Grab & Dash

Fourteen men have been arrested in connection with a large-scale “porch pirate” operation in Long Island, New York, in which authorities say the group targeted 31 communities over the course of nearly two years. The ring allegedly focused on areas including Brentwood, Central Islip, Shirley, and Deer Park. Investigators tracked the thefts from October 2023 through February 2025 until the operation was dismantled.

Most of the suspects are reportedly from the Bronx. Authorities say they hacked into computer systems to track when phones and electronics were scheduled for delivery to AT&T and Verizon customers. The group then dispatched runners to steal the packages from doorsteps. More than 200 cellphones and tablets were allegedly stolen during the operation.

"They were gaining access to the tracking numbers as well as the deliveries, and through that they could tell which would be an electronic device from AT&T and Verizon," Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said, according to CBS News.

Referendum Rejects Contested Assisted Dying Law

Bojan KAVCIC AFP, 
Nov 23, 2025 

Slovenians on Sunday voted to suspend a new law to legalize assisted dying in a referendum held after critics mounted a campaign against the legislation.

Around 53 percent of voters had rejected the law, while 47 percent voted in favour, meaning its implementation will be suspended for at least one year.

Slovenia's parliament had approved a law in July allowing assisted dying after a 2024 referendum supported it.

Where Have All the Tomboys Gone?

Haley Shane

Remember seeing tomboys? Girls that played in the mud, played sports with the boys teams, and would rather wear cleats than be caught in heels?

I remember. I was one.

My mom and dad tell a very colorful story of me throwing a dress on the floor after my grandmother practically forced it on me. I was 4. I had no idea what a gender was. Or sex. Or a sexual orientation. I just knew I didn't like dresses. I liked football. And playing in the mud. And working on cars with my dad. (I use the term "working" loosely)

Now? I'd be labeled a boy trapped in a girl body. I'd be recommended puberty blockers, hormones (DRUGS — call them what they are), and maybe even Gender Reassignment Surgery. That's horrifying to think of as an adult.

Peoria County Coroner Raises Concern Over Medical Aid in Dying Bill

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — A potential law, giving terminally ill patients the option to end their lives through the use of medication, needs more safeguards according to the Peoria County Coroner.

Jamie Harwood said he believes that such a decision needs more oversight than is currently in the law. He said when it comes to hospice care, he investigates every single death. However, that isn’t the case if someone was to choose a medically assisted death.

“The unfortunate thing is the way this bill is written, we wouldn’t even be notified or called into that at all, which is the unfortunate thing,” he said.

The proposal, which passed out of the General Assembly earlier this month, is now on the desk of Gov. JB Pritzker, waiting his signature to make it a law. He has not indicated publicly whether he will sign the measure or not.

Tessa Mahoney, the executive director of the Central Illinois Agency of Aging, said she understands both sides, but it can be difficult to determine if someone truly has only six months or less to live.

“So if somebody goes past six months what happens then… what does the process look like now?” she said.

Supreme Court Takes Up Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order in Historic Showdown

The battle over who qualifies as an American at birth has officially reached the highest court in the land.

On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the historic challenge to President Donald Trump’s 2025 executive order restricting birthright citizenship, setting the stage for what could be the most consequential interpretation of the 14th Amendment in more than a century.

Trump’s order—one of the signature actions of his America First immigration agenda—asserts that children born to illegal aliens on U.S. soil do not automatically receive citizenship, countering decades of bureaucratic interpretation and closing what critics call one of the most abused loopholes in American law.

Seattle Mayor Concedes to Progressive Katie Wilson

By Newsmax,

For the second time this month, Americans have elected an openly socialist candidate to public office. After a tight battle in Washington state, Democrat Katie Wilson overtook incumbent Bruce Harrell in Seattle’s 2025 mayoral race, winning by roughly 2,000 votes.

First-term Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell conceded his reelection fight to progressive activist Katie Wilson on Thursday, handing another victory to leftist Democrats around the country frustrated with unaffordability, homelessness, public safety, and the actions of President Donald Trump’s administration.

Harrell, a Democrat who previously served three terms on the City Council, led in early results. But Washington conducts all-mail elections, with ballots postmarked by Election Day. Later-arriving votes, which historically trend more liberal, broke heavily in Wilson’s favor, adding to a progressive shift to the left nationally.

Chile Swerves Right in Sunday’s Election: Wins Historic Majority in Parliament

Allen West, November 18, 2025

Just for the record, my parents were registered Democrats, and John Lewis was my Congressional representative growing up. However, my parents raised me with principles and values that are antithetical to the collection of delusional, deranged leftists who now own the political party once known as Democratic. This party has not just fully lurched to the Marxist left, but it is a party of mean girls and petulant, weak boys. It is a political party that is disintegrating into a toxic gas, which seemingly distorts one’s once functional brain and turns it into some jelly-like substance. It is a political gang more than anything else that seeks to punish and harm anyone who stands in its way..  

Shutdown Tantrums 

Let’s take, for example, the almost 45 days of leftists shutting down the federal government, and for what purpose? The insidious narrative was as far-ranging as the Alaskan frontier and as dry as the Sahara. First, it was about restoring Medicaid benefits. But to whom? It turns out that it was for illegal immigrants. Secondly, it became about restoring the $1.7T of government spending that was cut by the 2025 Budget Reconciliation Act, signed into law by President Trump. Yes, the party of mean girls and weak boys wanted to refund NPR and were willing to not pay our military troops. Lastly, and most incompetent, the reason became the furthering of Covid-era Obamacare subsidies, ya know, the Affordable Care Act, which is certainly not affordable. Even the epitome of a weak, petulant leftist boy, Hakeem Jeffries, tried to make the case that this was about solving the Republican healthcare crisis. You do know that Sir Winston Churchill asserted that socialism is the “creed of ignorance.”  

John Kelly, a Great Friend to Many, has Died. Memorial Service to be Held in January

It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of NDY’s singularly dear colleague and incomparable disability rights champion, John Bryan Kelly, (pictured here) who passed away peacefully in Boston, this past Friday, November 14, 2025, at the age of 67.  

In spite of battling an unrelenting infection in hospital since the latter part of September, John’s legendary spirit remained on display throughout, communicating in winks and smiles until his peaceful passing.

As Communications Director and previously as Regional Director for Not Dead Yet, as Executive Director for Second Thoughts Massachusetts, and as the Chair of Boston Disability Advisory Commission, John’s expert knowledge and unwavering  dedication to his work for disability rights motivated all who worked with or alongside him to do the same, and to keep going when the going got tough, which it often has. 

With the Kelly family’s permission, a brief excerpt from the forthcoming obituary sheds more light on John’s life and legacy:

New Jerseyans Deserve to Know Whether their Voter Rolls are Accurate

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Republican National Committee is suing New Jersey for failing to provide public records on the state’s voter roll maintenance practices, according to Chairman Joe Gruters [pictured right].

“New Jerseyans deserve to know whether their voter rolls are accurate,” Gruters told The Daily Signal. “Clean and transparent voter lists are essential for trust in our elections. The RNC is suing to obtain these records and ensure the state follows the law.”

The RNC is filing an election integrity lawsuit against New Jersey Secretary of State Tahesha Way.*

Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 requires states to remove ineligible voters—such as those who have died or moved out of the jurisdiction—from the voter rolls. Under the act, states must permit the public to inspect records showing how voter rolls are maintained.

The RNC has sent 18 separate records requests to New Jersey asking for information about the Garden State’s list-maintenance efforts, including information about voters who asked to be removed from the rolls.

Way has repeatedly denied these requests, which the RNC says violates federal law and prevents New Jerseyans from knowing whether their voter rolls are accurate and being regularly cleaned.