A 17 year old girl offered a lad a lift. That's it. That's her whole crime. Being kind. He got in. Then three more climbed in after him.
FOR SIX HOURS, police say, they raped her. Over and over. Driving her round Sydney in her own car like she was a thing, not a child.
Then they dumped her back in the driver's seat and walked off like they'd done nothing. She's SEVENTEEN and she has to live with this for the rest of her life.
That's one of them being marched out of a house in cuffs. The only one of the four old enough to be named. The rest hide behind their age. They were 14, 16 and 18.
Listen to the family screaming at the police. Why are you arresting him. Why him. Shut your mouth, don't say a word. Not one of them screaming for her.
Here's what police say happened, because it's worse than people know.
Half five on a Sunday. Liverpool Westfield, southwest Sydney. A 16 year old she'd never met starts chatting, all friendly, follows her to her car and talks his way in and while he's allegedly attacking her, police say he's on a video call to the others. Filming it. Sending it round. Calling them in.
So no, this wasn't something that just got out of hand. They were watching, allegedly, before they even turned up.
He asks for a lift to a park. She says yes, thinking he'll get out when they arrive. He doesn't. Two more are waiting. A fourth pulls up in another car. And then, police allege, they took control of her own car and drove her round the suburbs while it carried on.
The detective leading the case didn't hold back. She said it beggars belief that men would act this way over six hours and then the line that sticks. In all those six hours, not one of them stopped and said to the others, this is wrong. Not once.
Six hours. Till half eleven at night, when they allegedly left her in the car and walked off. She rang a mate, who drove her to the police station and this is the part that should make people sit up.
That girl, after all of that, gave police a detailed statement over several days. The detective called it the strength of the victim. She is the reason they had the evidence at all. She handed them the case.
Look at the charges if you think it's being overblown.
The 16 year old on his own faces 24 of them. Nine counts of sexual intercourse without consent. The 14 year old, ten more.
A dedicated unit, Strike Force Dungannon, was set up to chase it down and they didn't rush it for a headline. They waited SIX MONTHS to arrest the two older ones, quietly building the case so it would hold.
The moment they knew they could throw the book at them, they moved. When they did, they needed the riot squad to get them out of the houses and none of it happened last week. This was December 2024.
That girl has carried it for over a year already. And it's only grinding through court now, in 2026. Still going. Still not done. She's still waiting.
She was kind for thirty seconds. They took six hours and the rest of her life for it. Four of them. One girl and over a year on, she's STILL waiting for justice to catch up.
That's the world we're handing our daughters.
So remember her. Because the system already wants you to forget and ask yourself what kind of country leaves a child waiting this long.
ALERT: Mother alleges the teen who mowed down her daughter and best friend did it because he “had the freedom to do it.”
Maria Niotis and Isabella Salas, both 17, were riding e-bikes in September 2025 when 18-year-old Vincent Battiloro intentionally ran them over.
Battiloro initially said his car was stolen by a man in a red mask and armed with a knife.
The complaint read, "Search warrants were executed on the Jeep Compass, and dash camera footage was obtained from the vehicle. The footage from 9/29 showed the defendant getting into and driving the vehicle to the area of Burnside Avenue, where he parked. Shortly thereafter, both victims were seen on the e-bike heading in the opposite direction."
Detectives say Battiloro then made a U-turn and accelerated his Jeep at a "high rate of speed” before running over and killing Maria and Isabella.
Foulla Niotis, Maria’s mother, said Battiloro thought he was “untouchable” because of his family in law enforcement and that he “planned” the attack.
Battiloro originally had his identity withheld, but his case was transferred to adult court, where he was charged with 2 counts of first-degree murder.
My name is Ella, I'm 17 years old.
I do long jump. I play volleyball. I go to school in New Richmond, Wisconsin.
When my school allowed a biological male into the girls' restroom without telling parents —
I went to the school board.
With my name attached.
In my own town.
I got bullied for it. Harassed online. Even some of my own teachers came after me.
I'm still here.
Because here's what I know:
The net in women's volleyball is set nearly a foot lower for a reason.
A biological male can hit a ball across that net at force that could seriously injure a girl.
And in track — all it takes is three biological males entering the girls' category
and not a single girl in this state stands on a podium.
I didn't speak up because it was easy.
I spoke up because somebody had to.
The Supreme Court is about to answer the question every girl in America is asking.
We're ready.
@JenniferSey@xx_xyathletics
One of the most important arguments @AlexEpstein makes in “Fossil Future” is that fossil-fueled machines, & the prosperity they generate, are what let human beings master nature’s dangers rather than die from them. That mastery takes the form of engineered buildings that actually stay standing, early-warning systems that give people time to flee, & heavy machinery that pulls survivors out of the rubble.
Just as critical to unrestrained energy use is capitalism itself. Secure property rights, the rule of law, open markets, & honest enforcement are how you turn raw energy into engineered safety. Take those away, & no quantity of natural resources will save you.
In 2010, a magnitude 7.0 quake struck Haiti, a country hollowed out by generations of dictatorship, corruption, & lawlessness, & it killed roughly 200,000 people. Building codes there existed only on paper, because inspectors took bribes & the state enforced nothing.
Six weeks later a magnitude 8.8 quake struck Chile, releasing something like 500 times more energy. It killed fewer than 1,000 people, because Chile had spent decades becoming Latin America’s most market-driven, law-governed economy. Property rights, functioning courts, & enforced building codes produced structures that actually held. The variable between the two countries was not the geology, the topography … or just luck — the variable was each country’s respective embrace of capitalism.
That is the only honest lens for understanding Caracas right now. Venezuela sits atop the largest proven oil reserves on the entire planet. It still cannot keep the lights on or build a solid infrastructure. Venezuela’s decades of socialism have abolished property rights, seized industries, & generally destroyed an economy that should have made it resilient. The oil was always there, but the capitalism required to turn it into safety was deliberately ended.
Nature does not kill the free & the prosperous at anything close to the rate it kills the poor & the misgoverned.
The people who would dismantle markets & energy to “save” us have it exactly backwards: More capitalism, more energy use = smaller death tolls in natural disasters.
The myth: Dr Atkins, the steak-and-butter man, dropped dead of a heart attack. His own diet got him in the end.
What actually happened: he slipped on an icy pavement outside his Manhattan clinic, cracked his head, and died nine days later of the brain injury. The thing that killed him was a frozen pavement.
Then came the cleanup. A leaked medical examiner's note, handed to the press by a vegetarian campaign group, said he weighed 258 pounds at death. Proof of obesity, they crowed. He had weighed 195 on admission. The other sixty-odd pounds were fluid, pumped into a man who had spent nine days comatose in intensive care. They photographed a balloon and called it a lifestyle.
He did have a weak heart, as it happens, a cardiomyopathy left by a viral infection. His arteries, on the angiogram, ran clean. Even his heart trouble was the opposite of the clogged-artery disease they wanted to blame on his dinner.
None of it touched the diet, in either direction. He fell on some ice. That is the whole story.
But "the meat doctor's heart gave out" travels a great deal faster than "he slipped over in February," which is the only reason you ever heard the first one.
EXPOSED:
12,000 cats are currently confined in US labs.
And we just uncovered secretive NIH-funded cat experiments that will shock you to your core:
At a University of Florida lab, kittens are “bred to suffer from a horrible degenerative brain disease that causes loss of muscle control, dementia, difficulty swallowing, and ultimately death.”
If any of this happened outside of a lab, it would be criminal animal cruelty.
“Instead, it’s being propped up and rewarded with our tax dollars.”
And we have obtained records that show some taxpayer-funded institutions still “round up abandoned pet cats from shelters to lock in labs.”
We’re making progress, but we have a long way to go.
Several years ago, we got the federal government’s largest cat lab shut down.
Over two dozen survivors were retired, including two cats named Delilah and Petite who were adopted by our Founder, Anthony Bellotti.
We also secured groundbreaking legislation that cut funding for cat testing from the VA and the Pentagon, and a complete ban on all cat experiments at the Navy.
Now, the US House’s 2027 spending bills for the NIH and USDA include “first-ever measures cutting funding for painful cat experiments.”
But shutting down funding for these experiments is only part of the solution.
In April, we got the House to pass Violet’s Law, “a bipartisan bill to make animal adoption an option in all federal testing labs,” in the Farm Bill.
Reps. Nancy Mace and Dina Titus led the charge to pass this provision alongside us.
Now, Senators Susan Collins and Gary Peters are urging the Senate to include Violet’s Law in the final version of the Farm Bill.
@RepNancyMace@repdinatitus@SenatorCollins@SenGaryPeters