🇵🇱‼️ | ÚLTIMA HORA — Crisis institucional en Polonia: el presidente Karol Nawrocki ordenó dar la vuelta a su avión en pleno vuelo a Senegal después de que la policía del Gobierno de Donald Tusk irrumpiera en el recinto del Tribunal Constitucional. Al mismo tiempo, la web del… pic.twitter.com/qP3b6FoeJg
Shocking scenes in Poland. Police, dispatched by the Tusk government, have forced their way into the independent Constitutional Tribunal. Security personnel guarding the building and the Tribunal’s documents have been removed. The Vice-President of the Tribunal is being denied… pic.twitter.com/S12TLI5t6N
Liberal authoritarianism in action: An attempted JUDICIAL COUP is unfolding in Poland!
Police have been deployed to the grounds of Warsaw’s Constitutional Tribunal, while attempts are underway to suspend its president and vice-president through a highly disputed process. According to reports, Prime Minister Donald Tusk personally ordered the police operation.
The constitutional crisis is so severe that President Karol Nawrocki interrupted his official trip to Senegal and ordered his plane to turn around over Spain to return to Poland.
In Warsaw, police are deployed around independent constitutional institutions. In Budapest, lawfully elected heads of constitutional institutions are removed from office, opposition politicians are barred from running for re-election, and people are imprisoned on political grounds.
This is arbitrary rule. When those in power see constitutional safeguards not as rules to respect, but as obstacles to eliminate.
Daniel Foubert has this.
🇵🇱🚨 Liberal authoritarianism in action: An attempted JUDICIAL COUP is unfolding in Poland!
Police have been deployed to the grounds of Warsaw’s Constitutional Tribunal, while attempts are underway to suspend its president and vice-president through a highly disputed process.… pic.twitter.com/lcsBducjPS
Leftist Donald Tusk released a statement saying he is restoring the rule of law… Up is down. Left is right. Black is white…
Przywracanie rządów prawa jest naszym obowiązkiem. Po latach pisowskiego bezprawia to proces trudny, czasem bolesny i wymaga zdecydowanego działania. Innej drogi nie ma.
Europe has fallen, one boarded-up window at a time. These are pictures from Germany, France, Spain, Belgium and Italy.
Two weeks ago, France burned. City halls were set on fire, Hermès and Dior were looted, and more than 900 police officers were injured. This weekend, the wave is spreading. In Berlin, the luxury stores of the Kurfürstendamm are boarding up their windows before Saturday’s protests, with more than 1,500 police officers deployed to protect a single shopping street. In Spain, shops are covering their storefronts.
So here’s a question for every European who still thinks this is normal: when will you realize what’s happening to your own countries? Plywood on the shop windows, metal detectors at Christmas markets, police escorts for football matches, no-go zones that every local knows to avoid, and governments that tell you it’s all just “a few isolated incidents.”
This is how the third world looks from the inside, and we’re getting used to it one weekend at a time.
Another weekend, another round of violence on the strife-torn streets of France. That was the grim forecast Friday as the country’s interior minister warned of a “very high risk of public disorder” over the coming 48-hours as some 70,000 police officers prepare for fresh riots across the Halloween weekend.
The minister pledged an “extremely firm” response after mass protests on October 17 degenerated into leftist-driven urban rioting and mass looting, as Breitbart News reported.
FRANCE24 details the new round of demonstrations come in an increasingly febrile political climate, with presidential elections six months away and the leader of the Front National, Marine Le Pen, surging in opinion polls.
“The day of October 31 presents a very high risk of public disorder,” Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez told reporters.
Around 70,000 police officers and gendarmes will be deployed across France, matching the number mobilised a week ago, he said as per the FRANCE24 report.
The security measures introduced last week to protect shops will be strengthened, Nuñez vowed while demonstrations will be allowed, but “not in city centres, where there is a risk of public disorder.”
“We will tolerate no excesses,” he added, pledging an “extremely firm” response is in the offing.
Nunez also revealed authorities had detected social media calls for Halloween gatherings on Saturday evening demanding a “revolution.”
The appeals were being circulated by radical Islamo-fascist groups but “these gatherings will be banned,” he said.
Hungary’s agreement with the Trump administration to combat far-left terrorism has triggered a domestic backlash, mainly over the notorious 2023 Budapest Antifa attacks. Fidesz figures question whether Prime Minister Péter Magyar’s government is genuinely committed to confronting the militant network linked to those assaults, while left-wing activists who helped defeat Viktor Orbán accuse Tisza of adopting Washington’s political agenda.
At Thursday’s meeting in Washington, Foreign Minister Anita Orbán and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio signed memorandums on energy infrastructure and law-enforcement cooperation. Rubio hailed their shared determination to confront the ‘resurgence of far-left terrorism’. Orbán, speaking after the signing ceremony, explicitly named Antifa Ost, the Germany-based militant network whose members are accused of carrying out the February 2023 Budapest attacks against people perceived as right-wing. The new arrangement is intended to strengthen information-sharing and criminal investigations.
Over three days, Antifa Ost militants carried out a series of brutal assaults, targeting nine people apparently selected for their perceived right-wing appearance and leaving six seriously injured. One victim, László Dudog, was beaten unconscious with iron bars, leaving the left side of his face paralysed, while his fiancée was stabbed twice in the legs and kicked in the face. The attacks led to two of Hungary’s most infamous Antifa cases: Italian far-left MEP Ilaria Salis, accused of participating in the assaults but protected by parliamentary immunity, and German activist Maja T, convicted for involvement in the same attacks.
The agreement itself continues a policy championed by both Viktor Orbán and Donald Trump. In September 2025, the former Hungarian prime minister called for Antifa to be classified as a terrorist organization, citing the Budapest attacks and following Trump’s lead. Hungary designated Antifa Ost a terrorist organization that month; Washington followed with a Foreign Terrorist Organization designation in November.
🚨 A stunning display of political hypocrisy!
Did Anita Orbán lie to the US Secretary of State?
The Hungarian Foreign Minister smiled as she signed an agreement in Washington, negotiated by Viktor Orbán and the Trump administration, aimed at strengthening joint efforts against… pic.twitter.com/5ef0IVYo8M
Former political director to Viktor Orbán and current Fidesz MEP Balázs Orbán announced that he would formally inform the US State Department of the Tisza government’s controversial record on far-left extremism, questioning whether Rubio had received the full picture during the Washington meeting.
In October 2025, the European Parliament preserved Salis’s immunity by just one vote, 306–305, after Magyar stayed away and instructed Tisza MEPs to abstain or not vote. Balázs Orbán questioned whether the Americans had been informed of that decision, arguing that Washington deserved to know how the Hungarian government had handled cases involving the very extremist networks it now pledged to combat.
He also raised concerns over plans to transfer Maja T to Germany, questioning whether the move could lead to an early release. The German activist was sentenced to eight years in February 2026, reduced on appeal to seven years in September. Preparations for a transfer are under way, although the arrangement predates Tisza: German government records confirm that Hungarian authorities had agreed to a possible transfer after conviction under Viktor Orbán.
Political commentator Zoltán Ceglédi raised a related concern: why did Anita Orbán’s initial Hungarian-language announcement describe the counterterrorism memorandum merely as cooperation against crimes committed by ‘radical organizations’, omitting the far left and Antifa altogether? He suggested that Fidesz forward the domestic explanation to Rubio or Vice President JD Vance. Orbán did subsequently identify Antifa Ost explicitly in a Hungarian-language video published after the earlier statement.
The agreement also angered the radical left. Former MP András Jámbor, a far-left activist associated with the radical-left Szikra Movement, described the pact as a ‘slap in the face’ to left-wing campaigners who helped Tisza win. He argued that an existing 2008 counterterrorism agreement already provides for information-sharing and demanded to know why far-left violence was being singled out instead of far-right or Islamist terrorism.
Jámbor also recalled that he and Szikra had been accused of links to the Budapest assaults, allegations he rejected. He demanded an inquiry into possible political manipulation and intelligence-service involvement in the original investigations.
Hard-right Our Homeland (Mi Hazánk) leader László Toroczkai also weighed in, claiming that Rubio had ‘humiliated’ Anita Orbán by making her sign an anti-Antifa agreement despite Tisza having come to power, he said, with the support of international left-liberal forces. Pointing to Jámbor’s furious reaction, Toroczkai praised Rubio’s manoeuvre and predicted that the controversy would ultimately increase the likelihood of a split within Tisza’s support base.
There were, however, also voices speaking positively about the agreement. Former Hungarian ambassador to Washington András Simonyi, speaking to InfoRádió, called the Rubio meeting a diplomatic breakthrough and the counterterrorism memorandum ‘very important’ to national and domestic security. He also warned that radical-left movements were increasingly affecting American politics and creating difficulties for the Democrats.
Spain’s response to its second deadly high-speed rail crash this year has drawn comparisons with Greece, where the transport minister quit the day after the country’s worst rail disaster.
Transport Minister Óscar Puente ruled out resigning on October 28, hours after a Renfe AVE ran into the back of a stationary Iryo train near Urda, in Toledo province, central Spain.
Puente blamed a decision taken at the Adif control centre in Madrid, which he called inexplicable. He said the AVE had been cleared to resume normal running after the LZB automatic control system failed, despite a red signal ahead.
It was Spain’s second high-speed rail disaster on the Madrid-Andalusia line this year, after the derailment near Adamuz, in Córdoba province, on January 18 that killed 46 people.
In Greece, then transport minister Kostas Karamanlis stepped down on March 1, 2023, after visiting the scene of the Tempi collision near Larissa. A passenger train and a freight train had met head-on on the same track the night before, killing 57 people, most of them students.
Karamanlis said at the time that resigning was the least he owed to the memory of the dead. He described his departure as taking responsibility for long-standing failings of the Greek state and its political system.
His exit did not close the matter. In July 2025 the Greek Parliament referred him to a judicial council on a single misdemeanour count of breach of duty, against the backdrop of cover-up allegations against the Greek Government that drew mass protests.
The trial of 36 rail and ministry officials opened in Larissa on March 23, 2026, though no politician is among the defendants. European Chief Prosecutor Laura Codruța Kövesi has said the crash could have been avoided had the signalling been modernised in time with European Union funds.
In Spain, the Central Sindical Independiente y de Funcionarios (CSIF) union demanded Puente’s resignation on October 28. It accused him of making an Adif employee a scapegoat instead of shouldering responsibility himself.
People’s Party (PP) leader Alberto Núñez Feijoo, speaking in Urda on October 29, said political responsibility could not wait for any investigation to finish. He accused Puente of frivolity for blaming an operator at Atocha, though he stopped short of calling for him to go.
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, whose Government faces a general election on November 29, said the causes would be investigated. He promised action if negligence was found.
Pope Leo XIV during an audience with the media (May 12, 2025)- Wikimedia Commons, Edgar Beltrán, The Pillar , CC-BY-SA-4.0
The Holy See’s announcement that Pope Leo XIV — the first U.S. citizen to be elected to the papacy — has voted in the U.S. midterm elections by mail raises a serious question: why is an absolute monarch voting in an American election?
For the first time in the Church’s 2,000-year history, a pope has cast a ballot, betraying his sacred office as a Catholic monarch.
BREAKING: Pope Leo votes in US midterms, becoming the first pope to vote in a secular election.
For the first time in the Church's 2000-year history, a pope has cast a ballot, betraying the sacred office as a Catholic monarch. pic.twitter.com/RAFEiEw5Ww
“Pope Leo XIV has exercised his right to vote as a United States citizen, whenever he was eligible to do so,” according to the Vatican statement. “In keeping with this long-standing practice of civic participation, he has submitted his mail-in ballot in Chicago.”
Michael Walsh, a British historian and author who has written books on the papacy, told CNN that Leo XIV is the first pope to vote in a democratic, secular election.
“I don’t think popes have ever voted in a democratic election before,” said Walsh.
“The Holy Father has also confirmed that, during his years of residence in Peru he exercised his right to vote whenever he was eligible to do so,” noted the statement. “The Holy Father expresses his belief in the right and the duty of citizens to participate in democratic processes.”
According to a report by the Chicago Sun-Times, which first broke the story, the chief of staff at the Will County Clerk’s Office confirmed that the Pope, who remains registered as Robert Prevost at a New Lenox, Illinois, address, requested a mail-in ballot on October 3.
Since 2000, Prevost has voted in five primary elections, requesting Democratic ballots twice and Republican ballots three times, according to Illinois State Board of Elections records.
Most recently he voted in the 2024 presidential election.
Here is Pope Leo XIV’s recent voting history.
He’s voted in both Democratic and Republican primaries.
Parents of girls attending El Camino High School in Sacramento, California, have come forward to allege that a male student playing on the girls’ volleyball team sexually harassed the female players after being permitted to use the girls’ changing room. Despite filing a sexual harassment complaint against the student, the parents say the school was more concerned with including him than protecting their girls.
While El Camino High School appears to have taken steps to conceal the boy’s identity, Reduxx can confirm his name as Ariana “Ari” Grialou, born Bradley Grialou. Grialou previously ran on the boys’ track and cross country teams in middle school, but began to identify as a girl in the 8th or 9th grade. After enrolling at El Camino, Grialou signed up for the girls’ junior varsity volleyball team, and eventually moved up to girls varsity at the start of this year’s season.
According to sources at the school, during varsity tryouts, two senior girls who had played on the team for the previous three years were cut, and Grialou’s participation had an immediate impact on the opportunities given to the female players. One parent who spoke to Reduxx under the condition of anonymity said Grialou was given more game time than many of the girls on the team, and was able to choose his position based on his personal preference.
“Ari gets to play in whatever position he wants. He is allowed to play a good portion of the playtime during games because he gets to play all-around. So all of the girls are impacted, because he gets to say what he wants to do and the coach listens,” Carol, whose name has been changed to protect her family’s privacy, said. “Sometimes there were games where I had to wonder if my kid was even going to get to play at all. There have been games where my kid maybe gets 10 minutes playtime, where Ari is out there for two-thirds of the game.”
However, at the beginning of the 2026 season, coaches were forced to address the issue after a game against Rio Linda High School. Following the match, a concerned aunt of one of the Rio Linda players sent an email to the coaches and staff of the schools set to play against El Camino. The subject line read: “Safety of Varsity Girls Volleyball Teams.”
In the email, which was shared with Reduxx, the aunt writes: “As I watched, I became increasingly concerned for the girls on Rio Linda’s team. After playing for much of the game, it became obvious to me that #13 on El Camino is a boy. He particularly had at least two hits that nailed a couple of the girls in the head that came in much harder than a girl would hit.”
The email sent from a concerned aunt regarding Grialou’s participation.
The email prompted an immediate scramble among the staff at El Camino.
According to another parent who spoke with Reduxx, the next game El Camino played had school officials and staff stationed throughout the gym, including in the stands. There was also a “significant presence” of representatives from the California Safe School Coalition – a network of organizations and individuals who act as advocates for LGBT students.
But the efforts to “protect” Giralou didn’t stop there. A girl on the El Camino team was required to switch jerseys with Grialou in order to further hide his presence because he had previously been identified as player #13.
“After the jersey exchange, Ari pulled all the girls aside for a private conversation. This was when the team had disappeared from the gym. During that conversation, Ari told the girls that he hadn’t been completely truthful with them and revealed that he was transgender. He explained that the reason Safe Schools and so many school officials were present was to support him. He also told the girls that he hoped none of them were particularly attached to their jersey numbers because, throughout the season, each of them would be expected to switch jerseys with him and take turns wearing #13,” explains Kelly, another mother from El Camino whose name has also been changed to protect her family’s privacy.
“What was particularly concerning was that no school officials or coaches appeared to be involved in this conversation with the girls. Ari was the one leading the discussion, explaining the jersey changes, and communicating what was expected of his teammates. He told them that the school fully supported him and that this was why so many officials were present that day.”
Kelly says that several of the girls went home in tears that night because they were frightened of being made to wear jersey #13.
“They didn’t want to be mistaken for him or become the focus of attention or controversy simply because they were wearing his former jersey,” Kelly says.
But both Kelly and Carol mention that serious safety concerns were raised after the jersey switch.
“If the school believed Ari could be placed in an uncomfortable or potentially unsafe situation by continuing to wear #13 after being publicly identified, why would they think it was appropriate to transfer that same attention or potential risk to another girl,” Kelly questions.
The school later acknowledged that the decision was inappropriate and agreed to retire jersey #13 altogether. Grialou was subsequently assigned jersey #17.
Grialou during recent games.
But the parents reveal the jersey issue was only one of many apparent safeguarding failures prompted by the school’s efforts to accommodate Grialou.
“Even before Ari disclosed that he was transgender, several girls had expressed feeling uncomfortable around him because of the nature of his conversations and comments,” Kelly says. “According to the girls, Ari frequently made inappropriate and sexually suggestive comments about their bodies. He would ask personal questions about their relationships with their boyfriends, including whether they had sex and whether they had tried different sexual positions. These were not isolated comments, and the girls found the conversations invasive and uncomfortable.”
Both Kelly and Carol also note that Grialou’s locker room usage was a “major concern” amongst the girls, who reported to their parents that he would often “hover,” and “stare” at the female players while they undressed. He would allegedly remain in the facilities despite never actually changing himself.
Eventually, several girls organized to file formal complaints about what they perceived as ongoing sexual harassment.
“Following those complaints, the parents were contacted by the school and informed of the allegations and their daughters’ Title IX rights. However, the school also communicated that it felt confident the inappropriate comments would stop and that no further action was necessary,” Kelly says. Carol adds that she felt the response from the school was “very poor” and expressed upset that no monitors were assigned to the locker room after the girls came forward.
Even after the complaint, Grialou continued to be allowed to use the female changing room. Eventually, many of the girls took to changing in the bathroom stalls to avoid his gaze.
“From a parent’s perspective, it increasingly felt as though whatever Ari wanted, the school was willing to accommodate, regardless of how those decisions affected the rest of the team,” Kelly says.
Carol also describes a concerning pattern in Grialou’s public behavior she noticed from the bleachers as she watched El Camino games.
“Ari was constantly manipulating his genitals,” she says. “He would touch himself during the game, excessively. Between every play or every other play.” Carol says she believes Grialou was adjusting his “tuck,” but would not do so in a discreet manner and was often seen with his fingers “lodged” in his behind or genital area.
“The girls didn’t want to high-five him or touch him because of this. They were grossed out. I could understand if it were once or twice, sure, but it was constant. In public. At every game.”
In terms of Grialou’s athletic performance, both parents note that his physical advantages were obvious.
“He hits hard. He has the hands of an adult man. He has a longer reach. He can jump higher. His strength is fully as a boy,” Carol says, noting that there had been multiple reported injuries involving girls being hit or elbowed by Grialou.
“What has been most frustrating throughout this entire situation is the apparent lack of consideration for the other girls,” Kelly says. “This isn’t simply about Ari being transgender or participating on the girls’ volleyball team. It’s about how the school handled the situation, the expectations placed on the other players, the reported inappropriate behavior, and whether the school took meaningful steps to ensure that every student felt equally respected, supported, and safe.”
Carol echoes Kelly’s remarks, adding: “I am fairly open minded. I couldn’t care less than he is trans. Be who you want to be. But don’t negatively impact everyone around you. My issue is not with who he wants to be, it is with how he is significantly impacting girls around him. Everyone is putting this child’s rights ahead of the rights of my child.”
Last week, the situation at El Camino escalated after women’s rights advocate Beth Bourne became aware of Grialou’s participation in a game against Woodland High School. Bourne regularly attends sporting events to support young female athletes who oppose boys being able to self-identify into their sport.
Speaking to Reduxx, Bourne says that within minutes of her arrival, Grialou was pulled off the court.
“I waited a few minutes and then decided to head into the cafeteria area that is adjacent to the gym. As I was walking around the cafeteria, the Woodland High School principal approached me,” she recalls, noting that the principal told her she was not allowed to film the game.
Bourne posted the video of the interaction to her X account, where it received over 3 million views.
🚨🚨UNREAL: Last night at the Woodland High School vs El Camino High School girls’ varsity volleyball game, the principal approached me to warm me that I was not allowed to film any “minors” unless I was related to the player.
“I told him I was there to support the girls on the both sides of the court. I had heard from parents in the Woodland schools for the last two years that they were upset there was indoctrination in the schools around gender ideology and I had heard from several fathers that they wanted their daughter’s sports to be only for girls. I had also heard from an El Camino parent via DM on Facebook about the boy on the team,” Bourne says.
The principal, Gerald Salcido, then reportedly demanded to know which parents had contacted Bourne.
“I think it so wrong that the principal insisted on knowing which parents were concerned about their daughter’s safety. For what purpose did he need this information?”
Bourne praises the parents at El Camino who came forward, and says that she will continue to show up to support young female athletes.
“I believe it’s important for adults to speak out because an entire generation of girls in California have been taught to prioritize the feelings of the trans-identified boys over their rights to fairness and safety in girls’ sports and privacy and dignity in the bathrooms and locker rooms,” she says. “Not only am I hoping to keep the female athletes’ sports fair and safe, but also the boy athlete should understand biological reality. No child is born in the wrong body.”
The most recent issue of Germany’s Der Spiegel, a major weekly news outlet, had an explosive story: Elif Eralp, the leader of Die Linke, Berlin’s extremely hard-left party, which got the largest share of votes in its coalition system, inadvertently confessed to living in fear of Hamas sympathizers associated with elements of her party. It’s one more sign that the Islamo-Leftist alliance across the world is really an Islamic party with leftist useful idiots.
The background is that Berlin held its elections on September 20, 2026. Die Linke got 25.7% of the vote, the single largest bloc. Eralp is now trying to form a coalition government with the Greens and the Social Democrats, which would make her the mayor, with all the power that brings. (For those who bemoan America’s winner-take-all system, just look to the craziness in Israel or Berlin to understand that no system is perfect, but ours is the least bad.)
And then the news broke. This tweet overstates some facts, but it still introduced Americans to what’s happening in Berlin. I’ve included Grok’s automatic translation at the end of this post:
🇩🇪🚨MEGA-ESCÁNDALO: La ganadora de las elecciones de BERLÍN, del partido de ultraizquierda Die Linke confiesa por error que Hamás controla su partido y teme por su vida💣
Un error acaba de generar una crisis de seguridad impresionante. La revista Der Spiegel —un medio, cabe… pic.twitter.com/muTjM1My7Q
Translation: 🇩🇪🚨MEGA-SCANDAL: The winner of the BERLIN elections, from the far-left party Die Linke, accidentally confesses that Hamas controls her party and fears for her life💣 A mistake has just triggered an astonishing security crisis. The magazine Der Spiegel—a media outlet, it must be noted, with a marked leftist slant—has brought to light an internal document proving how Die Linke has been hijacked by Islamism. Its candidate to govern Berlin, Elif Eralp, accidentally sent the newsroom her private notes from an interview where she confesses to being coerced and terrified by Hamas operatives within her own party. It turns out that after an interview, the candidate’s team reviewed the transcript. During this process, Eralp made internal comments that were meant to remain in the strictest confidentiality. However, the document with the un-erased annotations was sent back to the journalists. The content of those notes is dynamite. When Der Spiegel asked her about Ibrahim Ibrahim—a pro-Palestinian Hamas sympathizer who celebrated the October 7 massacre—the public response was going to be evasive. But in the margin of the leaked document, Eralp wrote the truth: “There is a PROBLEM. […] my husband no, and neither do I, want to name specific names, he is afraid of these people and so am I.” The leak exposes the raw reality of Islamo-leftism in Germany: Eralp even went so far as to compare the threat level of these pro-Palestinian militants to that of Organized Crime and implores to abort the publication: “I can’t put myself and my family in danger for Der SPIEGEL. What do we do now? Do we scrap the whole interview?” The biggest joke of the entire situation, however, was captured in one of the phrases that Eralp did want to publish. In a display of utter disconnection, the candidate states in the interview: “What I can say with total clarity is that, as governing mayor, I will ensure the safety of all Berlin women and all Berlin men.” A promise that rings utterly ridiculous coming from a leader who, in the same document, secretly admits that she can’t even protect her own family from the rank-and-file of her party. In the wake of the scandal, Eralp has announced that she will take legal action against Der Spiegel and file a formal complaint with the Press Council for having quoted her internal annotations. This judicial maneuver immediately reveals just how sensitive and utterly overwhelmed these leadership cadres really are when faced with crisis situations. Berlin’s radical left believed it could politically capitalize on Islamic extremism; today, the documents prove that it’s the extremism holding them hostage.
Here are the facts that I was able to piece together: On Monday, Der Spiegel interviewed Eralp about the fact that her party is closely associated with antisemitism and general radicalism. The staff specifically asked her about 70-year-old Ibrahim Ibrahim, a Lebanese man with German citizenship, who had attended the party’s election-night celebration, where he received a warm welcome.
Ibrahim is a prominent pro-Palestinian activist who strongly supported Yahya Sinwar and has reported ties to other terrorist organizations. His appearance at Die Linke’s September 20 election celebration exposed uncomfortable relationships between the party and extremist activists.
After the interview, Der Spiegel gave Eralp the chance to review and then authorize the statements she made to the magazine. This is apparently a common practice among German journalists. Her staff wanted to remove the entire line of questioning about Ibrahim.
The problem is that the staff sent the wrong document back. The annotated version they returned explained why they wanted to remove the question and answer: Eralp is afraid of Ibrahim. Thus, she annotated the transcript of her interview by writing (in German; the following is a translation), “My husband and I are afraid of these people,” and “I cannot put myself and my family in danger for Der Spiegel.”
Eralp wondered whether they could withdraw the entire interview. She also wrote that the Berlin police had generally advised her against naming anyone associated with organized crime, and that she believed that advice extended to people with Hamas connections—implying, to those who like reading between the lines, that Die Linke has become a home for Hamas supporters.
As Eralp’s concern about organized crime indicated, it’s not just Hamas that’s apparently got its talons in Die Linke. Spain’s El País took up the baton, reporting multiple criminal groups associated with Die Linke. Rammo clan members are associated with Die Linke and organized crime investigations, and they are supportive of Palestinians. The same holds true for members of the Barbaj clan, some of whose members have engaged in actual antisemitic violence. Other well-known people associated with organized crime or antisemitism (or both) are seen as very close to Die Linke.
Eralp responded by saying that, despite obviously allowing herself to be intimidated, if she were able to create a coalition, she’d be brave and go after organized crime and terrorism supporters. The irony is that Die Linke campaigned on dramatically reducing Berlin’s police force and eliminating its domestic intelligence service, positions that its prospective coalition partners forced it to abandon. For now, that response has been adequate, for the left-wing coalition is still hanging together.
The Berlin situation is obviously in flux. However, I believe we in America can learn from it: Leftism, crime, antisemitism, and pro-terrorist sympathies are inextricably intertwined. This is true whether you’re looking at Nazis, Bolsheviks, the Baader-Meinhof gang, or (increasingly) today’s Democrats.
When you delicately peel back the tent entrance to allow in the equity-DEI-CRT-LGBTQ+ nose of the camel—all the “brotherly love” stuff the left preaches—the rest of the camel inevitably enters, bringing with it communism, antisemitism, terrorism, and, inevitably, the Caliphate.
I can’t say it often enough: If you’re conservative, you must vote in this election, and you must vote against the Democrats. It doesn’t matter what you think of the Republican Party or its candidates; the Democrats have become the camel’s nose, and we cannot allow the camel in.
In a decisive first-reading vote, the Czech Parliament has approved legislation to abolish mandatory broadcasting fees for public television and radio, marking a significant break from the traditional license-fee model that has long funded public service media across much of Europe.
Under the plan backed by Prime Minister Andrej Babiš’s government, Česká televize and Czech Radio will in future be financed directly from the state budget. Funding for both institutions is also scheduled to be cut by approximately 15 percent starting in 2027.
Czech households currently pay 205 crowns per month—roughly €8.43—for access to public broadcasting. The government argues that the reform aligns with a broader European trend away from dedicated license fees. The draft legislation explicitly notes a “growing number of countries moving away from the principle of license fee funding,” while insisting that editorial independence and program content will remain protected.
Comparable shifts are already visible elsewhere in the European Union. In the Netherlands, the public broadcasting system has for years been financed primarily through the general state budget rather than a separate household levy. Spain’s RTVE abandoned its advertising-heavy model and moved toward mixed state funding after earlier reforms. In France, the longstanding television license fee was abolished in 2022 and replaced by direct budgetary allocations. Finland and several Nordic peers have adjusted or supplemented fee systems with tax-based contributions, while Hungary’s public media operate under direct state financing.
These examples illustrate that mandatory fees are not a fixed European norm; governments retain flexibility in how they support public-service broadcasters.
Critics, however, warn of heightened political risk for them. The European Broadcasting Union, the European Federation of Journalists, and Reporters Without Borders have cautioned that shifting to state-budget financing could open the door to their reduced influence over programming and editorial decisions.
Czech opposition parties have already announced plans to challenge the law before the Constitutional Court. Several hundred demonstrators gathered outside Parliament in Prague to protest the move, and the civic initiative “Veřejnoprávně” ironically argues that the new model threatens “the independence and stability of both broadcasters”.
The debate echoes ongoing discussions in Germany, where public broadcasters ARD, ZDF, and Deutschlandradio continue to rely on the household broadcasting fee to spread globalist propaganda. In Saxony-Anhalt, the AfD has made abolition of the fee a central campaign pledge. Lead candidate Ulrich Siegmund has called for terminating the inter-state broadcasting treaties and replacing the current system with a leaner “basic broadcasting” service if the party gains power.
Supporters of the Czech reform counter that direct state funding, combined with clear statutory safeguards, can preserve independence while improving transparency and reducing the administrative burden of fee collection. As the legislation advances through further parliamentary stages, the outcome will be closely watched across the EU as another data point in the evolving relationship between governments and public media.
A knife-wielding migrant successfully climbed on board a small boat crossing the Channel just seconds after threatening to “kill” those on the vessel.
In shocking footage shared with GB News by Nowhere Photographer, dozens of migrants can be seen attempting to embark on the journey to Britain from just south of Hardelot-Plage in northern France.
As the boat turned towards a group waiting to board, an argument erupted between a man already on board and another attempting to get onto the vessel.
The confrontation rapidly escalated when the man attempting to board produced a large knife and appeared to lunge towards the man on the boat in what looked like an attempted stabbing.
During the confrontation, the migrant can be heard shouting: “I will kill you.”
Fortunately, the man dropped the knife before he could reach his intended target.
But just moments later, the same man managed to climb aboard the vessel as it set sail for Britain.
The identity of the migrant seen wielding the knife and whether he has reached British shores is currently unknown.
Violent incidents involving migrants attempting to cross the Channel not uncommon, with several incidents, which have turned deadly in some instances, reported in recent months.
In July, French authorities launched a probe after the body of a migrant was discovered on a beach in the Calais area.
Investigators believe those responsible may have escaped to Britain aboard a small boat after allegedly stabbing the man to death.
The following month, another investigation was launched after an Afghan national was found dead in an overcrowded dinghy in the English Channel.
Detectives suspect the 34-year-old migrant may have been attacked by fellow Channel crossers aboard the vessel before suffering a cardiac arrest that proved fatal.
Before yesterday the last successful illegal crossings were on October 7, when 119 migrants arrived on two large dinghies.
Just after 8am on Thursday, the Border Security Command vessel Contender arrived at Dover Harbour with the first batch of migrants taken from a dinghy in the middle of the Channel.
GB News counted 72, mostly young men, as they disembarked the Border Security Command vessel and were taken to the nearby migrant processing facility for health and security checks.
More than 80 other illegal immigrants were also spotted on board a so-called taxi boat, a large dinghy thought to have launched from a beach in Belgium earlier on Thursday.
The taxi boat called into a beach near Dunkirk and picked up dozens of other migrants who waded out into the water to clamber on board.
The latest arrivals have taken the total number of migrant crossings so far this year to more than 21,000.
GB News provided information about this latest incident to the Home Office and asked them to provide a statement.
They refused to provide a comment, saying that despite multiple requests, they had not been provided with the footage itself.
They have previously said: “We have made progress tackling the small boats. Crossings are down significantly, and we have just recorded the lowest number of summer arrivals since 2020.
“Joint efforts with international partners have prevented over 50,000 crossing attempts and seized 1,100 boats and engines since the election.
“But we must go further. That’s why we are boosting the number of officers on the ground in France and removing the pull factors drawing people here through illegal and dangerous routes.”
