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If 9/11 occurred in our current climate, how many young Americans would be celebrating it as an annual holiday? Twenty three years ago, you’d seem crazy to imagine college students would cosplay as the terrorists who crashed commuter jets into the World Trade Center and Pentagon.  Today, it appears nobody would bat an eye. Nearly a year has passed since Israel and the world’s Jewish diaspora experienced their own 9/11. October 7, 2023 was the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust. Islamic fundamentalists slaughtered at least 1,200 people in “cold blood,” as the Daily Wire accurately describes, burning their victims alive and sexually assaulting and butchering women.  Hamas terrorists and their “civilian” supporters chopped up babies in their cribs, murdered parents in front of their children and vice versa, and threw grenades into the homes of young families who were unaware of their fate that morning. Another 251 people were taken hostage, including 8 Americans. Most are either confirmed dead or are still missing. But before the bodies even cooled, many young Americans grabbed their keffiyehs and took to the streets to cheer on the enemy.  Now the terror-backed organization, Students for Justice in Palestine is planning a “Day of Rage” on college campuses across the nation, next Monday, to honor the one-year anniversary of Oct 7.            View this post on Instagram                       A post shared by National SJP (@nationalsjp) “Students across the country and the world will rise together for a week of rage on October 7-11 to mark” what they blame Israel for “a year of genocide in Gaza.” In reality, they’re marking a year of peddling antisemitic blood libels, terrorizing Jewish students and turning their campuses into Jihadi boot camps.  Related: UPenn Suspends JEWISH Professor for 'Hate Speech' After Coddling Antisemitic Faculty “During these 11 months, we, the students, have confronted the Zionist and imperialist forces in our OWN universities—fighting to end the financial, academic, and ideological ties that our institutions have to this ongoing genocide and colonial project,” the group’s add continues.  By these activities they mean setting up illegal autonomous zones on campuses and blocking Jews from getting to classes while chanting ‘Itbah El Yahud‘ (‘slaughter the Jews’ in Arabic).   Their other antics include stabbing Jewish students in the eye with flag poles, pummeling them to the ground, firebombing university buildings and taking underpaid janitors hostage.  “We will rise to end our universities’ complicity in this genocide, to fight for the end of the colonization of Palestine, and to fight for the complete liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea,” SJP promises.  It’s reasonable to assume university administrators will continue to ignore the problem until someone gets seriously injured… or worse. Follow MRCTV on X! A school in New Hampshire called the police on parents for wearing bracelets that had "XX" on them. Read more: https://t.co/Uad7ZwZKQj pic.twitter.com/Cgnmg1iN4A — MRCTV (@mrctv) September 26, 2024

For reasons that only it can explain, CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 decided to do a research project on what 10 and 11-year olds think about Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, and their supporters. On Wednesday, they reported that kids who are more supportive of Trump are more tolerant than those who are more supporative of Harris, but desperately tried to explain this away by claiming that could simply be due to them not knowing as much about her. In a voiceover, Cooper reported, “Overall, the biggest finding the children in the study were polarized with what researchers called more extreme responses from the blue state kids than the red state kids.”     A trio of kids were then shown bashing Trump. One claimed, “Donald Trump, he did bad things. He's like Hitler.” A second added, “He only wanted to be president, so that he can just control everybody.” Meanwhile, the third claimed, “Trump is supporting January 6. Now, I remember that January 6 was a bunch of Republicans believing Trump, I feel like they thought Trump was a god. People got arrested. I think one officer died after -- afterwards. That was a big day.” Cooper then added, “The study found that these Democrat-leaning kids were about nine times more likely to express negative emotions about Donald Trump than Republican-leaning kids were about Kamala Harris. Why might that be? Psychologist Asheley Landrum has some ideas.” Landrum then explained, “So, Donald Trump is a very polarizing figure and it's very possible that the kids are reacting to their parents reacting to Donald Trump being a very different kind of political figure than what we've seen before. So, do the red state kids hold as strong of attitudes? Well, not when we are talking about Kamala Harris, in part that could be because they don't know that much about her.” Landrum is not wrong to state the kids are probably just repeating what they hear from their parents. However, she is wrong about the second bit. Study after study after study has shown conservatives being far more politically tolerant than liberals regardless of what office Harris held or was seeking at the time of the survey. Back in the report, Landrum affirmed the results, “The study found that Republican-leaning kids were more open into visiting a Democrat-supporting household. The Democrat-leaning kids were about five times more likely to say, they would not want to go to a pro-Trump house.” She asked a kid from New Jersey, “Would they be okay with you going over to somebody's house who is really supportive of President Trump?” The boy said, “No,” and when asked to elaborate, added, “Because we know that he's not -- he's not -- he does not like black people, so you will not -- they will not be happy to see me.” Landrum then asked the kid who talked about Hitler the same question, and he likewise said, “No… Because, like, my mom and dad don't like Donald Trump at all, not a single bit.” She then asked the Harris equivalent question to a Texas kid, who replied, “I think it'd be fine. It is just about the personality of the people. There’s been lots of talk recently about rhetoric, and after this report, maybe CNN should choose to focus on how 10 and 11-year olds have come to call people Hitler and whole groups of people racists instead of trying to explain inconvenient narratives away. Here is a transcript for the September 25 show: CNN Anderson Cooper 360 9/25/2025 8:56 PM ET ANDERSON COOPER (voice-over): Overall, the biggest finding the children in the study were polarized with what researchers called more extreme responses from the blue state kids than the red state kids. UNIDENTIFIED MALE (NEW JERSEY): Donald Trump, he did bad things. He's like Hitler. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (NEW JERSEY): He only wanted to be president, so that he can just control everybody. UNIDENTIFIED MALE (NEW JERSEY 2): Trump is supporting January 6. Now, I remember that January 6 was a bunch of Republicans believing Trump, I feel like they thought Trump was a god. People got arrested. I think one officer died after -- afterwards. That was a big day. COOPER (voice-over): The study found that these Democrat-leaning kids were about nine times more likely to express negative emotions about Donald Trump than Republican-leaning kids were about Kamala Harris. Why might that be? Psychologist Asheley Landrum has some ideas. ASHELEY LANDRUM: So, Donald Trump is a very polarizing figure and it's very possible that the kids are reacting to their parents reacting to Donald Trump being a very different kind of political figure than what we've seen before. So, do the red state kids hold as strong of attitudes? Well, not when we are talking about Kamala Harris, in part that could be because they don't know that much about her. COOPER (voice-over): Landrum was also curious about how kids saw their peers and the political divide. LANDRUM: So, do you think that the kids that live in those two houses would be friends with each other? UNIDENTIFIED MALE (NEW JERSEY 3): They can. LANDRUM: They can? UNIDENTIFIED MALE (NEW JERSEY 3): There's no law breaking that. UNIDENTIFIED MALE (ARIZONA 2): It doesn't matter if you are different by skin color or it doesn't matter if you're different by people, you can still be friends. COOPER (voice-over): The study found that Republican-leaning kids were more open into visiting a Democrat-supporting household. The Democrat-leaning kids were about five times more likely to say, they would not want to go to a pro-Trump house. LANDRUM: Would they be okay with you going over to somebody's house who is really supportive of President Trump? UNIDENTIFIED MALE (NEW JERSEY 4): No. LANDRUM: No? And why not? UNIDENTIFIED MALE (NEW JERSEY 4): Because we know that he's not -- he's not -- he does not like black people, so you will not -- they will not be happy to see me. LANDRUM: Would you family let you go over to somebody's house who is really supportive of Donald Trump? UNIDENTIFIED MALE (NEW JERSEY): No. LANDRUM: No, they wouldn't? UNIDENTIFIED MALE (NEW JERSEY): No. LANDRUM: And why not? UNIDENTIFIED MALE (NEW JERSEY): Because, like, my mom and dad don't like Donald Trump at all, not a single bit. LANDRUM: Would you be okay going over to somebody's house whose family really likes Kamala Harris? UNIDENTIFIED MALE (TEXAS): I think it'd be fine. It is just about the personality of the people. LANDRUM: Would your family be okay if you went over to somebody's house who really liked Donald Trump? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (TEXAS 2) If I want to be real over here, he'll -- if I just went over there, (inaudible) I imagine be a good-old argument or a fight, maybe like a food fight or something.

Eduardo Xol — a star of ABC’s reality show “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” — has died at age 58. Authorities said a stabbing was the cause of death.According to the Riverside County Sheriff, Xol died Friday at the Desert Regional Medical Center after an incident that occurred 10 days earlier — at 5:41 a.m. Sept. 10 — in Palm Springs, California. 'We are heartbroken at the tragic loss of our beloved Eduardo Xol.'The Palm Springs Police Department said in a press release that officers responded to a 911 call from a man at the identical address and time that the Riverside County Sheriff noted."Upon arriving at the scene, officers heard a male voice inside the residence in apparent distress," the Palm Springs police said. "After making entry, officers discovered a man suffering from significant injuries consistent with an assault."The news release stated that "the victim informed officers that he had been stabbed, though he did not identify the assailant." The stabbing victim was rushed to a local hospital, where he was listed in serious but stable condition at the time. Police said they received a phone call hours after the stabbing from a man claiming to have been assaulted the night before. However, "through further investigation," officers determined that the man who made the call was the suspect in the stabbing earlier that day. Palm Springs officers arrested Richard Joseph Gonzales, 34, of Cathedral City. He initially was charged with attempted murder and was booked at the John Benoit Detention Center in Indio. Updated inmate records show Gonzales has been charged with murder.No bail was set, and he is scheduled to appear in court Dec. 18.Xol’s family issued the following statement to the Hollywood Reporter:We are heartbroken at the tragic loss of our beloved Eduardo Xol. We know that his kindness has touched the lives of so many. We ask for that kindness returned now allowing our privacy to be respected as we process our grief. In lieu of flowers, we ask that donations be made in Eduardo’s name to the Lupus Foundation of America as he spent so much of his life in the service of others.Xol was a personality and designer on "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" for more than seven seasons.As an actor, he appeared in the 1998 film “Bravo” and tele-novelas such as “La Jaula de Oro,” “Sentimientos de Oro,” and “Acapulco, Cuerpo y Alma.”Xol also was an author as well as a correspondent for People en Español and AOL Latino.Like Blaze News? Circumvent the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Bounty hunting is a career that I’m sure is far more exciting in videogames than it is in real life. Most games turn it into a head-hunting affair of blasting foes until you get the one you want, whereas in reality it’s probably more to do with parole violations. Nevertheless, the dream of bounty hunting in gaming is still strong, and games like Last Helion show there’s a lot of life left in that career path, especially when it’s happening in space. What’s more, it has a free demo you can play right now. Continue reading Bounty hunting extraction shooter Last Helion gets free Steam demo MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best action-adventure games, Best survival games, Best FPS games

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