Millions of overseas customers are using American-made AI companies, and they don’t even know it.

A new report released by Anthropic will likely throw a wrench into what is known about the AI race, pointing to the idea that the United States’ adversaries are not as technologically advanced as they purport to be.

‘Over 12.1 million exchanges observed.’

Anthropic explained in a lengthy report that Chinese companies and other international role players are seemingly reliant, to some degree, on the American company’s AI programs.

To that end, multiple Chinese AI companies were discovered to have been forwarding their own customers’ inquiries to Claude and relaying them back to users as if they were their own.

Moonshot AI, which uses the chatbot Kimi, was described as “silently” forwarding customer requests to Claude instead of processing them on its own.

“Moonshot then displayed Claude’s responses to users. These users thought they were using a Kimi model, but received responses from Claude instead,” Anthropic wrote.

Anthropic said that in just a 10-day period, Moonshot relayed almost 300,000 customer requests to the American company, mostly to the AI program Claude Opus. This was done through over 5,000 proxy accounts predominantly located in Singapore and Japan.

DeepSeek, another Chinese AI company, was reportedly caught relaying its inquiries to Anthropic’s Claude too, even when it was a company using its product.

Anthropic said one Chinese company was “almost certainly not made aware” that its data was being relayed to Claude when it used DeepSeek to analyze internal documents that included sensitive information and organizational structure.

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Additionally, requests from an IT operator from a Russian government agency “associated with its Ministry of Defense” were relayed to Anthropic through DeepSeek, which allegedly exposed live credentials for a Russian government database.

Furthermore, a municipal Public Security Bureau in China used DeepSeek, which turned out to be Claude, to build a case management system. An engineer reportedly built a tool that compares a person’s movements against police records and used the national ID number of its citizens.

“Scale of distillation attacks attributable to DeepSeek over 14 days in July 2026: over 12.1 million exchanges observed,” Anthropic wrote.

Another Chinese tech company called Xiaomi was accused of “illicit distillation” — making 400,000 exchanges with Anthropic over the course of 20 days to siphon data to train its own AI models.

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Anthropic also revealed that three Iranian government-aligned accounts were using Claude to “set up influence operations campaigns.”

The campaigns had stated goals to shape public opinion at home and abroad and were working on behalf of the Islamic Culture and Communications Organization under the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance and the Islamic Propaganda Office of Khorasan Razavi.

The work was a portion of a nine-part “international influence” portfolio and included a complete organizational plan for the funeral of Iran’s supreme leader.

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Abdul El-Sayed has made no secret of whom he believes Democrats should represent.

Speaking to the United Auto Workers this summer, the newly minted Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan declared that it was “damn past time” for his party to be “firmly on the side of working people.”

The credentialed left wants the working class’ grievances but has little interest in its virtues.

El-Sayed is not a member of the Democratic Socialists of America; he calls himself a capitalist. But the Bernie Sanders ally has emerged as one of the most prominent figures on the insurgent economic left, campaigning against corporate power and billionaires while promising an economy that works for working people.

His own path to the barricades was somewhat less proletarian. El-Sayed is a Rhodes Scholar with a medical degree from Columbia and a doctorate from Oxford. And these days he’s hardly an outlier.

Let’s do lunch box

Once upon a time, the phrase “working class” evoked a very specific image. A guy named Sal with calloused hands, a steel lunch box, and a bad back, punching a timecard at seven in the morning to make sure his children could buy decent shoes.

According to a fresh report from the Pew Research Center, 60% of Americans now say “working class” describes them well. That includes half of college graduates and, remarkably, half of upper-income Americans.

So who exactly counts as working class anymore?

Historically, the answer was more complicated than Sal and his lunch box. In the old Marxian sense, the proletariat consisted broadly of people who survived by selling their labor rather than living from property or capital. By that definition, an adjunct professor with three degrees and an anemic bank account may have a better claim to proletarian status than the plumber who owns his own company and employs three other plumbers.

But that isn’t what most Americans came to picture when they heard the words “working class.”

Over the course of the 20th century, the phrase acquired a cultural meaning as well as an economic one. It came to evoke factory workers, mechanics, tradesmen, construction crews, waitresses, truckers — people who worked with their hands, collected an hourly wage, or made a living without accumulating a wall full of credentials.

The educated precariat

Now the two meanings are colliding. The modern socialist left has revived something closer to the older economic definition. Its emerging constituency includes a peculiar new proletariat: highly educated Americans with plenty of credentials but not necessarily much money.

Nate Silver recently dug into the numbers behind the Democratic Socialists of America and found exactly this pattern. According to the DSA’s own 2021 membership survey, 80% of members age 25 and older had bachelor’s degrees, while 45% reported household incomes below $60,000.

Political analyst Ruy Teixeira calls them the “educated precariat.” They got the degrees, but the economic status supposedly waiting on the other side never quite materialized.

What survived was their sense of entitlement to tell other people how things should be run. The credentialed precariat may have lost the salary and corner office, but not the conviction that the people who went to college should be telling the people who didn’t what’s good for them.

And so they didn’t merely join the working class. They appointed themselves its representatives.

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Prole drift

Teixeira notes that non-college working-class Americans are conspicuously absent from DSA activism. Socialist candidates, he argues, tend to find their greatest strength in white professional-class areas rather than working-class black and Hispanic ones.

The credentialed left speaks constantly in the name of workers while increasingly inhabiting a different cultural universe from the blue-collar Americans it claims to represent. They took the old Marxian categories, ran them through a dry cleaner, and turned class struggle into a boutique political identity tailor-made for the credentialed precariat.

The people who know the most about class struggle increasingly seem to know the fewest actual people who change tires, hang drywall, drive trucks, or repair furnaces. Meanwhile, the guy who actually owns the steel lunch box is increasingly voting Republican.

Pew found that 67% of Republicans identify as working class, compared with 55% of Democrats. Even among upper-income Americans, 61% of Republicans call themselves working class, compared with just 38% of Democrats. Among college graduates, Republicans are also more likely than Democrats to claim the label.

Stolen valor

That helps explain why the left and right increasingly seem to be speaking different languages when they talk about class. The socialist left sees class primarily through economic insecurity and the relationship between labor and capital. The credentialed left wants the working class’ grievances but has little interest in its virtues. Exploitation, insecurity, and victimhood confer moral status. Self-reliance, toughness, family obligation, and the stubborn conviction that a man ought to solve his own problems do not fit nearly as comfortably into the progressive worldview.

On the right, those virtues have become inseparable from working-class identity. It means taking pride in earning your keep and putting family before corporate diversity initiatives. Above all, it means despising the condescension of credentialed bureaucrats.

An independent contractor running a two-man framing crew might clear six figures in a good year, yet he has zero in common with a university administrator making the exact same salary. One builds real structures that stand against the wind; the other drafts policy documents designed to justify their own redundant existence.

True working-class Americans — the blue-collar workers who actually do physical labor — deserve better than sharing an identity pool with credentialed cosplayers. A diesel mechanic working 12-hour shifts under a hoisted truck engine lives in a completely different galaxy from a brand strategist working remotely from a coffee shop while identifying as a member of the proletariat. A fundamental difference exists between working for a living and belonging to the working class.

The modern left spent decades treating the four-year degree as the ticket to a better life, only to turn around and loot the cultural prestige of the blue-collar lifestyle when those credentials failed to deliver what so many graduates expected. Conservatives don’t need to own factories to champion the working class. They simply honor the dignity of hard work and the common sense of people who fix things when they break.

The credentialed class can speak in the name of the working class all it wants. That doesn’t mean the working class asked it to.

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Sydney Sweeney’s latest ad has some of the world’s top female athletes crying foul.

The actress stripped down for a new campaign promoting sports prediction market Novig, strategically covering herself with footballs, boxing gloves, and other sporting equipment beneath the tagline “Just Sports.”

‘I can’t describe how infuriated I feel when I watch this.’

Poor sports

The joke didn’t land with everyone.

The 58-second ad is an obvious appeal to male sports bettors. Sweeney appears nude but covered throughout, delivering betting-related lines as sporting equipment conveniently keeps the commercial suitable for YouTube.

Female athletes have accused the campaign of sexualizing women’s sports and undermining the women who have spent their lives competing in them.

British athlete Lucy Davis was among those unimpressed. “I don’t know wtf Sydney Sweeney was doing, but it’s 2026,” she posted, per Variety. “Stop sexualizing women in sport.”

Remarks on Davis’ social media called her a “new age feminist” and noted she is no stranger to provocative images either.

NCAA gymnast Gracie Kramer was also mocked by readers after she said “Idk what Sydney Sweeney was doing, but this is what a woman in sports looks like,” alongside her highlight reel.

Both men and women took issue with Kramer’s remarks given her sexualized photos, with one comment on Instagram joking, “How dare you pose with a basketball when you’re not a professional basketball player.”

Sweeney appeared to call out the athletes for their hypocrisy soon thereafter.

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Body positive

On her Instagram story, Sweeney shared photos of former UFC champion Ronda Rousey, as well as tennis players Serena Williams and Caroline Wozniacki — in addition to male athletes — who have all posed nude for ESPN’s “Body” issue.

This was followed by Sweeney posting her own ad.

On the Novig website, Sweeney described the ad as “embracing a fun idea,” while noting she is an equity holder in the company.

“The concept is simple: cut through the noise and put the focus entirely on sports. The campaign brings that idea to life with confidence, humor, and a playful edge,” Sweeney’s statement added.

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Tut-tutting Titmus

Additional Sweeney detractors included Aussie Olympic swimmer Ariarne Titmus, who said she was “infuriated” by Sweeney’s ad.

“I can’t describe how infuriated I feel when I watch this,” Titmus said, per the Guardian. “Not only is it a kick in the face to every woman who has dedicated her life to perfecting her craft, but every woman who enjoys sports for what it really is — teamwork, friendship, dedication, excellence, unity. How do we live in a world where monetising a woman’s body and sexualising women’s sport is still a thing?”

Moreover, British sprinter Amy Hunt said, “Sydney Sweeney, this is what women in sport look like,” in a post-race interview with BBC Sport.

She was immediately criticized for apparent hypocrisy on her social media photos, as well.

Likewise, Australian water polo player Tilly Kearns wrote on a post: “I absolutely fking hate Sydney Sweeney’s new sports ad,” Kearns said, before getting similar treatment as the other Sweeney critics on her own revealing post.

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A statutory review committee in the Netherlands has issued a lengthy statement defending the “termination of life” of a 1-year-old child.

The incident of euthanasia occurred late last year and involved a child described as “nearly two years old.”

This second group also claimed that ‘there was no continuous unbearable suffering’ and that ‘reasonable alternative solutions existed.’

The New York Times reported on the incident in June, though specifics regarding the case were then scant. At the time, Minister of Health Sophie Hermans merely acknowledged that a case for euthanizing a child between 1 and 12 had been sent to a committee for review the previous year and that a “termination of life” had followed.

The horrifying, heartbreaking details have since been released by a group called the Review Committee for Late Termination of Pregnancy and Termination of Life in Newborns and Children Aged 1 to 12 Years.

According to the committee, the child was born prematurely and had severe epilepsy, cerebral palsy, and brain damage as well as other debilitating conditions.

Citing the physician who treated and ultimately euthanized the child, the committee said the child endured regular seizures, a sleep disorder, side effects from medication, difficulty swallowing and breathing, and increased risk of infection.

Based on the physician’s assessment, the committee claimed that “the likelihood of death at a very young age due to complications was considered very high.”

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The committee repeatedly argued that the euthanizing physician did everything by the book in accordance with the 2024 statute change permitting the euthanization of children between 1 and 12 in limited circumstances. According to the committee, the parents requested the termination of life for their child and their position on the matter remained “consistent.”

The committee also said doctors “outside the region” were consulted for a second opinion. This second group of doctors concurred that the child was suffering and that the child’s situation was “irreversible” and that “there was no realistic chance of improvement.”

However, this second group also claimed that “there was no continuous unbearable suffering” and that “reasonable alternative solutions existed,” such as other medications and palliative care. According to the committee, the doctor indicated that he attempted the interventions the second group recommended but that the child’s condition only worsened.

The doctor then consulted yet another “outside” doctor, who agreed that ending the child’s life was the only way to alleviate the suffering.

Citing the physician, the committee seemed confident in the predicted future of the child and implied that the child would be a burden to care for:

“The child was severely multiply (intellectually and motorically) disabled, and the prognosis was that the child would remain dependent on care for life for all activities of daily living.””The child suffered from conditions with a limited life expectancy, without any prospect of improvement in quality of life.””The suffering was determined by the permanent, severe brain damage with no prospect of any reasonable degree of development and the eventual permanent lack of any possibility of self-reliance.”

In a section titled “execution,” the committee recounted the death of the child. “At the parents’ request, the doctor chose a method in which the child was gently put to sleep,” the statement said. Then after falling into “a very deep state of sedation,” the child died.

The committee acknowledged that the child could not and therefore did not consent to the euthanasia.

“In view of all the above facts, circumstances, and considerations, the committee is of the opinion that the physician acted with due care,” the committee determined.

Eduard Verhagen, a professor of pediatric palliative care at UMCG in Groningen, supports the committee’s conclusion: “It is good that the committee reached such a well-considered judgment. Many physicians and parents will benefit from this in the future.”

The case will still be reviewed by the Public Prosecution Service.

H/T: LifeNews.com

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In the year after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the grief surrounding his death has been compounded by a wave of attacks directed at his widow, Erika Kirk.

For BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey, the left’s widespread celebration of Kirk’s assassination isn’t surprising, considering they are already “godless.”

However, what does surprise Stuckey is that many of the attacks on Erika have come from those who “profess to be Christians.”

“I think what has shocked the conscience for me is people, even people who profess to be Christians, the just relentless attacks against Erika,” Stuckey tells Christian apologist Frank Turek.

“And whether or not you agree with her politics or whether or not you like her, whether or not you have personal feelings about her, just the callousness towards her,” she explains.

While Stuckey notes that she doesn’t “call everything demonic,” the attacks on Erika have felt especially “dark and depraved.”

“The way that people have targeted her in the wake of Charlie’s death … it’s demoralized me in some ways,” she adds.

Turek is in agreement, citing a biblical story.

“Jesus and the apostles called Satan a murderer, a liar, accuser, and slanderer who seeks to steal, kill, and destroy,” Turek tells Stuckey. “We had a murder a year ago. What have we had since then? Lies, accusations, and slander seeking to steal, kill, and destroy.”

“It’s textbook demonic,” he says. “And people say they don’t believe in the demonic.”

“The demons don’t go after ineffective movements. They go after effective people and effective movements,” he continues, adding, “And Charlie was enormously effective.”

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A Florida woman allegedly said her baby died when she fell asleep next to her son. However, police said the infant’s autopsy — along with a piece of the mother’s jewelry — tipped them off to something far more sinister.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said in a statement that deputies responded to a residence in Lakeland after receiving a report that a baby boy was unresponsive around 11:58 p.m. Sept. 6.

‘I think I killed our son.’

Police said the 3-month-old was rushed to Orlando Health Medical where he was pronounced deceased shortly after.

According to the affidavit, the infant had an abrasion and bruising on his head.

The sheriff’s office said:

An autopsy revealed that the baby had subdural hemorrhaging around the skull. Medical Examiner Dr. Stephen Nelson identified three separate impact injuries to the baby’s head. The impact injuries were located on the top of the forehead. Dr. Nelson also identified a 1.7 cm by 1 cm L-shaped injury to the baby’s forehead, which he stated appeared to be consistent with being caused by a square-like object.

Detectives interviewed the infant’s mother, 42-year-old Jessica Vlasac.

“Vlasac told deputies that she had accidentally fallen asleep with the baby in the bed and that she did not remember anything else, and that when she woke up, she found the baby lying face down on the bed, not moving and cold to the touch,” the police statement read.

According to the statement, “After the autopsy, detectives interviewed Vlasac again and observed her wearing a large, diamond-like stone ring on her ring finger that was consistent with the large, square-like shape mentioned in the autopsy.”

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Detectives executed a search warrant and obtained Vlasac’s devices and her ring.

Police said, “During the search, Vlasac spontaneously asked if the ring was what killed the victim.”

The statement read, “In a follow-up examination, Dr. Nelson examined the ring that had been confiscated from Vlasac and advised that the victim’s injuries were consistent with being struck by the ring, as a part of the impact injuries.”

The sheriff’s office stated that “there was no evidence of co-sleeping causing the death.”

The PCSO added that text messages retrieved from the night of the incident showed Vlasac bought alcoholic shots earlier that day, sent messages stating she killed the infant, and later asked the child’s father to delete the text history, WTVT-TV reported.

According to detectives, the baby’s father told them that Vlasac is someone who becomes “violent” when she consumes alcohol.

Police said the father told detectives that Vlasac sent him multiple messages saying that she had killed the infant, including one that read: “I think I killed our son.”

The statement said, “The father stated that Vlasac called him a few days later and seemed unusually normal when discussing the death.”

Police arrested Vlasac on Sept. 10 and booked her into the Polk County Jail, according to records from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office.

Vlasac, of Lakeland, was charged with aggravated child abuse resulting in the death.

The first-degree felony charge carries a maximum prison sentence of 30 years if convicted, according to WTSP-TV.

Police said the investigation is ongoing.

Vlasac remains at the Polk County Jail without bond.

Law&Crime reported that Vlasac has a pretrial detention hearing Thursday and an arraignment hearing Oct. 13.

Records from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office show Vlasac also was arrested on Aug. 2 in a separate incident. She was charged with battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting an officer with violence, and resisting an officer without violence.

Jail records show Vlasac was released Aug. 19 in connection with that arrest.

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A former Florida elementary school teacher was arrested after he allegedly showed pornography to students and touched them inappropriately.

Cesar Oriol Cardoso taught at the Sunset Park Elementary School until the Miami-Dade Schools Police Department arrested him.

‘Talk to your little ones, your children to help them to discern what is right and what is wrong in person ― and to talk and speak up.’

Police said Cardoso would show girls “inappropriate images or videos” after pulling them from physical education or other classes.

Some of the child sex-abuse material included photos of nude women and one image of a young boy with a woman. Other students reported seeing images that appeared to be of Cardoso himself.

The 53-year-old also allegedly touched or slapped several girls on the thighs or buttocks while making inappropriate comments.

In one instance he held his hand over his crotch and asked a girl if she wanted to “squish it,” according to the arrest report. Cardoso also allegedly tried to express his wish to kiss two of the girls.

Detectives on Friday interviewed Cardoso, but he invoked his right to remain silent.

Cardoso was charged with three felonies, including offenses against students by authority figures, showing obscene material to a minor, and lewd and lascivious conduct on a child under the age of 16 years.

“Behavior of this nature will not be tolerated under any circumstances,” a statement from a spokesperson for the Miami-Dade County Public Schools read.

Cardoso was removed from the school the next business day after school officials heard about the charges, the spokesperson added.

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Cardoso was held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center without bond as of Monday, according to WPLG-TV.

“I think it’s atrocious. I think we need to do a better job and have people better vetted,” said Adrian Marin, a parent of a child at the school. “Talk to your little ones, your children to help them to discern what is right and what is wrong in person ― and to talk and speak up.”

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Democratic New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani says a plan by the Trump administration to restrict welfare for immigrants is “cruel and unlawful.”

President Donald Trump is seeking to change the public charge rule to allow the administration to deny visa and green card applications to immigrants receiving welfare benefits.

‘We’re shaking in our boots over this supposedly terrible outcome.’

Mamdani and New York Attorney General Letitia James are suing to block the plan.

“The new public charge rule seeks to push immigrant families away from the programs that have kept people fed and healthy for decades,” read a statement from the mayor Monday.

“New Yorkers will be afraid to see a doctor or ask for help they are legally entitled to,” he added. “That fear will not stop at the families that the federal government is targeting. Families who remain fully eligible for benefits will feel a chilling effect, and all New Yorkers will pay for it.”

Seattle, Chicago, and San Francisco are among the cities that are joining the lawsuit.

Mamdani went on to accuse the administration of intentionally dividing New Yorkers with the new policy, which would loosen the definition of a “public charge” in order to restrict far more immigrants from getting welfare.

“The new public charge rule not only sweeps aside more than a century of established law, it is intentionally vague as a means of creating uncertainty and fear to isolate immigrant New Yorkers,” he said at a press conference.

“Make no mistake, this is an undisguised effort to strip New Yorkers of the services they rely on, the public benefits they are entitled to,” he added.

Mamdani’s lawsuit included a coalition of cities and counties while James’ lawsuit included about 20 states. Both were filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

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A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, which is named as a defendant in both lawsuits, ridiculed the arguments made by the plaintiffs.

“Let’s get this straight, sanctuary states are terrified they will lose federal funds because hundreds of thousands of illegals and noncitizens might remove themselves from American welfare programs,” said the spokesperson to Courthouse News.

“We’re shaking in our boots over this supposedly terrible outcome,” the spokesperson added.

Unless the legal challenge is successful, the new rule change will go into effect on Friday.

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When did facts or verifiable evidence get replaced by consensus within a specific community that continually repeats collectively held ideas or feelings? And is this trend why, everywhere we look, demonstrable truth is becoming subservient to imagination? Do we now live in a world where truth-seeking is taking a back seat to groupthink?

As far back as the 1980s, when regular folks were confronted with mics and asked for their man-on-the-street opinions on everything from when life begins to tactical strategy for war, I remember thinking, “This practice is going to be a problem.”

What happens to the fabric of society if what one personally believes attains precedence over what is proven to be true?

Why?

Because for the past 40 years or so, subjective constructs have been elevated to the status of fact and given far more credibility than verifiable truth. As if fallible human feelings determine what is true — they do not.

Granted, opinions are relative; we all have them, and in America, we can still freely express our point of view. This is also true of individual preferences and judgments, which remain relative. But more and more, people treat fictional beliefs and unsubstantiated claims as factual simply because large, loud, and strongly opinionated groups adopt and agree upon them.

Thus culture has become a delusional world where definitions can be altered to protect belief and political identity determines what is considered true or false.

This penchant for self-determined reality makes healthy debate almost impossible because what’s considered correct becomes tainted by distinctions shaped by a consensus around feelings rather than by credible substantiation.

The perversion of truth is increasingly evident in definitions of male and female, as well as in criteria defining human life.

Contemporary progressives seem most culpable for elevating subjectivism, self-perceived identity, and personal opinion above facts. Partisans on the left are so committed to redefining everything that moral or political debate has devolved into a one-way assault of accusations, denial, and the exaltation of fantastical beliefs.

One skill set missing from the relativists’ playbook is logic.

Viewed logically, calling something “my truth” concedes that whatever you believe or promote is personal rather than universally established as a certainty. The fallacy of “my truth” becomes most heated around topics like the dignity of life in the womb, biological sex, and who should ultimately bear personal responsibility when an “oppressed” woman commits a criminal act.

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That is where we have witnessed the tendency to promote personal opinion over what is morally, biologically, historically, legally, and philosophically accepted.

This is especially true when pro-life and pro-choice opinions clash. One side aligns with 95% of 5,502 biologists who agreed that human life begins at fertilization. Despite biological assurance, however, one side insists that a woman’s choice supersedes truth.

The looming danger is that if moral relativism continues to gain credibility, right and wrong vanish and opinion rules. The bad news is that opinions change, which means that on a collective whim, every life at whatever stage could become justifiably disposable.

What happens to the fabric of society if what one personally believes attains precedence over what is proven to be true?

What we have seen lately is that morally relativistic people are so steeped in the certainty that their opinions are correct that they applaud themselves for exposing those they view as evil, which seems not only an estimable goal but also a justification for violence.

Societal relativism has reached a boiling point and has put innocent individuals in the literal crosshairs of vigilantes responding to sentiments widely accepted as true.

According to this moral barometer, a conservative influencer can be assassinated publicly, and some who feel morally convicted by his views on biblical matters, politics, and traditional male and female roles think it’s fitting to cheer his death.

And these are the people who fancy themselves kindness warriors?

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Among progressives, this pattern has evolved to the point that a devoted husband and father like Charlie Kirk is derided, while a woman who admitted to strangling her three children is defended and supported by female activists who have convinced themselves that children are disposable and women are an oppressed class.

Because of political differences, these same women feel justified in demonizing Kirk’s grieving widow merely because she holds the same conservative convictions as her dead husband.

These people have convinced themselves that, based on personal opinion alone, Patrick Clancy should be strung up, drawn, and quartered and that one black, male juror, who they have collectively concluded is also guilty by reason of maleness, deserves condemnation.

As if feelings and thoughts were evidence, some online defenders have made extraordinary accusations against Patrick Clancy, not on demonstrable proof but solely on a fairy tale they have concocted in their own toxic minds.

So the kind of psychosis that accompanies the delusional reality our culture is currently steeped in — especially in political debate — has now been deemed the authority to determine who is considered insane by the insane?

If carried to its logical conclusion, a relativistic mind meld can lead to mob rule, which is now depicted as “democracy,” a political system in which the potential exists to have an innocent individual dragged to the guillotine merely because the crowd believed he or she deserved it.

We see this now when evidentiary truth is automatically dismissed as coming from the wrong source. Yet the truth remains true even if no one believes it; reality cannot be reinvented to suit our fallible human proclivities.

As Flannery O’Connor once wrote, “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally,” a more than 70-year-old observation that supports the contemporary idea that the clash between human self-deception and moral reality is nothing new.

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Federal immigration agents identified an “active scout” working near the U.S.-Mexico border and quickly apprehended him, U.S. Customs and Border Protection tells Blaze News.

Photographs provided to Blaze News show the man in camouflage clothing surrounded by federal agents whose identities were obscured.

‘This successful interdiction highlights the seamless integration of our air assets, surveillance technology, and specialized ground agents.’

The scout was located on Sept. 4 near the town of Ajo by “pre-positioned Border Patrol reconnaissance personnel” and an “MQ-9 aircraft crew from the National Air Security Operations Center in Sierra Vista,” according to CBP.

H60 Black Hawk helicopter crews responded to the scout site and transported five tactical agents who used a fast-rope technique to take the man into custody without incident.

Another photo shows what appears to be a large solar panel on top of boulders in the desert.

“This successful interdiction highlights the seamless integration of our air assets, surveillance technology, and specialized ground agents,” read a statement from acting Chief Patrol Agent Henry N. Laxdal.

“By combining these capabilities, we can quickly locate and arrest individuals attempting to facilitate illegal activity in our most remote desert areas, keeping our communities safe,” Laxdal added.

UCB said the man was processed by the U.S. Border Patrol at the Tucson Sector.

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The U.S. military has begun using high-energy lasers to destroy drones sent into the U.S. by Mexican cartels, according to a previous report from CBP.

Ajo is an unincorporated community of about 3,000 residents. It’s located about 42 miles away from the U.S.-Mexico border.

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