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  • Sanctions Optional in Federal Court

    Sanctions Optional in Federal Court

    For one brief moment, it looked like the federal court in Fort Myers had found its backbone. Judge John E. Steele found “subjective bad faith.” He sanctioned Danesh Noshirvan $62,320 for inflammatory and false conduct designed to incite harassment. Then February arrived. The same court admitted its own sanctions order had no payment deadline. No…

  • TikTok’s Danesh Noshirvan Liability

    TikTok’s Danesh Noshirvan Liability

    TikTok didn’t just blink — it crossed a legal line. Eight days after permanently banning Danesh Noshirvan for inciting harassment, the platform quietly resurrected his same account, complete with monetization and reach intact. No appeal. No transparency. No explanation. That decision matters. Under established federal law, a platform that knowingly restores a banned account to…

  • When Care Kills

    When Care Kills

    Illinois quietly crossed a moral and cultural line just days before Christmas. By legalizing physician-assisted suicide—softened with the euphemism “medical aid in dying”—the state joined a growing list redefining death as healthcare. What’s framed as compassion and choice is, in practice, the normalization of killing as treatment. Lost in the spin are the poor, the…

  • Danesh Hate Crime Hoax

    Danesh Hate Crime Hoax

    A 28-year-old boutique owner was cornered in a dark parking lot, filmed without consent, and turned into a national villain overnight. The crime she was accused of? Words spoken under duress. The real weapon wasn’t her mouth—it was a viral clip stripped of context and fed into a machine built to destroy reputations. In The…

  • Feds Tag Antifa Influencer as Domestic Threat

    Feds Tag Antifa Influencer as Domestic Threat

    Danesh “ThatDaneshGuy” Noshirvan faces a Fort Myers federal court case in March, and federal authorities are no longer shrugging him off as a loudmouth influencer. Homeland Security sources confirm an active DHS file labeling the deplatformed TikTok agitator as Antifa-linked and under investigation for inciting violence against ICE and federal officers. The probe stretches back…

  • Stone Cold NXIVM Truth

    Stone Cold NXIVM Truth

    For years, internet trolls and lazy media narratives have pushed a false claim: that Roger Stone was part of NXIVM. The record shows the opposite. Stone spent barely two months advising what looked like a fringe self-help outfit, refused to cross ethical lines, warned others that Keith Raniere was running a financial scam, and walked…

  • Mr. Softee’s America

    Mr. Softee’s America

    On the eve of another overhyped winter storm, America once again revealed how far it has drifted from grit to padding. Mr. Softee’s America is not really about snow—it’s about softness. Greg Maresca skewers a culture that panics at inconvenience, fears scraped knees, and treats mild hardship as a constitutional crisis. From rubber-matted playgrounds to…

  • No Sanctuary For Don Lemon

    No Sanctuary For Don Lemon

    Ex-CNN anchor Don Lemon is facing federal charges after allegedly storming a Minnesota church during worship. Prosecutors say the case is about conduct, not ideology. They point to unauthorized entry, disruption, and intimidation inside a private sanctuary. The facts echo the January 6 trespass case of Owen Shroyer, who was jailed for entering restricted Capitol…

  • Crocodile Copulator Jeremy Hales – VIDEO

    Crocodile Copulator Jeremy Hales – VIDEO

    In this explosive special report from The Unknown Podcast, journalists Richard Luthmann and Michael Volpe dismantle what they describe as a manufactured “Clerk’s Default” obtained by YouTuber Jeremy Hales in federal court. Luthmann argues the default—entered against a misspelled, misidentified “RICHARD LUTHMAN JR.”—is legally void, factually false, and the product of misrepresentation. As the conversation…

  • Antifa Leader Deplatformed and Broke

    Antifa Leader Deplatformed and Broke

    Fort Myers finally caught up with Antifa’s loudest TikTok bully. Danesh Noshirvan—known online as @ThatDaneshGuy—had a catastrophic week that exposed the gap between internet bravado and real-world consequences. A federal judge demanded payment. TikTok pulled the plug. His fundraising dried up. And his excuses collapsed. Sanctioned $62,320 for bad-faith litigation tactics, deplatformed after a grotesque…

The Last Stand: Faith, History, and Memory
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MEGAN FOX & SUSAN BASSI: The Posts, the Retractions, the Showdown
Richard Luthmann and Michael Volpe landed an interview with Florida Lieutenant Governor …
Shadows from 9/11
Greg Maresca remembers the Twin Towers before they became a memorial, when …
The Price of Enough
A developer seeking land for a massive data center brought a staggering …
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