Video evidence: Inside the worker-cooperative network that treats work-authorization laws as a staffing problem.

Worker cooperatives are engaging in what amounts to laundering jobs for illegal aliens—in open defiance of federal immigration and work authorization laws. The groups promoting this model have received federal grants, and their explicitly anti-capitalist principles closely track those of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Restoration News has the evidence.

Skirting the Law

Radiate Consulting Cooperative, created by the Democracy at Work Institute (DAWI), is a pass-through entity between illegal aliens and employers. DAWI admits to helping "undocumented" aliens get jobs and says the coop model is a "legal buffer between workers and clients" that makes "a working relationship possible while protecting workers." DAWI is a tax-exempt non-profit and aligned with far-left extremism.

Not only is DAWI laundering jobs to illegal aliens, but their parent organization, the United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives (USFWC) supports anti-capitalist principles aligned with the DSA.

Restoration News uncovered a webinar that lays out how these groups ignore laws and provide employment to illegal aliens while attempting to shield the employers who hire them. It's blatant job laundering.

Here's how it works. An illegal alien joins Radiate Consulting, a limited liability company (LLC), as a "worker owner." Then the employer or "client organization" hires Radiate rather than the individual worker. The client pays Radiate, which then compensates the illegal alien as a "contractor."

DAWI considers this a "legal buffer." The Justice Department might not look at it that way.

Vanessa Bransburg, DAWI's co-executive director, explains that the coop Radiate model, also known as the "rapid response development cooperative program," is a tool to help get "young professionals with barriers to work into contractual relationships with their clients." She said the worker cooperative model replicates staffing companies and helps young people without work authorizations get jobs.

Radiate has locations in New York, Illinois, and California, but they're "a fully remote worker cooperative with team members distributed across the United States."

Radiate's New York branch was established in 2019 as a partnership between DAWI and the City University of New York's (CUNY) Mexican Studies Institute, housed at Lehman College. Jose Higuera Lopez, deputy director of the CUNY program, also participated in the DAWI webinar.

Higuera Lopez admitted that many of CUNY students across their 25 campuses were undocumented, so he sought a solution to help provide jobs for them. He said the president and provost of CUNY were on board with the partnership with DAWI. Lehman College receives federal funding, so taxpayer dollars are involved in CUNY's illegal alien employment ring.

In the webinar, Anh Thu Nguyen, DAWI's director of strategic partnerships, presented ways undocumented immigrants can skirt work authorization requirements through the coop model. She pointed out that DAWI is "creating new types of worker cooperatives that specifically center the needs of young undocumented immigrant professionals."

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— Victoria Manning (@HoneyBadger_USA) August 26, 2026

Nguyen says CUNY students have trouble finding work after they graduate "because of their lack of work authorization." So, the solution was to create Radiate Consulting which "creates a container so that individuals can get work with different organizations" and their focus is "on nonprofit consulting specifically with immigrant services and immigrant justice organizations," according to Nguyen. She says that "undocumented" immigrants get paid through the worker cooperative and introduces one of them: Jazmin Perez.

Jazmin admits that she is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico without work authorization living in Brooklyn, New York. She works as a consultant under the Radiate Consulting organization. Prior to her job with Radiate, she worked through fellowship programs as an immigration paralegal and facilitated social justice summer programs for young people in Brooklyn.

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— Victoria Manning (@HoneyBadger_USA) August 26, 2026

The web of organizations working together reveals an anti-American, communist agendas.

Funded by the U.S. Government and Aligned with the DSA

DAWI's parent organization, USFWC, is part of the "May Day Strong" coalition that wants taxpayer funded housing, childcare, and publicly owned grocery stores. They also want to "tax the rich" so they can have free public transit, free college, and "publicly controlled utilities." The USFWC said they are "proud to stand in solidarity with these demands and the organizations leading this work in our communities." USFWC instructed their supporters to "shut down" and go to rallies and to "speak out in solidarity" on these issues.

The USFWC also supports the "Movement for Black Lives Matter Platform (M4BL)" that is deeply rooted in communism. Some of the things supported by M4BL:

• Abolish prisons

• Defund the police

• Eliminate right-to-work laws

• Decriminalize drugs and prostitution

• Allow anyone to vote, including non-citizens

• Reparations

• Prohibit private education

• Oppose capitalism

These positions all align with the anti-American, communist Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).

Following the money reveals shocking ties.

DAWI received $3,775,000 in federal grants from 2014-2024. Their funding was cut off in 2025 but that didn't stop them from continuing to get taxpayer money. In September 2025, the Department of Agriculture gave $1 million to the Cooperative Development Foundation, then in June 2026, that same foundation gave a grant to DAWI.

DAWI has received donations from far-left groups such as George Soros' Open Society and Global Communities, Inc, a leftist nonprofit previously funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The alignment with taxpayer funded higher education institutions is alarming. CUNY isn't DAWI's only ally. Here's just a small sample of other colleges and universities promoting them:

William & Mary in Virginia

Amherst College in Massachusetts

University of Connecticut

University of Colorado at Boulder

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Rutgers University

Job laundering is a new business model for illegal aliens: use the coop as a middleman to attempt to shield the aliens and employers from legal implications. DAWI put that model on a webinar and partnered with a taxpayer funded public university to help facilitate their activities. Taxpayers deserve answers and the Justice Department should launch an investigation into these networks. Stay tuned because we've found more. The web is extensive.

Victoria Manning is a Senior Investigative Researcher for Restoration News specializing in education freedom, immigration, and military issues. She is the author of Behind the Wall of Government Schools. Victoria served 8 years as an elected school board member and has a master’s degree in law. She also brings the perspective of a military spouse to her reporting.

Republished with permission from Restoration News.

I met a high school junior working at Harris Teeter a few weeks after a panicky Lord Northam closed schools. I asked what she was doing and she said since there were no grades that spring she’d decided to essentially drop out and get a job. She was still working there the next fall and winter.

Great job Northam.

Six years on, Virginia’s public school students still haven’t caught up. Any wonder?

I dare any Democrat running for Congress in Virginia to campaign with Ralph Northam.

Vote accordingly.

The Governor and other state officials, along with Penn Medicine officials, announced two “measles-associated” deaths here. The underlying assertion was that the deaths were from measles. In fact it has been stated these are the first measles deaths in the U.S. in 35 years. But… pic.twitter.com/fKjB8kGs9P

— Commissioner Josh Parsons (@CommissionerJP) August 26, 2026

On X Kennedy said he spoke with Shapiro and it sounds like the conversation was not useful.

“During our phone conversation, Governor Shapiro also accused me of promoting vaccine misinformation. When I asked him for an example, he was unable to provide one, but this did not deter him from publicly repeating that accusation during his press event.”

“As I told him, HHS does not tolerate misinformation by any employee. I offered to point to hundreds of instances of vaccine misinformation by the Biden administration about which I had never heard him complain,” he added.

According to The Hill, when asked Wednesday about the deaths in Pennsylvania, Kennedy questioned the veracity of the deaths. Lancaster County coroner Dr. Stephen Diamantoni said this week that “no measles deaths were handled by our office,” as LancasterOnline.com reported.

Journalists are proving no more curious about these measles “deaths” than they were about COVID. They simply took notes and spread the measles hysteria.

Someone, please remind members of the media that their job is to ask questions and not simply take dictation from government officials.

However, Lancaster County Commissioner Josh Parsons IS asking the questions the press should be asking. He posted this on X:

Let’s be clear- when the Governor comes into our county and holds a press conference with PA Department of Health and Penn Medicine Lancaster general Health and states there were two “measles-associated deaths” here, with the underlying assertion that the two people died FROM measles, and they are the first deaths from measles in 35 years, and that announcement sets off numerous media reports uncritically repeating that two people died FROM measles in Lancaster County, and Lancaster County elected officials then get questions about this – it is totally fair for me to ask for relevant information on those deaths.

Asking questions is not “pro-measles.”

Asking for information that should have been provided at the press conference is not “anti-science.”

It is simply wanting the whole story for my constituents.

When officials who hold a big press conference and make big headlines – those officials owe us more than the headlines. They owe us the whole truth. They owe us accurate information by which the people of Lancaster County can make decisions about their health and safety.

It has been about 24 hours since the press conference. We do not have any answers. Of course journalists should also be asking these questions rather than uncritically repeating something.

Any deaths from measles are required by law to be reported to the Lancaster County Coroner’s Office. I have spoken at length with both a senior staff member from that office and the Coroner himself. They currently have zero measles deaths in Lancaster County. They have one death of a person who died WITH measles, but not from measles. We do not know if the state is counting that one. Nor do we know anything about the other death that officials reported yesterday…


The law DOES allow release of more information. Demographic information that does not identify the patient may be released.

I reached out to Penn Medicine LGH. No response.

I reached out the Governor’s office. No response.

I talked with our Lancaster County Department of Public Safety Director. He has no additional information from the state.


So as of right now, we have ZERO information that corroborates the idea that there were two measles deaths in Lancaster County. Again, everything stated could be accurate. But no one in authority has been able to say that, nor have they even tried to say it.

To me it is a big deal if the Governor comes in and gives a press conference and then no one can or will identify simple details around what was stated and what then generated major news stories.

Transparency is owed to the people.

It is incumbent on those who held the press conference to clear this up.

Immediately.

The Lancaster county coroner confirmed that a child who tested positive for measles had died, but he died of a ruptured spleen, unrelated to the measles virus.

It’s worth noting that Trump has been in office for 19 months. If unvaccinated kids are in Pennsylvania schools they enrolled long before this administration.

On top of that, Lancaster County, Pa, is home to about 64,000 Amish and Mennonite residents, most of whom shun all vaccines. Shapiro has been accused of going after the community’s businesses and schools, despite their 300-year history of living in that rural county.

Their vaccine hesitancy has nothing to do with Trump, by the way.

Dolly Parton is gone.

Even though we all knew she was having health problems the news yesterday was a shock. She was timeless and tireless. Someone wrote that it was like the Queen of Appalachia had died.

But Dolly was so much more than that. She was universally beloved.

“We should all leave work at 5 in her honor,” a fan wrote.

At 9:25 p.m. (nine-two-five) last night the Empire State Building burst into pink sparkles to honor Dolly Parton.

Here’s what sideline sports reporter Holly Rowe said happened on her Delta flight yesterday when the stunning news of Dolly Parton’s death was shared.

Well this was precious and now I am weeping. Our @delta pilot came on and said the crew wanted to honor the joy @DollyParton brought to the world. This is how taxied in to gate! pic.twitter.com/jpQgdkGmSP

— Holly Rowe (@sportsiren) August 25, 2026

What can you say about this country music legend, this national treasure, this songwriter, singer, and philanthropist that doesn’t sound like a cliché?

The ebullient, ultra-talented rhinestone cowgirl grew up with her 11 siblings in a cabin without electricity or running water in East Tennessee. In time, she became the Queen of Country Music, one of the most recognized women in the world. She wrote 3,000 songs and gave away hundreds of millions of dollars.

What made her special - beyond her incredible talent - was Dolly’s warmth, beauty, irrepressible sense of humor and boundless generosity.

My favorite clip of Dolly. pic.twitter.com/rVGpPMRZWm

— Mark (@lebatardshowfan) August 25, 2026

News of her death brought tributes from those on the right and the left. The Democratic Socialists paid tribute and so did President Donald Trump. That will not happen again.

Dolly managed to live in the spotlight for more than 50 years without dabbling in politics or making enemies.

Trump ordered flags flown at half-staff for a week in her honor.

That’s the least we can do. Shoot, give her a state funeral. Put her on Mt. Rushmore. There will never be another American more beloved than Dolly Parton.

She was America’s girl.

In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.

She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.

The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.

She handed out… pic.twitter.com/jtDpiMU24M

— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) August 25, 2026

It’s estimated that by the time she died, Dolly had given away between $550 and $600 million. Because she donated quietly, without fanfare, the exact total is unknown. It’s believed that her philanthropy prevented her from ever reaching billionaire status.

In 1995, in honor of her beloved father who could not read, Dolly started her most famous charity, Imagination Library, which gives free books to children - regardless of family income - from birth through age five. To date, 270 million books have been placed in the hands of young readers.

It’s difficult to believe that this lovely sparkling gem of a lady is gone.

We were blessed to share the air with her.

I can see the light of a clear blue morning
I can see the light of a brand new day

Dolly, it was an honor to have traveled around the Sun with you.💫 pic.twitter.com/YxNPhgwYcB

— NASA Solar System (@NASASolarSystem) August 25, 2026

by Shaun Kenney

Spotsylvania County Public Schools just can’t seem to stay out of the public spotlight.  The schizophrenia might be a good sign.  Perhaps all the other problems of the world have been resolved so as to offer free time to focus on banning books?  Testing the boundaries of contract law?  Or in the latest instance, whether or not teachers and staff are using narcotics — illegal or otherwise?

Yet in a 4-3 vote, the elected leaders of Spotsylvania’s public school system decided to abandon the idea of mandatory drug testing after several weeks of debate.  The spur for this debate?  A 2nd grade teacher allegedly overdosed on fentanyl some years ago, which was confirmed by local law enforcement professionals after her husband brought the illicit narcotics to the school himself and was also caught overdosing in the parking lot while with his two-year-old daughter.  The schoolteacher was sentenced to two years behind bars for possessing drugs in school and 17 counts of child endangerment and felony child neglect.

Opponents of mandatory drug testing for hard drugs have made their case emphatically, citing Fourth Amendment and medical privacy concerns.  While the District of Columbia checks as a matter of routine, of the 131 local school districts in Virginia none of them require mandatory drug screening according to Spotsylvania County Public Schools.  Not one.  Yet Spotsylvania Superintendent Clint Mitchell’s reasoning for not implementing mandatory drug testing?  Teacher retention.

What other careers should exempt employees from routine screenings for drug use?  Medical professionals, perhaps?  Heavy equipment drivers?  Regardless as to whether one believes the book banning fiasco was either too rigid or too loose — pornography is one thing, but banning Chaucer?  Shakespeare?  The Book of Genesis? — one has to find it obtuse to the point of obstinate to argue that children should be exposed to people who abuse illegal narcotics.  All of these strike the average observer as a bridge too far, yes?

An informal WJLA poll showed that 77% of viewers supported mandatory drug screening for teachers.  Perhaps there is some concern about newly licit drugs being included in the dragnet?  Yet this should not be the case.  Just as one would not permit a habitual drunk from being exposed to one’s children, we should hold the same standards for THC use as well, including opioid abuse, fentanyl, and other drugs.

When teachers are overdosing on fentanyl in the classroom, that would seem to be the moment to start raising standards.  Surely this is the moment to maintain professionalism, and while one example should not tarnish the reputation of the rest, bad apples tend to spoil the bunch.

After all, it’s for the children — and we are reliably told that this argument trumps all other concerns.  As in most things, what we tolerate, we deserve — and our children surely deserve better than a single-digit chance of exposure to drug culture with their own two eyes.

Republished with permission from The Virginia Free Press.

Hint: It’s not good.

Last week a mob of pink-clad white women assembled outside a Massachusetts courthouse to merrily greet the arrival of Lindsay Clancy. They see HER as a victim, not the three kids she killed.

Honestly, at times I’m embarrassed to be a white woman.

If these wine moms had been somberly holding aloft photos of the murdered children, it would be understandable.

Instead they were expressing solidarity and love for the woman who wrapped her babies’ little necks with her exercise bands and choked the life out of them, one by one by one.

She likely started by strangling Cora, aged 5, then moved on to Dawson who was three and finally she strangled little 8-month-old Callan, who managed to survive briefly on life support with his brain so swollen that it was pushing through the skull.

These pink ladies made no mention of the dead babies. The kids are just an afterthought. In the minds of these twisted loons, the only sympathetic character in this morality play is Lindsay Clancy.

They carried signs that read “They failed her” and “We love you Lindsay.” They applauded when the van carrying the accused killer arrived at the courthouse and they posed for grinning selfies with her defense attorney when he emerged through the doors.

If Lindsay Clancy is mentally ill. So are these ladies.

Then again, this is Massachusetts. Why am I surprised?

Look, it’s one thing to assume that any woman who could kill her three children must be psychotic. And it is maddening to see how poorly she was served by her psychiatrists. 

She may very well be found not guilty by reason of insanity. I don’t envy the jurors who have to listen to the harrowing testimony and decide Clancy’s fate.

The jury will decide if Clancy was in the grips of a psychotic break when she killed her kids. They will have to wrestle with the question of whether Clancy knew right from wrong when she strangled her children.

This is a vexing case. It raises questions about the state of modern psychiatry. But at its heart are three dead children. They are not simply collateral damage, they are murder victims,

It’s one thing to shake your head in disgust over the constellation of drugs Clancy was given when she sought mental help.

It’s a step too far take to the streets cheering for the killer and making stupid little hearts with your hands.

WAKE UP, FANGIRLS. SHE KILLED HER OWN CHILDREN.

Someone ask these nuts if they’d feel the same way if a babysitter had a psychotic break and killed their kids. Would they be demonstrating in the streets for a not guilty verdict? Would they be making little hearts and clapping like trained seals?

Over on TikTok, hundreds of women have been expressing their support for Clancy (and their need for online engagement) by posting videos of themselves growling about how they, too, have wanted to kill their children. “Same, Lindsay” many say as they post selfies with their babies. Clancy’s fans have raised nearly $1 million for her.

CPS needs to visit every single one of these loons. Clearly, their offspring are not safe.

This love affair with Lindsay Clancy is just the latest disturbing case of murderers being turned into folk heroes by the left.

"he deserved to die because he was a Christian."

"he deserved to die because he was white."

"they deserved to die because the mother had postpartum depression."

"he deserved to die because he worked for an insurance company."

Realize where we are and what the left has become.… pic.twitter.com/5vphYuKh4F

— Pro America Politics (@proamericapol) August 23, 2026

Suddenly, it’s conservative to oppose the murder of children, health care executives, conservative leaders or white athletes.

Let that soak in. We live in a very sick world.

The biggest news stories that month included the shocking discovery of a toxic waste dump at Love Canal in New York, the death of Pope Paul VI and the end of Pete Rose’s 44-game hitting streak.

In Derby, Connecticut a two sisters were planning an end-of-summer trip to Virginia Beach. One of them, 18-year-old Barbara Jean Monaco, would never come home.

On August 23rd, she vanished as she walked along Pacific Avenue.

The pretty majorette from Derby, Conn., her older sister Joanne and a friend arrived in town on Aug. 20, 1978.

They hit the beach during the day, the clubs at night. Early on the morning of Aug. 23 — a Wednesday — Barbara Jean left the motel to meet a bartender at Peabody’s who was finishing his shift.

She walked along Pacific Avenue. Yet somewhere between 15th and 21st Streets, Barbara Jean vanished.

Her frantic sister went to the police in the morning, but the cops made her wait 48 hours to file a missing person’s report.

By then, it was already too late.

After a flurry of publicity about the missing teen, months went by without a lead or a news story.

In April of 1979, impatient with Virginia Beach police work, Monaco’s parents posted a $10,000 reward for information about Barbara Jean.

Dead or alive.

An informant using the alias “Condor” arranged to meet Joseph Monaco in the lobby of an Oceanfront hotel. The missing girl’s dad wore a bulletproof vest and carried a bag with the cash. When the informant arrived, Beach police took him into custody.

There, he reportedly took a polygraph test, telling authorities that Barbara Jean had been taken by a group of local guys, driven to a cottage by a borrow pit, gang-raped and strangled. Her body had been tethered to a cinder block and dumped in the water.

Police dragged the pond where they found a block and a freshly cut rope, but no body.

The commonwealth’s attorney refused to give the informant immunity in return for testimony about the killers because he believed the man himself might have been involved in the crime.

That was a BIG mistake.

The Monaco family was told not to talk about the case because arrests were coming.

By 1985, they’d stopped believing the police.

In fact, the New Haven Register reported that year that one of the suspects was the son-in-law of a police officer.

In 2001, there was a break when cold case detectives revisited one of the “persons of interest” who lived in the area. He provided critical details about the clothes Barbara Jean was wearing the night she disappeared.

The cops let him go home. They planned to speak with him again the next day.

That night, the suspect ran a hose from the exhaust pipe to the interior of his truck.

He was dead by morning.

I’ve been writing about Barbara Jean since Sept. 1, 1985, when Pauline Monaco called The Virginian-Pilot to ask us to write again about her daughter - Barbara Jean - who’d been missing for seven years.

I just happened to answer the phone that day. I didn’t know that four decades later, the story would be still be a cruel mystery.

Intrigued, I found a file and a series of front-page stories about an 18-year-old from Connecticut who came to Virginia Beach for a week’s vacation in the summer of ’78 and never went home.

Police believe they know the names of the local guys who picked her up in a station wagon along Pacific Avenue that night.

The suspects took polygraph tests, were ruled “deceptive” but were never charged. Several of them have died.

In missing person cases this old, witnesses also have a way of disappearing.

A granite marker with Barbara Jean’s name on it stands in the Monaco family plot in Mount St. Peter’s cemetery in Derby, Conn. Nothing is buried beneath her headstone, of course.

Her 66th birthday was August 19th.

Most people have forgotten the story of the girl from Connecticut who came to Virginia Beach and never left.

Some of us will never forget.

This is your annual reminder that Barbara Jean was most likely killed by locals and someone out there knows something.

If that’s you, call the cold case cops. 757-385-4241.

The Biden administration hand-delivered Alexis Antonio Cedillos-Campos to the streets of Fairfax County. Cedillos-Campos is a criminal illegal alien from El Salvador who was arrested by CBP in 2024, after illegally crossing the Biden administration’s open border near El Paso, TX.… https://t.co/DOK8XVQrXb

— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) August 19, 2026

Had ICE moved in and tried to arrest Cedillos-Campos on Sunday - the day before he got a fixed knife and gloves in preparation for killing Puch - lefties in Fairfax County would have interfered with the federal agents trying to do their jobs. They would have posted photos from his arrest to highlight the cruelty of deportations.

Between the influx of illegal aliens and the presence of a soft-on-crime commonwealth’s attorney, Virginia generally and Fairfax County in particular has witnessed a sharp increase in violent crimes by illegals. Half of all Fairfax murders so far this year were committed by illegals.

A quick internet search found the following:

The Murder of Stephanie Minter: In February 2026, Abdul Jalloh, a 32-year-old illegal alien from Sierra Leone, fatally stabbed 41-year-old Stephanie Minter at a bus stop in Hybla Valley, Fairfax County. Jalloh had a substantial record of over 30 prior arrests—including charges for stabbing, rape, and malicious wounding—but had most of his charges dropped by local prosecutors prior to the murder.

The Goochland County Toddler Homicide: In July 2026, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested Raul Genesis Ortiz Moran, an illegal alien from Mexico. Moran was charged with second-degree murder and aggravated sexual battery in the death of a 2-year-old girl.

Infanticide in Bailey’s Crossroads: In March 2026, Misael Lopez Gomez, a 28-year-old illegal alien from Guatemala, was arrested in Fairfax County. He faces charges of second-degree murder and felony child abuse for the death of his three-month-old daughter.

Oakton Murder Plea Deal: In April 2026, two illegal aliens pleaded guilty to a 2024 murder in Oakton, Virginia. Local prosecutors faced criticism for offering a plea deal resulting in a 25-year sentence that allows the men to serve only five years in prison.

Fairfax County Rape and Abduction: In July 2026, Juan Ariallo, another illegal from El Salvador, was arrested for rape and kidnapping. Ariallo possesses an extensive criminal record including aggravated assault, weapons charges, and identity theft, and had fleeing law enforcement charges dropped just six months prior to the assault.

School Sexual Assault: In April 2026, Israel Flores Ortiz, an 18-year-old illegal alien student, was convicted on nine counts of sexual assault and battery for groping 13 girls in Fairfax County school hallways. He received a 360-day misdemeanor sentence (reduced to 135 days with time served), prompting public backlash when local sheriff's officials refused to honor an ICE detainer for his deportation.

MS-13 Gang Convictions: Multiple illegal alien members of the MS-13 gang have been convicted of high-profile violence in Northern Virginia, including Elmer Alas Candray, who was convicted by a jury for the murders of five people.

The Arrest of Mykol Santos-Santos: In late 2025, ICE enforcement teams arrested Mykol Santos-Santos, an illegal Guatemalan national and documented gang member with over 30 arrests. Local Virginia law enforcement had previously refused to honor 16 separate immigration detainers filed against him.

According to news reports Puch and Cedillos-Campos were co-workers at Bitez, a restaurant in Village Center, Dulles.

Was the restaurant owner arrested for hiring illegals?

If not, why not?

Then there are Virginia mental hospitals that send the criminally insane into the community on weekend passes. That raises a question: Who exactly is running Virginia’s asylums?

A Virginia man accused of killing his landlord fled the country after failing to return from a 48-hour weekend pass from a state mental health facility. Abdulloi Toshpulodzoda was found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed in 2022.

Authorities say he left the facility… pic.twitter.com/wcxjm47Xoc

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) August 18, 2026

Let’s back up.

Abdulloi Toshpulodzoda entered the U.S. legally in 2009. He later violated the conditions of his visa and a deportation order was entered.

Like so many other illegals, he ignored it and stayed.

In 2019, Abdulloi killed his landlord, Mohammed Hemmatian. When Abdulloi was apprehended, he was reportedly drenched in blood and told police, “I killed him.”

In 2022, charged with second degree murder, Abdulloi was found not guilty by reason of insanity “due to religious beliefs” after taxpayers paid for a Muslim psychiatrist to evaluate him.

He was committed to a Northern Virginia mental institution.

Two years into his stay - in May of 2024 - Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano signed off on a day trip for the crazy man to go to the Tajikistan embassy to obtain a passport. Descano is a Soros-backed prosecutor who is chronically soft on crime.

Why would an inmate of an insane asylum need a passport? Why in the world would a prosecutor help him get one?

In June of this year, a psychiatrist was pushing to have Abdulloi released, but a judge ruled that he was still insane and needed inpatient hospitalization.

Nevertheless, in July, Abdulloi was given a 48-hour pass to leave the asylum unaccompanied. He headed for Dulles Airport, where he boarded a Turkish Airlines flight to Istanbul, eventually making his way to Tajikistan.

A bench warrant has been issued for Toshpulodzoda, and he is on “escape status” from the mental hospital. Homeland Security and U.S. Customs Service are on the lookout for him should he attempt to re-enter the United States.

In a nutshell, the man who ignored deportation orders for a decade, then allegedly stabbed a man to death and was judged insane, self-deported on July 6th.

Hallelujah, this dirtbag is gone.

That said, Virginia mental institutions need to stop giving violent criminals unaccompanied weekend passes. The public shouldn’t have to worry that unescorted crazed killers have been turned loose on the community for 48 hours.

Let’s face it, Fairfax County’s justice system is a joke and its mental health institutions are crazy.

Another bizarre case out of the increasingly dangerous and insane land of Northern Virginia.

On a positive note: A violent dirtbag is out of the country.

irginia Beach, perhaps the best-known coastal resort town in the Commonwealth, anchors the 2nd Congressional District. With more than 330,000 people, it accounts for nearly 57 percent of district’s citizens. Tourism is a major economic driver; so, too, are health care and the military. However, since the pandemic Virginia Beach has seen its population begin to decline, while neighboring Suffolk City with a population of more than 106,000 people has grown 25 percent since 2010. Formerly known as the Peanut Capital of the world, today Suffolk City’s economy is underpinned by the defense industry, healthcare, as well as transportation and warehousing,

Previous officeholders include Thelma Drake, a Republican and the first woman to hold the 2nd District seat, and Colgate Darden, a Democrat who served as chancellor of the College of William & Mary, the president of the University of Virginia, and for whom UVA’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration is named.

Platforms

INCUMBENT: Jen Kiggans (R-VA)
CHALLENGER: Elaine Luria (D)

Both candidates for office are Navy veterans whose platforms stress national security and caring for veterans.

Kiggans won the 2nd Congressional District seat in 2022, defeating Luria by just over 3 percentage points. She recently told NBC News that her strategy this time around will be much the same as it was then. Kiggans’ platform leans into affordability issues and allowing taxpayers to keep more of their paychecks. She describes her economic policies as “pro-growth,” focusing on helping small businesses grow and increasing employment. As a trained nurse specializing in geriatric care, Kiggans also advocates for healthcare reform. In Congress she was involved in renewing and reforming the Affordable Health Care Act and works to expand mental health resources as well as lowering prescription drug costs.

Kiggans serves on three committees – Armed Forces, Natural Resources, and Veterans’ Affairs, where she chairs the Oversight and Investigations subcommittee. All three are matters of significance to the 2nd District. She holds degrees from Boston University, Old Dominion University, and Vanderbilt University.

Before losing the 2nd District to Kiggans in 2022, Luria represented the district for two consecutive terms from 2019 to 2023. During her tenure she was a member of the Problem Solvers Caucus and was the sole Democrat in 2022 to vote against repealing the 2002 Iraq War authorization. Her platform also leans into affordability, focusing on strengthening the Affordable Care Act by reinstating ACA tax credits and strengthening funding for Medicare and Medicaid. She also wants to end “endless wars” that she says are raising costs for families.

During her time in Congress, Luria served on the Armed Services, Veterans Affairs, and Homeland Security. She is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and Old Dominion University.

State of the Race

Cook Political Report: Toss up
UVA Sabato Crystal Ball: Toss up
270 to Win: Toss up
VPAP: Leans R

This is anyone’s race to take. Fundraising is about equal for both candidates – $3.58 million for Luria, $3.38 million for Kiggans; both candidates are well-known commodities in the 2nd District; and both are decorated military veterans in a region where military issues are of vital interest.

The 2024 generic ballot tilted in Kiggans’ favor by a narrow R+2.7 percentage points and President Donald Trump carried the district in 2024, but by the slimmest of margins.  If the present 2026 generic ballot holds at D+6, that will most certainly have its impact on what is expected to be an expensive, hard fought, and closely run contest.

It’s true of every election, but the watchword here is “turn out.” And that hinges on who can motivate their bases, sway the independents, and steal a few moderates from the opposing party.

What to Watch: Catching Lightning in a Bottle

Coming into 2026, Democrats had a lot of wind in their sails. Spanberger won her race for governor by historic margins, and President Trump’s numbers were falling by the day. The rallying cry “… but Trump” looked to be all that Democrats needed to carry their races. Cue the Blue Wave.

Things have changed. Trump’s number continue to collapse but so has Spanberger’s support. Thus, both Kiggans and Luria are facing headwinds generated by frustrations with major players in their respective parties.

This race will likely come down to who catches lightning in a bottle and puts together a Boston Red Sox-like run between now and November.

The thing about lightning; one never knows when or where it will strike.

Republished with permission from the Virginia Free Press. Virginiafreepress.com

UVA is now ranked the #20 most liberal university in America — out of 932 schools (Niche)
And at UVA, liberal students outnumber conservatives 5.29 to 1 (FIRE).

That’s not just an imbalance. It raises a much bigger question:
How did the flagship public university in Virginia… pic.twitter.com/74SE7JgS5B

— The Jefferson Council (@TheJeffersonC) August 14, 2026

That’s right, UVA, once a decidedly centrist university that encouraged freedom of thought and expression, lefties now outnumber more conservative students 5.29 to 1.

According to Joel Gardner, president of The Jefferson Council and a UVA undergraduate and law school alum whose list of honors during his years in Charlottesville are as long as Leviticus, the school founded by Thomas Jefferson took a sharp left turn with the departure of former President John Casteen in 2010.

The fact is that ever since John Casteen stepped down as president in 2010, the two succeeding administrations, particularly the Ryan administration, actively pursued a left-wing socio-political agenda. While these administrations often denied such political motivations, it brings to mind a line from George Orwell's 1984: “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” Anyone with their eyes open and “ears to the Grounds” could not miss the evidence.

UVA was not always a politicized institution. When I first arrived on Grounds back in the Jurassic age (1966), UVA was an extraordinarily non-political institution, with the student body pretty much equally divided between Democrats and Republicans. In fact, a poll of students for the 1968 presidential election found them almost equally split between Nixon and Humphrey. Surprisingly, that pretty much applied to the faculty as tell Even when the first round of politicization hit the Grounds in 1969 in the form of the anti-Vietnam War movement, when the Faculty Senate voted on a measure to remove academic credit from ROTC classes, the vote was split evenly — 50 percent for and 50 percent against.

Gardner points to a Daily Progress piece after the 2022 election that claimed UVA’s faculty and staff favored Democrat over Republican candidates by a ratio of 30:1.

It is obvious that UVA’s ratio of liberal to conservative students is severely disproportionate to that of its peer institution. It is the second highest of the 18 schools in the ACC, where half the conference sits under 2:1, and it is the highest of the 14 purple state university. 

In fact the average of those 14 ratios is 2.44:1, less than half of UVA’s. That UVA has such a high ratio can hardly be considered serendipity. There is little doubt it was part of (former university president) Jim Ryan’s ongoing effort to turn UVA into as much a social justice machine as an institution decided to teaching and research. 

In a purple state, which leans left, this sort of extreme imbalance at its flagship university is concerning. 

It should be deeply troubling for families who do not share far-left ideologies and who want their offspring educated, not brainwashed, during their four years in Charlottesville.

Dropping your child off this week?

You’ve been warned.

The new law drops the state's previous medical-necessity requirements, drawing condemnation from pro-life groups. Is Virginia next?

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey (D) just held a press conference to celebrate killing late-term babies. Why? She just signed a law that allows babies to be aborted up until the moment of birth with no limitations—and what's clear is that it won't end with New England.

Massachusetts already allowed abortions after 24 weeks with certain provisions. Those were:

if in the best medical judgement of the physician it is: (i) necessary to preserve the life of the patient; (ii) necessary to preserve the patient's physical or mental health; (iii) warranted because of a lethal fetal anomaly or diagnosis; or (iv) warranted because of a grave fetal diagnosis that indicates that the fetus is incompatible with sustained life outside of the uterus without extraordinary medical interventions.

That wasn’t enough for Massachusetts Democrats. They want a law with no conditions, no medical justification required—just the ability to kill a baby for any reason, at any point, up until birth. That wish has now been granted. A doctor can legally perform an abortion in Massachusetts for any reason, at any stage, with no questions asked. Gov. Healy and every legislator that voted for this bill now has blood stained hands and will have to answer to God.

Why It Matters

SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser mourned the news of the governor’s signature on this extreme bill:

It should shock the conscience that tens of thousands of unborn Americans are barbarically dismembered limb by limb and torn apart every single year. Sadly, that number will only increase with Gov. Healey’s approval of the Abortion Up Until Birth Bill. The GOP must abandon the ‘leave it to the states’ position – a stance that permits egregious late-term abortion laws like this one – and advance national protections for unborn children. Without a minimum national standard, the United States remains 1 of only 8 countries worldwide that allows abortion at any point in pregnancy. We must do all we can to turn the page on America’s ugly chapter of late-term abortion.”

What’s Next?

Massachusetts is one of at least 11 states to allow unlimited abortions up until birth. Virginia, under Democrat Gov. Abigail Spanberger, could be next.

On November 3, Virginians will go to the ballot box to decide if they will adopt a constitutional amendment allowing abortion until birth without exceptions, not even parental notification for minors. This legislation will not only kill babies but also harm the minor children who will take part in these barbaric acts.

What’s next? Abortion after birth? This is the future of America under radical Democrats, and it's coming to a state near you.

Take Action

Restoration of America Foundation is working to end the uptick in abortion by targeting the dangerous abortion pill, which harms or even kills one in 10 mothers who ingest the drug.

Step one is exposing the truth—and we've done it at www.ROAFoundation.org, where you can get armed with the most up-to-date and powerful proof we need about what—and who—is murdering America's unborn.

Step two is taking action to rally the pro-life base. We're putting pressure on the Trump administration to do the right thing under God and restore the commonsense abortion pill safeguards that Joe Biden did away with. Don't defend Biden's legacy; abolish it—and save countless babies in the process.

We need you in that fight. Check out www.ROAFoundation.org for the battleplan to end abortion for good.

Victoria Manning is a Senior Investigative Researcher for Restoration News specializing in education freedom, immigration, and military issues. She is the author of Behind the Wall of Government Schools. Victoria served 8 years as an elected school board member and has a master’s degree in law. She also brings the perspective of a military spouse to her reporting.

Republished with permission from Restoration News.

A Restoration News investigation reveals the communist intentions of the teachers’ union-aligned Zinn Education Project.

"I've long been inspired by that work of the Communist Party."

That's not a quote from a 1950s Soviet propaganda reel—it's from the editor at the Zinn Education Project, the free curriculum machine quietly feeding "history" lessons into classrooms across America. Restoration News dug into the districts using it, and what we found should alarm every parent, unless you’re a godless Marxist hoping to turn kids into little communists.

It’s the wild west out there when it comes to the history curricula in American classrooms. In today’s world, where physical textbooks are thrown aside for free digital resources, it’s nearly impossible for parents or even school board members to know what is being taught in the classroom. No less than 95 percent of educators admit they have wide discretion over the resources they use.

In 2022, the American Historical Association found that 28 percent of history teachers surveyed admitted to using curriculum related to the pro-communist writer Howard Zinn. Sixty-one percent use the “Teachers Pay Teachers” resource, which distributes curriculum from multiple suppliers, including thousands of items from the Zinn Education Project.

The public is likely not aware of this Godless Marxism dogma infiltrating classrooms across the nation.

The Zinn Education Project

The Zinn Education Project, also known as Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change, provides free curriculum to educators across the nation. Howard Zinn, the organization’s namesake, was an avowed Godless Marxist and self-described anarchist. In 1980, Zinn wrote A People’s History of the United States that sold over 2.6 million copies. The book is Zinn’s anti-capitalist take on American history used in classrooms across the nation for decades. Zinn’s book has been referred to as the “least credible history book in print,” “cheap propaganda,” and “the historians’ equivalent of medical malpractice.”

Zinn uses far-left commentary of history as his source of history in his book about history, often without citing his sources. Hardly a factual text that should be used to instruct American children.

Author Mary Graber's book Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation against America exposes Zinn’s distortion and manipulation of history. Zinn claimed the United States provoked the attack on Pearl Harbor and that Roosevelt was as morally culpable as Hitler for not taking special steps to protect Europe’s Jews.

Graber points out that Zinn wrongly described the native tribes that Christopher Columbus encountered on his voyages as “peaceful feminists, environmentalists, democrats, and communists.” Zinn plagiarized his accounts of Columbus from his friend and fellow activist, Hans Koning, who wrote his own fables portraying Columbus as an evil headhunter rather than a determined explorer and mariner. One of the Zinn Education Project’s endeavors is to abolish Columbus Day.

Graber exposes how Zinn wrongly claimed slavery in Africa was more humane than slavery in the Americas. He also failed to disclose that Africans themselves were selling other Africans as slaves.

Even Zinn’s own biographer, Martin Duberman, noted, “Howard’s version of our past has been justly criticized as leaving out too much, of presenting a partial and thereby distorted account.” Duberman also pointed out that Zinn believed “only members of the working class or minorities (or their champions) are allowed to represent human nobility and selflessness.”

Jesse Hagopian, the Zinn Education Project’s Rethinking Schools Editor, wants to teach Marxist critical race theory in schools and disavows capitalism. He said, “I think the fundamental problem with our education system is . . . that they’re a product of an economic and political structure that is built on profit, racism, oppression, and inequality—namely capitalism.”

It was Hagopian who said, “I’ve long been inspired by that work of the Communist Party.”

The Zinn Education Project’s most recent magazine proves the group's intentions. One of the main articles authored by Hagopian is Don’t Make Students Love America—Teach Them to Question It. Hagopian wrote, “At the semiquincentennial [America's 250th anniversary], the question is this: Will students be forced to love the founders and their vision for the nation, or will they be allowed to consider the evidence and decide for themselves what kind of society they want to build?”

Abolishing the police is another aspiration of the Zinn Education Project—they promote “police free schools.”

The Zinn Education Project is clearly an anti-capitalist group more aligned with the Chinese Communist Party than America.

Examples of Communist Infiltration in America’s Government Schools

Parents need to be aware that this Godless Marxism is infiltrating schools across the nation, in both conservative and far-left districts.

Natalie Bray, running for Virginia Beach school board, posted that “patriotism means framing conversations for my kids about the history of our country.” The post was alongside a photo of her family’s Fourth of July reading list prominently featuring Howard Zinn’s A Young People’s History of the United States. Voters should firmly reject any school board candidate who peddles Godless Marxism.

Valencia Abbott was the 2025 North Carolina teacher of the year. She bragged about using Zinn books in her classroom in Rockingham County, North Carolina, saying, “I so appreciate Zinn Education Project for allowing me to share my books with my students. When I receive a box of books, not only for my classroom but the ability to get them into the hands of my students, this helps ensure that they are likely to read that.”

2025 North Carolina teacher of the year Valencia Abbott brags about using the Marxist Zinn Education Project books in her classroom. pic.twitter.com/SzePB7k1xV

— Victoria Manning (@HoneyBadger_USA) August 4, 2026

The National Education Association (NEA) and its state level groups are heavily involved with the Zinn Education Project. Newly elected NEA President Princess Moss is a Zinn fan. In a Zinn Education Project webinar, she touted the NEA’s partnership with them and called on teachers to “rise up.”

Two other teachers’ union leaders recently participated in a webinar with the Zinn Education Project’s Rethinking Schools. Andrea Missureli from the Madison, Wisconsin union, celebrated that over 70 percent of teachers refused to attend school on May Day, causing widespread school closures. Teachers then used their paid day off for political activism by marching to the state capital.

Bryan Proffitt, the President of the North Carolina teacher’s union (NCAE), cheered the shutdown of twenty-two school districts in North Carolina on May Day. Proffitt said it was the “launching of a campaign” and not “just a one-off day of action.” He said activist teachers must “grow our presence as the center of life in this country, not just politics, but if our public schools are organized, that creates a different country, that creates a different people even.”

Proffitt said the quiet part out loud—he and his ilk want to transform this nation, through its children, into an anti-capitalist, Godless Marxist country.

Here are a few more government school educators who push the Zinn Education Project curriculum in schools:

Sally Stanhope, High School Social Studies Teacher in Atlanta, GA

De’Ana Forbes, High School History and African American Studies Teacher in Lilburn, Georgia.

Elizabeth Williams Wesley, High School Social Studies Teacher and Director of DEI in Philadelphia, PA.

Freda “Frankie” Anderson, High School Activism and History Teacher in Philadelphia, PA.

Tamara V. Russell, Fourth Grade Math and Science Teacher in Leesburg, FL.

These are just several examples of the tens of thousands of teachers who use Zinn resources across the nation. It’s likely there is a Zinn inspired educator in nearly every school in the nation. In fact, the Zinn Education Project published a map showing the widespread distribution of their curriculum.

This communist indoctrination is a prime example of why states must adopt more education freedom options that allow parents a choice of where their children will attend school. It shouldn’t just be wealthy families who have the option of escaping government schools.

The Zinn Education Group isn’t just a fringe organization operating in the shadows—it's got the backing of teachers' unions, a national platform, and a map to prove its influence. The Zinn Education Group's so-called "history" belongs in the fiction section, not your child's classroom. The only question left is whether parents find out before the government schools brainwash their children into hating America.

Victoria Manning is a Senior Investigative Researcher for Restoration News specializing in education freedom, immigration, and military issues. She is the author of Behind the Wall of Government Schools. Victoria served 8 years as an elected school board member and has a master’s degree in law. She also brings the perspective of a military spouse to her reporting.

Republished with permission from Restoration News.

Yep, I said what I said.

Renting wombs ought to be illegal. And any contract that orders a woman to get an abortion if the child she is carrying has an “anomaly” is repugnant and hopefully illegal. Buying and selling babies ought to be banned no matter how its done.

These - and other distasteful issues - arise whenever rich people hire less affluent women to carry their children and then are shocked to discover that females develop attachments to the babies in their wombs. By the way, it will always be poor women giving birth for the well-to-do, which introduces another unpleasant element to the arrangements.

As the courts try to untangle the gothic mess transpiring in Texas right now, states should consider outlawing the practice of treating babies as commodities. When the product is defective, the bio parents often want the product destroyed. These are CHILDREN not products.

Cases of biological parents battling birth mothers have been popping up with stomach-churning regularity.

Consider the most recent: The case of McKenna West. An Alaskan nurse and a single mother of two children, she agreed to carry the baby of a couple from Los Angeles, Nausheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed.

The threesome signed an “ordinary” surrogacy agreement, which called for the termination of any imperfect unborn baby.

When she was 20 weeks pregnant, pre-natal testing showed that the boy West was carrying suffered from a severe - but treatable - heart defect.

The California couple demanded that West abort the baby.

She refused.

The legal battle commenced.

West moved to Texas, where most forms of abortion are illegal and where a Dallas hospital has a 100% success rate in treating this child’s heart defect.

Once there, Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is running for Senate, stepped in on behalf of the mother and got an order for medical care for the newborn as soon as he was born. The baby’s particular defect requires three surgeries, one within the first week of life.

The boy, called Gabriel by West, was due September 2 but arrived on Wednesday of this week. He is due to have heart surgery in the next few days.

West wants to keep the child.

The California couple who wanted him aborted has now decided they want him. Do they want to restore him to health or allow him to die? Unclear.

One thing is certain: They want to keep him away from West.

To that end, the biological parents came to Texas and got a Dallas County judge to issue a temporary restraining order that keeps West away from from the baby and ensures that they have the sole right to make medical decisions for “their” son. The order expires August 25 when the parties are due in court.

Unfreaking-believable.

A judge actually gave a baby to the people who wanted to kill him rather than the woman who traveled thousands of miles to save his little life.

As a result of this heartless decision, a sick newborn is living in an incubator, when what he needs most is to be held by his mother whose heartbeat and voice he heard for nine months.

This boy’s future will ultimately be decided by a Texas judge who first must decide if the surrogacy agreement is valid. West’s legal team believes that the termination clause within the contract, while standard, is “offensive to state and federal law,” according to The Dallas Morning News.

“The law doesn’t permit hit man contracts,” West’s lawyer said. “And this is a hit man contract.”

He’s right, that’s exactly what it is.

On Thursday West’s lawyers said they were ready to fight all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary to allow West to keep the baby she birthed and loves.

The people who wanted to end the life of the baby seem equally determined to keep him away from his birth mother.

This tug-of-war over a sick baby boy is the sort of monstrous situation that should have been anticipated when people were allowed to treat the birth of a child like a business deal.

This isn’t a business arrangement. It’s a life.

Later this month a Texas judge will play the part of King Solomon when the warring sides are in court.

He should toss the bio-parents out on their derrières.

The University of Virginia commissioned two reports on the 2022 shooting that killed three of its students, then released them so heavily redacted that large stretches are unreadable. In fact, roughly fifty pages across the two reports contain nothing at all — a header, a page number, the alleged code exemption, and white space. What’s more, UVA took 28 months to publish their reports.

Old Dominion University (ODU), faced the same situation four months ago and did the opposite.

An ODU student opened fire in a classroom in March, killing Lt. Col. Brandon Shah. The Attorney General appointed outside counsel, same as at UVA. The report came out in July — four and a half months later, and almost entirely intact. One redaction, about two pages, covered a passage about a different student in an unrelated incident. The lawyers explained the redaction in a footnote, right where it appears.

Both are public universities in Virginia. Same laws. Same kind of tragedy. Wildly different responses.

Here’s what UVA actually withheld: Quinn Emanuel’s summary of its own actual findings were blacked out completely, though the recommendations built on those findings were published. Fifteen straight pages in one report, twenty-two in the other were blacked out. Even the tables of contents are redacted, so you can’t learn what subject was withheld, only that something was. Four blank pages allegedly describe the changes UVA made to its threat assessment procedures after the shooting. These were exempted on security grounds, not privacy grounds. Yet in contrast, ODU published its full timeline, its emergency alerts, and all twelve of its recommendations without invoking a security exemption once.

UVA used language in its executive summary indicating it was compelled to do this. Such terms as Prohibited. Must. Had to. Legally barred. are used. But UVA wasn’t compelled to do this. Virginia’s student-records provision doesn’t order anyone to withhold anything; it says the university may release the information at its own discretion. What’s more, President Jim Ryan said as much under oath in 2024, testifying that UVA could have released the report – and chose not to.

There is one real difference between the two cases, and it deserves saying: ODU’s shooter died at the scene, while UVA’s survived and refused to waive his privacy rights. That’s one genuine legal constraint UVA faced and ODU didn’t. 

But it doesn’t explain redacted chapter titles. It doesn’t explain hiding what University fixed after reviewing drafts of the reports. It doesn’t explain publishing conclusions while exempting the things they rest on. And most of all it doesn’t explain why UVA didn’t take certain threat assessment actions vis-a-vis the perpetrator prior to the shootings.

Buried in UVA’s own summary is a line intended as reassurance: most of what it withheld had “previously publicly reported” anyway. If that’s true, the privacy interest it upheld in its fifty pages of redactions doesn’t really hold. But the kicker is that no one can actually check either, because UVA doesn’t say which information was made public, or where it appeared, or how much “most” covers.

Three outstanding students died on that bus. Two more were wounded. Nearly four years later, ODU has shown that a Virginia university can fulfill its public responsibility of transparency. Why won’t UVA tell its own community what happened? What is trying to be hidden? The Commonwealth deserves better from its flagship university.

Republished with permission from Bacon’s Rebellion.

I shouldn’t know this and neither should you. This is the sort of personal information that couples normally share only with their closest friends and family. Not only do we know about her egg retrieval antics, but we got to watch AOC inject herself with hormones.

On Instagram.

Usually, this procedure is the first step toward in vitro fertilization for infertile couples, but increasingly it’s being used by wealthy career women who want to postpone children until it’s more convenient. They worry that by the time they’ve achieved success and are finally ready to have kids they’ll be fresh out of eggs.

AOC has been engaged for five years to her college boyfriend, Riley Roberts, although TMZ is reporting that the couple has split.

When asked why she was being so public about her eggs, AOC said she hoped to “normalize” the procedure for other women.

News Flash, AOC: Normal women will have a hard time coming up with the loot. Despite an executive order by Donald Trump making IVF more affordable, the initial cost of egg retrieval is estimated at between $10,000 an $20,000. Often a second cycle is needed.

Here’s a breakdown of costs:

Storage of eggs costs between $500 and $1,000 a year. Well out of the reach of most working class women.

AOC’s Instagram spawned a rash of stories about egg freezing. The New York Times - so in touch with everyday people - interviewed Avni Barmen, 29, another wealthy single woman who froze her eggs last year.

I’m friends with a lot of really successful seven, eight, nine-figure female founders — they all do it,” Ms. Barman said in an interview. “To them, it’s like getting a designer bag — freezing your eggs, they cost the same — and that’s kind of the mentality around it.”

The Times interviewed Meg Quinn, another woman who went public with her egg journey eight years ago. Although she ultimately got pregnant and had a healthy baby, her egg freezing episode was fraught with problems.

At $16,000 for the initial cycle, which produced only seven of the 18 frozen eggs her doctor had hoped for. She was devastated. The doctor suggested she complete one or two more cycles, but she couldn’t bear even the idea of it, emotionally or financially.

The Times describes the multi-step medical procedure this way:

A woman must inject a cocktail of hormonal medications into her abdomen over a period of eight to 12 days. A doctor then retrieves the eggs by a needle inserted through the vaginal wall while the patient is sedated.

Mature eggs are flash frozen in liquid nitrogen, potentially preserving them for many years. It is essentially the first step of in vitro fertilization, which involves thawing the eggs, fertilizing them in the lab and creating embryos.

Normally, I wouldn’t comment on a woman’s decision to freeze her eggs, but since she blasted the procedure on Instagram, AOC is asking for commentary.

Two questions arise: Why is she freezing eggs and why did she decide to get started on social media?

The answers are obvious: AOC’s preparing to run for president in 2028, when she’s 39 (her birthday is in October). She’s signaling to supporters that elected office is more important than children. Should she win and serve eight years, AOC would be 46 when she left office.

Clearly, she plans to thaw out her eggs when she’s in her early 50s - maybe her 60s, who knows? - and start a family. What could possibly go wrong?

AOC is a political animal and not a smart one. Sharing her expensive, elective medical procedures on Instagram isn’t a sign that she’s presidential material. It’s a sign that she’s just another social media addict with no boundaries.

While most lefties are chanting about affordability, AOC is taking a different approach. She’s flaunting her wealth. Odd for a Democratic Socialist, unless of course, her next move is to declare egg freezing a “right” and something that should be “free.”

Buckle up.

Yesterday we learned this: Thousands of American couples now know that their heartbreaking tragedies - miscarriages - might have been prevented and their child might be alive and healthy if only the nation’s top public health official had been honest about the possible danger of the covid vaccine for pregnant women.

Instead, despite private discussions that the covid boosters could be causing miscarriages and mutations to unborn babies, Fauci and his team of ghouls repeatedly insisted that pregnant women needed covid vaccines.

“There is no bad time to take the vaccine,” that grinning imbecile, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky told women in 2021.

I was with my pregnant daughter at one of her obstetrical appointments that year when she was harangued by her doctor to take the vaccine.

She stood firm. If she couldn’t eat Brie cheese out of an abundance of caution there was no way she was going to take an experimental vaccine.

I’m very proud of her.

One would assume that public health officials would always err on the side of safety. After all, they warn pregnant women against eating sushi, lunch meats, Brie cheese and even changing cat litter.

They know that not every woman who eats raw seafood or deli meat or cleans up behind her cat will lose her baby. That isn’t the point.

They don’t want expectant mothers to take chances with their unborn babies.

But when it came to an experimental vaccine for a disease that had more than a 99% survivability rate, these medical experts threw caution to the wind and scolded expectant mothers who refused to roll up their sleeves.

How do we know all this? Sen. Ron Johnson on Monday released this text exchange from 2021 between Fauci and two top public health officials.

READ MORE HERE⬇️https://t.co/e81Of6IIU8

— Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) August 10, 2026

There’s this, from the New York Post: 

“I asked around a bit more and another issue came up that you need to be aware of,” wrote Fauci in a Jan. 25, 2021, text exchange with then-Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy.
“Since many people have significant cytokines storm and fever after the 2nd dose, this theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester,” added the then-National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director.

Fauci, Walensky and Murthy had been discussing whether the vaccine posed any risks to women who followed the two-shot regimen earlier or later in their pregnancies.

Walensky responded to Fauci that the first trimester issues he raised were “definitely a good point, [especially] after dose two.”
Days later, on Feb. 3, Fauci said during a question-and-answer livestream with the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) that the FDA “found thus far, and we have to be careful, but thus far no red flags about that, about pregnant women.”

Fauci belongs in prison. 

But right now any woman who miscarried after taking a covid vaccine should find a good personal injury lawyer.

America’s top doc clearly cared more about winning cash awards, flirting with celebrities and pushing pharmaceuticals than being honest with American mothers.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Director of the NIH, got to the heart of the matter: How will we ever get Americans to trust public health officials again, after learning that they lied promiscuously during the covid pandemic?

🚨 JUST IN: NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya OBLITERATES Fauci for refusing to inform Americans that the COVID jab might've been surging miscarriages in pregnant women

Up to an 82% MISCARRIAGE rate has been uncovered 🤯

"You should be careful with pregnant women! And it's SHOCKING… pic.twitter.com/276pvwW5sa

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 10, 2026

Good question.

On Friday two former NBA players, Royce White and Enes Kanter declared for the WNBA draft. While spending most of their lives as extremely athletic burly men, both say they now identify as women.

These two men may actually save women’s basketball.

🚨 JUST IN: Former NBA player Royce White just dropped this line on national TV after QUALIFYING for the WNBA Draft

"I'm just having a blast in my feminine era. I never thought that I was a woman."

"I think it's only fair I get a chance to play with some of my queens here in… pic.twitter.com/FrJL2vayLe

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 9, 2026

Hey, WNBA let these girls play! Can’t wait to see opposing teammates trying to guard them.

After all, this peculiar league and its equally peculiar fans have vilified Indiana Fever star Sophie Cunningham who said last month that women’s sports should only be for women. 

Oh, the horror!

Now the roosters are coming home to roost.

It’s time for these woke nincompoops to live with their nutty ideology. 

Who’s to say that 6’8” Royce White’s realization that he’s a female is any less genuine than say, swimmer Lia Thomas’ that he was a female once he washed out as a college male swimmer?

Over the weekend, WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert announced that the higher ups in the league would be meeting. Apparently to hash out what it means to be a woman.

In her own words: 

"I know many of you have received questions in recent weeks regarding transgender athlete participation in women's basketball, and I expect this topic will continue to receive significant attention," Engelbert wrote in the memo, which was sent Friday afternoon and obtained by The Associated Press and ESPN. "I wanted to reach out to share how we are approaching these conversations at the league office and to thank those of you who have responded to questions from the media with thoughtfulness and professionalism."

The memo said the topic will be discussed further by a task force of team presidents and general managers at a previously scheduled meeting next week.

Hilarious. Even funnier is pretending that figuring out who is a woman is complicated.

"We recognize that this is a complex and nuanced topic, and we will continue to have important conversations with all of you and the Players Association in the weeks and months ahead," Engelbert said in the memo. "We also plan to convene additional discussions and offer listening sessions for any team leaders who would like to participate. Your perspectives and feedback are invaluable, and I appreciate those who have already reached out to share their thoughts."

Sorry Ms. Engelbert, but this is NOT complicated: If you have a penis, you’re a man. If you used to have a penis, you’re a man. If you possess a Y chromosome, you’re a man.

Ever pre-pubescent males have a physical advantage over females. After puberty? It’s dramatic.

To pretend that individuals who are confused about their gender - remember, until recently gender dyphoria was classified as a mental illness in the DSM - should get to play wherever they like is certifiably insane.

According to a United Nations human rights report, more than 600 female athletes have lost at least 890 medals across over 400 competitions in 29 different sports to transgender competitors.

That’s the UN, by the way, not Mothers for Freedom.

For the past decade, males have been quietly stealing female awards in sports. They’ve deprived girls of recognition and college scholarships. The International Olympic Committee ruled that biological men can’t compete against females. So has the Women’s Tennis Association.

But the WNBA, loaded as it is with woke lesbians with a death wish, has decided that men are welcome.

These women are signaling the destruction of their own league and they’re too stupid to realize it.

Where are the feminists in all of this? Silent, of course. 

Worse, many are on the side of men pretending to be women.

It’s clear for all but the most brainwashed that feminism was never about helping females.

It was always all about abortion.

Wishing Royce and Enes well as they enjoy beating the pants off the Lilliputians in the WNBA.

RIP women’s basketball. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.