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Vivek Ramaswamy posted on X a clip from Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest criticizing the left’s identity politics based on race, gender and sexuality. His caption equated that view with the right’s notion of American identity defined by lineage, blood and soil, declaring both wrong. 🔗 Source ⚡️ @FolkishObserver | 📱 Follow | 📱 Follow

The US military has begun conducting large-scale airstrikes across central Syria on ISIS targets in response to an attack on a US convoy last Saturday that left two servicemen dead and several more wounded. 🔗 Source ⚡️ @FolkishObserver | 📱 Follow | 📱 Follow

A federal jury in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, convicted Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan on Thursday of felony obstruction for helping an undocumented immigrant evade federal agents in her courthouse. 🔗 Source ⚡️ @FolkishObserver | 📱 Follow | 📱 Follow

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced the immediate pause of the diversity visa lottery program at President Trump's direction. The action follows the Brown University shooting by Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, who entered the U.S. via the program in 2017 and received a green card. 🔗 Source ⚡️ @FolkishObserver | 📱 Follow | 📱 Follow

A federal jury in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, convicted Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan on Thursday of felony obstruction for helping an undocumented immigrant evade federal agents in her courthouse. 🔗 Source ⚡️ @FolkishObserver | 📱 Follow | 📱 Follow

🚨#BREAKING: Australian nationalist Jacob Hersant has lost his political freedom appeal against his one-month jail sentence for performing a Nazi salute. Follow: @NoticerNews

Brown University shooting suspect has been identified as Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente, a 48-year-old Brown University student and Portuguese national from Miami, Florida. The Providence Police Department confirmed he took his own life. ⚡️ @FolkishObserver | 📱 Follow | 📱 Follow

Boston 25 News reports that the suspect in the Brown University shooting, which killed two students and injured nine others, was found dead Thursday night in an Extra Space Storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire, according to multiple law enforcement sources. 🔗 Source ⚡️ @FolkishObserver | 📱 Follow | 📱 Follow

Andrew Meismer, a 16-year-old White student at a high school in Baytown, Texas, was fatally stabbed in the neck with scissors by 18-year-old Black student Aundre Matthews, who was arrested and charged with murder. 🔗 Source ⚡️ @FolkishObserver | 📱 Follow | 📱 Follow

Authorities believe they have identified a new person of interest in the Dec. 13 shooting at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, that killed two students and injured nine others. Investigators are probing possible links to the recent fatal shooting of an MIT professor and have tied a rented vehicle to both cases. The masked gunman remains at large. 🔗 Source ⚡️ @FolkishObserver | 📱 Follow | 📱 Follow

Two Haitian men who own retail stores in Boston's Mattapan neighborhood face federal charges for allegedly trafficking more than $7 million in SNAP benefits. 🔗 Source ⚡️ @FolkishObserver | 📱 Follow | 📱 Follow

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved an ordinance creating a reparations fund for Black residents to address past discriminatory city policies. The fund has no initial city funding and will accept future appropriations or private donations. 🔗 Source ⚡️ @FolkishObserver | 📱 Follow | 📱 Follow

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced new hate speech and racism laws, including a federal offense for "serious vilification based on race" or advocating racial supremacy, in response to the Islamic terrorist attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach. 🔗 Source ⚡️ @FolkishObserver | 📱 Follow | 📱 Follow

The U.S. House on Wednesday passed the Protect Children’s Innocence Act. The bill makes providing gender-affirming care, including puberty blockers and surgeries, to minors a class C felony. 🔗 Source ⚡️ @FolkishObserver | 📱 Follow | 📱 Follow

South African authorities raided a U.S. refugee processing center in Johannesburg housing Afrikaner applicants for refugee status, where residents were intimidated. Kallie Kriel, CEO of AfriForum, spoke with one female applicant who reported being threatened with “We now know who you are” and mocked with “Ah, shame, so many whities fleeing.” 🔗 Source ⚡️ @FolkishObserver | 📱 Follow | 📱 Follow

Vivek Ramaswamy, Republican candidate for Ohio governor, wrote in a New York Times op-ed that the "Groyper" movement led by Nick Fuentes is gaining influence among young conservatives with blood-and-soil views on American identity. Ramaswamy insisted true Americanness is rooted in shared ideals, not ancestry, while urging party leaders to reject the notion that Americans are a people bound by ethnic heritage and blood. 🔗 Source ⚡️ @FolkishObserver | 📱 Follow | 📱 Follow

A 33-year-old Black woman from Texas was arrested in Biloxi, Mississippi, for allegedly placing razor blades in loaves of bread at two Walmart stores. She faces a charge of attempted mayhem. 🔗 Source ⚡️ @FolkishObserver | 📱 Follow | 📱 Follow

The House passed the Kayla Hamilton Act on Tuesday, legislation named after 20-year-old Kayla Hamilton, who was brutally raped and murdered in 2022 by an illegal immigrant MS-13 gang member from El Salvador who entered as an unaccompanied minor. The bill seeks to strengthen screening and placement rules for unaccompanied migrant minors to prevent such tragedies. 201 House Democrats voted against it. 🔗 Source ⚡️ @FolkishObserver | 📱 Follow | 📱 Follow

An October Pew poll shows 47% of Hispanic Republicans believe President Trump is doing “too much” on deporting illegal immigrants, up from 28% in March. Meanwhile, 63% of White Republicans favor deporting all illegal immigrants, versus 28% of Hispanic Republicans and 38% of Asian Republicans. 🔗 Source ⚡️ @FolkishObserver | 📱 Follow | 📱 Follow

The Trump administration expanded its travel ban imposing full entry bans on citizens of Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan, and Syria. 🔗 Source ⚡️ @FolkishObserver | 📱 Follow | 📱 Follow