Last month, the United States Department of Justice arrested two men for operating a money-transmitting business utilized, it said, to launder money for criminals in amounts upwards of $100 million. These men are currently being charged by the Southern District of New York, one of whom is already incarcerated on the East Coast of the United States. At the same time, the other was apprehended in Portugal and will likely be extradited imminently. Ok. So what? Presumably, people get arrested all the time for laundering money — why should you care about these two guys? What makes this any different from the run-of-the-mill financial crimes often spotlighted on your favorite true-crime podcast or some NPR bulletin?

Well, these men didn’t transfer any money and weren’t running a money-transmitting business. Secondly, they weren’t using money at all — not in the sense defined by previous precedents in the U.S. court systems. The two men accused were the open-source developers behind a popular Bitcoin wallet called Samourai that simply allows users to coordinate the timing of the publication of their transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain to help obfuscate the revealing of certain payment details when settling on an open ledger. You’ve most likely heard of Bitcoin by now, with its anonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, and its legion of ardent supporters who can never seem to shut up about it. But what is Bitcoin, and why have regulatory bodies such as the SEC, the CFTC, and the DOJ — not to mention the House and the Senate — continued to bring it up in their discourse about the state of the economy?

Bitcoin is speech. Jailing those who write code that dares to facilitate the exchange of 1s and 0s to update a ledger is an attack on free speech, on everyone and everything this country supposedly stands for.

Bitcoin is a database, decentralized in write permissions and distributed among the node operators spread across the planet. Every Bitcoin transaction is simply an entry inscribed into the most recent state of a ledger, known as the blockchain. Each block is filled with thousands of new data entries, with each transaction consisting of three basic components: an input (where the coin comes from), an output (where the coin is going), and cryptographic signatures that ensure the sender has a claim to the coin being sent. But in reality, nothing is really “sent” at all.

Unlike your checking account, there are no accounts, or even balances, native to Bitcoin. A piece of wallet software written to interact with the Bitcoin network can tally up the coin held by a certain Bitcoin address and make the appearance of an account balance, but it is much more akin to the wallet in your back pocket stuffed full of differing denominations of bills — two 1s, two 5s, a 10, and a 20 — adding up to $42. The major difference, however, is that in spending Bitcoin, you don’t physically transfer the bills or coins; you simply sign the spending rights off to another party, updating the state of the Bitcoin ledger with zero items moving peer-to-peer within the eventual settlement. Now, it is important to clarify that when one initiates a new transaction, this string of bits containing the information needed to update the ledger is propagated between nodes, but nowhere within a Bitcoin transaction are “Bitcoins” ever transferred — simply the property rights to future updates on the universal ledger that is the blockchain.

A right to compute

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Bitcoin is speech. Bitcoin is code. Bitcoin isn’t money, despite its ability to operate as a medium of exchange and a store of value, and it certainly isn’t money under the jurisdiction of the United States. The compliance-driven statists within the Bitcoin community will tell you we must ask permission from our local governing offices to embrace Bitcoin to pay our taxes in Bitcoin and service our legal debts. But no matter the lobbyist’s efforts to incorporate the protocol into the legacy system of litigation and tax, the Bitcoin protocol is technically — in a literal sense — incapable of transferring criminal proceeds between parties. This framework allows us to conclude that Samourai Wallet did not operate “a money laundering service”; it could not even operate a “by-the-books” money-transmitting business using Bitcoin.

They wrote code: code that users across the globe, within a myriad of legal jurisdictions, utilized to exchange certain alphanumeric strings of data over the internet incapable of doing anything other than updating a spreadsheet. The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York claims Samourai has executed over “$2 billion in unlawful transactions” while facilitating “more than $100 million in money laundering transactions.” This accusation contains a complete misunderstanding — not to mention a simply unconstitutional reframing — of what a Bitcoin transaction is and how our elected officials should treat it.

Writing code is not a crime. Even when said code was written with the express purpose of enabling the committing of a crime, the criminal action takes place when actualizing said intention, not at the onset of the authoring or even distribution of the code. Code is speech and should be protected as such. Distributing code is an expression between parties of bytes reduced to bits, eventually to ones and zeroes. Any precedent that establishes anything other than this directly violates the First Amendment and, further, is against the should-be-obvious natural code of freedom of expression.

There are PLENTY of ways that Bitcoin the network can spread itself across the globe and how Bitcoin the asset can monetize to astronomical heights without bringing an ounce more freedom to the populace of the world. Bitcoin’s definition has been gaslit by the state to be within the purview of the red, white, and blue regulatory moat, and thus, Bitcoin is in dire need of a redefinition. Bitcoin was never about embracing the state and furthering the reach and influence of the elected officials, who were obsessed with changing the definition of speech, expression, code, and numbers. We have spent the last decade sitting back, watching the bookkeepers take their red felt pens and continually change the meaning of words, slowly bringing the frogs — and their dictionaries — to a boil.

A dangerous precedent

If updating a ledger can be reconstituted as a crime, any expression between humans can be labeled as such.

Bitcoin is a tool of empowerment, and Bitcoin is for enemies. Well, now our enemy, the state, is empowered, and its regulatory goons are barking like wolves at the gate. We must stay clever and arm ourselves with the rhetoric needed for the oncoming onslaught against those who dare to build tools that threaten the spellings of the state.

Writing code is not a crime.

Whispering numbers to a loved one cannot be redefined as a criminal act.

Bitcoin is not money but just a ledger.

A database.

Bitcoin is speech. Jailing those who write code that dares to facilitate the exchange of 1s and 0s to update a ledger is an attack on free speech, on everyone and everything this country supposedly stands for.

If you care about free speech, the time is now to stand up and use whatever remaining public squares we have to fight for the right to speak and express. The precedent made downstream of this case will set many of the state’s parameters to snuff out wrong-think on the internet.

You don’t have to care about Bitcoin; just know that freedom is being extinguished — not just the two young men incarcerated but the freedom to exchange information.

Free Samourai.

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As the 2024 election looms closer, Glenn Beck can’t help but notice that his page is being throttled.

And he doesn’t think it’s an accident.

“Just three months ago I had 95 million impressions every month, 65 million views,” he says. “Now we have about 60 million impressions and 12 million views.”

“There is nothing that we’ve done differently. Now, unless America is just bored to snot with me, which I completely accept that is a real possibility, we are being silenced. And it’s not just us; it is everybody who has a different opinion from this administration.”

This is called “electioneering,” and Glenn believes it’s “gravely disturbing.”

“They’re doing this to TheBlaze, they’re doing this to the Daily Wire, they’re doing this to everybody,” he says. “And so, you’re going to see less and less from us and our opinions, and it’s really a very dangerous thing because we are now entering a very dangerous time.”

“I’m going to be real honest with you too. I see a time that I’m not going to be able to talk to you about what’s really going on. If you don’t know by then, you probably won’t know. But we’re going to have to stay in contact some way or another,” he continues.

And Glenn has a plan to do just that.

“I have been working on several programs that we are going to try, and tonight is a program based on history,” he explains.

Glenn also has $80-$90 million worth of documents and other artifacts in a vault, and he plans on telling the stories behind them.

“I’m not talking politics; I’m just telling you the truth of history, and tonight is the first one,” he says.

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The owner of a day-care business in New Hampshire as well as three of her employees have been arrested after they allegedly sprinkled a drug on kids’ food, ostensibly in an effort to help them sleep.

Police in Manchester, New Hampshire, first began investigating the home day-care center in the city’s West End back in November. At the time, they had received reports that employees there had been adding melatonin to lunches served to kids in their charge.

‘Obviously they’re doing that to knock the kids out, but that’s something that shouldn’t be done at all, period.’

“Somebody who’d been inside the building … had heard about the practices and tipped us off to that,” said Heather Hamel, a spokesperson for the police department. “We also got some anonymous tips as well through our crime line.”

Hamel suggested the employees had perhaps “broken up” melatonin pills into “a powder-type substance.” She also explained a possible motive behind the alleged additive: “This is something that is an over-the-counter drug that’s usually used as a sleep aid.”

Finally, she stated that the melatonin was given to children “with no knowledge for the parents and no consent.” Luckily, no child fell ill as a result of the allegedly spiked food, police said, according to the Daily Mail.

The owner of the day-care business, 52-year-old Sally Dreckmann, as well as three of her employees — 23-year-old Kaitlin Filardo, 23-year-old Jessica Foster, and 51-year-old Traci Innie — turned themselves in on 10 counts each of endangering the welfare of a child, police said Thursday.

All four suspects were later released. They are due back in court next month.

Police also confirmed that the day-care facility, which was not named in the reports, is not licensed. However, day-care centers in home residences can operate without a license in the state of New Hampshire, so long as no more than three children are cared for at one time.

“If it was my child I’d be extremely upset,” said neighbor Gary Boucher. “Obviously they’re doing that to knock the kids out, but that’s something that shouldn’t be done at all, period.”

A woman at the address of the day-care center told 7News that she had “no comment” and directed all questions to her attorney. When the outlet contacted the attorney, she denied that the woman was a client.

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The professional gossipers on Walt Disney Company’s “The View” joined
other liberals in a state of apoplexy this week over Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker’s recent pro-family, pro-mother, and pro-life comments.

One of the co-hosts most prickled by Butker’s expression of popular conservative Christian beliefs and criticism of President Joe Biden was Sara Haines,
a self-described “slightly left leaning moderate.”

‘This is a very extreme religion.’

Former comedian Whoopi Goldberg starting things off with an uncharacteristic defense of dissenting views, attempting a comparison between the three-time Super Bowl champ’s commencement speech at Benedictine College and former Super Bowl participant Colin Kaepernick’s protest on the field.

“Listen, I like when people say what they need to say. He’s at a Catholic college. He’s a staunch Catholic. These are his beliefs and he’s welcome to ’em,” said Goldberg. “I don’t have to believe ’em. I don’t have to accept them. … The same way we want respect when Colin Kaepernick takes a knee, we want to give respect to people whose ideas are different from ours.”

Haines responded, “In the spirit of freedom of speech, I don’t want people shut down or fired for things they are willing to say. I will break with you on the comparison to Colin Kaepernick for this reason: Colin Kaepernick was standing up for the rights of many and saying in a social justice moment, ‘This is a reminder that we’re not there yet.'”

Haines evidently discounted Butker’s apparent willingness to speak up for the rights of the
estimated 87,000-92,000 human beings executed every month in the United States.

“What this man is doing is not just a devout Catholic,” continued Haines. “This is someone who is practicing something called the
Traditional Latin Mass, which is divergent from the majority of Catholics. It’s compared to being cult-like and extremist like some religions in the Middle East and Asia.”

“This is a very extreme religion,” added Haines.

The Traditional Latin Mass, also known as the Tridentine Mass or the Traditional Rite, is a liturgical celebration using the Roman Missal of 1962 that Pope John Paul II signed off on and was again cleared for use by Pope Benedict XVI in his 2007 apostolic letter
Summorum Pontificum.

Pope Benedict XVI
noted the two expressions of the rule of prayer found in the Second Vatican Council-era Roman Missal promulgated by Pope Paul VI and in the Roman Missal previously promulgated by Pope Pius V then revised by Pope John XXIII “will in no way lead to a division in the Church’s lex credendi (rule of faith); for they are two usages of the one Roman rite.”

In other words, neither the rules of prayer nor the rules of faith in the TLM are “divergent” from the Ordinary Form of the Mass with which most practicing Catholics are familiar.

“It is therefore permitted to celebrate the Sacrifice of the Mass following the typical edition of the Roman Missal, which was promulgated by Blessed
John XXIII in 1962 and never abrogated, as an extraordinary form of the Church’s Liturgy,” wrote the Roman pontiff.

In the TLM, the priest faces the altar during the celebration along with the rest of the faithful. The Catholic News Agency
noted that “[s]ome prayers are different, some prayers are expanded, and some prayers and responses are limited to the priest or those serving at the altar. Traditional Latin Mass communities follow a different liturgical calendar, too.”

Pope Francis has introduced stringent regulations for the TLM in the document “Traditionis custodes,” but it contnues to be practiced around the world in those dioceses where bishops have granted permission.

Haines’ suggestion that the TLM is “cult-like” effectively amounts to a smear against traditional adherents worldwide as well as the historical celebration Catholic Mass predating the 1960s.

Haines’ attack on Butker also hinges on the erroneous presumption that his comments are informed by his participation in the TLM as opposed to the church’s moral teaching, which has been codified in the Catechism of the Catholic Church and reiterated countless times by both the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.

In fact, Butker’s comments about abortion and euthanasia align almost verbatim with the church’s April document “
Dignitas Infinita,” which reiterates, that “all offenses against life itself, such as murder, genocide, abortion, euthanasia, and willful suicide’ must be recognized as contrary to human dignity.”

Haines still had more to say.

“And what bothers me about that as a Christian is that when people abuse Christianity, they often not only cherry pick from the Bible, they misinterpret and lie by omission, by taking out parts that would have explained something a little better,” said the co-host.

“So, what I can say to [Butker], as a Christian, is if you’re using this to oppress people or hold them down you’re not walking with Jesus. If you are using the religion, if you’re more obsessed with the religious rituals and practices than you are with the word of Jesus, you’re not walking with Jesus. And if you’re using it for the judgment of others and as a weapon to beat people down you’re also not walking with Jesus,” said Haines.

“So, I would really encourage him, really encourage him to find the best parts of faith and not diverge into extremist beliefs,” concluded the TV personality, clasping her hands as if in prayer.

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While Haines’ comment resonated poorly with various Catholics, others seized on another critique baked into her rant.

Billy Gribbin, communications director for Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah),
said, “Hey @sarahaines, please expand on what’s wrong with ‘some religions in the Middle East.’ Fascinated to know what you mean by that.”

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In City Journal, conservative activist and author Chris Rufo takes aim at the leadership of secure messaging app Signal, asking: “Is the integrity of the encrypted-messaging application compromised by its chairman of the board?” This article follows in a line of recent criticism of embattled NPR CEO Katherine Maher, who chairs the Signal Foundation board, and Signal Foundation President Meredith Whittaker. The article also raises concerns — echoed by Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey — about the app’s trustworthiness, given its links to left-wing activists and U.S. government seed funding.

While we share Rufo’s concerns about Signal’s leadership’s outspoken leftist views and activism, we disagree with his alarmism over the app’s core security and broad mischaracterization of internet freedom programs as vectors for domestic surveillance and censorship.

In contrast with Signal’s aloof anarchist founder, Moxie Marlinspike, Meredith Whittaker and Katherine Maher are both unapologetic progressive activists with radical views on the information ecosystem, online speech, and what values the tech industry should support. Before Signal, Whittaker was notable as a lead instigator of employee walkouts and activism at Google, attempting to stop the company from working with the Pentagon and leading an effort to purge then-Heritage Foundation President Kay Coles James from its AI advisory board.

Maher, who previously worked at Wikimedia Foundation, Web Summit, and progressive advocacy group Access Now, has a similar ideological record. As Reason magazine puts it:

Maher’s past tweets would be hard to distinguish from satire if one randomly stumbled across them. Her earnest, uncompromising wokeness — land acknowledgments, condemnations of Western holidays, and so on — sounds like they were written by parody accounts such as The Babylon Bee or Titania McGrath.

Here, Rufo’s criticism is entirely fair, and Signal’s board would likely benefit from picking less controversial leaders while fostering intellectual diversity to reflect its global user base better.

Enemies of your enemies

But the fact that Signal is run by an outspoken anti-government, anti-corporate, privacy maximalist like Whittaker, who built her career opposing collaboration between tech and government, also makes it an unlikely tool of the surveillance state (not to mention that an avowed anarchist founded it). Rather than being evidence of any particular conspiracy, the involvement of leftists like Maher and Whittaker is best explained as a reflection of tech’s coastal elite cultural bubble.

Let’s look closer at Signal’s alleged ties to the government. Open Whisper Systems, the initial developer of its protocol, received a series of seed grants from a State Department-funded initiative called the Open Technology Fund, a nonprofit that gives grants to support open-source internet freedom projects. OWS was later dissolved and incorporated under the Signal Foundation. However, its open-source encryption protocol was widely adopted, vetted by security researchers, and integrated into apps including Facebook Messenger, Skype, and WhatsApp.

The OTF’s programs have supported numerous internet freedom tools, including virtual private networks, the Signal protocol, and Tor. What’s more, other government funding programs have supported the creation of the internet, GPS, and the core technologies in our smartphones, as do Silicon Valley giants like Intel, Tesla, Qualcomm, Apple, and Google.

The federal government has many legitimate policy interests in funding technology tools unrelated to surveillance, including foreign policy, geopolitical security, and economic competitiveness. In particular, the U.S. government’s internet freedom programs are directly from Cold War-era anti-communist radio and television.

Ronald Reagan 1950s Crusade for Freedom commercial soliciting funds for radio Free Europe

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Today, these tools lend support to journalists, opposition parties, and dissident movements operating under authoritarian regimes like China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran. For instance, during the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, Signal rocketed to become the number-one downloaded app. Similarly, Signal usage has surged during the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. Used in concert with VPNs, secure messaging access is a powerful freedom tool. Citing an anonymous source, Rufo’s article asserts the State Department and OTF “wield open source internet projects made by hacker communities as tools for American foreign policy goals.” Indeed. This is a feature, not a bug.

The OTF has its origins in a project of Radio Free Asia, the sister organization to Radio Free Europe, set up in response to the Tiananmen Square massacre and the growing threat of communism in Asia. Later, the OTF was spun off under the Trump administration as an independent nonprofit funded by the U.S. Agency for Global Media and chartered by Congress under 22 U.S.C. § 6208a. With a mission to “advance internet freedom in repressive environments by supporting … technologies that counter censorship and combat repressive surveillance to enable all citizens to exercise their fundamental human rights online,” the OTF is at the tip of the spear, helping support pro-freedom movements worldwide.

In the 20th century, America used radio and television broadcasts to spread freedom behind the Iron Curtain. In the 21st century, the OTF is breaking the Great Firewall and allowing people living in authoritarian states to access free and open information from around the world. The OTF’s funding of internet freedom projects such as VPNs, Tor, and yes, Signal, is intended to ensure that journalists and dissidents have “unrestricted access to uncensored sources of information via the internet.” To guarantee communications security over the technologies it supports, the OTF is legally required only to support fully open-source and auditable technologies. The OTF’s authorizing statute requires “comprehensive security audits to ensure that such technologies are secure and have not been compromised.”

If this isn’t enough, any attempt by the government to embed a secret back door would also have to get past its robust technical community and global security researchers, who can review and verify its source code on Github. Maher, a non-technical executive who joined the board in 2023, is unlikely to have had any involvement in its codebase.

For federal agencies like the State Department, knowledge of a back door would trigger the Vulnerability Equities Process, which requires federal entities, including law enforcement and intelligence agencies, to undergo independent review and disclose known exploits under certain circumstances where there is a significant risk of abuse by foreign governments, criminals, and other bad actors. On the black market, Russia-backed hackers are offering as much as $1.5 million for a Signal zero-day vulnerability.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence

To argue that Signal is insecure or untrustworthy because of indirect funding from the State Department is to fundamentally misunderstand the origins, mission, and practices of both Signal and the U.S.’ internet freedom programs. Critically, such thinking risks pushing people to far less secure alternatives like Telegram, SMS, and iMessage. While Telegram’s CEO has been an avid Signal critic, messages on its platform are still not encrypted by default. In addition to being open source and end-to-end encrypted, Signal has the added benefits of encrypting metadata, obscuring phone numbers, and employing quantum-resistant cryptography.

Internet freedom programs and their analog predecessors have historically enjoyed strong bipartisan support, including Republican champions like Newt Gingrich and Ronald Reagan. Here, Rufo’s criticism should be a warning to internet freedom advocates against placing lightning-rod activists in leadership or cultivating a partisan ideological monoculture.

Considering the federal government’s long history of abusing surveillance tools — from J. Edgar Hoover to the Patriot Act — a base level of skepticism or even paranoia is understandable. Civil liberties proponents on both sides of the aisle are right to question and challenge the security of their communication platforms, including Signal. However, as an indirect instrument of U.S. policy, Signal’s role extends beyond just an app for secure messaging; it bolsters American values and safeguards the freedoms that define open societies.

Because it was created as open-source software designed to minimize what it collects and operate on hostile servers, who’s on its board or where its funding came from actually don’t matter that much. What matters is how it gets used in the world. On this count, Signal — and related programs like Tor, VPNs, and the OTF — have been a massive policy success and a worthy digital successor of programs efforts that helped bring down the Berlin Wall and end the Soviet Union.

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Parents who send their children to a Catholic school in the Archdiocese of Seattle reportedly profaned a statue of the Virgin Mary by adorning it with LGBTQ-themed ribbons and other paraphernalia in response to a pastor’s decision not to renew the contract of a teacher openly living a lesbian lifestyle in contravention to church teaching.

Earlier this month, parents with children attending St. Luke School in Shoreline, Washington, learned that kindergarten teacher Karen Pala would not be returning to the school in the fall. Pala wrote in a parent letter that Father Brad Hagelin, the pastor of the church and school, declined to renew her contract because he “does not approve of” her forthcoming “marriage” to a woman.

‘Actions speak louder than words, and a teacher ideally not only teaches the faith, but also is seen as fully living it by their students.’

In response, some parents and others started a group called L.U.K.E., which “advocate[s] for Love, Unity, Kindness, and Equality,” according to its website, and seeks “the immediate renewal of our beloved teacher’s ministerial covenant for the 2024-2025 school year.”

Though the website further claims group members “do not endorse active protests or rallies at mass or school,” it seems that some parents did not follow those guidelines. According to an exclusive report from the Post Millennial, L.U.K.E. group members interrupted mass on Wednesday morning, walking down the aisle of the church “and placed flowers tied with rainbow ribbons in front of the altar of Jesus.”

Afterward, they walked outside the church and placed flowers adorned with rainbow-colored ribbons at the foot of a statue of the Virgin Mary. “The intention is to make a visual show of our unwavering support for the LGBTQIA+ community, while also honoring the Blessed Mary,” the group reportedly said on its website.

That statement no longer appears on the group website. However, the website does mention the demonstration at the church and provides pictures of it, including an image of the rainbow ribbons near the Virgin Mary statue.

At least one parent, who requested to remain anonymous, was horrified by the display. “Pride ribbons placed at the feet of Mary and at the altar of Jesus is blasphemy,” the parent told the Post Millennial.

KIRO reported that parents held a similar demonstration outside school on Monday morning. In that instance, though, participants merely “recited prayers and sang hymns and tried to show some level of unity regarding the issue of Karen Pala.” The outlet did not report any incidents of possible sacrilege.

Fr. Hagelin defended the decision not to renew Pala’s contract in a lengthy statement viewed by the Post Millennial. In the statement, Fr. Hagelin claimed that Catholic school teachers also act in a “ministerial” capacity, and as pastor, he has the responsibility to ensure that such ministers live in ways that “convey the Faith with clarity.”

When teachers fail to live “in alignment with Church teaching,” he continued, “a pastor might find himself unable to sign a new yearly covenant in good conscience.”

“Actions speak louder than words,” Fr. Hagelin added, “and a teacher ideally not only teaches the faith, but also is seen as fully living it by their students.”

L.U.K.E. indicated on its website that Fr. Hagelin would be leaving the parish and school later this summer.

Alex Hagel, an attorney for Pala, issued the following statement on her behalf: “As a lifelong Catholic devoted to the teachings of her faith, Miss Pala is deeply hurt by Father Brad’s decision to end her stellar tenure at St. Luke for no reason other than the fact that she is engaged to a woman.”

The Catechism of the Catholic Church defines marriage as a sacramental “covenant by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership for the whole of life” and claims that marriage “is by its nature ordered toward the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring” (emphasis added).

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A Nashville hotel is being accused of religious discrimination after abruptly canceling a pro-Israel event.

The Israel Summit — a “gathering of pro-Israel supporters who unconditionally support Israel’s right to be sovereign in the entirety of the land of Israel, including Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, and the Gaza Strip,” according to the event website — was scheduled to take place at the Sonesta Nashville Airport Hotel next week, May 20–22.

‘In the end, the Sonesta Hotel made a corporate decision to cancel.’

But last Friday, a representative for the hotel abruptly canceled the event.

The representative told HaYovel, a Christian organization that is coordinating the event, in an email dated May 10:

We have received credible threats regarding the safety of your group, our guests and employees, our hotel and sister property, and to businesses in our neighborhood. Those threats were confirmed by law enforcement officials in the last 24 hours. Consequently, we are invoking our rights under the force majeure clause of the contract and unfortunately are canceling the event that was scheduled for May 20-22, including canceling any guestroom reservations associated with the event. We are sincerely sorry.

On Monday, the First Liberty Institute sent Sonesta a letter accusing the hotel of “unlawful religious discrimination in a place of public accommodation.”

By canceling the contract, Hiram Sasser, executive general counsel at First Liberty, said Sonesta violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Tennessee Human Rights Act.

The problem, according to Sasser, is the alleged threats “were anti-semitic and anti-Israel in nature and in line with the hateful rhetoric currently seen on some of America’s college campuses” and not sufficient legal justification to cancel the contract under its force majeure clause.

“It is un-American — and illegal — to cancel a gathering due to religious beliefs and quite frankly it is morally wrong,” Sasser said in a statement. “The Sonesta and others cannot surrender to terror in violation of federal and Tennessee law. If this hotel chain surrenders to pro-Hamas, terrorist beliefs, where does it stop? The hotel must make the choice of standing with American ideals or pro-Hamas terrorists. We hope the hotel will quickly reverse its decision.”

Moreover, Nashville Police Chief John Drake confirmed the hotel did not receive threats per se. Rather, the hotel was inundated with “external messages” demanding they cancel the pro-Israel event.

“The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department did not advocate, in any shape or form, for the cancellation of the conference at the Sonesta Hotel. Any inference to the contrary is false,” Drake said in an email seen by Blaze News.

“Equally false is the assertion in an online article that this police department voiced concerns about persons being in physical danger. In fact, members of the police department did, indeed, meet with hotel management at its request to talk about the conference,” Drake explained. “We let it be known that we were absolutely prepared to help the hotel create a safety and security plan, as we would with any of our city’s hotels, and offer additional support if needed.”

“At the same time, I am aware that the Sonesta was receiving a number of external messages urging that it not host the event. In the end, the Sonesta Hotel made a corporate decision to cancel. This police department was in no way a party to that decision,” he clarified.

Palestine Hurra Collective Nashville — an activist group “dedicated to the total liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea” — is the group behind those messages, according to the Jewish News Syndicate.

Last week, Palestine Hurra instructed its supporters to bombard the general manager of the Sonesta Nashville Airport Hotel with messages demanding they cancel the pro-Israel event, even drafting a script for supporters to recite via phone or email.

The post claimed that event organizers and attendees were gathering to “celebrate the death of civilians and recruit new Zionists.”

“Call relentlessly until this event is shut down!” the post demanded.

It appears the pressure campaign worked — at least for now. But organizers have no plans to cancel the event.

“We will move forward with this event at a different venue and show these thugs that they will not be rewarded for their unconstitutional, hateful actions,” HaYovel said. “Now, more than ever, it is important that America stands unconditionally with Israel and that we publicly show that we cannot be intimidated by pro-Hamas thugs.”

Dave Ramsey, whose business is located in the Nashville area, has reportedly offered to host the summit.

Blaze News reached out to a representative for Sonesta, but multiple messages were not returned.

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President Joe Biden’s daughter Ashley Biden has confirmed that her diary was real, years after the mainstream media claimed the diary was simply a conspiracy.

“Being a conservative since COVID has just been incredible, because you keep getting called a conspiracy theorist, everything you say, you’re a far right-wing nut job,” Sara Gonzales says, adding, “and then all of what you’re saying ends up being admitted to as true years later.”

Previously, Snopes had the Ashley Biden diary story marked as “Unproven,” but it has since changed it to being “True.”

Ashley had written in her diary that she had taken showers with her dad when she was too young, felt it was inappropriate, and wrote to herself, “Was I molested? I think so.”

Gonzales notes that his recent behavior as president, where he sniffs young children pretty openly, is not appropriate either.

“Not just sniffing. Touching, grabbing shoulders, pulling them in,” Jaco Booyens says. “Remember little, little, little, little, little Jeff Sessions? Tiny Jeff Sessions, right? Jumping in front of Joe Biden and Jeff Sessions’ granddaughter when Joe Biden on the Senate floor is going in to go sniff.”

“Everybody knows it,” he adds. “His own daughter is saying, ‘Yeah, weird behavior.’”

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Former UFC fighter Brendan Schaub responded to and denied several claims Ronda Rousey made about him in her book.

Rousey’s claims come from a leaked excerpt of the book “Our Fight,” which were posted to Reddit, and described her feelings about her ex-boyfriend Schaub and current husband, Travis Browne, fighting each other at UFC 181 in 2014.

Rousey claimed that Schaub “thrived on playing f***ed-up mind games” with her during their relationship, especially when she “had a fight coming up.”

Schaub responded to the claim, saying that by “mind games” Rousey might be referring to him simply not being in touch with her.

“When she says mind games, no it’s not mind games, the mind games came from, in all honesty, her camp,” Schaub said on his podcast “Fighter and the Kid.”

“I have nothing to do with that. Mind games? I guess that would mean … it wasn’t a match,” he explained, saying the two were not meant to be a couple.

Schaub then disputed more of Rousey’s claims about what happened during his fight with Browne, specifically the ending.

“When Travis knocked him out at the end of the first round, I didn’t think it could get any more gratifying,” the excerpt from Rousey read, as narrated on the podcast by cohost Bryan Callen.

“TKO, to be fair. Ground and pound. First lie,” Schaub interjected.

Callen continued to read:

“My ex covered up on the ground while Travis pounded away on him. The referee waved the match over. Then Travis, towering over the crumpled, semi-conscious body of my ex, leaned down and whispered something in his ear.”

Schaub rebuffed:

“I wasn’t unconscious and also wasn’t crumpled. I was in downward dog, okay … I was fully conscious,”

‘The difference is if I wrote a book she would not be in my book. That’s not an event in my life that I would put in a book.’

Callen then read Rousey’s last claim about Schaub, which was as follows:

“His words were indiscernible to the camera, but I swore I could hear Travis’ voice saying, ‘Ronda says f*** you,'” Rousey recalled in the book.

“That never happened. … I don’t think he said ‘Ronda says f*** you,'” Schaub immediately stated.

“Didn’t he come to your dressing room and say I’m glad you’re okay?” Callen asked.

“In the back, yeah. He’s cool. I have no issues with him,” Schaub said about Browne.

“But why bring it up 14 years later? I mean, she has kids and it obviously worked out [for her] and like, it’s just life,” Schaub added.

The former UFC heavyweight explained that while he wasn’t trying to disrespect Rousey, he wasn’t sure why he was included in her book. He then said that she would not be included in his own.

“The difference is if I wrote a book she would not be in my book. That’s not an event in my life that I would put in a book.”

“I’m flattered, I guess?” Schaub later added.

Schaub partially defended Rousey’s comments that the MMA media, including Joe Rogan, turned its back on her. Rousey called media figures fakes and “a bunch of a**holes” in other interviews about her book.

“The way the media treats her, I think, is not fair, but some of it’s justified by the way she treated the media [and] some of the comments she’s made,” Schaub claimed.

He continued to praise Rousey and said he was a big fan of her personality and work ethic, then cited her breaking barriers for women in mixed martial arts.

“People forget what she did for women’s MMA, and there would be no female MMA fighters if it wasn’t for Ronda.”

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United States Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) introduced legislation on Thursday that would block judges from issuing “weaponized gag orders,” Fox News Digital reported.

The proposed bill, coined the “Let Trump Speak Act,” would prohibit federal and state judges from placing gag orders against defendants in “any criminal or civil proceedings.” The legislation carves out exceptions, allowing judges to issue the order to prevent “the disclosure of confidential information provided in discovery, to protect the privacy of minors, or as part of a plea agreement.”

If passed, the bill would allow anyone issued a gag order in violation of the act to seek injunctive relief.

‘There is no right more sacred to Americans than the right to speak freely.’

Ogles unveiled the proposed legislation in response to a gag order issued by Juan Merchan, an acting justice of the New York State Supreme Court, against former President Donald Trump. The restrictive order prevents Trump from speaking about anyone involved in the ongoing New York criminal case in which he is facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.

Michael Cohen, a convicted felon and Trump’s former lawyer, alleged that he made a so-called hush-money payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet about an alleged affair she claims she had with Trump. Cohen claimed the settlement payout was made at the request of Trump, who allegedly paid him back afterward. Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges and denied the affair allegation.

Trump’s defense team has repeatedly requested that Merchan repeal the gag order, but each request has been rejected.

Ogles, along with several other Republican representatives, joined Trump at court on Thursday to show his support for the former president.

Outside the courthouse, Ogles told reporters, “If I started a story with, ‘A convicted felon and a hooker walk into a bar,’ you would immediately know it’s a joke. Well, that’s what we have here: a joke of a trial.”

“This is not a prosecution,” Ogles continued. “This is a persecution. We have a two-tiered justice system in this country. And if a former president can be targeted by a woke and corrupt judge, then you can be targeted as well.”

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In a post on X, Ogles stated that the Let Trump Speak Act “ends the gag order and pushes back against woke activist judges.”

“We have watched for years as a politically weaponized Department of Justice and Democrat activist judges have gone after President Donald J. Trump,” he told Fox News Digital. “There is no right more sacred to Americans than the right to speak freely, as guaranteed in the First Amendment.”

Ogles argued that “activists within the justice system are attempting to strip President Trump of this right for the sake of their own political agenda.”

The Tennessee representative’s proposed legislation currently has 10 Republican sponsors in the House.

Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) stated, “This continued weaponization of justice and harassment of President Trump must end.”

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) said, “We have seen how our institutions have gone after President Trump to try and forcibly silence him.”

“This vital American value must not be corrupted, especially by those driven by political rivalries,” she added.

The First Department of the New York Supreme Court Appellate Division wrote Tuesday that Merchan “properly weighed” Trump’s First Amendment Rights when imposing the gag order.

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Left-wing violence seemed to spike along with mindless outrage after Donald Trump’s election as president in 2016, and leading the way was Antifa — self-appointed social justice warriors hell bent on making others’ lives a living hell on the streets if their leftist causes aren’t obeyed.

Antifa’s “uniform” always has been comically consistent: masks and often dark glasses and goggles to disguise their identities, along with dark clothing and boots. Armed with sticks, bats, and hammers, the marauding leftists gather in packs and are ready to fight and primed to destroy. Oh, and the more of them there are, the more courageous they get. Funny how that works.

There are few things more stomach-turning than the sight of large groups of thugs getting violent with lone victims — because all of us know deep down that if you get almost any of them one on one and away from the safety of their pack, their tunes would quickly change.

The height of their bravery happens when they encounter lone individuals who haven’t a prayer of escaping unscathed. Blaze News readers won’t soon forget what Antifa did to conservative journalist Andy Ngo in 2019. Content warning: language:

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But it hasn’t been just Antifa. During the Black Lives Matter summer of 2020, a bunch of stunning and brave leftists got themselves in large groups and tried out straight-up intimidation against outnumbered victims. Videos showing them harassing outdoor restaurant patrons who refuse to raise their fists in George Floyd solidarity are painful and embarrassing to watch four years later:

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Their tactics and cruel bravado seemed to catch on. Sadly, it would seem your garden-variety leftists and everyday crooks discovered that they, too, can strut around in packs and gang up on anybody they want.

There are few things more stomach-turning than the sight of large groups of thugs getting violent with lone victims — because all of us know deep down that if you get almost any of them one on one and away from the safety of their pack, their tunes would quickly change.

Here are 19 of those nauseating moments:

5 suspects — one only 14 years old — charged in brutal beating outside convenience store; victim says one told him ‘Black Lives Matter’ as he kicked him in face

The victim in the June 14, 2020, attack in Klein, Texas, was waiting to buy some items when a group tried to cut in line, KTRK-TV reported. “I looked over and said, ‘There’s a line for a reason,'” the victim recounted to the station. After he paid and left, the group met him in the parking lot and took turns kicking and punching him, the station said. The victim told KTRK he just took the beating; video of the attack shows he didn’t fight back or protect himself. The victim added that one attacker told him, “Black Lives Matter, [expletive],” as he kicked him in the face.

Over a dozen thugs savagely stomp teen girl on sidewalk; teen accused in attack is shot dead in retaliation 2 months later

The March 2020 broad-daylight attack took place in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood. The size of the mob swelled in seconds as more suspects converged upon the victim. One suspect was seen pulling sneakers right off her feet while she was crumpled on the sidewalk. Days later, five males ranging in age from 14 to 17 were charged with robbery and gang assault. One mother told the New York Daily News she made her son turn himself into police: “When I saw the video I literally wanted to kill him with my own hands. I was very, very pissed off.” Two months later, one of the teens accused in the attack was shot dead. Police said it was a “retaliatory” killing over the savage attack on the girl.

Gang of 30 to 40 ATV riders surround, severely beat up 82-year-old motorist who was out to ‘pick up a turkey’ before Thanksgiving

The senseless attack took place in Boston in November 2021. The victim suffered serious injuries and was hospitalized but was expected to survive, police told WCVB-TV. The victim’s daughter told the station her dad “wasn’t doing anything wrong. He’s simply traveling somewhere, and then he gets attacked, and it’s heartbreaking for us to know that it’s not safe for our 82-year-old father to be out by himself. Discouraged at humanity in general to know that someone — or more than someone — can get together and beat on a defenseless elderly man.”

Mob of 7 to 11 stomps to death nightclub security guard described as ‘family-oriented man’ and father of 2

The deadly attack took place last July in Hollywood. “The victim was working at this nightclub, and a large group — for unknown reasons — confronted that security guard, causing him to fall into the street, at which time the group advanced and kicked and stomped him to death,” LAPD West Bureau Homicide Division Detective Samuel Marullo told KTLA-TV. A friend of victim Daniel Sandifer added to the station, “It was brutal, that shouldn’t even happen. They should’ve just let it go, just walk away. He had a life to live. I don’t know how they felt, but … he got two kids to go home to. Now he can’t even see his kids no more.”

A dozen ‘animalistic’ teen thugs, some with guns, randomly beat up man minding his own business outside store

The apparently random attack occurred in July 2023 when more than a dozen teens in three stolen cars pulled into a Cleveland gas station. Some of them walked up to a 34-year-old man sitting against the outer wall of the station store and began throwing punches, Cleveland.com reported. At one point, an attacker lifted the man off his feet and body-slammed him to the ground. The teens were later arrested on charges ranging from receiving stolen property to felonious assault and aggravated rioting, the outlet said. Four of them already had pending cases in Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court, Cleveland.com said, adding that three were previously arrested in stolen cars and the fourth was charged with improperly handling a firearm in a motor vehicle. Cleveland Police Chief Wayne Drummond called the attack “animalistic.”

Gang of teens brutally beat up HS student who has cerebral palsy, epilepsy, use of just 1 arm, victim’s mother says: ‘He couldn’t fight back even if he wanted to’

A blurred clip of the attack shows a gang of students jumping on and pummeling the victim in the gymnasium of North Clayton High School, which is about 17 minutes south of Atlanta. The mother of the victim told WSB-TV in its November 2022 story that she saw no teachers anywhere near the mob-like attack, and she wants criminal charges brought against her son’s assailants. The beating lasted several minutes, and she said her son suffered bruises and cuts on his face, WSB noted: “His leg was injured … he couldn’t walk out of the school yesterday. I had to almost carry him out to the car.” The victim also suffered a serious epileptic seizure when he got home that his mother said lasted about three minutes and was likely related to the attack, WSB reported.

Group of 7 to 8 teens pummel Fox News meteorologist on NYC subway train after he defended elderly man they were hassling

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The January 2023 attack against Adam Klotz took place when was returning home after watching a New York Giants playoff game. Klotz, 37, told the teens to stop harassing an elderly man, after which they beat up Klotz. “They had me on the ground,” he said in a video showing bruises on his face. “My ribs are all bruised up, too. They got their hits in.” Police detained three of the teens — two 15-year-olds and a 17-year-old — then let them go. A New York Police Department spokesperson said, “Juvenile reports were prepared, and their parents were called to pick them up.”

Mob of youth basketball players chase, beat up referee after game; victim reportedly receives 30 stitches after repeated punches, kicks 

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The attack took place in April 2022 inside the gymnasium of Stronghold Christian Church in Lithonia, Georgia. Video shows the referee trying to move away from the advancing group of players, then attempting to defend himself before they pull him to the floor and repeatedly kick and punch him. TMZ Sports, citing a Dekalb County Police Department spokesperson, reported that authorities responded to the scene, the victim needed at least 30 stitches, and he was expected to recover from the attack. WXIA-TV said no one had been arrested.

Group of thugs gang up on 62-year-old man, knock him to sidewalk with stick, stab him, slash him — and walk away smiling

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The November 2021 attack took place around 5:30 a.m. on West 44th Street near Eighth Avenue in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of New York City. There was no report made of property stolen from the victim, who was taken to Bellevue Hospital with stab and slash wounds to his torso, head, and nose, police told the New York Post, adding that he initially was listed in critical condition but stabilized.

Street takeover thugs shoot at, beat up motorist who hit one of their cars while trying to get through blocked intersection; they also set victim’s car on fire, loot store

The attack took place in February in Vallejo, California, near Springs Road and Rollingwood Drive. Police said cars doing donuts blocked the victim’s white pickup truck, and he hit a Ford Mustang while trying to get through the intersection. Attackers chased the victim into a convenience store, beat him, looted the store, and lit the victim’s truck on fire. KTVU-TV reported that they stole cigarettes, candy, lottery scratch-off tickets, and beer from the store.

Teens beat husband, father so brutally in unprovoked attack that part of his skull has to be removed to relieve pressure on his bleeding brain

The June 2022 attack took place on a Philadelphia street while the 53-year-old victim was walking to a concert venue. Two males and two females, ages 15 to 17, attacked the victim, identified only as Benjamin, WPVI-TV reported, adding that police said they went through his pockets and took his car keys, house keys, and credit cards. His wife got a call from the hospital saying he suffered severe head trauma with a brain bleed, WTXF said, adding that medics first thought he was hit by a car. “They easily could have killed him,” his wife added to WPVI. The foursome were arrested and charged with robbery, aggravated assault, conspiracy, simple assault, unauthorized use of property, and related offenses, WPVI said.

Mob of teens viciously beat up off-duty NYC firefighter who was walking his dog

The July 2021 attack took place when the 44-year-old victim was walking his 3-year-old Labradoodle named Dylan at Juniper Valley Park in Queens. He reportedly asked a group of “at least 100” teens to stop launching illegal fireworks at the park and jumping the fence of a daycare center across from the park, the New York Post said. “One kid took his shirt off and said, ‘It’s Fight Night!’ He said he was 19 and said, ‘I could fight you.’ Everyone took their cellphones out. There were cellphones everywhere,” the man told the Post. “They all came at me. … A kid came up behind me and hit me in the back of the head with a bottle, and I let go of the dog.” The attackers knocked the father of three to the ground, repeatedly punching and kicking him. Police said no arrests had been made.

At least 6 punks gang up on 14-year-old, punching and stomping him until he’s left curled up in a ball on sidewalk

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The December 2021 attack took place during broad daylight on the corner of Southern Boulevard and East 174th Street in the Bronx. Video shows the attackers repeatedly punching and stomping the victim. Emergency medical services took the boy to a nearby hospital where he was treated for a broken nose and then released, WPIX-TV said. Police said one of the suspects stole the boy’s cell phone before the attackers left the scene, the station added. Oh, and no one intervened.

5 thugs — all juveniles — surround, beat up 15-year-old boy on Philly subway platform in middle of day, steal his stuff

The March 2023 attack took place on the Septa Platform at 1400 John F. Kennedy Boulevard around 4 p.m. when several juveniles surrounded him. Police said one of the males punched the victim in the face and took his phone while the other males hit and kicked the victim and took other items from him. More than a few social media commenters noted the suspects’ apparent young ages, particularly the male in the middle of the composite image wearing the “1977” hoodie. “Suspect 3 looks like a baby!!” one commenter exclaimed. “This is so bad!!”

6 teen males gang up on 78-year-old woman, surround her, throw her to ground, rob her, then run off — on Valentine’s Day

Margaret Schultz told KENS-TV she was walking to an H-E-B grocery store in San Antonio to buy food for her dog a few months ago when the attack took place. Someone saw the attack and called police; Schultz said that they stole from her an envelope containing $900. “They could have killed me,” he noted.

Antifa cowards surround lone woman of color, try to steal her American flag, pull her to ground by her hair — but she refuses to let go

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The October 2020 attack took place in Portland and showed the left-wing militants possessing what most would assume was a distinct physical and numerical advantage over the lone woman — but they failed to wrestle the flag from her.

5 Antifa scumbags armed with batons gang up on man, beat him silly in alley — and their ‘comrades’ demand reporter not record attack

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The December 2020 attack took place in Sacramento amid a Proud Boys protest. Scott Rodd — the state government reporter for CapRadio News — was there to document the violence as Antifa showed up, too. Rodd caught the moment one guy was verbally antagonizing Antifa, after which the militant leftists rushed him in an alley and beat him with batons. “Multiple counter-protesters blocked me and demanded I not film,” Rodd added in his tweet. “I said (through a gas mask) I’m press and just doing my job.” One leftist is heard hollering at Rodd, “Do not film! Do not film! Do not film this!” as open black umbrellas attempt to block him from recording. When the beating ends, Rodd captures an image of the victim sprawled on the concrete and struggling to stand.

5 masked thugs gang up on street vendor, brutally attack and rob him in front of his 8-year-old daughter with special needs

Last September’s broad-daylight attack took place in south Los Angeles where Jose Carbajal was selling T-shirts and other merchandise. He told KTLA-TV that when his attackers approached him, he felt what could have been a gun pressed against him before he was thrown to the ground. The robbers made off with some of Carbajal’s merchandise, but they also stole $2,200, his car registration, his passport, and his debit card, which the robbers used to purchase gas, KTLA added. Carbajal — a single father — told the station the attack went down right in front of his daughter, who has autism. “My message to them is may God continue to bless them,” he told KTLA in Spanish. “One day, it will not go so well. All of these people out here, we all work very hard to sustain life for our families, as I do for my daughter. What they did was something not very kind.”

Gang of teenage thugs brutally beat up 15-year-old for his ‘Yeezy’ footwear; bystanders post ‘disturbing’ video on social media instead of intervening

Investigators said last June’s attack unfolded at a basketball court in Haverford Township, Delaware County in Pennsylvania, at about 9:15 p.m. One video shows a number of teenagers punching and kicking the victim while he was on the ground. Soon, he was able to run away from the attackers and knock on the door of a home in the neighborhood, after which the resident called 911. The suspects — who range in age from 14 to 17 years old — face aggravated assault, robbery, and other related charges, police said.

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