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The sharp flick of textbook pages, the smell of studied parchment and a litany of knowledge surrounded Liza Libes during her time at Columbia University, an experience she entered as a bright-eyed, liberal freshman, before leaving a conservative with a deep commitment to free speech.”I was very upset with my suppression of speech. You know, I’m a writer. The biggest thing to me is the ability to be able to say what you think, to write what you think. And I wasn’t able to write exactly what I thought in my English classrooms,” Libes told Fox News Digital.”I would get Cs when I would argue in favor of the patriarchy. And then when I argued that, you know, so-and-so was subverting gender norms, then I would get an A… It was just this kind of gradual accumulation,” she continued.OKLAHOMA STUDENT FLUNKED BY TA AFTER TOUTING CHRISTIAN BELIEFS IN GENDER ESSAY, DIRECTS OTHERS TO ‘PUSH BACK’Libes detailed an experience she had during an English class involving an assignment about Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” in which her professor said the play centered on “queer desire.”Libes, the founder of the Substack “Pens & Poison,” disagreed.”I just wrote about the play, I didn’t touch on queer desire. She took off a couple points from my exam because I didn’t mention queer desire in the class for the midterm. So I thought that was a very bizarre thing for her to do,” she said.”There [were] a couple other professors [that] I really disagreed with in terms of the way that they were teaching literature, the way they were kind of creating this Marxist ideology from a lot of literary works and kind of thrusting the Marxist teachings on so many great works of literature,” Libes continued.LIBERAL FACULTY STILL HUGELY OUTNUMBER CONSERVATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION: REPORT”I felt very stifled as a writer and I think that that was kind of my last straw,” Libes added.”I wanted to be in a place where I could just… express my values, express my beliefs in writing and also in conversation… By the time I was a senior, I very much identified with the conservative movement,” she continued.Libes received a master’s degree in English and comparative literature in 2020, after earning her bachelor’s degree in English literature in 2019.When asked about the campus environment beyond the classroom, Libes described an underlying “expectation” to hold “certain viewpoints,” saying she knew she was going to be “socially ostracized in some way.”FORTY-FIVE PERCENT OF COLLEGE STUDENTS SAY VIOLENCE CAN BE JUSTIFIED TO STOP HATE SPEECH, POLL FINDSLibes grew up in what she called a “post-Soviet household,” speaking Russian with her immigrant parents and grandmother.”One of the things that was very big in my household was just this idea of freedom, right, because my parents had come from the Soviet Union, there was a lot of oppression there,” she said.”Obviously, we did not like socialism because socialism was one of the ways that a lot of this oppression was perpetrated. And I thought of myself always as a liberal because I stood for freedom. I was against oppression, I was, you know, pro-free speech — those to me were very liberal ideas, those were the ideas that I grew up with in my household,” Libes continued.30% OF COLLEGE STUDENTS SAY VIOLENCE ACCEPTABLE WAY TO STOP SPEAKERS ON CAMPUSES, SURVEY FINDS”When I got to Columbia, I very quickly realized that those ideas were no longer part of the left, that the left liked to suppress speech, the left liked to ostracize anyone who didn’t hold, you know, certain opinions or beliefs,” she added.Libes encourages other young people to stand by what they believe.”Don’t be afraid [of] expressing your beliefs and don’t let, kind of, peer pressure or other people sway you into believing one thing or another,” Libes said.Columbia University did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

A resident of Austin, Texas, recently found five live World War II-era grenades inside boxes purchased at an estate sale — prompting an urgent police response.The unusual discovery was announced by the Austin Police Association (APA), which represents Austin police officers, earlier in October.In an Instagram post, the APA said the resident purchased several boxes at the estate sale and discovered what appeared to be WWII-era grenades while going through them.MYSTERY SURROUNDS GERMAN SOLDIERS FOUND NEAR MUD-COVERED WWII MOTORCYCLE IN DANUBE”APD’s Bomb Squad confirmed they were live and active,” the post said.Austin Police Department (APD) officers secured the scene and established a perimeter to protect nearby residents while awaiting explosives specialists, according to the association.The bomb squad recovered five grenades, according to Sgt. Issa Kafena, the supervisor of the APD Bomb Squad.Kafena told Fox News Digital that, though officers could not determine exactly when the grenades were manufactured, they appeared to be about 80 years old.TEXAS ROAD CONSTRUCTION UNEARTHS ‘COLOSSAL’ PREHISTORIC REMAINS OF ‘BIG OL’ ANIMALS’The buyer seemed to recognize the potential danger and contacted authorities.”I believe the person was former FBI, so [they] immediately kind of took precautions to make sure everything was safe, called 911, and patrol responded and then immediately called us,” he said.Despite their age, Kafena — who did not personally respond to the incident — warned that the grenades still posed a danger.RARE CANNONBALL EMERGES FROM GROUND AT THE ALAMO, LIKELY UNTOUCHED FOR NEARLY 190 YEARS”All ordnance … there’s an inherent danger to any and all of it, especially if it’s military ordnance,” Kafena said. “It’s designed to hurt and kill people.”He added that the grenades could have injured someone had they functioned as designed.Though the APA described the incident as an “unusual call,” Kofina said discoveries of old military explosives are not entirely unheard of by authorities.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER”It’s more common than you think,” Kafena said.The officer said the bomb squad handles over 400 deployments annually, including approximately 150 to 175 call-outs, many of which involve discovered military ordnance or equipment.”In this region, we cover 8,400 square miles in the 10-county capital area of government’s region,” he said. “And we go all over the central Texas area for calls like this fairly frequently.”Once the grenades were recovered, bomb squad officers safely disposed of and destroyed them, Kafena said.CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE NEWSAbove all, Kafena urged anyone who discovers old military explosives to leave them undisturbed and contact authorities immediately.”If you ever find it, don’t touch it, call 911 immediately and have the bomb squad come out and help address the situation,” he said.TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZThe Austin discovery is not the only recent case of military ordnance turning up in unexpected places.Last fall, a father and son unexpectedly discovered more than 150 World War II-era artillery shells while metal detecting in a Czech forest, prompting a two-day bomb squad operation.This fall, TSA officers discovered a spent smoke grenade concealed inside an aerosol container in a passenger’s carry-on bag during a routine security screening at an airport in upstate New York.

Television stations across Europe were evacuated Friday after receiving a series of bomb threats warning that “the clock is ticking.”
Ireland’s national broadcaster RTE, Britain’s Sky News and Bulgaria’s Nova TV were among the targeted outlets.
No explosives were ultimately discovered.
The threatening emails claimed that an explosive device had been planted inside the relevant buildings and would detonate within 45 minutes.
“We want the whole world to know about us, which is why one of our operatives has planted an explosive device in your building,” one message read.
“It will detonate in 45 minutes. The clock is ticking.”

Bomb threats warning ‘the clock is ticking’ disrupt TV channels across Europe https://t.co/EHflokO840
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 6, 2026

Dublin-based RTE was forced to suspend normal programming for several hours while police conducted an extensive search of its Dublin headquarters.
Employees were eventually permitted to return after the building was declared safe.
Nova’s newsroom in Sofia was similarly evacuated and searched, although its broadcasts remained on air.
The threats come after a wave of apparent hoax bomb warnings targeting passenger flights across Europe in recent days.
This has resulted in diversions, emergency landings and security operations. Authorities have so far reported finding no explosives.

#Italian, #French and #Bulgarian fighter jets scrambled Thursday as about 20 commercial flights were hit by a third day of hoax bomb alerts across #Europe.
No claim of responsibility was made for all the flights, but threats against flights sent to airports in Rome and Sofia… pic.twitter.com/wcF4UpqxUJ
— FRANCE 24 English (@France24_en) November 6, 2026

Friday’s emails were reportedly signed by someone calling himself “Mikhail Andropov,” who claimed to be a leader of the group responsible for the earlier aviation threats.
“But this is only the beginning,” the message warned. “What happened this week is just a small part of what awaits Europe in the near future.”
The emails were titled “MESSAGE TO THE WEST.”
The Andropov surname is shared by Yuri Andropov, the former Soviet leader, while the wording also resembles the title of a biography about him.
However, there is currently no evidence establishing Russian responsibility, and authorities have not identified who is behind them.
Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin said authorities are still trying to establish whether the incidents were the work of individuals or part of a coordinated campaign.
“It just illustrates how relatively simple it can be to cause disruption and to undermine the normal operation of society through unconventional activities of this kind,” Martin said.
Investigations into the source of the threats remain ongoing.

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Mike Pence Ignores Stolen Election, Announces He’s Going to Lead Conservatives Back to “Principles”
According to traitor Mike Pence, the GOP has lost its way.  The 2020 and 2026 elections weren’t stolen; Pence doesn’t even consider that.  Pence believes conservatives need principles to win stolen elections.  If only we listened to Mike, everything would be fine.  This guy is a legend in his own mind.
On January 6, 2021, we learned that Mike Pence was a Brutus in disguise.  After weeks of saying he had not made up his mind about what he would do on January 6, Pence, the one man who had the duty to look into the stolen elections, released a multi-page report stating that the only constitutional remedy he could find to the stolen 2020 election was to certify the election results, even though they were uncertifiable and fraudulent.

At that moment, we learned that Pence was a traitor.  That morning I wrote a piece at TGP saying we’ll find out today if Pence is a hero or Brutus. It turned out he was Brutus. He had no intention of stopping the certification of the 2020 stolen election. He was behind it.

At that point, we realized Pence was the man who threw General Mike Flynn under the bus one week into President Trump‘s first Administration.  The President entrusted Pence to determine if the General had lied to the Deep State corrupt FBI officials Strzok and Pienka.  Pence lied to the President and shared that General Flynn had lied.  This was not true, and it upended the General’s life.

Pence claimed that he was a religious man again earlier this year when, in reality, he appears to be more of a freak.  In March, Pence released an op-ed about being civil.  What a joke. Only idiots are civil when elections in their country are being destroyed by globalists, fascists, murderers, terrorists, foreigners, and Satanists.

“Democracy depends on heavy doses of civility. Since the American founding, we’ve suffered from bouts of incivility, from the sharp words of soundbites to much worse. When it happens, Americans often recognize it and demand more from themselves and their countrymen.”
-Excerpt in today’s @NRO from my forthcoming book “What Conservatives Believe: Rediscovering the Conservative Conscience.” Reprinted with permission from Center Street, an imprint of Hachette Book Group. https://t.co/YWTwlf6XnN
— Mike Pence (@Mike_Pence) May 26, 2026

On Friday, Pence came out with another of his BS posts. This time Pence calls the stolen election a time for reckoning and principles.

My thoughts on the Midterm Results:
My heart breaks for our country. Despite the best efforts by so many to support Republican candidates and call conservatives back to our principles, our Republican team suffered a historic defeat.
This midterm election wasn’t a rout, it was a reckoning. The American people have rejected our party’s shift toward economic populism, and our majorities in Congress and state legislatures and governorships across the country paid the price.
But like most people of faith, I’m an eternal optimist. I know that with God’s help, we can save our movement—and our country—again. We can return the Republican Party to the timeless principles that have led to our greatest successes and, more important, have made America strong, prosperous and free.
The conservative comeback starts today. Let’s get to work.
— Mike Pence (@Mike_Pence) November 5, 2026

Thank God, the American people realized that Pence is nothing more than a tool of the uniparty left.

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