New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pushed the idea of ‘free’ college during a recent event at Cornell University, saying that this is the only way to rein in the ridiculous cost of tuition these days.

It is worth mentioning that this event was called ‘Students vs. Billionaires Town Hall’ so even the name of the event sets up an adversarial relationship between students and wealthy people. The message is clear. Rich people are the bad guys.

It’s also important to point out that there is no such thing as ‘free’ college. Someone is going to pay for it, usually taxpayers.

Breitbart News reports:

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) suggested “tuition-free public colleges and universities” as part of an effort to “rein in” the increased costs at private institutions.

While speaking at a “Students vs. Billionaires Town Hall” event on Sunday, hosted by the More Perfect Union, Ocasio-Cortez was asked what her team and the Democratic Party are “doing to ensure that middle and low-income families can continue to afford a quality, higher education.” The question came as Cornell University “recently broke $100,000 a year for tuition.”

Ocasio-Cortez responded by expressing shock at the tuition number, stating that it was “far more than what many households make in a year in this country.”

The congresswoman explained that what a lot of colleges and universities “do with their funds is more of a real estate investment strategy, than an educational strategy.” Ocasio-Cortez continued to state that colleges and universities put a lot of the funds toward “new buildings, and facilities that are often marketed as luxury,” while the adjunct faculty is “barely paid a living wage” and the quality of education is going downhill.

See the video below:

.@AOC: The best thing that we can do to rein in runaway cost at private institution is by having tuition free public colleges and universities.

“For anyone who wants to say that that’s pie in the sky and unrealistic… this is literally what baby boomers gave themselves.” pic.twitter.com/mvfnR9SCsc

— More Perfect University (@MPUniversityUS) September 27, 2026

American colleges have become little more than left wing political indoctrination centers, which is why Democrats want everyone to go to one.

Unless you’re planning to pursue a professional career and become a doctor, lawyer, engineer, architect, etc., you don’t even really need to go to college. So many young people today would be better off attending a trade school or joining the work force.

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A radical Biden-appointed federal judge in Washington, D.C. just sided with Democrat-run cities and counties and struck down President Trump’s effort to tie a slice of federal counterterrorism money to basic election security.

U.S. District Judge Amir Ali, a Biden appointee, ruled that the Federal Emergency Management Agency exceeded the authority Congress granted it when FEMA attempted to condition Homeland Security Grant Program money on changes to election administration.

Ali ruled Monday that FEMA cannot withhold 20 percent of Homeland Security Grant Program funds until states and high-risk urban areas take steps to verify voter citizenship, check the citizenship of poll workers, move toward hand-marked paper ballots, run a 5 percent post-election manual audit, and reconcile voters with ballots cast.

Ali vacated those election-administration conditions and the 20 percent holdback. He denied a permanent injunction and left the rest of the grant notice in place, including a separate requirement that recipients spend at least 3 percent of the award on physical and cyber election security.

The plaintiffs are local governments in Texas, Tennessee and Ohio, including Nashville and Davidson County, Harris County (Houston), Dallas County, Travis County (Austin) and Columbus. They sued after FEMA issued the 2026 Notice of Funding Opportunity in June. Awards were slated to go out by September 30.

According to Reuters, the decision is another courtroom setback for the administration’s push to harden elections ahead of the November 3 midterms.

The Washington Post framed it the same way: the White House wanted to limit counterterrorism funding for jurisdictions that refused to check citizenship status on the voter rolls.

The Gateway Pundit reported last month that Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin was moving to require random post-election paper-ballot audits and other safeguards as a condition of full Homeland Security Grant Program awards.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Mullin warned that voting machines with foreign-made components create “significant security risks” and declared that “election security is national security.”

Those conditions were not invented out of thin air. The 2026 NOFO required:

• A plan to transition off barcode/QR-code voting systems to equipment that accepts hand-marked paper ballots
• Proof of a 5 percent post-election manual audit
• Reconciliation of voters who voted with ballots cast
• Use of DHS’s SAVE system to check citizenship on the entire state voter registration database within 120 days, with removal of verified non-citizens consistent with law
• Citizenship verification for poll workers, election-system operators and vendors

FEMA said it would hold back 20 percent of a state’s grant,  hundreds of millions of dollars nationwide, until proof of compliance. The underlying program still runs about $1 billion a year to help state and local governments prevent, prepare for and respond to acts of terrorism.

Judge Ali, a Biden nominee confirmed 50-49 in November 2024, said Congress never gave FEMA authority to extract those reforms at state and local expense.

He wrote that the statute lets FEMA fund projects proposed by states and high-risk urban areas, not withhold counterterrorism money until they change “routine aspects of election administration.” He also said the conditions were not reasonably related to preparing for or responding to acts of terrorism.

That is the legal wrapping. The political reality is simpler: Democrat-controlled cities do not want to be forced to clean voter rolls with the federal SAVE system, verify who is working the polls, or move off machines that tabulate barcodes instead of the voter’s actual marks.

DHS has already designated election systems as critical infrastructure. Foreign adversaries target those systems. Non-citizen voting is illegal. Poll workers who are not U.S. citizens operating election equipment is an obvious vulnerability. Hand-marked paper and a real audit are how you check the machines. The judge treated all of that as “routine election administration” outside the counterterrorism statute.

This is the same Judge Amir Ali The Gateway Pundit has covered before. He is the former president and executive director of the left-wing MacArthur Justice Center. He was confirmed on a near party-line vote after Republicans raised his group’s record on police and BLM-related advocacy.

In 2025 he blocked Trump administration efforts to freeze USAID spending and ordered the government to keep paying foreign-aid contractors. The Gateway Pundit reported that Ali had donated to Democrats, including Joe Biden, and had previously accused Trump of “animus” and “hatred towards Muslim people.”

GOP Rep. Andy Ogles even drafted articles of impeachment after Ali’s USAID orders.

Canadian-born, Harvard Law, Biden’s last-minute D.C. appointment, and now he is telling the Trump administration it cannot use homeland-security grant leverage to require citizenship checks on voter rolls and poll workers.

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Kevin Mullin, a House Democrat from California, is now pushing a bill that would redefine BB guns as dangerous firearms.

This is just further proof that Democrats will never, ever stop pushing various forms of gun control. Many Americans become familiar with guns in their youth by owning a BB gun. If you restrict these types of guns, fewer Americans will have that type of experience.

Is that the end goal here?

Breitbart News reports:

U.S. Rep. Kevin Mullin introduced legislation Friday to close what he calls “a dangerous gap” by redefining BB and pellet guns as firearms.

If the redefinition were adopted it would require BB and pellet gun buyers to undergo the same background checks that prospective buyers of AR-15s, 9mm pistols, and other firearms are subject to now.

Daisy BB Guns used an X post to comment on the proposed legislation, writing, “[This bill] would include guns like the Daisy 880. Their goal is to eventually include all airguns. If passed it will treat airguns producing ‘high velocity’ as firearms. [The bill] was introduced… to the House of Representatives… it would add all airguns that produce 800 or more feet per second velocities in .177 caliber, and all pellets over .25 caliber.”

If a weapon is powerful enough to kill, it should be subject to the same common-sense safety standards as any other gun. Read more about my bill at https://t.co/mVqPpjtOKE https://t.co/M8xgc3iiZW

— Kevin Mullin (@RepKevinMullin) September 25, 2026

Tom Knighton comments on this at Bearing Arms:

There’s no “loophole” here. They’re not firearms. The law was created around firearms.

Air guns can kill, sure, but the odds of it happening are much slimmer.

I mean, Mullin all but admits it when he points out that it was a single constituent who approached him wanting this. Garrett took his own life, and he did it with an air gun. There’s no mention of how old Garrett was, but I do know that if there was some kind of epidemic of people committing suicide with air guns, we’d have more than just one person asking Mullin for this.

And what about other means of suicide? If we’re going to regulate something that causes a level of serious harm that might not even reach tens of victims, then what about razor blades, rope, car exhaust, and tall buildings?

It’s all about control.

Democrats hate the Second Amendment and do not want average Americans to be armed.

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Michael Desronvil, the lone black holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial broke his silence on Monday evening in a video message obtained by Sean Hannity.

Eleven jurors were ready to acquit Lindsay Clancy even though she admitted that she had fatally strangled her three young children.

Lindsay Clancy sent her husband, Patrick Clancy, out of the house to run errands while she strangled their three young children to death in January 2023.

The prosecution argued that Lindsay Clancy should be charged with premeditated murder because she planned the killings and knew what she was doing was wrong at the time of the murders.

Clancy was never diagnosed with postpartum psychosis.

Judge Sullivan earlier this month declared a mistrial after the jury was deadlocked because one lone juror refused to buckle under pressure.

Michael Desronvil, a devout Christian and son of a Haitian immigrant, was doxxed after NBC Boston spearheaded a harassment campaign against him.

Last week, Desronvil released a statement to NewsNation and pushed back against claims that he ‘had doubts’ about whether Lindsay Clancy knew what she was doing at the time she killed her kids.

“I didn’t have any doubts. As I tried to explain different possible theories during deliberation, I kept getting cut off as if I had doubts based on the evidence present,” he said last week.

“Based on all the physical evidence, key witnesses, and what the prosecution presents, I thought it was enough proof that she [Clancy] knew exactly what she was doing and planned,” he said.

Desronvil has lawyered up.

On Monday evening, Michael Desronvil released a video message to his supporters.

Hi, my name is Michael Desribvil, also known as the Lone Juror.

I know the whole focus has been on me, but we want to reel everything back and put the focus on the 3 angels that is— that’s at hand. The ones that can’t speak for themselves, the ones that can’t defend themselves, and the one that can’t fight the battles. And those are Cora, Dawson, and Callan.

A little bit about me. I want to thank God for my Catholic faith. I want to thank God for blessing me with the ability to love my daughter. And foremost, I would like to thank everyone, every individual that have supported me throughout this difficult situation.

Your prayers, your emotional support, Your psychological support is tremendous to my heart that I feel, that I sense, that I know. I do want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. Thank you.

WATCH:

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There he goes again.

James Talarico, the weird Democrat running for U.S. Senate in Texas, once again invoked the name of Jesus to push far left political policies like ‘Medicare for All’ during a campaign event.

This is what he does. The only time he ever talks about his supposedly deep faith is to use it to advance far left politics and it is always him framing it as if to say Jesus would be on his side.

RedState reports:

We’ve seen a lot of wild statements from Texas Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico.

But Talarico posted a screed on Sunday about how his healthcare positions were based on “biblical grounds,” then misused Jesus to justify his takes.

When Jesus healed the sick, he didn’t ask for a deductible. So when I fight for universal healthcare, I’m doing it on biblical grounds.

When Jesus fed the hungry, he didn’t price gouge to turn a profit. So when I say that no child in the state of Texas should go to bed hungry, I’m doing it on biblical grounds.

And when the Hebrew prophets saw corruption in high places, they spoke truth to power. So when I take on the politicians who are serving themselves and not the people, I’m doing it on biblical grounds.

Watch the clip below:

When Jesus healed the sick, he didn’t ask for a deductible.

When he fed the hungry, he didn’t price gouge for a profit.

When the Hebrew prophets saw corruption, they spoke truth to power.

When I take on this corrupt system, I’m doing it on biblical grounds. pic.twitter.com/cpxUXeYE5W

— James Talarico (@jamestalarico) September 27, 2026

This is Talarico’s entire routine. Invoke religion and suggest that God is on the left’s side on every issue.

A few weeks ago, this clown was fundraising in Hollywood. Now he is in New York City.

NEW: James Talarico is raising money in New York City tonight with a host committee packed with allies of Democratic Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani https://t.co/w2kdZPtv79

— Brandon Waltens (@bwaltens) September 28, 2026

The people of Texas can see through all of this, right?

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