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Middle-Schoolers' "Let's Go Brandon" Sweatshirt Case Goes To Supreme Court

Middle-Schoolers' "Let's Go Brandon" Sweatshirt Case Goes To Supreme Court

Authored by Dave Huber via The College Fix,

Lower courts have ruled school can ban wearing such apparel as ‘can reasonably be interpreted as profane’

The case of two Michigan middle-school brothers who were told to remove their hoodies emblazoned with the phrase “Let’s Go Brandon” is headed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The siblings are represented by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression which says the boys’ school violated their First Amendment rights.

The phrase was popularized during a 2021 NASCAR event when a crowd was shouting “F*** Joe Biden!” but the NBC interviewer told racer Brandon Brown they were yelling “Let’s go Brandon!”

A judge in 2024 ruled the phrase could “reasonably be interpreted” as profane.

Last October, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that ruling in a 2-1 decision, confirming the case was about “the vulgarity exception.”

Referencing the landmark Tinker free speech case, Judge John Nalbandian (a Trump appointee) wrote “The Constitution doesn’t hamstring school administrators when they are trying to limit profanity and vulgarity in the classroom during school hours [… they’re not] powerless to prevent student speech that the administrators reasonably understand to be profane or vulgar.”

(Ironically, the brothers’ principal, Joseph Williams, had said he “was not aware that the school had experienced any disruption from students wearing ‘Let’s Go Brandon’” sweatshirts.)

FIRE’s petition to the SCOTUS notes the previous rulings allow individual teachers and administrators to “create and enforce their own test for ‘vulgarity’ [–] a political shirt could have First Amendment protection in second-period algebra but not third-period biology.”

“Let’s Go Brandon” is no different than using words “heck” or “shoot” in place of their obvious profane counterparts.

FIRE Supervising Senior Attorney Conor Fitzpatrick said “The school district’s censorship assumes that students cannot handle seeing even sanitized expressions. But America’s next generation is not so fragile, and the First Amendment is not so brittle.”

Tyler Durden Sat, 03/28/2026 - 17:30

Middle-Schoolers' "Let's Go Brandon" Sweatshirt Case Goes To Supreme Court

Middle-Schoolers' "Let's Go Brandon" Sweatshirt Case Goes To Supreme Court

Authored by Dave Huber via The College Fix,

Lower courts have ruled school can ban wearing such apparel as ‘can reasonably be interpreted as profane’

The case of two Michigan middle-school brothers who were told to remove their hoodies emblazoned with the phrase “Let’s Go Brandon” is headed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The siblings are represented by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression which says the boys’ school violated their First Amendment rights.

The phrase was popularized during a 2021 NASCAR event when a crowd was shouting “F*** Joe Biden!” but the NBC interviewer told racer Brandon Brown they were yelling “Let’s go Brandon!”

A judge in 2024 ruled the phrase could “reasonably be interpreted” as profane.

Last October, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that ruling in a 2-1 decision, confirming the case was about “the vulgarity exception.”

Referencing the landmark Tinker free speech case, Judge John Nalbandian (a Trump appointee) wrote “The Constitution doesn’t hamstring school administrators when they are trying to limit profanity and vulgarity in the classroom during school hours [… they’re not] powerless to prevent student speech that the administrators reasonably understand to be profane or vulgar.”

(Ironically, the brothers’ principal, Joseph Williams, had said he “was not aware that the school had experienced any disruption from students wearing ‘Let’s Go Brandon’” sweatshirts.)

FIRE’s petition to the SCOTUS notes the previous rulings allow individual teachers and administrators to “create and enforce their own test for ‘vulgarity’ [–] a political shirt could have First Amendment protection in second-period algebra but not third-period biology.”

“Let’s Go Brandon” is no different than using words “heck” or “shoot” in place of their obvious profane counterparts.

FIRE Supervising Senior Attorney Conor Fitzpatrick said “The school district’s censorship assumes that students cannot handle seeing even sanitized expressions. But America’s next generation is not so fragile, and the First Amendment is not so brittle.”

Tyler Durden Sat, 03/28/2026 - 17:30

Debbie Dupes Dallas: Porn Legends Clone Themselves With AI To Keep Raking It In Long After Retiring

Debbie Dupes Dallas: Porn Legends Clone Themselves With AI To Keep Raking It In Long After Retiring

Worn-out porn stars have found a fresh way to keep raking in the cash long after they've aged out of the business, according to a new report from WIRED.

Joi.com

OhChat, a British startup that lets adult creators clone themselves with AI, has inked deals with Lisa Ann and Cherie DeVille to license their likenesses on the platform, basically creating a digital version of them in every possible way that can churn out custom sex scenes for paying customers.

Despite leaving the business in 2019, Lisa Ann now charges $30 per month to give fans the ability to cook up X-rated scenarios of her using the bot.

“This keeps my name alive,” said of her AI clone in an interview with WIRED. “She’s never going to age.”

“For guys that like to say good morning or good night, they now have that access. The fact that I'm not shooting scenes anymore also allows new scenes to be created,” she added.

Adult performer Alix Lynx licensed her image to Joi.com

WIRED reports:

Other competitors in the space include My.Club, Joi AI and SinfulX AI, the platform that adult film actress Georgia Koneva partnered with this month, saying, in a press statement, that her avatar gave her a “new way to share my voice and personality with the people who follow me.” According to SinfulX AI, it also develops “original” synthetic characters using licensed source imagery from adult performers whose content it has the rights to use. In the same statement, the company said that those AI-generated “characters” are “designed not to replicate any single individual while still maintaining the realism for which its content is known.”

However, Ann concedes that human porn is still preferred by a majority of people.“Guys are always going to want real content. Men are always going to want to see new scenes. There will always be a need for all of it. But the fact that I’ve never been awake from 11 pm to 7 am, and now there’s a 24-hour clone that can chat for me—that alone is something. It allows me to keep my brand alive,” she said.

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Tyler Durden Sat, 03/28/2026 - 16:55

O'Reilly Exposes San Francisco As A Violent Third-World Drug Dystopia Infested By Illegals

O'Reilly Exposes San Francisco As A Violent Third-World Drug Dystopia Infested By Illegals

Authored by Steve Watson via modernity.news,

Veteran commentator Bill O’Reilly just returned from filming a special in San Francisco — and the reality on the ground is far worse than most Americans understand.

O’Reilly painted a stark picture of a city ruined by open borders, sanctuary laws, and Democrat leadership that refuses to enforce basic order.

In raw footage shot inside the Tenderloin neighborhood - now a notorious open-air drug market - O’Reilly showed how the system itself perpetuates the collapse. 

“What the currency here is, is heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, all of it tinged now with fentanyl, which will kill you like that,” he reported, adding “Now these addicted people, these street people, they don’t care whether they live or die. Their whole lives center around intoxication.”

“At the same time the city gives them needles, crack pipes, it’s just insane. So the problem never gets solved. It’s circular,” O’Reilly emphasised.

“Now, why do they come here? Why not go to Des Moines or some place like that? Because the City of San Francisco and the State of California gives them MONEY, as we discussed earlier. Cash! For nothing! And they use the cash to get intoxicated, to buy drugs. So why wouldn’t you come here, to San Francisco?” O’Reilly further urged.

Here’s a longer segment:

O’Reilly then laid out the bigger picture in an interview segment, naming the illegal gangs driving the violence and the officials who have done nothing to stop it. 

“You know who sells narcotics down there in San Francisco and in Oakland?” O’Reilly said. “Honduran drug gangs who are here illegally.”

“You know who protects them? The sanctuary laws of San Francisco and California.”

“They strut around armed to the teeth, knowing that no one on the federal level can bother them, because the state and the city won’t cooperate as almost every state does with joint task force. California won’t do it,” he stressed.

“So Honduran drug gangs in this country illegally are fueling a MASSIVE fentanyl crisis that has destroyed the city of San Francisco. And the mayor knows it. And the governor knows it. And Pelosi knows it. And Kamala Harris knows it, and they NEVER did anything about it,” O’Reilly added.

O’Reilly described scenes that belong in a failed state: children walking to school forced to watch drug addicts inject needles into their necks. He detailed machete violence tied directly to the same illegal gangs.

“Now, Hondurans here illegally cut off people’s hands with machetes if they don’t pay their drug debts,” he continued. “This isn’t about narcotics. This is about massive violence.”

“It was once the most beautiful city in the country. I used to love to go there. Meanwhile, two miles away, Nancy Pelosi is living in an $8 million house guarded by security. So she doesn’t have to experience any of it,” O’Reilly detailed.

This collapse did not happen overnight. It is the direct outcome of the same policies that have been ongoing for years.

San Francisco’s office district has not only become a ghost town but is literally covered in human waste. 

Cash App founder Bob Lee was stabbed to death in what was supposed to be a “good part” of the city.

More recently, a grim statistic has confirmed San Francisco as one of America’s worst cities. One in eight home sellers lost money, with an average loss of $100,000.

The videos of needles, tents, open drug use, and total breakdown of public order have been there for anyone willing to see them.

Yet the same officials O’Reilly names kept pushing the same failed approach: sanctuary protections shielding illegal gangs, cash payments to addicts, free needles and pipes, and zero cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.

The result is a once-iconic American city turned into a fentanyl-soaked zone where schoolchildren dodge junkies and violent illegal gangs operate openly while the political class retreats behind private security.

O’Reilly’s reporting confirms what millions already know from citizen videos and on-the-ground accounts: unchecked illegal immigration, sanctuary cities, and the progressive “harm reduction” model are not acts of compassion. They are policies that destroy urban America.

The elites who engineered this disaster never have to live with the consequences. Pelosi does not walk the Tenderloin. Harris did not fix the problem during her time in California. Newsom still refuses to confront it.

Only a sharp return to secure borders, actual enforcement of immigration law, and rejection of the open-air drug market model can reverse decades of damage. San Francisco stands as living proof of what happens when those basic principles are abandoned. Anything less simply keeps feeding the same deadly cycle.

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Tyler Durden Sat, 03/28/2026 - 16:20

Alarming West Texas Oil Theft Emerges As National Security Threat

Alarming West Texas Oil Theft Emerges As National Security Threat

Criminals are exploiting weak points across the West Texas oil production region, which accounts for 15% of the world's energy resources. This emerging wave of oil theft is burning a multi-billion-dollar hole in the budgets of oil and gas operators across the Permian Basin and is becoming a national security threat.

Bloomberg reports that oil and gas producers are losing at least $1 billion, if not more, per year due to oilfield theft in what the outlet describes as something straight out of a "Mad Max" movie.

At the center of the Permian Basin is Martin County, one of the most important oil-producing counties in the country.

The outlet spoke with Sheriff Randy Cozart, who estimates that about 500 barrels of crude are stolen each week. Industry groups say statewide losses are accumulating and range from $1 billion to $2 billion annually.

"Where there's money, there's crime," Cozart explained. "And there's lots of money in oil right now," he said, especially with WTI prices near triple-digit territory due in part to the energy shock in the Middle East.

One of the major problems in the Permian Basin is the recent increase in criminal activity, which some say is due to the Biden-Harris administration's nation-killing open-border policies.

Ed Longanecker, president of the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association, told the outlet that oil companies in the region could incur losses of up to $2 billion. He said that figure does not cover thefts across the New Mexico portion of the Permian.

"The old joke in the oil field used to be that if it wasn't bolted down, it would get stolen," Michael Lozano, who runs government affairs and communications for the Permian Basin Petroleum Association, said, adding, "Now they're unscrewing the bolts, and they're stealing those too."

A recent Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas survey of oil executives showed that at least 60% said their operations were affected by oil thefts. 

Bloomberg described one method thieves use to steal oil:

Today's Permian Basin thieves might instead connect vacuum trucks to storage tanks in broad daylight and siphon it out, sometimes covering their license plates or swapping vehicles to evade law enforcement, authorities say.

Now, regulators and the FBI have taken notice because these oil thefts are becoming a growing economic security and critical infrastructure threat.

Local officials in Texas and New Mexico are closely watching the oil theft crisis. Texas has responded by creating a task force under the Railroad Commission, lawmakers are studying total economic losses, and the FBI has become more involved.

The question now is whether the energy shock emerging from the Middle East and the resulting national security threats will pressure states and the federal government to fortify critical energy infrastructure from the Gulf of America to the Permian Basin and elsewhere, as the risk of drone threats and sabotage continues to rise.

Tyler Durden Sat, 03/28/2026 - 15:45

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