Justice Roberts issues warning to politicians who use heated rhetoric
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts warned Saturday of the dangers of politicians using heated rhetoric against judges.
“It becomes wrapped up in the political dispute that a judge who’s doing his or her job is part of the problem,” Roberts said in Charlotte, North Carolina, at the Judicial Conference of the Fourth Circuit, a gathering of judges and lawyers.
“And the danger, of course, is somebody might pick up on that. And we have had, of course, serious threats of violence and murder of judges just simply for doing their work. So, I think the political people on both sides of the aisle need to keep that in mind.”
Roberts didn’t name anyone but appeared to be referencing President Donald Trump and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer when he said he’d felt compelled to speak out against rhetoric by Democrats and Republicans in the past.
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Trump has criticized judges many times over the years, including calling for the impeachment of a judge who ruled against a deportation policy earlier this year, referring to him as “radical left” and a “lunatic.”
Roberts responded at the time, saying, “For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.”
In 2020, Roberts condemned Schumer for saying that Trump-appointed Supreme Court justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch would “pay the price” regarding an abortion rights case during Trump’s first term.
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“You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price,” Schumer said at a rally outside the Supreme Court at the time. “You will not know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”
Schumer later said he was referring to the political price he believed Senate Republicans would pay, but he said, “I shouldn’t have used the words I did, but in no way was I making a threat. I never, never would do such a thing, and Leader McConnell knows that.”
Roberts, at the time, said of Schumer, “Justices know that criticism comes with the territory, but threatening statements of this sort from the highest levels of government are not only inappropriate, they are dangerous. All members of the court will continue to do their job, without fear or favor, from whatever quarter.”
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In April, an armed man who was arrested outside of Kavanaugh’s home pleaded guilty to attempting to assassinate the justice.
Roberts’ remarks came after the Supreme Court issued the final decisions of its term, handing the Trump administration a win Friday by limiting judges’ ability to block his agenda through court orders.
Americans warned of nationwide dangers after 6 illegals charged in mom’s shocking murder
A South Carolina congressman is warning of threats that face Americans “anywhere” after four years of an open border following the random murder of a Lancaster mom of two last month.
The comments come after Lancaster authorities charged six illegal immigrants, between the ages of 13 and 21, in connection with Larisha Thompson’s May 2 murder. She was shot to death while driving to meet friends in Rock Hill.
“Two children will not have a mother to come home to,” Republican South Carolina Rep. Ralph Norman told Fox News Digital in a phone interview. “It can happen anywhere, at any time. That’s the sad part. We’ve seen it all over the country.”
He added that while Laken Riley, the Augusta University student killed by illegal Venezuelan migrant Jose Ibarra in February 2024, has become “the face” of crimes committed by those living illegally in the United States, there are similar victims in states across the country, including Thompson and others, such as Lizbeth Medina, Jocelyn Nungaray, Rachel Morin and Kayla Hamilton.
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“The positive thing is: the border’s secure now, but you’ve got to realize: four years of leaving the doors open to over 160 countries to put criminals and anybody else that wanted to come into the country,” Norman said. “You wouldn’t open your house up like that. Yet the Democrats are still not condemning what Joe Biden intentionally did. But it’s a new day, and hopefully, [it is] going to be straightened out in time.”
Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office deputies located Thompson, 40, deceased with a gunshot wound behind the wheel of her vehicle on Riverside Road in Lancaster, which is located about an hour south of Charlotte, North Carolina.
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On May 12, authorities announced the arrests of three adults – Asael Aminadas Torres-Chirinos, 21, Jarby Ardon Ramos-Odari, 18, and Jeyson Sobied Pineda-Salgado, 17 – and three juveniles, ages 13, 14 and 15, in connection with Thompson’s death and a separate burglary that occurred on April 30.
“We’re a nation of law and order, and we’ve got to get back to that.”
“The unknown is what we fear,” Norman said when asked about people with criminal intentions who may have crossed illegally into the United States during the Biden administration. “When you hear [FBI Director] Kash Patel talk about threats… the fact is that they’re doing their best, but… we don’t know who’s here. And we’re getting a lot of them out, but there’s still the unknown of who’s left here. And that’s the problem. How many more deaths do we have to have that are just so senseless?”
Norman said he hopes prosecutors pursue the death penalty against the adult suspects accused of murdering Thompson.
“South Carolina is a great state,” Norman said, but added that people have “got to be aware” and “diligent.”
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Lancaster Sheriff Barry Faile said Thompson’s “shooting defies any sense of decency in a civilized society,” during a May press conference.
“Ms. Thompson was going about her business on a Friday night, not bothering anyone. All of a sudden, these six men and boys – out to get something for nothing from someone they did not know and had no business bothering – pulled alongside her car, and Torres-Chirinos opened fire, killing Ms. Thompson,” Faile said at the time. “There’s no place in our society for acts like this or the people who commit them, and my hope is these six are never again among us.”
The Department of Homeland Security has placed detainers on all six individuals charged, Faile said during a press conference, adding that the community is a “much safer place today because these six individuals are off the streets.”
Faile alleged that the suspects pulled up alongside Thompson and fatally shot her in what authorities described as a “random robbery attempt.” Authorities believe the other five suspects were in the vehicle with Torres-Chirinos, who was driving and allegedly fired the fatal shot at Thompson. They are accused of attempting to enter her vehicle and then fleeing the scene upon realizing that it was locked.
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On April 30, deputies were dispatched to the Van Wyck Mart at 644 Rock Hill Highway before 8 a.m. to investigate a burglary. The store owner told deputies that surveillance video footage showed several young men trying to get into the store around 10:30 p.m. on April 29. When they could not get inside, they allegedly broke open a door on the northwest corner of the building, which opened up to a bathroom that had access to the inside of the store.
The suspects are also accused of firing a handgun at a security camera and the bathroom door. Detectives collected ballistics evidence at the scene.
The store the suspects allegedly broke into and the location of Thompson’s murder are a seven-minute drive apart. Detectives determined that ballistic evidence recovered from the scene of the murder came from the same 9 mm handgun used at the burglary days before.
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Through digital surveillance, investigators also identified Torres-Chirinos at the scene of both crimes. They questioned him at the sheriff’s office on May 8, and by the end of that day, they had identified, located and detained the five additional suspects.
The three adult suspects are charged with murder, attempted armed robbery and second-degree burglary. Authorities believe Torres-Chirinos fired the handgun in both incidents, and he is charged with two counts of firearms possession during the commission of a crime and one count of firearms possession by an unlawful alien. A judge denied bond for all three men.
The three juvenile suspects are also charged with murder, attempted armed robbery and second-degree burglary.
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All six suspects are subject to removal from the United States under federal immigration law based on their immigration status, the sheriff’s office said.
Thompson’s family is “grieving and trying to get their heads around how something like this could happen,” Faile added.
Russia unleashes biggest aerial attack since conflict began, Ukraine says
Russia launched its biggest aerial attack overnight since the start of the war against Ukraine, a Ukrainian official said on Sunday.
Moscow fired 537 aerial weapons toward Ukraine, including 477 drones and decoys and 60 missiles, according to Ukraine’s air force. Among these weapons, 249 were shot down and 226 were lost, likely electronically jammed.
The attack was “the most massive airstrike” against Ukraine since Russia launched its invasion in February 2022, Yuriy Ihnat, head of communications for Ukraine’s air force, told The Associated Press, taking into account both drones and various types of missiles.
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Several regions were targeted, including western Ukraine, located far from the front line.
Poland and allied countries scrambled aircraft to ensure the safety of Polish airspace, Poland’s air force said.
One person was killed in a drone strike in the Kherson region, according to Gov. Oleksandr Prokudin, while another died when a drone hit a car in the Kharkiv region, its Gov. Oleh Syniehubov said. Six people were wounded in Cherkasy, including a child, regional Gov. Ihor Taburets said.
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In the far-western Lviv region, a large fire broke out at an industrial facility in the city of Drohobych after a drone attack that also cut electricity to parts of the city.
Ukraine’s air force said one of its F-16 warplanes supplied by the West crashed after sustaining damage as it was shooting down air targets, killing the pilot.
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The new attacks come after Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Moscow is ready for another round of direct peace talks in Istanbul to end the war.
No end appears to be in sight as international peace efforts coordinated by the U.S. have not yet led to any breakthroughs. Two recent rounds of talks between Russian and Ukrainian delegations in Istanbul were brief and yielded no progress on reaching an agreement.
Grammy winner’s teeth fall out during performance forcing mid-song confession
LeAnn Rimes took it in stride after experiencing an unfortunate onstage mishap during one of her recent concerts.
The 42-year-old singer suddenly walked off-stage last Saturday while performing at the Skagit Valley Casino & Resort in Bow, Washington. The following day, Rimes shared a candid video on Instagram in which she revealed that her teeth had fallen out when she was singing her 1996 hit “One Way Ticket.”
“This is the most epic example of how the show must go on,” Rimes began her clip. “Last night, I was onstage in the middle of ‘One Way Ticket’ and I felt something pop in my mouth.”
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“If you’ve been around, you know that I’ve had a lot of dental surgeries, and I have a bridge in front, and it fell out in the middle of my song last night,” she continued.
Rimes said she struggled a lot growing up in the public eye.
The two-time Grammy Award winner admitted that she “panicked” and ran to the side of the stage where she “popped” her bridge back in before returning to continue her performance.
“I just had to get real with everybody and tell them exactly what was happening, or else I would have had to walk off stage,” Rimes explained.
“For the rest of the show… I was literally like this pushing my teeth in, like, every couple of lines,” she added as she pressed her thumb on her mouth.
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Rimes said she realized that singing some of her songs was particularly difficult due to the challenging syllables in the lyrics.
“Like ‘Can’t Fight the Moonlight,’ they completely fell again in my mouth,” the singer recalled with a laugh. “It was the most epic experience ever.”
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“I don’t usually have firsts in my career. That was a first and hopefully a last,” she said.
Rimes, who gave a second performance at the same venue on Sunday, jokingly issued a warning to her concert-goers in case she suffered another dental malfunction.
“I hope my teeth stay in tonight,” Rimes said. “We shall see. The front row, get ready for something to fly out. Yeah, if you catch them, please return them.”
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“Just keeping it real,” she added. “Like I said, there wasn’t a f—— thing I could do about it except either walk off or just hold my teeth in and sing, so I just ran with it.”
Rimes explained that she hoped her confession would comfort other artists if they suffered similar misfortunes in the future.
“In case anybody has an issue on stage ever and feels embarrassed by it, just watch this video again and it’ll remind you that the show can go on even in the midst of sheer utter embarrassment,” she said. “You just gotta be real with people.”
According to Billboard, Rimes has a long history of dental issues and has had 29 surgeries. The outlet reported that the “How Do I Live Without You” hitmaker sued her former dentist for malpractice in 2013, claiming that she suffered from chronic pain and medical complications after getting veneers.
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Jake Paul erupts with vulgar orders after beating boxing legend’s son
Jake Paul told a booing crowd to “shut the f–k up” after defeating former middleweight champion Julio César Chávez Jr. by unanimous decision on Saturday night in Anaheim, California.
“All the boos are words, and actions speak louder than words, so y’all can shut the f— up!” Paul said in the postmatch interview while making taunting gestures to the crowd. “I’m hip, I’m really hip, I just beat your boy’s a–, easy work, year five, wait till I get going even more motherf—ers!”
Paul (12-1, 7 KOs) appeared to be taking the biggest risk of his unique boxing career by facing his most accomplished opponent in 39-year-old Chávez (54-7-2), and in front of an ardently pro-Chávez crowd in Southern California.
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At least it seemed like a risk until Chávez stepped into the ring at Honda Center and looked lifeless, barely throwing a punch until late in the fourth round of their cruiserweight bout.
Even with his famous father shouting furiously at ringside, Chávez fought tentatively and tepidly against Paul, who patiently controlled the ring and landed just enough to win rounds.
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Chávez first mounted a discernible attack in the sixth, and he delivered several exciting shots in the ninth, finally exhibiting the skills of a long boxing career.
But he couldn’t seriously damage the YouTuber-turned-pugilist, who jumped on the ropes in celebration after absorbing several flurries in the 10th and final round.
The judges scored it 99-91, 98-92 and 97-93 for Paul. The Associated Press also favored Paul 97-93.
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“I thought I lost the first five rounds, so I tried to win the last rounds,” Chávez said. “He’s strong, a good boxer (for) the first three, four rounds. After that, I felt he was tired. I don’t think he’s ready for the champions, but he’s a good fighter.”
Chávez, who has fought just once since 2021, is best known for failing to maximize the potential in his father’s genetics. He is still the most credible boxer by far to share the ring with Paul, who is now 5 1/2 years and 13 fights into his lucrative fighting career.
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Air traveler forced to ‘spit out’ Zyn mid-flight, igniting social media storm
Smoking and vaping are banned on flights, but it appears that smokeless nicotine pouches are allowed — depending on the airline.
Pouches are allowed in both carry-on bags and checked bags, according to the TSA.
Yet when it comes to the actual use of these items on flights, airlines can determine their own rules for smokeless tobacco activity.
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American, United, Alaska Airlines, Southwest Airlines, JetBlue Airways and Spirit Airlines do not specifically define on their websites whether passengers can use nicotine pouches, according to the most recent review of their sites.
Recently, one flight passenger called out an airline in the “r/delta” forum on Reddit for an experience with chewing Zyn on board.
“Got told to spit my Zyn out on a flight. I really didn’t know that was a thing?” the user wrote.
“Delta flight, first class (not that that matters). They brought a cup out and asked me to spit my Zyn out.”
The user added, “They said it was because it was a tobacco product. I didn’t put up a fight and complied right away.”
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“Was just wondering if this was an FAA thing I didn’t know about?” asked the flight passenger.
Redditors took to the comments section to share thoughts about the incident — and their own similar experiences.
“Probably because the way you had it in your lip, it looked like a dip,” said one user.
Another Redditor argued, “Zyn isn’t tobacco. You can have it in flight.”
“Tobacco or not, does it cause you to spit into a bottle or cup that could spill or be left stuffed in the seat pocket that someone else has to clean up?” said one person.
“Then I’d say it doesn’t matter what you call it,” the person added.
A user commented, “It [is] allowed but be discrete. I see many people using them on flights, myself included, and as long as you’re not doing it right in front of an FA, you’re fine,” the person added.
“It is silly because no one would stop you from using nicotine gum or a patch,” the same user added.
One user claimed, “I was on a United flight a few days ago and the shopping/menu magazine in the seatback actually had a Zyn ad in it. It said something like, ‘Flight ready.’”
“It said something like, ‘Flight ready.’”
“How would the FA even know what it is? Just looks like gum/mints,” said another individual.
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On Delta’s “Contract of Carriage” section on its website, the airline specifies a no-smoking policy.
“Delta prohibits smoking and the use of all smokeless tobacco products (including e-cigarettes and vapes) on all flights,” it states.
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A Delta spokesperson said the policy also prohibits smokeless tobacco, including pouches and gum.
Elon Musk unleashes on Senate bill, saying it would ‘destroy millions of jobs’ and hike taxes
Former DOGE head and tech mogul Elon Musk took to X on his 54th birthday Saturday to bash the latest Senate draft of President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” which would “destroy millions of jobs” and raise taxes on all wind and solar projects that have not yet started construction.
“The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country! Utterly insane and destructive,” Musk wrote in the post.
The post comes after Musk had a public falling out with Trump earlier this month over the administration’s “big, beautiful” spending bill.
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The billionaire criticized the first version of the bill June 3, calling it a “massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill [that] is a disgusting abomination.”
“Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong,” Musk wrote in the June 3 post. “You know it.”
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The new version, which Senate Republicans hope to deliver to the president by July 4, was debuted Friday night by Senate Budget Committee Chair Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
Among the changes in the bill are adjustments to the Medicaid provider tax rate, cost-sharing for food benefits, caps on state and local tax (SALT) deductions and cuts to wind and solar incentives.
The new spending guidelines limit credits to sites that start production before 2028 and introduce new taxes on certain projects that commence thereafter.
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In his post about the environmental cuts, Musk said the bill would give “handouts” to industries of the past, while severely damaging industries of the future.
The American Clean Power Association (ACP) issued a similar statement Saturday, noting the new taxes would freeze energy investments, reduce domestic energy production and drive up household energy bills.
“With no warning, the Senate has proposed new language that would increase taxes on domestic energy production,” ACP CEO Jason Grumet wrote in a statement. “In what can only be described as ‘midnight dumping,’ the Senate has proposed a punitive tax hike targeting the fastest-growing sectors of our energy industry.”
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Grumet added the new taxes would “strand hundreds of billions of dollars in current investments, threaten energy security, undermine growth in domestic manufacturing and land hardest on rural communities who would have been the greatest beneficiaries of clean energy investment.”
“We understand the Senate’s desire to meet the President’s July 4th deadline, but the stakes here are very high,” he wrote. “We urge Senate leadership to strike these last-minute tax increases and to take the time to responsibly analyze the impacts of this new tax regime on American businesses and communities.”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., on Saturday afternoon said she was helping to hold the Senate “all night” to “FORCE” a full reading of the nearly 1,000-page bill.
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“Democrats need to use every second to fight back against the Big Beautiful Bill,” Warren wrote on X.
The White House did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Socialist Muslim mayoral nominee’s rise reveals Soros-funded web in Democratic Party
Many people are wondering how Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old socialist Muslim who wants to defund the police, globalize the intifada, and destroy capitalism, has emerged as the Democratic Party’s nominee for New York City mayor, with leaders like former President Bill Clinton fawning over him.
To understand Mamdani’s political ascent, you have to trace the red-green-blue spider’s web that brought him here. This isn’t a complete map — I’ve written a book, “Woke Army: The Red-Green Alliance That Is Undermining America’s Freedom,” to document that story — but it is a snapshot of key turning points over two decades of strategy, narrative manipulation, and activist training.
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A critical moment traces back to a Friday night in 2008, according to investigative reporting I’ve done at the Pearl Project, a nonprofit journalism initiative. It reveals how socialists (red) and Muslims (green) seized the Democratic Party (blue) over a long 20-year campaign. At 9:28 p.m. on Dec. 12, 2008, former ACLU civil rights lawyer Ann Beeson sent an email to former Clinton administration senior advisor John Podesta.
“Hi John,” she began.
Beeson was executive director of U.S. Programs at George Soros’ Open Society Foundation, where she said she oversaw $150 million in annual grants to “promote human rights, social justice and accountability nationwide.”
In her email, publicly discussed here for the first time, Beeson wrote, “I’m writing to follow up on one topic we discussed — what the incoming Administration could do to address domestic national security policies and practices that unfairly target Muslim, South Asian, and Arab communities in America.”
She attached a memo from Farhana Khera, then executive director of Muslim Advocates, a group based in San Francisco, and Aziz Huq, then the director of the “liberty and national security project” at the William J. Brennan Center for Justice, both Open Society “grantees.”
As a former Wall Street Journal reporter who has investigated the convergence of radical leftist politics and Muslim political activism for decades, I have followed a paper trail of tax returns, grant lists and confidential memos, and this email represented the culmination of a decades-long ideological drive that began with Muslim international students arriving in the U.S. in the 1960s, not just to study, as my father did at Rutgers University, but to lay the institutional groundwork for political Islam, or Islamism, in the United States. By the 1980s, they had established a strategic base at 500 Grove Street in Herndon, Va., later investigated by the FBI for alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, both groups seeking to destroy Israel and America and build a global caliphate.
The transformation accelerated after December 2005, when Muslim governments convened at an “Extraordinary Islamic Summit” of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. There, they launched a campaign to weaponize the term “Islamophobia” to silence critics of extremist Islam. American Muslim leaders seized the moment to re-engineer the national security narrative, using American philanthropic networks, like the House of Soros, as a Trojan horse to racialize Islam, frame Muslims as the “oppressed” and embed illiberal ideologies within America’s liberal institutions, including the Democratic Party.
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By January 2008, with Soros pumping money into Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, his philanthropy staff launched a “National Security and Human Rights Campaign” with D.C.-based Atlantic Philanthropies, committing at least $20 million to “dismantle” Bush-era counterterrorism policies. One grantee, the Proteus Fund, based in Waltham, Mass., ballooned in revenue from $9.5 million in 2008 to $73 million in 2023. Soros dollars flowed to groups including Muslim Advocates, the Brennan Center, the ACLU and many others who set their sights on targets, including the New York Police Department. Today, Mamdani says he wants to “defund the police.”
A Pearl Project analysis of 38 documents detailing the operations and funding of the National Security and Human Rights Campaign revealed the coordinated efforts of progressive and Islamist activists to reframe post-9/11 narratives. The aim: clear the path for red-green candidates like Mamdani.
Muslim Advocates grew nearly 10-fold, from $76,331.03 in annual revenues in 2005 to $992,892 in 2023. The Brennan Center’s revenue exploded from $6.6 million to $57.9 million during the same period.
Soros soon funded a new “Security and Rights Collaborative” at Proteus Fund to “restore civil liberties and human rights lost in the name of the ‘war on terror.’” Headquartered in a one‑story building off Research Drive in Amherst, Mass., the new “collaborative” was run by Shireen Zaman, a Muslim activist previously at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, a Washington, D.C., group tied to the Muslim Brotherhood. Their focus: America’s “Muslim, Arab and South Asian community,” called “MASA.” Zaman now works at the Ford Foundation.
Their strategy went beyond policy to narrative warfare.
Starting in late 2008, Soros pumped some $20 million into a “fieldwide communications hub” to arm Muslim groups and leftist media allies with messaging tools. The recipient: ReThink Media, a nonprofit in Berkeley, Calif., co-founded by “progressive” political operatives Peter Ferenbach and Lynn Fahselt, then a consultant to Democratic donors, including Open Society, Proteus Fund, Ploughshares Fund, Carnegie Corporation, Piper Fund, Atlantic Philanthropies, and others “progressive” donors that have since pumped money into ReThink Media.
ReThink Media became the loudspeaker for the red and the green. Last year, Proteus Fund paid ReThink Media $643,000 as a “communications consultant.” Soros also backed Media Matters, run by ex-conservative-turned-Democrat David Brock, to shape media narratives about Muslims attacked by Republicans.
Over the years, ReThink Media has hired and trained alumni of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, including staffers Zainab Chaudary and Corey Saylor, to promote an “echo chamber” for liberal groups. One narrative: Muslims were under attack in the West, and the Democratic Party would defend Muslims.
This storyline took hold in the post-Obama political landscape.
In late 2010, Open Society staffers in Beeson’s U.S. Programs division distributed an internal memo, “Extreme Polarization and Breakdown in Civic Discourse,” announcing they were giving Podesta’s Center for American Progress $200,000 for a new “Examining Anti-Muslim Bigotry Project” that would “document structures underlying the Islamophobia movement.”
The memo detailed plans to do “opposition research” on groups like the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Middle East Forum, which track Islamic extremism.
The project description noted that “progressives were caught off guard” earlier that year when New York City residents opposed the building of a “Ground Zero mosque” near the site of the former World Trade Center.
“Progressives” were in “urgent need of high-quality opposition research so that they can switch from playing defense to develop a proactive strategic plan to counter anti-Muslim xenophobia and to promote tolerance,” protecting “progressive counter-terrorism policies,” they wrote.
In another part of the memo, the authors detailed that Open Society was providing a “seed grant” to “New York Neighbors,” a group that had hosted then-Rep. Keith Ellison, a Muslim American Democrat from Minnesota, and others for a “dignified candlelight vigil” on 9/11, that “provided the press with images of a diverse group of mainstream ordinary Americans committed to tolerance.”
The next year, the Center for American Progress released “Fear Inc.,” a report co-authored by two Pakistani American Muslims, Faiz Shakir and Wajahat Ali, smearing national security experts as “Islamophobes” and portraying criticism of Islamist extremism as bigotry. Al Jazeera heavily promoted the report. Shakir later became presidential campaign manager to Democratic Socialists of America Sen. Bernie Sanders and co-founder of Justice Democrats, a Democratic socialist group that Sanders established, later propelling Muslim politicians Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar into Congress and now supporting Mamdani.
In 2016, as a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, Palestinian American activist Linda Sarsour stepped forward as a surrogate for Sanders. As Trump won the Republican nomination, Iranian-American eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam funneled $500,000 through Democracy Fund Voice, a political arm of Democracy Fund Inc., into ReThink Media’s “Security and Rights Collaborative” to “respond to escalations of anti-Muslim bigotry.” The fund hires Arabella Advisors, which Atlantic magazine described as the “Left’s Dark-Money Manager, giving it $678,750 in consulting fees at last count.
In Brooklyn, Sarsour rose to lead Democratic “resistance” to then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. SAhe was heralded by the New York Times as a “Brooklyn homegirl in hijab,” the headscarf Muslim women sometimes wear to protect their “honor,” according to fundamentalist interpretations of Islam.
Sarsour launched MPower Change under the umbrella of another big-money Democratic-aligned donor, NEO Philanthropy Inc., to advance “Muslim Power.” She hired Yasmine Taeb, the “first Muslim woman elected to the National Democratic Party,” according to her official bio, and got at least $260,000 in seed money, some of it from the House of Soros’s Proteus Fund.
Curiously, Open Society now backed PR campaigns by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, once named an unindicted co-conspirator in a trial, U.S. vs. Holy Land Trust, that convicted five Muslim men from the network at 500 Grove Street for terrorism financing. They gave $140,000 for its California chapter for “community safety workshops,” $73,610 to its Texas chapter for a “Report Hate” campaign and at least $376,010 for “safety workshops” and PR.
In Canada, Nakita Valerio, a writer at the Alberta Muslim Public Affairs Council, wrote about “implicit Islamophobia,” tapping “research on implicit bias” compiled by the Open Society Foundations. These ideas, shaped through critical race theory, merged with the narrative-building efforts of Soros-backed groups to portray Muslims as perpetual victims.
By 2017, with Trump in office, past and present grantees of the National Security and Human Rights Campaign escalated anti-Trump protests. ReThink Media issued messaging like “#NoBanNoWall” that the Council on American-Islamic Relation, Muslim Advocates, Sarsour and others echoed. The Brennan Center tweeted: “#MuslimBan tarnishes American image as land of optimism & opportunity.”
Groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations and MPower Change circulated amicus briefs, petitions and social media campaigns like #RegisterMeFirst to stoke fears of a fictional Muslim registry.
At the street level, the new red-blue-green alliance built up steam, with Sarsour and a cast of political operatives embedding themselves in racial “justice protests,” chanting “From Ferguson to Gaza.”
This alliance isn’t just policy and politics. It is street-level activism. According to our research at the Pearl Project, groups like Emgage, the Council on American-Islamic Relations and others that received Soros money teamed up with the Democratic Socialists of America, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, CodePink and Democratic Party operatives, including Indivisible, MoveOn.org and others, to flood American politics with anti-Israel protests.
With Trump’s 2024 win, they have pivoted in an alliance of red-blue-and-green to also protest Trump, billionaire Elon Musk and Musk’s electric vehicle company, Tesla.
At a June 14 #NoKings protest, teachers’ union president Randi Weingarten railed against Trump on center stage as red-blue-green protesters in the crowd chanted to “globalize the intifada,” wearing t-shirts for the Democratic Socialists of America, emblazoned with their jingle: “SOCIALISM BEATS FASCISM.”
On June 22, Muslim Advocates shared a social media post from The People’s Forum, a self-declared Marxist 501(c)(3) nonprofit in New York City that promotes the propaganda of the Chinese Communist Party, this time celebrating Columbnia University anti-Israel protest leader Mahmoud Khalil’s release from detention.
This year, the Council on American-Islamic Relations directly contributed to Mamdani’s political rise through a new political action committee – the Justice and Peace Fund – quietly giving him $100,000, helping legitimize his platform within a national strategy to embed red-green candidates into the Democratic mainstream.
This isn’t incidental. It’s coordinated.
Through two decades of funding strategy, narrative manipulation and activist training, the red-green alliance – with a vital blue thread – has redefined the Democratic Party. It doesn’t merely tolerate the red-green alliance. It foments it.
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The receipts, nonprofits and political candidates like Mamdani are only the beginning. This network has trained a well-funded pipeline of red-green political operatives to be blue and take over the Democratic Party.
Fast-forward to election day in New York. Shakir, co-author of Fear Inc., shared Sanders’ message – “Let’s elect Zohran the next mayor of New York.” After Mamdani’s win, Shakir posted a message: “Fight oligarchy.” On cue, his Fear Inc. co-author Ali scolded “some in the Democratic establishment” for allegedly leveling “Islamophobic smears against Mamdani.”
Sarsour, who once led the Women’s March and launched MPower Change, campaigned for Mamdani. She appeared on the Qatar-funded Al Jazeera TV station to crow: “It was us New Yorkers — New York Democrats — that demonstrated what the Democratic Party truly needs.”
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This isn’t a fluke. It’s a blueprint.
Through two decades of patient investment, narrative shaping and activist grooming, the red-green alliance — with the Democratic Party as its vehicle — has transformed American politics. The party no longer resists this movement. It accelerates it.
The receipts, nonprofits, and candidates like Mamdani are only the beginning. A well-funded pipeline of red-green operatives now wears blue, ready to take over.
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Researchers find cancer-fighting potential in fungus linked to ancient curse
A potentially deadly fungus known as “pharaoh’s curse fungus” could offer an unexpected path to fighting cancer, recent research shows.
Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania modified molecules from the fungus — which is officially called Aspergillus flavus — to create a new compound and enhance its cancer-killing properties.
“Fungi gave us penicillin,” said Dr. Xue (Sherry) Gao, an associate professor at UPenn and leader of the study, in a press release. “These results show that many more medicines derived from natural products remain to be found.”
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The findings were published in the journal Nature Chemical Biology.
Aspergillus flavus is found in decaying leaves and compost, as well as on trees, plants and some crops, according to Mayo Clinic.
While the fungus doesn’t endanger most healthy people, it can cause respiratory issues for those who have weakened immune systems or are taking certain medications.
Some of the more severe complications of the fungus can include bleeding in the lungs and life-threatening infections in the brain, heart and kidneys, Mayo Clinic stated.
History of the ‘curse’
After archaeologists opened King Tut’s tomb in the 1920s, multiple members of the excavation team died suddenly, fueling rumors of a “curse” upon those who dared interfere with the pharaoh’s rest, according to the UPenn press release.
Decades later, doctors hypothesized that fungal spores, which had been dormant for thousands of years, could have infected the team.
In the 1970s, it happened again, the university stated.
A dozen scientists entered another tomb, this time in Poland — and 10 died within a few weeks. Later investigations were said to reveal the presence of Aspergillus flavus in the tomb.
Cancer-fighting potential
Now, the same fungus linked to King Tut’s tomb could have the capability to fight leukemia in a new form of cancer therapy.
“There are a variety of compounds able to be produced by fungus,” Gao told Fox News Digital.
These compounds can be toxic to different cells, she noted, depending on the “biological management we are able to mitigate.”
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The study aimed to find a specific kind of compound — ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides, or “RiPPs” — within Aspergillus flavus, which was previously shown to be a good source.
When this compound is able to enter cancer cells, Gao said, it may be able to stop their growth.
“Cancer cells divide uncontrollably,” Gao said in the release. “These compounds block the formation of microtubules, which are essential for cell division.”
When mixed with human cancer cells, two variants of the molecules within these RiPPS were found to have potent effects against leukemia cells, the researchers found.
Another variant performed as well as two FDA-approved drugs that have been used for decades to treat leukemia (cytarabine and daunorubicin).
Potential limitations
Tiffany Troso-Sandoval, M.D., a medical oncologist and cancer care consultant based in New York, cautioned that this study, which was performed on cell cultures, is still in the very early stages.
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“It’s still very far away from being applicable to use in humans with leukemia,” Troso-Sandoval, who was not involved in the study, told Fox News Digital.
Speaking about RiPPs, the doctor told Fox News Digital, “What they’re referring to [in the study] is basically a rare type of bioactive molecule that they have isolated from this fungus.”
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There are multiple subtypes of leukemia, Troso-Sandoval pointed out, including acute and chronic forms.
“One treatment might not work on [another] type of leukemia,” she noted. Further testing is needed to determine which subtypes may contain the active molecule.
The compound explored in the study had little to no effect on breast, liver or lung cancer cells, the researchers noted.
This suggests that its disruptive effects only work on certain types of cells, which will be an important consideration when developing medications.
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Looking ahead, the researchers plan to test the fungus’ potential in animal models and, ultimately, human trials.
Gao told Fox News Digital she is “excited about what nature can create and how it can benefit our society.”
The study received support from the National Institutes of Health, the University of Pennsylvania, the Welch Foundation, the Houston Area Molecular Biophysics Program, the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas and the National Science Foundation.