President Donald Trump delivers an address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City on Tuesday, September 22.

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Pennsylvania Democrat state Sen. James Malone has written lesbian fan fiction set in the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) universe, according to documentation provided to Breitbart News. Malone was elected in a special election in 2025 after serving as Mayor of East Petersburg since 2017.

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The self-described “looksmaxxing” personality known as Clavicular, real name Braden Peters, has reportedly been charged with rape in Massachusetts, online court records show.

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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—In the last week of the Senate’s session before the midterms, members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus are speaking out against the Senate for not taking up over 650 bills passed by the U.S. House of Representatives.

The bills, which the House would have to reintroduce, include legislation to advance President Donald Trump’s America First agenda, such as the SAVE America Act, and nonpolitical bipartisan bills, such as one to add a statue of Benjamin Franklin in the Capitol.

“All good bills go to die in the Senate,” Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, told the Daily Signal. “The House has passed mountains of legislation that would improve the lives of Americans and fix serious problems in the 120th Congress, including the SAVE America Act, which we have sent over again and again.”

In his statement to the Daily Signal, Self added that despite showing up to vote and passing legislation such as the SAVE America Act numerous times, the bills then “go to die in the so-called ‘greatest deliberative body in the world,'” which he claimed is “a body that debates little, votes on little, and delivers almost nothing of substance.”

“The Senate has become an institution of complacency, more comfortable with Washington pageantry than results for the American people,” Self continued.

Previously, Self and other members of the Freedom Caucus refused to vote for any legislation sent down to the House unless the upper chamber passed the SAVE America Act, a bombshell voter-integrity bill championed by the president, which the House has passed four times.

Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., echoed his colleagues’ remarks and told the Daily Signal that “the House has done its job,” but that the over 650 bills it has passed are now just “sitting there” in the Senate, adding that this stands as an insult to the American people.

“The American people didn’t send us to Washington to do nothing or hide behind excuses,” Gosar continued. “They sent us here to deliver results.”

The representative then issued advice for Senate Republicans, stating that if they would like to “campaign on results, it should start by actually producing some.”

“Get these bills moving. Put them on President Trump’s desk. Senate: do your job,” Gosar added.

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, the original author of the SAVE America Act, explained his frustration with the Senate for “operating like a retirement home” that “hides behind” Senate rules in order to avoid getting the job done.

“Time and again, the House has kept its promise to the American people, passing conservative, commonsense legislation such as my SAVE America Act, only to see it stall in the Senate,” Roy stated. “The House has done its job. Now the Senate must stop operating like a retirement home, stop hiding behind the fake filibuster, and get to work for the American people.”

Better safe than sorry. California is embracing that credo ahead of a record-breaking El Niño event predicted to deliver severe winter storms and flooding across the U.S. west coast, with Governor Gavin Newsom declaring a state of emergency Monday to ensure extreme weather precautions are in place for the months ahead.

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Ret. General and host of Dangerous Intellectuals Blaine Holt joins author EM Burlingame me for a open forum discussion on the current state of play as we head into the end of September and the eve of the escalatory season for the US mid-terms.   Note: this episode was recorded on the road with us doing […]

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China tried to intimidate the Philippine defense secretary in the middle of an international security conference. Instead, Beijing gave the world a live demonstration of the coercion its neighbors have been writing about for years, and the Philippines gave a master class in how to push back against Chinese bullying.

On Sept. 8, Philippine Secretary of National Defense Gilberto Teodoro Jr. was speaking at the Seoul Defense Dialogue in South Korea about security threats in the South China Sea. During the discussion, a conference staff member handed him a note from the audience.

According to conference organizers, the note came from a Chinese military attaché from the Chinese Embassy in Seoul. It repeated Beijing’s rejection of the July 12, 2016, South China Sea arbitration ruling.

Teodoro could have ignored it.

Instead, he read it aloud.

When the note argued that the arbitration award had “no binding force,” Teodoro challenged the claim. When it stated that China did not accept or recognize the decision, he gave a response that quickly spread online.

“Of course, because you lost.”

The audience laughed, but the exchange revealed something more serious.

China had just demonstrated the exact behavior Teodoro was criticizing.

The dispute did not begin in Seoul. On Jan. 22, 2013, the Philippines formally brought its case against China under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. On July 12, 2016, the tribunal issued its final award, rejecting the legal basis for key parts of China’s sweeping maritime claims. China refused to accept the ruling.

Ten years later, Beijing is still trying to make that rejection a political reality, and Washington should be paying attention.

China does not necessarily need to start conventional war to change the balance of power in the South China Sea. It can apply pressure slowly, using coast guard vessels (highly militarized coast guard vessels, of course), unofficial maritime forces, diplomatic pressure, and repeated confrontations to make Chinese control appear normal.

Heritage naval expert Brent Sadler has long warned of Beijing’s use of this sort of gray zone coercion to advance its interests while avoiding the type of direct military attack that could trigger a larger conflict. Even more concerning, in a 2024 report he warned that China has become increasingly willing to confront its neighbors more openly as older gray zone methods become less effective.

Teodoro went even further in Seoul, making a similar argument.

“This is not a gray zone anymore,” he said. “This is actual coercion, bullying, and aggression.”

This dispute matters to the United States. Washington and Manila signed a Mutual Defense Treaty in 1951, and the alliance has existed for more than 75 years. Under the treaty, an armed attack against Philippine armed forces, public vessels, or aircraft in the Pacific can potentially implicate American defense commitments.

The Philippines also occupies critical geography. Its islands sit along the Western Pacific at the edge of the South China Sea near Taiwan. In a future conflict with China, access to Philippine territory could affect the ability of American and allied forces to operate across the region.

That is one reason the U.S. and the Philippines signed the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) in 2014, which expanded the ability of American forces to rotate through Philippine military facilities.

Effective deterrence against China that keeps the peace in the Indo-Pacific to protect American security and economic interests is well served by helping the Philippians build a stronger denial strategy.

The Philippines needs stronger anti-ship and air defense capabilities, better military infrastructure, improved intelligence sharing, and more effective maritime surveillance. It also needs the ability to detect Chinese activity earlier and respond before Beijing can create another new normal in contested waters.

The principle is simple: A stronger Philippine military makes coercion more difficult and less effective.

Enabling Manila to help itself also prevents the U.S. from carrying the entire burden of regional security. The Filipinos should be capable of defending their own territory while the U.S. provides intelligence, military cooperation, access, and support.

China understands the value of small actions repeated over time. One confrontation can be dismissed. One blocked ship can be called an accident. One water cannon attack can be forgotten after the news cycle moves on. But enough small changes can eventually create a new status quo without China ever having to formally declare war.

This is what makes the Sept. 8 incident in Seoul so revealing. China sent Teodoro a note defending Beijing’s position and tried to intimidate him on stage. Instead, Teodoro read it to the room. China wanted to challenge his argument. Instead, it proved his point.

Teodoro ended the statement with some words of support for the hapless Chinese official whose actions had backfired and embarrassed Beijing on the international stage, concluding “I hope you don’t suffer in a gulag for it.”