A Wiregrass region of Alabama resident recalls a loud ruckus that occurred one Autumn night when the neighbor's dogs went ballistic, seemingly attacking or defending against an unknown beast.The following account was forwarded by a colleague:"I've lived in the Wiregrass area my entire life, so I'm familiar with some of the cryptids in Alabama. Although I live within city limits, the area behind my house and neighborhood is extremely forested so much—so that deer often hang around back there, as I've seen many of their tracks. A few years ago, my brother and I were in our backyard, which has direct access to the forest. The rear right side of our fence line was filled with thick bushes and small trees. In the center of our yard is a large workshop/garage, and to the right of that is a tree with a rope swing that our dad set up, which is where we usually spent our time. It was early autumn when this event happened.As we were sitting around and goofing off, all the birds and other little critters suddenly went silent. At the time, I didn't know that this usually means a big predator is nearby. We didn't notice the silence at first, but then we heard the sound of branches breaking, which made us turn toward the noise. I could barely make out a big white body moving in the brush, which scared the hell out of me because I didn't know what it was. I got my brother's attention, and we saw that it had drawn closer. Both of us were terrified, so we slowly made our way back to the porch. Whatever it was stopped moving and just watched us. Once we got inside, we refused to go back out, but we didn't explain why to our parents.I wouldn't be posting about this if not for what happened an hour ago. I was sleeping in my bed when I was woken up by the neighbor's dogs. They're all pretty big and usually don't bark during the night, but this time, all three were barking at once. One of them sounded like it was yelping in pain while it was clear the other two were fighting something. I didn't want to go out on the back porch because I was too scared (plus it was 3 AM), so I opened the window in my room and tried to look outside. I could only hear what was happening, but whatever it was, it was big. I could hear it wrestling with the dogs, but eventually, the sounds stopped, and I heard it running away. I've gone through a list of what it could have been, but I've ruled out a coyote, bear, jaguar, or snake.Does anyone know anything about this stuff or any similar experiences?" ONOTE: Alabama cryptid activities have been on our radar for, at least, the past 6-7 years, with multiple investigations underway. Cryptid sightings have included Bigfoot, cryptid canines, and the occasional 'White Thang' (which some witnesses report as a possible albino or light-colored Bigfoot). Lon**********PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARYPOLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? Vote & comment on paranormal, cryptid & unexplained mysteries!REPTOIDS - TERRESTRIAL MUTANTS & ALIEN TYRANTS | LIVE CHAT | Q & A (TERRIBLE REAL-LIFE EXPERIENCES)LISTEN TO NARRATIONS OF PHANTOMS & MONSTERS REPORTS & CASES - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE & SHAREPHANTOMS & MONSTERS RADIO Podcasts on SpotifyPHANTOMS & MONSTERS READING LISTCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistHave you had a sighting or encounter?Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. LonJOIN AMAZON PRIME - Unlimited Movie/TV Streaming& FREE 2-Day ShippingRegister a SNAP EBT CardTry Audible PlusBigfoot and Other Cryptid Videos on YouTubeLYCANS! - PENNSYLVANIA'S CRYPTID CANINES UPDATE'KILLER BIGFOOT' HUNTED BY U.S. SPECIAL FORCES / GLIMMER MAN / MANTIS HUMANOIDSCRAWLER HUMANOIDS - GRUESOME INVADERS! (REAL EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS!)WEREWOLVES: DO THEY EXIST?'DOGMAN IN OUR YARD!' - AN OHIO FAMILY'S 12-YEAR SAGA WITH CRYPTID CANINESHey, folks. Thanks for the congrats on 'The Mothman Revisited' episode on Unsolved Mysteries. As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information!I sincerely thank the Unsolved Mysteries team and Netflix for allowing us to tell the world about this phenomenon.If you have information about this or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please feel free to contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! LonCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistChicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive Map----------Become a Phantoms & Monsters Radio member - just $2.99 monthly, and receive these perks. Thanks for your support!-Members-only live chats-Exclusive members-only videos-Priority reply to members' commentsHave perks suggestions? LMK-----YOUR SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED! THANKS

Brief underwater & terrestrial humanoid reports that were recently submitted to me. There are a few interesting descriptions and encounters included in these accounts.1994 – No Location: "This story happened about 30 years ago. My husband, daughter, and I packed lunch and got two horses and a pony for my 3-year-old daughter and we were planning a picnic in the state forest to go to a large pond to do a little fishing. When we got there, we tied the horses to the scrub bushes, unpacked our fishing gear and lunch, and sat at the edge of the pond.As I looked across the pond I told my husband that we should go on the other side because there was a grassy area for the horses and pony to eat grass. So we packed back up and rode to the other side. When we got there, my husband said “Did you see that guy behind the tree watching us”? I thought he we just trying to freak me out. We fished and ate our lunch and I realized I left my pliers where we were before. So I told my husband I was getting back on my horse to go get them. I did.When I was going back to them, I saw the man. He seemed to be skinny and I could only see his balding head and a hand. He just stared at me and I started back. When I got back to my husband and daughter. I said “Pack up we are out of here! I saw the guy.” Nothing bad happened, thank God, but when it came to my daughter, nothing was going to. I totally forgot about that. I never went there again to even ride my horse." L-----No Date – San Diego, California: “Sunrise in Pacific Beach, San Diego and there were 3 of us. No one else gave a glance. First came a huge group of, playful dolphins. Then there were humanoid-looking sea people forming a larger, circle. They had very long arms, and it looked like they were performing salutations to the rising sun. I know they saw me. I think it was only for my eyes. Hare Aum!" T-----No Date - Andaman and Nicobars Island, India: "When I was in 7th grade, my family went for a vacation in Andaman and Nicobars Island in India to meet one of my aunts as she was ill. Then after some time my elder brother went for a walk along the sea suddenly the water level started rising and it was around 9:00 PM at night. Suddenly we saw someone's shadow in the water it was dark so we weren't able to see properly but it was a human-like creature dark in color and had long hands, no hair, and a body like a female. There was some kind of flesh between the fingers, a big head but a small chin and there was nobody in the water at that time it was creepy when we saw it as it was coming closer and closer. The water level gradually started increasing. Then some local boatsman came and told me and my brother to run by saying something in his local language." A-----No Date – No Location: "I’ve had an experience when I was younger. I didn’t get pulled under but I saw her and she looked really evil with sharp teeth but jumped into the water when I turned my flashlight on. I was so scared. My cousin was there with me and he said he saw the same thing I did but OFC nobody believed us. That was basically it. It was just a few seconds. From the moment I turned the flashlight on and she noticed us she was gone and she wasn't as pretty as any of the mermaid movies I had watched. The side of her hips kind of had fins too and the tail looked slimy and kinda gross. My cousin and I looked at each other and we realized we saw the same thing and we were spooked and ran away." S-----1930s - Jamaica: "This is very true. My grandfather used to drive his boat up the Ryeah Coby River early in the mornings. He said that when he reached the big cotton tree and had a cursing oil lamp on the front of his boat you could see when the light lights up the rocks, you see the mermaids jumping off in the water when the light hits the rocks. This is way back in the 1930s when they used to wear lampshade dresses those big dresses that look like a lampshade. My grandfather also said they don't look like what's in the movies, pretty ladies with fishtails. They look like a fish creature but like a humanoid with a fishtail. Like the scene in Harry Potter. If you ever watched Harry Potter and mermaids were swimming in the water where the babies were in like a cocoon." M**********PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARYPOLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? Vote & comment on paranormal, cryptid & unexplained mysteries!REPTOIDS - TERRESTRIAL MUTANTS & ALIEN TYRANTS | LIVE CHAT | Q & A (TERRIBLE REAL-LIFE EXPERIENCES)LISTEN TO NARRATIONS OF PHANTOMS & MONSTERS REPORTS & CASES - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE & SHAREPHANTOMS & MONSTERS RADIO Podcasts on SpotifyPHANTOMS & MONSTERS READING LISTCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistHave you had a sighting or encounter?Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. LonJOIN AMAZON PRIME - Unlimited Movie/TV Streaming& FREE 2-Day ShippingRegister a SNAP EBT CardTry Audible PlusBigfoot and Other Cryptid Videos on YouTubeLYCANS! - PENNSYLVANIA'S CRYPTID CANINES UPDATE'KILLER BIGFOOT' HUNTED BY U.S. SPECIAL FORCES / GLIMMER MAN / MANTIS HUMANOIDSCRAWLER HUMANOIDS - GRUESOME INVADERS! (REAL EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS!)WEREWOLVES: DO THEY EXIST?'DOGMAN IN OUR YARD!' - AN OHIO FAMILY'S 12-YEAR SAGA WITH CRYPTID CANINESHey, folks. Thanks for the congrats on 'The Mothman Revisited' episode on Unsolved Mysteries. As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information!I sincerely thank the Unsolved Mysteries team and Netflix for allowing us to tell the world about this phenomenon.If you have information about this or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please feel free to contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! 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A father, son, and their dog are hiking on the Appalachian Trail. That evening they stopped to spend the night at a shelter. Then, an encounter with an unknown being occurs. Later, the realization sets in!I received the following account:"My event was in the mid-eighties, including my son and our dog Ginger. When we had our encounter we were at a shelter on the Appalachian Trail in Amherst County, Va. It was the Cow Camp Gap shelter. It was early December and very cold. It would get below 10 degrees that night.I am comfortable in the woods and teaching my son skills needed to survive is a LIFE SKILL like swimming. It's good 'father-son' time.We arrived at the shelter shortly before dark and made a fire for warmth and hot food. The shelter faces south and has a spring-fed stream separating the shelter from the AT. The AT runs with an old narrow road separating and climbing north to the top of Cole Mountain.My son and I were in good spirits sitting, talking, and playing with Ginger.Ginger saw the figure coming out of the late twilight walking north. It was a surprise that anyone would be at that location since the closest house was a hard three or four miles from the shelter. The figure came within 100 feet. The thing was tall and wore a dark brown "fur coat". I was aware of Ginger's barking changing to something I had never heard from her before that event, or after. Without thinking I called out to the figure to come over and have some hot drink. That's when things got very difficult to explainFirst, the creature turned to face us. Its face looked human in shape but not human in appearance. It turned its whole body. When the creature looked at us, Ginger's barking changed. Her hind legs appeared uncontrolled. Her sounds were not barking sounds but a gurgling noise. She was in great pain! I momentarily focused on Ginger reaching down to her which did not stop her suffering! I looked to the creature who returned to continuing its long, athletic strides, taking it out of sight very quickly. Ginger resumed barking her aggression warning, but not the same as before the thing had turned to face us.My son said, "Dad, what just happened to Ginger"? I was thinking what did that thing do to Ginger when it was 100 feet away? I was not fearful and Ginger was a "handful of Golden Retriever."We spent a cold night with Ginger at alert the entire time. When we made our way to the warmth of my car the next morning Ginger curled up with my son in the back seat and slept the three-hour drive home.It would be eight years later before I returned to the area. Ginger refused to follow me off Cole Mountain south towards the Cow Camp Gap shelter. When I got close to the woods half a mile north of the shelter, Ginger sat with ears perked refusing my efforts to get her to come to me.I decided I would not go without Ginger.Fifteen years later while on a Sunday drive to the town of Buena Vista, Virginia, a small town about fifteen miles from the AT shelter, I would have a conversation with a teenage waitress. I mentioned my frequent visits to the Mt. Pleasant Trail area. She said I should be careful and not go alone to Cole Mt., because about the time she was born, her uncles had seen something while they were deer hunting that had scared them so badly they would never hunt or go back to that area. SHE WAS SIXTEEN, THE TIME FIT!I've since learned that the area had a fall and winter with dogs making a lot of noise at night with a large number going missing. A calf went missing without a trace. The owner was uncommitted as to what was going on but said his grandfather had a story about the BROWN MAN. He had not seen anything, but neighbors had.Something dreadful happened at that shelter in August of 2011. A hiker was found dead and half buried! It's now April of 2016. I have not heard of an arrest!I am interested if there are any similar accounts of these THINGS harming dogs. I am a skeptic looking for an explanation for Ginger's actions OTHER than Bigfoot having mind control capability over dogs. And maybe humans too!" BobNOTE: Here is the incident that Bob referred to:Federal authorities have offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of the death of A.T. hiker Scott Lilly in Virginia last summerDate Published: Apr 25, 2012Amherst, VA - The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever killed Scott A. Lilly, 30, of South Bend, Ind., last summer near the Appalachian Trail in central Virginia.FBI Special Agent Steve Duenas, the lead investigator, also disclosed at a news conference on April 23 that Lilly “was buried.” Hikers found his “partially buried” body on August 12, another agent said, along a side trail to Cow Camp Gap Shelter in George Washington–Jefferson National Forest in Amherst County, almost five miles north of the U.S. 60 Trailhead.Duenas said Lilly’s last known contact was from the shelter on July 31. He was not identified until August 16. That shelter is about 0.6 miles east of the A.T. along the Old Hotel Trail, which loops around and rejoins the A.T. again about two miles north.A state medical examiner in January ruled the death a homicide and said the cause was “asphyxia by suffocation,” noted Mike Morehart, special agent-in-charge of the FBI’s Richmond office, who announced the reward.Most of Lilly’s gear has not been recovered, he said, including new trail shoes (Walmart’s Ozark Trail brand), a blue or purple backpack, a Nintendo game, and “an A.T. handbook.”Lilly used the Trail name “Stonewall.” He had begun hiking south from Maryland in late June, intending to go all the way to Springer Mountain, resupplying periodically through Walmart gift cards sent by his mother, according to his family.Lilly’s younger sister, Alysen, joined Sheriff L.J. “Jimmy” Ayers III in urging anyone with information to call the FBI tip line at (800) 261-1044 FREE.“He was a 30-year-old man living out a dream by hiking the A.T. and visiting Civil War battlefields…. Our family will never be the same. We need closure,” she said, telling reporters later that she thought he planned to find a new place to live in the South after his hike.Ayers said, “Any information, even if it seems trivial, maybe the piece that solves the puzzle.”Morehart said the combined investigative team—including National Park Service A.T. rangers, U.S. Forest Service law enforcement officers, and Virginia State Police—has conducted 83 interviews of hikers, maintainers, and others, “in multiple states and two other countries,” including all long-distance hikers known to have been in the area in that period.Timothy J. Heaphy, U.S. attorney for the western district of Virginia, noting ATC’s involvement as well, said that “the level of cooperation on this case…is remarkable.” He stressed that his office is placing a high priority on this open case, as well as “unsolved murders” along the Blue Ridge Parkway and a 1996 killing of two women hikers away from the Trail in Shenandoah National Park, but right now he has seen no connection among them.Duenas, declining to provide more specifics about the coroner’s report or the “many possibilities” being investigated, said the reward announcement and news conference “are part of the investigative strategy—to generate more leads,” particularly from 2011 hikers who might not have seen last August’s news reports and from 2012 hikers noticing something unusual. “I have no reason to believe the Trail is any more dangerous. Hikers just have to be aware and take all the normal precautions."**********PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARYPOLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? Vote & comment on paranormal, cryptid & unexplained mysteries!REPTOIDS - TERRESTRIAL MUTANTS & ALIEN TYRANTS | LIVE CHAT | Q & A (TERRIBLE REAL-LIFE EXPERIENCES)LISTEN TO NARRATIONS OF PHANTOMS & MONSTERS REPORTS & CASES - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE & SHAREPHANTOMS & MONSTERS RADIO Podcasts on SpotifyPHANTOMS & MONSTERS READING LISTCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistHave you had a sighting or encounter?Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. LonJOIN AMAZON PRIME - Unlimited Movie/TV Streaming& FREE 2-Day ShippingRegister a SNAP EBT CardTry Audible PlusBigfoot and Other Cryptid Videos on YouTubeLYCANS! - PENNSYLVANIA'S CRYPTID CANINES UPDATE'KILLER BIGFOOT' HUNTED BY U.S. SPECIAL FORCES / GLIMMER MAN / MANTIS HUMANOIDSCRAWLER HUMANOIDS - GRUESOME INVADERS! (REAL EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS!)WEREWOLVES: DO THEY EXIST?'DOGMAN IN OUR YARD!' - AN OHIO FAMILY'S 12-YEAR SAGA WITH CRYPTID CANINESHey, folks. Thanks for the congrats on 'The Mothman Revisited' episode on Unsolved Mysteries. As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information!I sincerely thank the Unsolved Mysteries team and Netflix for allowing us to tell the world about this phenomenon.If you have information about this or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please feel free to contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! LonCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistChicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive Map----------Become a Phantoms & Monsters Radio member - just $2.99 monthly, and receive these perks. Thanks for your support!-Members-only live chats-Exclusive members-only videos-Priority reply to members' commentsHave perks suggestions? LMK-----YOUR SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED! THANKS

When an unnamed “senior administration official” briefed reporters last Friday about national security adviser Jake Sullivan’s trip to the People’s Republic of China—to meet with Foreign Minister Wang Yi—there was one significant word he never used: genocide. “I expect these meetings will cover roughly the same format as we have in previous rounds, discussing key issues in the U.S.-China bilateral relationship and advancing counternarcotics cooperation, military-to-military communication, and [artificial intelligence] safety and risk discussions,” this official said. “Mr. Sullivan,” the official said, “will raise U.S. concerns about China’s support for Russia’s defense industrial base, the South China Sea, and various other issues.” “And I expect they will also discuss cross-strait issues,” said this official. Three days later, White House national security communications adviser John Kirby gave reporters an on-the-record briefing on Sullivan’s trip to China. His description of what Sullivan would discuss with Wang was virtually identical to the description given in the background briefing. Kirby—like the unnamed official who gave the background briefing—never used this word: genocide. Now, go back to Dec. 6, 2021—two months before the 2022 Winter Olympics were scheduled to begin in Beijing. In her briefing that day, as this column has noted before, then-White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced that the Biden administration would engage in a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics. They would do so, she explained, because the People’s Republic of China was engaging in genocide. “The Biden administration,” she said, “will not send any diplomatic or official representation to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games given the PRC’s ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang and other human rights abuses.” So, has China stopped perpetrating this genocide? This April, as this column has noted before, Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a press conference to mark the release of his department’s 2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. “Rohingya in Burma, Uyghurs in Xinjiang—each victims of genocide and crimes against humanity,” Blinken said in that press conference four months ago. “The United States will continue to raise our deep concerns directly with the governments responsible.” The report on China that Blinken released that day said: “Genocide and crimes against humanity occurred during the year in China against predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang.” “Significant human rights issues,” it said, “included credible reports of: arbitrary or unlawful killings by the government; enforced disappearances by the government; torture by the government … “ The day before President Donald Trump left office, as this column has noted before, then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a statement declaring that the Chinese Communist Party was engaging in an “ongoing” genocide against the Uyghurs in Xinjiang. While continuing to engage in this genocide, China has hauled in massive amounts of money from the United States. Since January 2021—the month of President Joe Biden’s inauguration—the United States has imported approximately $1.6658 trillion in goods from China, according to the Census Bureau. At the same time, this country has exported only approximately $524.100 billion in goods to China. That has resulted in a Biden-era bilateral trade deficit with China of approximately $1.1417 trillion. By contrast, China has reduced its holdings of U.S. government debt during the Biden administration. In January 2021, entities in the PRC owned $1.0952 trillion in U.S. Treasury securities, according to the Treasury Department. As of this June, they held only $780.2 billion—a decline of 28.7% under the Biden administration. Nor does China respect freedom of religion. “Authorities continued to require CCP members and members of the armed forces to be atheists and forbade them to engage in religious practices,” said the State Department 2023 report on religious freedom in the PRC. “Regulations require clergy to pledge allegiance to the CCP and socialism,” it said. “According to reports, the government maintained a near-ubiquitous system of high-technology surveillance of religious sites,” it said. “[Nongovernmental organizations] and media outlets continued to report deaths in custody and that the government tortured, physically abused, arrested, disappeared, detained, sentenced to prison, subjected to forced indoctrination in CCP ideology, and harassed adherents of both registered and unregistered religious groups for activities related to their religious beliefs and practices,” said the State Department report. A better president than Biden would have instructed his national security adviser to tell the Chinese Communist Party leaders: Stop your genocide of the Uyghurs and your attacks on religious liberty—or we will stop all imports from you. COPYRIGHT 2024 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post The Message Biden Should Have Sent to China appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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A White House spokesperson said the Biden administration encouraged Mark Zuckerberg's Meta platform to be responsible, despite the tech entrepreneur saying he was "pressured" to "censor" specific content.The House Judiciary Committee recently published a letter from Zuckerberg about repeated demands from the Biden-Harris administration to censor content, even satire, related to COVID-19 and vaccines.'This administration encouraged responsible actions to protect public health and safety.'Zuckerberg wrote that in 2021, "senior officials from the Biden administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn't agree."When asked, the White House washed its hands of the ordeal and declined to acknowledge Zuckerberg's use of terms regarding censorship and pressure."When confronted with a deadly pandemic, this administration encouraged responsible actions to protect public health and safety,” a White House spokesperson said, per the Guardian. The White House official then attributed responsibility to tech platforms for making "independent" choices about the content posted on their apps."Our position has been clear and consistent," the statement continued. "We believe tech companies and other private actors should take into account the effects their actions have on the American people, while making independent choices about the information they present." — (@) The White House provided the same statement to media members across the board.The administration's denial of any form of censorship flies in the face of what social media companies such as Elon Musk's X platform, which released the Twitter Files, have learned. Those documents exposed the federal government's interest in suppressing certain stories, such as those related to the Hunter Biden laptop.Zuckerberg also complained about the same issue in his letter to Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio).Zuckerberg wrote the "FBI warned" his company about "potential Russian disinformation" regarding the Biden family and Ukrainian energy company Burisma in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election.The CEO admitted that his team "temporarily demoted" stories posted on his platforms. He also said it had since been made clear that "the reporting was not Russian disinformation."Also, during the same term, the Biden-Harris administration attempted to form a Disinformation Governance Board to monitor speech. In 2022, the Department of Homeland Security shut down its controversial disinformation board after widespread backlash that it was reminiscent of Soviet-style control of public discourse. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign is continuing to push for microphones to be left unmuted for the upcoming debate with former President Donald Trump after the latter announced his campaign agreed to keep the same debate rules he had with President Joe Biden.Trump made it clear on Monday that while he prefers to have microphones live the whole time, the rules of the debate were already settled when his campaign agreed with the terms set by Biden's campaign. Those terms included microphones being muted when a candidate was not speaking."We agreed to the same rules. I don't know, doesn't matter to me. ... The agreement was that it would be the same as it was last time. In that case, it was muted. I didn't like it the last time, but it worked out fine. ... I think it should be the same. We agreed to the same rules," Trump said on Monday. Brain Fallon, senior communications adviser to Harris, posted on X on Thursday that the Harris campaign is once again asking ABC News to have microphones be on throughout the entire debate, no muting. Fallon misleadingly used Trump's comment on Monday out of context to make it appear as though the microphone issue had come from the Trump team.'The truth is they're trying to get out of it. She doesn't want to debate.'"Our latest understanding is that even though Trump said Monday he would be fine with an unmuted mic, his handlers don’t trust him to spar live with VP Harris and are asking ABC to ignore Trump’s comments and keep the mics muted or else they will back out of the debate for a third time. We have been asked to accede to Trump’s handlers’ wishes on this point for the sake of preserving the debate. We find the Trump’s [sic] team’s stance to be weak, and remain in discussions with ABC on the final rules," Fallon said. — (@) "The truth is they're trying to get out of it. She doesn't want to debate. She's not a good debater," Trump also said Monday.The New York Post reported that other rules and conditions for the debate include:no live studio audience;no pre-written notes;no props;only a pen and paper allowed; andone water bottle.Harris' campaign had previously said the "debate about debates is over" when it came to the number of debates in which she would participate, claiming she would participate in only two since Biden conducted the first one before stepping down from the race.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

On Wednesday, hackers controlled soccer star Kylian Mbappe's X account and pushed a crypto scam on his 14 million followers.ESPN reported that Mbappe is fresh off a transfer to Spanish soccer giant Real Madrid. The deal will see him make over $16 million per year in salary and receive a $166 million signing bonus spread out over the five years of his contract.The soccer player hadn't made any posts on his X account for about two weeks until a hacker allegedly started sharing memes and statements to his 14.4 million fans.'This person lost more than $1M in just 1 hour!'The posts included mocking fellow soccer star Lionel Messi, trolling different professional teams, and even making political statements."F*** Israel," a post said with a clown emoji.About six minutes later, the account made another post with four Palestinian flags, reading, "FREE PALESTINE."Aside from the fun and games, the hacker promoted a crypto currency pump-and-dump scheme making off with a large sum of money.With the stolen account, the hacker promoted the coin $MBAPPE, inflating its value by a reported 4,000%. According to Cointelegraph, the hacker's post boosted the coin's market cap to a whopping $460 million before it tanked to less than $100,000 in value.The hacker made off with an alleged $100,000 profit in about an hour. 'Don’t fall for the $MBAPPE scam.'However, some savvy investors, likely not involved in the scam, made some money by quickly buying and selling the coin.One unknown person made a profit of about $125,000 when they bought shares worth $28 when the market cap was at just $80,000.Other reports popped up about another investor losing around $1 million:"Someone created a new wallet and spent [$1.03M] to buy ... $MBAPPE in a single transaction," the popular crypto page Lookonchain wrote."[It] is now only worth $9.2K. This person lost more than $1M in just 1 hour!"The scam spread so rapidly that even popular trading platform Crypto.com warned its followers about falling for it."Don’t fall for the $MBAPPE scam," it wrote. "Scammers hacked Kyllian [sic] Mbappe's X account today to promote a scam," the attached image said.Interestingly, the scam mirrors other schemes made by celebrities over recent years. Simply put, notable people can create a coin, buy a significant portion of it, and promote it to their followers as their latest project. Once the market cap is inflated, creators can sell off their shares for a profit. This may not rise to the level of criminal unless they recommend their followers buy-in.According to Investopedia, a scheme becomes illegal when it makes promises/recommendations about a stock or security based on false, misleading, or greatly exaggerated statements.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A Colorado school district recently updated its "LGBTQ+ tool kit," revealing what additional steps educators and staff are taking to indoctrinate those young Americans within its reach, particularly on the topics of sexuality and gender. The document, which appears on various DPS school sites and was recently detailed in a Daily Caller report, indicates that students in Denver Public Schools will be unable to avoid LGBT propaganda; that their parents cannot effectively opt them out of content on-theme; and that parental consent will be sidestepped on various issues. Denver Public Schools' tool kit details the district's various schemes and policies hatched with the stated purpose of supporting its non-straight and gender dysphoric students, staff, and families. The district has over 200 schools and 4,780 teachers, roughly 90,000 students, and 10,177 employees.'There is no opt-out for LGBTQ+ topics.'The tool kit notes that "age-appropriate LGBTQ+ topics are considered a part of DPS's commitment to equity and inclusion, just as all other topics related to equity and inclusion (for example, immigration, racism, ableism, etc.)."State Democrats passed legislation in 2019 requiring the inclusion of content about the accomplishments of non-straight people in Colorado's Social Studies Standards and curriculum. The DPS' kit intimated, however, that the district need not stop at inserting LGBT content into history, civics, and social studies classes; that it could go further and push such propaganda "in all areas."While parents can still opt their children out of sex-ed specific classes — which, per policy, refrain from discussing an abstinence-only approach to avoiding disease and pregnancy — the DPS indicated in its tool kit that such withdrawal would not spare students from "all discussions of gender, family, and/or sexual diversity at school.""There is no opt-out for LGBTQ+ topics," stated the tool kit, which the Daily Caller reported was updated in July. Although the district appears keen to tailor curricula and policy to a minority of non-straight community members, its tool kit noted, "DPS cannot tailor individual lessons, content, or classrooms because a family, student, or staff may have different values."Having previously noted that LGBT propaganda falls under the umbrella of "equity and inclusion," the tool kit makes expressly clear; "Parent permission is not required to teach about topics of equity and inclusion."DPS appears keen to sidestep parents in other ways as well.In the case of children who are confused about their sexuality and "gender identity," the tool kit stresses: "Do not out the student to anyone.""Do not share information about a student's transition without their express, documented consent," adds the tool kit.Extra to helping students conceal their confusion, DPS will gladly use a "student's self-asserted name and/or pronouns at school" without parental/guardian notification or permission. The district will also allow students to change their name and pronouns in district record systems without either parental permission or legal documentation.When confronted with a gender dysphoric student, the tool kit recommends partnering the student with a staff member "supportive of LGBTQ+ topics" to think through a "Gender Support Plan."The kit suggests further how educators and school staff members are to usurp parental authority and adopt a familial role when it appears parents may not be onboard with promoting a child's confusion:The educator or administrator should ask whether the student's family is accepting to avoid inadvertently putting the student at risk of more significant harm by discussing it with the student's family. Based on that information, the school and student should determine how to proceed through the collaborative process of figuring out how the school can support the student and balance the student's need to be affirmed at school with the reality that the student does not have that support at home.The tool kit also details how transvestic students can choose to use the restrooms and locker rooms that best indulge their delusion and that they are allowed to go on overnight trips, alll the while having their real biological sexes kept a secret from other students and their parents.The Daily Caller indicated that DPS could not be reached for comment.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!