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Columbia-Funded Legal Group Fights for Release of Jack Smith’s Mar-a-Lago Documents Report in Wake of University’s $221 Million Settlement With Trump

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The Knight Institute is appealing a judge’s ruling that releasing the report—on a case that was thrown out and dismissed—would be a ‘manifest injustice’ to Trump Top left: Columbia Universoty logo (Wikimedia Commons) Right: Donald Trump (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Bottom left: Knight Institute logo (knightcolumbia.org) The Knight First Amendment Institute, an activist legal group funded

New York Times Coverage of Michigan Synagogue Attack Prompts Bipartisan Backlash

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The New York Times is drawing bipartisan condemnation for its coverage of an attack on a synagogue in Michigan that critics faulted for seeming to justify the attack. “Synagogue Attacker Lost Family Members in Lebanon Airstrike” was the headline of a print Times news article, published Saturday, March 14, 2026. In print, the Times failed

Contributor to Soros-Funded Drop Site News Called Michigan Synagogue Attack Self-Defense

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Abubaker Abed, a self-styled Palestinian journalist, said Temple Israel was ‘guilty of a crime’ Police officer patrols outside a Bat Mitzvah (Emily Elconin/Getty Images), Abubaker Abed (Instagram) A contributor to the George Soros-funded Drop Site News defended the Thursday terrorist attack against a synagogue and preschool in Michigan as an act of self-defense, claiming that

In SXSW Appearance, Columbia Encampment Organizer Mahmoud Khalil Says It’s ‘Very Racist’ To Ask Him To Condemn Hamas

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He also complained he can’t ‘contextualize’ Oct 7 without condemnation Mahmoud Khalil (SXSW/YouTube) In an appearance at the South by Southwest festival on Sunday, Columbia University encampment leader Mahmoud Khalil said “it’s very racist to ask a Palestinian” to condemn Hamas. The moderator, the Guardian‘s U.S. editor, Betsy Reed, asked Khalil to explain why he refused to condemn Hamas

Religious Liberty Commission Has Productive Meeting Without Loony Aging Beauty Queen Who Hijacked February Hearing To Bash Israel

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Carrie Prejean Boller was terminated from the commission after using a hearing to defend Candace Owens and claim her Catholic faith prevented her from supporting the Jewish state Carrie Prejean Boller (X), Donald Trump (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) The Department of Justice’s Religious Liberty Commission convened for a productive hearing on Monday without dramatic and distracting

Supremely Progressive: Iran Becomes First Nation in World History Led by Gay Amputee

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Representation matters now more than ever Chat GPT Credit where credit is due: Iran appears to have scored a remarkable victory for inclusive representation on the global stage. The U.S. intelligence community recently assessed that Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the dearly departed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is “probably gay,” the New York Post revealed on

‘We Can Do That on Five Minutes’ Notice’: Trump Says Striking Iranian Oil Infrastructure On Kharg Island Is On the Table

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Facilities on the island process 90 percent of the Islamic Republic’s sanctioned oil exports, much of which go to China (Alex Wong/Getty Images) President Donald Trump said Monday that he is open to destroying Iran’s multibillion-dollar oil infrastructure on Kharg Island, a central export hub the United States hit with a wave of strikes last