Birthright citizenship belongs to the children of American citizens, not those who broke our immigration laws to come to the United States.

I introduced a Constitutional Amendment to end birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens.

— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) September 15, 2026

He’s right.

The 14th Amendment - ratified in 1868 - was meant to grant citizenship and full legal rights to freed slaves after the Civil War.

It was never meant to give a green light to lawbreakers from every corner of the globe to come to sneak across our borders, drop babies and anchor themselves to their “American” children.

Neither was it intended for Chinese billionaires to rent American wombs and produce hundreds of future spies with American passports.

Yet, that’s apparently what happened recently when a surrogate mother learned From CBS News that she wasn’t carrying the baby of a childless man but that of a Chinese billionaire who has at least 100 other American babies.

A surrogate, believing she was carrying a child for a single father, is actually having a baby for a Chinese billionaire who allegedly has more than 100 kids. CBS News broke the news to her.

Leaked documents obtained by CBS News named the intended father as Xu Bo, a Chinese… pic.twitter.com/SenTHF7afa

— CBS News (@CBSNews) September 13, 2026

If the U.S. Supreme Court won’t apply common sense to the Constitution, it’s time to amend that document and put an end to birth tourism, surrogacy and illegal anchor babies.

Look, according to the Pew Research Center, an estimated 300,000 babies are born in America each year to illegal alien mothers.

They should not be citizens of any country other than the ones their mothers left.

When mothers with temporary legal statues - guest workers, foreign students - are included in the total, the number of births rises to about 320,000 births a year. That’s almost 10% of all babies born in the United States.

End the madness. End birthright citizenship.

Lucky us.

New: Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger appointed an all new parole board this year. The board decides if Virginia’s most dangerous criminals get released on parole or serve their full sentences.

So far under Spanberger, criminals are ten times more likely to get parole. One… pic.twitter.com/w0JMEggYsn

— Nick Minock (@NickMinock) September 14, 2026

The case of Troy A. Demar is instructive. On February 28, 1998 he stabbed his live-in girlfriend, Christine Allen, to death. He was found guilty of the crime and sentenced to 40 years in prison without the possibility of parole.

By my calculation, Demar still owes us 12 years. But last week, Spanberger’s criminals-first parole board sprung him, over the strenuous objections of Christine’s family. The victim’s family pointed out that not only did Demar snuff out the life of Christine, but he left the couple’s then 3-month-old baby motherless.

Spangberger’s appointees dutifully shrugged off the tears of the family.

In fact, they gave the murdered a tongue bath, gushed about how well he’d performed in prison. 

They’re absolutely thrilled to set him free.

“You have done so much,” one of the bleeding hearts blathered. “You've actually done more programming than most of the inmates we see or read about, um, and so I want to applaud you.”

She wants to applaud a cold-blooded murderer?

We’re in trouble, Virginia.

What part of 40 years without parole don’t Spanberger and her minions understand?

Back to that constitutional amendment. If it passes, people like convicted killer Demar will be allowed to vote immediately upon release. 

Even if they haven’t completed their probation period.

Why the eagerness to get murderers into the voting booths, Abigail? 

We all know the answer.

Over the years I’ve written a handful of pieces that I thought were pretty good. This is one. I’ve shared it before, but I’m posting it again for those who may have missed it or don’t mind reading it again.

The reason for offering you this today will be obvious to anyone who reads to the end.

I can remember exactly where I was on September 16, 1998. I remember what I was wearing, the cup of 7-Eleven coffee that went cold on the tray table and the way the morning sun sifted through the dingy window.

Shortly after dawn, I was in a hospital bed in Hamilton, N.J., cradling the snowy head of the woman who taught me how to ride a bike, roller skate and shuffle cards like a blackjack dealer.

If you had peeked into her room, you would have seen a frail, sick woman. That isn't what I saw.

I saw a skinny brunette with wild curly hair, great legs and big smile. A woman who read poetry to me at night, who played the soundtrack to "Man of La Mancha" so often that she wore out the vinyl, who danced with me whenever "American Bandstand" was on TV.

I saw the 30-something woman who taught me to jump rope, do handstands and bathe a cat.

I saw a young mother who walked to work every day and ignored the snickering in a small town full of stay-at-home moms. I saw a woman who never seemed to sleep. A woman who sewed most of my clothes and all of my Halloween costumes between loads of laundry after midnight.

I've written about my mother many times. Forgive me if you've heard some of this before.

She was a bank teller, my Brownie Troop leader and an amateur artist. She was a terrible cook, a teetotaler - until she had her first swig of Bailey's Irish Cream - and the family handyman.

She hated doctors and loved games. She did not believe in letting kids win at checkers, Monopoly or pinochle. Trust me.

She was a voracious, indiscriminate reader. One day, she'd read Jane Austen. The next, Stephen King.

She was a high school dropout and during a prolonged period of stunning ignorance, I believed I was smarter than she was.

She loved me anyway.

She minded her own business, and she picked her battles with the skill of a seasoned field marshal.

She didn't become apoplectic when I announced that I was quitting my job at a big-city newspaper, leaving my first husband and moving to Ireland during The Troubles to work as a freelance journalist. She later told me she’d thought I'd lost my mind, but never said a word at the time.

She rarely cried. Yet she wept when our Irish setter died, when they towed away her ancient Chrysler convertible, when I told her she was going to be a grandmother and when my father dropped dead of a heart attack just a few months before she found herself in that no-way-out hospital room.

On Sept. 16, 1998, I learned that even a bright orange "Do Not Resuscitate" bracelet is not enough to keep well-meaning medical staff from barging in with defibrillators when alarms sound at the nurses' station.

It was left to me to wave them off, knowing that was what she wanted.

It was not what I wanted.

When they left, I slipped into bed with her. I told her she'd been a fabulous mom. I thanked her for all the laughs, the practical jokes, the tough love. I forgave her for those back-to-school Toni home perms that left me looking like a tumbleweed in class pictures.

I told her I was sorry I'd been such an ungrateful jerk so much of the time.

I promised I'd never forget her. And I haven’t.

It's taken me 28 years to realize that being able to hold the woman who gave you life as she is leaving hers is a breathtaking gift.

Which is appropriate. Because that memorable day in September happens to be my birthday.

It’s also the result of common sense. Why would parents lie to a child, allowing her to believe that it is possible to switch genders? Amputating breasts, guzzling hormones an fashioning a fake penis out of bowel material won’t make her male. It will make her a mutilated woman.

It is a family’s worst nightmare. Devout Catholic parents are fighting in court to regain custody of their 17-year-old daughter, Sophie, and stop Massachusetts authorities from medically transitioning her with high-dose testosterone. In December 2024, the Department of Children and Families (DCF) removed the then 15-year-old from her home because her parents, Joseph and Arlene Kutzko, would not recognize their daughter as a boy due to their faith–an identity change they allege staff at Algonquin Regional High School initiated in secret. Although physical abuse claims against Joseph were deemed unfounded, a permanent restraining order was issued against the family, and DCF cut off contact after the Kutzkos would not call Sophie by a male name or pronouns.

A Massachusetts family says the state took custody of their teenage daughter after they refused to affirm her as a boy, citing their Catholic faith.

The parents allege a school counselor socially transitioned their daughter without their knowledge, then reported them to the… pic.twitter.com/cpHWhMHTXb

— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 14, 2026

News accounts of the case are sparse - legacy media has ignored it - except for Fox News, The New York Post and independent news sources.

Massachusetts Department of Children and Families retains custody of the confused teen.

A judge last week blocked the state from administering high-dose testosterone to Sophie.

Thank God.

That judge should immediately lift the restraining order and return the girl to her family.

Parents have the right to rear their children as they see fit, without interference by the state, with very few exceptions.

Refusing to go along with the lie that girls can be boys does not rise to the level of losing one’s kid.

Yet in what was once one of America’s finest public school divisions - Fairfax County - teachers are instructed not to dwell on those who were killed and especially not on who killed them. Focus instead on the rescuers, they are told.

Oh and be sure to mention that there were Muslim heroes that day. Very important!

Fairfax County's new 9/11 teaching guide devotes roughly half its content to creating "safe spaces for Muslim and Middle Eastern students." while mentioning military families just three times and first responders once. The six-page document, obtained by Fox News Digital's @AsraNomani, contains 30 references to Islam, "anti-Muslim racism," and "Islamophobic rhetoric." It explicitly tells teachers not to "associate the 9/11 attacks with Islam or Muslims" and not to "center the extremists or the acts of the extremists." Only about 15% of the guide actually spells out specific 9/11 instruction. Retired Vice Admiral Lou Crenshaw, who was inside the Pentagon when al-Qaeda terrorists flew a plane into the building, ripped the guide for failing to convey "the evilness of what actually happened," calling it a sanitized, "vanilla" approach that shaves the facts until students can't figure out what they're learning about.

— Fox News Politics (@foxnewspolitics) September 10, 2026

Fairfax County's new 9/11 teaching guide devotes roughly half its content to creating "safe spaces for Muslim and Middle Eastern students." while mentioning military families just three times and first responders once.

The six-page document, obtained by Fox News Digital's @AsraNomani, contains 30 references to Islam, “anti-Muslim racism” and “Islamphobic rhetoric.” It explicitly tells teachers not to “associate the 9/11 attacks with Islam or Muslims” and not to “center the extremists or the acts of the extremists.” Only about 15% of the guide actually spells out specific 9/11 instruction.”

So we have schoolchildren being taught that we “lost” people on 9/11 but they’re not being told who killed them.

That bogus telling of history was complemented by The New York Times this weekend, which was wringing its ink-stained hands about Islamophobia.

The New York Times on 9/11. https://t.co/kTeQMPmqtS

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 11, 2026

Stop the presses! You mean when one group terrorizes another, the victims tend to dislike those who attacked them? Who knew?

Perhaps the NYT hasn’t noticed, but in the 25 years since radical MUSLIM jihadis attacked America the Muslim population of the U.S. has grown from about 1.5 million to 5.5 million. The number of mosques has mushroomed from about 1,200 in 2001 to close to 3,000 today.

So Muslims are flocking to America, land of Islamophobia?

Much of that growth is due to immigration, but also to birth rates which are higher in the Muslim communities than in others.

We now we have jihadi sympathizers in Congress, serving as mayors of major American cities and running for office.

Fear of offending this burgeoning Muslim population should not drive what is taught in schools and reported in the news.

Radical Islamists attacked America on 9/11.

That’s a fact.

The clock is ticking on a decision to join litigation that would ban offshore wind to save the whales.

In a strange twist, the largest, most well-funded environmental advocacy groups have thus far declined to join a growing effort to protect an endangered whale species. This has left grassroots conservationists flummoxed. There is still time for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the Sierra Club, and others to jump in, but the clock is ticking on pending litigation.

On August 9, Save Long Beach Island (LBI), an organization based in New Jersey and founded in 2021 for purpose of fighting offshore wind, announced its intention to file a lawsuit against U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC). Save LBI is calling on the department to have its National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) revisit a 16-month-old petition to designate a critical habitat along the East Coast for the benefit of the North Atlantic right whale. The petition also asks NOAA to exclude wind complexes from the migratory critical habitat Save LBI seeks to establish.

Wind or Whales?

NOAA denied the petition on July 22 after Save LBI filed suit to compel the agency to follow the Endangered Species Act's (ESA) 90-day review standard for acting on petitions. 'The new legal notification from Save LBI is modest in scope in that it simply asks NOAA to reconsider its prior decision to turn down the petition. However, it does come with a sense of urgency since NOAA figures show the whale species is down to a sparse population of about 380 with just an estimated 70 females that are reproductively active.

As part of its petition, Save LBI also asked the Department of Interior to conduct an analysis of underwater noise from offshore wind to determine what kind of impact those projects might have on the whales' migration. 

Bob Stern, the president of Save LBI, has followed up on previous correspondence addressed to the NRDC, Sierra Club, and more than a dozen other groups in July 2025. 

Neither the NRDC nor the Sierra Club have responded to any of Save LBI's correspondence. Stern told Restoration News that Save LBI received "very little response" from other long established environmental outfits with one notable exception. Stern says the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental advocacy group based in Arizona, did provide Save LBI with a favorable response indicating it would support the petition. 

Abandoning Their Pro-Whale History

The NRDC and Sierra Club, along with many other environmental activist groups, have a history of opposing military exercises they view as harmful to whales and other marine life. But as Save LBI points out, both groups support offshore wind despite a growing body of evidence that shows the projects harm whales. Save LBI has released detailed studies that showthe construction and potential implementation of offshore wind have already caused whale fatalities migrating up and down the East Coast. 

Stern explained to Restoration News why time is a factor for the NRDC and the Sierra Club if they want to protect whales from offshore wind. 

"Regarding our lawsuit on the NARW [North Atlantic right whale] migration corridor petition, the filing of our intent to sue starts a 60-day clock by which NOAA has to either agree to reconsider the petition or continue to deny it," Stern said. "If they continue to deny it, which is the likely course, then we will go back to the Court to ask a judge to compel them to consider it, how long that will take I cannot tell. If they agree to consider then they have a year to do a rule-making and based on that make a decision."

Restoration News sent media inquiries to NRDC and the Sierra Club asking their media representatives if the advocacy groups would join in the litigation to protect the right whale, and whether they would make a decision on Save LBI's litigation during the 60-day time frame Stern referenced. Neither group responded. 

Save LBI has about 10,000 core members and 100,000 online supporters including homeowners, business owners, and other residents who have united in opposing offshore wind, which they view as harmful to whales and other marine life. The most recent tax filings show Save LBI has just over a million dollars in assets. By comparison, the NRDC sits on almost $660 million in assets and more than 3 million members, while the Sierra Club has $152 million in assets and more than 3.8 million members. 

In his latest letter to the NRDC, Sierra Club, and others, Stern makes the point that Save LBI's efforts to protect whales is consistent with the stated missions of the largest environmental advocacy groups. 

Stern wrote: 

If your organization has already considered this issue and determined that participation would not be appropriate, we would appreciate understanding your reasoning. Your organization has consistently articulated a mission of defending whales and their habitats; silence on this issue, which goes to the heart of that mission as we understand it, is puzzling to us.

Suspected Foreign Agents Sue U.S. Navy 

The NRDC was involved in a high-profile lawsuit against the U.S. Navy that went to the U.S. Supreme Court in 2008. In Winter v NRDC, the environmental activist group argued that naval sonar exercises were harmful to whales and other marine mammals. But the high court in a 5-4 decision ruled against the NRDC and said that the plaintiffs needed to demonstrate an irreparable harm to marine life was likely and not just possible. In his majority opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts determined that Navy's need to conduct realistic training with active sonar far outweighed the specious concerns raised by the NRDC. That's because, as the chief justice explained, the Navy must have the ability to respond to the growing threat of enemy submarines. 

Despite setbacks in court, the largest environmental groups remain united in opposition to certain military exercises for the ostensible purpose of protecting sea life. For instance, the Sierra Club, says on its website that "some forms of ocean military testing produce powerful noises capable of harming and killing marine mammals and adversely disrupting behavior." In April, the Sierra Club joined with other green groups in litigation against the Trump administration to restore ESA protections for the Rice's Whale and other species in the Gulf of Mexico. The administration says an exemption to the ESA was needed to allow oil and gas drilling to proceed in the region for national security reasons. But the Sierra Club and its co-litigants are making the case that the national security concerns are not valid and that the oil and gas activities could harm Rice's Whale along with other species. 

So why are the NRDC and the Sierra Club running silent when it comes to protecting whales up and down the East Coast? As I argue in my book Climate Porn: How and Why Anti-Population Zealots Fabricate Science, while Targeting American Capitalism, Freedom, and Independence the largest, most well-funded environmental groups have been usurped by the climate movement, which often supports measures that are harmful to the environment. 

This would help explain why groups like the NRDC and Sierra Club prioritize offshore wind over vulnerable whale populations. Both groups have also been the focus of congressional probes into potential violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). The restrictions green groups seek to impose on U.S. military testing could redound to benefit of Russia and China and raise questions about the sincerity of their environmental efforts. 

Stern, an engineer who previously managed environmental reviews for the U.S Department of Energy, wants the NRDC, the Sierra Club, and others to produce evidence (if they have it) showing that the long-term climate benefits of offshore wind "outweigh and justify" near-term risks to the right whale. He also makes the point that Save LBI's own assessments show the climate benefits of offshore wind would be "minute" and accrue over the span of several centuries. At the same time, the conservation group's offshore wind studies show the damage to the environment and the whales would be immediate and severe. Even so, Save LBI invites the NRDC and Sierra Club to produce competing evidence. 

Stern wrote:

If you have scientific evidence, modeling, or peer-reviewed analyses that demonstrate that operation noise from full-scale wind complexes will not pose a significant behavioral or physiological risk to North Atlantic right whales, we would welcome the opportunity to see it. Conversely, if our concerns are valid and these complexes are built and operating at scale, any resulting harm to this critically endangered species may be irreversible. Given the right whale's precarious status, we believe we are at a pivotal juncture: decisions made now could determine whether these species survive.

Save LBI's conservation efforts on behalf of whales may be for all the marbles. Environmental advocacy groups that have been in operation for decades now appear poised to advance offshore wind projects that put whales not just in danger put on a path to extinction. 

Beyond Hypocrisy

Bonner Cohen, a senior fellow with the National Center for Public Policy Research, told Restoration News that he expects the big green groups to drop the mask and show their true colors. 

The deafening silence from NRDC and the Sierra Club on the threat to endangered Atlantic right whales posed by offshore wind turbines reflects these organizations' real commitment to protecting wildlife. Their sympathies clearly lie with propping up what we hope are the remnants of America's misbegotten transition to green energy, and not with the ocean-borne creatures getting in the way. The word 'hypocrisy' doesn't begin to capture what's going on here. There are funds to be raised from deep-pocketed anti-fossil-fuel interests—foreign and domestic. Keeping the climate narrative alive—no matter the cost to marine life or to ocean-front communities—is what this game is all about.

If NOAA decides once again to reject Save LBI's petition, the New Jersey conservationists will most certainly file suit to reverse that decision. They may have also have an ace in the hole in the form of President Donald Trump. In the press release announcing its intention to sue the Commerce Department, Stern says his group is "perplexed" by the department's position because the petition to ban offshore wind is in line with Trump's own stated objectives. 

Save LBI has written to the president asking him to intervene. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick may want to call his office. 

Kevin Mooney is a Senior Investigative Researcher for Restoration News specializing in energy policy, environmentalist groups, and dark money. He writes regularly for the American Spectator, Washington Examiner, Daily Caller, Daily Signal, and National Review. Kevin is the author of the new book, Climate Porn: How and Why Anti-Population Zealots Fabricate Science, while Targeting American Capitalism, Freedom, and Independence.

Republished with permission from Restoration News.

A new Senate report scrutinizes the NEA’s far-left political activism.

The National Education Association (NEA) holds a rare congressional charter granted to select private nonprofit organizations “deemed to serve important public purposes.” But a damning new Senate report suggests the massive teachers’ union is operating outside the terms of that charter by engaging in political activism, partnering with communist groups, and pushing away Jewish members with anti-Israel rhetoric.

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) is calling for a review of the NEA’s charter.

The NEA and its state and local affiliates spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year to influence what happens in classrooms around the nation. Now the NEA congressional charter is under review after a Senate report just exposed its ties to dangerous communist groups.

The NEA, the nation’s largest union, has widespread influence, with local affiliates in more than 14,000 cities and counties across the nation.

Every year, local and state NEA affiliates, called “education associations,” are at the polls, passing out literature for the union’s endorsed candidates. Their misleading claim often made to voters is “these are the candidates teachers want.” Only a small portion of teachers are NEA members, but the union has a broad reach through political activism and partnerships with other leftist groups—including dangerous communist organizations.

A September 2026 report published by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) exposes the NEA’s ties to such groups, along with its promotion of political extremism in schools and allegations of antisemitism within its ranks. The revelations prompted Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), the committee’s chairman, to call for a review of the union’s congressional charter.

Corrupting Our Classrooms

Congress can grant federal charters to nonprofit organizations that are “deemed to serve important public purposes and advance interests that benefit the United States.” The NEA received its federal charter in 1906 “to elevate the character and advance the interests of the profession of teaching; and to promote the cause of education in the United States.”

The Senate report—titled Corrupting Our Classrooms, How America’s Teachers’ Unions Are Failing Our Students—reveals that the NEA has drifted far from its original purpose into pushing dangerous political ideology in classrooms and undermining parental rights.

“Children are struggling to read and to do basic math,” Cassidy, the HELP Committee chairman, said in a press release. “Instead of helping students succeed, teachers’ unions are injecting a dangerous, anti-American agenda into our classrooms. Parents deserve to send their children to school without worrying that they will be indoctrinated with DEI and taught that Americans have ‘misplaced faith’ in our institutions.”

The HELP report findings are shocking.

Finding I: Political and Ideological Advocacy Beyond Core Educational Functions

The report outlines many of the same issues Restoration News previously raised concerning the NEA, including the union's partnership with the Marxist Zinn Education Project and other ideological activist groups. It also highlights the NEA’s involvement with the nationwide May Day protests, which sought to “bring activism into the classroom” and targeted children as young as 3 years old.

The HELP Committee further exposed how the NEA is subverting parental rights by giving teachers resources to work around the Supreme Court’s Mahmoud v. Taylor ruling. The 2025 decision requires schools to allow parents to opt their children out of LGBT-themed instruction that conflicts with their religious beliefs.

The NEA has even collaborated with CODEPINK—identified by the U.S. State Department as a Chinese Communist Party influence operation.

Finding II: Antisemitism, Hostility Toward Jewish Members, and Organizational Response

According to the report, Jewish NEA members alleged they were “cornered, shunned, and singled out” throughout the union’s July 2025 Representative Assembly. Some union members reportedly “laughed and clapped when a speaker referenced the death of 82-year-old Holocaust survivor Karen Diamond who was burned alive by a Molotov cocktail” at a protest in Colorado.

The NEA also sent a mass email in 2025 to nearly 3 million members with a “Native Land” map of “land we occupy” highlighting an area listed as “Palestine.” The area included all of modern-day Israel and failed to acknowledge historical Jewish ties to the land. The report notes that the map offered “an incomplete picture of the region’s history [and] sidestepped the historical basis for the legitimacy of a Jewish state in Israel.”

The NEA partners with a leftist group called Education International, for which NEA President Becky Pringle serves on the executive board. Just one week after the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre in Israel, Education International issued a rebuke for Israeli retaliation in Gaza. During a trip to Palestinian territories, Pringle met with Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh, a “self-proclaimed member of the Central Committee of the Fatah movement,” which takes pride in “initiating the first shot, the first bullet” against Israel. While there, Pringle met with leaders of the General Union of Palestinian Teachers, a group with close ties to terrorist organizations.

Finding III: Irresponsible Financial Stewardship and Misuse of Member Dues

The HELP report found that “Only a small portion of union member dues go towards activities that tangibly benefit or directly represent teachers, while substantial sums flow into political activism and outside organizations.”

Only 10 percent of the NEA’s annual budget goes toward representational activities. The report highlights that the vast majority of union money funds political activities. In 2025, the NEA gave its political action committee, the NEA Advocacy Fund, $8.6 million. It has also distributed millions of dollars to other leftist political organizations such as the Southern Poverty Law Center, Sixteen Thirty Fund, and the George Soros-linked Tides Foundation.

The HELP report calls for Congress to evaluate whether the NEA’s current activities “remain consistent with the purposes of its federal charter and whether additional transparency or governance measures are necessary.”

A congressional charter is supposed to mark an organization that serves an important public purpose. The Senate report asks a simple question: Does the NEA still meet that test? Congress must quickly answer that question to stop dangerous ideologies from infiltrating America’s classrooms.

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.

The targets of the 19 Islamic jihadis were ordinary Americans who’d gone to work that Tuesday morning. They were waiters, janitors, office workers, stock brokers, security guards, airline personnel, passengers, firefighters, emergency medical personnel and police officers.

After the planes hit, infernos raged in the two towers. The New York Times reported that temperatures above the impact hit 1,000 degrees. Terrified people couldn’t stand on the hot floors, they jumped on desks, they gasped for air through broken windows.

They screamed for help.

Alarming. These people should never be forgotten. https://t.co/kvdhSalCSF pic.twitter.com/GPlxcTmXpm

— katie wright (@katiewr31413491) September 8, 2026

Eventually, many were faced with an unspeakable choice: be burned alive or jump.

It’s estimated that about 200 people jumped or fell to their deaths to escape the heat, the smoke and flames.

Television networks captured images of the people plunging to the ground at speeds estimated at 150 to 200 miles per hour. Each jump lasted about 10 awful seconds.

A decision was quickly made by network executives to not show the falling people. Too graphic, they said. Too disturbing.

The jumpers started at 8:46.

Networks had the tape. They hid Americans choosing the air over the fire.

Then they spent 25 years treating the word Islam like a crime. The footage was “too graphic.” The truth was forbidden.

This day is stamped in my heart forever... pic.twitter.com/90UcqXVv2I

— Amy Mek (@AmyMek) September 9, 2026

They were right, the footage is stomach-turning, But in retrospect, that was a mistake. Not showing the footage cushioned the attacks somewhat, protected us from the true depravity, sheer terror and carnage that day.

In September 2003, Esquire published a piece, “The Falling Man,” by Tom Junod, based on a haunting series of photos of one man falling to his death. The photograph was taken by AP’s Richard Drew. The identity of the falling man remains a mystery, although it’s believed he was one of two men working in the Windows on the World restaurant at the top of the North Tower.

In the hours and days that followed 9/11, Americans festooned their house and cars with flags and swore they’d never forget.

Yet today, all across the country America-hating politicians are running for office and winning. Some are Muslim, most are not. They’re leftists who loathe Western Civilization and have the audacity to justify what happened 25 years ago.

In Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, the Democrat nominee for U.S. Senate, pals around with Hasan Piker, a leftist provocateur who famously said America deserved September 11th. Polls show El-Sayed with a slight lead over Republican Mike Rogers.

Last year New York City elected, Zohran Mamdani, who signed a bill naming September 11th A Day of Remembrance. After the signing, Mamdani handed the ceremonial pen to Ramzi Kassem, the defense lawyer for Ahmed al-Darby, an al Qaeda operative whose brother-in-law was one of the hijacker’s who flew a plane into the Pentagon. Kassem is Mamdani’s chief legal counsel.

Families of the 9/11 survivors have begged Mamdani to stay away from commemoration ceremonies today. The mayor says he’s going.

Hey, elections have consequences.

Minnesotans sent Ilhan Omar to Congress. In a speech several years ago, the Somali-born radical brushed off the 9-11 terror attacks by saying simply, “Some people did something.”

Nineteen evil men, driven by demonic beliefs, did something all right.

Some have forgotten. Some have not.

Either way, it’s time to rewatch the footage. All of it. We’ve been at war with radical Islam for decades. They hate us and our way of life. They want us dead. Nothing has changed.

Never forget that.

Female jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial rip the lone male holdout juror who refused to side with them.

"He would not interact with us... He had the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay viciously killed her children."

Patriot. pic.twitter.com/tmNV7CUIDP

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 8, 2026

Jurors are instructed - over and over - to consider only evidence presented during the case. Nurses - who didn’t go to medical school and can’t write prescriptions - had no business interpreting medical evidence to a recalcitrant juror in a way that they believed would lead him to a not guilty verdict.

Beyond that, the three harridans who went on TV presented as obnoxious, pushy females who hate men. Correction: They clearly hate men who refuse to obey them. They also hated the prosecutors because they showed no compassion for the killer they were trying to put behind bars.

Sheesh.

Days after the trial ended, they were still fuming.

This is the ONLY clip you need to see today from the Clancy Jury.

Don’t waste any more time on these insane, permissible, evil women.

“He would not interact with us... He had the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay viciously killed her children." pic.twitter.com/v97vKgxEye

— Chad Prather (@WatchChad) September 9, 2026

Did this obnoxious loon even hear herself?

“He would not interact with us... He had the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay viciously killed her children."

I’ve got news for the talkative jurors, MOST normal people can’t get beyond the fact that Clancy strangled her own babies. And we know damn well that had a man, suffering from PTSD or schizophrenia, killed his kids, these man-hating morons would have happily sentenced him to life in prison.

Thank God for the lone, strong man on the jury. Without him, Lindsay Clancy may have been found not guilty and there would be no hope of justice for the three precious children she killed.

One thing’s certain, Clancy was definitely judged by a jury of her peers: Crazy women.

Randon Sprinkle held senior roles in the Democratic Party of Virginia and worked closely with high-profile Democrats.

In January 2026, Restoration News exposed the arrest of high-profile Democrat operative Randon Sprinkle. He was accused of sending videos of young children being raped to an undercover agent. Sprinkle was prosecuted by U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche. He was found guilty on August 26, 2026, and sentenced to ten years in prison.

Sprinkle served as the finance chair of the Democrat Party of Virginia and treasurer of the Young Democrats. He was the paid political director for current U.S. Rep. Jennifer McClellan (D-VA) during her failed 2021 bid for Virginia governor. Sprinkle worked as McClellan's legislative aide when she served as state senator.

The Democrat Party of Virginia selected Sprinkle as a delegate to the Democrat National Convention in 2024, alongside Senator Mark Warner. "For me as an LGBTQ member, it is really great to see a Democratic Party that is both mindful and joyful, excited and inclusive of everybody," said Sprinkle.

The Disgusting Details

Here is the child sexual predator, Randon Sprinkle, former finance chair of the Democrat party of Virginia. Just sentenced to 10 years in prison. Where's the statement from party leadership condemning this guy? pic.twitter.com/aVNJUibznP

— Victoria Manning (@HoneyBadger_USA) September 4, 2026

(Editor's note: graphic details from the court documents have been redacted.)

Court documents revealed:

• In May 2025, Sprinkle unlawfully and knowingly distributed child pornography, specifically "one video file depicting a child engaging in sexually explicit conduct, including but not limited to actual and simulated intercourse."

• Sprinkle told an uncover agent on a Telegram chat that he is "Mostly into Yng, rape, incest."

• Sprinkle sent a video to the undercover agent of "a prepubescent boy being penetrated [explicit details excluded] by an adult male's [explicit details excluded] while another adult male penetrated … the child …. "

• "Some of the child pornography files discovered depicted toddler-aged children, as well as children subjected to bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, sadism and masochism.

• Sprinkle admitted to calling himself a "proud pedo," and that he had a favorite age range: "probably toddler to elementary school." He then asked the undercover agent if he would share his nine-year old son.

Why are Democrats Silent?

At the time of this article, Virginia Democrats still have videos of Sprinkle on their social media pages, so clearly this isn't a big issue for them. After all, as Sprinkle said, "they are inclusive of everybody."

Sprinkle's X account is still available and exposes how entrenched he was in the inner circles of the Democrat party. Mingling with Gov. Abigail Spanberger and former governors Terry McAuliffe and Ralph Northam, among others.

In one of his photos, he refers to himself as "Guncle" while holding his young toddler nephew who he took to see Christmas lights. Hopefully that child wasn't one of his victims.

Where is the condemnation from Democrats? Where is their call for support of the countless child victims of predators like Sprinkle? The silence is telling.

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 member of the Virginia Beach School Board 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.

Defense Attorney Kevin Reddington first singled out one juror for attack in the courtroom after the jury foreman informed the court that the jury was hopelessly deadlocked with one member holding out for conviction in the baby-killer case.

Just one sane member out of 12. Think about that for a moment.

The red-faced defense lawyer demanded that the judge remove the recalcitrant juror.

The judge refused.

During his arguments, Reddington revealed that the juror was a man, which verged on identifying the individual since there were only three males on the jury. Finally, he insinuated that the juror had perjured himself during questioning before the trial.

Reprehensible.

Apparently, in Reddington’s mind, the only criminal in the courtroom was the man who was holding out for a conviction, not the woman who had strangled her own children.

The 75-year-old criminal defense lawyer seems to have forgotten that jurors are ordinary people, doing their civic duty and rendering a verdict that they believe is fair based on the law and the evidence.

Jurors don’t have to agree. Mistrials are fairly common when jurors can’t come to a unanimous decision.


In a hasty appeal to a higher court to pause the mistrial, Reddington made the ludicrous claim that the juror might be biased against disabled people, like his client.

Someone needs to tell this reckless, desperate attorney that there’s a difference between zealous defense of a client and defaming a juror whose conscience would not allow him to vote for a not guilty verdict.

Reddington crossed that line many times on Thursday and Friday and ought to be disciplined for it.

In fact, he ought to be disbarred.

It took a lot of courage for one juror out of 12 to stay true to his convictions. No doubt the other 11 were bullying and badgering him into changing his mind for six long days.

Outside of the courthouse Reddington kept up his nasty attack, saying the lone holdout had “robbed” the other jurors of seven weeks.

“I hope that guy can sleep well at night,” he spat.

One thing’s certain: That juror sleeps better than the three kids Lindsay Clancy strangled.

It’s Labor Day.

The official end of the tourist season, although it will feel like summer in Southeastern Virginia for at least another six weeks.

Did I mention I collect vintage postcards of Virginia Beach? Well, I do. And this seems like the perfect occasion to break out a few. These date from the late-1930s to the 1940s, when oceanfront hotels were graceful two- and three-story inns with charm and wraparound porches. The only thing they lacked? Elevators and air conditioning.  

Eventually the low-slung family-owned hotels would be demolished to make way for hideous high rise ant colonies that blotted out the afternoon sun on the boardwalk. Then again, the big blocky hotels had AC.

It was also a time when the Cavalier Hotel sat on 60 acres, surrounded by sunken gardens and an elegant grand lawn.

Nearly 100 years later rival gangs hold shoot-outs on Atlantic Avenue, making weekends in Virginia Beach - well - more exciting than in days gone by.

The white coat offering public medical advice may have a political agenda when they recommend another jab. We just watched it unfold at the highest levels of leadership in Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has been talking about vaccine compliance since his disastrous Aug. 25 measles press conference in Lancaster County. Working on behalf of his local vaccine company, Shapiro is running political interference against the Trump Administration's Aug. 10 executive order reducing childhood vaccine recommendations from 18 to 11 diseases, and splitting the combined measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) shot into single shots. That is certain to cut profits for vaccine makers like Merck & Co., producer of "the most sold MMR vaccine in the U.S.," which is located in Shapiro's home county. 

Shapiro is exploiting public trust in doctors to keep vaccine compliance high. 

Actual Medical Professionals 

To whip up more public alarm, Shapiro has trotted out medical experts in vaccine-related press conferences, but also in seemingly unrelated pressers. In a Sept. 2 press conference in Scranton to "celebrate the Shapiro administration's historic investments in education," he didn't break any news. But when he turned to the media, someone asked the magic vaccine question. 

 "The situation with measles . . . what's being done and how can people feel safe?" A reporter pitched that sucker right over the plate. 

 Shapiro warned measles is dangerous but preventable, "if we trust science and actual medical professionals." 

"Federal public health leaders have really been stoking fear and injecting misinformation and conspiracy theories into this conversation." Shapiro claimed U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Trump Administration are "dismantling our public health agencies to the point where parents don't know right from wrong because they're getting misinformation from the people they're supposed to trust at the federal level." 

He advised the public to do what he did, consult with "actual medical experts." That's how he decided vaccination is best.

As luck would have it, a medical expert was at the Scranton presser. State Rep. Bridget Kosierowski, is a registered nurse, and—what a coincidence—she is campaigning for reelection. 

"I'm going to put her on the spot because we have an actual medical expert here," Shapiro said. "If Nurse Kosierowski wants to add anything to that answer, I'd welcome you." 

Kosierowski jumped at the chance to bolster Shapiro's messaging. 

"Thanks, Governor, and thanks for the leadership on this this outbreak," Kosierowski said. "We know how to treat things like measles, mumps, rubella, whooping cough, COVID. It's called a vaccine, and unfortunately, from the federal level, they have scared people and given them misinformation." 

Trust Me, I'm a Doctor

Another expert stumping for Shapiro's agenda is Dr. Paul Offit, Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and a long-time vaccine proponent with scary predictions about measles. 

"Here's what worries me the most," Offit posted on his blog. "Measles is typically a winter spring disease. It's August . . . I fear that as we head into winter, outbreaks of measles might worsen." He also had some choice words about Trump and Kennedy. He's also a pundit on CNN. 

Offit may be bitter because last year Kennedy removed him from the FDA advisory committee on vaccines. He held the spot for two terms starting in 2017 and running right through the Covid era. 

Trust Us, We're Doctors Too 

On August 31, state Sen. Maria Collett, another registered nurse, held a similar presser with other Democrats "not just as lawmakers, but as healthcare professionals." Speakers included State Rep. Arvind Venkat, an emergency physician; state Rep. Tarik Khan, an RN with a Ph.D. in nursing; and Rep. Kosierowski. Coincidently, all are campaigning for reelection. 

Collett has been endorsed by 3.14 Action Victory Fund. The rest have received donations from the fund. Venkat, $15,000; Khan, $27,000; and Kosierowski, $2,500.

The 3.14 Action website says it is "the only national organization working to recruit, train, and elect Democratic scientists and doctors to office." Its candidates include DSA radical Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan for U.S. Senate, and 11 candidates in Pennsylvania. 

It's All Politics

Offit was a featured speaker at an August 19 joint Protect Our Care and 3.14 Action poll briefing where they identified Trump's executive order as unpopular with voters. 

"There's no reason to separate it out," Offit said. "Those vaccines have not been available as separate shots since 2009. And the two companies that make that vaccine have stepped forward and said we're not going to separate this out because it doesn't make the vaccine safer. It only makes it more expensive and more difficult to get. That would mean making a new vaccine. That would cost hundreds of millions of dollars to basically make a vaccine against something you're already making that works and is safe."

Coincidently, that was just six days before Shapiro's measles presser. 

Protect Our Care (POC) aims to make health care a right not a privilege, for everyone living in America. POC boasts "a highly effective inside game with policy makers, and deep engagement at the state and local level," its website reads. 

 POC receives funding from the Sixteen Thirty Fund which is funded in part by the Soros Family's Open Society Policy Center,

POC and 314 Action often collaborate on health care advocacy. The Sixteen Thirty Fund was originally part of the multi-billion-dollar, but now defunct, Arabella Advisors "dark money" network. 

But you never hear politicians or doctors talking about that. 

Broken Trust

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the FDA have rules about doctors promoting products. The American Medical Association has guidelines too. Doctors are seen as trustworthy, looking out for your health. 

In this case, doctors are promoting policy connected to a product. But they are not disclosing their political affiliations, campaign donations, and connections to dark money activist groups. Their advice doesn't spring from concern for public health and certainly not individual health. 

Doctors are allowed to have opinions and political leanings, but a white coat is not enough to earn political trust. 

Beth Brelje is a Senior Political Investigator for Restoration News, focusing on state and federal elections, laws, legislation and the effects policies have on us all. She has nearly 40 years of media experience. 

Republished with permission from Restoration News.

by Victoria Manning

Virginia Democrats mandated the revival of a 9/11 video that warns teachers against "American exceptionalism" and Muslim trauma.

Twenty-five years after nineteen Muslim hijackers murdered nearly 3,000 Americans in the name of jihad, Virginia is telling public-school teachers that the real victims that day were Muslims. The state has baked that message into a training video that Virginia Democrats and Governor Abigail Spanberger (D) just mandated.

In March 2026, Gov. Spanberger signed into law a Democrat sponsored bill requiring the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) restore a video on its website that paints Muslims as the real victims of 9/11.

The despicable video, originally published in 2021 under Gov. Ralph Northam (D) and subsequently removed in 2024 by Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin, claims to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the attack. Instead, it presents a twisted and false narrative of the events.

Rewriting History

The webinar, titled "Culturally Responsive & Inclusive 9/11 Commemorations," indoctrinates public school teachers on a distorted view of how to instruct students about 9/11. Teachers are told not to use the word "terrorist" because the term has "often been directly paralleled with casualties and trauma that have been inflicted by people who proclaim to be Muslim or practicers of the Islamic faith."

"Teaching is a political act" asserts Amaarah Decuir, the webinar's Islamist instructor. She advises teachers to avoid the "false assumption" of Muslim responsibility for the 9/11 attack. "We're just going to begin right there and name that there is no responsibility and therefore we're not going to use this space to try and untangle that," asserts Decuir. She also said, "we're not going to reproduce what's understood as American exceptionalism." DeCuir told teachers they should not ask their students to name the extremists who caused 9/11. She said, "that is not a relevant detail, it is not relevant information at all."

It is a fact that the nineteen terrorists and the co-conspirators who took nearly 3,000 innocent lives on 9/11 were Muslim and they committed the terrorist acts in the name of their religion. Before the attack, one of the hijackers admitted he was planning to wage a jihad because there was no greater honor than to die for Allah. Another said the highest duty of every Muslim was to pursue jihad, and the highest honor was to die during the jihad.

DeCuir failed to present those truths in her webinar.

Rather than teaching the truth about the Muslim extremist murderers, Democrats want to rewrite history.

It's not just Virginia Democrats pushing these alternative realities. New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), believes he and other Muslims were the real victims of 9/11. "Growing up in the shadow of 9/11, I have known what it means to live with an undercurrent of suspicion," said Mamdani. He claims he was singled out in airports and that his Muslim aunt was afraid to ride the subway wearing her hijab. Mamdani's father, Mahmood Mamdani, wrote a book after the attacks and said the suicide bombers should be "understood as a feature of modern political violence rather than stigmatized as a mark of barbarism."

Families of 9/11 victims have called for Mamdani to be excluded from this year’s New York City commemoration ceremony. The mayor has signaled he will still attend.

The Islamic Infiltration

Danny Burmawi, a former Muslim, breaks down the intentions of the religion in his book: Islam, Israel, and the West. Burmawi reveals that Islam isn't just a faith, it's a political ideology and its sovereignty must "manifest in governance, legislation, and judicial authority" (Qur'an 12:40). Burmawi warns that Islam is a political ideology that "requires universal expansion and institutional enforcement."

Islamic ideology has infiltrated American institutions, including through state level legislation forcing it in public schools. It's not only in Virginia.

In Connecticut, a new 2026 state law mandates the State Board of Education to make curriculum materials available to local school boards on Islamic and Arab studies and encourages districts to "provide instruction in this area." There is no similar requirement for curriculum on Judaism or Christianity.

On August 7th in California, parents filed a lawsuit against the Palo Alto Unified School District after the district took students on a high school field trip to a mosque. Jewish students were forced to participate by wearing head coverings inside the mosque, they were given Qurans, and taught that Islam "promotes social justice."

Two Minnesota public schools created architectural plans to establish prayer rooms and foot washing stations for Muslim students.

No amount of "culturally responsive" training can change the fact that nineteen terrorists murdered nearly 3000 people in the name of Islamic jihad. When a state tells teachers not to say "terrorist," not to name the attackers, and not to treat the religion they invoked as relevant, it does not protect students from bigotry. It protects an ideology from scrutiny. Inclusion that requires forgetting who did what, and why, is not education. It's political pandering that treats historical facts about an attack on America as obstacles to be managed rather than a truth to be kept.

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.

Mental illness is an explanation, not an excuse.

Oh, and it’s worth remembering that psychiatry isn’t on trial in Massachusetts, Lindsay Clancy is.

Sick. All of it.

It’s a pity Clancy didn’t kill three puppies. She’d get no sympathy then. But kids? Hey, they’re so damned exasperating at times.

Now we learn that after 37 hours of deliberation, the jury is deadlocked.

Is anyone surprised? Most of us have been predicting a hung jury since Day One.

The split is reportedly 11 to 1. Despite days of what is probably relentless bullying by the majority, one juror is holding out on the other side. Whichever side that may be.

Defense Attorney Kevin Reddington, who acts as if he knows which way the jury is stacked, demanded that the recalcitrant juror be removed on Thursday.

This almost amounts to jury intimidation. How dare a juror not bend to the majority, which Reddington apparently believes favors his client. This lawyer is definitely mounting a public pressure campaign as he attempts to save a triple murderer. He’s putting a target on the back of this one juror. It’s unethical to single out a juror who hasn’t engaged in misconduct, but who simply won’t go along with the mob.

The judge, wisely, refused Reddington’s request.

Those cult members outside of the courtroom are dangerous. The lone juror is courageous not to simply give in out of fear. I hope he or she stays strong.

That isn’t how any of this is supposed to work. When jurors can’t reach a unanimous decision, judges will often direct them to give it another shot. When that fails, it’s a mistrial.

End the courtroom clown show, Judge.

Today.

Don’t let the bullies on the jury browbeat the lone holdout for one more minute by sending them back to deliberate again. And when you dismiss the jury for the final time, tell them they’d better not identify that lone juror or you’ll hold them in contempt of court. That includes the lawyers.

This is just shockingly bad behavior by the government involved.

Nor is this an isolated incident. Our own family had CPS called on us because our three year old son was sitting in our own front yard (in a residential neighborhood with a low traffic street) because he liked to… https://t.co/MlEF8b1eQp

— Brendan Hodge (@Brendan_m_Hodge) September 2, 2026

Sounds like an upscale ghetto for wealthy busybodies with too much time on their hands.

Here’s an account of what happened from Reason.com.

Until very recently, Karyann Parkinson lived in leafy Williamsburg, Virginia. She and her husband, Dallin, moved there from Utah so Parkinson could attend William and Mary Law School.

In June, when Parkinson was preparing for the bar—and also happened to be eight months pregnant with her fifth child—she and her then-youngest, Sam, went for a bike ride, as they often do.

They stopped for her son's favorite activity: collecting goose feathers from the path near their community pond. When they got home, he asked if he could walk back and get some more.

Parkinson said yes. It's a short walk, along a sidewalk separated from the street by 10 feet of grass. Sam would have to cross two streets with crosswalks, which she'd seen him do safely hundreds of times—including six times that morning, she says. Off he went while she made lunch.

Everything was idyllic until a meddling neighbor spied Sam and called in the community security guards.

One of the guards escorted the boy back and gave Parkinson an earful. Pretty soon there were three cop cars, just as many cops, a security vehicle, and two Child Protective Services (CPS) workers at Parkinson's door.

CPS ended up investigating her for abuse and neglect.

The cops, meanwhile, charged her with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. CPS found the allegations substantiated and placed Parkinson on the state's child abuse and neglect registry. She will remain there for seven years.

The ordeal reached its nadir last week when a judge convicted Parkinson of the delinquency of a minor charge, a first-degree misdemeanor. This comes with a six-month jail sentence.

While the judge immediately suspended the sentence, pending good behavior and compliance with CPS' conditions, the conviction remains. Parkinson assumes this means she will not be able to volunteer in her kids' schools. She fears it could also mean she will not get her law license.

Ironically, Parkinson once interned in the office of State Sen. Jill Vogel. Vogel was one of the patrons of Virginia’s 2023 bipartisan “Reasonable Childhood Independence Bill” that unanimously passed both houses of the General Assembly.

The bill essentially defines child neglect as when you put a child in serious and obvious danger, not simply when you take your eyes off them or whenever a neighborhood Karen reports you to the authorities.

 It was intended to put the brakes on calls to CPS for nonsense. Like allowing a child to be alone outside.

According to the account in Reason, Parkinson admits that she was confrontational with the guards, who scared her son, and also with the police who pounced on her. But this issue isn’t whether Parkinson was sufficiently submissive in the presence of authorities, but whether she put her child in danger.

She didn’t.

Parkinson is appealing. Not only to clear her name and to put knuckleheads in Williamsburg in their place, but so that she can someday obtain a law license.

Not to worry, Mrs. Parkinson. If Don Scott, who spent seven years in federal prison on felony drug charges, can somehow obtain a Virginia law license and go on to be Speaker of the House of Delegates, surely the state bar will forgive you for allowing your child to engage in unsupervised goose feather collecting.

We live in strange times when a woman who strangled her three kids may go free, but a loving mother who allowed her kid to walk around the neighborhood gets a jail sentence.

Make it make sense.

Judge blocks Spanberger-backed 287(g) restrictions as a likely violation of the Constitution

Virginia Democrats got slapped down by the courts again. They continue to blatantly ignore their oaths of office to uphold the laws of the United States.

Immigration enforcement is a federal obligation authorized by Congress. States do not have the ability to override federal law, yet 'Virginia Democrats have tried to do so many times. The federal government allows local sheriffs, who are elected constitutional officers, to enter into agreements under the 287(g) program that deputizes state and local law enforcement to assist federal immigration authorities with enforcement of federal laws. Virginia Democrats attempted to override these local contracts with federal law enforcement, but courts have now intervened.

The Background

Virginia Democrats pushed, and Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) signed new legislation opposed to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in 2026. Lawsuits have challenged them as unconstitutional. These laws place unconstitutional requirements on federal immigration agents and prohibit local law enforcement agencies from entering into agreements with ICE unless ICE agrees to the state's restrictions.

Some examples of the restrictions in the laws:

• ICE is prohibited from using surveillance technology to conduct immigration enforcement.

• ICE must provide local law enforcement agencies with the names and ranks of all federal agents.

• No agent of ICE may conduct operations on the property of any school, faith-based organization, or courthouse.

• If there is a shooting by a federal agent, the investigation would be conducted by the Virginia State Police and subject to state prosecution by the Virginia Attorney General.

The Court's Response

In an injunction hearing, the district court slapped down Attorney General Jay Jones (D)' and has enjoined or prohibited the laws from being enforced until the case can go to a full hearing. The court declared the U.S. Government would likely win on the following merits related to what the court referred to as the "Virginia 287(g) law":

• It violates the Contracts Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

• Since it regulates the conduct of federal law enforcement in the enforcement of federal immigration laws, it violates the "immunity doctrine" and "therefore offends the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution."

The court further referred to the Democrats' new laws as "invalid legislation."

What's Next

The case will go to a full court hearing to determine whether to permanently block the Democrats' anti-ICE legislation and rule it unconstitutional.

Virginians should know which of their elected officials voted for these unconstitutional laws, in violation of their oaths of office.

Any local sheriff under a 287(g) contract with federal law enforcement may continue to fulfill their promised duties to protect citizens and uphold the laws of the land. People illegally crossing the border must be held accountable and prohibited from harming legal immigrants and American citizens.

Restoration News tracks crimes committed by illegal aliens across the nation at IllegalAlienCrimes.com. Take a look at the site to learn what's happening in your back yard.

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 a Virginia Beach 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.

Yes, this is nuts. Even for Virginia Beach.

The city website explains that there has been a 15% increase in larcenies from cars over the past six years and that the report cards are not tickets, just part of an awareness campaign.

Don’t be alarmed, this isn’t a ticket. A failing report card doesn’t actually have any consequences, its purpose is just to inform you that your property could be better protected.

Police officers will inspect cars parked outside for red flags like unlocked doors, rolled-down windows and visible valuables. Officers disseminating the cards will do so without entering, searching, or otherwise opening the vehicle in any way. If everything is properly secured VBPD will also issue a “good” or passing report card and leave it on the windshield for the driver.

Hopefully, this program will encourage car owners to reevaluate the accessibility of their vehicles to those looking to take advantage of vulnerable vehicles or visible property.

If the city wants to raise awareness about the importance of locking cars, why not put a digital message on the interstate, buy a billboard, or get one of those planes dragging a banner behind it to remind folks to lock up?

Attorney Tim Anderson alerted the public to this nonsensical campaign on X this week.

I am pro police. Make no mistake. But putting a bright orange sticker on someone’s car telling everyone her car is unlocked is absolutely idiotic!

When the leadership of a police department makes decisions to harass residents - I will always stand up for the citizen -… pic.twitter.com/omu4G9xmYV

— Tim Anderson (@AssocAnderson) August 31, 2026

When I talked with him yesterday, Anderson said he’d FOIA’d the city, asking for the total number of report cards issued and the locations.

“I want to see if they’re targeting certain neighborhoods,” Anderson told me.

Yes, that will be very interesting.

If officers are trying door handles to see if cars are locked, they’re violating the 4th Amendment according to Anderson. He’s hoping Tesla owners who get report cards will check their cameras to see if the police are actually touching their cars.

Anderson, who said he likes the police chief, is concerned that Paul Nuedigate sometimes “gravitates toward authoritarian overreach.”

You think?

Look, the last time I got a report card was my senior year in high school. It wasn’t a keeper.

I never want another.

Beyond that, I don’t want to find any nose prints on my car windows left by police officers trying to see if I left some loose change on the dash.

Oh, and someone needs to remind the police that unlocked cars are not illegal, neither is it against the law to leave valuables in your car.

While police offices are snooping around looking for stray CDs on car seats and slapping report cards on windshields, gangbangers are shooting each other.

We need a serious police chief in Virginia Beach. And an end to nonsense like vehicle report cards.

This year is not normal.

Yes, the Democrats may see big wins. They have a problem, however. A big one. The party has been taken over by radical leftist socialists like Zohran Mamdani, Abdul El-Sayed, and yes, Hasan Piker, the nepo baby who is best buds with El-Sayed and who thinks America deserved September 11th.

Now, in addition to campaigning on immigration, Democrat fraud and corruption, and boys in girls' sports, the GOP has an even stronger issue: Democratic Socialists. As much as voters may dislike Donald Trump, do they really want to turn the country over to a bunch of Marxists?

Democrats are feverishly trying to change the subject. Clearly the word has gone down from the DNC to portray Republicans as anti-vaccine and talk about nothing but Trump. Anything to divert attention from the party’s hard left turn.

We saw this strategy in action last week when Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro called a press conference to lie about two measles deaths in Pennsylvania. He actually used the death of one infant - from a lacerated spleen - to gin up hatred for the Trump administration by calling the baby “unvaccinated” and saying he died of measles.

( An autopsy of the infant showed antibodies to measles, which clearly came from his mother. Oh, and the MMR vaccine is not given until 12 months anyway, so all infants are unvaccinated.)

Shapiro has been unable to point out the so-called second death.

Caught in a lie, Shapiro - the Jussie Smollett of measles - this weekend refused to elaborate and called criticism of him “conspiracy theories.”

Sure, go with that, Josh.

Now Gov. Abigail Spanberger has joined in the Democrat fear-mongering look-over-there campaign by claiming that the president’s executive order banning the USPS from delivering mail-in ballots in states that haven’t provided voter registration rolls will deprive the military of the opportunity to vote.

If you are serving our country abroad, I believe that you should have the ability to cast a vote in our elections.

The Trump Administration is attempting to take that ability away. pic.twitter.com/t3rmxRFKTz

— Governor Abigail Spanberger (@GovernorVA) August 28, 2026

She’s lying, and she knows it.

In fact, service members are explicitly exempt from the executive order, and voting for members of the military is as easy as it always has been.

Spanberger knows this.

But she also knows that every news cycle that the GOP has to play whack-a-mole with Democrat lies is a news cycle when they are not reminding voters that the opposition party has been taken over by America-hating radicals.

Pay attention and vote accordingly.

Planned Parenthood said, ‘Jump.’ Democrat attorneys general asked, ‘How high?’

A newly released memo shows that weeks after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Planned Parenthood issued marching orders to Democratic attorneys general on how they should respond.

Unsurprisingly, they all fell in line.

The July 12, 2022, memo, first obtained by the Daily Signal, listed ways the Democrats could take action to increase abortion access “for all patients seeking abortion care—regardless of state residency.”

Recommended “solutions” included informing the public about pro-life pregnancy centers’ “misleading and deceptive practices” and wielding “all state laws, including state FACE Acts” against pro-lifers demonstrating outside of abortion clinics. Also on the list: removing “any existing restrictions” on abortion—including requirements for parental consent or a licensed physician’s involvement—and advising the public about “the safety and accessibility” of the abortion pill, mifepristone.

How We Got Here

• In 1973, the Supreme Court fashioned a national right to abortion out of thin air in deciding Roe v. Wade. The court corrected that grievous error on June 24, 2022, once again allowing states to regulate abortion for themselves.

• Immediately, states began passing laws to protect—or further oppress—their defenseless unborn residents, and blue states, aided by a friendly Biden administration, began cracking down on pro-life demonstrators and crisis pregnancy centers.

• Nearly two dozen pro-lifers—some of them grandmothers—were prosecuted under the Federal Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. President Donald Trump pardoned them all just days after returning to the White House.

• In October 2023, 16 Democratic attorneys general signed an open letter accusing crisis pregnancy centers of “misleading consumers and delaying access to critical, time-sensitive reproductive healthcare.”

• California Attorney General Rob Bonta, who led that letter, also sued Heartbeat International and Real Options Women’s Clinic in his state for promoting abortion pill reversal, a treatment with demonstrated success in reversing the effects of mifepristone. Meanwhile, former New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin subpoenaed the private donor list of faith-based First Choice Women’s Centers in his state. Earlier this year, the Supreme Court unanimously sided with First Choice, allowing their challenge of the subpoena to move forward.

Why It Matters

• Since Roe’s demise, Democrat leaders have treated pro-life advocates and organizations like terrorists. Now, we know why—because Democratic megadonor Planned Parenthood told them to.

• Democrats cry “misinformation” over the promotion of abortion pill reversal as they continue to distort the facts about the pill’s safety. Groundbreaking research by the Restoration of America Foundation found that more than one in 10 women who ingest mifepristone for an abortion experience serious complications, ranging from sepsis and bacterial infections to uterine rupture and even death. Yet instead of sounding the alarm or even just calling for more research, Democrats downplay the largest study of mifepristone ever conducted.

• Coerced abortions are also on the rise, thanks to the Biden administration’s deregulation of mifepristone. Women are being poisoned against their knowledge or will, and their babies are being murdered, all because abortion drugs are now widely available online.

Take Action

Knowledge is power. Visit ROAFoundation.org and arm yourself with the facts about the current state of abortion in America. Then use your most powerful weapon—your voice—to fight back.

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Samantha Flom is Managing Editor of Independence Magazine, a publication of Restoration News. She writes regularly on life issues and the transgender agenda. A graduate of Syracuse University, her work has been published by the Epoch Times, the American Spectator, RealClearPolitics, and other national news outlets. 

Republished with permission from Restoration News.