are suspicious: the pollsters have already been credibly accused of vastly oversampling Democrats.

Nevertheless, polls undeniably show the race between Vice President Harris and President Trump as tightening. This does not mean that President Trump can’t win; far from it. It simply means he’s facing someone with a pulse, and someone with a pulse is more electable than a corpse. President Trump’s campaign just needs to make the necessary adjustments to exploit Harris’ weaknesses; for instance, the fact that she and her running mate Tim Walz are the most far-left ticket in United States history.

Personally, I think the momentum that Harris has is mainly a honeymoon phase; a sugar rush as Democrats exhale with relief at being able to vote for someone not named Joe Biden, no matter how generic she is. Nevertheless, Harris has predictably tried to claim that she is now the favorite in this race, and the media is repeating the same message in lockstep. However, the public should be skeptical; President Trump and his camp have explicitly stated that most of their efforts against the Harris-Walz ticket will come after the Democratic National Convention. I have no doubt that when that time comes, they will once again seize the mantle of “most electable ticket.”

And they are. While Harris was busy choosing far-left liar and Democratic Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota as her running mate, President Trump has been mercilessly broadening his appeal. His frequent campaign stops in Michigan and North Carolina are sops to the working class, and his choice to conduct one-on-one interviews with some of the most recognizable names among the eighteen to thirty-five-year-old age range shows he’s making a grab for the youth vote. Early signs are encouraging: by appearing with internet sensation Adin Ross earlier this month on August 5th, Trump garnered nearly one hundred million views. Ross painted Trump as one of the pillars of American patriotism in the modern era, and made clear that a win for the former president would save the country. When it comes to appealing to the younger generations, it doesn’t get much better than that.

Similarly, President Trump agreed to appear in an X Space for an interview with Elon Musk, live-streamed on the platform on August 12th. That interview garnered so much interest that the Space crashed, leading to technical difficulties which delayed, but did not stop the proceedings. And once it did start, it was fascinating. Musk asked Trump questions for nearly two hours, with the 45th President describing his assassination attempt, his plans for mass deportation once in office, his plan for Musk in the second Trump administration, and an explanation of why Harris was a carbon copy of President Joe Biden, only worse. By the end of the interview across all platforms that the interview is currently available on, Musk and Trump had garnered nearly 998 million listeners and counting for the largest audience of an X Space in the company’s history.

So yes, President Trump’s energy is unmatched, as is his ability to turn the tide just when the political environment feels most hopeless. The mainstream media and establishment press may have crowned Harris as the woman who can take Trump down, but already, the Trump campaign is proving it has the wind at its back. You don’t get upwards of a billion views on social media through just two interviews without it. However, even if Trump remains the same larger-than-life brawler he’s always been, that’s not enough for him to win. Conservatives need to show up. They need to stop despairing. They need to stop running around like chickens with their heads cut off over every election “expert” who tries to change the narrative. Experts don’t determine the vote; the people do. Even if Trump’s interviews were not rocking the media landscape (which they are), he is at least doing interviews, unlike Harris, who hasn’t done a single sit-down interview since becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee for President. Sooner or later, people will notice that one of these candidates is actually trying to win their vote, and the other is taking that vote for granted.

In short, this is no time to panic; instead, it’s time to shift the vibes again and seize victory.

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Columbia University’s president Minouche Shafik has now joined her counterparts at UPenn and Harvard in falling on their collective swords and resigning after massive anti-semitic protests erupted on their campuses following the massacre of 1,200 Israelis in October 2023. Each of these presidents, women who were the first, second, and third women to serve in this role at their respective universities, left their positions because they could not handle the violence, anger, and hatred of the students on their campuses.

Now we are facing the potential election of the first woman president of the United States, and she’s facing these same campus protests writ large across America. Like the women who rose to power at Penn, Columbia, and Harvard, she has little to distinguish herself apart from her identity and the assumption that this identity magically guarantees moral rectitude to her opinions and policy decisions. That assumption flows from the same ideology which drove the campus protests across the US, forcing the resignation of three Ivy League university heads.

The campus occupations, which popped up on campuses from Harvard to UCLA, from Princeton to the University of Washington, had in common an opposition for US foreign policy in Israel, a belief in the concept of settler colonialism, and a faith that being oppressed was the equivalent of being morally good. It was under these conditions that students at Columbia quit going to classes, abandoned their dorms for tents on the quad, and occupied Hamilton Hall. As they sat in their tents, screaming about the occupation of “Palestine,” they refused to allow Jewish students to cross their encampment.

It wasn’t just at Columbia, but across the nation that encampments like this, organized by students and agitators, prevented Jewish students from walking freely through campus. The rhetoric that came from these student agitators was nothing less than extreme. They called for the eradication of the nation of Israel, the murder of Israeli soldiers, and the destruction of the United States. This may sound hyperbolic. It’s not. These were the rallying cries coming from the mouths of the most elite students in the United States, the ones being groomed for future leadership.

Which brings me back to Shafik. Along with UPenn’s Liz Magill and Harvard’s Claudine Gay, Shafik was hauled before Congress to answer for her students last year. All three women were asked if they thought anti-semitism was an acceptable use of free speech on campus. No answer. They were asked what they were doing to make sure that Jewish students could still access the education they had signed up for. No answer. They were asked what they intended to do about these protests going forward — protests which are due to break out on campuses again as soon as students return to campuses. Crickets. It was clear that all of them had let resentments and hate fester and flare up on their respective campuses and had no game plan for how to stop it.

Each one of these presidents had overseen curriculum steeped in Marxist ideology, grievance and oppression studies. Professors would stand among students at the protests and occupations telling the students that these agitations were what they had been taught to do. The professors saw the occupations as practicums where students could put what they’d learned in their queer and gender studies classes to the test. In fighting for the right of terrorists to take up arms and fight their oppressors, the professors intimated, the students were fulfilling the promise of their studies.

In each of these cases, Columbia, Harvard, UPenn, and the other universities that faced the same protest actions, the students stood up against Jewish students as a proxy war against Israel itself. And the presidents not only let it happen, but could not get control over it even when they tried. When Shafik called in the NYPD to clear Hamilton Hall, where the occupiers had barricaded themselves, it was a sign of defeat. If Shafik had control of the campus, she would not have needed the largest police force in the country to come to campus and remove students from an administration building.

And now they are coming for Kamala Harris, the illustrious, identitarian veep. Only a short week ago, Harris was heckled by pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters, like those who has spilled out from college campuses after October 7. Protesters screamed out at her as she stood on stage repeating her stump speech. As they yelled, Harris tried to shame them. “I’m speaking,” she said, hearkening back to her VP debate against Mike Pence in 2020. “I’m speaking” in context means several things, including an attempt to grab control based on her identity factors: black, female. By identitarian logic, the vice president is oppressed, and by the logic of progressive discourse, that means that she gets to speak first, and that what she has to say carries all that much more weight. An event simply in favor of her candidacy was crashed in New York City on Wednesday night where agitators set off smoke bombs and held up signs saying “No Votes for Bombala’s Genocide.” 14 of them were arrested.

The agitators wanted some kind of response, some kind of indication of what Harris’ policy on Israel and Gaza might be if she gets voted into the White House. And they haven’t gotten it. Meanwhile, there are clearly massive anti-Israel events planned for the Democratic National Convention next week. While Kamala is trying to keep the euphoria going, attempting to dance and sing her way into the White House, her base will be out in the street demanding answers. Will she be lenient like Magill? Bend over backwards like Gay? Or call in a bigger force, like Shafik, because she doesn’t know how to handle it on her own?

The far left of Harris’ party hates Israel. They love Palestinians not for their culture or policies–which include anti-LGBTQ and anti-female regulations as in other strict, Muslim countries–but simply because they are “oppressed.” And Harris can’t handle them. Even at her speech, rarefied identity wasn’t enough to keep them in their place. The campus riots will likely start up again. As soon as the college-bound finish their orientations, they’ll be picking up their marching orders and protest signs to join their comrades on the quad.

There is already noise that Harris would like to throw Israel under the bus, to eradicate funding and arms shipments. The same woman that waved the flag of Ukraine in Congress as she promised to send him endless weapons and aid, may think the aid packages and arms sales to Israel go too far. Harris may sympathize with the protesters. She may even think that her best course of action is to ignore them, shame them, as she tried to do in Detroit. But she would also do well to heed the warnings of Shafik, Gay, and Macgill: it doesn’t matter how close your identity is to the top of the oppression hierarchy. If you don’t find a way to quash the protests, your career is going down. Of course, if she doesn’t quash them, her career is likely going down, too.

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An Iranian mother was left paralyzed after being shot by police in Iran for allegedly violating the country’s strict hijab regulations.

The incident occurred when police attempted to pull over 31-year-old Arezoo Badri who was driving home with her sister. After she reportedly refused to stop, officers opened fire, ultimately leaving her severely injured. According to sources, police initially aimed at the car’s tires before targeting Badri directly. A bullet struck her lung and severely damaged her spinal cord.

“She is paralyzed from the waist down, and doctors have said it will take months to determine whether she will be permanently paraplegic or not,” a source close to the situation told the BBC.

Colonel Ahmed Amini, the police chief in Noor, stated that under Iranian law, the use of firearms in such circumstances is permitted.

Badri was initially treated at a hospital in Sari for lung surgery before being transferred to Tehran for further care. The bullet was removed after 10 days, and she remains under intensive care. Her family has been allowed brief visits, but strict security measures prohibit them from taking photos or videos.

This incident comes amid heightened enforcement of Iran’s hijab laws. The Iranian law has been in effect since the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Iranian authorities have recently announced increased measures to ensure compliance, including the use of CCTV cameras to identify female drivers not covering their heads and confiscating vehicles carrying passengers who are not wearing hijabs.

The strict enforcement of hijab laws has been a source of global controversy, particularly following the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini, who died after being detained and allegedly beaten by Iran’s morality police for wearing her hijab “improperly.” This incident sparked widespread protests and condemnation both within Iran and internationally.

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