Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) published a lengthy X post on Monday night slamming the media and the Democrat Party for rhetoric before and after the second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life over the weekend. Vance made the remarks after authorities in Florida arrested 58-year-old Ryan Routh — a Democrat donor with a criminal history that barred him from owning firearms — on Sunday after he hid on Trump International Golf Course West Palm Beach for 12 hours armed with an AK-17. Vance, who is Trump’s vice presidential running mate, said that the rhetoric coming from the political Left was “out of control.” “It nearly got Steve Scalise and many others killed a few years ago,” he said, recounting the far-Left man who opened fire on Republican members of Congress practicing baseball while screaming, “This is for healthcare.” Am I Racist? Is In Theaters NOW — Get Your Tickets Here! “Here is what we know so far: Kamala Harris has said that ‘Democracy is on the line’ in her race against President Trump. The gunman agreed, and used the exact same phrase. He had a Kamala Harris bumper sticker on his truck,” he continued. “He was obsessed with Ukraine’s ‘fight for Democracy’ and absorbed many unhinged views about the Russia-Ukraine war. His name is Ryan Routh, and he donated 19 times to Democrat causes and zero to Republican ones.” Vance continued: How do you think the Democrats and their media allies would respond if a 19-time Republican donor tried to kill a Democratic official? It’s a question that answers itself. For years, Kamala Harris’s campaign surrogates have said things like “Trump has to be eliminated.” And how have their media allies responded to the second assassination attempt on Donald Trump in as many months? NBC News called the attempted assassination a “golf club incident.” The LA Times told us “Trump Targeted at Golf Club.” The USA Today’s top of the fold headline is “Hope in America,” and they published a preposterous letter to the editor arguing that Trump “brings these assassination attempts on himself.” CNN’s Dana Bash–who just yesterday bizarrely accused me of inciting a bomb threat–said today that Harris campaign rhetoric didn’t motivate Routh even though he echoed their rhetoric explicitly. PBS’s weekend show perfectly illustrates the double standard of Kamala Harris’s media friends. After spending 30 seconds on the second assassination attempt on President Trump, they then focused on the real danger: me and President Trump, who are, according to them, personally responsible for bomb threats against Springfield. Of course, I repeatedly condemend those threats. And reports today suggest they came from a foreign country, not–as the media suggested–a deranged Trump fan. Vance ripped the media for blaming him and Trump for the bomb threats that were called into Springfield, Ohio, after the two repeated stories from residents there about problems involving migrants. “Meanwhile, Harris allies call for Trump to be eliminated as the media publishes arguments that he deserved to be shot,” he said, referencing numerous inflammatory remarks that Democrats and the media have made against Trump in recent years. “This seems like a double standard. But at a deep level, it is entirely consistent.” Vance accused the media of burying the story about tens of thousands of Haitian migrants relocating to Springfield, which has lowered the quality of life for the American citizens living there due to “higher car accidents, unaffordable housing, evictions of residents, overcrowded hospitals, overstressed schools, and rising rates of disease.” Vance continued: Kamala Harris’s first strategy was to ignore these people and their concerns. Yes, she had prevented the deportation of millions of illegal aliens, and some of them made their way to Springfield. But it was a small town with no voice. Some of the local leadership even loved the cheap labor. So the suffering of thousands of American citizens went ignored. Their next move with these stories is censorship. In Springfield, a psychopath (or a foreign government) calls in a bomb threat, so they blame that on President Trump (and me). The threat of violence is disgraceful of course, yet the media seems to relish it. They cover a bomb threat, but not the rise in murders. They cover the threat, but not the HIV uptick. They cover the threat, not the schools overwhelmed with new kids who don’t speak English. They cover the threat, not rising insurance rates or the car accidents that caused them. They cover the threat, not the failures of Kamala Harris’s leadership. The purpose is not to turn down the rhetoric. If anything, covering the bomb threats gives whoever makes them exactly what he wants: attention. The purpose is distraction and shame. How dare you talk about the problems of Haitian migration in Springfield? You’re endangering people, simply by discussing the problems of Kamala Harris’s policies. It’s a form of moral blackmail, designed not to make anyone safe but to shut everyone up. The 40-year-old said that his goal for the next 7 weeks was to “vigorously defend your right to speak your mind” and to encourage people to reject censorship. “Reject censorship and you reject political violence. Embrace censorship, and you will inevitably embrace violence on its behalf,” he added. “The reason is simple. The logic of censorship leads directly to one place, for there is only one way to permanently silence a human being: put a bullet in his brain.”

The Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP) has about 22,000 foreign nationals in its custody, the Daily Wire has learned, and it appears that all of these prisoners are eligible for taxpayer-funded gender transitions. The topic came up during last week’s debate, when former President Donald Trump highlighted Vice President Kamala Harris’ support for taxpayer-funded gender transitions for incarcerated illegal immigrants, prompting the Harris campaign to suggest that Harris is not currently proposing the policy as part of her platform. Asked about whether it would provide a gender transition surgery for an illegal immigrant, however, a spokeswoman for the federal prison system, Emery Nelson, said the Bureau under Harris is “committed to providing all incarcerated individuals a safe and humane environment, including providing gender-affirming housing and medical care as appropriate.” The FBOP would not share how many federal prisoners have requested trans procedures. “There have been two individuals who have undergone gender-affirming surgery while in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons,” spokesman Donald Murphy told The Daily Wire, asked whether any illegal immigrants have undergone taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries. The Bureau said that “privacy, safety, and security reasons” were what restricted it from answering questions about how many prisoners have requested trans procedures. The two individuals referenced appear to be two men who now identify as transgender women: Donna Langan (also known as Peter Kevin Langan) and Cristina Nichole Iglesia (also known as Cristian Noel Iglesias and Kenneth R. West), who both received taxpayer funded gender transitions. Iglesia has since been released from prison, but Langan, a neo-Nazi accused of robbing 22 banks during a two year window, is serving a life sentence in a federal prison in Texas. As of September 5, there are a total of 158,525 federal inmates, according to the FBOP, meaning that foreign nationals currently make up about 13.9% of federal inmates. The largest chunk, 12,339, or about 7.9%, are from Mexico As of September 7, there are 1,457 men who identify as transgender women in FBOP custody, and there are 767 women who identify as men in FBOP custody. FBOP data and documents indicate that these taxpayer-funded surgeries for illegal immigrants could already be in progress — and the procedures available to trans-identifying inmates include over-the-counter laser hair removal devices, breast implants, the “removal of all of or part of the penis,” the “surgical creation of a clitoris,” “removal of one or both testicles,” and more. FBOP’s 2023 clinical guidance on “Gender-Affirming Care of Transgender and Gender Nonbinary Persons,” obtained by the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project and shared with The Daily Wire, makes clear that any prisoner who self-identifies as transgender or gender nonbinary to an FBOP staff member will then be referred to a mental health professional or medical provider. That mental health professional completes an assessment, documents the inmate’s gender dysphoria or lack thereof, and initiates the “gender-affirming live experiences within the prison system.” The inmate will then meet with a medical provider and can then initiate hormone treatments. After this, the inmate can request “further gender affirmation” by living in an institution that matches his or her gender identity: for example, a male inmate who identifies as a transgender woman can request to be transferred to a female prison. The prison’s warden will request an administrative review by the FBOP Transgender Executive Council (TEC), and if approved, the inmate will be transferred to that institution aligning with their gender-identity. After 12 months of living in that institution, or 12 months of living in his or her original institution, the inmate can request “lesser” or non-invasive procedures or full-on invasive gender procedures. This request also has to be reviewed by the TEC. If the inmate meets the proper criteria, and the BOP Medical Director approves, the inmate can then undergo surgery. “Illegal aliens should be deported, not de-genitaled in prison,” the Oversight Project’s Executive Director, Mike Howell, told The Daily Wire. “It sounds crazy to say but the Harris-Biden Administration has a really highly structured policy and process for transgendering federal prisoners, including illegal aliens.  They’re not just doing the basics, they’re giving them the extras like facial hair removal.” “It will make it harder to locate and deport an illegal who has been transgendered after they’re released from prison,” Howell added. “They’ll have a whole new identity and look.” (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Among the “minimally invasive and non-invasive gender-affirming” treatments offered by the FBOP are voice and communication training (to make an inmate’s voice sound less masculine or feminine), professional laser facial hair removal (for men who are attempting to transition to women), and “chondrolaryngoplasty,” which is tracheal shaving. “Less invasive or minor surgical procedures may be deemed medically necessary and considered on a case-by-case basis,” the 2023 clinical guidance says, citing activist claims that trans-identifying adults are at great risk of suicide if they cannot undergo gender transitions. The guidance also describes more invasive procedures for trans-identifying inmates who “have been compliant with all aspects of gender affirming care.” These transgender surgeries, which the BOP calls “gender confirming surgery,” may even be considered “medically necessary and is considered on a case-by-case basis.” Male inmates who want to try to become women can undergo a number of feminizing surgical procedures, including breast augmentation, a clitoroplasty (the creation of a fake clitoris), a labiaplasty (the creation of a fake labia around the fake vagina), a penectomy (the removal of all or part of the penis), and orchiectomy (the removal of one or both testicles). Female inmates who want to attempt a transition to become a man can undergo masculinizing surgical procedures, such as a bilateral mastectomy, male chest contouring, a hysterectomy, an ovariectomy (the removal of ovaries), a salpingo-oophorectomy (the removal of ovaries and fallopian tubes), a penile prosthesis (wherein an “erectile prosthetic device is placed to allow for an erection”), a phalloplasty (the creation of a fake penis, which can involve a number of surgeries), a scrotoplasty (the creation of a fake scrotum) and more. Discussing intake screening, the guidance cites the “Prison Rape Elimination Act” as it states that individuals “may not be disciplined for refusing to disclose” whether they identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex, or gender nonconforming, and staff cannot search or physically examine inmates for the “sole purpose of determining the inmate’s genital status.” It also discusses medical conditions that require increased monitoring with testosterone therapy. If, for example, a woman who identifies as a transgender man is pregnant or breastfeeding, she should be monitored as she takes high dosages of testosterone in her attempts to become a man. The FBOP figures do not include inmates incarcerated at state correctional facilities, where it is already known that hundreds of prisoners are self-reporting as transgender, requesting transfers to facilities correlating with their gender identity, and in some cases, actually obtaining transgender surgeries and interventions. Mark Campbell, a registered sex offender who raped his own daughter, is currently housed in a prison for women — Taycheedah Correctional Institution in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin — where he has reportedly undergone a gender transition. Jason Michael Hann, who now goes by Jessica Hann and underwent taxpayer-funded gender transition, is housed on death row at Central California Women’s Facility for murdering his two children.  

A young woman was feeling grateful for the impact her late stepdad had on her life, so she shared the most beautiful tribute to him on social media. In her post, Miranda Fillenwarth told the story of how a man named Paul joined her family. When this guy married her mom, Miranda was hesitant to call him “Dad.” However, he proved himself to be a better father than she could have dreamed of! At the beginning of her slideshow, Miranda showcased her mom’s old wedding photo and a few early family pictures. She wrote that, at the time, she planned to simply call her stepfather by his first name. As she compared his love to that of her biological dad, though, she realized that Paul was the one putting in real effort. “I stopped seeing my dad at 12 years old…” the woman wrote in her post. “I guess I can call you Dad now.” Screengrab from TikTok This beautiful tribute to Miranda’s stepdad continued as she listed all the kind things this man did for her over the years. For example, he supported her interests in music and horsemanship. Whenever she had a performance, he was there to cheer her on. When she needed equipment for horseback riding, he bought it for her. As Miranda got older, her new dad was there for her through all of life’s big milestones. He purchased a beautiful prom dress for her, helped her move onto her college campus, and celebrated her decision to get engaged to the love of her life. Screengrab from TikTok Sadly, this wonderful father passed away in Miranda’s adulthood. However, the bond she shared with Paul can never be erased. In her touching tribute to her stepdad, it’s clear that this guy made a big difference in her life! Although she’s grieving his death, at least she has many beautiful memories to treasure. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post “I’m Not Calling Him Dad…” Daughter Shares Tear-Jerking Tribute To Late Stepdad appeared first on InspireMore.

The Grateful Dead is one of the few musical acts that can be said to have spawned their own culture through their music. That culture remains alive and well today, in spite of the fact that the band officially dissolved in 1995. Andy Logan of Grateful Guitars has played an integral role in ensuring that these ideals have not only remained intact over the years but are just as viable as ever in many circles. As a psychotherapist, musician, and certified Deadhead, Andy Logan wears many hats. Arguably, one of his most notable endeavors is founding the Grateful Guitars Foundation. The post Andy Logan of Grateful Guitars: The ClassicRockHistory.com Interview appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

Our history books are littered with stories that present as lessons and warnings to future generations, and for years Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, was one such warning. Famous for its giant stone heads, or moai, the island is also infamous for the rapid depopulation of their builders, which for years has been believed to […] The post Landmark Genetics Study Shows Easter Island Population Collapse Never Happened appeared first on Good News Network.

A team of comfort dogs headed to the Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia to provide support after the mass shooting that happened on Wednesday, September 04. The person who is responsible for the mass shooting, 14-year-old Colt Gray, took the lives of 2 students and 2 teachers and have left 9 other individuals hospitalized. CNN reports that Gray is charged as an adult with murder. In the wake of the heartbreaking event, the Lutheran Church Charities (LCC) K-9 Comfort Dogs announced on September 05 that it will be sending nine comfort dog teams from six different states across the southeast to Barrow County. The comfort dogs, together with their handlers, were deployed to Barrow County for a week, from September 07 to September 14. They have provided much needed comfort to families, survivors, and the first responders who serve them. Credit: Zoara Comfort Dog / Facebook The team of good boys and girls, all Golden Retrievers, include: Peace from Orlando, Florida Moriah from Oviedo, Florida Phinehas from Fremont, Nebraska Job from Memphis, Tennessee Jemimah from Boca Raton, Florida Faith from Hickory, North Carolina Hope from Marietta, Georgia Seth from Seneca, South Carolina Zoara from Hilton Head Island, South Carolina After arriving in Barrow County, LCC K-9 Comfort Dogs shared photos of some of their comfort dogs, wearing vests that said “Please Pet Me”. They also wrote, “Our hearts ache for the students, families, and staff affected by this heartbreaking loss. We are here to offer comfort, a listening ear, and a gentle presence in this time of deep sorrow.” For a week, the comfort dogs have been working tirelessly, providing all the support the community needed. The dogs have attended vigils, visited students from Apalachee High School and other Barrow County schools, and have also met with first responders at the Barrow County Fire Department. Paul Soost, the lead volunteer for the Winder deployment of the K-9 Comfort Dogs, told WSB Radio, “Every one of the schools that we’ve gone into … the teachers have commented, with the kids, it has really helped them come back to school.” “We can see the calming effect that the dogs have on people as we come in,” Soost added. “Sometimes people are more comfortable connecting with a dog than they are a person.”  President and CEO of Lutheran Church Charities, Rev. Chris Singer, tells WGAU Radio, “We would love to make all of this just go away. And obviously we can’t. The next best thing that we believe we can do is be here.” “Be here with this community and to try and help provide some comfort, some support, and awareness that this community is not alone,” he adds. After wrapping up their week at Barrow County, the LCC K-9 Comfort Dogs posted on Facebook saying, “Thank you for welcoming us into your community. Our prayers remain with you all, and may the peace of God continue to surround you in the days ahead.”

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Donald J. Trump nearly lost his life on Sunday. Again. An armed gunman waited for him in the bushes. He brought a GoPro camera to record it. A Secret Service agent spotted the barrel of a gun through a fence and fired at the gunman. The gunman fled. He was caught. And now we slowly learn about him and his motive. President Trump is my running mate and my friend, but more importantly, he is a father and grandfather to people who love him very much. I want him to have many more years with his family. (And selfishly, I’d like many more with my own.) The logic of censorship leads directly to one place, for there is only one way to silence a human being permanently: Put a bullet in his brain. I admire President Trump for calling for peace and calm. The rhetoric is out of control. It nearly got Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) and other members of the House Republican caucus killed on a Northern Virginia baseball field a few years ago. It nearly got Donald Trump killed twice. But I want to say something about Sunday’s news and how it illuminates the difference between vigorous debate and violent rhetoric. Here is what we know so far: Kamala Harris has said that “democracy is on the line" in her race against President Trump. The gunman agreed and used the exact same phrase. He had a Biden-Harris bumper sticker on his truck. He was obsessed with Ukraine’s “fight for democracy” and absorbed many unhinged views about the Russia-Ukraine war. His name is Ryan Routh, and he donated 19 times to Democratic Party causes and zero to Republican ones. How do you think the Democrats and their media allies would respond if a 19-time Republican donor tried to kill the Democratic Party’s candidate for president? The question answers itself. For years, Kamala Harris’ campaign surrogates have said things like “Trump has to be eliminated.” And how have their media allies responded to the second assassination attempt against Donald Trump in as many months? NBC News called the attempted assassination a “golf club incident.” The Los Angeles Times told us "Trump Targeted at Golf Club." USA Today's top-of-the-fold headline on Monday was “Hope in America,” and the paper published a preposterous letter to the editor arguing that Trump “brings these assassination attempts on himself.” CNN's Dana Bash — who bizarrely accused me of inciting a bomb threat — said Monday that Harris campaign rhetoric didn’t motivate Routh even though he echoed that rhetoric explicitly. The weekend news show on PBS perfectly illustrated the double standard of Kamala Harris' media friends. After spending 30 seconds on the second attempt on President Trump’s life, the show then focused on the real danger: Trump and me. According to the talking heads at PBS, we are personally responsible for bomb threats against residents of Springfield, Ohio. Never mind that I repeatedly condemned those threats. And subsequent reports suggest they came from a foreign country, not a deranged Trump fan as the media suggested. The double standard is breathtaking. Donald Trump and I are, by their account, directly responsible for bomb threats from foreign countries. Why? Because we had the audacity to repeat what residents told us about the problems in their town. Meanwhile, Harris allies call for Trump to be eliminated as the media publishes arguments that he deserved to be shot. While this seems like a double standard, at a deeper level, it is entirely consistent. Consider Springfield. Citizens are telling us there are problems. These include the undeniable truths of more car accidents, unaffordable housing, evictions of residents, overcrowded hospitals, overstressed schools, and rising rates of disease. They also include the infamous pet stories — which, again, multiple people have spoken about (either on video or to me or my staff). Kamala Harris’ first strategy was to ignore these people and their concerns. Yes, she had prevented the deportation of millions of illegal aliens, and some of them made their way to Springfield, a small town with no voice. Some of the local leadership even loved having the cheap labor. So the suffering of thousands of American citizens went ignored. Her campaign’s next move has been to push censorship. In Springfield, a psychopath (or a foreign government) called in a bomb threat, so naturally they blame President Trump and me. The threat of violence is disgraceful, of course, yet the media seem to relish it. They cover a bomb threat, but not the rise in murders. They cover the threat, but not the increase in HIV cases. They cover the threat, not the schools overwhelmed with new kids who don’t speak English. They cover the threat, not rising insurance rates or the car accidents that caused them. They cover the threat, not the failures of Kamala Harris’ leadership. For the next seven weeks of this campaign, I will vigorously defend your right to speak your mind. The purpose is not to turn down the rhetoric. If anything, covering the bomb threats gives whoever makes them exactly what he wants: attention. The purpose is distraction and shame. How dare you talk about the problems associated with Haitian migration in Springfield? You’re endangering people, simply by discussing the consequences of Kamala Harris’ policies. It's a form of moral blackmail, designed not to make anyone safe but to shut everyone up. Springfield is the most recent but hardly the most egregious example. There was the Hunter Biden laptop story, censored by Big Tech. And who could forget that anyone who didn’t support Kamala Harris’ Ukraine policy was drenched in the blood of Ukrainian children? That last one appears to have had some effect on Routh, Trump’s most recent would-be assassin. The message is always the same: Don’t you dare express an opinion about the public affairs of your nation. Just shut up. This is the difference between debate — even aggressive debate — and censorship. It is one thing to attack Kamala Harris for “destroying the country” and quite another to say that Donald Trump should be “eliminated.” It is one thing to criticize overheated rhetoric and another to say that a former president has invited an assassination on himself. It is one thing to say that Trump’s arguments about the election of 2020 are wrong. It is another thing to attempt to remove him from the ballot over it. It is one thing to argue that pets are not, in fact, being eaten. It’s another thing to say that anyone who disagrees is trying to murder people. Dissent, even vigorous dissent, is a great tradition of the United States. Censorship is not. For the next seven weeks of this campaign, I will vigorously defend your right to speak your mind. I believe you have every right to criticize me and Donald J. Trump, even if you say terrible or untrue things about us. But when I ask you to “tone down the rhetoric,” it isn’t about being nice — Americans have every right to be mean, even if I don't like it — or empty platitudes. Instead, I’m asking all of us to reject censorship. Reject the idea that you can control what other people think and say. Embrace persuasion of your fellow citizens over silencing them — either through the powers of Big Tech or through moral blackmail. I think this will make our public debate much better. But there is something else. When you reject censorship, you reject political violence. Embrace censorship, and you will inevitably embrace violence on its behalf. The reason is simple. The logic of censorship leads directly to one place, for there is only one sure way to silence a human being permanently: Put a bullet in his brain.

What are Diablo 4 runes and runewords? The feature is one Diablo fans will recognize, the idea being that you could combine individual runes into runewords and insert them into socketed items, adding to their powers and abilities. Over a year after the ARPG game's release, the iconic mechanic is finally back - but it's not the same. We know that D2’s beloved runeword system was not available in Diablo 4 at launch, but the Vessel of Hatred DLC finally brings the feature to D4 players. Hopefully, it will be added as free content in the future. For now, with the DLC, whichever of the five Diablo 4 classes you choose, runes can be combined and added to your items, just like D4 gems, to allow for spell casting boosts and powerful skill buffs. Here's everything we know about Diablo 4 runewords so far. Continue reading Diablo 4 runes and runewords explained MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best RPGs, Diablo 4 review, Diablo 4 classes

PUBG, Call of Duty Warzone, Warface - many challengers have risen, but none have surpassed Fortnite. Between collaborations, skins, seasons, chapters, and innumerate updates and changes, for the last seven years, Epic’s landmark shooter has remained perhaps the biggest videogame - barring maybe Minecraft - in the entire world. Despite all of that success, however, one thing has always been missing. Seemingly a small little tweak, that in other shooters you might take for granted, it could also upturn the entire meta. Nevertheless, in the new update, Epic is finally trying out Fortnite first person - and so can you. Continue reading New Fortnite update finally adds the mode we’ve always needed, kind of MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Fortnite map - key locations, Fortnite skins, All Fortnite Chapter 4 weapons