Former NBA star and fearless free speech warrior Enes Kanter Freedom was dragged out of Wintrust Arena Sunday night during the Indiana Fever-Chicago Sky game after a heated courtside confrontation with Sky guard Natasha Cloud.

Freedom was seated along the baseline at Wintrust Arena wearing a black shirt that displayed a basic biological definition:

“WOMAN — noun. adult human female.”

Careful what you wish for, @WNBA

Freedom of speech never looked this good.

Somehow controversial. pic.twitter.com/TZRa2M3mxc

— Enes Kanter FREEDOM (@EnesFreedom) August 24, 2026

Apparently, that message was too much for the increasingly unhinged WNBA.

The confrontation erupted in the third quarter after Cloud scored inside for Chicago. As the Fever called a timeout, Cloud turned toward Freedom, began pointing at him, and shouted in his direction.

Freedom stood up, held out his arms, and took one step toward the court as security personnel, game officials, and several Chicago players rushed between them.

An official then ordered Freedom removed from his courtside seat.

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The 6-foot-10 former NBA center briefly protested before security escorted him toward the lobby. He held out his shirt for the crowd to see as hostile Chicago fans booed, jeered, and flashed obscene gestures.

Former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom was escorted out of Wintrust Arena on Sunday evening after Chicago Sky guard Natasha Cloud confronted him at his courtside baseline seat.

Late in the third quarter of a game between the Sky and the Indiana Fever, Cloud scored on a driving… pic.twitter.com/2CA4Awv6wO

— The Athletic (@TheAthletic) August 24, 2026

Freedom later spoke with police officers before leaving the arena, according to NBC San Diego.

Freedom immediately responded on X:

“I just got kicked out of a @WNBA game for supporting WOMEN! Let that sink in, AMERICA!”

I just got kicked out of a @WNBA game for supporting WOMEN!

Let that sink in, AMERICA!

— Enes Kanter FREEDOM (@EnesFreedom) August 24, 2026

He followed that up with another brutal jab:

“It’s always women hating on other women.”

It’s always women hating on other women.

— Enes Kanter FREEDOM (@EnesFreedom) August 24, 2026

Cloud refused to speak with reporters after the game but reportedly met with league and team security.

Chicago Sky coach Tyler Marsh defended Cloud, claiming she was protecting her teammates and “people who need to be protected.”

More from Fox News:

Freedom, who was sitting near the baseline at Wintrust Arena, said the confrontation began after he celebrated a 3-pointer by Fever guard Sophie Cunningham.

“Sophie Cunningham shot a three, and I put my hands up to celebrate,” Freedom said. “Literally, a couple possessions later, Natasha came back and started screaming and yelling and said, ‘She’s not gonna sleep with you.’

“And I was like, ‘I am not trying to sleep with her. I’m just here to protect women and support her.’ And then, obviously, after that she started yapping, and she started to walk towards me, and literally I just got up, and then I was like, ‘I’m just here to protect women, and that’s all.’”

[…]

“She started to yell. She started to use some very heavy language. She started to actually cuss, and I was very shocked that there were a lot of kids and that there were a lot of teenagers at that game,” Freedom said.

“I just cannot believe that she was just cussing and using those F-bombs in front of all these kids. I’m sure she’s loved in Chicago and many kids are idolizing her and stuff, but that’s not how a WNBA athlete should react.”

[…]

“I was cheering for my friend Sophie because when she shot that three, I put my hands in the air,” Freedom said. “A couple possessions later, she came back and said, ‘She’s not gonna sleep with you.’ And I was shocked. I was like, ‘Listen, I’m not trying to sleep with her. I think she’s awesome. She’s a good friend.’ But I think it has a lot to do with my shirt.

The Fever went on to demolish the Sky 113-90.

Freedom and Cloud have a history.

In 2023, Cloud infamously declared that America was “trash in so many ways.” Freedom, who personally experienced political persecution under Turkey’s authoritarian regime, fired back and offered to buy her a ticket to countries including China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba, and Turkey.

“People have NO idea how lucky and blessed they are to be in a country like America,” Freedom wrote at the time.

Just ask your colleague Brittney Griner how “trash” America is.

Calling America trash huh?
Let me know when your season is over, I’ll buy your ticket and we can go together to counties like China, Russia, IRAN, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba, & Turkey.
Forget about calling them… https://t.co/A3Kfojx9jQ

— Enes Kanter FREEDOM (@EnesFreedom) July 3, 2023

The Gateway Pundit previously reported that Freedom declared himself eligible for the 2027 WNBA Draft after reviewing the league’s vague eligibility framework.

“If simply declaring who you are is all that’s required, then I meet every single requirement necessary to compete in the WNBA,” Freedom said.

Former NBA player Royce White later issued a similar challenge.

The league’s collective bargaining agreement merely states that “only players who are women are eligible to play in the WNBA,” but it provides no detailed public definition addressing biological sex or gender identity. No transgender player has ever played in the WNBA.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Commissioner Cathy Engelbert responded to Freedom and White by sending teams a memo describing the participation of biological males in women’s basketball as a “complex and nuanced topic.”

A WNBA task force subsequently met to discuss transgender eligibility but reached no decision.

The league announced it would need additional “weeks and months” to determine who belongs in its women’s basketball league.

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Left-wing extremists and Antifa militants stormed the Precious Blood Catholic Church in Los Angeles on Saturday, August 23, where right-wing activist and free speech advocate Eoin Richard was hosting a peaceful free speech, anti-Islam rally.

The confrontation unfolded after Connolly, known publicly as Eoin Richard, organized a “Take Back LA” free-speech rally criticizing Islam.

Connolly originally advertised the August 23 demonstration outside the Islamic Center of Southern California on Vermont Avenue.

Free Speech Rally. This Sunday at 1 PM. LOS ANGELES. pic.twitter.com/hlm1xnfUQu

— Eoin Richard (@eoinrichardUS) August 21, 2026

A pre-event advisory circulated by opponents described the gathering as a “far-right” rally and accused its organizers of targeting the Muslim community.

As counter-protesters gathered outside the Islamic center, Connolly reportedly redirected supporters to the nearby Precious Blood Catholic Church in Koreatown.

But the mob followed him.

According to journalist Andy Ngo, left-wing extremists and Antifa activists stormed the church, disrupted the gathering, and chased Connolly from the property.

Footage from the confrontation shows counter-protesters surrounding Connolly and repeatedly branding him a “Nazi,” the far left’s favorite label for anyone it believes should be silenced, intimidated, or physically attacked.

Connolly eventually sought refuge inside a nearby Starbucks, but the mob followed him into the business and surrounded the table where he and another man were seated.

Video circulating on social media shows blue paint being dumped over Connolly and his companion as counter-protesters crowd around them.

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Los Angeles, Calif. (Aug. 23) — Left-wing extremists and Antifa stormed the Precious Blood Catholic Church, where right-wing activist Eoin Richard was hosting a free speech, anti-Islam rally. Counter-protesters chased him from the church and into a Starbucks. They assaulted him… pic.twitter.com/nya52ytNY2

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) August 24, 2026

 

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The Gateway Pundit has previously reported on similar confrontations involving activists who publicly criticize Islam.

Earlier this month, The Gateway Pundit reported that Dearborn Police Chief Issa Shahin urged residents to stay home ahead of an anti-Islam demonstration and City Council meeting. That report also noted that activist Jake Lang had recently been attacked during Dearborn’s massive Arbaeen procession.

The Gateway Pundit later covered Detroit pastor Lorenzo Sewell’s explosive confrontation with the Dearborn City Council, during which Sewell challenged city officials to condemn Sharia law.

The disturbing Los Angeles confrontation also comes after the Trump administration unveiled a counterterrorism strategy targeting violent left-wing extremists, a threat the Biden regime and its media allies spent years downplaying or denying.

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The Ukraine war has underscored NATO and Europe’s continued reliance on the United States for defense. Ukraine’s air defense is running short of Patriot interceptors, and Europe has not been able to close the gap on its own. President Volodymyr Zelensky told reporters that Ukraine has only about a tenth of the interceptors it needs from the United States.

The Chatham House reports that the Ukraine Contact Group of European states pledged $4 billion for Ukrainian air defense in June 2026, including more than $1 billion earmarked for Patriots, but notes that it remains doubtful the United States will supply the missiles. Europe does not build the Patriot system itself, and Ukrainian-made Patriots are not a near-term solution. Analysts cited by Chatham House estimate it would take 18 to 24 months just to establish a pilot production line domestically.

European governments have responded by purchasing American-made systems for Ukraine rather than replacing them with European production. Germany pledged more than $2 billion in military aid, including Patriot interceptors, while Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, and Sweden joined the fast-track purchasing program. However, the arrangement still relies on American manufacturing capacity rather than an independent European supply.

Four years into the war, Europe has not built the domestic capacity to cover its own air defense needs, let alone Ukraine’s, leaving Kyiv’s interceptor stocks dependent on U.S.-made weapons.

Beneath the missile shortfall sits a deeper dependency: NATO lacks sufficient independent capacity in satellite intelligence and reconnaissance, strategic airlift, air-to-air refueling, command-and-control infrastructure, and nuclear deterrence, relying heavily on the United States for all five. The NATO Intelligence Fusion Centre, based at RAF Molesworth in the UK, brings together NATO and partner-nation analysts to produce shared intelligence assessments on military threats and terrorism for the alliance as a whole.

Though housed in Britain, the Fusion Centre was established with the United States as the “framework nation,” meaning American intelligence architecture and staffing underpin an institution that operates as a multinational NATO body. The Supreme Allied Commander Europe, who oversees NATO’s intelligence and surveillance forces, has by convention always been an American general.

A Kiel Institute report, produced with Bruegel, states that Europe depends heavily on the US not only for deployable troops but also for ‘strategic enablers,’ pointing to continued reliance on American systems for critical modern military capabilities even as European defense budgets have surged. Sven Biscop of the Egmont Royal Institute told Defense News that Europe is “almost completely dependent” on U.S. intelligence for satellite capability and everything that goes with it, adding that closing the gap will take time. The United States operated 246 military satellites as of 2023, compared with 49 for all of European NATO combined, led by France with 15, according to the same reporting.

A CSIS assessment of Europe’s options without the United States found the same imbalance in airlift, air refueling, and command and control, concluding that the loss of U.S. strategic airlift capacity “would severely hamper Europe’s ability to respond rapidly to crises,” because European nations never developed equivalent capabilities of their own.

Beyond satellites and airlift, most European NATO members have no independent nuclear deterrent and rely on the American nuclear umbrella, including U.S. nuclear weapons stationed in several member states under NATO’s nuclear-sharing arrangement. European defense also depends on the broader American security architecture of U.S. troops and bases stationed across the continent.

That same dependence runs through Europe’s broader security posture as the United States moves to scale back its troop presence on the continent. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has repeatedly played down the withdrawal, telling reporters in Vilnius that he was convinced there would remain “a very strong conventional” U.S. presence in Europe alongside the nuclear one. Later, during a visit to Romania, he said observers were “making a little bit too much” of the drawdown because troop levels remain higher than before 2022.

Germany’s defense minister, Boris Pistorius, called a 5,000-troop reduction anticipated rather than welcome, saying the American presence serves the interests of both countries while adding that Europeans “must assume more responsibility” for their own security.

GLOBSEC, the Bratislava-based think tank, reports that Washington has briefed NATO officials on plans to reduce military assets available to the alliance in a crisis, including fighter jets, strategic bombers, destroyers, submarines, and tanker aircraft. GLOBSEC described the reductions as the most substantial revision of American force posture in Europe since the end of the Cold War. It identified air-to-air refueling as a critical dependency, noting that NATO’s dual-capable aircraft assigned to deliver U.S. nuclear weapons rely on tanker support for the nuclear mission.

The EU’s Institute for Security Studies rated new Russian military action against non-NATO neighboring states as a high risk for 2026, concluding that the EU remains “nowhere near able to replace US guarantees” in the short term. Rutte, addressing a Munich Security Conference event in Berlin, told allies to “be crystal clear about the threat,” warning that Russia’s war-footing economy could leave it capable of using force against NATO within five years. He cited Russian production of roughly 2,000 cruise and ballistic missiles and 2,900 attack drones per month.

At the Berlin summit of France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and the UK, leaders affirmed their unwavering commitment to the transatlantic bond and “the vital role the US continues to play in the Alliance,” while agreeing to deter what they called “the most significant and direct threat from Russia.” At the Ankara summit that followed, all 32 NATO members formally reaffirmed their ironclad commitment to collective defense under Article 5, declaring that Russia poses “the long-term threat to Euro-Atlantic security and stability.”

That dependency has not stopped European officials from directing public blame at Washington when U.S. support wavered. French Prime Minister François Bayrou said in March 2025 that the suspension of American weapons deliveries meant the United States was “abandoning Kyiv and letting Russia win,” and called on Europe to replace U.S. deliveries quickly. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas responded to the February 2025 Trump-Zelensky clash by declaring that “the free world needs a new leader.”

Europe’s call for a new leader, however, comes as the continent remains unable to defend itself independently or scale up production sufficiently to defend Ukraine without American support. And what country does Europe believe could do better than the United States?

Germany has the largest industrial base in Europe. Yet four years of Zeitenwende rhetoric and an overwhelmingly national procurement pattern rather than a pooled European one have failed to produce strategic independence. Germany’s defense spending still stands at roughly one-eighth of U.S. and three-fifths of Russian spending.

The binding constraint has not been what Europe is capable of building. It has been what Europe has chosen, gradually and often reluctantly, to build while relying on the United States to fill the gaps.

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The Portuguese are realizing that Islam has no place in Europe, much to the chagrin of some vocal residents.

President António José Seguro signed a bill into law banning face coverings in public, dubbed the “burka law.” U.K.-based outlet GB News says the policy was adopted in Lisbon in July with a right-wing coalition in the government favoring it.

Under the new law, wearing clothing meant to hide or obstruct one’s face in public is punishable by fines ranging from 150 Euros up to 3,000 Euros. Forcing someone to cover their face could carry a prison sentence of up to three years.

Exceptions exist for professional, health, artistic, advertising, or entertainment reasons.

The ban also does not apply to aircraft, diplomatic, or consular visits — meaning Islamic countries with officials visiting Portugal will not have to comply — and it does not extend to places of worship, such as mosques, or holy sites.

Executive Director of Amnesty International in Portugal, João Godinho Martins, criticized the law as “a threat to human rights.

“Despite having removed direct references to Islam, which were a part of previous versions of the text, this new law clearly violates the human rights of Muslim women who choose to cover their faces. It is a direct threat to their freedom of expression and freedom of religion.

“No one should dictate what a woman may or may not wear, and no woman should be penalized for practising her faith, cultural identity or beliefs.

“Far from promoting women’s rights as claimed, this blanket ban is likely to have the opposite effect. Women who choose to wear full-face veils may face greater exclusion from public life, social isolation or increased difficulties in accessing education, employment and public services.”

Those comments certainly create a strange amalgamation — Islam and women’s rights.

Veiling in Islam is not a choice for women; it is compulsory. Quran 33:59 reads, “O Prophet! Tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks [veils] all over their bodies. That will be better, that they should be known so as not to be annoyed.”

The Islam-critical website The Religion of Peace explains the word annoyed is “yu’dhayna,” the meaning being more accurately “hurt” or “harmed” in the same chapter of the Quran. If a woman does not want harm to come to her, she should cover herself.

The U.K.-based outlet Express reports that 24 other countries have banned the burka, including European ones like the Netherlands, Norway, France, Denmark, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Belgium.

Do we need similar laws like this in the United States?

It would be a step forward in addressing the larger issue of a growing Islamic population.

Americans incorrectly believe Muslims come to assimilate and share our values. Not so — their allegiance is to the Quran and their prophet.

They have no intention of “becoming American,” but wish to insulate themselves within their own communities, ignoring our cultural norms, expectations, and laws.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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Ford is expanding production of their Lincoln vehicles in the United States, adding thousands of jobs and reducing reliance on Chinese imports.

The automaker said the move will “further strengthen Ford’s position as America’s No. 1 auto producer,” per an Aug. 12 report from CNBC.

The move is expected to bring “thousands of direct and indirect U.S. jobs” as more Lincoln models are manufactured domestically.

“Lincoln is a quintessentially American brand, and Ford is America’s automaker,” Ford CEO Jim Farley said in a statement.

The Trump Manufacturing Boom Continues: @Ford is reshoring manufacturing and bringing THOUSANDS of jobs with it.@USDOL is working to ensure our workforce has the skills to fill these jobs and power America’s manufacturing renaissance.https://t.co/aD2xt2K19u pic.twitter.com/7fX4fcdxrb

— U.S. Department of Labor (@USDOL) August 14, 2026

“This wasn’t necessarily the easiest path. In fact, it’s a path most of our competitors aren’t choosing to take. But Ford builds in America because we believe in America, and we’re betting on that belief again.”

Ford currently assembles Lincoln Navigator and Aviator models in Louisville and Chicago, with some of the vehicles exported to Canada, Mexico, and Middle Eastern nations.

In 2023, Ford announced that the Lincoln Nautilus would be their first car imported from China.

The policy is in part a response to the Trump administration’s automotive tariff policies.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said during an interview with Fox Business that “they’re bringing their manufacturing home.”

“Ford is going to rock us with bringing manufacturing back to America,” he added.

Ford’s US manufacturing expansion to bring ‘thousands and thousands of jobs,’ Lutnick sayshttps://t.co/W6tmU2x6Xw

— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) August 14, 2026

“Thousands of jobs, thousands and thousands of jobs coming back to America because of these tariffs on automotives.”

Lutnick argued that as more manufacturing returns to the United States in response to tariffs, more efforts to train younger American workers must be considered.

“We’re gonna have to train young people for these high-tech jobs,” Lutnick said. “We are going high-tech in America.”

Lutnick added that the administration is focused on growing advanced manufacturing in the United States.

“We are going to build these factories here in America, and that’s the key,” he said.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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The absurd has become an everyday occurrence.

Liberal-leftists in Europe (and around the world) are working non-stop to destroy their societies and implement frankly demented projects of pure dystopia.

Take Germany, for example, once home of the rigor and of the scientific method – now a safe haven for sexual deviants of all stripes.

The Telegraph reported:

“Julian Ferrat, the leader of the liberal Die Mannheimer (Citizens of Mannheim) party, has announced plans to throw a sex party at his local seat of government.

Mr. Ferrat said he hoped the party would help turn the southwestern city into a ‘swingers’ paradise’.”

So, there we have the insane German recipe: Shariah law plus bacchanalia.

And what’s a ‘paradise’ for Ferrat is the German families’ hell.

Earlier, Ferrat invited Germans to attend French swinger hotspot Cap d’Agde to ‘open their eyes’

“So far, 50 people have asked to attend, but first Mr Ferrat must secure a permit from the city council to turn the hall into a den of passion – a step that he admits will be quite difficult.”

“’At the moment, the focus is on determining which of the citizens who contacted me are seriously interested’, Mr. Ferrat, who has been nicknamed ‘Germany’s craziest councilor’, told The Telegraph. ‘Some of the 50 people who contacted me are part of the local swingers community, so they are ‘legit’. Some are people I don’t know yet … This week, I will start meeting the ‘unknown’ people in person’, the 35-year-old added.”

Read more:

Family Court Judge Steps Down from Child Custody Case After She Was Accused of Hitting on the Mother on a Swingers App

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