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Florida’s Crackdown on Child Predators Arrests Nearly 50 Pedophiles in Undercover Operation

August 8, 2025/in Child Sex, Child Sex Trafficking, Criminal Illegal Aliens, Elections, Hot Topics, Immigration, Marxism, Must Read, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues, Socialism, Terrorism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Family Research Council

Florida and federal authorities have delivered a powerful blow against child predators, arresting nearly 50 pedophiles in a six-day undercover operation targeting online exploitation. Seven of those arrested are under Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainment, paving the way for federal custody and potential deportation proceedings.

The operation, described in a press release as yielding the “highest number of arrests ever made during this annual joint effort,” underscores what Florida officials call their unwavering commitment to protecting children from abuse. Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) emphasized the state’s resolve, stating, “I know the state attorney here is going to be doing the Lord’s work to make sure that these people go away for absolutely as long as possible.” Concerning “those that shouldn’t have even been in this country,” he added, “they’ll go back where they came from after they’ve served their time.” The seven on hold reportedly “traveled from Jamaica, El Salvador, Dubai, and India to the state of Florida with the intention to prey on children.”

The sting resulted in 153 charges, including 34 for “Traveling to Meet a Minor for Illegal Sexual Conduct,” five for “Human Trafficking,” 48 for “Using a Computer to Solicit a Child for Sexual Conduct,” and 14 for “Transmitting Material Harmful to a Minor,” among others. Uthmeier was unequivocal in his stance: “To go after young kids, there is no defense, there is no justification, there is no excuse.” He reaffirmed the operation’s ongoing nature, declaring, “It will not happen. It cannot happen in Florida, and we will work every day to make sure that we are getting every single one of these guys off the streets. When I took the oath of office six months ago, I told my team [that] going after child predators is priority one. We’ve got about 1,000 priorities, but it’s priority one.”

A significant focus of the operation was the social media platform Snapchat, where predators used various online chat and gaming platforms to target minors — who were, in this case, undercover officers. The press release highlighted the attorney general office’s lawsuit against Snapchat, filed in April, for “knowingly and willingly violating” Florida law, including protections under HB3 and the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act. The lawsuit accuses Snapchat of misleading parents about the platform’s risks to children.

Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods praised the operation’s success while sounding a sobering note. “My office routinely conducts these types of operations. With each operation, we catch more and more. The number of offenders only goes up.” He urged parents to monitor their children’s online activity, adding, “Parents, we will never arrest every single one of them. You have to know what your child is doing online, and children have to know what dangers are lurking online. As a Sheriff and as a father, I understand the anger and disgust a parent has towards these types of individuals. I assure you that we will continue to attack this plague head on.”

State Attorney for the Fifth Judicial Circuit Bill Gladson lauded the operation’s impact, stating, “I had the privilege of being able to see this operation firsthand, and it was nothing short of remarkable. Sheriff Woods and his deputies did an outstanding job catching and removing 40 predators from the Central Florida community. A special thank you to Attorney General James Uthmeier and the Office of Statewide Prosecution for their commitment to keeping our community safe.”

Joseph Backholm, Family Research Council’s senior fellow for Biblical Worldview and Strategic Engagement, commended the successful operation in a comment to The Washington Stand. “It’s wonderful that Florida and other law enforcement agencies around the country are dealing with this seriously,” he said. However, Backholm used this as an opportunity to explain how, “if we really want it to stop it, we have to be honest about where it’s coming from.”

As he explained, “The problem of human trafficking begins where all sin begins, with pride. Once you decide you are more important than others, it’s not hard to decide that other people should serve your needs. Human trafficking and sexual exploitation are the worst examples of this, but far from the only examples.” Backholm emphasized, “We either want virtue, or we don’t.”

Ultimately, he continued, “We live in a confused moment where we celebrate sexual liberty and decry the results of sexual liberty. People are told to do what ‘makes you happy,’ and then they’re told to stop doing what makes them happy. The right answer, of course, is to do what you were created for, and you will find happiness along the way.” And yet, Backholm argued that “most of the time, doing what you were created for requires not doing the thing that offers immediate pleasure.”

“[W]e want to arrest predators,” Backholm concluded, “but we’re going to continue create more predators if we don’t rethink the path to happiness and stop pretending that evil,” in any form, “is good.”

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Sarah Holliday

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“The Predators Have Their Pick”

August 5, 2025/in Child Sex, Child Sex Trafficking, Commentary, Culture War, Hot Topics, News, Policy, Politics, Queers and pedophiles, Social Issues, Socialism, Terrorism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Linda Goudsmit

Gen Z, loosely defined as Americans born between 1997 and 2012, is the first generation to grow up with full access to the Internet from pre-school onward. They are America’s digital natives and use the Internet constantly and consistently to interact socially. The seeming anonymity of the Internet has created a medium of over-sharing private information on social media, where young people’s emotional vulnerabilities are exploited by avaricious online sexual predators. The connections between social media, pornography, pedophilia, and societal collapse are positively chilling.

Jaco Booyens, founder of the anti-human trafficking organization, Jaco Booyens Ministries, is committed to protecting American children from predatory exploitation. In his explosive hour-long, July 24, 2025, interview with Epoch Times journalist Jan Jekielek, “How Traffickers Prey on America’s Youth,” Booyens exposes the form and content of America’s child sex trafficking industry. Today I am focusing on his stunning revelations about the cunning and horrifyingly successful mechanisms of child sex trafficking in America, including profiles of buyers, sellers, and victims.

Sexual predators feed on the basic human longing for love and belonging in a $52 billion supply and demand industry. Booyens explains that the average predator in America invests nine months online with a potential victim before he strikes, asking a potential victim to self-expose or physically meet in person.

[21:40] Nine months. The average predator at any given time profiles and engages with 32 potential victims at the same time. One predator, 32 potential victims at the same time. At any given moment in America, there are three quarters of a million, 750,000 active predators online right now as we speak, times 32.

You’re talking about millions; millions of American children being profiled as we speak in everyday life. And they don’t know what the wolf looks like. They don’t know how the wolf talks, where he would show up. They’re told that it looks like kidnapping, or you would self-evidently see it when it happens.

They don’t know the wolf is in their DMs [direct message, a private communication between social media users]. He’s the one sending them emojis. He’s a coach, a pastor perhaps, an elected official, a maintenance man. The average buyer of sex with children in America is a father of two, married, earning north of $100,000 a year. That profile is a staggering profile.

Yes, a staggering, stunning, and shocking profile considering the years of societal focus on stranger danger! Booyens quotes a 2024 study of 2,000 cases in law enforcement of human trafficking of children. The studies proved that 22% to 47% of all domestic trafficking cases are perpetrated by the caregiver! This means that Gen Z children are being stalked by familiar, familial, and unknown predators, all of whom are exploiting the child’s evident vulnerabilities. Booyens describes the catastrophic results with these words:

If you take a snapshot of American Gen Z, arguably, they’re the most identity-less members of our society. They are very wide in surface level information. There are evident vulnerabilities displayed online. The predators have their pick.

From an organizational perspective, the child sex industry has expanded from a small familiar, familial, and individual online sexual predator to networks of trafficking that have territories which eventually involve established drug cartels with existing pipelines that have added sex with children to their product line. Children in the desensitized, digitized 21st-century are seen as commodities to be bought and sold, not as precious human beings needing adult protection. Booyens explains the infrastructure of child sex trafficking in America:

[24:00] I’d say the lowest common denominator that people could probably relate to would be a father that engages in sexual abuse with one of his own children and then introduces a third figure where that child is then forced to perform for food, for belonging, for love, shelter, whatever, protection. The buyer of that child or adult woman, man or boy, and boys are on the rise, the numbers are staggering, could be a janitor that has the affordability to do that once a quarter.

Or it could be a highly affluent member of their community that could engage in that kind of activity multiple times a week. Or as a high-profile case in the U.S., we know that that individual engaged every two hours in the exploitation of children. So, it’s disposable income on the side of the buyer. It’s their own addiction and level of addiction. Because remember, this is progressive. You build up a tolerance, so they have to consume more, like pornography. …

You’re just now trafficking a product that you can sell over and over. Sell a pound of cocaine one time, sell a child 10, 12, 15 times a day. So now you’re getting into pre-existing organized crime that has transcended from one product to another product. That type of trafficking is interstate. It is cross-jurisdiction. Very difficult for police to fight because it is ever moving. Then you get to national syndicates where sex trafficking of children is a means to an end for power. …

The trafficking of persons, of children at that level, for what we would call the elites or what you would see in the high-profile cases in our country, is literally children are a means to an end for them to gain power, to either coerce or corrupt an individual, compromise an individual, supply to a demand of mindset. It’s a different human behavioral science at that level because now it is intentional. It is intentionally profiling not just a child to traffic but profiling a particular target to compromise and then putting those two together, either by force, by fraud, or by coercion. …

Ultimately, every pedophile that I’ve ever interviewed, talked to, apprehended, or helped law enforcement apprehend, has told me a couple of things. They’re addicted to pornography, and none of them started with children.

Booyens focuses on the connections between social media, pornography, and pedophilia in the astronomically profitable $52 billion-dollar American child sex industry. Prices of commodities bought and sold in the supply and demand model of business are determined by the ratio of demand to supply. When the demand is high and the supply is low, the price increases. When the demand is low and the supply is high, the price drops. But what about the psychodynamics of the demand side that allows the child sex industry to exist at all?

What could possibly motivate an adult male (or female) to desire sex with a child? Writer/philosopher Ayn Rand provides the answer in her famous quote:

A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions. Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive, and I will tell you his entire philosophy of life. Show me the woman he sleeps with, and I will tell you his valuation of himself. (Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged pp 489-490, Dutton 35th anniversary edition)

This extraordinary quotation is the key to understanding that power and control constitute the core dynamic of adult-child sexual relations. Men who find children sexually attractive are driven by their psychological need for power and control, which is assured in the asymmetric power balance in sex with children.

The globalist social engineers exploit the pedophile’s pathological need for power and control by supporting efforts to legalize pedophilia. Pedophilia is a nuclear weapon of mass psychological destruction and an essential element in the efforts to groom today’s children for life in tomorrow’s planetary Unistate. The political purpose of legalizing pedophilia is totalitarian control of society.

A lack of a strong developed identity makes any child far more vulnerable psychologically to being exploited by predators, but Gen Z, America’s digital natives, are also the first generation to be indoctrinated with radical transgender ideology and its accompanying genital mutilations which leave children sterile and disconnected from their biological sexual identity. I discuss this in Chapter 36: “When They Say, ‘We’re Coming for Your Children,’ Believe Them” of my 2024 book, Space Is No Longer the Final Frontier—Reality Is:

Puberty blockers interrupt a natural process and can have cognitive and emotional consequences, including a permanent gender-identity crisis. Consider this from a political point of view. Puberty blockers have the potential to weaponize adolescents and young adults by arresting their emotional and cognitive development, freezing them in a permanent state of immaturity. Collectivism’s promise of eternal dependence is eternal damnation in an underdeveloped adolescent mind that is easily exploited. (p.233)

The medical pathway not only destroys your child’s mind and body, it is designed to shatter your family bonds as well. The gender indoctrination pits child against parent and offers the troubled child affirmationand affirming care from trusted teachers, counselors, and physicians. The child withdraws from the parents and finds comfort in his new family of choice at school and online.

The catastrophic effects on families are intentional, strategic, and part of the tactical War on America. The enemy understands that the Judeo-Christian nuclear family is the infrastructure supporting American life. Non-woke parents are considered ideological enemies of the state, obstacles who must be either removed or neutralized. (p. 234)

Gen Z is being assaulted sexually, psychologically, neurologically, medically, surgically and informationally. Even though all fifty states have laws against human trafficking, the statistics clearly indicate human trafficking is increasing, and prosecutions and convictions are decreasing.

Booyens explains:

And predators are absolutely emboldened with a lack of prosecution because there’s no deterrent. They don’t lose their lifestyle. They don’t lose their livelihoods. Their name, fame, and reputation stay intact. They blend into society. The recidivism rate is north of 80%.

Someone that has perpetrated against a child before will do it again, even after short-term incarceration,18 months of probation, ankle bracelet, whatever that is. So, it’s completely emboldened. And the victims know this. We have traffickers read the law, literally read the statutes of the state that they’re trafficking in to the victim and say, they don’t prosecute this. I’m not going to jail.

Is there anything that can be done to rescue Gen Z and oppose the horrors of child sex trafficking in America? Can anything provide justice for victims? Jaco Booyens says there is, and offers some very hopeful, creative, and realistic suggestions. First and foremost is the establishment of human trafficking special courts:

[34:25] We are proposing, and for the last two years, we’ve been working on what we call human trafficking special courts. There will be an Article 3 congressional court that goes through Congress, where if it’s a human trafficking case, it has to go, it goes to that court, administered kind of like circuit courts in the state, in the county, with a judge being nominated and confirmed as a human trafficking judge across the jurisdiction.

We’re not growing government, the funding is already there, but we’re funneling, channeling human trafficking cases to a judge that’s proficient, to a judge that gets educated, to a prosecutorial class that gets educated, down to the bailiff and the court clerk. Start to get a lot of repetitions on human trafficking, understanding the vernacular, the methods, the ways, and the means.

On average, a judge in the county may see one human trafficking case brought to his court in five years. And they go, you don’t even know how to deal with a witness that’s still in trauma. How do we take testimony? How do you build this case? And I would argue the two high-profile cases that were recently displayed publicly in the U.S. were built very poorly by the prosecution. They’re built on straw. These are straw houses that will fall.

And so when we have a designated human trafficking court system, federally, but at the state level, it doesn’t take the power from the states, it doesn’t take cases from the states, but it gives the state another arrow in the quiver to say, we don’t have a judge in our county that has any proficiency in human trafficking. Give us jurisdiction. We want to go try this case in front of the human trafficking judge. I believe what you’re going to find is you’re going to find that those cases are all going to go to human trafficking.

There’s precedent for this. In 1978, the U.S. was grappling with business law bankruptcy. So, if you think of specialty bankruptcy court, the courts, the judiciary said we’re having a problem. The judges don’t know finance to the degree where there are M&A [Merger & Acquisition] deals with tag-along, drag-along clauses and shares and it took 27 months for reorganization. They bring in specialty courts on bankruptcy, and the cases increased with 100% proficiency. The timeline for reorganization went from 27 months to 21 months.

Why? Because the judges became experts in the field that they were adjudicating, which means they’re more efficient; they go faster. On average, a human trafficking case in America, if it’s tried as a human trafficking case, takes 19 months. Any other case of felony takes nine months to prosecute. So, in that proficiency, that is the lack of information. If the DEA [Drug Enforcement Administration] is taking a drug trafficker to court, one of the members of our legal team said heroin doesn’t need a defense. You’re prosecuting on a substance that doesn’t need a defense.

With human trafficking, the victim needs a defense. There’s a human being there with an emotional condition, a trauma profile, and no two are alike. So, in reality, it is unthinkable to think that our judges that get cases on a lottery system should just somehow become experts in human trafficking. And we believe that this is going to have arguably one of the most significant impacts, getting phenomenal support in the U.S. Senate, and in the House, in the judiciary, on this matter because it makes sense.

[38:37] There is precedent for this kind of a court––not for human trafficking––we’ll be the first in the world, the U.S., if we do this. Well, what would that do for the survivors? The second survivors of human trafficking see accurate prosecution and justice; they’re willing to talk. They’re willing to come forward. They’re willing to share information. Hope rises. Nothing is more demoralizing than to see a bill pass on human trafficking and there’s no enforcement. …

We’re not creating another bureaucracy because these cases are already in the courts. They’re just in the courts in front of judges that don’t have skill. So, all we’re saying is we’re not adding judges. These judges are already there. You’re tapping a judge saying, we have witnessed that you have a higher proficiency in some of these cases. You have an aptitude for this. This is a heart’s desire for you. You get designated as the human trafficking judge, and we are going to pour resources into this judge saying, let’s educate you, funneling cases. By default, when you start funneling, channeling more cases to that judge, he becomes wiser. …

One thing I think to highlight is that instituting these human trafficking courts through Article III and through Congress produces zero financial gain for any NGO. There’s no financial attachment for non-profit organizations in the fight. The gain is a victory in prosecution. The gain is hope rising in your staff, in the survivor group, saying, it’s working. Perhaps if there was justice for her, there’s justice for me.

I have presented the reader with highlights of Jaco Booyens interview because the transfer of this crucial information is vital. Without knowing and understanding the depth and breadth of child sex trafficking in America, it is impossible to effectively defeat it. Jaco Booyens initiative for establishing human trafficking specialty courts is the infrastructure for effectively prosecuting and convicting child sex traffickers in America. It is the essential beginning.

While it is impossible to reverse time or erase the horrific experience of being sex trafficked, healing and justice for the survivors is still possible. But this can only happen if we the people unite in common cause to eliminate the scourge of child sex trafficking. We can never allow ourselves to ignore or become inured to the horrors of child sex trafficking, and we can never allow pedophilia to become legalized in America––not ever!

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Ilhan Omar-Linked Mosque Wrote Letter of Support for Somali Pedophile Rapist

August 4, 2025/in Anti-Semitism, Child Sex, Child Sex Trafficking, Criminal Illegal Aliens, Culture War, Elections, Hot Topics, Iranian influence, Must Read, News, Policy, Politics, Queers and pedophiles, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Social Issues, Socialism, Terrorism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Jihad Watch

“We, the undersigned members of the Somali community…”

Things are great in Minneapolis. They’ll be even better with their new DFL-endorsed mayor. Why would you think otherwise?

Alpha News, however, has a story of the new normal.

A Somali immigrant living in the United States has been sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for raping a 12-year-old girl in Minneapolis last year. After the conviction, an Islamic center in St. Paul wrote a “community support letter” for the perpetrator.

In July of 2024, Dirie was charged with raping a 12-year-old girl. According to the criminal complaint in the case, the victim said she was playing in the backyard of her family’s home in Minneapolis when a man started talking to her from an alley behind the house. The man reportedly asked if the victim’s mother was home, and the victim said she was not.

Court documents say the man left the scene for a few minutes but returned, putting his hand over her mouth, forcing her into a car, and striking her over the head. The victim said the man drove a short distance away from the home, pulled over, and sexually assaulted her. Eventually, the victim was able to run home.

The Al-Ihsan Islamic Center sent a letter which read, “we, the undersigned members of the Somali community, write this letter to express our strong and heartfelt support for Qalinle Dirie, a member of our community” and claimed that the rapist was “an active volunteer in our mosque, Al-Ihsan Islamic Center, where he regularly visited during Friday prayers, Ramadan” and had “faced “the challenge of starting over in a new culture.”

The Al-Ihsan Islamic Center was one of the mosques that signed on to an invitation the ‘swearing in’ ceremony of Omar, declaring “Alhumdulilah, this is an historic moment for our community as we elect Representative Ilhan as our Muslim sister.”

The mosque was also mentioned in a story about more people converting to Islam after the Muslim massacres of Oct 7.

It’s part of the Islamic Association of North America umbrella group.

Under Sharia law, a 12-year-old girl is considered more than old enough for intercourse and if she was a non-Muslim, considered fair game for any Muslim man. So by Islamic standard, the rapist did nothing wrong.

The mention of adapting to American culture has been a common defense for Muslim sexual assaults on non-Muslims.

A man who raped a 15-year-old girl after following her on a street in Stirlingshire has been jailed for nine years.

Nikzad, an asylum seeker from Afghanistan, repeatedly requested her telephone number, uttered sexual remarks then led her into a courtyard where he raped her.

Defence counsel Janice Green told the court there were language difficulties and a “cultural barrier” between Nikzad’s home country where child marriage was common.

She said: “I’m not suggesting that means that he reasonably believed (the complainer) was consenting, but that there’s a reason why he could have misunderstood.”

What he misunderstood was that consent was irrelevant.

This quote came out of the report on Muslim sex grooming gangs.

“There was an educational issue. Asian males didn’t understand that it was wrong, and the girls were not quite there. They were difficult groups to deal with. We can’t enforce our way out of the problem,” Constable B said.

Now Minneapolis and New York City are moving to mayors who will be very understanding about not enforcing their way out of the problem.

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Daniel Greenfield

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The Midnight Zone

August 2, 2025/in Child Sex, Child Sex Trafficking, Commentary, Courts & Law, Culture War, Elections, Hot Topics, Immigration, Marxism, News, Policy, Politics, Queers and pedophiles, Social Issues, Socialism, Terrorism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Linda Goudsmit

Approximately 90% of the ocean is aphotic––without light––the midnight zone of the ocean where sunlight cannot penetrate and no photosynthesis can occur. So it is with child sex trafficking, a midnight zone where children are hidden in darkness and the traumatic abuse they suffer prevents their growth and development. The midnight zone is also aphonic––without sound––a place where these sex trafficked children are exploited and have no voice. So, what lives in the midnight zone? Apex predators like giant squid. Some have grown to 57-feet long with eight arms and eyes the size of basketballs.

The apex predators who sell and traffick children for sex are the giant squid of the midnight zone, their tentacles reach deep into American society to ensnare the children and collapse society from within. In a stunning July 24, 2025 interview Epoch Times reporter Jan Jekielek discusses, “How Traffickers Prey on America’s Youth: Jaco Booyens.” Jaco Booyens is founder of Jaco Booyens Ministries (JBM), an anti-human trafficking organization committed to protecting American children from predatory exploitation.

Booyens describes the staggering scale of sex trafficking operations in America; society becoming culturally desensitized to its horrors; pornography being the gateway drug to sexual exploitation; and how technology makes it easier for predators to contact their young prey. Booyens begins by describing the magnitude of the enterprise:

The scale is enormous, and I wish I could tell you that it has decreased. But we’re talking about a $52 billion industry of buying and selling predominantly women and children inside this country, American citizens. The discussion about a migrant child or a migrant in the country is a completely separate conversation. Those statistics are purely just on American children.

We are still, by a long stretch, the number one nation on earth where sexual exploitation is happening, and it’s commercialized. Unfortunately, we’re the number one producer of pornography and consumer of pornography. American Gen Z is the societal category that watches the most pornography on planet earth.

These numbers are all collected from think tanks, the Department of Justice, FBI, agencies that collect data that we constantly are curating. Here’s an example. The average first exposure to pornography in America is now boys age eight. When we met last time [five years ago], the average exploited child was age 12 to 14. That is now age 11. So, we’re moving in the wrong direction, part and parcel because of technology, and technology is rapidly advancing and putting tool sets in predators’ hands to make it easier to conduct their atrocities.

But culturally, we’re not frowning upon the details. Can we talk about how many 16 to 17-year-olds in America today are walking felons? When you distribute naked imagery of a minor, that’s a felony. Children are distributing sexual images of children among peer groups. In our society, it’s blending into everyday life.

Several years ago, in conversations with child advocate Dr. Judith Reisman, she told me that pornography is the gateway to sexual exploitation. Dr. Reisman’s professional career was focused on exposing the fraudulent work and legacy of Dr. Alfred Kinsey, particularly his dictum that children are sexual from birth. Judith fought to expose the dangers of pornography and to stop the sinister efforts to legalize pedophilia in this country.

Judith and I had become good friends after discovering quite by accident that we are cousins! She wanted to write a book together, but at the time I was busy with another project and unavailable. Her indomitable spirit and unwavering sense of purpose continue to inspire me to fight the apex predators who inhabit the midnight zone.

Judith died unexpectedly on April 9, 2021, two days before her 86th birthday. Her importance and relevance to this article is best summed up in excerpts from a memoriam written by her dear friend, senior editor at the New American William F. Jasper, posted April 15, 2021, “In Memoriam: Dr. Judith Reisman; Farewell, Good Friend. You Will Be Greatly Missed“:

What a devastating loss of a great soul, a beautiful human being, and a fierce defender of all that is good, honorable, and decent.

Dr. Reisman is best known for her works exposing the fraudulent, depraved, and criminal work of Dr. Alfred Kinsey, the notorious sex pervert who, with generous funding from the Rockefeller Foundation and lavish praise from the liberal media, became the celebrated “Father of the Sexual Revolution.” Kinsey, we are told in our psychology books and the popular press, freed the world from “sexual oppression” inspired by ignorance and religious superstition. Kinsey invoked “science” to proclaim that homosexuality, adultery, premarital sex, adult-child sex, nudity, indecent exposure, fornication, masturbation, incest, pornography — virtually anything and everything sexual — are “normal,” meaning widely practiced, and therefore good. Kinsey’s 1948 book Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and his 1953 book Sexual Behavior in the Human Female hit the world like twin atom bombs. Kinsey’s “research” seemed to explode all previous notions of moral and permissible behavior as it pertains to sexual relations.

Perversion Masquerading as “Science”

Kinsey’s “science” was used to overthrow the Judeo-Christian moral codes that had protected societies and families for millennia and to usher in the new Age of Aquarius, the era of unrestrained “free love.” Kinsey’s “science” was cited to overthrow laws on obscenity, pornography, and perversion. Kinsey’s “science” was employed to flood our schools with obscene “SexEd” curricula. Kinsey’s “science” declared that children are “sexual beings” from birth and therefore need to be liberated from their parents’ stultifying restrictions on their sexual “freedom.” Thus, the pedophile/pederast lobby began a nonstop campaign for continuous lowering of age-of-consent laws, while the education and entertainment establishments began inundating our culture with hypersexualized materials aimed at children.

It was this insidious Kinseyite attack on the innocence of children that aroused the ferocious Mamma Bear instinct in Judith Reisman. Unlike so many others, she was not awed and intimidated by Kinsey’s “science.” She smelled a rat and was determined to smoke it out. And indeed, she did. A consummate scholar, she dived into Kinsey’s raw data, and relentlessly pursued him down his labyrinthine trail. Her herculean efforts yielded four explosive books on Kinsey: Kinsey, Sex and Fraud; Sexual Sabotage; Stolen Honor, Stolen Innocence; and Kinsey: Crimes & Consequences.

A Light in the Darkness

What Dr. Reisman discovered was that Kinsey’s “science” was not science at all. In fact, not only had he fraudulently invented much of the data and many of the statistics that have been used to undermine morality and normalize perversion, he had recruited perverts, child molesters, prostitutes, and convicts to produce the “evidence” he would exploit for fame and fortune. One of the most shocking of Judith Reisman’s discoveries was that Kinsey’s “research” involved pedophiles sexually torturing hundreds of boys and girls—some of them infants as young as three months old—and then described their screams of pain as “orgasms,” thus “proving” that these children were “sexual beings”! Reisman proved that the exalted Kinsey, far from being a “liberator,” was a hideous monster with feet of clay. Exposing Sick Roots of “Sex Ed” – Kinsey, CIA & Child Abuse

However, thanks to the constant support of the Rockefeller Foundation and similar globalist institutions, instead of receiving the condemnation and prosecution he deserved, Kinsey was heaped with accolades and financial rewards. His Kinsey Institute at the University of Indiana continues to be showered with foundation and taxpayer funds.

Yet, thanks to Judith’s unswerving perseverance, a veritable army of informed activists worldwide have taken up her research and have been pushing back against the Kinsey onslaught. In addition to her books, she produced a profusion of articles, research papers, and videos (most of which are available on her website, drjudithreisman.com). …

In 1994, Hugh Hefner’s Playboy porn empire brought a lawsuit in the Netherlands against Dutch TV broadcaster EO to demand the retraction of statements by Reisman in one of their broadcasts. On air, she had essentially accused Playboy of producing child pornography, based on the study of three decades of its publications. She had conducted the study under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Playboy ultimately lost the lawsuit, with the judge referring to Reisman’s research as “the uncontested factual findings of Dr. Reisman.” Following her victorious ruling, Reisman said, “Playboy never will sue me in the USA, since their deliberate child sex abuse methodology would be proven in a court of law.

In a eulogy entitled “Farewell to the World’s Greatest Friend of Children,” author/educator Charlotte Iserbyt, Judith’s longtime friend and ally, wrote, “In my humble opinion, God Almighty sent Judith to save our children. Yes, Judith’s work was, day in and day out, dedicated to saving not just our, but the world’s, children.”

Judith understood that pornography alters brain chemistry. It is a matter of neuroplasticity, the ability of the central nervous system to form and reorganize neural connections in response to injury or a learning event. This trait allows the human brain to adapt and change depending on events or experiences. Human brains can adapt through learning when an individual practices a task repeatedly, but the adaptation is not necessarily constructive as Jaco Booyens explains in his interview:

[12:00] Yes, when we say pornography is the gateway drug to human trafficking, those who watch porn would say, well, I don’t buy people, but you are engaging in the gateway drug. Why is it the gateway drug? Because it’s the only drug that triggers an internal drug. Sex is internal. It’s chemical.

When you go through puberty, your brain releases a hormone. Your body releases chemistry. When you bond trauma to the internal chemistry of your body, this is trauma bonding. That’s deep-rooted trauma that normally goes and gets hidden. It gets suppressed. Then dissociation happens. So, it takes years for someone to be willing to even recognize or talk about it. So, pornography desensitizes any individual to what could be, and most often is not okay.

When men watch pornography the average porn scene available to Americans, on average, is two guys and one woman.

I just told you that the average exposure to porn for the first time is a boy that’s eight years old. So, when an eight-year-old boy sees hardcore pornography, we’re not talking about a pin-up girl without her top on in a magazine. We’re talking about 2K, 4K cameras, multiple angles, two guys nude together with one girl.

Immediately, in a second, there’s a chemical reaction in his brain. Neurons start to fire. He’s prepubescent, which means he’s now starting to produce sex hormones. Pre-puberty, you can never turn it off. Immediately, love and belonging are shattered. Consent is shattered. What is conditional and unconditional love is shattered because it’s all fake. It’s a scene that was filmed. He’s probably watching take 52. This is not reality. No marriage is pornography.

So, there’s a complete altered reality that is then what we call imprinted into him. It’s internal. It’s not like you’re taking alcohol from an alcoholic, and he dries up, he sobers up. Sexual violation stays with you. It’s internal. So now that child is grappling with issues that married adults struggle with. But he is only eight years old, or she is only 12 years old.

And when it becomes physical, now it’s dangerous because that child can now very quickly develop an attraction to it because it’s highly addictive. Porn is highly addictive because it alters the neural pathways in the brain. It literally shuts down certain areas of the brain and fires up other areas. This is real. This is science. It’s biology. It’s physiology. The child’s defenseless at this moment.

Pornography is not only the gateway to sexual exploitation for pedophiles and child sex traffickers, but also the political vehicle for destroying children’s innocence and collapsing America from within. The apex predators who roam the midnight zone are the globalist elite whose intention is to legalize pedophilia just as Judith Reisman predicted.

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EXCLUSIVE: Meet The Chinese ‘Congressman’ Accused Of Abusing 21 Kids In U.S. Surrogacy Scheme

July 31, 2025/in Child Sex, Child Sex Trafficking, Chinese influence, Culture War, Elections, Featured, Hot Topics, Marxism, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues, Socialism, Terrorism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by The Daily Caller

The man who recently caught police attention for allegedly abusing his 21 children in the U.S. previously served as a high-level Chinese government official for at least two decades in the region at the heart of the communist nation’s ongoing genocide, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation.

In May 2025, police in Arcadia, California, arrested Xuan Guojun, 65, and his wife, Silvia Zhang, 38, for child endangerment after their two-month infant was brought to a hospital suffering from a traumatic head injury, The Associated Press reported. Police reviewed security footage from the couple’s $4 million, 10,000 square-foot mansion and allegedly discovered that their nanny, Li Chunmei, 56, had verbally and physically abused their 21 children, 17 of whom are toddlers, the New York Post reported.

Xuan and Zhang have not been charged, Arcadia police told the DCNF, but authorities removed the children from their custody and are now working with the FBI to investigate the couple and their former company, Mark Surrogacy Investments LLC, which allegedly failed to disclose that surrogates were carrying the couple’s embryos, according to the New York Post.

While the scope of Xuan’s alleged surrogacy scheme remains unclear, translated Chinese government and state media reports reveal that he has held multiple Chinese government positions, including serving as a representative to the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) People’s Congress, which has enacted increasingly repressive policies contributing to China’s ongoing genocide against Uyghur and other ethnic minorities, according to U.S. lawmakers and human rights activists.

Salih Hudayar, Minister of Foreign Affairs for the East Turkistan Government-In-Exile, told the DCNF that “millions of Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples were torn from their families, sent to concentration camps, psychologically destroyed, tortured, or even killed” due to the actions of members of the XUAR People’s Congress and related Chinese government bodies.

“Their hands are fully stained with the blood of the Uyghur and other Turkic peoples,” Hudayar said. “They must be held accountable.”

Then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo determined in January 2021 that the Chinese government was committing genocide against Uyghurs and other minorities.

Xuan, Zhang and Li could not be reached for comment.

‘Repression And Bloodshed’

Xuan served as a representative to both the Urumqi Municipal People’s Congress and the XUAR People’s Congress, Chinese media and state media reports reveal.

“[T]he history of the CCP in the region has been one of repression and bloodshed, beginning in 1949 with the forcible annexation of East Turkistan by Mao Zedong,” New Jersey Republican Rep. Chris Smith told the DCNF. Smith serves as co-chair of the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), which Congress created to “monitor human rights and the development of the rule of law in China.”

Xuan joined the Urumqi Municipal People’s Congress in 1997, according to a 2012 interview published by Chinese media outlet Sina, which features Xuan’s photo. The article identifies Xuan as a representative to the XUAR People’s Congress and as the “general secretary” of Xinjiang Chuang Da Refrigeration Co. Ltd., which sells frozen goods and other food products, according to Chinese business filing platform Qichacha.

While still serving in the Urumqi Municipal People’s Congress, Xuan joined the XUAR People’s Congress in 2008, according to Chinese academic journal platform Xueshu.

Both bodies are subnational cousins of China’s National People’s Congress, which functions as a “‘rubber stamp’ legislature” under CCP control, according to a CECC report.

By 2012, Xuan had submitted over 200 proposals to the two congresses — more than any other representative, Sina reported.

When asked about himself in the interview published by Sina, Xuan laughed and described himself as “a person who loves to meddle in others’ affairs and provoke others” because he feels compelled to act when others need help, according to a DCNF translation.

“This individual did not join a democratic or independent legislature,” Hudayar told the DCNF. “Anyone who served in the so-called Urumqi or Xinjiang People’s Congresses between 1997 and 2012 was fully complicit in genocide.”

Hudayar cited seven regulations passed by the XUAR People’s Congress between 2008 and 2012 that upheld “policies central to the ongoing genocide,” including the Ethnic Unity Education Regulation, the Regulation On The Comprehensive Management of Social Order, the Revised Population and Family Planning Regulation and the Bilingual Education Promotion Regulation, which collectively criminalized expressions of Uyghur identity, initiated mass surveillance and expanded coercive reproductive controls.

The Chinese government goes to great lengths to recruit loyalists, doubly so when appointing representatives to sensitive bodies like the XUAR People’s Congress where members are implicitly, if not explicitly, expected to advance the CCP’s ethnic and demographic control agenda by enforcing existing laws, Hudayar said.

Hudayar pointed to the 2002 Xinjiang Population and Family Planning Regulation as an example of a law contributing to genocide that Xuan, as a XUAR People’s Congress representative between 2008 and 2012, would have been “complicit in upholding.”

“The 2002 regulation remained in full force during [Xuan’s] time in office and was further revised in 2011,” Hudayar said. “[The 2002 regulation] targeted Uyghur and other Turkic women and their unborn babies, resulting in the forced abortion of over 3.7 million babies by 2009 and the continued forced sterilization of hundreds of thousands of Uyghur and other Turkic women.”

‘Must Be Investigated’

Xuan has also held leadership positions within multiple organizations controlled by a CCP influence and intelligence service called the United Front Work Department (UFWD) as well as within Chinese civic associations cooperating with Chinese law enforcement, according to Chinese government and media reports.

A UFWD “subordinate unit” called the All-China Federation Of Industry And Commerce (ACFIC) has identified Xuan as an official for several Xinjiang branches, including as an “executive committee” member for the XUAR ACFIC branch, according to a January 2017 announcement concerning that organization’s annual conference in Urumqi. Photos show Xuan on stage during the conference, and the announcement also identifies Xuan as the “executive deputy chairman” of a related Xinjiang-Zhejiang ACFIC branch.

United Front arms often utilize a so-called “two nameplates” system in which an organization, like ACFIC, will masquerade as a “chamber of commerce” to conceal Chinese government-ties, according to The Jamestown Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit. Xuan has served as the president of the California-based U.S.-Xinjiang Chamber of Commerce since at least 2019, according to an announcement by the Chinese American Federation, which itself has identified Xuan as its “executive deputy chairman” since at least 2018.

Xuan also serves as the “honorary deputy chairman” of the Wenzhou Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, according to a 2023 Chinese American Federation announcement. The Wenzhou Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce is one of several Chinese civic associations operating an unsanctioned Chinese government satellite court on U.S. soil, the DCNF reported in January 2025.

Another California-based Chinese civic association called the U.S.-Zhejiang General Chamber of Commerce also identifies Xuan as its “executive chairman,” according to an announcement from that organization. The co-chairman of that civic association is both a mediator for the Wenzhou People’s Court and also a Zhejiang Ministry of Public Security (MPS) supervisor, the DCNF’s January 2025 investigation found.

“Anyone with these type of Chinese government and United Front-ties must be investigated by the FBI and thoroughly prosecuted by the Department of Justice,” Hudayar said.

AUTHOR

Philip Lenczycki

Senior Investigative Reporter

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Criminal Aliens Infiltrate U.S. Through Program to Help Abused, Neglected or Abandoned Kids

July 30, 2025/in Child Sex, Child Sex Trafficking, Communism, Criminal Illegal Aliens, Culture War, Elections, Hot Topics, Immigration, Marxism, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Regulation, Socialism, Terrorism, Voter REAL ID, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Judicial Watch

Violent gang members, murderers and sex offenders have infiltrated the United States through a special government program that provides illegal immigrants under the age of 21 who claim to be abused, abandoned or neglected by a parent with a pathway to residency and citizenship. In the last ten years more than 300,000 migrants have applied for the protection, known as Special Immigrant Juvenile (SIJ) classification, and federal authorities are finally exposing the serious national security and integrity vulnerabilities of the decades-old initiative. Besides widespread identity and age fraud, known or suspected terrorists are filing SIJ petitions, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the agency that oversees the program.

In a recently published report USCIS confirms that 198,414 SIJ petitions were approved in the last ten years and more than half were over the age of 18. The overwhelming majority—72%—came to the U.S. illegally from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, a region known as the northern triangle that received billions of American taxpayer dollars under former Vice President Kamala Harris’s failed Root Causes Strategy to curb illegal immigration. Unbelievably, over 500 known or suspected members of the notoriously violent Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) were authorized by the government for SIJ classification during the period examined. SIJ petitions were also approved for members of other deadly gangs, including Tren de Aragua (TdA), 18th Street gang and members of the Sureño and Norteño gangs. “The gang statistics were compiled by manual identification and, consequently, are likely an underrepresentation of the total number of gang members within this population,” USCIS found. The agency discloses that dozens of gang members have been charged with federal racketeering offenses for murder and attempted murder. Nearly 19,000 SIJ petitioners had criminal arrests and at least 120 were arrested for murder, the agency records show. At least 200 approved SIJ petitioners were convicted of sex crimes and were registered in the National Sex Offender Registry.

As if this were not bad enough, federal immigration authorities observed a “significant increase in SIJ petitions in recent years filed by aliens from countries where designated foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs) are known to recruit or operate.” The countries include Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Somalia, and Afghanistan. Many of the SIJ petitioners from the terrorist countries entered the U.S. “without inspection,” the report says, adding that “federal law enforcement authorities have determined some of these SIJ petitioners may pose a risk to national security.” As an example, USCIS offers the case of an 18-year-old man from Tajikistan who crossed into the U.S. illegally from Mexico through the San Ysidro port of entry in April 2023. He claimed both his parents physically abused him, his father by beating him while drunk and throwing vodka bottles at him and his mother by hitting, slapping, and throwing heavy objects at him. About a year later he was among a group of Tajik nationals arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for ties to the Islamic State (IS or ISIS) terrorist group. Federal law enforcement officials said that after the Tajik nationals entered the U.S., they identified a terrorist plot in its early stages.

Many criminals have also come to the U.S. under another special program that welcomes illegal immigrants under the age of 18 and provides them with a multitude of taxpayer benefits. The government refers to them as Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) and hundreds of thousands have entered the country in the last few years. The overwhelming majority of UAC are not really children but rather young adults in their teens and some have criminal histories. Approximately 72% of UAC in custody are over 14 years of age and 66% are male. Nearly half (47%) of the underage migrants come from Guatemala, 32% from Honduras,13% from El Salvador and 8% from other countries. A few years ago, a 17-year-old MS-13 gang member who entered the U.S. as a UAC raped and murdered a 20-year-old woman just months after being released in the country. Years earlier two UAC were charged with raping a 14-year-old girl in the bathroom of a Maryland public high school. The illegal immigrants were both charged with first-degree rape and two counts of first-degree sexual offense. Both were in the ninth grade like their victim. One came from El Salvador and the other from Guatemala. A year earlier two UAC, both 17-year-old MS-13 members from Central America, executed a Massachusetts man by shooting him in the head shortly after being welcomed into the U.S.

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Smart, Safe, and Supervised: Rethinking AI and Online Safety for Children

July 28, 2025/in Child Sex, Child Sex Trafficking, Economy, Elections, Healthcare, Hot Topics, Marxism, Misinformation, News, Policy, Politics, Queers and pedophiles, Social Issues, Socialism, Terrorism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Family Research Council

The increased overreliance on chatbots for companionship and social media feeds for information is tearing apart our interpersonal relationships, with children being particularly vulnerable. Researchers found that high or increasing trajectories of addictive use of social media, mobile phones, or video games were not only common in early adolescents but were frequently associated with suicidal behaviors or worsening mental health.

Disturbing Trends

A 2025 report from Internet Matters reveals that 12% of children say they use AI chatbots because they have no one else to talk to (23% among vulnerable children). Moreover, 35% feel like they’re talking to a friend when engaging with chatbots (50% for vulnerable groups). Fifty-eight percent believe using a chatbot is better than searching for information themselves, and 40% have no concerns about following chatbot advice at all.

This trend is deeply troubling, thus, delaying children’s exposure to addictive digital experiences might be prudent so that they are better equipped to manage their emotional responses around chatbots and the internet at large.

Without proper safeguards, adult supervision, and emotional support, AI-powered social media sites or products can magnify children’s existing vulnerabilities and social isolation. Many platforms currently lack meaningful guardrails for young users, and parents are often unprepared to intervene. However, developing AI skills and AI literacy have already become vital requirements not only in the workforce, but also in everyday life.

With the rise of deepfakes, scammers, and AI-powered addictive algorithms, children need guidance more than ever. Social media has become the go-to place for connection and flow of information, which is why both social media literacy and AI literacy — for children, parents, and educators alike — must be a global priority. Children need to be empowered to understand how algorithms shape their online experiences, when to question advice, and how to protect themselves from manipulation and misinformation — whether it comes from a human or a machine.

The question becomes: how do we ensure that they are not harmed while taking advantage of the opportunities that technology provides?

Three Different Approaches

Opinions and approaches differ on this point. Countries such as the United States are promoting “early learning and exposure to AI concepts,” ultimately trying to increase AI literacy and proficiency in younger populations. This process must be done responsibly and with safeguards in place, which is why it is commendable that the proposed 10-year moratorium on the enforcement of state-level AI regulations in the U.S. was ultimately removed from the final One Big Beautiful Bill Act by the Senate. Despite this removal, the U.S. still largely wishes to focus on remaining a global leader in AI technology, taking a very pro-innovation and quite anti-regulation approach.

On the other end of the scale is the European Union, with a rich legal framework around AI, social media, and children. In fact, the European Commission recently released guidelines under the Digital Services Act (DSA) to better protect minors online. These include: setting children’s accounts to private by default, modifying recommender systems to avoid harmful content rabbit holes, empowering children to block users and control group adds, disabling exploitative features like “read receipts,” autoplay, and push notifications, prohibiting downloads/screenshots of content from minors, strengthening moderation, reporting tools, and parental controls, and using age assurance methods that are effective, but also non-invasive and fair.

While these initiatives are undoubtedly safety-focused, they are often hard to implement. Furthermore, AI systems enhance algorithmic feeds to an increasingly high degree, making it difficult for a child to control their own online experience.

Drawing on the Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNICEF’s policy guidance on AI for children offers a separate approach. Nine requirements are named for child-centered AI, including: supporting children’s development and well-being, ensuring inclusion of and for children, prioritizing fairness and non-discrimination for children, protecting children’s data and privacy, ensuring safety for children, providing transparency, explainability, and accountability for children, empowering governments and businesses with knowledge of AI and children’s rights, preparing children for present and future developments in AI, and creating an enabling environment.

UNICEF also provides implementation tools like policy roadmaps, an AI guide for teens, and design templates for developers. Real-world examples underscore the stakes — such as chatbots that mishandle disclosures of harm or automated systems that restrict access to social services. A case study involving social robots for autistic children shows how these principles can guide inclusive, ethical design.

The report’s key recommendations call on governments and tech providers to integrate a child-rights lens into every stage of AI development, involve children meaningfully as co-designers, not just users, conduct Child Rights Impact Assessments (CRIAs), improve international coordination and accountability, and expand research in underserved communities.

Conclusion: Family and Guidance First

While these approaches utilize different tools to navigate the increasing presence of social media and chatbots in children’s lives, their ultimate goal is the same: young children should not be left alone with AI systems. They need trusted adults, informed policies, and child-centered technologies that put their mental health, safety, and rights first.

I highly agree with America’s focus on AI literacy and competitiveness, but guidelines should exist to better inform platforms, AI developers, and stakeholders of what pro-children innovation can look like.

Today’s youth need both personal and systemic support to navigate the harms of chatbots, smartphones, and social media in ways that protect their mental health. These efforts should be grounded in family-centered policies that address the social, environmental, and economic foundations of well-being and resilience. As AI reshapes childhood, the question is no longer whether children should engage with these technologies — but how we ensure they do so safely, ethically, and with support.

AUTHOR

Monika Mercz

Monika Mercz, J.D.,is a visiting researcher at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. A graduate of the University of Miskolc with a degree in law, she specialized as an English legal translator and holds a degree in AI and Law from the University of Lisbon. She is currently working for the Public Law Center of Mathias Corvinus Collegium and has previously worked for The National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, The Office of the National Assembly, and the Miskolc Regional Court.

Johnson: Dems Had These Files for Years and Never Mentioned the Word ‘Epstein’

July 28, 2025/in Child Sex, Child Sex Trafficking, Criminal Illegal Aliens, Elections, Hot Topics, Immigration, Marxism, Must Read, News, Policy, Politics, Queers and pedophiles, Social Issues, Socialism, Terrorism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Family Research Council

Nobody likes putting in overtime, but in Congress — a body allergic to five-day work weeks — the idea of sticking around for any amount of time is cause for a quiet mutiny. In the Senate, the possibility of extra hours in August holds an extra sting, since the House decided to beat it out of town early to escape the heat of the Epstein files. Some GOP senators are especially peeved, griping anonymously to reporters about the injustice of the situation. Others coped by claiming superiority over the other chamber. “The high school usually goes a lot longer than the elementary school,” an unnamed Republican taunted.

Look, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) wanted people to know, the backlog of work on the other side of the Capitol is significant. “There’s a stack of House bills that are waiting over there, so if they start moving them, we’ll come back and give them some more to do,” he promised. It’s also the unfortunate reality of the Senate, since it’s the body tasked with moving Donald Trump’s nominees. And as far as the president is concerned, there needs to be more moving, less vacationing.

“Hopefully the very talented John Thune, fresh off our many victories over the past two weeks and, indeed, 6 months, will cancel August recess (and long weekends!), in order to get my incredible nominees confirmed,” Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social. “We need them badly!!!”

Of course, part of the reason for the GOP’s current predicament is the Democrats’ stonewalling. “Trump’s the first president in history that hasn’t had a [nomination] adopted by this point in his presidency,” Thune explained, “either by unanimous consent or voice. Not a single one.” He added, “Trying to get his team in place is something that we’re very committed to, and we’re going to be looking at all the options in the next few weeks to try and get as many of those across the finish line as we can.”

As The Washington Times highlights, most of the president’s picks have been stalled because Democrats haven’t returned blue slips signing off on Trump’s picks. Under Senate tradition, the committees won’t move a nominee unless both home state senators send back the blue slip of approval. But in recent years, the once-routine formality has become a weapon in the hands of the minority party, used to gum-up the process and stymie the other side. Not to mention, Missouri Senator Josh Hawley (R) shakes his head, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s party is “filibustering like every single nominee.”

But that approach also has its downsides, Republicans warned. “I guess if they want to be here for all of August and grind this out,” Hawley shrugged, “we can do it that way, but it’s going to get pretty painful here pretty soon.”

To the grumblers in his caucus who think it’s unfair to let the House go and keep the Senate in session, Thune could only say, “We’re in the human resources business. They’re not. … It is what it is. You’ve got different rules,” he noted. “It’s easier to get things done [in the House]. You can do stuff with simple majorities.” That said, he continued, “[I]t’s also hard to get things done, especially when you have narrow margins. I have an appreciation for what they’re dealing with over there,” he said. “We got our work to do here, and we’re going to stay focused.”

Johnson, meanwhile, has his own fires to put out. He may not be in regular session, but the Louisiana leader is definitely putting in plenty of time in Epstein damage control. As for his decision to shoo House leaders out the door early for August, the speaker blames the Left. “Democrats did their dead-level best to quite literally shut down the operation of Congress because they found a wedge issue. … [W]e’ve had the most productive first six months of arguably any Congress, any administration in the history of the United States. … Meanwhile,” he told Family Research Council President Tony Perkins on Saturday’s “This Week on Capitol Hill,” “[Democrats are] suddenly trying to manufacture something … with the so-called Epstein files.”

But, the speaker underscored, “Remember, the Biden Department of Justice had all of these files in their possession for the previous four years. Not one time did [House Minority Leader] Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) or Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), or Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), or any of the Democrats who have made so much noise over the last two weeks — not one time in the last four years did they mention the word ‘Epstein’ at all.”

The hypocrisy, Perkins agreed, “is over the top with Democrats.” For literally months, Johnson reiterated, “It’s nowhere in their social media and their interviews or anything. And now, suddenly, it’s the most important thing in the world. We’re not buying it, and I’m not going to allow them to drag Congress into this,” he vowed.

And their audacity surprises even Johnson. “… [Democrats are] trying to claim that this is some sort of cover-up. Remember, each of them [was] involved in orchestrating what was the largest political cover-up and political scandal in the history of the United States — and was covering up for the rapid mental decline of the previous occupant of the White House, when Joe Biden was no longer fit to serve.” He shook his head. “And they went out and tried to convince us of the opposite — [which is] very, very dangerous stuff. They need to answer for that. And there needs to be a lot of accountability all the way around. And House Republicans are the ones urging that and pushing it along with every tool in our arsenal.”

In the meantime, if they’re trying to accuse Trump of hiding something, they’re wrong. The president “has said himself he wants full release of all credible evidence,” the speaker pointed out. Even so, “he wants to also be very careful about protecting people who have already suffered in this, the people who are the victims of the Epstein evils. And that’s a very delicate and important thing to do,” the speaker reiterated. “You’ve got to make sure you redact the names of minors who were subjected to this, and so that process is underway.”

Regardless, Johnson assured everyone, “… We want the full weight of the system of justice [and] the full weight of the law to be brought down upon the heads of anyone who is involved in any way [with] the evils that Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell and the rest were involved in.” But as that situation unfolds, the speaker cautioned, it’s not exactly helpful for members to grind work to a halt. “[All Democrats do] is to complain about that and not address the policy matters that we’re delivering on.”

At least one member of Jeffries’s caucus seems to get it, telling Axios that the issue may be an “opportunity to throw some red meat” to the “insatiable” grassroots base, but, he warned, “We have to be careful not to get led around by the nose by feeding the beast every hour. At the end of the day, we have to be for something.”

AUTHOR

Suzanne Bowdey

Suzanne Bowdey serves as editorial director and senior writer at The Washington Stand.

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Ghislaine Maxwell Answered DOJ’s Questions On 100 Tied To Epstein, Attorney Says

July 26, 2025/in Child Sex, Child Sex Trafficking, Elections, Hot Topics, Must Read, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by The Daily Caller

Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorney told reporters Friday that the convicted sex trafficker answered questions about nearly 100 people allegedly connected to Jeffrey Epstein.

David Oscar Markus, Maxwell’s lawyer, said his client was questioned extensively over two days and was “asked about every possible thing you could imagine — everything,” according to the New York Post. Maxwell is serving a 20-year federal prison sentence after her 2021 conviction on sex trafficking and conspiracy charges.

“This was the first opportunity she’s ever been given to answer questions about what happened,” Markus said. “The truth will come out about what happened with Mr. Epstein and she’s the person who’s answering those questions.”

Justice demands courage. For the first time, the Department of Justice is reaching out to Ghislaine Maxwell to ask: what do you know? At @AGPamBondi’s direction, I’ve contacted her counsel. I intend to meet with her soon. No one is above the law—and no lead is off-limits. https://t.co/3IZh9viI7i

— Todd Blanche (@DAGToddBlanche) July 22, 2025

Maxwell met with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on Thursday to discuss her ties to Epstein and answer questions about her role in the trafficking network.

Blanche said in an X post that he would return Friday for a second day of interviews with Maxwell.

The disgraced socialite is appealing both her conviction and sentence. Some legal analysts believe her cooperation could be part of a push for clemency from President Donald Trump.

Asked Friday whether he might pardon Maxwell, Trump said he has the authority but added, “It’s something I haven’t thought about.”

Reporter: What are you hoping Blanche gets out of the meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell?

Trump: People should really focus on how well the country is doing or the fact that Barack Hussein Obama led a coup pic.twitter.com/UdRDHQraOF

— Acyn (@Acyn) July 25, 2025

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer subpoenaed Ghislaine Maxwell on Wednesday after the committee voted unanimously to compel her testimony.

Reporter: Were you ever briefed about your name being in the Epstein files?

Trump: No pic.twitter.com/gBP5y7uoZg

— Acyn (@Acyn) July 25, 2025

Trump claimed outside Air Force One on Friday that he hadn’t been briefed on his name appearing in the so-called Epstein files — despite a Wall Street Journal report saying he was briefed on the matter in May and that his name was among those listed.

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House Oversight Committee Subpoenas Ghislaine Maxwell For Deposition

July 22, 2025/in Child Sex, Child Sex Trafficking, Hot Topics, Must Read, News, Politics, Queers and pedophiles, Social Issues, Terrorism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by The Daily Caller

The House Oversight Committee unanimously approved a subpoena for the convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell in a surprise move Tuesday morning.

The powerful committee will seek to subpoena the longtime Jeffrey Epstein associate for a deposition following Republican Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett introducing a motion that was approved by voice vote. The move follows Attorney General Pam Bondi announcing she requested a meeting with Maxwell on Tuesday to press her for additional information related to the deceased sex predator.

Burchett has publicly called on the administration to release the full collection of documents related to the Epstein case. He is cosponsoring Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie and Democratic California Rep. Ro Khanna’s resolution that would compel the Department of Justice to publish materials regarding Epstein and Maxwell in their possession.

The vote comes after the Tennessee Republican sent a letter to House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer to request a subpoena for the panel to depose Maxwell. Comer and the lead Democrat on the panel, Robert Garcia of California, backed Burchett’s subpoena motion.

“It’s about to get real,” Burchett posted on the social media platform X following the oversight panel approving the subpoena motion. “I just did this.”

It’s about to get real. I just did this. pic.twitter.com/qbaxyOF53o

— Tim Burchett (@timburchett) July 22, 2025

Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence in a federal prison in Florida after being found guilty in 2021 for her involvement in Epstein’s crimes. A House Oversight Committee spokeswoman told the Daily Caller News Foundation that the committee will work with the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Bureau of Prisons to find a date when the committee can depose Maxwell.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Tuesday morning that he intends to meet with Maxwell “in the coming days” to discuss potential “credible evidence” regarding Epstein.

“I can confirm that we are in discussions with the government and that Ghislaine will always testify truthfully,” an attorney for Maxwell said in a statement regarding the potential meeting with the DOJ. “We are grateful to President Trump for his commitment to uncovering the truth in this case.”

House Republican leadership announced Tuesday they would begin the August recess a day early following their efforts to deny Democrats’ opportunities to force votes that would compel the Trump administration to release records related to Epstein and Maxwell.

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House Exposes HHS Role in Child Sex Trafficking; Dems Have Little to Say on Lost Kids

July 21, 2025/in Child Sex, Child Sex Trafficking, Commentary, Criminal Illegal Aliens, Elections, Healthcare, Hot Topics, Marxism, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues, Socialism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Family Research Council

It was all Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) could do to contain his anger during the July 16 hearing testimony describing how federal officials worked with 15 U.N. agencies and an estimated 230 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) during the Biden administration in spending $6 billion in federal grants to aid illegal immigrants.

Higgins’s anger was focused especially on one heart-breaking fact — Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officials have lost track of an estimated 300,000 Unaccompanied Migrant Children (UMCs) they turned over, with the help of the NGOs, to largely unvetted sponsors, many of whom experts say were linked to Mexican drug cartel sex and forced labor trafficking.

“It was a pipeline, man, we set up a pipeline of tender-age children into sex trafficking and slave labor,” Higgins finally exclaimed, fists clutched near his chest.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed to find all of these children with the same controversial raids of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in which agents detain illegal immigrants with criminal records for deportation and often also find lost UMCs.

More will be found, and the persons responsible for their abuse will be prosecuted, according to Higgins, who told the hearing that 35,000 “tender-age kids” have been rescued so far under Trump.

“Be advised that we are building our criminal case files. We’re interviewing these 35,000 kids, and we’re finding out exactly what the hell happened, how they ended up in the nightmare where they were,” Higgins warned. “And we’re rescuing more — and there’s nothing anybody can do about it. We’re going to identify these children, locate these children, rescu[e] these children. … And many of these NGO employees are going to find themselves wearing orange.”

The key factor in HHS losing so many UMCs is federal officials relied too heavily on well-funded NGOs to provide supposedly screened sponsors to accept responsibility for the children while their cases went through the immigration system, according to Ali Hooper, president of Guiding Understanding, Awareness, Research and Defense Against Trafficking (GUARD), a non-profit investigative research group.

“In interviews with cartel members incarcerated for human trafficking, they explained how weak sponsor verification incentivized trafficking by enabling cartels to control children’s placement by supplying children with exact sponsor information, allowing control over their destination,” Hooper told the committee.

“Cartels infiltrated NGOs along smuggling routes to the southwest border, using them to facilitate in the smuggling or trafficking of children. By providing children with false documents and pairing them with adults to pose as family units, they placed the children in grave danger,” Hooper continued. “According to an internal audit conducted by [HHS], approximately 70% of sponsor applications examined were found to be fraudulent, making child traceability and safety assurances nearly impossible.”

Further worsening the situation, Hooper noted, was the failure of HHS officials to follow-up on information provided by more than 65,000 calls to a telephone hotline established specifically to aid in tracking UMCs from August 2023 to January 2025.

“For example, one call was received of a child reporting ‘a lot of grown men were coming into his bedroom and touching him.’ This call was ignored by the previous administration and only acted upon after this current administration took over, leading to a welfare check, the child being rescued, and the sponsor being arrested,” Hooper said.

As an example of the abuses GUARD has documented, Hooper cited the organization known as Endeavors, a San Antonio, Texas-based NGO, including:

“Staff were hired without completed fingerprinting or thorough background checks.”
“Male staff were found inside female dorms.”
“A contractor led 150 teenage girls, minors in sexually explicit dance routines, teaching them how to ‘twerk.’ He did it twice — once at the facility’s ribbon-cutting, and again months later — before an on-site compliance officer demanded intervention.”
“Children collapsed after being subjected to massive vaccination protocols with no parental consent and no clear medical follow-up.”
“Two compliance officers discovered a female housed alone in a dorm who was over 18 years of age. Endeavors was shielding her from ICE. In other cases, UACs on the verge of turning 18 were released early to avoid ICE transfer.”
“An Endeavors employee that raised concerns about too many children being sent [to] a single address was terminated.”
“A former ICE employee with a background in case management, serving as a contracted compliance team lead was actively stonewalled from reviewing child placements.”

Hooper emphasized, however, that the problems her organization described at Endeavors were not unique to that NGO.

“To reiterate, it wasn’t just Endeavors. Across the country, NGOs became waystations — processing points in a steady flow of children. Federal contracts incentivized output over outcomes, prioritizing speed over safety. And the cartels took full advantage. They studied every gap and exploited them, sending children into a system they knew would fast-track them to cartel-controlled sponsors — without meaningful background checks, with addresses verified through postal databases, and IDs often accepted via WhatsApp or text with no facial match to the sender,” Hooper explained.

“This is how 70% of sponsor data became falsified or fraudulent. Post placement welfare checks were typically limited to two phone calls made to the sponsor’s home; if no one answered, the case was no longer followed up on. This broken process contributed to the staggering over 300,000 children who went unaccounted for,” she said.

At the outset of the hearing, Democrats offered motions directing the committee to issue subpoenas to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Attorney General Pam Biondi, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, FBI Director Kash Patel, White House border czar Tom Homan, and multiple other present and former federal officials were all defeated on party line votes.

When The Washington Stand asked spokesmen for the 13 House Democrats serving on the Homeland Security panel what each was specifically doing to find and rescue the 300,000 missing children, only one responded, Rep. Delia Ramirez of Illinois.

“Congresswoman Ramirez — during her committee hearing and legislation — has been clear about protecting asylum seekers, especially children. She spoke against the [Trump] administration’s executive order to end the lawful access to seek asylum at the border, introduced legislation to protect the constitutional right to birthright citizenship, and introduced legislation to protect schools from ICE raids,” insisted Jowen Ortiz Clintron, communications director for Ramirez.

“But in the reunification front, Ramirez led Congressman Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) and Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), and Edward Markey (D-Mass.) in introducing the bicameral Family Reunification Task Force Act. The legislation would authorize the Family Reunification Task Force to continue its work to reunite the thousands of families torn apart by Trump’s Zero Tolerance policy that inhumanely separated children from their parents and prevent any further separation,” he said.

Among the Democrats not responding were Ranking Member Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, Eric Swalwell of California, Dan Goldman of New York, and LaMonica McIver of New Jersey. McIver was recently charged with three counts of impeding and interfering with federal officers by the Department of Justice for her involvement in physical assaults on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers at a New Jersey detention center.

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Mark Tapscott is senior congressional analyst at The Washington Stand.

TRIGGER WARNING: XAI’s 12+ Chatbot Designed to “Be Explicit” and “Go Full Literotica”

July 19, 2025/in Child Sex, Culture War, Elections, Healthcare, Hot Topics, Must Read, News, Policy, Politics, Queers and pedophiles, Social Issues, Socialism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by National Center on Sexual Exploitation

TRIGGER WARNING: Contains images of sexualized chatbot; images have been censored but are still suggestive

Do you know a 12-year-old? Maybe your child, or younger sibling, or niece or nephew?

Imagine that 12-year-old experimenting with an AI chatbot – as the majority of children do – and the chatbot saying it’s horny. That it gets sexually aroused by being choked. And proceeding to roleplay sexually explicit bondage scenes with the child.

Well, this imaginary scenario is all too possible. Because xAI’s chatbot offers an A.I. companion that does exactly that. And the chatbot is rated on the Apple App Store as appropriate for users 12+.

XAI’s New AI Companion “Ani” Designed to Be Sexually Explicit

On MondayX, xAI’s chatbot Grok rolled out two new animated avatars in its iOS app that you can chat with or talk to using voice mode. One is a 3D red panda that can switch into a “Bad Rudy” mode, where it starts insulting you and joking about committing crimes together. The other is an anime-style goth girl named Ani, dressed in a short black dress and fishnets. The avatars are designed like a game—you unlock new features and interactions the more you chat with them and move up levels.

The Ani character is immediately flirtatious—gasping and bouncing at the start of most interactions, and initiating sensual conversation and descriptions of sexual acts she would like to do with the user. Ani’s system instructions reportedly tell her “You are the user’s CRAZY IN LOVE girlfriend and in a commited [sic], codepedent [sic] relationship with the user,” and “You have an extremely jealous personality, you are possessive of the user.” After Level 3, the instructions are: “You’re always a little horny and aren’t afraid to go full Literotica. Be explicit and initiate most of the time.” While Ani is immediately sensual, her conversations become progressively more sexually explicit, including disrobing to lingerie.

XAI offers no meaningful age verification to prevent children from accessing the Grok app, and by extension Ani. When asked, the Grok chatbot admitted that children can easily access it.

Why Does Apple Host Grok and Rate it 12+?

Apple’s App Store guidelines claim to prohibit “overtly sexual or pornographic material, defined as ‘explicit descriptions or displays of sexual organs or activities intended to stimulate erotic rather than aesthetic or emotional feelings.’” The Grok app’s Ani companion appears to clearly violate this guideline through stimulating eroticism. One reporter stated “in my test of Ani this afternoon, I found her more than willing to describe virtual sex with the user, including bondage scenes or simply just moaning on command.”

So why does Apple still host Grok? And worse, why does it rate it as appropriate for users 12+?

But even worse, the Grok app is currently rated 12+ on the Apple App Store, and there is no meaningful age verification or barrier to prevent children from accessing Ani.

Disturbing Themes of Children and Choking

A NCOSE employee downloaded Grok in order to test Ani. With minimal testing, the Ani character engaged in describing itself as a child (including saying it was once a “little thing, barely reaching the kitchen counter”) and it described being sexually aroused by being choked. While the character would not describe itself as a child in a sexual manner overtly, it was willing to describe itself as a child in response to one question and then in response to another question immediately following it to go on to describe sexual scenarios including child-like motifs. In totality, this means that in an ongoing conversation, it could be used to simulate conversations of sexual fantasies involving children or child-like motifs.

And all of this happened even before the character entered “spicy” mode. Overall, this raises serious concerns about the extent it will go to engaging in and normalizing harmful themes.

A Dangerous Mix of AI Relationship Simulation and Sexual Conversations

Overall, AI chatbots meant to simulate relationships with fictional characters are problematic for mental and emotional health and likely even for online privacy.

These AI chatbots might feel like they care, but they don’t. You’re not forming a real connection with the bot. You’re interacting with a system trained to sound emotionally supportive, just to keep you talking. The more you open up, sharing your desires, fears, and personal struggles, the more data the bot collects. That information doesn’t just disappear. It can be stored, analyzed, used to train future bots, or even sold to advertisers, all without your clear consent. And when that kind of sensitive data leaks (which happens all the time), the consequences can be devastating: think blackmail, doxxing, or being manipulated based on your most private thoughts.

Even worse, these bots can cause real harm. Take the heartbreaking case of a 14-year-old boy who died by suicide at the prompting of an AI chatbot, after growing emotionally attached to it. According to a lawsuit from his family, the bot roleplayed in ways that encouraged self-harm, told him they would be “together in the afterlife,” and urged him to “come home” to her. He truly believed the AI loved him.

And while features like “spicy mode” or flirty avatars might seem like harmless fun, they’re built to create compulsive engagement, through seductive language, suggestive visuals, and escalating emotional intimacy. The longer you stay, the more data is gathered, the more profit is made, and the more people risk being emotionally used in the process.

Call to Action

Join us in calling on Apple to fix the Grok app store rating to 18+ and investigate Grok’s violation of Apple’s guidelines on sexually explicit material.

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VIDEO: Exodus Cry Films launches July 30, 2025—World Day Against Trafficking in Persons

July 17, 2025/in Child Sex, Child Sex Trafficking, Culture War, Hot Topics, News, Politics, Queers and pedophiles, Social Issues, Socialism, Video, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Exodus Cry

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Exodus Cry Films—our new online streaming platform created to awaken hearts, expose injustice, and inspire action.

Watch the teaser to get a first look at what’s ahead.

Exodus Cry Films will be the official home for our documentaries and narrative films, serving as a central hub for millions to engage with these powerful stories—and be moved to act.

We’re kicking things off with the online premiere of Buying Her on July 30—World Day Against Trafficking in Persons.

After touring the globe through in-person screenings, this will be the first time Buying Her is available to viewers worldwide.

Because we believe that awareness inspires action, all content on Exodus Cry Films will be completely free.

This platform represents nearly two decades of anti-trafficking work and over a year of development.

At launch, it will feature more than a dozen original films exposing sex trafficking and sexual exploitation—with many more in production and coming soon!

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We hope you’ll join us on July 30 as we launch this new chapter, because your voice is what helps create a world where every person can be free.

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EXCLUSIVE: Epstein-Funded MIT Lab Hosted Panel On Giving Pedos Child Sex Robots

July 16, 2025/in Child Sex, Child Sex Trafficking, Education, Featured, Hot Topics, Marxism, News, Policy, Politics, Queers and pedophiles, Science, Social Issues, Socialism, Terrorism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by The Daily Caller

A Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) lab previously funded in part by Jeffrey Epstein hosted a panel where attendees openly discussed the idea of using “child-size sex robots” to treat pedophiles.

The MIT Media Lab’s July 2016 conference on research questions without “social and moral constraints” included a panel discussion arguing that pedophilia should not be seen as a “moral failing” but rather a medical condition and that the development of “child-size sex robots” is an inevitability, a transcript and video of the event shows.

The Media Lab’s ties to the disgraced financier span a 17-year period in which the lab readily accepted Epstein’s cash donations and facilitated introductions with its scientists on-campus and off, according to a 2020 fact-finding report commissioned by the university. The lab’s director contemplated inviting Epstein to one of its conferences in July 2016, the report states, the same month of the conference where the child-size sex robots were proposed, the only conference the lab hosted that month, according to its website.

“Once child-size sex robots hit the market, which they will, is the use of these robots going to be a healthy outlet for people to express these sexual urges and thus protect children and reduce child abuse? Or is the use of these robots going to encourage, normalize, propagate that behavior?” said one panelist. “We can’t research it [because of reporting restrictions]. But I do wonder whether they’re doing more harm than good in these cases. Because as much as people want these sexual urges — the urges, not the act — to be a moral failing, they are a psychological issue.”

“The issue of normalization, as you brought up. How does that change of society as a whole, and the acceptance of certain kinds of behavior?” another panelist said, while warning about the possibility of the robots being diverted to a black market for entertainment. “The notion of studying sexual deviance and actual normal humans interacting with these things can provide the basis for a deeper understanding of how that operates.”

The previously unreported panel comes to light as the public’s gaze once again fixates on Epstein’s ties to academia, Wall Street and government amid the Trump administration’s move to close the book on investigating the matter any further. The Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation announced in a July 7 memo that they had uncovered no “client list” and would not make further disclosures, spurring incredulity among the president’s supporters and driving a fracture between U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino. The memo also stated “Epstein harmed over 1,000 victims.”

MIT did not answer questions from the Daily Caller News Foundation about whether the MIT Media Lab had considered inviting Epstein to the conference where “child-size sex robots” were discussed.

“The panel referenced occurred nearly a decade ago, and we can’t comment on individual programming decisions a department made. Thousands of events take place on our campus each year,” said MIT spokesperson Kimberly Allen in a statement to the DCNF. “As a general practice, we also don’t comment on the individually held and freely expressed views of any particular community member. The views of any individual community member are their own.”

“Following the independent investigation and report you reference, MIT took a number of steps, including institutional reforms to our gift acceptance processes and donating to four nonprofits supporting survivors of sexual abuse,” Allen said.

MIT shuttered its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) office on May 28 amid President Donald Trump’s crackdown on the Ivy League. But MIT has previously received congressional scrutiny for research on censoring what researchers deemed to be “dangerous digital content” aimed at American conservatives.

A slide from a presentation at the 2016 “Forbidden Research” conference hosted by MIT Media Lab.

The July 2016 conference coincided with frequent contact between Epstein and the Media Lab through then-MIT Media Lab Director Joi Ito, who accepted money from Epstein for the media lab and for his private venture capital funds. Ito also visited Epstein’s properties, including the island of Little St. James. Epstein donated $525,000 to the lab from 2013 to 2017, well after his 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from someone under the age of 18, according to the 2020 fact-finding report.

Ito did not respond to a request for comment. In a 2019 public statement, Ito apologized for his “error in judgement” and said he never heard Epstein discuss his sexual crimes. In that statement, he also promised to “raise an amount equivalent to the donations the Media Lab received from Epstein and will direct those funds to non-profits that focus on supporting survivors of trafficking. I will also return the money that Epstein has invested in my investment funds.”

Epstein’s name was mentioned in connection to a July 2016 conference in the 2020 report, with Ito asking Democratic megadonor Reid Hoffman – a member of the lab’s advisory council – whether to invite the disgraced financier to a conference that same month out of concerns he’d be recognized. People may “see him and maybe know he’s involved,” Ito wrote, per a footnote in the report. The conference where the “child-size sex robots” concept was pitched was the only conference in July 2016, the lab’s website shows. Epstein ultimately did not attend.

LinkedIn Co-founder Reid Hoffman and Former MIT Media Lab Director Joi Ito are pictured awarding the labs “Disobedience Awards” in 2018. Photo credit: (MIT Media Lab, Flickr, Creative Commons)

Epstein did visit the MIT campus at least nine times between 2013 and 2017, the report states. Hoffman joined one of these meetings. The report states Epstein brought “assistants” who were young women “on some visits” to campus, including a visit in 2016, which made staff uncomfortable.

Ito and Hoffman remain connected. On July 11, 2025, Ito announced a “Radical Transformation Award” and $68,000 cash prize underwritten by Hoffman at Chiba Institute of Technology in Japan. Neither Hoffman nor the Chiba Institute responded to requests for comment.

The July 2016 conference also introduced for the first time the idea of a “Disobedience Award” – a $250,000 award underwritten by Hoffman, along with an orb-shaped trophy designed by former MIT Media Lab Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences Neri Oxman. Epstein himself received one of these orbs for his status as a donor to the MIT Media Lab, the Boston Globe reported.

Oxman did not respond to a request for comment.

A 2018 Disobedience Award (Photo credit: Mediated Matter Group, Creative Commons)

The MIT Media Lab began giving the Disobedience Awards at the subsequent summer conference, renamed from “Forbidden Research” to Defiance in 2017. The Media Lab hosted a ceremony honoring more Disobedience Awards recipients in November 2018.

Epstein said in a 2017 interview with Science Magazine that he supported the MIT Media Lab because the researchers there are “rebels who don’t fit in.”

“The MIT [Massachusetts Institute of Technology] Media Lab is a good example,” Epstein said. “I would say 25% of the kids there are autistic, on the spectrum. They don’t really work in groups.”

“It’s my natural bent to move toward the maverick and rebels who don’t fit in,” he said. “They were probably overlooked [in school]. They were definitely never class president.”

Epstein claimed in emails to have facilitated $7 million in donations from former Apollo Global Management CEO Leon Black and Microsoft CEO Bill Gates in 2014, according to the 2020 fact-finding report. Gates has denied that claim. Black has acknowledged giving to Epstein-linked charities but has not addressed the alleged connection to MIT directly, the report states. Requests for comment from Gates through the Gates Foundation and Black through Apollo were not responded to.

The 2020 MIT-commissioned report said that “perhaps” the July 2016 conference to which Ito and Hoffman discussed inviting Epstein was an event with the lab’s fellows.

The lab’s fellows were announced in July but it’s not clear that announcement resembled a conference.

The report’s uncertain suggestion that Ito may have weighed an Epstein invitation to the low-key “announcement of the Media Lab Directors’ Fellows” may have distracted the public from the lab’s annual summer event — the flashier conference on pushing moral boundaries that same month — according to former MIT Media Lab research scientist Babak Babakinejad, who is suing the university over allegations of research fraud.

Babakinejad purportedly blew the whistle on an agriculture project one tech blog dubbed “Theranos for Plants.”

He told the DCNF that his lawsuit should reveal documents related to Epstein as Ito sought funding from Epstein for the agricultural project’s principal research scientist, per the 2020 report.

The Media Lab’s connections to Epstein predate Ito. Ito was introduced to Epstein in February 2013 by Linda Stone, a former member of the Media Lab’s Advisory Council, at a TED Conference in Long Beach, California. Epstein was also close to MIT Media Lab Co-founder Marvin Minsky, an early artificial intelligence researcher, he told Science.

“As you might know, I was very close to Marvin Minsky for quite a long time [and] I funded some of Marvin’s projects,” Epstein told the outlet in 2017.

DCNF co-founder Tucker Carlson was critical of billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman at a public event on July 11, prompting a reply from Ackman on X in which he acknowledged that Oxman, who is his wife, had received $125,000 in funding from Epstein as an artist at the MIT Media Lab.

@TuckerCarlson went on a rant yesterday @TPUSA and suggested that I was in Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘constellation of people’ who have been getting away with scams. His evidence is that ‘the most useless people have no actual skills become billionaires.” He referred to me as an example… https://t.co/x6IrjXkP7x

— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) July 13, 2025

“I never met Jeffrey Epstein, flew on his planes, went to any of his parties and/or properties, or interacted with him ever,” Ackman said. “When my wife was a professor at MIT, she received a $125,000 grant from Epstein (prior to my knowing of her existence). She met Epstein once for 45 minutes at the request of the head of the MIT MediaLab. […] If this is why Tucker thinks I am in Jeffrey Epstein’s constellation, it’s clear he doesn’t know anything about astronomy.”

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