Another key figure in the Jeffrey Epstein saga is dead.

Daniel Siad, the model recruiter accused of procuring young girls for convicted child sex predator Jeffrey Epstein, was found dead in his home in Colombes, France, earlier this week.

Marie-Céline Lawrysz, deputy public prosecutor at the Nanterre Judicial Court, confirmed the death in public statements on Wednesday. An autopsy will now be conducted to determine the cause of death.

The Nanterre prosecutor’s office said, via Mediaite:

“An investigation to determine the cause of death was opened on Monday evening following the discovery.”

Siad’s name appears thousands of times in Department of Justice files related to the Epstein case.

He continued working with Epstein even AFTER the billionaire was first convicted in Florida and forced to register as a sex offender.

According to the report, Siad’s exchanges with Epstein often consisted of Siad sending Epstein photos and details about young girls he had met and recruited as potential assistants or other workers. In one 2015 email, Siad sent Epstein a photo of a 16-year-old girl and her friend — and Epstein replied that the girls were “too old.”

Just recently, Siad spoke with CNN’s Katie Polglase and denied ever knowing anything about Epstein’s crimes — despite introducing him to two girls who later accused Epstein of sexual abuse.

Siad told CNN, via Mediaite:

“I trusted him and believed this guy was a professional person. I never heard anything from anyone I introduced to him who came back to me that they had a bad situation. I believed this guy is a professional person.”

Siad was also facing his own abuse allegations, including rape, from multiple models. He denied the accusations, telling BFMTV in May, “I have never raped anyone in my life.”

And here is the kicker…

Siad was NEVER questioned by investigators before his death.

A former model, who gave a deposition in June as part of the investigation, told the BBC, via Mediaite:

“An important link in the chain has just vanished into thin air, without there even having been a chance to recover the information Daniel Siad might have possessed — given that he was never questioned.”

Epstein, of course, died of an apparent suicide in 2019 while facing sex trafficking charges.

Now, another man whose name is all over the Epstein files is dead before anyone got him under oath.

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said his administration is in an active internal conversation with the city’s Law Department over whether he could direct police to detain Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he travels to New York in September for the United Nations General Assembly. In an interview on the New York Times podcast The Interview, Mamdani said Netanyahu “belongs in the Hague,” calling him a war criminal charged by the International Criminal Court over the Gaza war.

President Donald Trump said Netanyahu “will not be arrested, in any way, shape, or form, while in the United States of America.” Netanyahu responded on radio host Sid Rosenberg’s program that Mamdani is with “the terror actors.”

Irrespective of how one feels about the Gaza conflict or the current U.S.-Iran conflict, Mamdani’s attacks on Benjamin Netanyahu are part of a consistent position he has held from the beginning. He has maintained an anti-Israel, anti-Jewish, and pro-Palestinian stance, and now appears to support the IRGC.

His antisemitism and support for Islamic extremists are ironic given that New York is the most Jewish city in the United States and has nearly as many Jews as Jerusalem, the capital of Israel.

New York City holds the largest Jewish population of any city outside Israel, estimated at roughly 960,000 residents in the five boroughs and 1.4 million across the metropolitan area. Mamdani won the mayoralty without majority Jewish support: a CNN exit poll conducted by SSRS found 63% of Jewish voters backed independent candidate Andrew Cuomo, while 33% backed Mamdani and 3% backed Republican Curtis Sliwa.

Precinct-level results showed the divide ran along religious and ideological lines: Cuomo took up to 90% of the vote in the Hasidic enclave of Williamsburg, while Mamdani won comparable margins in nearby, more secular and gentrified precincts.

A February 2026 poll of 665 Jewish voters commissioned by The Jewish Majority and conducted by Mercury Public Affairs found that 82 percent were concerned about the “rise of antisemitism in New York City,” including two-thirds of those who voted for Mamdani, and 58% linked that rise to the normalization of anti-Zionism. The same poll found 61% believed Mamdani’s refusal to condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada” had emboldened pro-Hamas protesters.

A separate controversy involves a “New York City Immigrant Enclaves” map released by the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs and NYC Tourism as part of its promotion for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The map identifies 30 neighborhoods across the five boroughs but omits most white immigrant neighborhoods, including all Italian and Jewish enclaves.

Mamdani condemned the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran and the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as “a catastrophic escalation” in an illegal war of aggression, opposing what he characterized as a war aimed at regime change. His party, the Democratic Socialists of America, issued a statement standing “firmly in agreement” with Mamdani.

Fabien Levy, a Jewish Iranian who served as former Mayor Eric Adams’ deputy mayor, said that when Persians were marching in Iran and were being killed, Mamdani did not proactively offer support. Filmmaker Nim Shapira separately criticized Mamdani for condemning the strikes as “aggression” without acknowledging Israeli civilians hit by Iranian missile fire.

On the second anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attack, Mamdani posted a statement on X stating that in its aftermath, Netanyahu and the Israeli government “launched a genocidal war.” The same statement said he mourns Hamas’s victims, prays for the return of hostages, and hopes for “the dismantling of Hamas.” The New York Post reported the statement drew criticism from both Republicans and Democrats for its characterization of the Israeli military campaign as genocidal.

Mamdani was also criticized over his handling of a synagogue protest. Protesters outside Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills, a Queens synagogue, were recorded chanting, “Say it loud, say it clear, we support Hamas here,” during a demonstration against a real estate event being held there.

Mamdani waited roughly a day before publicly addressing the incident. Governor Kathy Hochul, by contrast, had written that Hamas “calls for the genocide of Jews” and that the chants were “disgusting” and “dangerous.”

As a state Assemblyman in 2021, Mamdani led chants of “BDS, BDS,” standing for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel, at a pro-Palestinian rally, telling the crowd he would hold every single person who has power in this city, in this state, in this country, accountable.

During a Ramadan event at a Staten Island mosque, he was introduced by Abdullah Akl, co-director of public affairs and civic engagement with the Muslim American Society of New York, who has a documented history of using the phrase “globalize the intifada.”

Mamdani’s political network includes documented financial and organizational links to relatives of Neville “Roy” Singham, a Shanghai-based former software executive who has funded groups promoting Chinese Communist Party messaging.

Jewish Insider reported that Goodwin, Singham’s niece, led the “Jews for Zohran” outreach effort during Mamdani’s campaign, bundled campaign contributions, and collaborated with Mamdani on organizational matters within NYC-DSA. Her parents are both NYC-DSA members who have donated to congressional candidates endorsed by Mamdani.

Separately, Mamdani’s wife, Rama Duwaji, liked Instagram posts from The People’s Forum promoting “All Out for Palestine,” a Times Square rally that The People’s Forum co-sponsored on October 8, 2023, one day after the Hamas attack. Attendees at the rally waved Palestinian flags and chanted phrases including “Resistance is justified” and “Globalize the intifada.” Some also chanted “700,” an early casualty count from the attack, while making throat-slitting gestures. Governor Kathy Hochul called the rally “abhorrent and morally repugnant.”

Singham himself is under a federal grand jury investigation in the Southern District of New York. The investigation began over possible violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act and has since expanded into a criminal tax probe examining whether funds were unlawfully funneled through nonprofits he controls, including The People’s Forum.

The People’s Forum, the organization Mamdani’s wife promoted and that Singham’s network has been linked to, was also part of a broader coalition that backed the Global Sumud Flotilla, an attempt to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza that drew backing from socialist and hard-left parties across Europe, including Spain’s Podemos and Sumar, Portugal’s Left Bloc, and France’s La France Insoumise, along with domestic Marxist-Leninist groups such as the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the ANSWER Coalition.

Israeli forces intercepted the flotilla and detained hundreds of participants. The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned four individuals tied to the flotilla in May 2026, stating it was organized by the Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad and Samidoun, both of which it says are “clandestinely controlled by, or act on behalf of” Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, with the PCPA “established with funding from Hamas’s International Relations Bureau.”

These sanctions are tied to the Democratic Socialists of America, the organization Mamdani belongs to and identifies with as a democratic socialist, called on all DSA chapters to mobilize in solidarity with the flotilla.

The People’s Forum and Code Pink also organized a parallel effort, the Nuestra América Flotilla, which sailed toward Cuba in March 2026 in what organizers said was solidarity with the island amid a U.S. oil embargo. The People’s Forum is co-directed by Manolo De Los Santos, who has participated in events with Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel and has been described by Cuban state media as a “friend of the island.”

A March 2026 “Hands Off Iran” national day of action was separately co-endorsed by DSA, The People’s Forum, and Code Pink, the same organizations already tied to Mamdani’s coalition through his DSA membership, the People’s Forum rally his wife promoted, and Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans’s husband, Neville Singham.

At the Times Square version of the protest on February 28, 2026, demonstrators chanted “Hands off Iran now” while a speaker told the crowd the U.S./Israeli strikes were “an aid to advance imperialist Zionist interests,” and signs in the crowd read “For Iran’s right to a nuclear deterrent” and “Free Iran from imperialism, theocracy.” The People’s Forum’s own Times Square protest combined all three causes into one set of demands: “Hands off Iran, impose an arms embargo on Israel, and end the genocide in Gaza.”

CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, has been tied to Mamdani’s campaign through the Unity and Justice Fund, a PAC that Mamdani political advisor Linda Sarsour said was the “largest institutional donor to the pro-Zohran super PAC in New York,” with campaign finance records showing it donated roughly $100,000 to New Yorkers for Lower Costs, a PAC supporting Mamdani.

CAIR disputes this characterization and says, as a 501(c)(3), it does not donate to political campaigns; the New York Post corrected an earlier version of its reporting after CAIR objected to being described as a direct campaign backer. CAIR was separately named an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2007–2008 Holy Land Foundation trial, in which five leaders were convicted of funneling over $12 million to Hamas.

CAIR co-founders Omar Ahmad and Nihad Awad were, according to a George Washington University Program on Extremism report, leading members of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee, the same committee that produced the Holy Land Foundation.

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Movie Review of the Odyssey – “Who Knew Ancient Mycenaean Greece Was So Diverse?”

by Kelly Walker at Freedom Talk Magazine

I’m watching the scathing reviews pour in for Christopher Nolan’s reinterpretation of the classic Greek epic, The Odyssey. Chances are, you’ve seen them too.

But I haven’t seen a review explaining why this movie is objectively bad beyond mere personal preference…so I wrote one.

You read that correctly: I said objectively—not subjectively. This isn’t a matter of preferring chocolate ice cream over vanilla. It’s more like choosing ice cream over strychnine.

Nolan has acknowledged drawing inspiration from Emily Wilson’s acclaimed translation of The Odyssey, a translation that filters Homer through a contemporary progressive lens by emphasizing themes of gender, power, oppression, and social justice in ways that differ from traditional translations. Critics argue that choices such as describing female servants as “slaves,” rendering polytropos as “complicated man,” and presenting Odysseus less as an epic hero than as a morally ambiguous figure reflect modern interpretive assumptions rather than faithfully translating the essence of the Greek.

Ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, Μοῦσα, πολύτροπον…
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, polytropon…
“Tell me of the man, Muse, polytropos…”

The result is not merely a new translation, but a reinterpretation shaped by contemporary ideological frameworks—often described as feminist or intersectional—at the expense of the poem’s traditional heroic ethos and mythic grandeur.

“Always be the best, my son, and surpass the others, and do not disgrace the generation of your fathers.” Iliad 6.208–210

This movie isn’t merely about art, but the politics of deconstruction, and so evaluations based on personal opinion or taste are worthless. The angst-inducing mosh pit of social media noise presents myriad opinions “told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing,” that shed little light on the issue.

Most of the critiques I see, including on one of my favorite movie review channels: fellow Scotsman, The Critical Drinker, focus on issues like historical authenticity: Helen of Troy was imagined as a fair-skinned Greek woman…and Achilles was definitely not imagined as a 90-pound woman pretending to be a man.

Many of us share the Drinker’s frustration: Can’t we simply enjoy a great story without being bludgeoned by “The Message!?”

The Odyssey – I don’t know, man… https://t.co/RdTR1BJFNE

— The Critical Drinker (@TheCriticalDri2) May 6, 2026

But even these criticisms don’t cut to the heart of why we are objectively right to dislike this movie.

I contend this movie is bad because it peddles lies and robs a generation of a priceless treasure. It presents a modern reinterpretation as though it makes Homer more “accessible” and “relatable” by substituting contemporary ideological dogmas for the worldview of the original. This isn’t simply artistic license; it blurs the distinction between what The Odyssey is and what modern interpreters wish it had been.

It doesn’t connect us to Homer or enlighten us with works of great literature, it buries Homer and mutilates his sublime work, and that does violence to our cultural heritage.

French philosopher Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) was one of the principal architects of postmodern thought and the founder of deconstruction, a method of literary criticism that challenged the idea that texts possess a single, objective meaning rooted in an author’s intent. Instead, Derrida argued that meaning is fluid and shaped by language, culture, and the reader’s perspective. If everything is relative, and truth a mere construct based on personal interpretation, why not “reimagine” a classic?

Applied to the Odyssey, this approach encourages each generation to reinterpret Homer’s epic through contemporary lenses rather than seeking to understand its original worldview. Critics argue that this mindset transforms timeless classics into vehicles for modern ideological concerns, while supporters contend that it keeps ancient works relevant by allowing them to speak anew to each age.

But the deconstructionist view is simply untrue. Fact check: Homer did have an intent in composing these epics, and that intent was preserved through generations—first by oral tradition and later in written form—enriching the lives of millions. His poems arose from a particular people, culture, moral vision, and historical moment. The themes he deliberately wove into these masterful tales shaped the moral imagination of the Greek world, enlightened countless readers over the centuries, and became one of the foundational influences on Western civilization.

When we continually remake great works in our own image, we cease learning from them and instead demand that they affirm us. Rather than allowing the past to challenge our assumptions, we domesticate it to fit our own. Perhaps that’s one reason so many modern adaptations feel interchangeable: the heroic costumes don’t quite fit and the spark just isn’t there.

As Wordsworth so presciently wrote in his poem “The Tables Turned” (1798):

“Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:
We murder to dissect.”

We carve up a woman to pretend she’s a man, and that’s her choice, but rational people can’t be expected to play along or conform to dysphoria and mutilation. Nor can we pretend the constant deconstruction of Western culture isn’t tearing it limb from limb, or that a banana duct taped to a wall is art to anyone above the IQ of a chimpanzee.

By constantly “reinterpreting” the story through a modern lens, idealogues distort the message, depriving society from experiencing the enrichment of a brilliant mind. It’s a theft of beauty, and an assault on meaning. That’s why so many modern movies are objectively terrible—they’re the same message repeated over and over through a “reimagining” of multiple movies. They’re burying the brilliance of Homer, stealing it from a society more in need of a diversity of thought than of skin color.

Marcus Tullius Cicero spoke these wise words: “To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.” (Orator, 120)

“But,” one may ask, “how is this any different from a modern adaptation like Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew becoming 10 Things I Hate About You?”

It’s a fair question, but a false comparison.

The 1999 film starring Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles is an affectionate homage to Shakespeare. It doesn’t pretend to replace the original, to “correct” its worldview, or deconstruct it into something fundamentally different. Instead, it borrows the story’s central themes and reimagines them in a contemporary setting while leaving Shakespeare’s work intact. That’s very different from approaching a classic with the intention of reinterpreting it through a modern ideological framework or recasting its meaning to better reflect contemporary values.

The Iliad and the Odyssey belong to a Western civilization, Greek culture, and a particular historical moment. We can never recreate that world perfectly, but we should strive to understand it as faithfully as possible. Stretching ourselves to enter another time and place is not merely intellectually enriching—it is essential to genuine wisdom and human flourishing.

This monstrosity of a movie is a Trojan horse for the warped political ideology that’s robbing the world of its color, vitality and cultural richness. Some gifts are best left outside the gates.

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President Trump highlighted the massive number of illegal voters across the country in a renewed push for Republicans to pass the SAVE America Act. 

The Department of Homeland Security recently said that “preliminary reviews” of voter records in California, New Jersey, Nevada, and Pennsylvania found the following.

• 190,832 non-citizens registered to vote in California.
• 35,152 non-citizens registered to vote in New Jersey.
• 15,903 non-citizens registered to vote in Nevada.
• 14,576 non-citizens registered to vote in Pennsylvania.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin sent letters to the four Secretaries of State, calling on them to work with DHS to clean their voter rolls last week.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Trump revealed that 278,000 illegal voters have been discovered on state voter rolls during an address to the nation on Thursday. But the number is “actually much higher than that,” Trump said, noting that Democratic states have refused to comply with DHS’s investigations.

WATCH:

According to a public report from DHS, the 278,000 illegal voters were found across just four states that provided the public data files to federal officials.

DHS has also found over 400,000 deceased registrants and over 28,000 non-citizens across states that shared their election files with the Department.

This comes in addition to the massive Chinese voter data breach, affecting 220 million US voters, China’s massive influence campaign on media and business leaders, manipulation of voting machines, and a complicit deep state intelligence community, which Trump discussed during an address to the nation last week.

Trump highlighted on the noncitizen voters, specifically in New Jersey, demanding that the Republicans “get smart and straighten out our crooked elections.”

“These are just the ones that got caught. The real numbers will prove to be many times this amount,” he said, demanding Congress pass the Save America Act.

Full statement below:

35,152 is the new number just released by Homeland Security of non-citizens registered to vote in New Jersey. These are just the ones that got caught. The real numbers will prove to be many times this amount. They are all Dumocrats! Republicans, get smart and straighten out our Crooked Elections! Pass The Save America Act!!!

New Jersey has especially come under scrutiny after Governor Mickie Sherrill admitted on Wednesday that a “serious software error” in the state’s Motor Vehicle System allowed 6,600 noncitizens to register to vote between June 2023 and June 2024.

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A massive Medicaid fraud scheme in Arizona has left up to 2,000 Native Americans feared dead or missing, with whistleblowers and attorneys sounding the alarm that the nightmare is still ongoing.

New whistleblower allegations claim vulnerable Native Americans were allegedly lured into white vans with promises of treatment, then plied with fentanyl, methamphetamine, alcohol, and other drugs before being imprisoned inside fake behavioral health homes where operators allegedly billed Medicaid for months of fraudulent “treatment.”

Arizona officials have previously estimated the fraud exceeded $2.5 to $2.8 billion, while the latest whistleblower allegations contend the broader network may have generated up to $12 billion in fraudulent Medicaid claims over time.

Even more chilling, as many as 2,000 Native Americans may be dead or missing as a result of the sprawling scheme, according to NewsNation Now.

Arizona officials knew about the fraud as far back as 2019, according to the lawsuit.

The news outlet reported:

A Navajo advocate who has blown the whistle on fraudulent “sober living” homes in Arizona says she began shining a light on the Medicaid scam targeting Native Americans after her own cousin was kidnapped by operators who plied her relative with drugs and alcohol.

“They told her she would go to Phoenix for the day and (they would) take her home. All throughout the ride they gave her alcohol,” Reva Stewart told “Jesse Weber Live” on Friday.

She said the people who took her cousin demanded personal information from her as they tried to persuade her to stay at a residence. When her cousin refused, Stewart said, they gave her a fentanyl pill and “told her that she would have to find her way home.”

When Stewart learned of her relative’s ordeal, she realized there was a connection between other missing Native Americans and white vans that were observed cruising around tribal communities.

A civil lawsuit against the Arizona government says state officials enabled what essentially was a plot to divert as many as 7,000 Native Americans to fake sober living homes in Phoenix.

Operators allegedly charged billions in Medicaid services that were not provided as handlers plied residents with drugs. An estimated 2,000 victims are still missing, attorneys have said.

During a recent interview, Stewart detailed the ongoing lawsuit and whistleblower testimony, describing conditions that resemble human trafficking more than addiction treatment.

According to whistleblower accounts, recruiters allegedly drove through tribal communities in unmarked white vans looking for vulnerable people struggling with addiction.

Victims were allegedly offered food, shelter, and treatment before being transported to bogus treatment centers.

Once inside, many never received legitimate medical care.

Instead, whistleblowers say patients were deliberately kept addicted because every additional day meant another Medicaid reimbursement.

According to the testimony:

• Patients were allegedly given fentanyl pills, methamphetamine, alcohol, and other drugs.
• Doors were reportedly locked from the outside.
• Security cameras monitored nearly every room.
• Fences surrounded the properties.
• Some victims allegedly escaped only by breaking windows or jumping over fences.
• There are also allegations that people attempting to flee were shot at and that some victims were buried in unmarked graves, allegations that have not been independently verified in court.

WATCH:

Update on the Arizona Medicaid Fraud Scam

Up to 2,000 Native Americans are feared dead or missing

The treatment centers would come into the are with white vans. They would feed people fentanyl pills, drugs and alcohol to get them into the vans

They would bring them to… pic.twitter.com/DvyvWuBdb9

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) July 20, 2026

The Gateway Pundit previously reported in 2025 that 22 defendants were indicted this week in Phoenix, Arizona, on felony charges, including money laundering, theft, conspiracy, fraud, and forgery, in a $60 million scheme that allegedly diverted medicaid funds meant for sober living programs to a church for East African migrants.

The 51-count indictment announced by the state’s Democratic Attorney General on Tuesday alleges that Happy House Behavioral Health billed the state over $60 million “for services not rendered and/or partially rendered, including but not limited to, billing for deceased clients, billing for incarcerated clients, billing for hospitalized clients, billing under incorrect billing codes, and billing excessively.”

Additionally, Happy Health is accused of paying over $5 million to Hope of Life International Church, which later wired over $2 million to “an entity in Rwanda.”

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