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Hallie Shoffner (hallieshoffner.com) The Democratic nominee for Senate in Arkansas, Hallie Shoffner, raised money in the summer of 2020 for a "racial and social justice" bail fund founded by a left-wing activist who was later sentenced to 17 months in prison for her role in a series of firebombing attacks on police cars in Little Rock.

Seth Bodnar (sethformontana.com) Seth Bodnar, the independent U.S. Senate candidate in Montana, has talked tough about China on the campaign trail. But while leading the University of Montana, Bodnar rebuffed concerns from Congress about the university's collaboration with an organization tied to Chinese foreign influence operations.

The imam at the mosque that Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed frequently attends has railed against homosexuality, arguing that it is "against human nature," and complained that all too often, Jews are teaching Islam in American universities, introducing "confusion" and "suspicion" to young minds. Abdelhamid Algizawi serves as the Imam at the Muslim Community Association of Ann Arbor, the mosque where El-Sayed frequently prays.

Talent and capital are fleeing Britain so fast that the Labour Government is announcing sanctions against Israel. Rokos Capital founder Chris Rokos, reportedly the third-largest taxpayer in the U.K., is leaving Britain for Greece, Bloomberg News reported. Other billionaires who have left the U.K. recently amid government plans for tax increases include Lakshmi Mittal, Sharvin Bharti Mittal, Guillaume Pousaz, Nassef Sawiris, John Fredricksen, and Michael Platt.

Abdul El-Sayed (Emily Elconin/Getty Images) Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed's speech at a controversial Islamic convention in Detroit this weekend was sandwiched between a video montage featuring a firebrand imam declaring that "America is going down" and a speech from another cleric who said members of Congress who voted for an antisemitism bill were "guilty of treason." The embarrassing spectacle on Saturday underscored the awkwardness of El-Sayed participating in a...

(seattle.gov) Seattle will no longer prioritize minority applicants to a community gardening program after a conservative group threatened to sue the city for race discrimination. The Seattle Department of Neighborhoods told the Pacific Legal Foundation this week that it had "reevaluated certain elements" of the P-Patch program, which placed black, Native American, and "Latinx" applicants at the top of its wait list.

Melat Kiros (Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images) Dozens of Denver students who ditched school to protest ICE attacked counterprotesters during a Friday demonstration that led to at least three hospitalizations. The anti-ICE protesters earned praise from socialist congressional candidate Melat Kiros, who called them "brave" and praised their truancy. The walkout to La Alma-Lincoln Park attracted hundreds of students in the middle of the school day, with some traveling for an hour or more.

(law.ucla.edu) On the 25th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, the University of California, Los Angeles, will host a symposium with speakers who have described counterterrorism as "racist," called for Israel to be attacked, and glorified the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

L: UNRWA Building (Said Khatib/AFP via Getty Images), R: Hamas militants (Abid Katib/Getty Images) The U.N. internal investigation into whether its own staff at the embattled United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) participated in Hamas's Oct. 7 massacre was hamstrung and ineffective from day one, according to an independent U.S. review of the U.N. probe, congressional communications, and Western diplomats who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon.

Colson Whitehead's latest novel is proof that good things come in threes. The acclaimed writer may not have followed up his two Pulitzer Prize-winning books The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys with another weighty offering of fact-based fiction about racial persecution, but he has, instead, now added a third and final volume to his series of New York-set crime capers starring Ray Carney—a respectable furniture salesman and part-time fence.