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Spain Clears Way For US Extradition Case Against Cox Media Heir Turned Communist Financier

The Spanish government has begun a process that could soon lead to the US extradition of Jim “Fergie” Chambers, the communist centimillionaire and heir to the massive Cox media fortune.

Bloomberg reported Tuesday that Chambers moved a step closer to extradition to the US after Spain’s Cabinet allowed the case to proceed to court.

Chambers has been detained since his July 10 arrest in Ibiza and is wanted by the US on money laundering, riot and riot conspiracy charges linked to 2023 pro-Palestinian demonstrations and transfers to a company in Tunisia, where he previously lived.

Government spokeswoman Elma Saiz confirmed to the outlet that Spanish courts would now review the request. If judges approve extradition, the final decision returns to Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Cabinet.

We profiled Chambers in July, shortly after he was arrested, and noted that he was a major funder of America’s radical left and had been described by pro-Palestinian activist Laith Marouf as “the new Soros.”

Chambers founded the Babochki Collective and is a major backer of Stop Cop City, Palestine Action US (later renamed Unity of Fields), and related legal defense efforts. He allegedly funded bail, legal fees, and direct-action campaigns targeting police-training projects and Israeli-linked defense firms, while also building networks with far-left activists.

A communist and a convert to Islam from New York, Chambers allegedly used his $250 million fortune to fund “revolutionary organizing.”

The indictment also alleges that, after fleeing the US in 2023, he transferred about $7.5 million out of the country in order to seek opportunities to provide material support to Hamas, Middle East Eye reported.

There are numerous reports that Chambers has possibly supported or interfaced with designated terrorist groups, including Samidoun, which the US Treasury identified as a “sham charity serving as an international fundraiser for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization,” and Middle East Children’s Alliance, which has been cited by US and allied governments for links to the PFLP.

Additional US groups he has possibly supported or interfaced with include China-based Marxist Roy Singham’s NGO sphere, including ANSWER Coalition, Party for Socialism and Liberation, and Newsclick, as well as student and campus mobilization networks (such as Students for Justice in Palestine) and political prisoner advocacy groups. Chambers’ own Berkshire Communists project in Massachusetts has served as a local hub for organizing and arms training within this network.

City Journal’s Stu Smith wrote in a recent report, “Chambers is one of the main funders of America’s radical Left. His money has flowed to a host of projects in the “anti-imperialism” organizing space,” adding, “Chambers claims that he and Singham are effectively the two primary financiers of the US radical left.” 

🚨 Fergie Chambers, heir to the Cox media fortune and a major funder of militant pro-Palestine groups, was detained in Spain as the Trump administration seeks his extradition on federal charges carrying up to 30 years in prison.pic.twitter.com/4YrIyZSR8q
— Stu Smith (@thestustustudio) July 13, 2026
Chambers’ arrest came shortly before Secretary of State Marco Rubio and US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declared war on the radical left in front of delegations from more than 60 nations and focused on joint efforts to curb transnational far-left terrorism across the Western world (with a focus on Cuba). 

A recent New York Post article mapped out a multi-agency Treasury task force focused on stripping NGOs of tax-exempt status, including George Soros’ far-left Open Society Foundations, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations. 

On Tuesday, President Trump told the United Nations General Assembly in New York that Cuba has spent decades coordinating with far-left revolutionaries and subversion networks into the U.S. Trump said the State Department has worked to uncover Havana’s ties to subversive and radical groups such as the Communist Party USA, Antifa, and the DSA. 

.@POTUS: The Cuban regime has also spent decades coordinating with left-wing radicals and Communist networks here in the United States. As our State Department has detailed, they have cultivated ties to subversive and radical groups such as the Communist Party USA, Antifa, and… pic.twitter.com/Bopz3W6sXz
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 22, 2026
Whether it’s the federal government’s multi-agency task force focused on communist Chambers, subversion networks from Cuba, China, the Middle East and/or Europe, or NGOs that are hell-bent on stoking a violent Marxist revolution, we have asked the question in a two-part series (see here and here): Where did all the summer riots go?

Tyler Durden
Wed, 09/23/2026 – 11:20

Former Vice President Kamala Harris was accused of adopting a different accent during a Detroit NAACP appearance Tuesday, drawing criticism online over the way she addressed the crowd.Harris made the remarks Tuesday while urging Democratic turnout ahead of the 2026 midterms, but clips of her appearance quickly drew attention online for something else — critics said her delivery sounded noticeably different from her usual speaking voice.”Shirley Chisholm talked about it. If you’re not at the table, bring a folding chair. Otherwise, you might be on the menu. I’m conflating two people say, you know. It’s okay to not be in love with a candidate,” said Harris. “It’s okay to vote and ask everybody else to vote, because this choice is better than that one.”SOCIAL MEDIA ERUPTS AFTER HARRIS INTRODUCES ‘MOB BOSS’ ACCENT TO ATTACK TRUMP: ‘TOTAL CRINGE’Critics online singled out part of her speech, saying she put on a new “accent.””Kamala Harris unveiled a new blaccent at an NAACP event in Detroit tonight. This pretty much confirms it. She’s running in 2028,” posted popular account End Wokeness along with a clip of her speech.”It’s so bad. Does this mean she’s running,” said conservative commentator Benny Johnson.AOC ACCUSED OF PUTTING ON NEW ACCENT DURING MEMPHIS RALLY: ‘GOING FULL KAMALA'”New accent = another presidential run,” wrote another X user.”Another classic leftist politician trait: switching accents depending on who they’re pandering to,” posted one person.DAVID MARCUS: MAMDANI’S FAUX AFRICAN ACCENT AS TELLING AS IT IS BIZARRE”Please let her talk more…the more she talks the better chance of flipping red,” posted one person.WATCH: KAMALA HARRIS TORCHED OVER ‘ZERO SENSE’ WNBA PEP TALK IN LATEST ‘WORD SALAD’ MOMENT”Queen Word Salad is drunk again,” claimed another user.”ItS tOtAlLy OrGaNiC,” posted one person.Harris has faced similar criticism before. During the 2024 campaign, critics accused her of adopting a Southern accent at a rally in Atlanta and later pointed to differences in her delivery during Labor Day appearances in Detroit and Pittsburgh.Harris continues to face questions about whether she will make another run for the White House in 2028. She has kept the door open to a possible campaign but has not said whether she plans to run.”I have not decided if I’m going to run again,” Harris said at the NCAAP event.Earlier this month, she similarly said her focus was “midterms, midterms, midterms.”

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A video showing transgender activists injecting themselves with cross-sex hormones outside New York University’s Langone Health hospital is spreading rapidly online, just days after the hospital reached an agreement with President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) to cease providing sex-change treatments to minors.”We’re taking our HRT here at the doors of the people who have given up to demystify, normalize, and celebrate our trans bodies in the face of NYU’s cowardice,” a person holding a bullhorn and reading off a script says in the video, referencing hormone replacement therapy drugs.At least people in the video, all wearing masks outside, can be seen filling syringes and injecting themselves, including a person in a wheelchair.JD VANCE CALLS ON DOJ TO PROSECUTE ALLEGED FRAUD IN TEEN TRANSGENDER TREATMENTA crowd of supporters, some holding signs saying “Protect Trans Kids” and “Resist,” looked on as the stunt was performed. Other protesters held a hand-made banner reading “No compliance with Trump’s bias.”The video, which was posted to X by Freedom News TV, drew harsh reactions from shocked online viewers.”This is so obviously a mental illness,” said online commentator Matt Van Swol. “You cannot watch this video and conclude anything else.””This is a truly crazed movement that has successfully normalized cultish pseudo-medical practices from the outermost fringe of human extremity as a part of suburban elementary school life across America,” said author Wesley Yang. “Surely everyone watching these bizarre spectacles understands this.””I see addicts. Addicted to HRT. Addicted to attention. Addicted to constant validation,” said Tanya Tay Posobiec.CLEVELAND CLINIC COMMITS $2M TO DETRANSITION CARE UNDER DOJ SETTLEMENTLast week, the DOJ announced that it came to an agreement with NYU Langone and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) after investigating the institutions for potentially illegally carrying-out on children “sex-rejecting procedures,” which proponents often describe as “gender affirming care.””Under the agreements, NYU and UPMC will cease providing these dangerous interventions to minors, which include administering puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones and performing surgical procedures,” a DOJ release said.NYU Langone also agreed to pay an $8.5 million as part of the settlement, while UPMC agreed to pay $950,000. The DOJ made it clear that the resolution does not confer liability on either of the hospitals, and maintains that the hospitals deny any wrongdoing.”The Department of Justice is fighting to protect our nation’s children and working tirelessly to reach agreements with hospitals to end so-called ‘gender affirming care’ for minors,” said Attorney General Todd Blanche in the DOJ’s statement.”Today’s resolutions send a clear message: hospitals that target children in these practices and then fraudulently obtain payment for the procedures will be held to account.”

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The Trump administration is cracking down on fraud inside the Obamacare exchange. (Credit: @VP/X)
Vice President JD Vance and CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz announced Tuesday that the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud is cutting off subsidy payments for roughly 760,000 Affordable Care Act exchange enrollments they say were fraudulent, unauthorized, or never belonged to real, eligible people.
Vance, who chairs the task force, said the cancellations will save American taxpayers an estimated $2.2 billion.
He put that number in terms Democrats never use: the average American child receives about $4,000 a year in health-care benefits.
That means the money being yanked from fraudsters is the equivalent of health coverage for 550,000 American children.
“We are announcing $2.2 billion in American taxpayer money that we’re saving by doing what should have been an obvious thing,” Vance said at a news conference at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
“We’re actually making sure that the people receiving Obamacare subsidies are actually entitled to receive them… Amazingly, we weren’t doing that before.”
WATCH:

VP Vance on huge @WHFraudTF win:
“We are announcing $2.2 billion in American taxpayer money that we’re saving by doing what should have been an obvious thing. We’re actually making sure that the people receiving Obamacare subsidies are actually entitled to receive them” pic.twitter.com/XRfAThR29a
— Vice President JD Vance (@VP) September 22, 2026

Vance described one ring of 40 brokerage agents that funneled 50,000 people into the system.

JD Vance:
What this looks like is, in one case, we found a fraud ring that had 40 agents—40 brokerage agents—who had funneled 50,000 people into the Obamacare system fraudulently.
Now, some of those people were probably legitimate. Most of those people were not eligible. Either they didn’t meet the citizenship or the income requirements. Many of those people, quite literally, didn’t even exist.
We had a system in this country that rewarded brokers, that made people rich for enrolling fake people in programs that are meant to ensure that our fellow citizens have healthcare. This was a scandal.

WATCH:

VP Vance on rampant Obamacare fraud:
“We found a fraud ring that had 40 brokerage agents who had funneled 50,000 people into the Obamacare system fraudulently…Many of those people quite literally didn’t even exist. We had a system in this country that rewarded brokers, that… pic.twitter.com/28mdDDLlJD
— Vice President JD Vance (@VP) September 22, 2026

Vance said the 760,000 figure is a mix of phantom enrollees who do not appear to exist and real people who never should have been on the taxpayer tab, including people signed up without their knowledge, people with employer coverage, and people whose income blew past the subsidy limits.
Another 419,000 enrollments are now under additional verification for citizenship and income.
Oz was blunt about why so many of these accounts failed the smell test. Investigators wrote them, called them, and even sent FedEx packages. No answer. No doctor visit. No prescription. Nothing.
“They haven’t bought a prescription medication. They haven’t seen a doctor. That’s just not possible,” Oz said.
He put the no-use rate at about 35 percent, roughly twice what you would expect in a normal insurance pool.
He also said more than 1.1 million people who enrolled this year had no Social Security number on file, when the typical share is about 1 percent.
The Gateway Pundit flagged that same “ghost patient” problem last year, when Sen. Roger Marshall said 35 percent of counted Obamacare enrollees file zero claims while brokers can sign people up with little more than a name and a birthdate. The government still cuts the check.
Vance put the $2.2 billion in terms even a Democrat staffer could understand. The average American child receives about $4,000 a year in health care benefits.
By his math, the money being pulled out of fraudsters’ pockets is the equivalent of health care for 550,000 American children.
WATCH:

“To put into context the amount of money that we’re stopping from going to fraudsters today, the average American child receives about $4,000 in health care benefits every single year. That means that we are saving 550,000 American children’s worth of health care that was going… pic.twitter.com/V7hO0igeDe
— Vice President JD Vance (@VP) September 22, 2026

Brokers Made Bank. Taxpayers Got the Bill.
Oz announced a six-month national moratorium on new Obamacare brokers. Existing agents can keep working. New ones are frozen.
“There will be no new brokers for Obamacare in this country for the next six months,” Oz said. “Most of the fraud, a disproportionate amount of the fraud, is taking place from these individuals.” CMS has already moved to terminate hundreds of brokers, including 469 late last month.
This is the same broker model The Gateway Pundit documented when two executives, Cory Lloyd and Stephen Strong, were sentenced to 20 years each in a $233 million Obamacare subsidy scam. Prosecutors said they improperly enrolled people, cooked income numbers, and used the haul for an 80-foot yacht, luxury cars, and a Florida Keys mansion. Read TGP’s February report here.
The Biden-Harris years made that industry even juicier. Enhanced COVID-era subsidies, loose verification, and a commission system that paid agents to stuff names into Healthcare.gov created the perfect incentive structure: enroll first, ask questions never.

The post FRAUD PURGE: Vance-Led Taskforces Cancels Obamacare Subsidies for 760,000 Phantom and Unauthorized Enrollments — Taxpayers Save $2.2 Billion appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Traders Have Modest Hopes For A Trump-Xi AI Deal

While we will provide a more detailed preview of the Trump/Xi summit in a subsequent post, there are signs that President Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, may emerge from their upcoming summit with an agreement about the artificial-intelligence industry, an increasingly prominent flash point between the world’s two biggest economies. But, as Bloomberg’s Jacob Gu  notes, fund managers say it’s unlikely to be significant enough to provide a sustainable boost to AI-related stocks.

Over the weekend, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, after hours of talks with Vice Premier He Lifeng in New York, said the two sides agreed to create what he called a “US-China AI dialogue” about the technology’s benefits and threats.

The following day, Liao Min, the Chinese Vice Finance Minister, and a key member of the delegation, told Bloomberg that staff from the two countries were working together toward the details of a potential agreement on AI, investment and trade.

Bessent will present Trump with an AI agreement to review before his meeting with Xi, Fox Business reported.

The importance of AI at the US-China talks is being highlighted by the expected presence of Sam Altman and other industry executives at Trump’s state dinner for Xi to be held later this week, and while US tech execs will be present (again),  Xi is unlikely to bring a delegation of corporate executives when he meets Trump,, the WSJ reported.

But Gary Tan, portfolio manager at Allspring Global Investments, said investors shouldn’t expect it to have much immediate impact on the business between the two countries. “Given past experiences, our sense is that Trump’s visit to China earlier this year with a heavyweight technology entourage did not ultimately translate into meaningful progress on technology or hardware restrictions,” he said.

“From our side, this still looks more symbolic than substantive, and investors should continue positioning for a prolonged AI race rather than an imminent policy breakthrough,” Tan added.

Ashwin Binwani, founder of private investment firm Alpha Binwani Capital, was similarly cautious, since Bessent highlighted safety issues rather than an easing of US export controls.

“A pop on that news is a fade candidate, not a trend to chase,” he said. “Diversify away from pure semiconductor concentration into the hyperscaler capex story, which has its own momentum independent of the summit.”

He said traders have been burned previously when policy discussions failed to result in more concrete steps like licensing or purchase deals. That’s not to say there’d be no potential stock-market impact: He said “a modestly constructive readout” could fuel a rebound in the most heavily shorted Hong Kong stocks as investors close out positions.

Tyler Durden
Wed, 09/23/2026 – 11:15

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The FBI said it is investigating a hack of its jobs portal, which took down the website entirely on Tuesday. As of Wednesday morning, the site was still not operational.”The FBI is aware of claims regarding unauthorized activity affecting FBIjobs.gov and is currently investigating,” the FBI said in a statement to Fox News.ShinyHunters, a criminal hacking and extortion group, took responsibility for the breach and said it has stolen the information of almost all FBI agents and people who applied to the bureau for a job, Reuters reported.FBI WRAPS UP CYBERCRIME OPERATION TARGETING GLOBAL NETWORKS PREYING ON AMERICANSA screenshot of a data sample shared with Reuters contained agents’ names, home addresses, Social Security numbers, their assignments and, in some cases, the names of their family members.ShinyHunters said on its dark-web site it targeted the FBI in response to the bureau’s May 2026 public service announcement warning organizations about the group’s tactics and reiterating that victims should not pay ransom or extortion demands.”Threat actors often use their real or exaggerated claims of access to sensitive or personal information to prompt payment from victims. Victims may receive an extortion email signed as ShinyHunters,” the FBI’s PSA said.HACKERS THREATEN TO LEAK DATA FROM 275M USERS AFTER BREACHING MAJOR COLLEGE PLATFORM USED NATIONWIDEShinyHunters has been linked to several high-profile cyberattacks, including the alleged theft of millions of records from “Grand Theft Auto” developer Rockstar Games and a May breach of the Canvas learning platform that disrupted schools across the United States.Earlier this month, Anthropic said it detected hackers tied to the group attempting to misuse its AI tools.ShinyHunters has been around since at least 2019, and has claimed to have targeted Microsoft, Pluto TV, AT&T, Ticketmaster, and multiple Ivy League universities.Reuters contributed to this report.

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