"On that fateful day 25 years ago today, when Islamic terrorists used hijacked commercial airliners to strike at the heart of Western civilization and kill thousands, the skyline of New York City and America’s soul changed forever. The Sept. 11 attacks, the deadliest on United States soil in history, and their aftermath, have also essentially haunted every presidential administration since. And the echoes of those first post-9/11 months still shape the U.S. today."

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"On September 17, 2001, construction supervisor John Feal was working atop 'the pile,' helping clear the wreckage of the World Trade Center. As he guided trucks backing up to haul away twisted steel, an 8,000-pound beam suddenly broke loose, crashing onto Feal's foot.

"'Blood sprayed in every direction,' he recalls.

"When fellow rescue workers pulled off his boot, bones were protruding through his sock. 'I'll be back in a couple of hours,' Feal reassured everyone before being taken away by ambulance.

"He never returned to Ground Zero. Instead, he began a different battle -- one that would ultimately shape the lives of tens of thousands of people exposed to the toxic aftermath of 9/11."

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"'You better get ready for ... war.' Across the country, radicals are openly planning for the next stage of their movement, and notably, the Democratic establishment is not part of their plans. Despite the talk of a 'Big Tent Party,' socialists are riding high on a surge of support and talking purges and revolution.

In Chicago, radicals gathered for a conference on Marxism during what many view as the heyday of socialism in the United States. The Democratic Socialists of America is now larger and more powerful than at any time in our history. Socialist candidates are winning elections across the country as Democratic establishment figures from Sen. Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) to Gov. Gavin Newsom pander to the movement.

Speakers in Chicago used the conference to push supporters to the next stage in the movement, including some openly calling for violence and the end to capitalism."

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"Zohran Mamdani was just nine years old when Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four planes and plowed them into the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in one of America's darkest days in history.

"But the man who is now New York City's first Muslim and socialist mayor will be front and center for the solemn 25th anniversary commemoration of the deadliest terrorist attacks on US soil.

"And his words and actions leading up to Friday's events are already stirring controversy and distrust."

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"Without labor, nothing prospers."

"The collapse of the Met Gala's outrageous plan to honor antisemitic fashion designer John Galliano marks an important victory in a major battle. But there is no sign that triumph is at hand in the larger war against the explosion of Jew hatred in America and around the world.

"On the contrary, the outbreaks are numerous and growing in boldness.

"One of the lessons of the Galliano affair is that many of the haters feel safe enough these days to come out of the closet and publicly express their loathing.

"Wherever you look, from politics to the media to the United Nations and now the fashion world, the scourge is shockingly bold in its emergence."

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"As the nation prepares to remember the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Democratic Party is finding itself in hot water over its surging left-wing candidates who have given controversial statements about the attacks.

"The Democrats' Senate nominee in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, has generated the most recent controversy."

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"The Supreme Court's decision to stay the injunction blocking President Trump's March executive order on mail-in ballots gives voters something they are clamoring for: greater confidence in election integrity. A new Rasmussen Reports survey finds that, by a 52% to 34% margin, likely voters say the government has not done enough to prevent election cheating. Even more striking, voters say by nearly two to one that widespread cheating is likely to affect the outcome of this fall's congressional elections.

"Concerns about November's elections cross political and demographic lines. Majorities of Democrats, Republicans, and independents expect widespread cheating to affect the outcome, as do majorities across racial groups -- including 75% of Hispanics and 63% of blacks -- and among both sexes and every age group. Only self-identified liberals do not share that concern as a group."

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"Seven years ago, I warned that Democrats were 'courting disaster' by turning their frustration with the Supreme Court into a campaign to remake it. Their 2020 presidential field was talking about adding justices, limiting their terms, and otherwise changing the rules because Donald Trump had gotten to replace Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy. The Democrats' flirtation with blowing up the high court became a full-blown mania after Trump got a third pick, naming Amy Coney Barrett after Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death in 2020.

"Six years later, House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries says 'dramatic Supreme Court reform' is necessary and that Democrats should not 'foreclose' any option. Former Vice President Kamala Harris wants to revisit expanding the Court. Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who pitched a 15-member Court during his presidential campaign, now favors 13 seats plus term limits, calling the current tribunal a 'rogue Supreme Court.' Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and ten Democratic colleagues have introduced legislation that would effectively impose 18-year terms, with a new justice every two years. And Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has already introduced articles of impeachment against Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito."

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"While some privacy advocates are content to saw down camera towers, one artist is pushing back against the panopticon with an unconventional tool: the ugliest aloha shirt you've ever seen.

"Freshly reported by Dezeen, German designer Simon Weckert designed the hideous shirt to be untraceable to AI-integrated surveillance systems. Using a dizzying blend of colors and patterns, the shirt is ugly precisely because it's designed to confuse surveillance algorithms -- as Weckert explained, it's the 'interplay' of ghastly colors and shapes that hide its wearer from detection.

"'AI systems are made of multiple layers and never learned what a human is -- they learned what humans statistically look like in millions of training images,' the designer told Dezeen. 'A "person," for the machine, is a bundle of visual statistics -- and that is exactly its weakness.'"

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