2025 Conservative Article Reference List Archives

Below are links to primarily Conservative, Libertarian-leaning articles and/or blog posts that I have found enlightening about what is happening in America and the World right now. Scan the list and read what catches your eye; for some, just reading the headlines will provide adequate insight.

Hopefully, you will take the time to read some of them, which should open your eyes to the reality of the #DeepState and those promoting the #NewWorldOrder as well as consistent #MediaBias and ongoing #FakeNews gaslighting as well as the relentless attack on American values by Liberals and the #Progressive Left.

Liken the process of becoming better informed to working on a large puzzle. As you read more and more about what is going on, things begin to fall into place, and you finally see the big picture.

(FYI – I occasionally include links to articles that, although not newsworthy, are so silly and/or outrageous that they need to be seen to show the level of idiocy that exists these days.)

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January 31, 2025

Breitbart: Trump Doubles Down on The U.S. Retaking Panama Canal – After signing executive orders, Trump spoke to reporters about how Secretary of State Marco Rubio would visit Panama during his first international trip.

WNCTP – A medical transport jet with a child patient, her mother, and four others aboard crashed into a Philadelphia neighborhood shortly after takeoff Friday evening, exploding in a fireball that engulfed several homes. – All six people aboard were from Mexico. – The child had been treated in Philadelphia for a life-threatening condition and was being transported home.

New York Post: The Army will not identify the female Black Hawk pilot killed in DC collision – At the request of the family, her name will not be released at this time,” according to Army Public Affairs. – The Army formally identified Staff Sgt. Ryan Austin O’Hara, 28, and Chief Warrant Officer 2 Andrew Loyd Eaves, 39, were the two other service members who were on the Black Hawk helicopter when it went down in the fiery crash into the Potomac River.

Sharyl Attkisson: Senators Johnson and Grassley have released the whistleblower records on the DOJ and FBI plot against Trump. – The records are linked below as Exhibits 1 through 9.

American Spectator: What if Greenland Isn’t Denmark’s to Sell? – Wording in the 1916 Treaty of the Danish West Indies could help justify an American claim to Greenland. – President Trump may not have to purchase Greenland to establish sovereignty over the world’s largest island. – The American explorer Charles Francis Hall claimed this vast land mass (or at least the northern third) for the United States on September 5, 1871.

Vigilant Fox: Bill Maher Went Full RFK Jr. in a Scorching Takedown of America’s Failing Healthcare System – Something is wrong with how America does health. – Bill Maher just dropped the receipts to prove it in a few succinct comments.

American Spectator: Trump Protects Children From Woke Abuse – His New Executive Order Bans Chemical and Surgical Mutilation of Children – In effect, so-called “gender-affirming care” is a form of child abuse that results in “maiming and sterilizing impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions.”…

Lumen News: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Delivered The Truth On The Incentivized ‘Mass Killing’ of Over 100 Million Chickens That Caused Our Steep Egg Prices — I would like to point out to every one of you that in 2024, when Joe Biden was in the Oval Office, or upstairs in the residence sleeping, egg prices increased 65% in this country. – Not only that, but…

Western Journal: Watch Karoline Leavitt Take Apart DEI For Air Traffic Controllers—This Short Response To A Reporter Question May Have Been the Single Best Line in the History of WH News Briefings. – Leavitt noted that many would-be air traffic controllers sued the Department of Transportation and the FAA in 2015 regarding the decision to add a biographical questionnaire to the air traffic control application process.

Hot Air: California Democrats Walk Back Their $50 Million Effort to “Trump-proof” the State Now That They Need The President’s Help – As Donald Trump prepared to take office, Democrats in the California state legislature returned in a special session to launch La Résistance 2.0. – Never mind that wildfires ripped through northwestern Los Angeles, and the infrastructure to fight them had failed…

One America News: CBS staffers are outraged as the network prepares for a settlement in Trump’s $10B lawsuit against them. – The lawsuit revolves around the network’s previous “60 Minutes” interview with failed Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. – The lawsuit accused the outlet of deviously manipulating the interview to prop her up and make her sound more intelligible through editing and splicing methods during production.

Breitbart: CBS says it will turn over an unedited transcript of its October interview with Kamala Harris to the Federal Communications Commission. – This is related to President Donald Trump’s ongoing fight with the network over how it handled a story about his opponent during the 2024 election campaign.

Updates For This Date Are Above This Note

Sean Duffy, Secretary of Transportation: With President Trump’s support and in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, the FAA will restrict helicopter traffic around Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport effective today. – This decision will immediately help secure the airspace near Reagan Airport, ensuring the safety of airplane and helicopter traffic.

Western Journal: Stunning Footage From New Angles Showing The Military Helicopter Flying Directly Into American Airlines Flight 5342 Raises New Questions. – The helicopter was well outside its approved flight path, which lets helicopters fly at a low altitude along the bank on the east side of the Potomac, a location that would have let it avoid the American Airlines plane…

Courageous Discourse: One Day Before The Fatal Collision, There Was A Near Miss With A Helicopter On A Final Approach To Reagan Airport – A Traffic Collision Avoidance System alert prompted the commercial aircraft’ evasive maneuver and go around just 24 hours and 40 minutes before the collision the next day. – It should be noted that helicopters are FAR MORE maneuverable than commercial jets are, especially when the latter is on a final approach...

Western Journal: Yes, Obama and Biden Had The FAA Hire People with Intellectual, Psychiatric, and Severe Physical Disabilities – Let’s start from an archived 2013 version of the Federal Aviation Administration’s website and its “diversity and inclusion” page. – “Diversity is integral to achieving FAA’s mission of ensuring safe and efficient travel across our nation and beyond.”…

Vigilant Fox: – Karoline Leavitt Forced The Media to Eat Their Words In A Brutal White House Smackdown – For once, the smug press had to sit down, shut up, and face reality as Leavitt made them look in the mirror. – As described below, not even a shred of media spin could land a blow on Trump today. If this is just the beginning, the press will be in for four very long years.

News X: Federal employees across multiple agencies have been ordered to immediately remove pronouns from their email signatures, marking the latest rollback of diversity initiatives under the Trump administration. – The mandate aligns with two executive orders signed by President Donald Trump on his first day in office, which aimed to curb diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs within the federal government…

Gateway Pundit: WINNING! Colombian President Gustavo Petro Urges All Of His Country’s Illegal Aliens to Return Home ‘Immediately’ – Petro, “Wealth is produced only by working people.” – “The Department of Social Prosperity, DPS, will seek to provide productive loans to returnees who enroll in its programs.” – “Let’s build social wealth in Colombia.”

Twitchy: During a Megyn Kelly Interview, Marco Rubio Explained Why Trump’s Purchase of Greenland is not a laughing matter. – After Trump’s fiery call with Denmark’s Prime Minister, Rubio explained that Trump is approaching this acquisition like a businessman, not a politician. – American adversaries China and Russia are competing against us for strategic advantage, and Greenland is an important piece needed to maintain America’s safety.

Daily Fetched: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has stopped all grant funding for non-governmental organizations aiding mass illegal immigration into the U.S. – The DHS funneled almost $400 million into far-left NGOs under the Biden administration, assisting illegals with housing, food, and job placement.

Daily Wire: President Trump is taking further action against the 50 former intelligence officials who falsely suggested Hunter Biden’s laptop was “part of a Russian disinformation campaign,” instructing agencies to ban them from stepping foot in secure U.S. government facilities. – This order expands Trump’s executive order barring former officials, including John Bolton and Leon Panetta, from entering secure government properties…

Daily Wire: The Trump administration has reportedly told top FBI officials that they should resign or expect to be fired by Monday. – The dismissal came after President Trump had promised dramatic reforms to the FBI and the Justice Department, which he says were weaponized against him and his supporters during the Biden administration.

The Federalist: Team Trump Is Winning The Media Battle By Treating Left-Wing Press As The Propagandists They Are – The reason the entire Trump administration is successfully fielding absurd questions so well is because they understand these ‘journalists’ are just the propaganda wing of the Democrat party, so that act accordingly. – “I don’t really care, Margaret,” is a line that has now reverberated throughout the country, and for good reason…

Breitbart: President Trump warned Thursday night that his sweeping 25% tariff on goods from Canada and Mexico would begin in 48 hours, adding that he’s still considering whether to include oil from those countries as part of his import taxes. – “That decision will be based on whether the price of oil charged by the two trading partners is fair.”…

Zero Hedge: On February 1, the Trump administration will impose 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico and a 10% tariff on China, as announced during Friday’s press briefing by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. – Leavitt further explained that there would be no delay, selective targeting, or slow rollout of phased-in tariffs, as Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank speculated.

American Greatness: Mike Pence’s Evil Alliance with Big Pharma Won’t Stop RFK’s Confirmation—Mike Pence and Big Pharma make a perfect pair. – Both will say anything to protect their interests, even if it means sabotaging RFK’s nomination. – Big Pharma has perfected the art of playing both sides, donating to Democratic and Republican political figures that they deem able to help protect its affiliated drug companies’ bottom lines.

American Thinker: RFK Jr. vs. The Establishment’s Trained Seals – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. walked into his confirmation hearing expecting a grilling. – Instead, he gave a master class in Washington’s most predictable theater, politicians masquerading as public servants while performing for their real benefactors, Big Pharma. – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. carries a storied name in Democrat politics, but his break from the party’s establishment is undeniable…

American Thinker: Hegseth Crushes DEI In The Military – “The President’s guidance is clear: No more DEI @DeptofDefense.” – “The Pentagon will comply immediately.” – “There will be no exceptions, name changes, or delays. – “Those who do not comply will no longer work here.” – Crushing it is what Trump and his team have been doing since 47’s swearing-in. – Ask the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, a clueless lefty-globalist thug…

American Thinker: President Trump Is Right About The Current Plight of Aviation Safety—Trump quickly noted how the prior Biden administration and Transportation Secretary Buttigieg turned our nation’s aviation system into a DEI hiring program. – This included pressuring airlines, air traffic control, the FAA, and the military to favor people based on factors outside strict qualifications. – That included hiring programs for those with cognitive disabilities into critical safety roles.

Geller Report: President Trump Is Unfazed By Pushback And Insists Egypt and Jordan Will Take In Gazans – “They Will Do It.” – Why won’t Muslim countries take in Muslims from Gaza? – Why is it that only Western nations are taking in these terrorists? – No civilized population should be expected to tolerate this barbarity on their border. America certainly wouldn’t. The ‘Palestinians’ in Gaza need to live elsewhere. Enough!…

Washington Free Beacon: Republicans in the House and Senate are finalizing legislation that would formally recognize the West Bank as “Judea and Samaria,” applying Israel’s official term for the region to all American government communication. – ‘The U.S. should stop using the politically charged term West Bank to refer to the biblical heartland of Israel. -Senator Tom Cotton cosponsored the bill with Representative Claudia Tenney.

Daily Wire: The Trump Administration Announced It Will Enforce 2020 Title IX Rules, Not Biden’s Revised Version – The Trump administration called Biden’s policy “an unlawful abuse of regulatory power and an egregious slight to women and girls.”

American Thinker: California Dreamin’ – Every day, we learn more about the monumental ineptitude of California’s elected officials. – At the peak of the L.A. wildfires, the hydrants dried up. – Green lawyers and their representatives blocked the construction of new reservoirs for the past 46 years. – Permits to clear away flammable vegetation sat on the desks of bureaucrats awaiting approvals that never came. – Governor Gavin Newsom stopped a plan to pipe water from the lush north to the parched southland…

American Thinker: Don’t Neglect Sovereignty in Higher Education—Understandably, Universities seek ties to China, as Beijing offers funding, lavish trips, and a river of foreign students willing to pay to attend America’s colleges. – Iran, a prominent state sponsor of terrorism, is very active in American higher education. – Higher education is known for foreign espionage activity. Higher education cannot be ignored if the Trump administration is serious about sovereignty.

Woke Spy: A Recent Quinnipiac Poll Finds That The Democrats Are More Unpopular Than Ever Before – Only 31% of respondents had a favorable opinion of the Democrats, compared to 57% who did not. – Interestingly, 15% of Democrat respondents held an unfavorable view of their party, as did 59% of independents. – Women (39%) were more likely to have a favorable view of the Democratic Party than men (22%).

January 30, 2025

Fox News: President Donald Trump on Thursday signed two executive orders appointing a new Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) deputy administrator and ordering an immediate assessment of aviation safety. – The orders came after an American Airlines plane carrying 64 people and an Army Black Hawk helicopter carrying three soldiers crashed in midair at about 9 p.m. Wednesday. – Trump noted that the Biden administration encouraged the recruitment of people with ‘severe intellectual disabilities.’…

Breitbart: Pilots have long worried about DC’s complex airspace contributing to a catastrophe – “This was a disaster waiting to happen,” said Ross Aimer, a retired United Airlines captain and chief executive officer of Aero Consulting Experts. “Those of us who have been around a long time have been yelling into a vacuum that something like this would happen because our systems are stretched to extremes.”

Washington Examiner: Four takeaways from Kash Patel’s Senate hearing where Trump and past FBI bashing dominated – 1. There is a clear partisan divide. – 2. A wandering focus as lawmakers argue among themselves. – 3. Plans to close FBI headquarters and distribute people across America to fight crime. – 4. There was a wide range of attendees…

Western Journal: Democrats Boycott Trump Nominee Vote, But It Passed Anyway—The Senate Budget Committee voted 11-0 to send Russell Vought’s nomination to lead the Office of Management and Budget to the full Senate.

Epoch Times: ICE Arrests Guatemalan, Salvadoran Gang Members – Hundreds of criminal aliens are being arrested daily by ICE officials as part of enforcement operations. They include Luis Adolfo Guerra-Perez, a Guatemalan gang member charged with drug and weapons crimes, and Anderson Geovany Romero, a member of the MS-13…

American Spectator: Five Quick Things Regarding The Unfolding Commonsense Revolution – This week, the return to common sense has been felt. – 1. I Don’t Care, Margaret – 2. A Horrific Plane Crash Kills 67, and Government Bureaucracy Could Be Both the Assailant and the Ultimate Victim. – 3. The Tucker Carlson–Piers Morgan Interview – 4. The Very Wrong Phyllis Fong – 5. The Need For New Conspiracy Theories Because All Of The Old Ones Have Come True…

The Federalist: Here Is A “Dirty Dozen” List Of Wasteful Federal Grants You’re Paying For – The State Department — $100,000 for “Building Palestinian girls and young women’s resilience through weekly running and wellness sessions. – National Science Foundation — $1.5 million to Florida State University to fund “Black Feminist Building a Sisterhood in Computing.” – Department of Agriculture — $717,000 to Ohio State University to solve the “cultural resistance in the USA and Europe that impedes the acceptance of insect proteins as food sources.”…

Western Journal: Chilling Audio Reveals Air Traffic Control’s Final Instructions Black Hawk Helicopter – Air traffic controllers instructed the Army chopper to move away from the jet coming in for a landing. – “PAT 25 pass behind the CRJ,” an air traffic controller said, using the call sign for the chopper and referring to a Bombardier CRJ-701 twin-engine jet as CRJ.

Daily Wire: A Report Suggests Airport Tower Understaffed At Time Of Collision, Had Been For Years – A Controller had to deal with helicopters and instructing planes, doing tasks usually meant for two people. – An internal preliminary report from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said staffing at the tower was “not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic.”…

Daily Signal: President Trump Held A Press Conference On The Midair Collision Of An American Airlines Commercial Jet And An Army Black Hawk Helicopter – Trump said that a thorough investigation in the Federal Aviation Administration and within the military will take place and that the public will be appraised of the findings of that investigation. – Here is a video of what he said…

Western Journal: Passengers aboard the American Airlines flight that collided with an Army helicopter and crashed into the frigid waters of the Potomac River included figure skaters returning from the U.S. Figure Skating Championships and two of their Russian coaches. – There were 60 passengers and four crew members on the American Airlines flight on Wednesday and three soldiers aboard the training flight on the Blackhawk helicopter.

New York Post: Everything we know so far about DC plane crash victims – Those who boarded the flight, which went down over the frigid Potomac River late Wednesday, included at least 14 members of the US Figure Skating team along with their Russian coaches. – One of the American Airlines pilots on board his family identified the downed jet as Sam Lilley — a 28-year-old first officer who was engaged to be married…

AMUSE on X: How DEI Policies Are Compromising Air Traffic Control – Previously, Air Traffic Controllers (ATCs) were selected through rigorous training programs, ensuring that only the best and brightest sat at the helm of our nation’s skies. – However, beginning in the Obama era and accelerating under Biden, a seismic shift occurred: meritocracy was abandoned in favor of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) mandates.

Populist Times: Daily Border Encounters Are Plummeting Under Trump – See The Graph

Issues & Insights: Trump’s Gaza Truth Bomb Re-Flips The Script On Gaza – To wit: “I’d like Egypt to take people, and I’d like Jordan to take people. You’re talking about probably a million and a half people; we clean out that whole thing.”

Red State: The Kash Patel Hearing Starts With a Bang As The Future FBI Director Cooks Democrats – Senator Chuck Grassley began the hearing by reading never-before-released emails exposing the FBI’s malfeasance over the last several years. – Senator, this may be one of the scenarios that most uniquely qualifies me to take command of the FBI. Having been the victim of government overreach and a weaponized system of justice and law enforcement, I know what it feels like to have the full weight of the United States government barreling down on you…

Geller Report: A radio station owned by George Soros reported the live locations of undercover Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) agents operating in San Jose, California, an area known for violent gang activity. – This is incitement to violence and murder against law enforcement. – PULL SOROS LICENSES.

American Thinker: A pocket guide to why Trump is correct on birthright citizenship – As Barack Obama once said, “Words matter,” but leftists don’t want you to see that. – The predicate for this discussion, of course, is this clause from the 14th Amendment: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. (Emphasis mine.)…

Numbers USA: Tell Congress to End Birthright Citizenship for Illegal Aliens! – Contacting your elected officials is one of the most powerful actions you can take to push for sensible immigration policy!

Breitbart: Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence nominee, addressed her opponents’ “lies and smears” during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday. – Certain committee members oppose her because she refuses to be their puppet. – Gabbard then listed many other examples that need attention, many of which occurred under President Joe Biden’s watch.

American Greatness: RFK Jr.’s confirmation hearings show us which senators Big Pharma owns. – Kennedy’s harshest critics and defenders of the status quo are publicly revealed, with their pharmaceutical industry donations scrutinized. – This list of donation amounts from the Big Pharma community should open people’s eyes.

American Thinker: Just how disgusting were Democrats to RFK, Jr. at his hearing? – Here are some more doozies from the party of Big Pharma. – Here’s what kind of creature Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is as he preens on the Senate floor, piously intoning, “You frighten me.”- Frightened? Really? – It’s his old pal Bobby. – What kind of creature could even do such a thing to someone he’s known for years, who attended law school together and even attended his wedding?

American Thinker: A whistleblower beats the Garland DOJ – Sane Americans would consider exposing physicians and others doing permanent harm to mentally confused kids necessary and a good thing, but not under Garland’s DOJ. – Dr. Eithan Haim was the subject of an ongoing criminal case brought by Biden’s DOJ after he leaked documents to the media revealing Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston was performing transgender medical procedures on minors through May 2023…

Victor Davis Hanson: Is Mexico Our Friend, Enemy, Neutral, or Something Else? – After years of U.S. appeasement, Mexico exploits open borders, drug trade, and remittances—it’s time for America to enforce real consequences and reclaim control. – Rather than worry about who is sending remittances, why place a 20% tax (about $12 billion) on all cash sent from the U.S. to Mexico? – We could also slap tariffs on imported assembled goods until the two-way trade is roughly balanced.

John Daniel Davidson: It’s Time We Start Treating Mexico Like The Hostile Foreign Power That It Is – We’re never going to have peace and security on our southern border until we deal with the corrupt and criminal elements that run Mexico. – Earlier this week, suspected Mexican drug cartel gunmen fired on U.S. Border Patrol agents in Texas, who fired back. – This took place on a strip of land in the middle of the Rio Grande called Fronton Island, also known as “Cartel Island,” because it was previously used as a staging area for cartel smuggling operations.

Washington Free Beacon: ‘No Immigrant Should Be Detained,’ Says The Left-Wing Nonprofit With $769 Million Federal Immigration Contract – Acacia Center for Justice, based in Washington, D.C., is one of the largest federal immigration contractors, overseeing a $769 million program that provides lawyers for unaccompanied alien children and adults in immigration court hearings and deportation proceedings.

American Greatness: There Is Mounting Disobedience in Our Schools—School discipline is declining, and the education establishment is clueless about improving the situation. – The problem in Los Angeles is particularly grim. In the 2023-2024 school year, the district’s School Experience Survey shows that just 58.5% of elementary students, 55.2% of middle school students, and 51.6% of high school students reported feeling safe in their schools—a significant drop from previous years…

American Thinker: Is the climate doomsday cult finally losing power? – It seems the public has higher priorities – Their credibility gap has only widened with extreme actions by groups like Extinction Rebellion and Stop Oil, whose theatrical protests, from destroying priceless artworks to blocking ambulances by gluing hands to roads, have alienated potential supporters and raised questions about the movement’s priorities.

Zero Hedge: The Trump-Vance administration’s DOJ sued to block Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks. – The DoJ argues that the tie-up, which would leave Juniper and HPE with control of 70% of the enterprise wireless equipment market, would “eliminate fierce head-to-head competition” in the US.

Daily Wire: The stories of a dozen de-transitioners, medical professionals, and mothers whose children were caught up in gender ideology are highlighted in a powerful docuseries by IW Features, a project of the Independent Women’s Forum. – ‘They were willing to step up, be extremely vulnerable with us, and contribute their voice to bring about needed change.’

FAR: Was JFK A Democrat or Republican? – Today’s Democrat party is much different from when I was young. – It has moved so far to the left that it is unrecognizable.

January 29, 2025

Wall Street Journal: Kash Patel Explains How He Will Rebuild Public Trust in the FBI—Two foundational steps are necessary. – First, let good cops be cops. – Second, transparency is essential. – My commitment to these principles is deeply rooted in my family’s history, as my father fled Idi Amin’s genocidal dictatorship in Uganda…

Victor Davis Hanson: Why It Makes So Much Sense That The Left So-Fears Kash Patel, Who Is Patently Qualified To Be FBI Director – #1. One is he was the point man for Devin Nunes’ House Select Intelligence Committee investigation of the FBI. – #2. Kash Patel comes from a different background. He’s an Indian-American immigrant. He went to schools that the Left did not, so he is an outsider…

One America News: Trump Announces Preparations To Move 30,000 Illegal Aliens To Guantanamo Bay. – Some of them are so bad, we don’t even trust their countries to hold them because we don’t want them coming back,” Trump explained, “We’re going to send them to Guantanamo.” – Guantanamo Bay, also known as GITMO, is a U.S. military prison within Naval Station Guantanamo Bay on the coast of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

One America News: The Trump Administration Is Revoking Student Visas For Anti-Israel ‘Hamas Sympathizers’ On College Campuses – President Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday to deport foreign students who took part in anti-Israel and pro-Hamas protests on U.S. college campuses, as his crackdown on anti-Semitism across the nation commences.

Epoch Times: President Trump shook up the NLRB on Monday by firing its union-friendly General Counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo, and board member Gwynne Wilcox, a move that will likely be challenged in court. – The NLRB enforces the country’s labor laws and oversees union elections. – The NLRB is left with two members of its five-seat board; a quorum of three is required for decision-making.

American Thinker: Democrats Put Lipstick On A Pig – Democrats continually mislead the public to win and retain power. – Because of Trump’s mandate, they must agree that the crux of his positions on important matters is correct, but they won’t do that. – Instead, they will change their talking points. – Here, a Newsweek contributor says that Democrats need to start pretending to support some of Trump’s policies so they can win…

Vigilant Fox: Watch Bernie Sanders Squirm as RFK Jr. Calls Out His Big Pharma Money Contributions To His Face – This is about as satisfying to watch as it gets. – When confronted, Bernie became visibly uncomfortable, shouting, “Oh no, no!…” But Kennedy didn’t let up, hammering him on how much money he took from the Pharma community…

Western Journal: Senator Elizabeth Warren Completely Loses It When RFK Jr. Points Out She’s Shilling for Big Pharma. – After interrupting him for the third time, Kennedy had had enough, so he exposed her insidious motive behind her questioning. – “You’re asking me not to sue drug companies, and I’m not gonna agree to that, senator,” he said…

Populist Times: The Sneaky GOP Senator Behind Pete Hegseth’s Last-Minute Domestic Abuse Allegation Identified – “Senator Thom Tillis personally assured Danielle Hegseth in a call on Jan. 19, witnessed by two other people, that if she signed the statement testifying that she believed her former brother-in-law Pete Hegseth has an alcohol-abuse problem and was abusive to his second wife, it would carry weight, and potentially move three votes, his own, along with the votes of Senators Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski.”

Washington Examiner: Trump short-circuited the funding controversy by canceling the EO Freeze – It’s unclear where things go now. But what seems most likely is that Trump will go on to other actions on Thursday and keep his administration’s extraordinary momentum going rather than get bogged down in a fight over a poorly drafted OMB memo that Democrats want to turn into the most important document in the world.

Breitbart: Trump’s strategy of overwhelming Democrats with hundreds of executive orders and actions in the first days of his second presidency is working and frustrating the opposition. – Former White House adviser and former Breitbart News executive chairman Stephen K. Bannon articulated the “flood the zone” strategy.

Fox News: Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law as the first legislative victory of the new administration. – “This horrific atrocity should never have been allowed to happen,” Trump told reporters.

Center Square: President Donald Trump signed an executive order late Tuesday restricting transgender drugs and surgeries for minors. – The order lays out a litany of concerns, from the potential harm done to children to the lifelong medical bills, and says the U.S. government will no longer support “maiming and sterilizing” those age 18 and younger.

Daily Wire: Ted Cruz Gives A Legal Argument For Why The U.S. Should Retake The Panama Canal – “They committed the Panama Canal would remain neutral, that it would not allow another foreign power to have control over it, or have military access to it, and they would charge fair and equitable fees.” – Both promises have been broken. – And China has way too much control over the area.

Gateway Pundit: Billionaire Philanthropist Nicole Shanahan Puts Senators on Notice — There will be consequences if you vote against RFK Jr. – While Bobby may be willing to play nice, I won’t. – If you vote against him, I will fund challengers to primary you in your next election and enlist hundreds of thousands to join me. – Big Pharma and Big Ag have exploited us for far too long.

Vigilant Fox: RFK Jr. Stunned His Critics With A Masterclass Senate Confirmation Performance – In his opening statement, he expertly broke down the nation’s health catastrophe, exposing the alarming trends plaguing millions of Americans. – WARNER: “Will you commit not to fire anyone in the health arena who currently works on protecting Americans from cyberattacks in their healthcare files?” – KENNEDY: “I will commit to not firing anybody doing their job.”

Courageous Discourse: RFK Jr. Stands for Truth And The Confirmation Hearing Prove It – He Set The Record Straight on “Conspiracy Theories,” SSRIs, the Samoa Measles Outbreak, and the Chronic Disease Epidemic – Here is the proof.

Conservative Brief: South Carolina GOP Representative Lindsey Graham said he’s “ready” to vote to confirm Kash Patel as the next FBI director. – During an interview on CBS, Graham praised Patel and said he believes the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate will confirm him.

Daily Wire: ‘The New Era Of Accountability, Hegseth Strips General Mark Milley’s Security Detail – Milley is accused of attempting to “undermine the chain of command.” – Multiple senior administration officials confirmed that the Pentagon will remove a second portrait of Milley, meaning his image will no longer be displayed in the building.

Zero Hedge: The Pentagon To Investigate Milley And Possibly Demote Him – The IG investigation will center on allegations that Milley worked to “undermine the chain of command” during the first Trump administration. – The probe is certain to scrutinize two calls Milley made to senior Chinese officials in the last days of Trump’s first term.

Zero Hedge: There is “substantial evidence” that Chinese AI startup DeepSeek “distilled” knowledge from OpenAI’s models. – DeepSeek’s model generated responses that indicated it had been trained on OpenAI’s GPT-4, which poses a massive national security risk. – Over the next few months, our leading AI companies will take steps to prevent distillation.

Epoch Times: The Trump Administration Is Offering Buyouts to Nearly All Federal Employees—The buyouts are offered through a new ‘deferred resignation’ initiative, which allows employees to resign while receiving pay until September.

Geller Report: Netanyahu Is The First Foreign Leader Trump Invited To The White House – Trump has always treated Israel with enormous respect and dignity. – What a difference from the Democrat Party Senators, who voted to allow the ICC to issue arrest warrants against PM Netanyahu.

Geller Report: BRILLIANT, The White House Is Issuing Press Releases “Debunking The Fake News Press’ Hoaxes” – First, the OMB ordered a review of funding to NGOs, foreign governments, and large discretionary contracts. – It explicitly excluded all aid and benefit programs. The Left-wing media outright lied, and some people fell for the hoax.

American Thinker: How Trump is Already Cleaning Up Things in Ukraine – Three Ukrainian vloggers offer a clearer picture of the situation in the wartime state. – Is This The End of the freebie era? USAID is on pause, which puts grant-seekers in panic mode! – A judge of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is a Russian Ministry of Defense lieutenant colonel…

Daily Wire: The White House received over 7,400 new media requests after White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that the White House is making room for “new media” in the press room. – The White House will also restore the media credentials of over 400 journalists who lost access during the Biden administration.

Daily Wire: Trump Asked Elon Musk To Get NASA Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, Who Have Been Stuck On The Space Station Since June. – A mission to return Wimore and Williams was pushed back from February to “no earlier than late March,” NASA said in December…

Breitbart: California, which prides itself on leading the effort to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, is emitting massive amounts of carbon due to wildfires, losing six times more carbon from federal land than any other state in the past 17 years. – In another irony, the fires have caused hazardous waste from damaged lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles, the same vehicles Governor Newsom compels Californians to buy.

New York Post: Kristi Noem announced that the Trump administration is ending temporary protected status for 600,000 Venezuelan migrants. – “The new order would allow federal agents to “evaluate all these individuals that are in our country, including the Venezuelans that are here and the members of TDA (Tren de Aragua),” Noem said.

American Thinker: As Democrats engage in performative weeping, illegal immigration’s real victims celebrate the round-ups. – Unsurprisingly, it turns out that ordinary people don’t like having foreign criminal gangs take over their neighborhoods. – In New York City, minorities who are American citizens or legal immigrants are cheering on the ICE raids…

Breitbart: The cartel members who fired at U.S. Border Patrol agents in Texas this week were able to avoid capture because Mexican authorities left the area, allowing the gunmen to walk away. – Mexican authorities have since begun to deny the shooting in an attempt to minimize the violence in the region.

The Federalist: New York Magazine Cropped Out Minorities In Their Young Conservative Hit Piece – ‘They had an agenda, and that was to slander the MAGA movement as some white supremacist cult,’ CJ Pearson said of the magazine. – The hit job was supposed to be a first-person account of inauguration weekend parties filled with “young, confident, and casually cruel Trumpers who, after conquering Washington, have their sights set on America.”

American Thinker: The January 6 Pardons, It’s The Brownshirts! – With any luck, we’ll soon learn the truth about the January 6 prosecutions. – The DOJ so stretched the law it’s certain many charged with “violence” did no such thing or were forced to admit to the DOJ’s overblown definitions in plea bargains necessary to avoid decades in prison for what would have amounted to nothing more than misdemeanor trespassing with a small fine and no jail time elsewhere…

Slay News: President Donald Trump is preparing to cut off taxpayer funding to public schools that teach radical gender ideology and Marxism-rooted Critical Race Theory (CRT). – Trump is expected to sign an executive order Wednesday to enforce the new rule.

Daily Wire: Senator Josh Hawley introduced a bill Wednesday to allow children harmed by transgender procedures to sue the doctors and hospitals that carried out the operations. – Hawley’s bill would enable individuals to sue the pediatric gender clinics and doctors who gave them cross-sex hormones or performed transgender surgery on them when they were minors.

American Thinker: America’s Un-American Culture Of Disabled Workers – Somehow, in today’s much safer America, the total of people listed as disabled and receiving disability payments has skyrocketed: The government spends more on disability than on food stamps and welfare combined. – This is not a biological or safety problem. It is a problem of perverse incentives that must change before America can reinvigorate itself.

CNN: Regularly Updated Status Report On Trump’s Cabinet Picks

January 28, 2025

The Hill: The Senate confirmed Sean Duffy to lead the Department of Transportation – President Trump’s Cabinet nominee received bipartisan backing and was confirmed Tuesday with a 77-22 vote.

Conservative: The Senate Confirmed Scott Bessent as Trump’s Treasury Secretary. – Senators voted 68-29 on Bessent’s nomination. The Democratic caucus approved the confirmation, and 16 members voted for it. Three Democrats abstained from voting.

Just The News: Jimmy Patronis and Randy Fine won their special election primaries to replace Mike Waltz and Matt Gaetz – Trump endorsed both Fine and Patronis in their respective races Republican districts.

Western Journal: Outrage Erupts As The Initial Tulsi Gabbard Confirmation Vote Is Set to Be Held in Secret – Some of Gabbard’s allies believe that particular panel members would vote differently if their decisions were made public. – Since the panel comprises nine Republicans and eight Democrats, even a single Republican flip could stop her confirmation process from advancing to the Senate floor.

Zero Hedge: According to a Wednesday memo, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) rescinded an order freezing federal grants. – On Monday, the OMB paused all federal spending, including grants and leases, pending a thorough review to ensure that programs align with the Trump administration’s priorities.

Red State: Trump Halts $3 Trillion in Federal Grants Pending Review of Compliance With His Executive Orders—The 90-day hold is well within the letter of the Impoundment Control Act and is sure to inconvenience some grantees. – It prevents the federal government from directly funding activities, like abortion and alien smuggling, that are against the administration’s stated policy.

Epoch Times: A federal judge temporarily blocked part of President Donald Trump’s directive to pause federal loans, grants, and other financial assistance on Jan. 28. – The judge said the ruling would “maintain the status quo” and does not prevent the Trump administration from suspending funds for new programs, nor does it require resuming expired funding.

Western Journal: Karoline Leavitt Laughs at NBC Reporter’s Question And Then Teaches Him a Lesson About Illegal Aliens. – The NBC reporter then insisted entering the country illegally is a mere “civil” crime, but Leavitt corrected him, saying it is a “federal” crime. – “We want to deport illegal criminals, illegal immigrants from this country, but that doesn’t mean that the other illegal criminals who entered our nation’s borders are off the table.”

Breitbart: The White House held the second Trump administration’s first official press conference on Tuesday, January 28. – Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt briefed reporters in the press briefing room at 1 PM Eastern – A full video is provided.

Western Journal: Trump Officially Calls for End to Income Tax And May Be First POTUS in History to Do So – Trump recounted that from 1870 to 1913, tariffs funded the federal government, and “it was the richest period in the history of the United States.” – “Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich foreign nations, we should be tariffing and taxing foreign nations to enrich our citizens.”

American Spectator: Insurers Aren’t the Problem, Government Is – Government meddling to further policy goals, and not insurers are to blame for increased prices and dropped coverage. – Insurance companies undertake rigorous actuarial and financial analyses and write policies designed to ensure the income they generate exceeds that expended to pay claims and overhead expenses and earn a return on capital consistent with the risk underwritten. – Capping premiums, particularly in a rising claims environment, makes this math unworkable…

American Spectator: Biden’s FCC Let The Biased Media Off the Hook At The 11th-Hour, But The New Trump Chair Says No – The FCC dismissed three significant media bias complaints under the guise of “freedom of the press.” But, Trump’s new FCC chair, Brendan Carr, delivered the message that the legacy media is not above accountability. – A striking example of this biased coverage involved ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos, who inaccurately reported that President Trump had been found civilly liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll…

Western Journal: Veteran Michigan Democrat Senator Gary Peters Announced He Will Not Seek Reelection, Setting Up a Battleground State Showdown for His Seat—Consequently, Democrats will have to defend an open Senate seat while trying to recover ground from a Republican Party that holds a 53-seat majority in the chamber.

Epoch Times: President Donald Trump signed new executive orders restricting openly transgender people from serving in the U.S. military, as well as eliminating DEI programs and practices within the military. – According to White House fact sheets, the orders are to address concerns that transgender individuals in the military are not physically capable of meeting the demands of military service during and after gender-transitioning surgery.

Real Clear Politics: Trump Places More Than 50 USAID Officials on Leave – This was done after receiving information that they may have been conspiring to circumvent Trump’s executive orders requiring the halting of federal aid funds to overseas programs and all diversity, equity, and inclusion programs within the agency.

AMUSE on X: Federal Workforce Reform, Ending Remote Work – The American taxpayer has long endured a bloated federal bureaucracy that seems more adept at evasion than execution. – The pandemic may have subsided, but the habits it cultivated in federal offices linger like a fog, stifling accountability, efficiency, and the public’s trust. – So, it is time to end telework as the default for federal employees…

Epoch Times: The Trump administration is freezing nearly all federal loans, grants, and other financial assistance starting Tuesday afternoon. – According to Matthew Vaeth, the acting director of OMB, the lone exceptions are for Social Security and Medicare payments.

Slay News: Top Republicans are calling on President Donald Trump to unseal the classified files on Jeffrey Epstein that the Democrat elite has been battling to keep hidden from the public, with Senator Marsha Blackburn and Representative Tim Burchett leading the charge. – These calls follow Trump’s recent executive order to release the long-classified government files on the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The Daily Fetched: The Trump administration’s brutal crackdown on DEI is rapidly reshaping three-letter federal agencies in a push to focus more on national security issues by axing all “affinity groups.” – CIA employees were told all resource and affinity groups are canceled. – There will no longer be Black History Month, MLK celebration, or other ethnic recognition months. – DEI shall be fired rather than allowed to rotate to any former positions.

The Federalist: Senators Who’ve Raked In Millions From Big Pharma Will Question RFK Jr. In Double Hearings Thursday and Friday – Kennedy’s persistent antagonism of the pharmaceutical giants led to a shock in their stocks upon his nomination to lead the nearly $2 trillion agency in charge of regulating the drug industry.

Washington Examiner: The group suing DOGE was awarded millions in DEI funding. – The American Public Health Association joined five others in accusing Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency of violating transparency rules. Federal spending records list a $4.2 million grant from HHS to APHA for a “health equity” initiative.

Washington Examiner: House Republicans are eager for Florida’s special primaries on Tuesday to decide the replacements for former Representatives Matt Gaetz and Mike Waltz, whose resignations from the House left Republican leadership with a razor-thin voting majority. – Trump has made endorsements in the primaries for Florida’s 1st and 6th congressional districts, with the Republican winners almost guaranteed to hold the seats…

Breitbart: Director of National Intelligence Nominee Lt. Col. Tulsi Gabbard is scheduled to testify before the Senate this Thursday. – Meanwhile, Democrats and their media allies have been publishing lie after lie about her record. – Gabbard has long opposed U.S. military involvement in regime-change wars. – She traveled to Syria in 2017 on a fact-finding mission, cleared by the House Ethics Committee before and after the trip, to meet with Assad…

American Thinker: Decoding the DC Democratic Establishment — The ultimate goal of the D.C. elite is to legalize corruption and cronyism. – For example, during the final weeks of the Biden administration, the DoE earmarked billions of dollars in green energy loans to utility companies in Biden’s Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm’s home state of Michigan…

American Thinker: What The Democrats’ Real Problem With Pete Hegseth? – Perhaps this is the reason Democrats were so outraged by the nomination of Pete Hegseth to be Secretary of Defense. – He won’t send money to Democratic supporters like the rest of the federal government.

Breitbart: ICE deported 7,300 illegal migrants in its first week, according to a statement by the Department of Homeland Security. – Most of the deported migrants were criminals guilty of or facing charges of robbery, rape, assault, domestic violence, drunk driving, and/or reckless driving.

New York Post: US Border Patrol and Mexican cartel members traded gunfire at Southern border – DPS drone operators captured the gunmen fleeing Mexico due to military. – Meanwhile, the migrants who were trying to cross at the time of the ordeal reportedly didn’t make it into the US. – No injuries were reported, according to authorities.

American Thinker: National Socialism was a leftist ideology, so that’s why the Hitler slur isn’t sticking to Elon Musk – The Hitler accusation doesn’t work anymore because people are aware of the historical fact that he was on the far left of the political spectrum.

City Journal: Gender Medicine Is On The Ropes – Trump said that he would ask Congress to pass a bill declaring that there are only “two genders,” which are “assigned at birth.” – Presumably, he meant two sexes, determined at conception and recognized at or before birth.

Newsmax: On Monday evening, President Trump stated that Microsoft is one of several U.S. companies considering taking control of TikTok to help the popular app avoid a potential ban that could take effect in April. – Trump also mentioned on Monday that other companies are interested in purchasing TikTok, but he did not provide a list of those companies.

Zero Hedge: Since 2018, Over 75,000 Canadians Died Waiting For Health Care – If you think Canada has such a great nationalized health care system, you need to reconsider.

January 27, 2025

Epoch Times: The Senate confirmed Scott Bessent’s nomination for Treasury secretary in a 68–29 vote. – This puts him in a key position to implement Trump’s tariff and growth agenda. – Bessent will spearhead Trump’s plan of cutting taxes and curbing deficits while creating a tariff plan that facilitates growth.

Blaze Media: The Trump administration has empowered ICE to revoke the legal status of foreign nationals allowed into the US under two Biden-era parole programs: the CBP One app and the CHNV. – The CBP One app enabled 1,450 foreign nationals per day to schedule appointments at a port of entry to claim asylum. – The CHNV program allowed 30,000 individuals per month from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to enter the country with temporary legal status for two years.

Epoch Times: Trump Advised That He Would Sign An Executive Order Creating An “Iron Dome” for America. – The executive order will cover a range of advanced missile and air defense capabilities. – The president described the new effort as an “Iron Dome” for America, borrowing the name of a counter-rocket and artillery system that comprises a key component of Israel’s aerial defense network.

Just The News: House Oversight Chairman James Comer launched an investigation into sanctuary cities, requesting documents and communications related to their policies and their impact on public safety. – The Committee is investigating sanctuary jurisdictions across the US, their impact on public safety, and the effectiveness of federal efforts to enforce the country’s immigration laws.

Epoch Times: Chinese AI app DeepSeek is heavily biased toward the CCP. – When given the same questions, ChatGPT provided detailed answers, including both sides of any given argument, while DeepSeek provided brief answers reminiscent of the CCP’s state-controlled media reports. Also, it outright refused to answer questions about human rights.

Wall Street Journal: Acting U.S. Attorney Ed Martin Has Initiated A Review Of The DOJ’s January 6 Cases – Lawyers who worked on the matters are asked to turn over files, notes, and other records…

Fox News: The DOJ is firing more than a dozen key officials who worked on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team prosecuting President Donald Trump after Acting Attorney General James McHenry said they could not be trusted in “faithfully implementing the president’s agenda. – The names of the individuals were not immediately released.

Washington Examiner: Vivek Ramaswamy denies Elon Musk ‘fired’ him from DOGE. – In an appearance on Fox News, Ramaswamy dismissed reports that they had bad blood, saying they had different, complementary approaches.

VOZ US: The Trump administration ordered the CDC to suspend all collaborations with the World Health Organization effective immediately. – This decision is in response to President Donald Trump’s strategy of withdrawing the United States from the UN agency.

Foundation For Freedom Online: How Microsoft Helped Build the Censorship Industry—Microsoft not only participated but actively funded and partnered with several key initiatives aimed at controlling online content, including the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public and the DHS-born Election Integrity Partnership, to which it belongs.

Zero Hedge: Russian troops have been exponentially gaining ground on the eastern front, with the key city of Velyka Novosilka nearly encircled and ready to fall. – Ukrainian officials are finally confirming that the area has been overrun, and some reports indicate that Ukrainian soldiers were nearly surrounded during the retreat.

AMUSE on X: Is DeepSeek A Chinese Psyop? – With the release of its R1 model, DeepSeek claims to have achieved this breakthrough with minimal resources. – Experts and analysts are concerned about the company’s rapid ascent and potential ties to the Chinese government. – China has explicitly stated its ambition to become a global leader in AI by 2030 and is actively pursuing the following strategies: Investing in AI research and development, Developing domestic AI infrastructure, and more.

American Conservative: Under Trump, American Energy Is Unleashed at Last – The 47th president’s first round of executive orders shows he is serious about energy policy. – One of his first orders, “Unleashing American Energy,” set the framework for addressing the nation’s energy challenges. – Alaska, in particular, stands to benefit from this policy shift, as Trump declared Alaska “open for business.”…

Zero Hedge: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has begun filling gaps in the nation’s border wall left by the Biden administration. Filling existing gaps with concrete-and-steel wall sections is the first of several measures by the Trump administration to beef up border security, including deploying more border guards and a scramble to place military units across the country at the southern border.

Lumen News: Vice President Vance Responds to The Catholic Bishops’ Condemnation of Trump’s Deportations of Illegal Immigrants – “If they’re worried about the humanitarian costs of immigration enforcement, let them talk about the children who have been sex trafficked because of the wide open border.” – “When they receive over $100 million to help resettle illegal immigrants, are they worried about humanitarian concerns? – Or are they worried about their bottom line?…

Breitbart: President Trump is expected to sign two executive orders Monday prohibiting transgender service members and eliminating DEI programs from the military. – Trump had signed an order on his first day in office revoking the Biden administration’s 2021 directive that allowed trans people to serve openly in the military, but the incoming EOs will go further.

Daily Wire: Target is the latest major company to reverse its DEI initiatives. – According to a new memo made public on Friday, the Minneapolis-based retail giant will join large companies, including Walmart, McDonald’s, and Meta, in phasing out its DEI focus. – This means ending the three-year DEI goals that were previously laid out.

Dr. Owen Anderson: Arizona State University sent an email today announcing significant changes in handling federal grant applications and funds related to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. – The real question is whether this action will spark a genuine reexamination of DEI’s role in higher education and its discriminatory practices or result in a game of semantic musical chairs. – Unfortunately, for now, the latter seems more likely.

Zero Hedge: The DOGE people in the Trump administration are considering shedding a large portion of the massive government-owned office space and terminating three-quarters of leased office space. – Due to lacking funding, much of this office space is vacant, underused, and poorly maintained.

New York Sum: The Remaining Trump Nominees Prepare for Bruising Confirmation Fights, with Gabbard, Kennedy, and Patel Sitting for Hearings – These three nominees are seen as the most vulnerable of Trump’s team. – Ms. Gabbard is considered by many to be the most imperiled of Mr. Trump’s choices. – The top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, Senator Warner, said he still has serious “questions” for Ms. Gabbard, even after meeting with her…

American Thinker: Trump Told The WEF His Policies Will Always Favor America – Trump, “From now on every U.S. domestic action will be for U.S. benefit and every U.S. foreign policy action will include a calculation to evaluate how it benefits America.” – Trump referred several times to the U.S. as a sovereign nation, which flies in the face of the WEF’s freedom of migration policy, which holds that freedom of migration is essential for global development…

The Daily Fetched: Italy’s deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini, was inspired by President Donald Trump‘s bold move to withdraw the U.S. from funding the World Health Organization (WHO). – He has now introduced a bill to withdraw Italy from the health body, proclaiming, “Let’s use those 100 million to support the sick in Italy and fund our hospitals and doctors!”

Breitbart: Trump Strengthens Israel’s Bargaining Position vs. Hamas And Hezbollah – The Trump administration agreed to a ceasefire extension until February 18, which will allow Israel an additional three weeks to secure its borders. – Trump has also re-floated that some Palestinians should be relocated from Gaza to other Arab countries, which might prevent future rounds of conflict in Gaza.

Townhall: JD Vance Sat Down With CBS News’s Margaret Brennan and Quickly Ruined Her Day – Like Trump, Vance knows their playbook. – JD quickly slapped down Brennan’s questions, especially on the economy and immigration. The facial expressions say it all—Brennan was supremely annoyed that she couldn’t corner the VP. – Vance is also Ivy League-educated, so he’s been around these types for years…

The Federalist: Judge Cannon Body Slams The Biden Administration DOJ’s Last-Ditch Lawfare Effort Against Trump To Release Volume II of the Special Counsel Report. – Judge Cannon’s order not only ruled against the DOJ but eviscerated the department for its litigation strategy.

The Daily Fetched: Republican Representative James Comer, ‘We Have Evidence Banks Are De-Banking Conservatives’ – “We want to know if this a process of the bank’s Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) policy, or is this our government stepping in like what we found with Twitter and Facebook, where the government stepped in and said they wanted certain conservatives de-platformed and censored.”…

Breitbart: The “Committee to Protect Health Care,” widely cited in the media as opposing the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services, turns out to be a Bill Gates-backed “Astroturf” organization that accepts fake signatories. – The Committee to Protect Health Care is a 501(c)4 organization, meaning it does not have to reveal its donors…

January 26, 2025

Western Journal: The President of Colombia Lost Playing Chicken with Trump, And Offers to Fly Back Illegals On A Government Plane – It all began when, as part of the Trump administration’s expansive deportation effort, two flights of criminal Colombian nationals illegally residing in the U.S. were scheduled to fly back to their native country, and Petro refused to accept the criminals, or even allow the planes to land on Colombian soil.

American Spectator: Why Democrats Still Defend Illegal Immigration – Blue states have bled too many citizens for them to survive politically without an influx of ‘illegal immigrants.’ – Keep this in mind: the Census Bureau currently counts people rather than citizens, and that includes “illegal immigrants.”…

Daily Wire: The DEA Busted Dozens Of Illegal Aliens And Tren De Aragua Members In Colorado Raid – The DEA raid took place at an “invite-only” event at a “makeshift nightclub. – Drugs, weapons, and cash were seized in Adams County, along with nearly 50 illegal aliens who were taken into custody…

Breitbart: Joe Biden’s Deputies Smuggled Many Indian Migrants into U.S. Jobs – Biden’s ambassador to India approved more than two million visitor visas for Indians in 2023 and 2024 – Once they get to the United States, there is nobody that’s ever going to question them,” said Jay Palmer, founder of the Forced Labor & Immigration Compliance Advocacy Group., who has conducted much research on the B-1/B-2 visas.

Washington Examiner: Pete Hegseth sets out to eradicate DEI from Pentagon – Hegseth, “The President’s guidance (lawful orders) is clear, there will be no more DEI at The Department of Defense.” – “The Pentagon will comply immediately, with no exceptions, name changes, or delays.”…

Breitbart: CIA Director John Ratcliffe Says The CIA Still Needs To Determine If The COVID Wuhan Lab Leak Was Intentional or Accidental – “President Trump needs to have the very best intelligence so that, when he’s negotiating with President Xi and other adversaries, he’s able to confront them with the things that we know that our intelligence tells us about what our adversaries have done to us.”…

New York Post: Trump used his finite political capital to pardon the January 6 riot defendants – Too many people still don’t understand that it resulted from a four-year propaganda campaign led by the Democrat Party’s biggest liars, Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, and Jamie Raskin, and their GOP patsy Liz Cheney. – Of all the crimes and threats to the US, terrorism, organized crime, drug trafficking, espionage, and drone attacks, why did the DOJ and FBI single out a four-hour DC demonstration become the biggest investigation in their history?…

American Thinker: The left is misrepresenting Trump’s decision to fire Inspectors General – Trump is completely within both his Constitutional and statutory purview to do so because the IGs aren’t there to oversee him. – Executive Branch IGs are supposed to be independent of the Agency they oversee, not independent of the U.S. federal government in general or the Executive Branch in particular…

Just The News: NPR, PBS, and Voice of America are being considered for defunding and reform amid concerns about reporting bias. – Politicians and those who have worked in the public broadcasting industry have criticized these organizations, claiming that they promote leftist propaganda on the taxpayer’s dime.

Fox News: New CIA boss Ratcliffe says Biden-era report backing lab-leak theory released to ‘restore’ trust – COVID ‘MOST LIKELY’ LEAKED FROM WUHAN LAB, AND SOCIAL DISTANCING WAS ‘NOT BASED ON SCIENCE…

American Spectator: Culture Shock in Trump’s Second Term – Trump’s Inauguration was an embarrassment to Democrats early on with the blessing of Trump by Detroit pastor Lorenzo Sewell. – Watching a young black preacher say a passionate prayer for the Hitlerian racist they fabricated stuck in their craw. Especially when he combined the two beings most repellant to them, God and Trump, with their hero, Dr. Martin Luther King, whose most famous words they’ve perpetually betrayed.

Epoch Times: Secretary of State Marco Rubio told his Chinese counterpart that the Trump administration would prioritize American interests in its relationship with communist China. – Rubio conveyed this message during a phone call on Jan. 24 with China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi, marking his first publicly known formal exchange with Wang as the top U.S. diplomat.

American Thinker: When US media Carry Water For Mexican Drug Cartels – So they are telling us that Trump going after the cartels will make things…worse? – They say it will destabilize things. – Cartels making billions each year committing crimes is destabilizing. – Why would we want to keep things stable?

Townhall: Mass Deportation Raids Have Begun in Los Angeles – The Trump administration utilizes a decades-old but never invoked power that authorizes “willing state and local enforcement officers to carry out “any of the powers, privileges, or duties” of an immigration officer. – Border czar Tom Homan, “The deportations will continue nonstop.”

Fox News: Trump vows to get answers on the mystery drone sightings as an expert predicts: “You’re going to see a lot of drone incursions.” – When asked about the drones, Trump responded, “I would like to find out what it is and tell the people.” He then told House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, “Could we find out what that was, Susie? Why don’t we find out immediately?”

Townhall: DEI Offices Get More Bad News From The Office of Personnel Management – “OPM’s initial guidance required agencies to submit written plans no later than January 31, 2025, for executing a reduction-in-force (RIF) action regarding the employees who work in a DEIA office.” – “However, agencies can and should begin issuing RIF notices to employees of DEIA offices now.”

American Thinker: The Communist Who Convinced Jimmy Carter to Give Away the Panama Canal – Carter didn’t conceive the idea alone; it was the product of a hardcore leftist think tank and, especially, Robert A. Pastor. – During Carter’s presidency, Pastor played a major intellectual role in shaping the administration’s dominant ideology that U.S. capitalism was the culprit, not the solution…

Lawyer Lisa: Analysis of the snowmelt and rainfall from the Sierra Nevadas shows almost 30 million cubic acres of water went into the Sacramento River Delta since October 1st. – Only 23% was sent to productive use in farmland irrigation and homes. – 77% was sent to the ocean, showing horrific mismanagement. – This is another example of the California government’s green agenda.

January 25, 2025

One America News: 4 More Hostages Returned To Israel As The Ceasefire Deal With Hamas Continues – On Saturday, Daniella Gilboa, Liri Albag, Naama Levy, and Karina Ariev were released to the Red Cross. – They were then transferred to the Israeli military and brought back to Israel, where they have since been reunited with their families.

Daily Wire: President Trump announced Saturday that weapons purchased by Israel that Joe Biden was withholding are now being shipped. – The new administration instructed the Department of Defense to release the hold that it placed on the 2,000-pound bombs that Israel ordered. – The Trump administration also announced that it is pausing all foreign aid to other countries except weapons support to Israel and Egypt…

Epoch Times: Mexico has accepted the first four deportation flights of illegal immigrants from the United States. – White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the flights set a new record for deportations to Mexico in a single day.

Epoch Times: The Senate confirmed South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem as Department of Homeland Security secretary on Saturday with bipartisan support, a key position in the Trump administration’s mandate to secure the border. – Noem was confirmed on Nov. 25 in a 59–34 vote on January 25th.

Gateway Pundit: President Trump Fired 17 Inspectors General In A Friday Night Purge. – It was reported that many of these IGs, who are in a position to identify and clean up waste and abuse, have long histories of whitewashing reports and playing politics. – In his first week in office, Trump has sidelined more than 150 national security and foreign policy officials.

Epoch Times: 59% of Americans Don’t Have Enough Savings To Cover A $1,000 Emergency — 73% of survey respondents blamed inflation, high interest rates, or a change in income or employment status for their inability to save enough to meet unforeseen expenses, up from 68% last year.

Slay News: Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives have passed a bill that would force doctors to save newborn babies who survive abortions. – The bill passed along party lines, with only one Democrat voting in favor.

Forbidden News: Trump’s Full Speech Presented To The 2025 World Economic Forum in Davos – This is a full transcript of the live stream from President Trump’s teleconferenced appearance at Davos on January 23rd. – Love or hate him, but you cannot deny that this man is an absolute powerhouse.

Amuse on X: Justice To Be Restored – The DOJ is finally being reclaimed from the grips of partisan weaponization. – The abrupt sidelining of over 20 long-serving DOJ officials marks the death knell of what conservatives rightly decried as the “Merrick Garland Reign of Terror.” – Trump’s team is not just draining the swamp; they are dismantling it, brick by brick, to restore fairness and accountability…

American Thinker: The Decline and Fall of the US Senate’s Left—These hyper-partisan Democrat senators are fundamentally vile, destructive people. – The founders assumed that senators would be accomplished people who would represent the interests of their states in the federal government but also understand and adhere to America’s founding principles.

American Thinker: Will The Supreme Court Ultimately Invalidate Birthright Citizenship? – Under all known rules of legal interpretation, the idea of birthright citizenship has no validity and fails the common sense test, too. – #1: Did the drafters intend to require that the mother be lawfully present in the United States at birth? – #2: Did the drafters intend that the newborn child must not be subject to the jurisdiction of any nation other than the United States?…

Center for Immigration Studies: How Many Births Have There Been To Illegal Immigrants? Based on how births to illegal immigrants have compared to births to noncitizens in the past, our back-of-the-envelope estimate right now is that there were 225,000 to 250,000 births to illegal immigrants in 2023, amounting to close to 7% of births in the U.S. We will revise these numbers as we obtain more data.

American Thinker: The ATF Tried Saving Their DEI By Rebranding, But GOT Caught. – What’s clear is the Trump Administration is going to have to be relentlessly ruthless in ferreting out every DEI true believer, every DEI mechanism, and every DEI boobytrap laid by Biden’s handlers.

California Globe: President Donald Trump visited Los Angeles on Friday, flying in to view the destruction of the Pacific Palisades fire from Marine One and meeting with several state and local leaders about wildfire recovery. While Trump said earlier in the day that there would be conditions on federal funding, he announced that all federal permits for rebuilding would either be waived or expedited, noting how important California is to the United States.

Slay News: Two former top Politico reporters have blown the whistle to reveal that the outlet helped Joe Biden’s 2020 election campaign by killing stories that could be damaging for the former president. – Anyone who paid attention during and after the 2020 election knows that the media suppressed stories about the Hunter Biden laptop. – Facebook and Twitter shut down the New York Post’s bombshell report on the laptop for a week…

New York Sun: Trump’s War With Elite College Campuses Could Portend the End of Diversity Efforts in Higher Education – Billions of dollars lost in funding for research grants. – No more access to federal student aid. – A massive endowment tax. – That’s what’s at risk for public and private universities nationwide if the Trump administration finds them noncompliant with the president’s crackdown on diversity, equity, and inclusion policies on elite college campuses.

Powerline: The Week in Pictures, 100 Hours That Shook the World – Donald Trump Broke Five Decades of Leftist Drift, Crushed the Democrat Party, and Drove Liberals Out of What Little of Their Minds They Had in the First Place.

Zero Hedge: Despite efforts to reduce dependence on China for critical materials, Europe remains heavily reliant on Chinese resources. – This Visual Capitalist graphic shows the percentage of the EU’s raw material supply sourced from China for 12 important raw materials used in various industries.

January 24, 2025

Slay News: Border Czar Tom Homan, “ICE Has Arrested 1300 Illegal Aliens, Including Child Abusers, Gang Members, And Terrorists.” – Homan went on to explain that “collaterals” were illegal aliens who had not necessarily committed additional crimes other than entering the country illegally, but got caught up when ICE agents arrested someone else who should have been held by local authorities but was not because they were in a “sanctuary” jurisdiction.

Washington Free Beacon: The Frantic Memo Eric Holder Sent Clients After Trump Declared War on DEI – Actions: #1. Shred and burn all documents bearing the name of “Eric H. Holder Jr.” and the “Covington & Burling” law firm. – #3. Cease race-based hiring practices that classify Asians, non-Latinx identifying Hispanics, and Native Americans who voted for Donald Trump as “privileged whites.”…

New York Post: President Trump had a “firm” phone conversation with Denmark’s prime minister last week to convey his serious intentions of acquiring Greenland, according to a report citing officials privy to the talk. – Trump has aggressively desired to make Greenland a US territory to bolster national security in the Arctic region. – He has even refused to rule out using “military force” to get it.

Geller Report: Crowds Lined the Streets as President Trump and First Lady Melania Toured North Carolina Hurricane Helene Damage. – The optics of this are astonishing. Usually, most presidents’ first trips are somewhere glamorous, but this trip was to Western North Carolina to comfort victims. Biden abandoned these good folks but finally arrived with Trump, who is slashing all red tape and sending the Army Corps of Engineers to help.

New York Post: Trump rips Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass at wildfire briefing, noting, “You have emergency powers, just like I do.” – Trump blamed Democrats, including those present at the meeting, for causing the crisis by failing to clear parched vegetation, inadequately supplying water to the area — allowing fire hydrants to run dry — and creating a situation where many fire insurance providers pulled out of the region last year…

Fox News: Pete Hegseth Confirmed As Secretary Of Defense To Lead The Pentagon After VP Vance Cast The Tie-breaking Vote – As expected, the Senate’s two RINO women, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins from Maine voted no, along with Mitch McConnell from Kentucky.

American Thinker: John Brennan Should Be Prosecuted – Is John Brennan the most above-the-law Democrat operative yet? – Ex-CIA Chief Brennan’s Security Clearance Should Have Been Revoked Long Ago – He repeatedly lied under oath to Congress and should have been prosecuted for perjury. – Somehow, he and others like James Comey, Merrick Garland, James Clapper, Myorkas, Fauci, et al. lied to Congress and have been above the law.

Newsmax: Trump Tariffs Won’t Be Inflationary – Peter Navarro, “Tariffs are not inflationary.” – “How do we know that?” – “Because Donald Trump instituted the most aggressive tariffs on China, steel, aluminum, dishwashers, and solar panels.’ – “We had zero inflation.” – We’ve done it before.”

Bloomberg: What Happened To Biden’s $43 Billion For Broadband? – More than three years after the infrastructure bill, new broadband connections remain elusive, and there are reasons for that. – In doling out the funds, the NTIA imposed guidelines tailored to partisan priorities, imposed a panoply of climate-related measures, prioritized certain demographic groups, consulted with “community-based organizations,” and preferred government-owned networks over private ones…

Zero Hedge: The Trump State Department halted spending on almost all foreign aid grants for 90 days, which appears to apply to funding for military assistance to Ukraine. – Secretary of State Marco Rubio told all diplomatic and consular posts and all department staffers to issue “stop-work orders” on nearly all “existing foreign assistance awards.”

Western Journal: Panicking Chuck Schumer Calls All-Hands-on-Deck Meeting for Senate Democrats – Democrats lost big in the 2024 election because they have taken indefensible positions on important issues. – Republicans are already teeing up their next tough vote, and Schumer’s members want a clear strategy from the top to protect traditionally Democrat-controlled states where Trump made big gains…

Epoch Times: A January 6 Defendant Was Re-Arrested Two Days After Trump’s Pardon Even Though He Was Never Released From Prison – Gun charges were shown as the reason, even though that discovery was made on the same day he was arrested on January 6 charges back on May 2, 2023. – His lawyer, Collins, said this new case should be dismissed under Trump’s pardon.

Amuse on X: Judge Mehta’s Overreach Challenges President Trump’s Clemency Power – President Trump recently commuted the sentences of eight individuals convicted of offenses related to the January 6th Capitol protest. – The commutations explicitly stated that these sentences were commuted to time served and without release conditions of any sort. – After Congressional Democrat pressure, Judge Mehta acquiesced, imposing restrictions on two individuals at the behest of Congress, effectively contravening the President’s clemency order…

Daily Wire: Trump Restored The Mexico City Policy, Ending Taxpayer Funding For Abortion – The orders will prevent taxpayer dollars from subsidizing abortions at home or abroad. – The Biden administration rescinded the Mexico City policy, though Biden could not overturn the Hyde Amendment.

Townhall: De-banking is real and “coincidentally” always goes in one political or religious direction. – When President Donald Trump addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, he didn’t mince words when describing problems with big business and big government pressure. – The comments from Trump come after a slew of bank account closures, including of Indigenous Advance Ministries.

Brownstone Institute: Will Any Federal Officials Pay for What They Did During the Pandemic? The outbreak of COVID-19 spurred one of the most brazen cover-ups in modern US history. – First, the NIH financed gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. – Anthony Fauci speedily enlisted a handful of trusted scientists to write a paper to “prove” that the virus could not have originated in the lab…

Fox News: Trump signed an executive order to declassify the files on the JFK, RFK, and MLK assassinations – “Everything will be revealed,” Trump told reporters as he signed the order in the Oval Office of the White House. – “Our government, led by corrupt bureaucrats, has hidden this information from the American people for far too long…

One America News: Trump Has Revoked The Security Detail For Anthony Fauci – “When you work for the government, at some point your security detail comes off. And you know, you can’t have them forever. So, I think it’s very standard,” Trump told reporters in NC. – “They all made a lot of money. They can hire their security, too… I can give them some good numbers of very good security people,” Trump continued. “Fauci made a lot of money; they all did.”

Townhall: Pro-Hamas Foreign Students Are About to Be Deported – “To protect Americans, the United States must be vigilant during the visa-issuance process to ensure that those aliens approved for admission into the United States do not intend to harm Americans or our national interests.”…

Western Journal: Trump’s Labor Department Terminates Biden Appointee Secretly ‘Burrowed’ Into New Administration – Elizabeth Peña previously served in President Joe Biden’s White House Presidential Personnel Office, working on his transition team. She also worked on former Vice President Kamala Harris’ transition team. – “Elizabeth Peña was terminated, effective today. The Administration is actively working to remove other political operatives from the Biden-Harris administration…

Townhall: Remember ‘Mostly Peaceful Protests’ Back In 2020 and 2023? Well, Here We Go Again. – Antifa in Portland has been rampaging over Trump retaking the White House, with Antifa militants attacking an ICE facility, smashing up an elections office, and vandalizing downtown Portland businesses. – However, how local media covered the multi-day uprising would have made you believe their activities were “mostly peaceful.”

Townhall: This Is How Long LA Has Known About Its Shoddy Water Systems. – It probably won’t shock you that local officials were warned about failing water systems long ago, but no one did anything about it. – Reports on the deficiencies date back to 2013.

Newsmax: Although Uninvited, Governor Newsom Will Meet Trump ‘On The Tarmac’ Upon His Arrival – Trump did not invite Newsom to his meeting with almost a dozen local elected officials, including Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and eight members of Congress from California. – Newson said he communicated with many folks around Trump who have his ear and referred to the meeting as a sideshow…

American Thinker: Tom Homan Is Right When He Said Babies of Criminally-Present Aliens Are Not Citizens. – Authors of the Fourteenth Amendment never dreamed of the lengths to which future Democrats would go to twist the authorial intent of the amendment into a wrongheaded policy harmful to Americans.