Abdul-El-Sayed appears on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday. Credit: Meet the Press screenshot
A fire fighters union in Michigan has yanked their support for far left Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in the race for U.S. Senate.
They’re now chalking the original endorsement up as a clerical error. Either way, it’s not a good look for El-Sayed, who has come under increased scrutiny in recent months.
The people who run big unions often endorse Democrat candidates, but the rank and file members tend to vote Republican. We have seen this happen again and again.
Michigan fire fighters union calls Abdul El-Sayed endorsement ‘clerical error’ — quietly erases from slate of supported candidates
The Michigan Professional Fire Fighters Union quietly removed U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed from its slate of endorsed candidates.
MPFFU President Matt Sahr told The Midwesterner the union’s slate of endorsed candidates initially went out to members on Sept. 11 or 12 with an endorsement for El-Sayed’s campaign prominently displayed at the top alongside Jocelyn Benson for governor and endorsements for the Michigan Supreme Court.
Fifteen days later, on Monday, MPFFU leaders sent out a revised slate of endorsements that replaced El-Sayed with an endorsement for Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist for Secretary of State.
“Our intention was to stay out of that race,” Sahr said, adding the initial slate of endorsements “got distributed out before it got approved” and dismissed it as a clerical error.”…
At least one MPFFU member disputes that.
“This was not a clerical error. What we are seeing now is MPFFU leadership trying to sweep this under the rug. If rank-and-file members had not voiced our concerns, I have no doubt this organization would still be supporting Abdul El-Sayed over Mike Rogers,” a MPFFU fire fighter from southern Michigan told The Midwesterner.
Pretty rough news for the El-Sayed campaign.
NEW: A Michigan fire fighters union has pulled its endorsement of Abdul El-Sayed, who has called to defund the police and abolish prisons
A Michigan Fire Fighters Union has withdrawn support for Abdul El-Sayed due to his support for defunding the police and abolishing prisons pic.twitter.com/cedRAHwFDV
Never forget that Jill Biden hid Joe Biden’s cognitive decline and pushed for him to serve another four years in the White House.
Joe Biden looked skeletal and frail at an event with ‘Reverend’ Al Sharpton this week.
Al Sharpton, Joe Biden, Dr. Jill and others gathered at Howard Theatre in Washington DC to attend an event to honor Lee Saunders.
Lee Saunders is the retiring president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME).
Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer also spoke at the event.
Biden looked frail as he hugged and greeted Al Sharpton.
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In May 2025, it was reported that Joe Biden was diagnosed with an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer.
According to Biden’s spokesperson, the former president was diagnosed with prostate cancer with the cancer cells spreading to his bones.
“Last week, President Joe Biden was seen for a new finding of a prostate nodule after experiencing increasing urinary symptoms. On Friday, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, characterized by a Gleason score of 9 (Grade Group 5) with metastasis to the bone,” the statement said in May 2025.
Joe Biden has made a handful of public appearances this year amid his decline.
Last month Joe Biden said although the cancer has spread to his bones, the radiation treatment from last fall “worked as intended.”
A federal judge in Oklahoma just threw out a drug case after ruling that police violated the Fourth Amendment when they used Flock Safety’s automated license-plate cameras to pull a driver’s travel history for roughly a month, without a warrant, and without probable cause.
U.S. District Judge Sara E. Hill of the Northern District of Oklahoma ruled that Tulsa County sheriff’s deputy Freddie Alaniz conducted an “Unconstitutional Warrantless Search” when he queried Flock and other automated license plate reader systems on a Mazda SUV simply because it had a California plate.
According to 404 Media, the search returned more than 50 records of the driver’s whereabouts across the country. Hill suppressed the Flock records and everything that came out of the later search of the vehicle.
The defendant is Melisa Kyle, 46, of Crane, Missouri, charged with possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute.
According to Law Commentary, the case began in May when Alaniz, who also served as a DEA task force officer, was parked along Interstate 44, saw the California plate, pulled onto the highway, and started following the SUV.
He later stopped Kyle for changing lanes without a signal, then used the Flock history to question her about her travel and to justify searching the car.
Authorities said they found about 91 pounds of methamphetamine packed in luggage, marijuana, and roughly $7,000 in cash. Hill ruled the constitutional violation happened earlier, when the deputy reached into the historical location database.
“The Fourth Amendment requires courts to draw a line when the cost is too great,” Hill wrote.
“Alaniz’s search in just the ALPR system provided him with more than 50 individual records of Kyle’s whereabouts across the country for an entire month.”
She went further. The systems, she wrote, “intruded on her reasonable expectation of privacy in the whole of her physical movements.” And the only reason for the query, based on the record, was the out-of-state plate.
Hill called the technology “a type of indiscriminate mass surveillance.” It is not aimed at one suspect. It logs vehicles that pass any camera on the network, then hands the history to law enforcement on demand.
The judge said Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice.”
Flock was not a party to the case. A company spokesperson told 404 Media the ruling “goes against the overwhelming weight of authority in similar cases across the country, including multiple recent decisions in Oklahoma,” and that Flock expects it to be appealed and overturned.
The company said the decision is limited to the facts of this case and does not set a controlling precedent.
The Gateway Pundit has repeatedly reported on the growing controversy surrounding Flock’s nationwide surveillance infrastructure.
In late September, The Gateway Pundit reported that Flock moved to take down a public map after a researcher exposed roughly 300,000 devices tied to the company, more than 170,000 cameras plus acoustic sensors and other gear. Flock has publicly claimed more than 120,000 cameras and on the order of 20 billion vehicle scans a month.
Days earlier, The Gateway Pundit reported that a Pinellas County, Florida, deputy was arrested after running hundreds of searches on a woman he reportedly wanted a relationship with, about 300 of them through the Flock system. A second deputy was arrested after looking up a 17-year-old girl. In August, a South Carolina officer was fired after allegedly using Flock to spy on an ex-boyfriend.
In August, The Gateway Pundit reported that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott cut off state funding for the cameras after millions in state money had already bought thousands of them. Abbott’s office said agencies were clarifying that those funds cannot be used for Flock cameras. Sen. Rand Paul has warned that Americans do not surrender their privacy rights when they drive to work, drop their kids at school, or go to church.
President Trump has taken the other side of the argument in public. As The Gateway Pundit reported in September, Trump told reporters he “sort of like[s] them” because law enforcement uses them to catch suspects, while acknowledging that some people see an infringement. He has also said the issue is being studied.
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“Behind the scenes,” he told us, “the Trump team has been planning a counter-attack unlike anything we’ve seen since the Civil War.”
And it won’t just re-shape Washington…
He added:
“The last time anything like this happened, the stock market lost more than half of its value. And by the time it hits the headlines, it will be too late for most people to prepare.”
That’s why we sat him down and got the whole thing on camera — his theory, the counter-attack he says is coming, and what it could mean for your money.
We’ve made it free to watch, while there’s still time to react.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from publicly releasing the names of foreign donors and contract counterparties tied to some of America’s most prominent universities.
DC US District Judge Tanya Chutkan, the Obama appointee who presided over the federal election case against President Trump, issued a temporary restraining order barring the Department of Education from releasing a list of foreign donors tied to as much as $5.2 billion in gifts and contracts reported by the schools since 2020.
The Department of Education announced in February that universities disclosed more than $5.2 billion in reportable foreign gifts and contracts during 2025 alone, involving more than 8,300 transactions. The agency said universities have reported a cumulative $67.6 billion in foreign funding since Section 117 was added to federal law in 1986.
Section 117 of the Higher Education Act already requires schools that take federal money to report foreign gifts and contracts of $250,000 or more.
The department began collecting individual donor names in 2020, during President Trump’s first term, while telling the schools the names would stay confidential.
In June 2026, the department reversed course. It has already published 92 “counterparties of concern.” Friday was supposed to be the day the rest of the list went public.
According to the New York Post, Chutkan ruled that disclosure of the information could “constitute irreparable harm.”
In her five-page order in Association of American Universities v. U.S. Department of Education, Chutkan wrote that the department “threaten[s] to imminently publish the names of donors who have hitherto remained anonymous for every internet user to see in posterity.”
She added: “Once published, the information will likely never escape the public eye.” The Obama judge also fretted that naming the donors “may produce downstream harms to the safety of donors who live in politically repressive countries.”
The order stays in place for 28 days while she weighs a longer injunction. Reuters reported the suit was filed Thursday by the Association of American Universities, the trade group for 69 research universities, including Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale.
That is the same secrecy regime The Gateway Pundit has been documenting for years. In July, TGP reported that Harvard tops the nation in foreign cash, including money from Communist China, after Sen. Tom Cotton demanded a probe into the haul.
In October 2025, TGP reported that American universities had taken more than $60 billion in foreign gifts and contracts, with Harvard, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Penn, MIT, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Yale, Georgetown and Columbia alone accounting for more than $20 billion, cash that buys influence, shapes research and opens the door to hostile governments.
Education Department officials told the New York Post the money is not coming from kindly alumni abroad.
“This would be a foreign government; this could be a foreign military; this could be a foreign business,” one official said — “or an enterprise connected to a university, that’s connected to Chinese intelligence or the PLA.”
The same official said the secrecy fight is “a pretext to prevent public transparency” about enterprises “funneling billions of dollars to lead US universities mainly to do two things”: steal intellectual property, and — in the case of gifts from Arab countries — “change what’s taught on US campuses” by funding “anti-Zionist, anti-Western ideology.”
Department spokeswoman Ellen Keast did not mince words. She said the ruling protects schools that have been “cashing multi-million-dollar checks from malign foreign actors that fund centers and faculty who promote anti-Western ideologies and support partnerships that are designed to export sensitive technology to geopolitical adversaries.”
Caitlin Clark and Cathy Engelbert at the WNBA Draft in 2024 (Credit: Sarah Stier/Getty Images)
Is the radical corporate apparatus finally waking up to who pays the bills?
The NBA has reportedly hired Excel Search & Advisory, the executive search division of the same sports agency that represents WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark, to lead the hunt for the league’s next commissioner.
The move comes as embattled WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert prepares to retire at the end of 2026 after seven years running the league.
According to Sports Business Journal, the NBA retained Excel Search & Advisory to conduct the commissioner search, with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver ultimately expected to make the hiring decision.
Brennan highlighted the development Thursday on X, calling it “big news” for the WNBA and suggesting the move could signal an end to what she views as the league leadership’s repeated minimization of Clark’s enormous impact.
This is big news for the WNBA. I can confirm that the NBA has hired the executive search arm of Caitlin Clark’s agency to find the next WNBA commissioner. Perhaps the ridiculous minimization of Clark’s impact, led by Cathy Engelbert, is coming to an end.https://t.co/6dJRhlEQlZ
Excel Sports Management publicly lists Clark among its basketball talent and describes Excel Search & Advisory as its specialized executive-search and leadership-consulting operation for the sports and entertainment industries.
The search division says it has spent roughly two decades placing senior executives across dozens of sports and countries, including commissioner-level positions.
This is particularly notable considering the WNBA’s bizarre handling of the biggest superstar to enter the league in years.
Clark arrived in the WNBA after smashing NCAA records and bringing unprecedented attention to women’s basketball.
She quickly became a massive television and ticket draw, yet instead of fully embracing its new superstar, the league repeatedly found itself engulfed in controversies involving Clark, officiating, hard fouls, player hostility, and arguments over how much credit she deserved for the WNBA’s explosion in attention.
Senior Trump administration officials held a “highly unusual meeting” to discuss next moves in the Iran War and other regional matters, Axios reported Friday.
Vice President J.D. Vance chaired the meeting, which also included Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, special envoy Steve Witkoff, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine.
“Things were decided or at least deeply discussed,” one U.S. official told Axios.
European leaders agreed to release a “massive amount” of diesel reserves to help lower global prices, Trump said on Friday. Diesel prices in the U.S. smashed records in recent weeks, hitting $6.53 a gallon and remaining elevated, even as traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has increased.
One vessel was struck in the waterway Friday and another was struck overnight into Saturday.
The average price of regular gasoline in America was $4.38 per gallon on Saturday, down ten cents from a week ago.
Loud explosions were heard in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, on Saturday. The Houthis, an Iran-backed militant group, reported airstrikes by Saudi Arabia. Fighting between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis broke out this July and Riyadh has urged Trump to join the conflict.
Newly unsealed police bodycam footage shows the moment Altoona officers found Luigi Mangione at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s five days after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot dead outside a Manhattan hotel.
A Manhattan judge released the recordings Friday after CNN petitioned to unseal them.
Parts of the footage had been previously played at a suppression hearing last December but had not been made public.
Thompson, 50, was killed on the morning of December 4, 2024, as he walked toward his company’s investor conference in Midtown.
Mangione, then 26, was picked up on December 9 at a McDonald’s in Altoona, nearly 300 miles from the scene of the assassination.
Employees had called about a suspicious customer.
When officers arrived, they saw a man in a ski hat, surgical mask, and winter coat eating a hash brown while Christmas music played.
They told him they were responding to a call about a suspicious person and asked for identification. He handed over a New Jersey license in the name of Mark Rosario, the same name prosecutors say the shooter used at a New York hostel.
An officer asked why he looked nervous.
They told him to put his hands on his head and asked if he had been in New York.
“You’re under official police investigation right now,” one warned. “You give a false name to us again, you’re gonna be arrested for false ID.”
An officer said, “That’s 100% him.”
Another officer responded, “I told you, man.”
Mangione asked why so many cops were there.
When an officer later pressed whether Rosario was really his name, he said, “Uh, no, sir.”
When asked for his real name, he said, “Uh, Luigi.”
When he was asked why he lied, he said, “I clearly shouldn’t have,” then spelled his name.
Officers patted him down, read him his rights, and cuffed him in the restaurant.
A search of the black backpack turned up a gun magazine wrapped in underwear.
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WATCH: Luigi Mangione’s entire December 2024 arrest via bodycam.
This footage was just made public after @CNN petitioned the court for its release post-guilty plea. pic.twitter.com/G4Eaw8KfTi
Newly unsealed bodycam footage captures the moment officers realize they had Luigi Mangione after finding a gun magazine during his arrest at an Altoona, Pennsylvania, McDonald’s.
Officers searched Mangione more thoroughly at the station.
Officers found a 9mm handgun that was later tied to the shooting, a silencer, another magazine, and a handwritten journal.
Prosecutors have said the notes showed an intent to “wack” a health-insurance executive.
One officer, ticking off the inventory on the phone, said Mangione had “a checklist for today” and that “tomorrow he’s supposed to do an intel check-in and get a survival kit.”
Mangione pleaded guilty in August to federal stalking charges and faces sentencing in December.
The New York Post reports, “His state trial has been postponed while a judge rules on Mangione’s motion to dismiss the murder case.”
Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has suggested that African Americans often have negative experiences with their Arab counterparts.
El-Sayed, who is of Egyptian descent, made the remarks during an appearance on the Higher Learning podcast.
He was asked about his efforts to strengthen support among black voters ahead of November’s election.
El-Sayed pointed to endorsements from black political leaders and organizations before saying there was also an “elephant in the room” that needed addressing.
“Too often, when folks meet somebody who looks like me, it’s not a good experience,” El-Sayed said.
“Too often, they’re seeing them from behind bulletproof glass in a liquor store or in a gas station. They’re being catcalled, if they’re a woman.”
Abdul El-Sayed on Arab-black racial tensions: “Too often when folks meet somebody who looks like me, it’s not a good experience. Too often, they’re seeing them from behind bulletproof glass in a liquor store or in a gas station. They’re being catcalled, if they’re a woman.” pic.twitter.com/OFrOmRF8VD
As a former Detroit health director, El-Sayed also cited complaints about expired food being sold in stores and cigarettes being illegally sold individually to children.
He ecalled confronting an Arab shopkeeper about conditions inside his store while serving in city government.
His comments touch on longstanding tensions between some members of Detroit’s large black population and Arab-American business owners, particularly in predominantly black neighborhoods.
The issue has emerged during a closely contested Senate race against former Republican Congressman Mike Rogers.
It’s Abdul, habibi. The one you’ll be calling Senator Abdul when we send your little guy back to Florida in November. https://t.co/H7m0eTDqY5
El-Sayed won the Democratic nomination in August and has received backing from prominent party figures including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Congressional Black Caucus PAC.
Meanwhile, former Vice-President Kamala Harris recently campaigned alongside him in Detroit.
LEAKED: Footage of Abdul El-Sayed fundraising last night in the California home of the far-left Soros family.
Abdul’s education was paid for by the Soros family and NOW they are funding his campaign to make him a U.S. Senator
Republicans consider the race as a possible pick-up opportunity because El-Sayed’s radical beliefs and his links to the Democratic Socialists of America and various Islamic groups.
According to the latest RealClearPolling polling average, El-Sayed currently holds a 3.5 percent lead of his opponent, with some polls putting the race within the margin of error.
The two candidates are scheduled to meet for their first televised debate next week.
Biden Judge David Leibowitz throws out case on non-citizens voting in America. Insane.
Biden commie Judge David Leibowitz from Florida ruled in favor of a Jamaican national because it was federal prosecutors who brought the case under a federal statute against non-citizens voting.
Leibowitz claims only states can decide whether noncitizens can vote. WTH?
The dirty communists are out of control in America today!
They know they need the illegal votes or Democrats CAN’T WIN!
Senator Mike Lee pointed out the obvious here:
Mike Lee: First leftist senators blocked the SAVE America Act, insisting that “noncitizens don’t vote.”
Now leftist judges are trying to invalidate the federal law prohibiting noncitizen voting.
If you find this unacceptable, vote for Republicans in November.
Here’s the tweet on X.
First leftist senators blocked the SAVE America Act, insisting that “noncitizens don’t vote.”
Now leftist judges are trying to invalidate the federal law prohibiting noncitizen voting.
Rush Limbaugh was onto the Democrat game back in October 2020 before the stolen 2020 presidential election. An election where Donald Trump won EVERY battleground House race, every historic swing battleground state, and every bellwether county in the US except one. It was statistically impossible for Joe Biden to then “win” the election.
Democrats pushed a candidate in 2020 who could not complete a full sentence, who hid in his basement, and when he did hold a public “rally” he could only get a few dozen supporters to show up in a parking lot to honk horns.
But Democrats were never worried for some reason. You never saw Democrats in full-on panic mode. This was a huge “tell.”
They weren’t campaigning. They weren’t nervous. Their plan was to cheat.
Americans suffered through the tyranny that follows a stolen election.
Democrats charged hundreds of Trump supporters, and raided their homes. They held political prisoners for years without trial. They threatened to raid the homes of another 1,000 Trump supporters. They spread fear across the land. Democrats indicted a former president on junk charges while they ignored the BANK STATEMENTS that prove Joe Biden and his family were involved in a massive illegal fraud scheme. This is what you get with stolen elections.
Rush Limbaugh called this out in October of 2020. The great American radio host told his vast audience what Democrats were up to. And he was right.
They resent the whole premise behind elections. Look, they don’t believe they should have to persuade anybody to agree with them. Therefore, they don’t believe in campaigns. They don’t believe in the free, open exchange of ideas. There aren’t any legitimate ideas outside of their own.
They don’t believe in giving legitimacy to anybody who is not already on their side. So if this is who they are psychologically — if they have no interest in persuading people, if they have no interest in acquiring power as a result of massive public support — then who are they? What are they? They want power simply to have it. They don’t want it to derive from the people.
They don’t want it to derive from persuading people that their ideas are the best — and where is all of that codified? All of that thinking, all of that behavior is codified in elections. What are elections about? Elections are about trying to persuade people to support you, to vote for you. Based on what? Well, it could be any number of things.
It could be you’re better looking than the other guy. You’re gonna give away more welfare than the other guy. You’re gonna beat our enemies better than anybody else. Whatever it is, elections are the result of persuading millions of people to support you. They resent having to do that. One reason is they’re a minority. They can’t persuade a majority of people.
They can’t persuade a majority of Americans to support Black Lives Matter. They can’t persuade a majority of Americans to support burning down American cities and private property. They can’t persuade a majority of Americans to go along with their ideas on guns and eliminating free speech. They can’t persuade anybody to agree with that!
Those are things they’re gonna have to force on people, and they are more than willing and eager to force that stuff on you, but they need the power to do it. So they have to go through the motions. The modern-day Democrats have to go through the motions of campaigning, and they have to go through the motions of trying to win the hearts and minds of voters.
But they resent the hell out of it. And in their world, it’s the one thing standing in their way: This need, this requirement to win elections. And I’m just telling you: As soon as they can figure out a way to eliminate elections, they will do it, ’cause they resent the hell out of it. This is… (interruption) Mr. Snerdley, the program observer, just said to me over the IFB.
He said, “I gotta admit something. When I first heard you say that the left and Democrats ultimately want to do away with elections, I thought you were going insane. I thought you were mad. I thought that all of this had finally gotten to you.” Well, that has to be some years ago now when I first advanced the theory. But now you say you can see it?
(interruption) “They’re doing it in front of our faces.” They really are. They are attempting to win elections without broad public support. That’s what they’re trying to do. That’s just another way of phrasing what they’re doing. How do you win elections without broad public support?
NEW: A Michigan fire fighters union has pulled its endorsement of Abdul El-Sayed, who has called to defund the police and abolish prisons
